{"id":60054,"date":"2021-06-20T23:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=60054"},"modified":"2021-06-20T23:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:56:45","slug":"rita-forced-to-retract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/20\/rita-forced-to-retract\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita Forced to Retract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rita Moreno <\/strong>\u2013 a goddess by any standard \u2013 has spoken her mind for close to a century.&nbsp; And yet, last week, she was forced to eat her words in order to sell a documentary.&nbsp; She was chatting with <strong>Stephen Colbert <\/strong>on <strong><em>The Late Show<\/em><\/strong>, and said, \u201cCan we talk for a second about that criticism about <strong>Lin-Manuel<\/strong>?&nbsp; That really upsets me.&nbsp; You can never do right, it seems.\u201d&nbsp; She was referring to the criticism that Lin-Manuel\u2019s film version of <strong><em>In The Heights<\/em><\/strong> does not have enough representation of Afro-Latinos.&nbsp; Not coincidentally, Miranda co-produced <strong><em>Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Moreno believes that given how much Miranda has done for Latinos, people are \u201cattacking the wrong person\u201d.&nbsp; The backlash was swift \u2013 because, you know, an 89-year-old legendary trailblazer isn\u2019t entitled to her own opinion.&nbsp; And, since she has a documentary to sell, she apologized via <em>Twitter<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m incredibly disappointed with myself\u2026I was clearly dismissive of black lives that matter in our Latin community.&nbsp; It is easy to forget how celebration for some is lament for others.&nbsp; In addition to applauding Lin for his wonderful movie version of <em>In The Heights<\/em>, let me add my appreciation for his sensitivity and resolve to be more inclusive of the Afro-Latino community going forward.&nbsp; See, you CAN teach this old dog new tricks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Moreno \u2013 a goddess by any standard \u2013 has spoken her mind for close to a century.&nbsp; And yet, last week, she was forced to eat her words in order to sell a documentary.&nbsp; She was chatting with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, and said, \u201cCan we talk for a second about that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60055,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054\/revisions\/60055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}