Olympia, WA, School District Cancels Music Lessons to Fight White Supremacist Violence

[Kamaji]

10,000-Strong School District Cancels Music Lessons to Fight White Supremacist Violence

By Alex Parker
April 27, 2023

America is undergoing a racism audit. And according to a Washington school system, we can’t let music lessons off the hook.

Per its website, “The Olympia School District (OSD) provides diverse and challenging learning opportunities for nearly 10,000 students with a staff of administrators, teachers and support personnel totaling more than 1,300.”

The large association boasts an Equity Team, and its Equity Policy Development department is keen to stop systemic racism:

The Olympia School District is committed to creating an equitable school district that serves ALL students well. … The [Equity Policy] will be collaboratively designed with the community to ensure a more inclusive school and work culture that promotes equity and addresses systemic and institutional barriers that have historically marginalized students, staff and families.

Toward the goal of social justice, the district recently made a noteworthy move: In order to fight white supremacy, it canceled music instruction. During a meeting with parents, School Board Director Scott Clifthorne explained the improvement. Evidently, blowing into a flute — like participation in church — is a violent act:

“There’s nothing about strings or wind instrumental music that is intrinsically white supremacist. However, the ways in which it is, and the ways in which all of our institutions, not just schools — local government, state government, churches or neighborhoods — inculcate and allow White supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community. And I think that we have to do that interrogation.”

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Source:  https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/04/27/10000-strong-school-district-cancels-music-lessons-to-fight-white-supremacist-violence-n738061

[Kamaji]

In other words, they just cancelled music instruction for poor, mostly minority, children.

Everyone else whose parents have the wherewithal will be signing their kids up for private music lessons.  No doubt, much of the money for those lessons will flow to the former music teachers from these schools.

That means that the only systemically racist people in this picture is the school district administration itself.

[Fishrrman]

Washington state, Oregon and California seem to be in a race as to who can move to the leftist, the fastest...

[mountaineer]

There’s nothing about strings or wind instrumental music that is intrinsically white supremacist. However, the ways in which it is, and the ways in which all of our institutions, not just schools — local government, state government, churches or neighborhoods — inculcate and allow White supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community.

I think he kind of contradicted himself. "Yes, we know music is not white supremacy, except that it probably is. Maybe. Well, it must be. Just to be sure, let's get rid of it."

Let the little buggers have rap.

[Smokin Joe]

If music is white supremacy, and they allow rap, then rap must not be music.

This conforms with my previously held opinion of rap.