Joanne Jacobs quotes the following explanations from several music teachers of why traditional American songs (such as “My Darling Clementine,” “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” “Amazing Grace,” and even “Mary Had a Little Lamb”) are no longer taught in their schools:
“My school is low socio-economic, so I teach only pop music.” “Our curriculum is multicultural. We do not teach songs of the American culture.” “These songs aren’t in my textbooks, so I don’t teach them.” “These songs aren’t appropriate for us. I teach in Hawaii, not in America.”
“Multicultural” is to multicultural as “diverse” is to diverse.
“I teach in Hawaii, not America.” Indeed! Similarly, many others live in places like Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Miami; all of which boast of populations which are mercifully free of white majorities. Yet still, each of these locales adhere strictly to a regime of anti-white discrimination.
But if Left-wing orthodoxy is to lend primacy to local over national demographic statistics, then how exactly does one defend racial preferences in majority black or hispanic cities? After all, I don’t live in America, I live in (name your city).
Hmmm, let me check with Robert Mubage on this one.
When are people going to learn that a “multicultural curriculum” has to include American culture? This is absurd.