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He's a man of need. Then along come two.

They got nothing but the genes, but they got different strokes to take,

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Hello.

I'm looking for Mr. Philip Drummond.

Mr. Philip Drummond?

I'd like to see him. Tell him I'm from the city attorney's office.

City attorney?

Uh, whatever he did, he didn't do it.

Even if he did, he was home in time, so he couldn't have.

Who is it, kid? Listen, Dad, you don't have to say anything.

Right. They can't touch you. Just plead the fifth commandment.

What's going on here?

Can I help you?

Uh, you're Mr. Drummond?

He's adopted.

I'm Jason Collins from the city attorney's office.

I didn't do it.

He's not guilty of anything.

What can I do for you, Mr. Collins?

Well, I'm not here to press charges.

In that case, come in.

In fact, I might have some very good news for you. In that case, have a seat.

You might turn out to be the owner of a valuable piece of land.

In that case, stay for dinner.

By the way, this is my family.

My daughter, Kimberly, my two sons, Willis and Arnold. Hello. Hi.

Now, here's the story.

The city has this piece of land that we've been using for years, and recently

we've had an offer on it. But as it turns out, the city doesn't own the land

after all.

The ownership goes back to the 1800s to someone named Heinrich Van Drummond.

Really? Mm -hmm.

Well, I know that our family name was originally Van Drummond.

I'm not so sure about a Heinrich. Well, if you can prove there's a Heinrich in

your family, that valuable piece of property is yours.

Dad, do you remember Uncle Heine?

I mean, you both are so close.

All right, kid.

My sister, Sophia, has always been our family historian. She'd be the one to

know whether there was a Heinrich.

Mr. Collins, where is this land? It's up in Harlem.

Harlem? Dad, maybe we've got the same roots.

You know something?

Always knew there was something cool about you, Dad.

The land's almost an acre, and some developers offer the city $2 million for

$2 million?

What's on it? Gold?

No, garbage.

Whose garbage is it? Muhammad Ali's?

Mr. Drummond, if you find some proof that you're related to this Heinrich

Drummond, give me a call. For $2 million, I'll not only give you a call,

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Arnold, you're holding your end too low.

I can't help it. That's the way my end is built.

How long have you had all this stuff in storage, Sophia? Since I was a young

woman.

Years and years and years ago.

Sophia, are you sure you and Dad are related to that Heinrich von Drummond?

I unroll this, I'll show you.

Remember when I finished making out this family tree, Philip, and I realized I'd

left my name off?

And you joked and said I was off my tree.

That wasn't funny.

All right, here we are, 200 years of Drummond.

Sure, now, here, see?

Here's Heinrich van Drummond, who begat Johann van Drummond, who begat Peter van

Drummond, who begat et cetera.

Who et cetera began?

Hey, Dad.

Does it mean the Harlem property's ours? Oh, no, I'm afraid we'll need a lot

more than Sophia's family tree to prove that we're the sole survivors to that

claim. Listen, kids, why don't we dig into all of this stuff and try to find

legal documents? You know, look for things like marriage certificates, birth

certificates, that kind of thing, okay? Okay.

Let's go. We're talking about two million dollars.

That's the lifetime supply of Big Macs.

Now, don't easy.

Some of that stuff is very old and fragile.

Hey. Here are some legal papers.

Hey, wait a minute. Wait.

Yep.

Here's old Heidrick's marriage certificate.

This proves we're part of his family.

Well, what are we going to do with the land, Dad?

I don't know. What do you think, Sophie? It's half yours.

Oh, don't ask me.

My first ex -husband handled all my money matters.

He was so smart. I knew he'd go far, and he did. He was in Argentina when they

caught him.

I got an idea.

How about building something on that land for the people of Harlem?

Good idea, Willis.

How about a combination Italian pizza parlor and soul food restaurant?

We'll call it the Godmama.

What did you have in mind, Willis?

