[©2011 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS ARE OVER THE AGE OF 18 WITH IDENTITIES DISGUISED; FOR AGES 21 OR ABOVE]
[A traveling animal sideshow in the south has a disturbing exhibit. It draws the attention of all who attend including an activist understandably concerned...]
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What a scene it was. Here was a traveling side-show, some would call a 'freak show', in the deep south. At the rail were six gorgeous 18 year old young women, who made up the senior cheer team for the state high school champions.
With them were their boyfriends, who were somewhat less wholesome looking. Four of them had serious tattoos, including full neck ones and others down to the wrist. They all fit the disparaging description of southerners which we need not repeat out of PC.
The master of ceremonies (MC), a white haired man about 60, was pulling open curtain after curtain. These animals were new to the observing little crowd, many of them marsupials from Australia, monkeys from South America, and a large monitor (though not a Komodo) from the Pacific islands.
All were interesting but not earthshaking. Then, the MC went up to the largest display. Pulling the curtains, there was a creature that looked all the world like, well, a black man. The card by the exhibit read, 'homo erectus, Nigeria'. Of course, homo erectus was long since extinct, but the little joke was lost on that crowd.
Anyway, were he a normal man, he'd be considered tall, at six foot three, and in incredible shape. Chiseled abs, broad shoulders, bulging biceps added to the mystery of that dangling thing down below. Whereas the dudes in the crowd just looked him over in shock, the girls eyes eventually locked on that dangling six inch thing. Then, the show really started...
The 'creature' made sounds like a gorilla, and then shook the bars as if he were trying to escape. Next, he pointed to one of the gorgeous blonde cheerleaders. He then put a huge paw-like hand upon the mysterious dangling thing and started to keyhole it. Faster and faster he went. Finally, as the girls' eyes stared in amazement, he turned and aimed that huge thing at Becky Jo (the cheerleader closest to the cage.)
With an inhuman grunt, his magnificent organ let loose a tremendous spend that arced thru the cage bars and splashed onto her face, covering her face, hair, and blouse with goo. Her friends all ran up to her, their blonde ponytails bouncing.
As they stood there, Becky Jo put out her tongue and took in some of the goo. That was all the encouragement they needed. All the others helped themselves, licking the goo off of her face.
Their boyfriends were not amused. Each of the lithe, nubile, young bedroom athletes (i.e. cheerleaders) were dragged away by their cr-cker boyfriends. Now, there was only one person left in the audience. A severe, dour, looking young woman, Eleanor was an attorney for the local civil rights group.
Eleanor: "This, this is an outrage. You have a black man in chains, caged up like the old days of slavery. Have you no shame? I will get a court order on you so fast your head will spin."
MC: "Look, I could stand here debating history with you and this road-show, but why don't you just come back and see for yourself about this creature?"
Eleanor: "Okay, Mr. Smart Ass. You don't think I will...that I'm afraid to explore because I'm just a woman, don't you? Well, I'm not afraid of anything, so bring it on!"
Sure enough, she was let into the 'employees only' area and led up to the cage. There was a huge padlock on the door, but she noticed it wasn't latched. The lock came right off. The MC went into the cage and then offered his hand for her. For all of her bravura, she wasn't that confident. Into the cage? With that animal? Oh well, the Lord hates a coward...
She got into the cage (the curtains were closed by the way.) The creature bounced up and down, gesturing wildly. The MC nodded and went up to Eleanor.
MC: "Miss, if you want to check on the creature and ensure that he is well-treated and NOT simply an abused black man, you will have to inspect him, no doubt. Well, there's a problem."
Eleanor: "Problem? What problem? I will do anything, anything, to help him. That's my chosen profession, to use my legal skills for those oppressed down here."
MC: "The thing is, he's from Africa and unused to modern appurtenances. For instance, those glasses have to come off (she removed them.) The shoes, too, since there are no shoes worn around his home area, of course. (She removed the expensive Italian shoes, revealing the prettiest little smooth feet with ruby colored perfect little toes.) And those buttons, are they ivory? No? Well, the plastic looks like ivory, so that blouse has to go, too."
Eleanor was getting suspicious, but she still wanted to learn about this creature, so off came the blouse. Underneath the conservative hair in a bun and frumpy blouse, she wore a conservative bra, a conservative bra: size 36D.
MC: "There, that's not so bad. Let me take these things out of the cage while you get to meet the creature. That is, unless you're afraid and need me to stay."
Eleanor: "I'm not afraid. Leave us alone."