White choir sings black spirituals, and all hell breaks loose

WND ^ | Published February 26, 2020 at 6:55pm | Todd Starnes By Todd Starnes

[Red Badger]

Should white people sing black spirituals?

Western Michigan University is grappling with that question after a black student was triggered and suffered a social media meltdown when a predominantly white choir sang "Wade in the Water."

"So apparently Western Michigan University thinks it's ok for WHITE peoples to sing negro spirituals while the instructor talking bout 'these songs don't belong to one race.' They sure as hell DO," WMU music major Shaylee Faught wrote on a social media post now seen by more than 1 million people.

Faught got triggered after the choir's black conductor reportedly told the audience that the selections were "American songs" performed "for everyone" and "have no ethnicity."

The performance, "Spirituals: From Ship to Shore," included songs like "Go Down, Moses" and the aforementioned "Wade in the Water."

Well, faster than you could say zip-a-dee-doo-dah, nearly the entire campus suffered a meltdown.

"We as a collective are appalling [sic] that this took place on our campus," The Black Student Union wrote in a statement. "This act is a further example and reflection of the racial insensitivity and ignorance that has been allowed to occur on Western Michigan's campus."

The BSU called for "racial reeducation on sensitivity training and cultural competence."

[xrmusn]

Wonder what the (self called) ‘purists’ would have to say about this...

The Red Army Choir....(believe from 2011...this was the part of the RAC killed in a Christmas 2016 plane crash)
RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H8si4ImrEw&t=42s

Battle Hymn of the Republic follows up...

[EnglishOnly]

I didn’t know the Spiritual songs and Hymns were copyrighted material by any one race.

Freedom of Speech?

[Flick Lives]

We as a collective are appalling ...

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Yes indeed.

[Bommer]

Proper reply is “when was the last time you ugly bigoted black ass sang that song....or went to church for that matter? STFU & F.O.U.B”

[angmo]

Whites should be angry at anybody who is non-white, in a suit, using a computer, driving a car, playing classical music, going into space, making a movie, using a lightbulb, using electricity, in a Shakespeare play...

Or maybe just enjoy contributions made by our ancestors. I don’t think Indians or Persians get mad that people use 0.

[Torahman]

Should Michael JACKSON WEAR A FEDORA?

[Boogieman]

[Michael.SF.]

Already Posted:

White choir sings black spirituals, and all hell breaks loose

[Torahman]

Should Ray Charles play the piano?

[duckman]

I tried Zipa De Doo Dah in Italian and it just don’t seem the same.

[G Larry]

Who decided "cultural appropriation" was a sin?

What is it from Western White culture they'd like to un-appropriate?

[real saxophonist]

I’m so glad that when I was the one white boy in a funk band all those years ago, there was no such thing as ‘cultural appropriation’.

[setter]

“So a black “Dorothy” is just fine in “The Wiz” but white folks singing black “spirituals” is horrible.”

Hamilton is played by a black guy.

[pookie18]

...but they don’t feel no ways tired

— Hillary Clinton, Gospel singer

[pepsi_junkie]

Let them have “Don’t wade in the water”. In fact, we should do this like a professional sports draft. In the first round I claim “Amazing Grace” for the Whites team.

[gibsonguy]

If they used Social Media to complain then they are guilty of cultural appropriation because Social Media was invented by white people.

[mjp]

We as a collective are appalling [sic] that this took place on our campus,"

I am appalled that the collective was too stupid to use English words correctly.

[Red Badger]

Well, English is her second language...................

[The Pack Knight]

"Weas a collective, collectively, are appalling [sic]appalled that this concert took place on our campus," The Black Student Union wrote in a statement. "This act is a furtheranother example and reflection of the racial insensitivity and ignorance that Western Michigan's administration has been allowed to occur on Western Michigan's campus.

[shove_it]

“”We as a collective are appalling [sic] that this took place on our campus,” The Black Student Union wrote in a statement. “This act is a further example and reflection of the racial insensitivity and ignorance that has been allowed to occur on Western Michigan’s campus.”

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60 years ago when I attended WMU, there was only one Student Union for all students, black and white. Who are the racists that segregated the black students into a separate student union?