3 Grammy Contenders Share Outrage At All-White Category, Decline Nominations
The Okee Dokee Brothers, Alastair Moock and Dog on Fleas — three of five acts nominated in the best children's album category — share their equity-based rationalizations for declining the ballot.
Three of the five acts nominated for the 2021 Best Children's Album Grammy Award are saying "no thanks." They're upset that the contenders in their category are all white.
One of them is Alastair Moock, whose nominated album, Be A Pain, is about American heroes who stood up for their principles: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harvey Milk, Rosa Parks, the Parkland shooting student protestors and others.
Upon hearing the news that he was nominated along with three other white male acts and one white woman, Moock smacked his head. "After this year, to have an all-white
