When Will Enough Be Enough?
Posted on 01/02/2022 7:50:21 PM PST by blam
An upstate New York school district has pulled the classic winter tune “Jingle Bells” from the music curriculum at an elementary school over concerns that it may have first been performed in Boston at a minstrel show in which white performers donned blackface.
On December 23, the Rochester Beacon first reported that the Brighton Central School District nixed James L. Pierpont’s song from the curriculum at Council Rock Primary School. The school’s principal Matt Tappon told the Rochester Beacon via email that it was being replaced with tunes without “the potential to be controversial or offensive.” Officials with the district, including Tappon, told the outlet that the decision to remove the song was in part based upon a 2017 article authored by Kyna Hamill, Boston University’s Director of Core Curriculum.
“She found documents showing that the song’s first public performance may have occurred in 1857 at a Boston minstrel show. Minstrelsy was a then-popular form of entertainment in which white actors performed in blackface,” the Rochester Beacon reports.
The Beacon reached out to Hamill, who said she was “shocked” over the district’s decision.
“I am actually quite shocked the school would remove the song from the repertoire. … I, in no way, recommended that it stopped being sung by children,” Hamill explained.
“My article tried to tell the story of the first performance of the song, I do not connect this to the popular Christmas tradition of singing the song now,” she continued.
“The very fact of (“Jingle Bells'”) popularity has to do (with) the very catchy melody of the song, and not to be only understood in terms of its origins in the minstrel tradition. … I would say it should very much be sung and enjoyed, and perhaps discussed,” Hamill stated.
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When Will Enough Be Enough?
“When Will Enough Be Enough?”
When they are allowed to legally kill who they choose.
That’s not an exaggeration. These are crazy radicals with no perspective and no morals or common sense.
... would, in a sane world, be committed for observation.
There;s no shortage of Elementary Schools that need to be cancelled.
Seems to me when you have to go digging for obscure arcane things that only "may" be true, and even if are true have such a tenuous connection to anything going on today... What is the point? Why would anyone even research this? You literally have to be looking, hard, and stretching credulity to connect this to racism. I'll bet you no one reading this ever heard "Jingle Bells" and thought "wow, how dare they play that racist song!"
It takes a ludicrous amount of effort and sheer desire to go find or make a problem where none existed before. Where does it stop? Hey, I'm pretty sure slave owners back in the day ate ham and eggs, maybe should ban or denigrate those! Wait, here's a better idea. Slave owners also breathed oxygen. So all you lib lurkers so concerned about anything you can even remotely connect to racism - better stop breathing oxygen. After all, you don't want to be associated with anything they did.
I didn’t know it was a quote.
I figured that for the last 20 years.
Boston, September 15, 1857, at the Ordway Theatre. The blackface minstrel-show performer who sang it was Johnny Pell, billed as Brudda Bones.
Until we stop allowing very poorly educated people to run our school systems, they will not stop trying to prove that they are ‘smart’.
Get your kids out of public schools, no matter what it costs.
Speculative. Also said to be from 1850 in Massachusetts to herald sleigh races. Nothing to do with minstrel shows.
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Me too, bookmark to add to my list of idiotic things.
I knew this was gonna happen once the politicians legalized drugs for “recreational” purposes.
“...may have been performed...”? What kind of sh*t is that? It was either performed or it wasn’t.
There were slaveholders who spoke English. Woke leftists should boycott the English language.
So, how many of these idiots drive Volkswagens?
Brighton is a wealthy Town of misfits.
Let’s do the DNC then.
The father of the DNC Andrew Johnson genocide it the indigenous population of North America. He gave us the trail of tears
Now these local historic "activists" are hunting for any sign that says "white".
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