Hayley Caronia

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All right, so former MSDNC, MS Now host Joy Reid, she shared this video to Instagram.

And this video claims that the song Jingle Bells that we all know and love has a racist history.

So here's a guy who's going to tell us all about how Jingle Bells is racist.

So he's talking about how a Confederate soldier wrote this song to make fun of black people.

So here is what the video says.

This plaque in Medford, Massachusetts honors where James Lord Piermont wrote Jingle Bells, but ignores its origins in blackface.

What is that?

Minstrelsy?

Minstrelsy?

I've never even heard of that word.

I know minstrel, but minstrelsy?

I've never heard it like that.

Okay.

In the mid 1800s, Piermont was broke and needed quick cash.

So he turned to the hugely profitable world of minstrel shows.

Okay.

Then it says the song first called The One Horse Open Sleigh debuted in blackface at Ordway Hall in Boston in September of 1857.

OK, while actors in burnt cork used the song to mock and caricature black people trying to participate in winter activities.

Okay.