The irony is that, at the time, it was viewed as a liberal musical that fought stereotypes. Liberalism is fleeting and unmoored because its always destroying everything that came before it, including its own foundations.
P.R.’s are the biggest bunch of entitled pricks in America.
“ The Jets are in gear,
Our cylinders are clickin’!
The Sharks’ll steer clear,
‘Cause ev’ry Puerto Rican
‘S a lousy chicken!”
I'd say that's the only stereotype that needs to die.
One night their equipment truck broke down, so we (Spirit of Atlanta) loaned them our horns and drums. They beat us with our own equipment!
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What’s the writer’s complaint?
(Worked with an Italian dude that grew up in the projects - said all the other kids kept speaking Spanish to him, couldn't understand a word they said.)
You can just feel the hate when you read this nonsense. West Side Story is an amazing musical with a brilliant score by Bernstein. And this witch wants it gone.
Face it, folks. Leftists hate you and anything to do with traditional Western culture. If given the chance, they will kill you and erase all trace of anything that came before their revolution. They are already working on that second part now.
“Harlem was a paradise until the Puerto Ricans came in!” Fred Sanford, circa 1975.
“As a Puerto Rican critic...”
You’re a critic alright, and an idiot as well. Always complaining about something in the world. Never happy about anything.
I have this fantasy that one day all the minorities that hate us and our culture come to the conclusion we can't be 'fixed' and they decide to leave and return to their own people free of hate, stereotypes, sexism, homophobia, bias, prejudice, and racism.
Why people stay among people they believe hate them has always been a mystery to me.
Nothing does a better job of reinforcing stereotypes about Puerto Rican people than a trip to Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico
My heart’s devotion
Let it sink back in the ocean
Always the hurricanes blowing
Always the population growing
And the money owing
And the sunlight streaming
And the natives steaming
I like the island Manhattan
Smoke on your pipe
And put that in!
And Hamlet should be banned, too. How dare Shakespeare write there’s something rotten in the state of Denmark.
I must I am laughing the Work Left is going after Bernstein. Bernstein was a big time Leftie. Tom Wolfe viciously lampooned Bernstein when he hosted the Black Panthers.
My favorite soundtrack. I have been listening on Saturday mornings while I clean.
i grew up believing all puerto ricans could dance and were gay fighters...
who woulda thunk they ain’t
You pretty much an no longer produce a stage play, movie or television show unless the villian is a white guy.
Minorities take these things WAAAY too seriously. She does almost an anthropological analysis on a fictional play/movie. Let’s hope PR never votes for statehood. It would be a freaking disaster for us.