Summerfest Update
Apparently, not everyone feels the same way as me when in comes to the music lineup for Summerfest. Ciara, T-Pain, and Chris Brown are already scheduled to perform. Yesterday, the heavy-hitting Ludacris was announced as a headliner for the Marcus Ampitheater on July 1st. Good idea? Dan of WISN-AM certainly doesn’t think so. In fact, he made his own logo for that day of Summerfest - a frowning face with a bullet in the head.
Am I the only one who finds this the slightest bit racist? Dan doesn’t hide his unfamiliarity with Ludacris. He watched one music video and made his assumptions that someone is going to get shot that day. What did Dan see? Not much except a black man throwing rhymes in a club. Sure the song can be offensive, but all Dan’s attitude says is that when black people get together, someone is going to die.
Ludacris is just the kind of act that Summerfest needs. I already gave my praises to the powers that be for bringing some modern rock and punk bands to the stage. Why should rap be excluded? Because black people might show up for the festivities? Before you make assumptions about a community of people, make sure you know something about them. You may not like someone’s choice of music, fashion, or dialogue, but that doesn’t make it wrong - just different.
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