Posted: 6/18/20 at 9:04pm
Posted: 6/18/20 at 9:18pm
She wasn't "ahead of the curve" - Black people have been actively fighting racism in show-business for decades, if not centuries. Everyone else was WAY behind the curve.
I remember when this happened. It was complicated by the fact that her Black co-star, Michael Potts, supported the director, and then Pinkins called out Potts.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Exclusive-Tonya-Pinkins-Speaks-Up-About-Responses-to-Her-MOTHER-COURAGE-Departure--No-Man-Speaks-For-Me-in-2016-20160109
I've said this a lot in the past few weeks, but this is yet another case of how intersectionality complicated these social issues.
