There's something nobody talks about that's even more pervasive than white privilege and white guilt: White fear. White people are afraid of black people. They're afraid they will finally get sick of the whole second-class citizen thing and come after them, robbing their homes and raping their women. This is the only possible explanation for all the nonsensical, moronic things that take place in order to prove that we don't condone our past and will happily erase it, if only they will forget that their ancestors were slaves until 1865, or that they had to sit in the back of the bus in Alabama until 1956, and especially forget the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and the lynchings, etc. We are so sorry for all that, and to prove it we're considering giving each one of them some money to make them feel better, and especially to not hurt us.
How else to explain the latest folly involving the long-dead singer Kate Smith, a.k.a. The First Lady of Radio? Smith was a white American singer whose recording career spanned five decades, reaching its pinnacle in the 1940s when she was dubbed The Songbird of the South because of her rousing popularity during World War II. Smith hosted her own TV show for several years, appeared frequently on The Ed Sullivan Show and other variety shows, performed at Carnegie Hall and with the Boston Pops, and gave concerts around the country at great music halls and in small clubs. Since her death in 1986 her voice has lived on in her soaring rendition of Irving Berlin's classic, "God Bless America," played for 18 years during the 7th-inning stretch of the Yankees baseball games.
Until now, that is. It has recently come to light that Smith, after recording hundreds of non-racist songs, once sang a popular 1931 tune called "That's Why Darkies Were Born." Keep in mind that Smith did not write the song, she only sang it -- as did Paul Robeson, an African American concert artist and stage and film actor who attained stardom for his beautiful voice as well as for his political activism. The song's offending lyrics go like this:
Another recently unearthed Smith recording was the 1933 song, "Pickaninny Heaven," which asks "colored children" living in an orphanage to dream about a magical place with "great big watermelons." Clearly the woman was a racist, a fact she likely never even knew about herself! So now, in 2019, her music has been banned by the Yankees and a statue of her that stands in Philadelphia has gotten the same garbage bag treatment given to those Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Virginia of Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson a year ago.
My theory also explains how the mentally-impaired mouthpiece known as "Maxine Waters" is permitted to open her denture-laden maw within the hallowed halls of Congress, not to mention trash America's sitting president daily and continue to hold public office. Because she's black, she's untouchable. And since she's old enough to have actually been a slave herself, she's probably going to get a huge check when the Dems start handing out those reparations.
How else to explain the latest folly involving the long-dead singer Kate Smith, a.k.a. The First Lady of Radio? Smith was a white American singer whose recording career spanned five decades, reaching its pinnacle in the 1940s when she was dubbed The Songbird of the South because of her rousing popularity during World War II. Smith hosted her own TV show for several years, appeared frequently on The Ed Sullivan Show and other variety shows, performed at Carnegie Hall and with the Boston Pops, and gave concerts around the country at great music halls and in small clubs. Since her death in 1986 her voice has lived on in her soaring rendition of Irving Berlin's classic, "God Bless America," played for 18 years during the 7th-inning stretch of the Yankees baseball games.
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| The Philadelphia statue of Kate Smith covered in black plastic. That should fix things. |
Until now, that is. It has recently come to light that Smith, after recording hundreds of non-racist songs, once sang a popular 1931 tune called "That's Why Darkies Were Born." Keep in mind that Smith did not write the song, she only sang it -- as did Paul Robeson, an African American concert artist and stage and film actor who attained stardom for his beautiful voice as well as for his political activism. The song's offending lyrics go like this:
"Someone had to pick the cotton,
Someone had to plant the corn,
Someone had to slave and be able to sing,
That's why darkies were born."
My theory also explains how the mentally-impaired mouthpiece known as "Maxine Waters" is permitted to open her denture-laden maw within the hallowed halls of Congress, not to mention trash America's sitting president daily and continue to hold public office. Because she's black, she's untouchable. And since she's old enough to have actually been a slave herself, she's probably going to get a huge check when the Dems start handing out those reparations.
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