Monologue Of Maurice Stanley

They found Maurice Stanley’s decomposing body at the factory grounds. He’d been lynched, the media concluded. He must have deserved it, they whispered under their breaths, or said much louder. After all, a people as wretched as his kind did deserve no better fate…. but did they, really? Was their existence really so cursed, so pathetic, that mercy should skip them? That justice itself should forsake them? Or rather, did they have the curse thrust upon them? Like a leash of heavy brass that would never yield, Maurice Stanley found himself afflicted with this curse, and it cost him his life. At the crime scene, all the press seemed to care about was his brown skin. That seemed to bring all the commotion they needed. But isn’t it strange that nobody seemed to notice that his blood was red?
As the funeral progressed, it was the somber drone of an organ that filled the air with melancholy, and it was the candles that wept with the same grief that Dolores Powell felt. Why did he have to die? God, my Lord, I am much older. I am ready. Why should you not have taken me instead? He was just a babe, she thought. My babe. And as the agonized mother …show more content…
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