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Where do you go from here?
Three nights Charleston, South Carolina.
I didn't mean that, in life.
In life? I'ma keep on living, having a good drink, got me a good young woman, make a couple of dollars and make people laugh. Haven't I always tol' you all nigga's are entertainers? The question is what are you gonna do, Peerless?
Let's get him over to the bed.
Baby, you treat me so good. Peerless, you're a good son, I love you. You never gave me no trouble.
I love you too, Daddy.
Always keep 'em laughing.
...exactly thirtytwo minutes ago.
I'm sorry I'm late.
Do you know how much information can be dispensed in one minute alone?
I didn't find out about this very important staff meeting until...
Four minutes ago.
So are you telling me everyone knew about this gettogether except you?
I wasn't told about this until Marie informed me as soon as I got off the elevator.
Do you know what C.P. Time is?
C.P. Time is Colored People's 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.
I'm sorry about my blowup but I have to have a whipping boy every meeting.
I understand. But again, in all honesty I was not informed.
Forget it. I believe you're my most creative person I've got on staff. You're hip. You know what's happening. I got some corny white boys and girls writing for me.
I understand Black culture. I grew up around black people all my life. If the truth be told I probably know "niggers" better than you, Monsieur Delacroix. Please don't get offended by my use of the quoteunquote N word. I got a black wife and three biracial children, so I feel I have a right to use that word. I don't gi...
I would prefer you not use that word in my presence.
NIGGER. NIGGER. NIGGER. NIGGER.
The material you've been creating is too white bread. White people with black faces. The Huxtable's, Cosby, revolutionary. But that's dead. We can't go down that road again.
I don't agree. The Negro middle class does exist, and it's rich material for a dramatic series or sitcom.
I'm telling you it's not.
The middle class black family moves into a white suburban enclave. The middle class black family moves into a small Southern town that is run by the KKK. The middle class single black father raises his teenage daughter. The middle class single black father raises his teenage daughter. The middle class single black moth...
...to white? I still feel all of my scripts would make good shows.
Delacroix, wake up, brother man. The reason why they didn't get picked up was because nobody and I mean NOBODY niggers and crackers alike wants to see that junk.
I've never been given a fair shot.
You got your head stuck up your ass with your Harvard education and your pretentious ways. Brother man, I'm blacker than you. I'm keepin' it real and you're frontin', trying to be white.
I'm an oreo, a sell out? Because I don't aspire to do HOMEBOYS FROM OUT OF SPACE, SECRET DIARY OF DESMOND PFEIFFER, A PJ's or some as you might put it, some "nigger" show? I'm a Tom? I'm whiter than white and you're blacker than black? Is that what you think?
That's exactly what I think. I want you to create something that people want to see. Let's be honest, the majority of the people in the country are deaf, dumb and blind and I'm including 35 million AfricanAmericans. You know and I know "niggers" set the trend, set the styles. This is a golden opportunity now. These idi...
I'm not sure if I can deliver what you want.
You will or you'll be back at BET so quick you'll never know what hit you. I need a midseason replacement and pronto. It will be on the fast track.
What is it you want from me? Some plantation follies? Some sitcom that takes place on a watermelon patch? Some show that follows four nigger generations of junkies and crackheads? You want me to go back to the ante bellum days?
Yes! Yes! Yes! I want a show that will make headlines, that will have millions and millions of households tuned in, glued to their televisions every week. I want advertisers dying to buy on this show. I'm gonna squeeze this show out of you if it kills you.
Delacroix, I'm glad you got your mind right.
It's right and tight. Good morning, let me introduce you to everybody. You know my assistant, Sloan.
We're all happy to be here and I'm going to paint a picture for you.
I'm wid it.
I've done a lot of soul searching and once again you are right. In my previous work it's been all surface, superficial. I have never really dug deep. Not anymore. As Mark Twain fully understood satire is the way. Race has always been a hot button in this country's history and it needs to be pushed harder. If we are eve...
Go on. Good so far.
I know you're familiar with minstrel shows. They came about at the turn of the 19th century. It was a variety show in which the talent was in blackface singing, dancing, telling jokes, doing skits. Dunwitty, I ask you when was the last time there was a good variety show on the air. Carol Burnett? HeeHaw?
Word!!!
So let's take this great form, this very American tradition of entertainment into the 21st century, into the new millennium.
