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MALE RAPPER: ♪ Yo

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Ahem.

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♪ Came a long way

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♪ From where I was
a little while ago ♪

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♪ I says, you know,
a couple styles ago ♪

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♪ No shortcuts,
I was never the one ♪

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♪ To stay long ago at home

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♪ I see more shells
than the Galapagos ♪

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♪ Selection is less natural
and more tactical ♪

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♪ Pull off the lachrymose,
start to leave on sabbaticals ♪

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♪ The action he had to grow
and get passed through ♪

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♪ Crediting when you succeed
as people matter to you ♪

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♪ Rather destroy something,
what would you rather do? ♪

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♪ Any shift in the avenue
with a... ♪

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COMMON: This is a story

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that begins and ends
in Chicago.

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It starts with a race,

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a rowing race,

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the Chicago Sprints.

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A team from the West Side
of Chicago

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is headed to the water.

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Yeah, that's right,
the West Side.

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They're gonna race
1,000 meters

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at full throttle,
haulin' ass,

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going hard,
pedal to the metal,

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all out,

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but all moving together
as one.

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Rowing is as old
as time itself,

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and for so long the terrain

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of favorite sons
of famous families

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in places far,
far away from the West Side,

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light years away...

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FEMALE ANNOUNCER:
Lane 74...

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COMMON: ...until today.

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This team is going
back in time

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on this water, their water.

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They've come back to the place

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where they first found peace

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in their commitment
to one another.

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Beyond winning or losing,

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past the sound of the start
and the cheer of the crowd,

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the history they'll make
today is simple--

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that they survived.

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They overcame all that
the West Side threw at them,

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and that in and of itself
is fucking crazy.

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STARTER: Manley...

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Lincoln Park...

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attention.

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Go!
[pistol shot]

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In the late '90s,

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the West Side was not
a good place to grow up.

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Everyone's dream
was to get out.

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My name is Arshay Cooper.

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My name is Alvin Ross.

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My name is Malcolm Hawkins.

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Preston Grandberry.

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Tavares Goodman.

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Arthur White.

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Terry Meeks, Jr.

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Elliott Dwayne Moore.

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Ray Anthony Hawkins, Jr.

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- And your nickname?
- Pookie G.

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And I grew up
on the West Side of Chicago.

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- West Side.
- West Side.

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- West Side.
- The West Side.

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♪ You know what happens

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♪ When have-nots must have

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♪ Got to watch the police,
your caliph ♪

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♪ You got booked bag

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♪ Took drag off to an island

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♪ No look past

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♪ The system broke,
and the schools closed ♪

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♪ The prisons open

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♪ As many lives
don't got the drive ♪

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♪ This nigga's hopin'

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The first thing
you're gonna see

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as we go into the West Side

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is this huge
white juvenile center.

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We call it
the big white mansion.

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A lot of our friends
been through that place.

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♪ Sometimes it feel like
the ghetto is all we have ♪

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♪ See, it's hard
how we're livin'... ♪

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Once we cross Pulaski,

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you see a lot of
Gangster Disciples,

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a lot of New Breeds,
some BD's.

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Black Disciples.

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♪ So many swept up
off their feet ♪

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♪ And fell in love
with they street ♪

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♪ Not many job,
so many hours ♪

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♪ That they was placed
at your feet ♪

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ARSHAY: Manley High School

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was one of the most violent
high schools

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in the city of Chicago.

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The gangs were crazy.

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We had lot of gang violence,
a lot of fighting.

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People were just killing each
other for no apparent reason.

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It was like a war zone.

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♪ This is my last life

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♪ I would have chose this
in a past life ♪

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♪ Most dream
of gleamin' things ♪

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♪ Livin' the fast life

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♪ To sum it up, it's tough

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♪ Can't get the math right

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♪ Uh

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So I was roughly
around 10, 11.

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Probably, like, 11, 12.

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11.

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Might have been, like, 10, 11

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when I first seen
someone get shot.

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A kid got shot
in front of Manley.

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We seen someone do a drive-by
and shoot one of the students.

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Killed him dead
right on the curb.

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And that's directly across
the street from my house.

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It was always happening,
those types of things.

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MARY MAZZIO:
How did that affect you?

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- Can I be honest?
- Yeah.

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It really didn't affect me.

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It was something that I...
seen every day.

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I didn't feel sorrow, pain.

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It was just, like, blank.

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It was, like,
you're used to it.

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You expect it.
You knew what was coming.

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It was like a part of life,

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like "This is what happens
on the West Side of Chicago.

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Don't expect
anything different."

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In Chicago today,
a funeral for another child...

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TOM BROKAW:
47 teenage gun deaths.

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Last year, 133.

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- 88 killings in Chicago...
- In Chicago today,

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seven men were charged...

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Chicago. The gangs simply
are out of control.

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To go to school
from where I lived,

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every three blocks
there was a different gang.

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And to pass that neighborhood,
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if they didn't know you
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you'd get jumped.

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That was every day
at Manley High School.

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People wanted to know
what you was,

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and you had to wear your hat
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or a certain kind
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so it was dangerous.

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In this neighborhood,

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you cannot wear your hat
tilt to the left side

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because that was Vice Lord
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Here, people wear their hat
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which shows that you're

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some kind of Disciple
or a New Breed.

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- Under the six-point star.
- Under the six-point star.

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And, um, the Vice Lords was
under the five-point star.

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So you had to be very careful.

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When you're in that type
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in that type of neighborhood,

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you want to feel
like you belong to something.

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You want to feel protected.

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Some people ask the question

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what college you're going
to go to when you grow up.

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In our neighborhood,
the big question was

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what gang you're gonna to join.

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You feel like you're
on the streets alone,

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so you make certain decisions
to really just survive.

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It's a logical decision.

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What would you do?

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Who would you turn to?

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The name of our set was SOA,

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and SOA stand for
Straight Off Albany.

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I was groomed into it
as a small child.

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Most of my brothers
were Vice Lords.

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I seen them
as, like, gods as a kid,

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so I wanted to do the same
thing as my brothers.

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When all you see
is the guy on the corner

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and he has
a big wad of money,

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he has the car,
he has the girls,

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he has the clothes,

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you can't be
what you can't see.

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The gangs came
to those young people

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saying, "We want to be
your family."

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They're using and abusing
the trust of these--

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of these young guys,
of the shorties.

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You know, I kind of, like,
fell off into that gang life

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and started thinking
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It's frightening,
you know, scary.

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Scary.

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Very scary.

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ARSHAY: And then one day,

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something happened that changed
the course of our lives.

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When I was a sophomore
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I walked inside the lunchroom,
and I see this boat.

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And behind this boat
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ANNOUNCER: Yale,
furthest from the camera,

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gets the jump at the start,

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rowing 40 strokes
to the minute.

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Following along is
President Roosevelt.

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It's one of the greatest
races ever seen.

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All I see in the boat were
white guys on the water.

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And I said, "Oh, no.

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That's not really for us.
It's not what we do."

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I didn't even know
what rowing was.

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We don't even swim.

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They'll never get no Black guys

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on the water like that.

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White people do that, not us.

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And I was like,
"Nah, man, nah, nah,

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I'm not doing the water."

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I show up to the lunchroom
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and the boat was still there.

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But this time they had a big
sign that said "Pizza."

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I'm a real sucker for pizza.
That's my favorite.

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We was like, you know,
"Ah, we'll check it out."

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We had a room
full of pizza-loving students

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who probably had
no interest in rowing,

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but at least we had their
attention for a little bit.

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This guy comes in.

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He had kind of this intense
Bernie Sanders look.

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My name is Ken Alpart.

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I was running
my trading company

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in the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange.

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One of my employees,
Michael O'Gorman,

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threw the idea out there

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that "Why don't you, you know,

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start a rowing team
at one of the schools?"

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He went on to talk
about his rowing experience

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at the University
of Pennsylvania,

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how rowing give you
this opportunity

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to build a team,
to build a brotherhood.

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And that's something
I never had.

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I was excited
about the idea of debunking

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some of the stereotypes
around the sport.

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Ken said, "There's never been
an all-Black rowing team,"

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So I was excited about that.

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Ken hand us
this questionnaire--

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"Have you ever flew
on a plane before?"

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"What size shoes do you wear?"

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I'm like, "Oh, my God,
you know what?

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"We're getting Jordans,
we're gonna fly,

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"I'm going to Europe,
where you going?

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"What we gonna do?
What we gonna wear?

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I want some Sean John
clothes."

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All we had to do was sign up
and be a part of the team.

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When I actually looked
around the room,

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it was like, "Hmm,

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"I wonder how that's
gonna work,

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all us guys from different
parts of the neighborhood."

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This is like destruction
waiting to happen.

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These kids were sons
of drug addicts,

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sons of prostitutes,
sons of drug dealers.

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This is gonna be a boat

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full of people
with knots on their heads

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and fighting and cursing.

