I don’t see why famous people should be able to circumvent the law - I thought showing ID was required at these places. 

“the cheese puffs Harris allegedly cooked herself”

Now we get to sit back and watch the internet show its collective ass by going after Rita Moreno. The fun part of this is going to be when folks see that Moreno is old enough to give zero fucks what anyone thinks.

Her response keeps her in the spotlight so she knows what shes doing. Not sure about all the other folks piling on like the silly person stating that LMM will be quickly forgotten. Fuck that noise

Yea that was Felice’s point and its one I agree with. I was also pointing out that LMM thought he had covered it and in his own words “he missed the mark”.

Hmm I thought the 3rd person to play Hamilton was Michael Luwoye who is dark skinned.

Yeah, this feels too far/too much. First it’s, “We need more representation in film and on stage,” and lo we have a whole show about Brooklyn/Heights by the champion of inclusion Lin Manuel Miranda, and then they wanna come for him/the director and say, “We got inclusion, a whole inclusive production, but these people…

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)?

I think that cuts to the heart of the problem.

“Now, back to LMM, his Disney-fied self can get forgotten real quickly, just as quickly as he was called a genius not so long ago.”

The criticism is valid but my response when I read Felice’s response was “girl really?”

I was born here, but My family came from Cuba in the 60's. Though no police officer is ever going to look at me and think I’m white, neither would I be mistaken for being Black, and do not identify as Afro-Latino—in fact, outside of South Florida, I’m identified as Middle Eastern as often (or moreso,) than Latino.…

Has any single person put more awards (Tony’s, Grammys, Oscars) in the hands of people of color than LMM? Granted all those people are supremely talented and earned those awards but not to long ago they wouldn’t have been given a chance. LMM creates spaces where people of color can thrive and in the case of Hamilton…

Watched Hamilton (the one on Disney Plus) last year, “wow, the amount of representation minorities have in this is huge”
Watched “In The Heights” last weekend “wow, the amount of representation minorities have in this is huge”
Opens up the interwebs, finds out there’s a colorism controversy with “In the Heights”

Now, back to LMM, his Disney-fied self can get forgotten real quickly, just as quickly as he was called a genius not so long ago

“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.’”

So are Afro Latinx, especially Cubans going to have that long overdue internal conversation about some of their people’s desire to be white adjacent when it suits them? I think it is amazing you have all the smoke in the world for Lin Manuel Miranda but none for the politicians that are GOP that are all too willing to…

So it doesn’t matter that members of the cast were of Afro-Latinx descent because their skin wasn’t dark enough for some viewers?

So Lin Manuel Miranda isn’t progressive enough ? This is some real hotep shit

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…