Ok, A) You don't gotta bring "Birth of a Nation" into this. That movie is some racist trash, and it does not belong in this conversation, especially when we are talking about a Black creative reworking a musical written by White men. I'm sure you meant no harm, but that is an extreme and entirely inappropriate reference.
B) No one has done violence to "The Life". Please give some more thought to your language. Billy Porter re-ordered some songs, wrote some new scenes of varying quality, restored what he says was the original intent to have a trans character in the show, and funked up the music. No violence was done... which again is a strong, and I daresay inappropriate, word to use when we are talking about a show that is dramatizing the experiences of a Black trans woman, a community that is on the receiving end of daily, actual violence in this country.
We can have a reasonable conversation about what Billy Porter has wrought, but let's do it with some respect. |
