| With due respect to the people doing a fine job of articulating what "white privilege" means in this context and in general, it feels like the thread is starting to veer off-course and may have outlived its usefulness. Gustave and the OP seem determined NOT to understand the history of race in the United States. It does not take an advanced degree in Critical Race Studies to understand that non-white people, since the time of the Pilgrims, have been dispossessed or treated as possessions in this country, and that theatre is one of the many venues in which they have had lack of access. If posters truly need deep explanation as to why blackface (or yellowface or redface or transface, as I have heard it called) continue the lack of fairness, I'm not sure any amount of eloquent and straightforward explanation will help. It certainly doesn't seem to be helping in our nation at large. |
