{"id":1620,"date":"2025-12-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:33:35","slug":"dear-the-ground-we-stand-on-a-letter-to-bipoc-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2025\/12\/09\/dear-the-ground-we-stand-on-a-letter-to-bipoc-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear \u201cThe Ground We Stand On,\u201d \u2014 A Letter to BIPOC Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>On June 8, 2020, a letter was sent and signed by 300 artists who were Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). It has since been signed by over 100,000 people. After 5 years, the report card shows a failing grade.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dear-White-American-Theater-letter.jpg?resize=1024%2C633&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dear-White-American-Theater-letter.jpg?resize=1024%2C633&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dear-White-American-Theater-letter.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dear-White-American-Theater-letter.jpg?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dear-White-American-Theater-letter.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Remember this?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 25, 2020, as COVID-19 was killing millions of people all over the world, one Black man in Minneapolis was killed by a not-all-that-rogue police officer. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/06\/01\/the-killing-of-george-floyd-what-we-know\">George Floyd murder<\/a> set off an equally virulent reaction to the pandemic, when, finally (or so it seemed at the moment), the inequitable, unfair, Un-American, and all-too-short lives of Black people across this country were brought into view. Driving While Black, which is an unwritten traffic cop\u2019s privilege, has been around forever, but was now in the public eye \u2014 for some coddled white folks, it was the first time.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkEGGLu_fNU?feature=oembed\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Full Bodycam Footage of George Floyd Arrest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkEGGLu_fNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">As difficult as this is to watch, at least you&#8217;re alive to see it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with a societal screaming point still growing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weseeyouwat.com\/statement\">a letter was written by BIPOC artists to White American Theater<\/a>. To some, it was deemed a tedious screed to established (read: White) theater companies, not applicable to their needs. Of course, it wasn\u2019t a screed. It was simply a statement of observation, and not incorrect, given everything that accompanied the 2020 George Floyd murder (and the 2020 murders of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and Andre Hill and Manuel Ellis and Daniel Prude and Walter Wallace, Jr. and Jonathan Price and Trayford Pellerin and Marcellis Trinnette and David McAtee and Jamee Johnson and Tony McDade and Maurice Gordon and Dijon Kizzee and Angelo Quinto and Carlos Ingram-Lopez and Vincent Truitt and Fred Cox and Joshua Feast and and and and and and\u2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weseeyouwat.com\/demands\">A month later, demands were put forth in a change.org petition<\/a> by the same people. 100,000 signed on. The timing for a response could not have come with fewer consequences. It was predictable, if not wholly genuine, for hundreds of theater companies in America to put forth an anti-racist manifesto on their websites for all the world to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And why not? With no plays (and thus, no ticket revenue) and no need (and no way) to prove their newfound focus on equity, it was pretty easy to assert that racism was, in a word, bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A man walks into Sammy\u2019s Deli. There\u2019s a sign on the window that says, \u201cLOX: $1.89 A POUND.\u201d So the man asks Sammy for two pounds of lox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re out of lox. Want some herring?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, I just came in for the lox,\u201d said the man. \u201cThanks for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat nothing? The herring is fresh!\u201d yelled Sammy as the man walked out the door and walks exactly two doors down to Sol\u2019s Kosher Delicatessen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-delis.jpg?resize=1000%2C618&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1626\" style=\"width:700px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-delis.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-delis.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-delis.jpg?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A parable for this moment in antiracism. (Image badly developed by A.I.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow much for lox?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c$35.99 a pound,\u201d said Sol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c$35.99 a pound? How come so expensive? At Sammy\u2019s they\u2019re selling it for only $1.89 a pound,\u201d said the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo,\u201d said Sol, \u201cgo to Sammy\u2019s then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI did,\u201d said the man, \u201cbut they\u2019re out of lox.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAh,\u201d said Sol. \u201cSo listen, if I was out of lox, I\u2019d sell it for $1.89 a pound, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t glean the issue out of this parable, I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s hope for you. If it were easy to do the right thing and make sure that the cultures in your community are not only represented on your stages, but in charge of doing work representing all the cultures in your community (not simply hiring Latinx people to direct Latinx plays, Black people directing Black plays, LGBT people directing LGBT plays, etc., but having all cultures managing the work of all cultures with no \u201cdefault\u201d to White folx), then everyone would have done it already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it made money, don\u2019t you think that everyone would have insisted upon living up to those manifestos that, one by one, they took down from their websites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude, I think that a White male Jew should write a letter to his friends in the BIPOC community of artists. Here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5.jpeg?resize=657%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\" style=\"width:700px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5.jpeg?w=657&amp;ssl=1 657w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5.jpeg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear \u201cThe Ground We Stand On,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you so much for your letter of June 2020. The pointed arrow of your words piercing the privilege of so-called White allies of your work gave birth to a movement that, unfortunately, the artists for whom it was meant have since abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that they didn\u2019t try, or at least provide