It's just ridiculous BS. He's trying to find a fancy way of saying "they fired me!! Wahhh!! Me sad!!! I was in Hamilton!!" He basically blames it all on systematic racism in the acting industry, which is total BS. He didn't sell tickets so he was fired. That's how business works. He retaliated in anger against his employer because they didn't kiss his a** good enough. He created a fake controversy where there never was one and because of it, it hurt an already struggling show, causing it to close prematurely. This was one of the few shows on Broadway (if not the only show on Broadway) with true color blind casting. People of every color were taken into consideration for each role. Pippa started with Natasha and was Asian American, and then Denee took over and was African American and was understudied by a white actress and an Indian actress. I would call that true color blind casting. The color of the actress doesn't matter so whoever can do it, plays it and I got that, that was their general idea for the whole cast, except apparently Oak didn't want to go with that. It seems that he believes that his role is now an exclusively black role or something, or does he truly believe that it was racist of them to fire him. Honestly, he's just making up half baked excuses. I mean he attempts to kind of compare the creative team and producers to Donald Trump. I mean, that's a bit labored. Honestly, he's just hurting himself at this point.
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