Posted on 04/12/2016 4:56:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
You can’t be singing Rihanna’s “Umbrella” if you happen to be a white fella – fella.
That’s what kids learned during a lesson on “privilege” and “microaggressions” in a human relations theory class at the University of Oklahoma.
Ah, yes. There’s nothing quite like a bit of white-shaming courtesy of the American taxpayers.
“I was told as a white woman it’s insulting and a microaggression for me to cover or sing a Rihanna song because I’m not from Barbados,” a student who was in the class told me. “I was literally told to go sing the Star-Spangled Banner.”
The student, who asked not to be identified, sent me copies of both assignments – including a 100-item checklist to determine how much “privilege” you have.
For example, you’ve got privilege if “a stranger has never asked to touch my hair, or asked if it is real.”
Straight, white guys who have a job, vacation in Cabo, and go to church on Sunday are “very privileged.” Atheists, Muslims and anyone who works at a fast-food joint would be considered under-privileged.
The student who reached out to me wants to work in human resources – and the class is mandatory.
“They teach you that if you are not part of the minority you cannot be discriminated against,” she said. “A black person cannot be racist to a white person. A female cannot be sexist towards a man because men are the majority.”
Here’s a sampling of the 100-question privilege checklist:
· I am white.
· I have never been told I would “burn in hell” for my sexual orientation.
· I still identify as the gender I was born in.
· I work in a salaried job.
· I have never done my taxes myself.
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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
If whites followed that advice then black music sales would drop to nothing.
Read about the Church of the East -- the Assyrian church (a.k.a. the Holy Church of the East) - in the 8th century this had more people and a wider population than the church in Europe.
The missionaries converted people and preached and pastored to people in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, all the way to Mongolia and western China.
What happened to this? Islam -- Timur-e-Lang, the greatest jihadi warrior killed most -- he was a master of genocide, having killed 5% of the world's population (more than GEnghis khan, Stalin, Mao etc.)
The largest Christian group today is the Syriac Church
And the word of God today is by Christians of different ethnic backgrounds.
If the English, French and Dutch had even a fraction of the zeal of the Iberians, then much of the world would be Christian
Instead the Dutch did nothing, nothing to convert people -- preferring to just grab the wealth of Indonesia.
The French and English were slightly better in proselytisation, but still woefully behind the IBerians.
oh and the Russians also spread Christians into Siberia and Alaska
So any person NOT of Caribbean origin should be banned from singing Rihanna songs
Christians as you put it, were killed off by Timur in that region. Hence, since then Europe has been the standard bearer, up until the early 20th Century.
Oh you must be Catholic?
No wonder....
Racist.
Pay ASCAP and BMI dues and you can sing anything you want.
The most troubling thing about this is that it happened in OKLAHOMA!??!
I’m about to microagress by posting the chorus to Umbrella
[Chorus]
When the sun shines, we’ll shine together
Told you I’d be here forever
Said I’ll always be a friend
Took an oath I’ma stick it out ‘til the end
Now that it’s raining more than ever
Know that we’ll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)
They save up all the leftover letters and syllables they don't use when trying to speak English then add them to their singing.
I didn’t know what rihanna sounded like until I recently saw an awful kids cartoon movie about aliens. The movie was unbearable and I was not impressed with her singing.
Um, no.. in this age of newspeak, if you are a member of the “oppressed class”, you can co-opt any other culture’s norms and moors, but the inverse is not true (you cannot co-opt any other cultures’ anything if you are viewed as the traditional oppressor).
Having said that, there have been plenty of Caucasian people put into slavery and oppressed by plenty of other groups, so you have to be among the current crop of acceptable oppressed (newspeak strikes again).
See post #22
Darn, too slow!
George Will and most of the clowns at NR who have given away the moral level of conflict.
Doing your own taxes is a micro-aggression? Help me, I’m oppressed!!
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