A Rage in Harlem Page #3

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Jackson...

don't you think that's

rushing things a little bit?

I mean...

Maybe we should just

try this out, you know?

Like for the weekend, huh?

Huh?

You mean,

live together in sin?

Yeah. Why not? Hmm?

One, two... Uhh!!

Jackson, your decision

to liberate your hair from...

the influence of the white devil

is most encouraging.

Does that mean you're going

to liberate your mind as well?

No. It just means I'm going

to wear my hair natural now.

Woman sure has changed

you a lot in one week.

Morning, Mrs. Canfield.

This trunk is so heavy!

Stop complaining, Jackson.

If you knew anything

about women...

you'd know

you was getting off light.

- Hi, Mrs. Canfield.

- Huh!

I- I don't want

to complain or nothing...

Last night, you trying

to act like Samson.

Now I give you a chance to

prove it, and look how you act.

My good brother,

can you make it from here?

For I must prepare for mass.

As salaam alaikum.

Hey! I told you to just

say good-bye to me.

Just say good-bye.

It was awful nice

of him to help.

What kind of last name is "X"?

Oh, God, you're so innocent.

Ha ha ha!

It just fills

my head with joy.

It's refreshing,

that's what it is.

His last name ain't

His last name is Taylor.

- Claude Taylor...

- Maybe that's why he changed it.

Oh... oh, baby!

They cut your throat!

And the trunk busted, and your

blood was all over the gold!

What gold?

It was just a dream.

I been wanting

to give you something.

Belonged to my mother.

And I figure,

if you wear this...

it'll chase all of them

bad dreams away.

Ohh...

I can't take it.

It's yours.

Hallelujah!

Have a blessed week now.

God bless you now.

Have a blessed week.

- Jackson!

- Reverend Gaines...

I'd like to introduce you

to Sister Imabelle...

a good, decent,

God-fearing woman.

Well, God bless your head,

my sister.

Now, Jackson, I hope you took

my sermon to head.

You still ain't talking

to your stepbrother?

No.

Forget your differences,

Jackson.

Life is too short

for all of this pettiness.

- Yes, sir.

- Now, remember, Jackson...

you promised to look over

the church accounts.

- Um, we'll be right back.

- All right.

You just go on home.

I'll be there shortly, OK?

- OK.

- Bye.

Yes, sir!

What's the matter, baby?

Ain't you glad to see me?

Oh, baby! Oh, baby!

I thought you was dead.

When I saw you at church...

I was so happy to see you,

I just wanted to cry.

I come over here

as quickly as I could...

just hoping you'd be here.

Oh, baby, here you are.

I think she's sweet on this lame

she's shacked up with.

And I think you don't know what

the f*** you talking about!

I needed some place to lay low,

so f*** you!

- No, f*** you!

- No, f*** you!

- No, f*** you!

- No, f*** you!

Oh, man, this is bullshit!

She and him was gonna

cut and run with the gold!

She come back to get the trunk!

Now, Slim...

would I go

for a chump like him...

after I been with

a man like you?

An undertaker? Ha ha ha!

Jodie, you don't know

what you're talking about.

This here's my Imabelle.

This our Imabelle.

Besides, all Imabelle done

is to set up our first city boy.

Mm-hmm.

You want to scam Jackson?

Well, the boy look like

a born sucker to me.

We gonna take him

for everything he got, or...

Pop go the weasel.

OK, baby,

what you want to do?

I think we ought

to bake some money.

That'll be perfect.

Say, baby girl,

who's that on the wall?

Why, that's Jesus.

I know who the f*** Jesus is.

I'm talking about

the other dude.

That's his mama.

That's Jesus's mama?

Jackson's mama, fool!

His mama?

That is one ugly b*tch!

Ha ha ha!

Jodie, she got a gorilla

in her past.

Ha ha ha! And just think...

if you and Jackson

were to make babies...

Ha ha ha ha!

Y'all wait in the car.

I'll be right there.

Oh, baby girl...

Now, let me take a look at you.

Come on, let me take

a good look at you.

Mm-hmm. Now you take off

that jacket.

Sure miss looking at you.

Mm-hmm.

Mmm mmm mmm!

Come here, baby.

- Come here.

- Ha ha ha!

Um!

You stretching

this boy's jeans?

What, baby?

That sucker?

Well, he be a dead sucker

if he don't profit me.

You understand?

Babe, I don't know

about this.

Sounds like a hoax to me.

Baby, it ain't no hoax.

I have something for you.

Hmm?

Oh, God.

You're gonna look fine

when you take me out...

with all that money

we gonna make.

Where'd you get it?

Did you sell

your grandmother's ring?

Oh, God.

What's wrong, baby?

I think you're the answer

to all my prayers.

You're every dream

I ever had come true.

Jackson...

What? What?

I never meant you no harm.

That's right.

This is

my life savings... $1,500.

And you want me to raise it

to 15 Gs, right?

Right.

Uh, are you gonna

change mine, too?

He did it for me last week.

It's a miracle. A miracle!

- Really?

- Mm-hmm! This man's a genius!

He's gonna make us rich.

We gonna be rich, god damn it!

Now, I'm gonna have me

some water while it's baking.

Uh, yeah.

Let me get some of that.

Why don't you sit down, daddy?

Your knees are shaking.

Thank you.

You know, if this works,

we can take the 15,000...

turn it into 150,000. 150,000,

turn it into 1.5 million.

1.5 million

into 150 million...

150 million

into 1.5 billion dollars.

We'll be rich.

We'll be really rich!

- Oh!

- Look out, honey!

Open in the name of the law!

I'm a United States marshal...

and I'll shoot the first

son of a b*tch that moves!

- Aah!

- Run, daddy, run!

Don't you move, boy!

I don't want to have to put

a bullet in your ass!

I ain't moving!

I ain't moving! Look!

Man, put your hands down.

This ain't no goddamn movie.

Now, you stand up here and take

your punishment like a man.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

What, your woman

put you up to this?

Oh, no.

She's a law-abiding woman.

She ain't mine, neither.

No, no.

I don't want to be rude

or nothing...

but would it be OK...

if I gave you $20G...

would you let me go?

Oh, Lord, ashes to ashes

and dusk to dusk.

All he left me was his debts.

It's OK,

my little chocolate bunny.

You see,

we're better off without him.

See, y-your husband's

in a better place, and so am I.

Please forgive me.

I know how you feel.

Mmm! That you, Louis?

No, sir. It's me, Jackson.

I thought you took

the afternoon off.

Yes, sir.

But there were some numbers

that didn't add up...

and I thought they might

have overcharged us...

on that embalming fluid.

I ain't gonna give you no raise,

son, so don't overdo it.

Yes, sir.

I'll sop you like a biscuit

on some gravy.

Just think of me as smooth

as a piece of okra.

I'd suck you like a neck bone.

Here's the money.

You stay away from that woman.

Please...

Uhh!

You're lucky.

I don't want

to see you no more.

Imabelle?

Don't let her be gone, God.

Don't let her be gone.

Don't let her be gone.

She took the cross!

Sure took your time

getting here.

We do the best we can, ma'am.

Now, this is his room.

And this is him.

Don't surprise me none.

I don't know why old man Clay

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