Lin-Manuel accepting Tonys — Page 2

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.

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

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.

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