Tuesday, October 17, 2023
A Black Raisin in the Burning White Sun
Racial Reality Showdown in
the West
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/racial-reality-showdown-in-the-west-d500a2d48480
The
Raisin in the Sun was a dream in 1959 when it was created on the stage. It
became a sort of nightmarish dream in 1961 with Sidney Pottier on the big
silver screen, but the nightmarish part of the dream was and still is
self-inflicted by an uneducated Black man onto himself with his trust for the
first Black man that caresses his dream while he is picking his pockets.
Then in 2008 it becomes with Kenny Leon an agit-prop play and maybe a Brechtian epic drama still on the big silver screen. It is a call for action immediately and at once, without any waste of time, without any delay. Moving to a white neighborhood was impossible in 1959 and in 1961. In 2008 it was more possible, though certainly not easy and not for everyone, but the tale from 1959-61 became a denunciation of the hypocrisy of the whites who could not solve a problem like housing discrimination in TWO GENERATIONS.
The whites have not yet reached deep learning, certainly not 5G speed and their intelligence has been normalized and homogenized by some Artificial Intelligence, vastly biased and fundamentally segregational.
God bless the child!
And if you believe there is no god, don’t panic, Trump Save the Child after he has pardoned himself for his crimes, which does not make these crimes less criminal, nor the perpetrator less cynical, but it enables him to save his face. Can the Department of Justice prosecute against a presidential pardon, and have it nullified?
Sure enough, This Raisin in the Sun is a demand for fairness, but in a world where fairness has been banned once and for all, and all unfair people in power, any sort of power, from doorkeeper to President of the Cosmos, are able to pardon themselves, not for their mistakes, but for their crimes.
Amen! De Profundis! Hallelujah!
Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023
