This weekend is former council candidate Nick Spencer's "Desdemona Festival". As I have stated earlier, "Desdemona" is an extremely problematic name for a festival in Cincinnati. For those who don’t remember 9th grade English, Shakespeare's Desdemona (who was white) was killed by Othello (who was black). I have not yet had any reports of local interracial uxoricide or mariticide by my crack team of reporters, but we shall wait until the weekend is over.

I have written an open letter to Cincinnati Police warning them to keep watch for race riots sparked by this unfortunate festival name. How many "Desdemona's" in Cincinnati will be left dead by their black husbands at the end of the weekend?

I suggested many alternate names for this festival, but received no response from Nick. Why did he keep the name "Desdemona Festival", instead of using my racially harmonious alternative suggestion, "The Harriet Tubman Indie Rock Festival"?

Let us now look beyond the name of the Desdemona Festival, to deconstruct the name of Friday night's headlining act. Nick Spencer (who is white) scheduled a non-indie rock artist, Ghostface "Killah" (who is black), while neglecting to fly in any black indie rock musicians from overseas (who are black), despite  the abundance of available black indie rock talent (39 hits on Google).

Did Nick Spencer ever consider how "Ghosface Killah's" chosen moniker will affect racial tensions in this city? Consider these points:

1. As everyone knows, Ghosts are white.
2. Killah is another way to say "Killer".

So a "Ghostface Killah" could be seen as a killer of white-faced people. I had high hopes for a racially harmonious city - that we would be able to put the string of interracial spousal killings behind us.  Will we soon witness the Helter Skelter that Charles Manson warned of?