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CLIPPING THE WINGS OF OUR WHITE MASTERS
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SATAN AND HIS DEPUTIES
BY
MAX ALEXANDER MALLOY
YEAR-2003
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FADE IN:
EXT – HEAVEN’S GARDEN OF EDEN – MANY AGES AGO - MIDDDAY
It’s midday on the black banks of the Solace River. The hospitable sun refreshes the moment. Orchards of prismatic trees and flowers sway noiselessly in the mellow breeze. A manifold cluster of multicolored birds hover and sing merry melodies. Suddenly, the Garden of Eden slowly transforms into mayhem. The sun refuses to shine. The birds flee away, as the majestic trees and flowers cease to sway.
LUCIFER, A WHITE-ANGELIC SPIRIT, 50, BLOND HAIR, BLUE EYES, 6FT-8, 270-LBS, ATTIRED IN AN ORANGE TOGA. LARGE WINGS PROTRUDE FROM LUCIFER’S BROAD SHOULDERS.
LUCIFER SULKS AND STOMPS AROUND ANGRILY. HE WALKS BEHIND A TREE IN THE FOREST AND HE’S SUDDENLY STARTLED BY THE EERIE SIGHTING OF A 6FT OVAL-SHAPED “EVIL TALKING MIRROR OF DOOM”. THE MIRROR’S GRIMACING FACE SEETHES WITH ANGER. ITS LONG ARMS AND BOWLEGS EXTEND OUTWARD FROM ITS PORTLY FRAME. LUCIFER STOPS AND STARES AT THE MIRROR OF DOOM. LUCIFER RAISES HIS HANDS IN A DEFENSIVE POSTURE AND SHAKES WITH FEAR, AS THE MIRROR OF DOOM CALLS OUT TO HIM.
MIRROR OF DOOM
(Low-thunderous voice)
Lucifer, come closer to me. I’m the Talking Mirror of Doom. Why are you so angry? Can I help you? I can reflect upon your problems and I can solve them for you.
Lucifer’s no longer startled. He relaxes and lowers his hands. He now eases closer the Mirror of Doom.
LUCIFER
(Relax, but still Angry)
Indeed, Mirror of Doom! I’m tired of being a servant for a black God, a black Jesus and a black Holy Spirit!
The Mirror of Doom offers a deep-sarcastic laugh and quickly turns stern. He replies to Lucifer.
TALKING MIRRIOR OF DOOM
Lucifer, unbeknown to you, I’ve always observed you and I’ve always wondered why you’ve never sought my help. I’m sure you’ve heard of me. Well, anyway, now listen carefully. Indeed you’re white, handsome, and blond. You don’t belong here. In addition, Lucifer, because of your whiteness, genetically, you’re far superior to each of your swarthy, ill-bred Slave Masters. I sincerely suggest you challenge the authority of that black God and his two henchmen. But first, you must remove that flashy-orange toga. Here, Lucifer, don this white suit, white shirt, white tie and shoes.
The Mirror of Doom reaches down and retrieves the white apparels and gives them to Lucifer. Lucifer smile, takes the white apparels from the Mirror of Doom. He turns his back to the Mirror and quickly puts on the white apparels.
TALKING MIRROR OF DOOM
Now, Lucifer, go over to god and demand your rights as a superior-white spirit. Do it now!
Lucifer runs away with a broad-confident grin. He turns around and nods graciously to the Talking Mirror of Doom.
LUCIFER
(Grinning)
Thanks Mirror of Doom. I can’t wait any longer. Your sensible advice was much needed. Henceforth, unless I achieve my demands, peace and tranquility shall cease to flow in Heaven.
As Lucifer begins to walk away, he raises his right fist in the air and salutes the Mirror of Doom.
TALKING MIRROR OF DOOM
Now Lucifer, check with me later and apprise me of your success. Good luck.
As Lucifer sticks his chest out and walks away from the forest, he looks back and yells to the Mirror of Doom.
LUCIFER
(Yells)
Talking Mirror, believe me, it will be soon, real soon! Thanks.
Lucifer runs swiftly down a dirt road to seek a confrontation with his oppressor - God.
EXT – HEAVEN’S GARDEN OF EDEN – DAY
GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE THREE ELDERLY, GRAY-HAIRED BLACK MEN.
IN THE EAST WING OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN, ON THE BLACK BANKS OF THE SOLACE RIVER, GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SIT ON TREE STUMPS DISCUSSING LUCIFER’S BEHAVIOR. LUCIFER RUSHES UP TO GOD, ANGRILY POINTS HIS FINGER IN GOD’S FACE AND COMPLAINS.
LUCIFER
(Boisterous)
Listen here God! I’m sick and tired of slaving around here and taking orders from you and your black cohorts! You’ve given me no respect! After all, I’m superior! I’m not going to take it anymore!
God looks at Jesus and the Holy Spirit with amazement. Now, God rises slowly from the tree stump and speaks to Lucifer in an angry tone.
GOD
(Angry - shouts)
Lucifer, I’m aware that you’ve often attempted to ignite a racial uprising among all of my white Angels! I also know you’ve conferred with the evil Talking Mirror of Doom! I’m quite aware that the Mirror of Doom has goaded you to rise up against me! Lucifer, vengeance is mine! Therefore, for your willful display of rudeness and disobedience, I hereby expel you from Heaven and exile you down to the frigid realms of earth-Europe. There, you’ll cease to be a Heavenly Spirit. Instead, you’ll roam the earth as a despicable earthly Spirit! Be gone!
God quickly grabs Lucifer’s shoulders, spins him around and kicks him in the ass. Lucifer screams loudly and tumbles down to earth as his celestial wings tumble from his aching body. In heaven the sun again shines brightly. The birds sing and the colorful trees and flowers resume swaying in the breeze.
EXT – EARTH – NUREMBERG GERMANY – BISMARCK FOREST – DAY
LUCIFER LANDS ON HIS FEET IN NUREMBERG GERMANY’S BISMARCK FOREST-DURING THE BRUTAL COLD OF WINTER. HE HUNCHES HIS SHOULDER HIGH TO WARD OFF THE BREEZY GALE. LUCIFER APPEARS BEFUDDLED. HE LOOKS AROUND THE FOREST AND LISTENS INTENTLY TO THE NOISY ANIMALS. LUCIFER STOMPS ANGRILY ABOUT THE FOREST AND HE STOPS NEAR A SMALL–DIRT PATH. LUCIFER SPOTS CAIN, HIS FIRST-WHITE EARTHLING. HE’S YOUNG, SAD MAN, WHO SITS ON A TREE STUMP WITH HIS HEAD BOWED.
LUCIFER
(Mischievous grin)
Hello earthling, my name is Lucifer, but as of this moment, I’m changing it to Satan: “The Angel of Revenge”. Anyway, by the look of things, I would say you’ve got a huge problem.
Cain looks up lazily at Satan with a depressing grimace.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
Hello Satan. My name is Cain of Nuremberg and I do have a huge problem.
Satan gives a slight smirk, walks in front of Cain, looks down upon him and places his hand upon Cain’s right shoulder.
SATAN
Problem, did you say problem? Well, my boy, I specialize in solving problems. Now Cain, tell me, what’s your problem?
Cain looks relieved. He gives a sigh and looks up at Satan.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
Well Satan, I’m originally from Africa’s Garden of Eden. My family and I migrated to Europe quite some time ago. Many times I’ve tried to return, but each time I seem to lose my direction. Satan, can you help me?
satan
(Cunning grin)
Why certainly Cain, I can help you. Young man as the Patriarch of mother earth, I can do anything. Who’s going to stop me? I was just kicked out of Heaven’s Garden of Eden by an evil black god; but now, I have no choice but to hate all black people; I hope there’re no blacks in Africa.
Cain looks surprise. He quickly rises up from the tree stump and gazes curiously at Satan.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Curious expression)
Satan, you mentioned God, Heaven, and black people? Where is this heaven? And are there black people in Heaven?
Satan looks up and points to the sky. Cain looks up.
SATAN
Oh Cain, Heaven is up there. It’s far- flung beyond the sun and all of its starry neighbors. Actually, it’s farther than any earthling can fathom. Cain, heaven is blissful, floral and serene; it boasts of no discords or deprivations. However, Heaven does have one drastic misgiving.
Satan stares in a trance - with anger. Cain stares impatiently at him. Finally Cain inquires.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
WELL SATAN, WHAT’S HEAVEN MISGIVING?
Satan snaps out of his trance and responds to Cain.
SATAN
(Looks at Cain)
Oh Cain, Heaven is governed by three, domineering-unattractive black men, known as the three Godheads, namely - God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Cain touches Satan’s shoulder and smiles.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
Satan you don’t have to worry. You see, I was once black and after migrating to Europe from Africa, my family and I turned white. I don’t know, but, perhaps my old friends in Africa have also turned white. Please Satan, can you guide me back to my homeland? I really would like to see my best pal, Abel.
satan
Certainly Cain, you know, Africa is a remote Continent, but with my magical powers, I will fly you to Africa in a flash. Let’s be on our way, but first, you must remove your rumpled clothing and dress-up like me; you’ll then make an impressive appearance.
cain OF NUREMBERG
(Smiles broadly)
Satan you’re right.
Satan looks Cain over. Cain snaps his finger and suddenly a white suit, white shirt, white tie; white socks, white shoes and a silver sword with sheath - magically appear on the ground before them. Cain picks the items up.
SATAN
Now put on these matching white apparels; wear the sword around your waist and put it in the sheath. You may need the sword to fend off wild animals.
Cain put on the clothing and straps the sheathed sword around his waist. Cain looks at Satan and awaits his approval.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Smiling)
Now Satan, how do I look?
Satan gives Cain the once over and nods his head.
satan
My good friend you look just marvelous. You’ll now notice that your white apparels ideally match your white complexion. Always remember this stellar whiteness as your trademark of superiority and it signifies the excellence of your people over blacks.
Satan grasps Cain’s hand, snaps his fingers and instantly they’re in flight over turbulent Oceans, thick Jungles and rugged Mountains, in route to the Continent of Africa.
EXT – WEST AFRICA’S GARDEN OF EDEN – DAY
IT’S MIDDAY ON THE BLACK BANKS OF THE SOLACE RIVER. THE HOSPITABLE SUN REFRESHES THE MOMENT. ORCHARDS OF PRISMATIC TREES AND FLOWERS SWAY NOISELESSLY IN THE MELLOW BREEZE. A MANIFOLD CLUSTER OF COLORFUL BIRDS HOVERS AND SINGS MELODIOUS SONGS.
BUT SUDDENLY, THIS TRANQUIL VENUE SLOWLY TRANSFORM INTO A GARDEN OF MAYHEM. THE SUN REFUSES TO SHINE. THE SCARED BIRDS FLEE AWAY; THE MAJESTIC TREES AND FLOWERS CEASE TO SWAY, AS SATAN AND CAIN ALIGHT ON THE BLACK BANKS OF THE SOLACE RIVER.
SATAN LOOKS AROUND IN AMAZEMENT, AS HE RECOGNIZES AFRICA’S GARDEN OF EDEN - AS BEING AN EXACT REPLICA OF HEAVEN’S GARDEN OF EDEN.
SATAN
(SMILES WILDLY)
Wow! Cain, look at this beautiful landscape! This is Heaven! I mean Africa’s Garden of Eden looks identical to Heaven’s Garden of Eden. However, there’s one major difference, upon this vast dominion, here, I’ll reign as King. As god favored blacks in heaven, here, within the realms of my vast dominion, I will cater to the whims and desires of white people.
Satan looks over near several trees and spots the Evil Talking Mirror of Doom. Satan waves to him, grabs Cain’s arm and escorts him over to meet the Talking Mirror of Doom.
SATAN
(Broad smile)
Talking Mirror of Doom, meet my earthly companion, Cain, but what are you doing here on earth?
talking mirror of doom
(Frowning – curious)
Lucifer, I travel the entire universe. But I want to know why you are here on earth and not in Heaven?
Satan looks bashful and holds his head down.
SATAN
Well, Talking Mirror of Doom, In Heaven, I challenged God’s authority as you suggested. However, he became angry, proclaimed vengeance was his and subsequently kicked me down to Europe. I’m now an earthly Spirit and I’ve angrily changed my name to Satan.
The Talking Mirror signals with his right hand for Satan and Cain to follow him. They walk over to a field where they see a deep-black African man working in the field.
TALKING MIRROR OF DOOM
(Points at the African man)
Satan, now here’s your chance to avenge God’s disrespect of you. You can now avenge God’s abuse of you by eliminating one of his black creations. Get the picture, Satan?
Satan glares at Cain and the Talking Mirror of Doom. A sudden evil scowl controls Satan’s face. Satan nudges Cain and points at the African. Cain looks confused.
SATAN
(Angry expression)
Cain, go over there and speak to that African, after all, you were born here in Africa.
Cain walks over to the African and introduces himself.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Friendly)
Sir, you look vaguely familiar.
The African inspects Cain closely and then Satan. The African now glares confusingly at Satan and the weird - looking Talking Mirror of Doom.
ABEL
(Broad - polite smile)
Well, Mister, you look familiar as well.
Cain stares at Satan, then again at the black African. Now Cain remembers; he points his finger at the African and screams; Cain jumps up and down.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Jubilant - scream)
By George! I got it! You’re my friend Abel! Abel! I’m Cain of Nuremberg! We grew up together in this very field and the Garden of Eden! Oh boy!
Abel leaps into Cain’s arms and they both embrace mightily. Now Cain moves away from Abel and glances at Satan. Satan looks upset; he eases closer to Cain and whispers in his ear.
SATAN
(Frown)
Cain, what happened to your friend Abel? I thought you said all Africans had possibly turned as white as you. But look at this pathetic soul he’s bluish-black, ugly, and unintelligent. I wonder if all Africans have failed to turn white.
Cain becomes annoyed at Satan negative critique of Abel and gives Satan an evil gaze.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Gives Satan an evil gaze)
Satan, your comments were unwarranted. You see, like Abel, I too was once bluish–black. Obviously by migrating to Europe away from Africa’s tortuous sun, my family and I turned white. But any way, Satan, aren’t we all created equal in God’s sight. Aren’t we all brothers?
Abel also gives Satan an evil glare.
ABEL
(Angry)
Yes Satan, my name is Abel son of Tom Eden - God’s first created man on earth. Thus, Satan, we’re all created equal and in God’s image, despite our dissimilar pigmentation.
Satan walks up to Abel and yells angrily.
SATAN
(Irate)
No Abel! That black God in heaven is your God; he’s the God of all of you black people; he’s not my God! Here on earth I’m God of the Aryans; but, as for you black Monkeys of Africa, I’m your worst nightmare!
The Talking Mirror of Doom laughs and gives Satan the hands up signal.
SATAN
Now Abel, I will prove to you and Cain that I’m the true-white tyrant of Mother Earth.
Satan eases closer to Cain and raises his hand to strike him.
SATAN
(Furious - yells)
Cain, to prove your white supremacy over all black Niggers, I order you to kill Abel! Kill this Nigger now!
Cain turns away from Satan; he’s frightened. Cain shakes with fear. Both Abel and Cain glare disbelievingly at Satan. Cain bows his head. The Evil Mirror of Doom sneers.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Cries aloud)
My God in Heaven! Abel has done me no wrong; he’s my friend and he’s brother-in-spirit!
Again Satan raises his hand to strike Cain.
SATAN
(Yells adamantly)
Cain, for the last time, you’ll slay this disgusting Nigger or you will surely die in his stead!
Still crying profusely, Cain slowly pulls his sword from the sheath, moves closer to Abel and plunges the sword deep into Abel’s chest. Abel unleashes a loud–gurgling groan and falls dead at Cain’s feet. Cain falls to his knees and collapses into an uncontrollable sob.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Sobbing on is knees)
Oh my God in Heaven! What have I done?
Satan looks down upon both Cain and Abel and offers a loud- thunderous laugh. Satan puts his right hand upon Cain’s right shoulder and assists him to his feet. The Talking Mirror of Doom laughs aloud and speaks to Satan.
TALKING MIRROR OF DOOM
(HEARTY LAUGH)
Satan, now you realize you don’t have to worship a heavenly God. On the contrary, you’re now the God of earth, and as such, your first official act is historic. You’ve successfully initiated the genesis of racism, whereas you’ve caused the first slaying of an African Nigger. Thus, you’ve set the tone, whereas the white man will rule the earth - unopposed forever.
The Mirror of Doom walks away from Satan, then turns around and wave goodbye. Satan turns and speaks to Cain.
SATAN
Cain, now you’re devoid of all facets of moral and social affiliations. In other words, Cain, you’re now an unrepentant sinner. This is earth’s genesis of racism. As nonconformists, we both must remove our white clothing and don all-black attire.
Cain and Satan remove their white clothing and change into all-black attire. They walk away from Abel’s body.
SATAN
Cain, in the future, when and if you’re quizzed about Abel’s death or any other so-called ungodly-racist matter, you must always impede that inquiry - by lying and denying. We will disseminate our legacy of lying and denying to all future generations of the white world. Cain, henceforth, your lies and denials will enable whites to preserve their political and social superiority - wherever they may roam.
Satan taps Cain on the shoulder; they exchange Smiles.
SATAN
Cain I hope you’re ready to spread our hatred of blacks to your friends and family members in Europe?
Cain smiles and nods his head in the affirmative.
SATAN
Now let’s return to Europe and introduce our brand of hatred of black Niggers to Europeans, whom I’m sure, have never seen an African.
Satan grasps Cain’s hand, snaps his fingers and instantly they’re in flight back to Europe, soaring above turbulent Oceans, thick Jungles, and rugged Mountains.
EXT – EUROPE - NUREMBERG GERMANY – BISMARCK FOREST – DAY
IN BISMARCK FOREST, SATAN AND CAIN STAND SIDE BY SIDE IN A LARGE, CIRCULAR-GRASSY AREA, IN FRONT OF A LARGE NUREMBERG CROWD. SATAN AND CAIN PREPARE TO ADDRESS THE AUDIENCE REGARDING THEIR HISTORIC ADVENTURE ON THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA. SATAN SPEAKS FIRST.
SATAN
(FRIENDLY EXPRESSION)
Ladies and gentlemen of Nuremberg, My name is Satan. I’m from a far away land, which I care not to expound upon at the moment. However, I’m sure that you’ve heard that your fellow citizen, Cain and I, recently traveled to the scarcely known Continent of Africa. What we discovered in Africa and how we adequately dealt with it will undoubtedly astonish you all. So, without further ado, I give you your fellow citizen, my Deputy, Cain of Nuremberg.
Cain moves a few steps closer to his fellow citizens. They give him a rousing–standing ovation. As Cain look over the grassy plain, he’s astonished as he witnessed the approach of hundreds of his Nuremberg fellow citizens still arriving in the forest.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
(Calm, broad grin – bows to Satan)
Thanks Satan. My fellow citizens of Nuremberg, I’m please to appear before you at midday to announce our inauguration of a major event in Africa that served to preserve our Caucasian people as a superior–ruling class forever. Our severe–lethal message will always deter the encroachment of all non-Aryan people.
Audience rises and gives Cain another standing ovation. Cain resumes in a louder tone as his hands flails wildly.
CAIN OF NUREMBERG
Let me explain. Yes, we know that the Continent of Africa is scarcely known. We learned that many of those savage Africans expressed hardy desires to migrate to Europe. Now white men of Germany, you know we can’t tolerate black savages in Nuremberg. Just imagine your blue-eye blond daughters being crudely screwed by some untamed animal from Africa. So, with that in mind, I slew Abel, my black-boyhood friend. I’m terribly sorry for that, but now I relieved to know that one day, Abel and his kind will not screw my blond sisters or your blond daughters. Killing and enslaving blacks loom as our premier cardinal rule and it will persevere as our compelling deterrent to ethnic infringement. With this in mind, you’ll pass these stringent restraints down to your children and they will convey it to theirs. I thank my family and my Nuremberg friends for listening. Be advised that from now on - you’re all Satan’s Deputies.
Exuberant Spectators thrush their hands in the air and repeatedly chant:
SPECTATORS
Cain of Nuremberg! Cain of Nuremberg! Cain of Nuremberg! Cain of Nuremberg!
INT – YEAR 2016- HARLEM NEW YORK – BLACK MAN’S APARTMENT: TOM EDEN – DAY
TOM EDEN IS A RELIGIOUS, BLACK CHAUFFEUR, 40, 160—LBS, SHORT, PORTLY, BLACK HAIR.
IT’S DAWN. IN HIS SMALL, CRAMPED, HARLEM NEW YORK APARTMENT, TOM EDEN, A BLACK MAN, HAS TROUBLE SLEEPING. HE SITS ON THE SIDE OF HIS BED AND GAZES OUT OF HIS BEDROOM WINDOW. TOM IS TORN AND PLAGUED BY THE RECENT ESCALATION OF RACISM AGAINST BLACK AMERICANS. HE’S AFFLICTED WITH THE NAGGING NOTION THAT HE CAN RESOLVE AMERICA’S RACIAL ILLS. TOM OPENS HIS HOLY BIBLE TO THE 23RD PSALM, PLACES IT ON THE NIGHT TABLE, KNEELS BEFORE IT AND OFFERS A PRAYER TO GOD.
TOM EDEN
Oh my precious Savior in Heaven, I humbly pray to you on this early Eastern dawn. I pray to you because I’m immensely troubled by the recent escalation of overt–white racism against my people - black people. Although an emancipation proclamation has been signed and constitutional amendments enacted, still, like the Jews in bondage under Pharaoh, blacks, under systemic carnages of modern–day Pharaohs, remain in economic, educational and mental bondage. So, through you, my Savior, I demand of this heartless white regime: let my people go! Let my people go! Let my people go! Please oh mighty King, illuminate the bleak path of midnight, that I may unbridle my people and guide them to the archaic promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I humbly conclude this prayer in your pious name. Amen.
