Ray9
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“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.
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.