Yellowman

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During the discussion that followed a recent matinee performance of Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman, facilitator Merry Alderman was quick to point out that the conflict depicted in the play between dark-skinned and light-skinned African-Americans implied a much more universal strain of intolerance. For instance, she said -- and, later, at least one audience member concurred -- there is the animus that often exists between German Jews and Eastern-European Jews.

True enough; the self-focused bigotry that's one of Orlandersmith's worries might be festering at this very moment wherever you place your finger on a map of the world. Also true is something else that the dramatist scrutinizes with [...]