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Ms. Allen is the attorney for Arthur Golden, the man accused of defamation and being sued for $500,000 by Regina Wade. Both women are African-American. Ms. Wade’s attorney has presented race, racial privilege, and racism as a reason for Mr. Golden’s unproven accusation of theft against Ms. Wade. Ms. Allen presents another perspective on race, acknowledging that they can feel bitterness towards white people. More than that, Ms. Allen constructs a story of Ms. Wade’s bitterness against Mr. Golden
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ALLEN: Ms. Wade, I don’t like talking about race. It leads to too many disagreements and misunderstandings. Don’t like it coming up in trials because it has a way of making the jury take their eyes off the ball.
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WADE: I suppose so.
ALLEN: So here we are, you suing Mr. Golden for defamation. It strikes me that the only defaming going on here is the defamation of Mr. Golden.
For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Todd Logan, Defamation, Dramatic Publishing Company, 2018, pp. 51-53.
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