In this monologue, I finally break out of character after being subjected to Lula’s insidious and subtle racism for the length of the play. Out of me comes an explosion of the fundamental confusion of a black man accepted into white culture. As this is more a hyper-realistic than a realistic play, it is necessary to look at the entire piece to understand the basic motivations behind the movements. Unbeknownst to me, Lula’s entire conversation with me is a trap for young black men who exhibit my very type of enraged confusion, or, who can’t deal with Lula’s type of subdued and hidden racism. Of course, this trap is how the author perceives the white man wanting to deal with any type of black strength. In this my final monologue, I reveal my true feelings, which I had held in, throughout the play’s more polite and flirtatious dialogue. At the end of this speech, I am promptly murdered. So what I believe I am doing is finally having enough and calling out this stupid white woman on all her stupidity and her misconceptions of black people, especially myself, revealing the true anger that lies within me and my ‘race’. What is really happening though is that she has called me out on the anger she knew was there, as an excuse to kill me, thereby justifying all the anger I had in me to begin with, which on first hearing one might find to be extreme.

Read the rest in the book…

Buy the Book!