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The responses I've received indicated that people believed that I had not seen "The Scottsboro Boys." The answer was that I had seen it. I would not recommend that it return to Broadway or even appear in Chicago. It has terribly racist and insulting imagery and acts. Most black people are offended by modern day minstrelsy since it was purposedly created to make fun of black people. If you are trying to create consciousness about racism, you do not make fun of the victims of it, like the Scott...

A really bad, bad idea. This show brazenly touts racist imagery, jokes and stereotypes of black people. Then it has the nerve to have victims of racial injustice to sing, dance and perform buffoonery about it. This is an outrage!

Should we ridicule the wrongdoers in this type of musical comedy or just the victims??? The problem with this minstrely format was that it was created to make fun of people already in bondage!!!! Not only are blacks enslaved but also ridiculed and sterotyped through no fault of their own!!!!! That's why this show is a gross racial injustice to black people everywhere.

Under no circumstances should "The Scottsboro Boys" return to Broadway or any other theater stage. It was an ill-conceived racist show. Due to the insulting minstrelsy format, the serious nature of the injustices suffered by the Scottsboro men was presented in a terribly comical way. We must remember that these men were victims!!! Yet, the minstrel tradition treats them as jokesters and dancing buffoons. How racially insensitive can you be???!!! How can you miss this point?? If this had happe...

Offensive Minstrelsy Overshadows History in “Scottsboro Boys” By Jeanette Toomer The new musical, “The Scottsboro Boys,” on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater tells the true story of nine black men wrongly arrested in 1931 for raping two white women. It takes place in Alabama and that says it all. Yet, the producers build a minstrel show framework around this historic tale of societal injustice and racism that offends and insults modern black audiences. The height of this offense comes in the gra...