Godfather of Harlem Season 4 Episode 3

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00:00Now, I need you to listen to me, Elise.

00:04You go out there and you keep doing the work that Malcolm was doing.

00:08I ain't gonna give up on justice.

00:10Not today, not ever.

00:11I told you I want in on your new venture.

00:13The whole thing, you owe me.

00:15If you keep this shit up, we will go to war.

00:18I don't want to see him destroy what's been a really good deal for our family.

00:2260 kilos of junk are gonna be distributed from us to the other families.

00:26I need your help.

00:28There's something you could do for me, Chin Gigante.

00:31Rob him blind.

00:37You let one guy rob my truck with you and two men in it?

00:40He came out of the blue.

00:42Weren't you supposed to get back to Bumpy?

00:44Gave him back soon.

00:45The rest was milk sugar.

00:46You fine gentleman can make a choice.

00:48Either I keep the narcotics and we go to war, or I give it back.

00:52Chin takes his ass out of Harlem.

00:53So what's it gonna be, fellas?

00:55I need you to report back to me every move that Pino takes.

00:59He's gonna be the new face of the family of Tom.

01:02You're the brains.

01:03Thank you for offering me protection to come back.

01:06I'm really glad you're back.

01:08I want my workers to live someplace clean, new.

01:12The new Harlem.

01:14I love it.

01:15Do you think you could get James Baldwin to write an exhibition text?

01:19All things are possible.

01:21I'm James Baldwin, an author of many best-selling books.

01:27But the question all of you here really should be asking, if you were to actually stop to consider it.

01:33How do you really and truly see me?

01:36I'm black, but am I a man?

01:41What am I to you?

01:43Three-fifths of a person as our founding fathers declared a Negro to be?

01:48That is the reality of being Negro in America.

01:52And what of Harlem?

01:55All of us are packed in a dirty, crowded ghetto, crawling with police, ready to arrest any of us at any moment for nothing more than being black.

02:05And who is to blame?

02:07You say the Negro man needs to work harder.

02:12But I say there's a white consortium owns our schools, hospitals, and housing projects.

02:18This is an American nightmare.

02:21The only black men to own anything in Harlem are the drug lords, who find a way to profit off the people's suffering.

02:32Drug lords.

02:33Speak of the devil.

02:34Look who's here.

02:35The infamous Bumpy Johnson, Mr. Harlem himself.

02:39And there you are.

02:41The silver-tongued Jimmy Baldwin.

02:43It's easy for you to get up on that stage and judge a man for trying to make things better in the streets.

02:49You think my life is easy?

02:51I survived those streets.

02:53To do what?

02:54Entertain white folks while jabbing at me?

02:58Black against black?

03:00You're putting on quite a show here.

03:03This is better than two circuit smokers, isn't it?

03:10Isn't it?

03:13You dragged me out of Jay's Baldwin for this?

03:28Bumpy.

03:29When it comes to New York real estate, one thing is for certain, larceny is legal.

03:34I don't think I like where this conversation is going.

03:36Yes, well, I don't want to have to take it here, but here we are.

03:39A man by the name of Marshall Grant bought your new Harlem buildings.

03:44I got contracts on those buildings.

03:46Yes, well, the city accepted a higher offer.

03:49The city has my deposit in escrow.

03:51This can't be legal.

03:52Well, they'll return your deposit.

03:55With poverty programs, excuse me, urban revitalization plans, every single millionaire in the tri-state area wants a piece.

04:06And they can wash money and get a tax break while they do it.

04:09Let me see that paper.

04:18I'm gonna roll up on this Marshall Grant.

04:20See what it's about.

04:21I don't want to stick in your craw, but I'd steer clear of any arm twisting.

04:28It's filler.

04:30It's even black.

04:31Well, according to the box he checked, he is.

04:33Right there.

04:34Right there.

04:35But you know, not all skin folk are ken folk.

04:37Open up my window again.

04:38Open up my window again.

04:39Open up my window again.

04:56Open up my window again.

04:59Open up my window again.

05:02I can end up calling my name.

05:05I can end up calling again.

05:07I swear to God things ain't gonna change.

05:10I swear to God things ain't gonna change.

