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Hi, kid.

Dad, you're home.

Oh, I couldn't wait to see you. Oh, I'm glad you're back. Oh, I'm glad you're

home.

Well, I'm only home from work. I'm not out on parole.

Dad, read this. Read this. Read this. I will. I will. I will.

I want you to sign that. It's from my principal, Mr. Gibson.

He picked me to be an ambassador.

An ambassador? I didn't even know you were a Republican.

Well, it says that Arnold School is starting a voluntary experiment for one

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Yeah, I'd say it's integrated. You got white, black, Chinese, Puerto Ricans.

there's even one guy we haven't figured out yet.

Apparently, this is an attempt to expose the students to each other's culture

and environment.

to teach the kids at Newchester my way of life.

They want to learn how to overeat.

Why do you want to go all the way to Newchester?

Because my friends are going, and it's an adventure.

I'll be traveling to a new place, kind of like Star Trek, only on a bus.

It's also an honor. Only five of us were picked out of the entire school.

I don't like it. How come they picked you?

Because I qualify.

Well, according to the letter, the students selected for this voluntary

have been judged to have the best blend of social skills, intelligence, and

adaptability. You boil all that down, they picked you because you're black.

I qualify for that, too.

Well, I think it's great for kids to share each other's culture and things.

I'm all for sharing, as long as it doesn't include my lunch.

If Arnold goes to that white school, he's going to feel like a chocolate chip

a plate full of vanilla ice cream.

Now, he may feel a little strange at first, Willis, but Arnold makes friends

very quickly.

Sure. It'll be fun going to a new school.

And me and my friend signed an oath in blood that we'd go.

In blood?

Well, it was in a cafeteria, so we used ketchup.

The only thing that bothers me is that Newchester is 30 miles from here.

Dad, they've got a bus. I don't intend to walk there.

That's not so far, Daddy.

Yeah, Dad, I want to go, please.

Will you sign the letter?

Here's the pen.

That's Drummond. D -R -U -M -M. Thank you.

I think I know how to spell it, Arnold.

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I almost overslept. What time is it? 5 .30.

5 .30?

Say what?

Morning.

Oh, I'm sorry. I must have woke you up, huh?

Oh, no. Always sleeping my eyes open.

Today is my first day at my new school. That's why I set the alarm.

Arnold, the alarm clock has done enough damage.

I'm going back to sleep.

Oh, come on, Willis.

Today is my first day at New Chester.

And you're going to let your little brother eat a lonely breakfast alone in

dark before he sets off into the big, cruel city?

Do that to me.

Well, I think you put it that way.

Yes.

I'm going to have waffles with lots of butter and syrup with crispy bacon on

side and a glass of cold milk.

Did you plan to make all that?

No, I was hoping you'd make it.

is the cold milk.

Come on, Willis. What do you say?

Well, let me put it this way.

Okay. Let me put it this way.

My shorts always jump up to my armpits.

You didn't think we'd let you go off to your new school without a send -off,

now, did you?

Fooled you, huh, bro?

I'll say.

I apologize for what I was thinking about you on my way downstairs.

I must say, Arnold, you certainly kept your word on getting up on time.

It wasn't hard. I get up to go to the bathroom at this time anyway.

I still say you shouldn't go, Arnold.

To the bathroom?

To a school 30 miles away where you're not wanted. I wouldn't be going if Dad

didn't think it was all right.

No offense, Dad, but you may be wrong.

Yeah, well, I sure could be.

Well, when it's a matter of who's right and wrong, I always go with the guy who

pays the rent.

Yeah, well, as soon as your daughter gets in, Mr. Davis, could you call us?

Yeah, thanks a lot.

Hi, everybody.

I told you you shouldn't let him go to that white school.

Now, now, now, now, let's not panic.

I'll just phone the principal at his regular school.

Yeah, well, we already did that. He doesn't know where they are.

Well, then, I'll just phone Arnold's friends that he went with. We did that,

too. They're not home, either.

Well, I guess we're back to panic.

But first, I'll call the principal from his new school.

Information? May I please have... Never mind information. He's here.

Arnold!

Have you been? Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

Arnold, how come you're so late?

Did you have a problem getting home?

