Another ridiculous move takes place in our society by the political correctness police. Cal Thomas provides a good commentary about the smearing of yet another past American icon . . .
"The long arm
of the PC police has reached back to the ‘30s and arrested, prosecuted and
sentenced the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who popularized Irving Berlin’s
song 'God Bless America' and was a female pioneer in early television, recorded
songs that today in hindsight are viewed as racist.
An old
friend, Harry Covert, writes to recall the early days of black-and-white TV
when he (and I) watched Kate Smith’s
television program. Mr. Covert remembers one show interrupted by a news
bulletin announcing the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman by militant
Puerto Rican activists. He notes that today’s Puerto Ricans are not smeared by
that incident, so why is Smith being
figuratively tarred and feathered?
In
1940, Irving
Berlin, the Russian-born composer, established the God Bless America Fund 'for the benefit of the youth of America,' donating the proceeds from the
song’s royalties to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America. Yankees baseball great
Joe DiMaggio was a trustee on the GBA Fund."
Read the entire commentary here by Cal Thomas at The Washington Times.
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