manifesto upon manifesto in support. As it turned out, however, it was too easy for these companies, run by friends of yours, to proclaim a determined effort to stanch racism and become equitable in every way; easy, that is, when there are no actual plays being produced because of a deadly worldwide pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No plays? No money. No money? No limits to empty promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once the pandemic abated, your friends had the responsibility to incorporate these ideas of equity into actual work. Sadly, for the most part, they did not, as you know by now. Instead, they retreated behind their boards\u2019 refusal to allow anything besides \u201cmaking money,\u201d which is the euphemistic way to express the elitists\u2019 real desires \u2014 to produce works that make toxic donors, government officials, board members, and even some in executive leadership completely comfortable and hap, hap, happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEI became a naughty acronym, rather than the simple act of doing the right thing. It became so controversial as to anoint a traitor to the presidency and celebrate continuous treachery on you and the rest of what remains in these Divided States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But your friends, dear people. Your friends. As Marc Antony might have said, they are honorable people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some boards of directors see and saw the need for new points of view to represent the communities in which they live. They hired non-White leaders, some for the first time. That was a good thing. But then, as they always do, these same boards chose to do everything in their power not to change anything except use these talented people as figureheads, in the \u201csome of my best friends\u201d vein of thought. However, those folks were not figureheads. They understood the power they\u2019d been given to make things right, as per your righteous demands. Still, fighting with bosses wasn\u2019t always the most efficacious way to do the right thing, and while some are still fighting, many others threw up their hands in despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tide is against these new leaders and they are getting bashed along the rocks, showing something the boards are calling \u201cproof\u201d that diversifying leadership is not the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as BIPOC theaters are concerned, the behemoth White theaters would like nothing more than to form one-sided \u201cpartnerships\u201d with them. After all, they\u2019re continually being taken to task by a few adorable foundations who believe that they believe in advancing the causes of non-White theaters. These foundations, too, are run by honorable people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are still exploiting you, shaming you, diminishing you, and excluding you. Even after they\u2019ve hired you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You say that you see them. That\u2019s good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They know that you see them. And, for what it\u2019s worth, they\u2019re no longer pretending that they don\u2019t see you. They do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They Just. Don\u2019t. Care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They just don\u2019t care when doing the right thing costs actual money and at the same time, using their words, \u201calienates the base.\u201d Oh, and \u201cthe base\u201d is comprised of honorable people, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish you nothing but success. It\u2019ll be better for all of us when you succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A White Jew with arms open wide and a face wet with the spit of the elitists that run what stands as the American Nonprofit Theater Industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>P.S. I\u2019m also running out of steam. It\u2019s been both a rewarding and Sisyphean task to change the failing nonprofit arts industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3SZFIb0\">Changemakers Books has published my trilogy<\/a> in the past two years on the subject of making things better for everyone involved, but I\u2019m afraid that those in power at the foundation, government, and large arts organization level merely see these words as mosquitos \u2014 initially to be feared, but then shooed away and swatted dead. Those books are pictured below. My royalties are a pittance and will never pay for the effort. Please buy, borrow (from the library), or steal a copy of each if you have to. Perhaps you or someone you know can take up the cause when I inevitably collapse and retire. Otherwise, I promise you: things will never, ever change for the better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/beta-search?keywords=%22alan+harrison%22+%22scene+change%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-book-titles.jpg?resize=1200%2C606&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scene Change, Scene Change 2, and Scene Change 3 - 3 books to improve your arts organization\" class=\"wp-image-1423\" style=\"width:700px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-book-titles.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-book-titles.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-book-titles.jpg?resize=1024%2C517&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-book-titles.jpg?resize=768%2C388&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/alanharrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/buy-me-a-coffee-for-bottom-of-ArtsJournal-articles.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1356\" style=\"width:700px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 8, 2020, a letter was sent and signed by 300 artists who were Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). It has since been signed by over 100,000 people. After 5 years, the report card shows a failing grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,22,100,40,32,29,28,19,18,17,99],"tags":[55,85,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-1620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-culture","8":"category-board-of-directors","9":"category-board-of-trustees","10":"category-book-recommendation","11":"category-change","12":"category-charity","13":"category-dei","14":"category-diversity-equity-inclusion","15":"category-leadership","16":"category-nonprofit","17":"category-nonprofit-arts-organizations","18":"category-scene-change","19":"tag-backlash","20":"tag-community","21":"tag-racism","22":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dear-White-American-Theater-letter.jpg?fit=1200%2C742&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":324,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2023\/04\/18\/the-insert-letter-here-word-and-the-arts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1620,"position":0},"title":"The [Insert Letter Here] Word and the\u00a0Arts","author":"Alan Harrison","date":"April 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"DEI is not a contest BETWEEN. 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No argument. Nonprofit arts organizations are not art, and therefore are not a universal good. 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