hermioneclone:

Highlights from the Lin Manuel Miranda NPR interview. He was not taking any shit (and was flawless doing so):

Interviewer: The other performers are Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga. How does your music fit into that mix?

LMM: Well, it’s music….

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Interviewer: Hip-hop isn’t the standard Broadway music. And you’ve incorporated this nearly all-minority cast rapping, hip-hopping. This is about guys who wore powdered wigs. They wrote the federalist papers. How does it work, why does it work?

LMM: The casting is not ‘minority.’ Your piece is going to be dated in about five years when we’re the majority. So you might want to say ‘people of color.’