Summary

At this point, stage directions clearly suggest interactions, or “tethering,” between the dialogue of the second set of characters and the actions of the first. Suze with Keisha; Jimbo with Jasmine; Mack with Beverly; and Bets with Dayton. Suze protests that none of the others really know what it is like to be black, and that the two black women they are watching (Jasmine and Beverly) are not behaving like actual black women. The others continue their celebration and commentary on the cool aspects of being black – how black people dress, do their hair, move – and suggest that Suze is too rigid to be black.

At the moment of Keisha’s soliloquy, Suze has a relatively lengthy speech about how being black is about more than dress and hair and dancing; that there is “this history of oppression and inequity” in everything...