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Interview Question
1. Have you faced discrimination, if yes, what kind?
2. If not, what kind of discrimination have you witnessed?
3. How would you classify this discrimination?
4. What kind of stereotypes did you hear about your race?
5. How has discrimination changed or evolved over your lifetime?
6. If you were to create a theatrical performance on your subject, what would you want it to
include?
Interview Summary 1: Lucian Lu, a Chinese professor, was interviewed about racial discrimination.
Through experience, Dr. Lu said that minorities have to work harder than their white colleagues to gain
recognition.
Interview Summary 2: Richard Saah said he faced discrimination when he was in the wedding
photography business. During a time when he needed an extra photographer during a big wedding he had
to photograph, the worker was highly racist on the way to the job. During simple conversation, talKing
about current events in Palestine, because at the time the topic was extremely popular. The worker said I
wouldnt mind killing some of them. As a palestinian Richard got extremely mad and decided the
worker was just there for the job.
Interview Summary 3: Contrary to popular belief, black people are not lazy. In addition to being treated
unfairly, many have been refused goods or services, including women. Kellie Grady believes that
discrimination has not changed much in her lifetime , but she does think that the amount of diversity,
specifically in public places has increased. Grady has also faced discrimination herself in instances in
schools in South Africa and Virginia.

Inspirations Project Overview

Keeping your audience in mind, create a prospectus of approximately 2 pages for your 10 minute play
including the following elements:
Target audience(s)
Why create THIS play at THIS time for THIS audience?
This play is created for everyone, since racial discrimination still exists today in all ages.
Theme
4 - 5 Key Questions your play will address:
1. What is the cause of racism?
2. What defines racism?
3. What types of discrimination are prominent?
4. How can this be applied to the current era?
5. What stereotypes arise from racism?

Where are we today with discrimination

The point you are trying to get across
Racial discrimination weakens society and causes unnecessary violence.
Research (at least 3 source
s with 1 of them non- web)
Please cite your sources as you go along!
StopHate. "Causes of Racism." Causes of Racism. Stop Hate, n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2015.
Setting
A forest next to a town famous for their hunters
Plot (including main conflict, dramatic structure, layers of meaning)- Decide on the plot LAST after you
have finished your research
Main Conflict: Tension between foxes with/without tails
Characters
-

King Fox(Gusty) with tail, son

Kiri (Curie) Fox with no tail
Jack (Jed) Fox with a tail
Hunter (Zach), narrator, father

Creative Elements (dance/movement, song, mixed media, costume, etc.) Remember that yours play must
inspire and entertain. Work hard and enjoy the fruits of your labor!
1. Within the colony of foxes, there is racial discrimination between foxes who have tails
and foxes who dont have tails
2. Hunters try to catch and kill foxes with a trap that nabs them by their tail
3. Fox ear headbands
4. Fox tails, attached by clip
5. Fox physicality

Characters
-

King Fox(Gusty) with tail, son

Kiri (Curie) Fox with no tail and of a minority race
Jack (Jed) Fox with a tail, with the dominant race as well
Hunter (Zach), narrator, father, hunter

Prezi
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Script
Narrator: Decades ago, in 1954, America experienced the Civil Rights Movement, intended to integrate
all races. The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1919, supposedly closed the barrier between gender inequality.
Today, even with all the Amendments and movements, are we now an equal, all-inclusive nation?
Pause, enter Jack, Kiri

*play short clip of background of civil rights movement*

Play Starts
Gusty: Daaddy.
Zach: *sighs* yesssss
Gusty: Can you read me a story. pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Zach: *sighs* i guesss. Here, a book about discrimination
Gusty what the flip is that
Zach: just shut up and listen.

Zach: Once upon a time

There was a civilization of foxes.
The foxes with tails were treated better and more privileged than those without tailsTheir world was
filled with discrimination
Jack: Move, you disgusting tailless furball
Kiri: Um, excuse me?
Jack: You dont deserve to talk to me like that. Especially since youre not my race
Kiri: What did you call me? Can you repeat that again?
Jack: A. DISGUSTING. TAILLESS. FURBALL!!
Kiri: You--(pause) ugh!
Jack: Were you going to say something?

