80 PAGAL! PAGAL! PAGAL! ((FLASHING ARTWORK))

79 BROWN TRASH, chapter 24 (novel in progress)

excerpt from my novel has been removed.

77 Fais-moi mal, France!

written by Sabina England
June 2010

THE LADY CLOAKED IN ABAYA // Artwork GIF created by my favourite living artist,  PRINCESS HIJAB. please credit her if you steal this artwork.

CHARACTERS

MARIANNE (The Symbol of French Liberty)
LADY OF LIBERTY (American woman)
UNCLE SAM (American man)
ABAYA (French Muslim woman)

TIME

The present.

PLACE

In a supermarket somewhere in the suburbs of Paris, France.

The light comes up. Two Americans, UNCLE SAM and LADY OF LIBERTY, are pushing along a cart. Uncle Sam shoves some food into the cart.

UNCLE SAM

Don’t they sell any American food here?

LADY OF LIBERTY

We’re in France, Uncle Sam.

UNCLE SAM

Yeah but those Frenchies should put in some damn American food here. I want a thick juicy hamburger with blood streaming out.

LADY OF LIBERTY

You’ll have a hamburger when you’re back home in the States. For now, why don’t you just enjoy France and eat French food?

UNCLE SAM

I hate French food.

LADY OF LIBERTY

How about French fries?

UNCLE SAM

I don’t want French fries. I want freedom fries.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Freedom fries? This is no longer September 11, 2001, Uncle Sam. No one calls them freedom fries anymore.

UNCLE SAM

I still do! French fries are roasted in the oven. Those goddamned French people are obsessed with being healthy. They don’t know how to make food taste good. I hate French food and I hate French fries. I want freedom fries. Freedom fries are American. Freedom fries are fried in grease and I WANT GREASE!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Grease is bad for you, Uncle Sam-

UNCLE SAM

I don’t care! I want grease and I want meat and I want lots of salt and then I want a heart attack, the American way!

LADY OF LIBERTY

How about some French wine, Uncle Sam?

MARIANNE, the French Symbol of Liberty, pushes her cart along.

MARIANNE

Excuse me. If you’re proud to be American, why are you here in France? Go back home. We don’t want you here.

UNCLE SAM

I won a free vacation to Paris with my wife.

MARIANNE

Where is your wife?

UNCLE SAM

I dumped her at the hotel. She’s dead. I slitted her throat open. It was an act of honor killing.

LADY OF LIBERTY

How did she insult your honor?

UNCLE SAM

Bitch talked back to me so I smacked her face and sent her flying across the room. BAM! She hit the window and then I took a broken window shard and stabbed her in the face over and over until bitch stopped breathing. And then she died.

MARIANNE

The American way.

UNCLE SAM

Yeah that’s right. When I was 12 years old, I witnessed my dad killing my mom and then he dumped her body in the Mississippi river.

LADY OF LIBERTY

You are following in the footstep of American rednecks in Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, all those men who beat and kill their wives.

UNCLE SAM

Yes.

LADY OF LIBERTY

You are a real American, Uncle Sam. I’m proud of you.

MARIANNE

You Americans are barbarians. Primitive, backward. That poor woman! I wish you would hurry out of France and go back to your filthy country.

UNCLE SAM

Whore.

MARIANNE

Your nation is a whore, Uncle Sam.

A covered up Muslim woman, ABAYA, appears, pushing a cart.

MARIANNE

Look at that demon.

UNCLE SAM

That’s not a demon. That’s a raghead.

LADY OF LIBERTY

No, that’s a towelhead.

MARIANNE

Demon.

UNCLE SAM

Sand nigger.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Terrorist.

MARIANNE

She hates our freedom! She hates our laws and she broke a rule!

UNCLE SAM

What rule?

MARIANNE

That thing! No woman should be allowed to dress like that.

Marianne comes up to Abaya and rips off her abaya (long black cloak). Abaya gasps.

ABAYA

Why did you do that?

MARIANNE

You looked like the devil so I had to rip that hideous cloth off you.

ABAYA

That was my abaya. Please give it back-

MARIANNE

Demon!!! You scared me! I was terrified when I saw you and I thought you were going to blow up the store and kill us all!

ABAYA

I am not a demon. I am a Frenchwoman like you-

MARIANNE

Shut up, you filthy Arab nigger. You’re not a Frenchwoman if you dress like the devil.

ABAYA

Please give me back my abaya.

