{"id":3405,"date":"2018-06-15T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2018-06-15T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:51:04","slug":"little-rock-play-confronts-the-unyielding-horror-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Little Rock Play Confronts The Unyielding Horror Of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little Rock Confronts The Unyielding Horror Of Racism<\/h2>\n

By George Kevin Jordan<\/p>\n

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\"\"Imagine any horror movie you watched of late. It doesn\u2019t matter which one, the results are the same. The protagonists are usually teenagers navigating through life, social, sexual, and interpersonal relationships. There are usually archetypes standing in for characters. Yes we came to love and respect Johnny Depp, and Leonardo DiCaprio as serious actors. But when they starred in NIghtmare on Elm Street<\/i>and Critters 3<\/i>, respectively, they were fodder for the main character of their films – the monsters.<\/p>\n

In horror movies the monster is what people pay money to see. Will these children survive the reincarnated guy with the chainsaw fetish? Or what about that creature that feeds off of the fear of youth. According to the-numbers.com<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>horror movie revenue has seen a steady increase in gross revenue over the last few years. Sales went from $254 Million in 2014 to over $1Billion in 2017.<\/p>\n

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We love to be scared. We love the adrenaline rush of a sudden jump cut on the screen. We love the predictability of the surprise in horror. We know someone is going to get it. But our hero is going to survive. And besides. It\u2019s not real right?<\/p>\n

What if you were a teeenager, and your worst nightmare were not a fiction of a writer trying to pay off his beach house in Laguna Beach, but a real monster.<\/p>\n

photo credit : Carol Rosegg<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure>
photo credit : Carol Rosegg<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure>
photo credit : Carol Rosegg<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure>
photo credit : Carol Rosegg<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

In LIttle Rock<\/i><\/b><\/a>,<\/span> the play set in the eye of the integration storm between September 4th 1957 and May 27th 1958, the monster is more than real. Racism and it\u2019s partner in crime, hate, play out in the lives of this community, but particularly a group of teenagers referred to as the \u201cLittle Rock Nine.\u201d<\/p>\n