HAMILTON: is "Broadway" (turning) BACK to BLACK??

Evry'thing OLD, is NEW Again??

In 1896, the early days of JIM CROW, our Supreme Court ruled that Plessy, an Octoroon, was BLACK, and could not "pass" for WHITE, legally, in the United States.  Hamilton, our first Secretary of the Treasury, and a Founding "Father", was, as we were taught as children, also an Octoroon!

In 2016, there are MILLIONS of American Citizens who may not sleep very easily; with DNA Tests so readily available!

In New York City, our gateway for European Immigrants, the Broadway Stage, has, for hundreds of years, served as Protector of White Supremacy and European Culture!   It barred works that did not hew closely to the dictates of White Supremacy; and also, barred anyone who was not white from performing alongside whites in Broadway Plays, Opera, Ballet, and Symphonies.   Broadway became a bastion for preserving White Supremacy in the Arts.  "Shuffle Along", a record-setting, all Black Broadway Show that opened in 1921, has been revived.

"Madame Butterfly", "Showboat", "West Side Story", Finian's Rainbow", are examples of works with strong RACE messages.  There are probably hundreds more that are not so well known.  HOLLYWOOD, formed from the marriage of Broadway Stagecraft with Black Minstrels and Vaudeville, became a second, more formidable purveyor of White Supremacy.

HAMILTON, a current Broadway Show that is highly Nominated for Awards, not only features many Black and "Mixed" Performers, it relies on RAP:  the "blackest" of Black Musical Creations.

Does this signify some fundamental change in the sensibilities of Whites?  With TRUMP and CRUZ; both "throwbacks" to the early days of JIM CROW, also dominating the Public's consciousness in 2016, I don't think so!!  Hamilton is so much the  Rage (in a good sense), one might wonder if White Americans  are displaying some deep Racial Schizophrenia?  Is it just an opening for WHITES to "process" RAP in the same way they did Ragtime, Jazz, and Rock n' Roll??

Stay Vigilant!  With TRUMP about to get his "ticket" to the Presidency, today, from Voters in Indiana,  sane people can wonder if  "poison water" is being dispensed by Republicans in places other than the State of Michigan!

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