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-Great Cultural Revolution

George Floyd Gets His Own Musical Tribute — to Be Sung by a High School Choir at Carnegie Hall

2024-03-15

[REDSTATE] A Connecticut school choir is singing a political song about weather, and it doesn't concern climate change. Rather, the subject is social justice's most iconic figure.

According to Campus Reform, New Fairfield High has been rehearsing for an important New York performance. To be belted: "Weather: Stand the Storm." The tempestuous title regards the torrential downpour of chaos that occurred in 2020, ignited by the late Saint George Floyd

...The patron saint of Minneapolis...
's pivotal plight on May 25th in Minneapolis.

The song -- which is part of a larger work -- began as a poem penned by Claudia Rankine, co-founder of the Racial Imaginary Institute.

…so we can all imagine how deadly dull and clunky it must be, nothing at all like the sprightly, erudite, and witty verses turned out by Rantburg’s own Zenobia F, among others here…

The group's homepage nods to ubiquity:

We are committed to the activation of interdisciplinary work and a democratized exploration of race in our lives... [N]o sphere of life is untouched by race...

Race may be everywhere, but that doesn't mean analysis isn't due. In a 2016 discussion with The Guardian -- titled "Claudia Rankine: Why I'm Spending $625,000 to Study Whiteness" -- she dropped science:

"[I]t’s important that people begin to understand that whiteness is not inevitable... Conceptions and constructions of whiteness (have been) made and then propped up with eugenics and propped up with false science and false rhetoric and maintained through the justice system in every way... There’s a lot of other ways to start thinking about whiteness, and it involves the kind of underbelly that has been kept from the American public."

*Yawn*

Posted by:Fred

#8 Bravo, SteveS!

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-03-15 19:31

#7 nothing at all like the sprightly, erudite, and witty verses turned out by Rantburg’s own Zenobia F

Rantburg dot com is the place to be,
For the War on Terror and Poetry.
And the occasional Oxford comma.

Posted by: SteveS 2024-03-15 15:04

#6 Let’s all make a quilt.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-03-15 14:23

#5 Laken Riley deserves a full blown opera in this case.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-03-15 11:56

#4 Rex- I snickered

Posted by: Frank G 2024-03-15 08:35

#3 A 'high' School Choir. How fitting.

Posted by: BrerRabbit 2024-03-15 07:53

#2 Featuring Mary Lou Retton as the Artful Dodger

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-03-15 01:28

#1 Don’t miss the scene where he inserts the fentanyl.

Posted by: Ululating Platypus 2024-03-15 01:23

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