EXORCISM OF ALEJANDRO

Paloma
“Sir Alex…please don’t say those words to me.”
Juan Alejandro
“Alex, don’t call me Sir”
Paloma
“But…”
Juan Alejandro
“Shhh! (Putting a finger across her mouth, then holds her tightly and gives a lengthy kiss.) I love you and no one can change that (Breathing hard as he speaks.) (Takes her palm and puts it on his bare, tanned and well built chest) Feel that, that’s the feeling I get whenever I am with you, please don’t let my heart stop for being denied this love.
Paloma
“Please stop…people might see us.”
Juan Alejandro
“You can deny what people say, but you can’t deny what your heart has feels for me. Don’t you love me?
Paloma
“I do but…”
Juan Alejandro
(Cuts her short) Let’s run away my love …get married then come back once you are of legal age…
Paloma
“I’m scared; I don’t want my aunt to worry.”
Juan Alejandro
“Once we get there, we will send her a postcard (kisses her again as Santos-Alejandro’s step brother comes…)
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These words are the words that our women rarely, if ever get from their men. However, listening to them from a more charming man isn’t that bad.

These words are the reason why your shirt ‘got burnt’ while being ironed; why your favourite meal burnt as she prepared it for you; why she had to ‘cut’ the queue in front of you to get home on time; why she calls you unromantic; why she keeps suggesting you check into the gym to look like Alejandro; why the sudden interest in learning Espanola; why her profile picture on Facebook is neither hers nor yours;

Yes, I do admit that these soap operas are a little too addictive. They make you experience a love spell, a charm, an irresistible kind of love that you never witnessed. Even a one year old falls in love, why can’t you?
Its only in these soaps; and Afrosinema-o, that the poorest maid gets married to the richest entrepreneur of the region; a woman is bound between the love of two family members-a father and his son; the most wicked character is always a woman, who gets her way throughout the plot and only got caught at the end, where she is either sent to a mental asylum, jail, or killed; where all the female leading characters are timid, naïve and pretty girls; where the accent doesn’t matter, as a matter of fact, it is regarded to be sexy.

This obsession with Alejandro, is far too much, and unrealistic. I have never seen those men go after a black woman. It is even worse there because; each programme uses women as either servants or witchdoctors and wizards. The only place I have seen a black woman treated more like a human rather than an animal is in Shades of Sin. I therefore wonder why one has to be addicted to something that de-dignifies them.


SMART QUOTE: When a man is cheating, he says damn stuff, but a woman; smart stuff.

MJN