:22:02
wejust fi gured
that's the way it was gonna be.
:22:04
Well, I know he's smart.
:22:07
There's no doubt about that,
but, uh...
:22:09
he can't read, Mrs Martin.
:22:13
But we think that we could teach him.
I mean, within...
:22:15
probably two years, with a lot ofwork,
we could get him ready for college.
:22:18
- Yeah, well, that school
sure not doin' it.
- Now waitjust a second.
:22:21
- I am that boy's father--
- But if they can give him more--
:22:23
They're talkin' to me, Alma!
:22:25
Uh, Mr Martin, you know,
we got plenty of room.
:22:28
And if Lesra wants to learn,
then we can teach him.
:22:31
Ifyou don't want that, that's fine.
That's up to you.
:22:33
But no one here is trying
to replace you, sir.
:22:44
- This what you want, boy?
- I wanna go to college.
:22:50
And if that's what it's gonna take,
then, yeah.
:22:54
It don't seem right.
:23:05
Why you gotta go, Lesra?
:23:07
- Don't you want me to go, El?
- You should be here backin' me up.
:23:11
Leave the boy, Elston.
Lesra goin' to Toronto now.
:23:14
Got a job to do.
Wants to go to college.
:23:26
After eight years atJamesburg,
I escaped.
:23:30
I was angry,
embittered with life.
:23:33
I ran as ifon a cloud...
:23:36
unaware of how high I was stepping
or of anything else around me.
:23:40
There was room in my head
for only one word...
:23:43
one thought:
:23:46
freedom.
:23:49
I ran straight into the U.S. Army
and a pair of paratrooper wings...
:23:53
and my whole life changed.
:23:55
I learned that
knowledge of self and kind...
:23:57
is the only true means
to the liberation of the black man.