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TANNER: It's just fantastic.

So what you're
talking about here

is a fairly typical acid pickled
low altitude lake, right?

Typical?

Uh--

Well, low alconites, low
pH, high levels of aluminum.

And you've obviously
got the usual associated

diebacks of what, red spruce?

Yeah.
We see some of that.

Sure.
- Sure.

And your headwaters
in the area are

susceptible to acidification.

That's because of the--

Sure.

Because the alconites
are what, 20--

- Yeah, them.
- --20 parts per million, maybe?

Yeah.
Well, and then some.

Yeah.

So what do you think it means
in terms of total applications

of sodium?

Well, it's hard to say.

Um, it's a lot, I know that.

A lot.

So for Michigan, it's
time for a change.

Heh.

Wouldn't you say?

Long overdue, if you ask me.

Sure.

Thanks a lot, my friend.

No problem.

Right.

Wait just a second--
wait a minute.

We'll take a couple of pictures.

Oh.

[sigh]

It looks just like
a Fellini film I saw.

TANNER: God.

Do you ever get
tired of that view?

Yeah.
Sometimes.

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE
AND THE HIP HOP FORCE]

(SINGING) I can't believe it.

A Michigan ranger is bored with
life and wants some changes,

but he doesn't really know
what's going on today,

the tin man is
taking all the paper.

Not mine, because I bust rhymes.

It's not as simple as
some assembly line,

because they don't get
paid or take no drug tests.

And my dad is more or
less on a permanent rest.

For a machine, a man-made
thing, taking over the jobs

that human beings once used
to use just to stay alive.

Yeah.

Only the strong survive, but
still it's tougher than skin,

like all the stickers in water.

So Mr. Ranger, I
think you oughta

keep working with the bear
and cool out in the forest.

We cried out already,
but they ignored us.

Take a hammer, cut,
build and screw,

100% better than we used to do.

It all came with the turn of
the decade, a crucial move

but the change was made,
so now we're properly

stricken, ill and sickened.

The bill collectors
keep stickin' the bills,

I ain't ill is how I feel.

Come to Detroit if you want
the real deal of changes.

We need some changes.

We need some changes.

(ROBOTIC VOICE) I understand
we have a special guest

in the audience today.

Candidate Jack Tanner, the
man who wants to be president.

Which one of you is Jack Tanner?

You're Jack Tanner, sir?

Gee, you're a lot shorter than
you look on television, sir.

Let me shake your hand.

It's nice to meet you, sir.

You know, I'm curious about
one thing, Mr. Tanner.

Aren't you the man
who told Jesse Jackson

that you're in favor of drugs?

Didn't you say that to
Jesse Jackson in the debate,

that you favor drugs?
Didn't you?

I don't favor drugs.

Certainly not.

I, uh-- I favor taking a
look at legalizing drugs.

(ROBOTIC VOICE) Are you sure?

Are you sure that you don't want
drugs to be sold to everybody

at very cheap prices?

Come on.

What do you really think?

Have you ever
smoked pot yourself?

What about cocaine?

Have you ever done cocaine?

We robots don't, uh, do drugs.

But what about you?

What about your pretty aide
here with the funky earrings?

I bet she uses drugs.

What about this
guy with glasses?

I bet he uses drugs.
Come on.

What's the real story?

I don't know.

Things happen to
this man, people.

He is constantly being
overtaken by events.

And I gotta tell you, I
think a lot of this stuff

could be avoided.

We are talking the most
basic advance work here.

I don't think that's
too much to ask.

A little thought
about the photo ops.

I could have prevented
the candidate

from being made a fool of and
upstaged by a mechanical robot.

Christ.

He was talking to it like--
like he was with Dukakis.

I want to show a man who can
relate to people, not machines.

I said I was sorry,
Mrs. Cavanaugh.

Well.

