Hamilton


Not living in the United States I only experienced the hamilton phenomenon second hand. This is a faithful recreation of the stage show hamilton. It reminds me of a quote I heard recently from a TTikok. "It's a safe space here you don't have to pretend to like Hamilton" and the second guy goes "but I actually do like Hamilton." It's good, the songs are great especially "the room where it happens." Casting the founding fathers of the United States, who for the most part were slaveholders, with non-white actors really underlies how important the question of slavery and racial relations are in the history of the United States. It seems that some in United States try to believe that slavery is an incidental thing that happened in the history of the country but rather it is a foundational thing that happened in the history of the country. 

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