Posted on 01/31/2018 4:14:47 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Ithaca High School’s spring musical was “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” A story whose message is one of inclusiveness and acceptance should be welcomed and encouraged.
A white actress was cast for the role of Esmerelda, prompting a student black actress to quite the play, saying, “It shows you that theater wasn’t made for you. And it shows you that, if you can’t get the parts that are written for you, what parts are you going to get?”
The resignation prompted Students United Ithaca to make a list of demands for the school, one of which was, “STOP the racist and openly stated policy of “color blind” casting in the ICSD,” before descending into a diatribe about institutional racism and white supremacy, “STOP ignoring and denying that you have created a white centered program run by white adults for the benefit of white children. White children should also be educated about interrupting these practices of White supremacy.”
And other students wrote letters discussing the need for “conscious casting” and asserted that casting a white actress in the role of Esmerelda was cultural appropriation, whitewashing, and reinforcing the white savior stereotype.
The school capitulated and issued a statement canceling the musical.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
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Esmeralda was a Spanish Gypsy, not a black American.
The hunchblack of Notre dame?
Quite a few... as slave traders and slave owners. Perhaps a couple as members of the Underground.
This nonsense is going on all over the place.
I watch ID network,about TRUE crime.
In one episode they cast the father of the murder victim as black———and I know for a fact that he is white.
I’ll be waiting anxiously for a bio of MLK with a white actor playing the lead./s
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A more intelligent action would be to cancel the entire school system that has led us to this kind of absurd fanaticism...
So.....they’re racist because they’re NOT racist?
Yet it was ok for the dude who made the play “Hamilton” to insist on minority members playing the parts of historic people who were actually white.
Maybe the white actress was a better actress than the black one??? Oh wait, that doesn’t fit the SJW narrative...............
Casting problems for “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame”? Interesting.
In elementary school I was in “Little Black Sambo”, and we had no black children in school. Talk about casting problems! I don’t recall who had the starring role, but I was a pancake.
“STOP the racist and openly stated policy of ‘color blind’”
So their definition of “racist” is 180 degrees opposite the actual definition. If you’re not a racist, you’re a “racist”.
I will never see Hamilton, after reading that they advertised for ‘minority actors only’ when they were recasting in NYC.
My son played MLK in a school production...
he’s Chinese and wore a Sponge Bob tie.
Now you're getting it.
Since when was Esmeralda anything other than a gypsy?
Fantastic————especially the tie.
Does he still act?
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I’m not surprised about the typo in the story; how could we expect Kimberly to know how to spell “quit” when she can’t even spell her own name.
Casting an African American as Little Black Samba would have been equally incorrect, as the story is set in India.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Little_Black_Sambo
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