Podcast Script
The key to truly understanding an injustice in society is through first-hand accounts. People see displays of racism on the television every day. However, this is all told from the perspective of the oppressor. Stories are the only things that contain the true history of oppressed cultures. The purpose of this podcast is to focus on a Black teenager from the projects in LA who moved to an all-white town in the middle of America.
Fade in:
Tony Bilal: Good day, morning, night……… whenever you are hearing this folk. My name is Tony Bilal and welcome to the Bilal show.
Bilal: As we are gathered here today, we got another story to tell you folks.
Bilal: So we all know racism exist…. yada, yada, yada, but how prevalent do you think it is today. Do you guys think that a white man will come up to you and just shout NIGGER! in the face? You think someone won’t kill you just because you are Black? I happen everyday folks you see it on the news. Yet, we never get the victims story. So, I decided to find a young gentleman who experienced injustice firsthand in the millennial age. I brought him here today, say wassup to the people Tony.
Tony: Was good world.
Bilal: So Tony, where are you from
Tony: I was born L.A off of Crenshaw, but my parents split up and I went to go live with my dad in Harrison, Arkansas.
Bilal: So can you explain to us a little about what Harrison is like?
Tony: Yeah so Harrison is probably the most racist town in America. These people don’t give a fuck about you. If it ain’t white, it ain’t right, they say. Living there as any person of color puts a target on your back. You will become a victim.
Bilal: So for the people that don’t know, I’m sitting here talking to you and have all these scars. What exactly happened to you in that town?
Tony: Most of my scars and stuff was as a kid dealing with other white kids. My hands are messed up from one time when they threw some type of home made acid at me. I’m blind in my left eye because one time they filled bleach with a water gun and just started spraying. I got
a whole bunch of bruises and scars everywhere. Actually, I did get shot, but that happened when I was older.
Bilal: Damn, sorry to hear that. Where was your father during this time?
Tony: I can’t even lie; my father was a bit of a dead beat. He wasn’t really around. He lived in the town, but was rarely at the house. He would come and go. Missing for weeks at a time. I doubt he even knew how racist the town was. I don’t even know where he is now.
Bilal: Wow that’s fucked up man so let’s just hop right in, why are you doing this?
Tony: I wanted to give my story. Often to many times in fact, people see all of the fucked up shit that happens on TV but realize that that’s someone’s life. People are really being victims out here. I’m sure that I wasn’t the only Black kid in an all White town and I won’t be the last. It’s a miracle that we even make it out of these places. Imagine how many Black deaths go unreported in America? The middle of America does not abide by the laws of the nation. They go by the laws of the town. I just had to give my perspective on it, is all.
Bilal: Alright folks were gonna take a quick commercial break but were get back started to where Tony gives his story on his life….
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