Saying "I'm sorry" may make
you feel better, Andrea,

but it doesn't
protect my candidate--

For Pete's sake,
Mrs. Cavanaugh--

Well, golly, it's
days, Miss Spinelli.

I guess everything
must just do fine.

Sorry, my mistake.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Gee, you know, that
really takes me back.

I remember the first time
you reduced me to tears.

Do you?

Don't forget it.

OK.

Detroit.

Talk to me, children.

Who's working on what?

Stevie, how's the
thing with the mothers?

Well, we're on for Tuesday.

I'd give that as much
time as it takes.

He'll be talking to
the walking wounded.

All these families
have lost children.

He can't just blow
in there and out.

OK, OK, clear
the whole evening.

What else?

We've got the governor's
reception at the Trapper's

Alley, and barring no
overrun by CBS taping,

it will be on the
schedule, and then

we're gonna go to press
conference right after.

Good.

Yeah, we've got two
volts and a phone bank.

What we don't have is
something to announce.

Yes, we do-- we got
the cabinet, Jack.

He's going to
announce the cabinet.

No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no.

Too early.

We don't even have
commitments from four of them.

Oh, great.

Look-- how about if we just go
with a partial list, you know?

We just bring out the
heaviest guns we got.

Jordan-- what is it?

Uh, Robert Redford,
Secretary of the Interior--

You know Robert Redford?

Big-- ordinary Bob?

Yeah, I know him.

Secretary Bob [inaudible].

Wow.

Now, I have an idea.
For Secretary of Education--

Are you guys talking
a movie or something?

--let's appoint George Will.

As soon as he accepts,
we'll abolish the post.

Television as propaganda,
that kind of thing.

No, no, Will should
be Chief of Protocol.

George knows his finger bowls.

Right.

Oh, I love it.

Make me offer to follow through
with Art Buchwald as ambassador

to France.

I want to go at this with
every angle we've got.

TJ-- you're not serious.

You bet I'm serious.

Why not?

This is the citizens' cabinet.

Could I get some more coffee?

It's, it's, it's for real.

It's imaginative.

And if people think the choices
are a little bit off center,

well, so much the better.

It shows fresh thinking.

Oh, come on.

Stevie-- the
whole point of this

little exercise is
to get the focus

off the Jack and Joanna story.

The girlfriend factor is
absolutely killing us.

And as long as we've
got nothing new to say,

we are stuck with all
the character questions

from that damned
Seidelman and all

the other little baby alligators
that keep showing up here.

SPINELLI: Mrs. Cavanaugh?

Mrs. Cavenaugh-- Mrs. Cavenaugh!

[laughter]

Look!

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE
AND THE HIP HOP FORCE]

(SINGING) Another tin man
shaking your hands, if you vote

for him and meet his demands.

Promising everything
but delivering

nothin', with campaign
speeches and political buttons.

We need some changes.

[interposing voices]

TANNER AIDE: Remember
your district.

Oh, yeah, the great
rush into Congress.

TANNER: Yeah.

Yeah.

It's just a statement
that's very much

representative of the country.

A lot of people
think that we're just

big auto plants, nothing more.

But you know, we just
did a recent study,

and 91 of every 100 people
who works in Michigan

do not work for the big three.

Now, the big three
auto companies

are important, of course.

TANNER: Yeah.

But 91 of 100 work
for someone else.

It's much more
diversified, and much more

representative of the country.

And I think a candidate
from Michigan,

like you, Jack, has
a much better chance

than a lot of people think.

Deke-- what are
you doing up there?

Hey, Moll, babe--
you're gonna love this.

Trust me.

Would you get down there?

Now!

TJ: You're doing terrific
work on the platform.

And we think it's great
that you're making

it as broad-based as possible.

So that we can get
as many votes--

AUTO EXECUTIVE: Good.

--as we can.

And so that we are
not alienating people.

We're bring people
together, and redefining

the Democratic Party.

We're going to
write it in a way

that any good Democrat,
progressive Democrat, can win.

