Bamboozled Page #3
They both laugh.
DUNWITTY:
Let's sit down over there.
9.
Dunwitty and Delacroix sit on the sofa.
DUNWITTY (CONT'D)
I'm sorry about my blowup but I
have to have a whipping boy every
meeting.
DELACROIX:
I understand. But again, in all
honesty I was not informed.
DUNWITTY:
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.
Delacroix doesn't join him in his laughter because he
doesn't know how to take that comment or where Dunwitty is
headed with it.
DUNWITTY (CONT'D)
I understand Black culture. I grew
up around black people all my life.
If the truth be told I probably
know "n*ggers" better than you,
Monsieur Delacroix. Please don't
get offended by my use of the
quote-unquote N word. I got a
black wife and three bi-racial
children, so I feel I have a right
to use that word. I don't give a
damn what Spike says, Tarantino is
right. N*gger is just a word. If
Dirty Ole Bastard can use it every
other word so can I.
DELACROIX:
I would prefer you not use that
word in my presence.
DUNWITTY:
N*GGER. N*GGER. N*GGER. N*GGER.
Delacroix pounces on top of Dunwitty like a cat on a mouse
and gives him a quick BROOKLYN BEAT DOWN.
DELACROIX:
Say it again. C'mon, say it again.
CLOSE ON:
Dunwitty. He's a bloody pulp.
10.
CLOSE ON:
Delacroix.
He straightens his tie.
DELACROIX (CONT'D)
Who's a n*gger now?
POW. This is a fantasy in Delacroix's mind. We go BACK TO
REALITY. Everything's how we left it.
DUNWITTY:
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.
DELACROIX:
I don't agree. The Negro middle
class does exist, and it's rich
material for a dramatic series or
sitcom.
DUNWITTY:
I'm telling you it's not.
He goes to his desk, picks up Delacroix's scripts and starts
throwing them one by one against the window.
DUNWITTY (CONT'D)
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 mother raises her
teenage son. And so on and so
forth. It's too clean, too
antiseptic...
DELACROIX:
...to white? I still feel all of
my scripts would make good shows.
11.
DUNWITTY:
Delacroix, wake up, brother man.
The reason why they didn't get
picked up was because nobody - and
I mean NOBODY - n*ggers and crackers
alike wants to see that junk.
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