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This is a really powerful piece written by Ben Faulding, who is a Black Jewish person, about how it hurts to be excluded from liberal and progressive spaces, their own history growing up with parents who were involved in the civil rights movement, and what we should do as Jewish people who cannot attend the March for Racial Justice due to it being on Yom Kippur. A must read.
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September 25, 2017 -- Later this week, the March for Racial Justice will—I hope—choke the streets of our nation’s capital. If the current momentum against President Trump can be channeled to full potency, I believe it could be the most significant display of public fury on issues of race and inequality since Martin Luther King’s march on Washington in 1963.
Sadly, I won’t be there. I can’t be there.
I’ve attended a handful of rallies since Trump ascended in January. The largest was the Women’s’ March in D.C. the day after inauguration. As empowered as I felt that weekend, I knew I was there as a supporting actor: That day belonged to women. I had my own existential fears about the incoming administration, but I was there to support others—and did so consciously, so as not to coopt their stage.
The Racial Justice March, however, would be unreservedly a day for me to express my experience—mine and the millions of people of color like me. The time to wear out my shoes and lose my voice, to stand with the like-minded on a national and world stage and tell the current administration exactly why and how its values—to the extent that it even has any—are anathema to me.
It wouldn’t have been my first foray into demonstration. My Jewish progressive mother and my Black working-class father had me attending events before I could walk. My childhood was filled with Civil Rights-era hymns and folk songs, learned both at my Brooklyn daycare center and my Yiddish leftist summer camp. I spent many weekends on buses down to Washington attending peace and human rights rallies that I mostly didn’t understand.
As I was growing up, the names Amadou Diallou, Abner Louima and Sean Bell rang in my ears. The only time I remember seeing my father scared was when he spoke about the murder of Patrick Dorismond and how easily it could have happened to him. My father had a set number of emotions he would display regularly: Fear—until that moment—had not been one of them.
And then it happened to me. I and others in my generation witnessed the murders of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Eric Garner. I felt the same fear, the same terror—and the same need to make my voice heard.
But in a cruel twist of intersectional fate, the march has been scheduled to coincide with Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish Calendar—which means I and many of my racially conscious Jewish Comrades will be unable to take part.
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In the summer of 2016, Trump was running for president—but at that point it seemed unlikely that he’d win. I was walking home after taking part in an anti-police brutality protest when I stumbled into my own terrifying interaction with the NYPD. As I neared my home, I saw three officers outside my door. I asked them if anything was wrong. One of the officers moved for his holster. I remember how his hand lingered there, neither removing his service weapon nor dropping to his side. I remember how unapologetic he was. Turns out they were standing there for no reason at all. But I remember fumbling with my keys as I struggled to get inside, and the feeling of relief when I was safely in my own apartment.
At that point, I was already pretty scared of Trump; his racist rhetoric a harbinger of dark times for Black Americans, but the incident flipped a switch. This was less than a month after the snuff videos of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling shocked the country. My fear and anger were refined by the terror of my own encounter. So the election felt like more than a mere quadrennial civic exercise. To me, it seemed like a referendum on the validity of the African-American existence. I was not only angry at Trump voters, but third-party voters, non-voters—anybody who didn’t utilize the full force of their electoral might to thwart him.
...The post-election protests enabled me to realign with my leftist roots. My mother’s father was a member of the Communist party. Through the various other leftist organizations, I became more committed to progressive causes. So when a racial justice group organizer sent me an invitation for the march in September, I clicked “attending” without even looking at the date: Whenever it was, I thought, I will be there.
Then I saw the date—maybe the one and only day of the year I COULDN’T be there.
The nature of the commemoration added a subtle irony in the otherwise divisive incident is that it stems from a point of cultural similarity. Jews have a long tradition of observing occasions of sadness well as occasions of joy. Half the dates on the Jewish Calendar are in some part anniversaries of sorrow. We commemorate the dead not on the day they were born, but on the day that they left us. The fast of Yom Kippur, one of pure spirituality, is equaled by only one other day, The Ninth of Av, when a litany of tragedies and massacres befell the Jewish people.
