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I N T R O D U C I N G
THE AUDUBON BALLROOM
ONE NIGHT ONLY
THE AUDUBONO ONO
ACT I SCENE VIII
12/5/2020
BRITTNEY: I’ve been helping your mom this whole time you weren’t here. So now that you’re here, if you want to dictate the way things are going…
THE BABY: I’m not.
BRITTNEY: Dictate them.
THE BABY: I’m not.
BRITTNEY: But you can’t control me…
THE BABY: I’m not.
BRITTNEY: You’re not going to control my mother (Patricia), and you’re not going to control Iman.
THE BABY: I’m not.
BRITTNEY: You’re going to have to deal with people and be productive, and accountable for what you stated, and for what people need to look at for the best interest of you.
THE BABY: You sound… you sound like you’re dictating right now, it sounds like you’re dictating right now. And I, and I am well.
BRITTNEY: Because I’m telling you that you’re lying, and you’re manipulating the conversation…
THE BABY: I’m not. Ok.
BRITTNEY: So it can look like you're helping your mother, but really you’re helping yourself.
THE BABY: [sighs] Ok.
BRITTNEY: You want to get back and do what you was doing. But that’s not realistic, and that’s what everyone’s trying to tell you.
THE BABY: Ok.
NARRATOR: Toxic. And clandestine. They keep on trying to scapegoat me, as if their looking at the best interest of me; while also defending their care and interest of my mom. The whole point was to get away from Brittney and the Jacksons since they were lying about things prior to the break up. Do you see Brittney’s outburst on my driveway? Here is how the conversation with her and her mom on their driveway ended just the day before.
12/4/2020
PATRICIA: Ya’ll going to make mom proud and get along.
THE BABY: Awesome. Looking forward to it. [laughs]
BRITTNEY: [laughs] He said looking forward to it.
PATRICIA: [intangible] Her (Iman's) little brother.
THE BABY: Awesome, awesome, alright. Great. Hopefully that’s all the stuff, if anything, if anything, if anything, I’ll just contact her (Iman) and stuff, hopefully everything’s good. How’s Abundant Harvest doing? Any special plans for this Sunday?
PATRICIA: No, Brittney takes over.
THE BABY: Nice.
PATRICIA: So, Brittney, uh, yeah, Brittney. I just go with the flow, I go with her flow, I, that’s it.
THE BABY: Nice.
PATRICIA: But uh, mhmmm. You, you’ve been doing an excellent job. I saw you changed things, and I’m proud of you. I, you know I can see you were doing positive things.
THE BABY: Nice.
PATRICIA: So, keep doing positive things, keep going in a positive direction.
THE BABY: Nice.
PATRICIA: Yeah, and uh, you’ll be back to yourself. Back to doing everything.
THE BABY: Great. Fantastic. Alright, well it’s a pleasure as always. Sweet.
BRITTNEY: [laughs]
THE BABY: Alright. [laughs]
PATRICIA: Alright, have a nice day.
THE BABY: You too.
NARRATOR: Polite, right? All in all, this is what they really wanted to do.
12/4/2020
PATRICIA: So this is just temporary. We’re going to get the car fixed, and we going to be watching you.
THE BABY: Ok, that’s great.
BRITTNEY: [laughs]
THE BABY: So, after the car is fixed, what is the plan for where the car goes?
PATRICIA: Well, we’ll see, we’ll watch you, before we hand them back.
THE BABY: That’s great, that’s great. So no, Trish, it’s all good for transparency, so what’s the plan?
BRITTNEY: It’s not in mommy’s hands, it’s in Iman’s hands.
PATRICIA: Well, well, it’s not really a plan yet. I mean, Iman, it’s, it, Iman said put it back here until we know you, you’re good to go.
THE BABY: So can you comment, was there a reason, now you’re not telling me information. Did I not communicate information to you or something like that, in the past, uh, since the whole year of 2020? Is there a reason why you’re keeping information from me?
PATRICIA: No, when I, when I talked to you, I was, I came out here to tell you everything, when I, when you came.
THE BABY: So why not tell me everything, then what’s Iman’s intention for this, for the car?
PATRICIA: For the car?
THE BABY: Yeah.
PATRICIA: Well, she was taken blow by blow, cause she, you wasn’t coming back.
THE BABY: Oh yeah, I know, sure she…
PATRICIA: So things were changing. She didn’t know what to do.
THE BABY: I kept in touch with people to make sure, to tell them I was coming back.
11/9/2020
NARRATOR: Please note how they did not mention anything about my mom when giving reasons for holding on to the car. No mention of her health concerns at all. Just trying to force a toxic dependency on Brittney, while using the legal influence of her dad. Patricia lied about not knowing if I was coming back; Brittney, Iman, and my mom knew I was coming back.
LOVE > VIOLENCE
"Come where love has no limits. Where we are valued beyond any violence or war. May we live, we live to love another day."
- J. Bey-El
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