So I'm half-Chinese and half white, and it wasn't until being part of this show — even though I've been in other mixed race casts — that I have been considered an actor of color. Up until now, I haven't been talking about being an Asian-American woman!

But perhaps I prefer to think about what Miranda himself could have done better, and that’s easy: he could have chosen to dedicate his talents to telling a more revolutionary story—one in which the lives and stories of people of color were foregrounded.

It’s not Lin-Manuel Miranda who first made Hamilton an abolitionist, for example: Hamilton’s biographers have been promoting that myth for generations; Ron Chernow is only the most recent. Miranda would have had to dig deeply and counterintuitively to question it, and that process would assign him a job other than the one he has. It’s fair for non-historians to expect to rely on well-received history books intended for general readers.

But then he shakes your hand and says “Be true”