Fighting The Race Problem

"It's easy for someone who isn't black or other or who has never experienced racism to dismiss what I'm saying,'Why do you focus so much on that? You're a beautiful dancer.' But the reason I'm here and I have this voice is because I'm black." Misty Copled said this to the Huffington Post when expressing her feelings towards racism is the ballet community. She expresses how dark skinned dancers get turned down for parts because they don't "fit the vision" of the director and they aren't "romantic" enough. Its society fault for giving skin colors stereotypes, "When we think of ballerinas, we think of pink and pale and fluffy," Anderson, the first African-American woman to reach the rank of principal ballerina with a major American company other than the Dance Theatre of Harlem, told the New Yorker. We give African American women this stereotype of and athletic, but what a lot people don't realize is that's exactly what ballerinas are. Its time we stop putting stereotypes on women especially of color because dance is all about passion and nobody understands your passion by just looking at your skin.