Liberals Pounce After Report Says A White Reggae Band Performed At Bernie Sanders' (T)

townhall.com ^ | 3/2/2019 | Tim Meads

[rktman]

Happy Saturday, folks -- unless you tuned into Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign and were disappointed to see a Reggae band comprised of white people open for the Democratic Socialist in Brooklyn.

As our liberal friends like to say about conservatives, many on Twitter quickly "pounced" on Sen. Sanders daring to have this band play. Liberals criticized him for having a band of white people rather one with Jamaican heritage.

As noted by ThePalmsJamaica.com, Reggae comes from the term “rege-rege” which means “rags” or “ragged clothes” and was started in Jamaica in the 1960s. Reggae singers often sing about love, or "about rebellion and revolution against the forces impeding that love, like the extreme violence, poverty, racism, and government oppression." Thus, Chief among the aforementioned criticisms was the idea that Sen. Sanders was "gentrifying" Reggae by having white people play the music.

[rktman]

DOH!!!! Now that there is funny stuff. Reminds me of when liberals jumped 'caw-mullata' for her straight hair and cultural appropriation of whit---------- Oh? Burnee is gonna have a rough row to hoe. LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Maybe the REAL Jamaicans were busy buddying up to harris with her Jamaican heritage.

[rktman]

On second thought, perhaps a couple of the band members are from the Jamaica Bay area thus okay to play ray-gay music?

[BobL]

Maybe they were the only ones who would play for a rich, white, has-been?

[Delta 21]

Cultural misappropriation at its finest.

[Lisbon1940]

Bernie is sitting in limbo anyway.

[rktman]

Hmmm. Perhaps for my own protection I shouldn’t say this but, the other night we played “I Shot the Sheriff” and half way in changed up the beat to a reggae style beat for a few bars then back to, uh, white folks beat? Whatever that is.

[DesertRhino]

Using white artists to make black music acceptable. It’s like the 1950s and 60s all over again.

[DesertRhino]

Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson or Elvis Presley, please pick up the nearest courtesy phone.

[vpintheak]

Leftists are the most unhappy and permanently outraged people out there. There is no pleasing them. None. Even if they get what they “want” they are still PO’d.

[rktman]

We played an event one time and were doing “Play that Funky Music” and the sound guy says through our monitors, “Quit sounding so white!” Yeah, we laughed.

[BenLurkin]

‘Acceptable’ to who?

[Trumpet 1]

Was the band any good? Were they entertaining? Did they have a horn section? Freedom to express yourself means you get to choose what you want to do.

[MNDude]

Damn, I hate liberals.

[Rurudyne]

What is next?

Black Barbershop Quartets?

German Stand-Up Comics?

The howwow, the howwow!

[rktman]

If burnee’s ‘peeps’ hired them for that event, they were probably a well rehearsed ensemble that provided adequate entertainment. How’s that for weasel words? LOL?!

[Rurudyne]

If nobody wants to appropriate it it isn’t culture, just a quirk.

[yoe]

Who do you suppose is behind all this nonsense? Kids with no skin in the game, who don't know or understand their history? ...Chief among the aforementioned criticisms was the idea that Sen. Sanders was "gentrifying" Reggae by having white people play the music.......Could it be someone (s) from Kamalalalal Harris' camp feeling Bolshevik Bernie is taking what is Kamalalala's " a style of Jamaican popular music blending blues, calypso, and rock-'n'-roll, characterized by a strong syncopated rhythm and lyrics of social protest.

[windsorknot]

Gasp! A white reggae band, mahn. It doesn’t take much to “trigger’ Berniebots and libtards. Have a toke and a smile.

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Im just glad it wasnt “Tribal Seeds”. Best reggae band ever. So good, we dont need black people doing reggae anymore! (Im being half sarcastic)

[rktman]

“German Stand-Up Comics?”

In the Catskills? LOL!