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Godfather of Harlem Season 4 Episode 5

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00:01Figured a Joe Colombo I've been hearing so much about.
00:04Folks saying you the shit.
00:06If you're going to Venice with me, you'll be owning Harlem.
00:09You kill the maiden man, and then you fence his ring?
00:13Or if you own Famine and the Wolves.
00:15Time's out, country.
00:16Fuck this guy, he's got a goal.
00:18You think you got Bumpy in your pocket, huh?
00:20Check again, he playing you.
00:21All right, I'm gonna let you live on one condition.
00:24I need to know everything that's happening on the streets of Harlem.
00:28Elise, right?
00:29Yeah.
00:30Sadiq.
00:31Pleasure to meet you.
00:32I joined the Panthers.
00:34Have you lost your goddamn mind?
00:36The Panthers are the only ones helping the community right now.
00:38What do you have against them?
00:40Nothing, I just don't want to see you arrested.
00:42I can take care of myself.
00:44Malcolm's killers will pay.
00:49If you do that, you're gonna have to answer the Bumpy Johnson.
00:52Turn him loose.
00:54I am thrilled to be considered for the New York Fine Arts Board.
00:59I think bringing the real Harlem to the museum is exactly what we need.
01:04Thank you all for coming to the groundbreaking for Club St. Clair.
01:09Union town!
01:10I made arrangements with the necessary parties, and my men will be able to work on this site.
01:15I'm a union boss, and we don't got no arrangement.
01:18Only Negro workers?
01:19You're living in fantasy land, brother.
01:21Some fantasies are worth fighting for.
01:24So we get that.
01:25Fuckin' Sally Beach and Joe Fig are late this week.
01:43Yeah, I'll talk to them.
01:44Yeah, tell them I bet on that fucking happen again.
01:47What do you want?
01:51Frank Lucas is here to see you.
01:53Frank?
01:57All right, sit him in.
02:03Hey, look who it is.
02:05Wow.
02:07Someone Genovese, dude, you fall off a truck?
02:09Nah, I ain't that lucky.
02:11Well, you just missed my smiling face.
02:14Not quite.
02:16Look, man, I'm wondering if you got some work for me.
02:21Work?
02:23Won't this look like a fucking employment office to you?
02:26Look, it's my old lady.
02:29All right?
02:30She likes certain things, man.
02:32Certain things cost money.
02:34All right.
02:36Yeah, I understand.
02:38What's her name?
02:43You got some work for me?
02:45Have them collect from Sally and Joe.
02:48No, you know what?
02:50I got something better.
02:52Something more in your lane I could use a hand with.
02:54Hey, what's that?
02:55Well, Bumpy Johnson broke ground on his site uptown in Harlem.
02:59Somehow, he found a concrete company not under my influence.
03:04I need you to go talk to the owner.
03:07The guy's name is Earl.
03:09Tell Earl that he owes me a G a week for as long as he pours for Bumpy.
03:13And if he don't pay?
03:15Well, then you don't get paid.
03:18Let's make sure he paid in.
03:21That's the idea, Frank.
03:23Your name Big Earl?
03:24I am, boy.
03:25Who's you?
03:26My name Frank.
03:27I work with Mr. Joe Colombo.
03:28Oh.
03:29You mean you work for him?
03:30What you want, man?
03:31It's been a long day.
03:32I'm ready to get home to my old lady.
03:33I'm guessing you know how this work.
03:34Now, look Joe only won't one G from me a week.
03:36That's my good girl.
03:37That's my good girl.
03:38You ain't gonna get some shit.
03:39I'm fine, but I'm fine.
03:40That's my good man.
03:41That's my good girl.
03:42You're a little girl here.
03:43You're my little girl here.
03:44I'm fine.
03:45You're not gonna rather take a seat, I'm fine.
03:46I'm fine, man.
03:47I'm fine.
03:48I'm fine.
03:49You're fine.
03:50You're fine.
03:51What you want, man?
03:53How you about?
03:54This is our little girl?
03:55I'm fine.
03:56My little girl.
03:57You're fine.
03:58I'm fine.
03:59Let's do it.
04:00You're fine.
04:01Now you're gonna be sending me down here to get it from me now.
04:05I'm being shaken down by my own kind.
04:08Fuck this world coming to.
04:10I keep paying a lot less than a lot of other motherfuckers now.
04:14Listen to me, boy.
04:17I ain't ever paid shakedown money.
04:20Know why?
04:21I'm sure you're gonna tell me.
04:23Because when you were swimming around in your daddy's balls,
04:26I was putting bullets in Nazi heads.
04:28Yeah, protecting this country.
04:30So shitbags like you could see the light of day.
04:33Now, you gonna tell your boss I want a G a week from him
04:38for saving his spaghetti shitting ass from eating schnitzel for the rest of his life.
04:49How much you got on you?
04:51All right, look, whatever you got, man, could be a down payment.
04:54Yeah.
04:55Yeah.
04:56So fuck off my goddamn life.
04:58I'll kill you if I see you around here again.
05:00You hear?
05:01I said you hear?
05:02Yeah.
05:03Ah!
05:04Shit!
05:05Ah!
05:06What the fuck you done done?
05:07Put your fucking hands on me.
05:09No!
05:10No!
05:11Ah!
05:12Fuck!
05:13Ah!
05:14You fucking fuck!
05:15Ah!
