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BARBERSHOP

CHARACTERS

CALVIN PALMER

EDDIE

JIMMY JAMES

TERRI JONES

MAILMAN

RAYFORD (Hustler)

ISAAC (White Guy)

CUSTOMER #1 (Young Guy)

CUSTOMER #2 (Old Guy)


BARBERSHOP

(Commotion is loud inside the barbershop.)

CALVIN. The panthers! You got to give it up to them. You got to give it up to Martin Luther
King, Jessie Jackson, and you got to give it up to Rosa Parks. Period. Because they was deep
and they was on the front line in the 60s.

EDDIE. Who is rosa parks?

(Barbershop goes in an uproar.)

TERRI. (Mocking) Who’s rosa parks?

JIMMY. She’s only the founder of the modern civil rights movement.

EDDIE. Wha—what? Cus’ she sat her tail down on the bus?

CALVIN. Come on Eddie, you know who Rosa Parks is.

EDDIE. Man, she was tired. Then, whatcha’ do when you tired? You sit ya tail down. I sat down
on a bus and got thrown in jail. Ain’t hear from nobody in a whole week.

(By the DING of the door opening, RAYFORD fumbles in loud with laptops.)

RAYFORD. Laptops! Computers. // Chilly cream.

CALVIN. (to: RAYFORD) –Aye I dun told you two or three times // three or four times.

EDDIE. // No no no Calvin, no Calvin, no no no. You know what? He need to hear this. (to:
RAYFORD) You sit down, you need to hear this too. Sit down Rayford. Now...now I probably
wouldn’t say this in front of white folks—but in front of y’all—I want to speak my mind. Rosa
Parks ain’t do nothin’ but sit her black tail down.

(Barbershop goes in an uproar again, yelling eddies name.)

EDDIE. (to: ISAAC) Now—now hold on, hold on now Steinfeld. You might learn something
right now. Now I’m gone give her, her just due. I’m gone give her, her just due for what she did.
Her actions led to the movement and everything. But—but she ain’t special.
BARBERSHOP

No, it was a whole lot of black folks sat down on bus and they got thrown in jail and they did it
way fo’ Rosa did. (Barbershop starts to grumble loudly.) Only difference between them and her,
is that she a secretary at the NAACCP and she know Martin Luther King //

TERRI. Eddie, I ain’t even tryna hear this!

EDDIE. // a-a-and she got a lot of publicity!

CALVIN. To me, it sounds like you got a little hater-ism in your game.

EDDIE. Well Calvin, God knows this ain’t no hater-ation or no holler-ation in this dance-er-ie,
okay? What I’m sayin’ is that black people need to stop lyin’!

CUSTOMER #1. (Agreeing) Say Somethin’!

EDDIE. There are three things that black people need to tell the truth about.

TERRI. What? What!?

EDDIE. One, Rodney King should have got his tail beat for drivin’ drunk and being grown in a
Honda. (They all start agreeing and start to get loud.) Two, OJ did it! (Everybody goes off and
gets louder. You start to hear some people in the background saying “OJ did it!”) And three,
Rosa Parks ain’t do nothin but sit her black tail down. I said it! I said it! (Commotion goes off as
they overlap each other, telling Eddie to, “Sit down!”)

CUSTOMER #1. Aye imma back you up on that cus—see look—he was on the bus back in the
day and he on the bus now!

(Eddie gestures to agree with him, but then faulters. It goes silent on an awkward pause.)

JIMMY. Eddie not only is what you’re saying not true, it is wrong and disrespectful for you to
discuss Rosa Parks in that way. (The barbershop murmurs and response in agreeance.)

EDDIE. Wai-wai-wait, hold up. Is this a barbershop? Is this a barbershop? (They all start saying
“yes.”) Is this a barbershop? I mean, if we can’t talk straight in a barbershop then where can we
talk straight? We can’t talk straight nowhere else. And you know, this ain’t nothin but healthy
conversation.
BARBERSHOP

CUSTOMER #2. Why you gotta tear Rosa Parks down!?

EDDIE. Ain’t nobody exempt in the barbershop, you know that. Ain’t nobody exempt. You can
talk about whoever, and whatever, whenever you want to in the barbershop.

CUSTOMER #2: Why you gotta tear Rosa down like this Eddie!? You know you wrong! Keep
on walkin’—you wrong! You walkin’ by yourself this time fam. I ain’t whichu’ (“with you”)! I’ll
tell you one thing, you better not never let Jesse Jackson hear you talkin’ about that.

(Pause. Eddie looks at him sideways.)

EDDIE. Man—to hell with Jesse Jackson!

(The whole barbershop goes in an uproar)

MAILMAN. Man, I love this place!

(The uproar continues. Some people walk out, and some are still arguing. The voices fade out as
the lights dim.)

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