@@munnygawn9480 home of the old Redford High. Back in the day, the White Castle in Telegraph/96 on the Brightmoor-Redford border was my go-to spot for grub.
Looooove him but he didn’t MAKE the movie. The awesome cast as a whole did. Even the side characters had personalities. One chick in a window had like 4 lines & still remember to this day lmao
My parents loved his character so much, they named me (Julian) after him. Feel like the essence of his character has absolutely transferred to me. The power of a name.
He also was a Dayplayer On Guiding Light in 1982 who was part of The Cast Picture. Alot of African American Talent was on that show two of which won Daytime Emmys. Monti Sharp and Kevin Mambo.
BOTH of these men have had such wonderful careers whilst, still maintaining a good degree of social integrity. I heard that is a rare thing in the entertainment industry.
Fishburne's daughter is an adult entertainer I believe this person is suggesting that that fact alone should bring condemnation from the larger community; which it shouldn't. Who really knows the private lives of celebrities anyways? Do people follow around every Morgan Freeman movie clip outraged that he dumped his wife for a couple of 19 yr olds?? your role models eventually let you down if you give them enough time
I would’ve loved to know more about Julian and Vaughn’s backstory. They seemed to be old friends who both pledged and Dap didn’t make the cut and went his own way
Exactly. You can tell there is deep history there between the 2 of them. I suspect Greek life drove them apart. I like Greeks but there is a down side to them when they alienate everyone who is not a Greek.
I heard (no proof) they were cool & Dap wanted to pledge but didn't. Then when Julian did they went diff directions & actually became rivals. If that's a true backstory its so real about College Days & Greek Life.
I laugh when people only know Giancarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. He is a great actor and the transition from Dean Big Brother Almighty (School Daze) to Buggin Out (Do the Right Thing) is EPIC. Not many actors could pull that off.
@@30Prototype 1. It speaks to my age 2. it speaks to how polarized this country was both then and now regarding Spike Lee/race IMO. So much of the country hated him, called him a "trouble maker", Hey, I laughed at how fake I felt the Academy was when Spike Lee received the award for Black Klansman (which was not his best work). 3. Knowing/liking Giancarlo Esposito is kind of quasi "woke" just because he played a great role in Breaking Bad, not because of School Daze, Do the Right Thing, King of NY, etc. Its funny to me when woke people dont understand how little they know.
I finally watched this with my bose headphones on. You can hear the brothers steppin in the background. Spike’s attention to detail was on point even back then.
Yep. Spike empowered an entire generation. One of my favorites movies, Eves Bayou is connected to this movie.. because Kasi Lemons, the director.. was one of the superfine women that Halfpint asked out.. and Samuel Jackson was the lead actor in her film.. This was really a special time in black cinema.. the first time I saw a sex scene between black people that wasnt all funky and sweaty and dirty looking.. Spike made us human on film.
Never caught the background sounds till you posted that. Sounds like the Gammites are marching across campus. Too bad you don’t see that kind of stuff anymore.
You know when I was younger and watched this movie I was like he's wrong he's a villain but watching and hearing him now I'm like.hes dead ass I'm a black American from NYC and I don't have any connection to Africa really. Now it's not like I don't support and love African culture and history but let's be real I am an American first.
@@merrickc.155 girl....... them illegals from Africa exposing themselves to you. They will let you know there is not allegiance. Even when I deploy to Africa they gave us black Americans strange side eye. Guess we know who sold us out to traders.
@@merrickc.155I fully agree. Most Africans will tell us that we are not African. Seems like certain Americans don’t see us as Americans. I know that I am American.
This is one of my favorite scenes from School Daze! It's intense and funny at the same time. Great acting on both sides. Neither straying from their points of view. Lol.
Frankly, Detroiters all have an edge that can be brought to the surface… but there is respect and understanding up front, and that’s why I love it here… We mind our own business, until we are needed, and we can handle anything thrown at us
Here it is 2024 and I feel the same way!! We are Black Americans!! People that tried living in Africa faced getting scammed and overcharged for any and everything and they moved right back to the States!!
I just saw a video of a lady on the first plane back to America fed up of being there. We can play all that "the man hassling me" here in America all we want: we all black in Africa = we can't play that white black game there. Everything OTHER than being black matters - and the only color they see from us is green 💵
Y'all can still be the kings (kangs) and queens y'all think y'all are right here. Africa has been torn apart by greed and civil war. Mass murders of women and children. Starvation, horrible diseases, rape, prostitution, etc Be glad you're right here. Much more opportunity here We.was.kangz.
