The Promotion (2008)

Chris Gardner: First Community Leader

Quotes 

• [after giving his apology speech at a community center following his incident with a gang at the supermarket, Doug meets with Richard, the board of directors and the community leaders] 

  First Community Leader : I think everybody is feeling pretty good about it.

  Richard : Yeah.

  First Community Leader : It's isolated.

  Richard : Oh yeah, it's a one-time thing.

  First Community Leader : What's that?

  Richard : I agree, it's isolated. I think it was just some 'black apples'. We won't be seeing that happen again.

  [Long pause between everyone] 

  First Community Leader : Black apples.

  Richard : What's that?

  First Community Leader : You said, 'black apples'?

  [Another long pause] 

  Richard : I said bad ones...?

  First Community Leader : The fuck you said bad.

  Richard : Bad apples?

  First Community Leader : You said black.

  Richard : I'm sorry if there's some confusion. Maybe in the confusion, I...

  Mitch : Hey, come on. It's been a long day. That was a slip.

  First Community Leader : This is a lot of shit.

  Richard : You are not a black apple to me. I said, that possibly, there was one black one in the batch, not you. And I didn't mean to say black. I meant 'back'... 'blatch', blah... 'blapples'.

  [Long pause between everyone] 

  First Community Leader : Where'd you get this fucker?

  [the community leaders walk away as Mitch follows them] 

  Mitch : Let's catch up outside. I'll hit you with some gift certificates.