05:16You fucking fuck!
05:17Oh!
05:18Goddammit!
05:19Open up my window again, open up my window again, I can end up calling my name, I can end up calling again, I swear to God things ain't gonna change, I swear to God things ain't gonna change.
05:47I keep a revolver with your name, I keep a revolver with your name, just in case.
06:17I keep a revolver with your name, I keep a revolver with your name, I can end up calling again, I can end up calling again, I swear to God things ain't gonna change.
06:39I swear to God things ain't gonna change, I keep a revolver with your name, I keep a revolver with your name, just in case.
06:49In the States.
06:58Love your dad, at this rate, we'll be over by summer.
07:03You really think Bumpy gonna make it happen, huh?
07:06What'd you say?
07:06You heard me, every time he about to break free they put something else in front of him.
07:10Now, have you ever known Bumpy not to do what Bumpy say he gonna do?
07:13No, no, I ain't never heard Bumpy say something, then that something don't happen, no.
07:18Then shut the fuck up.
07:20It's a beautiful fucking sight, look around you.
07:22Got nothing but brothers up in here.
07:25Brothers doing the demo, brothers digging ditches, brothers pouring the cement.
07:29Yeah, yeah, from brother Earl and Trent.
07:32Earl, the only motherfucking Negro in the Tri-State area with a cement, y'all.
07:38I gotta give you that one, man.
07:40Earl is one tough, hard-headed brother.
07:42Almost as hard-headed as you.
07:46What's that supposed to mean?
07:48Well, if being hard-headed was a sport, you had a trophy case.
07:52What?
07:53We got a fucking problem.
07:54What?
07:54The fuck is it?
07:55Come on, follow me.
07:59Excuse me, move, move, move.
08:00What's going on?
08:08No fucking way.
08:09You did good work, kid.
08:18Hey, let me ask you something.
08:21You really put the guy inside the mixer?
08:25Can't say that too much, remember?
08:27Ah, this kid who catches out quick.
08:29Yeah, he's a keeper.
08:30Hey, who the fuck do you think you are?
08:36I tell you when it's time to leave.
08:38As I was saying, I could always use a kid catcher design quick.
08:56What do you say?
08:56You want to come on board with me more permanent?
08:58Got a lot of stuff I need managed uptown.
09:00With all due respect, Mr. Colombo, I ain't come off from Goldsboro to be nobody's house,
09:09nigga.
09:10You see how it comes out here to make it on my own.
09:12Nobody makes it on their own.
09:18Everybody needs friends.
09:21Sooner or later you'll find that out.
09:22Probably sooner as stubborn as you are.
09:24But hey, hey, look, I ain't gonna force you to work for me.
09:28This is America after all.
09:30You're in the land of opportunity.
09:31I offer you an opportunity.
09:33You're too dumb to take it.
09:34None of my business.
09:35Well, I appreciate you understanding, Mr. Colombo.
09:40Now if you got any day work, you know where to find me.
09:44Well, good luck out there on your own.
09:48As long as our interests don't conflict.
09:51But if they do, yeah, I know where to find you.
10:00Now you go.
10:05Oh, look at this.
10:21I joined the Black Panther Party.
10:23What do you think?
10:24I like it.
10:27Brings out your natural strength and confidence.
10:32I've been trying to see you for a while.
10:33All they'd say is you were in the infirmary?
10:36Well, apparently, they like to keep an eye on a gut wound
10:39in case it turns septic.
10:41A gut wound?
10:42My daddy swore to...
10:43Your daddy wasn't behind it.
10:45In fact, what I understand is the reason I'm alive.
10:51So they're finally gonna move you someplace with special housing?
10:53It don't matter.
10:54Words out now Bumpy Johnson's behind me
10:57makes me the safest man in this joint.
10:59Thank God.
11:02I can't lose you, too.
11:06Elise, I don't want you to come see me anymore.
11:10What?
11:11I respect the fact you joined the Black Panther Party.
11:14It's time to move on with your life.
11:17You're part of my life.
11:18I'm a part of this now.
11:20And you ain't.
11:21I'm not gonna abandon you.
11:23You know what it's like to see you in here?
11:26To see what I know I'll never have?
11:31Thank you...
11:33for everything.
11:37Don't come back.
11:37They killed Earl.
11:53Stuck him in a cement mixer.
11:57Damn.
12:01Earl had a family.
12:04Kids.
12:05What'd you do for him?
12:06What'd you want?
12:09You reach out to his wife?
12:10Not yet.
12:12Where's she living?
12:12In, uh, Jersey?
12:14Yeah.
12:15East Orange.
12:16I want you two to drive out there tomorrow
12:17and give her ten grand.
12:19Ask her if there's anything she needs.
12:20Yeah.
12:21Okay.
12:23So,
12:24who killed him?
12:26Chin's out of town,
12:28so I'm guessing Joe Colombo.
12:29Me, too.
12:30The question is what we're gonna do about it.
12:32All the question is where we're getting concrete now.
12:35You got any thoughts about that?
12:37Remember Jackie Henderson?
12:39Used to manage fighters out of Gleason's for a while.
12:42Until they took his license for that nasty Benny Parrott business.
12:45Oh, yeah.
12:46Well, he bought into a batching plant in Flusher.
12:50That's her next move.
12:51What?
12:56These guineas.
