He isn’t depicted as an Arab Moor. Moors was the generic term Elizabethans used for people from Africa. He is clearly depicted as black. Shakespeare had pretty OK command over his language. He knew what he was doing.

I think it’s because this was an open casting call, not an audition for a specific role with specific characteristics. Apparently the same law was used against people who put up job postings for “busboys” instead of “bus help” according to the linked article

Those are kind of a bad examples. Othello’s race is an actual part of the story, so it’s relevant to the casting. (I believe there have actually been race-swapped productions of Othello, though, where everyone in the cast is non-white, while Othello is white.) Excluding people of color from auditioning for Hamlet,…

Why wouldn’t black men be able to play Hamlet? I get that Othello is pretty specifically black, but virtually every other character except maybe Shylock in the Shakespeare canon is ethnicity-free, and new interpretations playing with gender and race are WAY more interesting because of it.

Wait, are you suggesting that there are so few qualified women that a campaign that employs 324 of them has used up the total supply? Really? That’s some serious Republican level justification you’re working.

Nope. I’m with sukatra here. I’m a *huge* Bernie supporter, and I couldn’t take anything you said seriously after you made the sHills reference.

You don’t just “accidentally” pay ten men more than the highest-paid woman on your campaign staff. The daily reality that is women’s lives is not even on his radar screen. If this is how addressing income inequality “helps” women, he can keep his great plans.

A.) that logic is....well, there is no logic to that claim and B.) if you cannot be convinced to like Hillary then great, you don’t need to be reading the internet or the comments on it. Go find something more rewarding to do with your time. Have a great rest of your election!

You’re right, Bernie employs 38 less women than men in his campaign, Hillary employs 122 more women than men, and Bernie definitely has the leg up on gender parity! You’re a mental gymnastics gold medalist!

Maybe read a little further and see that the OP has graciously accepted and politely responded to all criticism before you leave snotty comments.

Uh, on what planet does Hillary Clinton not care about or address equal pay? I know Bernie Sanders fan don’t like her, at all, but you can’t just make shit up about her record. She introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act and cosponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for christ’s sake.

Listen, I’m sorry. I misunderstood the article, I misunderstood the issue, and I wish I could take the post down but I can’t now. I’m an idiot and I get it, it’s my bad and I’m sorry for offending everyone. I wish you guys would read all the comments of people schooling me and me apologizing and thanking everyone for…

I don’t care about the “appropriation”. In the 70s, the mood was definitely “wear everything”. Nobody Black gave a shit when White people got perms and did Afros. It was all good.

All braids? I don’t think any culture owns the general concept of braiding hair.

I scrolled down because I wanted to see what Hillary was accepting. Did she win already? Had I nodded off?

I’m glad I scrolled down, I was confused as to why she was speaking during a Hillary Clinton acceptance speech.

Really?

Yes. I’m only allowed to complain about one thing per year, and this is my thing.

If looks could kill, they’d both be in intensive care.

When an affectionate term like dear is used by a stranger/person in a position of power it always comes off as super condescending to me.