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?
00:13What if you're going to fame into the wolves?
00:15The time'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. Pleasure 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.
00:47Malcolm's killers will pay.
00:49If you do that, you're gonna have to answer to 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!
01:11I 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.
01:23Mm-hmm.
01:40Fucking Sally Beach and Joe Fig are late this week.
01:42Yeah, I'll talk to them.
01:44Yeah, tell them it better than that fucking happened again.
01:46What do you want?
01:50Frank Lucas is here to see you.
01:53Frank?
01:57All right, send them in.
02:03Hey, look who it is.
02:05What happened?
02:06Someone Genevieve's dood you full 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.
02:22Work?
02:23Won't this look like a fucking employment office to you?
02:26Look, it's my old lady.
02:29All right?
02:31She likes certain things, man.
02:32Certain things cost money.
02:35All right.
02:36Yeah, I understand.
02:39What's her name?
02:42You got some work for me?
02:46Have them collect from Sally and Joe.
02:49No, you know what?
02:50I got something better.
02:51Something 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.
03:05I need you to go talk to the owner.
03:07Guy's name is Earl.
03:08Tell Earl that he owes me a G a week for as long as he pours for Bumpy.
03:14And if he don't pay?
03:16Well, then you don't get paid.
03:19Well, let's make sure he paid in.
03:22That'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?
03:31You know what you want, man?
03:32It's been a long day.
03:33I'm ready to get home to my old lady.
03:34I'm guessing you know how this works.
03:36Now, look, Joe only want one G from me a week.
03:37Now, he gonna be sending me down here to get it from me now.
03:42I'm being shaken down by my own kind.
03:44Fuck this world coming to.
03:45Lucky Pen, I don't pay for him.
03:48Oh.
03:49You mean you work for him.
03:52Know what you want, man.
03:53It's been a long day.
03:54I'm ready to get home to my old lady.
03:57I'm guessing you know how this work.
03:59Now, look, Joe only want one G from me a week.
04:03Now, he gonna be sending me down here to get it from me now.
04:06I'm being shaken down by my own kind.
04:09Fuck this world coming to.
04:11I keep paying a lot less than a lot of other motherfuckers now.
04:15Listen to me, boy.
04:17I ain't ever pay shakedown money.
04:20Know why?
04:22I'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.
04:29Yeah, protecting this country so shitbags like you
04:31could see the light of day.
04:33Now, you gonna tell your boss I want a G a week from him
04:39for saving his spaghetti shitting ass
04:41from eating schnitzel for the rest of his life.
04:47How much you got on you?
04:50All right, look, whatever you got, man,
04:53it could be a down payment, I'm paying you.
04:54Yeah.
04:55Mm-hmm.
04:56Yeah.
04:57Fuck off my goddamn life.
04:58I'll kill you if I see you around here again, yeah?
05:01I said you hear?
05:02Shit!
05:03Shit!
05:04Ah!
05:05I'm about to be done!
05:06Put your fucking hands on me.
05:09Oh!
05:10Oh!
05:11You!
05:12Ah!
05:13Fuck!
05:14Ah!
05:15You fucking fuck!
05:16Oh!
05:17God damn it!
05:18Mm-hmm.
05:19Ah!
05:20Mm-hmm.
05:21Mm-hmm.
05:22Yeah.
05:23Yeah.
05:24Yeah.
05:25Yeah.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Yeah.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Yeah.
05:30Open up my window again.
05:33Open up my window again.
05:36I can end up calling my name.
05:39I can end up calling again.
05:41I swear to God things ain't gonna change.
05:44I swear to God things ain't gonna change.
05:47Keep a revolver with your name, I keep a revolver with your name, just in case.
05:55Lay on my back watching the ceiling fan, I had a dream to touch a kilogram, still at
06:00odds with the Irish mob, roast roast down Malcolm X Boulevard, Lord, these really out
06:06here praying on me, got the 40 on me and they stand on me, snow white mink like them Dutch
06:12shoes, run the books and let me show you how the numbers look, you can't be lucky like
06:17you Luciano, the kiddos coming like they do pianos, the fat boy got the big body, coast
06:24to coast I can shoot product.
06:27Open up my window again, open up my window again, I can end up calling my name, I can end up
06:36calling again, I swear to God things ain't gonna change, I swear to God things ain't gonna
06:42change.
