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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I am just curious as how they handle Burr....Aaron Burr. I cannot say that with a mouthful of sandwich either. Especially if I have no milk. Got Milk.
My late younger brother did marry a Jamaican lady though so I have heard a lot about what it is like to be an immigrant as well as a minority member in the United States. Her eldest son had a very small part in a Robin Williams movie -- August Rush.
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Alexander Hamilton was born on the Caribbean Island of St. Nevis. His father was a Scot and the son of a laird. His mother was half English (on her mother’s side) and half French (her father was a Protestant Huguenot). So, Hamilton was 100% white. His childhood was hard, especially after his mother died, leaving him an orphan, in 1768. But he was a precocious genius and voracious reader who took advantage of all the educational and work opportunities offered by mentors and benefactors, and he became one of the most important men in American history.
Instead of watching the musical, which introduces a lot of inaccurate ideas, I recommend actually reading Ron Chernow’s outstanding biography of Hamilton, or listen to it. (The musical was partly based on that biography, but made lots of changes. Chernow praised it, as he was getting a lot of money from being the source, but authors generally do that when their books are turned into plays or musicals or movies or TV, even if privately they are upset by the changes.)
If Hamilton was actually of mixed race, I’d have no trouble with that, but he wasn’t.