Last week we learned once again that liberals are working hard to protect us from the scourge of history.

First they protected us from the evil Nazi anthem “Edelweiss,” written by two American Jews. Remarkably, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote this Nazi anthem in 1959, many years after the death of the Nazi Party. Even more remarkably, they disguised it as an anti-Nazi song in the anti-Nazi musical “The Sound of Music.”

That did not stop ace New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman from scouting out the danger of a Marine band performing “Edelweiss” at a White House event honoring Wounded Warriors.

“Does anyone…at the White House understand the significance of that song?” Haberman tweeted in one of the most ironic statements ever uttered outside the collected works of Shakespeare.

Let the liberal ignorance of Maggie Haberman inform your understanding of the more dangerous outrage of last week when the progressive left took down another American hero.

The New York Yankees announced they would no longer play Kate Smith”s recording of “God Bless America” at their games, and the Philadelphia Flyers covered her statue and eventually removed it to the place where statues go to live in shame.

If you were trying to weaken the American culture and destroy our common bonds, who better to topple than the woman who made “God Bless America” a song that joined us all together for more than 80 years until political correctness declared the song dangerous.

It seems that Kate Smith had also sung a song in 1931 which uneducated liberals like Maggie Haberman found to be offensive. The lyrics of “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” are shocking to our modern sensibilities, that’s true, but they aren’t exactly racist, especially if you have even the slightest understanding of satire.

The song begins with the blatantly outrageous statement that black people were born to be slaves.

“Someone had to pick the cotton,

Someone had to pick the corn,

Someone had to slave and be able to sing,

That’s why darkies were born;”

Now, unless you believe that the audience of sophisticated, wealthy national leaders who watched Broadway musicals in the 1930s really supported slavery, you might here to start to be alert for irony. By this third stanza, you might see that the resilience of the blacks forced into slavery is being seen as an example whites can and should learn from.

“Sing, sing, sing when you’re weary and

Sing when you’re blue,

Sing, sing, that’s what you taught

All the white folks to do;”

If any liberal had the forbearance to make it to the final fourth stanza without being triggered into a coma, he would read:

“Someone had to fight the Devil,

Shout about Gabriel’s Horn,

Someone had to stoke the train

That would bring God’s children to green pastures,

That’s why darkies were born.”

It should be obvious to anyone who doesn’t think “Edelweiss” is a Nazi anthem that the so-called racist song has gone full circle in four stanzas, and that by the end “the darkies” are Christian martyrs, the enemy of the Devil who gave us slavery, and partners with Christ in bringing souls to heaven. Yeah, that’s racist.

But let’s be fair. If Kate Smith is going to be ripped from her rightful place in American history and culture because she sang “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” then the same fate should await everyone who sang it.

So how will the political correctness mob explain ripping down the statues of Paul Robeson, the far-left black activist who also sang and recorded the song. If Kate Smith was a dangerous racist, then Robeson must be too. And likewise, if the brilliant Robeson saw something of value in the song, then perhaps we mere mortals (and Kate Smith) might be forgiven for also thinking that the song is a lament for the racist stereotypes that were used to justify slavery and a celebration of the spirit of the black people who overcame slavery and became an inspiration for all of us. They fought the devil, and maybe we should too.

But if I am wrong, and if the liberal mob is right that the song was a racist anthem, and also right to condemn Smith’s entire lifetime of work because she sang the song, then we need to follow up with more that condemning Paul Robeson.

Ultimately, if we are going to purify our culture and remove any of the taint of slavery, we need to take the obvious step of condemning the Democratic Party that not only gave us slavery but also supported Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan and fought the civil rights laws of the 1960s. I could also go through history and demonstrate how Democrats are the party of war, but why bother. Perhaps I should just write it up in a song, so the literal-minded liberals can at last understand just how beneath human these dangerous Democrats are.

Here is my first draft of “That’s Why Democrats Were Born.” Feel free to add your own verses.

“Someone had to chain the slaves

Someone had to see Samson shorn,

Someone had to keep black folks down

That’s why Democrats were born.

“Someone had to kill the Japs

Someone had to drop the bomb,

Make them bubble and boil and burn

That’s why Democrats were born.

“Someone had to lead the masses

In how to hate and how to scorn

Say one thing and do another

That’s why Democrats were born.”

Not sure if the liberal Democrats who hate Kate Smith will get the satire, and I certainly don’t expect to see statues of FDR or Truman being ripped down any time soon even though they were members of the party of slavery, but I do expect to see more examples of Democratic hypocrisy is the near and far future.

Today “Edelweiss”; tomorrow the world!

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