Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 1999/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:05:45 -0500

At 01:57 AM 2/6/99 EST, DHmorgan wrote:
>In a message dated 2/5/99 9:16:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, bhausman@-----.com
>writes:
>
><< You are right. Ever notice how Black people born and raised in England
> don't speak Ebonics. They have British accents! (By the way, what do you
> call them, to be politically correct? African-Englishpersons?) >>
>
>Wait just a minute here! No one EVER said Black English or Ebonics was
>geneticly influenced. Well, if they did, then they are a very silly person.
>Also, lets try to keep this topic focused on how bias pertains to equal
>opportunity in music.
>
That's exactly my point. Such things ARE primarily culturally, rather than
genetically, influenced. And the same would be true of musical matters.

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