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Somebody's gonna be in the water
by the end of the day.

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It was like a family.

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Families bicker, they fight,

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but all together like now--

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But it wasn't family.

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BOTH:
It wasn't family at first!

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- [laughs]
- No, no.

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ARSHAY: We walk up
to the gym room.

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I see Alvin.

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And he was just pulling
the rowing machine,

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just yanking it, yanking it,
yanking it.

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And you see all the coaches
looking like,

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"Oh, my God, what did we
get ourselves into?"

264
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I could tell
Arshay didn't like me.

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ARSHAY: I even talked
to the coaches about it.

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ALVIN: But I didn't care

267
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'cause I was doing
some crazy things back then.

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ARSHAY: They said,
"He's strong,

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and let's see what happens."

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My first thought

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when Ken brought, uh,

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crew and rowing into Manley,

273
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was, "It's not gone work."

274
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Well why not?

275
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You know, our students
need to be exposed

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to a lot more than basketball,
football, baseball.

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CRAIG: You're gonna take
some West Side kids

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over to the river,
over to the lake?

279
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We're gonna make history.

280
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Nah, that's not gonna work.

281
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One of the craziest things
Ken did

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before the season even started

283
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was take us
to the East Bank Club.

284
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It was this really,
really nice gym.

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There was a lot of rich people
everywhere.

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ARSHAY: They was talking
about what school they went to,

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how much money they're making,
their yachts.

288
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Malcolm gets to talking

289
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in what he call
his Harvard voice.

290
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Oh, Preston, where's my yacht?

291
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I'm gonna send my daughter
to Harvard tomorrow.

292
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I just lost $6 million
in the stock market.

293
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Oh, I'm gonna have me a--
a cup of tea.

294
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[laughter]

295
00:11:45.313 --> 00:11:46.967
First impression
I had about Ken--

296
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this white guy have balls.

297
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[car alarm chirps]

298
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You really don't see
a white guy

299
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come into the neighborhood
like this.

300
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He wasn't scared
to come, neither, man.

301
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- No, he was--he was--
- So he had balls, man.

302
00:11:58.065 --> 00:11:59.370
- He held his own.
- He had balls.

303
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Yes. [chuckles]

304
00:12:04.201 --> 00:12:06.769
Having no regard
for the neighborhood,

305
00:12:06.813 --> 00:12:08.945
the gangbangers,
and who it was,

306
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He would definitely just come
flying up in this Jeep,

307
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doors off, top off.

308
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Every time a Caucasian person

309
00:12:14.211 --> 00:12:15.604
would come
into the neighborhood,

310
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we thought
they were the police.

311
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I had to tell him, like,
"You cannot just pull up

312
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like you the police.
Bro, you're gonna get shot."

313
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It's like he wasn't afraid
to come on the West Side

314
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and just walk in your house.

315
00:12:25.353 --> 00:12:26.615
Ken was a real cool dude.

316
00:12:26.658 --> 00:12:28.704
I really liked Ken,
and my mom did too.

317
00:12:28.748 --> 00:12:31.881
But my pops, my pops,
oh, my God.

318
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When he found out

319
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that my mom had let Ken
come into the house,

320
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he blew a fuse.

321
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Malcolm's dad wanted Malcolm

322
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to have nothing to do
with a white guy,

323
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especially a white Jewish guy.

324
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My dad didn't like anything
that wasn't Black.

325
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I didn't concern myself
with things

326
00:12:47.549 --> 00:12:48.724
that probably I should have
concerned myself with,

327
00:12:48.768 --> 00:12:50.682
and part of that
was an insensitivity.

328
00:12:50.726 --> 00:12:52.336
If you thought
Ken was insensitive,

329
00:12:52.380 --> 00:12:54.208
wait till you meet
Mike O'Gorman.

330
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ARSHAY: Ken started a team
with this guy Michael O'Gorman,

331
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who was a national team
coxswain.

332
00:13:01.432 --> 00:13:04.784
Michael O'Gorman was a--
was a unique character.

333
00:13:04.827 --> 00:13:06.611
Michael was kinda...

334
00:13:10.180 --> 00:13:12.400
Well...I plead the Fifth.

335
00:13:12.443 --> 00:13:16.360
Borderline racist,
if I can say that.

336
00:13:16.404 --> 00:13:17.927
I honestly don't think
he was a racist.

337
00:13:17.971 --> 00:13:19.363
He just didn't know
the difference

338
00:13:19.407 --> 00:13:21.757
between right time
and right place.

339
00:13:21.801 --> 00:13:24.194
Michael and I were sitting
on the West Side of Chicago,

340
00:13:24.238 --> 00:13:25.630
and we were the only
white people in the McDonald's,

341
00:13:25.674 --> 00:13:27.676
and this guy sitting
next to us

342
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says to me,
"Are you Jewish?"

343
00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.855
And I said, "Yes, I have--
Yes, I am Jewish."

344
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He goes,

345
00:13:34.422 --> 00:13:37.120
"I knew the second I saw you
that you were Jewish."

346
00:13:37.164 --> 00:13:39.035
And Michael turns to him,
and he goes,

347
00:13:39.079 --> 00:13:40.036
"Are you Black?"

348
00:13:41.777 --> 00:13:44.606
"'Cause I knew the second
I saw you that you were Black."

349
00:13:44.649 --> 00:13:47.870
Now, I don't know if you would
count that as a racist thing,

350
00:13:47.914 --> 00:13:50.046
but that's just the kind
of thing Michael would say.

351
00:13:50.090 --> 00:13:52.527
But the crazy thing
about Michael,

352
00:13:52.570 --> 00:13:54.007
he was the idea behind

353
00:13:54.050 --> 00:13:56.661
starting this all-Black
high school rowing team.

354
00:13:57.793 --> 00:13:59.490
I can actually see him
doing that,

355
00:13:59.534 --> 00:14:01.318
wanting to reach out
and help some--

356
00:14:01.362 --> 00:14:02.711
some less fortunate kids.

357
00:14:02.754 --> 00:14:05.583
KEN: I think Michael
probably loved those kids.

358
00:14:05.627 --> 00:14:08.456
A guy who we thought
was racist

359
00:14:08.499 --> 00:14:11.241
would come up with an idea

360
00:14:11.285 --> 00:14:12.590
that's never been done before.

361
00:14:12.634 --> 00:14:15.245
There's only very few Blacks
in the sport.

362
00:14:15.289 --> 00:14:17.508
[chuckles]
That's ironic for...

363
00:14:27.475 --> 00:14:28.693
ARSHAY: I'll never forget

364
00:14:28.737 --> 00:14:30.521
the first time
we were on the water.

365
00:14:34.134 --> 00:14:35.962
And we get in the boat.

366
00:14:37.659 --> 00:14:39.356
ALVIN: Everyone
had on life jackets.

367
00:14:39.400 --> 00:14:40.401
I didn't know how to swim.

368
00:14:40.444 --> 00:14:41.793
We was all extremely nervous.

369
00:14:41.837 --> 00:14:43.795
I was a little scared.

370
00:14:43.839 --> 00:14:44.927
I said to the guys,
I was like,

371
00:14:44.971 --> 00:14:45.928
"How can you guys be scared?

372
00:14:45.972 --> 00:14:47.103
"You guys deal with gunshots

373
00:14:47.147 --> 00:14:48.452
"all day long
in your neighborhood,

374
00:14:48.496 --> 00:14:50.324
and you're scared
to sit in a boat?"

375
00:14:50.367 --> 00:14:52.935
It was really embarrassing.

376
00:14:52.979 --> 00:14:54.981
And they was like, "Man,
shut up, this is different."

377
00:14:59.594 --> 00:15:01.117
ARSHAY:
We're all on the water.

378
00:15:01.161 --> 00:15:03.554
Bow pair start taking
some strokes,

379
00:15:03.598 --> 00:15:05.208
and we were moving.

380
00:15:07.341 --> 00:15:08.646
And as we were moving,

381
00:15:08.690 --> 00:15:10.822
you can see the skyline.

382
00:15:10.866 --> 00:15:12.824
You can see
the John Hancock building.

383
00:15:15.479 --> 00:15:17.873
It was the most beautiful
thing I ever seen.

384
00:15:19.744 --> 00:15:21.921
When it's calm
and you're out there,

385
00:15:21.964 --> 00:15:25.359
it take your mind away from
any problems that you have.

386
00:15:25.402 --> 00:15:26.882
It brightened my life.

387
00:15:28.144 --> 00:15:29.841
ARSHAY:
I think the special thing

388
00:15:29.885 --> 00:15:31.495
about being
in the boat together

389
00:15:31.539 --> 00:15:36.326
was not being
around the noise.

390
00:15:36.370 --> 00:15:38.372
The noise of
the West Side of Chicago

391
00:15:38.415 --> 00:15:42.245
is police sirens...

