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The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –
Publicly funded Metro Nashville Arts Commission is looking to hire a racial equity manager with an annual salary range of $76,236.20 to $107,045.44.
The job listing states that the position is a full-time Civil Service position that “supports the operations, development and expansion of Racial Equity and Restorative Arts programs for the agency.”
Once hired, the new Restorative Arts and Equity Manager will work closely with Executive Director Daniel Singh, an outspoken LGBTQ activitst who was hired last year.
In his previous position as Executive Director of McLean Community Center in McLean, VA, Singh’s “commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion” led to a Drag StoryBook Hour at a Fairfax County Public Library within the first 90 days of his appointment.
Singh’s new sidekick will be responsible for leading the operations and expansion of Racial Equity, Restorative Arts and Youth Development programs, positioning Metro Arts for increased funding for equity programs, and supporting diversity guidelines while “sustaining equitable practices across programs and policies.”
The Arts Commission’s ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Restorative Practice, Racial Equity, Critical Theory, Arts Administration or Public Policy and “five years of increasingly responsible experience within restorative practice or racial equity programs, critical theory, arts administration or public policy.”
The Metro Arts Cultural Equity Statement states that the arts “drive a vibrant and equitable community” and that cultural equity “includes specific commitment to people who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream arts funding… including, but not limited to, people of color, people of all ages, differently abled people, LGBTQ people, women, and the socio-economically disadvantaged.”
The publicly funded commission believes that “artists and cultural creators have a unique role in challenging inequity and imagining new and more just realities.”
The rest of the statement that reads more like a woke manifesto than a governmental agency’s vision states:
• Inequity is pervasive and historic. Disparities and discrimination are daily occurrences that are rooted in long-standing majority privilege and power inside and outside of the cultural arts.
• Inequity occurs within systems at all levels within the cultural/creative ecosystem.
• Equity moves past inclusion and representation; accepting that power has created uneven starting points for some communities and individuals. Simple diverse representation does not dismantle the unequal nature of voice, resource allocation and visibility that exist in the arts and cultural ecosystem.
• We hold ourselves accountable by acknowledging that equity does not currently exist in the arts.
• We commit to exposing and unraveling it through our own leadership, practices and policies.
• We commit to holding up examples and practices that facilitate equity and those artists and creators who are equity champions.
To help them in their mission, the Metro Arts Board of Commissioners established an anti-racism committee to help keep them “accountable” in becoming “fully antiracist in its identity and working for equity in all policies and practices with the goal of dismantling all systems of oppression within the arts ecosystem.”
In a post on Linkedin in November Singh wrote, “Come work with me at Metro Arts Nashville! We are working on creating an equity-based, thriving culture within the staff and all of the arts community.”
A resident from McLean, VA, who witnessed Singh’s disruptions to his community said that Singh insinuated that the McLean community was racist, mocked the Catholic faith of some that demonstrated against the Drag Queen storytime event, and also tried to shut down a decades-long annual antique show (a major fundraiser for the community center) for being “elitist.”
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
3 Responses
Cut their funding, sho’nuff unessential.
Don’t know how artsy liberals manage personal finances, they’re a disaster with tax money.
This is definitely an agency that needs to be defunded. Just another tactic to sow division amongst the people. First the executive director now this. DEI the destruction of America.
In God we trust not government or man.
Have a blessed day.
Hey you RINOs in our state house need get your thumb outta your ear and do your flippin job.
Billy signed your bill. No CRT or DIE in schools needs to extended to ALL publicly funded entities period