The name of the show?
It is called: MANTAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM MINSTREL SHOW.
I'm lovin' it. You know how I know? Because I'm getting a boner, my Johnson is hard, no disrespect my sister.
I'm feelin' dis'!
It will take a lot of courage and backbone on the part of the CNS to get this on the air. In fact, I would understand fully if the subject matter is deemed too risque, too controversial.
Don't worry about that, that's my department. Now who do we cast? We need a star. Can Whoopi sing or dance?
I don't know if Whoopi is the way to go.
Are these our two stars, sitting here in front of my nose? Which one is Mantan again?
That's a great handle.
Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat. Two real coons. I know we're way out there but it's satire.
I want you take it there. All the way to the edge and back.
Every week we follow the trials and tribulations of two real coons Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat. The Dusky Duo.
What are there character traits?
Ignorant, dullwitted, lazy, and unlucky.
Exactly!
Mantan is an uneducated Negro who always by some stroke of unbelievable stupidity makes his best laid plans go haywire.
And Sleep 'n Eat is his comical sidekick?
Yep, you guessed it.
This could be bigger than "Amos and Andy."
Protest finally forced "Amos and Andy" off the air. Could stop us from ever getting on.
Let'em try. I will kill to make this happen.
Negroes would be in an uproar.
So what. We would just give the NAACP a donation that would be the end of that. No such thing as bad publicity. So what. Earlier you said singing and dancing.
Mantan right here is a gifted hoofer. He has educated feet.
Who are the other characters?
Do we have characters? How about Honeycutt, Snowflake, Rastus, Nigger, Jim, Sambo, Jungle Bunny, and how could we forget Aunt Jemima.
We gonna hit 'em wid da BOMB DICKEY on dis' one. What's the setting?
In the projects. Like Eddie Murphy's "The PJ's."
Ya first bad move. Projects been done. That's one of the problems now, everything, movies, TV, are set in the urban jungle, da hood. That's so tired. Mantan's Millennium Minstrel Show should be set on a plantation. In Alabama.
And every week these Alabama porch monkeys will make us cry, make us laugh, make us look at our own humanity. Make us feel good to be alive.
I don't know about that plantation angle.
What are you talkin' 'bout? It's the move. Stay wid me now. We're movin' fast. What does everybody else think about this?
That'swhatI'mtalkin''bout. That'swhatI'mtalkin''bout! He's off the hizhook!
We think so.
Sleep 'n Eat, what do you do?
I strongly feel that a Negro should direct this. This kind of satire is a high wire act in a gale storm. One misstep and we're doing "Amos and Andy." Only a Negro will have the sensitivity and cultural awareness to navigate this dangerous terrain.
To hire someone solely on their ethnicity, gender or religion is not right. It's unAmerican. I will hire someone who is most qualified for this particular job.
I was hoping to perhaps direct some episodes myself, if not the pilot soon after.
I want a hot, young white director. Maybe the kid, that pheenom who just did that hot new sexy Madonna video.
You're telling me some white boy is gonna direct this pilot?
I just want you to meet him. Keep an open mind.
Besides, what does he know about Negroes?
Probably nuthin', but that's why it's such a sexy way to go. Sometimes an outsider has a fresh new outlook, a different unique perspective. A black director, y'know what he's gonna do given the subject matter? With this kid, the possibilities are endless.
What are his qualifications besides being a white male and directing a hot new sexy freaky Madonna video?
If Spielburg can direct "The Color Purple" and "Amistad", our whiz kid can direct the Mantan pilot.
That's exactly my point. Has he even directed actors before in anything?
No!!! Just meet the guy. That's all I'm asking. Look, I'll even let you choose your own musical director. You can have that.
In the immortal words of Derrick Coleman, WHOOOPDEEDAMNDOO!!!
Derrick Coleman, he possessed all the talent in the world, coulda, shoulda, been a great ballplayer but alas D.C. didn't want it bad enough. Delacroix, do you want it? Bad enough to kill for it? Do you want it that much.
I'm gonna leave you two creative geniuses alone.
Dunwitty, don't leave.
I will not be held responsible for these revisions. These changes are not the way I want to go. This is an outrage. This is a sham. A violation!
Calm down, please.
I don't give a good goddamn about Finland, Norway, Sweden or wherever ya blond ass came from.