I hear you .. and It's unfortunate that those things happen.. but we need to be careful.. as these are not Reflective of the Wider truth around the opportunities on the Continent.. we can expect Utopia anywhere, but the application of common sense and ongoing learnings will always help.. there are millions that have unbelievable success stories and there are ongoing.. I'm fortunate to have some advantages in nuance and understanding that help me invest and I believe these can also be figured out.. wishing you and yours well @Shoncarter
kookoo78 We are Black Americans. But we also have a responsibility to help build African Nations. Look at Jewish Americans and how they support Israel. They actually have buying trips where they travel to Israel with one goal in mind. To spend money to help enrich other jews. We as Black Americans should have a similar attitude and agenda.
eric hughes We should have a connection with Africa. But we are Americans. We’re between two worlds-and that’s not a bad thing, although the way it got to be that way was bad. The worst crime in history, in fact.
@@gl7011 It's not about race. Israel is a country based on a religion, so people of that religion have a warm feeling toward it. But Africa is a continent, not a country. I mean if you are a Nigerian-American, and you have warm feelings toward Nigeria, I get that.... but Nigeria is not Chad, it is not Togo, it is not Zimbabwe. You shouldn't have warm feelings toward those other countries just because of skin color.
Thats a very good question. After this movie came out in 1988, my high school, R.E. Lee in Houston started the GAMMA PHI GENTS. I WAS "SOOOO FAR GONE" off this movie. I always thought that Julian was a cool dude. Jane was silly to f×ck half-pint. Julian played her like a PIANO. THATS JUST because he wanted JASMINE GUY, as we ALL DID back then.
Because Dap at his core is insecure over his failure to become a greek. He channels that insecurity into his social activism. He doubts himself, never shying from conflict with ANYONE throughout the film. All because he never became a ‘Gamma Man’.
@@deathtoidiots8156Dang, that's heavy! I never thought about it that way. What's so sad is that Julian is a big deal at a HCBU like Mission but if you put him in a school that has a large student body, which is white, he wouldn't have any status at all. Maybe Gamma Phi Gamma was sponsored by their White Division. Julian may have lived by the adage "A Man Finishes What He Starts!" Also I wonder if Gamma Phi Gamma was the only Fraternity that Half Pint was accepted as a pledge to.
Yet, he's claiming to be a "GREEK" because of the Greek letters he pledged under, not realizing that REAL GREEKS laugh at US & everything that our fraternities supposedly stand for. Be careful who you root for when they clearly don't KNOW their own ROOTS (Julian). And no. I'm not reading replies
Powerful movie! Julian was ignorant until the end. Damn I wish I had gone to an HBCU instead of a private college for business. Wanted the full black experience so bad. Smh 😢
Jane was such a trip. She moved away but still "heard" what they were saying. I would have went further away. The Frat was the only thing that Half Pint had going for him. He really didn't have any Friends, couldn't get a "Freak" to date him, and furthermore if Half-Pint didn't make it he would have been crushed. Can you imagine if Julian talked to Victor Newman like that. He got his start on Guiding Light, and so many African American Actors made their bones on the Show. Him, Jesse L. Martin, Sharon Leal, Taye Diggs, Nia Long. Also Ruby Dee, Angela Bassett, & Cicely Tyson played Nurses and got Oscar Nominations and Laurence Fishburne was on One Life To Live.
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Not gonna lie this scene is funny as hell. Detroit man left him in hush mold 😂😂😂
Lol no, Indiginous americans & mixed breed Americans vs wanna be Africans & more mixed bread Americans that don’t know the land beneath the USA is their birthright
@@Cerl84 yeah . America isn’t just the US ... the south north and central is all one land mass whatever name you wanna refer to it as. *Indiginous people* I guess that’s what you wanted me to say?
@@ryanharrison2248 I know it's a movie, but this is not fantasy time, dude. I see two people of AFRICAN descent arguing. ( both mixed with European) If they are indigenous, then they are indigenous to Africa, the birthplace of all humans.
stan orr 1 second ago I went to the theater 3 times to see this movie plus bought the DVD. This clip is the most important 2 minutes of this movie it demonstrates that one character is indigenous to America or Motown while the other character is a very confused Pan Afrikan. It is still true that he and other Pan Afrikans knows nothing about Afrika. Many have taken up the recommendation to go to Afrika (Ghana). After 30 years I finally have figured out what Spike Lee was trying to accomplish. Spike pitted the Indigenous character against the Pan Afrikan character and he made the Pan Afrikan into the hero. This movie was released in 1988 which was the same year that Jesse Jackson coined the term "Afrikan American". The opening credits featured the famous slave ship picture which was a propaganda drawing produced by a British abolitionist Movement in 1808. The "Wake Up" ending sums up Spike`s message: He is asking us to wake up to the Pan Afrikan Movement! The movie is actually putting us to sleep while claiming to wake up us! Brilliant anti-propaganda, propaganda! You have to reverse the message to get the real truth!!! Black to the Future!!
When I was younger, I used to think that Giancarlo Esposito's point was mean and anti-Black. The older that I get, I agree with his point of view. Black Americans have to take advantage of the opportunities in America.
Kookoo78 I agree. He has an Italian father and Black mother in real life. He was in a magazine with his father. It actually makes sense for him in a way to say this because he is mixed. To say that he is African is incorrect. I call myself Black American and not African American because I think Black Americans are our own group.