12:58You keep cutting them out,
12:59they gonna keep cutting us up.
13:01You want me to make a deal with them
13:02after all we've been through?
13:03Way of the world, bump.
13:05White man got his fingers in every pile
13:07no matter what it is.
13:08How are we gonna change that?
13:10No one ever has.
13:14Reach out to Jackie and Flushing.
13:15Chip, he wants to make a deal.
13:17Where you gonna be?
13:18Telling Columbo that if he keeps fucking with our concrete,
13:21that I'm gonna fit him for a pair of concrete shoes.
13:23I'm afraid I wasn't in my best last time we met.
13:37You mean when I gave you your life?
13:40Good to see you again.
13:43You want to tell me why you called me here?
13:44You expect me to guess.
13:45Watch your fucking tone.
13:47You understand that Joe Columbo
13:50had you wax and pour sap from Philly
13:51and stick him in one of his own concrete trucks.
13:56Well, can't say I know nothing about that.
14:00But if you did?
14:02But if I did?
14:07I left you breathing
14:08so that you could keep me one step ahead.
14:10How come we gotta hear about this all second hand?
14:11Nah, I told you we should've greased this fucking clown.
14:14And we will grease this fucking clown
14:15if he ever tries this shit again.
14:18You know, you think he can play both sides against the middle.
14:21That's just gonna get you a shallow grave
14:23on the Eastern Parkway, you hear me?
14:26Oh, I'm listening.
14:29So Columbo's trying to muscle in
14:31on Bumpy's construction project.
14:34The thing about Joe Columbo,
14:36he don't think he owe me any explanations.
14:38Just hired me for a job.
14:40But you're still in tight with him?
14:41As far as it goes.
14:44What the fuck's that mean?
14:46It means there's a limit
14:47to how much Joe will trust a black man.
14:49Makes sense.
14:51Won't trust a nigger anymore
14:52if you're with a woman.
14:57Because women are soft.
14:58I guess you're right.
15:06Because if we ever hear about Columbo second hand again,
15:09Pino's gonna wanna cut off your balls,
15:11stuff them in your mouth.
15:13Me?
15:14I'll just have you killed fast and easy.
15:15I warned you about Campanella
15:25leaking your union books.
15:27And this is how you repay me.
15:28Get the fuck out of here!
15:29You and that cocksucker chin
15:30got me 13 months in Greenhaven.
15:33Seems to me I'm still the one
15:34who ought to be getting paid.
15:35The guy you killed
15:36is a citizen, Earl Bradley.
15:39You know?
15:40A working man.
15:41You don't wanna play a tackle.
15:43Keep him off the fucking field.
15:45What's it gonna take, Joe?
15:47To get you out of my way
15:48so that I can get this thing built?
15:49I told you.
15:51I want a piece.
15:54And I'm telling you
15:55that this will be.
15:58If it ain't me,
15:59it's gonna be somebody else.
16:01Project this big,
16:02Vegas,
16:03in Harlem,
16:04nobody goes along.
16:07I said I'd stay out
16:08of that uptown doogie business.
16:09This is what I expect in return.
16:11It's what you expect.
16:12That's right.
16:13You know, look,
16:14I-I-I've...
16:15I've always respected
16:17you, Bumpy.
16:19Okay, we've had
16:20our differences,
16:22but I respect
16:23the way you carry yourself.
16:26And I respect
16:27the way you always make money.
16:28What I cannot respect
16:30is you not wanting to share.
16:35Let me be clear, Joe,
16:37so that there's no mistakes.
16:39If you don't want trouble,
16:41stay away from me,
16:42stay away from my people.
16:50James Baldwin.
16:53Heck no, Sitmoma
16:53can't even get him
16:54to tour the museum.
16:56And you managed
16:57to get him to do a reading.
16:58I told you James is an old friend.
17:00Well, the board is simply
17:02over the moon.
17:04The tea, it's called chamomile.
17:08I'm aware.
17:10Do you know what he plans to read?
17:12He hasn't told me yet,
17:13but we're having coffee
17:14to discuss it.
17:15It should be something
17:16more visceral,
17:18something that captures
17:19the raw essence
17:21of the Harlem ghetto.
17:22Shocking,
17:23but hopeful.
17:28I'll be sure to tell him.
17:33This is delicious.
17:36Chamomile.
17:36Hey, Daddy.
17:47Hey there, little one.
17:49I wanted to thank you
17:50for watching our phone call.
17:52Of course.
17:54Y'all figured out a way
17:55to bail out your Panther friend.
17:58We gotta.
17:59Should I ask
17:59where you raise the money?
18:01Not if you don't want to know.
18:06You gotta stop running
18:07with these radicals, at least.
18:08They're gonna end up
18:08getting you killed.
18:09I'd rather die fighting
18:10than wait for some trigger-happy cop
18:12to kill me
18:12because I ain't kissed his ass, right?
18:14We're talking about pigs.
18:15I had my head split open
18:16in the basement of the 27
18:18long before you were ever born.
18:20I know that.
18:22That's why I thought
18:22you of all people
18:23would understand.
18:24I do.
18:26So you agree
18:26with the Panther's mission,
18:27but you don't want me
18:28to be a part of it
18:28because I might get hurt.
18:30Damn right.
18:31Didn't you teach me
18:31the worst thing a person
18:32could be was a hypocrite?
18:36You're my little girl.
