[Dixielandjazz] politically correct?

[LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing]

When I was teaching a music appreciation class for 9th graders the principal
called me into his office and accused me of making racial slurs.  You could
have knocked me over with a feather.  I searched my brain for any possible
thing that I might have said and drew a total blank.  I asked if the student
would make the accusation to my face and the kid was called in.  He said
that I had called black people "Jigs".  It all came clear to me when he said
that he knew what "Jigs" were.  The class had been covering the history of
dance and I had talked about Irish Jigs and clogging as part of muic history
along with a lot of other kinds of dances.  Sometimes people only hear what
they want to hear.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: FW: [Dixielandjazz] politically correct?


>
> I offended a young Spanish girl who spoke just a bit (but not enough)
> English by singing the words to Broadway:  "Broadway, Broadway,
everybody's
> happy & gay"......
>
> Why, she asked, was I singing about gay people?
>
> :>
>
> Jim
>
>
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