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you live there. They do the same thing to the black men who live among them. Of course it's different if you look white, like your sister; then you get to eat the Progress, instead of just being beaten with it. But sometimes they even load Progress on their own people, white Christians, as in the book I read you. You've forgotten it already? Vaisya, when they do it to their own people they don't call them natives; they call them Oakies. But the Joads are just the. same as we, even though they're white.

MOKSA

Moses Burumba! You will not teach violence to my son!

INDIO

Come to the door, old man! Come here!

(helps Moksa to door)

Do you see that? It's the Kali Canal!

MOKSA

You cannot kill violence with violence.

INDIO

Do you see that man squatting? You know what he's doing?

(Voices outside)

VOICE OF DUTCH ENTREPRENEUR

Our doctors still work with a system of ethics two thousand years old. They think it is their duty to keep alive as many as possible.

INDIO

(points)

That woman is washing her clothes.

VOICE OF AMERICAN MILITARY ADVISOR

It's chaos. Pure chaos.