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Joe Columbo.

I've been hearing so much about folks saying you shit.

If you ruined the business with me,

you'd be on and off.

You killed the maid man and then you in the war.

The time's up.

Fuck this guy.

He's gotta go.

You think you got bump me in your pocket,

huh?

Check again.

They play on you.

All right,

I'm gonna let you live on one condition.

I need to know everything that's happening on the streets of Harlem.

Elise,

right?

Yeah.

I joined the Panthers.

You lost your goddamn mind.

The Panthers are the only ones helping the community right now.

What do you have against them?

Listen,

I just don't want to see you arrested.

I can take care.

Malcolm's killers will pay.

If you do that,

you're gonna have to answer to Bumpy Johnson.

Turn him loose.

I am thrilled.

To be considered for the New York Fine Arts Board,

I think bringing the real Harlem to the museum is exactly what we need.

Thank you all for coming

to the groundbreaking for Club St.

Clair.

arrangements with the necessary parties that my men

will be able to work on this site.

I'm a union boss and we don't got no arrangement.

Only Negro workers.

You're living in fantasy land,

brother.

Some fantasies are worth fighting for.

Fucking Sally Beach and Joe Figa light this week.

Yeah,

I'll talk to him.

Yeah,

tell him it better not fucking happen again.

What do you want?

Frank Lucas is here to see you.

Frank.

Settlement

Hey,

look who it is.

Wow,

when Genovese dugi fell off a truck.

No I ain't that lucky.

Well,

you just missed my smiling face.

Not quite.

Look man,

I'm wondering if you got some work for me.

Work.

I want this to look like a fucking employment office to you?

No

It's my old lady.

I

She likes certain things,

man.

Certain things cost money.

All right.

Yeah,

I understand.

What's your name?

You got some work for me.

Have them collect from Sally and Joe.

No,

you know what?

I got something better,

something more in your lane I could use a ham with.

Hey,

what's that?

Bumpy Johnson broke ground on his side uptown in Harlem.

Somehow

he found a concrete company,

not under my influence.

I need you to go talk to the owner.

The guy's name is Earl.

Tell Earl

that he owes me a g a week for as long as he pours for Bumpy.

And if you don't pay,

Well then you don't get paid.

Let's make sure we pay him.

That's the idea,

Frank.

Your name Big E.

I am,

boy.

Who's you?

My name's Frank.

I work with Mr.

Joe Colombo.

Oh.

You mean you work for him?

What you want,

man?

It's been a long day.

I'm ready to get on to my old lady.

I'm guessing you know how this works.

And if Joe only want one G from you,

we.

Now you're gonna be sending me down here to get it from me now.

I'm being shaken down by my own kind.

Fuck this world coming to?

Like you're paying a lot less than a lot of other motherfuckers,

now.

Listen to me,

boy.

I ain't ever paid shakedown.

No what?

I'm sure you're gonna tell me.

Cause when you were swimming around in your daddy's balls,

I was putting bullets and Nazi heads.

Yeah,

protecting this country so shit bags like you can see the light of day.

Now,

you go tell your boss,

I

want a g a week from him.

For saving his spaghetti shitting ass from eating

schnitzel for the rest of his life.

How much you got on you?

Alright,

look,

whatever you got,

man,

it could be a down payment.

Yeah,

fuck off my goddamn.

I'll tell you if I see you around here again.

I said you here.

The fuck you.

Put your fucking hands on me.

Oh.

Fuck

Oh,

goddamn it.

Open up my window open up again.

All in the swear to God.

Go,

I swear to God things ain't gonna change.

I keep a revolver with your name.

I keep a revolver with your name just in case.

lay on my back watching the ceiling.

I had a dream to touch a kilograms.

Still at odds with the Irish mob,

Rolls Royce down Malcolm X Boulevard.

You got the 40 on me and the stand on me.

Snow White,

you mean like I'm Dutch Schultz.

Run the books and let me show you how the numbers look.

You can't be lucky like you Luciano.

