Johnny Mathis hit "Child is born" has its lyrics censored! Branded racist !

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[pgrahmm]

Insanity....

 

 

A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born

A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble, tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born

A rosy hue settles all around
You've got to feel you're on solid ground
For a spell or two, no one seems forlorn
This comes to pass when a child is born

And all of this happens because the world is waiting
Waiting for one child
Black, white, yellow, no one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter
Hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbour
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever

It's all a dream, an illusion now
It must come true, sometime soon somehow
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born

[sambum]

The world has gone PC crazy = mad!

 

Why take out the word "yellow" and leave the  words "black" and "white" in? Surely that is racist in itself?

[mikeymike100]

Here we go again? How can this song be called racist, or even one word of it?

Why do we have to put up with this <deleted>?

Radio stations should be ashamed!

How can the word 'yellow' by itself be racist?

Edited December 17, 2022 by mikeymike100

[phetphet]

Johnny Mathis himself was mixed race. African American and Native American.

 

Pretty soon we could be living in a very bland world, where everyone will have to be careful of saying or doing  anything that might offend someone. An impossible task as some will always find something to offend them.

[Martin71]

People who are offended by this really do need to get a life....truly pathetic.....

[KannikaP]

Aren't different coloured people mentioned in John Lennon's Happy Christmas, War is Over.?

And Blue Mink's Melting Pot, even calls them Yellow Chinkies.

Totally Mad World, well some stupid people are.

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by KannikaP

[riclag]

1 hour ago, pgrahmm said:

Insanity....

 

 

A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born

A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble, tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born

A rosy hue settles all around
You've got to feel you're on solid ground
For a spell or two, no one seems forlorn
This comes to pass when a child is born

And all of this happens because the world is waiting
Waiting for one child
Black, white, yellow, no one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter
Hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbour
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever

It's all a dream, an illusion now
It must come true, sometime soon somehow
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born

It mentions skin color , black white yellow! 
Contextually its meaning signifies , it doesn’t matter  imop 

Merry Christmas!  Birth of the Christ child!

I too am fed up with the nonsense!

Hopefully  this is  just in the Uk .

Edited December 17, 2022 by riclag

[jak2002003]

Why is it racist?  He was clearly referring to the cartoon characters from Springfield... You know...friends of Homer Simpson.  

 

 

[1FinickyOne]

They would probably string up Maurice Chevalier for 'Thank heaven, for little girls" 

[Smokey and the Bandit]

A while back 'Baby its cold outside' was banned in some places because some of the #metoo movement though it was offensive and manipulative?

Now this? Why do people listen to these crackpots? Folks have become over sensitive and get offended by the slightest whim. Do they sit down on purpose to find anything that is offensive with anything?

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by Smokey and the Bandit

[Andre0720]

"Black, white, yellow, no one knows".

 

Might very well be that he put these 3 words in, so has not to appear 'racist'.

[mikeymike100]

23 minutes ago, riclag said:

It mentions skin color , black white yellow! 
Contextually its meaning signifies , it doesn’t matter  imop 

Merry Christmas!  Birth of the Christ child!

I too am fed up with the nonsense!

Hopefully  this is  just in the Uk .

Absolutely correct, but now with social media etc it may spread faster than anyone thinks?

[KannikaP]

Johnny Mathis for No 1 at Christmas! 

[StreetCowboy]

Back in the day, people would have had the common sense to not rise to the click-bait. 

[StreetCowboy]

2 hours ago, phetphet said:

Johnny Mathis himself was mixed race. African American and Native American.

 

Pretty soon we could be living in a very bland world, where everyone will have to be careful of saying or doing  anything that might offend someone. An impossible task as some will always find something to offend them.

Please replace "bland" with a less pejorative term

[Martin71]

To all those who find it offensive...... cheer up Christmas is just around the corner.. maybe someone will get you a thicker skin, instead of a pair unisex gender neutral underpants/socks..

[billd766]

2 hours ago, sambum said:

The world has gone PC crazy = mad!

 

Why take out the word "yellow" and leave the  words "black" and "white" in? Surely that is racist in itself?

quote "The world has gone PC crazy = mad!"

 

Actually the world is a sane as it has ever been, BUT, there are people, mostly in the western world, who live solely to find racist commentary, as they alone see it.

 

It doesn't matter to them what anybody else thinks or believes, they KNOW that they are right and pure, and everybody else is a racist.

 

Personally I feel sorry for them as that is how they live their pitiful lives so virtuously.

[billd766]

1 hour ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

A while back 'Baby its cold outside' was banned in some places because some of the #metoo movement though it was offensive and manipulative?

Now this? Why do people listen to these crackpots? Folks have become over sensitive and get offended by the slightest whim. Do they sit down on purpose to find anything that is offensive with anything?

