Last week The New York Times published an odd piece of writing by one its theater “critics”, Charles Isherwood about the Broadway show “Fela!” about the life of the Afrobeat king.  Isherwood, in a piece that was begging for reaction, accused the show of “tilting” towards minstrelsy (basically Bill T Jones promotes blackface) aimed at white audiences, that the dancers were to sexy (they showed too much flesh and danced to suggestively) and interacts with the audience, that it was all about Fela all the time and that no one else had a speaking role–except Fela and “an American.”

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