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By The Way, Can We Agree That 'White With Foam' Is A Really Weird Lyric? Foam?
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What, it took 80 years for someone to realize that Kate Smith performed racist songs and thus her "God Bless America" shouldn't be played at Yankee games? The songs were, um, pretty racist. REALLY racist. But it was also the 1930s, so you COULD say, well, those were the times. Yet, geez, those songs were flat out racist, and even at the time, you'd probably have had some folks saying so. But does that make playing anything else she ever did verboten, even her famous "God Bless America"? To be honest, we -- and I say this as a Philadelphia Flyers fan, so there's Kate Smith history there -- do not really need Kate Smith's "God Bless America." There are other versions. UPDATE: The Flyers have also cut ties with Kate Smith's legacy, and there's a tarp over her statue outside Wells Fargo Center. It was inevitable. (New York Daily News)
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