Suddenly, Tom hears loud thunder booms. He’s startled, nervous and scared, as he witness shrill streaks of lightening illuminate the darken sky. Shuddering-thunder booms knock Tom to the floor. Feeling faint, Tom struggles and lifts himself from the floor. After regaining his composure, Tom is aghast; he whirls around and witnesses the spirit of black Jesus standing behind him.
JESUS, ELDERLY, 6FT, SLIM, LONG – GRAY HAIR, WEARING A BLACK TOGA, A BLACK – SILK SCARF DRAPES HIS SHOULDER.
JESUS SPEAKS TO TOM.
JESUS
(Low voice – slow deliverance)
Tom I heard your desperate prayer and you’re the only man in America who’ve witnessed my present. I’ve chosen to visit you because you’re pious and you’re a remote descendant of Tom Eden, my first human creation in Earth’s Garden of Eden. Tom, I know you and your people are still rebelling against the constant aggression of your racist- white Masters. But Tom I want you to try and subdue your people’s anger. As per my authority, you’ll go into the land; you’ll admonish the sadistic rulers of this nation to cease their racist acts of selfishness and honor the U.S. Constitution equally for all people. If not, I’ll personally return to these sinful United States and destroy their racist existence with fire.
tom
But…
Tom attempts to answer Jesus, but in an instant, Jesus disappears. Tom pinches himself to convince himself that he’s not dreaming. He looks down upon the floor and retrieves a black–silk scarf, which had been draped about Jesus’ shoulders. Tom smiles and nods his head up and down.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – FRONT OF CYRUS LEGREE 5TH AVE. RESIDENT – DAY
TOM STANDS NEXT TO A GOLD ROLLS ROYCE WAITING TO DRIVE HIS EMPLOYER, CYRUS LEGREE, TO HIS CONNECTICUT OFFICE COMPLEX.
CYRUS LEGREE AN EVIL RACIST: A MALE WHITE, 50, SLIM, 6FT-1, GRAY HAIR, BLUE SUIT, RED TIE.
LEGREE EXITS HIS APARTMENT BUILDING. TOM NODS TO LEGREE, OPENS THE REAR DOOR FOR LEGREE. LEGREE ENTERS.
INT – INSIDE ROLLS ROYCE - DAY
TOM DRIVES LEGREE TO CONNECTICUT.
TOM
(GRINNING)
Good morning boss.
Legree ignores Tom greetings and speaks harshly.
LEGREE
(Grumpy)
Boy, just drive me to Connecticut.
Tom silently drives Legree to his Wallace Connecticut office complex. Suddenly out of the blue, Legree breaks his long silence.
LEGREE
(Sarcastic)
Boy, how’s your love life?
Resentful for being called a boy, Tom becomes angry. His face reveals an evil scowl. He replies.
TOM
(Fuming)
Mr. Legree, that’s none of your damn business!
Legree’s upset; he tries to intimidate Tom.
LEGREE
(Rude)
Boy, let me ask you something! Do you know that I’m a Deputy of Satan? I’m sure you’re aware how Satan feels about you people. Well, I feel the same way. So Nigger, you better behave yourself!
Tom remains silent and angry as he continues driving along the highway to Wallace Connecticut. Moments later, Legree smile with sarcasm and speaks to Tom again.
LEGREE
(Sarcasm)
Well, boy, my love life is great. Boy, do you know my curvy, colored, sleep-in Maid, Eve Jordan?
Tom continues driving; he refuses to answer Legree. Legree laughs, as Tom peer at him through the rear-view mirror.
LEGREE
(Teasing)
Well, anyway, Tom, many nights after my wife, Sarah retires for the evening, Eve and I retire to the maid’s quarter and we make passionate love.
Tom boils in anger. He shifts and squirms in his seat. He can’t take it any more. He swells; he’s about to explode.
TOM
(Blurts out)
Mr. Legree, just suppose a black man would divulge to you that he’s fucking your daughter, Susan! Would you appreciate that?
Legree is hurt but he refuses to let on. He ignores Tom and continues chatting about colored girls.
LEGREE
(Ignores Tom)
Yes, I’ve often heard that colored girls can really make such passionate love that they make white men do flips. I can vouch for that, because compared to Eve, my wife, Sarah screws like a Virgin.
Tom shakes violently. He grips the steering wheel tightly and mumbles to himself.
TOM
(Mumbles to himself)
I should resign from this damn job. No, I can’t. Where can I find a comparable job? Besides, Jesus advised me to remain calm during such malicious chatter.
Suddenly Legree touches Tom’s shoulder. Tom’s startled.
LEGREE
(Teasing smile)
Mr. Eden, I hope my talking romantically about colored girls don’t rile you too much.
Tom suddenly slams on the brakes and swerves wildly to avoid crashing into a school bus full with children. Tom manages to slide onto the shoulder of the highway and stop. Tom cuts the car off and he sits and sighs deeply. Slowly, Tom turns around and glares menacingly at Legree. Legree jumps out of the car, bends over and sighs deeply. He walks around to the driver’s side and speaks to Tom.
LEGREE
(Wipes his brow with tissues)
Oh dammit! I’m sorry my boy, I caused you to nearly crash into that bus.
Tom remains silent. Legree gets into the car. Tom restarts the engine and continues driving to Connecticut. Later Tom drives into Legree’s office complex parking lot. Tom cuts the car off and awaits Legree usual instruction. Legree touches Tom’s shoulder.
EXT - WALLACE CONNECTICUT – CAR - DAY
LEGREE
(Stern – yells)
Now boy go and fetch black coffee and don’t take long!
Legree exits the car. Tom exits the car and goes to the restaurant for coffee.
INT – LEGREE’S DIAMOND MINE OFFICE – DAY
VARIOUS OFFICE WORKERS, MOSTLY WOMEN, SIT TYPING AT THEIR COMPUTER CONSOLES. SOFT MUSIC SERENADES THEM. LEGREE’S OFFICE IS TO THE RIGHT OF THE ENTRANCE. HE SITS AT HIS DESK HIDDEN BY STACKS OF PAPERS. LEGREE READS A LETTER AS TOM ENTERS CARRYING A CONTAINER OF COFFEE.
TOM
(Courteous – gives coffee to Legree) Boss here’s your coffee.
Legree reaches up and snatches the coffee from Tom.
LEGREE
(Harsh)
Okay boy, dash your ass into the mailroom and assist the other black boys in assorting the mail.
Tom exits Legree’s office in disgust, shaking his head from side to side.
INT – LEGREE’S OFFICE COMPLEX – NOON
FEMALE-OFFICE WORKERS SIT AT THEIR CONSOLES. BOB JORDAN, A BLACK-JEWELRY SALESMAN ENTERS THE OFFICE CARRYING A BROWN ATTACHÉ CASE. BOB WALKS OVER TO A DESK AND INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO A WHITE MAN, OFFICE MANAGER, MYRON SOLOMON.
BOB
(Cordial – smiling)
Hello sir, my name is Bob Jordan. I’m a jewelry salesman. May I introduce my jewelry collection to your office staff?
MYRON
(Cordial – smiling)
I’m Myron Solomon, office manager and I see no reason why you can’t. We have a plethora of women working and I’m sure they will be interested. You know how women adore jewelry.
(They both laugh aloud).
Rita Wise is a white female, sexy, beautiful, 25, 5ft5, 120-lbs, blond hair, white sweater and snug-red skirt.
BOB WALKS SLOWLY OVER TO A COMPUTER CONSOLE AND GREETS RITA.
BOB
(Courteous)
Hello, I see according to your desk plaque your name is Rita Wise. Rita, I’m Bob Jordan and I think this sparkling-gold bracelet will interest you. In fact, it was made especially for you.
Bob looks into his attaché case, pulls out a gold bracelet, and offers it to Rita. Rita smiles and gives Bob the once over. She reaches out and accepts the bracelet and examines it. Legree exits his office and observes Bob standing near Rita. Legree dashes over to Rita and Bob.
LEGREE
(Livid – out of control)
What in the hell is going on? Rita, I hired you to work on my computers, not to consort with this Nigger! By the way, who’s this Nigger?
rita
(Upset)
Mr. Legree, I happen to be on my lunch break and you shouldn’t speak to this cordial gentleman in that rude manner.
Legree snatches the bracelet from Rita’s hand, grabs Bob’s attaché case and slings both about the office. Now Legree grabs Bob about his neck and viciously pummels his face and body, as Bob raises his hands to defend Legree’s raining blows. The women scream. Rita tries to protect Bob, as Legree shoves her to the floor.
BOB’S BLOOD SPLATTERS THE OFFICE DESKS, FLOOR AND WALLS. TABLES AND CHAIRS ARE OVERTURNED. AS BOB SLITHERS HELPLESSLY TO THE FLOOR, RITA GRABS A TOWEL AND SLUMPS DOWN ON HER KNEES NEXT TO HIM. RITA WIPES BLOOD FROM BOB’S FACE. WHILE GASPING FOR AIR, BOB STARES UPWARD AT LEGREE AND QUESTIONS HIM.
BOB
(Grimacing in pain)
Sir, why did you attack me? After all, your office manager, Mr. Solomon, gave me permission to introduce my jewelry to your staff.
Legree, panting and heaving in anger, glares at Rita and Bob. Legree grows angrier. He tosses a chair to the floor.
LEGREE
(Snarling – looks about the office)
What? Myron allowed this Nigger to enter my office and woo a white woman? Where’s Myron?
Legree stomps and paces around the office looking for Myron.
LEGREE
Myron, where are you? Come here Myron; come here now!
INT – MAILROOM OFFICE – DAY
MYRON STANDS FRIGHTENED IN ANOTHER OFFICE BITING HIS FINGERNAILS. HE HEARS LEGREE CALLING HIM. MYRON SLOWLY EMERGES FROM THE MAILROOM AND ENTERS THE OFFICE. HE WALKS SHEEPISHLY UP TO LEGREE - BUT NOT TO CLOSE.
MYRON
(Trembling – frightened)
Mr. Legree, yes, I permitted Jordan to sell his jewelry to the ladies. Mr. Jordan seems to be a decent-black boy.
Legree eases closer to Myron, points his finger close to Myron’s nose and yells.
LEGREE
(RAVING)
Decent, you say? I’ve never seen a decent Nigger! Myron you’re fired! Both, you and Rita pick up your checks and get the hell out of my office! Tom Eden, where are you? Get your black ass in here and remove this so-called Nigger salesman from my establishment!
As Rita and Myron exit the office, Tom rushes in and grabs Bob’s hands and assists him to his feet. Bob leans on Tom’s shoulder and uses a towel to wipe his bloody face, as Tom leads him to the front exit.
EXT – SIDEWALK OUTSIDE OF LEGREE’S OFFICE – DAY
TOM SITS ON THE SIDEWALK WITH BOB, TEND TO BOB’S WOUNDS, AS BOB COMPLAINS. LEGREE TOSSES BOB’S ATTACHÉ OUT ON THE SIDEWALK.
BOB
(Weeping)
Tom, I don’t understand. I merely entered the office like a gentleman to sell my jewelry and I received permission from Mr. Solomon! It seems that your boss, Mr. Legree, became highly incensed because I innocently chatted with that young blond, Rita Rise! What’s wrong with him?
(Pauses – shakes his head)
I must conclude that Mr. Legree is a staunch racist!
Tom nods his head in agreement.
tom
Yes young man. You can take it from me that Cyrus Legree is a devout racist. By the way, why don’t you file criminal charges against Mr. Legree, after all, you have many witnesses.
Bob nods his head from side to side, as he struggles to rise from the sidewalk.
BOB
(Shakes his head from side to side)
Forget it. What good would it do? I’m sure you’re aware of the pervasive treadmill of injustice dealt to us blacks. You know, Tom, justice isn’t really color blind.
tom
(Nods his head in agreement)
Yes, we do know that Mr. Justice see clearly enough to convict us blacks.
bob
Any way, Tom, I will visit my personal Physician and I’m sure I’ll be just fine. My brother, I think you for your invaluable assistance and I’ll be on my way.
tom
You’re very welcome. Good luck.
Bob hobbles along down the street - lugging his attaché case and holding a bloody towel to his face.
EXT – INSIDE LEGREE’S ROLLS ROYCE – DAY
IT’S EVENING. TOM DRIVES QUIETLY AND LEGREE SITS SILENTLY IN THE REAR. THEIR DEAFENING SILENCE BUILD TENSION, AS TOM CONTINUES HIS LONG DRIVE ALONG THE HIGHWAY IN ROUTE TO LEGREE’S RESIDENT.
EXT – INSIDE LEGREE’S ROLLS ROYCE FRONT OF LEGREE’S RESIDENT – DAY
IN FRONT OF LEGREE’S RESIDENT, LEGREE DASHES FROM THE CAR WITHOUT SAYING GOODNIGHT TO TOM.
INT – NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY TRAIN – DAY
TOM RIDES THE SUBWAY HOME; HE LOOKS WORRIED. HE CONCERNED ABOUT LEGREE’S OPEN HOSTILITY TOWARDS BLACKS. AMID THE LOUD-SUBWAY NOISE, TOM BOWS HIS HEAD AND PRAYS TO JESUS.
TOM
(Sad expression)
Oh Jesus, my Savior, how can a ruthless–racist tyrant such as Cyrus Legree, control much swarming wealth and blacks, such as I, possess so little? Jesus, I just thought I would let you know that I wonder! I wonder! I wonder! Amen.
The subway comes to a screeching halt at Tom’s stop. Tom exits the train and walk upstairs to the street.
EXT- HARLEM – SIDEWALK – NIGHT
TOM WALKS DOWN THE SIDEWALK IN ROUTE TO HIS APARTMENT. IN FRONT OF HIS RESIDENT, TOM OBSERVES THREE POLICE CARS WITH FLASHING-RED LIGHTS. THREE, WHITE-POLICE OFFICERS STAND OVER THE OUTSTRETCHED BODY OF A YOUNG–BLACK MAN. THE YOUNG MAN BLEEDS PROFUSELY FROM BULLETS WOUNDS. ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE POLICE, TWENTY-FIVE, ANGRY-BLACK MEN AND WOMEN CHANT ANT-POLICE SLOGANS.
ANGRY BLACK CROWD
(Boisterous chants)
White Cops stop killing our young men! White Cops stop killing our young men! White Cops stop killing our young men!
INT – TOM’S RESIDENT – NIGHT
TOM ENTERS HIS RESIDENT AND RUSHES UPSTAIRS INTO HIS APARTMENT.
INT – TOM’S APARTMENT – NIGHT
TOM SITS ON THE BED AND CALLS HIS FRIEND, PHIL.
TOM
(Excited – talks loud)
Hey Phil, I guess you’ve heard that another one of our young, unarmed- black men was gunned down by a trigger-happy white Cop. They’ve just removed the kid’s body to the Morgue. But Phil, I’ve never heard of a black Cop mowing down an unarmed white kid, have you?
Phil gasps. Tom hears Phil gasping.
TOM
(Yells into phone)
Phil, what happened? Are you there?
Phil’s faint voice is heard on the phone.
PHIL
(Angry - stuttering)
No! No! Damn it! I’m shocked! I never heard of a black Cop mowing down a white youth. Frankly Tom, I know this is the fifth black youth killed by a racist - white Cop. You…
Tom angrily interrupts Phil.
TOM
(Fuming - frustrated)
Phil, I’m weary! My white boss maliciously denigrates me and now a racist–white Cop slays one of our young men! These malicious atrocities have left me speechless! I’ve had enough wicked trauma for one day! Goodnight Phil, I must retire for the night!
Tom kneels before his opened Bible on the night table and silently prays to God.
EXT - TWO DAYS LATER – LEGREE’S DUPLEX APARTMENT - PARLOR – DAY
EVE IS A TALL BLACK FEMALE, 20, CURVY, LONG-BLOND WIG AND SHE WEARS A CONSTANT SMILE.
IN LEGREE’S LARGE-SWANKY PARLOR, HIS PARTY HAS ENDED. SOFT MUSIC PLAYS: “I’M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE”. LEGREE’S WIFE, SARAH, HAS GONE UPSTAIRS AND RETIRED FOR THE NIGHT. EVE, THE MAID HAS CLEANED THE PARLOR AND HAS RETIRED TO HER SLEEPING QUARTERS - LOCATED NEAR THE PARLOR. LEGREE ESCORTS HIS LAST MALE GUEST TO THE DOOR AND WAVES GOODNIGHT. LEGREE CLOSE THE DOOR, WALKS GINGERLY OVER TO THE STAIRS AND LOOKS UP. NOT SEEING HIS WIFE, LEGREE TIPTOES OVER TO THE MAID’S QUARTER AND PUSHES THE SLIGHTLY OPENED DOOR. IN HER DARK QUARTERS, EVE SITS NUDE ON THE SIDE OF HER BED.
EVE
(Smiling)
Come in my dear, I thought this moment would never arrive.
LEGREE
(Stern – walks over to Eve, looks down upon her)
Eve, my little colored beauty, you know why I’m here. So, let’s get busy.
eve
(Looks up at Legree, touches his legs)
Mr. Legree, your mere present really ignites my hungry libido and you’ve always been my instant aphrodisiac.
Legree listens impatiently and replies harshly.
LEGREE
(Harsh)
Yes Eve, but that’s enough talking. Let’s get busy because you do what you colored girls do best.
Eve smiles, nods her head in agreement. She eases to the floor on her knees. Eve’s hands slide down the front of Legree’s legs. Eve slowly unzips his pants; she pulls out his penis, swiftly jams it into her mouth and begins sucking it. Eve gazes up to gauge Legree’s reaction.
EVE REMOVES LEGREE’S PENIS FROM HER MOUTH.
EVE
Yes baby, I know what you want and I’m giving you what you need.
Eve places Legree’s penis back into her mouth.
LEGREE
(Smiling)
Yes eve, you know this is what I wanted and needed. Eve, your sexual performance is much superior to my wife.
Eve again removes Legree’s penis from her mouth and speaks.
EVE
And Mr. Legree, you’re the best man that I’ve ever experienced, barring none; I mean you’re better than any black man that I’ve ever had.
Legree gives a broad grin. Eve again places Legree’s penis into her mouth.
LEGREE
(Grins)
As long as I’m superior to any black Coon; I… Oh! Oh! Oh! Eve I’m cumin! I’m cumin Eve! Don’t stop!
Legree’s grows weak in the knees; his knees buckle. Legree pulls his penis from Eve’s mouth as she struggles to keep it there. Legree succeeds in pushing Eve away. She falls on her side to the floor. Legree pushes his penis back into his pants.
INT – UPSTAIRS - SUSAN’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
LEGREE’S DAUGHTER, SUSAN, LIES AWAKE IN BED UNABLE TO SLEEP. ATTIRED IN HER NIGHTGOWN, SUSAN GETS UP AND COMES DOWNSTAIRS TO THE KITCHEN FOR A GLASS OF MILK AND TO READ. SUSAN WALKS NEAR EVE’S SLEEPING QUARTERS.
SUSAN’S A WHITE FEMALE, 20, 120-LBS, TALL, RED HAIR, SHAPELY.
INT – EVE’S SLEEPING QUARTERS – NIGHT
LEGREE BACKS OUT OF EVE’S QUARTERS INTO THE HALLWAY. THE DOOR IS LEFT SLIGHTLY AJAR.
INT – HALLWAY – NIGHT
LEGREE TURNS AROUND IN THE HALLWAY AND LOOKS AROUND. HIS BULGING EYES MEET SUSAN’S. THEY BOTH STOP SUDDENLY; THEY’RE STARTLED; THEIR MOUTHS FLY OPEN. SUSAN LOOKS DOWN AND SPOTS HER FATHER’S UNZIPPED PANTS; SHE CRIES OUT.
SUSAN
(FRANTIC – CRIES OUT)
Dad! How could you! How could you sneak in and out of the maid’s quarter? And look, your pants are unzipped!
INT – MAID’S SLEEPING QUARTER – NIGHT
HEARING THE LOUD COMMOTION IN THE HALLWAY, EVE PICKS HERSELF OFF THE FLOOR, CLOSES THE DOOR, STANDS NEAR IT AND EAVESDROPS.
INT – HALLWAY – NIGHT
FEELING TRAPPED, EMBARRASSED AND GUILTY, LEGREE EXPLODES WITH ANGER. HE RUSHES TOWARD SUSAN, LEAPS UPON HER AND FORCEFULLY GRABS HER ABOUT HER NECK AND CHOKES HER. SUSAN SCREAMS AND TRIES TO BREAK AWAY. FINALLY, LEGREE MANAGES TO REGAIN HIS COMPOSURE AND RELEASES HIS HANDS FROM SUSAN’S NECK. HE STANDS IN TEARS LOOKING DOWN UPON HIS TREMBLING HANDS. SUSAN COLLAPSES TO THE FLOOR – SOBBING; SHE HOLDS HANDS TIGHTLY UP TO HER EYES. LEGREE WALKS OVER TO SUSAN AND THEN LOOKS FRIGHTENINGLY UPSTAIRS. LEGREE LOOKS AT SUSAN AND WHISPERS IN A LOW–THREATENING TONE.
LEGREE
(Low – fierce tone)
Susan, be quiet! Don’t awake your mother and I dare you to tell your mother about this trivia matter! If you dare tell her, I’ll discontinue your college funds.
Susan slowly rises – up from the floor, runs into the Parlor and flops down sobbing on the sofa. Legree exits the hallway and goes to the dining room table where he sits and stares at the wall.