18:39I almost lost you
18:40before to the needle.
18:44I couldn't take losing you again.
18:58I love you, Daddy.
18:59I love you, too.
19:09But this fight
19:10is bigger than us.
19:17Look,
19:19if you're gonna keep hanging out
19:22with these militants,
19:23you're not gonna be welcome
19:25at the house.
19:25I can't have this
19:27around Margaret.
19:29You're gonna have to make a decision.
19:35No.
19:37I don't.
19:38The community is listening
19:49every morning
19:50every morning.
19:51Don't do that now.
19:52Every morning.
19:53People are mean.
19:57Look, we gotta win hearts and minds.
20:00I don't know.
20:01Hey.
20:02Hey, girl.
20:05I was worried we spooked you off.
20:09What happened with your other life?
20:11What happened is we got
20:13Afeni out.
20:16Think there's room for me
20:17to crash here?
20:17Well,
20:19I don't see why not.
20:23More than Mary here,
20:24isn't that what they say?
20:25We're talking about next steps.
20:30So then,
20:31I don't know what you're doing.
20:32I don't think y'all
20:33think in the time.
20:34I don't think y'all
20:35think in the time.
20:36Our objective is here.
20:37No.
20:37No.
20:38Listen,
20:38listen,
20:39listen.
20:39No one's doubting
20:41the importance
20:41of the school programs.
20:43I just said
20:44we gotta do something
20:44that's gonna make people
20:45notice.
20:46They are noticing.
20:48They are noticing.
20:49As soon as we go
20:51on the offensive,
20:52we are not only
20:53giving those pigs
20:54more reason to come down
20:55on us,
20:55we alienate
20:56our white allies
20:58like the Village Voice.
20:59Man,
20:59fuck the Village Voice.
21:00Fuck them white
21:01liberal motherfuckers.
21:02We are a self-defense
21:03collective,
21:04not a paramilitary
21:04organization.
21:05We're talking about
21:06a symbolic action.
21:08We're not aiming
21:08to kill anyone.
21:10Hey, look here.
21:11Fella I know.
21:11Talking about some
21:12crackers trying to
21:13sell some explosives.
21:15Military grade.
21:17Enough to turn
21:17the 27 precinct house
21:18into a symbolic
21:19parking lot.
21:20Ain't nothing symbolic
21:21about explosives,
21:23Sadiq.
21:24We barely had
21:25enough money
21:25to bail her out.
21:26Now you're talking
21:26about buying explosives?
21:28You hear yourself?
21:29Who said something
21:29about buying?
21:32Oh, so robbing
21:33explosives.
21:35Guys, guys,
21:36we agreed to table
21:37this until after
21:39the summit with Oakland.
21:40And now I want
21:41to untable it.
21:42Look,
21:43what they did
21:44to you,
21:45all I'm asking
21:46is what we gonna
21:46do about it.
21:47Don't make this
21:48about her.
21:48I'm as angry
21:49about it
21:49as you are.
21:50Bombing them,
21:51though,
21:52is only gonna
21:53give them an excuse
21:53to fuck us up.
21:55They don't need
21:56an excuse.
21:57They lock us up
21:58for nothing.
22:00Put away innocent men
22:01for the rest
22:01of their lives.
22:03Nobody ever
22:04has to answer for it.
22:06What do you mean?
22:07You're supporting this?
22:11Violence
22:11is the pig's
22:12only language.
22:14They need to know
22:15that we're for real.
22:16Must have learned
22:17that from her father.
22:18Hey,
22:19stop.
22:20Stop.
22:21Somebody gotta say it.
22:23Maybe I did.
22:27Let's put it
22:28to a vote.
22:35Tell Bumpy
22:36I'm sorry.
22:37Bumpy the one
22:37to hear sorry.
22:38What's he wanna hear
22:39then?
22:39Wants to hear yes.
22:42Hey,
22:42what am I supposed
22:43to say?
22:43You're supposed
22:43to say you'll
22:44sell us
22:44concrete.
22:45You think I heard
22:46about the last guy
22:47y'all talked
22:47to supply you
22:48how he ended
22:48up in the back
22:49of his own mixer?
22:51Come on,
22:51man,
22:51what do I say
22:52when Joe Colombo
22:53spots my trucks
22:54in Manhattan?
22:56Afraid we're gonna
22:57have to insist.
22:58Oh, man,
22:59I've been doing
22:59business at Bumpy
23:00since I first started
23:01out in the fight game
23:02and never once
23:02has he insisted
23:03I take an offer.
23:05Desperate times,
23:06I guess.
23:07Well,
23:07so now I gotta choose
23:08who I'm more afraid
23:08of, y'all
23:09or Joe Colombo.
23:11Man,
23:11this ain't no way
23:11to do business.
23:12What if we paint
23:15the trucks,
23:16swap out the plates?
23:17Colombo can't tell
23:18they're yours.
23:19But Joe Colombo's
23:19got long tentacles.
23:21We could suss out
23:21Jackie's trucks
23:22of doing the job.
23:23Man,
23:23why you always
23:24gotta shit
23:25on my ideas?
23:26Because your ideas
23:27are shit.
23:28What if we didn't
23:29need your trucks?
23:30If we just wanted
23:31the concrete,
23:31would you sell
23:32to us then?
23:33What's good
23:33with the concrete?
23:34You can't get it
23:34where you need it.
