“Hamilton” is one of the most revered pop productions of the last decade.
Tony AwardsCritical praise. Mass adulation.
Author Jeremy Carl doesn’t disagree. He also points to other elements of the show that reflect a disturbing trend. He shares more information in his new book, ““The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart.”
“…by casting minorities, mostly African-Americans, in almost every role except the most notable and straightforward villain (a white actor), a disturbing message is being conveyed,” he writes in the book.
Carl explored this challenging topic on The Hollywood in Toto podcast.
“The unprotected class” comes at a time when “Male and pale is stale” is the motto behind the scenes at Disney. Noted authors describe a landscape where being white and male puts a target on their back (before backing down under extreme social pressure).
An explosive 2022 report in The Free Press categorized how Discrimination in Hollywood works.
Howard Koch, who has produced more than 60 films, including classics like “Chinatown” and “Marathon Man,” and is the former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said, “I’m all for LGBT and Native Americans, black people, women, any minority that hasn’t been properly served in the making of content, whether it’s television or movies or whatever, but I think it’s gone too far. I know a lot of very talented people who can’t get jobs because they’re not black or Native American or women or LGBTQ.”
Also, comedian Tyler Fischer is suing his former agent for allegedly telling him that being a straight, white man made him… Impossible to find him a job.
The author acknowledges Hollywood’s racist past, from keeping minorities off screen to overcorrections like the “magic negro” cliché. And Carl is ashamed of characters like Long Duk Dong from “Sixteen Candles,” although he admits that John Hughes’ 1984 film has a value that goes beyond that bald stereotype.
Current thinking can still be unproductive when it is not openly discriminatory.
“’Hamilton’ is a magnificent artistic product, but that doesn’t mean that some of the racial ideology behind it can’t be questioned,” Carl said.
Also worth discussing? The addition of minority names to Hollywood projects to boost their diversity quotas, regardless of whether or not they contributed significantly to the work at stake. Carl says he learned that firsthand through conversations with the author and screenwriter Andres Klavan.
Progressive thinking is largely responsible for the cultural winds blowing through Hollywood, Carl argued.
“The left controls the leadership positions in culture and wants to tell a certain kind of story in a certain way and have a certain kind of vision of what should be represented,” he said of the trend.
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