392
00:15:42.289 --> 00:15:44.204
gunshots...

393
00:15:44.247 --> 00:15:46.728
people screaming,
people getting jumped.

394
00:15:49.774 --> 00:15:51.515
There was something
about the water

395
00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:52.734
that gave us peace.

396
00:15:54.910 --> 00:15:56.216
That was something

397
00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:58.392
that we all had never felt
before...

398
00:16:00.133 --> 00:16:01.699
and we all needed that.

399
00:16:01.743 --> 00:16:03.875
And at that moment,

400
00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.748
I fell in love
with the sport of rowing.

401
00:16:08.228 --> 00:16:11.492
Being the first all-Black
American crew team to do it,

402
00:16:11.535 --> 00:16:15.496
it became something that changed
our life in the end.

403
00:16:27.943 --> 00:16:29.379
ARSHAY:
We were new to the sport,

404
00:16:29.423 --> 00:16:32.426
and none of us
had any endurance.

405
00:16:32.469 --> 00:16:34.036
So Mike and Ken took us

406
00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.038
on a training trip
to Philadelphia

407
00:16:36.082 --> 00:16:37.909
before the season began.

408
00:16:37.953 --> 00:16:39.955
City of Brotherly Love.

409
00:16:50.139 --> 00:16:54.056
The trip was so important to me
because we got on the water,

410
00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:58.234
two boats of African-American
young people

411
00:16:58.278 --> 00:17:01.803
that I think no one in
Philly has ever seen.

412
00:17:01.846 --> 00:17:04.936
And you would see people
running along the Schuylkill,

413
00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:08.027
and they would stop,
and they would just stare,

414
00:17:08.070 --> 00:17:11.378
and they were, like,
cheering and clapping and,

415
00:17:11.421 --> 00:17:13.380
you know, because they saw
something new.

416
00:17:15.164 --> 00:17:17.906
You accomplished something.
You did something.

417
00:17:17.949 --> 00:17:20.865
Something good.
Feel important.

418
00:17:20.909 --> 00:17:23.129
And I think that meant
a lot for all of us.

419
00:17:27.524 --> 00:17:30.962
During the Philly trip is
when everyone really bonded.

420
00:17:31.006 --> 00:17:33.617
I was a loner
when I first got on that bus.

421
00:17:33.661 --> 00:17:37.056
I didn't really associate
with none of the guys

422
00:17:37.099 --> 00:17:39.971
because we were from
different neighborhoods.

423
00:17:40.015 --> 00:17:41.799
ARSHAY: And I said, "Alvin."

424
00:17:41.843 --> 00:17:44.976
He asked me,
why am I in a gang?

425
00:17:45.020 --> 00:17:46.891
"Why do you--
why are you jumping people?"

426
00:17:46.935 --> 00:17:52.201
And I--I explained to him
I needed the help.

427
00:17:52.245 --> 00:17:53.985
My little brother Robert,
we were walking home.

428
00:17:54.029 --> 00:17:57.467
A rival gang tried to jump us.

429
00:17:57.511 --> 00:18:00.775
Man, it was like 10
to 15 of these guys.

430
00:18:00.818 --> 00:18:02.690
I had to look
after my brother.

431
00:18:02.733 --> 00:18:04.083
ARSHAY:
When you know Alvin,

432
00:18:04.126 --> 00:18:06.302
it's all about protecting
his brothers and sisters.

433
00:18:06.346 --> 00:18:07.651
He made a decision

434
00:18:07.695 --> 00:18:10.089
that any other person
would make, you know?

435
00:18:10.132 --> 00:18:11.829
"I'm gonna join."

436
00:18:11.873 --> 00:18:14.180
It was dangerous being
in a gang on the West Side,

437
00:18:14.223 --> 00:18:15.790
but I honestly think
it was even--

438
00:18:15.833 --> 00:18:18.314
even more dangerous not being
in a gang on the West Side.

439
00:18:18.358 --> 00:18:19.707
One of the things
that we're finding

440
00:18:19.750 --> 00:18:21.404
in neighborhoods
like the West

441
00:18:21.448 --> 00:18:23.580
and the South Side
of Chicago--

442
00:18:23.624 --> 00:18:25.669
one out of three youth

443
00:18:25.713 --> 00:18:28.324
have had a close friend
or family member

444
00:18:28.368 --> 00:18:30.196
who's actually been murdered.

445
00:18:32.111 --> 00:18:34.374
I don't know how they come
to school every day.

446
00:18:34.417 --> 00:18:36.332
How can you expect
a child to learn?

447
00:18:36.376 --> 00:18:37.855
You shut down.

448
00:18:37.899 --> 00:18:40.119
Math is out the window,
reading is out the window.

449
00:18:45.211 --> 00:18:47.996
Chicago is seven times
more violent than New York.

450
00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.912
It's three and a half times
more violent than L.A.

451
00:18:50.955 --> 00:18:53.915
We have raised an entire
generation of kids

452
00:18:53.958 --> 00:18:55.438
on gun violence.

453
00:18:55.482 --> 00:18:59.355
And that trauma is
so deep and so real.

454
00:18:59.399 --> 00:19:03.185
That kind of chronic trauma
really is even worse

455
00:19:03.229 --> 00:19:05.405
than our soldiers
who come back from wars.

456
00:19:05.448 --> 00:19:08.277
The rates of PTSD we generally
see in combat veterans

457
00:19:08.321 --> 00:19:11.193
is at most 20 to 25%.

458
00:19:11.237 --> 00:19:13.804
In some of the inner-city work
we're seeing in Chicago,

459
00:19:13.848 --> 00:19:18.069
you can see PTSD rates
as high as 35 to 45%.

460
00:19:18.113 --> 00:19:20.550
DEBORAH GORMAN-SMITH:
One third of students

461
00:19:20.594 --> 00:19:23.205
report clinical levels
of depression,

462
00:19:23.249 --> 00:19:25.686
also high rates of anxiety.

463
00:19:25.729 --> 00:19:28.906
KERRY RESSLER: Constant trauma
during development

464
00:19:28.950 --> 00:19:30.125
alters the brain.

465
00:19:31.866 --> 00:19:33.563
A brain region
called the amygdala

466
00:19:33.607 --> 00:19:36.218
that is involved
in the threat response,

467
00:19:36.262 --> 00:19:39.874
that becomes hyperactivated
earlier in life,

468
00:19:39.917 --> 00:19:43.530
and the prefrontal cortex
does not develop as rapidly.

469
00:19:43.573 --> 00:19:46.010
The ability to sort of
think into the future

470
00:19:46.054 --> 00:19:48.491
is delayed.

471
00:19:48.535 --> 00:19:52.060
Any brain that develops
in a high-threat way

472
00:19:52.103 --> 00:19:56.151
has to develop in a way
to put survival first.

473
00:19:56.195 --> 00:19:58.501
That's the biology they have.

474
00:19:58.545 --> 00:20:00.764
I started thinking
with a different attitude,

475
00:20:00.808 --> 00:20:03.245
like, man, if somebody try
to get me, I'm gonna get them.

476
00:20:04.594 --> 00:20:08.076
[laughs]
I understood, you know,

477
00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:10.774
that he joined this gang
for protection.

478
00:20:10.818 --> 00:20:13.429
For Arshay to ask
a personal question like that,

479
00:20:13.473 --> 00:20:16.084
that's just typically something
you don't ask a person,

480
00:20:16.127 --> 00:20:18.608
and Alvin was honest
with him.

481
00:20:18.652 --> 00:20:20.436
At that point I knew

482
00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.308
that it was a friendship
and a brotherhood.

483
00:20:24.048 --> 00:20:25.920
But what I said to him
is that,

484
00:20:25.963 --> 00:20:28.662
"If you notice,
these three months,

485
00:20:28.705 --> 00:20:30.664
"you haven't been
hanging out with them.

486
00:20:30.707 --> 00:20:32.883
"You've been here
every day practicing.

487
00:20:32.927 --> 00:20:35.146
"You think you made
a bad choice,

488
00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:37.148
"but guess what.
You made a new choice.

489
00:20:37.192 --> 00:20:40.369
"And that choice was
to hang out with us.

490
00:20:40.413 --> 00:20:41.805
"Now you have
a brotherhood

491
00:20:41.849 --> 00:20:43.503
that can protect you
and do the right thing."

492
00:20:45.331 --> 00:20:47.420
Rowing was stronger
than the gang,

493
00:20:47.463 --> 00:20:49.422
and that was a powerful thing.

494
00:20:51.162 --> 00:20:53.817
TERRY: That was
a turning point for Alvin.

495
00:20:53.861 --> 00:20:55.297
I made a promise

496
00:20:55.341 --> 00:20:58.779
that I will meet Alvin
at his house every morning,

497
00:20:58.822 --> 00:21:02.217
walk with him, be his friend,
be a safety net.

