ATFA event in Toronto got cancelled after accusations of racism for all-white DJ line-up
Story about the cancellation:http://www.chartattack.com/news/2014/01/24/awesome-tapes-from-africa-show-toronto-cancelled/
Response from the organizer, dude who runs the DIY venue and was to be one of the DJ's:http://www.doubledoubleland.com/tldr.html
― brio, Friday, 28 March 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
hmm, i'm curious what people here think of all this.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
the last graf of that chartattack.com blog post seems like a desperate non-sequitir to me
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Both the article and the response get pretty muddled, but I think there's actually lots to think about with this. It's too bad it's so hard for people to talk about race.
― brio, Friday, 28 March 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
― brio, Friday, March 28, 2014 2:13 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my only response seeing this is lol
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
incidentally, i'm going to a thing tonight where mr. awesome tapes is dj'ing.
― the pursuit of ha'pennies (get bent), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
this actually would all have been solved had they advertised it as "mr. awesome tapes is back"
― espring (amateurist), Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link