Hamilton the Musical aka The Best Thing to Exist, Ever.

[Miriel]

I don't actually care about the skin color of performers, I care about the quality of the performance. I care about the entertainment value. I care about the historical accuracy. I care about the quality of the songs.

You just care about skin color.

If I see any more "mostly black" performances, I'll be sure to let you know, since that's apparently half of what you look for in a show.

Quit being so racist, racist. And don't send me any more racism fueled private messages.

Claiming to be colorblind and not see race is such classic racist bulltrout that it's cliche.



For anyone else actually interested about the groundbreaking diversity of Hamilton, here's a great write up from Hypable.

Most relevant bit:

As a woman of color, regardless of my own abilities, I would never have had a place in “the room where it happens.” I’m forced to recognize that our American history is fraught with both pride and terror. And that just as these men fought for their freedom, they also denied the most basic rights to others. In other words: as much as I identify with the Founding Fathers, they didn’t know that they were fighting for me.

But history belongs to those who write it, and with the hit Broadway show Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda is rewriting the Founding Father narrative to purposefully reflect the kind of country we live in today. Choosing to cast the founders of our country as people of color may not be “historically” accurate, but it is culturally accurate as a reflection of a 21st century nation built by immigrants. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s version of history suddenly becomes an inclusive one, inviting every American to see his or herself reflected in the story of the Founding Fathers.

Anyone who claims that the amazingly diverse cast has no bearing on the show knows jack trout about the show or what it's about. And as a minority, smurf yeah, I love seeing diversity in media and it is a big deal. And as the daughter of immigrants, this show strikes a cord with me personally and also taps into a very specific moment in our culture and politics right now. There is a reason why the line, "Immigrants, we get the job done." gets the BIGGEST applause in the entire show, to the point where they had to write in extra music to account for the thunderous applause.



If you're the kind of person who shakes your head in disgust at the mere mention of something celebrating diversity because recognizing race is somehow racist in itself, then I assume you're also the kind of person who asks such ridiculous questions like, "Why do black people get a history month." To which I say, BYE FELICIA.