INT – PARLOR – NIGHT
SUSAN STOPS CRYING; SHE SITS AND PONDERS THE POSSIBILITY OF HER FATHER DISCONTINUING HER COLLEGE FUND. SUSAN RISES FROM THE SOFA AND WALKS SLOWLY TOWARDS THE DINING ROOM.
INT – DINING ROOM – NIGHT
SUSAN WALKS UP BEHIND HER FATHER’S CHAIR AND PLACES HER ARMS AROUND HIS SHOULDERS. SHE LEANS OVER AND KISSES HIS CHEEK. LEGREE RISES SWIFTLY FROM HIS CHAIR, TURNS AROUND AND EMBRACES SUSAN TIGHTLY. THEY BOTH WIPE TEARS FROM EACH OTHER EYES.
SUSAN
(Sniffling)
Daddy I’m sorry. I swear that I will never tell mommy. Daddy I love you very much.
Legree pulls away from Susan, looks deeply into her eyes and announces.
LEGREE
(Smiling broadly)
I love you too my daughter.
With their arms wrapped around each other waists, Legree and his daughter ascend the stairs to retire.
EXT – FRONT OF LEGREE’S RESIDENT – ROLLS ROYCE - MORNING
TOM SITS IN THE ROLLS ROYCE AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF LEGREE. TOM JUMPS OUT OF CAR, NODS TO LEGREE AND OPEN REAR DOOR FOR HIM. LEGREE ENTERS THE CAR AND BEGIN READING HIS MORNING PAPER. TOM BEGINS HIS DRIVE TO LEGREE’S CONNECTICUT OFFICE.
TOM
(Courteous)
Good morning Mr. Legree.
Legree ignores Tom - but offers an evil expression. Later during the drive Legree responds to Tom’s greeting.
LEGREE
(Upset)
What’s so good about this morning?
(Legree pauses)
Tom, my maid, Eve, resigned this morning. Do you know of a lovely, colored girl who performs maid services?
Tom glares at Legree through rear-view mirror.
TOM
(Sarcastic laugh)
No Mr. Legree, however, if I hear of a lovely, white girl who performs maid services, I’ll gladly advise you.
Legree growls angrily. He points his finger at the rear of Tom’s head.
LEGREE
(Irate)
Boy, one more sarcastic outburst from you and I’ll fire your black ass! Do I make myself clear?
Tom bows his head sheepishly.
TOM
(Sheepish grin)
Mr. Legree, You’re crystal clear.
Tom continues driving Legree in silence to his Connecticut office complex.
EXT – ROLLS ROYCE – DAY
LATER THAT EVENING, TOM DRIVES LEGREE BACK TO HIS RESIDENT IN MANHATTAN. IN FRONT OF LEGREE’S RESIDENT, LEGREE EXITS THE CAR WITHOUT SAYING GOODNIGHT TO TOM. TOM DRIVES AND PARKS THE CAR IN THE UNDERGROUND GARAGE.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – NIGHT
IN THE PARLOR, LEGREE AND HIS WIFE, SARAH, SIT ON THE SOFA WATCHING TV. SARAH HOLDS THE REMOTE IN HER HAND AND PREPARES TO FLIP CHANNELS TO THE EVENING NEWS.
SARAH’S A WHITE FEMALE, 45, 5FT-6, 120-LBS, SHAPELY, LONG – RED HAIR.
SARAH
Honey, I’m flipping to the evening news.
Legree
Okay dear, but flip to the CBN Channel because that station offers a preferred conservative diet of news.
sarah
Okay honey, I’ll flip to CBN.
Sarah uses the remote and flips the channels to CBN
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTIC – FRONT OF TROY COLLEGE – EVENING
CORRESPONDENT JOYCE GRAYSON OF CBN TV NEWS STANDS HOLDING A MICROPHONE. HER CAMERAMAN TRAINS HIS CAMERA ON HER. JOYCE AWAITS HER CUE FROM HER FEMALE DIRECTOR WHO STANDS NEXT TO THE CAMERAMAN. THREE WHITE POLICE OFFICERS PATROL BEHIND JOYCE, AS SEVERAL ANGRY-BLACK STUDENTS LOOK ON.
CORRESPONDENT GRAYSON RAISES HER MIKE AND SPEAKS.
CORRESPONDENT GRAYSON
THIS IS JOYCE GRAYSON OF CBN TV NEWS REPORTING BREAKING NEWS FROM TROY COLLEGE HERE IN BENTLEY CONNECTICUT. THIS AFTERNOON IN TROY COLLEGE CAFETERIA, SOURCES TELL US THAT A BLACK - MALE STUDENT, MEL WATSON WAS ATTACKED AND STABBED IN BOTH EYES AS HE DINED AND CHATTED WITH A WHITE-FEMALE STUDENT. WITNESSES REPORTED TO POLICE THAT THREE, WHITE-MALE STUDENTS BECAME ANGRY, AFTER OBSERVING MEL WATSON KISSING A WHITE-FEMALE STUDENT AND LATER HER. PHYSICIANS SUSPECT THAT WATSON WILL LOSE VISION IN BOTH EYES. WE’VE ALSO LEARNED THAT POLICE KNOW THE IDENTITY OF ALL THREE SUSPECT AND ARRESTS ARE IMMINENT. WE FURTHER LEARNED THAT THE THREE SUSPECTS ARE MEMBERS OF AN INFAMOUS RACIST COLLEGE FRAT: WSAI (WHITE STUDENT AGAINST INTEGRATION).
Correspondent Grayson turns and looks near the Administration building and spots the President of WSAI, Joe Gleason. She beckons for him to come over.
CORRESPONDENT GTAYSON
(Waves to the President of WSAI)
I see Joe Gleason, student president of WSAI. Mr. Gleason, may I speak with you?
Joe Gleason walks over to Correspondent Grayson.
CORRESPONDENT GRAYSON
Mr. Gleason, I understand that you’re the president of WSAI, is that correct?
JOE GLEASON
Yes I am.
correspodent graySon
Mr. Gleason, the initial WSAI, is the acronym for what?
joe gleaSon
(Stern expression)
It simply means “White Students Against Integration” and we have many branches.
correspondent graySon
Well, Mr. Gleason, in this late tenure of ethnic struggles, the era of improved diversity, what could possibly be white students’ primary objective?
joe gleaSon
(Stern)
It’s very simple, Ms. Grayson, WSAI primary objective is to impede and disrupt any and all forms of romantic annexation found brewing between blacks and whites, especially, those discovered brewing between black males and our white women.
CORRESPONDENT GRAYSON
Well, Mr. Gleason, it’s alleged that three of your WSAI members attacked and stabbed Mr. Mel Watson for socializing with a white-female student. Do you know these young men? Do you know their where about and can you shed some light on this billowing-racial crisis?
Joe Gleason gazes defiantly at Ms. Grayson.
JOE GLEASON
I’m sorry, I have no further comment. I really must go.
Joe abruptly turns and walks away.
CORRESPONDENT GRAYSON
To my TV audience, if we receive further information on this riveting story, we’ll update you on tonight’s eleven O’clock News. This is Joyce Grayson of CBN TV News reporting from Troy College in Bentley Connecticut.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – NIGHT
SARAH SITS ON THE SOFA REELING IN SHOCK, MORE SO THAN LEGREE; HE SITS CALM - UNMOVED.
SARAH
(Mouth gaped wide)
Cyrus, what those young–white men did to that young-black man for merely kissing a white woman was horrible. What’s this, a replica of the 1955 Emmit Till attack in Mississippi?
Legree sits nonchalant as Sarah bites her nails.
LEGREE
(Grimace - annoyed)
Well, these types of tragedies happen all the time. You know honey, our daughter, Susan, attends Troy College and I’m just relieved that she’s not dating a black Nigger.
sarah
I’m also relieved. Meanwhile, I think I’ll stay up and watch the late News for any updates on that tragedy. You know Cyrus, this racial upheaval can turn quite ugly, not only on Troy’s Campus, but racial mayhem could ignite and spread throughout the nation.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – TROY COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
EMERGENCY LIGHTS FLASHES, AS THE LOUD SOUND OF SIRENS PIERCE THE AIR. SEVERAL FIRE ENGINES ARE PARKED ON THE GROUNDS OF TROY CAMPUS. FIREMEN CARRY WATER HOSES AND TRAIN WATER UPON THE FLAMES OF A LARGE FIRE EMANATING FROM THE BUILDING HOUSING WSAI OFFICE.
EXT – LOGAN NEW YORK – WHITMAN COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
RED EMERGENCY LIGHTS FLASHES, SIRENS ALARMS THE NIGHT AS FIFTY FIREMEN BATTLE A SUSPICIOUS BLAZE ON WHITMAN COLLEGE CAMPUS, IN THE BUILDING HOUSING WSAI OFFICE.
EXT – GILLESPIE NEW JERSEY – TAYLOR COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
A BEVY OF FIREMEN BATTLE A SUSPICIOUS FIRE EMANATING FROM WSAI OFFICE BUILDING. ONE DEAD FIREMAN IS BROUGHT OUT.
EXT – GROVER MASSACHUSETS – CASTER COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
FIRE ENGINES RACE THROUGH THE STREETS OF GROVER. A HOST OF FIREMEN FIGHT A ROARING FIRE EMANATING FROM WSAI OFFICE BUILDING. TWO DEAD FIREMEN ARE BROUGHT OUT.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – NIGHT
SARAH SITS ALONE ON THE SOFA IN THE PARLOR AND WATCHES THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK NEWS.
EXT – CONN – TROY COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
NYLN TV CORRESPONDENT, CLAUDE TALLEY REPORTS FROM A LARGE FIRE ON THE CAMPUS OF TROY COLLEGE. A BUILDING IS ABLAZE IN THE BACKGROUND. FIRE ENGINES IDLE AS THEIR RED EMERGENCY LIGHTS FLICKERS. FIREMEN SPRAY WATER ONTO A BURNING OFFICE BUILDING.
NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAUDE TALLEY STANDS BEFORE TV CAMERAS AND PREPARES TO GIVE A REPORT.
CLAUDE TALLEY
(EXCITED VOICE)
I’m TV News Correspondent, Claude Talley of New York Liberal News (NYLN). I’m reporting from Bentley Connecticut, Troy College Campus. As you can see in the background, a bevy of Bentley Firemen are fighting a stubborn– suspicious inferno, which have all but devoured a Campus building, which houses the office of the infamous group, WSAI. Ironically, there seem to be a cluster of suspicious fires on several College Campuses in the north east area. Now, let’s go to my NYLN TV News colleague, Melissa Powers in Logan New York.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR - NIGHT
SARAH WATCHES TV NEWS OF THE RAGING FIRE AT TROY, HER DAUGHTER SUSAN’S COLLEGE CAMPUS. SARAH BECOMES EXCITED AND SHOCKED. SHE JERKS HER HANDS UP TO HER FACE AND SCREAMS.
SARAH
(Screams and talks nervously to herself)
Oh my God! Oh my God! What is going on? How can this be? I wonder if these rashes of fires are a result of the young black man being assaulted. Should I awake Cyrus? Should I call Susan to see if she’s alright? What shall I do? I wonder! I wonder! I wonder!
EXT – LOGAN NEW YORK – WHITMAN COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
NYLN TV NEWS CORRESPONDENT, MELISSA POWERS, STANDS ON THE GROUNDS OF WHITMAN COLLEGE CAMPUS IN FRONT OF A CAMERAMAN WITH HER MIKE HELD TO HER MOUTH. FIRE ENGINES RUSH TO THE SCENE AS EAR-SPLITTING SIRENS BLARE THROUGH THE NIGHT. USING THEIR HEAVY HOSES, FIREMEN SPRAY WATER ON THE FULLY ENGULFED OFFICE BUILDING.
CORRESPONDENT MELISSA POWERS STAND BEFORE TV CAMERAS AND PREPARES TO GIVE HER REPORT.
CORRESPONDENT MELISSA POWERS
(Excited voice)
Thanks Claude, I’m TV Correspondent, Melissa Powers of NYLN, in Logan New York, reporting from Whitman College Campus, where you see a slew of brave Firemen battling a now smoldering– suspicious fire. Its seems that Firemen now have this fire under control, but like the Campus fire on Troy College Campus, in Bentley Connecticut, this fire is also reported to be highly suspicious. Now Fire Investigators has the arduous task of finding the Arsonist or Arsonists. I’m NYLN TV News Correspondent Melissa powers, reporting from Whitman College in Logan New York, and now we’ll go to my colleague, NYLN TV News Reporter, Jack Boston in Gillespie New Jersey.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – NIGHT
SARAH STILL WATCHES THE NEWS, BUT SHE NOW SITS ON THE FLOOR CLOSER TO THE TV; SHE’S ALARMED AND STILL TALKING TO HER SELF.
SARAH
(Frantic – talks to her self)
Oh my God! Oh my God! Now there’s a fire on a College campus in New Jersey? What’s going on? Is all of America burning? When will this all stop or will it ever? I wonder! I wonder! I wonder!
Sarah jumps up from the floor and lay down exhaustedly on the sofa.
EXT – GILLESPIE NEW JERSEY – TAYLOR COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
NYLN TV NEWS CORRESPONDENT JACK BOSTON STANDS NEAR A CREW OF FIREMEN, WHO’RE BATTLING A HUGE FIRE WHICH HAS DESTROYED A CAMPUS BUILDING. THE BLAZE CAN BE SEEN FOR MILES, AS MORE FIRE ENGINES RACE TO THE SCENE WITH THEIR RED – EMERGENCY LIGHTS FLICKERING AND THEIR SIRENS BLARING.
CORRESPONDENT JACK BOSTON STANDS BEFORE TV CAMERAS AND PREPARES TO GIVE HIS REPORT.
JACK BOSTON
(Excited voice)
Thanks Melissa. I’m NYLN TV News Correspondent, Jack Boston, reporting to you live from Gillespie New jersey, on Taylor College campus, where as you can see a platoon of Firefighters are strenuously battling a stubborn – suspicious fire. The building right behind me, as you can see it is completely destroyed and we’ve sadly learned that one Fireman has lost his life. The torched building once housed WSAI office. Let’s go now to my colleague Nancy Riggs in Grover Massachusetts.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – NIGHT
SARAH STILL LIES WIDE AWAKE ON THE SOFA, INGESTING ALL OF THE HORRIBLE NEWS. SHE TOSSES AND TURNS FROM SIDE TO SIDE.
SARAH
(Agitated)
Oh my God! Oh my God! Now they’re reporting from Massachusetts. I can’t believe it. What’s next; the Southern States? I wonder! I wonder! I wonder!
EXT – GROVER MASSACHUSETTS – CASTER COLLEGE CAMPUS – NIGHT
SEVERAL FIRE ENGINES WITH FLASHING LIGHTS BLOCK THE CAMPUS INTERSECTION. FIREMEN CONTINUE HOSING DOWN THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, WHICH ALSO SERVE AS AN OFFICE FOR WSAI. A CREW OF FIREMEN DASH OUT OF THE BURNING BUILDING CARING TWO OF THEIR BADLY BURNED COLLEAGUES.
The badly injured Firemen are laid on the ground where a group of paramedics furiously performed CPR on them to no avail. A Priest stands over their bodies an offer the last rites, as Firemen walks away in tears.
NYLN TV NEWS CORRESPONDENT NANCY RIGGS STANDS PREPARED TO GIVE HER BREAKING NEWS REPORT.
CORRESPONDENT NANCY RIGGS
(Excited voice)
I’m NYLN TV News Correspondent Nancy Riggs. In the gloomy night of this Arson epidemic in four New England States, the latest conflagration on Grover’s Caster College Campus has proven to be the deadliest. Just moment ago, Firemen brought from the inflamed Administration building two badly burned co-workers, who later died without regaining consciousness. Now, anonymous sources inform us that all of these fires are related and an arrest is imminent. We’ll now take you to our New York City Studio, where Troy College student Lubei Hilton, President of “Black Student For Justice” (BSFJ) will be interviewed.
INT – NEW YORK CITY – NYLN TV STUDIO – NIGHT
NYLN TV NEWS BLACK CORRESPONDENT BEVERLY SINGER SITS AT A CIRCULAR TABLE. SITTING ACROSS FROM HER IS LUBEI HILTON, A SENIOR AT TROY COLLEGE AND PRESIDENT OF “BLACK STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE” (BSFJ). A TV CAMERAMAN ADJUSTS HIS CAMERA AS HE CONFERS WITH THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR.
CORRESPONDENT BEVERLY SINGER
Welcome to “Let’s Examine The Truth”. I’m NYLN senior TV News Correspondent, Beverly Singer. I have as my guest tonight, Mr. Lubei Hilton, A senior and President of “Black Students For Justice” at Troy College in Bentley Connecticut. Welcome to the Program, Mr. Hilton.
lubei hilton
(Stern expression – stern voice)
Hello Ms. Singer, I’m happy to be here.
correspondent beverly singer
Mr. Lubei, just let me take you back several days. As you know several days ago, it was widely reported that a young-black student, Mel Watson was stabbed in both eyes by three, white- male students, members of “White Students Against Integration”, allegedly for socializing with a white- female student. Subsequently, we’ve learned that Mr. Watson has lost vision in both eyes. Mr. Lubei, what’s your analysis of this whole racist debacle, which occurred on college Campuses in several New England States?
lubei hilton
(Stern expression – stern voice)
Ms. Singer, just let me state that this latest type of racist catastrophe, whereas Mel was viciously attacked after socializing with a white female student, didn’t just originate. Actually this saga had it roots, its genesis, at the inception of slavery, when the white masters raped and victimized our ancient mothers. And unlike the three white assailants, who ambushed Mel Watson, our ancient-black fathers were helpless to pluck out the eyes of their white masters.
CORRESPONDENT SINGER
Mr. Hilton, this type of ferocious behavior by young-white men seems to be pervasive. Can you tell us why?
lubei hilton
Ms. Singer, today’s young- white men inherited from their ancient fathers, many generations past, the habitual compulsion to screw black women, while crudely balking at the mere thought of my brothers even lurking in the vicinity of “Ms. Ann”. Don’t forget the savage murder of Emmit Till in 1955, and that’s not to mention the perpetual murders of black men.
CORRESPONDENT SINGER
MR. HILTON, DO YOU THINK THAT WE’LL EVER SEE A TERMINATION OF THIS INSANELY JEALOUSY AND RACIAL CRUELTY ON THE PART OF WHITE MEN?
lubei hilton
You know Ms. Singer, racism is composed of several key negatives, but the fear of black men screwing their angelic daughters has always been white men’s ultimate phobia. This ultimate nightmare has the affect of scaring white women and causing white flight to the suburb. Thus, black men remain a shadowing threat to every modern–day slave master. But I sincerely say, as white men have brazenly screwed black women since the genesis of slavery, then, on the contrary, it should be trendy for black men to screw white women for the next 385 years.
correspondent singer
Mr. Lubei, we know there’s wholesale interracial dating occurring, so what’s your take on black women dating white men and black men dating white women?
LUBEI HILTON
Black women have no misgiving or impediments of dating white men, that’s because many black women still linger under the hypnotic spell of the modern - day sons of slave masters. As for white women, twenty five percent are acutely afraid of black men. Twenty - five percent wants to date black men, but are afraid of being disinherited or being adjudged as Nigger lovers. Twenty – five percent date black men exclusively after dark and the remaining twenty-five percent opt to shed their racial inhibitions for a week in the remote Bahamas, where they’re unlikely to be discovered. These white women later return to the states and resume their cavalier ways.
correspondent singer
Mr. Lubei, we’re almost out of time. I’ve learned that three, white students have been arrested in the attack on your friend, Mel Watson, so how will justice come to grips with these three, white students, who happen to be members of “White Student Against Integration”?
lubei hilton
Ms. Singer, regarding justice, I leave you with these cautious words of wisdom and observation. The vision of white justice has never been as blind as whites have often pretended. History has taught me that white justice has always managed to distinguish blacks from whites. And besides, white justice has never visited an Optician for an eye exam.
correspondent singer
Thanks Mr. Lubei for your clever analysis and we hope to have you back at a later date. To our viewing audience, we thank you for watching. See you next week. I’m Beverly Singer.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – NIGHT
SARAH LIES SPRAWLED ASLEEP ON THE SOFA - FACE UP. HER MOUTH IS GAPED WIDE, AS THE TV BLARES LOUDLY.
EXT – NEXT DAY - HARLEM NEW YORK – STATE OFFICE BUILDING 125TH STREET – DAY
IN FRONT OF THE STATE OFFICE BUILDING, SIDEWALK, REV. TED SIMMONS LEADS AN ARMY OF TWENTY–FIVE BLACK COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS IN PROTEST AGAINST RACISM, WIELDED BY WHITE POLICE OFFICERS IN HARLEM. SEVERAL WHITE POLICE OFFICERS STAND BEHIND WOODEN BARRICADES, WHICH PREVENT THE PROTESTERS FROM SPILLING INTO THE STREET.
BLACK PROTESTERS
(Chant loudly, repeatedly)
We shall, we shall overcome! We shall, we shall overcome! We shall, we shall overcome!
Rev. Simmons grabs the hand of a protester and motion for the other protesters to join hands and they all quickly join hands.
REV. SIMMONS
(Angry)
Brothers and sisters, let’s take to the street.
Rev. Simmons and the protesters attempt to go around the Police Officers for the purpose of entering the street and blocking traffic. A white Sergeant walks up to Rev. Simmons and shoves him backward, causing him to fall to the ground.
SERGEANT ED GUY
(Irate – nasty)
Where do you think you’re going boy? Now get up and take these Monkeys back onto the sidewalk!