In response to the furor, March organizers released a moving and compassionate explanation and apology. In the statement, organizers noted that they chose to use the event to commemorate an atrocity that often eludes the collective American memory: September 30th is the anniversary of the Elaine Massacre, when as many as 237 blacks were killed. It makes sense that the march be should against the most conspicuous expressions of racism. They also noted “[that] mistake highlights the need for our communities to form stronger relationships.”
...It’s a trying moment for me. Confrontations on race, language and politics have often put me at odds with the Orthodox Jewish community. That lack of ideological solidarity was eventually filled by social justice organizing. So, being sidelined on the left at such a defining moment is gutting. The unfortunate scheduling of the Racial Justice March only exacerbated some of the anxiety I felt as a Jew on the Left. The oversight was not as aggressive as some harsh language BDS resolution or the confrontations that pro-Israel Jews have experienced at various pride marches, but it was another point in a growing constellation of Jewish discomfort in the progressive spectrum. Yes, many of us will be marching the next day, but separately and with diminished sense of solidarity with the movement at large.
Every black Jew will tell you that maintaining both identities is a constant battle; internally and externally. The Jewish community has an innate thread of solidarity built in it’s always there even when philosophical differences lead to animosity, the bonds of a commonality exist; sometimes adding fuel to the fire. The Jewish calendar is sprinkled with festivals and holidays that are observed collectively. To not adhere is to be excised from the people; one of the worst consequences in Jewish Law, even worse than death.
On the other hand solidarity is crucial to civil rights. If MLK had walked alone on the Edmund Pettis bridge, where would we be? Would his speech at the March on Washington have resonated if it was given to the empty reflecting pool? For the disenfranchised to challenge the powerful, they must access their own power. This power lies not in arms or in capital, but in numbers. To stand apart from comrades at such a moment is to withhold my individual power from the collective.
So, which does one choose?
Thankfully in the end, there’s a compromise; and perhaps, in a way, this is as it should be. Even though it wasn’t the organizer’s first choice, I’ve come to think that their choice of day is ultimately the correct one—a feeling I was able to realize because, their own expressions of hope for solidarity with and engagement with Jews and the Jewish experience felt real and forthcoming and honest, and devoid of the noxious if subtle dogwhistling and worse going on inside some pockets of the left these days. The white-knuckled indignation I had felt at the organizers exclusion intersectional oversight has been replaced by begrudging acceptance that there’s something beneficial to the FOMO I and other Jews will feel. So we’ll take to the streets the next day; not in Washington, at the seat of Trump’s empire, but in New York, on our shared home turf, doing what Jews have always been commanded to do and speaking truth to power.
Read Ben Faulding’s full piece at Tablet.
#Black Jews#Ben Faulding#jewish identity#African American Jews#March for Racial Justice#anti black racism#white supremacy
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“The Nation of Islam is a cult. This may not be the news y’all wanna hear, but it’s true. It is a cult, possessing almost every negative connotation of the word, with an extreme theology ...
Ben Faulding, a black Jewish man, put it perfectly in a recent article in these pages, when he wrote, “[Louis Farrakhan] is an exploiter. He exploits the economic depression, resentment and anger of blacks to leverage his own power and status. He uses the language of liberation and the language of demagoguery in tandem. He is a poverty pimp. No civilized discourse or progress can move forward with him, or anybody who associates with him.”
It doesn’t matter what Farrakhan has done for black people. None. Of. It. Matters. The church of Scientology helps people out too! Should we condone the abuse and isolation that happens there because Scientologist philosophy sounds appealing sometimes? Cults pinpoint the anxieties and desires of their target group and they speak to that, but along the way they add crazy shit. ...
“The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road.” —Saviours’ Day Speech, Chicago, 2/22/98
“… Israelis had foreknowledge of the attacks… We know that many Jews received a text message not to come to work on September 11” —Saviour’s Day Speech, 2015
“Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out, turning men into women and women into men….And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled a cover off of that Satanic Jew, and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.” —Saviour’s Day Speech, 2/25/18
...If after reading my words and Farrakhan’s words, you continue to support him, then shame on you.
