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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King had vastly different approaches,

but ultimately the same goal.

Respect.

Of course, Aretha had the same goal.

That's funny.

Both men were committed

to the development of their minds and self-respect

through the discipline of study,

something I know all of you share with these great leaders.

Self-examination�

is an important part of self-respect.

But not with�

"hot coral reef."

Oh, yeah. Coretta Scott King wore the same shade.

Give me that.

On March 26, 1964,

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King both attended

the debate of the US Senate Civil Rights Bill.

That was their one and only meeting.

No one knows what was said.

They took that with them to their graves.

That is serious.

Using quotes from both men,

imagine what that conversation might have been.

Choose a partner. One of you will be Malcolm, the other Dr. King.

Even the girls?

No, you can play Diana Ross.

And let me guess who you'll be.

Word. X.

Word. Wrong.

You'll be Dr. King.

Why? I'm more in line, philosophically speaking,

with brother Malcolm.

Perhaps you'd be more in line with brother Martin's philosophy

if he were the subject of Mr. Lee's movie

and had his picture on your T-shirt.

Well�

Well, well, nothing.

Diva Dean Dorothy Dandridge Davenport has spoken!

? 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 ?

? It's 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 ?

- Hey, guys. Good morning, ladies.

Oh, it's good now.

Looks like you all are having a mighty good one too.

Well, Kimberly and I were up all night last night.

Okay, then. Okay, then.

Studying. Not that it's any of your business, ladies.

In the meantime, we have an anatomy final to be taking.

I know that's right.

And that's one anatomy I wouldn't mind studying.

Mm, mm! Honey, well, leave some for me, 'cause you got a man.

Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu.

All right.

Terrell, you are being bullheaded and ridiculous.

It's nobody else's business!

Ah, well, look who's here finally.

Y'all were supposed to help take those boxes

down to the homeless shelter an hour ago.

What the hell happened? Were you mud wrestling or studying?

Terrell and I were almost run down coming back from the library.

Charmaine, leave it alone.

No, you leave me alone.

It was wrong, and I do not intend to leave it alone!

All right.

Can somebody please tell us what you do or do not want to leave alone?

We were walking down Dalton Road minding our business, like we always do,

when four locals with a combined IQ of ten flew by in an old pickup truck

and started shouting un-gentlemanly things about my butt.

Were they white?

No, it was a rainbow coalition of jerks.

I shut them up, though.

I pegged them with a rock. Stood up for our girl.

Then we ran.

How'd you get so messed up?

See, they pulled a U-turn and started coming back towards us,

so we stepped off the road.

Excuse me? We rolled down a hill,

fell into a ditch, and hid inside a storm drain.

Where I come from, that is not stepping off the road, Terrell!

What am I supposed to do?

Wait a minute, did you talk to the police?

Why?

To file a report so there can be an investigation.

Like I said, Dorian, why?

If you don't file a report, you'll never know if you have a case.

That's right!

Fine. Just leave me out of it.

What is wrong?

He's so pigheaded!

Wait, were there any eyewitnesses?

Yeah, me, Terrell, and a bullfrog.

Another sticky bun, please, Mr. Gaines.

Whit, another one? Damn!

Hey, you mind your beeswax, skinny.

Now, Whitley, no one has ever eaten four sticky buns at one sitting.

Your insides are liable to stick together.

I'll have to take that risk, Mr. Gaines.

I need the sugar to keep up

with those pint-sized, hip-hoppin' trolls I call my pupils.

Whoa, ain't school out for the day?

It's supposed to be, but I'm overseeing the little darlings

paint this mural entitled "African American Heroes"

on the cafeteria wall.

Oh, well, who have they painted so far?

Well, we have Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass,

and Halle Berry.

They all look exactly alike.

Wonderful. Wonderful.

Hey, Mrs. Wayne.

How you doing, Terrell?

I heard about that awful incident.

I just cannot imagine you and poor little Charmaine

being run off the road like that

by four pickup trucks

full of rifle-wielding, inbred hillbillies.

So awful!

Four trucks?

Who told you about this "Dueling Banjos" story?

Now, you know she is a human fax machine.

Well, she needs to get her facts straight.

Oh, don't even worry about it.

You can't put a bottle cap on a volcano.

How is little Charmaine?

She's all right.

She's down at the police station filing a report.

Good. I've seen this kind of thing happen my whole life, unreported,

and it's got to change.

No. No, what's got to change is our approach.

From now on, I'm practicing what brother Malcolm called

"vigorous action in self-defense."

Dr. King, any Negro who teaches other Negroes

to turn the other cheek in the face of attack

is disarming that Negro

of his God-given right,

of his moral right, of his natural right,

of his intelligent right to defend himself.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love

will have the final word in reality.

His dream is a nightmare.

He's too dumb to know it.

Who are you calling dumb, slob?

You're the one who leaves wet towels on the bathroom floor.

At least I don't keep tabs

of how many paper clips my roommate borrows,

you cheap little�

Ladies! Ladies!

I admire your passion, but I don't understand

how we started in the hall of the Capitol Building

and ended up in the bathroom at Height Hall.