No, I didn't have a problem. The bus did.

What was wrong with it? Some flat tires.

Some flat tires?

Yeah, six.

Six? How could that happen? Easy.

Somebody let all the air out of them.

Who would do a thing like that?

I don't know.

Maybe it was one of those pickets.

Pickets? Wait a minute.

What pickets?

I told you, Dad.

Arnold, how many people were picketing you?

Well, they weren't really picketing me. It was more the bus they were mad at.

They kept throwing things at it.

I knew it.

What kind of things were they throwing, Arnold?

Tomatoes, eggs, fruit.

The bus looked like a salad.

I want you to sit right down and tell me everything that happened today.

And start right from the very beginning.

Well... There was these people with signs saying, no busing, and they were

marching up and down and yelling names.

What names?

If you go out of the room, I'll tell Dad and Willis.

Then what happened?

Well, when school was over, some of them were still there, and they yelled some

more of those names and waved at us.

Waved? With their fists.

That's terrible.

I told you you were asking for trouble.

Well, I don't like this at all.

I'm going to call your principal.

Hello?

Yes, he does.

This is his father.

Who's this?

What?

Now, you listen to me, you.

I've got... Hello?

Hello?

Who was that, Dad?

I don't know.

Some obnoxious, synonymous...

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That man said that if you come back to Newchester tomorrow, that there'll be

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I'm not going back to that school tomorrow or ever. Listen, Arnold.

I don't want you to get hurt either.

But now you've got to go back there tomorrow.

What are you talking about, Willis?

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Yeah, I'm afraid I have to change my mind, too.

He's not going to go back, Willis. But Daddy's got to show up.

You kidding?

Would Custer have showed up if the Indians called him the night before?

Probably that same guy that called before.

Tell him I just left on the space shuttle.

Hello?

Oh.

Hello, Mr. Robinson. How are you?

That's just one of the kids' fathers.

Thank goodness. My heart was in my mouth.

You won't believe where mine was.

Yes. I'm afraid we got that kind of a phone call, too, Mr. Robinson.

Well, I guess we're all in the same boat.

Maybe we should all get together and discuss this.

Tonight.

Well, we can meet here.

You know where we are.

Fine. Well, would you call the other parents?

Right. I'll see you about 8 o 'clock.

Bye. What did that bigot do? Call the families of all the kids?

Apparently, it looks like a hate campaign.

I'm telling you, Dad, we've got to fight back.

But, Willis, we also have to consider the safety of the children.

Yeah, that's the most important thing.

All they try to do is throw a scare in all the kids.

Sure is working with one of them.

Yes, I was going to...

Hello.

Sorry, I must have the wrong apartment. I'm looking for the busing meeting.

No, no, this is it.

I'm Phil Drummond, Arnold Jackson's father.

You're sure?

Well, that's what it says on the adoption papers.

Well, hi, Mr. Davis. I was expecting a minority person.

At this meeting, I am a minority person. Come in.

You sure it's okay to watch?

Sure. It gets at you, doesn't it?

Then how come I'm not in the meeting?

Because parents make decisions for their kids. How long has that gone on?

Only tier 80.

Well, I guess we all know why we're here.

The question is, what are we going to do about it?

I mean, should we withdraw from the program?

Or if we don't, do we expose our children to possible violence?

My wife and I agree.

Oh, excuses.

She speaks very little English, and I had to translate for her.

Well... My wife and I are going to send our son right back tomorrow. Right,

honey? If we don't, we're giving up our basic right.

I agree.

I vote with the Robinsons. I'm not so sure that I want to send my daughter

to those crazy people.

What do you think, Drummond?

Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know. I am still so angry.

I'm having trouble just trying to think straight.

Is something wrong?

My wife disagrees. With whom?

Everybody.

Well, I can't say that I blame her. I mean, how do you ask children to stand

to an angry, bigoted mob?

Mr. Drummond, that's something every minority child might have to face

Sooner or later.

We have to ask ourselves, why not now?

And I must ask myself, why not later?

Folks, we have to remember that this is only a voluntary program.

I mean, there's no court order that says we have to continue with this.

Mr. Drummond, look, I know you mean well.

But look, my wife and I were down south, and we were marching for civil rights.