Shame on you, because for some unfathomable reason, you have chosen hate. You’ve chosen Holocaust jokes and pleas for women to cook for their husbands. You’ve chosen someone who thinks trans people are an abomination, and that gayness is a satanic Jewish invention. You’ve chosen someone who thinks Hitler was “a great man,” and considers being likened to Hitler a compliment...
You say you’re not anti-Semitic, that you don’t think that’s what’s going on with Farrakhan. Maybe you really believe that. After all, it’s easy to see anti-Semitism when it’s dressed up in the form of a Nazi salute or Richard Spencer’s tiki torch. It’s easy to see anti-Semitism when you’re weeping at the Holocaust museum or at your favorite WWII movie.
But, I guess it’s not easy to notice anti-Semitism when the Jewish people around you are screaming their throats hoarse and bloody, trying to get you to see them — and to see what’s happening to us, Black Jews. I guess it’s not easy to understand Jewish fear, when anti-Jewish bias is the motivation for 62% of religious hate crimes. I guess it’s not easy to comfort your Jewish friends who worry for their safety in a world where a rabbi’s daughter was burned in an acid attack and a young Jewish man was murdered by a neo-Nazi in Southern California. I guess it’s not easy to see anti-semitism when it’s in the form of your problematic Women’s March faves. And I guess it’s not easy to speak out against anti-semitism when it’s coming from your friendly neighborhood cult leader.
#Farrakhan#louis Farrakhan#antisemitism#homophobia#transphobia#anti-semitism#anti semitism#hate#hatred#bigotry#xenaphobia#women's march#womens march#black jews#jews of color#joc
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Idk if you heard about this but there's a black jewiah man who said he was almost shot when he took too long to buy his conditioner and the cashier called it in as a possible robbery. I felt the need to share since i haven't seen a ton of people talking abou it. His name is Ben faulding and he talked about it on twitter i believe.
Googled it here’s the article link if anyone wants to read: https://www.timesofisrael.com/this-black-jewish-man-says-he-was-almost-shot-while-buying-conditioner/My thoughts? I’m so disheartened but I can’t even fake surprise. This is how demonic anti blackness goes. Can’t even take your time in choosing a conditioner to wash your hair.With that being said, if he did rob the place (I know he wasn’t) a bottle of conditioner isn’t worth a human life and TWO cops guns drawn without assessing the situation. That’s foolish and grounds for being fired.- Susie
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Three Black Jews on the Women's March and Farrakhan
All three of these columns are excellent. I'm just linking to them here so they're in a convenient spot (and hopefully give them a bit more attention -- not just for the present controversy but as important voices generally in the Jewish community). Nylah Burton Ben Faulding Elad Nehorai Give them all a read. via The Debate Link http://ift.tt/2DchhO3
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DIPSHIDIOT OF THE DAY: LEFT-WING COLUMNIST WITH WASHINGTON POST AND OTHERS…….
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A few days ago, after the horrific stabbing attack on a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York, The Daily Beast ran an article by Jay Michaelson on the recent wave of anti-Semitism that discussed, among other things, Jersey City school official Joan Terrell-Paige’s bigoted Facebook rant about the kosher supermarket shootings in that city earlier in December. Terrell-Paige...deplored the displacement of black residents by “Jewish brutes,” urged sympathy for the shooters’ “message,” and asserted, as an example of Jewish evildoing, that “we learned six rabbis were accused of selling body parts.”
Michaelson notes that this grotesque claim “evokes 800 years of anti-Semitic myths of Jews using gentile body parts for ritual purposes” — specifically, the medieval belief that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in Passover rituals. However, he also says that it’s “a possible reference to a 2009 scandal of rabbis trafficking in organs for transplant,” albeit used in a clearly anti-Semitic context. A note at the bottom says this text was added in an update, presumably after someone alerted the author or the editors to the 2009 story.
There’s only one problem: no such scandal ever happened.
If you go to the linked article and then to the original source, it becomes clear that the allegation of organ-trafficking by rabbis was the product of a garbled news story. Perhaps worse, this 10-year-old screw-up was recently dredged up by progressives on Twitter in an attempt to deflect from a blatant instance of anti-Semitism on the left and score points against an ideological foe — even at the cost of making de facto excuses for bigotry. (It should be noted that this does not apply to Michaelson or The Daily Beast.)
