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And now to the meat of the matter.
Activist students at a high school in upstate New York have forced the cancellation of a musical production of "Hunchback" after a black actor in the theater program failed to win the role of "Esmeralda," and quit in a huff after getting a lesser role.
Three of the group, pictured above, of proud little smugfucks that have forced the school district to shelve the production are continuing insane demands in the wake of their initial success.
Article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/0...ical-after-white-student-lands-lead-role.html
Rant follows:
Kids live what they learn, and the apparent lesson of late has been that "big people" will give in if it's easier than dealing with teenage angst clad in black.
Apparently, what the kids haven't learned is the cardinal rule, that there are no small roles, only small actors.
And what none of this rabble wants to readily admit, nor will the media state, is that the young lady at the center of the controversy, Maddi Carroll, would have been horribly miscast as Esmeralda. Life sometimes just isn't fair.
www.ithaca.com/entertainment/running-to-places-performs-wizard-of-oz/article_ce238690-f8ea-11e4-968a-c7656c14d727.html
Esmeralda, in Hugo's tale, was a lithe, attractive, hauntingly enchanting half-Gypsy chanteuse of the Parisian streets. Miss Carroll has none of those attributes. She is overweight, with a double-chin, the beginnings of school cafeteria lunch lady arms. and a face that resembles a full moon. I don't mean to damn her with objective facts, or humiliate her, but being black probably had nothing to do with the decision to go with someone who was undoubtedly more within the visual concept of an Esmeralda, if only within the mind of the director, let alone the audience.
It may seem a bit of a ramble on my part, and sort of parish pump, but our lives in this country are made up of so many collective little tales from towns, small and large, that form the saga of our nation. We are stuck with a generation firmly steeped in the notion that everyone gets trophies, and that holding the collective breath of an arrogantly thoughtless, half-baked generation can force sham justice upon the unwilling and the undeserving.
Perhaps, in the interests of one individual, they should have put on a production of "Dreamgirls," instead.
And now to the meat of the matter.
Activist students at a high school in upstate New York have forced the cancellation of a musical production of "Hunchback" after a black actor in the theater program failed to win the role of "Esmeralda," and quit in a huff after getting a lesser role.
Three of the group, pictured above, of proud little smugfucks that have forced the school district to shelve the production are continuing insane demands in the wake of their initial success.
Article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/0...ical-after-white-student-lands-lead-role.html
Rant follows:
Kids live what they learn, and the apparent lesson of late has been that "big people" will give in if it's easier than dealing with teenage angst clad in black.
Apparently, what the kids haven't learned is the cardinal rule, that there are no small roles, only small actors.
And what none of this rabble wants to readily admit, nor will the media state, is that the young lady at the center of the controversy, Maddi Carroll, would have been horribly miscast as Esmeralda. Life sometimes just isn't fair.
www.ithaca.com/entertainment/running-to-places-performs-wizard-of-oz/article_ce238690-f8ea-11e4-968a-c7656c14d727.html
Esmeralda, in Hugo's tale, was a lithe, attractive, hauntingly enchanting half-Gypsy chanteuse of the Parisian streets. Miss Carroll has none of those attributes. She is overweight, with a double-chin, the beginnings of school cafeteria lunch lady arms. and a face that resembles a full moon. I don't mean to damn her with objective facts, or humiliate her, but being black probably had nothing to do with the decision to go with someone who was undoubtedly more within the visual concept of an Esmeralda, if only within the mind of the director, let alone the audience.
It may seem a bit of a ramble on my part, and sort of parish pump, but our lives in this country are made up of so many collective little tales from towns, small and large, that form the saga of our nation. We are stuck with a generation firmly steeped in the notion that everyone gets trophies, and that holding the collective breath of an arrogantly thoughtless, half-baked generation can force sham justice upon the unwilling and the undeserving.
Perhaps, in the interests of one individual, they should have put on a production of "Dreamgirls," instead.
