'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and producer Jeffrey Seller took to social media to issue an apology for not speaking up amid the ongoing protests taking place across the nation, calling it 'a moral failure on our part'
The 'Hamilton' creator and producer Jeffrey Seller took to social media to issue an apology for taking part in the"moral failure" of not speaking up amid the ongoing protests taking place across the nation over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
He then went on to apologize for "not pushing harder and faster for us to speak these self-evident truths under thedoesn't exist without the black and brown artists who created and revolutionized and changed the world through the culture, music and language of hip-hop. Literally, the idea of the show doesn't exist without the brilliant black and brown artists in our cast, crew and production team who breathe life into this story every time it's performed," he explained.
"I have not done enough to fight agasint the indemic racism that is the root cause of these murders and many other injustices perpetrated against the African American community throughout my entire lifeline," Seller said. "I'm not a politician. I'm not an activist. I'm not an expert. I'm a theatre producer. But what I realize today is most importantly I'm an American citizen and silence equals complicity and I apologize for my silence thus far.
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