Well, when me and Olive used to live in Harlem, there wasn't any place to go. I

mean, you had your choice to hang out in the corner or in your front stoop.

Nothing to do but get in trouble.

I was thinking of, um, you know, like a community center.

Oh, are you suggesting that we would donate the property for that purpose?

That's right.

Willis, give away a $2 million piece of property for free?

Have you been using your electric toothbrush on high again?

I think Willis has a very good idea.

Well, our family has a long tradition of philanthropy.

I go with Willis. I think we should donate the property. What do you say,

Sophia?

Okay, I'll try to look at it like this.

We didn't even own the land yesterday, so if we give away what we never had to

give away, how can we miss it?

Unless we drive by.

And let's never do that.

Oh, Philip, this is so romantic.

It is?

A brother and sister looking through gardens?

I mean this love letter from Heinrich to his wife, Martha.

He says, My darling, I long to be with you, to hold you in my arms, and to

kiss your... Oh, my.

To kiss your oh, my?

To kiss your earlobes.

That's very daring for those days.

Yes. Anything that was above the wrist was...

Off limits.

Wouldn't that depend where she was holding her hand?

You got a point.

Hey, Mr. Drummond. What it is?

It is I, Oscar.

Come in. Thanks.

How are you?

Fine, thanks.

Willis is upstairs.

Okay. Oh, this is my sister, Sophia. This is Oscar.

Hello, Oscar.

What's happening, my man?

Hey, all right, get down.

Get down from where?

Hey, Oscar.

What's happening, man?

What's up?

Have you heard about our great news?

Yeah, Dad's inheriting some land up in Harlem.

In Harlem?

Man, don't that figure.

The rich get richer and the poor stay poor.

Yeah, but Dad's going to donate the land to the people of Harlem.

No jive?

No jive.

It's going to be a cultural arts center for the whole community. What do you

think of that?

All right, Mr. Drummond.

Good to see the people getting a piece of the action instead of getting aced

as usual.

Hey, Oscar, there's going to be a big groundbreaking ceremony next Saturday.

And Dad's going to give a big speech.

Great. Hey, let's go listen to those new records I told you about. All right.

See you guys later. See you later, guys.

These old documents are so fascinating, aren't they, Phil? Keep reading. Maybe

we own Brooklyn.

Now, these old pages are from a ship's log.

The Mary Stewart.

Philip! And do you think there's a possibility that Uncle Heinrich could

been a travel agent?

A travel agent?

Uh -huh. Running cruises for black people.

How's that again?

Here's one cruise for 200 Negroes. They stopped at a place called Huida and

picked up 100 more.

Let me see that.

Right there.

Sophia, God help us.

He wasn't a travel agent.

I'm afraid good old Uncle Heinrich was a slave trader.

Oh, dear.

That is despicable.

A slave trader. And the property we're inheriting is in Harlem.

Well, how will that affect the cultural center?

Well, it might be a little like trying to open a kosher delicatessen in Saudi

Arabia.

I can't believe it.

Uncle Heinrich?

A slave trader? I can hardly bring myself to say it.

Shame on Uncle Heinrich. He was a stinkweed in our family garden.

Hello, Mr. Drummond. Mr. Collins, come in. You're just the man I need to see.

Oh, this is my sister Sophia. She's half owner of that land.

Hello. Nice to meet you. How do you do, Mr. Collins?

I've got great news.

I've been busy these last few days, and your project has really caught on.

We've already lined up three councilmen for the groundbreaking.

We've got some very prominent black artists and musicians, and there's a

chance we're going to get the mayor.

We're going to call it the Drummond Cultural Arts Center, just to make sure

Drummond name will always be remembered.

You may want to forget it.

What do you mean?

I'm afraid our great -great -great Uncle Heinrich wasn't so great.

We've come across some documents, actually a few pages from a ship's log,

show that he was a, uh...

Slave trader.

Oh, boy.

