luvsJack
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- Apr 3, 2007
I don’t think I’m understanding what you’re saying here. Are you suggesting modern societies shouldn’t be turned off by people’s past actions simply because those actions were acceptable at the time they were alive?
I was thinking about the morality of those examples, not the legality. And the point was that famous people fall from grace all the time once society learns more about the individual or changes its views on certain subjects.
I couldn’t remember which was the song in question so I listed them both. My bad.
So baseball, once a segregated sport, should always remain a segregated sport? Of course not, it needs to evolve and change alongside society. This is exactly my point. The Yankees have decided this singer’s body of work no longer fits with the image they want for their organization in the context of today’s social mores and values. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Her whole body of work or a couple of songs sang 50 years ago?
Does the baseball museum or hall of fames not include memorabilia from their racist path?