The polemics began shortly after Bari Weiss, the controversial opinion writer and editor at The New York Times, tweeted the story about Terrell-Paige’s rant with the comment, “This woman believes that a group of rabbis sold body parts. She is a member of the Board of Education in Jersey City.”
...[T]he Twitter thread began to fill with snide comments asserting that the story was real — and had been covered by Weiss’s own newspaper. Most of these jabs came from small left-wing accounts or even anonymous trolls who stalk Weiss on Twitter. (Weiss gets a lot of grief, often for the most trivial reasons, partly because she is a highly visible, female, bisexual, politically liberal critic of left-wing identity politics who has influence on liberal turf.) But some fairly big names joined in, too — notably left-wing blogger Ben Faulding, a.k.a. “The Hipster Rebbe,” and veteran journalist Brooke Binkowski...
Yet a quick look at the July 23, 2009 New York Times story touted by Weiss’s detractors did not support their claim that Terrell-Paige’s conspiracy theory was real. The article reported the arrest of 44 people in New York and New Jersey — mostly politicians and public officials, but also five rabbis — on corruption and fraud charges. (The rabbis had been involved in using religious charities for money laundering.) One of the people charged in the sweep was an Israeli citizen living in Brooklyn, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who was accused of arranging black-market sales of kidneys for transplant; he later pleaded guilty to three counts of such trafficking and one count of conspiracy to arrange another sale. The only link between Rosenbaum and the money-laundering rabbis was that they were all busted with the help of the same federal informant.
...On the next day, Slate ran an article in its religion section titled “Organ Failure: The arrests of rabbis who trafficked body parts uncover more complicated issues.” Most of the piece, penned by acclaimed Jewish journalist/author Benyamin Cohen, had nothing to do with the Brooklyn case and examined the fraught issue of organ donation in Jewish religious law and Jewish culture. However, it opened with an attention-grabbing paragraph about the New York/New Jersey bust and its “ingredients of salaciousness and scandal”: “corrupt politicians, money laundering … and rabbis trafficking organs.”
Inexplicably, Cohen misidentified Rosenbaum as a rabbi and then referred to “the rabbis’ organ trafficking.” Presumably, he gave the Times story a cursory read, saw the reference to rabbis and illegal kidney sales, and decided it would make a good lead for an article about Jews and organ donation.
...Over the years, judging by a Twitter search for “rabbis” and “organs,” these “broken telephone” stories generated a small but steady trickle of anti-Semitic comments, invariably implying that the mythical organ-trafficking rabbis were killing non-Jews to harvest their organs for the benefit of Jews. (In reality, Rosenbaum was paying Israeli donors $10,000 apiece for kidneys for American patients.)
Such chatter probably spawned the rumors that inspired Terrell-Paige’s recent post. Then, the fake news resurfaced in the controversy over that post — particularly in response to Weiss’s tweet. While a few people pointed out that there were no organ-trafficking rabbis in the story, they were ignored. In her response to me on Twitter, Binkowski insisted that the claim about rabbis selling body parts “had a factual basis.”
...While this is a relatively minor episode, it’s a depressing commentary on the state of the media. At first, sloppiness and sensationalism without ill intent created a “fake news” story that feeds into one of the most vicious anti-Semitic myths. And then, some progressives, including journalists, used this fake story and gave it new life because they wanted to humiliate Bari Weiss on Twitter and dunk on the IDW.
Maybe next time leftists deride Trump supporters for their tendency to peddle “fake news,” their tolerance for racist dog-whistles, and their obsession with “owning the libs,” they should look in the mirror.
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Black writer nearly shot by police while shopping for conditioner
Despite reports regularly detailing how police target, harass, and kill unarmed Black Americans, officers’ interactions with people of color seem to have changed very little. A Twitter thread from writer Ben Faulding on Wednesday details a shocking confrontation that shows how miscommunication and racial profiling can cause people of color to die at officers’ hands. Faulding says he was walking…
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Black writer nearly shot by police while shopping for conditioner
Despite reports regularly detailing how police target, harass, and kill unarmed Black Americans, officers’ interactions with people of color seem to have changed very little. A Twitter thread from writer Ben Faulding on Wednesday details a shocking confrontation that shows how miscommunication and racial profiling can cause people of color to die at officers’ hands.
