Friday, February 03, 2012

Anti- “Mammy” Mom Could Face Time for Booing

We read:
"Last spring, a parent in the audience at a middle school recital was so moved by the children’s performances that she couldn’t help but to stand up...and boo.

Jackie Carter, a local stage director, attended an April 29 production of the Bowen McCauley Dance Company held at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., where her daughter attends school, and was outraged by one of the group's skits, “Little Rabbit, Where’s Your Mammy?”

Innocent sounding, sure. But picture this: At a middle school dance performance, children act out a skit featuring an antebellum African-American wet-nurse, or “mammy.” For a black theater buff like Carter, it was too much to take.

And depending on the verdict of her trial that begins April 23, she may face up to a year in jail for doing so.

According to the Afro, the presentation was promoted as a “tribute to American folk culture traditions.”

The school’s principal circulated a letter after the incident on May 2 of last year, stating that the term "mammy" is a “colloquial affectionate term used for mother or grandmother.”

Source

"Mammy" was a well-known Al Jolson song and Jolson was known for the support and help he gave to black entertainers

5 comments:

A. Levy said...

This is not much of a surprise when you consider just how big an industry being "offended" has become. In most cases, it's an instant payday for those who have found that being a professional whiner is usually very profitable, especially when you attach the well-worn race card to it.

Anonymous said...

"This is not much of a surprise when you consider just how big an industry being "offended" has become."

levy, you should embrace this. After all, it is business. And as we all know, conservative ideology dictates that business always trumps people.

Anonymous said...

Apparently we must completely expunge the artistic works of an entire period of human history to appease these people.
No one must ever know that slavery even existed.
Will their rapacity be satiated then? No, I think not.

Sig said...

Anyone else ever notice that "Black History Month" is the shortest month?!?

Bird of Paradise said...

Liberals are so pathetic they whine about the least things as ofensive