The Least Among You Page #3

-And that excludes punching people out.

-So you're in favor of segregated showers?

You allowed schoolboy name-calling

to escalate into a brawl.

Procedure requires disciplinary action.

Perhaps you come from somewhere

where discipline is not highly regarded.

Listen, my mother raised two children,

with no help, working nights.

Richard, Branch Rickey had the choice

of 10 Negro ballplayers,

all of whom

were better than Jackie Robinson.

But what Mr. Rickey needed

was someone who had the combination

of talent and maturity.

Now, was I wrong about you?

-No.

-They expect violence. Don't give it to them.

Let them learn your truth,

which is their truth.

You expect a lot.

Any more trouble,

you make sure I'm the first one to know.

Now, let's see some results.

Racism, right here, where they're training

people to preach mercy and justice.

But for whom?

The right people, the ones who deserve it?

Sit down, holy man.

You here to learn something

or just make trouble?

Totally out of control.

Moneybags back there

isn't going to like this.

If you want to break the back

of Christian sponsored bigotry, step up.

Demand that this seminary

bring in black students and faculty.

We march tomorrow at noon.

"Christian bigotry"?

Relax. That's just rhetoric.

-Tremaine was standing right next to me.

-Good.

He'll see that we're on the right side

of the integration issue.

How do you know what side he's on?

Stansfield Tremaine is an enlightened man.

Kelly is a leader. Tremaine will see this.

Got him.

Hey, hey, hey.

All right, it's been half an hour.

Nobody's coming.

You know, just what I thought.

They didn't even hear a word I said.

They heard you all right.

-Why'd you come?

-I think I know what you were trying to say.

But what came out was, "All you bigots

follow me and I'll forgive your sins."

No, that's just an excuse not to get done

what needs to get done on this campus.

I know, I know.

It's my way or the highway, right?

That's a big one in Texas.

Look, you might try getting to know

these people before you save them.

Hey, Tex, how many black neighborhoods

have you gone into

and gotten to know someone?

Yeah, yeah, I know.

Look, show me how.

Yeah, Rich, I think you got

your Martin Luthers mixed up.

The one who was nailing petitions

to the Church doors and all that,

he was the reformer.

King? He's the one in jail.

Hey, do y'all know

how that lady professor got here?

Yeah, Beckett brought her in.

She was like a missionary in Africa.

Bet she didn't wear those tight pants

in the jungle.

You want recruitment goals,

two professors.

Your class teaches

that spiritual transformation

is the best route to societal changes.

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