London theater slammed for emphasizing whites are not welcome at upcoming play



Caucasian theatergoers have been asked to refrain from attending a London play in July to ensure that the audience is "free from the white gaze."

Despite the claim by the Theatre Royal Stratford East in East London that "no one is excluded," the promotional materials for the July 5 rendition of American playwright Dave Harris' "Tambo and Bones" make expressly clear that white theatergoers are not welcome, reported the Telegraph.

The organizers behind the July showing of David Harris' "Tambo and Bones" seek "an environment in which an all-black-identifying audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film, and cultural spaces – free from the white gaze."

Nadia Fall, the theater's artistic director, indicated in an opinion piece for the Guardian that other theaters have hosted such segregated showings "for plays that interrogate complex and often challenging themes around race."

Extra to presuming certain racial groups require coddling around potentially sensitive themes, Fall stressed that the segregated performance in July would help address the "imbalance" of a historically "white-centred" theater.

In recent years, leftist segregationists have put on numerous "Black Out" special performances, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Jeremy O. Harris, co-producer of HBO's drama "Euphoria" and author of the 2018 Broadway-staged "Slave Play," told British Vogue in March 2022, "I do these 'Black Out' nights in America, mainly because I want to change who comes to the theatre – it’s not to say that white people shouldn’t be coming or that my play is only for Black people. Most theatre we see has a mostly white audience, so I want to know what laughs are different – because laughs are different; the space changes."

Harris admitted his segregated showings prompted a negative reaction from some black theater goers who didn't want to partake in such discriminatory practices.

"I was like, 'Well, I don’t really care about drama, we make theatre!' But also, that’s crazy that we can’t have one night where we just invite people that are cool and Black to hang out," he said.

Dzifa Afi Benson, a leftist poet, suggested in the Telegraph that the segregated showings of Harris' plays in 2022 highlighted the "ill-timed laughter from the majority white audience during press night at parts of the play that weren’t funny" and the apparent correct responses from the black-out audience.

In response to the theater's decision to promote segregation, Martin Daubney, a British journalist and former Brexit Party member in the European parliament, told GB News, "The anti-racists are the new racists. This is basically apartheid. It's basically stopping somebody through their skin color."

While certain of the racism baked into so-called anti-racism, Daubney suggested that greed may be closer to the heart of the reasoning behind this particular theatrical showing.

"They're doing it, of course, so we talk about it. They want people to be outraged," said Daubney. "They want people to be angry to boost ticket sales."

The New York Times published a damning review of Harris' play, claiming it lacked force and entertainment value. If prospective theater-goers are cognizant of this view of the play's many alleged shortcomings, then perhaps the racist gamble might pay off per Daubney's insinuation, insofar as it might attract viewers on the basis of the related outrage contra its perceived merits.

\u201c\u2018The anti-racists are the new racists.\u2019\n\nMartin Daubney gives his take on Theatre Royal Stratford East urging white people to not attend a play aimed at black audiences.\n\n\ud83d\udcfa Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604\u201d
— GB News (@GB News) 1684681314

The Telegraph indicated that Festus Akinbusoye, Britain's first black police and crime commissioner, similarly condemned the event, saying it set a "poor and dangerous precedent" and stressing "society is richer and stronger when an understanding of each other's cultures and stories are shared and heard. ... I believe the Black Out concept runs contrary to this education and enrichment ethos."

"I would strongly urge the organisers of this to seriously reconsider their decision in light of the message it sends, and the precedent it sets," added Akinbusoye.

Notwithstanding the accusations of cynical exploitation and racism, Matthew Xia, director of the U.K. run of the play, claimed it was "imperative" that the segregationist showing go ahead.

Theater is not the only domain wherein leftists have striven to segregate.

TheBlaze previously reported that esteemed New England Journal of Medicine has advanced a recommendation by California academics that medical schools should divide up students on the basis of their race.

Young America’s Foundation reported this week that 86 out of the top 100 universities in America organized segregated commencement ceremonies for the class of 2023.

While various spaces are being segregated on college campuses and class rooms are being divided along racial lines, in Europe, entire festivals have ensured racial homogeneity.

Despite the protest of Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, the Nyansapo Festival, which excluded white concert-goers, went on as planned in the French capital.

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Real-life dystopia: Police arrest woman AGAIN after she silently prayed near abortion facility in UK



A woman has been arrested again in the U.K. after praying silently near an abortion facility in Birmingham, according to Alliance Defending Freedom UK.

Police recently asked Isabel Vaughan-Spruce to move so that she would be outside of an "exclusion zone." When Vaughan-Spruce pushed back, contending that she was not engaging in prohibited activity, the officer then proceeded to tell her, "[Y]ou've said you're engaging in prayer, which is the offense."

\u201c\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Isabel has been arrested, AGAIN, for THINKING.\n\nMPs vote TOMORROW on banning silent prayer near all abortion facilities in\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f&\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f\n\n"You've said you're engaging in prayer, which is the offense."\n"Silent prayer."\n"You were still engaging in prayer, which is the offense."\u201d
— ADF UK (@ADF UK) 1678129713

Last year, Vaughan-Spruce was arrested outside of the facility after telling an officer, who had asked if she was praying, that she "might" have been praying in her mind. The officer asked her if she would voluntarily go to the police station for questioning. Vaughan-Spruce said if she had a choice, she would not go along. At that point, she was arrested.

