'All the criticisms are valid': Lin-Manuel Miranda responds to the move to cancel his show Hamilton because it glorifies slave owners and says 'I did my best'

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 7, 2020 | Paul Chavez and James Gordon

[C19fan]

Lin-Manuel Miranda took to social media Monday to respond to critics calling for Hamilton to be canceled for its glorification of slave owners. The 40-year-old playwright responded on Twitter in a thread debating critiques of the musical that debuted Friday on the Disney+ streaming service. Tracy Clayton tweeted that Hamilton the play that debuted in Broadway in 2015 and the movie version 'were given to us in two different worlds & our willingness to interrogate things in this way feels like a clear sign of change'.

[C19fan]

Miranda in order to be rehabilitated needs to write something like Shostakovich's "Song of the Forests". In this case instead of praising Stalin, Miranda would need to praise BLM and Antifa.

[no_go_lie]

BLM and Antifa should go after Obama since his Kenyan ancestors captured and sold slaves to white traders.

[escapefromboston]

Hamilton is a crime against music

[Alberta's Child]

The guy cast a Broadway show with minorities filling all the roles of this nation's Founding Fathers. That alone should have relegated him to nitwit status immediately.

I'm surprised it took all these other losers so long to start complaining about the optics of having black men playing roles of "slave owners and enablers" from U.S. history.

[Williams]

He’s a sniveling leftist punk and he’s not doing “the best he can”. He should be defending artistic freedom and telling the mob to go to hell.

[freedumb2003]

Hey miranda, where is your dang whip to physically self-flaggilate?

And why are you KEEPING any of the dirty money you got off slaves’ backs? You should shelter in public housing in detroit while you repent your sins against humanity.

Damn hypocrite.

[TeddyRay]

I knew this was coming! Wondering how Disney made it through a weekend of Hamilton revenue before the cancel culture stepped in. The next logical step here is to burn Chernow’s book about Hamilton. The Washington Post has determined Washington Lee U needs to remove both names.... so shouldn’t the Post remove said slaveholder name?

[MuttTheHoople]

Miranda needs to put on his Cultural Revolution dunce cap

[TeddyRay]

Yes- all his Hamilton wealth should be confiscated and used to pay reparations for slavery as the New York Tines has stipulated.

[P.O.E.]

were given to us in two different worlds & our willingness to interrogate things in this way feels like a clear sign of change'.

Is there a cure for this sort of mental contortionism?

[Recompennation]

Gone with the wind, now this is truly Hiltler like.

[djpg]

“ were given to us in two different worlds & our willingness to interrogate things in this way feels like a clear sign of change’.
Is there a cure for this sort of mental contortionism? ”

No.

[Mouton]

His statement means you cannot fix stupid.

[xrmusn]

The Washington Post has determined Washington Lee U needs to remove both names.... so shouldn’t the Post remove said slaveholder name?
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They ‘worry’ about the name Washington Redskins and are somewhat ‘searching’ for a new name.

Wouldn’t they be better of to wait and see what WASHINGTON will be called first so the team name can be somewhat compatible.

Remember it wasn’t all that long ago that Washington BULLETS was considered ‘obscene’....

[Rummyfan]

Wouldn’t they be better of to wait and see what WASHINGTON will be called first so the team name can be somewhat compatible.

The Potomac River Basin Indigenous People....

[Rummyfan]

He should be defending artistic freedom and telling the mob to go to hell.

I would have admired him for that. Instead he issues a groveling mea culpa.

[robowombat]

Lin-Manuel is a stupid putz and his play a ludicrous farrago. What is this business about Hamilton the slave holder. I know he purchased several slaves in the busy NYC slave market for his brother-in-law. Hamilton is generally considered the most opposed to slavery of the Founders. For several reasons he opposed the ‘peculiar institution’. He grew up in the West Indies and detested everything about it sugar and slaves economy, especially since he was at the bottom of the white social pyramid. Further he opposed slavery on grounds of economic utility, considering it to be an inefficient and very costly way of organizing a big slice of the economy. He would liked to have ended slavery , but was wise enough to recognize the social minefield emancipation was. He died fairly young, before he had time to fully develop some sort of scheme to end slavery without disrupting the union and setting off a slave war.

[Kharis13]

Wasn’t it just a few years ago when actors from Hamilton stopped the play to lecture Vice President Pence? Oh, how the worm has turned. I love it when the Left eat their own.

Hey libs, go suck a lemon.

[T-Bird45]

“I love it when the Left eat their own.”

Yes, Miranda has been hoist on his own petard by his fellow travelers. The self-righteous fool deserves his comeuppance.

[Sirius Lee]

The Potomac River Basin Indigenous People....

Swamp Savages?