Dean Davenport, I take offense to anyone who calls Martin Luther King dumb.

That happens to be a quote Malcolm made about Martin

after the march on Washington.

Oh.

Well, I stand corrected.

All right, all right, sit corrected.

Or you girls will be�

�on my list!

What really happened, right, they rolled down the hill about 50 feet,

over mud and broken glass and stuff.

Then you saw all these 9mm shots�

Honey, it's a wonder they're alive right now.

Mr. Walker, Mr. Heywood, amaze me.

Here, this is the same kind of jacket they wore in the '60s.

It smells like it ain't been washed since.

I ain't wearing that.

I find it hard to believe Dr. Martin Luther King and brother Malcolm

would be in conflict over their wardrobe.

Now put on the stinking jack--

Class, you are dismissed. We will continue next time.

Gentlemen, please remain.

Uh, Dean, look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make a big deal out of the jacket.

The jacket is not the problem, Dorian.

This is the problem.

I'm waiting for an explanation.

And it better be good. At the very least, entertaining!

Uh, Dean�

See, that's a gun, and Terrell was planning to use that gun as a prop,

like we was gonna use the jackets.

Yeah. That's right.

I'm supposed to believe that both of you lined up these surprises for each other?

Believe that, yeah.

Well, I don't.

Come on, Dean, the gun's not even loaded.

Why do you have this gun?

Sometimes, you got to watch your back.

But you wouldn't understand that.

What I understand�

is that we have metal detectors in our elementary schools

to prevent our children from being shot.

What you don't understand, Mr. Walker,

is this gun just got you expelled.

Expelled? What?

Damn, man!

Terrell.

Man, what were you thinking, man?

Look, you weren't the one who had to run like a punk.

I want to be able to stand up for a woman, man.

Even if it is Charmaine.

Why didn't you just tell the Dean that?

What's that gonna get me?

- What's a gun gonna get you? - Respect.

You don't get respect for pointing guns at people.

Yeah, well, you don't get respect by running away, either.

Damn.

That's it.

One more lab final, and we're through.

Yes!

So, what are we gonna do with ourselves until next semester?

Well, for starters, right,

- we'll go to Negril. - Ah.

We can lay in the hot sun,

play on the white, sandy beaches,

and swim in the beautiful blue Caribbean.

Oh, that sounds incredible.

- Then we'll go to Kingston� - Mm-hmm.

�where I'll introduce you to your future mother-in-law

who will fall madly in love with you like I have.

Spencer, don't I have a say in this?

Sure. You can say yes.

Jesus!

This is why you need me, woman.

Your stress level too high, man.

You have to hang loose like me.

That's what makes us the perfect balance.

- Hmm, is that so? - Yes, man.

I'm laid-back, cool-tempered, and easygoing.

You're a type-A personality with a strong work ethic

and an inability to say no.

Will you marry me?

No.

Scratch that theory.

I cannot believe this, Dean. This is messed up.

Don't tell me you'll expel him.

The school's policy leaves it up to my discretion.

So, sign here, then we can start the expulsion process.

He's too good a student to lose.

He's too dangerous a student to keep.

This is not like him. Okay? I know Terrell.

He's a little rough around the edges, but basically he's a good kid.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Hey, Mr. Wayne. Sorry to bother you.

- Can we talk to you for a minute? - Yeah.

From what I hear, it'll take longer than a minute.

Dean Davenport!

We went to your office.

And you weren't there.

That could explain why I'm here.

We don't have to frisk either of you, do we?

No.

Terrell?

No, man!

Terrell, what were you doing with this gun?

I had it since junior high.

Junior high? I grew up in Bed-Stuy too. I never needed a gun.

Man, those were the old days.

Now everybody's coming out the pocket.

Because not having one makes you a punk?

Look, I didn't think I'd need it here, but yesterday, I did.

What do you mean, yesterday?

Dean, Terrell and Charmaine had a little problem--

We had more than a little problem.

We had to roll down a ravine or we'd have been run over.

If I was packing, that never would've happened.

Now you'll be packing your bags and moving back to Brooklyn.

Dean, can't you cut me some slack?

My mom will kick my butt. School's the only thing I have.

School or this gun?

There's only one thing people learn bringing guns into the classroom.

They learn how not to think.

My 13-year-old nephew was accidentally shot and killed.

He'll never experience his manhood

because somebody out there was too busy trying to prove his.

I'm taking this gun to campus security.

Terrell, you're too smart to be this stupid.

Thank you, Dwayne.

Hey, Mr. Wayne, can you help me out?

You have to be smart enough to help yourself, Terrell.

Last year, me and Ron,

we got into some trouble with locals at a football game.

They wanted some static, we gave it to 'em.

If I had a piece, I would've wasted all of them, even the nice ones.

Now, where would I be if I had done that?

I cannot believe that boy had a gun in his dorm, or even had one, for that matter.

You know, these days, it's easier to get a gun than a library card.

Yeah, it takes two weeks to get a library card.

Word to the mother.

Well, I'd like to propose a toast.

All right.

