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Les Terminales L contre la Ségrégation

Par AXEL TAMBURRINI, publié le mardi 21 avril 2020 18:33 - Mis à jour le mardi 21 avril 2020 18:33
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Les Terminales L en Littérature Étrangère en Langue Étrangère ont rédigé des poèmes suite à un chapitre traitant de la Ségrégation aux USA qui s'est étendue sur une bonne partie du 20ème Siècle. Voici leur travail.

"I Wonder Sometimes"

As time passes by, I wonder sometimes, what are those lullabies ?

Burning people singing and dead silent people hanging. 

I wander sometimes, next to those singers covered in flies,

Why those monsters, killers who are ganging, 

Decided that they did no want them,

They did not want gems. 

I wonder, sometimes, what will happen when all will be white,

It would not have been the blacks, it would have been the jews,

and even then, nothing could stop their abuse.

Because when all will be white, all will be “right”,

They will turn to themselves, and eat each other like dogs,

Blinding themselves in the ignorance that is their fog.

Because it is not the race or any religion,

It is the intricate human nature that is our damnation.

Louwan WOLFS

 

Going outside for a walk with my kids,

The eyes staring at us,

It’s like we’re a disease

But they don’t care about us.

 

“They’re useless” they said,

But we work more than them

And sometimes we’re almost dead,

They’re maybe cruel, or just dumb.

 

Every night I dream

About living in a world

Where we don’t care about the color of your skin,

But it will not happen, it’s just a dreamworld.

Celia CORDEIRO

 

The sky is blue

Birds sing

The weather is nice in South Carolina

Black people pass and whites move away

But why ? What's happening ?

Are they sick, contaminated ?

There are never circuses or events here

But the circus beasts in this country are us

Black men and women

Why these evil looks? What did we do?

From the youngest to the oldest, words are the same

"Look at these negroes, even school should be forbidden to them"

The words are hard

Segregation and exclusion are your only friends

We are everytime with a rope in the neck

But the sky is blue in South Carolina

Doriane BIAGOU

Today I woke up as a new man

My pain ended, no more endless fields.

Now I can run up to Manhattan

In this damn barn I leave my ills.

 

Today I leave Texas, I walk to the east

And in every city on my path, I'll make a feast.

I've freed myself from my persecutor

Me and my friends finally eared his last roar.

 

Today I struck him with a wooden stick, behind the head

I've stolen all of his precious stuff, and left his body in his bed

I'm writing this from my bed made of chaff

It's my last night in Texas, I've had enough.

 

I know what's hardship, I was up at five, chopping logs

While I was on the death tip, he was eating like a hog.

Now I do what I promised to my dead love

I bring up her soul with me, up to New York cove.

Cy DUGAS

 

Monster.. Oh! Monster

All that you do is murder

You kill innocent people due to their color

But it’s only in your mind that you’re better

Pure souls perished in the middle of nowhere

While they released their last breath of air

You established the Jim Crow laws

But among us we had heroes

Heroes to spread their word

Heroes hoping to be heard

Heroes urging us to react

Heroes saving us from the dark

Juliana SANTOS AVIDAGO

 

This color

These persons, were excluded from any right of freedom,

These persons were treated like slaves,

This fate was normally for this other persons,

This torture suffered only on one color,

This color represents everybody,

This color represents freedom

Yousra LAIEB

 

Dear beautiful Stranger.

Dear beautiful Stranger,

My color changes their haven.

For them we need to cave in,

Our color looks like a huge danger.

 

In this haven,

I’m that man who handles the pain.

I am that man who is insulted,

And I’m the one who’s disgusted.

 

I’m ashamed of being atypical,

They managed to make me hate my color.

They took my brothers as example,

In their deal to sell them for a dollar.

 

If you want to understand my anger,

Come but please don't be concerned.

With my brothers you'll find me burned,

My dear beautiful Stranger.

Sonia SALEM

The Deplorable Jungle

 

Welcome to the jungle,

Where the king makes his law.

Obviously, he’s not acting alone,

He has his clones.

 

A whole herd

With the same ideals.

Here, the law of the strongest is always the best.

Woe betide those who do not enter the codes,

A different coat

And they will be demoted.

 

No more gathering with the lions,

No more freedom in the vast jungle.

And the lions are not kind to those outside the clan,

The law of the jungle is in their favor,

Then the crimes seem forgotten.

 

Welcome to the jungle,

The one where hatred is strength.

Welcome to the jungle,

Where difference is frightening.

Welcome to the jungle,

Where ignorance is like coming.

Ceryne ATOUSSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

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