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What do you mean, Dan?
Is it yes or no?
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Pop, I'd like you
to meet a friend of mine.
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- Is Mr. Dixon here yet?
- I'm right here, Dan.
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Oh, come on in.
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- Pop Weaver.
- How are ya?
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- Fred.
- Gentlemen.
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Have a seat. Dixon's with the bureau,
you see, and like you might expect...
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they have Mr. Jefferson
on their minds too.
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Now, I've been down there, and we've
got some ideas. You explain it to 'em, son.
1:00:30
Well, when a man beats us out like this,
we of course look foolish...
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but more important,
so does the law.
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People lose respect for law, and that
we just cannot afford right now.
1:00:40
You may not be aware of it yet, but a very
large, very black migration is in progress.
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They're coming from the fields
down South, filling up the slums.
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And I am talking about hundreds
of thousands, maybe millions soon.
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Millions of ignorant Negroes
rapidly massing together.
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Now, we cannot allow the image of this man
to go on impressing and exciting these people.
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- I'm only a sports promoter.
- He read the writing on the door, Pop. Go on.
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Well, if he were less of a hero to them...
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after his next engagement, let's say,
we would be disposed to reduce his sentence.
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You'd make it worth his while
not to win the fight, you mean?
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- I think I've said what I mean.
- Well, I say my kid can
beat him fair and square.
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- Easy, Fred.
- Well, count me out! I'll
hop on a boat with him...
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- You don't wanna do that.
- Don't tell me what I can...
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- I'm telling you as a friend.
- There must be another way, Dan.
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- It just goes against me.
- Well, it goes against me too.
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Now, I don't have to make no speeches here
about how I feel workin' something crooked.
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None of us like it.
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We wouldn't be the men we are
if we did or be where we are.
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I know it's lousy, but we got a situation
here that needs a little bending.
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Now, the man's tried
to tell you how serious it is.
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They're bending with it.
I'm bending with it.
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Now, who are you, Fred, to
stand there and say it goes against you?
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And you, Pop? Now,
don't you get on a pedestal here.