How is the term “white-passing” as used here anything less than a demeaning, unacceptable pejorative, akin to attacks of “not gay enough” (Pete Buttigieg’s numerous leftist haters come to mind)?

It is not the job of art or an artist to make sure every single person under the sun is represented. Make your own goddamn art if you want. Nothing is stopping you. Doesn’t guarantee you’ll garner an audience, but not a single thing in this world is stopping you from sitting down and telling a story where you see…

That picture looks like Washington Heights to me. All that’s missing is the smell of the cuchifrito wafting in the air, merengue playing on one block and reggaeton on the other and the sound of viejos slamming dominos.

It’ very nit-picky. We scream about representation, and when someone does it, it still isn’t good enough and then we shit on the people who are on our side. 

“For centuries darker-skinned Afro-Latinx people have been erased from Latinidad, but we will be forgotten no more. We are tired of being maids and background dancers and will continue to push back until we are seen and heard. Indeed, Lin Manuel Miranda ‘fell short.’”

When one apologizes, one is not entitled to forgiveness or absolution.

As for Léon, who has rightly been credited with sparking this very necessary conversation, in response to Manuel’s apology, she simply stated: “For centuries darker-skinned Afro-Latinx people have been erased from Latinidad, but we will be forgotten no more. We are tired of being maids and background dancers and will…

LMM has done more to promote minorities on stage and screen than anyone else in the last dozen years or so. Too fucking bad if there’s not enough of a particular minority featured in “In the Heights” - he shouldn’t have to apologize for shit.

People kill me on social media talking about they would throwing hands. No you won’t and why would you subject yourself to being possibly being killed by the police or be a number in the system over some White woman’s tears and tirades?

That stupid racist asshole wanted to provoke a fight. Punching her in the face (however satisfying) would have given her what she wanted which is a confrontation where she could play the martyr/victim.

Yeah, this sounds an awful lot like that whole Affirmative Action thing that white snowflakes are always bitching about. Until they can use it to further themselves, of course. 

The Obtuse Overlords don’t give a fat damn about CRT. They are creating a catchall “scary” term as an umbrella for their egregious public policies and divisive social contracts. An apt diversion (look how riled up Dwights are) while they erode human rights and continue the traditions of a through line from the racist…

That’s called being the opening act.

Really sucks for these two students, especially how it was handled, but outside people that peak in high school, it really shouldn’t matter. No idea why they wouldn’t use a weighted grading scale though; why shouldn’t you get extra credit for taking harder classes? Sounds like the handbook should get fixed.

Something something affirmative action something...

More white tears, hey, when you let mediocre people be mediocre while telling them when they’re the best and that is their acceptable standard, the real world will show you the best of the best when the racist system and the world challenges you because your skin is a different color.

They are just white supremacists mad about being called out, and occasionally facing some consequences for their bigotry for a change.

They attack that which they do not understand because they are a mindless horde of troglodytes and ur-humans that respond in a Pavlovian fashion to any and all trigger words programmed into them through endless repetition on Fox News. 

Don’t forget slipping in “Africans sold Africans”, because racists would like nothing more than to convince future generations of black people that slavery and Jim Crow were their ancestors’ fault, and not the fault of white supremacists and enslavers - or, even worse, that neither of these things actually happened.…

I’m of the mind that if the GOP and their mindless, bigoted ilk don’t like it, I’m all for it for that reason alone. The explainer article that’s linked to is really good; the part about how trying not to ‘see color’ when it comes to college admissions neglects the fact that the SAT is racist in its development really…