After word got out that the New York Yankees were investigating Smith's earlier lyrics on Thursday — which include offensive references to African Americans — the Flyers followed suit. By Friday, the statue was covered with a black tarp and the organization said it was removing her rendition of "God Bless America" from its library. [More]Send it to the Confederate Monument/Commissar Vanishes graveyard because the Yankees, who "held to the color line longer than all but three teams" and the Flyers, who can only seem to find one-half of a player of color in a lineup of 24, need to desperately virtue signal in true rope-selling capitalist fashion.
[Via Mack H]
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