If there is anything more stupid than a politically correct reporter other than AOC, I haven’t seen it yet. These clowns try to find something they can label racist, so they can consider themselves woke.
But the problem is liberal reporters never check their facts and that makes them look like just what they are….pathetic. Joseph Gerth of the Louisville Courier Journal has decided that My Old Kentucky Home is a racist song and therefore Stephen Foster was a racist.
But had he done one quick Google search, he would have found out that the song was inspired by Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was written to show the kind of trouble that slaves had when they were in bondage and had no freedom.
The song was written about a slave in Kentucky that had been sold to a plantation in the deep South, where slaves were treated even worse than in other areas with slaves and the song was supposed to tell of his anxiety.
“Welcome to Kentucky, where our state song is so damn depressing, we won’t sing the last two verses because, well, they’re about black people being sold down the river to work in the sugar cane fields of Louisiana,” Gerth wrote.
“My Old Kentucky Slave Quarters,” he continued. “That’s what Stephen Foster should have named the song that became Kentucky’s official state ditty back in 1928.
“I mean, who wouldn’t long for the Bluegrass State when the alternative was being sold to masters in the Deep South, away from family, where slave owners were believed to be exceptionally cruel.
“Our brand of slavery was soooo much better than the slavery practiced in Mississippi and Alabama. Yeah. Right. But we still sing the song every year just before the Kentucky Derby.