Shane seeks outside resources and Randi wants to hunt.
Cast
Randi Halle Millien
Shane Mark Millien
SFX and Music Contributors
SFX
Q Tone [Query]
Tone 4.wav by patchen of freesound.org
Q Tone [Response]
Tone 3.wav by patchen of freesound.org
Music
Ebony’s Letter Theme:
DjRellruger SOLITARE RellRuger Soul Sample by djrellruger of looperman.com
Tapir Hunt by Anubis of looperman.com
Face To Face 2 by Anubis of looperman.com
Created by Mark and Halle Millien
Cover Art by Halle Millien
Written, Directed and Produced by Mark Millien
Glossary
Q filters: people have the ability to source their information in a completely customizable fashion across all media platforms by including or excluding keywords; the system is sophisticated enough to remove even tangential information that is proximal to the keywords chosen.
The Run: a mass run that takes place every evening in most large cities that consists mostly of the poor and the marginalized; it is one part health wellness initiative and one part passive protest. Usually takes place at the top of blue hour.
Ebony’s Letter:
I used to imagine having kids and y’all growing up together, but now it’s gotta be y’all babysitting mine whenever mine come to pass. Sometimes I find comfort in thinking about the future, especially if it involves all of you. Sometimes it just makes me angry. I don’t want to wake up one day and see all of these empty years between us. But as long as I see y’all I can’t ask for much else. They told me that you’ll read this when you’re older, so there are things I can say here that I can’t send you in a video today. Randi, you are so pretty, just like your mama. I Facetimed you yesterday and you seemed so sad. That hurt me. There’s no real way to protect you from the world, even when it’s all locked down. Ahmaud Arbery played football, just like you Jude. His cousin is in the NFL now. Plays safety. They were athletes and young together. Running was safety, and freedom, and excellence, and pride. His cousin said he was slow as molasses, but he loved it, he loved to run. I watch videos of you Shane, running, with your whole heart and ragged breath and I wonder if that’s what it’s like for you, except you’re not slow. Unh unh, boy you fly. This white man wrote about how wrong those other two white men were, the way they hunted him down, with suspicious suspicion. How they should’ve called the cops and let them handle it the right way. Three times I read it, to make sure I understood whether he was being monstrously sarcastic or just exhaustingly simple. Breonna Taylor was killed by cops in her home. They were looking for someone else. Someone else who didn’t live there, had never lived there, who’d already been arrested and had been in police custody by the time Breonna was murdered. She was there with her boyfriend. They were asleep. The cops came in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles. They say they identified themselves. Which is odd, because Breonna’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, called 911 as people banged on his door trying to enter. They eventually did. Kenneth also called Breonna’s mom, and told her that someone was trying to break in. Breonna was shot eight times. Kenneth returned fire with a legally licensed weapon registered to him. He wasn’t injured and neither were any of the officers. But Breonna was shot eight times. There is this quote from the article, “The gunfire from the officers struck objects in the living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway, bathroom and both bedrooms, according to the lawsuit.” If that’s a two bedroom apartment, that’s every room. Every room. Some shots penetrated apartments that shared a wall with Breonna’s. How many bullets did that take? Kenneth was the only person charged. Assault and the attempted murder of a police officer. If you were white I wouldn’t have to worry about this. I’d worry about you being confident. I’d worry about you, Harrison, being too shy to express your brilliance. I’d worry about you finding your voice, not losing it. I know that God has a plan and he is keeping his babies close to him, washed in love that they didn’t always get here in the world. White people bury their dead much quicker than we do. We idle on the bodies of our loved ones. I think we evolved into perpetual mourners because our time here is such a short and savage struggle. We are weathered and they keep killing us but I picture Ahmaud running still. On clouds thread with gold, running headlong into praise, worshipping the wind. I can see him and he is beautiful. He isn’t slow. He is taking his time in a land of no fear, he is taking his time, he is running and he is peacefully, blissfully, free.
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