A scene from In the Heat of the Night 1967
Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier

Now listen, hear me good, Mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

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