This week Chris gets a surprise as another black kid enrolls in his school. Finally, he's not the only black kid and he's excited about it. Greg isn't though because he thinks Chris will start hanging out with the new kid and forget about him because they have more in common. Chris tells him not to worry about that, but Greg is skeptical.
Meanwhile, Chris' parents get extra money back on their tax refund. Rochelle is exited and, after she pays some bills and gets a cereal variety pack for the kids, she buys a brand new couch. Julius isn't that exited though and is afraid the IRS will find out they made a mistake and want the money back plus more. He harasses a tax agent and finds out that the IRS "Probably. Maybe. Hopefully" won't realise the mistake.
Back at school, Chris gets to know the new kid, Albert and they start hanging out. And, just like Greg predicted, Chris starts spending more time with Albert than with him. Greg finds out that Albert is nice to Chris but is mean to all the other kids. He tries to warn Chris, but he thinks Greg is just jealous. But then Chris finds out Albert really does pick on other kids at random and he joins in, taking the opportunity to pick on Caruso who isn't brave enough to pick on two black kids.
Greg sees Chris pick on a kid and asks him why he did it. Chris says he's just having fun and Greg decides not to hang out with Chris anymore. Things go well for Chris until their teacher, Ms. Morello, says something unintentionally racist to Albert. Chris usually just ignores her since she doesn't mean to be racist, but Albert gets angry and decides to have payback. Chris says he doesn't want to be part of it. Albert spray paints "Morello is a b****" on the side of the school and everyone thinks that Chris did it.
Chris tells Albert to turn himself in or else he would turn him in. Albert says he will, but instead points a finger at Chris who gets detention for the deed and also has to scrub the graffiti off the school wall. Greg finds out that Chris got in trouble and tells the teacher that Albert was really the culprit. Albert gets expelled from school and is angry at Chris and Greg.
Chris realises that he should stick by his best friend who's always looking out for him and not have ditched him for the new kid.
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