Diversity on Broadway- Page 23

[hork]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 1:11pm

"I disagree with you about race! You're racist!"

 

"I disagree with you about race! You're racist!"

 

"OMG, you're so RACIST!"

 

"RAAACIIIIISM! AAAAAIIEEEEEEEEEE!"

 

(this thread summarized, for those coming in late)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 1:15pm

n*s, amirite?

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:00pm

This thread summarized:

Black person plays Piangi - Racist

Black person plays Phantom - Fantastic

Separate seats in bus - Racist

Separate Awards based on skin color - Fantastic

Lyrics about niggas - Racist

Lyrics about white bitches - Fantastic

Hard work for black people - Racist

Hard work for white people - Fantastic

Comparing every black person in 2015 to a slave - Racist

Comparing every black person in 2015 to a slave - Fantastic

 

Double agenda anyone?

 

Combine this with a sauce of "Ostrich behaviour": I don't want to hear anything about it! Stop, I want to put my head in the sand and run away and can't handle the fact that racism is a 2 way street because I only prefer to see one............" and you actually have quite a good summary indeed.

 

 

 

 

Updated On: 11/4/15 at 03:00 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:33pm

White bitch, you got it!

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:35pm

Of course a black Phantom is fantastic; Norm Lewis was a complete and total boss in the role.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:38pm

@Everybody on this thread:

 

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:50pm

Elfuhbuh said: "Of course a black Phantom is fantastic; Norm Lewis was a complete and total boss in the role. "

 

I actually think there is nothing good or bad about skin color, but just thought he didn't sing the role that well.

 

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:52pm

Phyllis Rogers Stone said: "White bitch, you got it!

 

"

I thought so.

Let's hope this 1-sided selective racism brainwash in people disappears soon.

Updated On: 11/4/15 at 03:52 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:57pm

Black person plays Piangi - Racist No

Black person plays Phantom - Fantastic Yes

Separate benches in bus - Racist There aren't benches in buses

Separate Awards based on skin color - Fantastic  Okay

Lyrics about niggas - Racist Not always

Lyrics about white bitches - Fantastic Not always

Hard work for black people - Racist  Says who?

Hard work for white people - Fantastic Then why are so many white people on welfare?

Comparing every black person in 2015 to a slave - Racist Comparing in what way?

Comparing every black person in 2015 to a slave - Fantastic Says who?

 

Also, a white person calling another white person a white bitch may be a lot of things, but racist ain't one of them.

 

 

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 4:05pm

I'm so glad somebody finally had the courage to start this...conversation.  Again.  What that one person said was just so spot-on.  And that other person is just a baiting troll.  And don't get me started on that ignorant kid who needs some life experience before opening their mouth.

 

Copy and paste the above the next time this thread gets created.  Kthnx.

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 4:10pm

FindingNamo said: "Black person plays Piangi - Racist No"

 

Good, I'm glad that we agree that black actors can play Italian (Meditteranean Race, sub-race of caucasian) including make-up and accent too. Step in the right direction.

 

"Black person plays Phantom - Fantastic Yes"

 

Actually, it's only fantastic if the person is great in the role. Talent above skin color you know.

 

"Separate seats in bus - Racist 

Separate Awards based on skin color - Fantastic  Okay"

 

Separation is not "Okay". It is wrong. Either way.

 

"Lyrics about niggas - Racist Not always

Lyrics about white bitches - Fantastic Not always"

 

It depens if it suits your 1-way street view of racism? Racism is a 2 way street.

 

"Hard work for black people - Racist  Says who?

Hard work for white people - Fantastic Then why are so many white people on welfare?"

 

The lady in the clip. Although I did not quite get where she was coming from. It seemed like she compared white and black to slaves and had problems with the term "hard work" in general.

 

"Comparing every black person in 2015 to a slave - Racist Comparing in what way?"

 

In the way of not treating them as normal people today because of the slave history and bringing it up with every subject possible. Examples above.

 

"Comparing every black person in 2015 to a slave - Fantastic Says who?"

 

Well, it must be fantastic as almost every black person and many posters on here do it.

 

 

 "Also, a white person calling another white person a white bitch may be a lot of things, but racist ain't one of them."

I wasn't talking about that remark, but about the situation I described earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated On: 11/4/15 at 04:10 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 4:12pm

Elfuhbuh said: "Of course a black Phantom is fantastic; Norm Lewis was a complete and total boss in the role."

 

Why did he only want to make half of his face white, though?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 5:04pm

Racism is not a two way street. It is a one way street like countless one way streets around the world. Don't act as if one way streets don't exist. 

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 5:18pm

One way streets do exist. But racism is not one of them.

At least 50% of the separation today comes from black people. Not towards white people, but towards themselves.

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 5:22pm

Dave19 said: "At least 50% of the separation today comes from black people. Not towards white people, but towards themselves."

 

Chris Rock already covered this...

 

https://youtu.be/f3PJF0YE-x4

 

(no more embedding?)

Updated On: 11/4/15 at 05:22 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 5:34pm

Just pulling a figure out of your ignorant white ass there, Dave?  

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 6:42pm

But you guys, it's your fault for engaging him.  It's not his fault for saying it or the board's fault for letting this go on and on!  It's gone on so long Mister Matt had to post a lecture similar to the one he already posted several pages ago!

 

Updated On: 11/4/15 at 06:42 PM

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 6:54pm

haterobics said: "Elfuhbuh said: "Of course a black Phantom is fantastic; Norm Lewis was a complete and total boss in the role."

Why did he only want to make half of his face white, though?"

'Cause racism!!!

Updated On: 11/4/15 at 06:54 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 6:56pm

It's like white people Groundhog Day up in here.

Ha ha!  Trick question.  What other kind of Groundhog Day is there?

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 7:44pm

Elfuhbuh said: "Of course a black Phantom is fantastic; Norm Lewis was a complete and total boss in the role.

 

"

And Robert Guillaume was reportedly quite successful in the part in the LA production, 20 years ago. If there was any controversy about the casting I missed it, and a close friend was playing Raul at the time.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 7:47pm

FindingNamo said: "Racism is not a two way street. It is a one way street like countless one way streets around the world. Don't act as if one way streets don't exist. 

 

"

I'm agreeing with you, Namo, but to put it another way: if racism is a two-way street, one way has 8 lanes while the other way has just the one.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 7:54pm

ding

[Kad]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 10:19pm

Can we talk about Piangi some more?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 10:24pm

At first I read it as Panera, and I couldn't figure out who said that was racist.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/4/15 at 10:39pm

I was sexually attracted to the Piangi in the Phantom movie.