Something tells me the fans are going to sing this anyway !!!

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
An historic Episcopal parish where George Washington frequently worshiped has decided to remove a memorial plaque honoring the nation’s first president, saying the decision was out of a desire to provide a “welcoming” worship space for all visitors. The church will also remove a similar memorial plague honoring Robert E. Lee, the commander of Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Read more at the link if you like, but I don't recommend it.

Unfortunately this will not end anytime soon unless someone puts a stop to it.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
There was overt racism in the '30s? Who knew?

Wait for a bit. The progressives are working on a solution for that.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Putting a trash bag over her statue is moronic.

Well, that's what you'd expect from a bunch of fucking morons.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Putting a trash bag over her statue is moronic.

ALL the folks behind this ARE morons. So it is very fitting.

And the SJW's will get their way on this. THAT is the real issue here. When does this idiocy finally stop? When do we all finally stand up and say ENOUGH?

Kate Smith raised $11 Billion dollars (in 2019 dollars) to fight actual Nazis. But muh social justice...

The Flyers org took Kate Smith's statue away and threw it down the memory hole this past Saturday night, so this is her legacy come Easter Sunday:



Fucking bastards. I hope the Flyers NEVER WIN ANOTHER GAME EVER AGAIN. EVER.

She was their good luck charm of sorts and they threw her away like a sack of garbage.

A group of (former) fans should file a lawsuit forcing them to restore her statue to its rightful place, citing violation of THEIR 1st Amendment rights.

They should form a picket line around all the gates every time there is a home game.

flashguy

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
How has Stephen Foster survived this long?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster

AFAIK, he hasn't. I'm pretty sure that no one sings his songs in school any more.

flashguy

Disband the Yankees He's got a good point.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Seriously, how many actual fans actually give two shits. Philly is a blue collar town. We’re too busy punching police horses in the mouth to care about this non sense.

Must be ALL the black NHL players and fans that they're worried about offending.

Bill Meltzer has a good on article on this:

https://www.hockeybuzz.com/blo...and-Context/45/99094

There are a lot of would be totalitarians running around in America these days. Seriously.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Shameful

Looks like they put her in a Burka

Shouldn't that be white? With eye holes?

Check this out. What has happened to us since then?


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/-BIoN9bWTMo

Being a sports fan, or paying money to any particular sports team, is, for me, optional. I don't need to contribute money to people who hate me. My elegant solution.

At some point in history every professional sport had a ban on non-white athletes. By this logic they should all shut down as well?

Agreed that if you sing a racist song today and you're a current performer, then you will take some backlash.

Judging long dead people, for things done at a different point in human history, when the country/world had different values, is lunacy.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
An historic Episcopal parish where George Washington frequently worshiped has decided to remove a memorial plaque honoring the nation’s first president, saying the decision was out of a desire to provide a “welcoming” worship space for all visitors. The church will also remove a similar memorial plague honoring Robert E. Lee, the commander of Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Read more at the link if you like, but I don't recommend it.

Frankly, I am so far past disgusted with all this BS regarding who did, or did not, keep slaves, or say a bad word about blacks, yada yada yada that when I see this PC bullshit I actually start to wonder what their end goal might be.

What the hell are they trying to prove, and to whom? Are they just looking for some sort of public "approval"?

I have essentially stopped watching TV news, including a lot of Fox News crap. Have not subscribed to the national fish wrappers since about 1968 when we returned from military service in Germany and discovered the unmitigated BS being published here, and it has only gotten a 1000 times worse.

That video posted by Jim Shugart is how I remember it (and, IMO, the only way it should be done--Kate Smith pwnd it). I cry, unashamed.

(Did you see Ronald Reagan at the end?)

flashguy