498
00:21:04.524 --> 00:21:06.177
I believe Arshay did this

499
00:21:06.221 --> 00:21:10.747
because he seen me going down
a road that wasn't--

500
00:21:10.791 --> 00:21:13.184
[chuckles]--wasn't right.

501
00:21:13.228 --> 00:21:14.969
Right then and there
you had somebody

502
00:21:15.012 --> 00:21:17.363
to make sure you a'ight,
make sure you make it.

503
00:21:18.364 --> 00:21:22.672
Every single morning,
he would come to my house.

504
00:21:22.716 --> 00:21:25.806
Arshay was at our house
every single day.

505
00:21:25.849 --> 00:21:26.937
Every morning.

506
00:21:26.981 --> 00:21:28.896
Every morning
I used to wake up,

507
00:21:28.939 --> 00:21:30.811
and I'm seeing his big head
in the room,

508
00:21:30.854 --> 00:21:33.857
and I--[laughs]--I was--
be like, "Man, Joe,

509
00:21:33.901 --> 00:21:34.989
you going home?"

510
00:21:35.032 --> 00:21:36.338
Man, he--It was powerful.

511
00:21:36.382 --> 00:21:38.340
After a while, it's just,

512
00:21:38.384 --> 00:21:40.864
"Man, Joe, you just
part of the family now.

513
00:21:40.908 --> 00:21:44.651
I can't get rid of you."
[laughs]

514
00:21:47.088 --> 00:21:49.830
ARSHAY: School ends,
but we all keep rowing

515
00:21:49.873 --> 00:21:53.703
because this summer we have
our first official race--

516
00:21:53.747 --> 00:21:57.751
the Chicago Sprints,
a killer 1,000-meter race.

517
00:22:00.275 --> 00:22:02.451
We see all these white teens.

518
00:22:03.496 --> 00:22:06.237
All these tall white guys,

519
00:22:06.281 --> 00:22:08.544
like, just lean.

520
00:22:08.588 --> 00:22:11.765
We're all kind of short
and, you know,

521
00:22:11.808 --> 00:22:13.288
stocky or swole,

522
00:22:13.332 --> 00:22:15.334
if that's what you want
to call us. [chuckles]

523
00:22:16.813 --> 00:22:19.642
And we're walking to the dock,

524
00:22:19.686 --> 00:22:20.730
and we're nervous.

525
00:22:22.558 --> 00:22:24.299
Malcolm is cranking.

526
00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:28.521
And the boat starts turning.

527
00:22:28.564 --> 00:22:30.610
And we hit the wall. Boom!

528
00:22:30.653 --> 00:22:33.134
[rowers shouting]

529
00:22:34.135 --> 00:22:37.356
I have never felt
so much pain,

530
00:22:37.399 --> 00:22:40.315
feeling embarrassed.

531
00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.622
And I was sitting
in the locker room by myself,

532
00:22:42.665 --> 00:22:44.928
and this Black man walks in.

533
00:22:44.972 --> 00:22:46.277
He worked
for the Park District.

534
00:22:46.321 --> 00:22:47.540
His name was Eugene.

535
00:22:47.583 --> 00:22:48.889
And he looked at me,

536
00:22:48.932 --> 00:22:51.152
and he said, "Who said
it was gonna be easy?

537
00:22:53.067 --> 00:22:56.157
"Years from now, no one's gonna
remember those other kids,

538
00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:58.333
"but they're gonna
remember you.

539
00:22:58.377 --> 00:22:59.726
"And you have to stay strong.

540
00:23:01.510 --> 00:23:03.120
"You guys have to keep
doing it.

541
00:23:03.164 --> 00:23:04.905
You have to keep rowing."

542
00:23:20.355 --> 00:23:22.575
ARSHAY: No one said
it was gonna be easy.

543
00:23:22.618 --> 00:23:25.578
And it wasn't.
It only got harder.

544
00:23:25.621 --> 00:23:26.970
[police siren blares]

545
00:23:27.014 --> 00:23:29.843
So right here to the right
is where Josh lived.

546
00:23:29.886 --> 00:23:35.501
Uh, Josh was the baby brother
teammate, um, of ours.

547
00:23:35.544 --> 00:23:36.763
He got killed.

548
00:23:36.806 --> 00:23:38.025
Crenshaw and Central Park.

549
00:23:38.068 --> 00:23:42.333
We lost Josh,
uh, Dirty Herb, Jonathan.

550
00:23:42.377 --> 00:23:43.944
Mm-hmm.

551
00:23:43.987 --> 00:23:47.817
Think of the cumulative stress
of that 24/7 every single day.

552
00:23:47.861 --> 00:23:49.297
It's unimaginable.

553
00:23:49.340 --> 00:23:50.690
So yeah, I'ma go
in front of these

554
00:23:50.733 --> 00:23:52.866
'cause it's right here
at this tree.

555
00:23:54.258 --> 00:23:57.218
Last year, my little cousin,
she was 12 years old.

556
00:23:57.261 --> 00:23:59.655
She was, um, shot
and killed here.

557
00:23:59.699 --> 00:24:03.093
My sister was parked
just a couple houses down.

558
00:24:03.137 --> 00:24:05.835
They got out of their hou--
out of the car

559
00:24:05.879 --> 00:24:07.184
to go to the house,

560
00:24:07.228 --> 00:24:08.664
and guys started shooting
from both ways.

561
00:24:08.708 --> 00:24:09.839
She was struck in the neck,

562
00:24:09.883 --> 00:24:13.669
and she passed away
right here.

563
00:24:20.546 --> 00:24:23.200
It kind of makes you lose
hope for your community.

564
00:24:23.244 --> 00:24:25.594
DR. RESSLER: What we're
looking at is communities

565
00:24:25.638 --> 00:24:28.249
with many generations
of trauma.

566
00:24:28.292 --> 00:24:31.513
If you don't believe
you're going to live to be 20,

567
00:24:31.557 --> 00:24:33.297
it changes everything.

568
00:24:33.341 --> 00:24:35.038
Not only
do the individuals feel

569
00:24:35.082 --> 00:24:36.649
like that they don't have
a future,

570
00:24:36.692 --> 00:24:39.695
the communities don't really
feel that they have a future.

571
00:24:39.739 --> 00:24:40.870
Everyone is on edge.

572
00:24:40.914 --> 00:24:43.307
It's a constant war zone.

573
00:24:43.351 --> 00:24:45.484
How do you break out of that?

574
00:24:47.703 --> 00:24:50.227
People talk
about income inequality,

575
00:24:50.271 --> 00:24:52.316
but something that gets
even less attention

576
00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:53.883
and is even more fundamental

577
00:24:53.927 --> 00:24:56.973
is inequality in basic safety.

578
00:24:57.017 --> 00:25:00.542
The rough, hard number
that violence costs our city

579
00:25:00.586 --> 00:25:03.545
is about $4 billion a year.

580
00:25:03.589 --> 00:25:06.113
If more of the victims
looked like me,

581
00:25:06.156 --> 00:25:09.203
if more of the victims
lived downtown,

582
00:25:09.246 --> 00:25:11.771
it would not be tolerated.
It would not be acceptable.

583
00:25:20.693 --> 00:25:22.433
ARSHAY: After we
crashed and burned

584
00:25:22.477 --> 00:25:24.958
in our first race
at the Chicago Sprints,

585
00:25:25.001 --> 00:25:27.917
we then headed to St. Louis
for our second race.

586
00:25:29.571 --> 00:25:31.921
There was nowhere to go
but up.

587
00:25:31.965 --> 00:25:33.923
KEN: We were able
to put together a four

588
00:25:33.967 --> 00:25:37.579
that we believed would be
like a--like a top four.

589
00:25:37.623 --> 00:25:39.668
ARSHAY: Me, Malcolm,
Alvin, and Preston--

590
00:25:39.712 --> 00:25:41.104
the strong four.

591
00:25:41.148 --> 00:25:43.933
Physically,
they were incredible.

592
00:25:43.977 --> 00:25:45.369
I'm gonna be honest, man.

593
00:25:45.413 --> 00:25:47.241
Like, I--I felt
like I was the strongest.

594
00:25:47.284 --> 00:25:49.243
- There--
- People say Malcolm,

595
00:25:49.286 --> 00:25:51.637
but, you know,
I was called Diesel, man.

596
00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:53.290
- I was, you know,
- Let's just say--

597
00:25:53.334 --> 00:25:54.378
I was the swole one
on the team.

598
00:25:54.422 --> 00:25:55.771
We were the strong four

599
00:25:55.815 --> 00:25:57.730
not because we were
the strongest on the team,

600
00:25:57.773 --> 00:25:59.253
although we were the strongest
on the team,

601
00:25:59.296 --> 00:26:00.950
but we had the strongest bond.

