Prompt:
Write about Antigone being produced and performed in St Louis Missouri
I think that there is a rough parallel between the grief of Antigone and the Black Lives Matter movement. Antigone’s effort to have her brother honored properly and buried can be compared to the Black Lives Matter movement’s mission to show that the numerous shootings of blacks by white policemen should not be ignored. Both Antigone and Black Lives Matter have faced oppression in their effort to voice their opinions and express their strong emotions. Perhaps the play will not directly address the discussion of race or police statistics, but it will emotionally strike a chord with a community who has lost members to unnecessary police shootings of young African Americans.
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