Toni Morrison funded anti-Hamilton play because she hated musical so much

‘Hamilton, the hip-hop-inspired Broadway sensation about Alexander Hamilton’s rise, humanizes the founding fathers in a show that’s considered emblematic of the Obama years. It was viewed through a different lens during the Trump years amid rising racial tensions in America.

…Ishmael Reed has been one of Hamilton’s most ardent critics. In 2019 he told CurrentAffairs.org: “They cast black people in order to defend projects that [black people] might find objectionable. It sort of distracts from the racism of the white historical characters.”’

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