Faulding says he was walking home from the gym when he suddenly remembered that he needed conditioner for his hair. So he stopped at a store in Long Island, listening to K-Pop through his noise-canceling headphones, while he shopped. After picking out a conditioner and walking over to the front to pay, he says he saw a police officer with his weapon drawn, followed by a second officer. The latter screamed at Faulding, telling him to put his hands on the ground and move forward, he says. But Faulding’s headphones muted out the officer’s voice, making his instructions hard to hear.
“All I wanted to do was follow instructions,” Faulding tweeted. “Last thing I wanted was some mild mistake to end my life. Like with Daniel Shaver.”
Here’s a story about how I nearly just got killed by this cop. http://pic.twitter.com/3IYZFM9Ggh
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
I was wearing my new headphones; noise canceling. Sometimes I like to shut the world out and listen to music. They’re dark and sometimes manage to hide in my curls. This is important later. http://pic.twitter.com/QiBQiovwtI
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
My headphones were still blaring, I could barely hear.
“I CAN’T HEAR BECAUSE OF MY HEADPHONES. PLEASE TAKE THEM OFF. SO I CAN FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS.”
All I wanted to do was follow instructions. Last thing I wanted was some mild mistake to end my life. Like with Daniel Shaver.
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
Faulding is referring to 26-year-old Daniel Shaver, who was fatally shot by an Arizona officer in January 2016 because he believed Shaver had a gun. While Shaver crawled down the hallway, begging the officer not to shoot him, the officer opened fire after Shaver moved his hand.
“I’ve watched that video a dozen times wondering if I’d make the same mistake if I were in that situation,” Faulding said. “All Shaver did was reach back to pull his shorts up when they fell a little. A subconscious, small hand motion. He probably didn’t even think about it. And it ended his life.”
When he was shot. Daniel, was crawling when he was confronted by Mesa, Az police. He was murdered by an officer when he made a mistake while following instructions. http://pic.twitter.com/FmrycuOwCp
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
What if I missed an instruction because of the K-Pop blaring in my ears? What if I reached for my ears and this rookie flinched?
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
Eventually, Faulding says his headphones shifted and he was able to hear the officer’s instructions. He crawled on the ground, his hands forward, and was subsequently restrained by police. After officers searched his pockets and gym bag and found nothing, he was let go, he says. But Faulding learned that the incident wasn’t random. Police were allegedly called because a clerk assumed Faulding was shoplifting.
“When Nassau County PD got the call. It was for an armed robbery,” Faulding tweeted. “When they came in, they were looking for somebody with a gun. That’s why theirs were drawn. The bottle of conditioner I picked out was white. What if I had picked the black bottle? What if they had seen it wrong? What if my skin was darker? What if the cops had been a little bit jumpy?”
They put the bracelets on and oddly enough I felt a little safer after that. I was still screaming for them to take of my headphones which they did. They searched my pockets and gym bag. I hadn’t taken anything so I was fine. They let me go.
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
That’s the scary part. Here’s. The infuriating part. The clerk at the store called the police because she thought I was shop lifting. When Nassau County PD got the call. It was for an armed robbery.
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
When they came in, they were looking for somebody with a gun. That’s why theirs were drawn. The bottle of conditioner I picked out was white. What if I had picked the black bottle? What if they had seen it wrong?
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
If this has gone bad. I never would have told my side of the story. Yeah, the news story would have said I was unarmed. But those four officers would have command of the narrative.
— Ziggy 🌹 (@TheHipsterRebbe) January 3, 2018
In his tweets, Faulding, who is Black and Jewish, implies the clerk engaged in racial profiling, purposefully calling the police because of Faulding’s skin color—as this wouldn’t be the first time that a business or police targeted Black citizens on little pretense.
