| You're likely right about Tveit being less up in arms than we are LOL..... | |
| Posted by: portenopete 03:13 pm EDT 08/07/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Why Leslie Odom Jr. nearly didn't do the 'Hamilton' movie - CanadianRyan 02:36 pm EDT 08/07/20 | |
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| Your point is well taken: if they are indeed friends, then being called "white boy" might be seen in a different light. But similarly, if a white actor had said something like calling a black friend "my boy" in an interview, it's unlikely that it would have gone unnoticed and unchallenged. As to your own personal history.... I find the enforced identification that you as the one white guy in a group endured as odious as if it had been the other way round. I'm glad you seem happy to laugh it off and I know that the systemic subjugation of millions of Africans over three hundred years and the concomitant cruelty rained down on them over generations is WAAAAAAAAAY worse and not "the same thing", I still think that being made to feel like an "other" because of your race is wrong period, no matter which group can claim the most persecution over the millennia. Women,Jews, Gays, Blacks, Japanese, Vietnamese, Laotian, Old, Huguenot, Trans, Fat, Ginger, Stutterers, Roma, Indigenous, Poor, Disabled: I fall into a number of these categories but have zero interest in dwelling on my status as being the "least" privileged person in the room. Let's fight at the governmental and societal levels for equal voting, for representation in government, for inclusion in decision-making bodies, in a multiplicity of stories being told. And let's stop hurling accusations of fragility and "Karen-ness" at each other in an attempt at allyship. Leslie Odom, Jr. doesn't need my help in fighting for his case: his blazing talent should be all that anyone cares about. |
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