06:43I keep a revolver with your name, I keep a revolver with your name, just in case.
06:49Look at that, at this rate, we'll be over by summer.
07:02You really think Bumpy gonna make it happen, huh?
07:04What'd you say?
07:05What'd you say?
07:06You heard me?
07:07Every 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 gon' 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, it's a beautiful fucking sight, look around you, got nothing but brothers
07:23up in here, brothers doing the demo, brothers digging ditches, brothers pouring the cement.
07:28Yeah, yeah, from brother Earl and Trenton.
07:33Earl, 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.
07:43Almost as hard-headed as you.
07:45What's that supposed to mean?
07:47Well, if being hard-headed was a sport, you had a trophy case.
07:52What?
07:53You got a fucking problem.
07:54What?
07:55What the fuck is it?
07:56Follow me.
07:59Excuse me, move, move, move.
08:01What's going on?
08:08No fucking way.
08:11Earl!
08:16You 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 on quick.
08:28Yeah.
08:29He's a keeper.
08:30Who the fuck do you think you are?
08:35I tell you when it's time to leave.
08:38As I was saying, I could always use a kid catches on quick.
08:55What do you say?
08:56You want to come on board with me more permanent?
08:58I got a lot of stuff I need managed uptown.
09:02With all due respect, Mr. Colombo, I ain't come off from Goldsboro to be nobody's house, nigga.
09:10You see how it comes out here to make it on my own.
09:13Nobody makes it on their own.
09:17Everybody needs friends.
09:20Sooner 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 too dumb to take it.
09:34None of my business.
09:36Well, 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.
09:47As long as our interests don't conflict.
09:51But if they do, yeah, I know where to find you.
09:56Now you go.
10:17Oh, look at this.
10:20I joined the Black Panther Party?
10:22What do you think?
10:23What do you think?
10:25I like it.
10:27It brings out your natural strength and confidence.
10:32I've been trying to see you for a while.
10:34All 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 it.
10:43Your daddy wasn't behind it.
10:45In fact, what I understand is the reason I'm alive.
10:48So they're finally gonna move you someplace with special housing?
10:52It don't matter.
10:54Words out now Bumpy Johnson's behind me
10:56makes me the safest man in this joint.
10:59Thank God.
11:01And I can't lose you two.
11:06Elise, I don't want you to come see me anymore.
11:09What?
11:10I 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, and you ain't.
11:21I'm not gonna abandon you.
11:23You know what it's like to see you in here?
11:25To see what I know I'll never have?
11:31Thank you for everything.
11:34Don't come back.
11:51They killed Errol.
11:53Stuck him in a cement mixer.
11:57Damn.
12:01You all had a family?
12:04Kids.
12:06What you do for him?
12:08What you want?
12:09You reach out to his wife?
12:10Not yet.
12:12Where's she living? In, uh, Jersey?
12:14Yeah. East Orange.
12:16I want you two to drive out there tomorrow and give her 10 grand.
12:19Ask her if there's anything she needs.
12:20Yeah. Okay.
12:23So...
12:25Who killed him?
12:27Chin's out of town, so I'm guessing Joe Colombo.
12:29Me too.
12:31The 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 Parrot business.
12:45Oh, yeah.
12:46Well, he bought into a batching plant in Flushing.
12:50That's her next move.
12:55What?
12:56These guineas.
12:58You keep cutting them out, they gonna keep cutting us up.
13:01You want me to make a deal with them after all we've been through?
13:03Way of the world, Bump.
13:05White man got his fingers in every pie no matter what it is.
13:08How are we gonna change that?
13:10No one ever has.
13:14Reach out to Jackie in Flushing and see if he wants to make a deal.
13:17Where you gonna be?
13:18Telling Colombo that if he keeps fucking with our concrete,
13:21that I'm gonna fit him for a pair of concrete shoes.
13:33In fact, I wasn't at my best last time we met.
13:37You mean when I gave you your life?
13:40Good to see you again.
13:41You want to tell me why you called me here? You expect me to guess?
13:45Watch your fucking tone.
13:48You understand that Joe Colombo had you whack some poor sap from Philly
13:51and stick him in one of his own concrete trucks.
