Half Nelson

One, two, three, four, five, six

Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve

Okay.

Auditions for Miss Jackson step rehearsals.

Step rehearsals will meet in room 326 after school today.

Aww.

What is history?

Opposites.

You can read the board.

I'm so happy to hear that.

No, what is it?

What does it mean? Stace?

Change?

Thank you, Stacey.

I'm glad to hear someone's paying attention.

History is the study Of change over time.

And what's change?

It's this. It's opposites.

It's two things that push against each other in opposite directions.

So the civil rights movement, okay, it's essentially,

It's two opposing mentalities.

In the south, the majority believes

All men are not created equal, and there's a minority

Who believes that they are, so that minority struggles

and it fights and it pushes till eventually

It becomes the majority.

Am I boring you? Huh?

Let's give you some examples, okay, of opposing forces,

Like I'm going to go night and day.

What else?

Big and little.

Good. Anything else?

Left and right.

You and I.

You and I.

Teacher, student. Anything else?

Yeah.

Just wondering if you could count me and Gina's bald-headed sister as opposites.

Oh, insult.

Gina come on, tell me you're not going to take that?

You got a bald sister? Is your sister bald?

Give me something.

May 17, 1954.

Oh.

And I expect some thought from you.

I don't want just dates and facts.

I want to know why. I want to know consequences.

I want to know what it means. All right.

Now, back to the bald sister.

What's going on with that?

Right.

Left. Back.

I'm shooting.

You got your girl open over here.

She's sending out smoke signals over here.

She's got the fire.

She's going I got it over here and you're like-

Come on, get open. Oh, yeah.

Drey?

You going to put that down and come play or what?

I ain't done yet, Coach.

All right, top of the key, three passes, here we go.

Thursday, 11:16 a. m.

Hello, this is Taylor calling from Consolidated Credit.

This is an urgent message For Mr. Daniel Dunn

Regarding your outstanding balance.

Thursday, 5:25 p. m.

Hey, Dan, it's Rachel. I'm in town for a while.

You know, my Mom, anyway, I know it's been forever,

But I'd really like to see you.

I don't know.

I'll be at my parents so give me a call, okay?

Bye.

Thursday, 5:25 p. m.

Hey, Dan, it's Rachel.

I like Oprah.

I love Oprah.

But the thing is I was just fucking things up just to fuck them up.

Right, right. No.

Right.

Yeah.

Right, because everything that is worth-

Right, just forget it. So you're a teacher?

I'm a teacher.

And what am I supposed To teach them, you know what I mean?

Right.

That's the point, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you can change one person-

Then you can change them all.

I want to dance.

I want to dance.

Let's dance.

What's going on, bro?

What's the word?

What's that?

What, this right here? Mm-hmm.

Some new street shit.

Go ahead, man, check it out.

You got to feel that shit.

Yeah, it's not bad.

That's the street shit.

So what you need, teach, another eighth?

I only got 30.

Word.

It's been a long week.

You want that other thing?

On may 17, 1954, The supreme court ruled

On the case of Brown versus Board of Education,

Making it illegal for states to segregate public schools.

This was a major step forward in the struggle

For racial justice and helped begin

A flurry of bold and heroic actions

Known as the Civil Rights Movement.

Get on her. Sally, get on her.

It's all right, Sally. Come on.

Come on.

Ballgame, ladies. Ballgame.

Okay. Good job.

I like our chances Against Saint Joseph.

The thing is if we could just Figure out a way to put the ball

In the hoop it would be fine.

Stace, good job tonight.

Thank you.

You did a great job. Is there anyone else in there?

No, that's it.

Thanks for tonight.

All right. Bye, Mr. Dunn.

What are you doing here?

I heard this was the place.

We need a little work, But we're having fun so, yeah.

How are you?

Same old, same old.

I'm happy to see you.

It's good to see you too. You look good.

Come on, I got fat.

Oh, I know, but it looks great. You look healthy.

Do you want to go get some-

I can't. I got to-

To get some coffee?

Yeah.

I can't tonight.

Do you want to do it Another night?

Okay.

Hey, how's your Mom?

Did you get my messages?

Hello? I'm coming in.

Anyone?

Somebody in there?

Oh, sorry.

That's okay.

It's okay. I'm fine.

I'm sorry.

Are you okay?

Can you help me up?

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Okay, good.

It's gonna be fine.

Some water?

I'm sorry, but I'm fine.

Just don't go, okay, Just for a minute?

Just for a minute?

See you tomorrow?

Hey, kiddo.

How's Darrel's leg healing?

I don't know.

You didn't go to the hospital?

No.

Did your father pick you up from practice last night, Drey?

No.

Fucking shit. How did you get home?

Coach.

I'm tired of this. Something has got to change.

I don't know what.

You don't got to worry about me.

Oh, look at you, Miss 12.

Thirteen, I'm 13 now.

Oh, so you grown, huh?

Going to take care of yourself, Is that it?

Pretty much.

Well, that's a relief.

I guess I ain't got to cook up these burgers then, huh?

Hey, Mom, you know this dude Cesar Chavez on Spanish Six?

Cesar who?

Cesar Chavez. He once fasted for 35 days.

That means he didn't eat For 35 days,

Mm-hmm.

Think you could do that?

Hi, honey, it's Mom.

Hello? Hi, um, is Rachel there?

Well, I feel good today.

Anyone else feel good? Hmm?

I need a volunteer, and I need somebody who feels strong.

So what we've got here Is two opposing forces,

Terrence and myself, and we're pushing against each other.

And as long as one is stronger- and it looks like it's t-

The change is slow and consistent.

But once the other side becomes stronger,