Title: Fanfare for The Common Man
Featuring: Tabitha Kinsey
Date: 6/26/2023
Location: The Estate of Tabitha Kinsey
♫ Fanfare For The Common Man by Aaron Copeland ♫
There is a long, white picket fence over well-tended, beautiful green grass as the timpani drums and trumpets play that lead into footage of a galloping horse.
Tabitha Kinsey (in her WASPy accent in a voice-over):
It is called America The Beautiful. But it is not a question of what makes America beaitiful. It is a question of whom.
There is a portrait oil painting of The Mayflower landing on Plymouth Rock.
Tabitha Kinsey:
It is the men and women who took the risk to sail across an unknown ocean and settle upon a land with infinite potential that they would unleash!
There is now a similar painting of men in wigs singing the Constitution.
Tabitha Kinsey:
It is the men and women with a vision of governance, of how to create and develop institutions that would last the tests of time!
There is a sepia-toned photo of a mustachioed man in a top hat in front of a coal mine.
Tabitha Kinsey:
It is the men and women who found ways to extract this nation’s vast resources —
The same photo of the same mustachioed top hat wearing man now in an old timey factory.
Tabitha Kinsey:
It is the men and women who used those resources to build not just companies but entire industries —
The same man now in front of a bank vault.
Tabitha Kinsey:
It is the men and women who used their intellect and education to finance all of these operations —
A large American flag now takes up the entire screen.
Tabitha Kinsey:
That made our nation the greatest nation in the history of this earth. It is families with last names like —
A portrait of each appears.
Tabitha Kinsey:
Washington. Jefferson. Lincoln. Morgan. Rockefeller. Ford. And, of course…
An oil painting of Tabitha herself.
Tabitha Kinsey:
Kinsey.
The camera now shows two farmhands assisting Tabitha off of the horse from above as she casually wears riding throes in a tweed/plaid pattern.
Tabitha Kinsey:
Families such as ourselves for years were lauded for clearing a savage land, for framing a nation, for our ambition and entrepreneurship. There was a time when my ancestors could walk onto the floors of the mills they owned and be applauded by the men and women and children they employed, when men and women and children would take off their hats and salute when people of our ilk and station passed by, in recognition of what we accomplished. Of what we built!
Tabitha hands her riding helmet off to one of her hands and has her tsk-tsk face.
Tabitha Kinsey:
But today, people are taught that families like mine were colonists who exploited the natives, who established an unjust system for them to control, who gained at the expense of the poor, who polluted the earth.
She shakes her head in disdain.
Tabitha Kinsey:
And you venerate the names of vomitous drunks —
A video of The Saturday Night Specials pounding beers.
Tabitha Kinsey;
You celebrate the lifestyle of a marijuana addict —
The crowd exploding at the latest victory of Rezin.
Tabitha Kinsey:
And scream about the close-up desired by a common thieving trollop named Teri Melton!
Teri is mouthing the words of her catchphrase along with The Faithful.
The horse is being trotted off in the background.
Tabitha Kinsey:
Well, I say folly to all of that! Because you, the wretched refuse, may jeer me and my cohorts today. But one day, you will come to show respect and deference to us in appreciation for all we provided for you in the past, and all we provide you with today.
Tabitha then extends a warm, welcoming grin across her face.
Tabitha Kinsey:
But until you do... well, I will just continue to teach you this valuable lesson by destroying those who mislead you today!
We then see footage of Tabitha ripping out Teri Melton’s earlobe with the same warm, welcoming grin plastered across her face.
Tabitha Kinsey:
You’ll thank me for this later!