13:56Well, can't say I know nothing about that.
13:59But if you did?
14:01But if I did?
14:06I left you breathing so that you could keep me one step ahead.
14:09How come we gotta hear about this all second-hand?
14:11Man, I told you we should've greased this fucking clown.
14:14And we will grease this fucking clown if 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 on the Eastern Parkway, you hear me?
14:26Oh, I'm listening.
14:30So Colombo's trying to muscle in on Bumpy's construction project.
14:34The thing about Joe Colombo,
14:36he don't think he owe me any explanations.
14:37Just hired me for a job.
14:40Bet you're still in tight with him?
14:42As far as it goes.
14:44What the fuck's that mean?
14:46It means there's a limit to how much Joe will trust a black man.
14:49Makes sense.
14:51Won't trust a nigger anymore if you're with a woman.
14:57Cause women are soft.
14:58I guess you're right.
14:59Cause if we ever hear about Colombo second-hand again, Pino's gonna wanna cut off your balls, stuff them in your mouth.
15:12Me?
15:13I'll just have you killed fast and easy.
15:14I warned you about Campanella leaking your union books.
15:27And this is how you repay me.
15:28Get the fuck out of here.
15:29You and that cocksucker Ching got me 13 months in Greenhaven.
15:33Seems to me I'm still the one who ought to be getting paid.
15:35The guy you killed is a citizen, Earl Bradley.
15:39You know? A working man.
15:41You don't wanna play a tackle. Keep him off the fucking field.
15:45What's it gonna take, Joe?
15:47To get you out of my way so that I can get this thing built?
15:49I-I told you.
15:51I want a piece.
15:54And I'm telling you that this won't be.
15:58If it ain't me, it's gonna be somebody else.
16:01Project this big, Vegas, and Harlem.
16:05Nobody goes along.
16:07I said I'd stay out of that uptown Doogee business.
16:09This is what I expect in return.
16:11This is what you expect.
16:12That's right.
16:14You know, look, I-I-I've...
16:16I've always respected you, Bumpy.
16:19Okay, we've had our differences.
16:22But I respect the way you carry yourself.
16:26And I respect the way you always make money.
16:29What I cannot respect is you not wanting to share.
16:36Let me be clear, Joe.
16:37So that there's no mistakes.
16:40If you don't want trouble, stay away from me.
16:42Stay away from my people.
16:50James Baldwin.
16:52Heck no, Sitmoma can't even get him to tour the museum.
16:56And you managed to get him to do a reading.
16:58Well, I told you, James, he's an old friend.
17:00Well, the board is simply over the moon.
17:03The tea, it's called chamomile.
17:07I-I'm aware.
17:10Do you know what he plans to read?
17:12He hasn't told me yet, but we're having coffee to discuss it.
17:15It should be something more visceral.
17:18Something that captures the raw essence of the Harlem ghetto.
17:22Shocking, but hopeful.
17:26I'll be sure to tell him.
17:33This is delicious.
17:35Chamomile.
17:36Hey, Daddy.
17:37Hey there, little one.
17:38I wanted to thank you for watching our FOMO.
17:52Of course.
17:54Y'all figured out a way to bail out your Panther friend.
17:57We gotta.
17:59Should I ask where you raise the money?
18:01Not if you don't want to know.
18:06You gotta stop running with these radicals at least.
18:07They're gonna end up getting you killed.
18:09I'd rather die fighting than wait for some trigger-happy cop to kill me
18:12because I ain't kissed his ass right.
18:14We're talking about pigs.
18:15I had my head split open in the basement of the 27
18:18long before you were ever born.
18:20I know that.
18:22That's why I thought you of all people would understand.
18:25I do.
18:26So you agree with the Panther's mission, but you don't want me to be a part of it
18:28because I might get hurt.
18:29Damn right.
18:31Didn't you teach me the worst thing a person could be was a hypocrite?
18:36You're my little girl.
18:39I almost lost you before to the needle.
18:44I couldn't take losing you again.
18:56I love you, Daddy.
18:59I love you, too.
19:09But this fight is bigger than us.
19:12Look.
19:21If you're gonna keep hanging out with these militants, you're not gonna be welcome at the house.
19:26I can't have this around Margaret.
19:29You're gonna have to make a decision.
