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Ooh! Lord! Look at my wife.

? She can bring home the bacon ?

? Fry it up in a pan ?

? And never, never let me forget I'm the man ?

Go ahead, baby, orange juice.

Treat me like a king.

Baby, if I live to be 1,000, I will never see a happier day.

Mm.

Hot coffee.

Woman, you make it so easy to be me.

Mm-hm. Mm. Mm.

? I know my parents love me ?

? Stand behind me Come what may ?

? I realize that I'm ready ?

? I'm ready ?

? 'Cause I finally heard them say ?

? I heard them say ?

- ? It's a different world ? ? It's a different world ?

? From where you come from ?

? A different world ?

? Now, here's our chance to make it ?

? Here's our chance ?

? If we focus on our goal ?

? Focus on our goal ?

? If you dish it We can take it ?

? We can take it ?

? Just remember that you've been told ?

? That it's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? From where you come from ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? From where you come from ?

? It's a different world ?

? From where you come from, yeah ?

We know, glory, that liberation is righteous and our freedom is thy will.

Yo. Can we get an amen? Thou ain't with cold oatmeal.

Be quiet, you hungry heathen.

Come on, baby, grace us with your grace.

We thank you, Lord.

For we know you did not bring us this far to leave us now.

- And the Lord's people said, "Amen." - Amen.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Dorian, I believe I have you in my planner for a tutoring session.

Although I have no reservations about assisting my classmates,

CP time is unequivocally intolerable.

Way ahead of you Charmaine, 4:30 sharp.

It is a blessing to be friends with the smartest sister in class.

Thank you.

Another thing. Would you talk to that inconsiderate roommate of yours?

Some of us do not wish to hear that gold-tooth music blasting all night.

Speak for yourself, Miss Thing.

Look, Charmaine. Why don't we just drop this 90210 facade?

Neither of us has a silver spoon in our mouth or a gold tooth.

Brother, you really shouldn't play your music so loud.

And what's that, the 11th Commandment?

Look, Charmaine, I study, too, and I like Kris Kross.

Those little kids help me think.

This is a college, I do not intend to "Jump" or "Warm It Up" all night long.

Trust me. Warming it up all night should be the least of your fears.

You are so crazy.

God will punish you.

The probability that the Democrats or Republicans

will pick an African American presidential candidate in the 20th century

is one out of a thousand.

It's good to see somebody's got some blood flowing through their heads.

The rest of y'all got your brains in the pawnshop.

That's a joke.

Forget you slow monsters. All right. Let's try another one.

If 40% of entering college students--

Charmaine. Charmaine. Charmaine.

Why don't you let me ask the question first?

Okay, that makes sense. Go ahead, Mr. Wayne.

If 40% of entering college students never get degrees, what's the probability

that out of six students, half will have one?

Uh, Terrell, my brother, hometown, how do we go about solving this?

We bust the probability function

because, one:

the selection of six students is a sequence of success-failure trials.

Two: each trial is independent of the other trials.

And three: the probability of success is the same in every trial.

Booyah!

All right.

Somebody fresh out of the pawnshop. Work it out on the board.

No, that's all right. I wouldn't want to step on Miss Charmaine's toes.

Miss Charmaine.

Anything to assist the educational process, Mr. Wayne.

What's so funny?

Hey! The joke is over.

"Digit h--"

- Who did this? - Terrell Walker. He set me up.

Charmaine, easy.

Brother, what does "digit ho" mean?

I guess it means she'll do anything for a math problem.

You're not letting that hood get away with that.

Hood? Who you calling a hood? You don't even know me.

Easy, easy!

This is not junior high. It's college.

You owe her an apology.

For what?

Come on, man.

Bet.

Charmaine, I'm very sorry.

Ho.

Class dismissed!

- Class dismissed! - Let me at him!

- Come on, get it! - Get in the corner.

Get in the corner. Back up.

Get in the corner.

