Race is a mold that demands the ossification of our individualism into conformity. The monolithic views of society create social expectations in which the marginalized body is expected to perform under. Those who exceed beyond the demands of normative society, are examples of the prevarication and failure of social constructs, and thus are targets of far more insidious and indiscreet forms of racism. 16th century Venice describes a society in which the black body is ontologically dead. Cities were built on the backs of slaves, the products of colonialism were the primary revenue of the State, and those of color existed on the outskirts of society. Othello is the anomaly of a thousand year system of subjugation, and the outlier who has eclipsed