Marsalis to New York: Don’t cut arts
mainWynton has found a voice in the redneck Daily News. Kids desperately need arts lessons, he says.
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The city is currently $9b in the hole – I think young Jacquan can do without classical music appreciation class for the time being……
Sure – let’s deny young Jacquan any nourishment for his soul, so that he can pursue a path of drugs & crime, end up in jail, and increase the city’s $9b deficit!
As a former NYC public school music teacher, I can attest that most NYC schools don’t have “classical music appreciation” class anyway…
The Daily News isn’t “redneck.”! That’s the NY Post!
I believe “redneck” primarily tends to refer to yobbos from Southern states. A label that would be more accurate — and which the Daily News would wear proudly — would be blue collar.
Redneck? Wow, that’s a loaded term, right up there with the N-word, the F-word, and worse. Really inappropriate. But then, nowadays cultural elitist snobs can insult working class middle Americans with impunity.
Not only that, they can’t tell one tabloid from another! If Norman’s neck isn’t red, his face should be!
Cubs Fan is right, Norman. That was a cheap shot.
You don’t even live in the USA, so what gives you license to call names?
Do I have to remind you Brits that the USA pulled your asses out of the fire in WWII? Read “Winston’s War” by one of yours, Max Hastings. It might set you straight.
And stop throwing stones, since you so obviously live in a glass house.
Oh please, the USSR did more than anyone by many standards. Stalingrad?
Grow up.
Cheap shot? Really?
If you must take such a simple minded view of history, it was probably France’s asses that were pulled out of the fire – not unlike the help you needed in your war of independence, but don’t like to talk about.
What has WW2 got to do with Mr Lebrecht’s misuse of a word which I’m pretty sure originated in America in the first place?
Your cheap crack at England sounds pure ‘redneck’ to me.
NY Post is widely known to be the Murdoch Corp. right-wing sensationalist muck-raking tabloid of NYC. Daily News is also somewhat of a hometown tabloid but definitely not conservative or redneck. Get YOUR facts straight Normie!
It is obvious the author has no clue as to what a “redneck” is. He needs to travel outside the London city limits once in awhile.
The Daily News of 2020 is anything but “redneck”. It is relentlessly justifiably anti-Trump. That would be a much better description of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post.
If the link NL provides doesn’t work, try this:
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-nyc-needs-the-arts-20200630-whejjyakureqbetsadxhwjkt4a-story.html