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High School play cancelled after activists object to “colorblind casting,” demand race be considered
© Copyright 2008-2018, Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. ^ | 01/31/18 | Kemberlee Kaye

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.

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To: SuperLuminal

All I can do is laugh at these idiots.


21 posted on 01/31/2018 4:33:52 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Mears

That was elementary school.

He’s a high school Freshman now and gave up drama for the chess and golf team.


22 posted on 01/31/2018 4:34:07 PM PST by mom4melody (,)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Liberals ruin everything they touch.


23 posted on 01/31/2018 4:34:32 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“Liberals ruin everything they touch.”

Including the United States.


24 posted on 01/31/2018 4:35:12 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: PAR35

Kemberlee cannot be held responsible for her parents’ goofiness.


25 posted on 01/31/2018 4:37:37 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: Nifster

Romani are “white” according to the US Census IIRC.


26 posted on 01/31/2018 4:38:15 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

NBA, NFL - racist against Whites.


27 posted on 01/31/2018 4:38:49 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: buwaya

Didn’t say they weren’t....all I said is she was a gypsy


28 posted on 01/31/2018 4:39:04 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SauronOfMordor

The darkest-skinned people on earth of the natives of Guadalcanal and some nearby South Pacific islands.


29 posted on 01/31/2018 4:39:30 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: Alberta's Child

The bad guys.


30 posted on 01/31/2018 4:39:39 PM PST by Served America
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

No play? Fine, let them wallow in their self hate and loathing.


31 posted on 01/31/2018 4:39:39 PM PST by Served America
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly lol: liberal “logic”.


32 posted on 01/31/2018 4:45:37 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Nifster; buwaya

Gypsies, like Jewish people, are culturally inclined to “marry in,” but there are enough exceptions that there are considerable variations across the worldwide population. We can figure Esmeralda would resemble other Southern Spaniards of the novel’s time (and ours), by being darker-skinned and darker-eyed than most Northern Europeans, but having little resemblance to sub-Saharan Africans.


33 posted on 01/31/2018 4:51:43 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: mom4melody

Good for him,sounds like a smart young man————and doesn’t the time fly by?

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34 posted on 01/31/2018 4:53:10 PM PST by Mears
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

When do any students who do this - whether high school or college - have any time for studies? Well, probably the subjects they take don’t require much! They sure do spend a lot of time protesting one thing or the other!!


35 posted on 01/31/2018 4:53:55 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MayflowerMadam

“I don’t recall who had the starring role, but I was a pancake.”

Hey, I played half a canoe in Squanto and the Pilgrims


36 posted on 01/31/2018 5:04:33 PM PST by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“This is why we can’t have nice things”


37 posted on 01/31/2018 5:06:36 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Tax-chick

Agreed

Kind of like the difference between Southern Italians and Northern Italians


38 posted on 01/31/2018 5:08:13 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

As a generalization, Southern Spaniards or Southern Italians are mixed-Mediterranean in ethnic heritage and have been for centuries. Northern Spaniards or Northern Italians, especially a few hundred years ago, were Germanic.


39 posted on 01/31/2018 5:10:07 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Does this mean, to keep things accurate and “racially pure” that from now on, 88% of young murderers, 81% of all prostitutes, 84% of all drug dealers, and 93% of all pimps must be portrayed by Blacks?


40 posted on 01/31/2018 5:10:21 PM PST by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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