23:35Let us worry
23:36about that.
23:54Woman,
23:54you look
23:55as fine
23:55as fish sticks.
23:57Where you headed?
23:58I'm going
23:59to see Jimmy Baldwin.
24:00Tell him Alice Bradshaw
24:01has some thoughts
24:02about what he's reading
24:04at the gathering tomorrow.
24:07I bet I'll love that.
24:09I hope you didn't
24:10wear that dress
24:11for Baldwin,
24:11did you?
24:12You'd be an awful waste.
24:17I noticed,
24:18um,
24:19at least packed
24:21her bags and left.
24:23She can come back
24:23as soon as she's done
24:24with those radicals.
24:26I can't have that stuff
24:26around Margaret.
24:28Ellsworth.
24:30Margaret is already
24:31around all that stuff.
24:33I mean,
24:33in school,
24:34in the newspapers,
24:35on television.
24:36Do you understand
24:37that by kicking
24:38Elise out,
24:39you're actually
24:39making her more
24:40exposed to danger?
24:42And what's going
24:42to hurt Margaret more
24:43if Elise dies
24:44as a panther
24:45or lives here
24:46as one?
24:47I don't want her
24:48to die anyway.
24:49I know.
24:51And I personally
24:52think the panthers
24:52are going about
24:53things the wrong way,
24:54but...
24:54Maybe Elise
24:58would rather
24:59live for something
25:00than die for nothing.
25:02See you later.
25:12Okay.
25:16So, uh,
25:17what you mean
25:17you never drove
25:18a truck before?
25:18Now,
25:19when the hell
25:19would I have
25:20had to drive
25:20a cement truck?
25:21It's just like
25:22your car,
25:22except everything's
25:23slow and heavy.
25:24Plus,
25:25your blind spots
25:25are really blind.
25:27Fuck it,
25:27I'll figure it out.
25:28None of which
25:29matters a lick
25:29until we get
25:30through this chain link.
25:32We could
25:32climb over
25:33the razor wire,
25:34grab through
25:35the fence
25:35on our way out.
25:37Driving over
25:37a chain link
25:38and razor wire
25:39might snag
25:39one of the axles.
25:41Besides,
25:42I came prepared.
25:44Ah.
25:49Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
25:50whoa, hold the phone, baby.
25:51Something that captures
25:53the raw essence
25:54of the Harlem ghetto.
25:55Shocking,
25:56but hopeful.
25:58Those bitches
25:58got another thing
25:59coming.
25:59James.
26:01More coffee?
26:02Yes,
26:02thank you, dear lady.
26:06Mm-mm.
26:07You've had enough,
26:08and you still owe me
26:0920 from Rosa's
26:10poker night.
26:14Dear you,
26:15dear you,
26:15dear you,
26:16dear you,
26:16dear you.
26:17Mm-mm.
26:17Mm-mm.
26:18Mm-mm.
26:18Mm-mm.
26:19Mm-mm.
26:20Mm-mm.
26:20Mm-mm.
26:21Mm-mm.
26:21Mm-mm.
26:22Mm-mm.
26:22Mm-mm.
26:23I need you
26:28to mind yourself.
26:30Stay away
26:30from controversial topics.
26:32Just this once.
26:33The New York
26:34Fine Arts Board
26:35is a very
26:35influential group
26:36of people.
26:37Ain't it the truth?
26:38I imagine that's why
26:39you're trying so hard
26:40to get on it.
26:41I am trying
26:42to get on it
26:43to help black artists,
26:44present company
26:45very much included,
26:46get the recognition
26:47they deserve.
26:49You know how much
26:49talent in our community
26:50never gets seen
26:51or heard
26:52in wider circles?
26:53No.
26:54Tell me about it.
26:57You know those
26:58white bellies
26:59don't want change.
27:00They just want to feel
27:01noble because they
27:02rub elbows with us
27:03pitiful Negroes
27:04up here in the jungle.
27:05Well,
27:06this pitiful
27:08Negroes
27:09is begging you
27:11to err
27:12to err
27:12on the side
27:13of hopeful
27:13not shocking.
27:17Let's not offend
27:17those white bellies.
27:23Mamie Johnson,
27:24you are the bee's knees.
27:26where are you going, girl?
27:45Where are you going, girl?
27:49I'm not sure.
27:59It's bad manners.
28:01Vote for a call of action
28:02and then bail before you come to.
28:07You might call that chicken shit.
28:08Look, I respect what we're doing here.
28:15You know I do.
28:18But my daddy is right.
28:19I go to prison.
28:20It ain't just me that suffers.
28:21My daughter.
28:23You're doing this for your daughter
28:24and for the children to come.
28:30You're the one
28:31who said bombing's wrong.
28:34Look,
28:36Elise,
28:37when I first joined the party,
28:39I was flip-flopping around
28:40just like you.
28:43It just takes some time
28:45to get used to the idea
28:46of revolution.
28:49I'm just
28:50confused.
28:52It's all
28:52just a jumble in my head.
28:59When your daughter
29:00was getting whooped
29:02by the school,
29:04who had your back?
29:10Just keep the faith with us, sis.
29:22Oh, yeah, I got that.
29:29How's it going?
29:30We're making good time.
29:32Odds are we finished by sundown.
29:34That's good.
29:35Junie ain't never drove
29:36a truck before today.
29:37You ain't never drove
29:38a truck before?