Come on, easy, Charmaine. Just breathe.

Charmaine, just breathe. Just breathe, just breathe, just breathe.

Go get some water.

What is the matter with you?

I'm sorry, but she shouldn't have called me no hood.

I don't care what she called you. You are a man, boy.

Come on, man, why you trying to play me?

I know you wanted to laugh.

Listen, listen. What you better know

is that if you ever get out of line in my class like that again�

- Yeah. - You understand me?

- Yeah, I hear you. - Okay.

Pardon me, my brother. Perhaps this will get you through the day.

Wow.

Homemade cookies.

Homemade Christian cookies.

See, this right here,

this is the Ten Commandments.

And this right here is Jesus.

You gave Jesus a Jheri curl?

That's an afro, fool.

You know, feet of brass, hair like wool.

I do know my scriptures.

- Gina, this is� - Stupid.

Watch it, Terrell, 'cause God don't like ugly.

Then pray for salvation.

I demand he gets what he deserves.

I'm not arguing with you. You're right, he's wrong.

Beyond that, what can I do?

Do I detect a problem or am I just hearing a loud mouth?

Today, during my statistics class,

another student got up and called me a h�

- A hussy? - H�

- H� - A heifer?

- Try again, Dean. - A�

A ho?

Oh, damn! That was my next guess.

What kind of a little pig would call you this?

Terrell Walker, a natural-born thug.

Dean, how will he be disciplined?

Just a minute, Charmaine.

One reason parents send their kids to school

is so they can learn to solve their own problems

without running to Mommy, Daddy, or the Dean of students.

But it could be argued that her rights as a student have been violated.

How? It was just one word.

Look at student policy.

A student is punishable for any verbal or physical behavior

that stigmatizes an individual based on race, religion, or gender.

I know the law, Miss Anita Hillman.

Furthermore, I'm concerned that

if we condone derogatory words against female students,

soon they'll think they can use them against female faculty.

Well�

Then I'll just have to check into this.

This guy right here is a trip, this brother.

- One of your pupils? - Yeah.

This afternoon, he put a sign on Charmaine's back

that said "Digit ho,"

'cause she'll do anything for a math problem.

No.

What is the punch line?

You get it. "Digit ho", she'll do anything for a math problem?

I find that joke juvenile and deplorable,

and so is your sense of humor.

- You are a teacher now. - Whitley�

If you didn't set him straight, I will.

No, stop it.

What are you gonna do, make him drink your coffee? Relax.

- Mr. Wayne, so glad to have run into you. - Hey.

Yes, Whitley and I were just about to eat.

- Do you want to join us? - Would you like some swine?

Well, as appetizing as that sounds, I'll pass.

Would that young man happen to be Terrell Walker?

Yeah. 1,500 on his SATs.

Hey, Terrell, come here for a second.

This is my wife, Whitley Wayne.

How do?

- And this of course you know is-- - Dean Davenport.

I got to tell you, I like your style. You've got it going on.

- That I do. - Yeah.

However, Charmaine Brown has officially filed a complaint against you.

This is a summons for you to appear in Hillman student court.

- Court? - Wait, Dean. Is this about--

This is about Mr. Walker creating an uncomfortable environment

and inhibiting another student's education.

You can't be serious. I don't believe this.

Terrell, Dean, not to excuse what happened,

but it was just a harmless joke.

Harmless? I don't think so.

It's bad enough when others disrespect our people,

but doubly offensive when we do it to ourselves.

Now, Mr. Walker, you can be certain that this court is no joke.

Now, I may have it "going on."

But if you're found guilty,

you'll be going out.

We need to be patient with misguided brothers like Terrell.

For centuries, brothers have been supreme targets for oppression.

I mean, you know, to bloom, a flower must be nurtured.

Sisters, don't give us a lawnmower. Give us sunlight and water.

Please. The sun has set and the well is dry.