Embroiled in anger, Rev. Simmons struggles to his feet and charges towards Sergeant Guy. Sergeant Guy steps back, pulls out his Revolver and discharges three rounds into Reverend Simmons’ chest. Rev. Simmons falls mortally wounded at Sergeant Guy’s feet. All of the protesters scream and flee from the area.
SERGEANT ED GUY
(Enraged – stares at his colleagues)
I expect none of my men to aid this Nigger! This so-called Preacher received what he asked for!
Moments later, sirens are heard in the background as Paramedics, Police Officers and Supervisors arrive on the scene. A white–Police Chief attired in plain clothes pulls Sgt. Guy to the side and advises him.
CHIEF DICK IRELAND
(Stern)
Sergeant, I’m not going to ask you what happened, because I know what transpired. Sgt. Guy that black man attacked and assaulted you! Am I right?
Sergeant looking confused, glares at Chief Ireland and finally replies.
SERGEANT ED GUY
(Nervous)
Yes, yes chief you’re right, that Nigger assaulted me!
chief DICK IRELAND
(Stern)
Okay Sergeant, I want you to speak to no one about this incident except your Attorney. Now go to my office at the Precinct, sit down, relax and take a drink of Vodka from my cabinet.
Chief Ireland walks over to some subordinate Officers, corrals them and speaks to them. The Chief notices as a large crowd of blacks begin to gather near the scene.
CHIEF DICK IRELAND
MEN, GUARD THIS BODY AND LET NO ONE NEAR IT EXCEPT DETECTIVES AND THE MEDICAL EXAMINER. GUARD THE CRIME SCENE AND KEEP THOSE NOSY NIGGERS FAR BACK.
INT – HARLEM NEW YORK – TOM’S APARTMENT – PARLOR – DAY
TOM SITS IN THE PARLOR. HIS PHONE RING; HE ANSWERS A CALL FROM HIS FRIEND, CHET.
TOM
Hello
chet
(Sad voice)
Hello Tom, I guess you’ve heard the latest depressing news.
TOM
(ANXIOUS)
No, I can’t say I have. What’s the latest?
CHET
(Solemn voice)
It seems that on 125th street, Rev. Simmons led an anti-Police protest. Rev. Simmons and a white Police Sergeant became involved in an altercation and the trigger happy Sergeant shot Rev. Simmons.
A long silence ensues. Tom drops the phone to the floor. He slowly retrieves it and resumes speaking to Chet.
TOM
(Excited)
What? Rev. Simmons shot by a trigger- happy white Cop? Chet, what’s Rev. Simmons’ prognosis?
chet
(Weeping)
There’s none Tom! Rev. Simmons died instantly!
Tom screams and yells into the phone.
TOM
(Screams and Yells)
Rev. Simmons is dead? He’s one of the pillars of our Harlem community!
chet
Hold your breath Tom, there’s more explosive news.
tom
(Curious)
Explosive news, what might that be?
chet
I heard breaking News on CBN. It seems that all black military personnel have gone AWOL and are in route to the various states to assist their black communities in battling the recent increase of white racism. Tom, what can I do to help deflect this debilitating scourge of white racism?
tom
Listen Chet, many people don’t believe me, but I’m truly a disciple of Jesus and I’ve always known you to be a pious man and a friend. Having said that, Chet, I, hereby deputize you as my able assistant. You will travel about the countryside and vehemently speak out and help deflect the unsightly epidemic of white racism.
chet
(Grateful)
Thanks Tom, from this moment on, I’ll lend my unwavering devotion in accomplishing Jesus’ will, that’s to say, I’ll seek out the purveyors of racism and I’ll attempt to convert them to a life of moral soundness.
tom
Chet, I thank you and I’ll be in touch.
Both hang up.
INT – LEGREE’S CONNECTICUT OFFICE - DAY
LEGREE CALLS TOM’S HOME FROM HIS OFFICE. TOM STANDS IN HIS PARLOR. HIS PHONE RINGS. HE ANSWERS IT.
TOM
Hello
LEGREE
(Angry)
Tom this is your Master, Mr. Legree! Why didn’t you show up for work today?
tom
(Calm)
That’s because I’m no longer working for you - my Master.
Legree
(Upset)
What? You mean after all that I’ve done for you - you’ve chose to resign without giving me sufficient notification?
tom
(Calm)
That’s right Mr. Legree. I won’t be around to further undergo your relentless acts of overt racism. Henceforth, my mission on earth is to topple you and your kind and later convert you all to the kingdom of God. Good day Mr. Legree.
Tom smiles to himself and calmly hangs up the phone. Legree growls and slams his phone down.
INT – TOM’S APARTMENT – BEDROOM – DAY
WEARING GLASSES, TOM SITS ON THE SIDE OF HIS BED AND CONCLUDES DRAFTING A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
TOM READS HIS LETTER ALOUD TO HIMSELF.
TOM
(Reading letter aloud)
Honorable President, Herbert Trot, I’m introducing myself to you as a mediator of my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Accordingly, I’m informing all of you too urgently apply all of your political clout and persuasion in quelling the ugly plague of systemic– white racism and the genocide of blacks. Otherwise, your racist government as it’s now known will be demolished and replaced by God’s Peace Commission - equally composed of a heavenly squad of black and white Abolitionists.
INT – LEGREE’S APARTMENT – KITCHEN – DAY
LEGREE AND SARAH SIT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE DISCUSSING THE RECENT ESCALATION OF RACIAL PROBLEMS IN NEW YORK CITY AND ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, ESPECIALLY TROY COLLEGE, WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER SUSAN ATTENDS.
LEGREE
Sarah, in view of all of the racial tension at Troy College, I think it’s a good idea to drive up to Bentley Connecticut and visit Susan.
sarah
(Elated)
Honey that’s a fine idea, when are we leaving?
Legree
There’s no time like the present. Oh Sarah, I forgot to tell you something. I have keys for Susan’s new fire–red Porsche after all it’s her birthday. The car is already in Connecticut.
sarah
Oh that’s great Hun and that is so thoughtful of you. Just let me pack a few things. I’ll only be a minute.
INT – UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE – NIGHT
LEGREE AND SARAH PLACE THEIR LUGGAGE INTO THE TRUNK. THEY GET INTO THE CAR; LEGREE DRIVES OFF.
EXT – INTERSTATE HIGHWAY – NIGHT
LEGREE DRIVES TO TROY COLLEGE. SARAH INSERTS MUSIC CD’S AS THEY LISTEN TO SOFT MUSIC.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – TROY COLLEGE – DOMITORY – NIGHT
LEGREE AND SARAH STAND IN FRONT OF THE DORMITORY OFFICE. LEGREE RINGS THE BELL. MS. SILVER, DORMITORY ATTENDANT RESPONDS AND OPENS THE DOOR.
MS. SILVER
(Cordial)
May I help you?
Legree
(Excited)
Yes, we’re seeking Susan Legree. We’re her parents.
ms. silver
Susan Legree? Come in and let me check our ledger.
The Legrees follow Ms. Silver into the small–cramped office.
INT – DORMITORY OFFICE – NIGHT
MS. SILVER GOES TO A TABLE AND CHECKS HER LEDGER. THE LEGREES STAND BEHIND HER. SUDDENLY MS. SILVER TURNS AROUND, GAZES SADLY AT THE LEGREES AND SHAKES HER HEAD NEGATIVELY. THE LEGREES EXCHANGE NERVOUS STARES. MS. SILVER RESPONDS.
MS. SILVER
(Sad Expression)
I’m sorry Mr. and Mrs. Legree, but we don’t seem to have Susan registered.
Legree panics. He moves closer to Ms. Silver. Legree looks deeply into her eyes and inquires
LEGREE
(Panic)
What? You don’t have my daughter, Susan Legree registered?
Ms. Silver becomes startled. She moves backward, away from Legree. Sarah begins to sob aloud; she reaches into her purse grabs a tissue and dabs her eyes.
SARAH
(Crying)
Ms. Silver, are you sure you can’t find Susan Legree’s name? Have you checked carefully?
Ms. Silver glares disappointedly at the Legrees and nods her head negatively - side to side.
LEGREE
(Extremely worried)
Ms. Silver, what could have possibly happened to our daughter? Where could she be?
Legree walks closer to Sarah. They look worriedly into each others’ eyes.
MS. SILVER
(Blank stare)
Oh, you know, sometimes our students move off Campus without notifying their parents.
Ms. Silver spots two female Students entering the office. She calls out to one of them.
MS. SILVER
Oh Carol, do you know of a Susan Legree?
carol
(Cheerful)
Oh sure, we take some classes together.
The Legrees and Ms. Silver look at each others and they all breathe a sigh of relief. They all rush closer to Carol.
MS. SILVER
(Smiling broadly)
Oh thank God. Carol, these are Susan’s parents and they’re looking for her.
carol
(Jubilant)
That’s easy. Susan resides at 325 Baxter Street. It’s the beautiful, white house on the corner - first floor. Just ring the bottom bell.
Legree hastily grabs Sarah’s arm, pulls her to the door. Legree yells to Ms. Silver and the two students.
LEGREE
(Ecstatic)
Thanks folks. You’ve have been so kind. Come on Sarah let’s go.
EXT – 325 BAXTER STREET – PORCH – NIGHT
LEGREE AND SARAH STAND ON THE PORCH, ARM IN ARM. THE LARGE- WHITE HOUSE IS DARK AND QUIET. CURTAINS HOISTED ON THE GLASS DOOR PREVENT THEM FROM SEEING INSIDE. LEGREE NERVOUSLY RINGS THE BOTTOM BELL. SARAH BEGINS TO SHAKE WITH ANXIETY. NO RESPONSE AT THE DOOR CAUSES HER TO WEEP ALOUD. LEGREE ANXIOUSLY RING THE BELL SEVERAL TIMES. STILL THERE’S NO RESPONSE.
SARAH
(Crying)
Cyrus, maybe something has happened to Susan!
Legree puts his arms around Sarah, pulls her closer to him and tries to console her.
LEGREE
No darling, Susan’s all right. Perhaps she’s out with friends.
Suddenly through the glass door, Legree spots a flicker of light in the hallway. The door opens slowly. Legree releases his grasp of Sarah and is startled to see a tall sleep-eye black man opening the door. The black man stares curiously at the Legrees and they stare curiously at him. The black man wipes his eyes with his hand and fastens the snaps of his red Robe.
BOB
(Sleepy)
May I help you?
Sarah looks suspiciously at the black man and whispers to Legree.
SARAH
(Inquisitive whisper)
Honey, this Nigger doesn’t appear to be a Butler or a Handyman. He sounds too studious. So what’s he doing in this swanky house?
Legree shrugs his shoulder. Legree and Sarah are totally confused about seeing a black man in such a ritzy house.
LEGREE
We’re the Legrees. We were told our daughter, Susan Legree, resides at this resident. Sir, do you know her?
The black man knees buckles. He tries to speak but his words refuse to surface. The Legrees turn to leave, but are interrupted by the black man.
BOB
(Confused)
Wait! Wait! What’s your daughter’s name?
sarah
(Agitated)
Susan, damn-it! Susan Legree!
Hearing Susan’s name again buckles the black man’s knees. He grows more frightened. He slowly responds to Sarah with a stutter.
BOB
(Terrified - stuttering)
Oh, oh, yes, yes! Susan’s inside. Come, come on in.
Legree and Sarah gaze at each other in total disbelief.
INT – 325 BAXTER STREET – HALLWAY – NIGHT
THE BLACK MAN SLOWLY WAVES THE LEGREES IN. LEGREE ENTERS AND RELUCTANTLY FOLLOWS THE BLACK MAN DOWN A LONG, DIMLY- LIT HALLWAY, CLOSELY TRAILED BY SARAH. THE BLACK MAN POINTS TO A DIMLY-LIT BEDROOM ON THE RIGHT AND STEPS TO THE SIDE.
INT – DIMLY-LIT BEDROOM - NIGHT
BOB TRIES TO WARN SUSAN.
BOB
(Nervous voice)
Susan get up, your parents are here.
Susan fails to hear Bob calling her. Bob enters the Bedroom and steps to the side and goes to a corner. Legree gingerly sticks his head into the bedroom and slowly enters, closely followed by Sarah. Legree and Sarah both become horribly shocked, as they stumble upon Susan lying in bed on her back, partly nude reading a Magazine. Susan is scantily clad in a red – Thong, no Bra. Her long – red hair flows down upon the fluffy - white Pillows. Susan looks up and her unbelieving - flabbergasted eyes meet those of her enraged parents. Susan quickly fumbles with the bed sheet and tries unsuccessfully to cover herself. She attempts to leap from the bed and escape, but her father leaps wildly upon her in an unstoppable rage. He grabs Susan by her neck.
LEGREE
(Raging mad)
Susan! Why you little Nigger loving bitch!
Susan screams in fear and pain; her hands flail as she tries desperately to fend off her father. Legree slaps Susan’s face and shakes her like rag Doll. Bob stands cowed in the corner. Sarah jumps up and down screaming; she begs Legree to stop attacking Susan.
SUSAN TRIES DESPERATELY TO ESCAPE FROM HER FATHER’S ATTACK.
SUSAN
Stop daddy! Leave me alone! Stop chocking me! Mommy! Mommy!
sarah
(Screaming – hands flailing)
Cyrus, please leave Susan alone! Let her explain! Don’t kill my Susan!
Legree suddenly comes to his senses. He releases his grip of Susan’s neck. Susan falls hard to the floor gasping to catch her breath. Legree stares at his quivering hands. He jerks around and sneers at Bob, who’s still stand cowered in a corner. Legree questions Susan.
LEGREE
(Raving)
Susan, who’s this black Nigger and why are you nude in his presence? You’re a white woman! Did this Nigger rape you?
Susan kneels on the floor sobbing with her head bowed. She mutters to her father, who walks a few steps away from her:
SUSAN
(Sobbing furiously)
Daddy! Daddy! This man is my boyfriend! He attends Troy College with me!
(Susan looks up at her mother)
Mommy, Bob and I reside together and we’re planning to get married!
(Susan looks up at her dad)
Dad, if Bob was a white man, would you’ve asked if he had raped me?
Legree ignores Susan’s inquiry. He turns around with a menacing grimace and stares hungrily at Bob, who’s still crouched in the corner. Legree suddenly recalls Bob as the black jewelry salesman he brutally assaulted months earlier in his office complex for socializing with a white female employee.
LEGREE
(Surprised – yelling)
Hey you dirty Nigger! I remember you; you’re the same Nigger I beat-up in my office for chatting with, Rita Wise, a beautiful- white girl! What is it with you - boy? You seem to have a penchant for white girls! What’s wrong? You can’t find a decent Nigger gal?
Susan stop crying, struggles to rise from the floor, looks up angrily at her father and yells.
SUSAN
(Yelling – angry)
Daddy! Please leave my man alone!
Legree grinds his teeth, reaches into his pocket, and whips out a black, snub-nose #38 revolver. Legree eases closer to Bob. Without uttering a word, Legree points his revolver at Bob in the corner and fires three rounds into Bob’s chest. Bob screams as his lifeless body slithers slowly to the floor - mortally wounded. Susan and her mother, Sarah, unleash piercing screams.
LEGREE LEANS OVER BOB’S SPRAWLED BODY AND RAGES.
LEGREE
(Shouts)
Take that you black Bastard! You’ll never fuck another white woman, unless it’s in the venue of hell!
Susan wails wildly, rushes over and kneels next to Bob’s sprawled–bloody body. She lifts and cuddles Bob’s rigid body unto her bosom. Susan looks up menacingly at her father, shakes her fist at him and bellows.
SUSAN
(Angry tirade)
Daddy you killed him! You’ve killed my lover! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!
Unknown to Legree and Sarah, Eve, Bob’s sister, also a student at Troy College was visiting Susan and Bob. Upon hearing the Legrees nearing Susan’s Bedroom, Eve had hid in the closet. After hearing the loud-fatal shots and the approaching blaring Police sirens, Eve slowly emerges from a closet. She observes her slain brother slumped into Susan’s arms. Eve raises her hands to her face and bellows a loud scream. Sarah looks shockingly at Eve, as Eve dashes over to Legree and screams at him. Legree stares unblinkingly at the wall.
EVE
(Livid)
Mr. Legree, you racist bastard! Look at what you’ve done! You’ve just killed Bob, my only brother!
Legree doesn’t answer Eve. He walks around the bedroom trapped in a daze. His silent revolver lies on the floor. The approaching Police sirens grow louder and louder. Sarah stares curiously at Eve and begins to question her.
SARAH
(Extremely curious - frowns)
Eve, my maid, what are you doing here? Eve, this black man, Bob, is he your brother? What in the hell is going on here?
Eve grabs a tissue from a box on the table, dries her eyes, stops crying and glances sheepishly at Sarah.
EVE
(Angry)
Indeed Mrs. Legree, Bob Jordan is my brother and your bigoted husband killed him.
(Eve gazes angrily at Legree)
Mr. Legree, why are you so enraged about my brother screwing your white daughter, Susan? After all, while employed as your black maid, you often sneaked into my sleeping quarters and fucked me - yes me, a black woman!
Sarah drops to her knees burning with anger and confusion. Sarah gawks furiously at Eve and Legree. Eve places her hands on her hips and struts about the bedroom glaringly arrogantly down upon Sarah.
EVE
(Arrogant)
Yes Mrs. Legree, your so-called angelic husband often screwed me - a black woman! But yet, on the flip side of this racist pendulum of life, your racist husband couldn’t fathom the realization that his lily-white daughter, Susan, was being fucked by my brother - a black man!
Legree still stands motionless in a corner as several white Police Officers rush into the bedroom with their guns drawn. Moments later, two Police Officers escort Legree out of the bedroom, with his hands cuffed behind his back.
EXT – TWO MONTH LATER – CENTRAL PARK – DAY
SUSAN, SARAH AND EVE MEET IN CENTRAL PARK TO DISCUSS THEIR RELATED TRAGEDIES. THE WOMEN ARRIVE AT THE PARK SEPARATELY, SUSAN, EVE AND THEN SARAH. THEY SIT ON A PARK BENCH AT 72 STREET AND 5TH AVE. THE WOMEN SIT QUIETLY NEXT TO EACH OTHER, REFUSING TO LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER OR SPEAK AND BREAK THE ICY SILENCE. FINALLY SUSAN JUMPS UP AND LOOKS DOWN UPON HER MOTHER SARAH AND EVE; SUSAN SPEAKS.
SUSAN
(A sudden smile)
Just look at us three miserable souls. You’d think that we had just killed someone.
Sarah sniffles, pull out a tissue from her purse, dabs at her moist eyes, looks over at Eve and finally looks up at her daughter, Susan. Sarah rises and speaks.
SARAH
(Smiling)
Yes, Eve and Susan look at us. Now what do we three ladies have in common?
Eve rises from the bench, joins Susan and Sarah, put her hands on Susan and Sarah’s shoulders and speaks:
EVE
(Soft tone)
Mrs. Legree and Susan, I’ll tell you what we have in common, as per the evil acts of racism, we three have been reduced to mere shells of ourselves, shattered women, deprived of pride, dignity and a sense of our wholeness. In essence, the riveting-racist act of one racist man looms more erosive than cancer. I mean, one dose of cancer destroys only one life, whereas, a single contaminant of Legree’s racism has spread and shattered five.
The women hold hands and roam deeper into the park. Now, they each manage to offer a slight smile. The women stop holding hands. Susan turns and speaks to her mother.
SUSAN
(Nervous – rubs her hands together)
Mommy, I think it’s time for me to clear the air regarding dad and his affair with Eve; let me explain. One night I couldn’t sleep, so I came downstairs for milk and to read. To my surprise, I observed dad exiting Eve’s room and his pants was unzipped. After accusing dad of sleeping with Eve, he became angry - assaulted me and threatened to withdraw my college funds if I divulged to you what I observed. I later apologized to dad and promised to keep his secret.
sarah
(Throws her hands up)
Now, you tell me! Why didn’t you tell me before? Anyway, Susan, you didn’t have to apologize to your father because you didn’t do anything wrong; he did.
SUSAN
(Shrugs her shoulder)
Mommy, well, I was scared because dad had threatened to discontinue my college funds.
Sarah stops walking and cast an evil glance at Eve.
SARAH
(Furious)
Eve, what do you have to say for your role in this debacle? Hell, you worked for me and I was very good to you.
Eve stops walking turns around and looks sadly at Sarah.
EVE
(Gloomy expression)
Mrs. Legree, but your husband forced himself upon me. Many nights after you had retired, he sneaked into my room and screwed me. I was afraid to reject his him. Mrs. Legree, you know most white men have that certain magnetic persuasion over us colored girls.
Sarah walks away from Eve and Susan for a moment and sit down on a park bench, as Eve and Susan looks on. Eve and Susan walk over to Sarah and put their arms around her.
SUSAN & EVE
WE’RE SORRY.
Sarah dabs her moist eyes with a tissue. She speaks to Susan and Eve.
SARAH
(Smiles)
Well, what the hell ladies. I forgive you both. After all, I know my husband is a Philander and an avowed racist. He can be quite obnoxious and I always felt he was very capable of killing. But most of all, Eve, I’m extremely sorry for my husband murdering your brother - Bob. But in time, we shall each overcome our dreadful maladies; we will regain our composure and we shall each prosper.
SUSAN
Yes, mom, we have so much to live for.
sarah
But you know girls, several weeks ago, I watched a young-black man, Lubei Hilton, on the late news. Mr. Hilton stated that since the genesis of slavery, white men have had their way sexually with black women.
