If Annie can be a little black girl and Dorothy Gale can be a freaky black guy, why can’t Tony and Maria be portrayed by someone other than Hispanic? That right there is being racist by Kent State.
As for the kissing, have none of them heard of ACTING? Simply turn away from the audience and ACT like they’re kissing or put their hands over their mouths. Geez, such ninnies twisting every little thing.
I'm reminded that I wrote an article for my Neurons on Paper FB page (not pimping it, just saying) about a year and a half ago concerning this phenomenon of banning rather than changing the station or not reading as we were told all through the years to do by the liberals when we complained. My conclusion being that the millennials have been raised by parents who regularaly eliminated and banned things from their environments that they didn't like or were allergic to like peanuts, and so they've come to expect that's how it works everywhere with everything they don't like or consider themselves allergic to.