Delia walked out of the bathroom of the guest bedroom naked, and asked Tommy, who was looking through the information in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and basking in the sun by the way:

"Does your fiancée care that the other women used the toiletries in the bathroom?"

"Don't worry, Delia, my fiancée has never entered this guest bedroom, this bedroom is for guests to stay overnight, and every time before she comes back, the whole villa will be cleaned twice by different cleaning companies, not to mention that you use this deodorant that she doesn't know about, even if you kill someone here, you won't leave any trace." Tommy lowered his head and looked at the black lawyer's profile that Delia had brought with him:

"It took me nearly two months to find a black lawyer, and he had better not let me down, or I'll be disappointed in your efficiency."

Delia walked over, stood naked in front of the sunny floor-to-ceiling window with Tommy, tilted her head and reached out to take the cigarette from Tommy's mouth, took a puff in her mouth, spit out the smoke ring towards the window, and talked about what she knew:

"Earl Rush, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1946, his father was missing when he was 7 years old, his mother took him and other children to settle in Oakland, California, dropped out of high school in 1963 to join the U.S. Army, and the garrison base was in his hometown of Chicago, what a strange fate, his mother took him away from there, and God sent him back, where he left his post and joined the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, founded by Fred Hampton, a well-known black activist, Served as the head of the armed defense force of the local branch of the Black Panther Party. ”

"In 1969, Fred Hampton was drugged by an FBI-arranged informant and was unconscious in his apartment, and the investigative report showed that the Chicago Police Department's tactical team and FBI field agents, a total of 14 people, fired more than 100 shots at the apartment and the people inside, and then told the judge in a serious way in court that it was the people in the apartment who fired first......"

After the massacre, Earl Rush spoke at the Black Panther Party National Convention and said that it is impossible to lead blacks to seek racial equality with just a few guns, and that blacks cannot only rely on weapons to arm themselves, but also need to understand power games and not play according to the rules of white people, and the end is Fred Hampton, who has been drugged unconscious, but has to be slandered as taking the initiative to shoot, and then, he held a press conference to officially announce his withdrawal from the Black Panther Party and disbanded the armed defense forces, in 1975, After receiving his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings School of Law, he joined the law firm of Miller & Gallagher as a lawyer, often providing pro bono legal assistance to blacks. ”

"I don't need a black saint......" Tommy listened to Delia's introduction, and said after flipping through the information in his hand:

"I remember you were very good at understanding, Delia, and you knew exactly what I needed."

Delia turned to look at Tommy, and said in an affirmative tone, "He meets your requirements." ”

Tommy looked into Delia's eyes and nodded slightly, "Go on." ”

"In 1976, Earl Rush ran for a seat on the Oakland City Council, he was the first black man in Oakland to have a former Black Panther Party identity and seek political office, but sadly, lost to his Republican opponents, but he immediately called on his supporters to support white Democratic candidates, to work with the Democratic Party, you know, the Democratic Party is actually more versatile than the Republican Party, it can be more conservative, it can be more radical, the voters want to see, the Democratic Party does what they want, Earl Rush works with the Democratic Party with a slick position, Many blacks were very dissatisfied, but he said it very beautifully, he said that racial equality cannot be pushed only by blacks, whites need to be involved, and he wants to act as a bridge between blacks and whites to build mutual trust. Delia flicked the ash of her cigarette:

The Democrats responded to his overtures by joining the Democratic Party, and the California Democratic Party headquarters office gave him the title of communications coordinator.

Tommy nodded understandingly: "He took the initiative to take refuge, and the Democratic Party gave him some small profits, which can be regarded as giving him a chance within the party, but what happens next, it still depends on his ability to prove himself, after all, his choice is too bold, and the Democratic Party is not sure whether this guy can still help the Democratic Party absorb the votes of those blacks, so for the time being, he is just given the identity of a communications coordinator, which is convenient to advance and retreat freely, if he is capable, then the Democratic Party may support him to run at any time, but, if his ability is ordinary, It is also possible to keep him in this position until he dies of old age. ”

"That's right, he now needs the black people to regain their trust in him, let the Democratic Party see his influence in the black community, and give him the opportunity to come out and campaign, so when he heard that there is a sponsor who runs a black TV station and wants to find a black man with a lawyer background to help him run the TV station, he is very interested." Delia said to Tommy.

