All language subtitles for the_parkers_s02e13_field_of_dreams

Good morning, everyone.

Hey, Bo!

Well, I hope you all decided on your
projects for the African American

Festival. So, T, what's your project
about?

Uh, well, I was going to show how
stepping with my frat brothers is

African dance.

I like that.

Yeah, me too.

I have an idea for my project.

Good. You.

Not good.

Well, here's another idea.

My great -uncle Willie played for the
Negro Baseball League.

I'd like to do my project about him.

I love baseball. That sounds great.

Great. Oh, he was awesome.

He was so fast, he could turn out the
lights and be in baby for the room

dark.

Poof.

Ms. Parker, I...

I believe that was Satchel Paige that
said that about Cool Papa Bell.

Please, he must have stolen that from my
uncle.

Oh, look.

It's late and later.

The stoplight didn't work, and the stop
sign was broken, too.

Did you know an African -American
invented the stoplight? Garrett Morgan.

Oh, Garrett Morgan. I love him on the
Jamie Foxx show.

Baby, it's Garrett Morris.

Ooh, where?

Kim, why don't you tell us what your
project's about?

Um, well, Stevie and I, we're doing ours
together.

Tell them, Stevie.

Um, yeah, we were thinking of doing our
project on, um, African -American

inventors.

Good eyes.

You know what would really make that
work?

You do it for us.

if you two would experience living
without African -American inventions for

week.

Okay, I'll give that a shot.

I can live with that. Can you live
without getting your hair done?

What are you talking about, Mama?

Well, Madam C .J. Walker invented the
hair relaxer.

So you're saying I can get my touch
-ups?

Baby, you can't get your hair permed,
pressed, or curled.

Oh, we need a new project.

How's your project coming? Oh, I've been
working real hard.

Any luck finding the correlation between
stepping and African dance?

Yeah, both involve feet.

Oh, feet, as in F?

Hey, Professor Ogilvy. Hey, Miss Parker.

Uh, Professor, remember you said you
love baseball?

Oh, yeah, I'm a huge fan. I try to make
it to as many games as I can.

Oh, me too.

Maybe sometime we can, uh, make a game
together.

make a baby together.

My God, woman. You even managed to ruin
America's favorite pastime.

You're my favorite pastime.

What's up with the bag lady look? Y 'all
pleasant again?

No, Einstein. We're living without the
use of African -American inventions,

remember? Oh, I tell you.

Where are the paper shoes?

Jan Ernst, Matt Fligger invented the
automatic shoemaking machine.

And, uh, Why the hats?

Bad hair day.

The hot comb was invented by Walter
Sanders.

And, uh, why the mismatched clothes?

They had to get dressed in the dark.

Now, I know a brother didn't invent
electricity.

No, but a sister forgot to pay the light
bill.

So, Nikki, how's your project going?

Great. Did you know one year my Uncle
Willie hit 75 home runs?

And he led the league in steals nine
years in a row.

Dang, Nikki, your uncle was off the
hook. I'm surprised no one's heard of

Me neither.

Even the Baseball Hall of Fame didn't
know who he was.

Wow, it sounds like he never got the
credit he deserved.

Oh, I know how he feels.

I went to Tarjay, and I couldn't get
credit either.

I'm just kidding.

I got credit.

Well, I say we do something for your
Uncle Willie.

I am.

I'm honoring him at the festival, and
I'm... to get his name on SMC's baseball

field. Who needs a petition?

$20 so I can have one of my boys spray
painted on by midnight.

Forget it, T. I don't want my uncle's
name tagged on the outfield wall.

You know, it's a good thing that your
relatives told you about your uncle.

Otherwise, you'd never have known he was
such a legend.

There's a lot we wouldn't have known if
it hadn't been passed down from one

generation to the next.

That's oral history, baby.

See, Mama, that's the reason why I'm
always on the phone.

I'm passing along history.

Oh.

Shelly and hair.

Really, we hadn't noticed.

Kim, did you go cloud -topping with our
gas bill money again?

No, Mama.

Alice H. Parker invented the heating
furnace, so we can use it.

I'm gonna let you two slide on this one,
because I'm not living like no Eskimo.