TANNER: Yeah.
Glad to hear that.

Whether it's Jesse
Jackson, or Jack Tanner,

or Michael Dukakis,
or any of the others.

We want the candidates'
input, but we want it to be

one all Democrats are proud of.

Especially Michigan Democrats.

Keep your skirt on, Mom.

You're going to love this.

What am I going to love?

This.
This.

It's a thrill-cam.

Like the "Letterman"
show, right?

Watch this.

Just a second.

Jack starts to make
his speech, right?

I let the camera out here on a
guidewire-- safety line, right?

The camera swoops in
on him like a hawk.

Whoosh.

Get it?
See?

You can pull in and
out for camera shots--

it's a helicopter
shot in a mall.

I want you downstairs
in three minutes.

Or you can thrill-cam
your ass back to New York.

Does fucking ABC
have footage like this?

Do they?

I think not.

TANNER: Ladies and
gentlemen, I can't tell you

how pleased we are about
the wonderful reception

you've given us here today.

Just a few moments ago, my
daughter, Alex-- where is Alex?

Here she is.

Just a few moments ago, my
daughter Alex mentioned to me

how much of a lift it was to her
spirits to be back in Michigan.

And I must say, I agree.

You know, as an Army
kid, I had many homes.

But it all started
for me right here.

The voters of Michigan have
always been very good to me.

And I'm going to
return the favor by not

giving any long speeches today.

I just want to say one thing.

Thank you.

You people are the best.

Congressman-- how
badly do you think

your relationship with Miss
Buckley has hurt the campaign?

Uh, I don't think it's--

What is your relationship
now, Congressman?

Have you discussed
strategy with Miss Buckley?

No, no, not at all.

Shit.

Jack--

[car horn blares]

TANNER: Honey, you know,
we've got something

important to talk about.

ALEX: I know.

TANNER: You do?

We haven't taken a
walk together in a while.

You dropping out of the race?

No.

I wouldn't do that.

Not after everything
we've been through.

But I can't hurt Joanna anymore.

I mean, what happened yesterday
is going to just happen over

and over again, and it doesn't
make any difference that she's

left Dukakis, you know?

[sigh]

Honey, you know how we feel
about one another, don't you?

You going to marry her?

Well, what do you
think about that?

I think that's wonderful.

You do?

I think the most
wonderful thing

I heard in a very long time.

Oh, Dad, I'm so happy for you.

Lexi, tell you the truth,
I'm a little surprised.

I thought you-- I thought you
didn't like her very much.

She's terrific.

She's swell.

What I didn't like
was the situation.

Everybody having to pretend
that nothing was going on.

This is so amazing.

Do you know where you're
going to have the wedding yet?

How about Aunt El's house?

I-- I haven't even
given it a thought.

Yeah, I don't even know if
she's going to go for it.

Do you want me
to ask her for you?

This is so exciting.

[organ music]

[humming]

OK.

Kids, we've got to be on
the road in two hours.

Detroit in two hours,
so please be ready.

All your stuff together,
in the car, ready to go.

Oh, sewing buttons.

That's nice.

TANNER: Hey, Stevie?

What do you have for me?
- Hey, Big Jack?

I'm glad you're here.

There is something
I want you to see.

I don't have time
for a critique, Barney.

Jack, I wouldn't bring it
up if it wasn't important.

You've got to trust me.

- You want to read these?
- Huh?

And here, take a look at this.

This is what we got last night,
and basically, it was the same

on all three local stations.

[interposing voices on tv]

Kid's crying.

I remember it.

[kids crying on tv]

BARNEY: See?

You see the problem, right?

I mean, this is not
state-of-the-art baby kissing.

Now, you about this, Joanna.

Remember the old Dukester?

He had the same problem.

TANNER: Come on.

I thought one of them
was going to piss on me.

Jack, the modern
diaper doesn't leak.

I mean, that's not a problem.

