Addio zio Tom
- Year:
- 1971
- 65 Views
We interrupt this broadcast to bring
you a shocking piece of news
just in from Memphis, Tennessee.
Today, April 4, the spiritual leader of
America's Negroes, Martin Luther King,
winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, was
shot and wounded by an unknown gunman.
He is in very grave condition.
We are awaiting further information,
which we will pass on to the public
as soon as we receive it.
The assassin's bullet didn'tjust kill
Martin Luther King.
It killed a historical era.
The war has begun.
We Negroes have embarked on the
violent phase of our fight for freedom.
Today we have guns, bombs,
dynamite, knives.
America will be stained red.
Corpses will fill the streets.
Martin Luther King,
a slave of the bourgeoisie,
a useless social element,
a public servant,
an adulator, Washington's bootlicker,
a traitor.
Down with the doubters
and the Evangelists.
Down with the Uncle Toms.
It's our turn to get to work now,
cutting throats.
No white throats were cut.
The shouts of the revolt were nothing,
compared to the police sirens.
After all, who was that minister
who was killed in Memphis,
that 30 million Negroes
were supposed to avenge?
A hero, as Cleaver said, or a swine,
an Uncle Tom, as LeroyJones said?
Tom.
Thomas.
I named him Tom.
Don't you think it's cute?
Nowadays it's different,
but in the old days
all house Negroes were called Tom,
then Uncle Tom when they grew old.
That was how we could tell
the good Negroes,
the ones who lived in homes,
with their masters,
from the bad ones, who lived
separately, in the cotton fields.
Even that nice Negro priest
that they killed, what was his name?
They called him Uncle Tom, too,
because he was good.
He didn't go around spurring
those people to revolt against us.
They're not actually bad,
but none of them are called Tom.
They can't keep their houses clean,
and they spend all their money on cars,
which they break immediately
and throw away, like old toys.
They're just like children.
But that may be a good thing.
This way they're closer to God.
You should hear them singing
in the family chapel I gave them.
They're extraordinary.
His land extended further
than the horizon--
He had enormous herds of cattle,
and a house full of slaves.
When Jesus had finished speaking,
the man asked him:
''Is there anything that my slaves
can hold against me?
I feed them. I clothe them. I aid them.
I even gave them a temple to pray in.
So you see, my generosity is great.''
And Jesus said to him:
''I will tell you that it is not your
generosity that is great,
but your pride.
You love your slaves
because they are slaves,
and as long as they remain slaves.
But your power will melt,
like fog in the sun.
Your riches will be gone.
And then your slaves will leave
your land and your home,
and they will ignore you.
The worst punishment for your pride
will be your loneliness.''
Our house was so big. 500 slaves
were hardly enough to keep it up.
Then a little Tom left a candlestick
sitting next to a curtain,
and the fire burned for three days.
Can you imagine?
So many things fed that fire.
But this land is still mine.
This good land of the south,
Thank you, Tom.
Do you remember that movie?
What was it called? Gone--
Anyway, she took a handful of dirt
and held it to her chest. Like this.
And all around her, everything
was burned and ravaged by war.
And the Negroes had become bad.
And she said-- I can't remember.
Anyway, she said she would farm
the land even without slaves.
Not cotton, of course.
You'd need Negroes for that.
It's so hard, under the sun.
But there are many
other good things here in the south:
fruits, vegetables.
Our vegetables are so good.
The salad, the peas.
Have you ever tasted southern peas?
...as we can see by reading the pages
of the greatest American Negro poet,
LeroyJones, whose poem --
''Land, Land, Land. The Negro will not
be a man until he has his own land.
Negro, look at the ground. ''
- Yoo-hoo, I'm ready.
- ''Grab a handful of dirt,
and shove your nails into the concrete.
It's real and it's yours.
- You just have to want it. ''
- On page 2 1 7, Malcolm X adds.:
''There's only one people on earth
that can slit the white man's throat.
His population of slaves,
the Negroes. ''
We will now hand the microphone over
to the leader of the Black Panthers.
But that's not all. They reject
integration, they practice violence,
ideological crime, reverse racism.
They indoctrinate their children
in exchange for a meal.
They want to own five states, immediate
freedom for all Negro criminals,
exemption from military service, and
the freedom to carry machine guns.
But sometimes we're too quick
to judge.
Let's take a look
at these strange humans.
Their intentions are good,
though at times misunderstood.
These humans practice non-violence,
ideological love,
free love, the integration of the sexes,
and a perfect racial confusion
with the Negroes,
together with whom they propose
to build the America of the future.
And yet, LeroyJones, today's foremost
representative of Negro-ness says,
''Embracing the non-violence that young
whites preach about is nothing short of
diving into the current
of this failed American civilization.
America is a Sodom.
America is a Gomorrah.
America is a Babylon.
This is the society in which
Martin Luther King wanted
the Negroes to get ready to join.
I'd rather go to hell. But the chance
of becoming citizens of Gomorrah
is the best thing that whites have
right now to offer the Negroes.
If you hope for the survival of this
rotten society, of this corrupt order,
of this falling Rome, ready to cut your
balls off with the edge of a dollar,
you'll lose. Christ and the effigy
of the dollar are one and the same.
We Negroes must remember
all that we are seeing now,
and in the end we must erupt
like a volcano,
so we can crush, under flowing,
molten lava this herd of pigs
who have transformed the world
into a giant garbage can.''
June 1 9, 1 97 0.
LeroyJones, again: ''The white man's
attitude toward sex is sick.
The white man makes sex dirty.
The white man is primitive,
and he has the sexual intelligence
of a cave man.
The white man is afraid of the Negro
because he knows he's sexually inferior.
His sexual device is out of order.
That's why liberal whites
have allowed us
a certain amount of progress
toward virility,
'One day we'll let you have balls.
Until then, keep yourself cool.'
American whites are taught to be
pederasts in school.
That's why their faces are weak
and expressionless.
Their voices, gestures and
mannerisms are those of eunuchs.
white women are stocky whores,
covered in makeup.
They don't know what to do
to fire up their impotent males.
white American women are
the ugliest and most obscene on earth.
The famous question, 'Would you allow
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Addio zio Tom" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 18 Dec. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/addio_zio_tom_2228>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In