19:30No.
19:33I don't.
19:35The community is listening.
19:36Every morning after the door.
19:37Don't do that.
19:38Don't do that now.
19:39Every morning.
19:40People are winning.
19:41Look, we gotta win hearts and minds.
19:43I know.
19:44I know.
19:45I know.
19:46I know.
19:47See?
19:48Hey, girl.
19:50I was worried we spooked you off.
19:54What happened with your other life?
19:56What happened is we got a phony out.
19:59Think there's room for me to crash here?
20:01Whoa.
20:03I know.
20:04I know.
20:05I know.
20:06I know.
20:07I know.
20:08I know.
20:09I know.
20:10I know.
20:11I know.
20:12I know.
20:13I know.
20:14I know.
20:15I know.
20:16I know.
20:17I know.
20:18I don't see why not.
20:23More than Mary, isn't that what they say?
20:28Yeah.
20:29We're talking about next steps.
20:31I don't know what you think.
20:32I think that you're missing the points about what we're...
20:35I am thinking!
20:36...our objective is here.
20:37No.
20:38No.
20:39Listen, listen, listen.
20:40No one's doubting the importance of the school programs.
20:43I just said we gotta do something that's gonna make people notice.
20:46They are noticing. They are noticing as soon as we go on the offensive, we are not only giving those pigs more reason to come down on us, we alienate our white allies like the village voice.
20:59Man, fuck the village voice. Fuck them white liberal motherfuckers.
21:02We are a self-defense collective, not a paramilitary organization.
21:05We're talking about a symbolic action. We're not aiming to kill anyone.
21:10Hey, look here. Fella I know. Talking about some crackers trying to sell some explosives. Military grade.
21:16Enough to turn the 2-7 precinct house into a symbolic parking lot.
21:20Ain't nothing symbolic about explosives, Sadiq. We barely had enough money to bail her out. Now you're talking about buying explosives?
21:28You hear yourself? Who said something about buying?
21:31Oh, so robbing explosives.
21:34Guys, guys, we agreed to table this until after the summit with Oakland.
21:40And now I want to untable it. Look, what they did to you, all I'm asking is what are we going to do about it?
21:47Don't make this about her. I'm as angry about it as you are.
21:50Bombing them though is only going to give them an excuse to fuck us up.
21:55They don't need an excuse. They lock us up for nothing.
21:59Put away innocent men for the rest of their lives.
22:02Nobody ever has to answer for it.
22:05What do you mean?
22:07You're supporting this?
22:10Violence is the pig's only language.
22:13They need to know that we're for real.
22:16Must have learned that from a father.
22:18Hey. Stop. Stop.
22:21Somebody got to say it.
22:22Maybe I did.
22:24Let's put it to a vote.
22:35Tell Bumpy I'm sorry.
22:36Bumpy don't want to hear sorry.
22:38What's he want to hear then?
22:39Wants to hear yes.
22:41Hey, what am I supposed to say?
22:43You're supposed to say you'll sell us concrete.
22:45You think I heard about the last guy y'all told him to supply you how he ended up in the back of his own mixer?
22:50Come on, man. What do I say when Joe Colombo spots my trucks in Manhattan?
22:55Afraid we're going to have to insist.
22:57Oh, come on.
22:58Man, I've been doing business with Bumpy since I first started out in the fight game.
23:01And never once has he insisted I take an offer.
23:04Desperate times, I guess.
23:06Well, so now I got to choose who I'm more afraid of, y'all or Joe Colombo.
23:10Man, this ain't no way to do business.
23:12What if we paint the trucks, swap out the plates?
23:17Colombo can't tell they're yours.
23:18But Joe Colombo's got long tentacles.
23:20We could suss out Jackie's trucks are doing the job.
23:23Man, why you always got a shit on my ideas?
23:26Because your ideas are shit.
23:28What if we didn't need your trucks?
23:30If we just wanted the concrete, would you sell it to us then?
23:33What's good with the concrete? You can't get it where you need it.
23:36Let us worry about that.
23:48Well, when you look as fine as fish sticks, where you headed?
23:58I'm going to see Jimmy Baldwin.
24:00Tell him Alice Bradshaw has some thoughts about what he's reading at the gathering tomorrow.
24:05I bet I love that.
