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
We’ve got a country of fucking morons whose ringleaders truly need to be tossed from the highest rooftops as a lesson to the others. Fuck these white-hating morons.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin
They should have scheduled Kid Rock instead. He says he can’t be canceled because he doesn’t give a fxck.
They were going to show it in the Gerald Lynch Theatre? lol you can’t make this shit up.
There’s just no end to the stupid!!!
Probably just misdirection while the pass the another TRILLION $$ infrastructure bill.
They have taken control of voting, yet.
It all comes down to…..
divide and conquer.
Brad – Include Tom Macdonald at that concert
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!
^^^ seriously, how did that happen to what I typed ^^^
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^^^^^We thought you were speaking Canadian.
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.
Relax. Emmett Till was cancelled years ago.
What do you expect from a university that promotes itself as a “social justice school”
I don’t care one way or another.
Oh! NOES! Not the briar patch!
Like I give a flying fig.
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.