Issa Rae, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sandra Oh, others denounce racism in theater industry in open letter

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Hundreds of stars, including Issa Rae, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sandra Oh sign an open letter titled 'We See You, White American Theater' calling out inherent racism in American theater.

We have watched you program play after play, written, directed, cast, choreographed, designed, acted, dramaturged and produced by your rosters of white theatermakers for white audiences, while relegating a token, if any, slot for a BIPOC play. We see you.

We have watched you harm your BIPOC staff members, asking us to do your emotional labor by writing your Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statements. When we demanded you live up to your own creeds, you cowered behind old racist laments of feeling threatened, and then discarded us along with the values you claim to uphold. We see you.

We have watched you dangle opportunities like carrots before emerging BIPOC artists, using the power of development, production, and awards to quiet us into obedience at the expense of our art and integrity. We see you.

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Then get your own theaters, composers, musicians and ...no one is stopping you!

Diversity equals no white people.

Agreed and signed but when tickets prices are impossible for most people, theater imposes a class divide. Change things Lin_Manuel

The leftist, progressive view of the world is that white racist privilege is rampant throughout all of American society. They say this while having succeeded in these very same professions. Why would any white person want to be a Democrat when they hate white people?

Give our regards to Broadway... 🖕

how idiotic

FU

can we ban the MOBO awards as for me its racist because if there was MOWO awards that would be classed as racist and any video with the word na and any hip hop or any other video promoting guns gangters and were women are portrayed as sex objects.

Get out of my face with that bull💩.

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