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Charlotte arts group APOLOGIZES for funding city's symphony, opera and children's theater since 1958 - calling them 'white, Western Eurocentric organizations'
- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Charlotte's Arts & Science Council issued the extraordinary apology in a February report examining inequities in its funding practicesThe report called out the fact that black and minority groups have historically received far less funding from ASC than white organizations
- It highlighted eight 'white, Western Eurocentric organizations' that have received the most money from ASC since its founding in 1958
Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Cairo can have symphonies but we can't?
- Those eight included the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Opera Carolina and Children's Theatre of Charlotte and Charlotte Ballet
- 'ASC has been complicit in upholding funding practices that elevate certain cultures, creative traditions, identities and art forms above others,' it read
- Report drew outrage from critics who said it diminished work of those groups
- ASC Acting President Krista Terrell condemned critics in a blog post last week
- She said the backlash showed 'the uncomfortableness, the defensiveness, and scaredness of white people reacting to the unvarnished truth'
Posted by: Fred 2021-04-28 |