And they came after us swinging baseball bats.

But we fought back, and we won our rights.

And that includes the right to attend any school.

We didn't back down then, and I don't think we should back down now. Right on.

That man's a fighter.

Yeah, you gotta agree with him, Arnold. He's a real lion.

I'm a Christian. I don't agree with lying.

Well, I think it would be awful if we give in to these ignorant people. Well,

I've been on the receiving end of as much prejudice as anybody else.

But I'm not going to take a chance on some honky clobbering my kid.

Excuse the expression.

That's okay. This honky excuses you.

Well, I better be going.

Good luck. Thanks for coming, Mr. Davis.

That guy's got no guts.

Oh, he's just worried about his little girl.

His little girl was beating up half the football team.

Well, Mr. Drummond, the rest of us have all made up our minds.

What about you?

Well, I still have my reservations.

But I do realize that it's important to stand up to this thing.

Okay. I'll let Arnold go back to Newchester for at least one more day.

But...

I'm going to go with him.

It's a good idea.

He lets us all be on the bus together. Very good.

Very good.

All right, then, fine. We're all together.

Now, how about joining me for a drink?

Dad, if anyone needs a drink, it's me.

How long have you kids been up there?

Long enough.

Dad, you made the right decision.

Yeah, I guess maybe you did.

Arnold, tomorrow I'm going to be standing right beside you.

Then you'll be standing in my bed, because that's where I'm going to be.

I can't believe you'd run scared like this. You're chicken.

You got it. How do you want me? Fried, roasted, or fried?

This may be the most important thing in your life.

Arnold.

Look, son, I owe you an apology.

I should never have made a commitment without checking with you first.

You don't have to go to that school tomorrow if you don't want to. Are you

at me because I'm scared?

Oh, of course not.

Only a fool wouldn't be scared. You're no fool.

Just a coward.

That's what Willis said.

No, I didn't. You said... I said I was a yellow -bellied, lily -livered, weak

sister with no guts.

I didn't say lily -livered.

Son, it's not your job to fight the battles of grown -ups. You're going to

back to your regular school tomorrow.

I wouldn't be letting you down.

Certainly not.

How about you, Willis?

You wouldn't be letting Willis down either, right, son?

You say so, Dad.

Fine. All right, I'll go and let Mr. Robinson know that you're definitely not

going to be on that bus tomorrow.

You're disappointing me, aren't you?

Look, you got a right to be scared.

I'd be scared, too.

But that's not the point.

I mean, you got to do what's right.

I don't know what to do.

Listen, you think about it, champ.

I don't want to influence you.

Yeah. Like Russia doesn't want to influence Poland.

That's using your head, kid. Why don't you go back home?

All right. Now, listen, you people. These children are here at the

your school.

Not by us. They weren't invited. Well, you have no right to intimidate them and

prevent them from getting an education.

We don't need your kids here, and we don't want them here.

You need to be here.

Yeah, well, we're the taxpayers here, and that gives us the right to keep the

school for our kids.

Hey, we pay taxes, too.

Are you just going to stop them with a sign?

Where's your gun?

I don't have a gun.

Oh, last night on the phone you told me you did.

I never said that. All I said was that if you... I thought your voice sounded

familiar.

He's lying.

Wally, did you threaten this guy last night?

All the parents were threatened. Yeah, I called.

Hey, we agreed, Wally.

No violence, no threats, just a peaceful demonstration.

Oh, peaceful.

That's my kind of language.

I'm sorry.

But we all worked hard to buy our houses out here, see, and we're worried about,

you know, property values going down. We've heard that before.

That's just an excuse for racism.

It's a crook. Why don't you go back to your ghetto?

What ghetto?

Listen, mister, I'm sorry if I lowered the value of your house, and I didn't

mean to shake you up.

I just wanted to meet some new kids and learn about each other, and I already

made some new friends, and we were just here one day.

Now, I was kind of scared coming in here today, and now I'm a little bit more

scared of being late for class, and I'd hate to get a tardy slip on my second

day. So could you please get out of the way so we can get in for an education?

Yeah.

Very good.

Move it, mister.

Who's going to make me?

Me. You?

And those five police cars that just pulled up behind our bus.

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