EVE
(SNEAKY GRIN – SHAKES HER HEAD)
You see, Mrs. Legree, I told you. I was taken advantage of by your husband. What else did Mr. Hilton say?
sarah
He said, conversely, white men become extremely jealous when black men screw white women. You know, this is troubling. Just think of the malicious tragedies white men have caused black men. History is replete with stories of black men being lynched for merely looking at white women.
SARAH
But history is silent on the data of black men maiming or lynching white men for romancing or raping black women. It makes one think, doesn’t it?
SUSAN
Ladies this is too much doom and gloom for one day. Let’s go and have a drink.
Sarah and Eve nod their heads in agreement. The ladies exit the park and take a cab to a lounge in Harlem.
INT – HARLEM - 125TH STREET – EBONY BAR – DAY
SARAH, EVE AND SUSAN SIT IN A BOOTH SIPPING MARTINIS. THE BAR IS PACKED WITH PREDOMINANT BLACK PATRONS. THE AMBIANCE IS DEAFENING, AS NOISY PATRONS MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO HEAR THE BLARING TV’S. SUDDENLY A BREAKING NEWS ALERT APPEARS ON SEVERAL LARGE TV SCREENS AND SUDDENLY EBONY BAR SLUMPS INTO PROFOUND SILENCE. ALL EYES QUICKLY GLANCE UPWARD TOWARD THE THREE TV SETS, LOCATED IN THE REAR AND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BAR.
INT – NEW YORK CITY – NYLN TV STUDIO – DAY
SENIOR TV NEWS ANCHOR, ROGER HAMMER OF NYLN SITS AT HIS ANCHOR DESK AND PRESENTS BREAKING NEWS REGARDING RACIAL– SENSITIVE COURT CASES.
NEWS ANCHOR - ROGER HAMMER
HELLO AMERICA, ON THE CIVIL RIGHT FRONT, IRONICALLY ON THE SAME DAY, WE HAVE THREE BREAKING JUDICIAL STORIES THAT SOME BELIEVE WILL FURTHER DIVIDE THIS ALREADY RACIALLY TORN NATION. FIRST, WE GO TO BENTLEY CONNECTICUT, THE SUPREME COURT, WHERE OUR SENIOR TV NEWS CORRESPONDENT, ANN COREY IS STANDING BY - ANN.
EXT - BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – SUPREME COURT – DAY
CORRESPONDENT ANN COREY
Yes Roger, I’m NYLN Senior TV News Correspondent, Ann Corey. I’m standing here in front of Connecticut State Supreme Court. Inside, a hearing for Defendant, Cyrus Legree, has just ended. We’ve learned that Judge Howard A. Taney decreed that Defendant, Cyrus Legree is mentally incapacitated and can not stand trial for the cold- bloody killing Bob Jordan - a young, black man. Meanwhile, Legree will be warehoused in a mental institution until he’s deemed capable of discerning the gravity of his criminal act. I remind my TV audience that this prominent murder case is entwined in a plethora of racial undercurrent. It is widely scorned that Judge Howard Taney happened to be a brother of triplets - Judges and they boast of being generational Grandsons of Judge Roger B. Taney of Dred Scott fame.
INT – HARLEM – 125TH STREET – EBONY LOUNGE – DAY
Loud music blares. Patrons are angry at Judge Taney appalling decision. Black men shout angrily to anyone who listens. Sarah and Susan shake with fright. They hold their heads down and slide down in the Booth, trying to hide their whiteness from the incensed crowd. Eve tries to console Sarah and Susan with increased chatter.
YOUNG ANGRY BLACK MAN
(Frantic)
Damn it! I’m angry as hell! Judge Taney is a racist, just like generational Grandfather of the Dred Scott era!
A black man rises and slams his beer bottle to the floor.
YOUNG ANGRY BLACK WOMAN
(Sits at the Bar - crying)
It’s the same old song! Nothing seems to change! Mr. Charlie is still our slave master. But, we’re going to clip his wings!
A drunken black man jumps-up upon the bar and yells to the patrons.
MIDDLE-AGE BLACK MAN
(Drunk - shouting)
If the murdered-black man, Bob Jordan, had killed that racist bastard, Legree, then Judge Howard Taney would’ve immediately found Bob Jordan mentally fit to stand trial! In addition, Judge Taney would’ve stacked the jury roster with eleven racist whites, and one ignorant–black female! Then, after convicting Bob Jordan, the racist Judge Taney and the republican right wingers would’ve deliberately feigned the truth too justify the racist verdict of a racist court! Whites would’ve arrogantly claimed, “No, the verdict wasn’t racially Bias! The jury was integrated – look, there was one black female!” Bartender, give everybody a drink on me!
The drunken man jumps down from the bar.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – SUPREME COURT – DAY
NEWS CORRESPONDENT ANN COREY CONCLUDES HER REPORT IN BENTLEY CONNECTICUT AND PREPARES TO REFER THE TV AUDIENCE TO HER COLLEAGUE IN NEW YORK CITY.
CORRESPONDENT ANN COREY
Now let’s go to my colleague Jerry Floyd, in New York City at the State Supreme Court, where he has breaking news regarding the white Police Sergeant who killed an unarmed black Preacher in Harlem.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – SUPREME COURT - DAY
CORRESPONDENT JERRY FLOYD
I’m TV News Correspondent Jerry Floyd of NYLN. I’m here at the New York State Supreme Court in downtown Manhattan. In this New York murder case, here’s yet another stunning decision rendered by a Judge name Taney. After a brief hearing, we’ve learned that Judge Henry A. Taney has released white Police Sergeant, Ed Guy, who allegedly murdered an unarmed black Preacher in Harlem. We’re informed that Judge Henry A. Taney has ruled that the puny evidence against Sergeant Guy is circumstantial and shoddy.
INT – HARLEM – 125TH STREET - EBONY LOUNGE – DAY
AFTER VIEWING ON TV THE COURT LATEST ANTI-BLACK DECISION, THE DRUNKEN BLACK PATRONS BECOME MORE INTOXICATED, LOUDER AND ANGRIER. A YOUNG, DRUNKEN-BLACK WOMAN GETS UP FROM THE BAR; SHE YELLS HER DISSATISFACTION.
YOUNG DRUNKEN BLACK WOMAN
(Drunk – yelling)
Who in the hell are these Taney Judges? I’ve never heard of them before! I think it’s time for a riot, but this time, let’s riot on Wall Street!
Sarah and Susan exchange frightful stares. Eve snaps her fingers to the sound of faint music. Sarah speaks to Eve.
SARAH
(Frighten)
Eve, I think Susan and I should leave. I’ve noticed that a few women have given us the evil eye.
Eve touches Susan and Sarah’s shoulders, nods her head from side to side, reassuring them that they’re safe in Harlem.
EVE
(SMILING)
Don’t worry. My people aren’t angry with you innocent-white women. They’re angry with the racist institution of white men and the myriad of racist patrons they represent.
Sarah and Susan relax and continue sipping their Martinis.
SARAH
(Smiling)
Well, if you put it that way, Eve, Susan and I will stay a while longer.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – SUPREME COURT – DAY
NEWS CORRESPONDENT JERRY FLOYD CONCLUDES HIS REPORT AND PREPARES TO REFER HIS TV AUDIENCE BACK TO BENTLEY CONNECTICUT, WHERE ANOTHER BREAKING NEWS STORY ARISING AT THE STATE SUPREME COURT.
CORRESPONDENT JERRY FLOYD
This has proven to be a busy day in the news business. Now let’s go back to my colleague, Ann Corey, at the State Supreme Court in Bentley Connecticut, where yet another story has broken - Ann.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – SUPREME COURT – DAY
ANN COREY STANDS IN FRONT OF THE CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT PREPARING TO PRESENT YET ANOTHER BREAKING STORY.
CORRESPONDENT ANN COREY
Thanks Jerry. Yes, I Correspondent Ann Corey reporting once again from Connecticut Supreme Court. In the case of the three white youths, who were charged with blinding a young-black man for socializing with a young-white woman, we’ve just learned that Judge, Harry A. Taney, one of the Triplett Judges, has dismissed all charges against the three white youths. According to our sources, Judge Harry A. Taney cited puny evidence and discreditable witnesses as the reasons for his dismissals.
EXT- HARLEM 125TH STREET – EBONY LOUNGE – DAY
The stunned patrons become quiet after hearing this latest episode of unbelievable miscarriage of justice. They sit in eerie silence - shaking their heads in disbelief.
SUSAN
(Leery - scared)
Mommy, Eve, these patrons are drunk, angry, unpredictable and right now, they’re too quiet! I think we should get the hell out of here - now!
Susan and Sarah slide gingerly from the booth, as Eve follows. Sarah and Susan walk swiftly to the door as Eve trails speedily behind them.
EXT – 125TH STREET – DAY
THE LADIES HAIL A GYPSY CAB AND LEAVES HARLEM.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – SUPREME COURT – DAY
CORRESPONDENT ANN COREY CONCLUDES HER REPORT.
CORRESPONDENT ANN COREY
Stick with us folk. Let’s go to our NYLN Studio in Grover Massachusetts, where my colleague Lynn Mason, wait with still, yet, another breaking story.
INT – GROVER MASSACHUSETTS – NYLN STUDIO – DAY
CORRESPONDENT LYNN MASON SITS AT A CIRCULAR TABLE, PREPARING TO INTERVIEW A YOUNG-WHITE MAN, SAM WISE, WHO SITS ACROSS FROM HER. WISE HAS BREAKING NEWS REGARDING A RASH OF SUSPICIOUS FIRES.
CORRESPONDENT LYNN MASON
Good afternoon, I’m NYLN TV News Correspondent, Lynn Mason. Sitting across from me is Sam Wise, a senior at Caster College, here in Grover Massachusetts. Sam will relate to us some critical data about a recent rash of fires, which occurred on several College Campuses. Now Sam, this data that you’re about to impart, did you first report it to the Police?
Sam’s frighten. He’s shifts around in his chair and constantly looks nervously over his shoulders.
SAM
(Frighten)
No I didn’t.
CORRESPONDENT MASON
Why not Sam?
SAM
Well, it’s because I’m afraid of the Police, as well as the Fire Marshals.
CORRESPONDENT LYNN MASON
Sam, afraid of the Police, maybe I can understand, but why are you afraid of Fire Marshals?
Sam looks around nervously, grabs a glass of water from the table and sips it.
SAM
(Jittery)
It’s because most white Police Officers, white Firemen and Fire Marshals are secret Deputies of Satan’s notorious cult and they’re known as Satan’s Deputies.
correspondent maSon
I’ve never heard of Satan’s Deputies. Who are they Sam and why are you now going public on my show?
sam
Ms. Mason, I know you’ve never heard of this cult. I will venture to say that most blacks have never heard of Satan’s Deputies. Well, that’s because the cult is a secret order. I’m going public because the cult has threatened me. I need protection and I was referred to you by the only pious man I know - Tom Eden, a black man. Yes, I was once a member of the cult. But more importantly, all WSAI members are Satan’s Deputies and they’ve sworn to disrupt the lives of all blacks.
correspondent maSon
Sam if your story is true, why haven’t the news media reported it?
sam
That’s because all white–male news Correspondents and their head honchos are Satan’s Deputies. By the way, Satan’s Deputies are comprised of the president, white politicians, members of the clergy, Judges, Attorneys, Police Officers, Firemen, and Prison Guards and others. And by the way, the Triplett Judges, Harry, Howard and Henry Taney are also Deputies of Satan, that’s why they’ve always ruled against evidence which tend to support the interest of black litigants.
correspondent maSon
Sam, I’m curious. Tell me how you fell in disfavor with the members of WSAI.
SAM
That’s simple. The recent rash of fires on college campuses in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts were all set by WSAI members. They wanted to distract attention from the three white WSAI members who were implicated in the blinding of the young-black man at Troy College. WSAI had hoped the rash of dubious campus fires would be blamed on black Students. I fought against WSAI racist agenda. So, they kicked me out and have since threatened my life.
correspondent maSon
Mr. Wise, on behalf of NYLN, I thank you for imparting this invaluable information to us. We also thank Mr. Tom Eden for referring you to us and commencing tonight - I will place you into the proper hands for your personal safety.
Sam Wise smiles broadly, rises and shakes Lynn’s hand.
SAM
(Smiling)
Thank you Ms. Mason.
CORRESPONDENT MASON
(Smiling)
I thank you Mr. Wise and we at NYLN thank you our viewers for tuning in. I’m Correspondent Lynn Mason reporting from our NYLN Studio in Grover Massachusetts. Good day.
INT – TWO WEEKS LATER - NEW YORK CITY – CBN TV STUDIO – DAY
NEWS COMMENTATOR, CHARLES WINSTON, SITS AT A CIRCULAR TABLE AND CONCLUDES HIS INTERVIEWS WITH THREE STATE SUPREME JUSTICES - (TRIPLETS), HOWARD, HENRY AND HARRY TANEY.
HARRY, HENRY AND HOWARD TANEY (TRIPLETS), WHITE MALES, 65, 6FT0, 225-LBS, BALD, GRAY BEARDS, BLUE SUITS, RED TIES.
CORRESPONDENT WINSTON
JUDGES, WE HAVE ONLY A FEW MINUTES LEFT AND I WANT TO POSE A FINAL QUESTION TO EACH OF YOU. JUDGE HENRY TANEY, AS HAS BEEN WIDELY REPORTED IN THE MEDIA, NATIONWIDE, THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS HIGHLY INCENSED AND OFFENDED OVER YOUR RELEASE OF A WHITE POLICE SERGEANT WHO KILLED AN UNARMED BLACK PREACHER. JUDGE, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY?
judge henry taney
(Angry – slams fist on table)
I don’t give a damn how angry blacks become! In fact, as my noble ancestor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Roger B. Taney decreed in 1820 - “A black man has no rights, which I as a white man is bound to respect!”
COMMENTATOR WINSTON
Judge Harry Taney, I propose the same question to you.
JUDGE HARRY TANEY
(Angry – slams fist on table)
As for as I’m concern blacks are not authentic citizens of this country! Therefore, I have no regards for them!
comMentator winston
Last but certainly not least, Judge Howard Taney, as the last spokesman for this unique assembly of Triplets, what do you have to add regarding blacks’ disenchantment with each of your alleged racist decrees?
judge howard taney
(Angry – slams fist on table)
My forefathers, who were the framers of the U.S. Constitution didn’t have blacks in mind when they drafted that momentous document! That’s the way it was then and that’s the way it will always remain!
comMentator winston
That’s all the time we have this evening. I thank my guests, honorable Judges and Triplets, Henry, Harry and Howard Taney, descendants of renowned U.S. Supreme Court justice of 1820, Roger B. Taney. I want to thank my audience for tuning in to CBN TV News, your conservative News Channel.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – 125TH STREET – SIDEWALK - DAY
HUNDREDS OF BLACK AWOL SERVICEMEN JOINS HUNDREDS OF ANGRY BLACKS, AS THEY DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE VICIOUS KILLING OF AN UNARMED BLACK PREACHER BY A WHITE POLICE SERGEANT ED GUY. PROTESTORS BLOCK TRAFFIC. A LARGE ASSEMBLY OF TV CAMERAS CAPTURES FOOTAGE, AS A PLETHORA OF TV NEWS COMMENTATORS REPORT TO THE NATION.
BLACK DEMONSTRATORS
(Angry - noisy chants)
Racism! White racism! Sgt. Guy is guilty! Justice now! Remove racist, white-Police Officers! Satan’s Deputies must go!
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – FRONT OF STATE SUPREME COURT – MORN
HUNDREDS OF BLACK AWOL SERVICEMEN JOIN HUNDREDS OF ANGRY BLACKS IN PROTEST AGAINST JUDGE HENRY A. TANEY FOR RELEASING SGT GUY. A LARGE ASSEMBLY OF TV CAMERAS CAPTURES FOOTAGE, AS A PLETHORA OF TV COMMENTATORS REPORT TO THE NATION.
BLACK DEMONSTRATORS
(Angry - noisy chants)
Racist Judge Taney must go! Where’s Justice? Unseat Judge Taney! Racist Police Sergeant! Satan Deputies - no!
EXT – BENTLEY CONN – FRONT OF STATE SUPREME COURT - DAY
HUNDRED OF BLACK AWOL SERVICEMEN JOIN HUNDRED OF ANGRY BLACKS, IN PROTEST AGAINST JUDGE, HOWARD A. TANEY, FOR COMMITTING MURDERER CYRUS LEGREE TO AN INSANE ASYLUM, INSTEAD OF TRYING HIM FOR MURDERING A BLACK MAN. PROTESTORS BLOCK TRAFFIC. A LARGE ASSEMBLY OF TV NEWS CAMERAS CAPTURES FOOTAGE, AS A PLETHORA OF TV NEWS COMMENTATORS REPORT TO THE NATION.
BLACK DEMONSTRATORS
(Angry – noisy chants)
Legree isn’t crazy! Judge Taney is crazy! Where’s justice? We shall overcome! Satan’s Deputies - no!
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – FRONT OF STATE SUPREME COURT – DAY
HUNDREDS OF BLACK AWOL SERVICEMEN JOIN HUNDRED OF ANGRY BLACKS IN PROTEST AGAINST JUDGE, HARRY A. TANEY, FOR RELEASING THREE WHITE YOUTHS, WHO BLINDED A YOUNG-BLACK MAN. A LARGE ASSEMBLY OF TV CAMERAS CAPTURES FOOTAGE, AS A PLETHORA OF TV COMMENTATORS REPORT TO THE NATION.
BLACK DEMONSTRATORS
(Angry – noisy chants)
Jail the white youths! Judge Taney, this is not Dred Scott’s case! Remove the judge! Racism is alive, but justice is dead! Kill Satan Deputies!
INT – WASHINGTON – WHITE HOUSE – OVAL OFFICE – DAY
IN THE OVAL OFFICE, PRESIDENT, HERBERT TROT, AN ELDERLY WHITE MAN, SITS AT THE HEAD OF A LONG TABLE WITH HIS CABINET DISCUSSING THE MUSHROOMING UPHEAVAL OF RACISM.
PRESIDENT TROT
(ADAMANT, SOUTHERN ACCENT)
My fellow Republicans and Satan Deputies, you all know that the black natives are restless, that’s why I’ve summoned you here to this urgent forum. In addition, I’ve received an interesting letter from some Nigger Quack, who goes by the name of Tom Eden. He proclaims to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and he blames us white folks for the nation’s racial ills. I don’t know why I read this letter. Well, anyway, to hell with him. We will attempt to conjure-up a remedy to combat these racial demonstrations. Vice President, George Wilson, you may speak.
VICE PRESIDENT george WILSON
(Shrugs his shoulders – southern accent)
Mr. President, just forget about those Niggers. This latest blowup will go away soon. They always do.
chaplain carl tillMan
Mr. President, as you know, throughout the land Niggers are on the warpath. They’re rampaging, burning, robbing and killing. Of course we don’t give a damn about them burning their own ghetto shanties, but now, they’ve ventured into our lily–white communities. All Banks, Schools, Post Offices, Wall Street and other major institutions are compelled to close. It’s critical, so what shall we do?
majority leader john lynch
Mr. President, minus the present of such former giants as Martin Luther King Jr. Roy Wilkins and A. Phillip Randolph, the lazy Niggers seem to have strayed off course. Thus, I propose that we deploy soldiers in white communities to protect our lovely women from being raped by Niggers.
president trot
Okay, here what we’re going to do. I must say that since all of the formidable Nigger leaders are no longer with us, we must play ball with the new so-called leaders: Carl Jones, Ben Wade and Ed Power. We’ll hire these shysters to quell the hostilities of their restless flocks.
vice president wilSon
Mr. President, What do you propose to do?
president trot
(Rises – gives a big grin)
My brothers I will get Treasure Secretary, Paul Clay, to prepare the necessary monies for those so-called Nigger Leaders and they’ll stop these large demonstrations and other sprouts of mayhems. Finally, I will have National Guard units deployed in white communities to protect our precious- female assets. Now brothers you’re dismissed.
INT – NEXT DAY – TREASURY OFFICE – DAY
TREASURE SECRETARY PAUL CLAY SITS AT HIS DESK WRITING. THREE BLACK LEADERS, CARL JONES, BEN WADE AND ED POWERS ENTER CLAY’S OFFICE. CLAY GREETS AND SHAKES THE HANDS OF THE BLACK LEADERS. CLAY REACHES INTO HIS DESK DRAWER, RETRIEVES THREE ENVELOPES AND PASSES THEM TO THE MEN. THE MEN SMILE, SHAKE CLAY’S HAND AND EXIT THE OFFICE.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – 125TH STREET – SIDEWALK – DAY
TOM EDEN STANDS ATOP A MILK CRATE SPEAKING INTO A MICROPHONE. HE CONCLUDES HIS ORATION TO HUNDREDS OF ANGRY–BLACK DEMONSTRATORS, WHOM HE HAS NOW MANAGED TO SILENCE. A LARGE CONTINGENT OF TV CAMERAMEN AND NEWS CORRESPONDENTS COVER THE MAGIC OF EDEN’S INFLUENCE.
TOM EDEN
(SMILING)
Believe in me my black brothers and sisters. As I’ve stated earlier, I’m a disciple of Jesus. I’ve assessed the overt racism annexed to these latest racial incidents in the North East. I beg of you to subdue your passion of revenge. I promise that I will dethrone Satan and his Deputies and racism will succumb forever. Thank you.
The silent crowd applauds Tom Eden, as they slowly disperse and quietly drift away.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – STATE SUPREME COURT – SIDEWALK – DAY
TOM EDEN STANDS ATOP A MILK CRATE SPEAKING INTO A MICROPHONE. HE CONCLUDES HIS ORATION TO HUNDREDS OF ANGRY– BLACK DEMONSTRATORS, WHOM HE HAS NOW MANAGED TO SILENCE. A LARGE CONTINGENT OF TV CAMERAMEN AND NEWS CORRESPONDENTS COVERS THE MAGIC OF EDEN’S INFLUENCE ON THE DOCILE CROWD.