Both Jack and Kiri walk separate ways and see a job opening poster.
Poster reads Job opening for ONLY 1 FOX! Come quick with resume in hand!
Jack and Kiri at same time: Wow a job, Ive always wanted one of those!
Jack: Now Ill just go home and prepare me a resume
Kiri: Let me hurry to my home and compile all of my previous achievements

Pause: Narrator: Sexism has been an issue for as long as society has existed. Men have always been the
dominant race but women have fought for equal rights
*Play video of history of sexism*

Both Jack and Kiri to job interviewer.

Zach as interviewer: So looks like you two are interested in this job interview.
Jack: Yippes
Kiri: Yessir
Zach: Jack youre up first.
Jack: Alrighty heres resume.
Zach: Looks like a longlist of nothing, not bad.
Jack: Ok, just know Kiris a female.
Zach: Wow that really changes things. I dont know if shell be able to keep up with what all the other
workers do. Please bring her in for me
Jack: Anything for you sir
Kiri enters nervously

Kiri: Heres my resume, sir,it has lots of universities and i had perfect test scores, a4.0, and experience.
Zach: I think this could use some more work, sorry but JACK YOUre HIRED.
Jack: YAYAYAYAY

Kiri storms out, goes to King Fox

Narrator: Many women fought eventually fought for their equality through the Equal Rights Amendment.
*Short clip on Equal Rights Amendment*

Kiri: (yells) Im sick of this!

King Fox:
Kiri: Oh, Im sorry. Your great furriness, Im not sure that I can endure this any longer.
King Fox: Ah, kits are so young and full of energy.
Kiri: ...tch
King Fox: Er...you were saying?
Kiri: Th--the discrimination!
King Fox: (gasps) Its not called discrimination! That word is forbidden!
(King Fox sighs, pauses, takes off glasses)
King Fox: My child, this world is never perfect. There are foxes who will like or dislike you. Yet you
cannot do anything to prevent it.
Kiri: Um, arent YOU the one in power here?
King Fox: Watch your tongue child.
Kiri: Your greatness, I was born without a tail. I have not done anything wrong, and the foxes who were
born with tails did nothing to earn their privileges. The dis--er--exclusion can be prevented by those in
power.

King Fox: Child, one must always live with problems.

Exit foxes

Enter all foxes:

Jack: Hey, hey, have you heard? Its almost game season again!
Kiri: Do you know when the hunters are going to arrive?
Jack: I wasnt talKing to you, and how am I supposed to know? Theyre gonna catch you first anyways,
so you better shut your maw. Shhh, shhh, the King Fox is talKing!
King Fox: Greetings, civilians! As Im sure you know, game season starts tomorrow, meaning the humans
are going to enter the woods armed with weapons and traps. Please be fully aware of this and exit your
burrows with caution.
Jack: Pfft, youd better watch out you better go cry! you better look out cuz im telling you why, The
hunters are coming to town, the hunters are coming to town. The hunters are comingg to townnnn. They
see you when you're sleeping, they know when your awake, they kill you no matter what you do, so RUN
for goodness sakes! The hunterssss are coming to town, the hunters are coming to town. The hunters are
comingg to townnnn.
small furball.
Kiri: Ughhh
Exit foxes
King Fox runs across stage, chased by hunter. AHAHHADUGDISUGAAAAAAA
Hunter captures King by his tail
Narrator, as father reading: Now that the King fox had been captured, along with many other tailed foxes,
it was up to the foxes without tails to keep the civilization from utter madness.

Enter Kiri
Kiri: --its too quiet
Enter Jack, Running
Jack: (stammers, sweating) Th-th-thKiri: What?
Jack: The kk-kkk-kKiri: (impatient) What is it?
Jack: The King fox...
Kiri: *gasps*
Jack: He was captured
Kiri: What?! Impossible!
Jack: He was captured by his tail by the hunters new traps
Kiri: How about the others?
Jack: *glares* Pfft, why would you care.
Kiri: (irritated) Because were all the same regardless of if we have tails or not.
Jack: No were not. Who told you that?!
Kiri: Whatever, lets just get out of here.
Jack: You little furball! Are you telling me what to do?
Kiri: Tch--anyways, why are you the only tailed fox in the area?
Jack: (suddenly nervous) W-well...it doesnt matter!
Kiri: Looks like your friends abandoned you, huh. Why are all the tailless ones still here?
Jack: *pause for 3 seconds* (quietly) The...the trap

Kiri (loudly) The what?

