[NKP_Vet]

“After they warned administrators in late November that they would be keeping an eye on the casting for the musical, only to find out that a white student was handed the role of Esmeralda – representing a Romani gypsy living in Paris in the 15th century – the protests began.“

Ground control to the black racists demanding the roll be given to a black girl. Romani gypsies are racially Indian and Pakistani, not negro.

[ClearCase_guy]

And how do they feel about “Hamilton!”?

[rdl6989]

Sue the whole bunch.

[SkyDancer]

This just in: If you’re white, you’re racist. If you’re white and you never do, say or think anything racist and you treat everyone equally and fairly—well, then you’re super-duper racist because you’re just avoiding your racism

[Professional]

This girl is going to be a mega millionaire quite soon...

[StAntKnee]

That’s about the same as white girl gets to carry the US flag for Olympics team based on a racist coin toss.

[rarestia]

Strange that the media portrays Romani as eastern European/caucasoid.

My step-mother is Romani, and she’s VERY dark skinned. Your explanation sheds some light on her heritage if true.

[Arm_Bears]

Ithaca has been a liberal Schiffhole for decades.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Gee, I see programs and commercials all the time with token placed “African Americans” Medieval times, cowboys, CEOs, traditional families, et al

And when is a white guy ever portrayed dunking a basketball? An Asian? Muslim?

[nickedknack]

Doesn’t matter to the anarchists, only that a white girl *earned* the role.

F’em all.

[bigbob]

Key word: “Ithaca”

[cdcdawg]

It’s just not working. A lot of effort and resources have been expended to try to make it work, and it just isn’t.

[goldstategop]

The Romany arrived in Europe in the early Middle Ages. As nomads, they have no real homeland but their orign is believed to be India.

And in Europe, they’re physically indistnguishable from the native population.

Why it black racists insist on arrogating every perceived minority role in the name of political correctness?

[Rebelbase]

City of Evil ping.

[NorthMountain]

a leading role being handed to a white student.

Not "earned by". "Handed to."

Because everything is a handout. Nobody earns anything. You didn't make that happen ... somebody else did.

The SJW crowd are hideously evil.

[Leep]

Theydidn’t include any rap music in the prodution,also.
Shame shame on you whitey.

[PapaBear3625]

In the book, Esmerelda has a French mother and French nobleman father, and was stolen by the gypsies and raised by them. She is 100% white European.

The Disney movie had her being dark skinned, but she is in no way African.

[Varda]

“racially Indian and Pakistani”

Yup, they started as Caucasian and then are mixed with Europeans too.

[VanDeKoik]

Doesn’t matter what the race of some fictional character is.

THIS IS A PLAY FOR A HIGH SCHOOL, and this dumbass kid ought to be suspended from any such activities for pulling this racist stunt just to strip the role from a fellow student!

This is just beyond sick!

[Steely Tom]

My daughter — a high school senior who has become a staunch conservative — was reading me some stories from her school paper yesterday. Three of the stories were obviously written by conservatives who were trying to be objective. One of the authors she knows to be a conservative. The other two articles were by sophomores.

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."

[Disambiguator]

“Mother and daughter were thrilled that a musical with a leading role of a female of color would be performed on the school’s stage.”

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!