The significance of Lizzo playing an instrument that was once owned by a Founding Father who contributed to racial oppression seems to have been lost on those posting the impertinent Tweets. lizzo
Presented to her by the Library of Congress, Lizzo can be seen here playing and twerking on beat with the heirloom.
Lizzo, a Black female superstar, collaborating with Carla Hayden, the first African American and first woman Librarian of Congress, to use a flute from James Madison, the Founding Father who originated the 3/5 Compromise and also the Library of Congress itself? The symbolism!!! https://t.co/n5AQsjJwKH
— Matt Walsh September 28, 2022 And of course, patriarchy is synonymous with Ben Shapiro. In a recent Tweet about the event he states, “that speaks to the, sort of, gentility of America's founders being brought into a context that is vulgar. It's the vulgarization of American history.” Someone reached out to Lizzo, she arrived & then asked if she could play it. But WHY was she so eager to play a white man's flute?? It appears just to make a mockery of the situation!
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