Posted on 11/22/2016 9:15:24 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Bill Donohue comments on remarks made by the star of “Hamilton” that deserve a response:
Over the weekend, Brandon Victor Dixon, the actor who plays Aaron Burr in the musical, “Hamilton,” scolded Vice-President Elect Mike Pence on the need to “uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.” He cited respect for diversity as one of those key values.
Dixon is a phony: he has no moral ground to stand on. This is what he tweeted on St. Patrick’s Day 2012: “St. Patty’s day weekend is like Christmas for black dudes who like white chicks. Happy holidays boys.”
I guess we Irish Catholics can take solace in the fact that Dixon didn’t refer to these “white chicks” as “ho’s”—that’s what he calls black women.
Looks like the list of persons Dixon needs to apologize to is growing.
Well he said it, and it was crude, but is it really untrue?
“St. Patty’s day weekend is like Christmas for black dudes who like white chicks. Happy holidays boys.””
In my opinion and I am not a lawyer, he’s trying to incite a hate crime.
NOW I get it!!! He’s saying that white chicks get drunk and then Black dudes have sex with them ...... One SICK mind... YUK!!
I heard the ticket to show costs $800, and all the actors have to be non-white even though Hamilton was white. Why would Pence spend $1600 to watch the garbage is beyond my comprehension
“I heard the ticket to show costs $800, and all the actors have to be non-white even though Hamilton was white. Why would Pence spend $1600 to watch the garbage is beyond my comprehension”
Yes, it seems all the actors are non-white which automatically makes the production inaccurate.
Beware this production is either on the road or going on the road - perhaps coming to a City near you! Avoid!
I am pretty sure those tickets were comped to him.....probably by Trump
He’s a budding Bill Cosby.
I wouldn’t pay $800 to see the Beatles.
Why on earth would Pence buy a ticket to this racist show and where did he get this kind of money to burn?
Let me suggest a reason for such casting--the only reason that seems to fit the facts;--that the producer wants to create an illusion that the founding of America was not the achievement of particular people--as of course it was--but of some sort of vague ideological fantasy. The only reason anyone would think that a justifiable, much less clever approach, is if one wants to break down the concept of the continuity of a people.
Would it make any sense, for example, if someone making a play or a movie about the late great agricultural scientist, George Washington Carver, to cast the lead role with a White actor? Or how about a movie of a great boxer of any race, with an actor racially quite different, looking not at all like the achiever being portrayed?
Particular individuals achieve in life's quests. Achievement is never a matter of fanciful flights, to prove fantasy points. Individuals achieve; sometimes in groups, acting together, sometimes individually acting alone. But fudging the identity of who actually achieved at any point of time, in any particular area of endeavor, is not conducive to treating the actual achievers with respect.
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.
NOW I get it!!! He’s saying that white chicks get drunk and then Black dudes have sex with them ......
Good Post!
Takeaway from your post, which I agree with: When black people achieve something great, their race is an important, intrinsic fact. When white people achieve something great, their race is of zero importance.
I agree, yours is a great post.
“I wouldn’t pay $800 to see the Beatles.
Why on earth would Pence buy a ticket to this racist show and where did he get this kind of money to burn?”
I would not pay any thing to see the crap put by the Beatles or their individual acts such as the late John Lennon.
His office could have been comped the tickets and this was a setup?
Well said. Give credit where it is due.
Why would Pence - or anyone else, for that matter - even want to see his Broadway farce?
The people seeking to foist PC nonsense on the rest of us, are almost to the man or women devotees of humanist craziness that would virtually abolish the concept of community or national continuity. They are the enemies of all races, communities, etc., who take responsibility for their own futures.
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