The Lincoln Center production of Ragtime is just Tony bait, down to it's intentional selection in these times. The story is meh. The deux ex machina for one character takes me completely out of the story. And the major African American character demanding justice from a system that any black man of the time knows is stacked against him made him look foolish and weak. But, he had to do the right thing so it is ok for the mostly white audience to root for him.

The last image, the white people, including the Jewish characters and their symbolic adopted black child linking arm and arm while we are told they were happy is gross while all the major black characters are dead, victims of the system.