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Mike PedleySingularity
After delivering a raped black teenager’s mixed race baby in 1950s Louisiana, a black midwife risks her life to bring the father to justice.
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What good will come of her discovering the ID of the father? (I’m guessing he’s a prominent White)
Sad to say, it was SOP during the slavery period for White? men to rape Black women.? Either in singular deeds or serially by taking them as concubines.? Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence, fathered 5 children by his slave Sally Jennings.? You can’t conjure up a more prominent figure? or scandal-worthy situation than that.
Jefferson got away with it.? His relationship with her was never exposed in his lifetime (although there were rumors printed in the Northern opposition press).? And if his relationship had been exposed, he would have been embarrassed? — but not punished.? It was not a crime; rather it was a common practice not be talked about in polite company. Slaves were treated as property, not as people ; they had no right? to the “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”? Jefferson proclaimed in the Declaration.
With the change of time period, she wouldn?t be a slave in the 1950s.
Here?s a take:
?After delivering the baby of a raped teenager, a black midwive risks her life to bring the white rapist to justice in 1950s America.?
I think the fact the teenager is black is now inferred in this Logline.
Unfortunately for this kind of story to work in this era I think she?d need help from say a white lawyer. Probably not police. Especially if we are taking about the South. And then you run into the criticism that these stories become about white saviors. Read up on why many African Americans hated Greenbook. It still won best picture. But I think there is a growing mindfulness in Hollywood about this concern.
So if you can come up with a credible way to avoid a ?white savior? character then that?s fantastic. Like maybe set it in the North and find a black lawyer to help.