Posted on 02/08/2018 8:24:25 AM PST by NKP_Vet
high school in New York has pulled its musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame after social justice student activists complained about a leading role being handed to a white student.
Protests of the production began when an African-American student quit Ithaca High Schools musical production due to the role of Esmeralda being given to a white classmate, Fox News reported. Student activists then banded together under the umbrella of Students United Ithaca
Caving to social justice activists
Shortly after the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) pulled the musical, it was replaced with a new project, but signs of a possible problem over the casting not reflecting diversity or inclusiveness were evident before the roles were even announced.
When Ithaca High School announced last fall that the spring musical would be The Hunchback of Notre Dame, high school senior Annabella Mead-VanCorts mother, Eliza VanCort, wrote a letter to school administrators, the Ithaca Journal reported. Mother and daughter were thrilled that a musical with a leading role of a female of color would be performed on the schools stage.
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Incidents like this just create more young conservatives.
BTW, Ben Shapiro is extremely influential among young people, as are Lauren Southern and Milo Yiannopoulos, although my daughter describes Milo as "a sensationalist."
Don't forget your White Privilege. If you get good grades in school, are awarded scholarships and are promoted because you went in early and stayed late, worked hard every day, know your tasks inside out and backwards, you rise in the organization because you're White...
A true Gypsy would have stolen the role.
White is a color, but it's also a bit of a misnomer for people of European descent. Pink-to-Olive skinned would be more accurate. So, technically, a "person of color" would be the lead no matter who was selected for the role.
That being said, this whole victim group nonsense is absurd. People just need to grow up!
Seems to me the answer to the problem is for white people to have their own schools so entitled minorities won’t feel oppressed by them.
Any settlement will be paid for by taxes, which are already sky-high in upstate NY, but in this case, its worth it.
10 to 1 says the next James Bond, a Scotsman, will be played by a black man or woman.
Literally everything is being tainted by this nonsense. Everything. It is not going to stop until every white person is dead. And I am not exaggerating.
where did they come from?
I always wanted Clive Owen to be bond, but I would not mind if Idris Elbe got the role especially if her dropped about 15 pounds. All the catterwallowing on both sides about this stuff is nonsense. The problem with the schools is then school board and the principals and they re elected by the parents. you get what you deserve when there is a vote.
Ithaca is about as bad as Berkeley.
All Dems, All Identity Politics, All the Time
If they were putting on, say, Little Shop of Horrors, and they cast a black student as Audrey or Seymour, everyone would be applauding how wonderfully colorblind and inclusive the play was. If some white student protested that the role should really go to a white, he/she would be an evil racist and their opinion certainly would not be respected, or able to cause the canceling of the play.
Just THINK what this country is going to be like very shortly, when whites are a minority. Your kids or grandkids will never get a part in a play, never win an award, never get anything any person of color wants. Wait and see.
SO, it’s racis’ to cast a white girl as a white girl in white country in medieval France, when there were no blacks around?..........
This “social justice” group is made up of 4 kids. There are 16 Black kids in the entire school. Unreal.
How about if the white actress played the role in black face?
Imagine if the headline read, “Black Girl Wins Lead in Musical; School Cancels”
She should sue if she aspires to be a professional actress. This role would have been experience and looked good on her resume. She won the role fair and square and then had it taken away from her solely because of her race. I hope she sues and wins big. This kind of crap has to be fought, and fought hard.
Being dead and in Heaven is preferable to a life full of shiite heads and morons raised on LIEberals spoon fed propaganda dictating the values of society.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVf6OuAVoAIXkSr.jpg
Yeah, um, it’s almost like history itself is being ret-conned to erase certain people.
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