More than 11,000 CUNY students sign a
petition to CANCEL an opera show about
Emmett Till's lynching because it was
written by a white woman - while the play's
composer blasts the effort as 'an insult
to me as a Black woman'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Alastair Talbot
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/21/2022 4:07:43 PM
Tens of thousands of students at the City University of New York have signed a petition to cancel an opera about Emmett Till, the victim of a high-profile 1955 lynching in Mississippi, saying that the school should no longer host the show because it was written by a white woman. John Jay College of Criminal Justice student Mya Bishop created the Change.org petition in an attempt to halt the continuation of 'Emmett Till, A New American Opera' at the school's Gerald W. Lynch Theatre. In the petition's description, she wrote that the show is all about playwright Clare Coss' 'white guilt' rather than the appalling killing of Till, 14,
Peas the popcorn, this should be fun…
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Cancel all professional basketball for the same reason then.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 3/21/2022 4:29:07 PM (No. 1106079)
Academia has taught our children to think backwards. Ten of thousands of CUNY students just virtue-signaling their ignorance and intolerance for all to see. Let's fight racism with MORE racism!! Yay us! /smh
19 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/21/2022 4:34:10 PM (No. 1106081)
I just love the smell of them eating their own in the morning!
15 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 3/21/2022 4:37:25 PM (No. 1106085)
As Rush used to say, skulls full of mush.
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Those Amish sure are ignorant. The fact that some of these Amish students will get a degree is actually terrifying.
If AOC can get an economics degree I guess anything is possible. Pretty soon AOC, they might decide to run for Congress
and you will have to go back to bar tending.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/21/2022 4:43:23 PM (No. 1106090)
White involvement in an empathetic expression of the incident is not allowed. Ok - why bother with any further attempts of understanding? How do these Leftist propose we go forward?
9 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
paral04 3/21/2022 4:48:13 PM (No. 1106096)
These people are all idiots. The only way to solve these sensitive racial issues is to send all Blacks back to Africa, Asians to Asia, etc. Europeans can he Native Americans might be able to work the rest out.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 3/21/2022 4:55:03 PM (No. 1106104)
Amen #2. Basketball was invented by a white man and those poor NBA player millionaires are really just slaves.
21 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
aasilver 3/21/2022 5:15:36 PM (No. 1106114)
How about protesting Hamilton on Broadway because it wasn't written by a white man.
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/21/2022 5:39:10 PM (No. 1106129)
White, black, boring.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
columba 3/21/2022 5:47:55 PM (No. 1106132)
I am offended etc etc etc.
A hard-to-grasp virtue listed in Scripture is MEEKNESS.
It is an ability continue without push back even when and while one is being wrongly charged or wrongly criticized.
These folks need some that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Omen55 3/21/2022 5:51:57 PM (No. 1106134)
I say cancel all of dem for being alive while so many blacks have been killed by blacks & not a word form dem!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SALady 3/21/2022 6:10:36 PM (No. 1106147)
Just tell those woke students that the white woman that wrote it relates to being a black homosexual albino man.
Then everything will be OK!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/21/2022 6:17:25 PM (No. 1106150)
CUNY students should be forced to pay for their educations and upkeep. That would eliminate any time they have for petitioning and protesting. If any of them are capable of learning anything, they will find out that those that buy tickets will promote or cancel any play.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/21/2022 6:23:46 PM (No. 1106153)
The writer should identify as a black person. No problem! Right?
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/21/2022 6:23:48 PM (No. 1106154)
Folks with these angry, ignorant, wokesters voting - NYC is not going to get any better
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/21/2022 6:26:53 PM (No. 1106158)
This just in. The opera writer is 1/1024 black! Everything good now!
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/21/2022 6:27:13 PM (No. 1106159)
Yep, here we are again, black fragility. Understanable as only whites murder anyone based on racial animus.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
IowaDad 3/21/2022 6:55:18 PM (No. 1106172)
I can assure you that not a single one of the protestors at CUNY has ever been to a production of an opera. Actually, the subject matter sounds deadly. I really don't want to hear white guilt set to music. It would just drone on into confused obscurity, accompanied by ever more strident and nonsensical peebs, plinks and flatulent wails from the orchestra.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/21/2022 6:55:51 PM (No. 1106174)
The opera ain’t over til the white lady sings.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
pilot222 3/21/2022 7:12:06 PM (No. 1106179)
Good. Cancel all operas and symphonies because only elite white liberals like it. Attend a racist rap concert to get your mind right
2 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
PCMM 3/21/2022 8:14:18 PM (No. 1106214)
You can’t have an opera without wypipo instruments, therefore, no black opera should exist. And don’t get me started on the wypipo clothing and shoes and lights and theaters and clocks and …
3 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/21/2022 9:13:29 PM (No. 1106260)
But black people cannot be racist.
What fool ever said that?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/21/2022 10:13:35 PM (No. 1106296)
CCNY's motto is now "Gimee that old fashioned segregation". Give it to them. POC on one side. Everyone else on the other. Just like the 1950s.
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11,000 is (1.1 x 10,000), not "tens of thousands".
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Gerald W. "Lynch" Theater? How did that get by them!? Burn it down!! That's allowed in mostly peaceful demonstrations!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/22/2022 6:42:26 AM (No. 1106424)
Yes! please cancel each other out. We'll all be better for it.
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An opera about a lynching (blockbuster material there) staged at a theater named Lynch at a school named for a white man, and they're mad that it was written by a white person. OK! Imagine being angry all the time. Then again, the school is a hotbed of Marxist thought funded by George Soros, so this should be expected.