Appalling Silence From Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Performers
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. During the civil rights struggles of Martin Luther King Junior’s day, he was appalled by the silence of those whom he believed were, or should have been, on the side of African-American community civil rights. So with that in mind, The Advocate posted an article on Tuesday (May 28, 2013) entitled Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest? With the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival sticking by its policy against admitting openly transgender women, some performers distance themselves or keep quiet. And those performers are certainly being quiet about the festival that is supporting a womyn-born-womyn attendance policy — a policy which I was quoted in the article as saying is a soft sell “segregation
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