My #1 all-time favorite movie of all time (but I repeat myself).
I am so very sick of people who want to impose today’s (typically left-wing) views on historical figures, events, books and movies.
Um - wasn’t the book, movie, play PRO black people?!
Just like in Huck Finn (or was it Tom Sawyer? probably both??) Twain uses the term “nigger” - but the story is about friendship, and helping an escaped slave. It’s so stupid that some old-fashioned, derogatory term overwhelms the entire message.
I read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to my son before he could read. When it came to the word nigger, I read it to him as is - and then told him that it was commonly used back then, but that it is considered sort of a “swear word” today (and perhaps even back then?), and is really derogatory today. I recall giving him the option of should I use that old word, or replace it with “black man”, or perhaps it was “slave” or something else. He picked something other than nigger.
So I guess with this play - I could go either way. Use the word nigger to drive home the point of the play (racism), or replace the word so the “show can go on”. (I didn’t read where that was even considered.)
Never saw it. Never read it.