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- [Koven] Uh, right there?
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- [Greg] Yeah.
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- [Koven] Uh, right there?
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- [Greg] Mm-hm.
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- [Koven] Mmm, right there?
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- [Greg] Let me see,
wait one second.
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There you go.
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Okay, start right there.
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- [Koven] Look, animal.
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- [Greg] Animal?
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- [Koven] Yeah.
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- [Greg] And it is an animal?
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- [Koven] Animal.
- [Greg] Yeah.
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- [Koven] Woo- Woop! (giggles)
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- [Greg] Show daddy.
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Here we go.
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The Little Engine That Could.
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- [Koven] Right there.
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- [Greg] Yeah, it's a
red choo-choo train.
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- [Koven] There.
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- [Greg] Is that Sophie?
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- [Koven] Ding dong, ding dong.
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- [Greg] Oh no, that makes
ding dong, yeah. - Yeah.
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- [Greg] Is that an elephant?
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- [Koven] Yeah, boom.
- [Greg] What noise does
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an elephant make?
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(Koven squeals)
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(Greg's lips squeal)
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(Koven and Greg laughing)
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(Greg's lips squeal)
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(Koven laughs)
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- [Greg] Yeah, okay.
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You ready to go night-night?
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- [Koven] Okay.
- [Greg] Okay.
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I love you.
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- Mm-wa.(smacks lips)
- Mm-wa.(smacks lips)
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- [Greg] Okay, good
job buddy, I'll see you
in the morning, okay?
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- [Koven] Okay.
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- [Greg] You were
very good today.
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- [Koven] Bye-Bye.
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- [Greg] Bye-bye, hey,
you're gonna be great,
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'cause Daddy says so, right?
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- [Koven] Okay, bye.
- [Greg] All right.
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(soulful piano music)
♪ Wire on the fences
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♪ Mm
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♪ Curved to stop the climb
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♪ Hey ya, bars on the windows
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(soulful piano music)
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♪ What is walking by
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- [Malcolm] It's often
a double-edged sword
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to be a black boy in America.
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Because you have
to tell yourself
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that you are magnificent,
and that you are free,
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and beautiful, while
simultaneously acknowledging
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that the world is
not built for you.
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It's not built for your success,
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it's not built for
you to survive.
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And you have to live
in these two worlds
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of I am whole and worthy,
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but I am also the hunted, and
hunted down, and sought after.
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- [Dr. Howard] When people
treat you as such an outsider,
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as such a threat,
where they see you
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as somebody to be feared,
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as much as we try to
hold onto our humanity,
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you realize you live in a
world where your humanity
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is constantly being challenged,
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and constantly being questioned.
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- [Chris] You can't run from it.
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It doesn't matter what your
socioeconomic status is
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there is an assault
on the black mind,
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the black heart, and the
black spirit and psyche.
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- [Shawn] This is America.
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And this is 400 years of what
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this blood stained
soil is about.
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- [Sharif] The bottom line
of why things haven't changed
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is 'cause there's no
love for black boys.
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♪ These are dark dark times
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♪ These are dark, dark times
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(upbeat bluesy rock
synthesizer music)
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♪ These are dark dark times
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♪ These are dark dark times
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♪ These are dark dark times
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(moves into slow ethereal music)
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(men groan)
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(slow music)
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(men groan)
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(slow music and men
groaning alternatively)
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(slow music)
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- Good, good, good, good,
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good, good, good, good, good.
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(door slams)
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(crowds chattering)
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(man yells)
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(man yells)
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(train whistle hoots)
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- [Greg] I was fortunate
and blessed enough
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to be able to go play on
Sundays, win a couple rings.
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I had some good experiences
and bad experiences.
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So injuries kind of
cut my career short.
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The opportunity came
up to come home.
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(footsteps crunching)
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So this is the crib.
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This is the crib.
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I grew up here.
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My mom was a single mom for
the most part, four kids.
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My father passed away
when I was eight.
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That made me kind
of grow up quick.
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(children playing)
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It was a little rough, the
neighborhood that I was in.
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It wasn't the greatest
place I could be.
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The only thing I cared
about was making sure
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that my mother did not
have to pay for school.
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That's the only thing
that mattered to me.
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So I decided to play football.
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(fuzzy rock guitar music)
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(moves in heavy bass
and rock guitar music)
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Man, opened the floodgates
of scholarships,
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Tennessee, Ohio State,
I mean, the big schools.
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(crowds cheering)
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I just worked, worked,
worked, worked,
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worked, worked, worked
for as long as I could.
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That was the only thing I knew.
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(heavy, upbeat rock music)
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(crowds cheering)
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It isn't until you look at
it from a 30,000 foot view
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that you understand.
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For us as young
African American males,
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what is my vision of success?
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(crowds cheering)
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- Well, the only thing
I could see on TV,
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entertainment, video music
awards, or you see sports.
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So this kind of imagery
of using my body
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and being blessed with speed,
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the ability to cut
quick, jump, shoot,
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everything was
pertaining to sports.
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So.
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I mean they better
make it happen.
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I mean these, (pats
legs) these things better
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become some money makers
real quick, real quick.
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(intense deep
drums and chanting)
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- [Jemele] There's always been
a obsession with black bodies.
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That obsession became
the economic base
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of America, in slavery.
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- [Narrator] Cheap slave
labor owned by the planter.
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- And even during slavery
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there were still
athletic games played.
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There was fighting, and
all these things done
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with black bodies for
white entertainment.
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And that was a tradition
that kind of manifested
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its way through sports.
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- [Howard] The black
athlete is the most visible,
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most important, most
influential black employee
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this country's ever produced.
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(upbeat intense low drums)
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(men grunt)
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- [Cris] White
people like sports.
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(crowds cheering and screaming)
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- As a little black boy I
found out about white people as
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when you're walking out
there with your equipment on,
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white people would pick you
up and take you practice.
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They knew you was going
to the ball field.
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But when me and my buddies
was walking out there
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and we was trying to go to some
friends out and everything,
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wasn't nobody trying to pick
up us, it was dangerous then.
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- [Howard] Black
aggression sells.
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We love that when we
see a football player
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crunch a guy and
sack a quarterback,
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and then he does his sack dance
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and snarls at the camera,
and everybody loves it.
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That black aggression
is also being used
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as justification
for shooting you.
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How many times do we
hear the police say,
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"Well I feared for my life.
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And that's why I put 20
rounds in a teenager."
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(flowing piano music)
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- [Quan] Like so many black
kids who are very athletic
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I dreamed of going to the NFL.
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And then when I actually
started experiencing it
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it blew my mind how
disappointed I actually was,
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starting with the combine.
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(plaintive saxophone music)
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Where we get broke
down to our tights
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and we get walked on a
stage, and twirled around,
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and my weight and
height, length,
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all the above is talked about.
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And after that's done
I walk down the middle
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of 1,000 people making marks,
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talking this,
talking about that.
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One of the most humiliating
points of my life I feel,
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because there has
to be a better way.
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I grew up in Texas
and I saw cattle
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being done the same thing.
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(plaintive solo saxophone music)
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- [Greg] The sad thing about
it was they used to tell me,
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the NCAA is a meat market,
man they are looking for you,
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because you are a
gorgeous piece of meat.
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Straight like that.
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- [Howard] The black
body is the commodity.
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And I think when we
talk about ownership,
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and we talk about power,
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today's black body is a
multi-billion dollar enterprise.
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(chalk scraping)
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(bluesy full acoustic
guitar music)
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(moves into slow acoustic
fiddle, banjo and guitar music)
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- [Elijah] Everybody here
grew up playing sports.
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And we used to
run in these roads
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that has potholes in
them. barefooted, so,
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Like everybody here is fast,
everybody here is strong.
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(graceful acoustic music)
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We feel like if
you're black in Mart
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then you should be
playing football.
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(folksy banjo music)
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- [John] In this town
there's more like,
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you always want to
be a Mart panther.
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You wanted to play
up under them lights
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that everybody else
before you played.
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And you want to get out,
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get out of this town and
go play ball at college,
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and do something with yourself.
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(graceful acoustic guitar music)
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- [Elijah] My dream is
to go to a division I
college, play football,
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major in business management,
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and hopefully go to the NFL.
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- [John] Every Friday night the
whole town is really shut down.
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They come, they fill
up the stands, and
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it just feel like
all eyes on you.
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You score a touchdown
and we're winning.
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And the more we win
the more people came.
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(crowds cheering)
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It builds your confidence
that you was somebody,
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and people knowing you
that you don't even know.
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It just felt like you
was on top of the world.
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- [Elijah] I knew that I
was gonna have to be in
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the weight room every
day, run outside,
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eat healthy, get bigger.
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But I grew up big,
bigger than everybody,
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so that wasn't hard to do.
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- [John] My sophomore year I was
up for the Dick Butkus Award,
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best linebacker in the
nation my junior year.
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The whole process of,
wow, I'm going pro.
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I just got to stay healthy
I'm gonna get a big old check,
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and I tore my ACL up.
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(acoustic music)
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And it's like
everything just changed.
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I felt like the
world came down on me
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and took away what I do best.
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(twanging acoustic music)
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And then,
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I came back and tried
to get on another team
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and kept getting hurt, and
I just, it's not worth it.
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I was about 24 years old when
I decided to stop playing.
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(graceful acoustic
strings music)
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There ain't really
that many opportunities
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outside of sports in Mart.
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You can be a correctional
officer at that prison,
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or, play sports, I
think that's about it.
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'Cause there ain't
too much else in Mart.
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- [Interviewer] What do
sports represent to you?
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- [Elijah] It represents ah,
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life, represents
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courage and hope
for something better
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than what I'm living right now.
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(acoustic guitar music)
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- [Coach] Come on,
get up, get up!
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- [Announcer] Steal by
number 32, Carmelo Anthony.
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- [Carmelo] Black kids
want hope and need hope.
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They just want people
to have faith in them
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and believe in them.
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I grew up in Baltimore, so
I know what that's like,
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you're in survival mode.
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So if I got to deal
with how to be strong,
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and being tough and surviving,
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but then there's no
one believing in me,
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I really have nothing
at the end of the day.
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It's like a bottomless pit,
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unless I can play sports.
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- Anthony!
(crowd cheers)
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- [Announcer] And
Anthony is now tied
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with the most points-
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- [Jemele] What happens is
you're conditioned to think
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that all you have to offer
is your body, and that's it.
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And I think psychologically
it damages you into thinking,
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well, what's the point of
working on any other part
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of who I am as a fully
realized human being,
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if this is the only part
they're gonna value and accept?
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(fans yelling)
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A lot of it has seeped into how
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Black parents, and family
members, and community members
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view their own children
in the community.
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Because they see the
acceptance that athletes,
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and entertainers are able
to gain outside the world,
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and acceptance and belonging
that they've often longed for.
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- [Justice Page] Football
was the thing to do.
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There was a tremendous
amount of pressure
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to be a football player.
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When babies were born in that
community during that time,
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if it was a boy, they
put a little football
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in the crib with
them at the hospital.
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(children playing)
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- Chatter...Ra, ra,
I'm gonna get you.
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I'm about to get you,
I'm about to get you.
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- [Jemele] So rather than
send them through the trials
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of maybe being a doctor,
which seems unrealistic
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in a lot of communities,
or a lawyer,
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they take them down the
path of being an athlete,
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and pushing that as
like, this your way out.
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This is how you equal
the playing field.
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When statistically
if you look at just
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the number of NBA
athletes, or NFL athletes,
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it's such a minuscule amount,
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that you basically
have a better chance
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of either getting
hit by lightening, or
winning the lottery
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than you probably do of
becoming a professional athlete.
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I mean, because
it's just that hard.
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- [Howard] There are
streets littered with kids
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who believe that dream,
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didn't follow up with plan
B on the educational side,
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have nothing, and are watching
the great ones play on TV.
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And then you look at the few
that reach the NBA or the NFL.
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Man, if it wasn't for sports
I'd be dead or in jail.
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And I think about that every
time I read those stories
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and my heart breaks.
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Because I'm thinking
at this late date,
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if dead or in jail is all
there is, we have failed.
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We have failed miserably.
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- [Paparazzi] How
about a peace out?
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- And yet, people look at
that dead or in jail narrative
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as progress, because
this one person
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makes $20 million a year.
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And there are graves
all around him.
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(insects chirping)
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- [Greg] What up?
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I'm Greg.
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I wanted to come say what up,
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'cause y'all exactly
where I used to be.
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You know what I'm
saying? Same spot.
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What you all gonna do when
you all get out of here?
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You all gonna go to high
school, and then what?
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- I want to be a football
player or a lawyer.
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- [Greg] A lawyer?
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- You trippin', baseball.
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- He want to be in baseball.
- Like Pro basketball.
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- I bet, well you all
gonna go to college, right?
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- I'm trying to go to a
college away from Mart.
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- [Greg] Away from Cincinnati?
You trying to get out?
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- Yeah.
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- [Greg] Man, y'all go do it.
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You say you want to go to
college and be a mechanic,
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you go do it, you
want to be a lawyer,
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you want to go play Pro, do it.
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Just have a back up plan,
you know what I mean?
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I was able to do it, was
able to get my degree.
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And you know when
I was down here,
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shoot, I'd be happy if
I graduated high school.
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Man, y'all put y'all mind to it.
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Don't let nobody tell
y'all you can't do it,
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just 'cause where y'all
are, where y'all live.
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It's the hood, so
what? I'm proud of it.
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Y'all do whatever
y'all wanna do, man.
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- Yeah, that's cool.
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- [Greg] Yeah, all
right y'all. I'll hola.
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(somber music)
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- [Howard] There has to be a
collective belief system shift.
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It's okay to envision
something else.
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And what is that something
else gonna look like?
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I don't know.
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But this can't be all there is.
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Because this doesn't work.
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This isn't working for anybody.
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(children playing)
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- [Greg] I hope they believe me.
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♪ Turning making enough
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♪ Harlem say the little girl
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♪ You fell, you fell, you fell
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- [Greg] My little
brother, he was working
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to do great things
with his life.
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There was an incident where,
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I don't know the
ins and outs of it.
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00:19:45,018 --> 00:19:48,688
But apparently there
was a misunderstanding,
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and both ended up with
firearms in their hands, and,
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my little brother caught
the short end of the stick.
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♪ Are you able to
find your ground ♪
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- What's saddening about that,
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besides the fact that my
little brother was killed,
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is the fact that the
last text message I have
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in my phone from him
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was that he was
working to be better.
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♪ I can be a snowflake
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♪ You believe you say
you can't believe ♪
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- I think he was a line
worker at a restaurant.
393
00:20:34,868 --> 00:20:39,506
And I always tried to challenge
him to think beyond that.
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Think bigger, because you
have the ability to do it.
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(door thunks)
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But did he...
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Did he have somebody showing
him that day in and day out?
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♪ Except that you
can't be weak ♪
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- It's just the epitome of
what goes on in our world,
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and it's so saddening and so,
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00:21:03,930 --> 00:21:07,334
so frustrating.
♪ Ooo
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00:21:09,569 --> 00:21:12,505
- At the same time
so motivating.
403
00:21:12,539 --> 00:21:14,541
(players chattering)
404
00:21:14,574 --> 00:21:16,876
(whistle bleats)
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00:21:16,910 --> 00:21:20,513
What you need, you let
me know what you need.
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00:21:20,547 --> 00:21:23,616
Huh?
(players yelling)
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00:21:23,650 --> 00:21:26,419
For me, coming home meant a lot,
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00:21:26,453 --> 00:21:29,656
because now I can work
with young men and women
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who might be at the same
crossroads that I was of,
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00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:36,396
you know, do I focus
more on my athletics,
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or do I focus more
on my education?
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So I get a chance to go back
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and kind of
reconstruct their mind,
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and rewire their brains
every single day,
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to help young men know
that, there's more to it.
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There's more to
you, more to life,
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00:21:55,682 --> 00:21:58,918
despite what they
tell you, despite what
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00:21:58,952 --> 00:22:01,354
our blinders limit us to.
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00:22:02,856 --> 00:22:04,724
There's more, there's more,
there's more, there's more,
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00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:07,127
you just got to believe
me, just believe me.
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00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,762
Here you go, argh.
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00:22:08,795 --> 00:22:12,699
(plaintive solo violin music)
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00:23:09,255 --> 00:23:11,991
(traffic roaring)
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00:23:15,261 --> 00:23:19,466
(groups of people chattering)
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00:23:19,499 --> 00:23:22,435
- [Sharif] Malcolm X
wanted to be a lawyer.
