Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Change Is Fictitiously Slow In The USA

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) is going through a revival, thanks to her literary executor, Robert Nemiroff, or the daughter of the said executor, Jewell Gresham Nemiroff. She was the playwright who was dreaming of a world of change and justice for all people, all species, all races, all colors, all personalities, and even all genders and sexes, not to mention all religions, of course, though mostly Christian. Islam had still not reached the USA yet and the Twin Towers did not exist by then.

Her world on stage is a dream about a world that did not exist, and she expressed this desire before and at the same time as Martin Luther King Jr. who finally put it on the American dinner table in Washington DC from the Lincoln Monument in front of several hundred thousand demonstrators, and many million TV viewers and Radio listeners.

But fundamentally so little has changed that we can consider the dream is becoming a nightmare. Of course, the producer and the stage directors can influence the vision but they cannot really say that segregation has disappeared in the USA when we contemplate every morning the segregational figures of how the Black African Americans (segregated against for two reasons, the fact they are Black and the fact they are African) died more and suffered a lot more during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that is only one example. There might have been some improvement on the gender front but provided we do not consider the anti-trans-war from people like J. K. Rowling (you know, the lady who invented Harry Potter, the most locked-up closet whatever you may dream of, from gay to racist, despite all and everything; Hermione being a pleasant toy but little else, and she is white) who pretends the sex anyone is born in cannot change, or even be changed (Hell and Damnation), forgetting those who are born in-between, and anyway sex should be a choice, like marriage, religion and godlessness.

I am slightly sad when I consider this lack of evolution and progress, and unluckily the new generation is not coming up. Power remains in the hands of people around or beyond 80 years old, hence from before the Second World War, when the Blacks had the right to die for their country but had no right to go Number-1-or-2 in a non-segregated toilet in a bus station.

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I am slightly sad when I consider this lack of evolution and progress, and unluckily the new generation is not coming up. Power remains in the hands of people around or beyond 80 years old, hence from before the Second World War, when the Blacks had the right to die for their country but had no right to go Number-1-or-2 in a non-segregated toilet in a bus station

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Intellectual History,  *  Segregation,  *  Race and Racism,  *  Antisemitism (Prejudice),  *  Greenwich Village

# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 3:51 AM