Not satire, and not pearls clutched. If anything, I was trying to write in a polite way that masked how appalled I am by the tenor of this conversation. A bunch of white folks up in arms because a Black man said a word they don't agree with, in a jocular conversation, to point out how hard he had to fight to be paid his worth by a Broadway system that didn't even bother to confirm that he was signed up for the movie they were making, on the back of his Tony-winning labor, which was poised to make millions of dollars at the box office, and wound up being sold for a cool $75M to Disney.
The nerve! |
