In a one-horse open sleigh”

Aha! Proof positive of global warming if they could dash through the snow-covered fields of Mississippi back then! SMH

“Dashing through the snow”

Away from the Plantation, or after a runaway?

“In a one-horse open sleigh”

Either grand theft, or Massa’a a-comin.

“O’er the fields we go”

Maybe running away, but maybe chasing.

“Laughing all the way”

This doesn’t seem to fit with the runaway scenario. Unless the escapee was driven mad by the constantly jingling bells on the collar for which there doesn’t seem to be the slightest historical evidence.

Why does no one challenge these people?

Thank you for quite short (only one word), but very friendly greeting with which you express your wishes for my welfare and well-being. I don’t want to stand back to this and wish good luck and health for the new year 2022.

These idiots are so scared or being called racist they are making up junk just to have a jump on the accusations.
‘ I can’t be racist I banned jingle Bells.’

Seriously bells on slave collars? Can you imagine just how irritating that would sound on the old plantation?
I would be pulling the bells off my own slaves inside the first week and then just chain a slow slave to a fast slave.. The dogs will find any runaways easy enough.

Bells on slaves. Ridiculous.

https://www.humanprogress.org/crashing-through-the-snow-the-grim-sarcasm-behind-jingle-bells/

“One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces.”

Jingle bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel
And the Joker got away

OTOH, I know of a teacher whose surname is “Chestnut” … you can imagine what the kids do with that, during the holidays.

“Jingle Bells, Santa smells,
Rudolph ran away…
Oh what fun it is to ride,
In a beat-up Chevrolet…”

Who is “some”? What it really means is ” I’m making this up”

My college’s alma mater is sung by thousands at a time in public as “We don’t know the G D words”

Every military that I am aware of has songs that mock the official ones. Example, the marching song of US airborne troops is “Blood upon the Risers” sung to the the tune of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”. about a trooper who dies when his chute malfunctions, the chorus being…

“Gory, Gory, What a hell of a way to die”

When I graduated from Basic Airborne School at Fort Benning a lifetime ago, the band played that song as we newly qualified paratroopers passed in review so officialdom has had to acknowledge it.

My God, where is the pushback? Shouldn’t it take a perfunctory 5 minutes at the start of the next “bored meeting” to both repeal and ridicule the prior decision?

Questioner: Heil!

One can clearly see here that it is not enough to define a nation (or a people) using abstract terms such as freedom, constitution, or even just as a collection of consumers.

More is needed to bring cohesion to the nation: For example, a common culture and cultural heritage that goes back a long way, a feeling for a fateful bond, a shared religion, a shared mentality, perhaps the same genetic heritage and so on.