#without a thought

Solbacka Slothfulness

how do i let this keep happening.

I’m not going to dig in on the Discourse™ of what Hamilton is “about”, or the morality of depicting figures like Thomas Jefferson or George Washington as charming or paternal or good people when they were, in fact, slave owners, and/or whether it’s questionable to have black actors playing them. I’m not a black person, so my opinion on that isn’t exactly valid here.

But the FACT of the matter is: Hamilton was written by a Latin American man who made a point to cast it with non-white actors, and the subtext of Burr vs Hamilton (and this is in some ways especially notable in “Wait for It”, the song quoted in that gifset of White Ladies) is about two modes of non-white existence and survival: Burr’s tendency to assimilate, keep his head down, wait for the right time to speak out, vs Hamilton’s brash, out there, confrontational attitude.