CNN.com - School drops song about picking cotton - Nov 14, 2005: "A song about people picking cotton was pulled from a middle school concert in suburban Detroit after a black parent complained that it glorifies slavery.
Superintendent Tresa Zumsteg decided Monday to remove the song 'Pick a Bale of Cotton' from the program, said Gwen Ahearn, spokeswoman for the Berkley School District.
Ahearn said that when the song was picked for Wednesday's folk songs concert at Anderson Middle School, there was no intent to offend anyone.
'As it became apparent that that is the case, we pulled the song,' she said.
The school is predominantly white."
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