The

boy got the big body.

Coach to a shoot.

Open up

Open up my window again.

A.

I swear to God things ain't gonna change.

I swear to God things ain't gonna.

a.

just in case.

will be over.

You think Bumpy gonna make it happen,

huh?

What about to break free they put something in front of him.

You know Bumpy not to do what Bumpy said he gonna do?

No,

no,

I ain't never heard Bumpy say something.

Then that something don't happen.

No.

It's a beautiful fucking sight.

Look around you.

Got nothing but brothers up in here.

doing the demo.

Brother's digging ditches.

Brother's pouring the cement.

Yeah,

yeah,

from Brother Earl and Trent.

the only motherfucking Negro in the tri-state area with a cement.

I got to give you that one,

man.

Earl is one tough,

hard headed brother,

almost as hardheaded as you.

What's that supposed to mean?

being hardheaded was a sport,

you

had a trophy case.

What they got a fucking problem.

What is it?

Come on,

follow me.

move,

move,

move,

what's going on.

No way.

He's so.

The good work.

Hey,

let me ask you something.

You really put the guy inside the mix.

Can't say that too much.

Remember?

Oh,

this kid catches on quick.

Yeah,

he's a keeper.

Who the fuck do you think you are?

I tell you when it's time to leave.

As I was saying,

I could always use a kid catch on quick.

He said,

you want to come on board with me more permanent?

Got a lot of stuff and he managed uptown.

With all due respect,

Mr.

Columbo.

I ain't come off from Goldsboro to

be nobody's house,

***.

You see,

I come out here to make it on my own.

Nobody makes it on their own.

Everybody needs friends.

Sooner or later you'll find that out.

Probably sooner as stubborn as you are.

But hey,

hey,

I ain't gonna force you to work for me.

This is America after all.

You're the land of opportunity.

I offer you an opportunity to them to take it,

none of my business.

Well,

I appreciate you understanding,

Mr.

Columbo.

I got any day work.

You know the family.

Good luck out there on your own.

As long as our interests don't conflict.

But if they do,

yeah.

I know where to find you.

Now you go.

Oh,

look at this.

I joined the Black Panther Party.

What do you think?

I like it.

Brings out your natural strength and confidence.

I've been trying to see you for a while.

All they say is you were in the infirmary.

Well,

apparently they like to keep an eye on a gut wound

in case it turns septic,

a gut wound.

My daddy swore it.

Daddy wasn't behind it.

In fact,

what I understand

is the reason I'm alive.

So they finally gonna move you someplace with special housing.

It don't matter.

Word's out now.

Bumpy Johnson's behind me makes me the safest man in this joint.

Thank God.

I can't lose you too.

Elise,

I don't want you to come see me anymore.

What,

I respect the fact you joined the Black Panther Party.

It's time to move on with your life.

You're part of my life.

I'm a part of this now,

and you ain't.

I'm not gonna abandon you.

You know what it's like to see you in here.

To see what I know I'll never have.

Thank you.

For everything

Don't come back.

They killed Earl,

stuck him in a cement mixer.

Do

You had a family.

Kids

What you do for him?

But you won't.

He reached out to his wife.

Not yet.

Was she living in Jersey?

Yeah,

East Orange.

I want you two to drive out there tomorrow and give a 10 grand.

I said there's anything she needs,

OK.

So

Who killed him?

Chen's out of town,

so I'm guessing Joe Columbo.

Me too.

The question is what are we gonna do about it.

The other question is where are we getting concrete now?

You got any thoughts about that?

Remember Jackie Henderson?

Used to manage fighters out of Gleason's for a while,

so they took his license for that nasty Benny Parrot business.

Oh yeah,

well,

he bought into a batching plant in Flusher.

That's her next move.

What

these guineas.

You keep cutting them out,

they're gonna keep cutting us up.

You want me to make a deal with them after all we've been through?

Where in the world,

bump.

White man got his fingers in every pie,

no matter what it is.

How are we gonna change that?

