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Crip Dyke's avatar

>> "Most people know literally one thing about the DAR, and that is the fact that," <<

...Marion Coatesworth Hay received the Francis Scott Key Key award for her lifetime of devoted service and also to keep her from boycotting an important dinner over Abigail Bartlett's qualifying ancestor being a privateer rather than enlisted in the army, which I guess is a big deal to DAR types who don't realize that the colonies didn't have a navy during the American Revolution.

Oh! Yeah, and the Marian Anderson thing. I know about that one because her nephew James DePriest was the conductor of Oregon Symphony Orchestra for many years, and I saw him lead performances many times and because I was a dipshit ignorant white kid from the Portland Exurbs someone had to explain to me THAT it was a BIG DEAL for a symphony conductor to be a Black polio survivor with a serious disability even though I had never ever known a symphony orchestra that wasn't led by a Black polio survivor so as far as I knew that was just all the symphony orchestras, Katie, and then they had to explain to me WHY it was a big deal what with how he had been relentlessly discriminated against and certainly deserved a much more prestigious position, but came into Portland and made the OSO a thousand times better than it had ever been before and it was only racism that made it possible for us to benefit from the talents of this extraordinary man from this extraordinary family.

So, yeah. Fuck the DAR. I'm glad that Marian Anderson never let them use her voice to hold a, "But we're not racist anymore," concert. What a bunch of A Asshole.

And also... you ever notice how the people who hate trans people and the most racist of racist fucks have a REAL LOT OF OVERLAP? I am just hmmmmmming.

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Oh, ish.

When I attended the same high school former Sen. Rob Portman had a few years before, it was only because my aunt taught there and pulled a few strings and I got a scholarship. It was a terrible idea she and my father cooked up. It only lasted a few years and ended not-well.

But while I was there, I was invited to the Cincinnati Cotillion Society. At that time, they hadn't invited Black or Jewish kids to join. Indeed; the year they invited me may have been the first year they invited any Black or Jewish kids? I don't recall and don't care.

I did write them back to politely decline, even though I was only 12. My elders had taught me to respond to every inquiry. I made a point to mention that I was declining because they had a history of not inviting Black or Jewish kids, and despite my lily-white-Northwest European extra-Protestant lineage that extends back to 1640 on the North American continent; I just can't be anyplace that won't include any and all Americans, m'kay sorry bye.

I didn't bother to mention that it sounded really lame, also and too.

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