LA Times’ Granderson on Sports Teams Banning Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’: ‘One More Step in Us Becoming a Better Society’

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GRANDERSON: "He’s entitled to his opinion, but what is not an opinion is whether or not the content in not just the songs she’s quoted as singing, but also the fact that she performed in blackface at some point and performed as a black nanny, those aren’t opinions, those are facts. And the reality is that just as we no longer celebrate the men who used to kill people who thought the Earth was round because they believed it was flat, we’ve moved on. We’ve gotten better as a society, and this is just one more step in us becoming better as a society."