602
00:26:00.994 --> 00:26:03.474
We see all of these
white people wearing,

603
00:26:03.518 --> 00:26:05.738
you know, the what,
the tights, the Speedos,

604
00:26:05.781 --> 00:26:07.304
whatever they're gonna race in.

605
00:26:07.348 --> 00:26:10.612
We wouldn't wear shorts
that kind of...

606
00:26:10.656 --> 00:26:11.961
grab on to your leg.

607
00:26:12.005 --> 00:26:14.007
We was like, you know,
we can't do that.

608
00:26:14.050 --> 00:26:15.312
'Cause we're blessed.

609
00:26:15.356 --> 00:26:17.010
[laughter]

610
00:26:17.053 --> 00:26:18.359
And then we, you know,
we're dealing

611
00:26:18.402 --> 00:26:19.969
with them cold
temperatures, man.

612
00:26:20.013 --> 00:26:21.754
That's a valid point.

613
00:26:21.797 --> 00:26:25.627
♪ You might wanna
step out here tonight ♪

614
00:26:25.671 --> 00:26:27.542
ARSHAY: And we started rowing.

615
00:26:27.586 --> 00:26:30.066
ALVIN: And we're pulling
as hard as we can.

616
00:26:30.110 --> 00:26:31.415
I mean,
it was real choppy water.

617
00:26:31.459 --> 00:26:32.634
We was afraid.

618
00:26:32.678 --> 00:26:33.983
And Alvin's screaming,

619
00:26:34.027 --> 00:26:37.465
"Water's in the boat!
Water's in the boat!"

620
00:26:37.508 --> 00:26:39.902
And my basketball shorts
get caught in the seat.

621
00:26:39.946 --> 00:26:43.123
PRESTON: And he catches
the worst crab ever.

622
00:26:43.166 --> 00:26:46.387
A crab is when you put
your oar too deep in the water

623
00:26:46.430 --> 00:26:48.432
and you can't recover.

624
00:26:48.476 --> 00:26:49.999
♪ ...a place
where the dreams get shot ♪

625
00:26:50.043 --> 00:26:51.871
♪ And I feel like what,
can't stop, won't stop ♪

626
00:26:51.914 --> 00:26:54.351
[shouting]

627
00:26:54.395 --> 00:26:55.526
♪ Ready or not,
we gonna rise ♪

628
00:26:55.570 --> 00:26:57.180
♪ You holding on steady
tonight ♪

629
00:26:57.224 --> 00:26:58.442
♪ And I draw tight screaming,
oh, you'll hear me tonight ♪

630
00:26:58.486 --> 00:26:59.487
♪ That was good

631
00:26:59.530 --> 00:27:00.967
Almost flips the boat over.

632
00:27:01.010 --> 00:27:02.838
Everybody was scared
at that point.

633
00:27:02.882 --> 00:27:06.189
Arshay was like, "I can't move!
I can't come up to the catch."

634
00:27:06.233 --> 00:27:08.539
And out of nowhere,

635
00:27:08.583 --> 00:27:11.586
you just see Pookie
start screaming,

636
00:27:11.630 --> 00:27:13.588
"Come on guys,
right now, right now!

637
00:27:13.632 --> 00:27:15.372
Let's get to it, Power 10!"

638
00:27:15.416 --> 00:27:17.897
"What the fuck are you guys
doing? Move the boat."

639
00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:20.464
"Damn, come on!
Get this shit!

640
00:27:20.508 --> 00:27:22.858
Come, come on,
get on this shit, get on it!"

641
00:27:22.902 --> 00:27:25.469
I thought he was a sailor,
the way he cussed at us.

642
00:27:25.513 --> 00:27:27.907
PRESTON: It was upsetting
at the same time,

643
00:27:27.950 --> 00:27:29.125
but it's hilarious

644
00:27:29.169 --> 00:27:30.866
to hear Pookie G
at the top of his lungs

645
00:27:30.910 --> 00:27:34.130
screaming a million
different curse words.

646
00:27:34.174 --> 00:27:36.089
- We came in third.
- And I said to myself,

647
00:27:36.132 --> 00:27:37.917
"Maybe, maybe, maybe

648
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.136
we should stop wearing
the basketball shorts."

649
00:27:40.180 --> 00:27:41.529
Maybe we should do something

650
00:27:41.572 --> 00:27:44.227
to try to keep our shorts
from getting caught.

651
00:27:44.271 --> 00:27:46.099
I didn't want to, say,
wear tights

652
00:27:46.142 --> 00:27:48.536
'cause that was a no-no
for us.

653
00:27:48.579 --> 00:27:51.234
We were so caught up
in what people thought

654
00:27:51.278 --> 00:27:52.888
and being urban
to the point

655
00:27:52.932 --> 00:27:55.978
where it cost us our first
first place win.

656
00:27:56.022 --> 00:27:58.720
It's just like,
"When you gonna learn?"

657
00:27:58.764 --> 00:28:01.418
Um, I felt pretty good
because, uh, we actually placed.

658
00:28:01.462 --> 00:28:02.768
We didn't hit a wall.

659
00:28:07.947 --> 00:28:10.558
The students were not aware

660
00:28:10.601 --> 00:28:12.647
of what it would mean
to a school,

661
00:28:12.691 --> 00:28:15.824
a Black high school,
to be participating in this.

662
00:28:15.868 --> 00:28:17.652
Nobody took it for real.

663
00:28:17.696 --> 00:28:19.828
The football team
would make fun of us.

664
00:28:19.872 --> 00:28:21.090
They laughed at us a lot.

665
00:28:21.134 --> 00:28:22.439
They laughed at us, like,

666
00:28:22.483 --> 00:28:23.658
"Man, what y'all gonna do
in that water?"

667
00:28:23.702 --> 00:28:25.051
I would come to school,

668
00:28:25.094 --> 00:28:26.487
and they would call me
6'5"-for-nothing.

669
00:28:26.530 --> 00:28:28.532
I was kind of embarrassed
of it for the most part.

670
00:28:28.576 --> 00:28:30.099
My family never showed up.

671
00:28:30.143 --> 00:28:31.579
None of our friends,

672
00:28:31.622 --> 00:28:33.276
none of the staff
from our schools.

673
00:28:33.320 --> 00:28:35.757
You know, we had no support.

674
00:28:40.196 --> 00:28:41.676
It was just us,

675
00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:44.157
and when I say just us,
just us.

676
00:28:46.812 --> 00:28:48.509
We bonded a lot closer

677
00:28:48.552 --> 00:28:50.424
because we had nobody
clapping us on,

678
00:28:50.467 --> 00:28:52.078
so we had to cheer
each other on.

679
00:28:54.471 --> 00:28:56.169
No one ever came.

680
00:29:01.827 --> 00:29:04.568
ARSHAY: My mother has never
came to see me race.

681
00:29:13.229 --> 00:29:18.147
I started drinking
at the age of 14.

682
00:29:18.191 --> 00:29:21.324
And then it was,
uh, crack cocaine.

683
00:29:22.543 --> 00:29:27.809
It was pretty hard growing up
seeing my mom hooked on drugs.

684
00:29:27.853 --> 00:29:29.724
LINDA: It got so bad

685
00:29:29.768 --> 00:29:33.946
that I started spending
every dime that I had.

686
00:29:33.989 --> 00:29:37.297
I remember
Christmas gifts being stolen.

687
00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:40.474
She was screaming,
yelling for a fix.

688
00:29:40.517 --> 00:29:43.085
And there was no food
on the dinner table.

689
00:29:43.129 --> 00:29:46.523
That's a--
that's a terrible feeling,

690
00:29:46.567 --> 00:29:48.612
not to have nothing to eat.

691
00:29:48.656 --> 00:29:52.312
Got to do--Got to do
your best to--just to survive.

692
00:29:55.750 --> 00:29:57.273
We haven't seen her
for months and months.

693
00:29:57.317 --> 00:29:59.841
We didn't know if she was dead
or where she was.

694
00:29:59.885 --> 00:30:03.627
ARSHAY: My brothers, they both
started to join a gang.

695
00:30:03.671 --> 00:30:06.152
We got into
the gang activities

696
00:30:06.195 --> 00:30:12.158
trying to survive, basically,
and, you know, pretty much...

697
00:30:12.201 --> 00:30:15.683
I remember looking in a drawer

698
00:30:15.726 --> 00:30:18.686
and seeing these notes
about being a gang member.

699
00:30:18.729 --> 00:30:20.644
And I was reading those notes
like, "Oh, my God,

700
00:30:20.688 --> 00:30:23.865
they're part of the," you know,
"the Gangster Disciples!"

701
00:30:23.909 --> 00:30:25.867
I actually thought
I wouldn't see 18.

702
00:30:25.911 --> 00:30:28.130
Well, you're gonna end in jail
for the rest of your life

703
00:30:28.174 --> 00:30:29.349
or you're gonna be--

704
00:30:29.392 --> 00:30:30.524
you're gonna be
under six feet deep

705
00:30:30.567 --> 00:30:31.917
in the graveyard.