426
00:23:23,536 --> 00:23:25,805
And his teacher, not
some outside person,
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00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,675
not someone in a KKK
robe, or some judge,
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00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:31,011
or police officer,
his teacher told him,
429
00:23:31,044 --> 00:23:33,980
"No, you're black, you
can't be a lawyer."
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00:23:34,014 --> 00:23:36,850
(kids laughing)
431
00:23:38,051 --> 00:23:41,021
I often think of the
millions of black children
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who's dreams have
been just crushed.
433
00:23:43,723 --> 00:23:45,592
(kids chattering)
434
00:23:45,625 --> 00:23:46,826
- Hey Mom!
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00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:50,964
(kids chattering and yelling)
436
00:23:50,997 --> 00:23:55,869
- Let's go, you come
here. (drowned out)
437
00:23:57,971 --> 00:24:00,073
(crowd conversations
echoing in halls)
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00:24:00,106 --> 00:24:02,809
- [Sharif] So this is Mastery
Charter Shoemaker Campus
439
00:24:02,842 --> 00:24:07,547
in Parkside, Carroll Park
neighborhood of West Philly.
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00:24:08,648 --> 00:24:11,785
As a turn around school,
this is our 13th year.
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00:24:11,818 --> 00:24:14,854
(kids chattering)
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00:24:14,888 --> 00:24:16,990
We're a 95% black school,
443
00:24:17,023 --> 00:24:20,627
and half of our student
body are black boys.
444
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:22,028
- What's up buddy?
445
00:24:23,630 --> 00:24:24,998
- [Sharif] Because I grew
up not too far from here,
446
00:24:25,031 --> 00:24:28,768
I understood that anxiety,
that angst that a lot
447
00:24:28,802 --> 00:24:30,837
of black boys experience.
448
00:24:30,870 --> 00:24:32,906
- [Teenager] All
right you coming?
449
00:24:32,939 --> 00:24:34,040
- Hello guys.
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00:24:35,742 --> 00:24:39,646
(laughter and voices echoing)
451
00:24:40,914 --> 00:24:41,981
- [Sharif] Five months
after graduating
452
00:24:42,015 --> 00:24:45,285
at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania
453
00:24:45,318 --> 00:24:47,520
I was shot three times.
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00:24:49,622 --> 00:24:50,724
I was in the
hospital for a month,
455
00:24:50,757 --> 00:24:53,993
they thought they were gonna
have to amputate my legs.
456
00:24:54,027 --> 00:24:56,896
It was a pretty
traumatic experience.
457
00:24:56,930 --> 00:24:58,765
Yet at the same time
I was thinking about
458
00:24:58,798 --> 00:25:01,568
the young man who was
a very similar age.
459
00:25:01,601 --> 00:25:04,904
I was 20, he was 19,
and what that meant.
460
00:25:05,939 --> 00:25:07,807
And why we had such
different paths.
461
00:25:07,841 --> 00:25:09,075
(bell dings)
462
00:25:09,109 --> 00:25:10,043
That's the bell
- That's the bell.
463
00:25:10,076 --> 00:25:12,112
- So what I wanted to do
was work with students
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00:25:12,145 --> 00:25:14,881
that were like the
young man who shot me.
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00:25:14,914 --> 00:25:15,815
How you doing?
466
00:25:15,849 --> 00:25:16,683
- What up?
467
00:25:16,716 --> 00:25:17,584
- I heard the bell.
468
00:25:17,617 --> 00:25:18,918
- Yeah?
469
00:25:18,952 --> 00:25:20,053
- People always talking
about the achievement gap.
470
00:25:20,086 --> 00:25:24,157
A lot of times for black
boys it's an opportunity gap.
471
00:25:25,859 --> 00:25:28,628
And if people actually
gave them the opportunity
472
00:25:28,661 --> 00:25:31,331
they would just reach all
of their own personal goals,
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00:25:31,364 --> 00:25:34,067
the community's goals,
their family's goals.
474
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:38,071
And I think too often they're
shut out of opportunities.
475
00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:41,775
- [Russlynn] President Bush
called it the soft bigotry
476
00:25:41,808 --> 00:25:44,177
of low expectations, right?
477
00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:48,081
That was riddled across
America's schools.
478
00:25:48,114 --> 00:25:51,051
When the truth is,
it's not so soft.
479
00:25:51,084 --> 00:25:55,622
If we don't believe
that students of color,
480
00:25:55,655 --> 00:25:59,125
that African American boys
in particular can learn
481
00:25:59,159 --> 00:26:01,961
at the same rate as their peers,
482
00:26:01,995 --> 00:26:05,965
then we don't institute
policies, or practices,
483
00:26:05,999 --> 00:26:09,169
then we simply don't
teach them to the levels
484
00:26:09,202 --> 00:26:11,838
of which they should learn.
485
00:26:11,871 --> 00:26:14,708
- I'm smart, if you put
me in the right situation,
486
00:26:14,741 --> 00:26:16,943
the right testing environment,
the right everything,
487
00:26:16,976 --> 00:26:19,779
I will really surprise
a lot of people.
488
00:26:19,813 --> 00:26:21,214
- I feel like I
have to be better,
489
00:26:21,247 --> 00:26:24,150
even though I feel as though
I'm already good enough.
490
00:26:26,219 --> 00:26:29,089
But they want to make
you feel even lessor,
491
00:26:29,122 --> 00:26:29,989
so I got to try to bring
myself up even more,
492
00:26:30,023 --> 00:26:31,624
which is kind of hard.
493
00:26:32,992 --> 00:26:34,427
- As a black child
growing up in America
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00:26:34,461 --> 00:26:36,229
they are getting
bombarded with messages
495
00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:38,865
that you don't matter,
you don't belong,
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00:26:38,898 --> 00:26:40,133
you're worth less.
497
00:26:40,166 --> 00:26:42,769
In that context, we
have to work overtime
498
00:26:42,802 --> 00:26:44,170
to make sure that
we are countering
499
00:26:44,204 --> 00:26:45,839
that message that
they're receiving
500
00:26:45,872 --> 00:26:47,741
about them not being worthy.
501
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:49,175
- Good job.
502
00:26:49,209 --> 00:26:50,744
- [Sharif] And empower students
503
00:26:50,777 --> 00:26:53,213
to recognize their own humanity.
504
00:26:54,914 --> 00:26:58,718
- [Chawn] It is a
peculiar sensation, this
double consciousness,
505
00:26:58,752 --> 00:27:00,987
this sense of always
looking at oneself
506
00:27:01,021 --> 00:27:03,156
through the eyes of others.
507
00:27:03,189 --> 00:27:06,693
Of measuring one's soul
by the tape of a world
508
00:27:06,726 --> 00:27:10,430
that looks on in amused
contempt and pity,
509
00:27:10,463 --> 00:27:12,766
W.E.B Dubois.
510
00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:15,969
(soulful guitar music)
511
00:27:17,270 --> 00:27:20,807
- [Shawn] The amount of
resources that are needed
512
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,045
to really shift and
level the playing field.
513
00:27:25,078 --> 00:27:28,782
When we talk about equity
for black men and boys,
514
00:27:28,815 --> 00:27:31,718
I often feel like
I'm shooting a BB gun
515
00:27:31,751 --> 00:27:32,986
at a aircraft career.
516
00:27:33,019 --> 00:27:37,724
(upbeat guitar and
bass guitar music)
517
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,029
- [Russlynn] We take kids
that have less to begin with,
518
00:27:43,063 --> 00:27:45,065
and we turn around
and give them less
519
00:27:45,098 --> 00:27:49,803
of everything that makes a
difference in public education.
520
00:27:49,836 --> 00:27:52,305
So then we get this
burgeoning achievement gap
521
00:27:52,339 --> 00:27:57,177
that starts and shows up as
early as entering kindergarten.
522
00:27:57,210 --> 00:27:58,845
- {Dr. John King,
Jr.] We're in trouble,
523
00:27:58,878 --> 00:28:01,214
because the majority of
our kids are kids of color
524
00:28:01,247 --> 00:28:03,283
in the nation's public schools.
525
00:28:03,316 --> 00:28:06,820
And we just don't do a
good enough job making sure
526
00:28:06,853 --> 00:28:09,222
that students of
color have access
527
00:28:09,255 --> 00:28:13,259
to the full range of supports
necessary to be successful.
528
00:28:13,293 --> 00:28:15,762
And we see the consequences,
529
00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:17,964
the consequences
in unemployment,
530
00:28:17,997 --> 00:28:20,233
the consequences in involvement
531
00:28:20,266 --> 00:28:21,868
in the criminal justice system.
532
00:28:21,901 --> 00:28:22,969
- [Russlynn] Quite frankly,
that's how this system
533
00:28:23,003 --> 00:28:25,138
was designed to happen.
534
00:28:25,171 --> 00:28:27,140
We don't call it a caste
system in this country,
535
00:28:27,173 --> 00:28:30,310
we're too enlightened
for that, right?
536
00:28:32,812 --> 00:28:34,848
But when you look at it,
537
00:28:34,881 --> 00:28:38,118
peel back the onions
of inequity, systemic,
538
00:28:38,151 --> 00:28:42,322
embedded, pervasive inequity
in our school systems.
539
00:28:43,890 --> 00:28:46,526
One can't help but
see a caste system
540
00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:48,995
with black boys at the bottom
541
00:28:49,029 --> 00:28:52,766
in almost every community
in this country.
542
00:28:55,201 --> 00:28:58,171
- [Sharif] Education was always
used as a control feature
543
00:28:58,204 --> 00:28:59,906
of who gets it and who doesn't?
544
00:28:59,939 --> 00:29:03,376
- [Jemele] There was countless
educational material,
545
00:29:04,844 --> 00:29:07,914
quote, unquote, that
used to try to prove
546
00:29:07,947 --> 00:29:11,851
that slaves, their brain
sizes weren't the same.
547
00:29:11,885 --> 00:29:13,286
Everything they could
to just reduce them
548
00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:17,023
to being just simply
a physical being.
549
00:29:17,057 --> 00:29:20,160
- [Sharif] So a long time
ago, who deserved education?
550
00:29:20,193 --> 00:29:23,930
It was the wealthy,
landowner and white male.
551
00:29:26,332 --> 00:29:29,169
When you look at today, it's
almost the same mindset,
552
00:29:29,202 --> 00:29:31,271
who actually deserves education?
553
00:29:31,304 --> 00:29:32,906
Because if somebody
deserves something
554
00:29:32,939 --> 00:29:35,408
then I'm gonna fund it,
if I'm the government
555
00:29:35,442 --> 00:29:37,043
I'm gonna fund it.
556
00:29:37,077 --> 00:29:40,613
If I don't think you deserve
it, then I don't care.
557
00:29:40,647 --> 00:29:42,916
You get whatever
pennies fall your way,
558
00:29:42,949 --> 00:29:46,186
but it's not gonna be a
concerted effort to fix things.
559
00:29:46,219 --> 00:29:48,021
And that's how you create power,
560
00:29:48,054 --> 00:29:49,956
that's how you create choices,
561
00:29:49,989 --> 00:29:51,424
that's how you create control.
562
00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:55,962
(low bass ethereal music)
563
00:29:55,995 --> 00:29:58,131
- So right now,
independently, silently,
564
00:29:58,164 --> 00:29:59,632
I'm gonna give you one minute.
565
00:29:59,666 --> 00:30:02,402
Please write a summary
based on the information
566
00:30:02,435 --> 00:30:06,072
that you have for
questions one through five.
567
00:30:06,106 --> 00:30:08,108
Good, I see Maneer
getting started, Ray Meet
568
00:30:08,141 --> 00:30:09,342
has already gotten started.
569
00:30:09,376 --> 00:30:11,644
A lot of things are
fed to us on purpose
570
00:30:11,678 --> 00:30:15,215
in order to keep
you within a box.
571
00:30:15,248 --> 00:30:16,916
I was one of those
kids that thought
572
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:20,620
that football was
gonna be my way out.
573
00:30:20,653 --> 00:30:22,355
And then once I became a teacher
574
00:30:22,389 --> 00:30:25,091
I started hearing a
lot of my students
575
00:30:25,125 --> 00:30:28,094
only talk about playing
sports, being a rapper,
576
00:30:28,128 --> 00:30:30,430
things that are only
portrayed in the media.
577
00:30:30,463 --> 00:30:32,899
It wasn't because there
was nothing else out there,
578
00:30:32,932 --> 00:30:34,367
but it wasn't being
placed in front of them.
579
00:30:34,401 --> 00:30:36,336
They didn't see
successful doctors,
580
00:30:36,369 --> 00:30:37,904
they didn't see
successful engineers,
581
00:30:37,937 --> 00:30:40,006
they didn't see
successful teachers.
582
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,077
- [Howard] And the
message that we send to
each other so many times
583
00:30:44,110 --> 00:30:49,149
is that being smart, and
speaking in complete sentences,
584
00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:52,118
and be aspiring to be educated,
585
00:30:52,152 --> 00:30:55,989
and to be intellectual is
anti-black, is inauthentic.
586
00:30:56,022 --> 00:30:56,956
And this is a type
of self hatred.
587
00:30:56,990 --> 00:30:59,259
This goes back to the
James Baldwin line that
588
00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:01,127
"The most insidious
piece of racism
589
00:31:01,161 --> 00:31:04,230
is believing what
they say about you."
590
00:31:05,498 --> 00:31:09,135
- [Shawn] America created the
greatest marketing campaign
591
00:31:09,169 --> 00:31:12,272
in the minds and
hearts of black people
592
00:31:12,305 --> 00:31:16,109
to try and convince us
that we were inferior.
593
00:31:17,177 --> 00:31:18,144
- [Sharif] One of the
things we talk about
594
00:31:18,178 --> 00:31:19,279
is this windows and mirrors.
595
00:31:19,312 --> 00:31:20,980
A black child in
a typical school
596
00:31:21,014 --> 00:31:23,049
in America, they get windows.
597
00:31:23,083 --> 00:31:25,385
From the literature that's
put in front of them
598
00:31:25,418 --> 00:31:27,253
from the teacher,
from all the messages,
599
00:31:27,287 --> 00:31:29,089
they get windows to
other people's world
600
00:31:29,122 --> 00:31:30,423
and like this other world,
601
00:31:30,457 --> 00:31:32,359
these other people
are better than you.
602
00:31:32,392 --> 00:31:36,296
Not a shared humanity, but a
separate level of humanity.
603
00:31:36,329 --> 00:31:39,466
White children typically
get the mirror.
604
00:31:39,499 --> 00:31:42,402
Who's in front of them, the
literature that they're read,
605
00:31:42,435 --> 00:31:43,603
the posters on the wall,
606
00:31:43,636 --> 00:31:49,042
everything reinforces their
whiteness and their superiority.
607
00:31:50,110 --> 00:31:52,412
- You know who else
is going to prom?
608
00:31:52,445 --> 00:31:54,147
- Christa's friend, Bethany?
609
00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:55,081
(digital smack)
610
00:31:55,115 --> 00:31:56,416
- No, Barbie.
611
00:31:56,449 --> 00:31:58,251
(both girls giggling)
612
00:31:58,284 --> 00:31:59,252
- [Chris] There's been
different research projects
613
00:31:59,285 --> 00:32:02,255
around children as young
as three, four and five
614
00:32:02,288 --> 00:32:03,456
when they pick a doll,
615
00:32:03,490 --> 00:32:06,026
they're picking a white
doll or black doll,
616
00:32:06,059 --> 00:32:09,729
the society, because of
celebrating and privilegizing,
617
00:32:09,763 --> 00:32:12,098
advantaging the
beauty of whiteness.
618
00:32:12,132 --> 00:32:14,501
And then everything
dark, or black or brown
619
00:32:14,534 --> 00:32:17,337
is bad and negative. Children,
620
00:32:17,370 --> 00:32:19,005
it doesn't matter
what color you are
621
00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:21,441
well then pick up the white
doll versus the black doll.
622
00:32:21,474 --> 00:32:24,044
- [Carmelo] For me, I've
never been told what
623
00:32:24,077 --> 00:32:26,046
the word black means in America.
624
00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:29,115
It was always, whatever
I learned in school
625
00:32:29,149 --> 00:32:33,286
at that point in time was
what I knew what black was.
626
00:32:33,319 --> 00:32:36,356
It was one thing,
it was slavery.
627
00:32:36,389 --> 00:32:40,326
That was the only thing that
we were taught that we knew.
628
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,097
And it was almost like that's
what they wanted us to know.
