Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#1Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:03pm
Please tell me I'm not the only one who is horrified by this dumb article on Broadway.com.... I don't know how you do a play on Orange Is The New Black with ONLY WHITE PEOPLE buuuuuuuut Broadway.com will always find a way to F things up
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/181207/lockdown-eight-broadway-divas-wed-kill-to-see-behind-bars-on-orange-is-the-new-black/
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#2Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:16pm
I don't read amateur publications such as Broadway.com, so… nope.
#2Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:19pm
People actually use that website?
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#3Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:19pm
I'm so furious right now I can't even tell whether I'm more horrified than I am disgusted or more disgusted than I am horrified.
I haven't been this horrified and disgusted since they announced that Abe Vigoda would be the next Hedwig after Taye Diggs completes his run.
Updated On: 6/15/15 at 06:19 PM
TrChSpHa
Understudy Joined: 7/15/09
#4Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:24pm
"Please tell me I'm not the only one who is horrified by this dumb article on Broadway.com.... I don't know how you do a play on Orange Is The New Black with ONLY WHITE PEOPLE buuuuuuuut Broadway.com will always find a way to F things up
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/181207/lockdown-eight-broadway-divas-wed-kill-to-see-behind-bars-on-orange-is-the-new-black/"
That's... not at all what it's saying.
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#5Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:27pm
For real. None of you think it's ridiculous that they tried to make a joke about OITNB but only used white actors? Really? No one?
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Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#6Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:30pm
So now even lame attempts at humor have to be "politically correct"? You're joking right? Please tell me this is all a gag.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#7Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:30pm
Finding something ridiculous is different than being disgusted.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#8Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:33pm
The shakes me to my core.
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#9Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:50pm
Maybe they felt dream casting a black actor as a prison inmate would be typecasting.
Seriously though, it's just a dumb article meant to get hits due to the mere mention of the show title.
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#10Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 6:51pm
I don't joke about the underrepresentation of people of color in the theatre community. It's a very serious issue and it matters. Even when it's just a dumb article on an awful website it matters.
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#11Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:00pm
Weeeeelllllll, obviously you're the only one perplexed about this here offensively stricken article...
AKarp2013
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/11
#12Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:02pm
...so I guess that means we're all racist then?
#13Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:08pm
Akarp, everyone's a little bit racist.
#14Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:17pm
Of course it matters! It makes me even angrier that they took the extra step and photo shopped the faces of these white actresses over the faces of the african americans. In the show, they makes tons of references to the color of their skin, so why would Broadway.com think it's approprite to change it?
Updated On: 6/15/15 at 07:17 PM
Dave19
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/11
#16Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:23pm
Clearly the writer of the article did not look at race, but just at types.
I get tired of people hyperventilating about this. Thinking in race is what they do (and some people in this thread), and they are the true racists here.
Unfortunately they are too dumb to realize it and all they do is show that they look at color first. I refuse to do that, just like the writer of the article. I see people as human beings and will never look at color.
#17Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:26pm
"For real. None of you think it's ridiculous that they tried to make a joke about OITNB but only used white actors? Really? No one?
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I'm with you, but BWW isn't really the place to find support for such matters. Have you seen the Miss Saigon threads?
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#18Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:40pm
LizzieCurry And I know things now, many valuable things, that I hadn't known before. Do not put your faith in Broadwayworld message boards.
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
Dave19
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/11
#19Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:40pm
Don't you think it's ridiculous to get so upset over a joke about types and insist on looking at race first?
#20Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:42pm
Ugh, Dave19 is here to tell everyone concerned about racial visibility that they're racist. Right on cue. Wonderful.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 6/15/15 at 07:42 PM
Dave19
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/11
#21Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:50pm
No one has to be concerned about visibility. We all know and love the great black characters in OITNB, we have a wonderful black president, a black Disney princess, wonderful black artists in the music industry, and a general percentage of black oscar winners that is actually higher than the percentage of black residents in the country, whole black films and actually no films are being made without black people in it, etc, etc, etc.
The real thing to be concerned about is to seize every opportunity to clarify the difference in races, like the topic starter and some others do. That's racist.
No healthy thinking human being would get upset over such an article. I truly hope people like that can see people as humans someday too, and not just as race.
Get the hell over yourself if you read an article of a writer that only mentions he would love to see certain personalities, which he happens to be a fan of, in a show that happens to have black people in it too.
Updated On: 6/15/15 at 07:50 PM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#22Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:58pm
Anyone else feel that outrage isn't outrage anymore but a theatrical attempt to prove how reactive and morally superior one is?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Dave19
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/11
#23Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 8:06pm
"Anyone else feel that outrage isn't outrage anymore but a theatrical attempt to prove how reactive and morally superior one is?"
You mean outrage like the topic starter insists that people start to think in race more?
Or outrage of people who say they should stop that, because it isn't helping? Because the second ones are only helping the first ones.
Let's say that the writer of the article would have put one black broadway person in there, not because he particularly likes him/her (because that's what this article was about), but just because he/she was black. Would that have been good? No. That would have been a choice out of racism. I am glad he chose to look at the persons, not at race.
Updated On: 6/15/15 at 08:06 PM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#24Anyone else disgusted by Broadway.com's whitewashing?
Posted: 6/15/15 at 8:17pm
I'm afraid I don't understand a thing you are saying.
Ah, Millenials!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
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