Adult Chris: [v.o.] My mother thought going to a White school meant I would get a better education and I would be safer. Wrong! That's Joey Caruso. A little thug with a big chip on his shoulder. You know I manage to avoid him before I wore these shoes.
Joey Caruso: Nice shoes, Bojangles.
Chris: Bojangles? That's not what your mother called me when I was tap dancing in her drawers last night.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] I know you think I'm crazy. But if I let him get away with that, he'd be doing it all year. Now I couldn't beat him, but I thought maybe I could out-Black him.
Chris: What?
Chris: Did I stutter?
Joey Caruso: You know who I am?
Chris: You step on my shoe again and I'm gonna tell you who I am. I don't play that. I'm from Bed-Stuy, boy. I bring half of Marcy up in here. I will beat your butt so bad, you're gonna need crutches in your sleep.
Adult Chris: [v.o.] Hey, this might work.