24:09I hope you didn't wear that dress for Baldwin, did you?
24:12You'd be an awful waste.
24:14I noticed, um, at least packed her bags and left.
24:21She can come back as soon as she's done with those radicals.
24:24I can't have that stuff around Margaret.
24:27Ellsworth.
24:29Margaret is already around all that stuff.
24:32I mean, in school, in the newspapers, on television.
24:35Do you understand that by kicking Elise out, you're actually making her more exposed to danger?
24:40And what's going to hurt Margaret more if Elise dies as a Panther or lives here as one?
24:46I don't want her to die anywhere.
24:48I know, and I personally think the Panthers are going about things the wrong way, but maybe Elise would rather live for something than die for nothing.
25:11See you later.
25:12Okay.
25:13So, uh, what you mean you never drove a truck before?
25:18Now, when the hell would I ever have to drive a cement truck?
25:21It's just like your car, except everything's slow and heavy.
25:24Plus, your blind spots are really blind.
25:27Fuck it, I'll figure it out.
25:28None of which matters a lick until we get through this chain link.
25:31We could climb over the razor wire, ramp through the fence on our way out.
25:37Driving over a chain link and razor wire might snag one of the axles.
25:41Besides, I came prepared.
25:44Ah.
25:48Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
25:50Hold the phone, baby.
25:51Something that captures the raw essence of the Harlem ghetto?
25:55Shocking, but hopeful?
25:57Those bitches got another thing coming.
25:59James.
26:00More coffee?
26:01Yes.
26:02Thank you, dear lady.
26:03Mm-mm.
26:04Mm-mm.
26:05You've had enough.
26:06And you still owe me 20 from Rosa's Poker Night.
26:10Dear you, dear you, dear you, dear you, dear you, dear you.
26:18I need you to mind yourself.
26:30Stay away from controversial topics.
26:32Just this once.
26:33The New York Fine Arts Board is a very influential group of people.
26:37Ain't it the truth?
26:38I imagine that's why you're trying so hard to get on it.
26:41I am trying to get on it to help black artists, present company very much included, get the recognition they deserve.
26:48You know how much talent in our community never gets seen or heard in wider circles?
26:53No.
26:54Tell me about it.
26:55You know those white bellies don't want change.
27:00They just want to feel noble because they rub elbows with us pitiful Negroes up here in the jungle.
27:05Well, this pitiful Negroes is begging you to err on the side of hopeful, not shocking.
27:16Let's not offend those white bellies.
27:19Mamie Johnson, you are the bee's knees.
27:48Where are you going, girl?
27:49I'm, uh, not sure.
27:50It's bad manners.
27:51Vote for a call of action.
27:52And then bail before you come, too.
27:53You might call that chicken shit.
27:55Look, I respect what we're doing here.
27:58You know I do.
27:59But my daddy is right.
28:00I go to prison.
28:01It ain't just me that suffers.
28:02My daughter.
28:03You're doing this for your daughter.
28:04And for the children to come.
28:05You're the one who said bombing's wrong.
28:06You're the one who said bombing's wrong.
28:07Look.
28:08You're the one who said bombing's wrong.
28:09Look.
28:10You're the one who said bombing's wrong.
28:11Look.
28:12Elise, when I first joined the party, I was flip-flopping around.
28:18Just like you.
28:19It just takes some time to get used to the idea of revolution.
28:20I don't know.
28:21I don't know.
28:22You're right.
28:23I go to prison.
28:24It ain't just me that suffers.
28:25My daughter.
28:26You're doing this for your daughter.
28:27And for the children to come.
28:28You're the one who said bombing's wrong.
28:32Look.
28:35Elise, when I first joined the party, I was flip-flopping around.
28:41Just like you.
28:44It just takes some time to get used to the idea of revolution.
28:49I'm just confused.
28:52It's all Omar, my kid, my daddy.
28:57It's all just a jumble in my head.
28:59When your daughter was getting whooped by the school, who had your back?
29:06Just keep the faith with us, sis.
29:13Oh, yeah.
29:14I got that.
29:15How's it going?
29:16We're making good time.
29:19Odds are we finished by sundown.
29:34That's good.
29:35Junie ain't never drove a truck before today.
29:37He never drove a truck before?
