To: Stoat
Looking beyond the surface arguments, which are all pretty weak, it's worth noting that Oscar Hammerstein's father was from a "nonpracticing Jewish family" ~ as they put it in his biography.
Given the way anti-semitism is sweeping Europe these days, it's inescapable that the this relationship is far more important than the blackness or whiteness of the actors.
5 posted on
10/23/2007 5:44:19 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Looking beyond the surface arguments, which are all pretty weak, it's worth noting that Oscar Hammerstein's father was from a "nonpracticing Jewish family" ~ as they put it in his biography. Given the way anti-semitism is sweeping Europe these days, it's inescapable that the this relationship is far more important than the blackness or whiteness of the actors.
That may indeed be a factor in this matter and I appreciate your bringing it up. Killing the production for 'racial' reasons allows the anti-Semites to have their way without coming out of the shadows, although the breadth and scope of anti-Semitism in Europe is breathtaking and severely troubling in its brazenness and cancerous metastasis as well.
9 posted on
10/23/2007 6:03:23 PM PDT by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: muawiyah; Stoat
Jerome Kern ....
What is he? Chopped liver? He was Jewish too
21 posted on
10/23/2007 6:43:32 PM PDT by
dennisw
(Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.)
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