You'll have to get used to Black people being in charge.
That's the closing remark from "A Soldier's Play," which won the 2020 Tony Award for best play revival . According to playwright Charles Fuller, who died last month, his refusal to drop the line is the reason it took 38 years for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play to make it Broadway.
Apparently producers were concerned white theatergoers in 1982 America wouldn't like it very much. Judging from the surge in hate crimes following the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, the producers were probably right.
