Federal Complaint Alleges White Students Excluded From Country Music Association Fellowship
“In violation of Title VI, non-BIPOC students are illegally excluded from this program and discriminated against on the basis of their race, color, or national origin”
The fellowship in question is a ‘diversity and inclusion’ fellowship, so it’s particularly ironic that they are accused of excluding people based on race.
The College Fix reports:
Country Music Association fellowship excludes white students: federal complaint
Three universities are under scrutiny for their “Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship” with the Country Music Association due to its exclusion of white applicants.
The fellowship at the University of Tennessee, University of Alabama and Belmont University drew a federal racial discrimination complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
University of Michigan-Flint professor emeritus Mark Perry filed the complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and shared a copy with The College Fix.
Perry told The Fix via email that these three schools “are actively violating their legal obligation to enforce Title VI.”
“In violation of Title VI, non-BIPOC students are illegally excluded from this program and discriminated against on the basis of their race, color, or national origin,” Perry wrote in his official complaint.
Perry shared the complaint with the presidents of the three universities, hoping they will amend their program to include all students before the February 24 application deadline.
He told the university leaders that once Perry’s complaint is acknowledged and evaluated by the OCR, he is confident the government agency will side with him. This is based on his past success filing “740 Title VI and Title IX [sex discrimination] complaints,” he said.
In his email to the three universities, Perry encouraged them to have their legal teams “conduct an internal legal review of the BIPOC-only Fellowship program” to prevent further discrimination.
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The Country Music Association is woke now too?
Thank God I can’t stand country music. Otherwise, I would be mortified.
Country music excluding… whites?
This is like opening Archibald’s R&B Salon.
Hmm, CMA, and which genre first welcomed people of color to the mainstream with open arms: Charlie Pride, Freddy Fender, Neal McCoy, Linda Martell, and in the 1970s: Stoney Edwards, O.B. McClinton and Big Al Downing. Not to mention many pop artists had crossover hits like Ray Charles, and there was also a country singing Black cardiologist named Cleveland Francis in the 80s and 90s and now he is back to being a cardiologist.
So CMA I suggest you get off your high horse and learn your history! If it wasn’t for the influence of Black gospel music, country music would not be around. And I can guarantee you many local singers, Black and white performed with gospel groups.
If white people did not want Black people in the genre, then people of color never would have seen the light of day on the charts. Sister Loretta Tharpe was an electric guitar musician who not only played gospel, but you can consider her music as blues and even rock and country. The Rolling Stones had her play on some of their music
This is all a thinly veiled attempt to put The Bee out of business.
What it is, is another part of the entertainment field wanting to look all woke and “cutting edge”, when all they are doing is cutting out a major part of the country music buying/listening audience and creating division where there should not be any.