#iconsidermyself

iconsidermyself:

I think this is how Hank could have added race into the equation: After he mentions that 41% of juveniles are incarcerated by the age of 23 (which is a horrifying statistic), he could say that people of color are overrepresented among these incarcerated juveniles. That’s it. He can break it down the way the above ACLU infographic does, but he doesn’t even have to.

I included this infographic because it is an overview, just like a 4-minute youtube video. The infographic includes many statistics similar to the ones in Hank’s video and the fact that it breaks down race — as briefly and incompletely as it does — demonstrates an anti-racist perspective.

Hank wrote that including one line about racial disparity does the topic a disservice, but if including one line is a disservice, what does that make ignoring the topic?

I think sung dialogue means that a musical comes from the operatic tradition as opposed to the American Broadway Musical here-is-a-showtune-now-we’re-talking-again-do-the-characters-know-they-just-broke-into-song tradition, just fyi.

I do know that, but I have a bad habit of considering 'opera' to be a subset of 'musical', which I'm sure would get me into trouble with people who know things about opera. I just use 'musical' as the umbrella term for all stories told at least partially through music. Like, I remember finding out that Rent is pretty much an opera (at least the stage version) because every bit of it is sung (if memory serves), and that was a pretty cool moment. Les Mis is in the same category, at least for me.

I just got myself caught up on The Mindy Project — it’s so clever, she’s so clever, it’s so lovely to see a woman of color star in (not to mention write and produce) her own comedy series.