Posted on 02 March 2020
These days, even the silliest concepts get respectful and prominent feature play if they are sufficiently “woke.” The New York Times previewed the play “Help” Sunday under the headline “Claudia Rankine Flies the Unfriendly Skies.” Why “unfriendly”? Because they are clogged with “white male privilege." The play is based on Rankine's notorious 2019 Times essay: “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.” There were no challenging questions from that perspective from Times writer...