Hit Musical Featuring Cotton-Picking White People Singing Slave Songs Closes Amid Protests

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The world’s biggest jazz festival was forced to end the run of one of its most popular shows after protesters objected to the musical that featured white people picking cotton while a white woman warbled organic, gluten-free, kale-wrapped negro spirituals. Ain’t that good news?

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Even though the Montreal Jazz Festival had sold more than 8,000 tickets, the festival closed the show on Wednesday after only two performances. Organizers said they were “shaken” by the intensity of the response and decided to lay their burdens down by the riverside and study whiteness no more.

“We would like to apologize to those who were hurt,” festival producers said in a statement. “It was not our intention at all.”

As a descendant of enslaved people, I offer the following response to the Montreal Jazz Festival’s apology:

If you weren’t aware that stealing that stealing the most painful part of an entire group of a people’s past, whitewashing it and then allowing the people who benefitted from the historical mass kidnapping, rape and genocide to double back and profit from that theft could possibly be a bad thing, then the audacity of whiteness must be the most insipidly evil thing that ever existed on the face of the earth.

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Please, say this never happened. Talk about tone deaf. The gentrified version of American slavery as performed by white people of an abomination carried out by this nation. They pickin' cotton and singin'...'cause they happy. The gentrified version, performed in their pristine costumes and full make up perhaps they broke into a slight mist of perspiration under the hot stage lights for the five minutes it took to sing.

Slaves worked from sun up to sun down. This is what picking cotton looks like.