Posted on 06/09/2020 4:37:41 PM PDT by EdnaMode
As protest and rallies against racial injustice and the killing of Black lives continue, there is a seismic shift happening in the country as the civic unrest is shining a blinding light on systemic racism against Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and the world of theater is the latest to get that spotlight.
An open letter addressed to White American Theater was published on Monday demanding change. The letter was filled with ugly truths that those who have worked in the theater industry have experienced for decades. Among the 300 BIPOCs who signed the letter were Lin-Manuel Miranda, Viola Davis, Sandra Oh, Uzo Aduba, Sterling K. Brown, Cynthia Erivo, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Danai Gurira, Andre Holland, Conrad Ricamora, Tanya Saracho, Anika Noni Rose, Jessica Hagedorn, Leslie Odom Jr., Katori Hall and more.
The letter calls bluntly calls out the industry: We see you. We have always seen you. We have watched you pretend not to see us.
We have watched you exploit us, shame us, diminish us, and exclude us. We see you. We have always seen you. And now you will see us.
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They hate Gay Racists?
The so-called "Native American Indians" DNA says that they are ASIAN ORIENTALS.
ALL Asian Orientals have a deficiency in acetyl dehydrogenate, which deals with alcohol. THAT is why those "native American Indians" couldn't deal with alcohol...a.k.a. "fire water."
Caucasian Asians, Indians and Pakistanis, (REAL Indians) DO have sufficient acetyl dehydrogenates and CAN deal with alcohol.
Also the FIRST humans in North America hunted the woolly mammoth. They dug pits and drove the beasts into the pits.
THEN they had to kill the beast up close and personal. SOME of them didn't make it and THEIR remains were found deep with the beasts.
If they had been ASIAN ORIENTALS they would have had ROUND skulls because ALL Asian Orientals have round skulls.
Their skulls were OBLONG. Anthropologists DON'T think that they were African skulls, which are also oblong, because the distance from Africa to North America was too far for them to travel--no boats, no land bridges.
SO those first mammoth hunters with the oblong skulls were of Caucasian descent.
THAT is historical anthropology, not romanticized fiction.
Homosexuals can be racists too since they are human.
They just don't go for the opposite sex. [YUCK!]
Who .?
Why care?
Wow, the entire website has become leftist and race baiting propaganda.
It’s funny, the reason why most of those folks are know is because of “white theater”.
Without it they would still be bartenders.
Wonder if they all have the same PR agency.
Funniest thing about Sandra Oh is her weird eyebrows make her look like she’s saying “Oh” all the time.
First time I ever saw Lin-Emanuel Miranda was an episode of House MD.....I enjoyed that performance.....the next time I saw him was on stage performing Hamilton (on TV not stage) hitching about Trump or racism or something ..I forget. Anyway since then just like with Robert DeNero I can’t stand them!
Bitching! Auto correct is a pain
When the parasite destroys the host it starts to eat it’s own.
The liberals did this to themselves. Enjoy the monster you created as it devours you.
The list of entertainers who I will spend money to see is dwindling.
Keep it up, Hollywierd. You wont be gazillionaires for much longer.
Lord, these people are whiny jerks. Do they think white performers are not exploited, rejected, not paid well, discarded for the next new thing, etc? It’s a tough, competitive business, period.
And THAT was nothing but CULTURAL APPROPRIATION.
Do something of your own that will build up this country! Then maybe more people would pay attention to you.
Lin Manuel Miranda doesn’t want to talk about his original casting call for “Hamilton” in which white crackah actors were told NOT to apply for an audition.
I suspect a DNA test would show he has a lot of European ancestry.
These people are pitiful...
This will backfire. The audience for woke productions is anemic. Tourism is down and the tourists are theater’s captive audience. We used to buy tickets to 4-5 productions a year but in recent years the productions have become flaccid & lifeless, cardboard constructions to showcase virtue signaling. (Not to mention insulting Pence & Conservative & lionizing Hillary.)
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