“Black Men Everywhere!” Takes No Prisoners—at The Marsh
“Love is stronger than Hate, Justice is stronger than Fear.” Jinho “Piper” Ferreira repeats the refrain as he tells a tale about “justice,” recounting the frightening crimes against Black Americans by the police that go unpunished.
Their names echo: Tamir Rice, 12-years old, shot, by a Cleveland patrolman while carrying a toy gun. Unarmed Michael Brown killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Trayvon Williams in Florida, drinking a soda. None broke any law.
But the black victim is demonized, not the police. Most notorious of all was the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmet Till. Till was brutally tortured and killed in Mississippi with two other Freedom Riders.
It pains us to repeat their names and recall our horror that the police went unpunished. Ferreira’s one man play unfolds how these travesties of justice affect Black men everywhere.