No one ever has.

Reach out to Jackie and flush you and see if he wants to make a deal.

Where you gonna be?

Telling Columbo that if he keeps fucking with our concrete,

then I'm gonna fit him for a pair of concrete shoes.

I'm afraid I wasn't in my best last time we met.

You mean when I gave you your life?

Good to see you again.

You want to tell me why you called me here?

You expect me to guess.

Watch your fucking tone.

You understand that Joe Colombo had you wax and pulls up from

Philly and stick him in one of his own concrete trucks.

Oh

Can't say I know nothing about that.

But if you did,

But if I did,

I left you breathing so that you could keep me one step ahead.

How come we got to hear about this all secondhand?

I told you we should have grease this fucking clown,

and we will grease his fucking clown if he ever tries this shit again.

You know,

you think you can play both sides against the middle.

That's just gonna get you a shallow grave on the eastern Parkway,

you hear me?

I'm listening.

So Columbo's trying to muscle in on Bumpy's construction project.

The thing about Joe Colombo,

I don't think he owe me any explanations.

Just hired me for a job,

but you're still in tight with him.

As far as it goes,

what the fuck does that mean?

It means there's a limit to how much Joel trust a black man.

Makes sense.

Won't trust a *** anymore.

He with a woman.

Because women are soft.

Guess you're right.

Cause if we ever hear about Columbo secondhand again,

Pino's going to want to cut off your balls,

stuff them in your mouth.

Me?

I'll just have you killed fast and easy.

I warned you about Campanella leaking your union books.

And this is how you repainted.

Get the fuck out of here.

You and that cocksuckerching got me 13 months in Greenhaven.

Seems to me I'm still the one ought to be getting paid.

The guy you killed

is a citizen,

Earl Bradley,

you know,

a working man.

You don't want to play a tackle.

Keep him off the fucking field.

What's good they do

to get you out of my way so that I can get this thing built?

I told you.

I want a piece.

And I'm telling you

that this will be.

If it ain't me,

it's gonna be somebody else.

Project this big Bakers

in Harlem,

nobody goes it alone.

I said I'd stay out of the uptown doozy business.

This is what I expect in return.

What you expect.

That's right.

Yeah,

look,

I

I've always respected you,

bumpy.

OK,

we've had

our differences.

But I respect the way you carry yourself.

And I respect the way you always make money,

but I cannot.

It's you not wanting to share.

Let me be clear,

Joe.

So that there's no mistakes.

If you don't want trouble,

stay away from me.

Stay away from my people.

James Baldwin.

Agnes at Mama can't even get him to tour the museum,

and you have managed to get him to do a briefing.

I told you,

James is an old friend.

Well,

the board is simply over the moon.

The tea it's called chamomile.

I'm aware.

Do you know what he plans to read?

He hasn't told me yet,

but we're having coffee to discuss it.

It should be something

more visceral,

something that captures the raw essence of the Harlem ghetto.

Shocking.

But hopeful

I'll be sure to tell him.

This is

delicious.

Chamomile.

Hey Daddy.

Hey there,

little one.

I wanted to thank you

for watching our phone,

of course.

figured out a way to bail out your panther friend.

We got her.

Should I ask where you raised the money?

Not if you don't want to know.

You got to stop running with these radicals,

at least.

They're gonna end up getting you killed.

I'd rather die fighting than wait for some trigger happy

cop to kill me cause I ain't kiss his ass,

right?

We pigs my head split open in the basement of the 27 long before you were ever born.

I know that.

That's why I thought you of all people would understand.

I do.

So you agree with the Panthers' mission,

but you don't want me to be a part of it cause I might get hurt.

Damn right.

Didn't you teach me the worst thing a person could be was a hypocrite.

You're my little girl.

I almost lost you before to the needle.

I couldn't take losing you again.

I love you,

Daddy.

But this fight

is bigger than us.

Look

If you're gonna keep hanging out with these militants,

you're not gonna be welcome at the house.

I can't have this around Margaret.