She was charged with "protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users," according to ADF UK, which said that the facility had been closed when she was there and that she was ultimately acquitted.

Woman Arrested for Silently Praying www.youtube.com

The arrests pertain to a Public Space Protection Order, which prohibits various activities in a "restricted area," including, "Protesting, namely engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval, with respect to issues related to abortion services, by any means. This includes but is not limited to graphic, verbal or written means, prayer or counselling," the order states.

Vaughan-Spruce noted during an interview on GB News that she "would naturally assume" that since she had been acquitted, she would be able to pray outside of the abortion facility. She said that she has been offering women help outside of abortion centers for two decades and that many women have taken and been thankful for the help.

\u201c'I was silently praying inside my head and six officers came and told me I was engaging in prayer - which was an offence.'\n\nIsabel Vaughan-Spruce tells Jacob Rees-Mogg about her experience of getting arrested after praying outside an abortion clinic.\u201d
— GB News (@GB News) 1678222203

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'God rest you, queer and questioning ...' Altered lyrics for iconic Christmas carol sung at UK church; ideology behind it blasted as 'woke, unbiblical'



A U.K. church is raising eyebrows for performing the iconic Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" with altered lyrics that reflect a "woke, unbiblical" ideology.

What are the details?

All Saints with Holy Trinity in Loughborough used the updated carol — which removes references to Satan as well as to Christ as Savior — and instead refers to “queer and questioning” “women, who by men have been erased," MSN reported.

The network added that the altered lyrics were printed in the order of a Monday carol service to feature “new inclusive words for a traditional hymn."

MSN said the new lyrics read, in part:

God rest you also, women,
who by men have been erased,
Through history ignored and scorned,
defiled and displaced;
Remember that your stories too,
are held within God’s grace.

The network noted there's more where that came from:

God rest you, queer and questioning,
your anxious hearts be still,
Believe that you are deeply known
and part of God’s good will
For all to live as one in peace;
the global dream fulfilled.
\u201cThe world is going mad. Thank God for Biblical Christ centred churches. What a travesty \u201c 'God rest you, queer and questioning, your anxious hearts be still.' We are ripe for God\u2019s Judgements\n https://t.co/5WDwqrf4KL\u201d
— Macira (@Macira) 1671616209

Apparently, this week wasn't the first time the altered carol was performed at All Saints. Here's a video of the church's Carol Service from 2020, during which a choir also belted it out:

The Mayor's Community Carol Service 20/12/21 @ 19.00 from All Saints with Holy Trinity, Loughborough youtu.be


Commentators on GB News seemed none too pleased by it all:

\u201c'Un-merry gentlemen who are furious at all these stories.'\n\nNick Dixon reacts to the Daily Mail's story: Fury as church changes lyrics of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen to be more 'inclusive' towards women and LGBT people.\u201d
— GB News (@GB News) 1671687900

The outlet said All Saints with Holy Trinity in Loughborough was contacted for comment on behalf of its rector, Rev. Wendy Dalrymple.

'Woke, unbiblical agenda'

In a separate story, MSN reported that the altered lyrics ignited an argument on social media between traditionalist members of the clergy and General Synod — the Church of England’s legislative body — and LGBTQ activists within the Church.

Rev. Matthew Firth, former vicar of St. Cuthbert’s and Holy Trinity Darlington in the Diocese of Durham, told the outlet, “I’m not sure where the lyrics came from, but it seems clear that they were changed to fit with the [Church of England's] woke, unbiblical agenda."

MSN said Firth added, “Compare it with the real words. All ideas about Christ as Savior have been erased. Triumph over Satan’s power has been erased. And the whole nativity story has been erased.”

Sam Margrave, a General Synod member, added to the outlet that he was “absolutely disgusted” that an “act of worship to our Lord and Saviour is being used to push political ideology.”

But Jayne Ozanne — a prominent gay, evangelical Christian and also a General Synod member — praised the altered lyrics, telling MSN: “What an utterly Spirit-inspired set of words for our time! I love the way this speaks into the pain that the Church has caused so many different groups & yet recognizes that God's love is so much bigger than it all. May people who sing it be blessed & restored this Christmas!”

Cardinal Vincent Nichols — the Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales — said carols shouldn't be rewritten, the outlet said.

MSN said Nichols spoke to Times Radio about the recent trend of rewriting carols to be more inclusive: "I think what Christmas does ... it tells us the importance of ritual. And ritual helps us to step outside of our own little bubble, connect with something that we have received, inherited, and that we hope to pass on. And I think those values of a continuation of musical repertoire, of the ability to sing together, of looking at the rituals that have been fashioned over centuries. And those are, probably for me, more important than particular sensitivities which come and go."

Anything else?

The outlet said the updated lyrics are described online as “new inclusive words for a traditional hymn” on the ResistHarm Movement website, a United Methodist movement of “faithful resistance to anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and practice."