{"id":2062,"date":"2017-10-31T01:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2017-10-31T01:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T05:37:33","slug":"whites-told-to-move-to-the-back-let-coloured-people-have-front-seats-at-halifax-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"Whites Told to Move to the Back & Let Coloured People Have Front Seats at Halifax Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whites Told to Move to the Back & Let Coloured People Have Front Seats at Halifax Concert<\/span><\/p>\n

Just imagine a concert where women or Negroes in the front rows, despite having paid for their tickets and seats, were told to get up and go to the back of the hall to create a privileged `’safe space’ for Whites.<\/p>\n

You can just hear the squeals of indignation. A human rights commission investigation would be ordered forthwith. Every politicians of whatever stripe would be tripping over themselves to denounce the event and order the organizers banned from whatever they could ban them from. The venue would roundly denounce whoever made such a demand.<\/p>\n

Well, near total silence and no official condemnations greeted a racist, anti-White demand from Lido Pimienta, a\u00a0 singer and non-White import from Colombia who regularly demands that Whites and men vacate their sets and go to the back of the hall.<\/p>\n

A White woman refused to give up her seat and has been denounced as a racist by the Halifax Pop Explosion and banned from volunteering again. The White victim becomes the villain.<\/p>\n

Pimienta is virulently anti-White, with exactly the anti-Canadian values former Tory candidate Kellie Leitch would like to have seen immigrants screened for.\u00a0The Walrus\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>(October 16, 2017) noted: `’Pimienta, now thirty-one, was a teen when she moved with her mother to London, Ontario, from her native Barranquilla, Colombia. She\u2019s since been vocal about the hypocrisy of a national identity that flaunts its multiculturalism while its cultural institutions clumsily fumble at meaningful, diverse representation\u2014that ostracizes minorities while occupying stolen Indigenous land. This particular conflict about Canadian self-definition is a personal one for Pimienta. In an interview last year, she told me that while she sometimes feels like she\u2019s not Colombian anymore,’I know that I\u2019m definitely not Canadian either.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Writer Ian Miles Cheong reports: `’A music festival in Halifax, Canada has apologized for \u201covert racism\u201d following a volunteer staffer\u2019s refusal to move to the back because she is Caucasian.<\/p>\n

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According to the\u00a0National Post<\/a>, performer Lido Pimienta, who won the 2017 Polaris Prize, frequently asks all white members of her audience to move to the back and give up their seats to non-white audience members. They must do so regardless of whether they pay more for their seating.<\/p>\n

The Halifax Pop Explosion music festival is apologizing for the actions of a photographer who refused to acquiesce to Pimienta\u2019s request during her October 19 show. Her refusal to do so was considered an \u201cinterruption\u201d and deemed an act of \u201covert racism,\u201d according to the festival\u2019s board of directors, who are now promising to make changes to the event.<\/p>\n

The board promises to improve \u201canti-oppression and anti-racism training\u201d for their staff next year, essentially asking them to give in to the demands of people who supposedly face more oppression than they do.<\/p>\n

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Lido Pimienta (Screenshot: YouTube)<\/p>\n

Canadian Music Festival Says Sorry For \u2018Racist\u2019 White Staffer Who Didn\u2019t Want To Move To The Back<\/h1>\n

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\u201cWe are sorry that one of our volunteers interrupted your art, your show, and your audience by being aggressive and racist,\u201d wrote vice-chairman Georgie Dudka on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Dear attendees, fans, artists, staff, volunteers, and folks otherwise involved in the Halifax Pop Explosion. On\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Posted by\u00a0Halifax Pop Explosion<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Thursday, October 26, 2017<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The festival states that the volunteer photographer and several other members of the audience reacted poorly to Pimienta\u2019s urging for them to move to the back. Pimienta invited \u201cbrown girls to the front.\u201d When the volunteer refused, Pimienta took it upon herself to remove her from the event.<\/p>\n

Dudka wrote: \u201cThey have since received notification from the festival that they are no longer welcome to volunteer with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not accept this behaviour and neither should you,\u201d he added. \u201cBe responsible for your friends \u2013 talk to them and support them as they move towards unpacking their racism. People of Colour deserve safe spaces and it is your responsibility to help. It is also ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Allie O\u2019Manique, who tours with Pimienta and attended the show, the female photographer\u2019s refusal to remove herself from the spot near the front prompted other audience members near her to become enraged over her insistence of staying.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe just kept saying, \u2018Move to the back,\u2019\u201d said O\u2019Manique. \u201cFinally after saying it about 10 times \u2014 and the woman refused to move \u2014 (Pimienta) said, \u2018You\u2019re cutting into my set time and you\u2019re disrespecting these women, and I don\u2019t have time for this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

An audience member who was one of the women invited to the front told National Post that she was surprised by the photographer\u2019s refusal to move and blamed it on the crowd for believing in the concept of \u201creverse racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I would say it can be attributed to the crowd Pop Explosion gets, or more so just the sort of people that exist in Halifax and the mindsets that prevail here,\u201d she said.’<\/p>\n

Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at\u00a0@stillgray on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>. (<\/em>The Daily Caller,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0October 30, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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