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You're using
that reverse treatment...

:48:04
...'cause I'm one of the only
black faces in your class.

:48:08
Mr. Williams, I treat everyone
in my course exactly the same...

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...and I will continue to give you
a difficult time...

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...until you have proven
that you deserve otherwise.

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-Those are the rules of the game.
-It's a fucked-up game.

:48:24
Please watch your language.
:48:27
Rid yourself of this attitude
that the world owes you something.

:48:31
You must strip yourself of that
mentality. It breeds laziness.

:48:38
It is laziness that has kept
black people down in this country.

:48:41
I don't think like that.
All right, man, it's just....

:48:46
Look, I don't need one of my own
trying to treat me like I'm the enemy.

:48:52
The enemy? Who is the enemy?
:48:54
One man with a white beard
who sits behind his desk...

:48:57
...pushing buttons that control
the fate of the entire world?

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No, that is not reality.
That is The Wizard of Oz.

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No, man, I mean anybody.
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White, black, anybody
who gets in the way of my progress.

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I am not in your way.
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I did not ask you
to come to this university...

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...nor am I here to motivate you.
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Your own presence
should be motivation enough.

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I have nothing to prove,
unlike you.

:49:28
I don't have anything to prove.
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Who do I have something to prove to?
:49:36
Yourself.
:49:41
Good afternoon, Mr. Williams.
:49:59
Ladies and gentlemen,
the next race on the track...


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