706
00:30:34.789 --> 00:30:36.182
ARSHAY: There was no
accountability,

707
00:30:36.225 --> 00:30:39.881
so I missed 60 days
of my eighth grade year.

708
00:30:43.102 --> 00:30:44.886
I walk into the hallway,

709
00:30:44.930 --> 00:30:46.322
and the history teacher
was there.

710
00:30:46.366 --> 00:30:49.238
And he stepped in front of me
with his arms folded.

711
00:30:49.282 --> 00:30:53.068
And he was like, "You're gonna
die before you're 18, if that."

712
00:30:54.983 --> 00:30:58.204
There was this statistic
that all teachers would say--

713
00:30:58.247 --> 00:30:59.509
on the West Side,

714
00:30:59.553 --> 00:31:01.076
one out of every three
young men

715
00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:03.557
will die before they're 18.

716
00:31:03.600 --> 00:31:04.863
And I believe it.

717
00:31:07.213 --> 00:31:08.475
ISAAC: I think for Arshay,

718
00:31:08.518 --> 00:31:10.694
he pretty much said
to his self,

719
00:31:10.738 --> 00:31:13.393
"I'm not--I'm not gonna die
like this."

720
00:31:17.179 --> 00:31:19.965
What contribute
to my mother's addiction

721
00:31:20.008 --> 00:31:22.054
is the trauma
that she had growing up.

722
00:31:24.317 --> 00:31:25.796
Can I take a break?

723
00:31:26.972 --> 00:31:30.584
My grandfather wasn't
the nicest man.

724
00:31:30.627 --> 00:31:32.325
The violence that he saw

725
00:31:32.368 --> 00:31:34.762
somehow made him
a angry and violent man.

726
00:31:34.805 --> 00:31:36.503
It was this generational curse

727
00:31:36.546 --> 00:31:40.289
that started many years ago
as a result of--of slavery.

728
00:31:40.333 --> 00:31:42.639
I was eight years old,

729
00:31:42.683 --> 00:31:44.554
and he start touching me,

730
00:31:44.598 --> 00:31:46.774
but I didn't understand,
you know?

731
00:31:47.993 --> 00:31:49.472
Sometimes
when I talk about it,

732
00:31:49.516 --> 00:31:50.952
it makes me angry,

733
00:31:50.996 --> 00:31:54.869
or, uh, um,
it makes me want to cry,

734
00:31:54.913 --> 00:31:57.959
but, you know, umm...

735
00:31:58.003 --> 00:32:01.006
He actually raped my mother.

736
00:32:01.049 --> 00:32:02.921
Till I got 21.

737
00:32:02.964 --> 00:32:05.532
She expected her daddy
to be her protector.

738
00:32:05.575 --> 00:32:09.666
1,821 days.

739
00:32:12.017 --> 00:32:14.541
My mother didn't want
to feel anymore.

740
00:32:14.584 --> 00:32:19.111
It got to the point
that I wanted to kill myself.

741
00:32:19.154 --> 00:32:24.507
I might as well end it
because I'm not a good mom.

742
00:32:24.551 --> 00:32:25.856
She said to herself,

743
00:32:25.900 --> 00:32:26.988
"I'm just gonna walk
right into the street.

744
00:32:27.032 --> 00:32:28.947
This is it for me."

745
00:32:28.990 --> 00:32:30.513
And as she was walking
down the street,

746
00:32:30.557 --> 00:32:33.734
this guy gave her this flyer
that said "Victory Outreach,"

747
00:32:33.777 --> 00:32:37.738
and she checked into this
recovery home for women.

748
00:32:37.781 --> 00:32:40.523
I would never visit her.
I didn't believe in change.

749
00:32:40.567 --> 00:32:43.135
I didn't believe in God.
I didn't believe in anything.

750
00:32:43.178 --> 00:32:44.963
He was angry.

751
00:32:45.006 --> 00:32:47.269
My grandmother
made me go one day.

752
00:32:47.313 --> 00:32:50.577
I see my mom singing,
and she was so beautiful.

753
00:32:52.405 --> 00:32:55.060
I had never seen her
look like that before.

754
00:32:56.496 --> 00:32:58.846
That right there made me
believe there was a God,

755
00:32:58.889 --> 00:33:01.501
you know,
and He answer prayers.

756
00:33:01.544 --> 00:33:04.460
God did a wonderful thing
with my mother.

757
00:33:06.071 --> 00:33:08.943
I am most proud of my family

758
00:33:08.987 --> 00:33:12.555
for being a family that was
once bound by drugs

759
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:13.992
and a part of a gang

760
00:33:14.035 --> 00:33:16.211
and now every single person
has changed.

761
00:33:16.255 --> 00:33:17.691
Every person.

762
00:33:29.703 --> 00:33:33.359
[police siren blares]

763
00:33:36.449 --> 00:33:39.843
Bringing Preston up
on the West Side,

764
00:33:39.887 --> 00:33:42.716
it was kind of hard
keeping him out of the streets.

765
00:33:46.502 --> 00:33:48.852
She's always been a hustler.

766
00:33:48.896 --> 00:33:51.638
She passed that down to me.

767
00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:58.688
The most difficult obstacle
my son have in his life

768
00:33:58.732 --> 00:34:00.647
would be me doing drugs.

769
00:34:01.735 --> 00:34:03.606
She sold drugs
right out the front door

770
00:34:03.650 --> 00:34:05.608
and the back door
of my house.

771
00:34:05.652 --> 00:34:08.698
The worst thing I could have
ever did in my life.

772
00:34:08.742 --> 00:34:11.092
I seen her make a lot of money,
I seen her lose a lot of money.

773
00:34:11.136 --> 00:34:13.790
I overdid it

774
00:34:13.834 --> 00:34:17.446
and owed the person that I was
selling drugs some money.

775
00:34:19.361 --> 00:34:21.102
So he came into the household,

776
00:34:21.146 --> 00:34:23.670
actually put his hand
on my son.

777
00:34:25.150 --> 00:34:27.674
It woke me up. Reality check.

778
00:34:27.717 --> 00:34:29.458
It's so crazy

779
00:34:29.502 --> 00:34:31.634
'cause she didn't go to jail
for selling drugs.

780
00:34:31.678 --> 00:34:33.680
She went to jail
for doing drugs.

781
00:34:33.723 --> 00:34:35.421
I was incarcerated,

782
00:34:35.464 --> 00:34:38.250
the best thing that could have
ever happened to me in my life.

783
00:34:38.293 --> 00:34:39.903
When she came back,

784
00:34:39.947 --> 00:34:42.036
she had built
a relationship with God.

785
00:34:42.080 --> 00:34:45.866
Came home clean.
Haven't looked back.

786
00:34:47.824 --> 00:34:50.740
I was really heavy
into the streets--

787
00:34:50.784 --> 00:34:53.482
selling drugs, gangbanging.

788
00:34:53.526 --> 00:34:56.137
I didn't have enough time
to do both.

789
00:34:56.181 --> 00:34:58.748
And the streets was
calling, man.

790
00:34:58.792 --> 00:35:01.795
I left school and--
and left the team

791
00:35:01.838 --> 00:35:03.797
to become a full-time
street pharmacist,

792
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.843
which basically mean me
selling drugs on the streets.

793
00:35:06.887 --> 00:35:11.021
It was like,
if she can do it, I can do it.

794
00:35:11.065 --> 00:35:14.068
You don't want
to go down this road.

795
00:35:14.112 --> 00:35:15.678
I went down it for you,

796
00:35:15.722 --> 00:35:18.725
so why should you have to make
my mistakes over again?

797
00:35:23.077 --> 00:35:26.863
Most difficult obstacle that
I've had to overcome is myself,

798
00:35:26.907 --> 00:35:28.213
making a lot of bad decisions

799
00:35:28.256 --> 00:35:30.258
that altered
the course of my life.

800
00:35:30.302 --> 00:35:34.175
I'm a smart guy, but I still
tend to make bad decisions

801
00:35:34.219 --> 00:35:35.872
that not only affect me,

802
00:35:35.916 --> 00:35:37.526
it affects the people
around me.

803
00:35:37.570 --> 00:35:39.528
At this point, it's just me
being smarter, man,

804
00:35:39.572 --> 00:35:42.140
just--just knowing better
and doing better.

805
00:35:54.674 --> 00:35:58.504
The most difficult obstacle
I had to overcome?

806
00:35:58.547 --> 00:35:59.766
My father.

807
00:36:01.028 --> 00:36:02.899
Some of the racist teachings
that I was taught.

808
00:36:02.943 --> 00:36:07.339
My father instilled
a lot of his racism in us.

809
00:36:07.382 --> 00:36:09.384
I still deal with it
to this day.