You have to make a decision

No,

I don't.

The community is listening.

Don't do that every morning.

Look,

we got to win.

There you go.

I was worried we

spooked you off.

What happened with the other life?

What happened is we got aen out.

Think there's room for me to crash here?

What?

Shit,

I don't see why not.

More the merrier.

It ain't what they say.

We talk about next steps.

I don't know what our objective is here.

No,

no,

listen,

listen,

listen.

No one's doubting the importance of the school programs.

I just said we got to do something that's going to make people notice.

They are noticing.

They are noticing.

As soon as we go on the offensive,

we are not only giving those pigs more reason to come down on us,

we alienate our white allies like the Village Voice,

fuck the Village Voice,

fuck them white liberal motherfuckers.

We are a self-defense collective,

not a paramilitary organization talking about a symbolic action.

We're not aiming to kill anyone.

Hey,

look here,

fella I know talking about some crackers trying to sell some explosives,

military grade.

Enough to turn the 27 precinct house into a symbolic parking lot.

Ain't nothing symbolic about explosives,

Siddique.

We barely had enough money to bail her out,

and now you're talking about buying explosives.

You hear yourself?

You said something about buying.

Oh,

robbing explosives,

guys,

we agreed to table this

until after the summit with Oakland,

and now I want to untable it.

Look.

What they did to you.

All I'm asking is what are we gonna do about it.

Don't make this about her.

I'm as angry about it as you are.

Bombing them though is only gonna give them an excuse to fuck us up.

They don't need an excuse.

They lock us up for nothing.

Put away innocent men for the rest of their lives.

Nobody ever has to answer for it.

What do you mean?

You're supporting this?

Violence is the pig's only language.

They need to know that we're for real.

I have learned that from a father,

hey.

Somebody got to say it.

Maybe I did.

Let's put it to a vote.

Tell Bumpy I'm sorry.

Bumpy don't want to hear sorry.

What's he want to hear that?

He wants to hear yes.

Hey,

what am I supposed to say?

I'm supposed to say you'll sell us concrete.

You think I heard about the last guy y'all talked to supply

you how he ended up in the back of his own mixer?

What do I say when Joe Colombo spots my trucks in Manhattan?

Afraid we're going to have to insist.

Oh man,

I've been doing business with Bumpy since I first started out in the

fight game and never once has he insisted I take an offer.

Desperate times,

I guess.

So now I got to choose who I'm more afraid of y'all or Joe Colombo.

understand the way to do business.

What if we paint the trucks,

swap out the plates?

Columbo can't tell they're yours,

but Joe Colombo's got long tentacles.

We could suss out Jackie's trucks to doing the job,

man.

Why you always got a shit on my ideas?

Because your ideas are shit.

What if we didn't need your truck if we just wanted the concrete?

would you sell it to us then?

What's good,

the concrete?

You can't get it where you need it.

Let us worry about that.

Well when you look as far as fish sticks.

Where are you headed?

I'm going to see Jimmy Baldwin.

Tell him Alice Bradshaw has some thoughts about

what he's reading at the gathering tomorrow.

I love that.

I hope you didn't wear that dress for Baldwin,

did you?

be an awful waste.

I noticed

At least packed your bags and left.

She can come back as soon as she's done with those radicals.

I can't have that stuff around Margaret.

Ellsworth

Margaret is already around all that stuff,

I mean,

in school,

in the newspapers,

on television.

Do you understand that by kicking Elise out

you're actually making her more exposed to danger?

And what's going to hurt Margaret more if Elise dies as a panther or lives here as one?

I don't want her to die anyway.

I know.

And I personally think the Panthers are going about things the wrong way,

but

Maybe Elise

would rather live for something

than die for nothing.

See you later,

OK.

So,

uh,

what do you mean you never drove a truck before?

Now when the hell would I ever had to drive a cement truck?

It's just like a car,

except everything's slow and heavy.

Plus your blind spots are really blind.

Fuck it,

I'll figure it out.

