[Dixielandjazz] politically correct?

[LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing]

Absolutely.  We hear what we want to hear and sometimes this sort of thing
happens just listen to congress for a while.  They all use the same words
but somehow it comes out different.  Honestly this thing almost cost me my
job and the principal was really huffy with me before the truth cam out.  He
also came and inspected my lesson plan books to see If I was telling the
truth.  Words mean different things to different people but the best
explanation was the kid was half asleep and only heard the term Jig Dancing
and put two and two together and got 22.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike C." <mike at michaelcryer.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] politically correct?


> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>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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