The Least Among You Page #4

You gotta keep on digging.

For how long?

Till you find the break in this line. Come on.

Don't put your foot in the water, boy.

Come on.

Yeah, right there. Come on.

One, two, three. Come on.

Hey, Richard, what's happening, man?

Hey, Richard, come on now.

Talk to me now, man.

What you want, Roscoe?

Look, I heard about Mama Kelly.

I'm real sorry.

Look, man, I just came by here

to square this up with you, all right?

You know that business in the bar,

I was just a little drunk.

I know you ain't gonna freak out

about a little drinking, are you?

We're square. Now move on.

Look, Richard, look,

I know you in need of some cash, bro.

And I can help you out.

Look, that's five G's right there, okay?

I just gotta make a house call in this Cad

over here.

And I want some company.

I want my boy back.

All right?

I go with you, wait around,

and I take the five G's now?

She's my mama, too.

Come on. Get in, man.

You hold tight, Jack, all right?

This is going to be quick.

JoJo, what your old butt doing now?

I'm not selling no poison

like that in my club, man.

We got enough police out here

in the streets trying to kill us now.

Brother, you gotta get

some of this money, okay?

Get the money. You ain't nothing

but a broke down Negro anyway.

You might as well get some

of this dope money, boy.

Come on, Roscoe. If your daddy

knew what you were doing, he'd turn over...

He dead and you next, old man!

You about the stupidest perm-head,

you know that?

Look, we gonna get right to it.

I run this street, you old man.

You must have your head

all in the toilet, boy.

-'Cause you don't know crap, Roscoe.

-I don't know crap?

You really don't know nothing.

You ain't nothing but a punk.

Get that junk out of my house.

You ain't nothing but a stupid bartender.

-I got you right here, boy!

-No, Roscoe!

Oh, man.

Are you okay?

Yes, yes, a man's been shot.

Get him out of here

before I shoot him again.

You want laying out?

I'll shoot him again.

I'm gonna kill this old perm-head!

That's what you is, a dead man!

Come on now.

-Come on, get off of me now!

-Move over. I'll take you to the hospital.

I'm fine. I'll be all right.

Hey, man, you take this cash

and you get your mom well, all right?

All right.

Hello.

Am I addressing the living?

Boy, you better be glad

the missus is not here.

She'd be whipping you all up till next week.

How many times do I have to tell you?

-I wouldn't feel it.

-Yeah.

Come on, boy. Get up.

You're gonna go to my church today.

Come on.

Hurry up.

Hey, look.

You can't drown your pain, you know.

Take it from me,

you're gonna breathe underwater.

If you're so smart, you know a guy

with a hangover doesn't want a lecture.

-Jesus knows, you know.

-What?

Look, Jesus has experienced

everything that you have felt.

-And more so.

-Why didn't he stop it?

Because he wants a relationship with you.

Mean-ass way to get one, don't you think?

Yeah, I have a feeling

he knows what he's doing.

Hey!

What did I do to deserve this? Nothing.

When all those other fools were out there

playing basketball till midnight,

I was home studying.

When they were out selling drugs,

I was sweeping at a grocery store.

I fought for every

bit of my education, my life.

And that ain't good enough for your Jesus?

He wants a relationship?

Well, I want my life back!

I'm trapped here, Samuel.

I'm trapped here because of some

crazy lady's faith in

a f***ed up cross!

Well...

You may be right.

I'm gonna go downstairs

and I'll sit in the car for a few minutes.

And you can come.

But if you don't,

that's okay.

Hey, you know what?

You know that dream you keep having?

That's your spirit.

It's calling you to go into the darkness.

And out the other side, boy.

But you got to surrender

and have faith that it will take you

where you wanna go.

Surrender.

Come on. Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Some burn.

Like a cigarette.

Just some grease splatter.

How is Cynthia? Any better?

I never know what's waiting for me there.

Richard, come on in.

Thanks for stopping by.

Professor Allison.

Hello.

Sit down.

I've been working on this since...

I don't know, a long time.

Richard, one day, you may be speaking

from the podium in that theater.

Three sponsors quit.

Then Stansfield Tremaine appeared.

Like from heaven.

Kate,

I want you to help Richard

on our project that I talked to you about.

My writing takes up most of my spare time.

Imagine this woman

walking into a village in the Congo.

The people skills

she called upon to succeed.

It was anything but a success.

You see, that's what we have here,

in reverse.

Richard, you need a little help

with the natives.

So now you got the calling. I've seen it.

But the Holy Spirit got to inhabit

more than your mind.

It's got to go way deep down inside you.

Thank you. That's very kind, but I just...

Don't be flattered.

When God's eye is on you, so is Satan's.

Now you better listen to her, man.

She knows what she's talking about.

You pray on that.

Hey!

Look what I found.

You just found that laying around,

huh, Samuel?

Listen to this.

You remember that, don't you?

Come on, boy. You know this.

-Go on, try it out.

-Come!

Now, you can't keep up with me.

You better watch me move.

Yeah. All right.

Watch us stepping.

-Yeah!

-Okay, twirl now.

All right.

-Okay.

-Look at you.

Go, Mama, go!

James is right.

Faith is obscure, it cannot be manufactured.

Obscure?

Isn't faith for anyone

who wants it bad enough?

The ethnic cultures do seem

to have more faith than what's normal.

They have less education,

so they need it more than most people.

Moses had seen

God lift the seven plagues from Egypt.

So he had faith they'd be saved.

Faith based on miracles is shallow.

These stories are just allegories

meant to inspire,

they are not to be taken in literal fact.

So you're saying

we may as well study fairytales?

President Johnson, in his war on poverty,

will spend the money necessary

to educate inner-city people so no one

will need these miracles to believe in.

"The word of the Lord

will not return to me empty,

"but shall accomplish that

which I purpose."

Is that truth or allegory, Professor?

Truth is relative.

Have you ever gotten a word from God,

Professor Allison?

Have you?

Doesn't mean it won't happen.

So, Mom got the money and medicine, huh?

Yeah. She's aIready feeIing better.

Good, that's real good.

But there is something.

JoJo's dead.

-What?

-Found him shot up at home.

Oh, God.

What a good guy he was, man.

Yeah, he was.

Listen, let me know if you hear

from Roscoe, okay?

AII right.

Professor Allison, I need to speak to you.

-Make an appointment.

-I've left four messages.

Scholarly duties.

Where is this expertise

I was supposed to get?

I see, I'm just supposed to drop everything

and rush right out

for Richard's latest proclamation?

Why is a woman who lived in Africa

-Samuel.

-Hey.

It's late.

Yeah, I couldn't sleep.

Took a walk, saw a light in the window...

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