What is a problem is
that we are conceding

all that baby photo
op action to Jesse.

Editors love this stuff.

News directors love
it, and they use it.

And we have got to
give it to them.

Right, Joanna?

Right?

He's just not comfortable
with it, Barney.

Well, I think we can
solve that little problem.

I think we can work it out.

Jack, I would like you
to meet baby Heather.

BABY HEATHER: Hee, hee, hee.

Hee, hee, hee.

I'm happy.

Play with me.

BARNEY: What?

Hee, hee, hee.

Ice cream?

Hee, hee, hee.

I love you.

Hee, hee, hee.

[interposing voices offscreen]

Hey.
Cutie.

Hey, Mom.

When are we gonna
have the [inaudible]?

[interposing voices]

Andrea-- (SING-SONG) Andrea?

SPINELLI: Yeah,
yeah, Mrs. Cavanaugh.

Donation pledges.

Log them.

Send the couriers to
pick up the checks.

I want them deposited in the
media disbursements account

before the bank closes-- which
gives you about two hours.

OK?

Yes, ma'am.

Uh, Carrie, Susan?

Excuse me, Mrs. Cavanaugh.

Drop what you're doing.

I need you back here
with your cards, pronto.

Boy.

And Reagan was probably--

Hi, how are you?

--Reagan was probably
responsible for this specific

case, because of the, uh--

I'm sorry, David.

Sorry, David?

What's the problem?

Uh, we're all filled up.

What are you talking
about, Stringer?

You're not even half filled.

Uh, we've got a lot
of equipment on there.

Come in, Deke.

Oh, what the fuck is this?

You gotta be kidding me.

I'm sure you can rent a car.

TJ, I'm here.

I wanna talk to TJ.

I'd like to help
you out, David,

but we've got to get going.
We're in a hurry.

You understand.

See you in Motown, David.

What is Deke doing on here?

I thought he was fired.

You asshole.

Sophomoric.

That slap on the hand bullshit.

TJ.

Where is she?

Is she in there?

CAMPAIGN WORKER: Who?

TJ, what the hell
is going on here?

Stringer doesn't let
me get on the bus?

Now, listen,
David, I would really

like to help you with your
little travel problems,

but I'm kind of busy right now.

Andrea, would you show
Mr. Seidelman the door?

I thought you were a little
classier than that, huh?

David, you don't even
know the meaning of class.

So this is your bullshit
way of punishing--

SPINELLI: You are really
in the doghouse, ever

since you did that
story on Congressman

Tanner and his lover.

Andrea, please.

Come on.

Tamara, find Jerry.

Great.

Listen, I need these
checks picked up by 2:00.

Do you understand?

They cannot be here any
later than 2 o'clock.

Thank you.

Uh, Mr. Seidelman, one second.

OK, is that a problem?

Great.
Thanks a lot.

Bye-bye.

You know, Andrea, I've
been noticing a distinct--

Please don't say it.

Don't say what?

Please do not tell me how
much I have grown in this job.

I have been patronized from
New Hampshire to California

and back again, and I've
really had enough of it,

thank you very much.

I know I've changed,
Mr. Seidelman.

Would you like to
know how I've changed?

I-- I can't imagine.

I'm no longer a nice person.

Great, huh?

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE
VINCE AND THE HIP HOP FORCE,

"WE NEED A CHANGE"]

(SINGING) I can't believe it,
all the dangers, it's up to us

to make the changes.

And since I brush 'round
what I want to say,

'cause I don't feel that there's
a better way to spread the word

to all those young ears.

The city streets are
filled with fears, drugs

one, girls and pimps,
and church doors

I considered as [inaudible].

Sly, why?

It's just a whole
double streak--

Now, go straight ahead here.

[music playing]

[police siren]

TANNER: Jesus.

You really grew up here, Stevie?

STEVIE: It wasn't so bad then.