29:39Shit, I'm a fast learner.
29:40Don't worry about it.
29:43You ain't gonna be driving
29:44into the city anyway.
29:45How come?
29:46Black driving a cab.
29:48Clumbo makes them
29:49as soon as they cross the bridge.
29:50Who are we gonna get to drive them?
29:52That's by next stop.
29:55Hey, hey.
29:57Huh.
29:58Backing down
30:03don't always make you
30:04a coward.
30:05Sometimes
30:06it just makes you smart.
30:09You really don't think
30:09I can beat these kidneys, huh?
30:11Shit.
30:12Since I was 22 years old,
30:14I seen you do things
30:15I didn't think
30:16could be done.
30:18So what's the problem then?
30:19You get your dream built.
30:21Vegas and Harlem.
30:23People from the hood
30:24are gonna be staring up
30:25at Bumpy Johnson's empire
30:26touching the sky
30:27thinking
30:29what else could be possible?
30:32Who's gonna be thinking
30:33about what kind of peace
30:34Joe Columbo got?
30:36No one's even gonna know.
30:37I don't know.
30:38I don't know.
30:38That's pride.
30:40You bet your ass it is.
30:41We putting a lot
30:42on the line for your pride.
30:44He's gonna come after you
30:45hard and you know it.
30:46You want out?
30:47Just say so.
30:48Just say so.
30:50Not me.
30:52I'm with you to the end.
30:55Oh, man.
30:58Just saying.
31:00You ain't gotta jump
31:01off a cliff
31:01just to prove
31:02you ain't scared of heights.
31:09You're asking us
31:10to go against Joe Columbo.
31:12You are against Joe Columbo.
31:14Last I checked you
31:15were the Genovese family, right?
31:16If we give you
31:17union drivers for the cement,
31:19Columbo will find out.
31:20It'll cause a war.
31:22So we gotta be careful.
31:23What's in it for us?
31:25I figure anything
31:26that's against Joe Columbo
31:27is a win for you.
31:29I don't know how many times
31:29I gotta say this.
31:31I got out of the douchey game.
31:33Your old man,
31:33he'd understand
31:34the value of that.
31:35My old man
31:36who hates your fucking guts,
31:37you think mentioning him
31:38helps you case?
31:40He hates my guts,
31:41but he always ended up
31:42siding with me.
31:44You know why?
31:45Because he knew
31:46that he could trust me.
31:47I'd advise you
31:48to do the same.
31:49You're giving us
31:50advice now.
31:51Yeah, why not?
31:53All right.
31:54Look,
31:55we'll give you
31:57the drivers
31:57because we make
31:58more money with you
31:59as our friend
31:59than our enemy.
32:01But if Columbo
32:02finds out,
32:02we're both fucked.
32:04So we gotta make sure
32:05that he don't.
32:09Remember,
32:10the more they believe
32:11you're really ready
32:12to kill him,
32:12the less likely
32:13they are to make you
32:14prove it.
32:14You're talking about
32:15robbing an armory.
32:16We need explosives
32:17and we ain't got
32:18money to buy it.
32:19What choice we got?
32:21Look, y'all asking
32:21for trouble.
32:23There'll be military police
32:24all over the place.
32:25And we'll be ready
32:26for those motherfucking
32:27mean green MPs.
32:28I scouted the place.
32:29The Westgate
32:29only got one guard.
32:30You got any idea
32:31how many tons of ordinance
32:32the army is sending
32:33to Vietnam every day?
32:35We pluck one box
32:36and we gone.
32:37Nobody's the wiser.
32:38Look, all I'm saying is
32:39I hope it don't end up
32:40like the last time
32:41with one of us in jail.
32:42You got a better idea,
32:43college boy.
32:44A chemical company.
32:46What, we fitting
32:48to get the ingredients,
32:50mix it up ourselves
32:50like a cake?
32:52No.
32:53They got dynamite there
32:54for demolition projects,
32:55stuff like that.
32:56Dynamite?
32:57They had a chemical company.
32:59Ain't really chemical.
33:01They do extermination.
33:03Yeah, and how you know
33:04all this, sister?
33:06Because
33:06he belongs to my father.
33:10shit the fuck down.
33:32I don't know why
33:33you called me back.
33:34I ain't talked to Joe Colombo
33:36since the last time
33:37we spoke.
33:38He will.
33:40He's gonna be sending you
33:41after some of my union drivers.
33:43When?
33:44Why?
33:45When he finds out
33:46they've been delivering
33:46concrete to Bumpy Johnson.
33:49I don't want our people hurt.
33:51I might put you
33:51in a sweet spot.
33:53If Joe Colombo,
33:54Bumpy Johnson
33:54going at it,
33:56you get to stay
33:57by his best friend.
33:58Let us do the thinking,
33:59smart guy.
34:00Let me get this straight.
34:03You want me
34:04to protect your drivers?
34:05Hey,
34:06give him a fucking prize.
34:09For a fee,
34:09of course.
34:11Where did
34:12all in Bumpy's
34:12concrete from?
34:15Flushing.
34:16I'll give you
34:17the address.
34:30Fuck us around,
34:31screw this up.
34:32I'll be waiting.
34:35You're gonna be
34:35waiting on me.
34:37I don't know
34:38if that's the date
34:38you want.
34:39Mm-hmm.
34:40Careful, nigga.
