Damon Wayans stars as Harvard buppie Pierre Delacroix whose failing television network is in trouble if he can't come up with a viewer-enticing gimmick. A modern-day minstrel show in which black folk shuck and jive in blackface for a live TV audience. For Lee, the film and a character like Dunwitty show how easily fascination with black culture can be transformed via the media into exploitation.
Culture is for everybody.
I think that's a modern day minstrel show. Early on, Lee says, he absorbed the messages passed down to him from his Spelman-educated mother. Things started to change for me when I was very young, when my mother told me I cannot watch Tarzan films. This guy running around is not no king of no jungle. The Green Mile .