Open Letter to the Community about the Black Music Division
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1976-10-08
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"The issues referred to in this week's open letter to Dr. Murphy were supposed to have been resolved three years ago. That this meaningless and often slanderous debate
is allowed to go on, represents a continuing insult to those of us
who would rather be engaged in those activities for which we have
been hired, i.e. teaching and creating music. The fact that there
are still those among us who cannot see the blatant racism of the
situation, and continue to ask such questions as: "Why is there
Black Music?", or "Why can't we all work together?", is indicative
of the incredible intellectual bankruptcy and social irrelevancy of
what (we are continually told) was once the vanguard of American
higher education."