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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Jul 5

    A show featuring white singers performing black slave songs has been canceled at the Montreal International Jazz Festivalhttps://nyti.ms/2KxT25E 

    6:30 AM - 5 Jul 2018
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      2. Babi‏ @jemlouisefinch Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        how was that even considered in the first place?

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      2. Barry Waller‏ @BarryWaller61 Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        Are there any protest when a famous black singer sings the national anthem, clearly written by white people about a white country. I'm sorry but with all the good causes out there to end racism this is the kind of thing that is not only a waste of time but actually hurts

        3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Barry Waller‏ @BarryWaller61 Jul 5
        Replying to @BarryWaller61 @nytimes

        Not to mention that we are becoming a more mixed-race country all the time where you can't really tell if someone has more black in them then another person. If the goal is ever to not see color because we can't see into someone's DNA then this sort of bullshit has to stop

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. James Ball‏ @cato218 Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        Could yuu even imagine the movie Roots done with only white actors in the main roles? Maybe #realDonaldTrump and his followers could

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Pierre Drapeau‏ @cgjdp Jul 5
        Replying to @cato218 @nytimes

        I wonder how many of « The Schindler’s list » actors were actually Jewish... Cambridge defines actor as someone who pretends to be someone else, limiting it to a certain race or religion goes against freedom of expression, at least in my country.

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      1. Anders Bergqvist‏ @AndersBergqvis6 Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        So now whites cannot sing jazz or spirituals, blacks cannot do opera or old hymns? Who is the racist here?

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      2. Barry Waller‏ @BarryWaller61 Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        I know I know that would be a really terrible thing. It would be like if people other than white people played Major roles in a musical about our founding fathers. Just totally unacceptable.#ReverseRacism

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      2. Paul Biddle‏ @paulbiddle401 Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        So just to be clear you are saying that all music written & historically performed by a singular ethnic group cannot be used by any other ethnic group ?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Basia K‏ @BeejknowsItAll Jul 5
        Replying to @paulbiddle401 @nytimes

        Slave songs. By black slaves. Read.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Gina Dre‏ @ReginaDrescher Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        Here we go again. When will you all sit on one table, shake hands and have a beer and laugh instead of stabbing each other in the back? Smdh

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      1. Chunkyness‏ @ChunkyTWshngtn Jul 5
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        People are not ready for a post racial society. First we must embrace each other then when we do it is offensive.

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      1. Rich Uncle Pennybags‏ @runclepennybags Jul 5
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        The performers could not be reached for comment.pic.twitter.com/zKdvrmF4Pj

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      2. Robert McKinley‏ @RobertMcKinl3y Jul 5
        Replying to @nytimes

        Irish Slaves don't exist because the idea destroys the narrative.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Basia K‏ @BeejknowsItAll Jul 5
        Replying to @RobertMcKinl3y @nytimes

        Were they going to sing Irish slave songs?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Robert McKinley‏ @RobertMcKinl3y Jul 5
        Replying to @BeejknowsItAll @nytimes

        I's the by that builds the boat, I's the by that sails it. Good ole Irish shanty songs. But honestly, unlikely

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      5. Dani Robinson‏ @DaniRRobinson Jul 6
        Replying to @RobertMcKinl3y @BeejknowsItAll @nytimes

        Irish people were indentured, meaning contracted, meaning they were free after a certain amount of time. Black chattel slavery was so horrendously different. People talk about black people singing the American anthem? Black people are American too, fought in the Revolution etc!

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      6. Robert McKinley‏ @RobertMcKinl3y Jul 6
        Replying to @DaniRRobinson @BeejknowsItAll @nytimes

        Nope, Irish people were also pure slaves. You can't use it as a contracted concept. Or else I can say that the slaves from Africa were also products sold to them by the Slave owners of Africa. And could escape slavery by purchase. Freeman as a name.

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      7. Dani Robinson‏ @DaniRRobinson Jul 6
        Replying to @RobertMcKinl3y @BeejknowsItAll @nytimes

        Irish people were literally indentured laborers that we’re free after a period of years lol, slaves were slaves for life, children were born and died as slaves. Very rarely able to even purchase freedom, and I’m rare cases they could would continue to be murdered

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Dani Robinson‏ @DaniRRobinson Jul 6
        Replying to @DaniRRobinson @RobertMcKinl3y and

        Unlike the routinely freed Irish people who kept their money and continued to purchase slaves and plantations like the racists they too were.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Robert McKinley‏ @RobertMcKinl3y Jul 6
        Replying to @DaniRRobinson @BeejknowsItAll @nytimes

        Slavery was a 13 colonies issue. Most of America, and Canada stopped slavery. Europe had it first, and still does. Majority of the countries population did not have slaves like you think. It really was a smaller localized issue that you carry with you for centuries.

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