From: Michael Moynihan <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:18:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] An Alumni Week surprise with puppet protest reaction


Reminded me of my favorite "blackface" production.
1967, SFMT, The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel
Multi-racial cast, where both African American and Caucasian  
performers wore blackface.
Did benefits for the NAACP. Toured the deep south.
Different times indeed.
- moynihan

On May 4, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Alan Cook wrote:

> ...To my surprise there was a BIG CONTROVERSY throughout Alumni  
> activities. Some idiot discovered that our Alma Mater was first  
> performed as the finale of a blackface minstrel show, 1909/1910 and  
> made photocopies of this information, and suddenly some delicate  
> souls of at least some African descent decided to play victim and to  
> feel "uncomfortable" if the Alma Mater was sung, resultng in the  
> decsion by the current President of the College to be DREADFULLY   
> "understanding" of this "discomfort"and he decided that for this  
> Alumni Week and the forthcoming graduation ceremonies, that the Alma  
> Mater would not be sung.
>
> What passes for "political correctness" seems to change on a weekly  
> or even daily basis, and usually leads to some idiotic decision(s)...
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