Kate Smith Blacklisted...

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Better to explain it than to excuse or erase it. American Eurocentric white supremacy was political hypocracy for financial gain.

Better to expose our past for what it was than sweep it under the rug. Only the light of day will burn away the remnants of our slave society. We've still a long way to go.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Better to expose our past for what it was than sweep it under the rug. Only the light of day will burn away the remnants of our slave society. We've still a long way to go.

It would be ignoring "Pickaninny Heaven," etc, that would be "sweeping stuff under the rug."

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

It would be ignoring "Pickaninny Heaven," etc, that would be "sweeping stuff under the rug."

I'm speaking to the broader issue which the song/Kate story is but a drop in the bucket. When is the last time you listened to Pickaninny Heaven? The original Paul Robeson version or Kate's allegedly racist cover? It's a show tune and they both were in the show.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

I'm speaking to the broader issue which the song/Kate story is but a drop in the bucket. When is the last time you listened to Pickaninny Heaven? The original Paul Robeson version or Kate's allegedly racist cover? It's a show tune and they both were in the show.

Really? Tell me more about the broader issue.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by nailer

I'm speaking to the broader issue which the song/Kate story is but a drop in the bucket. When is the last time you listened to Pickaninny Heaven? The original Paul Robeson version or Kate's allegedly racist cover? It's a show tune and they both were in the show.

Perhaps you are referring to the song "That's Why Darkies Were Born", which Robeson sang in a Broadway show that satirized White Supremacist ideas. I don't see any reference to the great Robeson ever having sung the other song.
Perhaps Google is blocking me.

[Dondilion]

kate Smith Blacklisted. The time and place are right.

[Pio1980]

As with Joe Biden and Al Franken, it's past time to reserve outrage for the aggregiously outrageous. This ain't that, I grant others to find their own comfort zone and educate me.

[donquixote99]

Why do you think possibility is a bad description? Would you like to say how you would characterize it instead?

I thought my statement was plain, not a hint at anything.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Why do you think possibility is a bad description? Would you like to say how you would characterize it instead?

I thought my statement was plain, not a hint at anything.

Description of what? Already have.

You were not hinting? If your statement was plain, why ask me the question?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Description of what? Already have.

You were not hinting? If your statement was plain, why ask me the question?

I'm sorry but I despair of having a reasonable conversation with you.