29:39Shit, I'm a fast learner.
29:41Don't worry about it.
29:43You ain't going to be driving into the city anyway.
29:45How come?
29:46Black driving a cab.
29:48Clumbo makes them as soon as they cross the bridge.
29:50Who are we going to get to drive them?
29:51That's by next stop.
29:54Hey, hey.
29:56Backing down don't always make you a coward.
30:05Sometimes it just makes you smart.
30:08You really don't think I can beat these kidneys, huh?
30:11Shit.
30:12Since I was 22 years old, I seen you do things I didn't think could be done.
30:17So what's the problem then?
30:19You get your dream built.
30:21Vegas and Harlem.
30:22People from the hood are going to be staring up at Bumpy Johnson's empire.
30:26Touching the sky.
30:28Thinking, what else could be possible?
30:31Who's going to be thinking about what kind of peace Joe Colombo got?
30:35No one's even going to know.
30:36I don't know.
30:37I don't know.
30:38That's pride.
30:39You bet your ass it is.
30:41We putting a lot on the line for your pride.
30:43He's going to come after you hard and you know it.
30:45You want out?
30:46Just say so.
30:48Just say so.
30:49Not me.
30:52I'm with you to the end.
30:54Oh, man.
30:57Just saying.
30:59You ain't got to jump off a cliff just to prove you ain't scared of heights.
31:09You're asking us to go against Joe Colombo.
31:12You are against Joe Colombo.
31:14Last I checked, you were the Genovese family, right?
31:16If we give you union drivers for the cement, Colombo will find out.
31:20It'll cause a war.
31:22So we gotta be careful.
31:24What's in it for us?
31:25I figure anything that's against Joe Colombo is a win for you.
31:28I don't know how many times I gotta say this.
31:30I got out of the doozy game.
31:32Your old man, he'd understand the value of that.
31:35My old man who hates your fucking guts,
31:37you think mentioning him helps you case?
31:39He hates my guts, but he always ended up siding with me.
31:43You know why?
31:45Because he knew that he could trust me.
31:47I'd advise you to do the same.
31:49You're giving us advice now.
31:51Yeah, why not?
31:53Alright.
31:54Look.
31:55We'll give you the drivers because we make more money with you as our friend than our enemy.
32:00But if Colombo finds out, we're both fucked.
32:03So we gotta make sure that he don't.
32:06Remember, the more they believe you're really ready to kill him, the less likely they are to make you prove it.
32:14I'm talking about robbing an armory.
32:16We need explosives, and we ain't got money to buy.
32:19What choice we got?
32:20Look, y'all asking for trouble.
32:22There'll be military police all over the place.
32:25And we'll be ready for those motherfucking Mean Green MPs.
32:28I scouted the place.
32:29The Westgate only got one guard.
32:30You got any idea how many tons of ordnance the army is sending to Vietnam every day?
32:35We pluck one box and we gone.
32:37Nobody's the wiser.
32:38Look, all I'm saying is I hope it don't end up like the last time.
32:41With one of us in jail.
32:42You got a better idea, college boy.
32:43A chemical company.
32:45What, we fitting to get the ingredients, mix it up ourselves like a cake?
32:51No.
32:52They got dynamite there.
32:53For demolition projects, stuff like that.
32:55Dynamite?
32:56Got a chemical company.
32:57Ain't really chemical.
32:59They do extermination.
33:02Yeah, and how you know all this, sister?
33:05Because he belongs to my father.
33:10Shut the fuck down.
33:31I don't know why you called me back.
33:35I ain't talked to Joe Colombo since the last time we spoke.
33:38He will.
33:40He's gonna be sending you after some of my union drivers.
33:43When?
33:44Why?
33:45When he finds out they've been delivering concrete to Bumpy Johnson.
33:49I don't want our people hurt.
33:51I might put you in a sweet spot.
33:53If Joe Colombo, Bumpy Johnson going at it, you get to stay by his best friend.
33:58Let us do the thinking, smart guy.
34:01Let me get this straight.
34:03You want me to protect your drivers?
34:05Hey, give him a fucking prize.
34:08For a fee, of course.
34:10Where the Harlem Bumpy's concrete from?
34:14Flushing.
34:16I'll give you the address.
34:18Fuck us around, screw this up.
