Just Say “No”
Scene: Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, 11 p.m. Our Hero emerges from work and finishes making plans by phone with friends.
(Three black youths enter, stage right)
Black Youth 1: Let’s get that n____r!
Black Youth 2: Yeah, get him!
Black Youth 3: Get that n_____r!
(They cross left, chasing after another black youth. They start to beat him)
Our Hero: (standing stage right) What the f*ck… (reaches for phone to call the police.)
(A Hispanic man with an American accents sidles up to OH from stage right)
Hispanic Man: These n____rs are stupid!
(OH ignores him, turns to leave)
HM: I love this shit. (pause) Just say n_____r one time. Just say it.
OH: No. (He starts to walk away. HM follows.)
HM: Come on! I’m not black; I won’t be offended.
(Black youths exit, stage left)
OH: No. That’s just not something I say lightly.
HM: Oh, OK. Have a good night! (He exits stage right ahead of OH).
Fin
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“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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