05:13I keep a revolver with your name.

05:15I keep a revolver with your name.

05:18Just in case.

05:19Lay on my back watching the ceiling fan.

05:22I had a dream to touch a kilogram.

05:25Still at odds with the Irish mob.

05:27Rose race down Malcolm X Boulevard.

05:30Lord, these really out here praying on me.

05:33Got the 40 on me and they stand on me.

05:35Snow white mink like them Dutch shoes.

05:38Run the books and let me show you how the numbers look.

05:41You can't be lucky like you Luciana.

05:43The kilos coming like they do pianos.

05:46The fat boy got the big body.

05:49Coast to coast I can shoot product.

05:52Open up my window again.

05:55Open up my window again.

05:57I can end up calling my name.

06:00I can end up calling again.

06:03I swear to God things ain't gonna change.

06:05I swear to God things ain't gonna change.

06:08I keep a revolver with your name.

06:11I keep a revolver with your name.

06:13Just in case.

06:16What's wrong daddy?

06:19I was having some trouble moving this shit.

06:23What the junkies not buying?

06:24No they buying.

06:25Just got a bunch of motherfuckers looking for me.

06:26I don't know Frank.

06:27Maybe stealing that dope button a good idea.

06:28And can't you give it back to him?

06:29If I ain't had work.

06:30I'd give this shit back to him.

06:31If I ain't had work.

06:32I'd give this shit back to him.

06:33If I ain't had work.

06:35I'd give this shit back to him.

06:36I have a bullet in my head before they say thank you.

06:38Fuck.

06:39Fuck.

06:40Fuck.

06:41Fuck.

06:42Fuck.

06:44Fuck.

06:45Fuck.

06:47Who?

06:48Why didn't they do it?

06:50Well, you know what?

06:51They're buying?

06:52Why didn't they get it back to them?

06:53I know.

06:54Fuck.

06:55If I ain't had work.

06:56You know what?

06:57I've got to give this shit back to him.

06:58What kind of stuff is serious?

07:00I have a bullet in my head before they say thank you.

07:06Fuck.

07:16What about Bumpy Johnson?

07:18Then maybe he could help you.

07:21Bumpy don't want nothing to do with me.

07:24Easier to find an Italian.

07:26The Italians. They're always hating on us.

07:39I just gotta find one who don't.

07:46Where the fuck is Bumpy Johnson?

07:48Bumpy's a very busy man these days.

07:51It's real convenient, given what he's done with our junk.

07:55I don't follow.

07:57Well, he returned it.

07:59But when we tested the purity, which wasn't 90%,

08:01turns out it was cut with milk sugar.

08:04Your boss stole at least one third of our junk.

08:07Bumpy don't want your dope.

08:09Bumpy don't sell that shit no more.

08:11As a matter of fact, you wouldn't even have that doozy to sell

08:14if Bump didn't give Chen the connection all to himself.

08:20Fuck what he want to steal it for.

08:23Look, we know that Bumpy's a man of his word.

08:25But we can't sell product that's been whacked as shit.

08:28It makes us look bad.

08:31It's bad for our arrangement with Bumpy, too.

08:34Well, Bumpy knows the value of a good reputation.

08:39I tell you what.

08:41Let me talk to him.

08:43And we'll see what we can dig up.

08:46I'm acting boss.

08:47Not only digging, I need real fucking answers.

08:49Right fucking now.

08:51Acting boss?

08:53Have some breakfast on me.

09:00Look, I think it's best if we try and stay on good terms with Johnson.

09:09You know?

09:10No disrespects, darling.

09:12Your father put me in charge because he knows I know how to talk to the blacks.

09:16They're all trying to rip us the fuck off.

09:20The people in this court and the people in the legislature...

09:25Did you finish all your homework, Mark?

09:27I will.

09:29Discipline is just as important as aptitude.

09:33I hate school anyways.

09:35But you love to read.

09:37The pamphlet says that the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense calls on the American people in general

09:42to take careful note of the racist California legislature.

09:46Why do you believe the legislature is racist?

09:48Because you don't.

09:49You're part of it.

09:50And you're obviously the white system.

09:51This is obviously where we're at.

