Music professor calls his black dad racist for liking Bach

A music theory professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York said his own father, who is black, was a white supremacist because he liked “Bach.”

Professor Philip Ewell made the claims in a profile piece in the Yale Daily News. The university recently gave him its Wilbur Cross Award for “making the whiteness of music theory a topic of conversation,” the student paper reported.

Ewell is so good at identifying “whiteness” and “white supremacy” that he even saw it in his own father, who “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism,” the paper reported.