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Jimbo. The white actor who played Mack appears as Erika. A second, jazzier version of the grandmother appears, played by the same white actress who played Bets. While all of the white actors enter the play as Black characters, Keisha becomes more and more uncomfortable as white people are trying to fit into Black misfortune. The play ends with Keisha breaking the fourth wall and speaking to the audience about how Black people need to tell their own stories and how white people need to participate as listeners.
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woman, questions the concept of race. Suze, who was raised by a Black woman, says that she would choose to be
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