As a theater lover (lifelong audience member, current stage manager, and amateur playwright) I'll go to bat for Hamilton. From an artistic standpoint, I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with its team giving their own radical take on the birth of the US. At the end of the day the story is about them celebrating American history in their own way, arguing it's just as much their story as it is anyone else's.

That being said, I do think there's plenty of hypocrisy elsewhere. For example, there's tons of positive press around how the current Broadway revival of West Side Story has an all Latin American cast. While West Side Story was picking up steam a production of "Hercules" was doing a short Broadway run (i think it was only up for a single weekend) where the lead was played by a black man. Now I personally don't think there's anything wrong with either casting choice, but when it's moral, right, and good to have a Latin American cast tell a Latin American story shouldn't this legendary Greek hero be played by a Greek? While I don't think there's anything wrong with Hamilton, that's a little ridiculous to me.