Texas university president cancels drag show, comparing art form to blackface

The president of a public college in Texas canceled a pupil-run drag display on Monday, arguing that the artwork shape is offensive to ladies and evaluating it to blackface. “Drag indicates stereotype ladies in cartoon-like extremes for the leisure of others and discriminate in opposition to womanhood,” West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler stated in an e mail to college students, school and staff. “Drag indicates are derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny, now no longer remember the said intent.”

In the e mail, which become acquired through NBC News, Wendler additionally states that he similarly “might now no longer ...