More on Miss Smith

I turned on Smerconish at 8:00 CDT this Saturday morning (CNN) He had the story about Kate Smith with this follow-up.

A transcript (no audio is available) of a radio program from 1945 has been found with a long section of Miss Kate Smith commenting on tolerance and the need for hatred to be taken away from our society. It was very moving. This was right after WWII had ended and reminds me of Frank Sinatra singing "The House We Live In" which can be found on YouTube.

In the words of a black man who was beaten in California after a traffic stop, "Can't we all just get along?'

And later:  Sunday morning, April 28th, CBS Sunday Morning program stated that the New York Yankees had played the recording of God Bless America by Miss Smith during the seventh inning stretch. They have stopped doing this now. They also mentioned many other singers who sang songs similar to the ones mentioned before. George M. Cohan, Al Jolsen and others that I do not remember.

It was a different time - not a "good old days" time but different.

You can't change what happened but you can learn from it.