Believe it or not,
people were lining

up to get into these projects.

There was no graffiti.

There was nowhere
near the crime.

Detroit was different then.

There was still some
hope in the streets.

(SINGING) We
need some changes.

We need some changes.

How do we get
from there to here?

It gets so much worse
after all that was done.

(SINGING) Now I'm
singing, so you know what?

The little kids are
growing, each other away

and our problems still growing.

We need some changes.

Pigs.

We outta here.

RALLY ANNOUNCER: Vince,
thank you very much, Vince.

Exercise your right to vote.

OK, we got a brother who's
gonna bring a positive message

for you right now.

He's gonna steer you
mind a little bit.

How about making
him feel welcome?

His name is Earl.

How about it for
Mr. Earl Henderson,

ladies and gentlemen?
Earl Henderson.

[applause]

I'd like to recite
a poem for you.

It's dedicated to Miss Melody
Rucker and Clementine Barfield.

It's called "SoSad."

It's so sad when they
die so young in a city

where no one cares.

There are too many
funerals and too many guns.

Too many swords, and
not enough ploughshares.

I've never held ill
feelings to anyone,

till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

And I saw her, I swear,
right before the shots.

Before the faces and friends
and pallbearers in shock.

That music was a melody of
bullets firing and flesh

tearing and breathing
stopping and lives ending,

and I saw her, I swear,
right before the shots.

And how could she know that
we've lost children and souls,

while we've lost
Detroit, while we've lost

DC, while Los Angeles bleeds.

Why should it take
hundreds of young lives

to make people see
that only in death

does there seem to
be equal opportunity.

But I saw her, I swear,
right before the shots,

on the porch where
my baby stood.

Bloodstains are all I've got.

I've never held ill
feelings to anyone,

till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Miss Clementine Barfield.

Can I have her come?
[inaudible] works for, please?

Clementine Barfield,
ladies and gentlemen.

This is our leader.

And we definitely
appreciate the things

she's done for the
city of Detroit,

and the recognition that
she is so rightfully

receiving these days.

Center stage, my dear.

Um, for all of you that
are here, we thank you.

There are other
parents here who have

lost children, just as I have.

We have lost valuable dreams.

Hopes and futures, when
we buried our children.

And we're going
to start focusing

on some of those
issues, because we have

issues to present to Tanner.

If we in America
wanted to project

to the rest of the world that
we were a strong country,

Washington, DC
should be that model.

Instead, two blocks down the
street from the White House,

there is poverty.

Devastation.

Drugs.

High suicide rate.

We need some changes.

And when we go to
cast our votes,

that's when we can make changes.

RALLY MEMBER 1: Tell it, sister.

Mr. Tanner, we
want some changes.

RALLY MEMBER 2: All right, yeah!

[interposing voices]

Jack, I have something that
I'd like to give you, OK?

Now, this is something that--
that you can give to America.

That we're asking for.

Hope.

RALLY MEMBER 3:
Now, that's right.

The brothers here--
and you can not go

to a young person
and say, don't sell

dope and make all that money.

Go to school, get a
four-year education.

You go to school, get
a four-year education,

and there is no job.

He has no hope.

Now myself, I'm voting
for Jesse Jackson.

Because that man's
offered hope to America.

He is telling the young people--
he is standing up and saying,

you do have a choice.

Like this man is saying it, I
came from hell, and I made it.

And you can make it.

The only way the
American people

are going to know
that we're losing

a generation of young
people to the streets

is for you, today,
to take advantage

of our presence
and these cameras

and tell those people
what's going on.

So I'm here to ask
you about your lives,

and your experiences.

If you were
president, would you

do to curtail the drug
traffic and all the higher

echelon of the drug cartel?

How do you feel about
legalizing the drugs?

RALLY MEMBERS: No.
No.

No.

RALLY MEMBER 4:
We can't do that.

I've gotta speak to the-- I've
gotta speak to this, Tanner.

