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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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diff --git a/research/black-romeo.rst b/research/black-romeo.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d107d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/research/black-romeo.rst @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +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 |