But Dap never said anything to the contrary. Nothing about PHYSICALLY going back to the motherland. Just adopting more of an "Afrocentric" point of view mentally. Rather than calling yourself a "Greek" which if you read Stolen Legacy, is really stolen Egyptian culture. Which is derived from Nubian culture
Jon Macie The man is at an HBCU built by Black Americans. Wanting other Black Americans who struggled from Jim Crow poverty to throw away their future for the protest of apartheid in South Africa. Afrocentrics need to calm down sometimes.
A well known battle that was fought and WON thanks to those same "Afrocentrics" as you call them. All across the diaspora, we are the SAME African/black people. Yet cats calling themselves and beating their chests to be called Greek. To FORGET those same people. If I'm acting hostile, I got every right
I wish spike Lee would reboot school daze as a series in the same vein as cobra Kai with half pint trying to bring back g phi g to mission college after being banned. Except now Dap is the president and doesn’t want this to happen.
@@jamaalpearsall246 I'm a black American...I was born in Gary, Indiana. My grandmother was born in Arkansas in 1915 and my grandfather was born in Mississippi in 1895...I know of not one family member from Africa... We were sold to America so that makes me American brought and american made which makes me an American... Why would I claim a country that sold my ancestors and never even tried to right that wrong?
@@KnowledgeSeeker78491 Are you sure that they didn’t try? But never mind that. Tho you don’t have contact with anyone from Africa it is essential that we create a relationship with them(Pan -Africanist) Why? Because that would make us the only race with out a government. If Black people fought for control over even some of Africa’s resources than Africa could fund and build communities throughout the diaspora. The crazy thing is that other races are receiving the fruits from the distribution of resources from Africa. They tell you to pull yourself up by your boot straps after they burned down your wealthy communities and stole your land Red lined you and are currently still given undervalued home appraisals all while receiving resources from a place that should be funding you. How do you feel American if you government does this to you?
Exactly thank you. Mixed people should have their own category. Pure African Americans need to stop claiming them. It's GENOCIDAL to your African lineage.
smith lovy you're an idiot. I'm not even bout to argue with another IGNORANT fool who doesn't know about Ethnicity and nationalities. Have a great life
Funny how in real life Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to an Italian carpenter/stagehand father from Naples, Italy, and an African-American opera singer mother from Alabama. So much for Motown ahahahahahahahahahaha
Man, I so hated Giancarlo Esposito's character in this movie. But I so appreciate the job he did, he easily matched(and in some cases exceeded) Fishburne's acting. Its sad that many of the topics dealt with in this movie are still being dealt with in 2018. Without question, we are all Black Americans. Somebody needs to make a t-shirt...
Personally, that was my nigga. Giancarlo was in trading places too. Check out the jail scene. The only thing JULIAN did wrong is play headgames with Jane. If he didnt want her anymore he just should have told her. Instead of using her as bait to ensnare her own self. But that was 88. I wish I could get a hold of those Gamma Phi Gamma sweatshirts.
@@kimwright6377 At that time i was 15, living in Houston,TX. And the narrative of the culture back then ,was the glorification of European-esk(if you will) LIKE features. I myself growing up in Detroit and Houston I was always around ALL types of BLACK people. In Houston, more white folks though, (where, the more whiter a person looked, the more prestige a nigga got.) Detroit to. But Houston had more whites per capita than Detroit back then. So when I saw school DAYS, I thought THE WHOLE lightskinned/GOOD HAIR Against BLACK Nappy hair thing was overexaggerated in the movie. But you proved me wrong.
What got me is the manner in which Julian (Giancarlo Esposito) said "I am a Greek and I don't play that" insinuating that even though he's a "Greek" fraternity brother he does not engage in ankle grabbing activities....🤣🤣🤣
They asked Jane to leave and she took two steps back..😂😂😂
One day ago. 33 thumbs up.
Is the RUclips algorithm racist?!?
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@@00ghostcobra Because she's nosey af 😂
Real
🤣😂..she a ride or die
The pronunciation of Africa gets me every time. Love his acting.
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“AF-RI-KA!!!”
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“I AM FROM DETROIT!!! MOTOWN!!”
Wayne County!
@@RalphSmith-cj5hejoy & evergreen
Taught at Cass, Pershing, Northwestern, Ford, Western International, and Burbank MS.
Brightmoor.
@@munnygawn9480 home of the old Redford High.
Back in the day, the White Castle in Telegraph/96 on the Brightmoor-Redford border was my go-to spot for grub.
I like the way Julian was preppy but not a punk...
Dap really thought he could intimidate Julian, but clearly the Detroit came out and he was not having it.
preppy was cool in the 80's. gangsta brothers wearing tiny izod tennis shorts.
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@@jamesharris30096 so that means the loud mouth all bark no bite poser came out.
Yeah he was a guy pokes his finger in his chest and called him a weak MF and he didn't do anything ?