MARIANNE

Stupid woman. Why do you wear this thing? Does your husband force you to wear that? Does he beat you?

ABAYA

No! My husband is kind to me, he loves me and he takes care of me. Leave me alone-

MARIANNE

I’m trying to save you from oppression!

ABAYA

Who are you? What do you want! Why are you doing this to me!

MARIANNE

This is France. You have to be French or get out.

ABAYA

I am French!

MARIANNE

You are a fucking filthy sand nigger. Get out of here and go back to Algeria.

ABAYA

This is my home!

MARIANNE

This is my home, you fucking Arab bitch

UNCLE SAM

Where is Algeria?

LADY OF LIBERTY

It’s in North Africa.

UNCLE SAM

Africa? She doesn’t look African to me. She’s not black.

LADY OF LIBERTY

North Africans are mixed.

ABAYA

Please leave me alone.

MARIANNE

You terrorist nigger, you make me sick. Look at you filthy monkeys scurrying around, covered up like terrorists. Why don’t you become French and dress like me?

ABAYA

I am French.

MARIANNE

You’re not French unless you dress like us.

ABAYA

Leave me alone-

MARIANNE

Come here, you fucking ape. Let me look at your face. You have ugly dark skin. Your eyes are too dark and your nose is too big. You look nothing like me!

ABAYA

Why do you hate me?

MARIANNE

All you dirty Arab monkeys come into my country and destroy our economy, our culture, our dignity-

LADY OF LIBERTY

Marianne, I have to step in and interfere-

MARIANNE

Shut up and do not interrupt me while I’m speaking!

LADY OF LIBERTY

I have to defend the woman and stand up for her honor. Give the abaya back to her.

MARIANNE

No! If she doesn’t dress like us, if she won’t act French, she has to get out of France.

ABAYA

I love France and France is my home! Please give me back my abaya- I feel so naked.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Marianne, give it back to her.

MARIANNE

You stupid American cow, who are you to tell me what to do in my own country? This is France, not the United States. Don’t shove your American ideals down my throat.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Yes I’m American but I was born here. You Frenchies gave me away to the United States. I have every right to speak my mind and you can’t stop me-

MARIANNE

You stupid Americans were the ones who bombed Afghanistan and Iraq and now you’re trying to defend this nigger bitch?

LADY OF LIBERTY

No matter what happens, it’s my duty to uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Don’t you French people believe in freedom?

MARIANNE

Freedom from oppression!

LADY OF LIBERTY

You are engaging in oppression against this poor woman.

ABAYA

If you don’t give me back my abaya-

MARIANNE

What?

ABAYA

I will fight you.

MARIANNE

You’ll fight me? Oh really? What are you gonna do?

ABAYA

I will grab it from you.

MARIANNE

Will you punch me?

ABAYA

If you hurt me, I will defend myself. Give it back.

MARIANNE

No.

Abaya gets closer to Marianne.

ABAYA

Give me back my abaya.

UNCLE SAM

Do you think the Arab will kill that crazy French bitch?

LADY OF LIBERTY

Why do you call her Arab? She is French.

UNCLE SAM

Alright, sorry. Do you think the French Arab will kill the crazy French bitch?

LADY OF LIBERTY

But they are both crazy French bitches.

UNCLE SAM

Alright, then. Do you think the French Arab will kill the crazy white French bitch?

LADY OF LIBERTY

But, Uncle Sam, they’re both white. The French Arab woman has white skin and dark brown hair, while the other French woman has white skin and blonde hair.

UNCLE SAM

Alright then, let me re-phrase my question- do you think the French Arab woman will kill the crazy blonde French woman?

LADY OF LIBERTY

Yes maybe but- why assume the French Arab woman will kill her first? What if the crazy blonde French woman is the violent one who will attack and hurt the French Arab woman? She was the one who terrorized the poor French Arab woman and ripped her abaya off.

UNCLE SAM

True, true.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Therefore, we must be terrified of the crazy blonde French woman who is terrorizing the poor French Arab woman right now. If you look at history, it was crazy white European Christians who invaded foreign territory, plundered people’s homes, raped their women, looted their belongings, and burned their men to death.

UNCLE SAM

Yeah, that’s right. I’m white. I have power. I’m not scared of some French Arab bitch. She’s a lowly woman. Pow! I’ll punch her in the face if she tries to blow me up with a bomb. I’m a man and I can protect myself against any dumb bitches. Girls don’t scare me.

LADY OF LIBERTY

She is a woman, not a girl.

