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High school cancels musical after white student lands lead role

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High school cancels musical after white student lands lead role | Fox News

Student activists then banded together under the umbrella of Students United Ithaca and wrote a letter that included a list of demands, saying that, while the young lady cast as Esmeralda was “a stellar actor, singer, and dancer” any production would be “lucky to have,” she couldn’t be cast in this role because she is the “epitome of whiteness.”

“At best, this is cultural appropriation,” the student group wrote, alleging racial bias within the Performing Arts Program at IHS, and “at worst, it is whitewashing, a racist casting practice which has its roots in minstrelsy.”
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They won't be happy until white is illegal.

This is how they raise them in New York. What a catastrophe.
 
no surprise here; why would the kids get along if the adults don't get along? That is our nation now ........
 
Is there any other conspiracy theory site more devoted to portraying white people as victims than Fox News?
 
Esmeralda was a character of French Roma descent, so it would be kind of hard to imagine her with blonde hair and blue eyes.
 
Cardinal said:
Is there any other conspiracy theory site more devoted to portraying white people as victims than Fox News?
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these are the types of stories that fox craves. It's their bread and butter stories
 
Geoist said:
Esmeralda was a character of French Roma descent, so it would be kind of hard to imagine her with blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Was it hard for you to imagine Hamilton as black?
 
Cardinal said:
Is there any other conspiracy theory site more devoted to portraying white people as victims than Fox News?
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I don't think there is a better example of the white privilege the conservatives claim doesn't exist than in a Fox News headline.
 
dobieg said:
Was it hard for you to imagine Hamilton as black?
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She is playing the role of a tragic character who is oppressed for her ethnicity. Context is important. Can you imagine a white actor playing MLK or Malcolm X?
 
Geoist said:
She is playing the role of a tragic character who is oppressed for her ethnicity. Context is important. Can you imagine someone playing MLK or Malcolm X as white?
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So you have an excuse for your liberal hypocrisy. Shocking.
 
Geoist said:
I don't think there is a better example of the white privilege the conservatives claim doesn't exist than in a Fox News headline.
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Actors act. They don't necessarily have to be what they are portraying. Othello is supposed to be a (Italian) Moor. I've seen the part played by black men and it made no difference that they weren't Moors.
 
Erod said:
High school cancels musical after white student lands lead role | Fox News



They won't be happy until white is illegal.

This is how they raise them in New York. What a catastrophe.
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From the article:

"because of institutionalized racism this results in white children being cast in roles written as white parts and also white children being cast in roles that were specifically intended for people of color."

In other words, the student group is making the case of whites for white roles, and blacks for black roles: To each race their own. This segregationist concept comes up very often from the left, and I'm sure the KKK would agree with it.
 
Weird how a stupid high school issue finds it's way to national news.
 
Geoist said:
Esmeralda was a character of French Roma descent, so it would be kind of hard to imagine her with blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Should such things matter in a high school play? o_O
 
Verax said:
Weird how a stupid high school issue finds it's way to national news.
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This is a significant issue... though I understand why you would want to underplay it...

Someone in a high school was denied a spot in a play after the fact because of their race.... I don't care who this happens to, it's a big deal that shouldn't be tolerated.
 
Shame on the school for bowing to these absurd demands. I don't blame high school kids for being stupid, over-sensitive whiners -- they're dumb high school kids, after all. But the cowardly administrators are teaching these kids some terrible lessons.
 
celticwar17 said:
This is a significant issue... though I understand why you would want to underplay it...

Someone in a high school was denied a spot in a play after the fact because of their race.... I don't care who this happens to, it's a big deal that shouldn't be tolerated.
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Just because they are white? No other reason? No other context here? Just because they are white?
 
poweRob said:
Fox news doing its best to assist the GOP in dividing the nation by race.
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"Trayvon could be my son."

That was chiseled into granite from 2008-16 for good.
 
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