Where'd they raise you, Mr. Robinette? Scarsdale?
Harlem.
Never would have guessed. You want my wife in jail? What can jail do to her? She has nothing left. She won't even go to church.
You may not believe this, but I'm truly sorry for what happened to your family. But you want us to bend the law. And we both know what it's like when there's one law for black and another for white. It was no good fifty years ago, it's no good now.
You think the system's gonna change? You think we're gonna be equal? Call me when your kids grow up. Tell me how they're doing. The system's been against us for a long time. Maybe right now, it's gotta bend the other way.
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