Police Officers were Shocked to Find Black Man Owns all The Buildings

The film opens with Bernard Garrett in Willis, Texas, in 1939. He listens to his customers' chats about money and real estate investing while working as a shoe shiner outside a bank. One day, while listening to a bank meeting, a police officer spots him and begins following him. Bernard's father speaks to him that evening, when he examines Bernard's finance notebook, he says he's a smart child, but no white man will let him make money. Bernard, on the other hand, insists on going out to make a lot of money one day. We are transported to 1954 Los Angeles, where Bernard, his wife Eunice, and their son Bernard Jr. arrive in a car to visit his wife's uncle. The uncle informs Bernard that Northrop is employing black workers and that he can obtain a job there, but Bernard respectfully declines, stating that he will try his hand at real estate.
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