Dear White People Page #2

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INT. STUDIO BOOTH - DAY 7

...Sam presses a button next to a red light on her controls.

SAM:

Talk to me.

INTERCUT with Gabe walking about on campus.

GABE:

What would you say if someone

started a Dear Black People?

SAM:

(recognizing the voice)

No need. Mass media from Fox News

to reality tv on VH1 makes it clear

what white people think of us.

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EXT. MANCHESTER COURT - DAY 8

SERIES OF SHOTS - POPULAR RESIDENCE HALLS

Manchester’s white and rich elite before BECHET HOUSE.

8A

Athletes of many disciplines before WEBSTER HOUSE. 8A

8B

An eclectic group of Black students with some Latinos and 8B

a sprinkling of whites before ARMSTRONG / PARKER HOUSE.

COCO (V.O.)

I’m f***ing pissed...

5.

11 INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 11

Colandrea Conners (Coco) trains her unnaturally blue eyes

right at us from a Youtube page pulled up on an iPad. She’s

got an entitled air about her. Even her cusses sound erudite.

COCO (YOUTUBE)

...I am! The whole point of

randomized housing is to mix sh*t

up. I’m out here trying to find the

Olivier to my Halle Berry, and

they’ve got me looking like an

extra on a Different World...

The video ends with a click. Looking up is HELMUT WEST, a

30’s something Black man in dark rimmed glasses and trendy

everything. Too stylish for this place. If he’s impressed,

it’s barely perceptible.

HELMUT:

You call your Youtube show “Doing

Time at an Ivy League?”

He stares right at Coco, there in the flesh.

COCO:

In my second year of a four year

sentence. Wanted to go to New York.

SUPERIMPOSE:
COLANDREA COCO CONNERS, SOPHOMORE, ECONOMICS

HELMUT:

Yeah? And do what?

COCO:

Things my mama taught me not to.

You know get in a lot of trouble

and become famous for it. But alas

I didn’t get into Tisch...

HELMUT:

Armstrong / Parker? That your

rooming assignment?

COCO:

Traditionally it’s where the

hopelessly Afrocentric gather to

process their guilt over not going

to an HBCU.

(off Helmut’s look)

Where the Negros be at.

HELMUT:

That’s not where you want to be?

6.

COCO:

Bechet House is more my style.

HELMUT:

With the rich white kids.

COCO:

Excuse me?

HELMUT:

What part of Chicago you from?

COCO:

Hyde Park.

HELMUT:

What street?

COCO:

Seventy Eighth and --

HELMUT:

-- Seventy Eighth is Southside

sweetheart. And you know what they

say. You can take the girl out the

hood but --

COCO:

-- Ain’t nothing hood about me.

HELMUT:

Thanks so much for coming in.

Coco gets up to leave. Tries to recover.

COCO:

So what’s this show about anyway?

HELMUT:

Here’s the way reality works

sweetheart, I’m the producer. I ask

the questions. Be in touch.

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