Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
#1Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:28pmIt disgusts me and it should disgust you, as well.
bk
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/03
#2Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:38pmActually, your avatar disgusts me :)
#2Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:49pm^Lol, and I don't know. At first I was annoyed, but there's really nothing we can do...
#3Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 7:49pmI think we should boycott the show.
#4Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:08pm
You mean the Tonys?
Oh and this thread is RACIST!
yeah
Featured Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#5Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:08pm
I find one-sided "racism" amusing. In a totally unrelated topic, some people were saying that RuPaul's Drag Race was "racist" because two black drag queens won two years in a row. I read some articles that stated the very idea of people calling RuPaul's Drag Race racist was, in itself, racist! Apparently white people can be racist but black people can't be? And, if you accuse anyone of racism against white people, you're being racist?? LOL
So, then, can we say that this topic is, in a sense, racist?
#6Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:13pm
It is clear that if we didn't have male and female Tony categories, only males would get nominated.
So I think they should have new categories, "best WHITE actor in a musical", "best BLACK actor in a musical".
That way, white people and black people are equally nominated, so it is not racist.
Boycott the Tonys until they do this 
!!
yeah
Featured Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#7Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:15pm
LOL! Brilliant idea!!!
#8Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:21pmSo in other words, qolbineau, separate but equal?
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#9Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:34pm
Exactly.
We should get Orfeh to lead our campaign, I heard she is into irish rights or something.
#10Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:39pmOrfeh should get her own category so she can win every year. She would pass that Angela Whatshername easily.
#11Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:41pmWhy stop there? Why not "Best performance by a Gay guy in a Straight role."?
#12Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:56pmThen you need Straight Guy playing a 'Mo award.
#13Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 8:59pmThen they're be like, 100 nominees in that category, Topher
#14Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:07pm
Why were there no straight guys in gay black roles nominated?
I'm boycotting plastics.
And July.
Just because.
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fanadu1996
Stand-by Joined: 6/14/08
#15Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:30pmbecause the other actors didnt deserve a nomination? ever think of that?
yeah
Featured Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#16Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:35pmWow, that was really racist of you to imply that only the black actors didn't deserve a nomination!!!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:37pmWhat about black dwarfs?
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#18Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 9:40pmBiggest shutout of an entire race since Bombay Dreams.
Wayman_Wong
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#19Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:20pm
To answer the original question, maybe that's just how the voting turned out. Or the nominators, as a whole, thought other performances stood out more in a competitive field. If you mean to imply something racist, how do you explain the nominations for African-Americans Montego Glover, Sahr Ngaujah and Lillias White in musicals? Or the nominations for Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, David Alan Grier and Jon Michael Hill in plays? Plus, there are nominations for Bill T. Jones and Branford Marsalis.
Updated On: 5/17/10 at 10:20 PM
#20Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/17/10 at 10:33pm
I explain those nominations by saying they were OBVIOUSLY given out as mistakes by what is OBVIOUSLY a group of nominators who parade around town in white hoods and burning crosses.
OBVIOUSLY.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#21Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 11:50amMayber they were afraid to monimate any more black actors because, as you have pointed out to us, too many black people in a theatre audience can cause a ruckus. They might start talking back!
#22Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 12:18pmAw, hell no. You did NOT just go there, girlfriend.
#23Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 12:23pmI just know I'll look stupid, but... what does "racist" mean?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#24Why Were Only The White Actors From RAGTIME Nominated?
Posted: 5/18/10 at 12:27pmI am shocked and appalled that males weren't considered when casting Annie. Females have played Peter Pan and Oliver and Tiny Tim. Why can't a male play Annie?
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