The composer of Jingle Bells could have very well written the song with racist intentions.
James Piermont was a supporter of slavery and the Confederate and wrote several songs supporting slavery.
Jingle Bells wasn't intended to be a song for a pagan holiday, and was originally performed in Blackface.
So it very well could've been written as a slave song changed to be a song about open sleigh races.
Meanwhile, Black folks and christians make excuses for observing these holidays, with pagan or racist history, because "they're times for family to get together" or because "we do it for the kids".
Why can't family get together year round? Why does it take Thansgiving and Christmas for you to prove your love to family or bless your children?
You have 365 days in a year, minus Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, -- plenty of time to show love to children, and for family to gather on days that aren't mired in paganism or racism.
Ashanti Patrice
NB: “Jingle Bells originally performed in 1857 in “blackface” (white people painted their faces black) in a minstrel show as “One Horse Open Sleigh” in Boston. Slavery wasn’t abolished in the US until 8yrs later. This song is racist and mocked "African Americans" who were still in slavery!”
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