810
00:36:09.428 --> 00:36:11.169
You know, our parents,
coming from the South,

811
00:36:11.212 --> 00:36:14.476
experienced racism
on a different level.

812
00:36:14.520 --> 00:36:16.174
They were what you call
sharecroppers.

813
00:36:18.959 --> 00:36:22.615
I didn't like the way
we was treated in the South--

814
00:36:22.658 --> 00:36:25.922
being abused,
being mistreated,

815
00:36:25.966 --> 00:36:30.362
and fear
from the white peoples.

816
00:36:30.405 --> 00:36:31.928
[laughing]

817
00:36:31.972 --> 00:36:36.455
They would come and ride around
in their big trucks

818
00:36:36.498 --> 00:36:39.240
with all those
high-powered rifles

819
00:36:39.284 --> 00:36:42.112
to make the Black peoples
afraid of them

820
00:36:42.156 --> 00:36:46.247
and make them feel inferiors.

821
00:36:46.291 --> 00:36:49.207
So they experienced
a lot of racism growing up.

822
00:36:51.644 --> 00:36:54.168
Malcolm wanted to be
his own self.

823
00:36:54.212 --> 00:36:55.474
I was having problems at home.

824
00:36:57.258 --> 00:37:00.261
I got called down
to the school a lots.

825
00:37:00.305 --> 00:37:02.698
He stayed in trouble,
all the time.

826
00:37:02.742 --> 00:37:05.788
Everybody would follow him.

827
00:37:05.832 --> 00:37:09.705
Whatever Malcolm said do,
they would do it.

828
00:37:09.749 --> 00:37:13.231
His mind is so--so advanced.

829
00:37:13.274 --> 00:37:16.103
He thinks very well,
very fast.

830
00:37:16.146 --> 00:37:20.586
KEN: I mean, he was intelligent,
funny, and charismatic.

831
00:37:20.629 --> 00:37:23.110
He could be the kid
that could really, you know,

832
00:37:23.153 --> 00:37:24.720
row at an Ivy League School.

833
00:37:24.764 --> 00:37:27.549
I wind up
getting kicked out of Manley.

834
00:37:27.593 --> 00:37:29.072
Because of, you know,

835
00:37:29.116 --> 00:37:30.813
the poverty
where we was living in,

836
00:37:30.857 --> 00:37:32.641
I chose to go to the streets.

837
00:37:32.685 --> 00:37:34.817
Started selling drugs
and hustling

838
00:37:34.861 --> 00:37:37.037
to provide for myself.

839
00:37:37.080 --> 00:37:40.345
I always prayed for my boys
to get out of the gang,

840
00:37:40.388 --> 00:37:42.477
get out of what they was in.

841
00:37:42.521 --> 00:37:44.174
One day, God told me

842
00:37:44.218 --> 00:37:46.481
that He was gonna remove them
out of the gang

843
00:37:46.525 --> 00:37:48.570
but in His own time.

844
00:37:48.614 --> 00:37:50.268
And I really questioned God.

845
00:37:50.311 --> 00:37:54.141
I said, "Now, how long
is this gonna take?"

846
00:38:09.678 --> 00:38:13.987
The Michigan race was going
so well at first.

847
00:38:14.030 --> 00:38:16.990
♪ Whoa-oa-oa-oa

848
00:38:17.033 --> 00:38:19.427
ARSHAY: Our last race--
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

849
00:38:20.646 --> 00:38:23.039
ALVIN:
We were strong. We was fast.

850
00:38:23.083 --> 00:38:25.346
And we in first place
the whole time.

851
00:38:25.390 --> 00:38:27.348
We was pulling so hard.

852
00:38:27.392 --> 00:38:29.219
I think we can, I think we can.

853
00:38:29.263 --> 00:38:30.830
We left everybody.

854
00:38:30.873 --> 00:38:32.919
It was like they was just
standing still.

855
00:38:35.704 --> 00:38:40.230
200 meters left,
and Arshay once again--

856
00:38:40.274 --> 00:38:42.450
[laughs]--
the story of our lives--

857
00:38:42.494 --> 00:38:44.017
catches a crab.

858
00:38:44.060 --> 00:38:45.714
Oh, no!

859
00:38:45.758 --> 00:38:47.716
I was just like,
"Goddamn it."

860
00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:48.761
[laughs]

861
00:38:48.804 --> 00:38:50.589
And I see the first boat pass.

862
00:38:50.632 --> 00:38:53.287
The second boat pass. "No!"

863
00:38:53.331 --> 00:38:56.116
I'm yelling at Arshay,
"Come on, man, come on!"

864
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.378
ARSHAY: And I got myself
back together,

865
00:38:57.422 --> 00:38:58.858
and we got into third place.

866
00:38:58.901 --> 00:39:01.730
I know if Arshay never
caught that crab,

867
00:39:01.774 --> 00:39:03.558
then we would've been
in the papers

868
00:39:03.602 --> 00:39:05.604
for winning that--that race.

869
00:39:08.128 --> 00:39:10.086
I was crushed.

870
00:39:10.130 --> 00:39:12.741
Alvin put his hand
on my shoulders,

871
00:39:12.785 --> 00:39:14.221
and he was like,
"It's okay."

872
00:39:14.264 --> 00:39:16.049
We still beat people.

873
00:39:16.092 --> 00:39:17.398
We didn't give up.

874
00:39:17.442 --> 00:39:19.574
It was probably
pretty eye-opening

875
00:39:19.618 --> 00:39:21.010
for the people at the regatta

876
00:39:21.054 --> 00:39:24.492
to see this group come in
and row really well.

877
00:39:24.536 --> 00:39:26.407
There's a switch that goes off

878
00:39:26.451 --> 00:39:29.323
that kind of says
you're included,

879
00:39:29.367 --> 00:39:31.151
you're just as good
as everybody else.

880
00:39:31.194 --> 00:39:34.110
Imagine if we was doing this
the whole three years.

881
00:39:34.154 --> 00:39:37.766
We'd have probably killed
all these guys out there.

882
00:39:37.810 --> 00:39:41.379
I felt like the program
was kind of a failure.

883
00:39:42.945 --> 00:39:45.948
Financially,
the program was a disaster.

884
00:39:45.992 --> 00:39:47.341
We didn't win.

885
00:39:47.385 --> 00:39:49.256
The kids didn't go to college.

886
00:39:49.299 --> 00:39:51.737
We didn't get the kids
into college.

887
00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:55.784
So I felt
like all these lofty goals

888
00:39:55.828 --> 00:39:58.134
and expectations we had
for the program

889
00:39:58.178 --> 00:39:59.658
didn't come into fruition.

890
00:40:04.489 --> 00:40:08.144
I am holding the boys
in 1998

891
00:40:08.188 --> 00:40:10.451
when they did
their first rowing.

892
00:40:10.495 --> 00:40:13.976
We're looking at Arshay
right here

893
00:40:14.020 --> 00:40:16.370
and Preston right here.

894
00:40:16.414 --> 00:40:18.807
It just was
a overwhelming feeling

895
00:40:18.851 --> 00:40:20.461
for a mother in that time

896
00:40:20.505 --> 00:40:25.118
for a child
in such a bad area

897
00:40:25.161 --> 00:40:26.946
to be doing
something positive,

898
00:40:26.989 --> 00:40:28.991
so I was proud.

899
00:40:31.037 --> 00:40:32.604
ARSHAY:
We were in the paper,

900
00:40:32.647 --> 00:40:35.998
not just for being the first
Black high school rowing team,

901
00:40:36.042 --> 00:40:39.654
but because we were also taking
entrepreneurship classes.

902
00:40:39.698 --> 00:40:42.048
We learned about the economy.

903
00:40:42.091 --> 00:40:45.094
How to open up bank accounts

904
00:40:45.138 --> 00:40:46.400
'cause coming up
where we come from,

905
00:40:46.444 --> 00:40:47.662
you save money,
you put it in a shoebox,

906
00:40:47.706 --> 00:40:48.924
and put it under your bed.

907
00:40:48.968 --> 00:40:50.883
Ken taught me
how to be an entrepreneur.

908
00:40:50.926 --> 00:40:52.450
Controlling our own destiny.

909
00:40:52.493 --> 00:40:54.452
I started a moving company.

910
00:40:54.495 --> 00:40:56.018
Yo!

911
00:40:56.062 --> 00:40:58.847
I'm really prideful
about my business, you know.

912
00:40:58.891 --> 00:41:00.893
This--
It means everything to me.

913
00:41:00.936 --> 00:41:03.722
Some of these guys
can't find jobs.

914
00:41:03.765 --> 00:41:06.333
Some of the guys can't read
the application.

915
00:41:06.376 --> 00:41:08.117
But anybody
who want to work

916
00:41:08.161 --> 00:41:11.120
who's able to work,
they find a home with me.

917
00:41:11.164 --> 00:41:14.863
Be ready to hop in this truck
and get my drive on.