UNCLE SAM

Women, girls, they’re all dumb and need to shut their mouths and stay in their places.

MARIANNE

Come and fight me.

ABAYA

I don’t want to fight you, I just want my abaya back.

Marianne shove Abaya’s shoulder.

MARIANNE

Fight me, you filthy cockroach!

ABAYA

I don’t want to wage an act of jihad unto you.

Marianne spit in Abaya’s face.

MARIANNE

Coward bitch. We ruled over you once and then you dirty cockroaches came into our country and once again, we rule over you, so you must live under our laws!

ABAYA

We had no choice! Many of us fled North Africa because there were no jobs, no opportunities for any of us, especially women. I love France and I’m French and I want to stay here, I want to have a good job, and I want to have the right to wear what I want!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Come to America. We will embrace you with open arms. In our country, you can make your American Dream come true. You can wear what you want. Americans will defend your right to practice your religion and your right to wear anything you want.

UNCLE SAM

I don’t want no sand nigger camel-fucker bitch coming into my nation.

LADY OF LIBERTY

America doesn’t belong to you only.

UNCLE SAM

It’s my nation, I was born there. We don’t want any dirty ragheads in our nation.

LADY OF LIBERTY

It’s not your nation, you stole the land from the indigenous people. What would you say if they tell you to go back to Europe where your ancestors came from?

UNCLE SAM

I’ll blow their heads off with my rifle. Fucking dirty squaw bitch and those goddamned Injun crooks!!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Fucking cracker boy. Your great-great-great-great grandparents settled into Florida from Scotland, did they not?

UNCLE SAM

Yeah that’s right.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Go back to Scotland, you filthy white honky boy.

UNCLE SAM

What did you say? I’ll fucking smack your face, you stupid whore.

ABAYA

I don’t want to move to America. I don’t speak English. I am a Frenchwoman and I want to stay in France!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Abaya, the French don’t want you. Come to America. We’ll take care of you and we’ll embrace you. The American Dream is alive and real.

MARIANNE

You Americans talk about justice but you lock up all the Muslims in Guantanamo and throw poor black men into prisons.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Look at you, France! You hate Muslim immigrants who pour into France from North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East. You shove them into bad neighborhoods and when they reach adulthood, you refuse to take care of them and you won’t give them good jobs. The French youths have norwhere to go and then what happens? They become angry, they become frustrated. At the same time, while you shun them and force them to stay ghettoized, you want to shove your Euro-centric Christian European ideology down their throats.

MARIANNE

Yes if they come to Europe, they must act European!

LADY OF LIBERTY

What is European?

MARIANNE

White and Christian.

LADY OF LIBERTY

What about Arab Christians who have white skin but have Palestinian heritage, what if they move to France and they are born in a French ghetto and they are raised in France all their lives and they speak French but they speak Arabic at home and they eat Palestinian food and maybe their women even cover up in abaya and hijab, would you still consider them French?

MARIANNE

No!

LADY OF LIBERTY

But you said to be European is to be white and Christian. What about those Arab Christians who have white skin and practice Christianity?

MARIANNE

They don’t count. They’re all camel fuckers, even the Christian ones.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Jesus was a camel fucker.

MARIANNE

Muhammad was a child rapist.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Marianne, you are a racist, xenophobic, hateful symbol of France-

MARIANNE

You are the terrorist that terrorize the world and rule over the whole world with an iron fist and shove McDonalds into everyone’s faces-

LADY OF LIBERTY

You are the ones who spit unto your immigrants, your youths and your French minorities, you take away their right to the burqa and abaya and you want to speak about liberty, dignity and equality? Ha!

MARIANNE

You proclaim yourself to be a land of equality and justice for all, but you were born on slavery, you lynched countless numbers of black men, black women and black children over the course of history, you murder thousands of babies in Iraq and Afghanistan and you spit on your Mexican immigrants and unto Mexican American families.

LADY OF LIBERTY

You don’t know what those Mexicans are like.

MARIANNE

We have Mexicans here in France and they happen to be wonderful and delightful.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Yes because they’re financially well off, well educated, well spoken and well dressed! Here, the Mexicans are dirty and filthy and violent.

MARIANNE

And what about American Muslims?

LADY OF LIBERTY

Depends on what ethnicity, race, and nationality. Black Muslims can be scary and sometimes radical and extremist. So can be Arab and Middle Eastern Muslims, but the Persians here are wonderful and secular. As long as they identify as Persian, of course.

MARIANNE

Persians?