34:43Genevieve's family
34:44ain't all broads.
34:51He really say all that?
34:54Yeah,
34:55he want me to know
34:55how tough he is.
34:56Like a school kid
34:59playing Al Capone.
35:02So then he really
35:03ain't all that tough?
35:05No, he plenty tough.
35:08But he ain't
35:08calling no shots.
35:11See,
35:11Gene Gigante's daughter,
35:12she running the show.
35:15Get the fuck out.
35:17A woman.
35:18Well, she just
35:19ain't no regular old woman,
35:20huh?
35:22That's Gene,
35:23flesh and blood.
35:25Pino,
35:26you the underboss.
35:29Gene Gigante's daughter.
35:32I don't know, Frank.
35:34You and Biz
35:34with all these Italians,
35:35you playing with fire.
35:39I ain't scared
35:40of no fire.
35:43I done seen
35:44what fire I can do.
35:47But this time,
35:49this time,
35:50I'm gonna do the burning.
35:51I'm gonna burn
35:55tomorrow down.
35:55We gonna see
35:56who left standing.
35:57there are many
36:02lives
36:02that lives
36:04home
36:05in history.
36:06But the love
36:07of time
36:08is yours.
36:09And
36:10what does
36:11to me
36:12that
36:13I
36:13love
36:14like
36:15my love
36:16for you?
36:16I love
36:18I got something
36:29for you.
36:31But we're gonna have
36:32to get a couple
36:32things straight first.
36:35The fuck is this?
36:36You come in here
36:36making demands?
36:37I ain't got no demands
36:39for you.
36:40I just want to make sure
36:40we clear where we stand.
36:42Now,
36:43that offer you gave me
36:44about looking after
36:44your interests uptown?
36:46I gotta admit,
36:47I probably said
36:47no a little too quick.
36:49My grandma always said
36:50I ain't had great patience.
36:53That offer still
36:53on the table?
36:54Yeah,
36:54I don't know,
36:55Frank.
36:56I don't usually
36:57reopen negotiations,
36:59you know what I mean?
37:00That ain't good business,
37:01you know?
37:06I tell you what,
37:07just out of curiosity,
37:09what made you change
37:10your mind?
37:12You gonna want to know
37:13what I know.
37:15But when I tell you,
37:17it ain't gonna be safe
37:17for me out here on my own.
37:19It ain't gonna be safe
37:20for you on your own.
37:22Jesus,
37:22who does see not coming?
37:25Safe from home
37:26Bumpy Johnson?
37:27The Genevieve's family.
37:30Stella Gigante.
37:32What about her?
37:34She playing the hell
37:35at you.
37:36Now she helping
37:37Bumpy Johnson
37:38backdoe you.
37:39Look,
37:40like I said,
37:41when I tell you
37:42what I know,
37:43I'm gonna need
37:44protection
37:44because she gonna
37:45know it came from me.
37:50Okay.
37:52Congrats,
37:52you're on the payroll.
37:54You work for me now.
37:56Let's hear it.
38:00I know
38:00Bumpy Johnson
38:01getting that concrete.
38:08Almost ready?
38:10For what?
38:10The reading.
38:13Jimmy Baldwin,
38:14the New York
38:15Fine Arts Board.
38:16Don't tell me
38:16you forgot.
38:17I got business.
38:20No.
38:22What?
38:23I said no.
38:24Not today.
38:26I told you
38:26how important this was.
38:27Alice Bradshaw
38:28wants to meet
38:28my husband,
38:29and last I checked,
38:30that's you.
38:31Maybe I'm doing
38:31flushing at four.
38:33It's really important.
38:34And what I'm doing
38:34isn't?
38:36Can you just
38:37give up your
38:37damn business
38:38for one afternoon,
38:39or am I,
38:40as usual,
38:41on the bottom
38:41of your priority list?
38:43You know that
38:43what I'm trying to build
38:44is not just about me,
38:45right?
38:45And the New York
38:46Fine Arts Board
38:46isn't just about me.
38:49Ellsworth,
38:49I am trying
38:49to crack open
38:50a door for those
38:51coming behind us.
38:53And if that means
38:53I have to sit there
38:54grinning for some
38:55downtown ladies,
38:57then so be it.
38:58Now,
38:58are you in
38:59or are you out?
39:02Okay.
39:03I'm going.
39:06What's Baldwin
39:06gonna read?
39:07Something positive.
39:08Excuse me, folks.
39:10Yeah, come on.
39:10Come on in.
39:12You ready, Bo?
39:13Junie's out front
39:14with the car.
39:14Nat's on his way
39:15with the rest of the guys.
39:16I want you to go with Nat.
39:17Leave Junie here
39:18to drive us.
39:20You sure?
39:21Yeah.
39:22Call me from the road
39:23when you got it all loaded.
39:24Stella's drivers
39:24are on the move.
39:26All right.
39:29So,
39:31where'd he go?
39:36You know,
39:36I had issues
39:37with my daddy,
39:37but I ain't never
39:38tried to rob him.
39:40This ain't about
39:40my father.
39:42This is about
39:42the cause.
39:43You think he gonna
39:44see it that way?
39:45Robbing dynamite
39:46from his business?
39:47Deep down,
39:48I think he supports
39:48what we stand for.
39:50All right.
39:52Well, I'm looking forward
39:53to reading this
39:53thank you note.
