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LNIB: I Am Not Your N Word
LNIB, is the Last Nigguh in Boulder. A multi-disciplinary piece that garnered "most controversial" performance for its premiere at the 2018 Boulder Fringe Festival. It returns to the Wesley Chapel Theater in Boulder for a new spin on significant current events as this story morphs and transforms decepticon-like throughout the local region and planet.
Michael jones came to Boulder, small town USA, in search of the American dream, in the form of a woman, attracted by her beauty, affluence, mobility, and intelligence enough to pull him from more ethnically and socio-economically diverse environs into that nightmarish American dream we have come to know as economic security. Entranced by the daughter of a woman who when inquiring about the mother's "forlorn and pensive" response to the former's previous potential miscegenation was told, "Well, (I) just keep imagining walking into the Super One (grocery in Polson, Montana) with my brown grandchildren."
Gentrification as it unfolds with haste in the Boulder and Denver metro area, as with most places in America, is often cast in terms of the fallacious social construction called "race." It is, however, as much if not more about a brutal conflict of class and America's continued unprecedented upward distribution of wealth.
Race in 2019 America is, as much as ever, a foundational dividing construct of social, economic and legal disparity. At the heart lies the embattled validity and regard for the word "nigguh." Many contest its use and, in effect, deny the history and present day ramifications of the creation and evolution of the American social and cultural phenomenon "nigguh."
With the current United States presidential administration and the rise of nationalist and white supremacist sentiment, in a culture of fear, those categorized as black and male experience increased scrutiny. Many, like Mister jones, are confronted with the growing exclusivity and exclusion that accompany socioeconomically determined demographic shifts driving gentrification. After years of bursting Boulders bubble, shocked by ostracisation and pinned by police brutality on more than one occasion, jones play on literary references, historical accounts and personal experience brings us all on a journey that is all too common yet still untold.
Naropa University Kerouac School graduate poet, dj, dancer, facilitator Michael Anthony jones uses story, poetry, music and movement through improvisation to address issues of marginalization via class and race as they play out in contemporary America and in communities like the rapidly gentrifying Boulder, Colorado.
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LocationThe Wesley Chapel (View)
1290 Folsom Street
Boulder, CO 80302
United States
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