Will that be a terrible problem, Mr. Collins?

I hope not.

I don't think most people are going to give a hoot on the land 150 years ago.

But on the other hand, there's always the extremists. They're a small group,

very vocal.

The extremists? I don't believe I've ever heard any of their recordings.

Do you think they will cause trouble?

Could be.

They might exploit the issue for their own purposes and wreck the whole

Dear, Philip, what's going to happen to the cultural center?

I don't know.

What is your advice, Mr. Collins?

Mr. Drummond, I grew up in Harlem.

And I know how much that center will mean to the people there.

For the sake of the project, I suggest that nobody else finds out what's in

log. He's right about the log, Philip.

Log?

What log?

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Good. We're almost finished.

I don't want the kids to come across anything about Heinrich. I mean, I'd be

mortified if the boys found out that one of our ancestors bought and sold their

ancestors.

That's it.

There's nothing else that's incriminating.

Hey, anything interesting turn up in the family record?

Oh, no, just a lot of miscellaneous mishmash.

Mostly mish, not so much mosh.

You know, I think that it's great that you saved all this stuff, Aunt Sophia.

It's made me really want to learn all I can about my family history.

Especially about Uncle Heinrich.

What did he used to do for a living?

Well,

he... Tell her, Philip.

He was an importer.

Very good, Philip.

I mean, that's what he did.

He imported things.

Well, not things exactly, but...

Well, I have a lot of shopping to do. I want to get a new outfit for the

groundbreaking ceremony next Saturday, so if you'll both excuse me.

Oh, I wonder what you wear to a garbage dump.

A gas mask.

Good, I'll see if Gucci makes them.

Hey, Kimberly, what you doing?

so I can find out about my family tree.

You know, if we had a family tree, Arnold would be the sap.

Thanks, and your mouse would be the knothole.

Well, come on, you guys. How about giving me a hand going through all this

stuff? Okay. All right.

Hey,

here's a letter from Uncle Hiney.

Oh, you sure know how to get down.

Listen to this, my darling.

I long to be with you, to hold you in my arms, and to kiss your earlobes.

Talk that talk, Uncle Hiney.

That man sure threw a lot of sugar.

I bet they called him Honeymouth Hiney.

Let me see that arm. There you go.

And that day is fast approaching.

Our voyage has been a successful one. We have already gathered up 200 prime

Negroes. Say what?

And as soon as we round up 100 more, we shall... They've already gathered up

200 prime Negroes.

And as soon as we round up 100 more, we shall set sail.

A rich harvest which will bring an excellent price when the Arcadia drops

at Charleston.

It ain't the love boat.

Arnold, Dad's ancestor was a slave trader.

What you talking about, Willis?

That's disgusting.

So that's how your Uncle Heinrich got rich and bought that land in Harlem.

By selling our people into slavery.

Gosh, you just wait till Daddy hears about this. He's really gonna freak out.

Dad's gonna be madder than we are.

Yes. And he'll shake Uncle Heine's butt right off the family tree.

What makes you think your dad doesn't already know?

He's no different from the rest of the rich people.

They don't care who has to sweat and bleed to get them their bread.

Oscar, you better watch your mouth before somebody puts my fist in it.

Now, Oscar, you've got Dad all wrong. If he knew, he would tell us. Yeah, sure.

Dad. I gotta talk to you. No, Willis. I think you're too upset to do this. It's

going to take a little tact.

Then let me handle it. I'm the littlest tact here.

Handle what?

Well, I hate to mention it, but... Oh, the heck with tact, Daddy. Your Uncle

Heinrich was a slave trader.

What made you say that?

It's right here in this letter that that honey -mouthed Heinrich wrote to his

wife.

Oh, boy.

This is one letter that we should have finished reading.

Daddy, you mean you knew?

Yeah, I'm afraid that I did.

Oh, man.

I rest my case.

You know, if the people found out about this, they wouldn't want the center.

