Higher Learning Page #6

I'm trying to catch this dudewho just pulled a gun on me!

-Let's see I.D.-You don't need no I.D.! Out of my way!

No! That's the wrong guy!That's the wrong guy!

-Who are you?-Get the f uck out of here!

Charlie, look what I f oundin the kid's room.

You believe this?Do me a f avour, will you?

See if you can find a name or a pictureor an I.D. in his room.

You bet.

All right, let's break it up.Everything is fine now.

What do you mean, " Break it up"?Look at those white f olks there.

You ain't telling them to go.

White boy pull a gun out in his f aceand you ask us to break it up?

Y'all got some nerves.F*** you! We ain't going nowhere.

If they can stand over there together,we can stand here together.

Now you go find the assholethat pulled a gun on this man's f ace.

Get those kids to move outso we can clear this area.

Okay, let's go.Break it up. Come on.

Show's over. Back to your rooms.Nothing to see here.

What do you thinkhappened here?

-What's going on?-I don't know.

It's Malik.

What happened?

-He doesn't feel like talking now.-Can I help?

What's that all about?

I don't know.

Hey, man. Malik, wait up.

What's up, man?Why'd you move all your stuff out?

I'm staying with some homies now.

I thought you and Davidmight want to live together.

David doesn't even knowif he's going to school next semester.

He's all depressed. His parentshave him going to a shrink.

-I think he's lost it, myself.-Listen, Wayne.

I think you're cool, man.

We ain't never had no beef,outside of your dirty clothes...

...and opposite taste in music.

But I'm just...I'm at the point where...

...I feel safer and more comf ortablewith my own people.

I ain't come here to haveno white boy pull a gun in my f ace.

I could have got that in the ghetto.

Seems like this system is setuptowards maintaining white supremacy.

I didn't come here to learn that...

I understand you're pissed.But I'm not like that, Malik.

You treat me like I'm Remy.

I'm not like that.I'm no white supremacist!

Is that what you see?

I'm different.

So are you. You know?

No, I'm not. Neither are you.That's the problem.

Peace.

What are you two doingsitting there? Plotting?

Yeah, we're plotting.Plotting to steal.

To steal what?

-To steal the inf ormation. All of it.-Yeah, but whose inf ormation is it?

The more you learn about this system,the more upset you get.

Oh, my dear Mr. Williams.

Peppermint?

Inf ormation is power.

If you don't have the inf ormation,one cannot seize power.

You need to think aboutbecoming mentally competitive.

Being black does not f ree youf rom being a responsible individual.

But being a responsible individualdon't f ree you f rom being black.

-That's right.-Poor, misguided soul.

You have yet to learnthe rules of this game.

-He will.-I don't want to.

See, I'm smart enough to knowit's not my game to play.

I'm just a pawn like everybody else.

Used intelligently, a pawn can createa checkmate, Mr. Williams.

Or become a verypowerf ul player himself.

Don't you understand?This is all a game. All of this.

Like basketball, f ootball,Mr. Big-Time Track Star, a game.

You play it to win.

Because in the real world, no one wantsto hear ex cuses or empty rhetoric.

They want to knowif you have a plan.

Right.

Mr. Williams, Mr. White,good afternoon.

All right.

Mr. White?

-You had his class bef ore?-Yeah, I had his class once.

Maybe twice.

Let's roll.

" Mr. Williams, do you have a plan?Nobody wants to hear that bullshit."

Somebody's got to do somethingabout how tense it is.

We can't let the campus go crazybecause of the actions of some psycho.

What do you mean, "we"?"We" don't have to do anything.

Just because you and I get alongdoesn't mean everybody else has to.

Get that "We Are the World"stuff out of your head...

...'cause it is not gonna happen,not on this campus.

Hi, here's a flyer f or the Peace Fest.Take a flyer.

Come to the Peace Fest.

-F*ggot.-Suck my ass.

-F***.-F*** you.

-F*** me? Why don't you shut up?-Don't start that.

Why did you drop out of school?

I never really wantedto go anyway, man.

All's it was was an ex cuseto get out of Idaho.

You know?

What's the point? The gooks andtowelheads get the engineering jobs.

Leave the white man in the cold.Goddamn affirmative action sh*t. Right?

You really should not have dropped outof school. You hear me?

We need more people like youto become doctors, lawyers, engineers.

You listen, you get it together andyou do something f or your own people.

Your own country.

If you don't, you ain't nothingbut a race traitor yourself, you hear?

F*** you, you big-eared f aggot!

F*** you, you big-eared f aggot!

No, you know what?You are worse than a f ucking n*gger!

-What's up?-ls Malik here?

Yeah. You didn't bring no homies?Got any sisters?

-What's up?-You got crazy f riends.

What happened?

Skinhead f ool whopulled a gun on me...

I beat him.I'm the man. I'm God!

Put something cold on it.

-I don't need no ice.-Put the ice on it!

I had his ass like this:

Why you fighting like some thug?This is college.

I don't know about that no more.

About to take a semester off,let the sh*t cool.

It's about this, n*gger! See this?Yo, it's about this black fist, n*gger!

We gonna poundtheir motherf ucking ass...

...until they give in, motherf ucker!

You're gonna drop out.

-Did I say that?-I see it in your eyes.

I said I'm gonna take me a break.Look at me!

-Look what they did to my f ucking f ace!-What's wrong with you?

It's a war, man.This is the first battle in the war.

I'm telling you, man. Remy's right,man. It's their gang against our gang.

F***ing Malik.I'm gonna get him. F*** him!

F*** all those f ucking n*ggers.They're all gonna f ucking die.

F***ing Malik's a piece of sh*t.It's all right. We're coming back, man.

We're coming back. N*ggers, spics,the f ucking mud people, they'll get it.

-F***ing idiots.-F*** all those n*ggers, man!

Hey, yo, trooper.What's up, man?

What's up with your girl?She out there looking kinda bugged.

It ain't nothing.She's just tripping, I guess.

It's all good, though.

Them f ools.They so lucky they called security.

I was fit to kill one of them whiteboys. You know what I'm saying?

Whoa, sh*t!F***ing white boy.

See how he swole my sh*t up?Knuckles all f at and sh*t.

It's all right, though.Whipped his ass so bad...

...his stepmom's gonna feel mef or the next three birthdays.

Look what his homeboy didto your head.

What you talking about? This sh*t?He ain't f ading nothing over here.

-One ass-whooping, but they still won.-How you figure that?

Look around you, man.

They own this sh*t.

They own this couch you sitting on,them shoes on your feet...

...this building, this school,this country, you!

We're behind enemy lines, dog.

One beat-down will never compareto 439 years of captivity. Never.

You don't know sh*t, f reshman.

This is a war. This is the openingstages of World War III.

I said, shut the f uck up!

I'm tired of hearing your bullshit. I'mtired of you trying to rev everybody up.

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