Protesters denounce predominantly white performance at Montreal jazz festival
About 75 protesters shouted “shame” to evening diners on Tuesday at a sunny terrasse outside a downtown theatre that was hosting a show directed by a white man, featuring a white woman singing songs composed by black slaves.
The sold-out show by Quebec director Robert Lepage for Montreal’s International Jazz Festival is a racist appropriation of black culture, said Lucas Charlie Rose, a hip-hop artist who organized the protest.
White people should not be profiting from the hist
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