None of which matters a lick until we get through this chain link.

We could climb over the razor wire,

ram through the fence on our way out.

Driving over a chain link and razor wire might snag one of the axles.

Besides,

I can't prepare.

Whoa,

whoa,

whoa,

whoa,

whoa,

hold the phone,

baby.

Something that captures the raw essence of the Harlem ghetto,

shocking but hopeful.

Those bitches got another thing coming.

James,

more coffee?

Yes,

thank you,

love.

Mmm.

You've had enough,

and you still owe me 20 from Rose's polka night.

Dear.

I need you to mind yourself.

Stay away from controversial topics just this once.

The New York Fine Arts Board is a very influential group of people,

ain't it the truth?

I imagine that's why you're trying so hard to get on it.

I am trying to get on it to help black artists,

present company very much included,

get the recognition they deserve.

You know how much talent in our community never gets seen or heard in wider circles?

No,

tell me about it.

You know those white bellies don't want change.

They just want to feel noble cause they rub elbows

with us pitiful negroes up here in the jungle.

Well,

this pitiful negress.

is begging you to err on the side of hopeful,

not shocking.

Let's not offend those white bellies.

Mamie Johnson

You are the bee's knees.

Where are you going,

girl?

Um

Not sure.

A man is.

Vote for a call of action.

And then bail before you come too.

You might call that chicken shit.

Look,

I respect what we're doing here,

you know I do.

But my daddy is right.

I go to prison.

It ain't just me that suffers.

My daughter,

I'm doing this for your daughter.

And for the children to come.

You were the one who said Bing's wrong.

Look

At least,

when I first joined the party,

I was flip flopping around

just like you.

It just takes some time to get used to the idea of revolution.

I'm just

Confused is all.

Oh,

Mom,

My kid,

my daddy,

it's all just a jumble in my head when your daughter.

was getting whooped by the school.

Who hurt your back?

Just keep the faith with us,

sis.

I got that.

How's it going?

We're making good time.

Odds are we finish by sundown.

That's good.

Junior ain't never drove a truck before today.

He ain't never drove a truck before.

Shit,

I'm a fast learner.

Don't worry about it.

He ain't gonna be driving into the city anyway.

How come?

Black driving in a cab,

lumbo makes them as soon as they cross the bridge.

But we gonna get to drive them.

That's my next stop.

Hey,

hey

Backing down don't always make you a coward.

Sometimes

it just makes you smart.

You really don't think I can beat these kiddies,

huh.

Since I was 22 years old,

I've seen you do things

I didn't think could be done.

So what's the problem there?

You get your dream though.

Vegas and Harlem.

People from the hood are gonna be staring up at Bumpy Johnson's empire,

touching the sky.

Thinking

What else could be possible?

Who's going to be thinking about what kind of piece Joe Colombo got?

No one's even gonna know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's pride.

You bet your ass it is.

We're putting a lot on the line for your pride.

He's going to come after you hard and you know it.

You went out.

Just say so,

just say so.

Not me.

I'm with you to the end.

Oh

Just saying.

You ain't got to jump off a cliff just to prove you ain't scared of heights.

You're asking us to go against Joe Colombo.

You are against Joe Colombo.

Last I checked you with the Genovese family,

right?

If we give you union drivers for the cement,

Colombo will find out.

It'll cause a war.

So we got to be careful.

What's in it for us.

I figure anything that's against Joe Colombo

is a win for you.

I don't know how many times I got to say this.

I got out of the dooy game.

Your old man,

he'd understand the value of that.

My old man who hates your fucking guts,

you think mentioning him helps your case?

He hates my guts,

but

he always ended up siding with me.

You know why?

Because he knew he could trust me.

I'd advise you to do the same.

You're giving us advice now.

Yeah,

why not?

All right,

look.

We'll give you the drivers because we make more

money with you as our friend than our enemy.

But if Columbo finds out we're both fucked.

We got to make sure that he don't.

