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We're now down to just humming the song at the Derby? Not even lyrics on the screen. The song was politically changed to make everyone feel better decades ago, why is it now racist again?

What a crock.....thats one of the best parts of the day, how can anyone say its racist? The lyrics were changed! We're all sorry! This is getting absolutely ridiculous.
 
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Louis_Skunt said:
We're now down to just humming the song at the Derby? Not even lyrics on the screen. The song was politically changed to make everyone feel better decades ago, why is it now racist again?

What a crock.....thats one of the best parts of the day, how can anyone say its racist? The lyrics were changed! We're all sorry! This is getting absolutely ridiculous.
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We are all WOKE now. The sun doesn't shine so bright in Kentucky anymore.
 
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Hopefully they will wipe out everything including slavery and just start over or will that be our only history.
 
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Louis_Skunt said:
We're now down to just humming the song at the Derby? Not even lyrics on the screen. The song was politically changed to make everyone feel better decades ago, why is it now racist again?

What a crock.....thats one of the best parts of the day, how can anyone say its racist? The lyrics were changed! We're all sorry! This is getting absolutely ridiculous.
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You don’t know the words?
 
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Louis_Skunt said:
I know the words, do you, or do you just hum them cause its offensive?
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I sing em loud and proud. I just don’t need subtitles to know which ones to sing. I know you’re super outraged, but try not to get your panties all in a wad. You can sing the song literally any time you want. People were singing the song on Saturday and it was on TV. No one on any broadcast said it was racist. The governor, despite his faults, answered a question that was asked by a reporter. He didn’t say it was racist, he didn’t say it was cancelled, he said there could be a conversation if asked to. That’s how life works, pal.


I’m sure there will now be a billion replies using clever terms like leftist, libtard, et cetera. None of these replies will change one iota about what has happened in the last few days regarding MOKH.
 
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Not sure if there has been a statement about it but I’m pretty sure it was because of covid and the risks of thousands of people singing. Now you may disagree with that, but that’s probably why.
 
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I sing em loud and proud. I just don’t need subtitles to know which ones to sing. I know you’re super outraged, but try not to get your panties all in a wad. You can sing the song literally any time you want. People were singing the song on Saturday and it was on TV. No one on any broadcast said it was racist. The governor, despite his faults, answered a question that was asked by a reporter. He didn’t say it was racist, he didn’t say it was cancelled, he said there could be a conversation if asked to. That’s how life works, pal.


I’m sure there will now be a billion replies using clever terms like leftist, libtard, et cetera. None of these replies will change one iota about what has happened in the last few days regarding MOKH.
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Just from your response, i can tell youre part of the cancel culture.

Last year there was a debate whether it should even be played. This year, no talks but slowly moving it into obscurity. It was the first year where nobody sang on TV or the subtitles weren't included on TV. Its a process to remove a tradition without doing it publicly.

Very similar to changing the name in Rupp Arena. Now its "Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center" Strange how its been Rupp Arena for 45 years but the one year we all start canceling everything that MIGHT be racist, the name begins to change. If you dont understand, so be it, not everybody can read between the lines.
 
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Louis_Skunt said:
Very similar to changing the name in Rupp Arena. Now its "Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center" Strange how its been Rupp Arena for 45 years but the one year we all start canceling everything that MIGHT be racist, the name begins to change. If you dont understand, so be it, not everybody can read between the lines.
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Just spit balling here, but I am pretty sure that the several million that Central Bank paid a couple of years ago for the naming rights had something to do with the name change.
 
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To be honest, I’m really not interested in what white people think of My Old Kentucky Home. Would be interested in hearing perspectives of black people. Not sure what sentiment is there.
 
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bkingUK said:
To be honest, I’m really not interested in what white people think of My Old Kentucky Home. Would be interested in hearing perspectives of black people. Not sure what sentiment is there.
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They didnt say a word for decades, vast majority still dont. The majority of people that are against the song are white. Black people didnt even think it was racist until they were told it was.
 
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Louis_Skunt said:
Either someone sings or theres titles. There wasn't either. NBC did a great job discussing the black jockeys 140 years ago though, and the 1 black jockey segment was great as well.
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Please name the singers of MOKH at the Derby in the past 10 years. I’ll wait.
 
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bkingUK said:
To be honest, I’m really not interested in what white people think of My Old Kentucky Home. Would be interested in hearing perspectives of black people. Not sure what sentiment is there.
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Let's be honest, how many black people even know that song exists? Or even white people under the age of 50, and not from Kentucky, know of it?
 