09:53The statement seems to indicate that these people feel that the black people have been enslaved throughout most of their lives.

10:00That the white society is responsible for this.

10:02And then they go on to say the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense believes that the time has come...

10:07Who are they?

10:08I saw a few of them around here.

10:11Betty knows them.

10:12Look like a bunch of California criminals, if you ask me.

10:15They look fine to me.

10:17Excuse me, young lady.

10:21I know my daughter didn't just say that.

10:23This is not wrong.

10:24They do look fine.

10:25Elise.

10:26Can you please?

10:27The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense calls upon the American people in general,

10:32and the black people in particular,

10:34to take full note of the racist California legislature,

10:37which is now considering legislation aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless

10:43at the very same time that racist police agencies throughout the country

10:47are intensifying the terror, brutality, murder, and repression of black people.

10:52Margaret, go finish your homework.

10:54I'm not a little kid anymore.

10:56But you're still my kid.

11:06Sitting around watching TV doesn't help a girl whose grades are faltering.

11:09And what are you teaching her?

11:11To turn the TV off on a strong black man who's trying to make a difference?

11:15Well, this can't be the right address.

11:30You're telling me the man who took your property lives in this dump?

11:34Boy.

11:45Oh.

11:46Stay down!

11:47Uh-uh-uh-uh-uhh.

11:48Don't you.

11:49Shut the fuck up, okay?

11:50Forgive me.

11:51I can't even speak to you about a group of buildings that seem to have purchased.

12:07I know you.

12:08He's clean.

12:10I've known you since you was a nappy-haired country bumpkin.

12:15I knew your sister before she died.

12:19You knew Mabel?

12:21I intended to marry Mabel.

12:25Mr. G?

12:28You Molly G?

12:30No.

12:32Marshall Gray. Help him up. Help him up.

12:35This way. Let's just go inside.

12:54You played sax over at the Apollo.

12:57I remember Mabel was sweet on you.

13:01When I played, my sister threw paces, I know.

13:05Mom would sit me up here to live with Mabel.

13:08I was pretty angry.

13:10Your sister tried.

13:12But was you just too hard-headed and rotten?

13:17She was a good woman. Big heart.

13:20I remember one day, she gave me a roll full of pennies.

13:23I was bowled over. I slipped those cords into my pocket.

13:26Felt like I was rich. Like I was Mr. Big Stuff.

13:30I remember that.

13:33She gave you those pennies on Saturday.

13:36And by Monday, you was in a fight.

13:39You broke a boy's face with a fistful of coins.

13:42Remember that part?

13:45You was a little thug even then.

13:48Mr. G, I'm not that boy anymore.

13:51You still a gangster, ain't you?

13:53That's what I want to talk to you about.

13:55About doing things differently.

13:57When you was 11 years in prison,

14:01your sister blamed herself

14:04for not setting you on the right path.

14:07That's what killed her.

14:10And Mabel may have blamed herself,

14:14but I blamed you.

14:17Petiru.

14:18Give me some money for the door.

14:24The true opiate plaguing America is its addiction to money.

14:33The haves and have-nots. That's the exact sort of thing Ellsworth is trying to fight.

14:37By building a bigger casino.

14:38A casino that will provide jobs. Not to mention he wants to build restaurants, a theater.

14:43Which will all allow Bumpy to rake in the money hand over fist.

14:46What is your problem with my husband and his money?

14:47It's just an observation, not an opinion.

14:49Ellsworth is a businessman. Everything he has, he's made from nothing.

14:52He cares for his family, he's charitable, not to mention he's reinvented himself, gotten out of the drug trade.

14:54I, for one, admire him.

14:55It's not a business man.

14:56Ed.

15:01I love him.

15:02But I love him.

15:04I love him.

15:05I love him.

15:06I love him.

15:07I love him.

15:09He's a good guy.

15:10I love him.

15:12You see?

15:13I love him.

15:14I love him.

15:15I love him.

15:16I love him.

15:17I love him.

15:18He's reinvented himself, gotten out of the drug trade.

15:20I, for one, admire him.

15:22Hm.

15:24He's a man of many facets.

15:26And contradictions.

15:33So, you're saying...

