Bamboozled: The Perception Of Blacks In The Entertainment Industry

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Spike Lee’s movie created a controversy about the entertainment industry and their tactics as they portrayal and perceive blacks in the entertainment industry. In Bamboozled we follow the life of Pierre Delacroix who is a Harvard graduate and now an executive at a television network. The network finds itself under pressure to produce a hit and Delacroix boss want shim to create something more edgy to capture the attention of the viewers. But what is thought to be crazy is that his boss is a white man who has a black wife and two biracial kids. And he feels as though he is blacker than Delacroix. Which is somewhat true because with his education, the way he speak, and the diction he uses does not portray him as the typical black male. There are a few scenes in the film that stuck …show more content…

He characterized African Americans based on plantations, watermelon patch Alabama porch monkeys. In the studio he stereotyped all rappers as those who all smoke and drink. Showing the interaction with everyone in the studio doing nothing but speaking on blacks and their difference between whites. He only showed the negative effects of rappers in the studio, showing nothing positive about what they are doing. Black faces with even Blacker faces would be a controversy among African Americans. When he decided to right this out he asked for the opinions of whites to tap into their feelings on blacks but they failed to realize he didn’t care to know their feelings. But what surprised me was the amount of people who showed up to be in the show. It just showed that there are many African Americans unemployed, needing work and doing whatever they could to find income or support. Niggers is a beautiful thang. I was trying to figure out was this supposed to promote blackness or make us look even

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