Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Blind the Slaves, for them not to read

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/blind-the-slaves-for-them-not-to-read-5fe71d65df2a

Still Blinding the Blacks in the US.

It is amazing to see how the US Supreme Court is going back to more segregation against Black students. The Blacks have to remain blind to truth in the US for white supremacy to go on controlling a situation that is absurd. Absurd but also racist, cruel, and futureless. Waking up might be very painful.

 The US Supreme Court has just gotten rid of “Affirmative Action” for the selection and registration of students at the college level, making the desegregation of colleges and universities in the USA go one important backward step to more segregation instead of less. You can imagine in 1959: the black family who would move into a white neighborhood would be at least expelled with some violence, or simply lynched on the main square of this neighborhood and hanged from the branches of some majestic tree there.

 It is interesting to go back to this author and her plays, but we have to keep in mind that what was possible on Broadway, to be the first black female author of a play performed there, does not reflect what was, and still is, happening in the US society, but only the very slow evolution toward some justice. But Dunn High School, Dunn, North Carolina, was only desegregated in September 1969, and hence it brought together students of different colors and their teachers. I know about it because I was there then. But the High School has been pulled down in the meantime. See the picture below, and me with some students in 1969-70.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 4:12 AM