Get to a quiet spot, click the link and really listen ... https://youtube/watch?v=Dzyf8_oeKcI PABST: Oh, I like it all right. Its good. Its very good. But you know I cant print it. BENNY: Why not? PABST: Oh, come on, Benny. Your heros a Negro captain. The head of a space station, for Christs sake. BENNY: Whats wrong with that? PABST: People wont accept it. Its not believable. HERBERT: And men from Mars are? PABST: Stay out of this, Herb. Look, Benny, Im a magazine editor, I am not a crusader. I am not here to change the world, Im here to put out a magazine. Now, thats my job. That means I have to answer to the publisher, the national distributors, the wholesalers and none of them are going to want to put this story on the newsstand. For all we know, it could cause a race riot. HERBERT: Congratulations, Douglas. Thats the most imbecilic attempt to rationalise personal cowardice that Ive ever heard. KAY: Uh oh, hes angry now. PABST: Herbs been angry ever since Joseph Stalin died. HERBERT: Whats that supposed to mean? PABST: You know exactly what it means. HERBERT: You calling me a red? BENNY: Easy, easy. JULIUS: Calm down, dear boy. Were writers, not Vikings. HERBERT: Im not going to stand here and let some craven fascist call me a pinko and get away with it. ALBERT: Douglas, what did you think of, of my story? PABST: I loved it. You see, Alberts got the right idea. Hes not interested in Negroes or whites. He writes about robots. HERBERT: Thats because he is a robot. No offence, Albert. ALBERT: I like robots. Theyre very efficient. PABST: Here, write me a novella based on this picture. Ill print it in next months issue. You do a good job, you might even get the cover. BENNY: What about my story? PABST: The way I see it, you can either burn it or you can stick it in a drawer for fifty years or however long it takes the Human race to become colorblind. BENNY: I want people to read it now. PABST: Fine. You want me to print it? Make the captain white. BENNY: Thats not what I wrote. PABST: Its your call.
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