34:33I'll be waiting.
34:35You're gonna be waiting on me.
34:37I don't know if that's the date you want.
34:40Mm-mm.
34:41Careful, nigga.
34:43Genevieve's family ain't all broads.
34:51He really say all that?
34:54Yeah, he want me to know how tough he is.
34:58Like a school kid playing Al Capone.
35:01Hm.
35:02So then he really ain't all that tough?
35:05Nah, he plenty tough.
35:07But he ain't calling no shots.
35:10See, Chen Gigante's daughter, she running the show.
35:13Get the fuck out.
35:16A woman.
35:18Well, she just ain't no regular old woman, huh?
35:21Mm-hmm.
35:22That's Chen, flesh, and blood.
35:25But Pino, he the underboss.
35:29Chen Gigante's daughter.
35:33I don't know, Frank.
35:34You and Biz with all these Italians, you playing with fire.
35:39I ain't scared of no fire.
35:43I done seen what fire I can do.
35:47But this time...
35:49This time, I'm gonna do the burning.
35:54I'm gonna burn them all down.
35:55We gonna see who left standing.
36:01There are many lives
36:03That lives home in history
36:06But the level of time is yours
36:09And, uh, and what does to me that?
36:12I love love like my love for you
36:16I want you
36:17I want you
36:18I want you
36:19I want you
36:21I want you
36:29I got something for you
36:31But we gonna have to get a couple things straight first
36:35The fuck is this? You coming here making demands?
36:37I ain't got no demands for you
36:39I just wanna make sure we clear where we stand
36:42Now that offer you gave me about looking after your entrance uptown
36:46I gotta admit, I probably said no a little too quick
36:49My grandma always said I ain't had great patience
36:52That offer still on the table?
36:54Yeah, I don't know, Frank
36:56I don't usually reopen negotiations, you know what I mean?
36:59That ain't good business, no
37:06I tell you what, just out of curiosity
37:09What made you change your mind?
37:11You gonna wanna know what I know
37:14But when I tell you
37:16It ain't gonna be safe for me on here on my own
37:19It ain't gonna be safe for you on your own
37:21Jesus, who does see not coming?
37:24Safe from old Bumpy Johnson
37:26Old Bumpy Johnson?
37:28The Genevieve's family
37:30Stella Gigante
37:32What about her?
37:34She playing the hell at you
37:36Now she helping Bumpy Johnson backdoe you
37:39Look, like I said
37:41When I tell you what I know
37:43I'm gonna need protection
37:45Cause she gonna know what came from me
37:50Okay
37:52Congrats, you're on the payroll
37:54You work for me now
37:56Let's hear it
38:00I know a Bumpy Johnson getting that concrete
38:08Almost ready?
38:10For what?
38:12The reading
38:14Jimmy Baldwin, the New York Fine Arts Board
38:16Don't tell me you forgot
38:18I got business
38:20No
38:22What?
38:23I said no, not today
38:25I told you how important this was
38:27Alice Bradshaw wants to meet my husband
38:29And last I checked, that's you
38:31Baby, I'm doing flushing at four
38:33It's really important
38:34And what I'm doing isn't?
38:36Can you just give up your damn business for one afternoon
38:40Or am I as usual on the bottom of your priority list?
38:43You know that what I'm trying to build is not just about me, right?
38:45And the New York Fine Arts Board isn't just about me
38:48Elseforth I am trying to crack open a door for those coming behind us
38:52And if that means I have to sit there grinning for some downtown ladies then so be it
38:58Now are you in or are you out?
39:01Okay
39:03I'm going
39:05Thank you
39:06What's Baldwin gonna read?
39:07Something positive
39:09Excuse me, folks
39:10Yeah, come on, come on in
39:12You ready, Bo?
39:13Junie's out front with the car
39:14Nat's on his way with the rest of the guys
39:16I want you to go with Nat
39:17Leave Junie here to drive us
39:20You sure?
39:21Yeah
39:22Call me from the road when you got it all loaded
39:24Stella's drivers are on the move
39:26Alright
39:27So
39:31Where'd he go?
39:36You know I had issues with my daddy but I ain't never tried to rob him
39:40This ain't about my father
39:42This is about the cause
39:43You think he gonna see it that way?
