Iyo National Civil Rights Museum inogara mune yaive Lorraine Motel, mhiri kwemumvuri weMemphis's skyscrapers uye garish neon glow yeBeale Street - iyo huru yekudhonza yakaitwa mukurumbira nevanofarira BB King naJames Baldwin. Mashoko ekutanga ekutanga ekuratidzira anoti: "Kupikisa kusaruramisira kwakadzika midzi muchiitiko cheAfrica-America." Wobva wauya mifananidzo ye lynchings, michinjikwa inopisa, vakafira kutenda uye magamba, pamwe nekunyomba kweRosa Parks mumabhazi uye ekudya kwemasikati makaunda akamirira kubatanidzwa.
Zvinenge zvikamu zviviri muzvitatu zvenzira yekupfuura mufananidzo wechitokisi chejeri reBirmingham umo Martin Luther King akanyora tsamba yake achipindura vafundisi vechichena veko vachimukumbira kuti amise kuratidzira uye abve muguta. "Ndinofanira kureurura kuti mumakore mashoma apfuura ndakaodzwa mwoyo zvakanyanya nevachena vari pakati nepakati ... akazvipira zvakanyanya 'kukuraira' pane kururamisira," akanyora kudaro. "Kunzwisisa kwakadzika kubva kune vanhu vane mutsa kunonyanya kuodza mwoyo pane kusanzwisisa zvachose kubva kuvanhu vane chido.
Uye kubva ipapo kunotanga kurerekera zvishoma nezvishoma yapfuura Mississippi Rusununguko Zhizha, kubuda kwesimba dema uye kuurayiwa kwaMalcolm X, kusvika wasvika mukamuri 306 - apo nyaya inopera naMambo achibuda achienda kuLorraine Motel balcony musi waApril 4 1968 kusvika. kuuraiwa nebara remupfuri.
Makore makumi mana mushure mekufa kwaMambo, kugona kweAmerica kuita ngano dzemurume uye kusarerutsa zvaanoreva zvinoonekwa zvine hutsinye. Kufanana kwake kwekufananidzira kunobatanidzwa zvisingaite mumufananidzo weAmerica senyika yekufambira mberi kusingagumi. Zvichakadaro, nhaka yake yekurwisa hurombo uye imperialism inodzikiswa zuva rega rega. Dai akararama angadai akavengwa zvechokwadi. Kuti America imude, aifanira kutanga afa.
Hapana papi panoonekwa izvi kupfuura muutariri hwemuseum pachayo. Nepo zviratidziro zvichiratidza kurwira kwaMambo kodzero dzakaenzana, director director webhodhi rayo, JR "Pitt" Hyde, anga achishanda nesimba achipesana nemisimboti imwe cheteyo. Hyde munhu akapfuma wekuRepublican akashandira kukundwa kwaHarold Ford Jr (mumiriri mutema) munhangemutange yeSeneti iyo yaiwanzobvumwa kuti ndiyo yakanyanyosarura musarudzo dzemuna 2006.
Kupokana pakati pebasa rehupenyu raMambo naHyde hakugone kuve kwakanyanya. Mambo akarwisa kusaruramisira kwemarudzi. Hyde kwemakore akati wandei akarwisana nemhosva yekushungurudzwa kwemarudzi yaitsigirwa neEqual Employment Opportunity Commission vachipokana nekambani yaakavamba, AutoZone. King aive kuMemphis kutsigira kuramwa kwevashandi vemarara pamusoro pemubhadharo uye mamiriro. Hyde akarongedza bhodhi rake nemhando dzemakambani anohaya museum kuita mabasa.
"Mazuvano vanofarira chokwadi chekuti vanogona kugara pasi kuti vadye panzvimbo yakapondwa Mambo," anodaro mutongi wedunhu D'Army Bailey, muvambi wemuseum uyo akadzingwa mubhodhi. "Zvinovapa kunzwa kwakanaka. Macorporations anoda kuzivikanwa nazvo nekuti chitupa chakadaro chinounza pacification. Yakabiwa."
Uku kusanzwisisana pakati pezvakaratidza kuva zvakarurama nezviri kuramba zvichibatsira mune zvematongerwo enyika kwakadzika midzi. Hupenzi hwaunounza huchawedzera musvondo rinouya nyika ichitarisa, sekunge padivi pechidzitiro, Mambo achirumbidzwa kune rimwe divi uye aimbove muparidzi waBarack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, anoramba akatsikirirwa kune rimwe.
Wright haasi Mambo. Matauriro ake akanyanya kuomarara, maitiro ake anokatyamadza, meseji yake haina kubatana. Zvakadaro, Wright naKing vanobva kutsika imwe chete yehutungamiriri hwechitendero hwemhirizhonga iyo yanga iri mucherechedzo wehupenyu hwevatema hwezvematongerwo enyika kweanopfuura zana. Pasi peuranda uyezve kusarurana, chechi yaive imwe yenzvimbo shoma idzo vaAfrica-America vaigona kuungana uye kuronga vakazvimirira - vachipa hukuru, huri nani uye hwakaipa, kupurupiti uye muparidzi mune zvematongerwo enyika vatema.
