Music scholar calls black Communist dad racist for liking white composers

[Kamaji]

Music scholar calls black Communist dad racist for liking white composers

MATT LAMB - ASSOCIATE EDITOR
FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Thanks his white mom for teaching him ‘true tenets of anti-racism and anti-sexism’

A scholar and guest lecturer at Oberlin College reiterated his views that his black father was a racist for liking classical music.

Professor Philip Ewell is a music theory professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York and previously claimed his dad exhibited racism by liking “Bach,” though it is unclear which one he meant.

Now Ewell is making clear that his dad, who, according to Ewell, “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism,” was a racist for liking classical music in general.

Ewell guest lectured at Oberlin and recently conducted an interview with the campus paper. He criticized his dad for being committed to “assimilation.

“He wore tweed coats and drove a Mercedes he couldn’t afford — he was doing the things that whiteness teaches us, makes us more sophisticated and more civil,” Ewell told The Oberlin Review for a February 10 article. “In terms of music, that meant listening to Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin and going to the opera and buying a pair of opera glasses to look at the stage.”

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Source:  https://www.thecollegefix.com/music-scholar-calls-black-communist-dad-racist-for-liking-white-composers/

[Kamaji]

No, Mr. Ewell, the only person in that situation who is being racist is you and, perhaps, your mother, whom you claim taught you to be a racist (as well as a sexist).