Bamboozled Page #20

1/16TH BLACK

Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I've

been held hostage. They made me

part of them against my own free

will. Don't shoot!

The cops quickly pounce on 1/16th Black.

1/16TH BLACK (CONT'D)

I'm WHITE. I'm WHITE! Look at me,

I'm white!

INT. DELACROIX'S OFFICE

Delacroix is on the floor when the doorknob turns. It's

Sloan and she has a gun in one hand and her inhaler in the

other. She's wheezing like mad.

SLOAN:

Get up and put that tape in.

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She points the gun at his head.

SLOAN (CONT'D)

Do what I say.

Delacroix takes the cassette tape off his desk and puts it

in the 3/4 inch desk.

SLOAN (CONT'D)

Don't make me have to use this.

DELACROIX:

I didn't think this was in your

studies at NYU.

Delacroix hits the PLAY button.

ON SCREEN:

IMAGES. HISTORY. VISUALS. Sloan has put together a tape

of the worst, most racist, stereotypical images from cinema

and TV over the last 100 years. With these images there's

also a laugh-track.

SLOAN:

Watch this. This is what you

contributed to. Because of you,

Manray is dead. Mu brother's dead.

It's all because of you.

Delacroix can't watch the monitor.

DELACROIX:

I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone

would get hurt. I'm sorry, please

give me that gun before you hurt

yourself. Give me the gun.

He reaches for it. BOOM! Sloan screams.

SLOAN:

I told you but you wouldn't listen.

You never listened to me.

DELACROIX:

Give me the gun.

She reluctantly hands it to him.

DELACROIX (CONT'D)

Go, get out of here. Go home.

Sloan runs out. Delacroix slumps to the floor, WIPES HER

FINGERPRINTS off the revolver.

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ON DELACROIX:

He looks at the monitor, the tape still playing.

DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)

As I bled to death, as my very

precious life oozed out of me all I

could think of was that I never

made my father proud. My mother

didn't count.

ON SCREEN:

We see STEP 'N FETCHIT, MANTAN MORELAND and WILLIE BEST.

DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Everything I did, no matter how

great or small, was always

extraordinary to her. With Daddy

it was a different ball game. He

never saw me. Pierre Delacroix.

ON DELACROIX:

A pool of blood has formed around his dying body.

DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Now it was time to buy the farm,

for me to meet my maker. Goodbye

cousins, and please tune in next

week for the Best of Mantan - The

New Millennium Minstrel Show.

ON SCREEN:

We see MANTAN in BLACKFACE doing his BUCKDANCE

CLOSE ON DELACROIX

He looks at Mantan.

DELACROIX (CONT'D)

For the love of Joseph and Mary,

what have I done? My God, what

have I done?!

Delacroix slumps over dead.

CUT TO:

135.

ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE OF MALCOLM X

MALCOLM X:

You've been had. You've been took.

You've been led astray. Run amok.

You've been bamboozled.

FADE TO BLACK.

THE END.

END CREDITS.

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