[Riots, Part 3: Damien, 25, large, black, sits in a police station. His hands and feet are chained. He is being questioned about his role in Dreamy’s beating.]
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Damien (delivered with a barely controlled rage):
Who the f*** are you to judge me, huh? … you guy’s are all alike. You’re ‘fraid of me – ain’t ya? Well, thas just how I like it. Likes ta scare your tight asses. ‘Cause you don’t mean nothing to me, jus’ bad news, you know what I’m sayin’? Soon as smack you in your pussy pink face as pass your ass on the street…
…you say you got nothin’ ‘gainst me? Well thas too bad ’cause I got sompin’ ‘gainst you…
…you say “why are you like this, why you do what you do?”
Very simple mah man. I don’t like you. In fact – I hate you. We shouldn’t be livin’ together, you know what I’m sayin’? We’re like fire and gasoline, you and me. We can’t be living together. Least not peacefully.
[pause, scans audience]
You see, I wasn’t supposed to be here. What the hell do I belong here, in this concrete piece-a-sh**, huh? This ain’t natural. This ain’t my jungle. If my great, great grandfather’s grandfather hadn’t been sold out by you muthaf****s, this wouldn’t be happening. I’d be a king in a whooole different jungle. I’d be living where I shoulda been living, not here. Not in your white bread world.
[pause, stares menacingly at audience]
Your culture …ha …your culture is drownin’ me. You brought me here ‘gainst my will. Took away my possibilities. An’ now I’m your worst nightmare. ‘Cause I will never – ever – forgive. And I been watchin’ you. And I’m gonna expose you – gonna let the world know what you are…
…so what if he was white, thas what we were looking for …thas who deserved it …I know what’chur thinking bro. But I ain’t no racist. I’m jus’ an equal opportunity mothaf***.
Black man can’t be no racist. Didn’t you know that?. How can the victim of all your racism be a racist, huh? Can’t be no racist unless ya got the power, you know what I’m sayin’? And you gots the power. Jus’ can’t be. You see, what it is – what we call it – is REVENGE! Revenge for all them years you had us chained up and used to spit on us an whip us and rape our women and make us sit on the back of the bus and take all them low payin’ jobs and …
[Sees someone come in, stops abruptly]
You know, this lady here, this “shrink” … this white b**ch in a white coat …she talks white, thinks white, acts white …she tells me it’s not really HER, that I hate. Not really YOU that I hate. That’s it’s really ME … that I hate …
[starts to laugh]
… and that’s why, that’s why I hate YOU … can you believe that? I hate me, not you mothaf**as, but me.
[Continues laughing, lights begin to dim]
Well, thas bull, man …you know what I’m sayin’? …I don’t really hate you … does that make any sense? Huh – huh?! Does that make any sense – that I hate you cause you made me hate you?