Omg. Giancarlo Esposito is by far the most underrated actor on the planet. He MADE that movie.
it's so funny to see him in the "Wannabe" role here, considering he was the Afrocentric Conscious guy in "Do the Right Thing"
I’ve been saying that for years!!!!!
Absolutely
Looooove him but he didn’t MAKE the movie. The awesome cast as a whole did. Even the side characters had personalities. One chick in a window had like 4 lines & still remember to this day lmao
Johnny Cowboy Amen
Esposito is an amazing actor. He's only gotten better since then. Would love to see him win an Oscar.
My parents loved his character so much, they named me (Julian) after him. Feel like the essence of his character has absolutely transferred to me. The power of a name.
@@julianreed7 have you seen this movie? his character was the villain
@@alovesupreme 🤣🤣
@alovesupreme Interesting how you saw his character as the villain.
I like him in Fresh. He killed it as Esteban
"back to mother afreeeeka THATS BULLSHIT!!!" LMAOO
2023 and I just cracked up again 😂😂🤣🤣😭🤭
Loved it 👏🏽👏🏽
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Two of the greatest actors on this planet
And Samuel L. Jackson had a small part in this movie as well. High talent all around.
That is a bit of a stretch. Doesn't mean they are not good.
Don't forget Giancarlo was also Esteban in the movie Fresh. Another underrated movie.
That was a good azz movie!!!
@@Seadog-6411 You ain't lying
Very underrated it's a shame not enough people talk about that movie
For sure!!
He's awesome
So many good roles!
Giancarlo has been the same age since 1988.
Facts 😂😂😂
"Without question we are all black Americans" Preach!!!!!!!!!
yes sir
theyre both right, about what it is and what it should be
He had Dap ass with that. Julian should have said "now go make America great again bitch, come on Jane!"
We're still of African descent.
Fuck this country
Gus Fring, Morpheus and Gina Payne all in one shot! I love this scene!
😂😂 trying to imagine those characters here would be great
He also was a Dayplayer On Guiding Light in 1982 who was part of The Cast Picture. Alot of African American Talent was on that show two of which won Daytime Emmys. Monti Sharp and Kevin Mambo.
The comment I was looking for lol
@@Bigjizay hahah great minds think alike👍
Say Word!
Gus Fring just laid down MORPHEUS! Simply two of the best actors of this or ANY generation!!!!
Oh dang. I didn't even get that until you said it. I mean that was the same actor as Gus.
You stating facts!
Morpheus wants you to sleep and keep on dreaming instead of waking up.
"I don't want to be alone tonight" is one of the hottest song performances in any movie ever
Amen!
Too much heat was on that stage!!
Them BYTCHES were ALL FINE AND SUPER SEXY. I LOVE THAT WIGGLE THEY ALL DID AT THE SAME TIME.
Phyllis Hyman’s solo, “Be”, is also captivating…
That whole soundtrack was fire. Da Butt, Perfect Match, and so on.
Took me only 36 yrs to get this movie considering I was like 8 when this came out😂
You have no business watching this movie and neither did I.
Esposito is so sweet in person.
BOTH of these men have had such wonderful careers whilst, still maintaining a good degree of social integrity. I heard that is a rare thing in the entertainment industry.
What about his daughter?
@@Highlander1432 what about her
@@datniggaeazye.5968 Lawrence's daughter became a hardcore porn star
Fishburne's daughter is an adult entertainer
I believe this person is suggesting that that fact alone should bring condemnation from the larger community;
which it shouldn't.
Who really knows the private lives of celebrities anyways?
Do people follow around every Morgan Freeman movie clip outraged that he dumped his wife for a couple of 19 yr olds??
your role models eventually let you down if you give them enough time
I am from Detroit. MOTOWN!! #LMAO
Lol
I would’ve loved to know more about Julian and Vaughn’s backstory. They seemed to be old friends who both pledged and Dap didn’t make the cut and went his own way
J Williams My thoughts exactly! They definitely were cool at some point
Exactly.
You can tell there is deep history there between the 2 of them.
I suspect Greek life drove them apart.
I like Greeks but there is a down side to them when they alienate everyone who is not a Greek.
I heard (no proof) they were cool & Dap wanted to pledge but didn't. Then when Julian did they went diff directions & actually became rivals. If that's a true backstory its so real about College Days & Greek Life.
I have the book and had heard the actors commentary.. That's EXACTLY the back story of the two characters.
There was a scene where it was implied that they were once friends.
I laugh when people only know Giancarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. He is a great actor and the transition from Dean Big Brother Almighty (School Daze) to Buggin Out (Do the Right Thing) is EPIC. Not many actors could pull that off.
What's so funny about it?
