Photographie de mai 2015 en Arizona
(http://en.trend.az/world/other/2400543.html)
J'expliquais justement à mes étudiants que les propos et manifestations des derniers mois et surtout des derniers jours allaient à l'encontre des valeurs américaines. La peur et la menace, réelles ou présumées, font parfois oublier les idéaux qui ont présidé à la naissance des États-Unis. J'aime bien ce petit texte de Charles M. Blow dans le New York Times de ce matin.
"Indeed, this is the problem with reckless, racist rhetoric: Each utterance tosses one more log onto the bonfire that can burn out a space for the unimaginable.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned in his 1967 “The Other America” speech: “Racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide.” As King put it:
“If one says that I am not good enough to live next door to him; if one says that I am not good enough to eat at a lunch counter, or to have a good, decent job, or to go to school with him merely because of my race, he is saying consciously or unconsciously that I do not deserve to exist.”
Whereas these candidates may not be conscious of this “ultimate logic” or in any way approve of it, it doesn’t make their language any less dangerous when it lands on the ears of the minorities on the margins, or those looking for a reason to gussy up their wrongheadedness with righteousness."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/opinion/anti-muslim-is-anti-american.html?ref=opinion
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