Maybe Shazza has a point. Shouldn't we just forget about this?

He probably didn't even mean it.

How do you know?

Even if he did, we should turn the other cheek, right, Dorian?

- America's tried to emasculate brothers. - Amen.

But we need to learn to start turning to our sisters and not on them.

- All right. - That's why

I'm defending Charmaine at the trial.

Seriously, if that was me, it would have been on.

I would have clocked the brother, end of story.

I knew that.

I'm sorry I missed your charm school training.

You should be, 'cause that's why you're in trouble now.

I tried to clock the--

Mm.

Terrell, can I have a word with you, please?

What you got to say won't even faze me.

I've been called everything from Pee-wee Herman to Rick James.

Has anyone said that they wanna represent you?

Oh. A trick question now.

Am I supposed to be impressed by this macho bravado?

Look, little brother, I know that you are scared to death.

You need my help.

I'm a law student, so I need the experience.

I know that representing you is going to be like representing the devil,

but even the devil has his side of the story and it should be heard.

Why? It's an open-and-shut case.

Miss Nose-in-the-air opens her mouth and I'm supposed to shut mine.

Terrell, you can get suspended.

Or worse, you can get kicked out of school.

I know you are too smart to let that happen.

Fine, you're my lawyer.

Ease up on the gratitude.

Dean Davenport, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

The prosecution will attempt to convince you

that this is a case about the rights of one student, Charmaine Brown.

Wrong.

This is a case about the rights of a student named Terrell Walker,

a right which we all hold very dearly,

freedom of speech and expression.

Now, doesn't freedom of speech mean that I have the right to get angry,

especially when I'm provoked?

Well, the laws of the land say yes,

but Hillman's current policy, which was written 20 years ago,

says no.

I say it is time to rewrite these primitive and archaic rules

and I shall prove this in my defense.

Punk.

Ugly. Stupid.

Old!

Old? I'll look a lot younger kicking your butt.

Brothers and sisters, forgive me.

Mr. Gaines has the right to get angry.

I was out of line and disrespectful.

But don't I have the right to do that?

Or do you have the right to be respected?

You see, the defense says you don't,

and the defense also calls our rules archaic.

Well, I think they promote unity and upliftment.

That's right.

You see, those of us that do not respect our own

must be punished.

Because only a punk would not recognize

that disrespecting ourselves is ugly, stupid and old.

Now, that's a smart young man.

I love my Freddie, but I think she's in over her head.

Your Honor, as my first witness, I would like to call Professor Wayne.

Oh!

Mr. Wayne, what was Terrell's response

when you asked him to apologize to Charmaine?

He said, "I'm very, very sorry, ho."

And did you have to dismiss class early?

Yeah, a few students wanted to send him on an ambulance ride.

Then it would be fair to say that Terrell disrupted the entire class.

- Thank you. - Wha--

Mr. Wayne, as the teacher, you set the overall tone for the class?

What did you think when you saw that sign on Charmaine's back?

I felt it was deplorable

and juvenile.

I see. How can you be so certain, Mr. Wayne,

that "ho" wasn't written as in "Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas?"

Because Terrell said that Charmaine would do anything for a math problem.

You know�

I get it.

It's deplorable, but it's amusing.

- No. - Well, which one is it?

Objection, lunatic badgering the witness.

Sit down, Whitley.

I thought the sign was a joke at first�

Thank you, Mr. Wayne.

Charmaine, why did you come to Hillman college?

To help my family someday.

Everybody thinks I'm trying to be a snob, but I'm not.

There's a lot of competition, and I want to be the best.

Would you please tell the court

how you felt when Terrell called you that obscene name?

Disrespected.

Your witness, Freddie.

Charmaine, it is terrible to be disrespected, isn't it?

Yes, it is. Very terrible.

Yes. And it is very terrible to be looked down upon and belittled.

- Doesn't it make you angry? - Furious!

