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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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diff --git a/black-romeo.rst b/black-romeo.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 8d107d5..0000000 --- a/black-romeo.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -Black Romeo -########### - -:date: 2006-01-05T05:40:00 -:category: research -:tags: race, BostonMiracle, - -I was watching yesterday on WGBH_ on a `documentary about black poor -kids from London playing “Romeo and Juliet”`_. It was really deep -experience for me. I was quite surprised by the fact that black kids -(mostly guys, but of course Juliet and her friend were ladies) could -play Shakespeare and that issues which are hard to understand for me, -are very same (and much more understandable) for them. Suddenly I saw -how much I am still in the grips of seeing folks from Roxbury, -Dorchester, and Mattapan as *different from us normal people* and how -much I see them primarily as potential criminals. - -It seems to me that actually this could be one of the most important -issues of whole Boston Miracle—how “them, making trouble” became “us, -needing help”. And then how all the petty issues of money etc. were just -less important tools empowering a long-term process of this change, not -direct tools to decrease crime. - -And of course, I see no way how to prove this. On the other hand it -shows how much more than just bloody news (literally, news about blood) -I need stories describing normal life in the Black community of Boston. -Which unfortunately makes my news articles reports totally unmanageable, -because I would need much more than what I already have. :-( - -.. _WGBH: - http://www.wgbh.org -.. _`documentary about black poor kids from London playing “Romeo and Juliet”`: - http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?program_id=2543908 |