School cancels ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ due to white student getting lead role

Thecollegefix.com ^ | 02/05/2018 | College Fix Staff

[massmike]

A New York high school has canceled a production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” after a student activist group complained about a white student being cast in a lead role.

Members of Ithaca High School’s Students United Ithaca — all five of them — got together and wrote up a letter and list of demands after the role of Esmeralda went to a Caucasian peer.

“It shows you that theater wasn’t made for you,” said Maddi Carroll, a member of the Students United group who is African-American. “And it shows you that, if you can’t get the parts that are written for you, what parts are you going to get?”

Students United’s letter conceded that the student cast as Esmeralda “is a stellar actor, singer, and dancer” and that any production would be “lucky to have her.”

However, it added: “Our concern is not with her, but with the fact that in terms of demographics, she is the wrong choice for this role.”

The group’s demands, listed on its Facebook page, included a cessation of play rehearsals, a stoppage of hiring (production) people who have not “changed their actions” following complaints from “parents of color” and “social justice activists,” and an end to the “racist and openly stated policy of ‘color blind’ casting.”

[longtermmemmory]

they would create a law forcing school atendendence.(sic)

(see Atlas Shrugged “equalization of opportunity act”)

teachers think They control society not family or parents.

[House Atreides]

Meanwhile, a group of black scientists have demanded that Nobel Prizes in Physics, Medicine and Chemistry be only awarded to blacks for the indefinite future to make up for historical and continuing discrimination against blacks. Almost all STEM related Nobel Prizes have gone to White & Asian scientists.

/sarc (I hope)

[vladimir998]

“/sarc (I hope)”

Let me dash your hopes - not that I take pleasure in that - but here you go:

The real fun begins at the 3:32 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i80qaETtw8

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“It shows you that theater wasn’t made for you,” said Maddi Carroll, a member of the Students United group who is African-American. “And it shows you that, if you can’t get the parts that are written for you, what parts are you going to get?”

Ignorant SOBs. In the book Esmerelda’s mother is white and her father is a nobleman (probably also white). Esmerelda was stolen as an infant by the Gypsies. All these leftists know about the HBOND is that the Disney cartoon blackwashed Esmerelda into a brown girl.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> What gives African students any claim to the role? <<

Your not woke FRiend. As a woman of color she is down with the struggle and therefore can relate to oppression by the man.

Esmeralda’s oppression as a “gypsy” brown woman allows her to have empathy for the oppression of others. I relate to that as well. I wrote an audition monologue about my experience as a Brown girl

https://ithacavoice.com/2018/01/ithaca-high-school-cancels-spring-play-in-wake-of-student-diversity-demands/

[bgill]

But, but why wasn’t a gay cast and named Esmeraldo?? Or better yet, a kitty cast?

[Trillian]

I’m thinking more in the lines of going to a school that is actually interested in teaching students. Avoid all schools known for SJW agitating.

[jonrick46]

This Affirmative Action is just institutional discrimination.

[lastchance]

Esmeralda=Romany=Gypsy=Egyptian=Africa=Black person=whinging by SJW. Of course the person chosen must also speak only French.

I assume that is their poorly thought out logic.

[Calvin Locke]

I thought Romany DNA is out of what is now [Western] Pakistan?

[hecht]

Esmeralda was a white French girl kidnapped by swarthy white gypsies.

[miss marmelstein]

Can’t wait until some of these guys become professional! As if things weren’t pc enough in theater.

[shibumi]

[left that other site]

Quasimodo predicted this would happen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhVw6q-KOA

[NativeSon]

You’ve just trapped me into an hour youtube...

[Delta 21]

As long as you’re not white, yeah.

[sciencewriter86]

[Affirmative action trumps talent}

Always did and always will. That is, so long of the force of law so mandates it.

Is it any wonder that the social justice warriors are generating so many outlaws in the straight and decent community?

[Delta 21]

Those people are stupid.

[sciencewriter86]

[What do you think would happen to these schools if all the normal people left leaving all the trouble makers behind?
I know I wouldn’t put up with this crap.]

I think this day is rapidly approaching. The folks I know wish there was some alternative to the present government school monopoly.

I’m confident that in a very few years even the educational union lobby won’t be able to stop people from freeing their children.

There will be small groups of kids attending neighborhood schools that meet in private homes. Parental control will be the uniting and overwhelming war cry.

The current education system is a closed system. And as John Boyd, of Fourth Generation warfare fame said, “Closed systems always fail.”

[OldNewYork]

Color blind casting is racist, to SJW’s and POC’s. OK. Got it.