Oberlin Student Op-Ed Urges White People to Attend Fewer Concerts
“When there are so few resources for non-white students on campus, it can be upsetting when concerts headlined by artists of color are dominated by white students”
When students embrace this ideology, it’s like they can’t even hear themselves.
The College Fix reports:
Oberlin student op-ed: Too many white people are attending campus concerts
In an op-ed at The Oberlin Review, a student columnist has urged fewer white people to attend concerts on campus.
“When there are so few resources for non-white students on campus, it can be upsetting when concerts headlined by artists of color are dominated by white students,” writes Kayla Kim.
Kim relays the story of Haley Sablay, who over the summer attended an event known as Solarity that features bands on campus.
“A white male was just falling all over the people around us,” she said. “And there was this one person next to me who kept telling him, ‘Stop touching me, stop falling over me.’”
“Sablay also noted that while the front mostly had students of color, they were slowly being pushed away toward the back as the concert continued,” Kim writes. “She and her friends eventually left.”
In order to attend the Solarity event, students are required to watch a 30-minute “bystander training video” and complete a form with “basic questions about drug use and consent.”
“The problem is that these measures don’t necessarily prevent inappropriate behavior from happening,” Kim writes, noting the school is now adding “vibe watchers” to “make sure students are safe and comfortable at the concert.”
According to the school’s website, this year’s Solarity event was scheduled to be paired with a drag queen ball.
Kim did talk to one black student who, upon attending a poetry performance on campus known as OSLAM, was distraught when white students were being asked to leave to make room for students of color.
“People who came to just listen to poetry and not knowing the context of OSLAM overall were put in a situation that I feel they didn’t deserve to be in where they were subjected to this feeling of being treated differently because of their skin color,” said Asquith Clarke II.
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Then if the entertainers are
colouredof color, then it should only be acoloured audienceaudiencce of color.Whites should boycott the entire thing. Let’s see what that does for ticket sales.
Performers perform to make money. So, isn’t the money of White people the same color (green) as the money of Black people?
And, were these artists even consulted about this new idea? I doubt it.
“it can be upsetting when concerts headlined by artists of color are dominated by white students”
Just like the Dexter Lake Club, in Animal House. It’s good to see we have made such progress in race relations.
“In order to attend the Solarity event, students are required to watch a 30-minute “bystander training video” and complete a form with “basic questions about drug use and consent.”
I give up. These people are extinction-level insane.
What’s going on with the Gibson bakery case? Don’t they own Oberlin yet?
Every single one of those whites should have stood their ground. Maybe start chanting, “remember the Woolworth’s lunch counter!”
“In order to attend the Solarity event, students are required to watch a 30-minute “bystander training video” and complete a form with “basic questions about drug use and consent.”
There is no chance I would attend this event.