Boston Professor: ‘Jingle Bells’ Is Racist | Daily Wire
"A professor at Boston University says the Christmas tune loved by many, "Jingle Bells," is actually racist and has a "problematic" origination.
Boston University theater professor Kyna Hamill argues the song has "racist origins" and was first performed in blackface as a mockery of African Americans.
...“Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,” wrote the professor..."
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