Wilson, known to Swedish audiences, among other things, for his production of "A Dream Play" at Stockholm City Theatre, compares today's situation to his own upbringing in a right-wing extremist and religiously fanatical small community in Texas in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was impossible to walk down the street with a black person without being persecuted, he says in an interview with Le Monde.
But with a single speech, "I have a dream", Martin Luther King changed the course of 20th-century history, emphasizes Wilson – it led to people being able to walk together calmly, regardless of skin color.
Even though they had been chained, beaten, and reduced to slavery, the blacks created a literature and music full of hope, says Robert Wilson.
We are not in a time when anger should govern us. We must seek positive solutions and find a leader who takes back the light. It is a challenge, today more than ever.
