Approval
Delacroix pitches Dunwitty a show that he is sure will get him fired about black performers in black face. It's racist and demeaning to black people. Ironically, Dunwitty loves the show and it goes into production.
Satire
Delacroix has created the Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show in an effort to get fired, but once it is sent to production he carries on with it. He knows that it is racist, but ironically he defends the show as a satire when it becomes a hit.
Carrying
Manray tells Womack that he's tired of carrying him on the show and he wants him to walk out on him. Ironically, Womack has carried Manray for years while they lived on the streets, making sure he was able to survive. Now that success and fame are his, Manray quickly turns on his companion.
Fame
Manray has become famous because of his blackface act on Delacroix's show, and he loves the attention. Ironically, it has come at the expense of degrading black people on a show that sets the world back in time, instead of moving it forward.
Drive
Manray is infuriated that Sloan has slept with Delacroix and he believes it is the reason she was able to get as far as she did at the network. Ironically, he can't see beyond her act to know that though she slept with Delacroix, she is is in fact talented and driven and earned her way into her position because of these factors which he is overlooking.
