Lin-Manuel accepting Tonys- Page 2

[Chance]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:52pm

I'm not trying to cause drama, i'm trying to fight the ignorance and inherent racism of fosse's comment. How is a man, giving an acceptance speech for Best Score of a musical in the style his score was in, Unprofessional? The only way you can consider it unprofessional is if you consider rap/freestyle unprofessional and the only way you don't consider rap/freestyle as a form of artistic expression and the only way you can't consider rap/freestyle as a form of artistic expression is if you're a stodgy, old, tired, tight assed, racist prick.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:56pm

Could one classify "typical acceptance speeches" as a white form of expression?

[njohn]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 7:34pm

Well, until Fosse explains why he thinks giving an acceptance speech in rap/freestyle is unprofessional we can't conclude to anything definite. Chance, I don't like rap, which means I'm racist. Updated On: 7/30/08 at 07:34 PM

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 7:57pm

What would we be if Sondheim did a patter song for his speech and we thought it was unprofessional? Or ALW had a big belting diva screech out a speech and we all thought it was unprofessional? I think this is silly. I must be racist too.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:14pm

No one is defending Fosse...no one just sees his comments as racist. While I do believe Fosse made an absurd comment about Lin's acceptance speech being unprofessional (when in fact it was heartfelt and interesting), I don't see how Lin's "race" comes into play?

The only thing I think you are looking at is because Lin is Hispanic, and he rapped, and Fosse did not like it, Fosse is a racist? Let's say a white person rapped and Fosse made the same comments...would you still be calling him a racist? Other than that, I do not quite understand where there is racism...

This is racism (and I am just using it as an example, I don't actually follow this): "I refuse to go to a restaurant where a black person works."

Fosse is merely being ignorant and spiteful.