Lin-Manuel Miranda and 'Hamilton' Producer Apologize for Silence on Protests
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billboard.comHamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda took to social media Saturday night 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."We spoke out on the day of the Pulse shooting.
We spoke out when Vice President Mike Pence came to our show 10 days after the election. And that we have not yet firmly spoken inaugural truth of Black Lives Matter and denounced systematic racism and white supremacy to our official Hamilton channels is a moral failure on our part," Miranda said in a video posted on his social media. "As the writer of the show, I take responsibility and apologize for my part in this moral failure."He then went.
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