https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/kate-smith-yankes-flyers-god-bless-america-song-dropped-trnd/index.htmlThe Yankees and Flyers have both stopped playing Kate Smith's God Bless America before games, and covered up a statue of her outside the Flyers arena that was erected as a tribute after her death in 1986;
They have done this citing a controversy on social media after some SJWs pointed out that she had once sung this song, calling it racist;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_11Fb01UjwThe song however is obviously a satirical
mockery of racism that was recorded by Paul Robeson;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqaw2jviEsQthey're literally accusing her of racism for recording a song which satirized racism to condemn it
And also cited her recording "Pickaninny Heaven" in a segment she recorded
on behalf of a black orphanage in new york city in 1933;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0HH9d_lHkFor a woman from the south in 1933 to go out of her way to sing for black orphans and criticize racism is now being used to destroy her legacy.
First it was confederate statues, and Robert E. Lee. Soon it was the likes of Alexander Ramsey. Now Kate Smith
The moral crusaders of the 2010s and 20s will be remembered for images like that statue under a black bag