Remind me to never challenge Joy Reid in a "make everything about race" contest.
Here's the video shared by Joy Reid about how the song "Jingle Bells" is racist and written by an evil Confederate soldier:
Some TikToker made a video about how Jingle Bells is racist ... so now it's racist.
It's literally a song about horse-drawn sleigh racing in New England!
But apparently, it's pretty common to make up racist origin stories for this song.
Even the author of the article this whole video is based on, Kyna Hamill, said that the song itself is in no way racist.
However, Hamill has repeatedly said her work is being misrepresented and that she never claimed 'Jingle Bells' was written as racist mockery. She maintains her research focuses on the performance history of the song and where it originated, not on Pierpont's intent in composing it.
So ... it's not racist.
'I never said it was racist now,' Hamill told the Boston Herald in 2017, adding that she was not looking to dictate what songs are sung at Christmas.
So, like almost every pop song composed in the 19th century, it was sung in minstrel shows. This is neither breaking, shocking, or really all that interesting.
It's almost like these people are hateful Scrooges who just hate Christmas!
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