[interposing voices]

--you know, if we can't
beat them, we gotta join it.

- Right.
- OK?

Mm-hm.

You can't teach a
whole generation of kids

that this is-- this is illegal.

It's immoral.

It's destroying you.

And then the next thing you
do, you go and legalize it.

You can talk about
macroeconomics, and the effects

that it'll have here.

The drugs problems here?

The reason there's no war on
drugs being fought-- drugs are

there, but we
haven't made anything

competitive to drug traffic.

Yo, if I'm gonna be 13 years
old, and roll, and be a worker,

and make $300 a week,
I'm going to do that.

But what we have to do
is show some competition.

You can't go to a cat rolling
and say, yo, don't roll.

Phew-- be for real.

I'm making bank.

You got to go to them and
offer them an alternative.

And the only alternative
that's realistic is education.

When we say we-- we even bring
up something like legalization,

that's giving up.

Now this--

RALLY ANNOUNCER: I enforce
what the other brother said.

There's no real fight.

The war on drugs?

What war on drugs?

RALLY MEMBER 6: Right.

RALLY ANNOUNCER: Congress
is-- it's a joke.

I mean, we should use the Army.

We're constantly tying the
hands of the Congressmen

and the people and
our legislative bodies

who can't officially
declare a war on drugs.

This ain't no war.

And I can say we
can get the Army out.

I can-- I can-- we can make
those statements, you know?

I can say that we will
never legalize drugs,

and that we can have
soldiers marching up and down

the streets, and I can
go after these things,

but that's not what
I'm here today to do.

I'm here to find out
firsthand what's going on.

Let me tell you
what you should do.

I'll tell you point
blank what you should do.

You should work on the--
on the supply side,

and we going to take
care of the demand side.

Because what we're
both trying to tell--

I'm not going to go out and
march, and I'm a veteran.

I'm not going to go out and
march and patrol borders.

That's not realistic.

Excuse me.

But what I can do is go
back to the communities

and speak in the language
those kids can understand.

Communicate to them
that there are options,

and delineate them
realistically.

You don't say, yo, man, have
some hope, man, and we gonna--

we gonna do something for you.

Say, yo, man-- my
mother's on dope.

My sister's rolling.

It's just like
that song by Ice T,

you know. "My homeboy got
jacked, my sister's on crack,

my brother don't work
'cause his arm show tracks."

That's what's up.

What you do is work
on the supply side.

You don't get into a trade-- a
trade agreements with countries

that you know, like Bolivia, or
Peru, that are importing this.

Now, we's working
on the demand side.

We keep hearing--
we keep hearing

that somehow our
federal government

is connected to the drug trade.

That the Contra Iran
scandal was just a cover-up

for a Contra cocaine scandal.

And we're also hearing that
somehow the Vice President,

with his CIA connections,
was very, very knowledgeably

and purposely involved in
that Contra cocaine scandal.

Senator Kerry is slowly
bringing that material out

into the public, so that people
are hearing that there was,

most likely, that connection.

And one of the things
that I think you can do

is to clean house in the
government, from top to bottom,

and get rid of these elected
administration cocaine pushers.

And to stop Bush from
getting in there,

because if he gets in there, a
lot of those same things that

are touching every one of us
in this city, and every city,

it's just going to
keep on happening.

And we need a man like
you, or a man like Jesse,

or a man like the Duke--

[interposing voices]

When we have a government--
when we have a government

that's in place now that puts
people on the Supreme Court

that knocks down civil rights
that's been going for years,

that takes away our hope.

No matter how hard we
can work in a community,

we-- I shouldn't say we can-- so
like I said, go to go to school

and get education when they see
those job taken away from them.

That's right.

And the bear--
the bears that will

fight racism are not the way.

Now, I'm not accusing the
president of being a racist.

But his-- his-- I'm not--

RALLY MEMBER 7: You mean--
you mean the candidate.

The present one is.