TOM EDEN
(Smiling)
Regarding the rash of College Campus fires, I’ve learned that three, white- male students were recently arrested for arson, assault and murder. So no young black male will be frame for those tragedies. But there’re other racial cases that we blacks must focus. We know the Taney Judges lay paused to forever obstruct our narrow path to justice. But I request of you to subdue your passion and leave me to dethrone Satan and his Deputies. Thank you.
The silent crowd applauds Tom Eden, as they slowly disperse and quietly fade away.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – STATE SUPREME COURT - DAY
TOM EDEN STANDS ATOP A MILK CRATE SPEAKING INTO A MICROPHONE. HE CONCLUDES HIS ORATION TO HUNDREDS OF ANGRY– PROTESTORS, WHOM HE HAS MANAGED TO SILENCE. A HUGE CONTINGENT OF TV NEWS PERSONNEL IS PRESENT.
TOM EDEN
(Smiles)
Yes Bentley Connecticut, I know that you’ve heard that your brothers and sisters in New York, who’re fighting the same battle as you, have decided to permit me to fight this incessant-racist battle on their behalf. I certainly hope you’ll likewise trust me. Yes, I’ll certainly dethrone Satan and his Deputies. Thank you.
EXT – TWO DAYS LATER – RACO VIRGINIA – TV STUDIO – SUN-DAY
ON REV. TED SNEAD CHRISTIAN TV PROGRAM, TOM EDEN STANDS ON STAGE BEFORE TV CAMERAS AND A SMALL-LIVE AUDIENCE OF WHITE PARISHIONERS. REV. SNEAD SITS BEHIND HIM. TOM CONCLUDES HIS SPEECH REGARDING DETERRING WHITES FROM INVOKING RACISM AGAINST BLACKS. THE AUDIENCE SITS WITH STOIC EXPRESSIONS AND REFUSES TO REACT TO EDEN’S ORATION.
TOM EDEN
(Affable expression)
In conclusion, God is a composite of all ethnic segments of society. If anyone tells you that God is white - you should challenge that person, simply because no one has ever seen God. But I can save all racist sinners; I can save you. I will pioneer all racist sinners across the cooling- breezy terrain of equal justice and teach them to love all of mankind.
Don’t forget, as my black brothers and sisters are now oppressed, remember, not so long ago, it was your forefathers who were oppressed by the overbearing tyrants of England.
TOM EDEN
So, I ask of you this incisive question, don’t you appreciate the courage of my people rising up against racial tyranny, as your forefathers once rose up against royal oppression? Finally, if you, your family and friends are bearers of racial hatred, I sincerely urge all of you to repent before the Rooster crows three days hence. I thank you.
(Turns around and looks at Rev. Snead) Rev. Snead, I thank you Sir.
The unmoved-white audience sits with stoic expressions and refuses to applaud. Rev. Snead angrily leaps from his chair and shakes Eden’s hand. Snead now shakes his fist at the audience, goes to the microphone and speaks.
REV. SNEAD
(Angry - fuming)
My white brothers and sisters, why are you silent? Why didn’t you show decency and applaud? You know folks, within the walls of your stubborn minds, each of you know that Bro. Eden is precisely correct in his observation of this racially torn country. It’s reported in the annals of history that Cain and Satan flung their tortuous brand of racism directly into the white church and you’re evidence that racism still resides in you.
An angry white man rises to challenge Rev. Snead’s anger.
ANGRY WHITE MAN
(Shouts and points his finger)
Rev. Snead I have something to say!
rev. snead
(Angry, yells at man)
Sit down! I have the floor! Thus, I now say before God, I’m ashamed to concede that my congregation is retreating on an endless treadmill of selfish anger, sinfully diluted with caustic dosages of obvious racism.
REV. SNEAD
Folks, if you proclaim to be lovers of God, then you should discern that white racism is an unappreciated failed policy before God. And I, a white man, morally join my black friend, Tom Eden, as he triumph as a glorious beacon for all of God’s children, be they black or white.
(Turns and addresses Eden)
Bro. Tom Eden, it appears that I’m the only non–racist white man in America. But I wholeheartedly support your crusade regarding the repentance of racist whites. Travel on my brother and may God be with you every step of your toilsome struggle.
Rev. Snead embraces Eden mightily. They exit backstage, locked arm in arm.
INT – TWO DAYS LATER – WHITE HOUSE – OVAL OFFICE – DAY
PRESIDENT TROT SITS AT HIS DESK WITH CABINET MEMBERS PAUL CLAY, GEORGE LYNCH AND GEORGE WILSON.
PRESIDENT TROT
(Happy)
Well my fellow Republicans and Deputies of Satan, I’m happy to report that Secretary Clay gave a twenty-million dollar check to each of those three Nigger Leaders. And as a result, the Niggers are no longer warring in the streets. In addition, our wives and daughters are free to roam without feeling an immediate threat of being sexually accosted by Niggers.
Senate Majority John Lynch jumps up and calls the President.
MAJORITY LEADER JOHN LYNCH
(Frantic)
Hold on Mr. President! I hope you’re not implying that those three Niggers: Carl Jones, Ben Wade and Ed Powers, quelled the blacks from warring.
President Trot leaps up and growls at John Lynch.
PRESIDENT TROT
(Furious)
Say it man! Say what’s on your mind!
John Lynch sits down.
MAJORITY LEADER JOHN LYNCH
(Speaks in a calm Manner)
Well, Mr. President, word has it that it was not those black leaders: Jones, Wade and Powers who subdued those Nigger warriors, but on the contrary, it was that black charlatan, Tom Eden, who claims to be a disciple of God. I understand Eden single handedly suppressed those massive-racial protests.
President grabs a coffee cup from his desk and angrily slams it to the floor.
PRESIDENT TROT
(Fuming – bangs his fist on table)
Tom Eden? Do you mean that impostor who wrote me a letter? You know, I refused to dignify that moron with a reply.
(Looks up at the ceiling and ponders). You know, maybe I should’ve dealt with that Nigger - Tom Eden. It certainly would’ve been cheaper for the nation.
vice president wilSon
Mr. President, it seems that those three so-called black leaders gypped the nation out of sixty–million dollars, because they reneged on their promise to corral the nation’s black misfits. Instead, it was that mystical black man, Tom Eden, who fulfilled that assignment.
President Trot slumps down in his chair, gaze down at the floor for a moment and pout.
president trot
(Sits-up straight and yells)
Well, the money is lost! Boys you know we can’t expose those Nigger shysters without exposing ourselves. Anyway, Mr. Vice President, Call the F.B.I. - I want that damn Tom Eden investigated and tailed twenty-four hours a day.
INT – ONE DAY LATER – TOM EDEN’S APARTMENT – BEDROOM – DAY
IT IS DAWN. TOM EDEN IS ASLEEP IN BED. HE’S AWAKENING BY THE ECHO OF BOOMING THUNDER AND THE SHRILL SOUND OF RAIN. TOM RISING, SITS ON THE SIDE OF THE BED, RUBS HIS EYES AND WALKS OVER TO THE WINDOW. HE’S ASTOUNDED AS HE WITNESSES THE UNIQUE LASER FLASHES OF LIGHTING DAZZLING ABOUT THE OPAQUE SKY. TOM SUDDENLY HEARS A NOISE BEHIND HIM. HE JUMPS AND TURNS AROUND SWIFTLY. TOM IS AGHAST AS HE OBSERVES HIS BLACK JESUS STARING AT HIM. A BRILLIANT HALO HOVERS OVER JESUS’ HEAD. TOM BOWS TO JESUS AS JESUS SPEAKS.
JESUS
(Baritone voice)
Tom this is our second meeting. As I speak, with the exception of you, this entire nation looms in a state of suspended animation. Today is the last day of racism against your people. Tom, I’ve chosen you to ally yourself with several of my celestial disciples from Heaven. You will soon meet them in front of the White House in Washington D. C. You will lead these former Abolitionists in eradicating the scourge of racism. In the time of the great flood, Noah was chosen as the Icon for that era. Now, during this hideous era of racism, you’re designated as the pious symbol of moral justice; you’ll be designated: “Noah 2nd. That you’ll appear more judicious, I’m endowing you with an older appearance. Finally, Tom, should you fail in your mission, rest assured that my father will destroy America by fire.
Instantly, Tom becomes Noah 2nd. His physical features are changed. Noah is now stooped, 6ft-1, 175-lbs, long–gray hair, gray beard and glasses. He now appears 80-years old.
NOAH ATTEMPTS TO REPLY TO JESUS, BUT IN AN INSTANT, JESUS DISAPPEARS.
EXT – WASHINGTON D.C. – FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE – DAY
NOAH DISCOVERS HIMSELF WANDERING IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. HE LOOKS UP FOGGY PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AND OBSERVES A GROUP OF PEOPLE APPROACHING HIM. NOAH SQUINT HIS EYES AND RECOGNIZES ONE OF THE GROUP MEMBERS AS JESUS CHRIST.
JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES FORM A CIRCLE AROUND NOAH. JESUS LOOKS AT TOM, THEN AT HIS DISCIPLES. JESUS POINTS TO HIS DISCIPLES, AS NOAH STARES IN AMAZEMENT AT JESUS’ ENTOURAGE. JESUS SPEAKS TO NOAH.
JESUS
Noah I want to introduce to you my heavenly diverse colleagues. Before being summoned to Heaven, these legendary Stalwarts were tireless abolitionists and civil right activists, who gallantly fought to undo racism on earth. Now they’ve returned to earth for you to lead them in the obliteration of racism. Noah, your celestial colleagues are: Sojournal Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fannie Lou Hamer, John F. Kennedy, Malcom X, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Mcleod Bethume, William Kunstler, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Booker T. Washington, Lloyd Garrison, Nat Turner, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, Thaddeus Stevens, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Dred Scott, Harriet Tubman, and Paul Roberson.
Noah places his hands upon his face, walks around the circle of Disciples and shakes their hands. They’re all attired in black togas. Halos hover over their heads.
jesus
Noah, I leave you with these great stalwarts. Finally, Noah, I place in your hand a new U.S. Constitution. Thus, as I speak, the old U.S. Constitution is obsolete. After you’ve carried out my command, I will know of it in Heaven.
Jesus snaps his fingers and disappears as Noah and the Disciples look on. Noah turns gawks at his famous colleagues and scratches his head in disbelief.
COMM. FANNIE LOU HAMER
Comm. Noah, yes it us, but don’t be in awe of us. Look who Jesus has chosen to lead in the fight against racism in America.
comm. franklin d. roosevelt
(Smiling)
I agree, Comm. Hamer. You see Comm. Noah, we’ve proven our faith to Jesus, and now, he simply wants new blood.
All of the Commissioners laugh hardly.
NOAH
(Smiling)
Okay, I understand, so let me begin. Because we’re composed of black and white members, we’ll be known and addressed as “The Peace Commission”. As you know, white racism is the horrific plague that has ravaged this nation. Racism is primarily ignited by racist white men, who regularly set out to avenge the acts of romance between black men and white women. Right now, I know you’re weary, but I want a few of you to condemn the following edifices: the White House, the Capitol and the Supreme Court. You will board them up. Afterward, we will retire to Blair House. We’ll use Blair House as our sleeping quarters and during the day it will serve as our court for reviewing racism and corruption in the judiciary.
EXT – FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE – DAY
In a flash, two Commissioners fly over to the White House, two over to the Supreme Court, and two fly over to the Capitol. Meanwhile, the remaining Commissioners fly over to Blair House, enter and retire.
EXT – MOMENTS LATER – WHITE HOUSE – BOARDED-UP – DAY
EXT – MOMENTS LATER – SUPREME COURT – BOARDED-UP – DAY
EXT – MOMENTS LATER – CAPITOL BOARDED-UP – DAY
EXT – WASHINGTON D.C. – STREETS – DAY
ALL LIVING ORGANISMS AND OBJECTS ARE MOTIONLESS. THEY LINGER IN STATES OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – STREETS – DAY
ALL LIVING ORGANISMS AND OBJECTS ARE MOTIONLESS. THEY LINGER IN STATES OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
EXT – GILLESPIE NEW JERSEY – STREET – DAY
ALL LIVING ORGANISMS AND OBJECTS ARE MOTIONLESS. THEY LINGER IN STATES OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
EXT – GROVER MASSACHUSETTS – STREETS – DAY
ALL LIVING ORGANISMS AND OBJECTS ARE MOTIONLESS. THEY LINGER IN STATES OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – STREET – DAY
ALL LIVING ORGANISM AND OBJECTS ARE MOTIONLESS. THEY LINGER IN STATES OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
EXT – ONE HOUR LATER - WASHINGTON D.C. – WHITE HOUSE – DAY
THROUGHOUT AMERICA LOUD ALARMS BLARE AS ALL OF NATURE’S INHABITANTS BEGIN TO STIR.
EXT – WASHINGTON D.C. – STREET – DAY
ALL OF NATURE’S INHABITANTS BEGIN TO STIR.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – STREET – DAY
ALL OF NATURE’S INHABITANTS BEGIN TO STIR.
EXT – GILLESPIE NEW JERSEY – STREET – DAY
ALL OF NATURE’S INHABITANTS BEGIN TO STIR.
EXT – GROVER MASSACHUSETTS – STREET – DAY
ALL OF NATURE’S INHABITANTS BEGIN TO STIR.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – STREET – DAY
ALL OF NATURE’S INHABITANTS BEGIN TO STIR.
EXT – BLAIR HOUSE – FRONT LAWN – DAY
IN FRONT OF BLAIR HOUSE, COMM. NOAH 2ND STANDS ON THE LAWN BEFORE A BEVY OF MICROPHONES, TV NEWS CAMERAS AND CORRESPONDENTS. NOAH PREPARES TO ADDRESS THE NATION. HIS COMMISSIONERS STAND BEHIND HIM.
COMM. NOAH
AMERICA! I’M COMM. NOAH 2ND, COMMANDER OF THE CELESTIAL PEACE COMMISSION.
(Points to Commissioners)
Here on Earth I was formerly known as Tom Eden. Each of the former earthlings standing behind me is a former abolitionist and civil right activist. Each Commissioner was personally installed by Jesus Christ himself. Our purpose is to seek-out all racist vipers and abruptly defang them all. As I speak, a new United State Constitution, written by our Savior himself looms as your new national dogma. Thus, the old–ineffective constitution and all of its amendments are hereby null-in-void. The former White House will no longer serve as the nation’s executive office, instead, Blair House, will serve as the edifice for your Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. As you look at Blair House, it’s being renamed “The Black House” and thus its color will be “black”.
EXT – HARLEM NEW YORK – PARLOR OF A BLACK FAMILY – DAY
AN EXCITED BLACK FATHER SITS AND WATCHES TV WITH HIS WIFE AND SON.
EXT – SAVANNAH GEORGIA – PARLOR OF A BLACK FAMILY – DAY
AN ELATED BLACK MOTHER SITS AND WATCHES TV WITH HER TWO DAUGHTERS.
EXT – DETROIT MICHIGAN – PARLOR OF A BLACK FAMILY – DAY
A JUBILANT-BLACK GRANDMOTHER SITS AND WATCHES TV WITH HER GRANDSON AND GRANDDAUGHTER.
EXT – THE BLACK HOUSE – FRONT LAWN – DAY
COMM. NOAH CONCLUDES HIS GREETINGS. HE TURNS AROUND, POINTS HIS FINGER AT BLAIR HOUSE AND INSTANTLY THE COLOR OF BLAIR HOUSE CHANGES FROM WHITE TO BLACK. BLAIR HOUSE IS NOW: “THE BLACK HOUSE”.
COMM. NOAH
BE ADVISED THIS BLACK HOUSE WILL SERVE AS YOUR EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. WE’RE READY FOR BUSINESS ESPECIALLY THOSE ISSUES WHERE RACISM LOOMS AS THE ANTAGONIZING FACTOR.
EXT – LOS ANGELES – WHITE FAMILY APARTMENT – PARLOR – DAY
A SHOCKED WHITE FAMILY SITS AND WATCHES TV.
EXT – LOS ANGELES – WHITE FAMILY APARTMENT – PARLOR – DAY
A SHOCKED WHITE FAMILY SITS AND WATCHES TV.
EXT – BOISE IDAHO – WHITE FAMILY APARTMENT – PARLOR – DAY
AN ANGRY WHITE FAMILY SITS AND WATCHES TV.
EXT – PHILADELPHIA MISS – WHITE FAMILY APARTMENT – PARLOR – DAY
A FRANTIC WHITE MAN SITS AND WATCHES TV WITH HIS SON.
EXT – NEW YORK CITY – GREENWICH VILLAGE APARTMENT – PARLOR – DAY
AN ECSTATIC BLACK MAN SITS AND WATCHES TV WITH HIS WHITE WIFE.
EXT – WASHINGTON D.C. – THE BLACK HOUSE – BASEMENT - NIGHT
ALL COMMISSIONERS ARE ASLEEP. COMMISSIONER DRED SCOTT RUNS DOWN INTO THE BASEMENT. FROM ROOM TO ROOM, SCOTT FRANTICALLY KNOCKS ON DOORS AND ALERTS THE COMMISSIONERS THAT TROUBLE HAS OCCURRED OVERNIGHT.
COMM. DRED SCOTT
(Excited)
Wake up, there’s trouble! Get up!
All Commissioners rise from their beds in the basement and flee to the huge gymnasium on the first floor. The gym is arranged and converted into a Courtroom.
EXT – THE BLACK HOUSE – COURT – NIGHT
COMM. NOAH SITS ON A HIGH PODIUM FACING THE ENTRANCE. HIS COMMISSIONERS SIT TO HIS LEFT IN JURY BOXES. COMM. DRED SCOTT STANDS BEFORE COMM. NOAH AND PREPARES TO ADDRESS HIM.
COMM. DRED SCOTT
(Excited)
Comm. Noah, we have our first case of a blatant violation of the new U.S. Constitution. Former U.S. States President Herbert Trot and several of his henchmen attempted to break into the old White House. Comm. Thaddeus Stevens and I intercepted and arrested them. We now have them in the rear, detained in holding pens.
COMM. NOAH
(Stern expression)
Bring out former President Trot and his entourage. Now, I want the entire nation to see how celestial justice unfolds. So I want Commissioners Marcus Garvey and Harriet Beecher Stowe to go out and invite the News Media in.
Commissioners Stevens and Scott leave and later returns with Defendants Trot, George Wilson, John Lynch and Fred Calhoun. The Defendants are placed - standing in front of Comm. Noah along side of their Attorney, Saul Cohen.
MOMENTS LATER, COMMISSIONERS MARCUS GARVEY AND HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ESCORT A BEVY OF TV NEWS CORRESPONDENTS AND CAMERAMEN INTO THE COURT. THE CREW QUICKLY ASSEMBLES THEIR EQUIPMENTS AND IS NOW SET TO PROCEED.
COMM. NOAH
I call upon Comm. Abe Lincoln and Comm. Fannie Lou Hamer to assume the gavel and preside over this Court.
Commissioners Hamer and Lincoln approach the podium and stand next to each other. Comm. Noah rises and presents the gavel to Comm. Lincoln. Comm. raps the gavel once upon the lectern and prepares to preside.
COMM. LINCOLN
(Stern expression – reads a report, gazes up at Defendants)
I see that you Defendants are southerners. I also read that you Defendants conspired to defy Jesus’ new government, by attempting to burglarize the old White House - despite being warned. Well, we’re going to see about your rebellion.
Comm. Hamer makes remarks to the Defendants.
comm. hamer
(Stern expression)
Defendants, we’ve learned that you’re all southern racists, and as such, you subscribe to the teaching and racist philosophy of your wicked gurus, Cain and Satan. Defendants, I just want you to know that in Heaven, we were well aware that you all were Satan’s Deputies.
Comm. Lincoln proposes a question.
COMM. LINCOLN
Well now Mr. Trot, Wilson, Calhoun and Lynch, where’s your faith in God and your love of your fellowmen? We know all of you have verbalized your love of God, but you’re mere hypocrites. I say this because each of you was advised that the Peace Commission is a representation of God and yet you still defied our decree.
Defendants glare at the Commissioners.
COMM. HAMER
Yes, one of the cynical founders of racial hatred has been dead for eons. However, Satan, the Angel of light and the originator of racism is very much alive and he perpetrates his wickedness through you - his willing Deputies.
comm. lincoln
Mr. Trot, I don’t want to hear from your Attorney at the moment. I want to hear from you, because all of you’re charged with serious crimes: attempted burglary and acute racism. So, what’s your response to these severe charges lodged against you and your entourage?
Deft. Trot snatches a handkerchief from his jacket pocket, wipes his brow and glares at Comm. Lincoln and yells.
DEFT. TROT
(Yells angrily in a southern accent)
Certainly, we all love God! However, we refuse to obey your eccentric laws! My cronies and I consider your Commission to be a clan of alien! And let me make myself perfectly clear, we of the Republican Party, have made it vividly known that, we’re beholden to Satan. We’re representatives of the Aryan people and we’re indebted to them, because they elected us to public office!
Comm. Hamer rises from her chair, places her hands on her hips and yells to Trot.
COMM. HAMER
(Annoyed – yells)
That’s enough Defendant Trot! Sit down! In fact, all of you sit down!
All of the Defendants and their Attorney sit down. Defendant Trot leaps up in anger. Comm. Stevens slams him back into his seat.
