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We're cool now, right?

We're cool, right?

Hope you gonna break up their partylike you did ours.

-ls everything cool here now?-Very f ucking cool!

What's up?

P*ssy.

Punk-ass motherf ucker.

I don't understand why they alwayshave to start all this trouble.

-You okay, Billy?-Yeah.

Come on.

We need to get past just complainingabout university security.

You know?

I'm tired of hearing women cryf or someone else to save them.

Think what that means.

Why do you need someone elseto save you?

Think about saving yourself.

-Hi.-Hi.

Hi, everybody.

-Join us.-Okay.

Hi.

We were talking about security oncampus, in light of a recent survey...

...that showed one out of f our womenhas been raped...

...or survived an attempted rape,since the age of 14.

Do you have any ideas or thoughtsyou want to share?

No.

Fudge, you got some e-mailcoming through.

Is that right?

Need to start charging y'all f ools,like the university.

Twenty-five cent a page.

Y'all could pay f or my laundry.

You got the autobiographyof Frederick Douglass?

Yeah.

Biographies are up there.

-Damn. You read all these?-Most of them.

Hey, how you get turned onto Douglass?

Need it f or a class.

For a class. That's the onlyreason you're reading it?

-Yeah. Why else?-To feed your brain, f ool.

I thought you was a smart one,but you ain't. So you got to go.

-Can I borrow this book, man?-Yeah, go ahead.

Read it f or yourselfand not f or no damn class, though.

-Thanks f or the book, dog.-Run along.

-What's up, brother?-What's up, man?

Reading in the darkis bad f or the eyes.

-I got good eyes.-What book you reading?

-Iliad.-That's a good book. Great battles.

Yeah, it's all right.

Me and a couple f riends,we were gonna go get a drink.

You wanna come along?

I said, me and my buddies were gonnago get a drink. You wanna come along?

What are you,some queer or something?

-What? What are you talking about?-I should kick your ass, man.

First off, don't ever touch me again.

I will beat youto the f ucking ground, boy.

Secondly, you know,I ain't no f aggot.

I just wanted to knowif you wanted to get a drink.

-Sorry, man. It's a new city.-That's okay. I understand.

We'll f orget about it,have a drink...

...with good people.We'll have a good time.

-What do you say?-All right, man.

Pick up your stuff. Come on.

I mean, we're white, in America,what more do you need?

We're white, in America, what moredo you need to have a good time?

Right?

All right, here we go.

-What's your name again?-Remy.

-What's your name?-I'm Scott.

-So, where you f rom, Remy?-ldaho.

-ldaho, huh? Where in Idaho?-Boise.

That's the Big Sky State, huh?

-I think that's Montana.-That's right. It is Montana.

These are my brothers here.

Fellas, hey.

This here, this is Erik.

-What's up, man?-This is Knocko over here.

-This is James here.-Hi.

-Everybody, this is Remy.-Hey, Remy.

What's up?

You should know that democratictheory did not begin...

...with Rousseau's contract. No.

Its origins, in f act, lie inthe subject of landownership.

The common people became aware...

...that the upper classes owned the landupon which they lived and laboured.

This incensed them...

...inspired them to seek sovereigntyof their own homelands.

However,the social order of the day...

...did not permit landownershipby the common man.

Theref ore, these people...

...felt the need to leavetheir homelands...

...to flee in an eff ort to escapepolitical and social persecution.

Hence, the creation that is America.

Theref ore, the basic premise...

...of democratic theory...

...is that each and every citizenliving within that society...

...is entitled...

...to what?

We are entitled to life...

...liberty and the pursuitof happiness.

What you people have to realizeis that despite having these rights...

...very few people ex ercise them.

It is that type of apathy thatcorrodes our country f rom within.

Your assignment f or the semesteris as f ollows:

To f ormulateyour own political ideology.

This will be dictated by your sex,background...

...socioeconomic status...

...personal experience,et cetera, et cetera.

This course will be likeanything in life.

It will be what you make of it.I am not a babysitter.

Ladies and gentlemen,do not waste my time.

Remember...

...no one is going to treatyou special...

...just because you are black.

Right. Or white.

Or Hispanic.

Or Indian.

Or Asian.

Or because you are a woman.

Or because you f ailed to getsufficient rest last night.

Or because you are...

What are you?

-I don't know.-Right.

Don't sweat it.

Come on.

Watch it.

-Watch out.-Watch it. Watch it.

-Damn.-Let's see your I.D.

No, let us see your I.D.

Forget these guys.

Thought so.

You know what that's all about?They hate me 'cause they ain't me.

Can you hand me another oneof those mayonnaise?

-Do you want to report it?-lt's not gonna do anything.

They're just gonna make mefeel like sh*t...

...and make me look likeI asked f or it.

I didn't ask f or this.I just wanna go to school.

Come here.

This ain't cool, dog. A " B" oncontent, and then I get a " C" f or...

Punctuation mistakes,misspellings...

...grammatical error,et cetera, et cetera.

You probably didn't even read it.TA graded all of these, right?

If you could spell as well as you run,it would be better, Mr. Williams.

-Sellout.-Mr. Williams.

So Mr. Williamsthinks I am an Uncle Tom.

Well, well, well.

What does that have to do with yourability to place a comma properly...

...or put a periodat the end of a sentence?

-Look...-Would you care f or a peppermint?

No, thank you.

You're usingthat reverse treatment...

...'cause I'm one of the onlyblack f aces in your class.

Mr. Williams, I treat everyonein my course exactly the same...

...and I will continue to give youa difficult time...

...until you have proventhat you deserve otherwise.

-Those are the rules of the game.-lt's a f ucked-up game.

Please watch your language.

Rid yourself of this attitudethat the world owes you something.

You must strip yourself of thatmentality. It breeds laziness.

It is laziness that has keptblack people down in this country.

I don't think like that.All right, man, it's just...

Look, I don't need one of my owntrying to treat me like I'm the enemy.

The enemy? Who is the enemy?

One man with a white beardwho sits behind his desk...

...pushing buttons that controlthe f ate of the entire world?

No, that is not reality.That is The Wizard of Oz.

No, man, I mean anybody.

White, black, anybodywho gets in the way of my progress.

I am not in your way.

I did not ask youto come to this university...

...nor am I here to motivate you.

Your own presenceshould be motivation enough.

I have nothing to prove,unlike you.

I don't have anything to prove.

Who do I have something to prove to?

Yourself.

Good afternoon, Mr. Williams.

Ladies and aentlemen,the next race on the track...

...will be the 4x100-metre relay.

In lane three, the non-scorina B-teamfrom John Paul Colleae.

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