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Georgia high school choruses reportedly not diverse enough to perform with Atlanta orchestra
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| August 17, 2012
| FoxNews.com
Posted on 08/17/2012 12:55:39 PM PDT by Ron C.
Two high school choruses will reportedly not perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this year because their groups are not racially-diverse enough.
WSBTV.com reports that the Walton and Lassiter High School choruses in Cobb County will not get a chance to perform with Atlantas professional this fall as a result of the determination.
"This year, the schools were informed by symphony officials that their choruses are not diverse enough, and that the symphony would be inviting a third, more diverse chorus," Cobb County Schools spokesman Jay Dillon told the website.
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Just not enough black faces in their choirs! (Too many of them don't want to do the work it takes to do the job!)
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posted on
08/17/2012 12:55:41 PM PDT
by
Ron C.
To: Ron C.
Diversity will be the end of a lot of good things.
Then, there’s people like me that don’t have a musical voice. It’s definitely not pleasant to listen to.
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posted on
08/17/2012 12:58:17 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The First Rule of Heavy Metal: Not all metal is satanic.)
To: Ron C.
Just imagine if they had been rejected for being too black.
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posted on
08/17/2012 12:59:37 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Ron C.
To: Ron C.
All black or hispanic would have been considered “diverse.”
What a bunch of racist morons.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:01:23 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Ron C.
You have to understand what Atlanta is. In your face diversity day and night.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:02:51 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Ron C.
Well we can scratch the atlanta orchestra off of places to go this year and next.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:03:19 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Ron C.
Affirmative Action in the high school chorus and rank discrimination in Georgia. Apparently, the fact that the rejected high school choruses weren't 'diverse' may be based on the members talent and ability, not race. Something that probably never occurred to the egalitarian-minded honchos running this program at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Stupid decision for a stupid reason and why the left is losing credibility. They take everything, such as 'diversity', to absurd lengths, alienating everyone in the process.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:04:47 PM PDT
by
Jim Scott
(Obama must be defeated)
To: fwdude
The working definition of “diverse” is as follows:
A group is “more diverse” if it contains fewer white people.
An idea is “more diverse” if it is less influenced by Western Culture.
“More diversity” = fewer white people and less Western Culture
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:05:27 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
To: Ron C.
But Melissa A.E. Sanders, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's senior director of communications, wrote, "It is against our policy to share the race and/or ethnicity of our musicians, so I am unable to share that information."
Also, I'd bet money that the majority of the orchestra patrons are white. It's rhe usual case of wanting whitey's money(and in this case, whitey's musical heritage) while excluding whites from sharing in the benefits.
OT-I have wondered if there is any other case besides that of "white flight" where those who claim to be oppressed by a group, follow that same group's every step and will even sue for the right to live amongst their "oppressors".
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:08:09 PM PDT
by
mrsmel
(One Who Can See)
Absolutely disgraceful, and someone should be brought up on charges of racism. And it matters not what the predominant color is.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:10:04 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: Ron C.; All
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:10:41 PM PDT
by
mrsmel
(One Who Can See)
To: BitWielder1
Just imagine if they had been rejected for being too black. The very thought that crossed my mind upon reading this.
Certain expressions have acquired specific meanings in our culture. The language is being bastardized and bent to the service of the socialist/liberal agenda.
To: Georgia Girl 2
When I taught Iowa welfare and food stamp recipients how to look for work in the 80’s and 90’s, the brighter, more ambitious black individuals were either talking about Atlanta, planning on moving there or in the process of moving there. It's the Mecca for the black middle class and those who want to join it.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:12:26 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Ron C.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra doesn’t see the irony in their own racist policy.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:12:40 PM PDT
by
ryan71
To: Ron C.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:13:44 PM PDT
by
tapatio
(In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
To: Ron C.
Just not enough black faces in their choirs! (Too many of them don't want to do the work it takes to do the job!)I actually don't think any high school chorus in Georgia (maybe outside the tiny Appalachian part of the state) would lack Black faces. Most likely they want to represent all the ethnic groups of the world (something only America is supposed to do).
American Blacks, especially in the South, are simply not exotic enough to qualify as "diversity." Now, hindus . . . !
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:14:42 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: Ron C.
Can’t they simply recruit from the hood’? Oh right, it will turn into a rap group instead of an orchestra.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:22:59 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
To: Georgia Girl 2
The last time I flew through Atlanta airport, I had a layover of about 2 hours. I sat there and people-watched and noticed something peculiar. EVERY single person employed by the airport, not the airlines, but the airport, was black. The security guards, the cleaning people, guys driving the golf carts, food servers at those enormous food courts, everyone.
I guess in Atlanta "diverse" means black.
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posted on
08/17/2012 1:23:28 PM PDT
by
red-dawg
(If muslims are exempt from Obamacare, then my name is Mohammed Suks.)
To: mrsmel
Your comments are probably correct.
I would like to see a “diversity study” of the make up of the Orchestra.
I’ll bet that it is heavy white and Pacific Rim membership!
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