629
00:32:44,130 --> 00:32:47,500
- [Russlynn] The week that
it was Black History Month,
630
00:32:47,534 --> 00:32:49,536
grabbed two assignments.
631
00:32:51,171 --> 00:32:56,042
One from a district that was
serving mostly white kids.
632
00:32:56,076 --> 00:33:00,613
And they were reading the
letter from the Birmingham Jail.
633
00:33:00,647 --> 00:33:03,516
And they were, as
you might imagine,
634
00:33:03,550 --> 00:33:06,119
engaged in rigorous debate.
635
00:33:09,456 --> 00:33:10,623
The black kids,
636
00:33:12,826 --> 00:33:16,262
in a classroom serving
mostly black boys
637
00:33:17,330 --> 00:33:20,033
was told to read
that same letter,
638
00:33:21,534 --> 00:33:25,338
and draw a picture,
because neatness counts.
639
00:33:27,107 --> 00:33:29,843
You can only imagine
what that assignment
640
00:33:29,876 --> 00:33:32,278
looked like when completed.
641
00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:35,448
It was a black man in jail.
642
00:33:37,183 --> 00:33:40,120
- [Teacher] For the next five
minutes we're going to label
643
00:33:40,153 --> 00:33:43,390
all of the different
places, the regions
644
00:33:44,457 --> 00:33:47,527
and the land forms
that are on the slide.
645
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,498
You're going to label those
onto your United States map.
646
00:33:51,531 --> 00:33:55,402
You're gonna have
five minutes to do so.
647
00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:56,569
You may begin.
648
00:33:58,905 --> 00:34:00,306
- [Dr.John King, Jr.] We
really got to tackle this issue
649
00:34:00,340 --> 00:34:02,175
that the majority of our
kids are kids of color,
650
00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:04,244
and only 18% of our teachers
are teachers of color.
651
00:34:04,277 --> 00:34:07,147
Only 2% of our teachers
are African American men.
652
00:34:07,180 --> 00:34:10,850
We need kids of color to
see educators of color,
653
00:34:10,884 --> 00:34:13,153
but we also need white
kids to see educators
654
00:34:13,186 --> 00:34:15,655
of color leading in their
schools and classrooms.
655
00:34:15,689 --> 00:34:19,559
- [Teacher] You're only
half way there if you
only wrote the fraction.
656
00:34:19,592 --> 00:34:21,194
So you write the fraction,
657
00:34:21,227 --> 00:34:23,363
and then you have
to do what with it?
658
00:34:23,396 --> 00:34:25,699
Give a solve, give an answer.
659
00:34:29,469 --> 00:34:31,271
(bell dings)
660
00:34:31,304 --> 00:34:33,473
(crowds chattering)
661
00:34:33,506 --> 00:34:35,175
- [Sharif] Hustle,
hustle, hustle.
662
00:34:35,208 --> 00:34:36,242
- [Student] I have to ask
a really good question.
663
00:34:36,276 --> 00:34:37,377
- [Sharif] All right.
664
00:34:37,410 --> 00:34:38,311
- [Student] Want to
hear the question?
665
00:34:38,345 --> 00:34:39,512
- [Sharif] Well, I want
you to go to class,
666
00:34:39,546 --> 00:34:40,447
I don't want you to be late.
667
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,581
Can I catch you-
668
00:34:41,614 --> 00:34:43,249
- [Student] It was
real quick question.
669
00:34:43,283 --> 00:34:46,252
- [Sharif] The trauma that
a lot of our black boys face
670
00:34:46,286 --> 00:34:48,722
it makes the work more crucial,
671
00:34:49,956 --> 00:34:53,326
it gives us a higher
sense of urgency.
672
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,428
- [Student] My mom was
like she was in school,
673
00:34:55,462 --> 00:34:58,264
taking us to school, had a job,
674
00:34:58,298 --> 00:35:00,200
but it wasn't like
paying her enough.
675
00:35:00,233 --> 00:35:03,136
So we have like,
eat what we have.
676
00:35:04,671 --> 00:35:08,675
And we have to take little
bits of what we got,
677
00:35:09,743 --> 00:35:12,178
so we can have it
for even longer.
678
00:35:12,212 --> 00:35:14,514
- My uncle, he used
to come outside
679
00:35:14,547 --> 00:35:17,917
and play football
with me all the time.
680
00:35:17,951 --> 00:35:21,521
And then he went to jail,
and he died in jail.
681
00:35:21,554 --> 00:35:23,256
Or I think he got killed.
682
00:35:23,289 --> 00:35:25,258
But they never told
us why he died.
683
00:35:25,291 --> 00:35:28,395
- My brother, he had passed,
he was nine years old.
684
00:35:28,428 --> 00:35:30,397
He had actually shot himself.
685
00:35:30,430 --> 00:35:33,733
He was playing with a
gun, I saw it right there.
686
00:35:33,767 --> 00:35:35,935
- [Michael Smith] It's post
traumatic stress disorder
687
00:35:35,969 --> 00:35:38,638
that is taking place in
communities across this country.
688
00:35:38,672 --> 00:35:41,341
And young people are
in this constant state
689
00:35:41,374 --> 00:35:43,343
of fight or flight.
690
00:35:43,376 --> 00:35:45,745
- [Carmelo] You hear about
as kids, acting up in school,
691
00:35:45,779 --> 00:35:48,214
he don't go to school,
he's dropping out.
692
00:35:48,248 --> 00:35:51,551
It's because they have
so much inside of them
693
00:35:51,584 --> 00:35:54,220
that they don't know
what to do with that.
694
00:35:54,254 --> 00:35:58,458
And they don't know who
to turn to for that.
695
00:35:58,491 --> 00:35:59,993
And then what happens?
696
00:36:00,026 --> 00:36:04,564
You drop out of school,
which leads to prison.
697
00:36:04,597 --> 00:36:06,700
The hood, school, prison.
698
00:36:07,734 --> 00:36:09,569
It's like a triangle.
699
00:36:09,602 --> 00:36:12,505
(kids chattering)
700
00:36:17,477 --> 00:36:19,479
- [Chris] We interviewed several
thousand African American males
701
00:36:19,512 --> 00:36:21,314
from kindergarten
through 12th grade.
702
00:36:21,348 --> 00:36:24,584
80% of black boys said when
they were first on campus
703
00:36:24,617 --> 00:36:27,554
the adults on that campus
did not engage them,
704
00:36:27,587 --> 00:36:29,589
did not say hello,
or speak to them.
705
00:36:29,622 --> 00:36:32,392
When adults would
interface with black boys
706
00:36:32,425 --> 00:36:33,626
from kindergarten
through 12th grade,
707
00:36:33,660 --> 00:36:35,462
then the response
typically was negative.
708
00:36:35,495 --> 00:36:36,429
What are you doing?
709
00:36:36,463 --> 00:36:37,697
Why are you here? You're late.
710
00:36:37,731 --> 00:36:39,466
Pull up your pants,
take off your hat.
711
00:36:39,499 --> 00:36:42,435
It was overwhelmingly, over 80%,
712
00:36:42,469 --> 00:36:45,538
the response was a
negative response.
713
00:36:48,508 --> 00:36:51,845
- [Sharif] Black boys, their
experience from very early on
714
00:36:51,878 --> 00:36:53,747
is around submission.
715
00:36:56,316 --> 00:36:57,851
Something black boys
are approached with
716
00:36:57,884 --> 00:37:00,587
just this firmness
that's unnecessary
717
00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:03,390
where you have to be
controlled in such a way
718
00:37:03,423 --> 00:37:06,760
I got to put my
foot in your neck.
719
00:37:06,793 --> 00:37:10,296
(ethereal wavy music)
720
00:37:22,542 --> 00:37:27,347
- [Russlynn] Black
male kindergartners
are being suspended,
721
00:37:27,380 --> 00:37:29,516
and expelled from our schools
722
00:37:29,549 --> 00:37:32,752
at disproportionately
higher rates.
723
00:37:32,786 --> 00:37:35,755
That gap gets wider the longer
724
00:37:35,789 --> 00:37:38,558
our young people are in school.
725
00:37:39,793 --> 00:37:42,495
- [Sharif] A lot of times when
people enter the learning space
726
00:37:42,529 --> 00:37:46,833
not feeling that that child
is a human being, one,
727
00:37:46,866 --> 00:37:49,436
the child is my equal, two.
728
00:37:50,470 --> 00:37:51,771
If you're not starting
with that premise,
729
00:37:51,805 --> 00:37:53,540
then it's very easy to oppress,
730
00:37:53,573 --> 00:37:55,675
it's very easy to
think I'm saving you.
731
00:37:55,709 --> 00:37:56,810
And if you don't
allow me to save you
732
00:37:56,843 --> 00:37:58,712
I'm gonna punish you.
733
00:38:00,747 --> 00:38:02,515
- [Akeia] It's so scary to
have to feel like you have
734
00:38:02,549 --> 00:38:05,652
to exist in those spaces,
because how can you?
735
00:38:05,685 --> 00:38:09,089
Because you exist in a
world where nobody sees you,
736
00:38:09,122 --> 00:38:10,857
but everybody sees you.
737
00:38:10,890 --> 00:38:13,126
And when they see you,
your silhouette doesn't
738
00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:16,363
look like you, it's a monster.
739
00:38:16,396 --> 00:38:18,365
- I went to school
in Daytona Beach
740
00:38:18,398 --> 00:38:20,133
when Trayvon Martin happened.
741
00:38:20,166 --> 00:38:22,669
A white couple saw
me sitting in my car
742
00:38:22,702 --> 00:38:25,705
on my break from my job,
called the police on me.
743
00:38:25,739 --> 00:38:27,741
The police literally
snatched me out of my car,
744
00:38:27,774 --> 00:38:29,843
slammed me on the ground.
745
00:38:29,876 --> 00:38:32,712
And when I'm asking like,
"Why are you doing this?"
746
00:38:32,746 --> 00:38:33,947
They literally said,
"We got a report
747
00:38:33,980 --> 00:38:37,117
of a suspicious black male."
748
00:38:37,150 --> 00:38:40,420
I can't even explain the
kind of emotional impact
749
00:38:40,453 --> 00:38:42,455
that had on my because
after the fact,
750
00:38:42,489 --> 00:38:43,923
I literally was just
sitting in my car.
751
00:38:43,957 --> 00:38:47,560
And I was like, I
literally did nothing.
752
00:38:47,594 --> 00:38:49,596
I didn't have to do anything.
753
00:38:49,629 --> 00:38:51,531
- I have so many
questions like why?
754
00:38:51,564 --> 00:38:52,432
- What did I do?
755
00:38:52,465 --> 00:38:53,600
(boys laughing)
756
00:38:53,633 --> 00:38:55,468
- How did my
presence offend you?
757
00:38:55,502 --> 00:38:56,636
- [Teenager] You
generalized me, already.
758
00:38:56,670 --> 00:38:58,838
- Yeah, how does my
presence offend you?
759
00:38:58,872 --> 00:39:00,507
What did I personally do?
760
00:39:00,540 --> 00:39:02,742
You immediately think
I'm a bad person,
761
00:39:02,776 --> 00:39:03,743
you immediately
think I'm violent,
762
00:39:03,777 --> 00:39:05,412
or loud, or vulgar.
763
00:39:05,445 --> 00:39:07,580
- Especially me, it might
be a little different.
764
00:39:07,614 --> 00:39:08,548
- Why do you say that?
765
00:39:08,581 --> 00:39:10,450
- 'Cause I'm the big,
black man in the room.
766
00:39:10,483 --> 00:39:11,618
- Bro, we're dark skinned dudes.
767
00:39:11,651 --> 00:39:12,786
- True, true.
768
00:39:12,819 --> 00:39:15,855
- We all hang with
dark skinned males.
769
00:39:15,889 --> 00:39:18,525
- The big black man of America.
770
00:39:18,558 --> 00:39:20,627
It gets deeper,
it gets real deep.
771
00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:21,761
- How deep?
772
00:39:21,795 --> 00:39:22,762
- Like this morning,
for an example.
773
00:39:22,796 --> 00:39:23,897
- Yeah.
774
00:39:23,930 --> 00:39:26,199
- I'm walking with my headphones
in, listening to music.
775
00:39:26,232 --> 00:39:27,534
- [Boy in White Sweater]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
776
00:39:27,567 --> 00:39:31,204
- A lot of white
females walk past me,
777
00:39:31,237 --> 00:39:32,505
and it's like they're
on their guard,
778
00:39:32,539 --> 00:39:33,840
they're holding their
purse like this.
779
00:39:33,873 --> 00:39:34,941
- You've seen it?
780
00:39:34,974 --> 00:39:37,644
- Yeah, face-to-face.
- That happens on the regular.
781
00:39:37,677 --> 00:39:39,479
- And I'm just like,
782
00:39:40,947 --> 00:39:42,916
for what, for what?
783
00:39:42,949 --> 00:39:45,452
- I'm not a big, violent guy,
784
00:39:45,485 --> 00:39:48,521
people have to understand that.
785
00:39:48,555 --> 00:39:50,890
I'm very loving and caring.
786
00:39:50,924 --> 00:39:53,793
And people are looking
at me like I'm a threat.
787
00:39:53,827 --> 00:39:55,762
- Yeah, I dig that.
- I used to wear glasses,
788
00:39:55,795 --> 00:39:57,997
because it makes you an
approachable dude, right?
789
00:39:58,031 --> 00:39:59,666
- You used to wear
them fake glasses?
790
00:39:59,699 --> 00:40:02,902
- Yeah, and I didn't even
have to wear glasses.
791
00:40:04,537 --> 00:40:07,574
I had to go out of my way to
make people feel comfortable
792
00:40:07,607 --> 00:40:09,009
that I'd never meet again.
793
00:40:09,042 --> 00:40:11,478
- Yeah, and I'm tired,
I get tired of that,
794
00:40:11,511 --> 00:40:12,612
you know what I'm saying?
795
00:40:12,645 --> 00:40:15,749
Why do I have to make you
feel comfortable about me,
796
00:40:15,782 --> 00:40:16,683
when I'm not coming in-
797
00:40:16,716 --> 00:40:17,984
- We in the same situation.
798
00:40:18,018 --> 00:40:19,686
- I'm not coming in
with no mal intent.
799
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,689
I'm not coming in with
no type of ill will.
800
00:40:22,722 --> 00:40:25,792
- [Duane] I'm tired of
having to be intentional
801
00:40:25,825 --> 00:40:28,561
just to show that
my hands are clean.
802
00:40:28,595 --> 00:40:29,863
That's fatiguing.
803
00:40:30,930 --> 00:40:33,600
I'm tired of stepping
on an elevator,
804
00:40:33,633 --> 00:40:35,902
and having people have
to literally clinch.
805
00:40:35,935 --> 00:40:37,704
We have to think
about our blackness
806
00:40:37,737 --> 00:40:41,274
in every intersection
of our lives,
807
00:40:41,307 --> 00:40:43,576
be it a black musician.
808
00:40:43,610 --> 00:40:45,278
- I feel insecure.
809
00:40:45,311 --> 00:40:46,012
- [Interviewer] You feel what?
810
00:40:46,046 --> 00:40:47,013
- Insecure.
811
00:40:48,982 --> 00:40:51,051
I didn't do anything to you.
812
00:40:51,084 --> 00:40:53,053
You might have seen
somebody else do something.
813
00:40:53,086 --> 00:40:54,754
But you don't know me, so.
814
00:40:54,788 --> 00:40:56,623
- We just met.
815
00:40:56,656 --> 00:40:58,758
- We didn't even meet,
that's the craziest part.
816
00:40:58,792 --> 00:41:02,295
- I don't even know your
name, first impression, I
don't even know your name and
you're clutching your purse,
817
00:41:02,328 --> 00:41:03,296
walking all fast
818
00:41:03,329 --> 00:41:04,698
- Walking with your head down.
819
00:41:04,731 --> 00:41:06,700
- Exactly, you don't
even know who I am.
820
00:41:06,733 --> 00:41:08,268
Sometimes you have to take it in
821
00:41:08,301 --> 00:41:10,637
and just accept it how it is.
822
00:41:10,670 --> 00:41:11,805
(hand clapping and guitar music)
823
00:41:11,838 --> 00:41:13,640
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world. ♪
824
00:41:13,673 --> 00:41:15,875
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world. ♪
825
00:41:15,909 --> 00:41:18,011
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world. ♪
826
00:41:18,044 --> 00:41:19,913
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world. ♪
827
00:41:19,946 --> 00:41:21,581
- [Jemele] There's a reason
why Ralph Ellison wrote
828
00:41:21,614 --> 00:41:23,717
about being "The Invisible Man."
