![]() The first thing she does when she realizes Benny is back is ask Ernie to kill him, which is a ridiculous proposition since Benny is a made man, but he’s so easy to dislike that the prospect seems tempting. He sets Benny to it, but alongside a reluctant Ernie Nunzie, who, rightly, is worried that Benny’s return is going to send Stella into a tailspin. Chin is against pornography, believing it to be a perversion, but he’s willing to get involved just to get on Bonanno’s nerves since Joe is already involved in the racket. There are issues among the Italians in Godfather of Harlem season 2, episode 3, also, especially since Chin has brought Benny back from Florida with a bag of oranges and a business proposition in the form of “loops”, little porno reels that play at peep shows. He’s rejecting Malcolm’s - and Cassius’s - righteous anger over the so-called “fruit stand riot”, and threatening Malcolm, once again, with being cast out of the Nation if he doesn’t silence himself. When Elijah Muhammad bestows a new name upon Cassius, Muhammad Ali, he’s also rejecting Malcolm’s retitling of him as Cassius X. ![]() When he later meets with the Holy Apostle, he’s told that he’ll be welcomed back into the Nation as long as he ceases the political nature of his rhetoric, which is probably asking a lot from Malcolm X, of all people. Malcolm believes that the Nation has a responsibility to respond to white oppression directly, and with violence if necessary. “A hundred years ago the Klan wore white sheets,” says Elise, explaining what happened to Bumpy, “Well, in Harlem they dress in blue.”Īs Malcolm explains to Cassius, this kind of thing is the crux of his issue with Elijah Muhammad, with whom he has a meeting that day during which he intends to say he has Cassius’s support. The boy pocketing an apple gets him accused of theft, and the accusation gets him and the local shoeshine man, Cecil, a beatdown from the cops. But that’s where problems begin to emerge. Elise is still bonding with Margaret, who seems to have an admirer in the young Black boy working a street fruit stand. Mayme is still working with Congressman Powell to ensure that all Harlem citizens of color have the right to vote, and Bumpy has just delivered an envelope containing $10,000 to help that cause. Bumpy’s new arrangement with Chin is making them both plenty of money and letting them eat dinner with their families every night in safety. Things are going well in Harlem - about as well as they ever do, anyway.
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