Excerpted & edited dialogue from "White Mice" by Darren O'Donnell

[littlegirltoast]

Robert: I'm home.
Douglas: Good, you're home. Well, come on in, you do pay half the rent after all.
Robert: I just learned something very interesting today.
Douglas: Oh boy.
Robert: I'm picturing the maple leaf.
Douglas: Which one? The red one on the flag, the blue one on the hockey jersey, or the green one that I just smoked -
Robert: The flag.

Comments

[loopfrog]

I need a copy of this play. Did you pull this from a digital copy?

[anonymous]

"…was an attempt to draw in an audience who might otherwise have been resistant to hearing a condemnation of whiteness, but who could benefit the most from it."Jesus. Of course if such blanket criticism involved any other ethnic group it would be another chapter in white racism. Most whites are resistant to hearing condemnation of whites because they weren't responsible for what happened after Columbus pitched his tent. Nor were they responsible for what another white did yesterday a few thousand miles across the country. I wasn't handing out small pox infected blankets to natives hundreds of years ago. I wasn't running slaves from Africa to North America. I wasn't taking native kids from their parents, putting them in church run schools and abusing them. If you want to dump all over all whites for the crimes of some, perhaps I should condemn you for the misogyny of other rap artists. Of course I'll call rap music "Mother Nature" and the misogynist rappers "koala bears" so you're not resistant to hearing the condemnation

[littlegirltoast]

I want to be constructive in my response to this, but the combination of your tone - which is impatient, self-absorbed, and superior without demonstrating much in the way of thought; basically, super kneejerk defensive - and the antique chickenshit move of posting anonymously - indicating that on some level you're ashamed or afraid to be a practising apologist for white supremacy - makes it difficult for me to be as nice as I'd like.

Look, bud. "White" isn't an ethnic group. It's an infrastructure. If all you can think about is what you are personally responsible for, or not responsible for, when you're confronted with ideas like the ones in the above-excerpted drama, then you are not only criminally narcissistic, but on a personal level more responsible for the perpetuation of white supremacist thought and action than people who actually hate anyone who isn't white, which I presume is a category of person into which you do not fall, even though you have chosen to engage anonymously like a prank phone call by a lonely child and