For the Love of Money by Omar Tyree

Author:Omar Tyree
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Philly Girl

Yeah, that’s me,

T-r-a-c-y,

and I USED to be

flyy,

but now I levitate

mentally.

You can’t get

into me.

What you get is

NOT

what you see.

Roll your eyes

and cook your lies

if you want,

but you’ll need ketchup

’cause I’ll be

GONE in the wind.

Now let me be blunt.

Are you my lifetime FOE,

or can you be my friend?

Because where I come from

WE

DON’T

FRONT!

Copyright © 1989 by Tracy Ellison

March 1997

The Seduction” was about a sister who invites a mysterious and sexy brother into her life because of her yearnings for a special kind of love. This guy wines her, dines her, loves her like a god, and disappears from the face of the earth. My theme was that deep down inside, a lot of women want to be controlled by an uncontrollable man. It’s almost as if we are looking for God in a man, but as we all know, God cannot be negotiated with, nor can these playboy men. So sure, we may talk about a sharing, caring, and equal relationship, but in our guts, if a man is not in control (like God), then he is not desirable to us.

I’m sorry for my betrayal, sisters, but I guess I wrote “The Seduction” in my state of depression with Victor, and of course, all of the males at Conditions of Mentality jumped up and down at the chance to produce it as my first full script for the show. However, they changed my original brown characters into your apple-pie white couple. At first I was teed off about it, but once I thought it over, I figured it was better to get my point across to America as a whole than to have my script stereotyped as just a black thing. As much as we may like to think that humans are humans, and we all go through the same kinds of things in life, white Americans like to throw covers over their minds whenever they see brown faces, because they are so damned used to seeing their own faces up on the silver screen. The more Hollywood continued to spoil them, the more they continued to ignore anything with brown faces in it, and that cause and effect became an unbreakable cycle. Nevertheless, I was happy as hell to see my first produced script, and be paid the big cheese for it.

Kendra called me up as soon as the show went off of the air. She had taped it, along with ten to twenty of my other friends and relatives that I had informed about my first script. I never told anyone where I got the inspiration to write it though.

“So how do you feel about it?” Kendra asked me. She wasn’t excited or anything, just curious. That told me that we had a long conversation on the way.

I said, “It was directed well. They got everything right.”

If Kendra wanted an argument over feminism, then I was going to let her start it. However, I admit that I did feel defensive about the script, especially after the show aired with my name on it.

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