39:55Just hoping he don't
39:56sign it with no
39:57straight razor.
39:59I'm gonna share
40:05something with you
40:06from my new book
40:07this evening.
40:08This is a crowd
40:09with an authentic
40:10concern for all
40:11of us authentic
40:12people of the
40:13authentic ghetto.
40:14Figured I'd tell you
40:15what that ghetto's
40:16authentically about.
40:19The jungle.
40:21Shocking.
40:23But hopeful.
40:24What is this?
40:26A nightmare.
40:28In the jungle,
40:29you're eating or
40:31you're getting eaten.
40:33In the jungle,
40:35ain't no such thing
40:37as go along to get along.
40:39In the jungle,
40:40the black man
40:41has historically been
40:42forced into a position
40:43of sacrifice
40:44for the sake of a society
40:46that continually
40:47marginalizes him.
40:49In the jungle,
40:51sacrifice is
40:52a perilous path.
40:54Excuse me,
40:54Miss Johnson.
40:56We're supposed to
40:56pick up something
40:57for my father?
40:58Nobody told me.
41:00I'm telling you.
41:03Need any help?
41:04Well, I brought him.
41:05For precisely at the
41:07moment you develop
41:08a conscience,
41:09you find yourself
41:10at war with society.
41:13The power of the
41:14white world
41:15is imperiled
41:16whenever a black man
41:17refuses to accept
41:18white society's
41:20definitions.
41:20And the more a country
41:21is determined
41:22to remain white,
41:23the more it will
41:24become hostile
41:25to everyone
41:25who is not white.
41:29In the jungle,
41:31the sacrifices you make
41:32to fight for civil
41:33rights and equality
41:34put you at the very
41:35threshold of death's
41:37door.
41:40Perhaps the time
41:41has come for black
41:42people to arm
41:43themselves against
41:44this terror before
41:45it's too late.
41:48At war with society,
41:51the victim,
41:52who is able to
41:53understand the
41:53situation of victimhood,
41:55is no longer a victim.
41:57They are a threat.
41:59All right,
41:59I don't have Louis
41:59sure you're ready
42:00to pull the trucks in.
42:02Where's Bumpy?
42:03At a book reading.
42:05Now get the fuck
42:05out of here, man.
42:06I will check the
42:07consistency of the mix
42:08and then we'll be
42:08ready to load.
42:09All right?
42:12Oh, shit!
42:14Take over!
42:16With which Negroes
42:18are treated in this
42:19country cannot be
42:20overstated,
42:21no matter how
42:22unwilling white society
42:23is to hear it.
42:25Watch your left!
42:26Watch your left!
42:28Lock it up!
42:29Get out!
42:29We must take a stand
42:38against the brutalization
42:39of the people
42:40as a fight
42:41for our survival
42:42and our dignity,
42:43regardless of the
42:44sacrifices it may take.
42:50Ignorance
42:51matched with power
42:53is the most dangerous
42:54enemy justice can have.
42:56the time has come
42:58for black people
42:59to fight back.
43:03In the jungle,
43:04every day
43:05is about striking
43:06a balance
43:07between self-preservation
43:08and self-sacrifice.
43:10And surely,
43:12surely,
43:13the most dangerous
43:14creation of any
43:15civilization
43:16is the man
43:17who has nothing
43:18left to lose.
43:19in the jungle,
43:37sacrifice
43:38is often
43:39the cornerstone
43:40of self-preservation,
43:41which brings us
43:42to the central question,
43:44how much of yourself
43:45can you sacrifice
43:46before there's
43:47nothing left
43:47to preserve?
43:49I think your luck
43:52done run out.
43:55Which means,
43:56in no uncertain terms,
43:58the white man's heaven
43:59is the black man's hell.
44:02Get in!
44:09Fuck!
44:11Shit!
44:12Shall we give it a test?
44:15Are you ready?
44:15If white America
44:17does not address
44:18the systemic racism
44:19and oppression
44:20of black people,
44:23there will be
44:27an inevitable
44:28uprising in the jungle.
44:30Hold on.
44:31A fire
44:31stoked with
44:33the kindling
44:33of hatred.
44:35A conflagration
44:37fed by the
44:38accumulated rage
44:39of frustration
44:40from centuries
44:41of oppression.
44:42the fire
44:45outside,
44:46do remember,
44:47springs always
44:48from the fire
44:49inside.
45:13Alice,
45:14I am so sorry.
45:16I wasn't expecting him to...
45:17Wasn't it brilliant?
45:20Brilliant.
45:21I think it's the best
45:23thing he's written
45:23in ages.
45:24Do you agree?
45:26I do.
45:28And the board?
45:30Uh,
45:30did the rest of them
45:31like it?
45:32Oh,
45:33they were enchanted.
45:35Mamie,
45:36darling,
45:36I'm almost certain
45:38you're about to be
45:39a member of our board.
45:42Nat,
45:42what are you...
45:43Hey.
45:45Alice,
45:45this is Nat Pettigrew.
45:46He's one of my
45:47husband's drivers.
45:48Pleased to meet you.
45:49Hey,
45:50boss,
45:51I need to talk to you.
45:52Excuse us for a moment.
45:55You lost your mind
45:55rolling up in here like that?
45:57Look,
45:57about me,
45:58we have a serious problem.
46:00What is it?
46:01What's wrong?
46:03It's chance.