Sports teams change tune on Kate Smith

Two of America’s most prominent professional sports teams have severed ties with iconic singer Kate Smith and her revered rendition of ‘God Bless America’ because of revelations that other Smith songs promoted racism against Blacks during the early 1930’s. The New York Yankees baseball team decided on April 18 that Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America” would no longer be played at Yankee Stadium, citing “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” along with another controversial song sung by Smith,
Two of America’s most prominent professional sports teams have severed ties with iconic singer Kate Smith and her revered rendition of ‘God Bless America’ because of revelations that other Smith songs promoted racism against Blacks during the early 1930’s.