Now, Stevie, go turn on the heat.

No can do. Frederick McKinley Jones
invented the thermostat in 1960.

Ah! Well, in the year 2001, Nikki Parker
rediscovered the thermostat, and she's

turning it on.

Mama, how did your petition go today?

Better than I expected.

I even got the professor's signature.

Wow, you're really on a roll.

Yep, right up to the altar.

What are you talking about, Mama? Well,
see, the professor... I thought he was

signing a petition, but actually he was
signing a marriage license.

You're joking, right? Nope.

The joke's on him.

And tomorrow I'm going to put my
engagement ring on layaway.

if you write your phone number down,
too, I can contact you personally with

results.

See, this is a petition, not your little
black book.

Whatever. I'm not giving this to Nikki
so I get all my digits.

Guys, I'm getting snacks from the
Grubhub. It's on me.

Oh, wait, Kim.

Bertram F. Baker invented the automatic
cash register.

I know that.

Well, then you also know they'll be
using a register to ring you up.

Now, I have a new cutie on the register
that gives me my girl for free.

No ka -ching for me.

What'd you bring for school?

I just wanted to share a little family
history with y 'all. And score a few

brownie points with the professor.

Man, check out the names on this
baseball.

Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Satchel
Paige.

Man, you can get a lot of money for
this.

Please, T. Nobody wants an old ball.

Especially with all their writing on it.

I'm not selling this stuff.

Uncle Willie's things should be
treasured. He was a pioneer.

Yeah, and that's not all.

According to this newspaper article, he
wasn't just a baseball player.

He was also an ex -con.

My great -uncle Willie was an ex -con?

Yeah, I'm sorry, Nikki. It says right
here he was sentenced to 15 years in an

Alabama prison.

There must be some kind of mistake.

Oh, yeah, you're right. See, told you.
It was 17 years.

Let me see that.

I guess that part kind of got left out
of your family's oral history, huh?

But, you know, it's still all good.

Except here he trapped a drugstore and
robbed it. He went to prison for that?

he did that today, he'd have a shoe
contract.

Hey, everybody.

Oh, hey, hey, Professor Ogilvie. Hey,
Miss Walker.

What's in the box?

Oh, just some knickknacks, paddywhacks,
give a dog a bone.

Well, you have the whole campus talking
about your uncle.

You think they're talking now? Just
wait.

I gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about
the tribute.

And guess who's coming to speak?

Billy Scoots Washington.

Who?

Scoots Washington.

He knew your uncle.

What'd he start time for?

I mean, what'd he do?

He was on the same team with your uncle.
Isn't that great?

Yeah. Oh, happy day.

I contacted him, and he cannot wait to
come tell us all about your uncle.

Oh, then he must know that Uncle Willie
was an exceptional baseball player.

Ah, this is going to be the best
festival we ever had.

Miss Parker, you deserve a hug.

And T's going to give it to you.

African Americans also invented fitted
bed sheets, folding chairs, bark plugs,

ironing boards, cell phones.

Something a sister couldn't do without.

That and call ID.

Through our experience, we have
concluded that it's virtually impossible

one's life without using inventions by
African Americans.

And finally, one of the greatest
creations of all time by an African

is...

What you got?

Check this out, Professor.

That's it?

Yeah, what do you think?

I think you'll be taking this course for
the third time.

Professor, I was just giving you a
little taste. See, I don't have my frat

brothers to back me up.

but we're throwing down at that festival
with that real newbie in flavor. Sit

down.

All right, Ms. Parker.

Yes? You're next.

Oh, my project's not ready. I need more
time.

Uh, how much?

A year.

Try 17.

Ms. Parker, is there something you're
not telling me?

Yes, I'm not telling you about my
project.

Do you have any idea how much people
have done for you? The schools even

to name the field after your uncle.

Really? Yes!

And I have a plaque coming from the
Negro League Baseball Museum, and I have

scoots coming to present it to you. So
you better get it together before the

festival, because I do not plan on being
embarrassed in front of the entire

college. Do you understand me, Miss
Parker?

Oh, stop it, Professor.

Your anger is turning me on.

Great -uncle the jailbird.

Yeah, and the school went and named the
field after him.

