12,000 students sign petition to cancel Emmett Till opera written by white woman, black composer sounds off – IOTW Report

12,000 students sign petition to cancel Emmett Till opera written by white woman, black composer sounds off

BPR: Over 12,000 students at the City University of New York have signed a petition seeking to cancel an Emmitt Till opera written by a female white playwright and a female black composer because of the author’s alleged “white guilt.”

Mya Bishop, who is a John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, started the Change.org petition to stop the “Emmett Till, A New American Opera” performance set to take place in the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre, according to the Daily Mail.

Detractors of the opera claim it is all about playwright Clare Coss’ “white guilt” instead of the killing of Emmett Till, who was 14 at the time, for allegedly flirting with a white woman. He was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for it.

Mary D. Watkins is the black female composer of the opera. The synopsis of the show says that it “explores themes of social justice, the flaws within the justice system, white silence and allyship, racial inequality, and the complexities of the human experience.” more

17 Comments on 12,000 students sign petition to cancel Emmett Till opera written by white woman, black composer sounds off

  1. Wait until they try realize that “You shook me all night long by AC/DC would be considered staling a rap song, Except it was WAY BEFORE and had music not microphone mouth farts.

    Should cause a lot more Drain Bamage!

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  2. You only find White Guilt among White Liberals. The rest of us don’t fall for that BS and have no White Guilt at all. If students want to cancel their own history, let them.

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  3. John Jay had a reputation as an abolitionist, but he was also a slave owner and his family was engaged in the slave trade. Just thought the students at John Jay College might want to know that.

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