Tommy continued, "How's his appetite?" ”

"Fame and fortune are as greedy as when I first met you, but I want to warn you that I just made this choice because I accidentally despised you, and he still made this choice after learning about your situation." Delia remembered the past when she was calculated by Tommy because of her greed, and said with a smile.

"The Bible says, 'Whatever you ask of me, I will grant it.'" Tommy let out a light laugh, and his face instantly brighter than the sunlight outside the window, he looked at Delia:

"Where is he? I can't wait to meet this interesting high-level black man. ”

"He? Maybe he's helping black criminals fight lawsuits and earn fame...... and banknotes. Delia twisted the cigarette butt on the glass, leaving an ugly gray stain: "He is not only greedy for you, he is like this to everyone, sometimes it makes people think that he is ugly, like this gray stain, I also wonder, why do you want to find such a black man, isn't it better to have a black manager who is willing to listen to you, loyal to you, and willing to be a puppet?" ”

"I'm not looking for a puppet, I'm looking for an opportunity." Tommy reached out his finger and gently wiped the smoke stain away, leaving the window spotless again.

……

Earl Rush sat in the back seat of his Ford business sedan, first took out a small and delicate medicine bottle, shook out a few prescription pills from it, and took it orally with bottled water, and then said to Charlie, a white driver and bodyguard who was sitting in the driver's seat with both hands on the steering wheel, waiting for his orders:

"Charlie, send me to Frutwell, I'm going to meet Russell from BGF."

The driver started the car and drove Earl to the black community in Oakland, the so-called BGF, the full name is called the Black Guerrillas, which is a black street organization founded in California in 1966, and it can be regarded as the same as the Black Panther Party, which was born under the influence of the Black Equality Movement, but this organization is completely different from the Black Panther Party, they have no ideological program, only pure violence, only know how to rob under the banner of black equality, sell books, etc., and even kill the most blacks.

This is also the reason why the Black Panther Party was exterminated early, and the black guerrillas have grown from about 50 people to thousands today.

As long as they are not like the Black Panther Party, which procures more English versions of "Mao Xuan" than weapons and ammunition, and almost everyone has a copy, they can put on their lips the slogans of Marxism-Leninism and ending the plundering of the United States by capitalism, which make American conscience capitalists sound terrified, grab something, sell some drugs, and kill some good people, for the white men of the American government, it is nothing, and they can be tolerated and understood.

Frutwell, the old black community in Oakland, as soon as the car enters the block, it immediately feels like stepping into another world, the walls of the street are sprayed with graffiti, and black people gather on the side of the street, looking at this business luxury car that is unlikely to appear in the neighborhood with dull eyes but greed, and even a few simply follow the car and walk slowly, trying to figure out where the car will stop at the end.

After driving a few hundred meters along the road, Charlie parked the car on the side of the road, Earl did not let Charlie get out of the car to help him open the door, he took the initiative to get out of the car and walked towards a two-story house on the side of the street, and the five or six black people gathered outside the door saw Earl, and they all smiled, led by a strong man with feces in the corner of his eye, who opened his arms honestly:

"Earl, I'm ......"

"Hey~ Don't touch me! This is Armani's handmade suit, even if you kill the entire block, you won't have enough money to buy this one on me! Optimistic about my car, I don't want to wait for me to finish talking to Russell and Charlie and the car will disappear from the world! Earl ignored the other party's enthusiasm and said impatiently.

A black man offered to open the door for him, and Earlsson led his tie inside, and before he could step in, the pungent smell of hemp, alcohol, sweat, and so on made him tilt his head back.

"Earl, my dear brother, angel of the negroes, every time I see you......" At this moment, on the sofa in the center of the living room, a shirtless sturdy black man stood up and said with a smile, and in the seat next to him were a few pistols with a wide range of safety fires.

Seven or eight blacks were scattered around the living room, looking at Earl Rush, who looked very different from them.

"Russell, I want you to call me and ask me to come over and meet you, just to ask me for a drink, understand?" Earl looked at Russell, the boss of the BGF in this area, and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't ...... again"

"Malcolm has been caught, Earl, you need to help him." Before Earl could finish speaking, Russell had already taken the initiative to tell him why he had made an appointment.

