AFAM Group - About last night & That Reverse Racism – The Wiz

[DonCoquixote]

4. only in America

can you put together a musical featuring people who have all gone Platinum and people use race to somehow make it less legitimate. As a said in an earlier rant, people had NO problem with Carrie "American Idol winner" Underwood being given the role Julie Andrews made famous in the Sound of Music. That would have deserved thrown vegetables because you had a country music newcomer being given one of the great musical roles ever, but that musical purely had a white cast, so those who want to determine what whiteness is picked a country singer that used TV to leapfrog to stardom over those who spent years playing on circuits. So of course, when the Wiz comes along, loaded with artists that have sold literal boatloads of records, have selves full of grammys, sold millions of concert tickets over the past decade, it is deemed inferior to the one where they tried to make an American Idol the replacement for Julie Andrews, Bloody Julie Andrews!