Friday, March 06, 2020


White people must not sing black songs
  
Should white people sing black spirituals? Western Michigan University is grappling with that question after a black student was triggered and suffered a social-media meltdown when a predominantly white choir sang "Wade in the Water.“

"So apparently Western Michigan University thinks it’s ok for WHITE peoples to sing negro spirituals while the instructor talking bout ‘these songs don’t belong to one race.’ They sure as hell DO,” WMU music major Shaylee Faught wrote on a social-media post now seen by more than one million people.

Faught got triggered after the choir’s black conductor reportedly told the audience that the selections were “American songs” performed “for everyone” and “have no ethnicity.”

The performance, “Spirituals: From Ship to Shore,” included songs like “Go Down, Moses” and Wade in the Water.“

Well, faster than you could say "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” nearly the entire campus suffered a meltdown.

“We as a collective are appalling that this took place on our campus,” the Black Student Union wrote in a statement. “This act is a further example and reflection of the racial insensitivity and ignorance that has been allowed to occur on Western Michigan’s campus.”

The BSU called for “racial re-education on sensitivity training and cultural competence.”

The snowflakes who run the Black Student Union demanded an apology from the School of Music.

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3 comments:

Eddy Wobegon said...

I ask the BSU to support my call for blacks at WMU to abstain from playing basketball. This cultural appropriation must stop!

ScienceABC123 said...

I grow weary at all this "cultural appropriation" nonsense. Whatever happened to embracing the best no matter where it came from?

Anonymous said...

"Cultural Appropriation" is the resurrection of Segregation. It's been created solely to drive races and cultures apart.

Before it was created actions like this one by the music department were well recognized as efforts to appreciate other cultures, not to "appropriate" them.