Canadian Music Festival Says Sorry For ‘Racist’ White Staffer Who Didn’t Want To Move To The Back – IOTW Report

Canadian Music Festival Says Sorry For ‘Racist’ White Staffer Who Didn’t Want To Move To The Back

Daily Caller: A music festival in Halifax, Canada has apologized for “overt racism” following a volunteer staffer’s refusal to move to the back because she is Caucasian.

According to the National Post, performer Lido Pimienta, who won the 2017 Polaris Prize, frequently asks all white members of her audience to move to the back and give up their seats to non-white audience members. They must do so regardless of whether they pay more for their seating.

The Halifax Pop Explosion music festival is apologizing for the actions of a photographer who refused to acquiesce to Pimienta’s request during her October 19 show. Her refusal to do so was considered an “interruption” and deemed an act of “overt racism,” according to the festival’s board of directors, who are now promising to make changes to the event.

The board promises to improve “anti-oppression and anti-racism training” for their staff next year, essentially asking them to give in to the demands of people who supposedly face more oppression than they do.

“We are sorry that one of our volunteers interrupted your art, your show, and your audience by being aggressive and racist,” wrote vice-chairman Georgie Dudka on Facebook.  MORE

21 Comments on Canadian Music Festival Says Sorry For ‘Racist’ White Staffer Who Didn’t Want To Move To The Back

  1. truly unbelievable !

    what white people attend rap concerts any way ?

    “Polaris prize” never heard of it or fat lido pimiento.

    but then we don’t have many columbian/canadian restaurants here.

  2. Well if the white people paying for tickets are all regressive liberals, then I have no problem with it. Only in the sense that they get a taste of what life will be like for them if right of center, common sense folks are no longer around.

  3. OK What this bint is doing is using the pressure of a social situation to request a racial group to voluntarily demean themselves in order to allow this performer to virtue signal on an industrial scale.
    All this for some nebulous charge of ‘past racisism’
    When I went to see Gordon Lightfoot a couple of years back, he just played his songs, and went the hell home.

  4. The apology should have been to the staffer. I say those with time and money buy front row tickets to this tramps next show and when she asks all the whites to move to the back they refuse. When she refuses to do her show sue her into a refrigerator box in an alley on Yonge Street.

  5. 🔥🔥🔥Where is the WHITE ROSA PARKS?🔥🔥🔥 Why submit to this Dhimmi policy?

    This racism cannot go on! I would stand there with my fist in the air until they dragged me away, then I’d file charges, as a paying customer, I have the right to be in the front row.

    Shame them for not learning history.

  6. Canada derailed a long time ago. Their accent is almost as annoying as most east coast accents. Ever notice none of the network anchors sound like a typical east coast person. The accent won’t fly over most of America.

  7. Can’t decide what would have been more fun, to declare, “I am Rosa Parks,” and refuse to move, or to declare, “I identify as a black transgender muslim,” and watch their head’s spin.

    So now, in Canada, apparently it’s racist to refuse to give in to a racist demand. Hmmmm.

  8. Message received loud and clear. If you’re white and stupid enough to go to her performance you should sit in the back and wear a sign saying you were born racist.

    If you actually pay for this privilege, be sure to see Bill Engvall first for your other sign you need to also wear at the same time.

    You’ve been told. No whining now. Shut up and get to the back, you racist.

  9. “You want me to move to the back to the cheaper seats? Are you going to pay me the difference in the ticket price, out of your pocket, right now? I worked for the money to pay for the ticket for this seat.”

  10. I can see it now…….anywhere this Lido Pimento performs, there will only be blacks in attendance who have bought the cheap seats in the back, because they know they’ll get moved to the front without paying for it. Actions……..consequences.

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