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| Rivière Noire, Québec, Canada |
There
is a controversy about the theatral performing “SLĀV”, in Montreal; “SLĀV” is denouncing power relations in the past and today.
Slave descendants protested as they consider it to be a cultural appropriation,
because sad songs composed by black slaves are sung by Whites supposedly descendants
of those who took advantage of domination relations and are still benefiting.
The
producers of the show argue that artists have the right to talk about the
subject, regardless of the colour of their skin, while stressing that their
message is a denunciation of this "culture of slavery". Nothing
better than reading what they have said before expressing my opinion:
My skin is white and I come from a country where there were black slaves. I can understand a little bit both sides of the history. I believe the descendants of the slaves did not know how to decode what is insulting them, where it hurts. It's okay that they think about cultural appropriation, but worse than that is to make a comparison between what black slaves suffered and what happened to other peoples or to what arrives today, which the producers of the show have said they want to denounce. There is no way to compare and no possibility of overlap, these songs can express only what they expressed in their time. It reminds me of Jews, who also do not accept comparisons with their suffering under Nazism, there is nothing like it. Everyone has their own history.
Nevertheless,
I understand the producers of SLĀV, their intention is good, they wanted to
express a terrible pain of humanity and have taken the beauty of these sad
songs from the bottom of the human soul as an example. Perhaps later, in a
distant future, when the scars will be less painful, perhaps that anyone can
represent them, to denounce the suffering of the human being. I don't know. For
now, I think it's better to respect their feelings, when they say it hurts.
It's not completely healed yet.
I suggest to white artists
to compose beautiful sad songs too, to express the pain they feel for what
their white ancestors did to Blacks. "No more, my father", for
example. The impact would be quite significant and possibly even more effective.
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