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When is Freddie coming with those juvenile delinquents?

Now, I don't have time to waste!

Dean, show some Christian tolerance.

I'm proud to be a role model

and reclaim our lost youth from the streets.

- Well� - Guess who?

Okay, everybody, come on, smile and wave.

Smile and wave.

Um�

They're a little shy, but they're my babies.

Ow!

Miss Brooks, I'll be checking in constantly.

The moment one of these brats steps out of line, I want to hear from you.

Oh, I'm sure it will be a breeze.

So? What do you think? Aren't they cute?

Oh, shoot, I've fried catfish cuter than them.

Come on, Mr. Gaines. They're scared 13-year-old kids.

- That's why they try to look tough. - Thank you, Dwayne.

If looks could kill we'd be in the morgue.

? I know my parents loved me ?

? Stand behind me Come what may ?

? 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 ?

I know I agreed to allow these presentations in Height Hall,

but I'm a little concerned here.

These young boys need strong Black men in their lives.

Mm.

They're not the only ones, Colonel.

All right, Colonel.

Freddie, you got five volunteers. Why do I count six kids?

Oh, such the math teacher, Dwayne!

Michael got transferred from my ward.

Like the others, he's got a five day pass.

If he makes it through the week, he gets parole.

Hey, you got a problem, man?

Why you sporting your gear like that? I ain't looking for no twin.

You looking to get capped if you don't get out of my face.

This is my style, so turn your gear.

Hey, hey, hey. Now, now, my little man-children, bad, bad.

Now, I want you to meet your volunteer faculty role models.

So who would like the honor

of not only helping one, but two young men?

You, young man, please come with me. We'll work on our project right away.

You, too, young man, come on, I ain't got all day.

- Uh-uh. - Come on, Dwayne.

- Come on. - Freddie, no!

Okay, fine, fine.

Just crush a young brother's life.

You owe me. You owe me.

Hey, my brothers.

What do you say we go chat about these presentations you have to give?

Hey, old man, is your mother's name Yvonne Wilson?

- No. - Then you ain't my brother then.

He's adorable. He's adorable.

All right, you little roughnecks.

We got a week to put this together.

So, who would you like to do your presentations on?

Sounds real interesting.

I was thinking more along the lines of Jackie Robinson.

Who's she?

He was the first brother to break into Major League Baseball.

- I got one. - All right. Hit me, Mike.

Steven Seagal.

What? The white boy with the ponytail?

That sound decent to me.

No, no, no, no, no. I got a much better idea.

How about Garrett A. Morgan?

Man, that sound like Five-O.

It's not a cop. This is an inventor.

I haven't been up on my inventor's book in some time

but I can remember things about Garrett A. Morgan.

Oh, man, this will be fun.

Not just the belt for the sewing machine,

uh-uh, this brother invented the gas mask,

he invented the automatic traffic signal.

I mean, the list goes on, does it not?

Hey.

Hey, this is your history, too.

It's not my butt up there giving presentations, it's yours.

Steven Seagal.

- Steven Seagal. - Where he at?

Man, I hope we don't get more wack lectures.

Man, I do. I ain't slept that good in a long time.

What did you get sent to Eden Valley for anyway?

Why you want to know, man?

I was just asking, man. Squash it.

I was with my cousin when they jacked somebody's car.

We was riding around, and Five-O rolled up.

So what about you?

I was hanging with these dudes from around the way,

they was robbing the store.

For real you had a gat, man?

A .45.

For real, man?

It ain't had no bullets, though.

You got one?

My cousin told me to hold his for him.

It was only a .38 though.

He show you how to fire it?

Nah, man. He's dead.

Damn.

All right, young lions.

We had a slow start yesterday, but we'll approach this differently.

You all like movies, right?

So?

So, if Garrett A. Morgan were alive today,

what type of movie would he be in?

Terminator.

RoboCop.

Okay, now we're getting somewhere.

Follow me. Let's say there was a movie called Brother Traffic.

Huh?

A robot with red, yellow, and green lights flashing on.

You see where I'm going?

I know where I'm going. Back to sleep.

Yo. What's up, G?

Back to the streets, brother. To the streets.

Colonel, what are you doing? What are you doing?

Like I said, Dwayne, this is warfare.

If you ain't gonna fire that missile to save our youth,

step aside, boy.

Boy.

- Now somebody say, "Ho!" - Ho!

- Say, "Ho, ho!" - Ho, ho!

Now somebody scream.

Give me a beat.

? Garrett A. Morgan Ain't no kind of softie ?

? He's the black in a cup of coffee ?

? The gas mask saved so many lives ?

? Without the traffic signal How would we drive? ?

? Safely, see? ?

? You got to admit Garrett A. Morgan ?

? Is as smooth as they get ?

Two fingers, peace.

Yeah.

Man, if my setup on 220 heard I was doing something like this,

I'd be dead.

What you say, man, "220?"

Yeah, 220 and Wilder, boy. Uptown.

I'm from Coolidge, punk. East side.

220 is a bunch of suckers.

They killed my cousin.

220 ain't no suckers.