To Kimberly and me being through with school,

- at least until next semester. - Hear, hear.

Congratulations, you two doctors.

- I have one more toast. - Ooh.

Good.

Here is to the woman

whose smile is like a light from the heavens,

the woman I never want to be without.

Kimberly Reese, will you be my wife?

Spencer, would you stop it?

How many times has he asked you today?

God, this is the fourth time.

Say yes. Go ahead. Do it.

Come on, girl.

Hello?

Who are you calling?

Yes. Mr. Reese?

Hi. Spencer Boyer here, sir.

Oh, I'm fine. Thank you, sir.

Well, as a matter of fact, I'm wonderful.

Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing you, too, sir.

Uh, no, sir. I have not cut my hair.

Well, you see, the reason I'm calling, Mr. Reese,

is because I love your daughter very much, sir,

and I'm calling to ask you for her hand in marriage.

I know that, sir.

Thank you. I just wanted your blessings.

Thank you.

Goodbye, sir.

This is so romantic.

So absolutely, utterly romantic.

Spencer, we need to talk.

Hi, Dad.

No, Dad, no.

Jeez.

Hi, Mom.

No. Stop crying.

Oh, um, sorry, Dad. I thought you were Mom.

No. Oh, come on.

I'm going to finish med school.

I'm gonna have to leave. I love you. I'll call you back later. Bye.

You know what? I feel like having my dessert at home, don't you, baby?

Yeah, me too. Let's go. Come on.

- I'm not hungry. I-- - Come on, baby. Let's go.

We got to let the people be alone.

Kimberly. Call me, girl.

You are unreal.

No. You see, that's the problem right there. I'm very real.

Kim, I was serious the first time I asked you

and I'm serious now.

I love you.

Whoa.

Spencer, listen, um, I�

really don't want to lose you.

But, um, I'm gonna have to finish med school

before I can make any kind of decision, you understand?

Yeah, I understand.

- You do? - I understand you didn't say no.

Yeah, I said no.

You just made me the happiest man in the world.

No. I said no.

You see, my grandmother says, right, that a no is the first step to a yes.

And you're just as stubborn as your grandmother?

Relentless.

And so, three major components of Dr. King's philosophy were--

Charmaine, speak before someone gets hurt.

Dr. King's philosophy revolved around justice, love, and hope.

A philosophy some people consider to be outdated.

Personally, though, I agree with Malcolm, okay?

Dr. King was promoted and chosen by white liberals.

And you're entitled to your opinion.

But you're talking about the man who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

And the march on Selma.

You're talking about a man who spent most of his time

in more jail cells than those who criticized him.

Personally, I wouldn't judge anyone

without looking at the sum total of their life, Lena.

Well, you better hope nobody looks at the sum total of yours, Gina.

The potential beauty of human life

is constantly made ugly

by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

Excuse me?

Oh, just quoting Dr. King, Diva Dean.

Mr. Walker.

I assumed you wouldn't be joining us today.

I know you're thinking about expelling me

and I probably shouldn't be here.

I thought I could finish my assignment.

I mean, I owe it to my partner.

All right, Terrell. Come on in and get to it before I change my mind.

Brother Malcolm, here we are.

Yes, here we are, Dr. King.

You know�

I never thought this day would come.

The passing of the Civil Rights Bill.

We have come so very far.

You and I were born at this turning point in history

and we are witnessing the fulfilling of prophecy.

We are both free and destined,

and freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.

It must be demanded by the oppressed.

I am for freedom�

For a society

in which our people are recognized and respected

as human beings.

And I believe we have the right to resort to any means necessary

to bring that about.

My brother�

through violence, you may murder a hater,

but you can't murder hate.

Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.

Now, I believe in arming myself,

but with knowledge, education, and enlightenment.

We may differ in method,

but that does not mean we differ in objective.

True, and if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for,

he isn't fit to live.

If I can die having brought any light,

having exposed any meaningful truth

that will help destroy the racist cancer

that is malignant in the body of America,

then all credit is due to Allah.

Only the mistakes are mine.

My brother�

God does not judge us by the separate incidents

of the separate mistakes that we make,

but by the total bent of our lives.

As-salaam alaikum, brother Martin.

God bless you, too, brother Malcolm.

Now, watch out.

You talked to me.

Now you're gonna get investigated.

Very good work, gentlemen.

Very good work.

Class, we will continue next time.

You are dismissed. Thank you very much.

Dorian.

Yes.

Oh� Oh�

Impressive.

But Malcolm and Martin have not completely bailed you out, Terrell.

Thanks, Dean.

Don't thank me.

This isn't going be easy.

As of right now, you are under a curfew.

Oh, that's cool.

You must maintain a GPA of A- or better.

Ain't no problem.

And you will be volunteering 20 hours a week

at the Thurgood Marshall Rec Center.

All right, all right. Cool.

See, I have a dream�

to stay in school�

by any means necessary.

Very nice touch, dear.

Dean, personally, I think you made the right decision

by keeping Terrell in school, than putting him on the streets.

Mr. Heywood�

I live for your approval.

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