Merry Cancellations and a Woke-y New Year! Two radio stations have censored a line of Johnny Mathis’s song “When a Child Is Born” because it’s “racist.”
Nothing like accusing a black artist of racism for a song lyric arguing that it doesn’t matter what race Jesus was. Welcome to the wacky world of wokeism.
During Mathis’s song, he pauses his singing to speak a few sentences about what the birth of Jesus Christ meant to a fallen world. Here are Mathis’s words, with the objectionable line in bold:
“And all this happens because the world is waiting–waiting for one child. Black, white, yellow, no one knows. But a child that would grow up and turn tears to laughter, hate to love, war to peace, and everyone to everyone’s neighbor. And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever.”
