Diversity Event

Okay for my Diversity event i went to go see my little cousins play at Henry Bernand school. This play was about a fictional character Nathalie Mcnalley who was an immigrant. She and her family was on the journey to ellis island. So as i sat there and watch this play, I wad astonished by the way they teachers had the students play the characters. I know I was supposed to be enjoying this play but after all of our class discussion i was forced to think about this. In the opening scene, they had the "rich" people aboard the ship first and as i looked i saw that all the childern playing the part of the "RICH" kids were "WHITE." Then it was time for the "poor" people to aboard the ship and when the students came out there were some "WHITE" but MANY WERE "BLACK." This really upset me becuase not only were they influencing the kids that played the poor people role but people in the audiemce such as myself, seen this as a act of racism. Now i do not want to go out and say the teachers did this on purpose but how come they could not haved the roles switch and allowed the "BLACK" students to play the role of the rich people. Another thing the student that played the role of Nathalie was again a "WHITE" student and her younger sister was played by a student that was "BLACK." But the older sister "Nathalie" will push her around and tell her what to do throughout this whole play. Understanding that in reality that is usually the way a big sister little sister relationship does work but I seen it as it was going to be obvious that a student who was "WHITE" was going to have the star role and someone that is under/below her to be like her servant someone to cater to her will be a "BLACK" student.
TO BE CONTINUED......
(I am at work and I am getting off so i have to finish at school SORRY)