Lin-Manuel Miranda apologized for taking part in the 'moral failure' of not speaking up amid the ongoing protests taking place across the nation
Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the official after party for"Siempre, Luis" at The Latinx House on Jan. 25, 2020 in Park City, Utah.
"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 officialchannels 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.
As tense protests over the death of Floyd and other police killings of Black people grew Saturday across the nation, Miranda said"it's up to us and words and deeds to stand up for our fellow citizens. It's up to us to do the work to be better allies and have each other's backs." He later thanked theproducer Jeffrey Seller also expressed the same sentiments as Miranda in a posted video.
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