In this play, Leroi Jones is attacking the African Americans who are not aware of the cause they should fight for. Court Royal is a black man who is well fitted inside the American society, working at the post office for thirty-five years. Suddenly he is accused of harboring a criminal.

At the beginning of the play, we believe that he is being accused wrongly just because he is black, and then hated by the society. There are even hooded men judging and

However, the play makes a turn, and we get to know that Court Royal is the criminal himself as he has neglected for many years his "family". As he sees images of "Malcom. Patrice. Rev. King. Garvey. Dead nigger kids being killed by the police. Medgar Evers." He says: "Oh, son... son... dear God, my flesh, forgive me... My sons." This is when he becomes aware of how he indeed has helped killing his brothers by not helping them in their fight. Symbolically, he must kill a member of his family, which means to kill a shadow of his past. With this rite, he will be brought back to his "natural reality".

Jones, Leroi. The Revolutionary Theater. - 1965 found at http://www.umich.edu/~eng499/documents/baraka1.html

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