In 2020, the Louisville Orchestra offered a musical tribute to Breonna Taylor, whom Louisville police had murdered six months earlier. This
What all of these connections help us to see is that many of the same people, representing the same financial interests and working toward the same municipal goals, are responsible for shaping Louisville’s racist, classist development projects and for funding the antiracist, social justice projects of the Orchestra. To put it another way: people who have become fabulously wealthy and powerful thanks to decades (and, in some cases, centuries) of land acquisition and racial capitalism, and who continue to acquire land and wealth by colluding with the city and with police to displace and kill Black people, are among the same people who paid for the Concert for Healing, which was then celebrated for “doing something” to solve the problem of racism in Louisville.
