Cotton Comes to Harlem
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:19:00
What is it?
:19:01
Look at this.
:19:07
Cotton from inside
the meat truck.

:19:10
It ain't drugstore cotton.
:19:13
What is it?
:19:15
It's raw,
unprocessed cotton,

:19:17
like from a bale.
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Ah. It's a long time
since I seen cotton like that.

:19:25
Digger, you ain't never
seen no raw cotton before.

:19:28
You was born and raised right
here in new york, just like me.

:19:31
What the hell
are you two doing here?

:19:34
Digger found
a hidden drop slot.

:19:37
This was in it.
It's full of trash.

:19:40
The syndicate.
:19:42
When o'malley was with 'em, he
talked, and they threatened to get him.

:19:44
Why'd they wait?
:19:46
White guns comin' up here,
:19:48
trying to knock off
reverend o'malley, you think?

:19:49
Could be.
:19:51
Blacks find out about this,
there'll be hell to pay.

:19:55
I want round the clock police
protection for reverend o'malley.

:19:58
To hell with o'malley!
:20:00
What about the $87,000
of poor black folks' money

:20:03
that he stole from all
over this country? Stole?

:20:05
That's right. Stole!
:20:07
We ran a check on
o'malley's entire operation.

:20:09
It's clean.
Absolutely legitimate.

:20:11
Full clearance from
the state department,

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securities exchange
commission,

:20:15
the attorney general of the state
of new york. What else do you want?

:20:16
What the hell does the attorney
general, the state department,

:20:19
or even the president
of the united states know

:20:21
about one goddamned thing that's
going on up here in harlem?

:20:23
Ed o'malley's respected by
responsible people. Respect, my ass!

:20:26
Pastors, race leaders,
politicians,

:20:28
not to mention the large following
he has among black folk everywhere.

:20:30
Black folk need hope
like everybody else.

:20:33
What is it
with you people?

:20:36
One of you like reverend
o'malley tries to do something,

:20:39
does anybody try to help him? Hell no!
:20:41
You're after him
like crabs in a basket.

:20:43
Uh, how many shares of the back to
africa, inc. Would you buy, captain?

:20:50
That's impertinent.
:20:50
The hell it is!
:20:52
One more word out of you, and
I'll run you right off the lot.

:20:54
We've been trying to teach
white folks all our lives.

:20:57
School's over.
:20:58
Let's go look for lo boy
at junkies' paradise.


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