You're wrong, Oscar.

I'm wrong?

Mr. Drummond, you're about as wrong as a man can get.

I'll check you later, Willis.

You know, Oscar was right.

You weren't going to tell us, were you?

No, I wasn't, Willis.

As a matter of fact, we're not going to tell anybody.

Now, we gave this matter a lot of thought, your Aunt Sophia and I, and we

discussed it with Mr. Collins, and all three of us agreed that the cultural

center is far more important than this, this blot on our family history.

You mean buying and selling other human beings is just a blot to you?

Oh, Willis, I don't think Dad meant it that way.

I certainly didn't, Willis.

Come on.

You can't possibly think for a minute that I could defend slave trading.

But you're still going ahead with the culture center, aren't you?

Well, let's try to understand.

It isn't important where the land came from, but what good we do with it now.

That's a good point, Willis.

Well, if it isn't important where the land came from, why not tell the people

instead of hiding it?

That's a good point, Dad.

Willis, there are lots of people out there who are looking for issues to

exploit. They could use this information to kill the project before we could

even get it started.

That's a good point, Willis.

I don't know. Whose side are you on?

Both. I just want to be loved.

Well, I think Daddy's right.

No, Oscar was right.

Willis, this whole thing was your idea.

Yeah, but that's all changed now.

Now that I know about your family, I'm going to be caught dead at that

groundbreaking ceremony next Saturday.

Yeah, Oscar.

They're all at that groundbreaking ceremony.

Yeah, even Arnold.

Hey, man, I said I wouldn't go and I didn't.

Yeah, I'm really disappointed in my dad.

Guess who just walked in? My sister and little Benedict Arnold.

Yeah, I'll check you later, man. Bye.

Willis, you sure missed a terrific groundbreaking.

Big deal.

Oh, it was wonderful. Dad got a big ovation for his speech.

From who?

You two and La Sofia?

No, from the whole crowd.

It was a standing ovation. And not just because there weren't any chairs.

Sure. Dad played that jive tune and people danced to it. Because they didn't

know the truth.

Well, we taped a speech for you, Willis. Play the tape, Arnold. Don't bother.

Don't bother at all.

And now, live from the garbage dump.

ladies and gentlemen.

You know, it gave us a good feeling when we found out that we owned this

property. But I'm sorry to say that that good feeling changed when we found out

later that my great, great, great uncle, Heinrich Van Drummond, from whom we

inherited the property, was engaged in the slave trade.

How about that, Woolis?

Me leveled with him?

Yep. Daddy threw away the speech you wrote and just spoke off the cuff. Play

rest for him, Arnold.

No, I don't think Willis wants to hear any more of Dad's jive. All right,

please.

All right.

To tell you the truth, I wasn't going to mention this because I thought it might

hurt the project.

But my son Willis felt you had a right to know, and I realize now that he had a

point. But it has to be your decision.

It's your community, and it's up to you to decide.

Do you want a cultural center on this property?

Wow. You mean Dad told them the truth and they still wanted it?

Oscar was wrong and so was I.

Yes, Willis.

But it was your idea to tell the whole truth, and I'm very glad that I did

Philip, I think Willis should hear the end of your speech. Right.

Okay, you get it.

That's where I ran out of tape.

Well, Daddy, tell him the rest of your speech.

Yes, please, Philip.

I'd like to hear it. Before I was so enthralled with what you were saying, I

wasn't listening.

Well, as I just said, ladies and gentlemen, my request would be that you

the cultural center after my two sons.

I'd like it to be called the Jackson Cultural Arts Center.

We named it after us.

Thanks, Dad.

Thanks, Dad.

But you know something?

Your name should be on it, too.

Uh, not really.

Okay.

There's just one drum.

What might be right for you?

May not be right for some. A man in four, he's a man of me.

Then along come two.

They got nothing but the genes.

They got different strokes. Different strokes.

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