Who is Jimbo in the play, Fairview?

Jimbo is the second of the four non-black characters whose conflict is the focus of the narrative throughout Act Two, and into Act Three. As was the case with Suze, and as is the case with the other Act Two characters, there is no explicit sense of the sort of person he is. He is, however, most likely white, given the metaphoric qualities of the long speech he has at the close of the act. In that speech, which follows a series of conversations in which his casual, almost unconscious racism becomes clear, he speaks of thinking of his life as a movie; of being aware that he is the villain in that movie; and of knowing that other people see him as the villain. The metaphor here seems to be that he knows, as a white man, that both blacks and anti-racist whites see him as embodying the racism in America, as the "villain" upon which both sides focus their activism and anger onto.