By: Avery Showell
I want to take the time to acknowledge and talk about the connection between Hamilton and the white-washed society we live in today. Material for generations has been molded to fit the norms of the world today, which is controlled by the white man and depresses the growth and evolution of Black people as a whole. So most evidently, literature will be funneled the same way ideas are. They do not want you to know too much, but tell you enough for you to feel educated on certain topics. This is where the educators who teach material about this touchy topic come in. One can try and make it as not “white washed” as they think to reach students, but how real can you really make the connections between the white washed culture Hamilton tries to expose and black students who experience being in the society the most if the instructor is not Black his/her self. Therefore, there are certain terms and names that a white person simply can not use, for example the term “Black or Brown People” and entitling us to an income bracket for lack of interest in a certain area of Art.
Alexander Hamilton written by Lin-Manuel Miranda displays a great value of the hip hop culture and how it can move, inspire, and generate new ideas in people and generations. Miranda shows how Black people are a corner stone in history even though the society we live in tries to give us a cap on how successful we can be as a race. The simple theme of hip hop or the use of, shows what is actually an avenue to reach other groups and audiences to often story-tell, rhyme, and release the demons of the challenges Black people face, and have dealt with, for many centuries and continuously to this day. 