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It’s called “throwing historical accuracy out the window”. Once they get us to accept nonsense like this, they can get us to believe anything. The same goes for “Hamilton”. There you have it, folks. You are looking at the world's first WHITE MALE cast as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a play, written by a Black woman, on a college campus with 2,000 Black students. This year, Kent State University put on a production of Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," a dramatic piece about the night before Dr. King's assassination in 1968. When Katori Hall contacted Kent State's play director, Michael Oatman, he simply said: “Dr. King is not just a prominent African American, he’s a prominent American. Why can’t an American play another prominent American?” “I just really feel as though it echoes this pervasive erasure of the black body and the silencing of a black community – theatrically and also, literally, in the world,” - Katori Hall If this isn't the epitome of bad taste, white ignorance, and the erasure of Black excellence, culture, and history, I don't know what is. And at this point, I really don't wanna know if there's anything out there that can top it... Read Hall's article on The Root: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/11/the_white_version_of_mlk_in_the_mountaintop.html (Feed generated with FetchRSS) November 18, 2020 at 03:35PM - E Pluribus OTAP

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