LADY OF LIBERTY

Yes, Persians. We love Persians, but we hate Iranians. Big difference, you understand?

MARIANNE

Persian is exotic, Iranian is dangerous. Yes, I understand! We have Yasmina Reza. Name one famous Persian American playwright you have!

Beat.

LADY OF LIBERTY

I cant think of any, but why don’t you tell me the name of a famous French Mexican or French Latino playwright you have? Here, in the United States, we have plenty of famous, successful Mexicans and Latinos, such as Salma Hayek-

MARIANNE

Half-Arab!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Yes. Salma Hayek is half-Arab. There you go, Abaya, come here and forget France. France is a filthy, racist whore. Come to America, We will embrace you and welcome you and make you feel safe. Anyone can become an American-

UNCLE SAM

Except those dirty Mexicans.

LADY OF LIBERTY

Yes, except Mexicans.

ABAYA

What’s wrong with Mexicans?

LADY OF LIBERTY

They are dirty, poor, wild, and violent. If you come here, Abaya, be careful and stay away from Mexicans.

ABAYA

But they say the same about us French Arabs. The French say we are dirty, poor, wild and violent. But we’re not. We’re trying to survive and get by.

LADY OF LIBERTY

My dear, why are you trying to defend Mexicans?

ABAYA

Because we’re all the same! All of us, we’re the proles being pushed down by society, we’re being crushed by the machine, we’re being fed acid by the drug lords, we’re being lulled into sleep by the clowns and we’re being pushed into the ovens for our bodies to be burnt and have our souls destroyed. All of us, the Mexicans, the Arabs, we’re the same, we’re the proles.

UNCLE SAM

What the fuck is a prole?

LADY OF LIBERTY OF LIBERTY

Prole is a slang for proletariat, the working class.

UNCLE SAM

I’m a prole.

LADY OF LIBERTY OF LIBERTY

You might be a prole but you still have white privilege.

UNCLE SAM

White privilege? Hahaha, what the fuck is that, you stupid bitch.

LADY OF LIBERTY

As a white American man, you’ll always have better luck finding a good job and getting hired, or being casted in a leading role for a big budget Hollywood film and you’re more likely to get away with committing a crime, whether it’s a violent crime or a white collar crime.

UNCLE SAM

Yeah?

LADY OF LIBERTY OF LIBERTY

That’s right.

UNCLE SAM

Just like when I punched my wife and I stabbed her over and over, nobody will say anything about me being a white man. But when a Muslim man commits the same crime, BAM!!!! They call it a honor killing.

They all roar with laughter.

UNCLE SAM

I want to have a beer with those Muslim dudes who beat and kill their wives. I wanna ask ‘em for pointers on how to become a better wife-beater.

LADY OF LIBERTY

You would get along beautifully.

MARIANNE

Muslims, rednecks, we loathe and abhor you all!

ABAYA

Why do you hate Muslims so much?

MARIANNE

Religious fanatics, bunch of freaks. Trying to shove your backward, primitive ideology down my throat.

ABAYA

I’m not trying to shove my beliefs onto you. YOU are the one who’s trying to force me to be like you. Please give me back my abaya-

MARIANNE

Shut up, you dirty cockroach monkey nigger whore!

UNCLE SAM

Cockroach monkey nigger whore!

Cockroach monkey nigger whore!

Uncle Sam and Marianne both chant at the same time-

UNCLE SAM / MARIANNE

Cockroach monkey nigger whore!

Cockroach monkey nigger whore!

Cockroach monkey nigger whore!

ABAYA

There is so much hatred in the world. I-I just want to be left alone, why can’t you people stop being racist?

MARIANNE

Why can’t you Arabs get out of France!!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Come to America.

ABAYA

But I don’t want to.

MARIANNE

I’m going to burn this abaya. Give me a lighter.

ABAYA

NO! That’s mine!

Abaya runs toward Marianne and grabs the abaya from Marianne. Marianne, shocked, smacks Abaya in the face HARD! Abaya is stunned and staggers backward. She then runs toward Marianne and punches her in the face. Marianne falls to the floor with a bleeding nose.

MARIANNE

You crazy terrorist bitch!

ABAYA

You touched me. You smacked me-

MARIANNE

Help. HELP! This terrorist is trying to wage jihad on me! I didn’t do anything wrong! Oh, Jesus Christ, please help me! We were just trying to have fun but you punched me in the face!

