Get on the Bus Page #4

White people did.

You think we asked for slavery?

We asked for the Holocaust?

Six million Jews died.

Doesn't mean we're gonna forget

Nazis, Arabs, black anti-Semites...

Do you know how many blacks died

in the slave trade? Over 60 million.

I didn't kill them, nor did my parents.

Don't blame us.

Yeah, it's our fault.

After 400 years of slavery

and oppression...

...we're just supposed

to fix everything ourselves?

Yeah. Damn right, we are.

Who else will do it?

Hey, Spike Lee Jr., are you

paying me for this movie?

- No, sir.

- Then I quit.

Get that camera out of my face.

- Your name is what? Randall, right?

- Yes.

And correct me if I'm mistaken,

but you are a homosexual?

- Yes.

- And he's Jewish.

That makes both of you

minorities on this bus.

Which shows you know nothing about

the civil rights movement...

...because it was about

bringing people together.

So we can stop insulting each other

and deal with the real issue...

...the real oppressor.

I've known him for five years.

All he's trying to do is do his job.

Just help us get to the march.

That's all he's doing.

A reasonable man like you

can understand that.

So why don't you cut him

some slack?

- I don't have a problem with you.

- Good.

Thanks, George. I appreciate that.

Yeah, Rick. Listen...

...as long as you do your share of the

driving, I have no problem with you.

You're okay in my book, pal.

Yo, dog!

- Yo, dog!

- What, man?

I gotta use the restroom.

- What?

- Piss. The bathroom!

If you don't mind,

I'd love to go by myself.

Thanks.

Yep.

What's happening, Barb? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah. So they liked me?

Yeah, yeah, count on that.

I got my fingers and toes crossed.

Oh, oh, okay. Bye. Bye.

Oh, boy!

So did you get it?

They're gonna make the decision this

weekend, but it looks like I got it.

- Yeah? Yeah?

- Yeah.

Big role?

They throw me up on that screen,

I'll blow up too large. People be like:

"Denzel who?"

You know what I'm saying?

I hope it works out.

Then I can say I knew you when.

- "The fool on the bus."

- Right on.

Go on your way

to the Million Man March, 1995.

Say, yo...

...what do you think he's thinking?

- Who?

Mighty whitey, driving the bus.

Right now he's probably thinking

about kicking his boss's ass.

I guess you don't have

a problem with him though.

You got no problem with him

because you share a white thing.

You know what I mean.

I already told you,

I consider myself black.

Hang on. No disrespect, brother.

I didn't...

Because a person is white

doesn't mean I dislike him.

And just because a person is black

does not mean I like him.

I consider myself black,

just like Bob Marley.

- I'm not talking about him.

- He was mulatto. I'm black.

No disrespect, partner, but I could

consider myself 6'4" and ugly.

The fact remains that I'm 6 foot and

too cute for the English vocabulary.

- Wait a minute, Mr. Hollywood.

- Yes?

The man is black.

Just let him be.

He's also white!

If this was slavery,

would ole massa care?

He'd be a slave like the rest of us.

He'd be a house slave

in the big house.

While we'd be talking about grits...

...he'd eat potatoes.

He'd have the breast of chicken.

Our women would be blistered

from picking cotton.

His would be bathed, smelling good.

And nine times out of 10,

the honey he'd hit skins with...

...she'd be a white girl.

Hold it just a minute.

About the grits:

Grits was for the white folks

up in the big house.

Slaves were lucky to get corn mush.

As for hitting the skins

with a white girl...

...a black man could get lynched for

just thinking that thought.

- Pop, you know what I mean.

- You are wrong.

Look, my lady's not white.

But you would never

understand that, would you?

What's your problem, really?

Do you want a white woman?

- That's it.

- Is that it?

Please, please!

"Player" is written all over me.

I done tagged all kinds of freaks,

black, white...

- Blind, crippled, crazy.

...Chinese, Mexican.

Why do you insist on

calling women freaks?

I love my woman, okay?

I respect her.

She's not a freak. She's a queen.

I bang queens too.

Oh, sorry. I get it.

You're on that henpecked tip.

I don't cheat on her. It doesn't make

me a henpeck. It makes me honest.

I wish I could see

how noble you'd be...

...if you had as many drawers

thrown in your face as I do.

Delusions of grandeur.

What's that you said?

Well...

...your constant references

to your sexual prowess...

...are nothing if not

overcompensatory...

...and lead me to think that you're a

misogynist who is very insecure.

"Overly compensatory."

Nobody asked you, Harriet Tubman,

Alice Walker, Angela Davis...

...or whatever sister

you think you are.

Randall Royal, if you don't mind.

Well, " Randall Royal,

if you don't mind"...

...just because I like p*ssy,

I like the way it feels...

...I like the way it smells...

...and, on occasion,

like the way it tastes...

...don't make me insecure.

Can you even say the word?

- P*ssy.

- I'm looking at one.

Come on. P*ssy.

- You want to back off?

- Come on, f*ggot. P*ssy.

Leave him alone!

Stand by your man!

Oh, no, my bad, because actually

you're the man of the relationship.

You made your point. Leave him alone.

He wasn't bothering you.

He was.

Just the fact that we got two faggots

on the bus bothers me.

I won't be too many more

of your "faggots."

Leave him alone.

Mr. Chain Gang in the mix.

"The Defiant Ones."

What's your sign, old man?

"All deliveries in the rear?"

Yo, dog, don't even trip.

"Yo, dog, don't even trip.

- Don't trip, dog."

- Sit down, clown.

Don't trip, dog.

Y'all some serious brothers.

But a lot of gays think that

Farrakhan is homophobic.

He called for a day of atonement.

Perhaps the minister

will atone for his homophobia.

When I go down the street,

white women clutch their purses...

...cross the street like they

would for a straight brother.

I'm going because I'm a black man. My

sexual preference doesn't change that.

- Evan Junior.

- Smooth.

Okay, Smooth.

Tell me, how come you're going

to the march?

Because he's making me.

- He's making you go?

- Yeah.

Otherwise you wouldn't be

going at all?

Hell, no. I don't even want to go.

- Tell him why.

- I'd rather be with the homies.

I got things to do.

That's why I'm taking him.

The homies are just killing each other.

I want to take my son

to this historic event.

I want him to see...

...a million black men doing something

positive for the country.

I served enough for this country.

Ten years in the Marines,

fought in the Persian Gulf...

...I even took a bullet.

Friendly fire from two homophobic

a**holes who suspected that I was gay.

When I woke up, they were laughing

and talking about how...

...they killed two birds

with one stone.

One n*gger, one f*ggot.

- You care about black people?

- Yeah, I mean, I'm black myself...

- You care about other black people?

- Yeah.

Do you steal from black people?

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