Obamas

[Rhoda4]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 3:50pm

The Obamas will be on "The Broadway" tonight attending "A Raisin in the Sun".... Other recent shows over the last couple years have included "Memphis" "The Addams Family" "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "The Trip to Bountiful" and "Motown". Interesting choices?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:06pm

In what way?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:10pm

In that they've seen mostly black shows, Reg.

Come on. Don't act stupid.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:12pm

This is the one area in the entire Obama presidency with a slight bias to black people.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:14pm

Yes, I connected the dots. I just don't see what's particularly interesting about it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:16pm

The Addams Family was black?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:17pm

They're BLACK, and they see a lot of BLACK shows. If that's not interesting, Mr. Roxy's got a mixed metaphor to sell you.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:17pm

"Racist Rhoda4 is so racist, she..."

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:19pm

It's not interesting in the least. The Addams Family isn't a "black" show, nor do any of these shows means there's a bias in his presidency.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:20pm

STFU Rodent4

[Kad]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:23pm

The Addams Family had some black comedy, though.

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:24pm

Well played, Kad. Well played.

[anmiller07]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:26pm

The Addams Family had some black comedy, though.

You mean like Madea?

[anmiller07]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:26pm

Updated On: 4/11/14 at 04:26 PM

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:27pm

Wasn't black arm bands worn directly after opening night?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:28pm

And black costumes. I guess I never really realized a black show it was.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:28pm

"You mean like Madea?"

He said COMEDY.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:29pm

Y'all are racist.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:31pm

I think people are too hung up on race.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:31pm

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:47pm

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and Miss Lillian went to see Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly.

And she said in her autobiography that she was one-eighth black.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 4:48pm

But not the eighth that counts, eh, PJ?

[rjm516]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 5:00pm

Seriously people. This is where your horrific blindness to your own privilege shows itself. You need to just keep quiet if you think it is anything but great when minorities are able to experience the art &c. of people of their minority group.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 5:31pm

if "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" how did the Obamas know he'd be at the theater the exact night they went to see the play? Maybe they are just huge fans of Arliss Howard, who's white, thank you very much. Ever think of that???

Updated On: 4/11/14 at 05:31 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 6:50pm

You know how it works.

If a black person sees a show, then it's a black show.

If a white person sees a show, it's just a show.

If a black person eats at a restaurant, it's a black restaurant.

If a white person eats at a restaurant, it's a restaurant.

If a white person eats a black person, it's Sweeney Todd.

If a black person shows a white person in a restaurant, he'll go to jail for indecent exposure.

If ...