@@30Prototype 1. It speaks to my age 2. it speaks to how polarized this country was both then and now regarding Spike Lee/race IMO. So much of the country hated him, called him a "trouble maker", Hey, I laughed at how fake I felt the Academy was when Spike Lee received the award for Black Klansman (which was not his best work). 3. Knowing/liking Giancarlo Esposito is kind of quasi "woke" just because he played a great role in Breaking Bad, not because of School Daze, Do the Right Thing, King of NY, etc. Its funny to me when woke people dont understand how little they know.
Exactly!!!
He was in that movie fresh
He was in Trading Places with Eddie Murphy in the jail cell scene
The delivery was perfect.
_i am from Detroit. MOTOWN._
Epic.
Motor city
The Dark Streets by Tall Black Guy
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Definitely agree with Julian.
Most DEF. Because...i live in Virginia. But I am DEFINITELY from Detroit....Foe Real. And i have been to Africa. There IZ a difference
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He's right on point 🇺🇲
I finally watched this with my bose headphones on.
You can hear the brothers steppin in the background.
Spike’s attention to detail was on point even back then.
Yep. Spike empowered an entire generation. One of my favorites movies, Eves Bayou is connected to this movie.. because Kasi Lemons, the director.. was one of the superfine women that Halfpint asked out.. and Samuel Jackson was the lead actor in her film.. This was really a special time in black cinema.. the first time I saw a sex scene between black people that wasnt all funky and sweaty and dirty looking.. Spike made us human on film.
Never caught the background sounds till you posted that. Sounds like the Gammites are marching across campus. Too bad you don’t see that kind of stuff anymore.
These 2 would later become allies in King of new york 😁😁
"Without question we are all Black Americans" Bruh........... exactly.................. I felt that..............
True that 🇺🇲
You know when I was younger and watched this movie I was like he's wrong he's a villain but watching and hearing him now I'm like.hes dead ass I'm a black American from NYC and I don't have any connection to Africa really. Now it's not like I don't support and love African culture and history but let's be real I am an American first.
@@merrickc.155 girl....... them illegals from Africa exposing themselves to you. They will let you know there is not allegiance. Even when I deploy to Africa they gave us black Americans strange side eye. Guess we know who sold us out to traders.
@@merrickc.155I fully agree. Most Africans will tell us that we are not African. Seems like certain Americans don’t see us as Americans. I know that I am American.
Real spill...our ancestry may originate there, but I was born and raised in Chicago Illinois, can't "go back" to somewhere I've never been🤷🏾♂️
It always makes me laugh that he asks Jane for privacy but she only goes like 2 or 3 feet away.
Right. She was still in camera view 🤣😂
She wasn't straying too far away! Remember she was "blinded by the black and silver"
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@Shan I read the script book and boy she was a pain in the you know what. She measured her self worth as being Julian's Girlfriend
This is one of my favorite scenes from School Daze!
It's intense and funny at the same time. Great acting on both sides. Neither straying from their points of view. Lol.
Frankly, Detroiters all have an edge that can be brought to the surface… but there is respect and understanding up front, and that’s why I love it here…
We mind our own business, until we are needed, and we can handle anything thrown at us
"Boy you need to check that alarm clock and wake up my brother" -Dap
Sweet isn’t it
Nah Dap the one need to check that alarm clock !! Nothing worst than an educated slave !! “ Africa “ . . . Tf
Everybody need to see this movie.
Two of the best actors ever!
I generally identify as American or simply human🤷🏾♀️
Here it is 2024 and I feel the same way!! We are Black Americans!! People that tried living in Africa faced getting scammed and overcharged for any and everything and they moved right back to the States!!
I just saw a video of a lady on the first plane back to America fed up of being there. We can play all that "the man hassling me" here in America all we want: we all black in Africa = we can't play that white black game there. Everything OTHER than being black matters - and the only color they see from us is green 💵
Y'all can still be the kings (kangs) and queens y'all think y'all are right here.
Africa has been torn apart by greed and civil war. Mass murders of women and children. Starvation, horrible diseases, rape, prostitution, etc
Be glad you're right here. Much more opportunity here
We.was.kangz.
@@Highlander1432 THE LORD JESUS REBUKE THEE, SATAN!
I hear you .. and It's unfortunate that those things happen.. but we need to be careful.. as these are not Reflective of the Wider truth around the opportunities on the Continent.. we can expect Utopia anywhere, but the application of common sense and ongoing learnings will always help.. there are millions that have unbelievable success stories and there are ongoing.. I'm fortunate to have some advantages in nuance and understanding that help me invest and I believe these can also be figured out.. wishing you and yours well @Shoncarter
If your name is @Highlander1432 then the English enslave your kilt wearing (kente cloth) wearin @$$ too 😂😂. Y'all was kaaangs too 😂
Julian (Giancarlo Esposito) was right in what he was saying in this scene
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1:16 Africaaa 😂
I love this scene, not because I'm from Detroit. It's so well acted and so well directed.
