Fox Sports Journalist Points Out Media Double Standards on Kate Smith
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jay-maxson/2019/04/25/fox-sports-journalist-points-out-media-double-standards-kate-smith
After character assassins at The New York Daily News portrayed the late singer Kate Smith as a racist this past week, MLB's New York Yankees and the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers announced that her version of "God Bless America" will no longer be heard in their respective venues. That prompted Fox Sports 1 commentator Jason Whitlock (in file photo) to defend Smith and expose the double standard of media giving black rappers a pass on racist language. ...
Whitlock wasn't having any of this, and he exposed the double standard of destroying Smith's reputation while making allowances for the blatant racist language of African American rappers:
"Once again our emotions and minds are being toyed with. The people who blackmailed the Yankees into dumping Smith's version of the original God Bless America are not trying to clean up American racism. They're sowing seeds of division and undermining American pride under the bogus pretense that they're promoting racial harmony. No rational person of any color thinks eliminating a dead woman from Yankee Stadium improves race relations.
"In fact, it does the opposite. It creates the impression of a ridiculous racial double standard. A long-dead white woman is held to higher standards than any millionaire or billionaire black rapper. You wanna hear an anti-black song? You don't have to go back to the 1930s. Go listen to my 'favorite' rapper Dr. Dre's "Rat-a-tat-tat." He brags about never hesitating to put an n-word on his back."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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