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| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:56 pm EDT 08/27/20 |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:53 pm EDT 08/27/20 |
| In reply to: re: Ragtime... for our time - MockingbirdGirl 08:56 am EDT 08/27/20 |
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But she is nonetheless not "right" because she is missing the point, and that is the sign of her filtered understanding due to her white privilege. Yes, a lot of progress *has* been made since the 1906... that doesn't mean that there's isn't still SO much to do, that what has improved didn't come way too slowly, and that any and everything that happens is still happening in a country built on racism and slavery and a system with that as its foundation.
What IS tone deaf about her statement is that the very specific incidents of racism and violence that happen to Coalhouse and Sarah and the reaction of the system and the police could and did happen in 1998 and in the early 90s, as well as today obviously. I wish she had said "in 1998 Ragtime was saying how far we have to come because the same story could have taken place today, and in 2020 it is tragically no different."
Had she said the same thing about Dessa Rose (a show taking place during slavery) maybe it would have not sounded like she was unaware of the realities of being black in America. |
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