Yes. Aren't those the feelings you were trying to elicit

by calling Terrell's music "gold-tooth music"?

- No. - Or when you called him a hood?

I called him that because he taped that sign to my back.

It was his stupid idea of a joke.

I see. Charmaine�

Have you ever referred to another woman as a ho?

The court is waiting, Charmaine.

I may have said something on occasion or two, but I was joking.

Exactly! Exactly what you said Terrell was doing, joking.

- Yeah, but-- - Thank you. No further questions.

- It's not the same thing! - I said no further questions.

Get up out of that chair.

You ain't under the dryer at a beauty salon. Go on, sit down.

Now, Gina, you were there when Terrell blurted out that obscenity?

- Yes, I was. - In your opinion, was he joking?

No.

So you would say it was an insult rather than a joke?

Yes, but he meant it as a joke.

I don't really know.

When you saw Terrell put that sign on Charmaine's back, were you amused?

I didn't really see him do that.

Well, then one more question.

How did Charmaine feel the rest of that day?

I could tell she felt really bad.

Gina, I think the court is moved by your honesty,

and it's clear that Terrell's joke

not only affected Charmaine, but others as well.

- That's right. - Yeah.

Your witness, Freddie.

Come on, Freddie.

Gina, I would like to back up a moment, please.

Where do you sit in relation to Charmaine?

Sort of behind her.

How does one sit "sort of behind" somebody?

Okay, then. Right behind her.

I'm confused, Gina. How could you sit right behind her

and not see a sign directly on her back?

I tend to get engrossed in my class work.

Now, sister Gina, do you really expect this court to believe

that sitting behind her, you didn't see the sign,

nor did you see Terrell put it there?

The light was bad?

Gina, it's starting to make sense.

How do you feel about your roommate, Gina?

According to my client you can't stand her.

That's not true.

Weren't you jealous when Dorian called her the smartest girl in class?

- No. - Didn't you try to gain Dorian's affection

by baking him a Jheri-curled Jesus?

That was an afro.

Haven't you been Bible-toting ever since you found out he went to church.

Which of the Ten Commandments says, "thou shalt not lie"?

Do not wait till Sunday to confess.

Okay, okay, okay, I did it!

I'm the one that put the sign on her back.

I'm the one that did it. I'm sorry, girl.

Oh, no.

Oh, no, girl.

Life is a funny thing, girl. I'm sorry.

I'm confused. What?

Terrell, come up here.

Boy, why did you let these people accuse you of something you didn't do?

Let 'em? If people say you're mean, you gonna stop being who you are?

Terrell, you should have told me. I was representing you.

Although I did win without the information.

Yeah, you asked me every question except did I write the sign.

When I go downtown to the mall,

I know those people see me as a hood.

But I thought it would be different at a Black college.

Now I know.

Charmaine, come up here.

Get over here.

Terrell, listen.

If you don't want people to see you as a hood,

then stop bopping around here like you got swollen feet.

And the fact still remains that you called her a whore.

Now, I suggest� No, I warn you,

Never call a woman something

you wouldn't want somebody else to call your mother.

And, Charmaine,

honey, you don't have to put others down

in order to rise to the top.

And if you want to find some common hoods to punish,

do it in the upcoming election.

And dear, sweet Gina Devereaux�

Girl, come up here.

You are officially on academic probation.

And worse,

on my list.

When I tell you to jump, you better do it.

- Yes, Dean. - Jump.

Next time, ask how high.

And to the rest of you people�

Remember, a family can never be united with its brothers and sisters divided.

Never!

Now unite and get out of here.

Terrell, I thought I was supposed to show you the way.

Seems like maybe I have a thing or two to learn myself.

Are you gonna leave me hanging?

I should, shouldn't I?

All right, people. This is not a networking party.

Put these tables and chairs back where they belong.

Move, people!

So?

So.

Am I gonna have to do this alone?

- Jump. Jump. - Sorry.

Jump. Jump.

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