Social media lit up Wednesday evening with complaints about former Hootie & the Blowfish lead singer Darius Rucker performing "White Christmas" at the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at New York City's Rockefeller Square. Some activists had threatened to attack the ceremony after a grand jury declined to indict a New York police officer in the death of unarmed Eric Garner during a confrontation over cigarette sales in July.
The ceremony went ahead under police protection, and Rucker performed "White Christmas," a classic written by a Jewish immigrant, Irving Berlin. The song refers to snow, not to race, in recalling a traditional Christmas scene.
Critics, however, believed that the mere reference to the color "white" by a black singer in the throes of a racially-charged controversy was offensive and suggested a contempt for the feelings of other black people.
Critics Rip Rucker for Performing 'White Christmas' After Garner Decision
Is there a special place where they bring up absolutely crazy people? And thanks to modern technologies they can broadcast their craziness into the world.
Let's forbid all the words that name colors. All of them for the sake of not offending anyone, even purple penguins.
Critics Rip Rucker for Performing 'White Christmas' After Garner Decision
Is there a special place where they bring up absolutely crazy people? And thanks to modern technologies they can broadcast their craziness into the world.
Let's forbid all the words that name colors. All of them for the sake of not offending anyone, even purple penguins.
Yea, a silly thing to get mad about.
The fact that snow is white, is racist. :roll:
Not racist but evil.
With enough snow, it causes many hardships for black people.
I know right, of course since I'm white my car doesn't slip and slide around in it like black people's cars. Frankly I suggest that blacks try to car pool with white people, to save themselves the hassle.
It's not that snow doesn't affect white people, it's because of your privilege that it affects black people more than you.
Critics Rip Rucker for Performing 'White Christmas' After Garner Decision
Is there a special place where they bring up absolutely crazy people? And thanks to modern technologies they can broadcast their craziness into the world.
Let's forbid all the words that name colors. All of them for the sake of not offending anyone, even purple penguins.
Critics Rip Rucker for Performing 'White Christmas' After Garner Decision
Is there a special place where they bring up absolutely crazy people? And thanks to modern technologies they can broadcast their craziness into the world.
Let's forbid all the words that name colors. All of them for the sake of not offending anyone, even purple penguins.
Will someone please strap a pipe bomb to political correctness, take it out back and detonate it?
I detest PC with a passion.
Sorry...last one...but it just keeps getting better and better...
Black, white, or green, you have to admit...that stuff is funny right there.Price has been considered a joke around here for the past 25-30 years. In fact, I wouldn't give you a dime for the Dallas city council. Bunch of clowns and ****-stirrers.
If this wasn't so pathetic and sad... I'd laugh.
I think brides should be rethinking wearing white dresses. Wouldn't want to cause offense.
This has nothing to do with "political correctness," a term that has been so thoroughly misused that it's lost virtually all meaning. This is simply manufactured outrage for outrage's sake.
People do and say stupid things when emotions run high.
Liberals are "The Boy Who Cried Racism". I have become utterly desensitized to shrieks of "racism" by hypersensitive partisan pukes with an overactive imagination aggravated by the defective honesty gene that is a prerequisite for liberalism. Six years after the first black president was elected and the libs are trying to ignite a race war harder than ever. Go figure.
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