Kent State a cappella group bans white students from solo auditions

Campus Reform ^ | December 5, 2025 | Emma Arns

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

For reference:

My 2016 column on Microaggressions.

https://hadleyblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/t-here-are-some-stories-appearing-on.html

In 2016, a University of Oklahoma human relations theory class stated a white man cannot be singing songs from pop diva Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty or he would be causing "microaggressions."

What type of indoctrination is happening in our schools now? This reminds of Sam Smith, who covered Whitney Houston's "How Would I Know?" (he has since been known for singing the theme to a Bond film, and that awful Unholy song with Mr. Petras at the 2003 Grammys). We'd charge microaggressions for Mr. Smith's actions.

And don't get me started on the numerous numbers of "wailing women and moaning men" who sing certain Top 40 songs on "religious radio" via the karaoke machine when men sing women's and women sing men's hits under this logic. Can you imagine a big 90's femme hit I loved for many years being sung by a mixed quartet (which could fit)?

The "pre-LaRoche Era" me when it came to church music would be guilty (loved to sing female vocalists' hits with friends), but after taking voice, aka the LaRoche and Beyond Era, as a tenor I understand I am not designed to sing soprano solos!

It reminds me of a 2014 service in York, England, where a man sang as the lead singer of their Life Enhancement Centre's rock band (it's no church, we know what these Warrenist types and Perry's House of Heresy do) a song from a 90's femme supergroup I remember so many times. He was lead singer for the girlie song.

So now if you're not X race, you're not allowed to sing solos.

On another part, I was part of a summer chorus in college and I had a hard time learning "black gospel" music techniques that contrasted with the Baroque voice I learned.

During a time from 2003-04 in church when I was in choir, the leader had us sing a black gospel/R&B influenced version of "Pass Me Not" with the karaoke machine. I was confused and just could not understand what they were doing. I could not sing karaoke pop. Months prior, the adult choir was to sing with karaoke the late 1990's femme pop hit "When Love Came Down" provided by the SBC's Lifeway music, and we were replaced by kids doing puppets and dance. They wanted a plan where dance, not singing, was the way to be church music. In October, they announced an adult group dance to pop hits will be started because none of the previous generation learned to sing and wanted to do what they did in their youth. Now the choir that's left sings hits from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's books - a denomination that denies the inerrancy of Scripture. I left the choir after the "Pass Me Not" Incident because the direction they were going was the opposite of sitting in Leah Hungerford's studio that year learning to sing was doing.

Eventually, I was run out of that church over a theological issue when an extended family member was thrown out of a youth pastor search committee over rejection of John MacArthur and Albert Mohler whilst accepting Steven Furtick, Joel Houston, and Bill Johnson. In Sunday's Advent service I viewed online for research, no Advent hymns were sung, they sang exclusively hits, with Furtick being the signature.

Thankful I attend a sound Bible believing church 38 miles from home where Thomas Russell's organ plays and youth are taught to sing while the Bible is taught -- our Governor McMaster and my Representative Joe Wilson attend and I gave a friend a Derek Thomas book.

[HYPOCRACY]

Wearing clothes is appropriation of white culture.

[ComputerGuy]

Wait until the Science Fair.

[SamAdams76]

What a Beautiful World this will be,
What a Glorious time to be free.

[AppyPappy]

title IX violation

[ClearCase_guy]

It is part of white privilege to be stomped on constantly.

[cgbg]

Using electricity is an appropriation of white culture.

[Leaning Right]

I’d like to see them trying to ban this white guy from doing a solo.

(Assuming of course that any white guys like that are enrolled at Kent State.)

[HereInTheHeartland]

Sue them so they are so poor they sleep under a bridge

[sphinx]

This is fair.

As long as black students are barred from auditioning for any parts written by white composers.

I only glanced at the article and didn’t read it closely. Did it give a canonical ruling on the tough cases, where a white composer wrote a tune for a black character or vice versa? Good Lord, it is hard to be woke. One’s head has to spin like the young girl in The Exorcist.

[Steely Tom]

He says he was punished, not for misconduct, but for opposing the discriminatory behavior.

“My only crime was advocating for equality for everyone, regardless of skin color. I raised a valid concern, discussed the definition of discrimination and held a mirror up to what they were doing. In their eyes, anti-white discrimination is okay, but challenging that precedent isn’t,” Phillips told Campus Reform.

Race-swapping is a one-way street, obviously.

[dfwgator]

There’ll be spandex jackets one for everyone.

[DFG]

Bring in the Ohio National Guard.

[V_TWIN]

Swim team tryouts will not be affected

[dfwgator]

Where’s the Ohio National Guard when you need it?

[RAT_Poison]

Force fed in Ohio.

[dfwgator]

I saw that!

[real saxophonist]

My favorite Kent State student:

[Carl Vehse]

Suspend the academic accreditation of Kent State University until the racist travesty is corrected and the university officials responsible for this travesty apologize on bended knees.

[FreedomPoster]

DeWine should give the university administration a quick chance to fix this up and if they do not do so with alacrity, come down on everyone involved like a ton of bricks.