:24:01
If Lesra wants to learn,
then we can teach him.
:24:04
If you don't want that
that's up to you, but no one
is trying to replace you, sir.
:24:17
This what you want, boy ?
:24:19
I wanna go to college.
:24:23
If that's what it's gon' take,
then yeah.
:24:28
It don't seem right.
:24:39
Why you gotta go,
Lesra ?
:24:41
Don't you want me to go,
El ?
:24:43
You should be here
backin' me up.
:24:45
Leave the boy, Elston.
Lesra goin' to Toronto now.
:24:48
Got a job to do.
:24:50
Wants to go to college.
:25:01
[Rubin ]
After eight years
at Jamesburg,
:25:03
l escaped.
:25:05
l was angry,
embittered with life.
:25:09
l ran as if on a cloud,
:25:11
unaware of
how high l was stepping
or of anything else around me.
:25:15
There was room in my head
for only one word, one thought..
:25:21
freedom.
:25:25
l ran straight
into the U.S. Army
and a pair of paratrooper wings.
:25:29
My whole life changed.
:25:31
l learned that knowledge
of self and kind...
:25:34
is the only true means
to the liberation
of the blackman.
:25:37
l could do anything.
:25:39
[Jukebox.. Doo-Wop ]
l overcame my stutter.
l became a prizefighter.
:25:42
l came back to Paterson
the all-Army European
welterweight champ.
:25:46
Let me have a soda,
please.
:25:48
Judy, who's
that fine soldier...
:25:50
standing over there
at the bar ?
:25:53
[Continues]
:25:59
Oh, he's a local boy.