“New York State Of Mind” (drama) 1 minute

Character: SAMBO
Description:  Sambo speaks his mind freely about racism in the world.
Gender: Male
Age:  68   

(An African American man in his sixties is humming a tune in a Subway Station))

I’ve got a New York state of mind…What if I spoke my mind?  What if we all spoke our minds?  That wouldn’t be considered civilized for society now would it?  Come on, I know some of you folks want to call me a nigger or a black motherfucker.  It doesn’t bother me one bit.  There are names for everyone.  Fags, dikes, chink, wop, guinea, grease monkey, sand nigger, homo, tight ass Jew, stupid Pollock, jerkoff German, wet back.  I’ve heard all kinds of jokes and ways of thinking against all races in my time.  I’ve heard that Chinese men have small dicks.  I’ve heard that Jewish people are cheap.  I’ve heard that Italians are gangsters.  I’ve heard that Black men have big dicks.  And on and on and on…

I know I’ve got your attention now.  And you know I speak the truth.  I think we all need to accept what people say and pass it all off as humor.  What hurts us in society is when the jokes get used in anger.  Just the other day I saw two men fist-fighting in the street.  They both got out of their cars in a road rage and starting throwing hands.  They were cursing eachother and calling one another racist names.  Terrible, terrible.

If we could all just take a step back and look at eachother for who we are on the inside, we would find out that we are all alike.  I’m not so sure if that will ever come about though.  Not so sure if people will ever remove the blasphemy.  Who knows, maybe a thousand years from now, things will be different.  Maybe one day we will all be the same race.  Wouldn’t that be something?  I know one thing is certain, we are all human. 

(Goes back to humming his song)