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I need you on the civil rights

Section by next week.

Nice seeing you.

Is that gum in your mouth?

He was a Gemini.

He was so cocky.

Every day I saw him he used

to go like, oh,

you happy you got me.

You happy you got me,

and I be like,

Please you the one that's got

me, so y'all like Geminis?

Oh, what's his name?

Mr. Easton and Mrs. Wright

In the movie theater.

I'm pretty sure

they're married.

No.

I don't, they can't.

You don't know what you're

talking about, so don't talk.

No, but they look

weird together.

Y'all think Mr. Dunn is married?

No way.

Nobody would marry him.

Would you want to marry him?

Come in the room,

swirling his finger around,

Telling us to move the desk.

Why can't he move the desk?

I'm getting tired of that

every morning.

Don't forget about his glasses.

and he--

--bifocals.

--he start

Throwing them around,

throwing the chalk

Like he all cool and fly

and everything, but--

Ridley?

Quiet.

Would you marry Mr. Dunn,

Ridley?

Would you marry your father?

Oh.

"a man who was curious to know

If a knife could penetrate

"his bulletproof vest

Was killed yesterday

"by a stab wound to the chest.

"witnesses say the man,

Jeff Turner, 32,

"urged his brother,

Scott Turner, 35, to stab him

"as hard as he could, believing

The vest would stop the knife.

It didn't."

So how's

Your opposite somethings?

Pretty good.

Where'd you come up

with that stuff?

It's just a little something

I picked up in college.

A little thick

for the eighth grade, no?

Yeah, yeah, well, you'd think,

but I don't know.

I think they're getting it.

I don't know how you get away

With it though.

You know,

Drey is so textbook.

How's your book?

Don't ask.

There's always the summer.

Do you want to go?

You want to have dinner

with me again?

Okay.

Mm-hmm?

Did you guys hear

that they found

A crack vial in the locker room?

Jesus.

Hmm.

Do they know

whose it is?

Whose it is?

Oh, I don't know.

Hey, you know what?

That's a good idea.

We can put it in the lost

and found to see

if anybody claims it.

Better yet, why don't we put up

flyers with a picture?

What's new?

I don't know.

I can't hear you.

Come over here.

That's a nice cap.

Thanks.

It's Mike's.

Yeah, I know.

Talk to him lately?

He writes sometimes.

How's he doing in there?

All right, I guess.

Well, if he needs something,

Let me know, all right?

I mean, I know people in there.

I could make a call

or whatever, all right?

Okay.

Okay?

Yeah.

All right then.

What, you thirsty, huh?

You want something to drink?

My bike.

Ain't nobody going

to f*** with that bike.

Yo Harvey, this is Drey.

Hey, Tina?

You remember Mike's

little sister, Drey, right?

Oh, hey, sweetie.

Come and sit down.

Let me get that juice for you.

Help yourself.

Come on and sit.

I'll be right back.

Yo, pick a hand.

Left.

Ha, you lose.

Come on.

What's up with that juice?

I'm not thirsty.

Well, don't be a stranger, kid.

You could stop through

and say hello.

Yeah.

You saw Frank today?

Just ran into him.

On September 13, 1971,

Seized control of the prison

and took hostages

To negotiate changes

to their inhumane conditions.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller

ordered a military assault

On the prison which killed

Every one caused

from police gunshots.

An official commission later

Stated, with the exception

Of Indian massacres

In the late 19th century,

The police assault was

the bloodiest one-day encounter

Between Americans

Since the civil war.

Unbelievable.

What are you doing?

Go sit in the desk.

Ten points off.

Second chances are rare, man.

You ought to take

better advantage of them.

Don't let go.

Grab the t-shirt if you need to.

You know, a little elbow here

and there never killed anybody,

You know what I mean?

As long as the ref

isn't looking.

Not in my house.

It's a nice surprise.

Where's Mom?

Working.

Darrel's uncle came to visit

so I came along with him.

How's Darrel's leg?

It's all right.

It's nice to see you.

Those for me?

Frank's for sending me

some of them nasty peppermints

He always eating.

What is that?

I threw them shits out.

So how's the team?

We suck.

and Ma,

still working too hard?

Yeah.

But she all right

for money though.

Frank still looking out?

Yeah.

Good.

He owes us.

So how come

you never told on him?

For what?

Would've made sh*t

more complicated.

and sh*t was already f***ed up

as it is, you know?

That's all in the past, though.

I'm going to get out of here.

You'll see.

I mean, you got Russell Simmons

On the case.

Russell Simmons?

Look, we'll be all right.

I have to write

an essay about growing up.

If I don't turn it in

by tomorrow

I'm going to fail the course.

Well, that's your problem,

Charles.

My problem is making sure

that you keep an eye on things

While I'm gone.

Actually that's also

your problem.

You've got a lot

Of problems, Charles.

Don't let them get

in the way of your work.

There's a time when

the operation of the machine

Becomes so odious,

makes you so sick at heart

That you can't take part.

You can't even passively

take part, and you've got

To put your bodies upon

the gears and upon the wheels,

Upon the levers,

upon all the apparatus

and you've got to make it stop,

and you've got to indicate

to the people who run it,

to the people who own it

that unless you're free,

the machine will be prevented

from working at all.

What is this machine

that he's talking about?

It's keeping us down.

What is it?

Like robots and stuff, right?

It could be robots.

It could be robots,

but let's say it's a metaphor.

He's saying this machine

is keeping me down.

Now, what is that?

What keeps us from being free?

Ms. Drey?

Prisons.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Prisons, okay?

Prisons are definitely

a part of it.

What else?

White.

White is definitely

a part of it.

The man.

The school.

The school, exactly.

The whole education system

is part of the machine.

What else?

Aren't you the machine then?

Oh, no, you didn't.

What'd you say?

Aren't you the machine?

You're saying I'm the machine?

Yeah, you're white.

You're part of the school.

Oh, yeah,

I guess you got a point.

All right,

so I'm part of the machine,

But if I'm part of it

so are you.

You are, too.

we all are.

And this is the thing,

remember?

Everything is made

with opposing force.

We may be opposed

to the machine,

But we're still very much

a part of it, right?

I work for the government,

the school, but I'm also

Very much opposed

to a lot of its policies.

You guys hate coming to school,

right?

Yes.

Holler back if you heard me.

You hate it,

but you come anyway.

Sometimes.

Sometimes, exactly.

Yo, what's up?

Where you headed?

You look like

you're in a rush.

Hungry?

No, I'm cool.

I'm starving.

Come on.

Burger's on me.

So how's school?

It's hard.

What's up with basketball?

I got a game tomorrow.

Word.

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