15:36his money isn't about the paper, it's about the power.

15:39Yes, exactly.

15:41But, all the while, our people are being abused by the cops

15:44and exploited by an economic caste system.

15:47Oh, you give voice to that in your writing.

15:49My husband does what he can in his way.

15:52But, Mrs. Johnson, is either enough?

16:07Mail from Marshal Grant?

16:09I'll take it.

16:12You had the wrong zip code, brother.

16:17Bingo.

16:18Yeah.

16:19Brought you some biscotti.

16:20I sure do love me a guinea cookie.

16:22It's the kind you like.

16:24But you didn't come here for that.

16:25What do you need?

16:26I know that face.

16:27It's just...

16:28My father was right.

16:29I know that face.

16:30It's just...

16:31My father was right.

16:32It's hard.

16:33It's hard.

16:34What's hard?

16:35Being a woman holding your weight in a man's world?

16:36More the family.

16:37It's hard.

16:38Being a woman holding your weight in a man's world?

16:39More the family.

16:40It's hard.

16:41It's hard.

16:42It's hard.

16:43I know that guy.

16:45It's hard.

16:50I know that guy.

16:51I know.

16:52It's hard.

16:53Oh, you're right.

16:54You're right.

16:55It's hard.

16:57It's hard.

16:59What's hard?

17:02Being a woman holding your weight in a man's world?

17:06Or the fact that your dope got stolen?

17:09Both.

17:11If Bumpy knows who stole your dope, he won't give the man up.

17:15That's not Bumpy.

17:17Then I'm fucked.

17:20Whatever happened to you going to Paris?

17:23Going to Paris was never really about Paris.

17:26It was about getting away from my family.

17:29It was about being free.

17:31I thought that by working for my dad, I could earn that freedom here.

17:35How's that going?

17:37I'm the smartest one of all my father's goombas.

17:40And he put fucking Pino in charge.

17:44I don't know anything about big Italian families, Stella, or mobsters and their dope.

17:50But if what you want is power, don't wait for some man to bestow that on you.

17:55You won't.

17:57Fight for it, steal it if you have to.

18:00Power is something you got to take.

18:07Same with this guinea cookie.

18:10If you won't tell me how to make them,

18:12I'm going to break right into your kitchen and snatch your recipe box.

18:17Thanks, Delia.

18:18I'll see you soon.

18:22I'll see you soon.

18:26I'll see you soon.

18:27If you really want to know

18:39I can stand your brand of love

18:42Try me

18:43Why don't you try me

18:45If you want to know

18:48I'm affected by the moon above

18:51But then you try me

18:52You Elise?

18:55If Amy Shakur

18:56Straub and partners

19:03That mean anything to you, Bo?

19:06Fred Straub

19:07The real estate tycoon

19:09That cat's one of the richest motherfuckers in the city

19:12That's him

19:13I have a feeling he's using Mr. G as a straw man

19:17Straw man?

19:19Straub's probably paying Marshall a few dollars

19:21To be his Harlem resident

19:23He's talking black man

19:24To get city tax breaks

19:26Fred Straub

19:28He's the real owner

19:30So that rich old face

19:32Trying to buy up Harlem

19:33Motherfucker

19:35He bought your building right out for Monday

19:37I was surprised to learn there were female panthers

19:41That's from your time in the NOI

19:43Where the women are covered from head to toe

19:46The males included

19:47I travel the world with Malcolm X

19:49He never once silenced me

19:51Never gave you the microphone either

19:54It wasn't about me

19:55It was about Malcolm's aspirations

19:58Now that he's gone

20:00We've lost our voice

20:01Our vision

20:02Our compass

20:03Our way

20:04And what brought you here to meet with me?

20:08I saw the panthers on TV

20:10And I

20:12Just felt pulled

20:15Your mission didn't die with Malcolm

20:20That's that white patriarchal bullshit

20:24They want us to believe

20:25Malcolm only stoked a fire

20:28That was already inside you

20:30It's inside the panthers too

20:33Now numbers in New York are still growing

20:37The real cavalry's up in California

20:39But we don't silence our women

20:42We put bullhorns in their hands

20:45Mr. Straub, Mr. Ellsworth Johnson is here

21:07Bumpy Johnson

21:10Fred Straub

21:12Care for whiskey?