829
00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:26,820
Because that's just
a reality, I think,
830
00:41:26,853 --> 00:41:28,588
for black boys in general.
831
00:41:28,621 --> 00:41:31,291
You see that you have
the power to create
832
00:41:31,324 --> 00:41:34,994
a level of fear and
hysteria in white people
833
00:41:35,929 --> 00:41:38,765
that will jeopardize your life.
834
00:41:38,798 --> 00:41:40,767
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world ♪
835
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,902
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world ♪
836
00:41:42,936 --> 00:41:45,772
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world ♪
837
00:41:45,805 --> 00:41:49,909
- [Dr.Edwards] I was
walking down the street
with a walking cane
838
00:41:49,943 --> 00:41:53,680
in a neighborhood I'd
lived in for 35 years.
839
00:41:53,713 --> 00:41:57,150
And all of a sudden I'm
facing eight squad cars,
840
00:41:57,183 --> 00:41:59,586
police jumping out
with guns drawn,
841
00:41:59,619 --> 00:42:01,821
because some white woman
842
00:42:01,855 --> 00:42:03,823
looked out her window and said,
843
00:42:03,857 --> 00:42:07,894
"There's a huge black
man in dark glasses
844
00:42:07,927 --> 00:42:11,831
brandishing a rifle
walking down the street."
845
00:42:11,865 --> 00:42:14,968
- [Malcolm] As a black man to
see a white woman afraid of you
846
00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:19,039
is one of the most terrifying
things there is, because
847
00:42:19,072 --> 00:42:23,076
history will tell you
how highly regarded
848
00:42:23,109 --> 00:42:25,378
the white woman is in America.
849
00:42:25,412 --> 00:42:28,982
And people have been
hung and lynched just
850
00:42:30,116 --> 00:42:32,952
in the name of
protecting white women.
851
00:42:32,986 --> 00:42:35,088
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world ♪
852
00:42:35,121 --> 00:42:37,657
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world ♪
853
00:42:37,691 --> 00:42:41,628
♪ I'm a black man
in a white world ♪
854
00:42:41,661 --> 00:42:45,632
- [Sonia] So when you see
fear in a white woman's eyes?
855
00:42:48,101 --> 00:42:48,935
- [Tyron] It hurts.
856
00:42:50,437 --> 00:42:53,606
It hurts, it hurts
so bad, I can't.
857
00:42:54,774 --> 00:42:57,410
That's hard to talk about.
858
00:42:57,444 --> 00:43:01,147
Cause it is different
between boys and girls.
859
00:43:03,016 --> 00:43:06,820
Let's save that till
the end, how about that?
860
00:43:09,155 --> 00:43:12,025
- [Dr. Bristol] I think it's
the way that the American eye
861
00:43:12,058 --> 00:43:15,395
has been socially
constructed to see black men.
862
00:43:15,428 --> 00:43:17,864
(intense digital slam)
863
00:43:17,897 --> 00:43:20,133
And so it's not
only white women.
864
00:43:20,166 --> 00:43:21,701
It's all of us that
have participated
865
00:43:21,735 --> 00:43:24,137
in this American project, right?
866
00:43:24,170 --> 00:43:27,207
- [Gerald Dessus] I want
you to take a look at
some of those stereotypes,
867
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,743
like the one about
Latino men and women,
868
00:43:29,776 --> 00:43:31,878
the one about black men,
869
00:43:31,911 --> 00:43:33,880
some of the ones about
white men and women,
870
00:43:33,913 --> 00:43:35,215
and Asian men and women.
871
00:43:35,248 --> 00:43:37,217
I want us to look at
those stereotypes.
872
00:43:37,250 --> 00:43:39,219
Look at the comments.
873
00:43:39,252 --> 00:43:41,821
And start to think, are
these stereotypes negative,
874
00:43:41,855 --> 00:43:44,457
are they positives here?
875
00:43:44,491 --> 00:43:48,895
Do I agree with them?
Do I disagree with them?
876
00:43:48,928 --> 00:43:51,231
This time we're not gonna
take our sticky notes.
877
00:43:51,264 --> 00:43:52,766
We're just going with our groups
878
00:43:52,799 --> 00:43:55,802
and we're gonna have
those conversations.
879
00:43:55,835 --> 00:43:59,072
- [Sharif] The approach
to education has to
include social justice.
880
00:43:59,105 --> 00:44:02,842
It has to prepare students
to enter the world
881
00:44:02,876 --> 00:44:04,144
where there is no cocoon,
882
00:44:04,177 --> 00:44:08,181
there is no real protection
for students of color.
883
00:44:08,214 --> 00:44:12,285
We can't operate a school
and ignore the realities
884
00:44:12,318 --> 00:44:15,055
that are occurring
on a daily basis.
885
00:44:15,088 --> 00:44:18,692
(somber orchestral music)
886
00:44:23,963 --> 00:44:28,735
This is sacred work, we
can't falter, we just can't.
887
00:44:28,768 --> 00:44:33,106
Their very lives are dependent
on it, mostly our own.
888
00:44:33,139 --> 00:44:36,843
(somber orchestral music)
889
00:44:42,282 --> 00:44:45,885
- [Malcolm] This world built
by men for men to protect them.
890
00:44:45,919 --> 00:44:48,888
Holy war, say amen
with aggression.
891
00:44:49,789 --> 00:44:51,024
Throwin' money out of pocket,
892
00:44:51,057 --> 00:44:51,991
getting intercepted.
893
00:44:52,025 --> 00:44:56,062
Kaepernick could stand
and never get respected.
894
00:44:56,096 --> 00:44:58,965
They were writing history
books down in Texas.
895
00:44:58,998 --> 00:45:00,300
See their systems getting bigger
896
00:45:00,333 --> 00:45:02,202
when you're asking questions.
897
00:45:02,235 --> 00:45:04,204
Who am I to call
myself a blessing,
898
00:45:04,237 --> 00:45:06,973
if the god in my is
constantly getting arrested.
899
00:45:07,007 --> 00:45:09,242
The darker the berry,
the darker the sentence.
900
00:45:09,275 --> 00:45:13,513
I too sing America, so
don't tell me to pipe down,
901
00:45:13,546 --> 00:45:17,117
or sit at a table my granny
used to wipe down, uh!
902
00:45:17,150 --> 00:45:20,020
Fuck a system less
it come with sin.
903
00:45:20,053 --> 00:45:22,555
Look at all the dead bodies
laying on the ground.
904
00:45:22,589 --> 00:45:25,258
But still we rise
like Maya Angelou,
905
00:45:25,291 --> 00:45:27,961
step outside playing D'Angelo.
906
00:45:27,994 --> 00:45:30,130
Chicago smile for Timbuk Two,
907
00:45:30,163 --> 00:45:33,566
not many avenues for us to
live up to, so what you want?
908
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,969
Benjamin or Aretha Franklin?
909
00:45:36,002 --> 00:45:40,073
Respect on your name or
a couple great faces, uh.
910
00:45:42,175 --> 00:45:46,279
(elevated train engines roaring)
911
00:46:05,899 --> 00:46:08,868
- [Malcolm] My name is
Malcolm Xavier London.
912
00:46:10,270 --> 00:46:12,605
When my mother was
pregnant with me
913
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:16,209
she watched Denzel
Washington as Malcolm X.
914
00:46:17,077 --> 00:46:19,012
And in the theater she said,
915
00:46:19,045 --> 00:46:21,181
"That's gonna be
the name of my son."
916
00:46:21,214 --> 00:46:24,017
(elevated trains roaring)
917
00:46:24,050 --> 00:46:25,585
(kids playing)
918
00:46:25,618 --> 00:46:29,122
Baby shoes we only
got 2Cs, 4C, 10C, 11C.
919
00:46:34,361 --> 00:46:38,631
And the youth sizes we
got 6 1/2 or 7 Youth.
920
00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:40,200
Those are the only
sizes we got left,
921
00:46:40,233 --> 00:46:42,969
and I'm so very sorry from
the bottom of my heart.
922
00:46:43,003 --> 00:46:44,437
We've been trying
to organize this.
923
00:46:44,471 --> 00:46:46,439
It's a lot of shoes,
it's a lot of people.
924
00:46:46,473 --> 00:46:49,275
But we will be doing this again.
925
00:46:50,944 --> 00:46:52,379
I grew up on the
west side of Chicago,
926
00:46:52,412 --> 00:46:56,082
which is both all the
things we hear in the news,
927
00:46:56,116 --> 00:46:58,852
and there's also so much more.
928
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,290
The things the world told
me about where I was from
929
00:47:04,324 --> 00:47:06,860
make you not love yourself,
930
00:47:08,161 --> 00:47:10,930
and make you question
your own existence,
931
00:47:10,964 --> 00:47:13,366
and the capabilities of
the people around you
932
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,135
and even yourself.
933
00:47:16,503 --> 00:47:19,172
I'm gonna give you a question.
934
00:47:19,205 --> 00:47:22,142
Person A, person B, I'm
gonna give you a question.
935
00:47:22,175 --> 00:47:25,311
I want person A to ask
person B this question
936
00:47:25,345 --> 00:47:27,113
over and over again.
937
00:47:27,147 --> 00:47:29,983
The person B it's
your job to give
938
00:47:30,016 --> 00:47:31,918
a different answer every time.
939
00:47:31,951 --> 00:47:34,454
And the question
is, who are you?
940
00:47:36,056 --> 00:47:36,923
- Who are you?
941
00:47:36,956 --> 00:47:37,457
- A rapper.
942
00:47:37,490 --> 00:47:38,358
- Who are you?
943
00:47:38,391 --> 00:47:39,259
- A black man.
944
00:47:39,292 --> 00:47:40,126
- Who are you?
945
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:41,027
- Ambitious teen.
946
00:47:41,061 --> 00:47:41,928
- Who are you?
947
00:47:41,961 --> 00:47:42,462
- A hard worker.
948
00:47:42,495 --> 00:47:43,363
- A little kid.
949
00:47:43,396 --> 00:47:44,264
- Always alone.
950
00:47:44,297 --> 00:47:45,231
- Class clown.
951
00:47:45,265 --> 00:47:46,132
- High school graduate.
952
00:47:46,166 --> 00:47:47,000
- Optimistic.
953
00:47:47,033 --> 00:47:47,967
- Lost.
954
00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:48,935
- Human.
- Troubled.
955
00:47:48,968 --> 00:47:50,303
- Ambitious.
- Broken.
956
00:47:51,237 --> 00:47:52,672
- Who are you?
957
00:47:52,706 --> 00:47:55,308
- Ah. (laughs)
958
00:47:56,443 --> 00:47:59,012
- Shortly after Trayvon
Martin was killed.
959
00:47:59,045 --> 00:48:00,513
I had a mentor come up with
960
00:48:00,547 --> 00:48:03,450
this idea called
Occupy Whiteness.
961
00:48:05,051 --> 00:48:07,120
And we would go around the city
962
00:48:07,153 --> 00:48:11,958
where folks who look like us
traditionally weren't welcomed.
963
00:48:11,991 --> 00:48:15,028
Now there's no sign in Chicago
964
00:48:15,061 --> 00:48:17,964
that says no blacks
allowed, right?
965
00:48:17,997 --> 00:48:20,700
But there is an aura. (laughs)
966
00:48:20,734 --> 00:48:24,404
And there is a
policing that happens
967
00:48:24,437 --> 00:48:28,441
that make you feel like
you're not welcome there.
968
00:48:28,475 --> 00:48:31,311
And so we would go
to the art museum,
969
00:48:31,344 --> 00:48:33,980
or the expensive
restaurant downtown,
970
00:48:34,014 --> 00:48:35,448
and just be black as fuck.
971
00:48:35,482 --> 00:48:39,486
♪ (unintelligible lyrics)
972
00:48:39,519 --> 00:48:42,188
- [Vic] I was in
London performing
973
00:48:42,222 --> 00:48:46,526
and it was the week
that both Alton Sterling
974
00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:48,328
was killed in Baton Rouge,
975
00:48:48,361 --> 00:48:53,366
and Philando Castile was
killed outside of Minneapolis.
976
00:48:54,501 --> 00:48:57,037
And I'm in the hotel
room and I just had
977
00:48:57,070 --> 00:48:59,539
this extreme
emotional breakdown,
978
00:48:59,572 --> 00:49:02,008
and I'm just fucking sobbing,
979
00:49:02,042 --> 00:49:04,344
and I can't keep it together.
980
00:49:05,445 --> 00:49:08,114
I feel filthy, I feel
dirty for being black.
981
00:49:08,148 --> 00:49:10,350
I mean I was having nightmares.
982
00:49:10,383 --> 00:49:12,118
I couldn't sleep,
I'm having nightmares
983
00:49:12,152 --> 00:49:15,555
the police are shooting
at me in the alleyway.
984
00:49:15,588 --> 00:49:17,357
(car clicks)
985
00:49:17,390 --> 00:49:20,360
- [Officer] Can I see
your license, please?
986
00:49:20,393 --> 00:49:22,095
Get out of the car,
get out of the car!
987
00:49:22,128 --> 00:49:25,031
(gunfire popping)
988
00:49:26,433 --> 00:49:30,103
Get on the ground!
Get on the ground!
989
00:49:30,136 --> 00:49:32,138
- [Malcolm] My mom used
to talk to me about,
990
00:49:32,172 --> 00:49:36,242
yo don't behave this
certain way around police.
991
00:49:36,276 --> 00:49:37,811
Do x, y and z.
992
00:49:37,844 --> 00:49:41,247
And the only space for my
identity was to be perfect.
993
00:49:41,281 --> 00:49:44,217
And if I was not
perfect, I could die.
994
00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:45,285
- [Motorist] I just
got my license.
995
00:49:45,318 --> 00:49:47,487
You said get my license.
996
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,323
I grabbed my license right
there, that's my license!
997
00:49:50,357 --> 00:49:51,257
- [Officer] Put your
hands behind your back,
998
00:49:51,291 --> 00:49:52,258
put your hands behind your back.
999
00:49:52,292 --> 00:49:53,259
Put your hands behind your back.
1000
00:49:53,293 --> 00:49:55,328
Put your hands behind your back!
1001
00:49:55,362 --> 00:49:56,796
- [Motorist] I
can't feel my legs.
1002
00:49:56,830 --> 00:49:58,131
I don't know what happened,
I just grabbed my license.
1003
00:49:58,164 --> 00:50:00,467
- [Officer] 866 I need a 1052.
1004
00:50:00,500 --> 00:50:03,269
- [Motorist] Why did you,
why did you shoot me?
1005
00:50:03,303 --> 00:50:06,072
(easy going acoustic guitar)
1006
00:50:06,106 --> 00:50:08,808
- [Dr. Edwards]
Slavery was eliminated.
1007
00:50:08,842 --> 00:50:13,279
But much of the values,
the cultural sentiments,
1008
00:50:13,313 --> 00:50:15,548
the political dispositions,
1009
00:50:15,582 --> 00:50:20,453
the perceptions of threat from
black males has persisted.
1010
00:50:22,555 --> 00:50:26,359
The control mechanism
has simply gone
1011
00:50:26,393 --> 00:50:29,429
from the slave
master to the police.
1012
00:50:31,331 --> 00:50:35,435
(man singing in
foreign language)
1013
00:50:35,468 --> 00:50:38,672
- [Cris] People say, "Well
man, are you still scared
1014
00:50:38,705 --> 00:50:39,572
of the police?"
1015
00:50:39,606 --> 00:50:41,307
Absolutely.
1016
00:50:41,341 --> 00:50:43,443
Don't have a police record.
1017
00:50:43,476 --> 00:50:46,279
Have a significant amount
of money in my pocket,
1018
00:50:46,312 --> 00:50:49,616
don't owe anyone,
haven't done anything.
1019
00:50:49,649 --> 00:50:52,585
But I've been raised
to know better.
1020
00:50:52,619 --> 00:50:54,154
I've seen too many visuals,
1021
00:50:54,187 --> 00:50:55,522
I've seen too many
truths played out.
1022
00:50:55,555 --> 00:50:58,525
Not myths, truths played out.
1023
00:50:58,558 --> 00:51:03,129
(man singing in
foreign language)
1024
00:51:03,163 --> 00:51:06,866
(light guitar music)
1025
00:51:06,900 --> 00:51:11,237
(man singing in
foreign language)
1026
00:51:20,714 --> 00:51:24,617
And I can either be 12 years
old in Middletown, Ohio
1027
00:51:24,651 --> 00:51:28,521
in the projects, or I
could be on 42nd Street
1028
00:51:29,723 --> 00:51:32,692
on the platform catching
the damn D train.