Two of Frank Whites most cherished soldiers
Was lookinf for this comment
The crazy part is in 2017 I feel Giancarlo way more than I did back then. We are Black Americans
kookoo78
We are Black Americans. But we also have a responsibility to help build African Nations. Look at Jewish Americans and how they support Israel. They actually have buying trips where they travel to Israel with one goal in mind. To spend money to help enrich other jews. We as Black Americans should have a similar attitude and agenda.
eric hughes We should have a connection with Africa. But we are Americans. We’re between two worlds-and that’s not a bad thing, although the way it got to be that way was bad. The worst crime in history, in fact.
sad part.
Not me... I'm African American!
@@gl7011 It's not about race. Israel is a country based on a religion, so people of that religion have a warm feeling toward it. But Africa is a continent, not a country. I mean if you are a Nigerian-American, and you have warm feelings toward Nigeria, I get that.... but Nigeria is not Chad, it is not Togo, it is not Zimbabwe. You shouldn't have warm feelings toward those other countries just because of skin color.
Can't argue with that.
How you going to go back to a place you never been, what sense does that make.
I'm with Julian on this one..we are black Americans
The exact same way I felt when he said that in the movie and when they started saying African-Americans
Didn't he identify as a greek first ?
@@facultatiffacultatif8779As in fraternity
No, he said he was a Greek, remember?
I love this scene!
We are Black Americans
FBA💪🏾
Not from Africa!
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@@UncleOut682 we on code
lol. Y'all are truly silly. The master did a good job on y'all.
@@dlmarh76 Are you African?
Both GE and Fish are two of my favorite actors and STILL going strong!!
GOD, I loved this film!
Morpheus: "you're a simple weak mutha fkr"
Gus Fring: "I don't play that shyt"
Two of our Greats
I never understood why Dap threatened and insulted Julian right after he asked for a favor 😂
Thats a very good question. After this movie came out in 1988, my high school, R.E. Lee in Houston started the GAMMA PHI GENTS. I WAS "SOOOO FAR GONE" off this movie. I always thought that Julian was a cool dude. Jane was silly to f×ck half-pint. Julian played her like a PIANO. THATS JUST because he wanted JASMINE GUY, as we ALL DID back then.
Because Dap at his core is insecure over his failure to become a greek. He channels that insecurity into his social activism. He doubts himself, never shying from conflict with ANYONE throughout the film. All because he never became a ‘Gamma Man’.
@@deathtoidiots8156Dang, that's heavy! I never thought about it that way. What's so sad is that Julian is a big deal at a HCBU like Mission but if you put him in a school that has a large student body, which is white, he wouldn't have any status at all. Maybe Gamma Phi Gamma was sponsored by their White Division. Julian may have lived by the adage "A Man Finishes What He Starts!" Also I wonder if Gamma Phi Gamma was the only Fraternity that Half Pint was accepted as a pledge to.
He was weak and tried to feign strength.
He speaks directly from the heart, its on the real and he showed it through acting.
“Without question, we are all Black Americans.” Tell him! 😂
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I can't argue with that 🇺🇲
It’s the truth I’m not from no mf Africa they hate us lmao
Yet, he's claiming to be a "GREEK" because of the Greek letters he pledged under, not realizing that REAL GREEKS laugh at US & everything that our fraternities supposedly stand for. Be careful who you root for when they clearly don't KNOW their own ROOTS (Julian).
And no. I'm not reading replies
But if we didn’t get kidnapped we wouldn’t be black Americans we will be Africans yeah you a house nigga
CLASSIC! Is it me or is does this movie get better every time I watch it?
Great scene. I'm from Detroit....Motown. 😂😂😂 I feel the same way about Africa.
Vaguan vs big daddy almighty dean cousin pledging tisha campbell
That means the White man has you were he wants you. Keep dancing to his tune.
Tisha Campbell was 😍🔥
She was beautiful!
Still is.
Yes she was and still is
GINA !!!
She looked like a ghost, she scart me!
That movie got me through college!!! Such a great film!!!
Larry Fishburne played in Higher Learning with alongside Omar Epps.
Motown Baby
I used to love this scene!🤣🤣🤣
So interesting to see these big stars when they were young.
This movie needs a sequel.
Why do you morons think everything needs a sequel?
@@rgtowns Not every movie needs a sequel. I would love to see how the characters have grown and changed over the past 36 years.
Lawrence Fishburne character would be a Trump supporter. 😂😂😂😂
Like a 40 year class reunion? Get Spike on the phone.
Why? So this work of art can "re-imagined" by greedy producers with no imagination???
Powerful movie! Julian was ignorant until the end. Damn I wish I had gone to an HBCU instead of a private college for business. Wanted the full black experience so bad. Smh 😢
ikr? sadly that ignorance and brainwashing continues to this day.not too late to go to a graduate school or get that phD.
Best years of my life! And I've had a great life. LOL.
The ending made no damn sense tho it was A very random ass scene
Yes I wish I went to an HBCU
I did. Representing GSU here.