If your cousin was down with the east side,

- he deserved to get smoked. And so do you. - Hey, hey�

- Come on. - Hey, get off.

- Hey, get off me, man! - Take it easy.

He ain't about nothing.

- Sit down now. - Get off of me.

Don't you get started with me.

I get it. I get it.

You're big men, huh? Big men, huh? Is that it?

You little knuckleheads. Now, come on.

I didn't spend three hours writing a rap so you could kill each other.

If you spent three hours writing that, we should kill you.

Kill me?

What's wrong with you?

- It's all right. - What is it?

No, Dwayne, no. It's not all right, man.

I mean, I've had to hold a gun in my hand.

I've had to kill more than once.

And I've had friends of mine killed more than once.

I didn't go all the way to Vietnam, fight my way through that

to come here and go through the same mess in my own neighborhood.

Or my mother's neighborhood.

No. These kids know how to fire an AK-47 before you know how to ride a bike.

No, Dwayne.

It's anything but all right, man.

Vern, maybe Dwayne is right.

You can lead a horse to water, but�

Man, can I go now?

For what? So you can go out there and gangbang and get yourself killed?

I got no fear of dying.

Is that what your cousin said?

How much longer?

Hey, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.

If you think that killing or being killed sounds more fun than sitting here,

letting me tell you about your history?

If that sounds more fun�

Come on, both of you, get the hell out of here.

- Bye. - Wait a minute!

Damn!

You have a chance to get paroled, to change your life.

I ain't trying to change my life. I'm chilling.

And don't be sweating me, because you ain't no O.G.

What's an O.G.?

Don't tell me that boy don't know how to spell orange juice.

It's "original gangster," Mr. Gaines.

I'll handle it.

Hold on, now. I suppose you feel the same way as Billy?

I ain't no O.G., but that doesn't mean I don't care about you.

Or your homies. Or Billy's homies.

Believe it or not, we all brothers, man.

Yeah, right.

Michael, wait, just listen to me.

When I was your age, I was dreaming about being a ballplayer,

being a racecar driver, or an astronaut.

You ain't afraid to die. I respect that.

What do you have to live for?

Man, there ain't nothing to live for.

See, Dwayne, if you cannot reach the child,

reach the parent.

Wasn't I smooth with Michael's mother?

Yeah.

You were real smooth.

I liked the way you kept talking even after she slammed the door.

- Hey, hey. - Hey.

I am good in these crisis situations.

- You go, girl. - Ha! Psych!

Psych! You got it. Go ahead.

Look at you, silly.

- What? - Wrong door!

Sweetie.

Yo man, you got a problem?

No. I'm sorry, my brother. My name is Dwayne,

and this is my wife, Whitley.

I'm Loco.

Lovely name, Loco.

We're looking for Billy's mother and father.

I'm his mother and father. What you all want?

I'm a professor at Hillman College. I'm Billy's volunteer role model.

So?

I'm trying to get him to stop from throwing his life away, man.

He was fighting some kid in my class today

because the other kid was from Coolidge.

- They talked about killing each other. - Who won?

That's not the point.

The hell it ain't.

My son knows if he let someone kick his butt,

he's going to get a whooping at home.

Brother, fighting won't be enough to get him by in life.

I didn't make the rules. Neither did Billy.

But you can break those rules, Mr. Loco.

Wouldn't you rather your little son

take a nice 13-year-old girl to the ice cream parlor?

Do you see any ice cream parlors around here?

Excuse me.

Baby, I think now is a good time for you to go wait in the car.

Dwayne, I am not leaving you alone in this building with that man.

- Sweetie, you are so brave, baby� - Dwayne�

�but, really, it will be safer if I talk to him alone.

It's a man thing.

Go on.

Give me five minutes.

Five minutes, Dwayne.

- Look, Loco- - Get on with it, man.

I know what it's like to grow up in a rough environment,

but we don't have to be victims of the ghetto.

We need to build up the community, not destroy it.

My dad kept me in line and I stayed out of trouble.

Man, step off.

If your son doesn't make it through this week,

he's going to the detention center. You want that?

I don't need you

to teach me how to be a father.

Well then, teach your son to be a man, chief.

Who do you think you are, fool? Huh?

Punk brother, coming around here, acting like you all that.

I'm taking care of my boy. See what I'm saying?

My father wasn't even around for me.

Get your hands off me.

Who you barking at, fool?

Man, I could smoke you before you get halfway down the hall.

You want to try your luck?

Now, who's my boy going to think the man is?

Five minutes.

Dwayne.

I didn't expect to see you here again.

I didn't expect you last night.

You crazy. You could've got yourself killed.

Maybe.

Talk about me throwing my life away. Look at you.

The difference is, I went there to save yours.

Why?

I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy like you said.

I just want to get this over with so I can get on parole.

But don't expect me to be nice to that punk.

- I don't want to hang out with you either. - Okay, all right.

All right. Would you all stop? This is madness. Sit down.

Sit down. Billy, tell me something.

If I gave you a gun right now, here, you got a gun.

You telling me you would shoot him?

In a minute.

- And you? - Definitely.

Why? Give me one good reason.

- He's from 220. - He's from Coolidge.