Remember,

the more they believe you're really ready to kill him,

the less likely they are to make you prove it.

You're talking about robbing an armory.

We need explosives,

and we ain't got money to buy.

What choice we got.

Look y'all asking for trouble.

There'll be military police all over the place,

and we'll be ready for those motherfucking mean green MPs.

I scouted the place.

The Westgate only got one guard.

You got any idea how many tons of ordinance the army is sending to Vietnam every day?

We pluck one box and we're gone.

Nobody's the wiser.

Look,

all I'm saying is I hope it don't end up like the last time

with one of us in jail.

You got a better idea,

college boy,

a chemical company.

What we get the ingredients,

mix it up ourselves like a cake.

No,

they got dynamite there

for demolition projects,

stuff like that.

dynamite

at a chemical company.

Ain't really chemical.

They do extermination.

Yeah,

and how you know all his sister

because

He belongs to my father.

Sit the fuck down.

I don't know why you called me back.

I ain't talked to Joe Columbo since the last time we spoke.

You will.

He's gonna be sending you after some of my union drivers.

When?

Why?

When he finds out they've been delivering concrete to Bumpy Johnson.

I don't want our people hurt.

I might put you in a sweet spot.

Joe Colombo,

Bumpy Johnson going at it.

You get stabbed by his best friend.

Let us do the thinking,

smart guy.

Let me get this straight.

You want me to protect your drivers?

Hey,

give him a fucking prize,

Fury,

of course.

Where did all the bumpy concrete from?

Flushing.

I'll give you the address.

Fuck us around,

screw this up.

I'll be waiting.

You're gonna be waiting on me.

I don't know if that's the date you want.

Careful,

there you go.

Genevie's family

Ain't all broads.

He really say all that.

Yeah,

you want me to know how tough he is.

Like a school kid playing al cappone.

So then he really ain't all that tough.

Plenty to

But he ain't calling no shots.

Gigante's daughter,

she's running the show.

Get the fuck out.

Ain't no regular old woman.

That's chin,

flesh and blood.

the boss.

Gigante's daughter.

I don't know,

Frank,

you in bed with all these Italians,

you're playing with fire.

I ain't scared of no fire.

I see what I can do.

But this time,

This time I'm gonna do the burning.

I burn them all down.

We're going to see who left standing.

That

In.

and

I got something for you.

But we're gonna have to get a couple of things straight first.

What the fuck is this?

You coming here making demands?

I ain't got no demands for you.

I just want to make sure we clear where we stand.

Now that offer you gave me about looking after your interest uptown,

I gotta admit I probably said no a little too quick.

My grandma always said I ain't had great patients.

That I sit on the table.

Yeah,

I don't know,

Frank.

I usually reopen negotiations,

you know what I mean.

It ain't good business,

no.

I tell you what,

just out of curiosity,

what made you change your mind?

You're gonna want to know what I know.

But when I tell you

It ain't gonna be safe for me out here on my own.

It ain't gonna be safe for you on your own.

Jesus,

who does he not coming?

Say from Bumpy Johnson.

Genovese's family.

Stella Gigante

What about her?

She playing the hell at you.

Now she helping Bumpy Johnson back do you.

Look,

like I said,

When I tell you what I know.

I'm gonna need protection cause you're gonna know it came from me.

OK

Congrats,

you're on the payroll.

You work for me now.

Let's hear

I know where Bumper Johnson getting that concrete.

Almost ready.

For what?

The reading

Jimmy Baldwin,

the New York Fine Arts port.

Don't tell me you forgot.

I.

No,

What?

I said no,

not today.

I told you how important this was.

Alice Bradshaw wants to meet my husband,

and last I checked,

that's you.

Maybe I'm doing flushing at 4.

It's really important,

and what I'm doing isn't.

Can you just give up your damn business for one afternoon,

or am I as usual on the bottom of your priority list?

You know that what I'm trying to build is not just about me,

right?

And the New York fine arts board isn't just about me.

Ellsworth,

I am trying to crack open a door for those coming behind us.

