saw the hatred of us as a people. To see the depths to which America showed its hatred via radio, film, television, songs, Aunt Jamima, Uncle Ben. It's just amazing."

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Pierre Delacroix or Peerless Dotham's identity crisis I believe may have stemmed from him not wanting to be just another stereotypical nigger; that is not following in his father's footsteps. So he does everything to the far extreme of his father. Like the way he speaks using perfect diction and never using the word nigger. I believe Pierre was so afraid of becoming stereotyped and viewed as inferior that he became a "sell-out". He abandoned everything. He broke and became a shadow of a black man, acting white to make it in the TV business.

Other examples of stereotypical views of blacks are found in this movie. One is CP time. "CP time is colored people time, the stereotypical belief that Negroes are always late, that Negroes have no sense of time, time except when it comes to music or dance then you can set your watch to them," Delacroix says to Dunwitty his boss. Another example is in a writers meeting with all white writers and Delacroix. "Maybe they couldn't find any people with experience, or they wouldn't work for the pay or they refused to work on the show." With which Delacroix responds "Perhaps they couldn't put their crack pipes down long enough to apply." This scene is an obvious reference to the stereotypical belief that blacks are unemployed due to drug use.

In Bamboozled the character Womack or Sleep and Eat does not by into this slave mentality. He tells Manray/Mantan "I'm not drinking the kool-aid. Yeah, you know like Jim Jones. I'm not drinking the kool-aid....I'm out!" Womack is disgusted with the idea of doing the minstrel show in black face anymore. He feels "it's the same bull*censored* done over." After saying that he begins to talk in a southern slave voice saying "I coon for ya, anything jus' to make YOU laugh, yessa." Womack obviously feels like he is a slave to the show and the business but he had a strong enough sense of himself to walk away from this situation and the money, even though he would be going back to the street.

In opposition to Womack's strong sense of self is Pierre Delacroix who is obviously having an identity crisis throughout the movie. He is an educated black man trying to be white. The first indication of is problem is his exaggerated New England white accent, with which his father replies "Nigger where the *censored* did you get that accent?" Dunwitty his white boss tells him "You got your head stuck so far up your ass with your Harvard education and your bull*censored* pretentious buppy ways. Brotha man I'm blacker than you. I'm keepin' it real. I'm bout it, bout it. I got the roll. You're just frontin', tryin' to be white." It is even made more obvious that Pierre Delacroix is trying to be something that he is not when his parents enter the movie. His mother speaks in a slow s

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