- That the best you can do? - They trying to diss us.

They think they bad.

You killed my cousin.

I didn't.

Your homies did.

If they did, he was probably asking for it.

All right. Sit down.

Tell me, how does somebody ask for it?

If they get up in your face.

You mean like this?

Is this a good enough reason for you to kill me, Billy?

Man, you buggin'.

I'm buggin'? He said I'm buggin'.

What if somebody wanted to kill you for that?

I wouldn't sweat it.

- And you? - I wouldn't care.

So, you don't care if you die, and since you don't value your life,

- you don't care if you kill. - So?

So, isn't there one thing worth living for?

Come on. If you weren't gangbangers,

and you could be anything in the world,

what would you be?

Come on, help me out.

Maybe a movie star.

- A movie star! - What's so funny?

- I wanna be a movie star, man. - All right, all right.

Sit down.

Sit down, now.

Movie star, okay.

- What about you? - I don't know.

I know you don't know, but try.

Come on. It's free, man. Just pick anything.

I'd be like Clayton.

Who's Clayton?

The garbage man.

And you laughed at me?

Okay, all right. Sit down.

Sit down, movie star.

That's not funny.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to pick up garbage

and clean up your community. Right, Billy?

I ain't say all that.

But Clayton's so cool, 'cause when he stops his truck,

there's a bunch of traffic behind him.

They be honking their horns and cursing,

but don't nobody move 'til he's good and ready for them to move.

That's a start.

Sit down, Billy. I'm going to tell you a story.

I should have brought a pillow.

This is a story about two fleas.

One from 220,

and the other one from Coolidge.

These fleas are trapped together

in a jar with a tight lid on it.

Every time they try to jump up,

they hit their heads on the lid and jump back down again.

The next day, without the fleas knowing it,

somebody took the lid off this jar.

When they started to jump up,

they punked out and jumped back down,

scared they were going to hit their heads.

You see, these fleas were free, but they didn't even know it.

- What's that mean? - They kill each other, fool.

Don't call him a fool.

Sit down.

Don't call him a fool.

What this means is you can be a movie star.

You can be a garbage man, or president.

You can be anything you want to be, even gangbangers.

It's your choice.

But you got to know, brothers, there's no lid over you.

Thank you, Johnny, that was beautiful.

All right, man.

Thank you, Mr. Gaines, for being a great role model.

Who would have thought a report on 50 ways

to cook collard greens could be so enlightening?

Thank you.

Our final presentation will be from Billy Thomas,

Michael Wilson, and J.D.

We were supposed to give a presentation on Garrett A. Morgan.

An inventor.

If he was here today, he'd probably make something about stopping violence.

Don't waste your life on killing your brother.

We got a lot to live for and we are brothers.

? Throw your hands in the air ?

? And wave them like you just don't care ?

? And if you're ready to rock With us tonight ?

? Somebody say, "Oh, yeah!" ?

? Yo, here's the real scoop, homie loc ?

? Dumb fools around my way Getting high off gun smoke ?

? And I ain't talking About the high like in dope ?

? The kind of high That make you call your kinfolks ?

? And tell them, "Oh, Johnny's dead" ?

? A 14-year-old kid Put a nine to his head ?

? All because he wanted That gear he was sportin' ?

? Gimme that and while you at it Gimme them Jordans ?

? Johnny tried to jet, Homie wasn't hearing that ?

? Johnny tried to run, Got gatted in the back ?

? And tell me what happened To the way things used to be ?

? 'Cause at this rate, There will be no future, G ?

? When will all of y'all learn ?

? That if you play with fire too long You're bound to get burned? ?

? This ain't a small thing I'm addressing It's a big thing ?

? Take it from the Daddy as a lesson ?

? Shame It's a shame ?

? Shame ?

? Shame, it's a� ?

? It's a shame The way this thing goes down ?

? How one lay you down Just to show he don't play around ?

? He goes to sleep With a head full of anger ?

? And wakes up A full energized gangbanger ?

? Talkin' about a tisket, a tasket ?

? Not knowing the next day He'll be laying in a casket ?

? So, what you think of that, son? ?

? In the arcade, they play And the games ain't fun ?

? Some like Pac-Man ?

? Same name but the game Is you put it in a sack ?

? And run into the next board ?

? And gat down the fool Standing in the way of the door ?

? There's no board, no points ?

? And in this game, This is all Pac-Man wants ?

? The game, the ghosts are always blue ?

? And you slip up and they'll smoke ya ?

? Shame ?

? It's a shame ?

? It's a shame Shame ?

? It's a shame ?

This is for you, Mr. Wayne.

You get it? It's a jar with no lid.

Yeah, I get it.

Later, O.T.

What he call you? O.T.?

Yeah, it means "Original Teacher." I'm bad, Baby.

? You oughta watch your back ?

? 'Cause if you slack off You're going in the sack ?

? I advise you all To watch out for the game ?

? 'Cause the game ain't nothing But a shame ?

? It's a shame ?

- ? It's a shame ? - ? Shame ?

- ? It's a shame ? ? It's shame, it's shame, all right ?

? Shame ?

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