And if that means I have to sit there grinning for some downtown ladies,

then so be it.

Now,

are you in or are you out?

OK.

Go.

Thank you.

What's Baldwin gonna read?

Something positive.

Excuse me,

folks.

Yeah,

go ahead.

You ready,

Bo?

Junior's out front with the car,

that's on his way with the rest of the guys.

I want you to go with Nat.

Leave Judy here to drive us.

You sure?

Yeah,

call me from the road when you got it all loaded.

Stella's drivers are on the move.

All right.

So

There you go.

I had issues with my day,

but I ain't never tried to rob.

This ain't about my father.

This is about the cause.

You think he's going to see it that way,

robbing dynamite from his business.

Deep down I think he supports what we stand for.

Well,

I'm looking forward to reading this thank you note.

Just hoping he don't sign it with no straight race.

I'm going to share something with you from my new book this evening.

This is a crowd with an authentic concern for

all of us authentic people of the authentic ghetto.

Figured I'd tell you what that ghetto's authentically about.

The jungle

shocking.

But hopeful.

What is this?

In the jungle?

You're eating or you're getting eaten.

In the jungle

Ain't no such thing as go along to get along.

In the jungle,

the black man has historically been forced into a position of sacrifice

for the sake of a society that continually marginalizes him.

In the jungle,

sacrifice is a perilous path.

Excuse me,

Ms.

Johnson,

were we supposed to pick up something for my father?

Nobody told me.

I'm telling you.

Need any help?

I brought him.

For precisely at the moment you develop a conscience,

you find yourself at war with society.

The power of the white world is imperiled whenever

a black man refuses to accept white society's definitions,

and the more a country is determined to remain white,

the more it will become hostile to everyone who is not

white.

In the jungle,

the sacrifices you make to fight for civil rights and

equality put you at the very threshold of death's door.

Perhaps the time has come for black people to

arm themselves against this tear before it's too late.

At war with society.

The victim

who is able to understand the situation of Victim Hood is no longer a victim.

They are a threat.

I have Louis show to pull the trucks in.

Where's Bumpy

at a book reading.

Get the fuck out of here,

man.

We'll check the consistency of the mix,

and then we'll be ready to load.

All right.

Oh shit.

Take

With which Negroes are treated in this country cannot be overstated,

no matter how unwilling white society is to hear it.

you.

We must take a stand against the brutalization

of the people as a fight for our survival

and our dignity regardless of the sacrifices it may take.

Ignorance

matched with power is the most dangerous enemy justice can have.

The time has come for black people to fight back.

In the jungle,

every day is about striking a

balance between self-preservation and self-sacrifice,

and surely,

surely the most dangerous creation of any civilization is

the man who has nothing left to lose.

I

In the jungle,

sacrifice is often the cornerstone of self-preservation,

which brings us to the central question

how much of yourself can you sacrifice before there's nothing left

to preserve?

I think your luck doesn't run out.

Which means in no uncertain terms,

the white man's heaven is the black man's hell.

Getty

Fuck

Shall we give it a test?

Are you ready?

If white America does not address the

systemic racism and oppression of black people.

There will be an inevitable uprising in the jungle,

a fire stroked with the kindling of hatred,

a conflagration

fed by the accumulated rage of frustration from centuries of oppression.

The fire outside,

do remember,

springs always from the fire inside.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Alex,

I am so sorry.

I wasn't expecting him to.

Wasn't it brilliant.

Brilliant.

I think it's the best thing he's written in ages.

Do you agree?

I do.

And the board,

did the rest of them like it?

Oh,

they were enchanted.

Mamie,

darling,

I'm almost certain

you're about to be a member of our board.

Dad,

what are you?

Alice,

this is Nat Pettigrew.

He's one of my husband's drivers.

Pleased to meet you.

Hey boss,

I need to talk to you.

Excuse me for a moment.

You got your mind growing up in here like that.

Look,

we have a serious problem.

What's wrong?

It's chance.