Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 BLACKER AND HARDER THAN EBONY, YOU’RE DEAD

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Is history a casino where, when “rien ne va plus,” no one can have any say on what is going to happen? The 19^th century produced a vision of history in which the masses, luckily not isolated individuals, made history with the concept of the great evening, if not night, when everything was going to change, the whole plate of history and humanity would be washed away to let a completely new world emerge. That was difficult to conceive because would the people change overnight?

 

Then Marx and Engels came on the stage, and their vision of the socialist revolution was simple. The class struggle between the working class, the proletariat, the lumpenproletariat, the three being the same, those who work on machines they do not possess but are possessed by the second class, against which they have to fight to the death. Annihilate the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, known as capitalism, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, eliminate all the bourgeoisie, each bourgeois after each bourgeois, and then here we are.

 

Naively provocative. In the USA, despite more than 150 years since their liberation, the Blacks, the ex-slaves, are still not equal despite all the fights and struggles of the blacks, of the proletariat, of even the loosely defined progressive class or forces.

 

Jacques Roumain was dreaming that such a big, great, powerful evening and night would have made all Blacks free and equal. It never came. Now and then, some struggle and a lot of victims, too often, lead to a slight progress, but equality and total freedom, of course not. Some whites are even dreaming of banning the teaching of slavery, segregation, racism, discrimination, and erasing black history from history textbooks. MAKE ASSES- GAGA AGAIN, you know MAGA

 

You'd better buy a new pair of boots. Many Asses are going to be kicked up and down, in and out, through and through. Better be well-equipped for the big ass-kicking festival.

 

Jacques Roumain n’a pas la résonance nécessaire à la qualité de son œuvre car il est presque introuvable en anglais et il est donc enfermé dans un ghetto linguistique, malgré une içn fluence lourde de l’anglais de son voisin du nord tant au niveau du lexique, souvent – mais mensongèrement – transparent du français à l’anglais au niveau du lexique et de l’utilisation du vers libre avec une recherche de martèlement du lecteur, ou mieux de l’auditeur. C’est une poésie profondément orale, verbale, faite pour le foirail. Son temps était le temps de la radio.

 

Jacques Roumain does not have the necessary resonance deserved by the quality of his work since he is almost unavailable in English, thus confining his works to a linguistic ghetto, despite a heavy influence from the English of his northern neighbor, both in terms of vocabulary—often, but deceptively, transparent from French to English—and in the use of free verse, with a deliberate attempt to hammer home the message to the reader, or rather, the listener. He is profoundly an oral, verbal poet, made for market squares and county fairs. His era was the age of radio.

 

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I am like sure I will die before the Blacks are equal on this planet. And remember, many more people are not really free, who are enslaved for the pleasure of others. My namesake, Jacques Roumain, was an optimist.

BLACKER AND HARDER THAN EBONY, YOU’RE DEAD

by Jacques Coulardeau

2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

23 Pages

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