Jane was such a trip. She moved away but still "heard" what they were saying. I would have went further away. The Frat was the only thing that Half Pint had going for him. He really didn't have any Friends, couldn't get a "Freak" to date him, and furthermore if Half-Pint didn't make it he would have been crushed. Can you imagine if Julian talked to Victor Newman like that. He got his start on Guiding Light, and so many African American Actors made their bones on the Show. Him, Jesse L. Martin, Sharon Leal, Taye Diggs, Nia Long. Also Ruby Dee, Angela Bassett, & Cicely Tyson played Nurses and got Oscar Nominations and Laurence Fishburne was on One Life To Live.
Not gonna lie this scene is funny as hell. Detroit man left him in hush mold 😂😂😂
You mean the black dude calling himself a Greek? The washing of the African mind is something else. Ooops, I mean 'black'. Sorry FBAs.
It took nearly 30 years for me to agree with Julian
I’m from Mother America and proud of it. I dont know shit about A-Fri-Kaa!
FBA!
Ados vs. Pan African
Lol no, Indiginous americans & mixed breed Americans vs wanna be Africans & more mixed bread Americans that don’t know the land beneath the USA is their birthright
@@ryanharrison2248 "americans" ? 🦝
@@Cerl84 yeah . America isn’t just the US ... the south north and central is all one land mass whatever name you wanna refer to it as. *Indiginous people* I guess that’s what you wanted me to say?
@@ryanharrison2248 I know it's a movie, but this is not fantasy time, dude. I see two people of AFRICAN descent arguing. ( both mixed with European) If they are indigenous, then they are indigenous to Africa, the birthplace of all humans.
@@Cerl84It is the birthplace of homo-sapiens but, there were all of African variety.
stan orr
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I went to the theater 3 times to see this movie plus bought the DVD. This clip is the most important 2 minutes of this movie it demonstrates that one character is indigenous to America or Motown while the other character is a very confused Pan Afrikan. It is still true that he and other Pan Afrikans knows nothing about Afrika. Many have taken up the recommendation to go to Afrika (Ghana). After 30 years I finally have figured out what Spike Lee was trying to accomplish. Spike pitted the Indigenous character against the Pan Afrikan character and he made the Pan Afrikan into the hero. This movie was released in 1988 which was the same year that Jesse Jackson coined the term "Afrikan American". The opening credits featured the famous slave ship picture which was a propaganda drawing produced by a British abolitionist Movement in 1808. The "Wake Up" ending sums up Spike`s message: He is asking us to wake up to the Pan Afrikan Movement! The movie is actually putting us to sleep while claiming to wake up us! Brilliant anti-propaganda, propaganda! You have to reverse the message to get the real truth!!! Black to the Future!!
When I was younger, I used to think that Giancarlo Esposito's point was mean and anti-Black. The older that I get, I agree with his point of view. Black Americans have to take advantage of the opportunities in America.
adove And what's funny is that he's not even fully black
Kookoo78 I agree. He has an Italian father and Black mother in real life. He was in a magazine with his father. It actually makes sense for him in a way to say this because he is mixed. To say that he is African is incorrect. I call myself Black American and not African American because I think Black Americans are our own group.
But Dap never said anything to the contrary. Nothing about PHYSICALLY going back to the motherland. Just adopting more of an "Afrocentric" point of view mentally. Rather than calling yourself a "Greek" which if you read Stolen Legacy, is really stolen Egyptian culture. Which is derived from Nubian culture
Jon Macie
The man is at an HBCU built by Black Americans. Wanting other Black Americans who struggled from Jim Crow poverty to throw away their future for the protest of apartheid in South Africa.
Afrocentrics need to calm down sometimes.
A well known battle that was fought and WON thanks to those same "Afrocentrics" as you call them. All across the diaspora, we are the SAME African/black people. Yet cats calling themselves and beating their chests to be called Greek. To FORGET those same people. If I'm acting hostile, I got every right
MORPHIUS..AND MOFF GIDDION..what a fight that would be..and Daym Gina as the Ref..
Two all times greats. Gus and Morpheus
These two Brothere has had some dynamic careers, keep doing what you do., knocking it out the park.
“You need to check that alarm clock and wake up, my brother.”
When in actuality, Julian should of been telling Dap that !! Nothing worst than an educated slave , think they know something!!
@@_Spicymorenita Say WHAT?
Everyone who went to Morehouse Spelman Clark or Morris Brown knows that corner like the back of their hand.
Giancarlo dropped the mic with that one! Detroit…Motown!!! 👏🏾
This is my favorite movie EVER!
Julian was the precursor to Gustavo Fring!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂BACK TO AFRICAAAAA!!!!
I wish spike Lee would reboot school daze as a series in the same vein as cobra Kai with half pint trying to bring back g phi g to mission college after being banned. Except now Dap is the president and doesn’t want this to happen.