1029
00:51:32,726 --> 00:51:36,663
And I'm just as black
now as I was then.
1030
00:51:36,696 --> 00:51:41,201
(man singing in
foreign language)
1031
00:51:47,774 --> 00:51:51,211
(light guitar music)
1032
00:51:52,278 --> 00:51:56,349
(man singing in
foreign language)
1033
00:51:59,352 --> 00:52:01,621
- [Vic] We feel
vulnerability as black men,
1034
00:52:01,654 --> 00:52:05,525
because we've been under
attack from day one.
1035
00:52:07,994 --> 00:52:10,430
So weakness is to be feared.
1036
00:52:12,665 --> 00:52:16,736
(man singing in
foreign language)
1037
00:52:20,407 --> 00:52:22,475
- [Malcolm] Why
you talk like that?
1038
00:52:24,611 --> 00:52:27,280
With fake bass in your voice?
1039
00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:30,417
Like you got foundation.
1040
00:52:30,450 --> 00:52:32,419
Why you talk like that?
1041
00:52:33,687 --> 00:52:38,258
Speak up like police lights
on street posts, up like that.
1042
00:52:39,526 --> 00:52:43,763
Like surveillance, like
coffee, black but not strong
1043
00:52:44,998 --> 00:52:47,701
like they like they
coffee integrated,
1044
00:52:47,734 --> 00:52:52,238
obeying the cream, talk like
a playground in your lungs.
1045
00:52:52,272 --> 00:52:54,808
See your tongue
crisp and crossed
1046
00:52:54,841 --> 00:52:58,411
like you momma done
raised you on crucifixion.
1047
00:52:58,445 --> 00:53:03,216
Like you know she pray you
never come home in a coffin.
1048
00:53:05,652 --> 00:53:08,755
(train roaring and rattling)
1049
00:53:08,788 --> 00:53:12,359
(kids playing)
1050
00:53:12,392 --> 00:53:15,729
- Hey you all.
- This is so many feet.
1051
00:53:15,762 --> 00:53:17,263
(father laughs)
1052
00:53:17,297 --> 00:53:18,465
- Easiest way to get
down is from the way
1053
00:53:18,498 --> 00:53:19,532
that I just went down.
1054
00:53:19,566 --> 00:53:20,734
- No I don't want to do that.
1055
00:53:20,767 --> 00:53:22,802
- Okay.
- It's easy.
1056
00:53:22,836 --> 00:53:24,504
- All right, you ready?
1057
00:53:24,537 --> 00:53:25,605
- Grab me.
1058
00:53:25,638 --> 00:53:27,674
You got to get up.
1059
00:53:27,707 --> 00:53:30,343
Yay!
- See, I told you.
1060
00:53:30,377 --> 00:53:31,478
You did it! I told
you you could do it.
1061
00:53:31,511 --> 00:53:33,480
Oh. (laughs)
1062
00:53:33,513 --> 00:53:35,615
(mother laughs)
- That was so funny.
1063
00:53:35,648 --> 00:53:37,450
- Okay high now.
1064
00:53:37,484 --> 00:53:38,518
- Whoa!
- Oh.
1065
00:53:38,551 --> 00:53:39,619
- Blah, blah, blah.
1066
00:53:39,652 --> 00:53:41,855
- Okay.
- This thing got big.
1067
00:53:41,888 --> 00:53:44,758
- I've had nightmares,
I've had day nightmares,
1068
00:53:44,791 --> 00:53:46,559
you know, dreaming.
1069
00:53:46,593 --> 00:53:49,796
Not only do we worry about
their physical safety,
1070
00:53:49,829 --> 00:53:52,732
but we worry about them
being in a classroom
1071
00:53:52,766 --> 00:53:56,636
where they're already
being defined as deviant,
1072
00:53:56,670 --> 00:53:58,772
they're already being
defined as criminal.
1073
00:53:58,805 --> 00:54:02,375
They're already
being defined as not,
1074
00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:05,478
potentially not having the
same intellectual capacity
1075
00:54:05,512 --> 00:54:07,681
as their white classmates.
1076
00:54:07,714 --> 00:54:10,083
So their emotional and
their intellectual selves
1077
00:54:10,116 --> 00:54:12,686
are also at harm, you know?
1078
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,522
(train roaring)
1079
00:54:18,124 --> 00:54:19,759
(kids playing)
1080
00:54:19,793 --> 00:54:23,329
- Nope, watch out
for the baby, Camari!
1081
00:54:23,363 --> 00:54:27,300
(kids playing and screeching)
1082
00:54:29,369 --> 00:54:31,104
- Sorry. (laughs)
1083
00:54:31,137 --> 00:54:32,472
He is going kind of fast.
1084
00:54:32,505 --> 00:54:35,675
- Yeah, a little bit. (laughs)
1085
00:54:35,709 --> 00:54:37,677
- Everywhere I go,
people are always like,
1086
00:54:37,711 --> 00:54:41,481
"You know your son, he's
like a beam of light."
1087
00:54:41,514 --> 00:54:43,783
Anytime that I can hear that,
1088
00:54:43,817 --> 00:54:47,554
counters anytime
where I feel fearful.
1089
00:54:47,587 --> 00:54:48,521
- Watch out!
1090
00:54:48,555 --> 00:54:49,622
- [Young Mother] She's
so independent, too.
1091
00:54:49,656 --> 00:54:51,458
She's not intimidated.
1092
00:54:51,491 --> 00:54:53,893
(boys yelling)
1093
00:54:54,894 --> 00:54:56,429
- I lay down.
1094
00:54:56,463 --> 00:54:58,865
(kids playing)
1095
00:55:01,768 --> 00:55:04,604
(train roaring)
1096
00:55:09,476 --> 00:55:12,379
- [Malcolm] Where I come
from cats commit crimes a lot
1097
00:55:12,412 --> 00:55:13,947
because they have
to, or they feel like
1098
00:55:13,980 --> 00:55:16,516
they have no other choice.
1099
00:55:16,549 --> 00:55:20,820
- [Vic] We've been
assigned to these areas
that are poorly funded.
1100
00:55:20,854 --> 00:55:22,655
The schools are not
funded the same way
1101
00:55:22,689 --> 00:55:24,491
that the white schools are.
1102
00:55:24,524 --> 00:55:27,761
Access to clean food
and infrastructure,
1103
00:55:28,762 --> 00:55:30,597
filling up the
potholes doesn't happen
1104
00:55:30,630 --> 00:55:32,966
the same way in our communities.
1105
00:55:32,999 --> 00:55:35,402
- [Malcolm] And I always
felt like if people knew
1106
00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:37,671
that it's a revolving door,
1107
00:55:37,704 --> 00:55:42,509
my education was subpar,
and then I sold drugs.
1108
00:55:42,542 --> 00:55:45,945
And now I got arrested and
then couldn't get a job.
1109
00:55:45,979 --> 00:55:51,384
If they could hear this
story they could change it.
1110
00:55:52,218 --> 00:55:53,620
But then you learn
that the world
1111
00:55:53,653 --> 00:55:55,955
isn't just not listening,
1112
00:55:55,989 --> 00:55:59,592
but they're deliberately
not listening.
1113
00:55:59,626 --> 00:56:03,596
- [Dr. Edwards] These
young black men are
not born like that.
1114
00:56:04,664 --> 00:56:07,634
This society puts
them in a situation
1115
00:56:07,667 --> 00:56:10,537
where that becomes a patterned,
1116
00:56:10,570 --> 00:56:12,772
coping mechanism for survival.
1117
00:56:16,810 --> 00:56:17,711
- [Conan] I remember someone
distinctively in my life.
1118
00:56:19,245 --> 00:56:20,747
I was in 7th grade.
1119
00:56:20,780 --> 00:56:23,550
And a young man that was
in the 7th grade with me,
1120
00:56:23,583 --> 00:56:25,719
and he got into a
neighborhood fight,
1121
00:56:25,752 --> 00:56:27,554
and he ended up getting killed.
1122
00:56:27,587 --> 00:56:29,856
(ethereal music)
1123
00:56:29,889 --> 00:56:33,660
And so we went from playing
basketball as young men,
1124
00:56:33,693 --> 00:56:36,463
to now knowing that we
could really be hurt
1125
00:56:36,496 --> 00:56:38,832
and never come back from that.
1126
00:56:40,567 --> 00:56:43,603
And so at that moment it
was like a shift for me,
1127
00:56:43,636 --> 00:56:46,806
because I did not want to
be in those circumstances,
1128
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,675
and I didn't want to be hung.
1129
00:56:48,708 --> 00:56:50,844
And so I adapted to that
1130
00:56:50,877 --> 00:56:53,580
and became more
dangerous as a youth.
1131
00:56:53,613 --> 00:56:58,051
And my life took on a trajectory
of its own because of that.
1132
00:56:58,084 --> 00:57:01,955
(echoing digital music)
1133
00:57:01,988 --> 00:57:02,922
- [Student] I live through
this, and the only thing they do
1134
00:57:04,257 --> 00:57:06,860
they sit on this block
and we do all this stuff
1135
00:57:06,893 --> 00:57:09,596
that we do, 'cause that's
the only thing we saw.
1136
00:57:09,629 --> 00:57:11,698
Nine times out of 10 it's
really not what you want,
1137
00:57:11,731 --> 00:57:14,634
but sometimes at a
certain point in time
1138
00:57:14,668 --> 00:57:18,672
you're already caught up
in it, you can't get out.
1139
00:57:18,705 --> 00:57:21,741
There ain't no runnin'
away from the streets.
1140
00:57:22,909 --> 00:57:23,843
- Are we like lions in a cage?
1141
00:57:23,877 --> 00:57:24,811
Say it's two lions in a cage.
1142
00:57:24,844 --> 00:57:28,615
Me and my brother, I'm
gonna find a way to eat.
1143
00:57:28,648 --> 00:57:29,849
So what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna hurt
1144
00:57:29,883 --> 00:57:31,584
my brother so I can eat.
1145
00:57:31,618 --> 00:57:32,919
And it's like, oh they
see it on the outside
1146
00:57:32,952 --> 00:57:33,920
that's the only thing
we're portrayed on
1147
00:57:33,953 --> 00:57:35,522
on the news, like we're violent.
1148
00:57:35,555 --> 00:57:37,924
- The problem in this
case is the cage.
1149
00:57:37,957 --> 00:57:39,859
Like when you're in the
cage, you're a lion,
1150
00:57:39,893 --> 00:57:41,895
you're big, you need your space.
1151
00:57:41,928 --> 00:57:43,530
There's nothing you can
do about the other one,
1152
00:57:43,563 --> 00:57:44,731
you're gonna have to fight them.
1153
00:57:44,764 --> 00:57:46,733
Nobody's considering why
they're getting pushed
1154
00:57:46,766 --> 00:57:49,602
to the projects, and why they
have to act the way they do.
1155
00:57:49,636 --> 00:57:52,839
- [Carmelo] You're growing up,
you're in those neighborhoods,
1156
00:57:52,872 --> 00:57:56,876
seeing alcoholics, seeing
drug addicts, seeing murders.
1157
00:57:56,910 --> 00:57:59,612
And you have these
feelings that's so consumed
1158
00:57:59,646 --> 00:58:02,682
and so tight inside
of a little boy.
1159
00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:05,618
And you become a product
of that environment,
1160
00:58:05,652 --> 00:58:07,854
and everybody around
you is kind of dealing
1161
00:58:07,887 --> 00:58:09,622
with the same thing.
1162
00:58:09,656 --> 00:58:10,924
- [Vic] And then we
grow into adulthood
1163
00:58:10,957 --> 00:58:13,760
and the kids' fights
start escalating
1164
00:58:13,793 --> 00:58:15,929
into people getting shot
at, people getting stabbed,
1165
00:58:15,962 --> 00:58:17,097
people getting killed.
1166
00:58:17,130 --> 00:58:18,698
You've got a whole
bunch of resentful
1167
00:58:18,732 --> 00:58:19,933
young, black men that have just
1168
00:58:19,966 --> 00:58:23,570
been mentally pummeled
their whole life.
1169
00:58:24,704 --> 00:58:26,806
And the worst has
been expected of them,
1170
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,642
and everybody becomes a victim.
1171
00:58:30,877 --> 00:58:34,547
- [Dr. Edwards] There were 14
and 15 year old kids that I knew
1172
00:58:35,615 --> 00:58:37,017
who were going down
and picking out
1173
00:58:37,050 --> 00:58:39,352
the clothes that they
wanted to be buried in.
1174
00:58:39,386 --> 00:58:40,920
- [Interviewer] What is it like
1175
00:58:40,954 --> 00:58:44,124
to go to a funeral
at such a young age?
1176
00:59:04,010 --> 00:59:05,045
- [Malcolm] I think...
1177
00:59:11,117 --> 00:59:12,018
I don't
1178
00:59:13,253 --> 00:59:18,591
know if I've interrogated my
own trauma enough to tell you.
1179
00:59:22,729 --> 00:59:25,832
(strong piano music)
1180
00:59:27,667 --> 00:59:30,670
what I noticed is
that in the world,
1181
00:59:30,704 --> 00:59:32,806
how it responds to death.
1182
00:59:33,907 --> 00:59:37,744
And where I'm from,
there isn't much of one.
1183
00:59:42,849 --> 00:59:46,720
I think for me it was
recognizing that oh, shit,
1184
00:59:46,753 --> 00:59:48,822
nobody cares when we die.
1185
00:59:50,023 --> 00:59:53,993
(low bass beats music)
1186
00:59:54,027 --> 00:59:55,729
- [Reporter] Are you
surprised that you guys
1187
00:59:55,762 --> 00:59:59,799
eventually decided not
to go to the White House?
1188
01:00:02,902 --> 01:00:05,171
What aren't we listening to?
1189
01:00:09,175 --> 01:00:12,212
- [Malcolm] You started see
these images over and over.
1190
01:00:12,245 --> 01:00:14,748
You have people losing their
lives at the hand of police.
1191
01:00:14,781 --> 01:00:17,217
And it was in 2016
with Philando Castile,
1192
01:00:17,250 --> 01:00:20,887
and Alton Sterling, that it
was just enough was enough.
1193
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,256
(light music)
1194
01:00:23,289 --> 01:00:26,793
I wanted to know how do I, as
an athlete use my platform,
1195
01:00:26,826 --> 01:00:28,895
a voice to draw
attention to these things
1196
01:00:28,928 --> 01:00:32,165
and be a bridge to
reconcile this thing.
1197
01:00:34,801 --> 01:00:36,803
- [Carmelo] During the
Freddie Gray situation,
1198
01:00:36,836 --> 01:00:39,239
well I first saw him, oh I
have to do something, right?
1199
01:00:39,272 --> 01:00:42,809
Let me see what I can
do by my presence,
1200
01:00:42,842 --> 01:00:45,779
by my influence, by my voice.
1201
01:00:45,812 --> 01:00:47,047
(crowds yelling)
1202
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,115
(easy going piano music)
1203
01:00:49,149 --> 01:00:51,151
And I get there
and you can feel,
1204
01:00:51,184 --> 01:00:53,253
you can feel the tension.
1205
01:00:54,754 --> 01:00:56,723
You can feel the death.
1206
01:00:57,957 --> 01:00:59,893
It felt like I was in a cloud.
1207
01:00:59,926 --> 01:01:02,228
Just a dark, dark, dark space.
1208
01:01:04,798 --> 01:01:06,499
That's what I felt
by being there.
1209
01:01:06,533 --> 01:01:09,002
I also felt that being
on that front line
1210
01:01:09,035 --> 01:01:11,805
with my community,
those people felt
1211
01:01:11,838 --> 01:01:13,173
that I was a part of them.
1212
01:01:13,206 --> 01:01:16,242
And I will forever
be a part of them.
1213
01:01:18,311 --> 01:01:19,913
- [Chris] It was right
after Charlottesville,
1214
01:01:19,946 --> 01:01:22,115
and I just decided, hey
I got to do something.
1215
01:01:22,148 --> 01:01:23,817
Malc, do you mind if I put
my arm around you during
1216
01:01:23,850 --> 01:01:26,186
the anthem, I don't want
to steal your spotlight.
1217
01:01:26,219 --> 01:01:27,487
I don't want to be center stage,
1218
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,089
I want to be there with you.
1219
01:01:29,122 --> 01:01:31,124
And just tell you that
hey a lot of people
1220
01:01:31,157 --> 01:01:33,093
that look like me,
we can be there,
1221
01:01:33,126 --> 01:01:36,129
and we agree with what
you're protesting.
