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George Floyd Gets His Own Musical Tribute — to Be Sung by a High School Choir at Carnegie Hall
Red State ^ | 14 March 2024 | Alex Parker

Posted on 03/14/2024 9:19:21 AM PDT by Sam77

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 George Floyd'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. The group's homepage nods to ubiquity:

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: connecticut; fatlippedthug; fentanylfloyd; music; patronsaintofthugs; saintgeorge; thuglivesmatter
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To: Gay State Conservative

The verse about the domestic violence is my favorite. Very lyrical and uplifting


21 posted on 03/14/2024 10:03:43 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Sam77

Is 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.


22 posted on 03/14/2024 10:06:50 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Sam77

Claudia Rankine, Racial Imaginary Institute.

At least she admits it’s all imaginary.


23 posted on 03/14/2024 10:08:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Sam77

A choral version of “The Needle and the Damage Done”?


24 posted on 03/14/2024 10:15:42 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Gay State Conservative

The media deleted all those pages it’s all about sucking up.


25 posted on 03/14/2024 10:29:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Sam77

Should be called NIGGA PLEASE


26 posted on 03/14/2024 10:34:43 AM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: Sam77

Will “Under Da Knee” be one of the musical numbers.


27 posted on 03/14/2024 10:40:40 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s true.


28 posted on 03/14/2024 10:41:06 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Sam77

If not for conservative media, no one would know Laken Riley’s name. Meanwhile, St. George Fentanyl Floyd gets a musical.


29 posted on 03/14/2024 11:23:59 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Sam77

St George of Fentanyl gets a musical tribute.
A pitiful waste of time for a lowlife scumbag...


30 posted on 03/14/2024 12:07:26 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Tell It Right
St

From the 'If You've Got Nothing Nice To Say Dept.':

For once it wasn't a rapper or athlete put on a pedestal.

31 posted on 03/14/2024 12:09:55 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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To: Sam77

His medical examiner ruled out homicide.

https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/george-floyd-death/authorities-just-released-george-floyds-complete-autopsy-report-read-it-here/


32 posted on 03/14/2024 12:12:08 PM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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To: Saintgermain
Ignorant and mentally challenged fools just never go away.

But they vote...

33 posted on 03/14/2024 12:16:20 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: CaptainK

Lest we forget that she was pregnant.


34 posted on 03/14/2024 1:14:07 PM PDT by seabeeson
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To: Moltke

You are right and that’s the problem. They been with us since the dawn of time.


35 posted on 03/14/2024 1:35:39 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: Sam77

like hamilton, perhaps minorities will play the cop...


36 posted on 03/14/2024 2:05:43 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Sam77

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality


37 posted on 03/14/2024 3:50:48 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Sam77

While singing “Fentanyl” the chorus members will drop dead one by one. Floyd was selling Fentanyl and did not care who died. He killed himself when he swallowed the Fentanyl he was selling.


38 posted on 03/14/2024 4:34:50 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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