I would very much like that
Nah that shouldn’t happened cause they all Woked up now
I seen this movie so many times I love this classic I loved Half Pint lol
Love old school
Nah you should've left LAST PART UP THOUGH.."YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT ALARM CLOCK AND WAKE UP MY BROTHER."
SparksOnTheRoad Agree!!! 💯
Nope...they cut it right where they should
Ados101.com
@@KnowledgeSeeker78491 No they didn’t. You’re African.
@@jamaalpearsall246 I'm a black American...I was born in Gary, Indiana. My grandmother was born in Arkansas in 1915 and my grandfather was born in Mississippi in 1895...I know of not one family member from Africa... We were sold to America so that makes me American brought and american made which makes me an American... Why would I claim a country that sold my ancestors and never even tried to right that wrong?
@@KnowledgeSeeker78491 Are you sure that they didn’t try? But never mind that. Tho you don’t have contact with anyone from Africa it is essential that we create a relationship with them(Pan -Africanist) Why? Because that would make us the only race with out a government. If Black people fought for control over even some of Africa’s resources than Africa could fund and build communities throughout the diaspora. The crazy thing is that other races are receiving the fruits from the distribution of resources from Africa. They tell you to pull yourself up by your boot straps after they burned down your wealthy communities and stole your land Red lined you and are currently still given undervalued home appraisals all while receiving resources from a place that should be funding you. How do you feel American if you government does this to you?
For some reason... The way the one dude screams "GAMMA!" as a retort is one of the few things that stuck out to me for the last 30 years.
Some great actors here.
I like this face off. We needed more of this throughout the years.
Classic Scene!
From this to his performance in Fresh, Esposito is an amazing actor.
Okay, I am from Detroit
EVERY BLACK PERSON IN America AINT MIXED
only way you know is with a dna test
YOu are right but if you look at The History of your Family Tree, you will see White. My Family is Native Canadian, and Scottish.
Exactly thank you. Mixed people should have their own category. Pure African Americans need to stop claiming them. It's GENOCIDAL to your African lineage.
smith lovy you're an idiot. I'm not even bout to argue with another IGNORANT fool who doesn't know about Ethnicity and nationalities. Have a great life
smith lovy ohhhh I'm shivering. Bitch please. Have a nice life
Tisha Campbell a legend 😂😂 she's been around for a minute
Three icons in the movie industry
WERE ALL BLACK AMERICANS. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He's right though. The *1828 webster dictionary* defines American as: (Copper Colored people) found in american by Europeans. Meaning black people.
@@mikej2133 You took copper coloured to mean black? You're just as confused as the 'black American' dude calling himself a Greek.
@@dlmarh76 you too dumb to even realize what you wrote is stupid AF! Like I said we are the real americans
Detroit stand up!!!!!
Me too!!!! West side Detroit!!!!😮
Funny how in real life Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro
Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to an Italian carpenter/stagehand father from Naples, Italy, and an
African-American opera singer mother from Alabama.
So much for Motown ahahahahahahahahahaha
Man, I so hated Giancarlo Esposito's character in this movie. But I so appreciate the job he did, he easily matched(and in some cases exceeded) Fishburne's acting. Its sad that many of the topics dealt with in this movie are still being dealt with in 2018. Without question, we are all Black Americans. Somebody needs to make a t-shirt...
What was real though was at the time there were brothers and sistas like that in school with me.Clark Atlanta(where that was shot). Lol
Personally, that was my nigga. Giancarlo was in trading places too. Check out the jail scene. The only thing JULIAN did wrong is play headgames with Jane. If he didnt want her anymore he just should have told her. Instead of using her as bait to ensnare her own self. But that was 88. I wish I could get a hold of those Gamma Phi Gamma sweatshirts.
@@kimwright6377 At that time i was 15, living in Houston,TX. And the narrative of the culture back then ,was the glorification of European-esk(if you will) LIKE features. I myself growing up in Detroit and Houston I was always around ALL types of BLACK people. In Houston, more white folks though, (where, the more whiter a person looked, the more prestige a nigga got.) Detroit to. But Houston had more whites per capita than Detroit back then. So when I saw school DAYS, I thought THE WHOLE lightskinned/GOOD HAIR Against BLACK Nappy hair thing was overexaggerated in the movie. But you proved me wrong.
I think I need to go watch the whole movie again.
Wow, three icons in one scene!
I cant get over Giancarlo Espocito is the guy at the end of season 2 of "Dear White People" 😆
Africa is amazing real talk!
Powerful scenes from 2 great actors… a True “Face OFF”
What got me is the manner in which Julian (Giancarlo Esposito) said "I am a Greek and I don't play that" insinuating that even though he's a "Greek" fraternity brother he does not engage in ankle grabbing activities....🤣🤣🤣
Imagine Julian meeting Buggin Out 😆
That's who he became after waking up from School Daze👌
@@g2earthling835 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@g2earthling835 And Dap became Ike turner after waking up from school daze
Imagine both of them meeting Gus Fring 🤣🤣
Just learning about this movie today....
Damn Gina!