Jack: The trap catches foxes by their tails, okay?! You idiot, are all tailless foxes stupid or something?
Kiri: *pause* Are you in any position to call me that, now that youre about the only tailed fox left?
Jack: (silent)
Kiri: Lets go.
Jack: fine

Narrator: Eventually times changed as Barack Obama became the first non white male president and
Hillary Clinton looks to become the first woman president in 2016.
Plays video of obama
Narrator: Since King fox and the other tailed foxes have been captured, a new leader must be elected. Kiri
was chosen by popular vote in a day (dont question fox politics)
Kiri waves to the crowd
Foxes boo and call her names while others cheer
kiri looks scared but then continues to half smile
Narrator: Will full equality ever exist?
play ends
Prezi
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With videos
Works Cited
Civil Rights. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=civil+rights+movement>.
Equal Rights Amendment. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=equal+rights+amendment>.

Do Something. "11 Facts About Racial Discrimination." 11 Facts About Racial Discrimination.
DoSometing.org, 2015. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.
Nittle, Nadra. "How Racism Causes Depression." About News. About News. Web. 24 Mar. 2015.
StopHate. "Causes of Racism." Causes of Racism. Stop Hate, n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2015.
Szumski, Bonnie. Interracial America: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1996. Print.
"Very Sexist Ads from the 50s (24 Pics)." Izismile.com. Izismile. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.
<http://izismile.com/2010/05/28/very_sexist_ads_from_the_50s_24_pics.html>.
"Neat Designs 35 Extremely Sexist Ads That You Should See." Neat Designs. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.
<http://neatdesigns.net/35-extremely-sexist-ads-that-you-should-see/>.

1.Have you faced discrimination, if yes, what kind?

Yes, have faced racial discrimination. I was clearly refused service/had my service delayed while dining
out. Once while in college in VA and once in while in graduate school in South Africa. There have been
countless other times but those were the two most prominent and undeniable cases.
2. If not, what kind of discrimination have you witnessed?
I have heard that my race is lazy (which is funny since our labor built this country) and that we are thugs.
I have also heard that we only want handouts instead of taKing care of ourselves.
.3.How has discrimination changed or evolved over your lifetime?
I not sure that it has changed much in my lifetime. I see more diversity in the school and neighborhoods
bit that is about all.
7. Have you faced discrimination, if yes, what kind?

Some people make fun of my accent. Yes, at job places, you have to do better than your nonminority colleagues to receive a sufficient reward. To put it in another way, your white colleagues do not
have to be excellent to be recognized, but as a minority, you have to be excellent to receive recognition.
8. If not, what kind of discrimination have you witnessed?
Theres a professor at my school who is black. When he was entering the elevator, a white
cleaner stopped him and said, Students are not allowed to take the elevator. The professor said, Im not
a student, Im a professor here. The same colleague told me that his white colleagues would elect much
younger and inexperienced white members of the department to important positions.
9. How would you classify this discrimination?
I would classify it as lack of equity and equal opportunity.
10. What kind of stereotypes did you hear about your race?
HardworKing, good at math, all good cooks, loud, tiger parents. Chinese people are good at
math, bad at grammar and pronunciation, parents are tiger moms and dads, and that chinese people use
their dishwashers as a storage. Theyre all nearsighted and wear glasses and have chinky eyes and good
skin. They like to play ping-pong and theyre nerds.
11. How has discrimination changed or evolved over your lifetime?
When I was a student a lady at the Registrars Office said something I didnt understand. I
asked, can you repeat what you said? She repeated at an excruciatingly slow pace, as if I were an idiot.
Later on, when I go shopping, at the registers, some of the cashiers look at me with wrinkled eyebrows as
if they are bracing themselves to hear my broken english. But now at least at my workplace, the majority
of people dont discriminate against me because I have a doctorate degree, teach well, and established in
the workplace. So a lot of times discrimination happens due to lack of knowledge.
12. If you were to create a theatrical performance on your subject, what would you want it to
include? I would want to include how hard minorities have to work to be recognized to the same
degree as their white colleagues. Even if they work harder and do more, they may not receive the
same amount of reward. I would want to portray the lack of confidence and sometimes dignity
because of whats mentioned above.