Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Unburied Psychopomps

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/unburied-psychopomps-f5a456ab8273

In the USA, right now, today and tonight, there cannot be any justice for the Blacks. They die earlier than anyone else, their health deficit can reach in certain areas years of life and 10, 20, or even 30% as compared to the same for the whites. In education, the chance they have to get a Black teacher is in no way at the statistical level of the share these Black students represent in society or in the classes they attend.

 And police brutality is the rule, and the only constant rule. It is not because a few cops in some hyper-popular cases have been convicted of murder and will spend quite some time in prison that things have changed. It is one drop of water in an ocean of unpunished violence. We even saw one policewoman shooting one Black young man dead and she pretended she had mixed up her gun for her tazer. An idiotic defense that pretends the person is dumb, unqualified, badly trained, and even so stressed in any situation that she can pass water in her pants and her senses become so fuzzy that she is “confused,” so confused that she mixes up gun and tazer but she kept her eyesight perfectly clear and to the point so that she shot the Black young man on the spot dead, irremediably dead.

And some good citizens who know their First and Second Amendments by heart can start running after a Black jogger in the street. Running? You’re kidding. They used their own truck, SUV, or car to make sure he won’t escape, and then, the three of them shoot him down dead. And such facts happen day after day and the vast majority of the perpetrators, police or civilians, go through justice, if ever, with a slap on the left hand so that their right hand will not in any way be unable to write, or simply button up and down their pants and shirts.

 Jesmyn Ward offers us a classic novel on racism, discrimination and sadistic violence against the Blacks in the USA right now, both as a common present practice, and as the century-long recollection of what it used to be a long time ago and still is. ML King's dream is far from even getting close to being true in reality. It is a dream and will be a dream for quite a few dozen years, if not half a century more. At Least.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com 2023

Violence,  *  Death,  *  Race and Racism,  *  History of Slavery,  *  Prisons

# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:56 PM