White Man's Burden

Reality Just Switched Sides

A provocative racial inversion allegory that uses dystopian role-reversal to interrogate systemic injustice, institutional violence, and the desperation of the dispossessed.

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.