[Dixielandjazz] politically correct?

[Mike C.]

You gotta be kidding me. You mean to tell me a misunderstanding of a 
word started all of this?!? That is ridiculous.

Mike

LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing wrote:

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