21:16No thanks

21:16Is this the monstrosity you plan on building on my city blocks?

21:23It seems that this property was deeded to a Marshall Grant

21:28Yes

21:30Wonderful man

21:32A musician no less

21:33Yeah, but that's what made me wonder

21:35What's a retired musician have to do with a deed to demolish city blocks?

21:40He's probably a smart businessman like you

21:43Let's call it what it is

21:45You're using an old man to cheat a city funded program

21:49Harlem is in shambles

21:50We're gonna tear down and rebuild and stimulate economic growth

21:55I'm sure the mayor's office will agree

21:57That's good for the city

21:59That's my property

22:00Marshall Grant doesn't sign his back over to me

22:02I'm gonna sue you

22:04And your investors

22:05Straub and Partners retains the most powerful expensive team of attorneys on the east coast

22:12I can tie you up in legal paperwork for as long as you spent in Alcatraz

22:16But, uh

22:18Perhaps we can discuss terms

22:21If you're interested in becoming an investor

22:23Without due respect

22:28Go fuck yourself

22:30You fucking strums

22:38What did I say about drinking on the job, huh?

22:41This liquor's cheap as shit anyways

22:43What'd you find?

22:44Nothing

22:44Looked everywhere

22:46Checked all the Johnson spots like Pino said

22:48Wherever he's hiding our dope

22:50It's gonna take a team of bloodhounds to find it

22:52Forget Bumpy

22:54You didn't take our shit

22:55Go back to all our dope spots and check out who's doing

22:58You see anybody who ain't ours

23:00Yank him up and bring the dope with

23:01What the fuck you looking at?

23:06Do what she says

23:07The great explorer Christopher Columbus

23:24Brought civilization to the American Indians

23:27It's a tribe of people that hadn't even entered the Iron Age

23:30Write this down, class

23:35You will be tested

23:36According to Columbus' own testimony

23:39The Arawak

23:41That's one of the tribes

23:42They willingly gave us everything they owned

23:45They brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears

23:48And many other things

23:49Yes, Margaret

23:52In addition to being a great explorer

23:54Wasn't Columbus also responsible for a lot of murders?

23:59No, he was not

24:00But it says right here in the book

24:03Where?

24:04Where does it say that?

24:10You're right

24:10I apologize

24:12It wasn't murder

24:14Because he says here in one of his letters

24:16The Arawak people would make fine servants

24:20With 50 of my men

24:22We could subjugate them all

24:24And force them to do whatever we want

24:24Stop reading, stop

24:25You're disrupting my lesson

24:29To subjugate

24:30That means to oppress, correct?

24:31That's enough, Margaret

24:32Be quiet

24:33So Columbus never wanted

24:34Kill the Arawak people

24:36He wanted to enslave them

24:37Shut your mouth

24:38Well, well, well

24:55If it isn't our little heroine kingpin

24:57Trust us when we tell you

25:00Handing back Bumpy Johnson a bunch of milk sugar

25:02Ain't the smartest idea

25:05Bumpy wants to talk with you

25:06Oh, I'm guessing I'm in trouble, huh?

25:10You are in trouble

25:11Tell you what

25:13Y'all boys let me go

25:17I got 10 kilos left

25:20We split it between each other

25:22Boy

25:26Ain't you learned nothing

25:28Bumpy don't sell no dope

25:30Neither do we

25:31Let's go

25:33Nah, I don't think I will

25:35Hey

25:38I chat

25:39If Bumpy wanted you dead

25:43We wouldn't be standing here

25:45Flapping our gums

25:46So come walking

25:48Or come flat on your back

25:50Your call

25:52See, the thing you gotta understand

26:06Johnson is about as thick-headed as they come

26:10You know, once he gets his mind set on something

26:12You can't change it

26:14You gotta light

26:16We can't have him getting in the way of the project

26:25I've got investors to answer to

26:27You're gonna need to take care of Johnson

26:30That I can't do

26:33Isn't that exactly what mob guys do

26:37Mob guys?

26:40What kind of term is that?