How could this happen?

It might have had something to do with
that petition you started.

Who knew those things worked?

I say you just ride this one out. If
they don't ask, don't tell.

Girl, please, that dumb idea doesn't
even work for the military.

The right thing to do is to tell the
truth.

Well, I know you're not going to do
that.

You're right.

If I did, the professor would never
speak to me again.

He really don't want to speak to you
now.

Now, I'm going to make sure that Scoots
never gets here. How are you going to

pull that off?

With your help. You must have sucked up
too much of that alizé.

Come on. Now, I'll hook you up with that
little pizza boy you've been dreaming

about day and night.

Really? Yeah.

So then you can have a little tenderoni
with your pepperoni.

Scoots ain't going to make it.

There really is a correlation between
step and an African dance.

Mm -hmm, and they dance alike, too.

Oh, hey, how did it go? Did you find
Scoots? Yeah, picked him up at the

dropped him off at the DeVry Institute.

Why there?

It was the first campus I came to.

Miss Parker, it's showtime. You said
you'd pick up Scoots. Where is he? Well,

the person I sent to the airport
couldn't find him.

Guess you gotta start the tribute
without him.

He is the tribute.

Well, isn't this a pickle?

I guess I'll have to present the plaque
to you.

May I have your attention, please?

We're here to honor not only African
-American culture and history, but to

tribute to an amazing man, the great
Negro League baseball legend... Mr.

Alexander.

Now, we had hoped that Mr. Billy Scoots
Washington, a teammate of Mr. Alexander,

would be able to speak to us about him,
but unfortunately, he couldn't make it.

Nikki, there's that old guy I dropped
off at DeVry.

Thank you all for coming out. Drive home
safely. Good night.

Excuse me. Is this the tribute to Willie
Alexander?

No, it's not.

Who are you?

Scoots Washington.

Scoots Washington? Oh, thank goodness
you made it. I'm Professor Stanley

Ogilvie. Oh, I'm sorry I'm late. Some
lady dropped me off at DeVry Institute.

We would love for you to say a few words
about Mr. Alexander.

Sure. No, no.

He's too late, and it's over. Miss
Parker, stop, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big
round of applause for Mr. Billy Scoots

Washington.

Thank you. I'm really happy to be here
tonight to talk to you about Willie

Alexander.

I knew Willie a long time, and he was
the greatest baseball player I'd ever

seen. I mean, he could hit.

He could run, and man, could he steal.

Oh, and I was the room spinning.

Yeah, Willie was some kind of ball
player.

But more importantly, to many, he was a
hero.

So I'm real proud to present this plaque
from the Negro League Baseball Museum

to his great niece, Ms.

Nikki Parker.

Thank you, Mr. Washington. This is a
great honor.

But I can't accept it. It's not right.

What's going on, Ms. Parker?

Mr. Washington is being very kind.

And yes, my uncle was a great baseball
player.

But he was no hero.

He robbed a drugstore and was sentenced
to 15 years in prison.

17.

Excuse me, young lady, that's only part
of the story.

Oh, he robbed more than one drugstore?

No. You see, Willie went down to this
drugstore to get his sick wife some

medicine. But the owner didn't want to
sell it to him because he was a Negro.

Willie ripped up that store with his bat
until the owner gave him the medicine.

And then Willie paid him and left.

So the store owner lied?

Yeah. Well, he didn't rob that man.

And he served 17 years in prison for
ripping up that store.

So you have nothing to be ashamed of.

And neither did he.

Thank you, Mr. Watson.

Hey, don't I know you?

No speaker of English.

It sure did.

And Miss Parker, you've earned an egg.
And you've earned a kiss.

Pucker up, T.

These are some of the players from the
Negro Leagues.

For more than half a century, the best
African -American baseball players were

not allowed to play on the same field
with the white players, except in a few

all -star games.

This color line was officially
demolished in 1947 when Jackie Robinson

it to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers,
thus opening the gates to Negro League

players.

However, for many, it was too late.

They had already swung their last bat,
thrown their last pitch, and scored

their last run.

I like that.

I have an idea for my project.

You have to lie.

How's your project coming?

Oh, uh, I forgot my line.

Get together and...