The Insatiable Beast

Lin-Manuel Miranda Apologizes for Colorism in In The Heights: ‘I Promise to Do Better’

“I’m seeing the discussion around Afro-Latino representation in our film this weekend and it is clear that many in our dark-skinned Afro-Latino community don’t feel sufficiently represented within it, particularly among the leading roles.”

Miranda continued, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling unseen in the feedback. I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy.”

Miranda’s fellow running dog, Jon Chu, also quickly admitted fault and accepted his need for further education:

“Yeah, I mean I think that that was something we talked about and I needed to be educated about, of course,” Chu, 41, responded.

“But I hear you on trying to fill those cast members with darker-skinned [actors]. I think that’s a really good conversation to have, something that we should all be talking about,” he added.

The actress who starred in this shameful colorist nightmare also issued profound apologies, but it gets tedious, so you can go read it all for yourself.

The Horrors of “White-Passing”

A “Black woman of Cuban descent” who writes for a progressive propaganda sheet interrogated the filmmakers about the troubling “lack of Black Latinx people represented” in the film considering the movie’s main cast “were light-skinned or white-passing Latinx people.”