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...rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb, four shots, a rarity in France, were fired at the cops. French leaders tried to strike a balance between condemning the violence and seeking to understand it, but they seemed powerless to impose order on the streets. Above all, the rage expressed by alienated youths dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. "It's like a forest that's dried out," says Malik Boutih, the Socialist Party national secretary on social issues. "Things heat up, a wind starts blowing...
...late last week found that there had been no pursuit. That evening an angry group demonstrated in front of a nearby fire station, setting off a rolling wave of nightly clashes between young Arabs and French riot police that leapfrogged across the suburbs of Paris. After nine nights of rage, the uprising had reached as far east as Dijon and south to Marseilles, as rioters torched thousands of cars and set fire to buses, schools and government buildings...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité are ideals that France has nurtured over the centuries. But they were in little evidence last week around Paris. Changing that will require the French to confront the widening disparities between those in the banlieues and the rest of the country. Until then, the rage and resentment inflaming the streets will surely continue to smolder...
...young black man (James R. Hairston ’07) struggles physically and emotionally with his 70’s self (Christian I.C. Strong ’09) over a Diana Ross album. Should we leave our worst experiences of trauma and pain in the past? Does the rage of a history and a culture ever exhaust itself? The play raises these questions pointedly...
...wrestling with its own rage, the fundamental message of “The Colored Museum” is that it is impossible to forget or suppress the past, no matter how traumatic. In order to live a meaningful life, the collective pain and anger inherent in the African-American experience must be embraced on some level. The result is a deeply mournful, but ultimately unifying celebration of pain...