The play’s title refers to the school-to-prison pipeline, the policies and procedures that send a disproportionate number of Black students toward the criminal justice system.
That’s how the character Nya in the play “Pipeline” describes sending her Black son out into the world. “You have no idea if they’re safe … it’s frightening.”
“We hold onto these experiences and often have not been believed in the past,” said Mengesha. “You just end up festering and growing into fears that you learn how to live with. And I think is saying, actually, no, we don’t have to live with this. We have to share it. We have to release it.” This is a Canadian as well as an American problem: statistics released by the Black Legal Action Centre reveal that 42 per cent of Black high school students in Ontario have been suspended at least once, are 29 times more likely to experience discriminatory treatment by police at school and seven times more likely to experience discriminatory treatment from teachers.
Disproportionate violence against Black bodies “was something always knew,” but when Floyd was murdered, “all of a sudden, the whole world believed,” said Wengesha. “I think plays like this really try to offer people insight into lived experience and how it costs.”
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