1222
01:01:36,162 --> 01:01:37,897
- [Jemele] Only think
that Colin Kaepernick
1223
01:01:37,931 --> 01:01:40,233
and other black
athletes have said,
1224
01:01:40,266 --> 01:01:42,202
"Please just don't shoot us."
1225
01:01:42,235 --> 01:01:45,038
That's literally the
basis of the message.
1226
01:01:45,071 --> 01:01:47,774
Don't shoot us
while we're unarmed.
1227
01:01:47,807 --> 01:01:49,876
Don't beat us when
we're unarmed.
1228
01:01:49,909 --> 01:01:51,945
Don't physically
violate us in ways
1229
01:01:51,978 --> 01:01:55,048
when we're unarmed,
or do so in a way
1230
01:01:56,316 --> 01:02:00,120
that is so overly physical,
and out of bounds compared
1231
01:02:00,153 --> 01:02:03,123
to how you deal
with other citizens.
1232
01:02:03,156 --> 01:02:05,058
They're just asking for dignity,
1233
01:02:05,091 --> 01:02:08,094
and fairness and accountability.
1234
01:02:08,128 --> 01:02:11,331
Which you would think
all of us would want.
1235
01:02:11,364 --> 01:02:15,001
- [Malcolm} James Baldwin said,
"To be a negro in this country
1236
01:02:15,035 --> 01:02:20,006
and to be relatively conscious
means that you are enraged
1237
01:02:20,607 --> 01:02:22,008
almost all the time."
1238
01:02:23,076 --> 01:02:23,943
- [Carmelo] We've
been angry for long.
1239
01:02:25,378 --> 01:02:30,083
And we're angry because of
the notion that we do love.
1240
01:02:31,184 --> 01:02:32,118
We love our community.
1241
01:02:32,152 --> 01:02:36,022
We love our black boys
and our black girls.
1242
01:02:36,056 --> 01:02:39,159
- [Dr. Edwards] When Malcolm
Jenkins raises a fist,
1243
01:02:39,192 --> 01:02:41,294
when Kaepernick takes a
knee during the playing
1244
01:02:41,327 --> 01:02:44,197
of the National Anthem,
when Smith and Carlos raise
1245
01:02:44,230 --> 01:02:48,902
a fist during the playing
of the National Anthem.
1246
01:02:48,935 --> 01:02:51,938
That's not against
the National Anthem,
1247
01:02:51,971 --> 01:02:55,108
that's a statement
of faith in America
1248
01:02:57,010 --> 01:02:59,979
that we're better than
what we are doing.
1249
01:03:00,013 --> 01:03:02,182
That we better than
what black people
1250
01:03:02,215 --> 01:03:04,951
and black males
are experiencing.
1251
01:03:04,984 --> 01:03:07,320
That we are better than that.
1252
01:03:10,056 --> 01:03:12,926
- [Malcolm] Using your voice
seems like a simple concept.
1253
01:03:12,959 --> 01:03:15,195
But we've also, as black men,
1254
01:03:15,228 --> 01:03:19,065
have seen tons of examples
of what that can bring you.
1255
01:03:19,099 --> 01:03:21,901
And there is a danger to that.
1256
01:03:21,935 --> 01:03:24,037
And it's the old trick
is those who actually
1257
01:03:24,070 --> 01:03:26,306
have the knowledge,
and self awareness
1258
01:03:26,339 --> 01:03:28,208
that you speak up and fight up.
1259
01:03:28,241 --> 01:03:30,310
And you have to get
rid of those people.
1260
01:03:30,343 --> 01:03:34,080
(crowds screaming)
1261
01:03:34,114 --> 01:03:37,250
- [Howard] The effect is
to silence the player.
1262
01:03:38,218 --> 01:03:39,953
Because now you can't speak.
1263
01:03:39,986 --> 01:03:41,287
- Throwing this in the fire,
1264
01:03:41,321 --> 01:03:44,991
because Colin Kaepernick
is now the face of Nike.
1265
01:03:45,025 --> 01:03:47,360
- [Howard] You see
what happens to Colin
Kaepernick and Eric Reed.
1266
01:03:47,394 --> 01:03:51,097
You saw what happened
when players challenge
1267
01:03:51,131 --> 01:03:53,400
this authoritarian narrative.
1268
01:03:54,934 --> 01:03:57,037
They lose their jobs,
they lose their careers.
1269
01:03:57,070 --> 01:03:58,905
(dramatic bass beats music)
1270
01:03:58,938 --> 01:04:01,908
- [Reporter] Could you hold it
up again? We couldn't see it.
1271
01:04:01,941 --> 01:04:03,410
(dramatic bass beats music)
1272
01:04:03,443 --> 01:04:05,912
- [Reporter] What
aren't we listening to?
1273
01:04:05,945 --> 01:04:06,880
(dramatic bass beats music)
1274
01:04:06,913 --> 01:04:08,348
- [Malcolm] When I say
you aren't listening,
1275
01:04:08,381 --> 01:04:11,084
it's because I don't
want to talk about things
1276
01:04:11,117 --> 01:04:12,252
that don't matter.
1277
01:04:14,087 --> 01:04:18,324
And everything is asked except
for why are you protesting?
1278
01:04:19,959 --> 01:04:21,261
They'll ask you, "What do
you think about the troops?"
1279
01:04:21,294 --> 01:04:23,263
(dramatic, strong
bass beats music)
1280
01:04:23,296 --> 01:04:25,432
It's not about the troops,
it's about systemic racism,
1281
01:04:25,465 --> 01:04:28,201
it's about a lack of education,
a lack of equal housing.
1282
01:04:28,234 --> 01:04:29,936
Well, what do you
think about Trump?
1283
01:04:29,969 --> 01:04:31,271
(dramatic, strong
bass beats music)
1284
01:04:31,304 --> 01:04:32,172
It has nothing to do with him.
1285
01:04:32,205 --> 01:04:34,974
It's all about our
criminal justice system,
1286
01:04:35,008 --> 01:04:37,977
systemic racism,
our school systems.
1287
01:04:38,011 --> 01:04:40,013
And then they'll continue
to go down this road,
1288
01:04:40,046 --> 01:04:45,051
and the conversation is about
everything but these issues.
1289
01:04:46,119 --> 01:04:47,420
And so, when I say
you aren't listening,
1290
01:04:47,454 --> 01:04:50,023
it's trying to
force people to deal
1291
01:04:50,056 --> 01:04:53,393
with what is actually
happening to real Americans
1292
01:04:53,426 --> 01:04:55,295
on a daily basis.
1293
01:04:55,328 --> 01:04:59,065
(intense bass drum music)
1294
01:05:01,067 --> 01:05:04,504
- [Malcolm] So, I believe that
all the things that we are,
1295
01:05:04,537 --> 01:05:07,474
from our history
to where we live,
1296
01:05:09,042 --> 01:05:11,177
it impacts us, it influences us.
1297
01:05:11,211 --> 01:05:15,715
And so I want you to write,
I am, or I come from.
1298
01:05:15,749 --> 01:05:18,318
Essentially I want you
to tell me who you are,
1299
01:05:18,351 --> 01:05:20,220
and where you come from.
1300
01:05:20,253 --> 01:05:23,323
And then we'll read around
if you would all like
1301
01:05:23,356 --> 01:05:25,158
for 10, 15 minutes.
1302
01:05:32,032 --> 01:05:33,299
- I come from the city of pain
1303
01:05:33,333 --> 01:05:35,101
where it's kill or be killed,
1304
01:05:35,135 --> 01:05:37,070
where it barely
snow, but it rain.
1305
01:05:37,103 --> 01:05:39,239
Corner junkies smell
like liquor and beer.
1306
01:05:39,272 --> 01:05:41,274
(chuckles) That's all I wrote.
1307
01:05:41,307 --> 01:05:44,144
- I come from people
drinking and smoking outside.
1308
01:05:44,177 --> 01:05:47,113
I am a band of builders
churches and schools.
1309
01:05:47,147 --> 01:05:49,783
I am mom's meatloaf
and mashed potatoes.
1310
01:05:49,816 --> 01:05:53,219
I come from a broken
family. I am a felon.
1311
01:05:53,253 --> 01:05:55,789
I come from selfishness.
I am a weapon.
1312
01:05:55,822 --> 01:05:57,357
- Where you come from?
1313
01:05:57,390 --> 01:06:00,093
I come from poverty
in all honesty,
1314
01:06:00,126 --> 01:06:03,229
the neighborhood and the
city that's incriminated.
1315
01:06:03,263 --> 01:06:04,230
Where you come from?
1316
01:06:04,264 --> 01:06:05,498
The brains of the projects
1317
01:06:05,532 --> 01:06:07,600
and in a low income two flats.
1318
01:06:07,634 --> 01:06:09,069
Where you come from?
1319
01:06:09,102 --> 01:06:10,570
Englewood, a place of sorrow,
1320
01:06:10,603 --> 01:06:13,173
where some people
don't see tomorrow.
1321
01:06:13,206 --> 01:06:15,775
Where I come from is a
good with bad intensions
1322
01:06:15,809 --> 01:06:19,379
and influences on
different dimensions.
1323
01:06:19,412 --> 01:06:22,148
- I still can recall the
night when my bloods died,
1324
01:06:22,182 --> 01:06:25,318
my eyes stay red like hot fries.
1325
01:06:25,352 --> 01:06:27,821
Even underwater I
couldn't stop crying,
1326
01:06:27,854 --> 01:06:30,590
was healthy, but you can't
tell me I was not dyin'.
1327
01:06:30,623 --> 01:06:33,460
Picked up a pen back then
and I ain't stopped writing.
1328
01:06:33,493 --> 01:06:36,129
And I am no rug, I am not lying,
1329
01:06:36,162 --> 01:06:37,130
took a step on on that ladder
1330
01:06:37,163 --> 01:06:38,498
and I haven't stopped climbing.
1331
01:06:38,531 --> 01:06:41,468
Was healthy, but you can
tell me I was knocked down.
1332
01:06:41,501 --> 01:06:43,470
Growing up, everybody
was friends,
1333
01:06:43,503 --> 01:06:46,272
later we separated
like Siamese twins.
1334
01:06:46,306 --> 01:06:48,475
And I'll be damned if
they say leak or fake,
1335
01:06:48,508 --> 01:06:51,644
I just want to feel my family
put a smile on my face.
1336
01:06:51,678 --> 01:06:54,414
Slipping, but I got to hold on.
1337
01:06:54,447 --> 01:06:55,615
How are you allowed to hate?
1338
01:06:55,648 --> 01:06:58,518
That an oxymoron,
so please everybody.
1339
01:06:58,551 --> 01:07:00,553
I would need four arms
just trying to find my way
1340
01:07:00,587 --> 01:07:02,522
in this world with no OnStar.
1341
01:07:02,555 --> 01:07:04,824
I'm on my ground, so I
pray you're on yours.
1342
01:07:04,858 --> 01:07:07,160
They sleeping on me, but
I don't mind the snores,
1343
01:07:07,193 --> 01:07:10,397
'cause no matter what I'm gonna
rap my city it's on the map,
1344
01:07:10,430 --> 01:07:13,400
so they gonna respect my
city 'cause it's Chiraq.
1345
01:07:13,433 --> 01:07:15,568
To the death my city,
brain damage will make
1346
01:07:15,602 --> 01:07:17,437
me forget my city.
1347
01:07:17,470 --> 01:07:20,106
Can't stop the hustle til
I'm famous at deaf people
1348
01:07:20,140 --> 01:07:22,175
while saying my verses
in sign language.
1349
01:07:22,208 --> 01:07:24,377
And everybody with me
gonna eat when I make it,
1350
01:07:24,411 --> 01:07:27,113
so then all the criticism,
give it, I don't take it.
1351
01:07:27,147 --> 01:07:28,481
This is truth music.
1352
01:07:28,515 --> 01:07:30,483
No lies included, that's me.
1353
01:07:30,517 --> 01:07:31,618
(people snapping their fingers)
1354
01:07:31,651 --> 01:07:35,221
- Hey go crazy, bro.
- Hey dig.
1355
01:07:35,255 --> 01:07:36,589
(classmates clapping)
1356
01:07:36,623 --> 01:07:39,592
(crosstalk)
1357
01:07:39,626 --> 01:07:41,261
I was hoping you
had something dope
1358
01:07:41,294 --> 01:07:42,862
on all them pieces of paper.
1359
01:07:42,896 --> 01:07:45,465
He was right.
- He put me right.
1360
01:07:45,498 --> 01:07:47,600
(guys laughing)
1361
01:07:47,634 --> 01:07:50,337
(train roars)
1362
01:08:06,453 --> 01:08:08,254
- [Interviewer] I
have a question.
1363
01:08:08,288 --> 01:08:10,357
Have any of you ever
cried at a movie?
1364
01:08:10,390 --> 01:08:12,258
- (laughs) Yes, I did.
1365
01:08:12,292 --> 01:08:14,494
I cried when I went
to go see "Coco."
1366
01:08:14,527 --> 01:08:16,229
- I heard about it.
- Yeah.
1367
01:08:16,262 --> 01:08:17,364
- Which part?
1368
01:08:17,397 --> 01:08:20,266
- The last part, you know
the granny she never talked.
1369
01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:21,501
She was just out of it.
1370
01:08:21,534 --> 01:08:22,502
- Oh when she was
singing, "I remember me."
1371
01:08:22,535 --> 01:08:23,370
- And then when they give.
1372
01:08:23,403 --> 01:08:24,204
Yeah.
- Okay, yeah.
1373
01:08:24,237 --> 01:08:26,172
♪ Remember me.
1374
01:08:26,206 --> 01:08:28,908
And she starting singing
with the grandson.
1375
01:08:28,942 --> 01:08:30,577
It's sad-
- The way he did it,
1376
01:08:30,610 --> 01:08:32,312
the way he did it
was definitely hard.
1377
01:08:32,345 --> 01:08:35,348
- I was literally emotional,
I was like, (crying).
1378
01:08:35,382 --> 01:08:39,185
- And the ugly cry, just have
the Michael Jordan going.
1379
01:08:39,219 --> 01:08:43,390
- When I saw "Coco" that
was emotional I mean,
1380
01:08:43,423 --> 01:08:44,524
what can I say?
- Like people told me
1381
01:08:44,557 --> 01:08:45,692
it made me cry, I
didn't believe them.
1382
01:08:45,725 --> 01:08:47,527
- Anyone with a heart
should cry to that.
1383
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,196
Like should shed
a tear at least.
1384
01:08:50,230 --> 01:08:51,398
I hope nobody at
school sees this.
1385
01:08:51,431 --> 01:08:52,499
(boy laughing)
- You're trippin' now.
1386
01:08:52,532 --> 01:08:56,302
- They are.
(everyone laughs)
1387
01:08:57,437 --> 01:09:00,774
(windchimes tinkling)
1388
01:09:00,807 --> 01:09:02,642
- I'll sit my butt right
here, thank you very much.
1389
01:09:02,676 --> 01:09:04,210
- [Instructor] Well talk
about Blank Panther.
1390
01:09:04,244 --> 01:09:06,680
So what did that
movie mean to you?
1391
01:09:06,713 --> 01:09:09,683
- Hey! The first
time, we were, who?
1392
01:09:09,716 --> 01:09:10,717
- I saw it in Seattle.
1393
01:09:10,750 --> 01:09:11,718
- We were in Seattle.
1394
01:09:11,751 --> 01:09:13,553
- We see the text open 1992.
1395
01:09:13,586 --> 01:09:16,423
- Oh! We went wild
that was crazy,
1396
01:09:16,456 --> 01:09:18,291
because we know where it's at!
1397
01:09:18,324 --> 01:09:21,661
We know the area and
we know it's Oakland.
1398
01:09:23,263 --> 01:09:25,298
I mean, I thought
it was beautiful.
1399
01:09:25,331 --> 01:09:27,434
- Yeah.
- It showed the equality
1400
01:09:27,467 --> 01:09:29,602
that everybody had, you know?
1401
01:09:29,636 --> 01:09:31,304
There wasn't no division,
everybody went together.
1402
01:09:31,338 --> 01:09:32,372
Now he did have that one cousin,
1403
01:09:32,405 --> 01:09:33,573
but he was from America.
1404
01:09:33,606 --> 01:09:35,508
- Oh he was.
(boys laughing)
1405
01:09:35,542 --> 01:09:37,544
- You had that one
cousin. (laughs)
1406
01:09:37,577 --> 01:09:41,581
- When you think about it the
key motto just represented,
1407
01:09:41,614 --> 01:09:44,517
if a child does not feel
the warmth of a village
1408
01:09:44,551 --> 01:09:47,587
he'll burn the village
down to feel warm.
