Talk To Me Page #7

What?

They're burning it down.

They're burning it down.

(VEHICLES HONKING)

(MOB SHOUTING)

Come on!

Come on!

(EXCLAIMING)

(EXCLAIMS)

My store.

My store!

DEWEY:
Hold it!

Hold it, man!

Get out of here, man!

Come on! Come on!

No, stop. Stop! Stop!

Stop it, man!

Y'all! Run!

Thank you.

Now, go on. Go on.

I got to get back

on the air, man.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR..:

I may not get there with you,

but I want you

to know tonight,

that we as a people

will get to the promised land!

Coming to you, Petey,

in five, four, three, two...

Yeah, buddy,

it's a dark day in America.

Got to be one of the

darkest days I ever seen,

and I seen more than most.

WOL. Yeah, hold for Petey.

In Washington,

this is Petey Greene.

Talk to me.

MAN:
It can't go down

like that, Petey.

Somebody's gonna have to pay,

I'm gonna tell you right now,

somebody gonna pay tonight.

I know you're hurting.

We all hurting.

He the only one we had, Petey.

I know how angry you are.

You want revenge,

you want that quart of blood,

and I don't blame you.

But I want y'all to just go

take a look out your windows.

I mean,

those of you that got them.

Just take a look outside

and tell me what you see.

You see a city on fire.

Now, that's your city.

Our city.

And that's not what Dr. King

would have wanted.

Now, I ain't nothing, man,

I ain't nothing

but a con and a thief.

So I ain't up here trying

to be nobody's preacher.

I'm just trying to tell

the truth to y'all,

like I promised I would,

and the truth is,

I went to jail

'cause I was a knucklehead.

Dr. King went to jail

for what he stood for,

fought for, and died for.

And this ain't it, y'all.

This ain't it.

The man was a giant. Now,

if they could do that to him,

don't think for a minute

they won't cut you down

like a dog, too.

So look here. If you at home,

please, just stay home.

And if you out in these

streets, man, go home.

Put your anger away till

we can sort all this mess out.

I ain't saying I know

how we gonna do it.

I just know that we will.

We shall overcome.

Hold on a second, now.

Petey, there's a free concert

tomorrow night.

You and James Brown,

Georgetown University.

Okay, I've just been told

that tomorrow night,

Mr. James Brown,

the Godfather of Soul,

is gonna be giving a free

show, that's capital-F-R-E-E,

at Georgetown University.

Bring your heartache,

bring your anger,

just bring all that to me,

and we gonna work it out

together. We gonna get

through this, people.

WOL. Hold for Petey.

Talk to me.

WOMAN:
Petey, I just keep

crying and crying. I just...

WOL. Yeah, hold for Petey.

Well, the clock on the wall

says it's time to go.

That's the end of my show,

and there ain't no more.

But before I go,

I wanna leave y'all with this.

"The ultimate measure of a man

"is not where he stands

in moments of comfort

and convenience,

"but where he stands

in times of challenge

and controversy."

And no, those ain't words of

advice from old Petey Greene.

Those are pearls

of wisdom from

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(ALL CHEERING)

Like the brother said,

I'm Petey Greene.

Good evening, Washington,

and welcome to P-Town!

I'm happy you could make it.

I'm glad you could show.

But the government's the most

happy, 'cause y'all ain't

burning down sh*t no more.

On my way over here,

this white man say,

"Mr. Greene, why them n*ggers

lose their mind

"and burn their sh*t down

that way?"

He called me "mister,"

but called us "n*ggers."

I say, "Hey, we ain't the ones

that pulled that trigger!

"And if you keep

calling us n*ggers,

"your mothers, fathers,

sisters and brothers

"gonna have to call

the grave digger. "

I say, "Mr. Charlie,

"I ain't seen

no n*ggers last night.

"I saw a bunch of beautiful,

angry black folk,

down for the fight. "

But I'm here to tell y'all,

we ain't filled with hate.

(ALL MURMURING)

And the killing of our

great King ain't gonna seal

this kingdom's fate.

We're gonna pray together...

ALL:
Yeah!

... stay together...

Yeah!

... jump up and sing...

Yeah!

... as we celebrate the memory

of Dr. Martin Luther King!

Now I want y'all to give

a big old P-Town welcome

to a bad motherf***er.

Oh, he's a bad, bad man!

Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome to the stage

the hardest-working man

in show business,

Mr. James Brown!

Look here, baby.

You gonna open me

whenever I come to town.

James Brown!

Do your thing, yo!

(FUNK MUSIC PLAYING)

(SINGING) Say it loud

ALL:
I'm black

and I'm proud

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

(VOMITING)

But I say we won't quit moving

till we get what we deserve

I worked hard on a job

with my feet and with my hand

But all the work I did

was for the other man

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud

I'm black and I'm proud

REPORTER:
... in Washington,

faced with angry, disgruntled

citizens of the United States,

while the flag flew

at half-mast

for Martin Luther King.

Amid the chaos today,

two local radio broadcasters,

Dewey Hughes and Petey Greene

are being credited

with restoring calm

to the nation's capital.

PETEY ON LOUDSPEAKER: Now,

DC is Chocolate City,

y'all know that's right.

Now they wanna keep us down,

'cause they afraid

of what's gonna happen

if we stand up.

Why do you think

they send our boys off to war

instead of keeping them

in school,

where they can learn to score?

Yeah!

Yeah!

Because the white folk know

that if we stand tall,

oh, buddy, we gonna

have something called

Black Power, y'all!

Right? All of y'all

look beautiful today.

Psychologist asked me

what I thought about

the word "n*gger." I said...

Lady, "n*gger" is the greatest

stress reliever ever invented.

See, white man say "n*gger,"

he ready for a six-month

hibernation, am I right?

But, see, a black man,

he could say "honkey," "ofay,"

"cracker," "peckerwood"

a million times,

still wanna go out there

and kill somebody.

You're gonna to have

to tone it down, Petey. I've

got the FCC all over my rear.

Well, with all due respect,

sir, the FCC can kiss my ass.

I ain't saying nothing

but the truth.

As long as the people

wanna hear it,

I'm gonna keep telling it.

I'm gonna talk it

on the radio,

and I'm gonna talk it

on the streets.

I'm gonna talk it

to the police,

and even that sucker,

Tricky Dick!

This is P-Town, baby.

Talk to y'all tomorrow.

Now, that was a good one, Dew.

That was a great show, Petey.

Right on.

That was a great show.

Look at them.

They're still calling.

Oh man, what a day.

That was a hell of a day.

Thank you, man.

Man, you're incredible,

you know?

I just see the things you do,

the effect

you have on people...

It's amazing to me.

You got a gift.

You know? Something people

like me could only dream of.

I think you could go

all the way.

Let me be your manager.

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