Posted on 04/25/2023 5:58:01 PM PDT by Robwin
The Olympia School District in Washington state is under fire for cutting music classes amid claims they promote "White supremacy culture" and "significant institutional violence."
Board members for the Olympia School District, which is facing a budget shortfall of millions of dollars, voted last week to eliminate band and orchestra for fourth-grade students, with one member commenting on the "problems with how elementary instrumental music is administered.
Alesha Perkins, a mom of three in the district, called out the "absurdity" of the move Tuesday on "Fox & Friends First."
"We have reached a level of absurdity in our school district, among our school board and our leadership that is just hard to ignore at this point," Perkins said, adding the decision was "par for the course" for the controversial board.
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but twerking and rap are ok.......that’s where we are folks.
It seems everything is white supremacy these days! I’ll bet that these folks have never heard of the little boy who cried wolf!
I know, it’s an embarrassment to our species!
On the one hand, I think any reasonable person should be able to say: “Duke Ellington? Stevie Wonder? Marvin Gaye? Black music is great and should be part of the American fabric.”
But if they’re going to dismiss strings and winds and such as “white supremacy”, then I will amend my earlier statement and make a flat new statement: “Rap music is absolute crap and sensible people don’t listen to jungle music by black people. Instead they should have some self-respect and listen to real music. You know: the stuff white people can make.”
It’s the new “Cultural Revolution”.
Getting rid of the “Four Olds”.
My white daughter attended Olympia schools and played viola for 9 years.
She was almost the only white kid in those classes. Most every one was of Asian decent.
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I’ll take this any day over rap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Z7n7IwQjs
Maoism
The only music in the public domain that’s any good is classical music. The school would have to pay for some, maybe all, of those others.
Hey wait a minute...don’t the woke say that Beethoven was black?
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