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"Jingle Bells" is racist says BU Professor
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:00 pm
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:00 pm
I think these "professors" are just looking for something to call racist at this point. Some of these words she strung together don't even seem to make sense.
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“Jingle Bells,” one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world, is now being called racist.
"The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Kyna Hamill, a BU theater historian, wrote in her “Theatre Survey” research paper on the story of “Jingle Bells.”
“Its origins emerged from the economic needs of a perpetually unsuccessful man, the racial politics of antebellum Boston, the city’s climate, and the intertheatrical repertoire of commercial blackface performers moving between Boston and New York,” Hamill wrote.
The traces of blackface minstrel origins can be found in the music and lyrics, as well as the “elements of ‘male display,’ boasting, and the unbridled behavior of the male body onstage,” the author wrote.
The song’s lyrics, which Hamill adds “display no real originality,” and reference things like “Miss Fanny Bright” and “dashing through the snow” connect the song to blackface dandy, according to the research paper.
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Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:01 pm to jbgleason
These people have too much time on their hands.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:01 pm to jbgleason
If something was once harmful, but the harmful part becomes phased out to the point where literally no one knows that it was once like that, is it still harmful and wrong?
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:02 pm to jbgleason
Like Baylor really has the right to preach about anything right now
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:03 pm to jbgleason
So an idiot says some idiot shite, quit giving these people attention and notoriety...
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:03 pm to 225Tyga
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Like Baylor really has the right to preach about anything right now
She teaches at Boston University.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:04 pm to jbgleason
It was originally called J Bizzells but the white devil stole it and ruined what was once a great song of cultcha.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:04 pm to jbgleason
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"Jingle Bells" is racist
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:07 pm to jbgleason
I've been saying this for years. Slave masters would put bells on slaves so they could find them if they ran away
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:07 pm to jlovel7
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She teaches at Boston University.
Feel free to send her this for me.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:09 pm to jlovel7
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BU Professor
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She teaches at Boston University.
my bad
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:15 pm to jbgleason
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BU
no one knows what school this is
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:18 pm to jbgleason
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BU theater historian
To be fair, that's not a real professor...or a real job.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:21 pm to jbgleason
must be true, the writer was a Confederate Veteran
Posted on 12/15/17 at 2:22 pm to 225Tyga
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Like Baylor
Where is Baylor talked about here?
BU is Boston.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 3:05 pm to jbgleason
Good, I’ll sing it even louder
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 12/15/17 at 3:09 pm to bbvdd
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bbvdd
BU could be a few different schools, and I didnt read the article. I just skimmed what the OP posted and because of football season I recognized BU as Baylor.
anything else?
Posted on 12/15/17 at 3:09 pm to jbgleason
quote:So if those origins were revised and altered to get rid of the racism, it's still racist? He should be using this an example of how things can change for the better
"The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,”
Posted on 12/15/17 at 3:11 pm to jbgleason
For fricks sake. I'm so sick of seeing this shite on the OT. Y'all are giving attention to this shite and shitting on the greatness of the OT.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 3:13 pm to jbgleason
Raping people is worse than a perceived racist Christmas song.
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