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Lincoln Center cancels Mozart and goes woke — based on a historical lie
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:32 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:32 am
Lincoln Center cancels Mozart and goes woke — based on a historical lie
When Black Lives Matter becomes a marketing strategy, facts offer little impediment to speaking “one’s truth.”
Take the case of New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which banked its pandemic recovery on a narrative of its own abhorrence.
In 2020, the center began promoting a story that a vibrant black community known as San Juan Hill had been deliberately snuffed out in the 1950s to make way for its creation.
“The displacement of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families that took place prior to the construction of our campus is abhorrent,” declares the center’s “Message on Our Commitment to Change.”
“We may never know its full impact on those dispossessed of the land on which Lincoln Center sits. But only by acknowledging this history can we begin to confront the racism from which our institution has benefited.”
With the blood-and-soil essentialism of today’s identity politics, this commitment fell in line with the new progressive rhetoric of land acknowledgments, colonialist dispossession and unearthed legacies of systemic oppression.
The story was also left unchallenged by the many news sources that repeated it.
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As Lincoln Center took ownership of its parcel, it kept close tabs on the residents it helped relocate.
Most of them remained in Manhattan, with 900 families staying on the Upper West Side.
A study of the first 742 relocated showed that they mainly moved into larger quarters, all with up-to-date sanitary conditions.
Most notably, for all the “abhorrent” claims of the “displacement of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families,” an internal census revealed a population that was, in fact, overwhelmingly white, with a ratio of three to one, while the area’s black population was in the single percentage points.
As it turns out, Lincoln Center’s self-accusation has been nothing more than a false confession.
The year 2020 deserves a reckoning in more ways than one, but the race hustling in our institutions is a good place to start.
In the case of Lincoln Center, this distortion of the historical record to satisfy the whims of identity-obsessed elites has distorted reality itself and undermined a historic institution, Mozart and all.
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When Black Lives Matter becomes a marketing strategy, facts offer little impediment to speaking “one’s truth.”
Take the case of New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which banked its pandemic recovery on a narrative of its own abhorrence.
In 2020, the center began promoting a story that a vibrant black community known as San Juan Hill had been deliberately snuffed out in the 1950s to make way for its creation.
“The displacement of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families that took place prior to the construction of our campus is abhorrent,” declares the center’s “Message on Our Commitment to Change.”
“We may never know its full impact on those dispossessed of the land on which Lincoln Center sits. But only by acknowledging this history can we begin to confront the racism from which our institution has benefited.”
With the blood-and-soil essentialism of today’s identity politics, this commitment fell in line with the new progressive rhetoric of land acknowledgments, colonialist dispossession and unearthed legacies of systemic oppression.
The story was also left unchallenged by the many news sources that repeated it.
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As Lincoln Center took ownership of its parcel, it kept close tabs on the residents it helped relocate.
Most of them remained in Manhattan, with 900 families staying on the Upper West Side.
A study of the first 742 relocated showed that they mainly moved into larger quarters, all with up-to-date sanitary conditions.
Most notably, for all the “abhorrent” claims of the “displacement of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families,” an internal census revealed a population that was, in fact, overwhelmingly white, with a ratio of three to one, while the area’s black population was in the single percentage points.
As it turns out, Lincoln Center’s self-accusation has been nothing more than a false confession.
The year 2020 deserves a reckoning in more ways than one, but the race hustling in our institutions is a good place to start.
In the case of Lincoln Center, this distortion of the historical record to satisfy the whims of identity-obsessed elites has distorted reality itself and undermined a historic institution, Mozart and all.
LINK
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:39 am to djmed
In case anyone else was wondering how the frick Mozart fit into this…
OP
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In consequence, last summer the center canceled its “Mostly Mozart” festival in favor of more “inclusive” fare — sponsoring rappers, pop groups and an LGBTQ mariachi band while hanging a 10-foot-wide disco ball above its fountain.
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:39 am to djmed
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The story was also left unchallenged by the many news sources that repeated it.
Go figure.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:43 am to djmed
quote:I expected to read a claim that Mozart was a slaveowner.
Lincoln Center cancels Mozart ... — based on a historical lie
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 9:59 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:50 am to SlapahoeTribe
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LGBTQ mariachi band
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:05 am to SlapahoeTribe
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an LGBTQ mariachi band
Only in Nueva York, try that in a small Mexican town…
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:06 am to SlapahoeTribe
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LGBTQ mariachi band
Isn't that cultural appropriation? Someone needs to get fired over this. I am offended.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:55 am to djmed
What's the beef with all this? This is what New Yorkers want.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:09 am to Pandy Fackler
This rewriting history sh*t by people who should really know better really pisses me off.
It is easy to make the assumption that an upper class culture should have a better level of education. But of course, education isnt the problem.
This is a Jacobin level, French revolution movement. Much like Mao's culture revolution.
So now we are doing the same thing, American style.
Thanks Obama...
These people should know better.
Makes my blood boil.
It is easy to make the assumption that an upper class culture should have a better level of education. But of course, education isnt the problem.
This is a Jacobin level, French revolution movement. Much like Mao's culture revolution.
So now we are doing the same thing, American style.
Thanks Obama...
These people should know better.
Makes my blood boil.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:14 am to SloaneRanger
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Latinx families
LOL.
That's not even the proper woke word anymore. It's now Latine. They can't even land on terminology.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 11:18 am to Pandy Fackler
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What's the beef with all this? This is what New Yorkers want.
This rewriting of history and actions is happening nationally. I think it would be prudent to call it out no matter where it shows it's ugly little head.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 12:08 pm to Witty_Username
I’ll never get any of it right…. Why even try? It will change in a week because someone figured out how to get offended.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 12:14 pm to JellyRoll
quote:i’ve posted this before but i think it bears repeating:
This rewriting of history and actions is happening nationally
it is said that history is written by the winners. we are witnessing in real time what happens when the winners abdicate the writing of history to the losers.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 1:07 pm to djmed
It all goes to show you why they say don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 1:16 pm to djmed
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“The displacement of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families that took place prior to the construction of our campus is abhorrent,” declares the center’s “Message on Our Commitment to Change.”
I bet they won't tear their "campus" down and give it back to the people they claim it was stolen from.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 1:36 pm to djmed
Self-flagullation AND destruction of the Arts based on lies...Bonfire of the Vanities, Savonarola, anyone?
Posted on 4/18/24 at 1:36 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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In consequence, last summer the center canceled its “Mostly Mozart” festival in favor of more “inclusive” fare — sponsoring rappers, pop groups and an LGBTQ mariachi band while hanging a 10-foot-wide disco ball above its fountain.
Like any of these idiots would understand or be able to play anything Mozart composed.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 1:41 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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In consequence, last summer the center canceled its “Mostly Mozart” festival in favor of more “inclusive” fare — sponsoring rappers, pop groups and an LGBTQ mariachi band while hanging a 10-foot-wide disco ball above its fountain.
Whew, thank God. With all of this news, I know queer mariachi was obviously top of mind for many of us.
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