Students protested when a white teenager was cast in the role of Esmerelda in their high school’s production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Esmerelda is written as a Romani Gypsy in the script. The upstate New York high school ended up shuttering the production over the controversy. Doc reads part of the letter from the students protesting that their white classmate was cast in the role and wonders how we got to this point. How are high school kids so brainwashed that they think being in a musical is oppression?
Students protested when a white teenager was cast in the role of Esmerelda in their high school’s production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Esmerelda is written as a Romani Gypsy in the script. The upstate New York high school ended up shuttering the production over the controversy. Doc reads part of the letter from the students protesting that their white classmate was cast in the role and wonders how we got to this point. How are high school kids so brainwashed that they think being in a musical is oppression?
