Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

A young African American orphan is taken in by the proprietor of a Los Angeles brothel in the 1940s. As an adult, Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) works as a performer in the whorehouse, entertaining customers by performing in a sex show. One night, a pair of white LAPD officers come in to speak to Sweetback's boss, and there is pressure from the black community to bring in a suspect. The police ask permission to arrest Sweetback, blame him for the murder of a black man, and then release him a few days later for lack of evidence, in order to appease their