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Starry Messenger

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5. I feel like some white people go out of their way to

Reply to Kind of Blue (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 11:23 AM

Nov 2015

willfully distort that quote of King's: "I didn’t want this to be a stunt, but a true exploration of King’s wish that we all be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin,”

I think that was his elegant way of saying, stop judging Black people because of the color of their skin. I never in any way interpreted that to mean that he felt white people had been unfairly judged and that white supremacy was not a thing.

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Playwright Reacts to the White Casting of MLK in The Mountaintop [View all] Kind of Blue Nov 2015 OP

Is this a thing of late, to push boundaries on the stage? In the new musical play HAMILTON, MADem Nov 2015 #1

It has always been a thing to push boundaries on the stage, elehhhhna Nov 2015 #2

I get that but it's surprising the director Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #4

itbwould have been appropriate to ask. true. elehhhhna Nov 2015 #7

As far as "Hamilton," I haven't read anything Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #3

I feel like some white people go out of their way to Starry Messenger Nov 2015 #5

I so agree with you on that! nt MADem Nov 2015 #6

What's really crazy is that the director is a black man. Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #8

Wow, sorry, I just assumed! Starry Messenger Nov 2015 #9

Oh, no problem. That's understandable. Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #10

Such a weird and fascinating subject. Thanks for posting this! Number23 Nov 2015 #11

Goodness, if I had read that a month ago Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #12

For a limited theater production (especially in a college theater) Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #13

Not without the living author's consent. Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #14

I understand the playwright's POV Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #15

Mr. Williams was probably granted his Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #16

Well, In Williams' case Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #17

Not opposed? Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #18

I read this story at the Guardian Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #19

Agreed that she didn't but he blew it Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #20

Especially with a casting like that Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #23

Exactly! Little known activism going on Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #24

Everybody gonna be Brown soon anyway. Cant happen soon enough randys1 Nov 2015 #21

LOL! Oh, randys1. You're a trip n/t Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #22

I read the headline quickly lovemydog Nov 2015 #25