Posted on 07/07/2019 1:39:02 PM PDT by Widget Jr
FULL TITLE: Tiny Jag pulls out of AfroFuture Fest after learning white people would be charged a different price to attend
Jillian Graham, aka Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag, pulled out of a local music festival this week because she disagreed with its pay model, in which people of color would pay less for tickets than white festivalgoers.
Graham said she only found out about AfroFuture Fest's pay model when a white friend reached out to her and sent her a screenshot via Instagram that outlined the pay difference. The early bird POC ("people of color") ticket was $10 while the early bird "non-POC" ticket cost $20.
"I was immediately enraged just because I am biracial," Graham tells Metro Times. "I have family members that would have, under those circumstances, been subjected to something that I would not ever want them to be in ... especially not because of anything that I have going on."
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That ain't right, you might say. No kidding, Sherlock. But it's a fact of life. Is poor-on-rich discrimination any worse than black-on-white discrimination? Open for discussion.
Confusion is perhaps about “early bird” pricing is really about pricing based on skin color.
similar thread
Vanity: Upcoming Detroit Festival Charges “Non Persons of Color” Double Price to Attend
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3761993/posts
see post #56 -The Ten Stages of Genocide
Article:
Detroit music festival sets ticket prices based on race
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/detroit-music-festival-sets-ticket-prices-based-on-race
The AfroFuture music and arts festival in Detroit is facing controversy after ticket sales began to use different pricing for people based on the color of their skin. The AfroFuture music and arts festival in Detroit is facing controversy after ticket sales began to use different pricing for people based on the color of their skin.
Brand-new (R). Wonder if she attended, if they’d charge her $15
White kids are so stupid. They love their servitude, they really do. They love groveling.
Afrofuturism comes from Black nationalism and black separatism. They espouse a supremacist ideology of hate. Has been that way since the 1950s and never changed.
...Took a while to figure out this wasn’t about a little car...
I had an old school read on that too.
Thinking an XKE convertible.
They have been browbeaten and propagandized into that attitude, it’s not inherent in them.
Just label it the “Affirmative action” price.
Can this be tried with rental property or mortgages.
Go blackfaced
Many self loathing whites will gladly go...and feel morally superior.
Ha! I automatically thought little car too.
I made the mistake of going to a Herbie Hancock concert one time, just because I liked some of his music.
Just because you like somebody’s music doesn’t mean they like you.
I’ve come to realize that car salesmen, while making small talk, ask “what kind of work do you?” in order to gauge your income level.
I refused to tell a salesman what I did and he got a bit agitated asking me “are you a spy”?
I wasn’t ready to buy a vehicle, just looking at the time.
Your sister in law made a wise decision.
Good for her - looks like a number here missed the point and opted to express their dislike of rap and such...and they mock Dems for never staying on topic with their own arguments....ironic.
I noticed that.
Yep - we have a lot of “diversity” here at FR these days...being polluted by a lot of “quasi-pseudo conservatives” and some Lonely Hearts Club folks.
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