26:41It's a form of prejudice because I'm Italian

26:44Let me be very clear about something

26:46I am a businessman

26:48I supply the concrete

26:50I supply the workers

26:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

26:53Fine

26:53What are we gonna do about Johnson interfering?

26:57Look, all we have to do is make sure that Marshall Grant stays in our pocket

27:01But Johnson's trying to get to the guy

27:03Now, if Marshall changes his mind

27:06Then we can kiss Harlem revitalization bye-bye

27:11He's not gonna change his mind

27:12I'll tell you what I do

27:13I sit down with Marshall

27:15Make sure he understands what's at stake

27:17Good

27:19Good

27:21And once the project's finished

27:23Marshall's gonna have to go

27:25The man is practically an octogenarian

27:31He's lived a good long life, I'm sure

27:33Salud

27:40I understand the school's policy

27:47I absolutely will

27:50We need to talk, young lady

27:54I'm tired

27:56The principal of your school just called me

27:58You've been suspended?

28:01Mr. Williams is the one that should be kicked out

28:03Did you or did you not talk back to your teacher

28:07The same way you're talking back to me right now

28:09I raised my hand

28:10And you still managed to disturb your class

28:13It's not my fault Mr. Williams doesn't know the facts

28:15I raised you better than this

28:18We conduct ourselves in a respectable manner

28:22No matter what the circumstance

28:24What's going on?

28:33That child is on my last nerve

28:37Margaret

28:50What's going on?

28:55what's going on it's not like you to be disruptive you can tell me

29:16you want to know what really goes on in class of course

29:25it's happening to a lot of kids

29:55i got a feeling that you didn't leave the south to come up here and rob me

30:16i suggest you return that duty just kidding

30:18i got a feeling you ain't my pops and you don't know nothing about why i didn't

30:25came from anywhere you're always so salty

30:30we care about the dude just so much why you just give it back to the italians in the old way

30:35i like to stay at peace with the gigantes

30:38what about the rest of them who they is joe colombo lucchese gambino they're all in the

30:44doozy game too why'd you come up to harlem

30:55you didn't come to harlem did you you run here you was chased

31:00huh get your man

31:08nah not what you done ran here from

31:11like the same reason as you went to live somewhere black

31:15where i'd wake up in the morning without a hate or a boo hag sitting on my chest sucking all the life out of me

31:21shit uh i don't know nothing about all that i came here to make some bread

31:30and yet when i gave you a job it's killing the douchey

31:36gave me a job

31:39no you chose me for that job because i was expendable

31:45and now you're gonna scold me huh let me learn you something mr johnson

31:53ain't no man lord over me i'm the boss of me

32:02you're a punk and a fool the job i gave you was a test

32:07you failed just like you're feeling again right now

32:14get out don't make me deliver your ass to the devil cross me once more and i will

32:28as you both know the law allows teachers to punish disobedient children

32:33lashing a student isn't punishment it's abuse your child was insubordinate i don't give a goddamn

32:39iota what margaret's offense was you should know that there are other students with bruises

32:46i don't see those other mothers here but your daughter's been a troublemaker she talks back to

32:53mr williams quite honestly we are here to talk about mr williams that man abused margaret

32:59he hit her with a yardstick ladies ladies please i'll speak to mr williams directly no you'll fire mr

33:06williams i think it's time you left my office we aren't going anywhere until we get justice

33:17you'll have to leave the premises now don't make me call the police

33:29man was sure it was pretty yeah until you drove her to drink

33:45i want to apologize for busting into your apartment last time

33:47what do you want this time break a window i didn't come here to make a problem with you mr g

33:54scam artists never want problems do they fresh job is the one who's running the scam not me

34:00straw was the one paying my rent that ain't no scam that's an agreement i'll happily provide you with

34:09more than rent money for starters you can flash all the cash you want boy money don't make the man

34:18the man make the man boy this is bumpy johnson you're talking to show some respect why he ain't earned it

34:27you're about to earn yourself a thorough ass whooping pedigree's up okay i ain't letting him talk to

34:32you like that the man is an elder i don't think you impress me elsewhere you the same boy you always been

34:41be our little bubs inside you

34:57be our little bubs inside you

35:15where's the busher

35:27go

35:31fuck you

35:48you're done

35:53Nice ring.

