The premise of the play was that all Americans were immigrants including one Alexander Hamilton who came from a less than ideal background. The fact that he succeeded is proof that immigrants can succeed.
If play attendees and the racially charged cast got the message that immigrants can succeed by becoming Americans then that would be a good thing and the racism device used by the producers could be seen to have had some useful purpose.
There is one disconnect however, Hamilton wanted to become a successful person and a positive contributor to America by becoming an American. The subliminal message of the play and by many dividers in America today is that immigrants should resist becoming Americans and instead create a Balkanization of our once great country.
We now have a chance to make America great again. We need to be one people, the color of which doesn’t matter, and not remain a country encouraged by a demagogue who insists on disharmony and conflict for his own destructive reasons.
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