 

quote "Do they sit down on purpose to find anything that is offensive with anything"?

 

Sadly for the real world, yes they do, and it is their whole reason for existing.

[1FinickyOne]

4 hours ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Folks have become over sensitive and get offended by the slightest whim.

how dare you say that!!

[Jingthing]

I think Jesus was dark olive so of the choices in the song closest to black.

Edited December 17, 2022 by Jingthing

[Mac Mickmanus]

5 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

And all of this happens because the world is waiting
Waiting for one child
Black, white, yellow, no one knows

If you are sat there waiting for your Mrs to give birth and you aren't sure what colour the baby will be , whether it be "Black, White or Yellow" , then you really need to question whether you want to remain in a relationship with your Mrs 

[mikebike]

Not one comment questioning the veracity of the story? Which stations? How many stations? There are weirdos in every group... Is it 2 stations out of 10,000 or 500 of 510? 

[billd766]

These bigoted ignoramuses make me laugh crying racist.

 

Do they not know that Johnny Mathis is actually of mixed race himself?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mathis

 

Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935,[3] the fourth of seven children of Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd, both domestic cooks.[4][5] Mathis is of African-American and Native American heritage.

 

And whilst they are screaming about the word yellow being racist, what about the Ringo Starr song "Yellow Submarine", or "Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree", or the "Yellow Rose of Texas", "Mellow Yellow" or even bitch about daffodils being yellow in colour, or primroses being yellow?

 

Or even these

 

https://spinditty.com/playlists/Songs-with-the-Color-Yellow-in-the-Title

 

https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/songs-with-yellow-in-the-title/

 

http://tunecaster.com/special/songs-in-color/yellow.html

 

What really gets to me is that are so many things in the world today that NEED pointing out, but they don't care about that.

 

They need to be laughed at and publicly humiliated instead of being frightened of.

[billd766]

8 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Not one comment questioning the veracity of the story? Which stations? How many stations? There are weirdos in every group... Is it 2 stations out of 10,000 or 500 of 510? 

It is only the UK Daily Wail trying for clickbait. Nobody important.

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

These bigoted ignoramuses make me laugh crying racist.

 

Do they not know that Johnny Mathis is actually of mixed race himself?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mathis

 

Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935,[3] the fourth of seven children of Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd, both domestic cooks.[4][5] Mathis is of African-American and Native American heritage.

 

And whilst they are screaming about the word yellow being racist, what about the Ringo Starr song "Yellow Submarine", or "Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree", or the "Yellow Rose of Texas", "Mellow Yellow" or even bitch about daffodils being yellow in colour, or primroses being yellow?

 

Or even these

 

https://spinditty.com/playlists/Songs-with-the-Color-Yellow-in-the-Title

 

https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/songs-with-yellow-in-the-title/

 

http://tunecaster.com/special/songs-in-color/yellow.html

 

What really gets to me is that are so many things in the world today that NEED pointing out, but they don't care about that.

 

They need to be laughed at and publicly humiliated instead of being frightened of.

That's silly. 

Your yellow examples are not related to race.

[Jingthing]

What does yellow indicate racially in the UK?

Of course in the UK Asian mainly means South Asian while in the US South Asian people usually are not even included in Asian and are seen as another category.

In the US yellow skin color does refer to Asians and Asian people there don't much like it, but I don't think it's a severe slur either.

Also in the US there is "high yellow" which is a derogatory reference between black people referring to lighter skinned black people who may be putting on superior airs.

Of course I don't see the point of censoring the song unless there is UK thing that I don't know about.

 

I don't think the race of Mathis makes any difference in this.

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by Jingthing

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 hour ago, mikebike said:

Not one comment questioning the veracity of the story? Which stations? How many stations? There are weirdos in every group... Is it 2 stations out of 10,000 or 500 of 510? 

That's maybe because other people clicked in the story and the info is there , the headline in the link states that is two radio stations that have banned the song

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

What does yellow indicate racially in the UK?

Of course in the UK Asian mainly means South Asian while in the US South Asian people usually are not even included in Asian and are seen as another category.

In the US yellow skin color does refer to Asians and Asian people there don't much like it, but I don't think it's a severe slur either.

Also in the US there is "high yellow" which is a derogative reference among black people referring to lighter skinned black people who may be putting on airs.

Of course I don't see the point of censoring the song unless there is UK thing that I don't know about.

 

It is considered rather derogatory to call Asians "Yellow" in the UK , although I understand that "Chinaman" is regarded as being  derogatory in the USA whilst being acceptable in the UK

[mikebike]

12 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

That's maybe because other people clicked in the story and the info is there , the headline in the link states that is two radio stations that have banned the song

Duh, my point exactly. As Billd766 said DM = click bait, but every post prior to mine just went with the bee ess. The number is 0.3%