Band cancelled for being too white to play Afrobeat music. (2013, New York)

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

Oh so you're saying you should be able to choose who you want to hire based on race?

In liberal la-la land it is OK to discriminate based on race so long as the person being discriminated against is white.

[Harrier]

Harrier sometimes plays African-American spirituals on the piano.

Harrier supposes that he will have to stop doing this because he isn't black enough.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by gtc08

white musicians always copy black musicians.

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Exactly. One might as well learn from the best.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Harrier sometimes plays African-American spirituals on the piano.

Harrier supposes that he will have to stop doing this because he isn't black enough.

Read the link. The thread title is misleading.

You can play old Negro spirituals, huh? SMH...

Oh boy.

[jackmccullough]

Even though the band is getting their full fee they have lost something as a result of the discrimination against them: they lost the opportunity to play for this audience, they lost the opportunity to have another group of people hear what their music is like and possibly recommend them to friends. It's not clear that they are entirely compensated for this by payment of their full fee.

Anybody ready to tell Yo-Yo Ma that he has to stop playing Bach and Beethoven because he's not German?

[andywire]

The band should obviously be charged of a hate crime.

[Ghostrider275452]

Originally Posted by btsilver

There is a difference between embrace and appropriate.

What is appropriate? Maybe Jimmy Hendrix shouldn't have played rock music.

[Ghostrider275452]

Originally Posted by ovcatto

I wish people would take the time to read the freaking link that the thread is based upon!

According to the linked article, a discussion started on line when one individual raised the issue about the bands racial/ethnic composition, that turned into a full blown online debate (that's what college is for) but according to the school the debate attracted non-students and there were concerns about

This was further exacerbated when the band itself became involved in the online controversy in what was described as in an antagonistic manner.

The Band was paid the full amount of their original contract.

If I were a member of the band, I would have been highly insulted and who exactly are these "outside factions"?

[Ghostrider275452]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Rock and roll isn't white music. It wasn't created by white people and it's earliest innovators weren't white.

Rock didn't start with the Beatles dude. SMH..

I am not going to argue as to who invented rock and roll, I think it was more of a collaboration of different music.

[Ghostrider275452]

Originally Posted by gtc08

white musicians always copy black musicians.

elvis is revered by whites, even though he just copied what chuck berry was doing years before.

right now you have justin timberlake out pretending to be michael jackson.

Really?