Well, the song was also a song written by Sophie about her daughter. What it had to do with MLK or diversity or racial justice is beyond me. Quite a surreal moment actually.what do you mean tradition? they had a tradition of singing the blues on MLK day and when someone was receiving a life time achievement award?yup Harper had his sicko little band. when did Layton sing? and Rae?
how about both? what was Gregoire and her handlers thinking? don't think they were. self absorbtion looks to be the motive and impetuous.
No I did not mean of singing the blues -- I meant of being amateur entertainers.
The context and how offensive that was was my next point.
I find it odd that nobody close to Gregoire was able to tell her that she should not be the focus of this event.
I am actually shocked that the CBC would not be abl eto see that its coverage was hugely inappropriate and stank of racism.
Just becuase Gregoire went to the mic, does not mean that this had to be the selection and focus for the coverage of that day.
The reality is that Dr. King's vision of a post racial society has still not been completely met. The CBC coverage was quite sad -- and on that point I really do not care who the white woman singing the blues is.
i couldn't figure out why the CBC reported this.
was it shock? was it a slam against Sophie? for Sophie? or something to let us know how inappropriate this was on many levels?
and where's their commentary on MLK and Joe Clark?
i'm embarassed on many levels and i don't really do embarassment.