David Makes Man

Two minutes, Jay.

-JG! - What?

Shut up, Mom's asleep, open the door.

No, I can't, I'm naked!

Naked.

- - Ow, stupid!

Come on JG.

Told you I wasn't waitin'.

Stay calm today JG, no fighting, nothing.

Remember!

Yeah.

She can't have to come down here.

All right.

Aye!

["Born N Raised" by Pitbull playing]

Hey, don't touch my clothes!

You stashin' in there?

No.

They, they done Miss Cueva.

You can check, I was just--

Y'all 'ville kids kill me.

You ain't see the big ol' bus coming, huh?

Shoulda been had your money ready.

You gotta pay the full fare.

I don't know you're going to school.

I'm going to school.

What school?

Galvin Magnet.

-Huh? -Magnet.

Huh.

Ain't you gonna be late?

If you don't drive off, yes.

Oh, oh, okay!

Boy, y'all Magnet school kids kill me.

Next time you get on my bus with all that mouth,

I'm gonna leave you behind standing right there,

ya hear me?

Huh?

Magnet.

You all right?

Rough morning?

Don't let Homes bother you.

Fuck Homes.

He's mad cause his kids in a regular school.

You ain't regular are you?

You're in Magnet.

Yeah, Magnet, that's good.

Magnet means you made a choice.

It is gonna lead to prep.

What you trying to go Hurston, young brain?

Hey, there's nothing down there, nothing at all.

People need to see your eyes, Dai.

You cannot sink down, not today.

Ain't today your presentation?

Yeah.

Yeah, stay on top like a man or woman.

Keep your head up.

Make sure you go first.

You stay ready, you ain't got to get.

- -

Man of war.

What are you doing?

Seren, get out now.

Good mornin', DJ.

Mornin', Mrs. K.

Hey.

Have a great day, Ma.

You too, baby.

-Better. -

Good luck today.

Hey, I'll see you bro.

Yeah, after slow...

math.

Now, you a clown, brother.

What? Everybody can't be full time Magnet like you.

Genius, that boy, that boy's a genius.

Ready?

DJ, it's too early for all that.

Get ready.

Stay ready you won't have to get ready, Miss Sheryl.

Get your ass to class, DJ.

Did no one take the time during the barbecue

and football with the family dog to think of old Woods-Trap?

Where do you come from?

Show of hands, please.

How many did the assignment?

Ha, ha-clom! Ha-clom! Ha-clom!

From?

Come on people.

I'm not making a fool of myself for no reason.

Next year, you will thank Dr. WT.

High school classes won't be this precise.

Except, of course, if you get into Mast,

or your parents can afford Lords, or Hurston.

Maybe if you get into Hurston.

Now, where's it from?

Was that really from something

or were you just making some noise?

Two points off DJ.

Two?

I don't waste your time, don't waste mine.

Talkin' 'bout is that real, come on boy, please.

Earnum vac, where's it from?

Something native or original American.

Nice.

Jesse Edward? Were you ready?

Hmm?

He wasn't ready.

Marissa, north or south?

Huh?

Huh, if you can huh you can--

Hear.

Thank you.

There were thousands of languages

amongst the indigenous people of North and South America.

Did Ole Woods-Trap learn that

in a course in some dusty college hall?

Or, did her ancestors wash 'round the other side

of the Andes and take up the war against the Spanish

with the native people?

How did I get here?

What is your story?

Will there be one?

Um...

I prepared, um,

more like--

More like or prepared,

don't waste our time, Seren.

No, I begin my study on music.

And you can sing so you though it an easy A?

Admitting that music can at times come easy to me,

I used that as my start, which led me to the Galvin family,

the family that started this school back in, um,

back in...

1939 as the only all black school in the area.

There weren't any other places for them to learn,

so they came here.

My dad, my step-dad,

Ray, he's a great-nephew of the farm family, the Galvins.

Anyway, what made this school so popular

wasn't the teaching.

I mean most of the people around were,

were day laborers and farm hands

in the strawberry and melon patches,

but the school had a choir that would sing.

So, okay, hold on.

Sorry, sorry.

You all right, DJ?

That's just an example of the types of songs they sung.

They were work songs

and when the laborers and the farmers would hear

it all around while they were working,

they would come and sign their kids up for classes.

So, the topic is how these songs that built railroads,

plowed fields, and constructed schools even,

how their call and response became our music of today.

And that's why my...

how our music,

the legacy of our peoples' music,

black peoples' legacy, that's who I am,

where I come from, both joy and pain,

work and free.

And I just want to teach it to you all,

so you could, so you can know some of how I got here

and where I come from.

Well done.

Let's have it.

If music be the food of life...

Play on.

Amen.

Someone takes his education seriously.