COMM. LINCOLN
Deft. Wilson, do you concur with Defendant Trot’s incisive remarks?
deft. wilSon
(Calm southern accent)
Yes I do.
comm. hamer
Defendants Lynch and Calhoun, do you collectively sanction Defendant Trot’s response?
Defendants Lynch and Calhoun look serious and replies.
DEFENDANTS CALHOUN AND LYNCH
(Angry - southern accents)
You damn right we do!
Commissioners Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt relieve Comm. Hamer and Lincoln.
COMM. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Attorney Cohen, we have video tapes of the attempted burglary. We caught your clients red-handed. The Commissioners will retire and view the tapes. Upon our return, we’ll hear witnesses.
Attorney Cohen leaps up furiously from his chair bangs his hand on the table and yells.
ATTORNEY COHEN
(Fuming with anger)
Comm. Roosevelt, we object on the ground that under the old criminal procedure, Defendants were entitled to review tapes and receive the names of all witnesses! I object to this preposterous travesty of justice! I demand my rights as a reputable representative of my clients’ rights to impeach the integrity of all prosecutorial witnesses!
Comm. Roosevelt rises and yells at Attorney Cohen.
COMM. ROOSEVELT
(Annoyed)
Sit down Mr. Cohen and what you’re requesting is impossible!
Attorney Cohen sits down and makes an inquiry from his seat.
ATTORNEY COHEN
(Calm voice)
Well then, Comm. Roosevelt, I demand to know why.
Comm. Franklin D. Roosevelt rises up in anger.
COMM. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
(Annoyed)
Well Counselor, our Agents are Agents of God and they witnessed your clients attempting to break into the White House. There can be no examination of God’s Agents, because their evidence and a Peace Commission verdict can’t be appealed. Sir, our procedures are not exceedingly harsh, don’t forget, blacks had the deck stacked against them ever since 1619.
Most Commissioners retire to their chamber. Commissioners Garvey and Stowe remain and guard the Defendants.
EXT – ONE HOUR LATER – COURT
THE COMMISSIONER RETURNS TO COURT. COMM. HARRIET TUBMAN AND W.E.B. DUBOIS PRESIDE.
COMM. HARRIET TUBMAN
I want Commissioners Stowe, Garvey, Scott and Stevens to guard the exits.
The Commissioners goes over and guard the four exits.
COMM. TUBMAN
(Angry – speak loud)
Defendants rise!
(All Defendants rise)
You vile–racist Defendants, after deliberation, we the Peace Commission find that each of you conspired with malice to overthrow God’s sovereignty - the Peace Commission! Without further ado, be advised, we the Peace Commission find each of you guilty as charged!
The Defendants displaying angry scowls leap out of their seats. Their arms flail wildly as they unleash a barrage of curses at the Commissioners. Commissioners Stowe, Garvey, Scott and Stevens rush over and restrain the Defendants in their seats, as their Attorney, Saul Cohen stands alone facing the Commissioners.
COMM. W.E.B. DUBOIS ASSUMES THE GAVEL.
COMM. W.E.B. DUBOIS
(Annoyed)
Shut up Defendants!
(Defendants cease their protest)
Defendants, as Satan’s Deputies, you’re each found guilty of Attempted Burglary, Section 10 of the new U.S. Constitution, which includes its new Penal Code! Finally, you’re convicted of Sec. 4; incessantly invoking a habitual exercise of merciless bigotry against defenseless black Americans!
Thus, your sentences is that each of you be strapped in parachutes, lofted– up in a plane and flown over the arid- inhospitable country of Iraq, where you’ll be compelled to jump! May God have mercy on your satanic souls!
The convicts slumber down to the floor yelling and screaming as four Commissioners drags them towards the rear exit.
EXT – NEXT MORNING – FRONT OF THE BLACK HOUSE – DAY
COMM. LINCOLN PREPARES TO SPEAK TO THE NATION. HE STANDS BEFORE A BEVY OF TV CORRESPONDENTS AND CAMERAMEN. THE COMMISSIONERS STAND BEHIND HIM. COMM. LINCOLN SPEAKS INTO A HORDE OF MICROPHONES.
COMM. LINCOLN
America, at last, we the Peace Commission is on the verge of ridding this country of the malevolent scourge of blatant-systemic racism. Last night while many of you were asleep, we the Peace Commission apprehended former U.S. President Herbert Trot and four of his anarchist-Republican allies, all known to be Satan’s Deputies. They boldly tried to burglarize the condemned White House. We the Peace Commission afforded them a speedy trial. Hence, they’ve all been tried and founded guilty of burglary and contumacy against God’s Peace Commission.
COMM. LINCOLN
They’ve since been exiled to the unreceptive terrain of Iraq. Let this be a stern warning to others who practice racism and defy this Commission. Be sternly advised that we have more earth-shattering trials looming on our calendar that we believe will shake this nation - but will lead to the eradication of racial bigotry.
INT – SEATTLE WASHINGTON – WHITE FAMILY HOME PARLOR – DAY
AN ANGRY WHITE FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV.
WHITE FATHER
(Upset)
Hell! Who’s going to protect us white people now!
INT – TOPEKA KANSAS – WHITE FAMILY HOME PARLOR – DAY
AN ANGRY WHITE FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV. THE FATHER RISES FROM THE SOFA AND THROWS A COFFEE CUP TO THE FLOOR.
WHITE FATHER
(Furious)
Damn it! Now the Niggers are going to have as much rights as us Anglo Saxons!
INT – SOUTH HAMPTON NEW YORK – WHITE FAMILY HOME – PARLOR – DAY
AN ANGRY WHITE FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV. THE ANGRY FATHER RISES FROM THE SOFA AND THROWS A GLASS THROUGH THE WINDOW.
WHITE FATHER
(Enraged)
Does this mean there’s no one to protect us whites from those people? Will they move next door? I know the Welfare Department will move those people next door! I suppose our property value will greatly depreciate! Fuck it! I’m going to the Bar!
The angry father stomps out the door.
INT – BROOKLYN NEW YORK – BLACK FAMILY HOME- PARLOR - DAY
A HAPPY BLACK FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV. THE FATHER JUMPS UP AND YELLS TO HIS FAMILY.
BLACK FATHER
(Jubilant)
Hey, you see folks, God have finally answered our prayers!
INT – SAINT LOUIS MISSOURI – BLACK FAMILY – PARLOR – MORNING
A HAPPY BLACK FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV. THE BLACK FATHER STARES AT THE TV; JERKS BOTH HANDS IN THE AIR AND LEAPS-UP FROM HIS SEAT.
BLACK FATHER
(Excited)
Yea! Mr. Lincoln! Now, we’re going to get unrestrictive freedom!
INT – BEAUFORT SOUTH CAROLINA – BLACK FAMILY HOME – PARLOR – DAY
A HAPPY BLACK FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV. THE FATHER LEAPS UP AND HUGS HIS FAMILY. HE CRIES AND EXPRESSES HIS FEELING TO HIS FAMILY.
BLACK FATHER
(Crying)
Don’t mind my tears! But as you can see, they’re tears of joy! Our day has finally arrived! Folks, I believe we’ve just witnessed the beginning of the end of institutional bigotry!
INT – DETROIT MICHIGAN – BLACK FAMILY HOME – PARLOR – DAY
A JUBILANT BLACK FAMILY WATCHES COMM. LINCOLN ON TV. THE FATHER GATHERS HIS FAMILY AROUND HIM. THEY ALL KNEEL AND BOW THEIR HEADS AS THE FATHER OFFERS A PRAYER.
BLACK FATHER
(Solemn)
Oh heavenly Father, through our Savior Jesus Christ, we pray and thank you for your gallant Peace Commissioned. We pray that through Divineness they will continue doing your will - in that the despicable scourge of racism will be cleaved from our midst forever. Amen.
EXT – WASHINGTON D.C. – FRONT OF THE BLACK HOUSE – DAY
COMM. LINCOLN CONCLUDES HIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
COMM. LINCOLN
Let President Trot conviction be an indelible lesson to all racists that we, the ethereal Peace Commission, will not endure any further acts of disobedience or racism. But as for now, we aim to go back and review certain racist court cases, which were instrumental in igniting the recent, explosive-race war.
EXT – ONE WEEK LATER – THE BLACK HOUSE – COURT – DAY
THE PEACE COMMISSION REVIEWED THE CASE OF LIZ FATE, A WHITE MOTHER, WHOSE HOUSE WAS SET AFIRE BY RACIST WHITES BECAUSE LIZ HAD ADOPTED TWO BLACK TEENAGE BOYS AND TWO WHITE TEENAGE GIRLS. DEFENDANTS: ERIC AND SHIRLEY SLADE, JOHN AND MARGARET CLARK, BILL AND PEGGY GRADY, AND JUDGE BEN DUGGAN, SIT DOWN FRONT ON THE RIGHT OF THE COMMISSIONERS. LIZ FATE AND HER CHILDREN SIT DOWN FRONT ON THE LEFT OF THE COMMISSIONERS. ONE OF THE BOYS AND ONE OF THE GIRLS WEAR BANDAGES ON THEIR HEAD AND ARMS. COMMISSIONERS PAUL ROBERSON AND LLOYD GARRISON PRESIDE.
COMM. PAUL ROBERSON
Ms. Liz Fate will you please come up and tell this body how your house was torched and the extent of the injuries suffered by two of your adopted children.
Liz walks to the witness box and takes a seat and is sworn in by Comm. Roberson.
LIZ FATE
Late one night in Milwaukee, my children and I was asleep. I was aroused by the smell of smoke. I quickly arose from bed and discovered that my house was on fire. I roused up my children and escorted them to safety. Two of them were badly burned.
comm. roberSon
Ms. Fate, you have two adopted white daughters and two adopted black sons. Now which two were injured in the fire?
ms. liz fate
It was my daughter Mildred and my son Charles.
comm. roberSon
Thanks Ms. Fate, you may step down. I call Fire Marshal Ray Deluca to testify.
From the audience, Fire Marshal Deluca walks to the witness box, takes a seat and is sworn in by Comm. Roberson. Comm. Lloyd Garrison assumes the gavel.
COMM. LLOYD GARRISON
Fire Marshal Deluca, did you investigate the fire at Ms. Fate’s resident and did you testify in the first trial?
fire marshal deluca
Yes I investigated the fire and I did testify at the first trial.
comm. garriSon
Fire Marshal Deluca, let’s cut through the chase. If you see the Defendants from the first trial, point them out, indicate how you implicated them in the arson - if it was such a crime.
FIRE MARSHAL DELUCA
I do, the Defendant sitting over there, all six of them.
(Deluca points to six Defendants and Judge Duggan).
At the investigation of the fire, I discovered a Ring belonging to Defendant Eric Slade. I also discovered a gas can bearing Eric Slade’s fingerprints. After further investigation, my partner and I arrested Eric Slade and his wife Shirley, John and Margaret Clark, and Bill and Peggy Grady.
COMM. GARRISON
Did you have the occasion to arrest any other person or persons?
FIRE MARSHAL DELUCA
Sometime later, we also arrested Judge Ben Duggan for judicial misconduct. By the way, Judge Duggan is an uncle of Eric Slade.
COMM. GARRISON
FIRE MARSHALL DELUCA, IN THAT FIRST TRIAL, DID ANY OF THE DEFENDANTS MAKE ADMISSIONS?
fire marshal deluca
Yes, Shirley Slade made admissions.
COMM. GARRISON
That’ll be all Fire Marshal Deluca, you may step down. I call Mrs. Shirley Slade to the stand.
Shirley Slade begins crying, leans over kisses her husband, rises and approaches the witness stand. She wipes tears with a tissue. After taking the stand, Shirley begins blabbing without being asked a question.
SHIRLEY
(Crying hysterically)
I can’t take it any more! Yes! Yes! We torched Ms. Fate’s house! We torched it because we thought Ms. Fate’s adopted- black sons were fucking her adopted- white daughters! I’m so sorry two of the kids were burned! Yes! We were all arrested, but Judge Duggan, Eric Uncle, saw to it that our criminal charges were dismissed!
The diverse audience leaps to their feet and jeer Shirley and the other Defendants. Comm. Roberson assumes the gavel and bangs the gavel for order.
COMM. ROBERSON
(Screams)
Order! Order! Order! Mrs. Shirley Slade you may be seated. I call Judge Ben Duggan to the stand.
Still wailing uncontrollably, Shirley returns to her seat. Judge Duggan walks slowly to the stand with his head bowed. He sits down nervously.
COMM. ROBERSON
(Annoyed)
Judge Duggan, I only have a couple of questions. Did Fire Marshal Deluca testify in your against those six Defendants sitting over there? Is Defendant Eric Slade your Nephew and did you dismiss arson charges against those six Defendants?
Judge Duggan slowly raises his head and replies in a weak voice.
JUDGE DUGGAN
(Gloomy, Frighten, weak voice)
Yes to all questions sir.
comm. roberSon
(Rises – disgusted expression)
The Commission will retire and consider the verdict.
The Commissioners file out to their chamber.
INT – COURT – DAY
A SHORT WHILE LATER, THE COMMISSIONERS FILE BACK INTO THE COURT AND TAKE THEIR SEATS. COMMISSIONERS JOHN F. KENNEDY AND MARY MCLEOD BETHUME ASSUME THE GAVEL.
COMM. MARY MCLEOD BETHUME
(Angry)
All Defendants, including Judge Duggan, stand up.
All Defendants rise.
COMM. JOHN F. KENNEDY
If those you deprived of their latitude of liberty deserve no more than you allowed, then, certainly, based upon your despicable acts of racial malevolent - you’ll certainly merit no semblance of empathy from this august Commission.
COMM. BETHUME
It seems that your idle lives dictated that if you weren’t plaguing the lives of the downtrodden, then your daily pleasures were unfulfilled. Each of you Defendant possesses a self-destructive spirit, which is the hallmark of a satanic Deputy.
comm. kennedy
As supposed decent citizens of the community, you’ve failed to exemplify any impression of the biblical tenet: “Love thy Neighbor”. Each of you has knowingly imposed racist afflictions upon the souls of the innocents, and that I can’t accept. It is simply because I, an innocent man, was mortally afflicted by a hatemonger.
(Angry - shouts)
So Defendants, due to the whiteness of your skin, I’m convinced that you’re convinced that this vast piece of real estate - called the United States of America - really belongs to you and only those resembling you! Well, I’m going to demonstrate who actually own this invaluable–colossal terrain. Thus, from this point onward, all of you Deputies of Satan are sentenced to spend the balance of your miserable lives on an Arizona Reservation, with the Cheraw Indians - the true owners of this vast landscape. Get them out of here!
The female prisoners emit piercing screams. Their husbands and Judge Duggan curse and struggle with the security Commissioners as the Commissioners drag the convicts through the rear exit.
INT – THE BLACK HOUSE – CHAMBER – NEXT DAY
COMM. NOAH SITS AT THE HEAD OF A LONG TABLE. HIS COMMISSIONERS SIT ALONG THE SIDES. COMM. NOAH IS EXCITED.
comm. noah
(Excited – smiling)
I’ve just had a crucial dialogue with our Savior. I want each of you to listen carefully. It’s almost time for Satan himself to make a physical appearance. According to Jesus, Satan is very perturbed because we’ve arrested and sentenced some of his most trusted Deputies. Well let’s go back to Court and anger Satan with more convictions of his flunkies.
INT – COURT – DAY
ALL COMMISSIONERS EXCEPT COMM. NOAH FILE BACK INTO COURT. COMMISSIONERS TRUTH, WASHINGTON, KUNSTLER, AND DOUGLASS SIT ON THE PODIUM IN FRONT OF THE MICROPHONES.
THE FOLLOWING DEFENDANTS SIT DOWN FRONT TO THE RIGHT OF THE COMMISSIONERS: TANEY TRIPLETS: JUDGES HENRY, HOWARD AND HARRY TANEY, JOE GLEASON, BRAD, CHUCK AND CURT JUDSON, ED GUY AND DICK IRELAND. SEVERAL SECURITY COMMISSIONERS STAND BEHIND THE DEFENDANTS, AS OTHER COMMISSIONERS GUARD THE VARIOUS EXITS. THE DIVERSE AUDIENCE SITS TENSED.
WITNESSES: SAM WISE, TV NEWS COMMENTATORS LYNN MASON, CHARLES WINSTON AND JOYCE GRAYSON, SIT DOWN FRONT TO THE LEFT OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
THE COMMISSIONERS QUIETLY AWAIT COMMISSIONER NOAH. FINALLY COMM. NOAH ENTERS AND TAKES HIS SEAT ON THE PODIUM.
COMM. NOAH ENTERS AND TAKES HIS SEAT ON THE PODIUM.
COMM. NOAH
COMMISSIONERS SOJOURNAL TRUTH, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, WILLIAM KUNSTLER, AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS WILL PRESIDE OVER THIS TRIAL. DEFENDANTS, YOU’LL BE TRIED COLLECTIVELY AND SPEEDILY. THAT’S BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE AGAINST EACH OF YOU IS SO OVERWHELMING AND INTERRELATED THAT IT DECIMATE THE NEED FOR UNNECESSARY TARRYING.
Comm. Sojournal Truth assumes the gavel.
COMM. SOJOURNAL TRUTH
(Speaks fast – impatiently)
All Defendants come up front and form a line before me.
All Defendants rise and form one single line before the Commissioners.
COMM. TRUTH
Now, I call witness Sam Wise to the stand.
Sam Wise looks around nervously, rises slowly, walks hesitantly to the stand, sits down gingerly and is sworn in.
COMM. TRUTH
I want you to be calm Mr. Wise. Mr. Wise are you familiar with the recent incident, where Mel Watson, a black student was attacked by three, white- male students at Troy College?
Sam scratches his head, looks down, glares at the audience and nods his head up and down.
COMM. TRUTH
Mr. Wise describe to this Commission what transpired.
SAM WISE
(Jittery – speaks hesitantly)
While dining in the college cafeteria, I observed the black-male student, Mel Watson, dining with a beautiful, white- female. Later, I observed three, white- male students: Brad, Chuck and Curt Judson approach Watson. I then heard them cursing Mel for chatting with the white female. I later observed the Judson brothers leap upon Watson and pummel him about his face. At that time I became frightened and ran away. But I later learned that as a result of that beating, Watson lost vision in both eyes.
comm. truth
Mr. Wise, do you see Mr. Mel Watson’s attackers in this Court?
Sam Wise looks at the Judson brothers and points them out.
COMM. TRUTH
Let the record reflect that Mr. Wise identified Brad, Chuck and Curt Judson.
comm. truth
Mr. Wise, you were once a member of WSAI, so, what critical information can you impart relative to the various Campus fires, where several Firemen were injured and killed?
sam wise
(Looks around nervously)
Well, Comm. Truth, the Judson brothers set those campus fires, as ordered by Joe Gleason, President of WSAI. They hoped the fires would be blamed on disgruntled, black-male students.
COMM. TRUTH
Thanks Mr. Wise you may step down.
Sam Wise step downs and walks to his seat, while looking around nervously about the Court.
BRAD JUDSON
(Brad leaps up - shouts)
That’s a damn lie!
Comm. Truth leaps up and yells at Brad.
COMM. TRUTH
(Annoyed – shouts)
Shut up and sit down! Some of you Commissioners please take the Judson brothers into the Cage.
Three Commissioners grabs the struggling Judson brothers and escort them through the rear exit. Comm. William Kunstler assumes the gavel.
COMM. WILLIAM KUNSTLER
I recall Mr. Sam Wise to the stand.
Sam Wise rises, looks confused and shocked. He gazes at Comm. Kunstler and points to himself. Comm. Kunstler nods yes to him. Again Sam walks nervously back to the stand and slowly sinks down into the witness seat. He sweats profusely.
COMM. KUNSTLER
(Calms Mr. Wise)
Just a couple more questions Mr. Wise. You’ll be just fine. A Mr. Joe Gleason, tell us about him and how does he maneuvers in the political equation of academia at Troy College in Bentley Connecticut?
sam wise
Joe Gleason is the President of WSAI: White Students Against Integration. Mr. Joe Gleason is a Lieutenant of Satan’s Deputies and he’s the coordinator of all of the recent rashes of arson on the various college campuses in the New England States.
comm. kunstler
Mr. Wise, how do we know your testimony to be true about Mr. Joe Gleason?
sam wise
Because I’m a former member of WSAI and I was present when Joe Gleason planned the various college arsons, with the hope that black-male students would be blamed.
comm. kunstler
Well, Mr. Wise, then you is also a member of WSAI and you’re one of Satan’s Deputies - Am I correct?
sam wise
(Shakes his head)
No sir. After balking against WSAI’S racist tactics, Joe Gleason discharged me from membership. I was recently counseled by Mr. Tom Eden, now known as Comm. Noah 2ND and as of now - I’m no longer a Deputy of Satan.
comm. kunstler
(Smiles broadly)
Thanks Mr. Wise. Congratulation on your conversion from Satanism and now you’re protected from your human enemies as well as Satan. Fear no more. Now you’re one of us; you’re a Christian.
Sam Wise laugh aloud. He sticks out his chest and walks briskly to his seat with confidence. Comm. Booker T. Washington assumes the gavel.
COMM. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
I call TV News Correspondent, Lynn Mason to the stand.
Lynn Mason walks briskly and takes the stand.
COMM. WASHINGTON
Correspondent Mason you once interviewed witness, Sam wise, regarding matters he testified about today. Did his testimony concur with his remarks made at your interview?
correspondent lynn maSon
Yes, Mr. Wise testimony was creditable and I support it wholeheartedly.
comm. washington
Thanks Correspondent Mason you may step down. I now call TV News Correspondent Joyce Grayson.
Correspondent Grayson walks to the stand and sit.
