ART class: Prepare a 5-page, double-spaced essay, to be turned in March 26.

· Pierre, an Ivy-League educated black writer at a major network.

· “CP time”: colored people time. The stereotype about time at which colored people arrive late and are ready to operate whether their

· The boss claims: he has a black wife and a kid, so he is biracial: “Therefore he can use the word “nigger”

· Boss criticizes the writer claiming his writings, are too black: seems like a white person with a black face.

· Cancelling Pierre Delacroix’s show after years of viewings due to it being too black.

· Bringing those in need, friends of Pierre, tap dancers to act in the show. They asked, like Manray and Mantan, to change their names from Eugene to Mantan for the show they plan to have them acted in. Why the change in name though? So in return, both asked for something in return, some new clothes. During the interview, they showed the interviewees eating fried chicken, which I thought was very stereotypical and racist.

· Womack/ Sleep’n Eat (Sloan’s sister): a songwriter who wants to revolt against the government.

· Thomas Dunwitty (boss): He tries too much to be black/colored. He tries to relate with them. Furthermore, his office is filled with images/posters of colored people, Mohammad Ali, basketball players, Mike Tyson, and others I don’t recognize.

· Pierre proposes a show on promoting racial healing: Mantan, The New Millennium Menstrual Show. Follow the lives of talented people, can sing. Setting: Thomas wants it on a plantation, Pierre wants it in the projects. Sloan, Mantan as well as Womack know that it would cause problems.

· Aim of the Mantan show is to destroy the old Mantan stereotypes presented in before. Black actors with blacker faces: offensive material, but social message (Sloan), brought up Denzel to take the part, but Pierre refused include a big star.

· Excuses on why they cant find black writers. White associates state that maybe experienced colored writers have not been found. Pierre replys with “Maybe they just can’t put their crack pipes down”.

· The talents the came ranged quite variously from a group of singers, to a single talent claiming he is an actor, as well as others. It seems that colored people were mostly portrayed as untalented.

· Thomas and another blond, white who seems like his assistant or secretary changed Pierre’s written storyline. When acted out, Mantan and Womack made a fool of themselves. Audience was shocked, but was entertained. Watermelon as stereotype is shown in their show. All the actors, the way they dressed, the way they acted, the stories they told, and the objects used in the show was very racist and stereotypical.

· Pierre’s father, Junebug, was a standup comedian, who when Pierre proposed working for Hollywood refused and said that he has integrity and principles in which he cannot do what those in Hollywood ask him to do.

· The show continued with Mantan and Womack starring the show, and was very successful, and was allowed to be shown to the public.

· Even the products were marketed differently, such as Viagra: doesn’t work on black people, but the “Bomb” would, and would get their freak on. TimmiHiillnigger = Tommy Hilfiger. Black masks were used for Halloween for trick or treating.

· Golfarm, a white PHD from Yale on African-American studies, and claims she has more knowledge than Pierre himself. Wants to promote the show further and alter the content a little, to more racist, showing black people getting hired, to show people that the treatment

· Sloan wants to move on… She see’s this movement as a step forward from the times on when black people were inferior, and more racism existed. Pierre counters the criticisms to his “art”. People calling Pierre and those starring in it are sellouts, traitors, a disgrace to the race. It seems that Thomas and other whites have sort of brainwashed the colored people involved, and started to accept what they’re doing: claiming that there is no such thing as black publicity.

· Pierre won an award for Mantan. Mantan and Womack later started tap-dancing schools. The tap-dancing became a hit. Mau Mau: seeing the he treated and talked to the students in the dance school, his attitude and personality changed after all of that. Mantan used to do anything to make someone out on the street laugh: tap-dance, make a fool of himself, whatever.

· Pierre calling Sloan as “help”. Now he is seeing others like the white people used to treat colored people. Sloan was fired by Pierre. Sloan showed her brother, and questioned him, and made him think of himself for a bit, who is the real puppe.

· Pierre’s mother was disappointed at him. Pierre reasoned that his show was a hit, and that this is good. Why can’t she proud of him.

· In the end, audience from all around the world attended a speech of who was supposed to be Ibrahim Lincoln.

· Mantan finally really who he really is, and who he as well as grandparents used to be. Did not want to take part in the show. Changed back name to Manray. Muray took part in the show (live) but this time it was his real self. Talking to the audience about the truth.

· The group that seemed more African-American stereotype of being rappers and hip-hop artists caught Manray and wanted to execute Muray live for his actions of being a traitor against the colored people and offending them in every way possible. The group first shot by his legs, just like cartoon introduction of the show, made him tap-dance, scared him to pieces, then shot and killed him live in front of the world or more like America.

· Thomas: 1 billion reward for whoever brings Manray.

· Sloan did justice by showing Pierre what he did, what he contributed to, and soon killed him.

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Definition of humor? More like satire 3/19/15 2:35 PM