Samia Black and Asia Brown Dialogue

Julian Green

Period 4

3/3/16

Dialogue

    Socially “woke” (up to date/current) African American high school classmates, Samia Black and Asia Brown discuss current issues in society that directly affect African Americans in their ethnic studies class.

    “Why are African Americans treated so poorly in American society?” Samia asked with a hope for an answer.

    Asia raised her hand and reached for the ceiling until Samia called on her. She answered, “That’s a great question. Maybe the white supremacists or racist ‘protectors’ of the citizens of our country could answer as to why the color of our skin is a few shades darker than theirs.”

“Ugh, that would be great. And since I’m taking AP Biology this year, I’m sure that they’d loved to understand the science behind how skin color works,” Samia sarcastically replied.

“Oh! I have another question,” Asia eagerly shouted.

“Well, what is it?” Samia said intrigued by Asia's want to ask more.

“Why is it that people of the film industry seem to hate having black actors/actresses play suitable roles in movies? Like Zoe Saldana in that new Nina Simone biopic….”

“Oh! And why do so many movies with a black female/male lead role portray some type of stereotype and/or racially motivated topic? Why can’t there just be regular movies with black people as the star? Why couldn’t Katniss from the Hunger Games be black? Why couldn’t Idris Elba be James Bond? Why have only 44 black people won an oscar?” Samia added on.

“They don’t want to see us succeed,” Asia replied in her DJ Khaled voice. “The key to success is having more black directors/producers who have the same ideas as us and want to voice their opinions in the form of a bestselling movie.”

“Like Shonda Rhimes? She’s been killing it with How To Get Away With Murder.”

“OMG, right? Maybe if we had more people like her to write and more actresses like Viola Davis, then we wouldn’t have this problem.”

“Well, at least it’s still Black History Month,” Samia said to bring light to the terrible things that black people have experienced in the past few months.

“Yeah, and at least I still have a few more days to educate these fools in my Twitter mentions on the history of blackface and why being a feminist and black lives matter activist is important, while at the same time, living my carefree, shea butter filled life.”

Class claps.

“You got that right,” Samia replied while clapping with her class.

“And at least the black community stands side by side in situations like this. It would really suck if we had no support in a time where the unlawful killing of us isn't deserving the rightful justice that it needs.”