An agency of Nashville, Tennessee’s city government created to promote the arts has set out to allocate taxpayer-funded grants on the basis of race, hoping to leverage their funding to achieve “anti-racist outcomes.”
The Metro Nashville Arts Commission’s director, Daniel Singh, outlined his goal to encourage “anti-racist outcomes” through the use of arts grants, hoping to return “land, money and narrative resources to Indigenous, African and Asian peoples within the ‘cultural community,’” an investigation from The Pamphleteer, a local Nashville media outlet, revealed.
Singh’s vision for the Metro Nashville Arts Commission was articulated in a presentation called “What Could An Anti Racist Cultural Planning Process Look Like.”
The presentation endorsed the tenets of Critical Race Theory and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, even claiming that…
