Memorial Day speech mike cut

[swamp]

When featured speaker talks about contributions by black people to the military.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/03/ohio-barnard-kempter-mic-memorial-day/

Oh noooz!!! We can’t hear about contributions of black peoples. But I’m not racist.

Ugh.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

I can't access the article, but crap. 

[billisonboard]

Jun 3, 2021 9:30:28 GMT -5 Rukh O'Rorke said:

I can't access the article, but crap. 

I don't access WAPO articles. I found an article about it here: www.stripes.com/Veterans/2021-06-03/Veteran%E2%80%99s-microphone-cut-off-when-he-discusses-Blacks%E2%80%99-role-in-establishing-Memorial-Day-1628829.html

[jerseygirl]

His speech is now getting more exposure! Very interesting to learn about black history and Memorial Day!

Very ignorant and arrogant people who wanted to stifle this

[kadee79]

For those who can't read it, here is the first part of it....

The audio was cut on a veteran's microphone at a Memorial Day event in Hudson, Ohio, shortly after he began discussing the role Black people played in the holiday's origins in an incident that local media report was no accident.

According to the Akron Beacon Journal, the incident occurred during an event marking the holiday at a local cemetery on Monday, just minutes after retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter started to deliver remarks.

During his speech, Kemter, whom the Journal reported was the keynote speaker for the event, discussed the history of the holiday, including the discovery of newspaper clippings and handwritten notes that showed a group of freed Black people were among the first to commemorate the holiday following the surrender of the Confederacy.

"In recent years, the origins of how and where 'Decoration Day' began has sparked lively debate amongst historians. However, Yale historian David Blight, asserting the holiday is rooted in a moving ceremony, [said it] was conducted by freed slaves on May 1, 1865, at the tattered remains of a Confederate prisoner of war camp," he stated. "It was a Charleston Washington Race Course and Jockey Club today known as Hampton Park."

"The ceremony is believed to have included a parade of as many as 10,000 people, including 3,000 African American schoolchildren singing the Union marching song, 'John Brown's Body,' " he said. "They were carrying armfuls of flowers and went to decorate at the graves."

But about a minute after, Kemter's microphone was cut roughly halfway through his address. The veteran could be seen trying to alert someone off-camera about his microphone after realizing something was wrong, continuing to address the audience.

According to the Journal, an organizer for the event confirmed to the outlet that either she or another organizer had the audio cut.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/organizer-cuts-off-veterans-mic-when-he-discusses-role-black-people-played-in-origins-of-memorial-day/ar-AAKEkWR?li=BBnb7Kz

[Deleted]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the people who thought that cutting the mike was cool.  I might not always agree with the perspective and words of a person, but I would definitely NOT agree with cutting the mike.  I'm not a snowflake.  I am forever grateful to the speaker.  My FIL was also a Lt. Col in the US Army and I greatly respect his service.

[bookkeeper]

Disrespectful and completely horrible.  Why are people so hesitant to hear history that isn't about white people?

[Deleted]

Jun 3, 2021 19:44:04 GMT -5 bookkeeper said:

Disrespectful and completely horrible.  Why are people so hesitant to hear history that isn't about white people?

My guess is because many times the truth about history includes bad things that white people did to other people. Better to ignore those parts and pretend they never happened.

[Bonny]

Jun 4, 2021 16:42:53 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

Jun 3, 2021 19:44:04 GMT -5 bookkeeper said:

Disrespectful and completely horrible.  Why are people so hesitant to hear history that isn't about white people?

My guess is because many times the truth about history includes bad things that white people did to other people. Better to ignore those parts and pretend they never happened.

I have never forgotten how my father told me when I was around 11 years old that he didn't believe that slaves were treated badly because they were so expensive. 

[nidena]

Jun 4, 2021 16:55:31 GMT -5 Bonny said:

Jun 4, 2021 16:42:53 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

My guess is because many times the truth about history includes bad things that white people did to other people. Better to ignore those parts and pretend they never happened.

I have never forgotten how my father told me when I was around 11 years old that he didn't believe that slaves were treated badly because they were so expensive. 

[TheOtherMe]

Jun 4, 2021 16:55:31 GMT -5 Bonny said:

Jun 4, 2021 16:42:53 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

My guess is because many times the truth about history includes bad things that white people did to other people. Better to ignore those parts and pretend they never happened.

I have never forgotten how my father told me when I was around 11 years old that he didn't believe that slaves were treated badly because they were so expensive. 

Here in Iowa the Legislature is not going to allow what they don't approve to be taught.  They have already killed diversity programs in the state universities.  School districts aren't far behind in being allowed to teach the truth.

I went to grade school in the county where Buxton is located.  Presidential candidate Cory Booker's relatives lived there when it was thriving and watched it die.  Until he talked about Buxton, I never even knew it existed.  Nothing was taught in the local schools.

We did get taught fairy tales about the Indians the city and county were named after.

[kadee79]

I'll have to go hunt for the link, but the person who cut the mike has resigned and there are plans afoot to dissolve that entire American Legion Auxiliary.  So in the end, they cut off their noses to spite their own faces and drew attention to what was being said so it got more widely stated than it would have if they had left the mike alone.  And this was also pre-planned...they knew exactly where to cut the mike & where to turn it back up again.

[kadee79]

Found the link I was looking for....


www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article251908103.html

[happyhoix]

Hudson Ohio - outside of Akron, in northern Ohio, right?

I’ll have to remember this the next time some arrogant northerner tries to tell me racism against blacks only exists in the South. I’ve lived in both places; the only difference is the northerners try to be more subtle about it. My mom, born and raised in middle PA, was one of the most racist people I knew. She just hid it, except around family.