About a black Tv producer/Writer De la Pier[Damon Wayans]. Him and his assistant are only black people working within the company. They seem to be looked down on by the others there. Nobody ever says hello to him as he does to them.
Has a white boss. Boss claims to be 'blacker' than the producer. Grew up in brooklyn and has a black wife and two mixed race children. Believes he has the right to say 'Nigger' because of this. His office is filled with black sports men, most of which may be seen as his role models. Challenges producer to name one of the stars on the wall, No.24 but he can't. - This whole role may have been made in order to put across the point that there is more to being black than just having the skin colour. In contrast to this Spike Lee may have been trying to say that black is nothing but a colour and it does not define us, but the things about us that does.
ManTan and Sleep'n'Eat - Appear to represent those black people in the lower side of the economic demographic. They have no permanent home and have to sing and dance for their money outside of the office in which Pier works. ManTan tap dances, a trait that links to a previous stereotype of black people being dancers, often to entertain their white masters back in slavery. Within ManTan's first dance routine we see on the street, an aspect of shoe shining is included into it by Sleep'n'Eat, which relates to another previous stereotype of black people, due to a majority of shoe shiners being black, again mostly done for the white man.
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