This is the summation of what they are thinking, but they'll get a pass on being racist.
Posted on 04/30/2015 4:12:28 AM PDT by bjorn14
I was watching CNN International today and they showed the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra giving a free outdoor concert to allegedly calm the nerves of the citizenry. The conductor (I assume) was going on about how united Baltimore was. But as the camera panned the audience of listeners I did not see one person of color there. It did't look like a very united Baltimore to me.
Yeah, like the hip-hop rioting crowd will stop and listen to the strains of Beethoven and Mozart flowing through the air.
What are the chances that a classical music enthusiast would riot and loot? Compare that to the cRap crowd.
“What are the chances that a classical music enthusiast would riot and loot? Compare that to the cRap crowd.”....
Well, you have to admit they would all make pretty good targets to get mugged going to or coming from the concert.
I wouldn’t venture to Baltimore for ANY reason for the next say, 50 years or so. I understand that there were supposed to be numerous “conventions” slated for Baltimore this year, many of which have now been cancelled.
Ah, the price of progress.
lol. what a sick joke. RUDY why aren’t you in charge of Baltimore!! I know you guys don’t like a lot about him but it was GREAT seeing Sharpton and Jackson have NO leverage and Arafat getting kicked out of events lol
This is the summation of what they are thinking, but they'll get a pass on being racist.
In Kansas City, the Kaufman Center for Performing Arts has two halls, the Muriel Kaufman Theater and Helzberg Hall. Helzberg is the venue of the Symphony and the other is ballet, opera, vocal events, jazz, etc. When two events are on the same day, the differences in audience are very interesting. Blacks almost never attend a Symphony event, but they do support many of the other, usually dressed to the nines and really styling. They have the money and they want to see and be seen, just like other people. But, classic music doesn’t bring in the black audience. Even the free outdoor concert on Memorial Day dedicated to the Veterans and the fallen at Union Station near to many black neighborhoods is a very white audience. They even try giving away tickets to schools and that doesn’t work either.
10:00 PM curfew!
Enough with the incessant cello playing!
Is the Indycar race still going to take place?
I have noticed exactly what you have written in my city, Washington D.C., also.
As a general rule, don’t go to ANYTHING “free” in a city.
But, free Mozart & Beethoven would keep the more dangerous elements to less than critical mass.
When leftists actually give of their own money to “charity”,
it’s to things that benefit themselves.
The Symphony, the art museum, etc.
They could have held a folk music event with the same result.
Dumb white liberals thinking they can bestow their “cultural superiority” on the inner city and make them into hipsters and yuppies.
Tomorrow they will put up big speakers and blast NPR into the ghetto.
GLBTs, persons of color and Baltimore residents are all 85%-90% reliable Democrat voters, so there is that unity.
LOL! There ya go!
I am reminded of the scene in “Animal House” where Bluto (John Belushi) seizes the folk singer’s guitar and smashes it, repeatedly
see above.
Saw it on FOX and laughed. Waiting for some blacks to get offended at the obvious display of racism. The nerve of whitey to think blacks don’t go to the symphony! Or that “white” music is better than the music listened to by our young, misunderstood, urban yutes? That’s RACIST!!! :-)
In Baltimore? Sounds like the organizers were way ahead of the curve.
"Starting over at Baltimore in 2016 will be very difficult if even possible." (This from 2013)
They jump on cop cars. The cops stand down.
They burn down millions in property. We use very strong language.
They bring a knife we bring a cello.
Yep, got it.
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