(October 5, 2022 at 2:11 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Three things I learned that are inextricably linked:
1) When the White House was burned in the War of 1812, one of the few things that was rescued from the building was a rare crystal flute owned by James Madison.
2) Singer/Rapper Lizzo is apparently classically trained as a flautist.
3) Triggering the right is apparently as easy as letting a black woman play two notes on the flute. I shouldn't be too surprised at that, but somehow I was.
Admittedly, they might have a bit of a point in that I'd probably be a bit more circumspect about making any wrong moves while playing an instrument with the same combination of rarity, historical importance, and fragility as a flute (1 of 2 of its kind extant), with a connection to James Madison, made of fucking glass than Lizzo was with her mini-twerking, but that's just me. And if it was made out of wood or metal, I'd have fewer worries, if any.
The flute is safe, so no worries on that score. It's funny that angry white people are acting as if Lizzo playing that flute is going to cause dead slaves to rise from the grave to seek vengeance and whatnot.
For the record, I'd like to see Jordan Peele make a movie where Lizzo travels from town to down doing exactly that.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
