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Is It Racist To Sing...
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot? The England RU fans are now accused of an ignorant appropriation of "slave lyrics" by an American "academic". Josephine Wright, a professor of music and black studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Sigh.
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I go to Twickenham to watch England as much as I can, and this year I've been very lucky to have been to the France and Italy games, and on Saturday I'm going there to see us embarrass Scotland.... .and every time I sing swing low, at the very front of my mind is that I am committing "cultural misappropria tion", as I'm sure do all the other England fans! I save...
14:04 Thu 09th Mar 2017
I go to Twickenham to watch England as much as I can, and this year I've been very lucky to have been to the France and Italy games, and on Saturday I'm going there to see us embarrass Scotland.....and every time I sing swing low, at the very front of my mind is that I am committing "cultural misappropriation", as I'm sure do all the other England fans!
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