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“If this gone bad. I never would have told my side of the story. Yeah, the news story would have said I was unarmed. But those four officers would have command of the narrative,” Faulding writes. “Listening to music on headphones so loud might not have been the smartest move, but it was almost deadly. And it shouldn’t have been.”
The Daily Dot reached out to Faulding for comment but hasn’t heard back. Read Faulding’s full Twitter thread here.
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Cinc cèntims de la tertúlia del passat divendres 29 de setembre...
La isla de los cazadores de pájaros, de Peter May
(traducció: Toni Hill)
Tertúlia
S’ha acabat l’estiu. O les vacances. De fet, el dia que inaugurem el present curs del Club de lectura Tardes literàries ens trobem ja ben a finals de setembre. I la nostra primera tertúlia gira al voltant del llibre que les clubaires han llegit al llarg d’aquests mesos estivals, una obra de prop de 400 pàgines: La isla de los cazadores de pájaros, de Peter May.
Més avall, en la ressenya, fem constar que la crítica ha valorat aquesta novel·la com un magnífic exemple de gènere negre per la intriga de la investigació que s’hi duu a terme, per la profunditat a l’hora de retratar la psicologia dels personatges i per la qualitat de la seva prosa. Però curiosament les sensacions que ha provocat en el nostre club no s’han mogut tant a l’entorn de la investigació pròpiament dita, sinó al voltant del paisatge, el clima, l’illa, i sobretot les seves gents. És a dir, que en molts casos la novel·la no ha estat llegida en clau de thriller sinó com a drama psicològic.
La intriga, en general, ha estat valorada com a senzilla, en el sentit que moltes de les clubaires han esbrinat ben aviat qui era el culpable. Això ens ha portat a discutir sobre quina és la veritable intriga d’una novel·la: ¿saber qui és el responsable dels delictes que s’investiguen o bé conèixer les seves motivacions? Perquè val a dir que la intuïció de la culpabilitat ha estat generalitzada per les lectores, però continuaven llegint perquè no atinaven a comprendre’n els motius.
En aquest sentit hem destacat la meticulosa cura que empra l’autor, Peter May, per dosificar les informacions del cas que investiga el protagonista de la novel·la, el detectiu de policia Fin Macleod. Unes dades que va repartint al llarg de la narració com petites falques que es troben i retroben al mateix temps que el desenvolupament de la història avança i retrocedeix, tot passant d’un present en el qual tenim damunt la taula la investigació d’un crim, i potser també d’unes agressions i violació, fins aturar-nos de tant en tant a evocar el passat del detectiu: la seva infantesa, adolescència i primera joventut quan vivia a l’illa, d’on va marxar per no tornar gairebé mai més fins aquest moment.
Ha cridat l’atenció l’ambient opressiu que se’ns descriu, amb una societat tancada en ella mateixa i on no sols el silenci té importància, sinó també el secretisme, ja sigui per un pacte tàcit, per tabú, o per una qüestió d’imatge social. Aquest callament és un dels motius que provoca, en el protagonista, la desmemòria, perquè hi ha una part del seu passat que li ha quedat esborrada de la ment. Però l’altra raó de l’oblit del passat per part de Fin Macleod és un trauma infantil. I hem destacat la manera discreta i efectiva com l’autor ens va apropant a aquesta història oculta.
Altres temes que s’han comentat han estat la valoració del clima com un personatge més de la novel·la, amb unes belles i precises descripcions del paisatge; o les relacions d’amistat i d’amor situades en el record de la infantesa, així com un aspecte ben actual: el bullying. També hi trobem la denúncia al voltant de les espècies en vies d’extinció, i al seu costat la pervivència en el temps d’uns rituals (que marquen el pas de nen a home) que potser avui en dia serien qüestionables.
La senzillesa amb què sembla està escrita La isla de los cazadores de pájaros contrasta amb la profunditat de les diverses temàtiques exposades, i en general ha estat considerada una lectura àgil, interessant, i han quedat ganes de continuar llegint els altres títols de la trilogia de Lewis: El hombre sin pasado i El último peón.