1409
01:09:47,620 --> 01:09:49,522
So-
- I heard about it.
1410
01:09:50,623 --> 01:09:53,526
- That really connected to me.
- That's deep.
1411
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:55,295
- It was just anger
every time he spoke,
1412
01:09:55,328 --> 01:09:56,429
whether it was to T'Challa,
1413
01:09:56,463 --> 01:09:58,765
whether to say, "Hey, Auntie,"
whether it was to Zuri,
1414
01:09:58,798 --> 01:10:00,266
or the people who are tending
1415
01:10:00,300 --> 01:10:01,668
to the Garden of
the Heart-Shaped.
1416
01:10:01,701 --> 01:10:03,703
It was always anger.
1417
01:10:03,737 --> 01:10:05,538
It wasn't directly towards
them it was just towards
1418
01:10:05,572 --> 01:10:08,008
the world for taking away
his only sense of love,
1419
01:10:08,041 --> 01:10:09,476
which was his father.
1420
01:10:09,509 --> 01:10:13,546
- [Interviewer] How many
of you have single moms?
1421
01:10:18,685 --> 01:10:20,820
- We sort of talked
about earlier like,
1422
01:10:20,854 --> 01:10:22,489
if you could tell
the world right now
1423
01:10:22,522 --> 01:10:25,759
what black boys
need in this moment,
1424
01:10:25,792 --> 01:10:27,794
what do you think it is?
1425
01:10:28,795 --> 01:10:30,397
- [Student] Guidance.
1426
01:10:30,430 --> 01:10:31,398
- Guidance.
1427
01:10:32,365 --> 01:10:34,501
From whom?
- Other men.
1428
01:10:34,534 --> 01:10:36,369
- [Student] All right
from each other.
1429
01:10:36,403 --> 01:10:38,038
- I think maybe a mentor.
1430
01:10:38,071 --> 01:10:39,673
A lot of kids
1431
01:10:39,706 --> 01:10:41,441
they start out bad
already because of
1432
01:10:41,474 --> 01:10:42,876
the neighborhoods
that they grew up in.
1433
01:10:42,909 --> 01:10:45,745
But that could still, I
believe the younger kids
1434
01:10:45,779 --> 01:10:47,080
that they had mentoring
by the right people
1435
01:10:47,113 --> 01:10:49,049
they could still like grow up.
1436
01:10:49,082 --> 01:10:51,584
Like not have the
world is right now.
1437
01:10:51,618 --> 01:10:53,319
Because they be giving
up on the young kids.
1438
01:10:53,353 --> 01:10:54,754
As soon as they hit
like 8, 9, they be like,
1439
01:10:54,788 --> 01:10:57,524
well, he gonna be in
jail when he get out
1440
01:10:57,557 --> 01:10:59,092
of elementary
school, high school.
1441
01:10:59,125 --> 01:11:01,394
So I feel that they didn't
give up on us so bad,
1442
01:11:01,428 --> 01:11:03,430
we had a lot more mentor
programs, a lot of kids
1443
01:11:03,463 --> 01:11:05,532
it's be changed and different.
1444
01:11:05,565 --> 01:11:07,367
- I don't know I just say
1445
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,070
they probably need a father
figure in their life.
1446
01:11:10,103 --> 01:11:11,604
Maybe someone that
could mentor them,
1447
01:11:11,638 --> 01:11:14,674
like he said to help
them, I don't know.
1448
01:11:14,708 --> 01:11:18,445
(elegant slow, piano music)
1449
01:11:23,683 --> 01:11:26,820
- [Shawn] The beauty of
mentoring, it's really
about relationship.
1450
01:11:26,853 --> 01:11:31,624
And at the heart of what we
all need in our development
1451
01:11:33,660 --> 01:11:37,597
is a healthy relationship
with a caring adult.
1452
01:11:38,932 --> 01:11:41,801
- [Dr. John King, Jr.]
I distinctly remember
in kindergarten
1453
01:11:42,969 --> 01:11:46,573
kids teasing me
about my skin color,
1454
01:11:46,606 --> 01:11:48,641
saying that I was dirty.
1455
01:11:50,744 --> 01:11:54,414
And I remember coming
home to tell my mom that.
1456
01:11:54,447 --> 01:11:58,718
And my favorite cereal
was Cinnamon Life cereal,
1457
01:11:58,752 --> 01:12:01,588
and my mom told me
that I was cinnamon.
1458
01:12:01,621 --> 01:12:03,923
And I remember being so happy.
1459
01:12:05,525 --> 01:12:08,628
And it was important
that she took this moment
1460
01:12:08,661 --> 01:12:11,464
of being harassed and teased,
1461
01:12:11,498 --> 01:12:14,134
and tried to give me a
positive self identity.
1462
01:12:14,167 --> 01:12:17,537
And I worry that some
kids don't have someone
1463
01:12:17,570 --> 01:12:18,738
who's doing that for them,
1464
01:12:18,772 --> 01:12:21,641
helping them build
positive identity.
1465
01:12:21,675 --> 01:12:25,478
(elegant classical piano music)
1466
01:12:25,512 --> 01:12:27,914
If you don't have that then
you end up internalizing
1467
01:12:27,947 --> 01:12:30,917
that racism, that
bias from others.
1468
01:12:32,719 --> 01:12:36,523
(kids and parents laughing)
1469
01:12:37,824 --> 01:12:40,760
- It's vulnerable, it is
vulnerable for us too,
1470
01:12:40,794 --> 01:12:44,898
because we know that to
raise black boys that are,
1471
01:12:44,931 --> 01:12:47,567
that express their
emotions, right,
1472
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:49,769
or that cry when they're sad.
1473
01:12:49,803 --> 01:12:52,539
Or have all the spectrum of joy,
1474
01:12:52,572 --> 01:12:54,507
then that means that
they're open to all
1475
01:12:54,541 --> 01:12:56,776
the things that other
folks are gonna say.
1476
01:12:56,810 --> 01:12:57,744
- Yeah.
1477
01:12:57,777 --> 01:13:00,647
- They're open to the
harm and the harsh words
1478
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,949
and actions of other people.
1479
01:13:03,850 --> 01:13:07,687
(slow, elegant piano music)
1480
01:13:11,491 --> 01:13:13,660
- [Interviewer] So,
if you're willing
1481
01:13:13,693 --> 01:13:15,995
I want to return to this
1482
01:13:16,029 --> 01:13:18,698
idea of a white female's fear.
1483
01:13:21,067 --> 01:13:22,535
- Yeah, okay.
1484
01:13:24,804 --> 01:13:26,506
So my mom's white.
1485
01:13:28,775 --> 01:13:31,978
I go home everyday
I see a white woman.
1486
01:13:33,046 --> 01:13:37,017
A white woman raised
me, washed my clothes,
1487
01:13:37,050 --> 01:13:40,687
picked me off the
ground whenever I fell.
1488
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:41,821
That will hug and
tell me she loves me
1489
01:13:41,855 --> 01:13:43,823
every time she sees me.
1490
01:13:54,067 --> 01:13:58,004
I guess you could say
general energy projected
1491
01:13:59,272 --> 01:14:02,842
from white women that
don't know me, just,
1492
01:14:04,577 --> 01:14:06,913
I see this fear in their eyes.
1493
01:14:08,748 --> 01:14:11,718
This fear that I
can't imagine that
1494
01:14:13,687 --> 01:14:17,290
a black boy has
incited in her before,
1495
01:14:17,323 --> 01:14:20,860
so why does she look
at me like that?
1496
01:14:20,894 --> 01:14:24,831
It's just so hard to
talk, to open up to them.
1497
01:14:26,766 --> 01:14:30,804
Just how I've just perceived
them perceiving me.
1498
01:14:33,306 --> 01:14:37,844
And I've just, it's just
so different from my mom.
1499
01:14:37,877 --> 01:14:40,814
I never scare her,
she's my mother.
1500
01:14:41,915 --> 01:14:42,882
- [Interviewer] What
do you want to say
1501
01:14:42,916 --> 01:14:44,918
to the black boy in you?
1502
01:14:46,853 --> 01:14:48,621
- I forgive myself.
1503
01:14:49,923 --> 01:14:53,526
I forgive myself for
giving up at times.
1504
01:14:54,594 --> 01:14:56,896
For believing what the
people said about me,
1505
01:14:56,930 --> 01:14:59,599
I forgive myself,
you know? (sniffing)
1506
01:14:59,632 --> 01:15:00,533
Because
1507
01:15:01,601 --> 01:15:04,571
there's nothing wrong with me.
1508
01:15:04,604 --> 01:15:05,672
I was told something
was wrong with me,
1509
01:15:05,705 --> 01:15:08,908
there's nothing wrong
with me. (sniffs)
1510
01:15:08,942 --> 01:15:10,844
And not to be ashamed.
1511
01:15:12,712 --> 01:15:15,648
There's nothing wrong with us.
1512
01:15:15,682 --> 01:15:19,352
- [Shawn] It's not black boys
that really have to change,
1513
01:15:19,386 --> 01:15:24,124
or be the one responsible
for changing this nation.
1514
01:15:24,157 --> 01:15:27,027
This country needs
to put the mirror up
1515
01:15:27,060 --> 01:15:29,929
and do the changing,
and until that happens,
1516
01:15:29,963 --> 01:15:31,865
we're still gonna be
having this conversation.
1517
01:15:31,898 --> 01:15:35,669
(easy going digital music)
1518
01:15:36,903 --> 01:15:38,605
- [Chris] We're passing this
stuff on from generation,
1519
01:15:38,638 --> 01:15:40,140
to generation, to generation.
1520
01:15:40,173 --> 01:15:43,677
It's reinforced in every
institution, every system,
1521
01:15:43,710 --> 01:15:45,812
every structure in this country.
1522
01:15:45,845 --> 01:15:48,181
So we have to think
about in this process
1523
01:15:48,214 --> 01:15:50,850
of creating the discourse
and building trust,
1524
01:15:50,884 --> 01:15:52,152
a way of healing.
1525
01:15:52,185 --> 01:15:53,787
- [Interviewer] What
is white people's part
1526
01:15:53,820 --> 01:15:55,789
of the conversation?
1527
01:15:55,822 --> 01:15:57,957
- Yeah, I mean it would
great if they joined it.
1528
01:15:57,991 --> 01:15:59,392
(laughs) Just in
general it'd be great
1529
01:15:59,426 --> 01:16:02,362
if white people just
joined the conversation.
1530
01:16:02,395 --> 01:16:05,098
- [Chris] I think a lot of
people are actually feeling like
1531
01:16:05,131 --> 01:16:07,000
if they acknowledge
some of these things,
1532
01:16:07,033 --> 01:16:09,736
then they're guilty, like
they did something wrong.
1533
01:16:09,769 --> 01:16:10,870
You didn't do anything wrong.
1534
01:16:10,904 --> 01:16:16,076
The only thing wrong that
you could do is ignore it.
1535
01:16:17,177 --> 01:16:18,712
- I think it's okay
to acknowledge that
1536
01:16:18,745 --> 01:16:21,081
there is no simple answer.
1537
01:16:21,114 --> 01:16:23,917
And that love says I don't know,
1538
01:16:25,719 --> 01:16:28,221
but I'm committed
to finding out.
1539
01:16:29,756 --> 01:16:32,659
I can see the
complicated history.
1540
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:37,864
And that because I love
you, I won't ignore it.
1541
01:16:37,897 --> 01:16:41,768
(low bass beats music)
1542
01:16:41,801 --> 01:16:45,972
- [Interviewer] What do
you love about yourself?
1543
01:16:46,006 --> 01:16:48,742
- What up? Well I got
a few parts of me.
1544
01:16:48,775 --> 01:16:50,010
- Let me make a list.
1545
01:16:50,043 --> 01:16:52,779
- Let's see, one thing
I love about myself
1546
01:16:52,812 --> 01:16:54,981
is the boldness that I have
1547
01:16:56,216 --> 01:16:59,219
to not allow what
people think about me
1548
01:16:59,252 --> 01:17:01,788
determine what I'm gonna be.
1549
01:17:01,821 --> 01:17:04,190
So that's the part
of me that I do love.
1550
01:17:04,224 --> 01:17:07,694
The fact that I know how
to push through the storm.
1551
01:17:07,727 --> 01:17:10,263
And allow the storm to elevate
me to where I need to be.
1552
01:17:10,296 --> 01:17:12,232
You know, it's like a eagle.
1553
01:17:12,265 --> 01:17:14,034
I view myself as a eagle.
1554
01:17:14,067 --> 01:17:17,003
- Talk about spirit animals.
1555
01:17:17,037 --> 01:17:19,973
- Eagles are the
highest flying birds.
1556
01:17:20,006 --> 01:17:22,142
But they can see
the ground so clear
1557
01:17:22,175 --> 01:17:23,243
as if they're on the ground.
1558
01:17:23,276 --> 01:17:24,911
- Yeah.
1559
01:17:24,944 --> 01:17:27,814
- So it's like for me I
take that as I can soar high
1560
01:17:27,847 --> 01:17:30,083
over my situation, you know?
1561
01:17:30,116 --> 01:17:31,885
But see what it
could it have been.
1562
01:17:31,918 --> 01:17:32,819
- [Friend In White Shirt]
Yeah you always have clarity
1563
01:17:32,852 --> 01:17:33,453
of what it could have been.
1564
01:17:33,486 --> 01:17:34,187
- Exactly.
1565
01:17:34,220 --> 01:17:35,755
- You know what?
1566
01:17:35,789 --> 01:17:38,925
I'm gonna keep that
bird thing going.
1567
01:17:38,958 --> 01:17:40,160
- What you gonna
be a hawk? (laughs)
1568
01:17:40,193 --> 01:17:41,728
- No, no.
- A hummingbird?
1569
01:17:41,761 --> 01:17:42,262
- No, no.
1570
01:17:42,295 --> 01:17:43,463
- Mocking Jay.
1571
01:17:43,496 --> 01:17:45,065
- You can't guess it!
- Red robin.
1572
01:17:45,098 --> 01:17:46,266
- Ah-ha!
- Woodpecker?
1573
01:17:46,299 --> 01:17:48,735
- No, no! A woodpecker?
(boy laughing)
1574
01:17:48,768 --> 01:17:49,769
- Seagull?
1575
01:17:49,803 --> 01:17:51,271
- A seagull, no, no.
1576
01:17:51,304 --> 01:17:52,238
- Chicken?
1577
01:17:53,106 --> 01:17:54,808
- A chicken of all things.
1578
01:17:54,841 --> 01:17:55,475
- Hey it's a bird.
1579
01:17:55,508 --> 01:17:57,877
- Boy, I view myself as-
1580
01:17:57,911 --> 01:17:59,312
- A rooster.
1581
01:17:59,346 --> 01:18:01,748
(boys laughing)
- An owl, an owl.
1582
01:18:01,781 --> 01:18:02,716
- Oh, okay, why, why an owl?
1583
01:18:02,749 --> 01:18:04,284
- You know what? Because
I trust my instincts.
1584
01:18:04,317 --> 01:18:05,518
- No, no, no, you see
what's around you,
1585
01:18:05,552 --> 01:18:06,086
that's a good thing.
1586
01:18:06,119 --> 01:18:08,488
- I trust my instincts.
1587
01:18:08,521 --> 01:18:10,056
And I believe in myself,
1588
01:18:10,090 --> 01:18:12,759
and I feel like I have a
lot of self confidence.
1589
01:18:12,792 --> 01:18:14,227
So I view myself as an owl.
1590
01:18:14,260 --> 01:18:19,065
Because you know owls, they
have this scope of vision.
1591
01:18:19,099 --> 01:18:20,834
They see other paths
and other things.
1592
01:18:20,867 --> 01:18:22,969
I also believe
that about myself.
1593
01:18:23,003 --> 01:18:26,339
I see different sides
of different stories.
1594
01:18:26,373 --> 01:18:29,743
I'm not omnipotent,
but I feel like,
1595
01:18:30,810 --> 01:18:32,145
owls are wise, I
feel like I'm wise.
1596
01:18:32,178 --> 01:18:33,546
- You're like a
senior citizen huh?
1597
01:18:33,580 --> 01:18:34,914
(boy laughs)
1598
01:18:34,948 --> 01:18:36,983
- You know what, you
know what? Yes, yes.
1599
01:18:37,017 --> 01:18:37,917
- [Friend In White
Shirt] You have matured
1600
01:18:37,951 --> 01:18:39,185
a lot, trust me.