โNzvimbo huru yenzanga munzanga yose yevatema yaiva chechi,โ anonyora kudaro munyori wenhau dzakaitika Manning Marable mubhuku rake rinonzi Black Leadership. "Sevatungamiriri vezvematongerwo enyika, vafundisi vechitema ndivo vaiwanzoita vatauriri venharaunda yese yevatema, kunyanya panguva dzematambudziko ...
Hazvigoneke kuti Mambo angadai akaita zvirinani paYouTube kana blogosphere pane zvakaitwa naWright. Mambo, saWright, akafadzwa nekupikisa "hondo isina musoro uye isina kururama" muVietnam. "Kuita kwacho kwakafanana neruvengo nehuturu," akayeuka kudaro mumwe wevabatsiri vake, Andrew Young. "Semunhu akahwina mubairo weNobel taitarisira kuti vanhu vasabvumirane nazvo, asi kuti vazvitore zvakakomba. Hatina kuwana izvozvo. Takava neshungu dzepfungwa dzichirwisa kodzero yake yekuva nemafungiro."
Mwedzi mishoma asati afa, King akaudza vatendi vechechi yake muMontgomery, Alabama kuti: โTiri matsotsi muhondo iyoyoโฆ panzvimbo yavo." Uye Mwari aizobata sei neAmerica isingapfidzi? "Uye kana ukasamira kuita kwehupenzi hwako, ndichasimuka ndikatyoka musana wesimba rako."
Mushure mezvishwe zvishoma zveiyo pa 24-hour cable TV, hazvina kuoma kufungidzira zvitsigiso zvichimanikidza Bobby Kennedy kuti arambe kushamwaridzana nemuparidzi mutema akadaro. Uku kuchema kwechiitiko mumutauro wevatema wezvematongerwo enyika kunoratidza simba uye kusasimba kwenhaka yaMambo.
Vatema vepakati kirasi kufamba kwake kwakabatsira kugadzira kuri kuwedzera. Chirevo chePew gore rapfuura chakaratidza kuti ingangoita hafu yevaAfrica-America vakazvarwa nevabereki vane mari yepakati muna 1968 - gore rakafa Mambo - vakapedzisira vave muchikamu chepasi cheshanu chevakawana nyika. Izvi zvaive zvechokwadi kune 16% chete yevachena. Zvisineyi netarisiro yaVaObama yesarudzo, vanhu vatema vemuAmerica havasati vanyanya kuita zvakaipa. Imwe sarudzo yePew inoratidza kuti vasingasviki hafu vanoti hupenyu huchavanakira mune ramangwana - kudzoka kwakakosha kunyangwe kubva pamazuva embwa enguva yeReagan.
America inogona kubatanidzwa nemutemo, asi inoparadzaniswa nemaitiro uye maonero. Vatema vekuAmerica havangorarama hupenyu hwakafanana kune vachena vekuAmerica, ivo vanewo kunzwisisa kwakasiyana kweizvo America yanga iri, iripo uye inogona kuve.
"Iyi pfungwa yekugara uchizvitarisa nemeso evamwe," yakanyora nyanzvi uye muratidziri WEB DuBois pakutanga kwezana ramakore rapfuura. "Yekuyera mweya wemunhu netepi yenyika inotarisa mukuzvidza uye tsitsi. Mumwe anombonzwa huviri hwake - muAmerica, muNegro; mweya miviri inorwisana, pfungwa mbiri, kurwisana kusina kuwirirana; pfungwa mbiri dzinorwisana mumuviri mumwe werima. , ane simba guru chete rinoita kuti risatsemuke nepakati."
Tichifunga nezvenhoroondo yerudzi rwenyika, kusanzwisisana kwakadaro hakufanire kushamisa, asi nguva dzose inova nhau kana ichitaurwa kubva padariro rine mukurumbira.
Kufuratira mukamuri 306 muMemphis museum uye kufamba uchidzoka kuburikidza nevanouraya, vakafira kutenda, michinjikwa uye machechi akabhombwa, mumwe anoyeuchidzwa nezvemashoko eHarlem Renaissance mudetembi Claude McKay. โKana munhu mutema achivava zvishoma,โ akanyora kudaro, โmurungu ndiye anofanira kuva munhu wokupedzisira munyika kumupomera kuvava.
Ichi chinyorwa chakaonekwa mukati Guardian on Muvhuro Kurume 31 2008.
Gary Young mutori wenhau weGuardian uye munyori anogara muUS. Aimbove mutori wenhau weNew York. Bhuku rake razvino uno rinonzi Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Diunited States; ndiye zvakare munyori weNo Place Like Home, yakaburitswa muna 1999
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