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Please name the singers of MOKH at the Derby in the past 10 years. I’ll wait.
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LOL....im not googling singers. You go look it up.
This was the first year the words were never mentioned, posted on the screen or sang. But people did hum them. Cancel culture wins, good job.
 
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Let's be honest, how many black people even know that song exists? Or even white people under the age of 50, and not from Kentucky, know of it?
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It’s our state song dude. Everyone knows it. And I’m talking about people from Kentucky
 
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Louis_Skunt said:
They didnt say a word for decades, vast majority still dont. The majority of people that are against the song are white. Black people didnt even think it was racist until they were told it was.
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Again, not really interested in your opinion of black people’s opinions you’ve never even met
 
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OT a bit: How come UK band never gets asked to play? Yes, the race is in Louisville, but UL does not own Churchill Downs. And it is the Kentucky Derby, not the Louisville Cardinals Derby, so why doesn't the band representing THE University of Kentucky get asked to play every other year, at least.

Two time alumnus of UK who is outraged at the indignity of it all . . .
 
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Here's the libs argument against pretty much every tradition:
  • Everything in US history was built on racism
  • If there is any possible tie-in to something racist, we must abolish the entire thing
  • If there isn't anything explicitly racist, we must do some crazy search to perhaps find something racist, and if we can't do that we'll just say, "for the benefit of the doubt, let's change".
These knuckleheads HATE every American tradition and have already said that we need to blow the whole system up. They do not want racial harmony - ever - and we should stop listening to them.
 
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WayneDougan said:
Here's the libs argument against pretty much every tradition:
  • Everything in US history was built on racism
  • If there is any possible tie-in to something racist, we must abolish the entire thing
  • If there isn't anything explicitly racist, we must do some crazy search to perhaps find something racist, and if we can't do that we'll just say, "for the benefit of the doubt, let's change".
These knuckleheads HATE every American tradition and have already said that we need to blow the whole system up. They do not want racial harmony - ever - and we should stop listening to them.
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Its fine for other groups to torch cars, loot, ruin hundreds of lives and businesses in dozens of cities ALL SUMMER LONG......but one group barges into the capitol for a couple of hours and leaves, and your people think the world is ending.
 
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What I can't process is when something like this comes up, just FIX IT! There's a line in the second stanza that may be interpreted in racial terms, will just CHANGE THE DAMN WORDS.

One side is cancel culture and too wake, the other is racists, give me an friggin break. It's a nice song with a lot of history and sentiment. It can easily be brought up to modern times. It's really insanely stupid to argue over something like this.
 
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Oh, the sun shines bright
On my old Kentucky home

Such a capitalist mindset, "my". As if ownership should be celebrated. Disgusting.

'Tis summer,
The old folks are gay

So we went from racist terms to ageist terms? Is that much better?

Well, the corn top's ripe
And the meadow's in the bloom

Sure, the corn is ripe and the meadow is blooming because the Europeans came over here and kicked out the natives and raped the land.

While the birds make music
All the day

Nature is there for nature itself. Not for your ears to find enjoyment in it.

Weep no more, my lady
Oh, weep no more, today

Please don't assume anyone's gender and please do not tell womyn how to feel, misogynists.

We sing one song
For my old Kentucky home
For my old Kentucky home
Far away.

Well, the young folks roll
All around the cabin floor

Children are gift from mother Gaia and should not be cooped up rolling on wooden floors.

They're merry, all
Happy and bright

Their emotions and intelligence should not matter to you nor me. Please allow the children to find their own identities without input from so-called adults.

By 'n by hard times will

Hard times? Rather phallic, don't you think. Paging Dr. Freud.

A-come a-knockin' at my door

Please no not steal the vernacular of marginalized citizens.

Then my old Kentucky home
Good night

If I CHOOSE to have a 'good night', that is my decision. Don't try to influence my emotions with your songs.
 
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May I present my rewrite to our 'state' song. It may be played or sung in any key and should not be forced to adopt western standards of melody and harmony.

Oh the sun heats the earth,
O'er a non-specific dwelling.
Where once reigned a noble,
race of indigenous peoples.

The ground has been raped,
by the tractor and the hoe.
While whyte men contstruct
Their buildings and steeples.

Feel your feelings, o person.
Feel whatever you must.
I have writ a song,
of a non-specific dwelling.
A non-specific dwelling on stolen land.

Younger persons play,
In Gaia's splendor whole.
Determining their own gender and race.

May they learn the truth,
Of the whyte man's destructive plan,
And choose to better mother Earth in their own individual waaaaaay.

Feel your feelings, o person.
Feel whatever you must.
I have writ a song,
of a non-specific dwelling.
A non-specific dwelling on sacred stolen land.
 
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