I'm talking about President
Reagan-- I'm talking

about President Reagan.

I'm not accusing the
president of being a racist.

But he is now force of right.

So that gives people an
impression in the mind.

That's very important.

That's being very
generous of you.

Well, I'm-- I'm
being respectful.

Because I've not had an
opportunity to talk to the man,

like I'm talking to you.

He has not come down here to the
community like you are doing.

Like Jesse Jackson
has done, and has done

before he ran for president.

Let's get back to the
issue of our children.

OK?

That's what it's all about.

Saving our children.

You know, we can
sit around here,

we can blame everything
and everybody.

We were talking about changes.

But actually the changes
must begin with us.

We've got to start
with the White House

all the way down to my
house-- you understand?

Your neighbor.

It's time for us
to set the example.

I heard somebody say
we need role models.

We're supposed to
be the role models.

Do you understand?

Mothers and fathers.

We're supposed to be role model.

Teachers, and counselors, we're
supposed to be a role model.

So let's talk about,
what can we do?

Let's start taking up
interest in our children.

Let's start with some
commitment on our behalf.

RALLY MEMBER 8: You
got a cocaine problem.

[interposing voices]

Cocaine is what kills with us.

And that's for real.

Ain't no drug like cocaine.

All your programs, but
your morals is not right.

You can sit here and
talk from Doomsday.

Alcohol kills, too.

But cocaine kills a lot more.

[interposing voices]

Give me something that
gonna help them morally.

Not hot dogs, and
cakes, and candies.

That's nothing for our future.

If your moral's not
uplifting, you can't help us,

Reagan can't help us, the
Pope in Rome can't help us,

and we can't help ourselves.

RALLY MEMBER 9: People
with real good morals--

We should talk about
things when all of us hears.

And so this is what
it's all about.

We can't put the blame.

We've just got to stop
putting the blame.

It's time to come for united.

We have seen what it's
done to us being divided.

Divided we fall.

All the blood is
running in the streets.

So now, we must come together.

We have to come together.

This is the first visible
movement in the United States

since the Civil Rights movement.

And it's been 20 years
since people have moved

to the forefront and took
a stand against what's

going on wrong in this country.

SoSad has laid the
foundation for that movement.

Our children that have died
on the streets of Detroit

laid the foundation
for that movement.

I lost my 16-year-old son.

Vera lost her
16-year-old daughter.

The past two years, we lost 77
children ages 16 and younger,

shot to death in
the city of Detroit.

That is not to
mention the children

that committed suicide.

Or children that
died by other means.

77 children in this
city were shot to death.

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE
AND THE HIP HOP FORCE]

(SINGING) Too many
niggers got triggers,

too many triggers got
guns, too many triggers

held fingers and hands.

Too many super niggers
didn't bother to understand,

too many kids was ruling 51s.

So the fingers pull triggers,
and mothers just lost sons.

And daughters cried,
or funeral pyres, poets

read poems then they
ran for their lives.

They blamed the whole game
on rap music and slang,

then they sat on their behinds,
didn't do a damn thing.

They'll talk about the days
when they marched with King,

told little kids from
the back of limousines,

now we're doing what we can,
but you don't stop trying,

the kid walked home and
brutally died, brutally died.

Bru, bru, brutally
died, brutally died.

Dag Broffa brutally
died, brutally died.

Melody Rucker brutally
died, brutally died.

Fisher Wills brutally
died, bru, brutally died.

Cran Scott brutally
died, brutally died.

Chester Jackson brutally
died, brutally died.

180 kids brutally
died, bru, bru,

brutally died, brutally died,
brutally died, brutally died.

Bru bru, brutally
died, brutally died,

brutally died, brutally died.

It's so sad when they
die so young in a city

where no one cares.

There are too many
funerals and too many guns.

Too many swords, and
not enough ploughshares.

I've never held ill
feelings to anyone

till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

[police sirens]