36:12This spaghetti is damn good.

36:24Let me tell you.

36:25You like it?

36:26It's called Pappadale alla Cavanara.

36:28It's the best you can find in America.

36:30I have a special delivered from Bomanis.

36:33Blowing a very nice bottle of Chianti.

36:37Listen, there's something pressing I'd like to discuss with you.

36:41I'm sorry, Mr. Colombo,

36:43but if it's about that white fellow Straub,

36:46I don't want to hear it.

36:47Oh, it's about Bumpy Johnson.

36:51Do you know each other?

36:54Used to.

36:56Not anymore.

36:59So you haven't met recently?

37:02He showed up at my pad

37:04and wanted to talk to me about that lot on 125th.

37:10What did he say?

37:12I'm shared about how he owned it.

37:17Did he offer you anything?

37:19Blood money.

37:20The man's an upright criminal.

37:23That's how he come out the womb.

37:25Well, I take it you're not a fan of Johnson.

37:28You could say I got a grudge.

37:32And I'm still nursing that grudge right now.

37:35Mr. Grant.

37:39Listen, it's very important

37:43that you don't break your deal with Fred Strong.

37:46You didn't say what I'm saying.

37:58We should tell Daddy.

38:00No.

38:01No, we cannot tell your father.

38:03Why?

38:03Because he'll kill my teacher?

38:04Oh, Margaret, please.

38:06Your father would never.

38:07I have eyes, Mama.

38:09I know what Daddy does for a living.

38:12He spent 11 years in jail because of it.

38:14Which is exactly where he'll go back to

38:16if anyone so much lays a hand on your teacher.

38:18If we don't tell Daddy,

38:20Mr. Williams will get away with abusing half my class.

38:23Then there are other moms who feel the same as us.

38:26I say we rallied them to protest.

38:28We step foot on school property.

38:30That principal will call the police on us.

38:32We'll be arrested.

38:34Or worse.

38:37Not necessarily.

38:39Not if we have help.

38:41My secret?

38:47I just put a small amount of bottle of water on the cloth

38:50and rubbed into the leather.

38:53Forgive me, brother.

38:55Mind if I sit?

38:56I owe you an apology.

38:59Have a seat.

39:02I called you out at my book signing.

39:05But I'm the one that turned my back on Harlem.

39:07I went off to France.

39:09It was selfish.

39:11We missed you while you was gone, Jimmy.

39:14Selfish.

39:16I wanted out of the ghetto.

39:18I needed air.

39:20But in truth,

39:22I was trying to run away from being black.

39:26You weren't black in Paris?

39:28Brother, if I learned anything overseas,

39:31I learned that I am a Negro man.

39:33I am always black.

39:35Loud and proud.

39:38And if you ask me,

39:40the best thing that we can do as black people

39:44is to remember who we are,

39:45we need to bend ourselves against white aggression.

39:48And I hope we can shield each other along the way.

39:52Oh, this probably got a silver tongue.

39:54Don't he, Bumpy?

39:56It's not just waiting.

39:57Bumpy, I've been trying to build something.

40:00Black folks putting stones in my path.

40:03Is what you're trying to build for you or for them?

40:06It's for all of us.

40:07Then why don't you take those stones

40:11folks are putting in your path

40:13and let them be a part of the foundation.

40:20Open up.

40:25Bumpy needs to see you.

40:26I can't.

40:29I-I-I got plans today.

40:30I-I-I...

40:32I just can't.

40:35Rearrange your schedule.

40:41Well, now,

40:42look who's here.

40:46You gonna kill me?

40:48One thing's for sure.

40:49I'm done reasoning with you.

40:51Why are you bringing me here, then?

40:54Why didn't you just shoot me in the head?

40:57I'm not trying to intimidate you, Mr. G.

41:00But I gotta find some way to open your eyes.

41:04My eyes are wide open.

41:06And what I'm looking at is a damn gangster.

41:10There are all kinds of gangsters.

41:12Black ones, white ones.

41:14Straub is a corporate gangster.