Earl Rush turned his head impatiently: "What is the reason why the U.S. government designed the position of prosecuting advocate?" Russell? It's to provide basic defense for people who don't want to pay, I'm a senior lawyer, do you know what a senior lawyer means? I just don't have enough money, don't think I'm standing in court to help you, you are always like this, what am I? Free Lawyers for All Black Americans? What did that named Malcolm do? ”

"It's nothing, he used the name of his mother, sister, aunt and others, and got a loan from the hands of the three brothers of Big Jack in Los Angeles, and then bought a batch of goods and started a business, that guy has brains, and we also lent him money to let him expand the scale, but when that bastard drove his girlfriend's car to deliver goods last week, he was arrested and found ten kilograms of crack in the car." Russell walked to the refrigerator, took out two cans of beer, opened one with his own hands, handed it to Earl, and opened his mouth to explain the situation.

Earl took the beer and stared at each other suspiciously: "Just like that? ”

"No, his girlfriend is the wife of the black cop who happened to arrest him...... So......" Russell sighed, "We just want to scale up a bit, too." ”

"There are more than 700 police officers in the whole city of Oakland, and there are less than 30 black people among them, and then these black people are not bullied to death by their white colleagues, but first provoked by their lovely compatriots to want to kill themselves?" Earl Rush snarled dissatisfiedly, "Did you know that every black cop is my friend? You know? Do you know how much it costs me to maintain these friends of mine? Blacks are supposed to be united! And what did you guys do! ”

"Of course we know unity, it's just an accident, Earl, we're brothers, you've been the Black Panther Party, I'm the BGF, we're revolutionary brothers, you're going to help us, you're talking to those white juries, white judges, you're going to help us."

"I'm no longer a Black Panther Party, and I'm no longer revolutionary, but for the sake of your fellow blacks, I'm willing to try." Earl poured a sip of beer: "Fifty thousand." ”

Hearing this number, the blacks in the room all took a breath.

"You can't help Malcolm for free, and when that guy comes out, I promise he'll sell the goods as soon as possible to make money and make up for your expenses." Russell said embarrassedly.

The BGF in their district does not have too strong financial resources, and 50,000 yuan is already a lot of money for them.

"I'm free, are you sure that the black cop who his wife will also be free? Don't I need money to settle this most important role? Fifty thousand dollars, and it's clean money, I don't have time to waste washing the dirty money that you handed over. Earl said with a gloomy face, "I even hope you don't have any money, because then I don't have to get myself involved in this, both of us are my friends!" ”

Russell was silent for a moment, and finally said to Earl, "I'll get it to you as soon as possible, and I'll let the brothers go to Big Jack's bank to take out a loan, in short, give it to you." ”

"Did that girlfriend of his, get involved in selling goods? Tell me the truth. Earl asked when he heard that the other party was willing to pay.

Russell explained with a serious expression: "No, I was going to pull her into the water, and then pull her husband into the water through her, but it hasn't ...... yet I promise not, the woman was completely unaware. ”

After listening to this, Earl took out a business card from his bosom and threw it on the coffee table: "Call me after the money is transferred to my account." ”

At this time, his mobile phone rang, and when he answered it, Delia's voice rang in his ears on the other side of the phone: "Tommy Hawk agreed, his television station needs a black manager with excellent leadership and charisma, and on my recommendation, he believes that you are that person." ”

"Of course, Ms. Delia Case, thank you for your recommendation." Earl said with an unchanged expression.

"He wants to talk to you in person, tomorrow afternoon."

"I'll be on time."

Hanging up the phone, Earl looked at Russell: "Explain in advance, this fee is not my consultation fee, I am providing help for free, and I don't guarantee that I can save Malcolm, but whether you can save it or not, you have to pay this money, are you sure?" ”

"Sure, Malcolm is my brother, you are my brother too, and we trust you." Russell said seriously, "I'm sorry, Earl, and I'm going to make you ...... again."

"Goodbye, guilty, don't let me take this kind of business for free next time." With that, Earl simply turned around and walked out the door.

After taking a big breath of fresh air outside, he walked up to his car and pulled the door to get into the car, saying to the driver, "Go home, Charlie, pack up, and we'll go to Los Angeles tomorrow." ”

"I thought Russell was going to ask you to defend him."

"That's what he did to me, but I don't have time to waste it on this scum." Earl sat in the back seat and closed his eyes:

"They can accept the money, find two rookies to follow the case, and in the end it is nothing more than me standing in the courtroom, and after the court pronounces the verdict, I tell everyone with a heavy expression that I did my best, it's a pity, and then I will personally take out a few thousand yuan and give it to Malcolm's family to support them through the difficulties."

(End of chapter)