Oh Come All Ye Black Folk
January 2nd, 2007 by 
demonterious
I know you’re probably looking at the title like, “what the heck is he talking about?”, but I didn’t have to think of this one on my own. The great people of Tufts University took it upon themselves to create what they call a “satirical” Christmas card to parody the carol “O Come All Ye Faithful”…and as you may have guessed by now they titled it “Oh Come All Ye Black Folk”. Now, they say it was written to discuss the issue of affirmitive action, grab your own opinion:
“O Come All Ye Black Folk
Boisterous yet Desirable
O come ye, O come ye to our University
Come and we will admit you,
Born in to oppression;
O come let us accept them,
O come let us accept them,
O come let us accept them,
Fifty-two black freshman.
O Sing, gospel choirs,
We will accept your children,
No matter what your grades are, F’s, D’s, or G’s,
Give them all privileged status; We will welcome all.
O come let us accept them,
O come let us accept them,
O come let us accept them,
Fifty-two black freshman.
All come! Blacks, we need you,
Born into the ghetto.
O Jesus!We need you now to fill our racial quotas.
Descendants of Africa, with brown skin arriving:
O come let us accept them,
O come let us accept them,
O come let us accept them,
Fifty-two black freshman.â€
Okay, so they issued an apology and it goes like this:
Douglas Kingman, the journal’s news editor has stated that “The Primary Source regrets that the purpose of the carol was not clearly communicated. The carol was intended as a satirical criticism of affirmative action and was, in fact, intended as an anti-racist statement.â€
Like for real, Is this still happening in 2006/2007? Why are we still going through this crap? Black people should never expect to be treated equally in this country. We will always have to fight for any and everything we get here. We cannot become complacent and we cannot wait until we are thrown in a racist situation to gain strength. We must be strong so that we can prevent and discourage racist and bigoted actions by anyone. Everyone says the US is so far ahead of the rest of the world… but we’re no where. We’re still in a 30-40 year time gap.
*This story is based on an article found here: http://card.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/racially-charged-anti-affirmative-action-carol-parody-printed-in-college-journal/
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