They say things in the ears of young people like, “I want you to run to the doorbell and give it straight into their belly. If you don't take him, I'll take you. I don't like the way he looks” (229). The men are repeatedly called “niggers” instead of their real names. They are turned against their own kind. The unnamed character arrives at the final battle royal. He keeps trying to bargain with his opponent to let him win and he would pay for it. But the man had in mind that he was not fighting for the host of the evening but for himself. This is so false. He wouldn't even have been there if he hadn't been forced to attend and perform. Nothing could represent black ignorance more than the thoughts of these two men. The nameless black citizen just wants to make a good impression in front of the men who put him in the ring and his opponent truly believes he is in control of what is going on. It is baffling that the unnamed black man still wholeheartedly wants to give his speech. He wants to be accepted by them. Samuels writes in his article "He would rather recite words like a parrot to a group of people who don't care about him and who don't give a damn what he has to do than fight the war that his grandfather talked about. The white supremacist has control over his mind, the minds of other fighters, and the minds of African Americans as a