Report on OTHELLO the MOOR
Written by William Shakespear
Prepared for Miss Wiener by
M. Xavier H. a.k.a. the X-Man
Well first of all, I was surprised to learn there were Moors in Venice who
invaded Spain according to my teacher. Seems like niggers were everywhere
in the world in those days. Just like they everywhere in the world today. You
can't keep a good man down all the time. My grandfather from Jamaica
would open his eyes in his grave if he heard I was in New York. Seems like
niggers is everywhere fighting for respect.
Well, Othello, I have great respect for that dude, seeing as how he was a
soldier of fortune who offered his services to the Venetians to fight the Turks.
Aint nothing wrong with that. A man's got to do something to make a living in
this world.
So he far away from home fighting for these white people, you think he'd get
some respect. But no, there is Iago and Roderigo plotting against him cause he
black. Calling him "old black ram" and "thick lips". Not to his face. They won't
dare say it to his face. Othello would take them out quick!!
Well, it seems they jealous of Othello cause of his big you know? White folks
have a serious problem with the big you know. Personally I don't see what the
problem is. Make no difference how big the nozzle once you get it in there
and start filling her up. But Iago and Roderigo, they go brontosaurus with
jealousy.
People be quick to say it got nothing to do with race. But when he hook up
with Desdemona it's like, who's this nigger messing with a white woman?
Making "the beast with two backs"? Bet the Venetians never heard of the
beast with two backs till Othello rode into town. Takes a black man to show
some people a thing or two.
Well Othello, he wasn't going to run nowhere when Iago warn him the girl's
father looking for him. Cause running aint his style. "My title, my parts and
my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly." I say, go for it, nigger! Let them
show you respect. You got just as much right to a white woman as any man,
specially since there aint no black women around. I mean, what's a nigger to
do in Venice with no Moorish women around? Jerk off in the bathroom?
Now as for Desdemona, she knew what she wanted from the start. "She loved
me for the dangers I had passed." She fall in love with a dangerous man,
cause she tired of being cooped up in her father's castle, bored out of her
skull, cause aint no good white boys around. Then this Othello come riding
into town and it's like Wow! Where you been? He been all over the world,
fighting cannibals and and all those weird anthropophagi people. This here
was one crazy nigger! "She loved me for the dangers I had passed." Othello
got that right! Got all them white boys in Venice so spooked, they figure he
getting busy "twixt the sheets" with white chicks.
That Desdemona knew what she was doing. Only one way to get out of that
no-life castle her father kept her in. She had to cross the tracks, get on the
wild side. Went all the way to Cyprus with her man. Knew what she was doing
alright.
But check this, now Shakespear makes Othello say lines like "Rude am I of
speech", like he apologizing to the Venetian court cause he don't speak good
English. Aint nothing to apologize for. Let the man speak his own way. I'm
saying, some white folk got this thing about speaking proper, meaning their
roundabout chicken squeak way of saying things. Aint nothing rude about
being direct, saying what's on your mind. (I'm sure you understand what I'm
saying, Miss Weiner, even if I forget to indent and stuff. By the way the spell
check on this computer don't know some of my words!!!)
Then Shakespear make Othello fall down with epilepsy. Can't have a nigger
who's strong and dangerous in his play. No, something got to be wrong with
him. He talks "rude" English, he old and "declined into the vale of years", and
now he's got epilepsy. Make no sense. A dangerous nigger with epilepsy? How
come he a soldier, fighting all those Turks, and suffering from epilepsy? Falling
down in the middle of battle, shaking and frothing with epilepsy. Make no
sense.
(from "Ah Mikhail, O Fidel!", a novel by N.D.Williams, 2001)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 