American Red Guards Accuse Honored Chinese-American Music Prof of Racism for Screening Shakespeare's 'Othello'

Bright Sheng is a much-honored Chinese-American professor of music composition at the University of Michigan. He received a MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2001, and has twice been a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in music.

When he was a child, Mao’s Red Guards took away his family’s piano — a common practice since Mao thought all Western music was counterrevolutionary. But Sheng went on to become a celebrated pianist and a respected teacher.

But the professor was apparently not hip to cancel culture and its peculiarities. He thought it would be instructive (he is a teacher, after all) to screen one of the best film adaptations of a Shakespeare play. Sir Lawrence Oliver’s Othello is considered a classic and Olivier is one of the greatest English-language actors in history.

But Olivier chose to play the title character in blackface — controversial even in 1965. Of course, Shakespeare was white and had no better idea of the black or Arab experience than any other white guy in 16th-century Elizabethan England. He wrote of universal truths common to all humanity.

Every time I think of Lawrence Olivier in blackface I die a little inside. pic.twitter.com/2Z7m8YPyZ6

— 🎃🗡🐄 SMoooooky (@CivilianCow) March 6, 2014

Othello was a “Moor.” Historically, “Moors” inhabited the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages.

In fact, there were no such people as the “Moors.” They didn’t exist as a race or ethnicity. Moors was a derogatory term used by Europeans to describe Muslims they came into contact with during the Middle Ages. Most of the Moors’ Europeans met in battle were Arab — not black.

But never explain or teach history to a woke youngster. Even after realizing his error, Professor Sheng was inundated with calls for his termination because of his “insensitivity.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/10/09/honored-music-professor-accused-of-racism-for-screening-shakespeares-othello-n1522776

Did The Fourth Branch of Government Release SARS-CoV-2 Then Blame China

So much research has been done, we essentially know the majority of the background details. The SARS-CoV-2 virus commonly known as COVID-19 was made in a lab by scientists. The virus then went from a lab to the global population in late 2019/early 2020. The epicenter of the outbreak appears to be one of the labs working on the virus in Wuhan, China. Those essential big picture items are no longer debated; although the Chinese government does not agree for obvious reasons.

With the ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ essentially agreed, the question of ‘who’ and ‘why’ remains.

The Chinese have blamed the U.S. Intelligence agencies for releasing the virus. The U.S. Intelligence agencies have said they don’t know who released it or from where. [LINK] The U.S. Intelligence position is weird and obtuse, then again, the Intelligence Community specializes in being weird and obtuse.

The cornerstone of the CTH hypothesis, regarding the ‘who’ and ‘why’ of the COVID-19 virus, is built upon the intelligence communitie’s odd position and one very key circumstantial point that stands out loudly. The U.S. Pentagon was funding the creation of SARS as a biological weapon in Wuhan, China, under the auspices of national security. “Grants from the Pentagon included $6,491,025 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 2017 to 2020” (link).

♦ Central Point – The Defense Department would not be spending money to develop a biological weapon in Wuhan, China unless they already had developed that weapon in the United States. The Pentagon would not give a biological weapon to the communist Chinese unless the U.S. already developed it; and unless they already had a countermeasure to the consequences of it.

In the original pdf guidance for the 2014 research pause of into weaponization of SARS viruses there was an important footnote [LINK]:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/02/did-the-fourth-branch-of-government-release-sars-cov-2-then-blame-china/