Race War Chronicles
by Sara Silver
Washington, DC
Civil rights leaders from across the country have come to unprecedented unanimous agreement that a fictional primate that only exists on screen has a better chance to facilitate long term racial harmony in America.
Roscoe P. Coltrane of the Hazard County, Georgia NAACP chapter animatedly made the case over a phone call this afternoon. “White folks are busy with things like shopping, stockpiling guns, and discouraging minority representation at the polls during primaries and elections. Seeing regular black people protesting and asking for reform is old hat to modern day rednecks! Now, make ’em think Caesar’s gonna crash threw their plate glass windows… now you got their attention!”
NAACP’s new Character Driven Protest Division plans to bring Caesar to life through 3-D animation projection to speak at various functions, in a fresh attempt to champion voting rights reform, poverty eradication and community outreach to disenfranchised citizens. “Public Enemy says whites fear a black planet, but what they really fear is payback for slavery. If Reagan can get elected President by scaring people into thinking Russians will come and get ’em, just think of what we can accomplish if they think talking orangutangs will drive them out of their homes if they don’t stop being greedy?” Mr Coltrane stressed, “It’s time for Democrats and Progressives to play the same kind of hardball Republicans do, why not kick it up a notch on top of that?”
When asked if members of the black community would likely bristle at the thought of being represented by a chimp they have been falsely accused of resembling since the Colonial Era, Mr. Coltrane took a long pause before stating, “Look, the NAACP doesn’t have a lot of ‘colored people’ to tell us about this stuff, most of the lawyers in the whole place are white. We’ll take this under advisement when we decide to move forward.” After another pause, he concluded, “The movie looks really good too, huh, you gonna see it, Sarah?”