FROM SILENCE TO SPEAKING OUT

  • Choreographer Bill T. Jones on his decision to boycott this year’s Spoleto Festival in Charleston because of an NAACP boycott: “The questions you should be asking is not ‘Why I’m doing what I’m doing’ but ‘Why are there so few people who feel that they have to boycott? Why do so many people have a rationale that allows them to find other ways of responding to the [Confederate] flag?’ People have a lot of deep responses to the issue, but the biggest response is the silence.” – Los Angeles Times