Segregation and Color-Blindness

LORRAINE HANSBERRY — THE COLLECTED LAST PLAYS — 1972–1994

Robert Nemiroff collected three plays, two dealing with the Black Curse in America: Les Blancs and the brutal European colonization of Africa, and we know the end of it; The Drinking Gourd and the curse of slavery for both the slaves and the slaveowners at the beginning of the Civil War, and we know the end of it; What Use Are Flowers and the curse of humanity before, during and after a nuclear cataclysm, or should we call it a nuclear Holocaust? And we know the end of it.

Right now there is like a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s plays in the USA, on Broadway particularly. The fourth play on this curse of the Blacks in America or elsewhere in the world, and the curse of humanity under the mismanagement of the Western Whites, is the M.L.Kingian dream of the Black hard-working working-class being able to move from the ghetto to a white neighborhood is not included. It is A Raisin in the Sun, and that dream could only be a dream in 1959. No way, in this direction, desegregating neighborhoods.

The US Supreme Court has just gotten rid of “Affirmative Action” for the selection and registration of students at the college level, making the desegregation of colleges and universities in the USA go one important backward step to more segregation instead…