Jingle Bells Declared Racist

Calm down Cindy, no ones gonna break into your home and steal your Christmas decorations. This is sensationalism at play like it is 99% of the time.

Haha

The song originally wasn't even about Christmas, the lyrics changed over time because the original author meant it as a dedication to another singer who had a troupe that performed in blackface. It wasn't even a Christmas song. Originally, the person who wrote the song was a staunch supporter of the confederacy that fiercely opposed his father who was an minster and a major abolitionist against slavery.

https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-jingle-bells

His other notable songs were:

We Conquer or Die!
Strike for the South!
Our Battle Flag!

*Note I didn't put the exclamation marks there, they were already part of the song title.

And other racist songs that ended in "!!!!!!!" to further highlight how passionate he was about forcing black people to do work white people were too fat and lazy to do. The guy who wrote it was a piece of crap, abandoning his wife and his kids to go chase gold, by the time he made it back, he was as poor as when he first started. Believe it or not, he left plenty of females and almost certainly had daddy issues. He was such a loser.

At any rate, no one is forcing you "not" to listen to the song, I can turn on the radio and find it. You're going to be okay, breathe.. it will be fine. You'll live to see another day tomorrow, I promise it will be okay. Starbucks coffee cups changing is okay too, Starbucks will still be there, it's okay, I promise. Don't freak out, you're fine.

Yes, Rudolph was red-nosed because he was an alcoholic.

Jingle Bells is offensive and folks can make music about slappin hoes and hoes lickin my balls and its all good. This world is crazy.

just wait until somebody thinks about "white christmas"

It will stop when Kaepernick is hired to play for an NFL team, you disgusting hypocrite.

The denial from the left, is so predictable

Sigh…and if people are going to trivialize racism with this kind of stuff, why should people take the real thing seriously ?

Unbelievable! The woke crowd can't see past the nose on their face
For good reason

You can find extreme examples of anything if you look hard enough. I'm a leftist and I don't think it is racist and neither does anyone I know. For example: how many schools are there in New York? In a pool of thousands, you can always find a fish that swims in a mockable way.

The website you are quoting from looks very partisan and right-wing. It's not using representative samples to criticise its opponents.

Leftists want to destroy any and all American traditions. America needs to take their influence on our children away from them.

If libs were truely bothered by racisim they would stop telling kids they were racist.

The whole world has gone insane..

Just makes me want to sing it more. I’m not giving in to this crap.

The War on Christmas continues

Average "journalist" - *writes article with the dumbest, most deceptive, most sensationalist (when not blatantly false) title*

Average rightwinger, in response: "OMG these damn leftists 😠😠"



Can we just stop this nonsense, or?

It was written by a confederate officer apparently. That’s enough to get something banned these days.

It's the word association game that toddlers play.
"A sleigh?! That's traveling in the snow. Snow is white. I hate all things white! It's racist!" or
"Sleighs are pulled by horses. They use whips to motivate the horse. Whips were used in slavery. Racist!"
Enter any given daycare and you'll hear this mental exercise.

"Before one can come up with a comical take on their worldview, some learned professor has already written a paper on the subject"

There is nothing racist in the lyrics. Just because someone, at some point, sang the song in Black Face, doesn't make the song racist. They're grabbing at straws on this one.

If you don't give it any attention, it won't be a thing. Chill out.

I'm a lot more concerned about "Brown Sugar" by the Stones, a song whose lyrics I had never read or understood before. I'm through with that one.

Idk why people are condemning you for making this post when a school literally banned singing a Christmas song.

Holiday Carols are annoying and most need to go away...however calling things racist might not be a hill I wanna die on.

Rudolph is a popular name for black males, so yes! And the only way jingle bells could have been more racist is if Santa drove a big Cadillac. 😂

Lol. A thin blue line opinion blog that seems to exist to tell right wingers what to be afraid of and what to get outraged about? Seems legit. 🤣

I hope the principle steps into traffic there in NY. People are really being ridiculous with waking up. 🤦🏻‍♀️

probably due to the ridiculous woke movement, it's spreading like a disease.

It's all out of control. No one can sit down and have a serious discussion on how to include everyone in life, no matter what "color" they are.😔

Horrible. I will quote from your link:


What I meant was:

Everything is called "racist" these days, even if it's not to do with race at all!

Dashing through the snow holy crap snow is white
Over the feilds we go omg they are talking about the cotton plantation feilds
Making spirits bright are they suggesting they bleach their skin
Jingle bells
This song smells
Racist fails
Your all going to hell

Wtf these idiots need to grow up seriously

What's next? Changing the title to, I'm Dreaming of a Privileged Christmas?

Just one school? I don't believe it will be a trend.

https://fallacyinlogic.com/cherry-picking/

Just leaving this here. Meanwhile, I'm canceling Rudolf for not being woke enough.

😜

Nobody actually thinks this. You’re being fooled

It will stop when people stop paying attention.

I think they need to recall the school board.

No gifts for them this Christmas.

You have got to be joking me 🤣.

Well, Rudolph is colorist, he only glows red... what about the rest of the colors?

Worlds gone mad.

Everything is just about racist if you look hard enough. I am sick to death ☠️ of people playing the race card