In a limo, within a carport
Cast in this seen includes:
Warren Beatty as "Senator Jay Bulworth" and
Halle Berry as "Nina"
Bulworth: (eyes filled with liquid nostalgia)
So, who walks in the room? Huey Newton.
(looking at NINA)
You know who Huey Newton was?
Nina: (slowly she nods her head) yes.
Bulworth:
You know a lotta people I talk to, the blacks your age, they have no idea who he was.
(long pause)
Huey.
(long pause)
Why do you think there are no more black leaders?
Nina: (after a pause)
Some people think it's because they all got killed. But I think it's got more to do with the decimation of the manufacturing base in the urban centers. Senator, an optimistic population throws up optimistic, energized leaders. And when you shift manufacturing to the Sun Belt in the Third World, you destroy the blue-collar core of the black activist population.
Some people would say that problem is purely cultural. The power of the media that is continually controlled by fewer and fewer people, add to that the monopoly of the media, a consumer culture based on self-gratification, and you're not likely to have a population that want's leadership that calls for self-sacrifice.
But the fact is, I'm just a materialist at heart. But if I look at the economic base, higher domestic employment means jobs for African Americans. World War II meant lots of jobs for black folks. That is what energized the community for the civil rights movement of the 50's and the 60's. An energized, hopeful community will not only produce leaders but more importantly it'll produce leaders they'll respond to.
Now what do you think, Senator?
(Bulworth is speechless)
Criticism:
This scene almost tells the entire soical truth. What it fails to explain is the fact that "decimation of the manufacturing base" affects more than just African Americans, but every race. - Walter Jensen