Kritzinger:
Lange?
Lange:
Yes, sir?
Kritzinger:
Who were those 30,000 you say you shot, when you say, YOU shot?
Lange:
In Riga, Latvia. 27,800 I have some responsibility for. And stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs. I received memos directing the, one would say "evacuation" of Jews who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. Not exactly war, is it? And gas chambers about to come?
Kritzinger:
What gas chambers? Gas chambers?
Lange:
I hear rumours, yes.
Kritzinger:
This is more than war. Must be a different word for this.
Lange:
Try "chaos".
Kritzinger:
Yes. The rest is argument, the curse of my profession.
Lange:
I studied law as well.
Kritzinger:
And how do you apply that education to what you do?
Lange:
It has made me distrustful of language. A gun means what it says.
As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name
Barry Worth:
Listen, I made a mistake, all right? I could have played college ball, and I could have gone pro. Listen to me when I'm talkin' to you. But I messed up. I dropped out of school, and I didn't get an education and that was it.
Quincy Worth, Barry's Son:
So because you messed up, I can't get the shoes?
Barry Worth:
No. No. Because I messed up, you can't mess up. Thinkin' you need things you don't. You're listenin' to the wrong people, son. Well, when you're older, you'll understand.
Quincy Worth, Barry's Son:
When I'm older, I'll end up just like you.
Rashad:
Also, when we get the funds, we should gather all the parents at your church, Reverend Blunton, and you give an encouraging speech before handing over the check to the principal of Stuyvesant.
Rev. Jones:
An encouraging speech.
Rashad:
Yeah. I could hear it now. Blunton giving a speech, directed at the poor black folks, denouncing further spending on depreciable products while investing more in their children's education. We'll be leading by example when handing over the check.
Sandra:
What?
Alex:
Poor black people?
Rashad:
Blunton can also encourage everyone to start celebrate black intellectual ability, not just athletes and rappers.
Courtney:
Who doesn't do that now?
Rashad:
Most black people I grew up with.
Blunton:
I'm not doing anything of the kind.
Rashad:
Why not? The dropout rate was at its highest last year at the Stuy. Education is no big deal to them.
Sandra:
Rashad. It would make Cal look like a... middle class elitist.
Alex:
An obnoxious, middle class elitist.
Courtney:
A non authentically black, obnoxious, middle class elitist.