39:45Robbing dynamite from his business?
39:47Deep down, I think he supports what we stand for
39:50Alright
39:52Well I'm looking forward to reading this thank you note
39:54He was hoping he don't sign it with no straight razor
40:05I'm gonna share something with you from my new book this evening
40:08This is a crowd with an authentic concern for all of us authentic people of the authentic ghetto
40:14Figured I'd tell you what that ghetto's authentically about
40:18The jungle
40:21Shocking
40:23But hopeful
40:25What is this?
40:26A nightmare
40:28In the jungle
40:30You're eating or you're getting eaten
40:33In the jungle
40:35Ain't no such thing as go along to get along
40:39In the jungle
40:41The black man has historically been forced into a position of sacrifice
40:45For the sake of a society that continually marginalizes him
40:49In the jungle
40:51Sacrifice is a perilous path
40:54Excuse me Miss Johnson
40:56We're supposed to pick up something for my father?
40:58Nobody told me
41:00I'm telling you
41:03Need any help?
41:05Well I brought him
41:07For precisely at the moment you develop a conscience
41:10You find yourself at war with society
41:13The power of the white world is imperiled whenever a black man refuses to accept white society's definitions
41:20And the more a country is determined to remain white
41:24The more it will become hostile to everyone who is not white
41:29In the jungle
41:31The sacrifices you make to fight for civil rights and equality
41:35Put you at the very threshold of death's door
41:40Perhaps the time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it's too late
41:47Hmm?
41:49At war with society
41:51The victim
41:53Who is able to understand the situation of victimhood is no longer a victim
41:57They are a threat
41:59Alright I'll have Louis Sherry ready to pull the trucks in
42:02Where's Bumpy?
42:03Had a book reading
42:05Then get the fuck out of here man
42:07Alright we'll check the consistency of the mix
42:08And then we'll be ready to load
42:10Alright?
42:12Oh shit
42:14Take over
42:17With which negros are treated in this country
42:20Cannot be overstated
42:22No matter how unwilling white society is to hear it
42:25Watch your left! Watch your left!
42:26Watch your left!
42:28Open it up!
42:29Get out!
42:37We must take a stand against the brutalization of the people
42:40As a fight for our survival and our dignity regardless of the sacrifices it may take
42:50Ignorance matched with power is the most dangerous enemy justice can have
42:56The time has come for black people to fight back
43:00In the jungle every day is about striking a balance between self-preservation and self-sacrifice and surely
43:11And surely
43:12Surely
43:13Surely the most dangerous creation of any civilization is the man who has nothing left to lose
43:20Give me
43:21Give me
43:23Die motherfuckers!
43:26Chairs on your left!
43:34Damn!
43:36In the jungle
43:38Sacrifice is often the cornerstone of self-preservation
43:42Which brings us to the central question
43:44How much of yourself can you sacrifice before there's nothing left to preserve?
43:49I think your luck done run out
43:55Which means in no uncertain terms
43:58The white man's heaven is the black man's hell
44:03Get in!
44:09Fuck!
44:11Shit!
44:13Shall we give her the test?
44:15Are you ready?
44:16If white America does not address the systemic racism and oppression of black people
44:26There will be an inevitable uprising in the jungle
44:30A fire stoked with the kindling of hatred
44:35A conflagration fed by the accumulated rage of frustration from centuries of oppression
44:42The fire outside, do remember, springs always from the fire inside
44:53Thank you
44:54Thank you
45:04Thank you
45:05Thank you
45:13Alice, I am so sorry
45:16I wasn't expecting him to
45:17Wasn't it brilliant?
45:21Brilliant
45:23I think it's the best thing he's written in ages
45:25Do you agree?
45:27I do
45:29And the board?
45:31Did the rest of them like it?
45:33They were enchanted
45:35Mamie, darling
45:37I'm almost certain you're about to be a member of our board
45:41Nat, what are you...
45:43Hey
45:45Alice, this is Nat Pettigrew
45:47He's one of my husband's drivers
45:48Pleased to meet you
45:50Hey, boss, I need to talk to you
45:52Excuse us for a moment
45:54You lost your mind growing up in here like that?
45:57Look, about me, we have a serious problem
46:00What is it?
46:01What's wrong?
46:03It's chance