ABAYA

You-you are evil, you are warped, you are delusional-

MARIANNE

I don’t understand why that crazy cockroach monkey nigger bitch punched me in the face. Help! I’m going to bleed to death.

Marianne cries and cowers over in a puddle of blood.

ABAYA

You called me names. You hurled abuse at me. You ripped the abaya off me. You smacked me, you violated me, you humiliated me, you made me snap to the point of becoming enraged-

LADY OF LIBERTY

Cause and effect.

ABAYA

If you had left me alone, this would never have happened. But you stepped up to my face and you became arrogant. You insulted my dignity. This is what you get.

MARIANNE

Terrorist!

ABAYA

I am not a terrorist. I am a Frenchwoman and I was protecting myself from you.

UNCLE SAM

What a crazy Arab bitch. You can’t trust them bitches. They’re like loose cannons. Get ‘em started and they explode.

ABAYA

You are racist and sexist. Your existence offends my senses. You are a disgusting, hateful man.

UNCLE SAM

Yeah that’s right.

ABAYA

I hope a Mexican breaks into your house, steals your money and then blows your brains out for being such a filthy, racist, misogynistic piece of trash.

UNCLE SAM

You are stereotyping Mexicans!!

ABAYA

You’re the one who hates Mexicans and call them criminals, so I’m saying I hope your assumption comes true!

UNCLE SAM

I hope your crazy Muslim husband beats you and rapes you.

ABAYA

Your white privilege card will expire soon and that’s why you’re so scared of everyone.

MARIANNE

Uncle Sam! Come here and help me get up. We must attack her!

UNCLE SAM

Can I drop a bomb on the raghead bitch?

LADY OF LIBERTY

Oh Abaya! I’m terribly worried for your safety and well-being. Let me give you money and supply you with arms so you can protect yourself and fight against the French! The French are invading. You must retreat, hide yourself, and then come out to ATTACK!

ABAYA

But that’s how you created the Taliban.

LADY OF LIBERTY

What?

(beat)

Yes! We gave money and supplied arms to the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets. Then they became the Taliban! We just wanted to help them-

ABAYA

I need protection, I need money, I need food, I need clean water, I need a job. We’re all dying, miss, but the French hate us and they won’t help us and they won’t let us be part of their society. We’re losing our minds. If they don’t let us participate as full citizens in French society, we’ll go crazy. I don’t want to be Talibanized! Don’t encourage us into violence, Lady of Liberty!

LADY OF LIBERTY

France will attack you and kill you if you don’t protect yourself!

ABAYA

Punish France for their actions!

LADY OF LIBERTY

I cannot do that. Marianne is my cousin. Imagine how awkward it would be at family gatherings over Christmas and New Year if I punish her and her nation for their actions toward you and the Arabs in the ghettos of Paris. Dinner would be painful.

ABAYA

You said you wanted to help me!

MARIANNE

Advance, boys! Advance! Lunge! ATTACK!

It’s just like a scene from the famous painting LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE by Delacroix. Marianne raises her fist as Uncle Sam runs toward Abaya and tackles her, throwing her to the floor.

ABAYA

Help me!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Here’s a knife! Attack Uncle Sam and protect yourself!

She throws Abaya a knife and she catches it. She and Uncle Sam struggle, thrashing around on the floor. Uncle Sam opens his mouth and then brings his teeth down to Abaya’s neck and bites her hard. Abaya screams.

ABAYA

Vampire!

UNCLE SAM

Quiet, you stupid bitch, I’m sucking your blood out! Let me have some of your blood, your energy, your soul, your oil!

ABAYA

It’s my blood, you can’t have what’s rightfully mine!

Uncle Sam holds Abaya down on the floor and continues sucking blood from her neck, she screams and brings up the knife (that Lady of Liberty gave to her a minute ago). She takes the knife and stabs it into Uncle Sam’s guts.

Uncle Sam gasps and grabs his guts. Blood spills out. His intestines come out and are exposed. Abaya becomes hysterical and sobs as everyone watches Uncle Sam dying.

ABAYA

Allah save me.

UNCLE SAM

We will declare war on you, Abaya. You made a huge mistake.

Uncle Sam dies. Marianne wails.

MARIANNE

You killed my lover!

LADY OF LIBERTY

You didn’t know him until you met him half an hour ago today at the grocery store.

MARIANNE

He was smart, he was passionate, and he was supposed to become my partner in neo-imperialism. Together, we would have been perfect to terrorize the French Arabs and storm the ghettoes and kill them all in a furious blaze of bullets!