41:18Well, I can't do nothing to stop any of you.

41:20Is that true?

41:22You have all the power,

41:23you just don't realize it.

41:25I don't have no power.

41:27I never have.

41:29The future of Harlem rests in your hands.

41:33And I'm gonna drag your ass

41:35to Straub's office to prove it.

41:38Peles,

41:40get the car.

41:41We anticipate starting construction within the next three months.

42:09Sorry, sir.

42:10I couldn't stop them.

42:12Mr. Johnson,

42:13what do we owe the pleasure?

42:16And I see you brought a friend with you.

42:18I thought you knew each other.

42:20This is Marshal Grant.

42:22You're a straw man?

42:22What the hell do you people think you're doing here?

42:41I ordered you to leave this building at once.

42:44Sisters,

42:46are we in a schoolhouse

42:47or are we in a slave house?

42:49Keep your hands off our kids!

42:51Free, Tony!

42:52Free, Tony!

42:53I just want to let the owner of these buildings

42:57see what you've got planned for his properties.

43:00You don't mind, do you?

43:01No,

43:02no,

43:03of course,

43:04be my guest.

43:06As you can see,

43:08it's a

43:08magnificent

43:09multi-structure complex.

43:11They will displace all the residents.

43:13Exaggeration.

43:14Displacement might occur in some instances

43:17as a practical necessity,

43:19but

43:19it's not something I anticipate.

43:20In these halls

43:23or on those streets,

43:25what are we actually punished for?

43:27The color of our skin?

43:29The texture of our hair?

43:31The shape of our bodies?

43:33Or is it just the fact

43:35that we exist at all?

43:37Is that our crime?

43:39Touch my daughter again

43:40and I'll beat your ass.

43:41That's right!

43:43Check out the skyscraper.

43:45These gentlemen

43:46get to see the sun.

43:48The rest of us

43:49get to live in the shadows.

43:51I want to build a place

43:53for us folks

43:53where we can just be.

43:57You all can come visit

43:58if you like,

43:59but when you come,

44:01no one will be

44:02buying their heads to you.

44:04And when the cops come,

44:06they won't be putting

44:07their boots on their necks.

44:10These people never learn.

44:13Let's remind them

44:14who's in charge.

44:20No more violence

44:22in all schools.

44:24No more abuse

44:25in our community.

44:27Talk to the pig!

44:32Fire that teacher

44:34or we are never going to leave.

44:35You want to test stuff?

44:40Big.

44:46In Percy's parking garage.

44:50Are you going to tear down

44:52the Apollo Theater

44:53to put this up?

44:55Well, this is all subject

44:57to review.

44:58There will be a great need

45:00for parking structures

45:01with a project

45:01of this magnitude

45:02and ideally,

45:03we'd like to create some...

45:04I'm selling.

45:06Pardon me?

45:07Oh, that's exactly

45:09what we wanted to hear,

45:11Mr. Grant.

45:11I'm selling my property.

45:14Giving my 40 acres

45:15and my damn mule

45:16to Bumpy Johnson.

45:19I can sell it to you

45:21for a dollar.

45:22That'll be

45:22two rows of pennies, please.

45:27I can do that.

45:28I can do that.

45:32Yes.

45:44Yes, sir.

45:50I'm here to see Joe Colombo.

45:53Got a business proposition for him.

45:58So you're the Joe Colombo

46:05I've been hearing so much about?

46:08Well, it depends

46:09on what the fuck you heard.

46:11Folks saying you the shit.

46:13Man that wants to own

46:14the whole avenue.

46:15Who wants to own?

46:16That's right.

46:18If you're going to business

46:19with me,

46:21he'll be owning all of them.

46:26Who the fuck are you?

46:28I'm Frank Lucas.

46:34Motherfucker that just scooped up

46:3520 kilos of high-quality dough.

46:38That dead done fell off a truck.

46:50The whole new place.

46:53So?

46:53This?

46:54This?

47:01This is it?

47:04Shoot.

47:06This is all right.

47:08One more thing.

47:09No even.

47:21Who'd have thought?

47:24Hmm?

47:25Bumpy Jones.

47:27Victorious.

47:40Victorious.

47:42Victorious.

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