Performance of 'YMCA' at talent show by first-grade class cancelled for being 'racist'

UPI ^ | 05/14/2014 | Evan Bleier

[Responsibility2nd]

FARGO, N.D., May 14 (UPI) --A North Dakota elementary school will not be allowing the young men and women in a first-grade class to perform YMCA at a talent show because a parent dubbed the planned performance "racist."

Students at Bennett Elementary School in Fargo were supposed to sing the famous Village People song during a May talent show.

The kids were supposed to come up dressed up like members of the '70s group - a policeman, a cowboy, a biker, a construction worker and a Native American.

Parent Elaine Bolman found it offensive that her daughter or her classmates would be asked to dress up like a stereotypical Native American caricature.

"I'm not in a position to do anything for these educators, and hopefully those people that are can make the right choices so all students of any culture and race won't feel singled out or like their race is being stereotyped against," Bolman told Inforum.

[defconw]

Well maybe? I think the whole thing is stupid. 1st grade? Whatever happened to Old MacDonald had a Farm? I seriously believe that the government is putting drugs in the water or something. Teachers, cops, politicians, etc seem to have lost their damn minds.

[Flick Lives]

When sacred cows collide, you get hamburger.

I like that!

[windcliff]

I know one was straight—maybe the cop.

[dfwgator]

Yes, the cop is straight.

[Altura Ct.]

It’s two taste treats in one. It is both a cornucopia of diversity and a stereotype at the same time.

[Durus]

Only the Cowboy and the Indian were homosexual.

[Will88]

Whatever else might be said, I don’t recall the Indian Chief being a source of conroversy when the VP were releasing their hits during the late 1970s.

Seems like just another hyper-sensitive ninny looking for a reason to be offended if that’s the only objection to kids performing a VP song.

[dfwgator]

"Hast du gesehen in deine leben?"

[Mears]

You can’t win these days.

“Itsy Bitsy Spider” would probably enrage PETA.

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[EQAndyBuzz]

“”Hast du gesehen in deine leben?””

And now the reason the song was cancelled. It’s north Dakota. They are missing one thing.

Schvartzes.

[dfwgator]

Cop a valk, it’s alright.

[Mears]

Oy !

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[Bratch]

Obviously these people don’t know what the song is really about.

[blueplum]

I find Parent Elaine offensive

[massmike]

...or removed from the building in hand cuffs....

[Fledermaus]

Some people are just too stupid to be allowed to raise children.

[ExCTCitizen]

Ms Bolman, why don’t you move to California and not contaminate the state of North Dakota.

[Delta Dawn]

When sacred cows collide, you get hamburger.

Ah geez, I got that one wrong. I thought that when sacred cows collided, one got veggieburgers...

Live and learn I guess...

[hattend]

I’m glad it was canceled because it celebrates sodomy.

That being said, does a first grader know that? Or need to know that?