So I Was Thinking

         So something happened today that really made me think about this class. I just got home from RIC and something interested happened while in my theatre class today. My teacher had given us rehearsal time so the whole class was sitting together rehearsing and talking about random things. We starting talking about the theatre shows that RIC puts on when all of a sudden a boy in my class made an interesting remark. He said that he never auditions because he is black and why would he be cast for a role where the rest of the people are probably white. He continued saying that it doesn't make sense to have a play about a family where all the characters are white and he is black because it wouldn't make sense. I told him that the theatre we have at RIC is gender and race blind, meaning they don't cast off of that, but wow. How horrible is it to have to think like that and I can see where he is coming from. It makes sense. Just think about movies. In every movie you always have the black friend, or the really smart Asian, but how many movies have a Chinese person as the lead, not many. They really gear entertainment toward whites. Like Delpit explains, there is a culture of power and we are it. Or even the Macintosh reading where white people don't even know that we are oppressing others, but we are. Look at this poor kid who loves theatre, but doesn't even bother auditioning. How sad. I hope that after talking to everyone that he changed his mind, but I fear he won't. I understand him, but I wish I didn't  have to.