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1950s dance theme shot down by Harvard student committee because it’s racist
The College Fix ^
| 7/14/2016
| Greg Piper
Posted on 07/14/2016 2:12:38 PM PDT by Hube
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To: nascarnation
If that’s racist I am going to the next ku klux klan kookout.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:29:50 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: Cecily
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:30:47 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hube
I know I will not win prizes with this comment: I would have voted it down because the music sucked in the fifties.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:32:00 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
To: dfwgator
To: Cecily
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:33:02 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
To: Hube
It was a Sock Hop where Chuck Berry got his sound.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:34:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Albion Wilde
To: Cecily
What was the second place idea? An 1850s cotillion?
They could just go with a groovy 1970s theme.
"50's dances" happened when 70s kids who'd seen American Grafitti or Happy Days wanted to dress up like their parents had.
By the 80s high schoolers were having "60's dances," because that's when they'd been conceived.
So by now, kids should be having "90's dances," not going back 60 years to their grandparents' day.
Maybe the problem at Harvard is the students didn't have any real connection to the 1950s. All they know about it is what they read in a textbook.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:38:12 PM PDT
by
x
To: AngelesCrestHighway
“Chuck! Chuck, it’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this!”
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:38:32 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hube
No point in arguing with them...just tell them they don’t have to attend if it bothers them.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:39:59 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
To: Hube
This is why we can’t have nice things...
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:40:40 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: ameribbean expat
"Otis, my man!"
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:44:18 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Hube
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:44:23 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Hube
Anything American prior to 0bammy’s tenure as president is racist/homophobic
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:45:26 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: Hube
A “sock hop” was typically a dance on a high school basketball court; you took your shoes off to protect the floor. That is now racist?
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:47:43 PM PDT
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Steve_Seattle
A sock hop is what white kids enjoyed...THAT is now labeled racist!
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Chuck Berry’s “duck walk” - one of the classics of modern pop culture. I’ve tried it, and you need to be in shape.
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posted on
07/14/2016 2:51:08 PM PDT
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Steve_Seattle
Once a month at lunch in our junior high gym we listened to rock and roll and danced...How racist could it get?
To: Steve_Seattle
I think he can still do it!
To: Steve_Seattle
Donchano, the socks were all white?
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