COMM. WASHINGTON
Correspondent Grayson, I understand you interviewed WSAI president Joe Gleason. So, what crucial comment did Mr. Gleason make regarding racial discord on college campuses?
correspondent joyce graySon
Yes, Comm. Washington, I remember Mr. Gleason informing me that WSAI primary objectives were to obstruct and impede all romantic annexations between blacks and whites, especially, those between black men and white women.
comm. washington
Thanks Correspondent Grayson, you may step down.
comm. frederick douglass
I call Police Sergeant Ed Guy to the stand.
Ed Guy walks slowly towards the stand with his head bowed and sits down.
COMM. DOUGLASS
Sgt. Guy, I must admonish you that before you answer any questions, I want you to think very carefully, because we have all of your police actions on video and audio tapes. Now, Sgt. Guy, prior to killing an unarmed black man, Rev. Ted Simmons, did you refer to him as “boy” and did you refer to his fellow protestors as “Monkeys”?
SGT. GUY
No Sir.
comm. douglass
(Rises and yells)
Sgt. Guy, I warned you that we have all of your police action on tape, yet, you still lied! Step down! We’ll deal with you later! I call Chief Dick Ireland to the stand.
Sgt. Guy looks frighten as he takes his seat. Chief Dick Ireland walks brazenly to the stand.
COMM. DOUGLASS
Chief Ireland, as I admonished Sgt. Guy, I now warn you that we have video and audio tapes of your Police actions at the scene of Rev. Simmons murder. Chief Ireland, as Sgt. Guy’s Supervisor after Rev. Simmons was slain, did you advise Sgt. Guy to falsely claim that he was attacked by Rev. Simmons?
chief dick ireland
No sir.
COMM. DOUGLASS
(RISE AND YELLS)
Chief, after being warned that we have tapes of your actions and just like Sgt. Guy, you lied! Step down! We’ll deal with you later!
Comm. Sojournal Truth assumes the gavel.
COMM. SOJOURNAL TRUTH
I call TV News Correspondent, Charles Winston to the stand.
Correspondent Winston walks to the stand and sits down.
COMM. TRUTH
Correspondent Winston, after the rash of fires on college campuses, the assault and blinding of Mel Watson and the slaying of Rev. Simmons - you had the occasion to interview Judge Harry, Henry and Howard Taney, did you not?
correspondent charles winston
Yes I did.
comm truth
Having knowledge that Judge Henry A. Taney had abruptly dismissed all charges against Police Sergeant, Ed Guy, for shooting an unarmed black Preacher, you inquire of Judge Taney what he had to say to the black community. Correspondent Winston, what was Judge Henry Taney response?
correspondent winston
(Shakes his head and cries)
Well, Comm. Truth, Judge Henry A. Taney slammed his fist on the table and exclaimed; “I don’t give a damn how angry blacks get! In fact, as my noble ancestor U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Roger B. decreed in 1820, “A black man has no right which a white man is bound to respect!”
comm. truth
(Annoyed, rises and places her hands on her hips, she shouts)
I’m not surprise! We’ll deal with Judge Henry A. Taney - later! Correspondent Winston, you also interviewed Judge Harry A. Taney, the brother of Judge Henry A. Taney. This criminal case relates to Judge Harry A. Taney dismissing assault charges against three-white brothers, Brad, Curt and Chuck Judson, who assaulted and blinded a young, black–male student, Mel Watson for socializing with a young, beautiful, white-female student. This was yet another episode where white Justice failed the black community. Correspondent Winston, what was Judge Harry A. Taney response?
correspondent winston
(Furious - sobbing)
Comm. Truth, Judge Harry A. Taney slammed his fist on the table and swore; “as for as I’m concern, blacks aren’t authentic citizens of this country! Therefore, I have no regards for their feelings!”
COMM. TRUTH
Correspondent Winston, last but certainly not least, you interviewed another Judge, Judge Howard A. Taney, the brother of Judge Henry A. Taney and Harry A Taney. Judge Howard A. Taney case relates to his unilaterally dispatch of white Defendant, Cyrus Legree, to an Insane Asylum, rather than judicially trying him for slaying a young-black man who romanced his daughter - Susan. Judge Howard A. Taney gross miscarriage aided in initiating the race war. Correspondent Winston, what was Judge Howard A. Taney reaction to your inquiry about his infamous decree?
correspondent winston
(Sobbing – wipes his eyes with tissue)
Judge Howard A. Taney exclaimed, “My forefathers who were framers of the U.S. Constitution didn’t have blacks in mind when they drafted that momentous document! That’s the way it was then and that’s the way it will always remain!”
COMM. TRUTH
It’s not surprising. Thanks Correspondent Winston, we’ll deal with Judge Howard A. Taney and all of Satan’s Deputies real soon. All of you Defendants, as well as the spectators, are advised that all of the exits are locked. We will retire for a few moments and decide the fate of all cases held before us today.
The Commissioners exit to their chamber as a hush comes over the audience. The Defendants sit quiet with angry expressions.
INT – COMMISSIONERS’ CHAMBER – DAY
COMMISSIONERS SIT ALONG SIDE OF LONG TABLE DISCUSSING THE VERDICTS.
INT – COURT – DAY
COMMISSIONERS FILE INTO COURT. COMMISSIONER TRUTH ASSUMES THE GAVEL.
COMM. TRUTH
I’ve pondered all of these dreadful cases, all replete with indelible shackles of racism. They remind me of the infamous Dred Scott case of 1857. With that in mind, I can think of no better arbiter to preside over the final phase of this judicial assessment, than a man who once experienced the terrible fate of having his freedom snatched from glory. I speak of none other than the former Slave himself, Mr. Dred Scott, now known as Comm. Dred Scott.
Comm. Dred Scott anxiously runs to the podium and hurriedly grabs the gavel from Comm. Truth. Defendants are cuffed behind their backs and lined-up in front of Comm. Scott.
COMM. DRED SCOTT
(Anxious – wipes sweat from brow)
Let me begin by asserting that we the Peace Commission, under the immediate auspices of Comm. Noah, have pounced upon Satan’s racist Deputies and have swept away nearly all of the tenacious debris of racism. Defendants, in the past all loomed as Judges and Juries over the fractured lives of helpless blacks. However, in this celestial Court, we the Peace Commission, reign as your Judge and Jury.
Comm. Scott pauses and whispers to Comm. Truth.
COMM. SCOTT
(Whispers to Comm. Truth)
You know Comm. Truth, this is the moment I’ve craved for many years. You know I thought it would never arrive. I take these proceedings quite personal.
comm. truth
Yes, I know, you’re thinking of your infamous Supreme Court case before Judge Taney in 1857.
Comm. Scott nods his head and resumes sentencing.
COMM. SCOTT
Defendants, we the Peace Commission find each of you guilty of knowingly and willfully violating the inherent rights of all complainants, who were glaringly injured and ethnically debased.
Comm. Douglass leans over and whispers to Comm. Scott.
COMM. DOUGLASS
Remind them of the roots of racism.
comm. scott
Thanks. What’s so baffling to all people of color is that whites have forever impugned blacks by taunting them to go back to Africa. But as representatives of all displaced Native Americans, I sentence each of you to be flown back to your roots, Nuremberg Germany, where your mentors Cain and Satan commenced this plague of white racism. You’ll be strapped in parachutes and flown over Nuremberg, where you’ll be compelled to leap into the dense groves of Bismarck Forest. Take them away!
Several Commissioners escort and drag the screaming prisoners through the rear exit, as the racially diverse audience leaps out of their seats and cheer wildly.
INT – COMMISSIONERS’ CHAMBER – DAY
COMMISSIONERS SIT ALONG SIDE A LONG TABLE. COMM. NOAH PRESIDES AT THE HEAD.
COMM. NOAH
(Speaks in low a whisper)
Folks this is the moment we’ve long sought. For the first time in history, Satan himself lurks in the Washington D.C. area. He’s learned that we’ve put most of his Deputies out of Commission. So he’s coming for us. But I’ve learned that Satan’s Chief Deputy of racism in the United States is none other than the infamous Cyrus Legree. As you know, Legree is confined to an Insane Ayslum. Let’s visit Legree and proselytize him. Subsequently, Legree can assist us in proselytizing all white bigots and racism shall exist no more. We’ll visit Legree early tomorrow morning.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – NIGHTINGALE INSANE ASYLUM – DAY
THE NEXT MORNING, IN A SMALL PARK BEHIND THE ASYLUM, CYRUS LEGREE, SITS ALONE IN A LOUNGE CHAIR BENEATH A GROVE OF TREES PERUSING THE MORNING NEWS PAPER. THE PEACE COMMISSION, LEAD BY COMMISSIONER NOAH, SOARS THROUGH THE AIR, LANDS IN FRONT OF LEGREE AND GLARE FEROCIOUSLY AT HIM. LEGREE LOOKS UP AND BECOMES FRIGHTEN. HE JERKS WITH FEAR AND AND ATTEMPTS TO RUN.
COMM. NOAH
(Points his finger at Legree and yells) Hold it Legree! You’re Satan’s Chief Deputy and you aren’t going anywhere!
Legree freezes; he looks surprised as he gazes with fear at the Commissioners. Legree fails to recognize Comm. Noah, his former chauffeur.
LEGREE
(Jittery – stuttering)
Who… who… who’re you bizarre looking guys? How do you know about me? Did Satan send you?
comm. noah
(A smirk covers his face)
No Legree, Satan didn’t send us. But your response confirms that you’re a fraud. Legree, you’re not insane and we’re well aware that in these United States of America, you’re Satan’s Chief Deputy of racial bigotry. And now, we’re going to eradicate your vile status and proselytize you for the betterment of all humanity.
Legree collapses submissively into the lounge chair and gazes-up helplessly at his capturers. Suddenly, in unison, each Commissioner points his finger at Legree. A volley of celestial rays penetrates Legree’s body. His body heaves and quiver violently, as pitch-black clouds above suddenly fade day into night. Shrill flashes of lighting parade above the horizon. Rumbling booms of thunder disturb earth’s quietness as drenching rain pelt the group. Legree leaps up from his chair; his uncontrolled body twitches, as his long arms flail wildly above his head. Legree looks-up joyously into the cascading downpour and exclaims loudly.
LEGREE
(Shouting)
Glory hallelujah! Jesus I’ve forsaken you! But now Jesus, I’m saved and I renounce my prior–senseless obedience as Satan’s Chief Deputy of racism!
Comm. Noah looks up into the rain and speaks to Jesus.
COMM. NOAH
(Happy - smiling)
Jesus, you can release Legree from his heavenly spasm; we now hold him by a stronger tie.
Suddenly the dark clouds and fearful thunder fade into the distant. The torrential rain and sharp lighting withdraw their clout. All of the Commissioners rush over to Legree and greet him with gleeful smiles and mighty hugs. Comm. Noah places a black toga around Legree’s shoulders, as a sparkling halo drifts and hovers over Legree’s head. The Commissioners cast their eyes toward Comm. Noah as he begins to speak.
COMM. NOAH
(Smiling broadly)
Mr. Cyrus Legree, as you’re now attired in your black toga and the celestial halo hovers over your head, on behalf of God, and under the immediate command of our savior Jesus Christ, I welcome you as a member of the Peace Commission. Now, you’re one of us, congratulation. But you all must be more careful than before, because outside the gates of this Asylum, I’m sure a perilous–cataclysmic dilemma awaits you. But now, I want you all to know that I’m tired and sick; I must depart and get some rest.
Commissioner Noah limps slowly out the rear gate. The moment grows tense and silent. Some of the Commissioners gather a large-fishing net and fly overhead to seek Satan. The remaining Commissioners walk gingerly and slowly towards the gate. Comm. Legree walks in the middle.
EXT – BLACK IRON GATE - DAY
COMM. NAT TURNER AND COMM. JOHN BROWN SLOWLY OPEN THE GATE WIDE. THEY CAUTIOUSLY EXTEND THEIR HEADS BEYOND THE GATE AND PEEP OUT, BUT THEY SEE NOTHING UNUSUAL. SENSING THAT THE AREA IS CLEAR, COMM. BROWN AND TURNER BECKON FOR THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS TO COME FORWARD. AS THE COMMISSIONERS CROSS THE GATE’S THRESHOLD WITH LEGREE, SUDDENLY, OUT OF NOWHERE, A HUGE, ANGRY-SCREAMING BEHEMOTH OF A WHITE MAN, ATTIRED IN BLACK SUIT APPEARS BEFORE THEM - IT’S SATAN.
SATAN
(Growling with anger)
Hold it Deputy Legree! You’ve defied me! Cain was my first Deputy of racism and you were my second! Now I’m going to slay you like Cain slew Abel! Your friends can’t stop me because I’m omnipotent and mother earth is my domain! I once ordered you and all of my Deputies to forever impart the evil of racism in the black communities and you’ve failed me!
comm. franklin d. roosevelt
(Angry)
Satan, leave Legree alone; he’s with us now! He’s on God’s team!
Satan ignores Comm. Roosevelt and continues speaking to Legree.
SATAN
(Yells and screams)
Damn you Legree! Because of your incompetence and your convergence to Christianity, I’m left alone with no one to spread the words of hatred of Niggers! Cyrus Legree, you must now surely die!
Satan reaches into his scabbard, pulls out a long, glittering-silver sword and hoists it above his head. Comm. Legree gazes up at the sword and looks around for his fellow Commissioners. Comm. Legree again glares up at Satan’s sword and boldly shouts to him:
COMM. LEGREE
(Shouts - angry reply)
Hold it Satan! I’m not the weak racist you once knew! I’ve repented and I’m now a member of God’s Peace Commission and I’m protected by God and all of his representatives! I only fear God! Satan, your protracted system of racial bigotry lives no more; you’re now out of business and your evil regime shall never be reconstituted.
Satan begins to thrust his Sword down towards Comm. Legree, as several soaring Commissioners armed with a huge fishing net swoop down and cast the net upon Satan’s body.
SATAN BECOMES ENTANGLED IN THE NET. HE SCREAMS CURSES, GROWLS AND GURGLES, AS HIS BODY, LEGS AND HANDS FLAILS WILDLY IN FUTILITY. ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS CONVERGE UPON THE THRASHING NET. THE COMMISSIONERS FURTHER BIND THE NET WITH LARGE STRIPS OF TAPE. THE COMMISSIONERS QUICKLY EXCAVATE A DEEP PIT AND HURRIEDLY TOSS SATAN’S STRUGGLING BODY DEEP INTO THE COMBUSTIBLE ABYSS OF HELL.
THE COMMISSIONERS COVER THE BOTTOMLESS PIT WITH A CELESTIAL-STEEL PLATE MADE IN HEAVEN, AS THE STRIDENT ECHO FROM SATAN’S THROATY SCREAM IS QUICKLY STIFLED. THE COMMISSIONERS WALK AWAY SLOWLY EACH CARRYING A WIDE– SATISFYING GRIN.
INT – THE BLACK HOUSE – COURT – DAY
COMM. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. STANDS BEFORE A BEVY OF TV CAMERAS, AS HE PREPARES TO ADDRESS THE NATION AND ADVISE THEM OF SATAN’S DEMISE AND THE SUBSEQUENT MORTALITY OF RACISM IN AMERICA. ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS SIT BEHIND COMM. KING. THE AUDIENCE IS CRAMMED WITH A DIVERSE GROUP OF OVERJOYED SPECTATORS, AMONG THEM, EVE JORDAN, SUSAN LEGREE AND HER MOTHER, SARAH.
commisssioner martin luther king jr
(Smiling)
Greetings America and I have glad tidings for you. Racism in America is finished. We of the Peace Commission have managed to apply euthanasia to racial bigotry and it’s now dead on arrival beneath the fiery lava of hell. In the process, we’ve managed to nab that despicable creator of racial bigotry, the infamous Satan - himself. All of Satan’s Deputies, with the exception of one, have been exiled too remote-hostile terrains of the world. I now give you a man who once served as Satan’s Chief Deputy of racism. However, he was later instrumental in enabling us to capture Satan. This man has repented and he’s now a Commissioner for God. I give you Comm. Cyrus Legree.
The audience rises and gives a long – boisterous ovation as Comm. Legree makes his way to the podium.
COMM. LEGREE
(Smiling broadly)
Thanks Comm. King for introducing me. But first, I want to give my ultimate thanks to all mighty God for forgiving me of my atrocious sins. Secondly, I want to ask for the forgiveness of Ms. Eve Jordan, sister of Mr. Bob Jordan, the black man I slew because he romanced my white daughter, Susan. Susan and Eve, I’m terribly sorry and I sincerely beg for your forgiveness. Next, Sarah, my former wife, I ask for your forgiveness. I’m terribly sorry for ruining your life. To all of those Blacks that I enveloped with days of senseless oppression, I offer my humblest apology.
COMM. LEGREE
Finally, I want to say to all of you remaining white extremists out there in the towns and hamlets, as you once followed me as the Chief Deputy of racial hatred, I want you to now follow me and convert to Christianity as I did. You’ll find that your new found-holy evolution, will lead you too love your black neighbors, as I’m sure they will love you. Thanks.
Again, the exuberant audience rises to their feet and renders a boisterous ovation including, Eve Jordan, along with Sarah and Susan.
COMM. HARRIET TUBMAN
(Smiling)
Ladies and Gentlemen of America, we the Peace Commission have completed God’s will and we must depart. One year ago, we promised that all remnants of racism would evaporate after one year; it has. Comm. Legree and Comm. Noah will remain and form a new earthly Peace Commission. Thank you and I’m sure God will continue to bless you all.
The Commissioners file out of Court in single file and walk onto the sidewalk. Loud rumbling thunder shakes the Earth. Dark clouds obstruct the sun. Laser sharp flashes of lighting illuminates the sky as a pelting monsoon reduces the audience’s vision. Within minutes the storm ceases and the Heavenly Peace Commission silently disappears.
EXT – SIX MONTHS LATER – NEW YORK CITY – WAKEFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH - DAY
THRONGS OF WHITES AND BLACKS WORSHIP TOGETHER IN CHURCH.
EXT – BENTLEY CONNECTICUT – PLAYLAND BEACH – DAY
THRONGS OF WHITES AND BLACKS SOCIALIZE TOGETHER ON THE BEACHES.
INT – THREE MONTHS LATER – WASHINGTON D.C. CBN STUDIO - DAY
TV NEWS CORRESPONDENT AMELIA TELLER SITS AT HER DESK BEFORE TV CAMERAS PREPARING TO TELECAST BREAKING NEWS.
CORRESPONDENT AMELIA TELLER
I’M CBN TV NEWS CORRESPONDENT AMELIA TELLER AT THE CBN TV STUDIO IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON, D.C. WE’VE JUST LEARNED THAT FORMER PEACE COMMISSIONERS NOAH AND CYRUS LEGREE, BOTH DIED TONIGHT AT THEIR RESPECTED HOMES - IRONICALLY AT THE SAME HOUR. WHEN MORE NEWS BECOMES AVAILABLE, WE WILL BRING YOU AN UPDATE.
EXT – THREE DAYS LATER - FRONT OF THE BLACK HOUSE – DAY
IN FRONT OF THE BLACK HOUSE, THOUSANDS OF FLABBERGASTED SPECTATORS, TV NEWS CAMERAMEN AND CORRESPONDENTS STAND AROUND AND GAZE AT THE EERIE-LEVITATING BODIES OF COMMISSIONERS NOAH AND LEGREE. THEIR BODIES ARE DRAPED IN WHITE SHEETS; THEIR HEADS ARE EXPOSED. SUDDENLY A GUSTY WIND BREWS AND QUIETLY BOTH BODIES SLOWLY ASCEND AND SOAR SIDE BY SIDE UPWARD TOWARDS HEAVEN. THE AWED SPECTATORS SQUINT AND SHADE THEIR EYES FROM THE BLINDING SUN IN THE BLUE SKY, AS THEY WATCH BOTH BODIES FADE OUT OF SIGHT.
CORRESPONDENT AMELIA TELLER
(Speaks slow and compassionate) It’s a resplendent day as America revels and wallows in their rebirth of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But on a heavenly note, America has just witnessed the final act of Gods’ indisputable display of equality, as one black man and one white man, lie in parallel death, without the haunt of racial preferences - soaring to meet their glorious creator. But in a metaphorical significance, Legree and Noah’s simultaneous demise clearly emphasizes God’s dual reception of two diverse souls. This literally means: side by side, God greets and accepts the white master and his wounded black victim, as he will also greet and receive the ferocious lion and his frighten prey - the weeping Sheep.
EXT – HEAVEN’S GARDEN OF EDEN – DAY
IT’S AFTERNOON IN THE EAST WING OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN - ON THE BLACK BANKS OF THE SOLACE RIVER. THE HOSPITABLE SUN REFRESHES THE AFTERNOON. ORCHARDS OF PRISMATIC TREES AND FLOWERS SWAY NOISELESSLY IN THE MELLOW BREEZE. A MANIFOLD CLUSTER OF MULTICOLORED BIRDS HOVERS AND SINGS MELODIOUS SONGS. GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SIT CHATTING ON TREE STUMPS. THE THREE GOD HEADS LOOK UP AND OBSERVE TWO MEN APPROACHING THEM.
COMMISSIONER NOAH AND COMMISSIONER LEGREE ARRIVE IN HEAVEN’S GARDEN OF EDEN; THEY HUMBLY BOW BEFORE THE HOLY TRINITY AND WAIT TO BE GREETED.
GOD
(SMILING)
Welcome to my kingdom Commissioner Legree and Commissioner Noah. You’ve both fought a good fight; you’ve finished the race and you kept the faith. Finally, you were both instrumental in clipping the wings of Satan and thus the roots of racism were forever uprooted in America - congratulation.
Legree and Eden bow – walk away and join the other Angels of Heaven.
THE END
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