1601
01:18:40,387 --> 01:18:44,891
(man singing in
foreign language)
1602
01:18:52,399 --> 01:18:55,902
- [Interviewer] What
do you need to receive?
1603
01:18:55,935 --> 01:18:58,038
- Outside of God's grace,
1604
01:19:05,178 --> 01:19:07,313
you just pay me with love.
1605
01:19:10,183 --> 01:19:12,252
If you could love me,
1606
01:19:12,285 --> 01:19:15,088
then I know that you truly care.
1607
01:19:18,358 --> 01:19:21,294
(man singing in
foreign language)
1608
01:19:21,327 --> 01:19:24,164
- The kind of love that says,
1609
01:19:24,197 --> 01:19:27,967
I am committed to being
accountable to you.
1610
01:19:29,602 --> 01:19:33,173
- I think we have to show
love to the young black men.
1611
01:19:33,206 --> 01:19:36,176
to black boys, we have
to love them honestly,
1612
01:19:36,209 --> 01:19:39,813
and critically and
also unconditionally.
1613
01:19:40,647 --> 01:19:43,817
- Actual love helps
to heal trauma.
1614
01:19:44,984 --> 01:19:47,220
- Love has no logic
model, all right.
1615
01:19:47,253 --> 01:19:51,291
There are transformational
things that are happening
1616
01:19:51,324 --> 01:19:55,929
in the lives of black
boys that can't be found
1617
01:19:55,962 --> 01:19:59,299
in a theory of change
that's found in
1618
01:19:59,332 --> 01:20:02,068
this heart to heart connection.
1619
01:20:03,103 --> 01:20:05,939
- To the degree of
which we focus on them
1620
01:20:05,972 --> 01:20:08,641
and they feel safe, feel
heard, feel validated,
1621
01:20:08,675 --> 01:20:11,244
it actually will impact
the entire system.
1622
01:20:11,277 --> 01:20:13,380
A rising tide raises all ships.
1623
01:20:13,413 --> 01:20:18,284
And so we have to stay in
that and that takes time.
1624
01:20:18,318 --> 01:20:22,455
(man singing in
foreign language)
1625
01:20:25,025 --> 01:20:26,126
- Hair.
- Huh?
1626
01:20:27,060 --> 01:20:27,994
- Hair.
1627
01:20:28,962 --> 01:20:30,230
- Yeah, that's Da-da's hair.
1628
01:20:30,263 --> 01:20:31,664
- Yes, Da-da's hair.
1629
01:20:31,698 --> 01:20:34,367
- Yeah, where's Koven's hair?
1630
01:20:34,401 --> 01:20:36,336
Where's Koven's hair?
1631
01:20:38,171 --> 01:20:40,106
I can't see, is
that Koven's hair?
1632
01:20:40,140 --> 01:20:41,007
- Yeah.
1633
01:20:41,041 --> 01:20:42,275
- It is?
- Yeah.
1634
01:20:44,110 --> 01:20:46,946
- Well, when I lost my dad,
1635
01:20:46,980 --> 01:20:48,281
it was one of the
1636
01:20:51,384 --> 01:20:54,921
hardest things to do
deal with when I became
1637
01:20:54,954 --> 01:20:59,159
of the age to actually
understand what had happened.
1638
01:21:02,228 --> 01:21:05,131
Oh come here, let me tie
your shoe. Come here.
1639
01:21:05,165 --> 01:21:06,099
- No.
1640
01:21:07,100 --> 01:21:08,168
- It wasn't until
1641
01:21:11,037 --> 01:21:13,473
I started to have things
happen and be around people,
1642
01:21:13,506 --> 01:21:16,142
and see things that
I really wondered
1643
01:21:16,176 --> 01:21:18,178
what my dad would think.
1644
01:21:20,146 --> 01:21:22,215
How proud would my dad be
1645
01:21:23,416 --> 01:21:28,188
to see me even get to high
school and graduate high school.
1646
01:21:29,189 --> 01:21:31,291
I'm going here
because it's important
1647
01:21:31,324 --> 01:21:34,260
for every young father, for
every person who understands
1648
01:21:34,294 --> 01:21:36,296
the importance of a role.
1649
01:21:36,329 --> 01:21:39,399
Especially in young
African American males.
1650
01:21:39,432 --> 01:21:43,470
The day that I was
supposed to get drafted
1651
01:21:43,503 --> 01:21:47,941
higher than I was, I paced
up and down the street
1652
01:21:49,009 --> 01:21:52,078
for like six and a
half hours straight.
1653
01:21:52,112 --> 01:21:54,080
End to end, didn't
talk to anybody,
1654
01:21:54,114 --> 01:21:57,217
I didn't want anybody
talking to me.
1655
01:21:57,250 --> 01:21:59,085
The only person that
1656
01:22:02,555 --> 01:22:06,226
I would have let talk
to me at that moment
1657
01:22:08,128 --> 01:22:09,062
was my dad.
1658
01:22:12,599 --> 01:22:15,035
And for whatever
reason when I pacing up
1659
01:22:15,068 --> 01:22:16,503
and down that street
1660
01:22:18,505 --> 01:22:23,510
all I could hear my dad
telling me was... (crying)
1661
01:22:24,811 --> 01:22:28,081
(somber piano music)
1662
01:22:35,255 --> 01:22:38,091
The only thing I could hear
pacing up and down the street
1663
01:22:38,124 --> 01:22:41,461
was my pops telling me he
was proud of me. (crying)
1664
01:22:41,494 --> 01:22:46,166
♪ It's all right
it's all right. ♪
1665
01:22:46,199 --> 01:22:49,769
- So there's one
non-negotiable in this world.
1666
01:22:49,803 --> 01:22:53,139
♪ It's all right,
it's all right. ♪
1667
01:22:53,173 --> 01:22:56,276
- And that is me
being around my son.
1668
01:22:59,145 --> 01:23:01,614
Because so long as God allow it,
1669
01:23:03,183 --> 01:23:06,252
he'll always hear from
me that I'm proud of him.
1670
01:23:06,286 --> 01:23:10,423
♪ It's all right,
it's all right. ♪
1671
01:23:12,092 --> 01:23:14,094
- What's that in the bucket?
1672
01:23:14,127 --> 01:23:17,197
Oh, give me that,
give me that one.
1673
01:23:17,230 --> 01:23:19,432
Hey.
(water sloshing)
1674
01:23:19,466 --> 01:23:22,569
Bubby, what you gonna
be when you get older?
1675
01:23:22,602 --> 01:23:24,404
Are you gonna fly airplanes?
1676
01:23:24,437 --> 01:23:25,538
- Yeah.
1677
01:23:25,572 --> 01:23:28,241
- Yeah, are you
gonna be a doctor?
1678
01:23:28,274 --> 01:23:29,175
- Yeah.
1679
01:23:30,243 --> 01:23:33,146
- Can you be an engineer?
1680
01:23:33,179 --> 01:23:34,547
- Yeah.
1681
01:23:34,581 --> 01:23:36,516
- Can you do more
than play sports?
1682
01:23:36,549 --> 01:23:38,184
- Yeah!
1683
01:23:38,218 --> 01:23:40,553
- Yeah, that's right why?
'Cause Daddy said so.
1684
01:23:40,587 --> 01:23:41,488
- Yeah.
1685
01:23:42,455 --> 01:23:43,857
- That's right you're great,
1686
01:23:43,890 --> 01:23:45,458
you're gonna be great,
'cause Daddy says so, right?
1687
01:23:45,492 --> 01:23:46,426
- Right.
1688
01:23:47,327 --> 01:23:49,362
(water sloshes)
1689
01:23:49,396 --> 01:23:51,531
(Colvin growls)
1690
01:23:51,564 --> 01:23:55,135
- Daddy proud, you did
a really good job, okay.
1691
01:23:55,168 --> 01:23:56,202
- Ah!
- Okay.
1692
01:23:58,705 --> 01:24:01,107
- Did you hear me?
1693
01:24:01,141 --> 01:24:05,178
Did you hear me?
(splashing water)
1694
01:24:05,211 --> 01:24:08,114
- (laughs) Da-da.
1695
01:24:09,215 --> 01:24:12,686
(happy flowing piano music)
1696
01:24:16,156 --> 01:24:20,393
- We have to be courageous
in re-imagining ourselves.
1697
01:24:22,362 --> 01:24:26,232
We have the power to
change whatever we want.
1698
01:24:27,634 --> 01:24:29,269
(child yells)
1699
01:24:29,302 --> 01:24:30,337
- [Greg] Do you see it?
1700
01:24:30,370 --> 01:24:32,605
- That we're stronger
than we know.
1701
01:24:32,639 --> 01:24:34,174
- What's up there?
1702
01:24:34,207 --> 01:24:35,108
- The cloud.
1703
01:24:35,141 --> 01:24:38,378
- It's important for
us to present a message
1704
01:24:38,411 --> 01:24:41,548
of infinite possibility
to black boys.
1705
01:24:41,581 --> 01:24:42,716
- What's this?
1706
01:24:43,616 --> 01:24:45,251
You got a boo-boo.
1707
01:24:45,285 --> 01:24:47,220
- We're gonna make sure
that black boys recognize
1708
01:24:47,253 --> 01:24:49,356
their own humanity,
because then that's gonna
1709
01:24:49,389 --> 01:24:53,526
be human nature for them
to demand much, much more.
1710
01:24:54,527 --> 01:24:57,364
♪ Happy Birthday to you
1711
01:24:57,397 --> 01:24:59,299
- It's a new day and age, now.
1712
01:24:59,332 --> 01:25:03,203
♪ Happy Birthday to you
1713
01:25:03,236 --> 01:25:04,704
- These young people
don't need saviors,
1714
01:25:04,738 --> 01:25:07,240
they need believers.
1715
01:25:07,273 --> 01:25:09,275
Once you believe
in them and know
1716
01:25:09,309 --> 01:25:11,611
that they are great
beyond measures
1717
01:25:11,644 --> 01:25:15,248
by who they are, not by
what you bestowed on them,
1718
01:25:15,281 --> 01:25:19,386
then everything else will
shift and change as a result.
1719
01:25:19,419 --> 01:25:22,655
♪ Happy birthday to you
1720
01:25:24,557 --> 01:25:26,693
- They're as great as your kids.
1721
01:25:26,726 --> 01:25:29,496
They're as great any young
people on this earth.
1722
01:25:29,529 --> 01:25:31,231
You don't need to save them.
1723
01:25:31,264 --> 01:25:33,466
All you gotta do is
believe that they are great
1724
01:25:33,500 --> 01:25:34,367
and the rest of the work
1725
01:25:34,401 --> 01:25:35,535
will follow.
1726
01:25:35,568 --> 01:25:36,970
- Blow it.
- Okay you blow it.
1727
01:25:37,003 --> 01:25:39,372
All right you blow, blow.
1728
01:25:39,406 --> 01:25:41,641
Oh blow harder, blow harder.
1729
01:25:46,346 --> 01:25:50,617
♪ Oh oh oh oh
1730
01:25:50,650 --> 01:25:55,388
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh
1731
01:25:55,422 --> 01:25:59,626
♪ Oh oh oh oh
1732
01:25:59,659 --> 01:26:04,431
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
1733
01:26:04,464 --> 01:26:05,799
♪ Oh oh oh
1734
01:26:05,832 --> 01:26:11,204
♪ I was looking for a hero
1735
01:26:11,771 --> 01:26:13,673
♪ To reach out to save me
1736
01:26:13,707 --> 01:26:15,475
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh
1737
01:26:15,508 --> 01:26:19,779
♪ What I needed was someone
1738
01:26:19,813 --> 01:26:22,816
♪ To look beyond what they see
1739
01:26:22,849 --> 01:26:24,451
♪ Oh oh oh
1740
01:26:24,484 --> 01:26:29,022
♪ That's why I
choose my struggles ♪
1741
01:26:29,055 --> 01:26:31,758
♪ Through the lens
of compassion ♪
1742
01:26:31,791 --> 01:26:33,326
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh
1743
01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:37,597
♪ You will see the
phoenix in me, ♪
1744
01:26:37,630 --> 01:26:42,669
♪ Trying to rise
from the ashes ♪
1745
01:26:43,403 --> 01:26:48,241
♪ Oh oh oh
1746
01:26:49,676 --> 01:26:54,714
♪ Oh oh oh oh
1747
01:26:55,515 --> 01:26:59,552
♪ I don't need a hero
1748
01:26:59,586 --> 01:27:03,757
♪ I need a believer
1749
01:27:03,790 --> 01:27:08,361
♪ Through all of my struggles
1750
01:27:08,395 --> 01:27:12,565
♪ Someone who can see the
1751
01:27:12,599 --> 01:27:16,836
♪ Potential for greatness
1752
01:27:16,870 --> 01:27:21,508
♪ Possibilities
1753
01:27:21,541 --> 01:27:25,645
♪ Don't need you to save us
1754
01:27:25,679 --> 01:27:29,783
♪ Just say you believe
1755
01:27:29,816 --> 01:27:32,385
♪ Just say you believe
1756
01:27:32,419 --> 01:27:36,389
♪ Oh oh oh oh
1757
01:27:36,423 --> 01:27:39,459
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh
1758
01:27:41,528 --> 01:27:42,796
- [Interviewer] What do you
want to be when you grow up?
1759
01:27:42,829 --> 01:27:44,798
- I want to be a scientist.
1760
01:27:44,831 --> 01:27:46,666
- [Interviewer] Awesome, why?
1761
01:27:46,700 --> 01:27:49,436
- Because I can
save people's lives.
1762
01:27:49,469 --> 01:27:53,406
And then when I'm retired
from being a scientist
1763
01:27:53,440 --> 01:27:55,475
I'm gonna be a surgeon.
1764
01:27:55,508 --> 01:27:59,579
(upbeat piano, and guitar music)
1765
01:28:02,482 --> 01:28:06,419
(moves into full
bass and organ music)
1766
01:28:06,453 --> 01:28:08,755
♪ We will be all right
1767
01:28:08,788 --> 01:28:12,459
♪ Yeah we're gonna
be all right. ♪
1768
01:28:12,492 --> 01:28:14,361
- My mom gonna
cook with us, okay.
1769
01:28:14,394 --> 01:28:15,328
- Uh-oh.
1770
01:28:15,929 --> 01:28:17,397
- You did.
1771
01:28:17,430 --> 01:28:19,499
- Yeah my momma
is a hungry woman.
1772
01:28:19,532 --> 01:28:21,468
(lady laughs)
1773
01:28:21,501 --> 01:28:23,103
She like this.
1774
01:28:23,136 --> 01:28:25,939
(child grunting)
1775
01:28:25,972 --> 01:28:28,141
- Hungry woman. (laughs)
- Hungry woman.
1776
01:28:28,174 --> 01:28:29,709
- [Child] Hey momma.
1777
01:28:29,743 --> 01:28:31,945
♪ Oh oh oh
1778
01:28:31,978 --> 01:28:33,413
♪ We're gonna be all right
1779
01:28:33,446 --> 01:28:34,814
♪ We're gonna be all right
1780
01:28:34,848 --> 01:28:36,649
♪ Oh oh oh
1781
01:28:36,683 --> 01:28:39,452
(upbeat music)
1782
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:44,457
(moves to bright piano music)
1783
01:28:49,963 --> 01:28:55,368
♪
1784
01:28:58,772 --> 01:29:01,508
♪
1785
01:29:01,541 --> 01:29:05,612
♪
1786
01:29:05,645 --> 01:29:08,615
♪
1787
01:29:08,648 --> 01:29:13,687
♪
1788
01:29:15,622 --> 01:29:17,924
♪
1789
01:29:17,957 --> 01:29:20,560
♪
1790
01:29:20,593 --> 01:29:22,962
♪
1791
01:29:22,996 --> 01:29:25,799
♪
1792
01:29:25,832 --> 01:29:28,468
♪
1793
01:29:28,501 --> 01:29:30,637
♪
1794
01:29:30,670 --> 01:29:32,972
♪
1795
01:29:33,006 --> 01:29:35,909
♪
1796
01:29:35,942 --> 01:29:37,510
♪
1797
01:29:37,544 --> 01:29:39,913
♪
1798
01:29:39,946 --> 01:29:42,615
♪
1799
01:29:42,649 --> 01:29:44,951
♪
1800
01:29:44,984 --> 01:29:46,920
♪
1801
01:29:46,953 --> 01:29:50,023
♪
1802
01:29:50,056 --> 01:29:53,493
♪
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