L’autor
Novel·lista i guionista televisiu britànic, neix a Glasgow el 1951. Des de ben jove va encaminar la seva carrera cap a l’escriptura. La primera novel·la l’escriu quan té 19 anys, i malgrat que el manuscrit va ser rebutjat per l’editorial on la va enviar, el van animar a continuar escrivint. D’aquesta manera als 26 anys aconsegueix veure publicada la seva primera novel·la, El reporter, que posteriorment es va convertir en una sèrie televisiva de 13 capítols titulada The Estandard (1978).
A partir d’aquesta entrada en el món de la literatura i de les adaptacions televisives (hi ha treballat durant anys), la publicació de les seves novel·les comença a ser efectiva. Per a la seva sèrie de novel·les ambientades a la Xina, thrillers que s’han publicat en diversos idiomes, va viatjar sovint a la Xina per documentar-se sobre el terreny i parlar amb forenses i detectius.
Una experiència similar la va tenir amb França, país on viu en l’actualitat (des de 2001, quan va tramitar la nacionalitat francesa). El 2007 va guanyar el Premi Intramurs, l’especificitat del qual consisteix a ser un guardó atorgat per presos francesos. Els autors han de viatjar i visitar diverses presons franceses i contactar i conversar amb els presos.
També es va introduir en el món on-line de Second Life, i mitjançant l’avatar que es va crear, Flick Faulds, un detectiu privat virtual, hi va passar un any treballant-t’hi gràcies als contractes que rebia d’altres companys de Second Life (des de protecció d’assetjadors virtuals a vigilància i investigacions d’infidelitats, també virtuals).
D’entre les seves obres podem destacar la trilogia Lewis, els thrillers ambientats a la Xina (The firemaker, The fourth sacrifice, The killing room, Snakehead...), i altres novel·les que, malauradament, no han estat traduïdes ni al català ni al castellà en la seva majoria.
En castellà en aquests moments podem trobar La isla de los cazadores de pájaros, que comentarem en el nostre Club de lectura, i d’altres com Entry Island, El hombre sin pasado, i El último peón.
L’obra
La isla de los cazadores de pájaros és una novel·la d’intriga, amb una història inquietant, que s’esdevé entre les boires de l’illa de Lewis, situada a la part més septentrional de l’illa més gran de les Hèbrides exteriors, a Escòcia. És també una narració de denúncia contra la caça anual de gugas, paraula gaèlica que denomina unes aus endèmiques d’aquesta zona: mascarells joves de carn molt apetitosa. I encara podríem afegir que ens trobem davant d’un relat d’amistat i amor, d’introspecció, de solitud i buidor, de retorn al passat del qual s’ha fugit.
Tot s’inicia quan els superiors del detectiu Fin Macleod decideixen enviar-lo a Crobost, una població de l’esmentada illa de Lewis, perquè col·labori en la investigació d’un crim que hi ha tingut lloc. Volen que verifiqui si pot tractar-se del mateix assassí d’un altre crim succeït a Edimburg, del qual s’encarrega el mateix Fin Macleod, ja que el modus operandi és similar.
Però aquest viatge a Crobost, per al detectiu, no serà només un afer policial, sinó que significarà remoure els records d’infantesa i joventut ja que és on va néixer i créixer. Es retrobarà amb companys amb qui va compartir estudis, amb amistats que les circumstàncies van tallar de soca-rel, amb amors truncats però no oblidats. I també amb els homes amb qui va compartir la seva estada, la seva única estada, a la roca (un illot erm i poc accessible on s’instal·len durant uns dies per caçar les esmentades gugas).
Tota aquesta trama se’ns mostra embolcallada per unes belles descripcions de paisatges agrestes i en ocasions corprenedors, se’ns mostra envoltada per la imatge d’una societat tancada en ella mateixa, opressiva i repressiva a parts iguals. I amb tot, el protagonista, el detectiu Fin Macleod, copsarà els canvis que s’hi han esdevingut des que va marxar.
La isla de los cazadores de pájaros és el primer lliurament de la Trilogia de Lewis i la crítica l’ha valorada com una magnífica novel·la de gènere negre per la intriga de la investigació que s’hi duu a terme, per la profunditat a l’hora de retratar la psicologia dels personatges i per la qualitat de la seva prosa.
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(setembre 2017)
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