They say things in young men's ears like, "I want you to run to the bell and kick it straight to his gut." If you don't catch it, I'll get you. I don’t like the way he looks” (229). The men are repeatedly called "niggers" rather than by their real names. They turn against their own. The unnamed character arrives at the end of the battle royale. He keeps trying to negotiate with his opponent to let him win and he will pay. But the man had in mind that he was not fighting for the guest of the evening but for himself. This is so wrong. He wouldn't have even been there if he hadn't been forced to attend and perform. Nothing could represent black ignorance more than the thought process of these two men. The anonymous black citizen just wants to look good in front of the men who put him in the ring and his opponent truly believes he is in control of what happens. It is disconcerting that this anonymous black man still wholeheartedly wants to give his speech. He wants to be accepted by them. Samuels writes in his article "He would rather parrot words to a group of people who don't care about him and who really don't care about anything he has to do than fight the war his great -father led. spoke. The white supremacist has control of his own mind, the minds of other fighters, and the minds of African Americans as a people.