The Kentucky Derby-history is bad you know.

[Ray9]

“Tis summer and the darkies are gay”; words from a song by Stephen Foster in the 1850’s. The minstrel song is a sad ode to the plight of Black America and slavery purportedly inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The song is part of our history and it will be played at the Kentucky Derby. The lyrics have long since been sanitized in Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”.

Is it a shame that Foster cannot be resurrected so he could be burned at the stake for using such insensitive language? Foster no doubt believed he was calling attention to a tragic injustice but calling Black’s darkies? Well, that is the stuff of riots. Why don’t we just use modern education to wipe out everything Foster ever wrote so we can make the world a better place?

History is bad you know.

 

[rightwinger]

Why was Foster singing about Homosexual Darkies In his Kentucky home?

 

[Moonglow]

Why was Foster singing about Homosexual Darkies In his Kentucky home?

because they were on the down low.

 

[harmonica]

..they don't make sense --THEY used the word ''negro''

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[JoeB131]

“Tis summer and the darkies are gay”; words from a song by Stephen Foster in the 1850’s. The minstrel song is a sad ode to the plight of Black America and slavery purportedly inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The song is part of our history and it will be played at the Kentucky Derby. The lyrics have long since been sanitized in Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”.

Is it a shame that Foster cannot be resurrected so he could be burned at the stake for using such insensitive language? Foster no doubt believed he was calling attention to a tragic injustice but calling Black’s darkies? Well, that is the stuff of riots. Why don’t we just use modern education to wipe out everything Foster ever wrote so we can make the world a better place?

History is bad you know.

Um, things are revised all the time.

For instance, the song "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits originally had a lyric "

See the little f*****t with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little f*****t got his own jet airplane
That little f*****t he's a millionaire

Even though the butt of the joke is the two working class guys commenting on what they see on music videos, you will be hard pressed to find anyone play the song with THAT lyric included. It has been edited out.

 

[lg325]

“Tis summer and the darkies are gay”; words from a song by Stephen Foster in the 1850’s. The minstrel song is a sad ode to the plight of Black America and slavery purportedly inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The song is part of our history and it will be played at the Kentucky Derby. The lyrics have long since been sanitized in Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”.

Is it a shame that Foster cannot be resurrected so he could be burned at the stake for using such insensitive language? Foster no doubt believed he was calling attention to a tragic injustice but calling Black’s darkies? Well, that is the stuff of riots. Why don’t we just use modern education to wipe out everything Foster ever wrote so we can make the world a better place?

History is bad you know.

I have always been against censorship. I would have kept the lyrics and had open discussions about it.

 

[Dekster]

The only good thing about the Kentucky Derby is it reminds me of the hilarious piece Hunter S. Thompson wrote about it and starting the rumor that the Black Panthers were going to attack the Derby. Well worth the read.

 

[lennypartiv]

Why was Foster singing about Homosexual Darkies In his Kentucky home?

He was sining about happy darkies. Back then people knew they were supposed to stay straight, they didn't dare celebrate being queer.

 

[Moonglow]

This year the horses should mount the jockey's and whip their asses until they finish the race.

 

[Moonglow]

Why was Foster singing about Homosexual Darkies In his Kentucky home?

He was sining about happy darkies. Back then people knew they were supposed to stay straight, they didn't dare celebrate being queer.

Queer is not gay it is strange.....

 

[Moonglow]

..they don't make sense --THEY used the word ''negro''

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Yes, a vernacular usage of the Spanish word for black, negro or negra if they be female...

 

[MarathonMike]

Where is Black Lives Matter? Don't they realize the RACIST heritage of Kentucky and the Derby? How dare we glorify White Privilege by letting women wear fancy hats and drink Mint Juleps, clearly harkening back to antebellum days. BOYCOTT BOYCOTT!!!!!