I don't use my name on this site because it would hurt my standing in the industry to be associated with this site. My comments about the cultural limitations of an all-white critical team would only increase my esteem within the part of the industry that I care about.
I would share this thought with the critics who are open to hearing it, and I have been on a panel with a white critic who did acknowledge her cultural limitations. I wouldn't share it with the other critics, but only because I am not authorized by the theater I work for to say such things. But you may have noticed that Jesse Green avoids hip hop theater like the plague, and that's just the most obvious aspect of how our cultural backgrounds affect our ability to process cultural experiences.
But really, you're going to spend paragraphs on personal critiques, and not give even one sentence to how exactly the white majority culture that has spent hundreds of years running this country is similar to a people that have been ostracized and murdered en masse for the past two thousand years? |
