The NYT, Hurricane Ishmael and the Reputation of Lin-Manuel Miranda |
Last weekend, the New York Times ran an excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda under the headline: “How Lin-Manuel Miranda Weathered the Storm.” The “storm” in question was started by Ishmael Reed in an essay for CounterPunch rebuking Miranda for his staging of Hamilton, a play venerating the writers of the Constitution, including its infamous 3/5s clause, with Black actors.
Typically for the New York Times, CounterPunch goes unmentioned in the piece and Reed, one of the most celebrated Black writers in world literature, is dismissively referred to as a........