Jackson Free Press

Other Brother Productions presents a Ghetto Science Team horror film. Election Day 2004, morning. Lil' Ray-Ray is up from a pleasant night's rest. After a thorough grooming session, our hero is ready to exercise the right to vote. On his way to vote, Lil' Ray-Ray stops by Grandma Pookie's for breakfast. She laments about the overwhelming cost of Medicare, prescription drugs, food, gas and energy.

A concerned Lil' Ray-Ray asks: "Aren't you makin' any money from your front yard 'Ghetto Wal-Mart' flea market?"

Grandma: "No, baby! Folk in this neighborhood are too poor and afraid to spend their money. I got neighbors askin' me if they can hold five dollars! Have mercy! I'm broke, busted and disgusted!"

Lil Ray-Ray: "OK, grandma, time to vote!"

Grandma: "Baby, it's on like a pot of neck-bones in a slow cooker. Let's go!"

On their way to vote, Grandma and Lil' Ray-Ray connect with Philmo Jones, an old family friend and a former black urban professional who lost his job, house and car to corporate outsourcing.

Philmo: "You guys don't have to say anything to me about voting. It's on like a light switch!"

9 a.m.: The threesome arrive at a voting poll and receive startling news from a pollster.

Pollster: "I'm very sorry, the polls are closed, the draft has been reinstated, and it's ... Fo' Mo' Years: Trick or Treat!"

Lil Ray-Ray awakens from his nightmare screaming.

Fo' Mo' Years: "Trick or Treat! If you don't vote, be very afraid!"

Ken Stiggers is a TV producer in Jackson.