Bamboozled Page #4

DELACROIX:

I've never been given a fair shot.

DUNWITTY:

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.

DELACROIX:

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 "n*gger"

show? I'm a Tom? I'm whiter than

white and you're blacker than black?

Is that what you think?

DUNWITTY:

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

African-Americans. You know and I

know "n*ggers" set the trend, set

the styles. This is a golden

opportunity now. These idiots have

to be led to the water.

DELACROIX:

I'm not sure if I can deliver what

you want.

DUNWITTY:

You will or you'll be back at BET

so quick you'll never know what hit

you. I need a mid-season

replacement and pronto. It will be

on the fast track.

12.

DELACROIX:

What is it you want from me? Some

plantation follies? Some sitcom

that takes place on a watermelon

patch? Some show that follows four

n*gger generations of junkies and

crackheads? You want me to go back

to the ante bellum days?

DUNWITTY:

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.

EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT

WE SEE a street lamp, and coming out of it are some wires.

WE FOLLOW the wires into a tenement building.

The residents have tapped into a street light courtesy of

CON EDISON for power.

INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT

Cheeba stands in front of the makeshift kitchen, which

includes a hot plate, and prepares a gourmet meal of a tasty

Spanish dish. The clean apartment is furnished with stuff

people have thrown out that they picked up on the street.

MANRAY:

I'm starvin' like Marvin.

CHEEBA:

My world famous, famous world Arroz

con pollo will be ready very soon.

MANRAY:

Hurry up, I wanna watch HBO.

CHEEBA:

Did we get our bill yet?

They both laugh.

MANRAY:

I guess that will come with the

rent, gas, and Con Ed bills, too.

13.

CHEEBA:

Ahh, the luxuries of life.

MANRAY:

Yo, check it. This is good and all

that but one day soon I want to

have much Benjamins so I can have a

nice crib and pay all my bills.

You hear me.

CHEEBA:

Chill, I'm the brains behind this

outfit.

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