ABAYA

I was trying to defend myself. All I did was come into the store to buy milk and cookies for my babies and now this?

Abaya cries.

ABAYA

I’ve become a murderer, I’ve become violent, I’ve become a radical.

MARIANNE

Stupid woman. You had the audacity to dress like the devil.

LADY OF LIBERTY

If you had left her alone, none of this would have happened.

MARIANNE

Be quiet and go back to America!

LADY OF LIBERTY

Come with me, Abaya. I won’t leave France without you. I urge you, Abaya, to leave behind this awful nation and move to the New World with me.

ABAYA

No, my whole life is here. I was born and raised here, I fell in love here, I got married and had babies here, and I will die here in France. I love France and France is my home.

MARIANNE

You will never be welcomed in France.

LADY OF LIBERTY

France is a horrible nation, Abaya, come to America. The United States is the world’s greatest nation, we welcome everyone and we will never be as racist as France. We are better than France!

MARIANNE

Fuck you, Lady of Liberty, you stupid, arrogant American bitch.

Abaya gets up and walks toward Lady of Liberty who has her arms reached out. Lady of Liberty embraces Abaya.

MARIANNE

What are you doing?

ABAYA

I want to thank Lady of Liberty for standing up for me and defending me and helping me deal through this horrible ordeal.

MARIANNE

You heard what she said about Mexicans. She hates Mexicans! All Americans do!

ABAYA

Just like you hate us.

Abaya steps back from Lady of Liberty’s arms.

ABAYA

I can’t accept your offer. You are too kind, but you should focus on welcoming Mexicans and Mexican Americans into your society. Embrace the Latinos.

LADY OF LIBERTY

No! They’re all criminals, druggies, rapists, Abaya, don’t you understand?

ABAYA

France is my home and I will stay here and fight the fight. All the Arabs will unite to fight bigots and tyrants. We fought the French and brought ‘em out of North Africa, what makes you think we won’t fight ‘em out of France, either?

MARIANNE

You will never Islamize France! You will never succeed!

ABAYA

We don’t want to Islamize France. We want to be left alone and be considered European citizens.

LADY OF LIBERTY

The Pope tried to take over Europe with the Church and the Church failed. You have nothing to worry about, Marianne.

ABAYA

If my abaya, my veil, my hijab, my burqa is such a threat to your democracy, then your so-called democracy doesn’t exist.

MARIANNE

How dare you say that to me!

ABAYA

You are a coward, you are a racist, you are a xenophobe and a hypocrite. I’m staying here and I will never move out of France.

Marianne is stunned, not sure what to say. After a moment of silence, she breaks into laughter.

MARIANNE

Fine. I will offer you as a sacrifice to the nation of France. I shall behead you and hold up your severed, bloody head to the people of France and send a harsh, severe warning to the Muslims of France. ‘Lo and behold, Arabs,’ I shall scream, ‘look at this bloody head very carefully and think about how painful the woman’s death was. If you don’t watch your shit, if you don’t try to integrate yourselves within French society, we’re coming for you and we’ll kill you all and burn you in a massive fire.’

LADY OF LIBERTY

Isn’t that too harsh?

(no response from Marianne)

Abaya?

ABAYA

You don’t give a shit about Mexicans, what the hell do you care?

LADY OF LIBERTY

I shall keep my mouth shut. This is not my country and I have no right to interfere with your racism or your politics.

MARIANNE

Get out of here.

Lady of Liberty looks at Abaya one last time and then exits.

MARIANNE

I’m coming for you.

ABAYA

I’m not scared of you.

MARIANNE

Take off that filthy abaya, demon.

ABAYA

No. You’ll have to kill me while I’m cloaked in my abaya.

Marianne approaches Abaya. Abaya stands still and does not move. Marianne raises her fist and smacks it across Abaya’s face. Abaya stumbles backward, holding her bloodied face. Marianne grabs Abaya’s neck and holds her firmly in a tight grasp.

MARIANNE

Stay quiet as I take you down to the police station. I will report you as a violent, dirty Arab troublemaker and they shall throw you into jail. I’ll demand that the judge hand you down a death sentence. It’s been a long time since we last used the guillotine. Time to sharpen it and make an example out of you, you filthy Arab monkey bitch.

ABAYA

I love France, France is my home and I will die for my nation.

MARIANNE

Quiet, you fool.

They march offstage.

Light fades out. Black-out.

END.

Liberty (Marianne) Leading the People, 1830

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