It Turns Out Kate Smith Plead For Racial Tolerance

Well, it turns out that Kate Smith wasn't a racist after all.

John Timpane of the Philadelphia Inquirer revealed a May 1945 radio address by Smith calling for racial tolerance:

Race hatreds — social prejudices — religious bigotry — they are the diseases that eat away the fibers of peace. Unless they are exterminated it’s inevitable that we will have another war. And where are they going to be exterminated? At a conference table in Geneva? Not by a long shot. In your own city — your church — your children’s school — perhaps in your own home.

You and I must do it – every father and mother in the world, every teacher, everyone who can rightfully call himself a human being. Yes, it seems to me that the one thing the peoples of the world have got to learn if we are ever to have a lasting peace, is — tolerance. Of what use will it be if the lights go on again all over the world — if they don’t go on … in our hearts.

So will this be good enough for the New York Yankees to bring back her rendition of "God Bless America" during the 7th inning stretch?

Will this be good enough for the Philadelphia Flyers to re-erect the statue they torn down?

Probably not.

It would require The Left admitting they were wrong or at the very least didn't have the whole picture.

Indeed, they didn't have the whole picture in the first place. "That's Why Darkies Were Born", one of the songs in question, was also sung by singer and Communist activist Paul Robeson. As I asked just over a week ago, if Kate Smith was a racist then what does that make Paul Robeson?

Let me follow up with these questions. If Kate Smith was a racist then why can't we acknowledge that she changed her mind?

But if we acknowledge that she changed her mind then we also must acknowledge that we banished a woman who plead for racial tolerance.

Lynch mobs, online or otherwise, never acknowledge their mistakes.