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+Black Romeo
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+:date: 2006-01-05T05:40:00
+:category: research
+
+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