Moron Alert: City Cancels “Ragtime” Performance Over Language Concern
Moron Alerts June 27th. 2008, 8:25amIdiots are everywhere.
The show’s despairing, African-American, director:
“You take that word out of this story and you invalidate my history as an African-American male,” said Perry.
“Do I like the word? No. But to pretend nobody said it is wrong. I wouldn’t even consider doing that,” Perry said. “Context is everything, and it’s not gratuitous, it’s not for shock value.
“How can we learn about our present if we don’t educate people about what happened in our past?”
How, indeed.
