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\"All the criticisms are valid,\" the \"In the Heights\" creator tweeted on Monday. \"The sheer tonnage of complexities & failings of these people I couldn’t get. Or wrestled with but cut. I took 6 years and fit as much as I could in a 2.5 hour musical.\"

Overall, he made it clear that he welcomes all forms of debate. \"Did my best,\" he concluded. \"It’s all fair game.\"

In a NPR interview last month, Miranda acknowledged Hamilton's involvement with slavery.

\"Hamilton — although he voiced anti-slavery beliefs — remained complicit in the system,\" he told Terry Gross. \"And other than calling out Jefferson on his hypocrisy with regards to slavery in Act 2, doesn't really say much else over the course of Act 2. And I think that's actually pretty honest. ... He didn't really do much about it after that.\"

\"None of them did. None of them did enough,\" Miranda added. \"And we say that, too, in the final moments of the song. So that hits differently now because we're having a conversation, we're having a real reckoning of how do you uproot an original sin.\"

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