918
00:41:14.907 --> 00:41:16.386
I partnered up
with a brother of mine.

919
00:41:16.430 --> 00:41:17.692
Me and him went in together

920
00:41:17.736 --> 00:41:19.259
and invested
in a couple of dump trucks.

921
00:41:19.302 --> 00:41:20.434
That's what I do now.

922
00:41:20.478 --> 00:41:22.915
Never thought
I'd be in a position

923
00:41:22.958 --> 00:41:24.307
to start employing people,

924
00:41:24.351 --> 00:41:28.398
but, you know,
weirder things has happened.

925
00:41:28.442 --> 00:41:31.663
This is my desk.

926
00:41:33.578 --> 00:41:37.016
This is my book Suga Water,
a memoir.

927
00:41:37.059 --> 00:41:39.409
These are letters

928
00:41:39.453 --> 00:41:42.195
from high school students
who have read my book.

929
00:41:42.238 --> 00:41:45.720
Mainly my job is, uh,
community engagement,

930
00:41:45.764 --> 00:41:46.895
finding young people,

931
00:41:46.939 --> 00:41:48.244
getting them
to going to college.

932
00:41:48.288 --> 00:41:49.724
I just recently took

933
00:41:49.768 --> 00:41:53.162
my Chicago Illinois
State Board Barbers exam,

934
00:41:53.206 --> 00:41:54.642
and I passed that,

935
00:41:54.686 --> 00:41:57.297
so I am officially a licensed
barber, and I love it.

936
00:41:58.603 --> 00:42:01.127
I was wrong
about it being an epic fail.

937
00:42:01.170 --> 00:42:04.043
I was amazed at, you know,

938
00:42:04.086 --> 00:42:06.959
how many of those kids
had become entrepreneurs.

939
00:42:08.613 --> 00:42:09.788
Ken didn't even know

940
00:42:09.831 --> 00:42:11.790
some of the things
that he taught us.

941
00:42:11.833 --> 00:42:14.096
He's definitely
something special, man.

942
00:42:14.140 --> 00:42:15.620
Still is to this day.

943
00:42:22.888 --> 00:42:25.020
COMMON: The guys
hung up their oars

944
00:42:25.064 --> 00:42:27.719
and got on
with the business of living

945
00:42:27.762 --> 00:42:31.244
and, for some of them,
the business of dying.

946
00:42:35.291 --> 00:42:38.947
ARSHAY: Mike's death came
as a total surprise.

947
00:42:38.991 --> 00:42:40.906
Some of us went
to his service,

948
00:42:40.949 --> 00:42:43.125
which was held
at a Irish Bar.

949
00:42:43.169 --> 00:42:45.214
Perfect for O'Gorman.

950
00:42:47.390 --> 00:42:50.829
Afterwards, we all met up
at Preston's barbershop.

951
00:42:52.657 --> 00:42:54.659
- Yo. What's up?
- Yo.

952
00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.534
[chatter]

953
00:43:02.318 --> 00:43:04.277
- It's what's her name.
- Yo.

954
00:43:05.539 --> 00:43:09.325
Man, I ain't seen you guys
since what? 80 pounds ago.

955
00:43:09.369 --> 00:43:11.197
[laughter]

956
00:43:11.240 --> 00:43:13.852
It's good to see everybody,
you know what I'm saying?

957
00:43:13.895 --> 00:43:15.505
For the last 20 years,
Preston will say,

958
00:43:15.549 --> 00:43:17.507
"Man, I--I wish
I wouldn't have left"

959
00:43:17.551 --> 00:43:20.075
or "I can go back
and do this again."

960
00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:22.295
The water was like a sense
of peace for us, man.

961
00:43:22.338 --> 00:43:24.036
- Yeah.
- You know what I'm saying?

962
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:25.211
Like, man.

963
00:43:25.254 --> 00:43:27.561
You guys became,
like, brothers to me.

964
00:43:27.605 --> 00:43:29.171
I was an only child.

965
00:43:29.215 --> 00:43:32.784
My mom was murdered
when I was nine months.

966
00:43:32.827 --> 00:43:35.395
You were my big brothers.
You feel me?

967
00:43:35.438 --> 00:43:37.266
Having brothers like y'all
around me,

968
00:43:37.310 --> 00:43:39.529
that was the only thing
that was close to me.

969
00:43:39.573 --> 00:43:41.662
We stuck together,
and we had that experience,

970
00:43:41.706 --> 00:43:43.403
and I think that's
something that, you know,

971
00:43:43.446 --> 00:43:46.188
I don't hear a lot of guys
that look like us talk about.

972
00:43:46.232 --> 00:43:48.190
Every time we got out there
to work as a team,

973
00:43:48.234 --> 00:43:49.539
you know what I'm saying,

974
00:43:49.583 --> 00:43:51.106
we collectively came together.
It was cool.

975
00:43:51.150 --> 00:43:53.195
I made it cool
for to join the rowing team.

976
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:55.415
[laughter]

977
00:43:55.458 --> 00:43:57.330
I made it cool!

978
00:44:02.117 --> 00:44:04.293
We all had a troubled past.

979
00:44:04.337 --> 00:44:07.166
Is it easy to join a gang?

980
00:44:07.209 --> 00:44:09.690
I think it's probably one
of the easiest things

981
00:44:09.734 --> 00:44:11.344
for a young teenager to do.

982
00:44:11.387 --> 00:44:14.956
Gangs was like the culture.
It was like hip-hop.

983
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.002
They had all the women.
They had all the money.

984
00:44:17.045 --> 00:44:19.308
They had all the power.
They controlled everything.

985
00:44:19.352 --> 00:44:20.875
So there wasn't nothing else
I wanted to be.

986
00:44:20.919 --> 00:44:22.442
It was just like waking up,

987
00:44:22.485 --> 00:44:24.705
brushing your teeth,
and changing your clothes.

988
00:44:24.749 --> 00:44:26.881
ALVIN: If I can go
back in time,

989
00:44:26.925 --> 00:44:29.797
I definitely would have
left the street life,

990
00:44:29.841 --> 00:44:32.191
the gang life, alone.

991
00:44:32.234 --> 00:44:35.542
How do we help change
that gang culture?

992
00:44:35.585 --> 00:44:36.891
How do we get young people
out of it?

993
00:44:36.935 --> 00:44:39.764
How do we tell them
that there's a better way?

994
00:44:39.807 --> 00:44:42.027
The moment they ain't busy,

995
00:44:42.070 --> 00:44:43.550
they're gonna go
to the streets,

996
00:44:43.593 --> 00:44:46.205
point blank, because there
ain't nothing else to do.

997
00:44:46.248 --> 00:44:49.469
When they shut down the YMCAs,
I went to the streets.

998
00:44:49.512 --> 00:44:52.167
That's when I started
selling drugs.

999
00:44:52.211 --> 00:44:53.821
The lessons you learn
from rowing--

1000
00:44:53.865 --> 00:44:57.433
teamwork, work ethic,
being a leader, success--

1001
00:44:57.477 --> 00:45:00.219
if you can give
those same, uh,

1002
00:45:00.262 --> 00:45:02.003
tools of rowing
to young people,

1003
00:45:02.047 --> 00:45:03.570
even if they don't
win a medal,

1004
00:45:03.613 --> 00:45:04.919
they become
the next generation

1005
00:45:04.963 --> 00:45:06.312
that will be leaders.

1006
00:45:06.355 --> 00:45:08.183
I don't know
about the rest of y'all,

1007
00:45:08.227 --> 00:45:11.012
but I'd love to go back to it
just for a day.

1008
00:45:11.056 --> 00:45:12.405
We should just do
a reunion race.

1009
00:45:15.190 --> 00:45:17.279
It's gonna be real
inspirational for these kids

1010
00:45:17.323 --> 00:45:18.977
to see us 20 years later,

1011
00:45:19.020 --> 00:45:21.762
come back and actually
fight to win a race.

1012
00:45:21.806 --> 00:45:23.329
Feel like we're finishing
something

1013
00:45:23.372 --> 00:45:25.853
that we should have did
a long time ago.

1014
00:45:25.897 --> 00:45:27.289
I think it's important

1015
00:45:27.333 --> 00:45:30.379
that more young
African-American boys and girls

1016
00:45:30.423 --> 00:45:32.077
see us in a boat

1017
00:45:32.120 --> 00:45:35.167
and us go back to the sport
that changed our lives.

1018
00:45:35.210 --> 00:45:36.864
For me, that's winning.

1019
00:45:36.908 --> 00:45:38.779
Wildcats! Wildcats!

1020
00:45:38.823 --> 00:45:40.868
So they decided to do it,

1021
00:45:40.912 --> 00:45:44.306
race once more
at the Chicago Sprints.

1022
00:45:44.350 --> 00:45:47.788
They all had different reasons
for getting back in the boat.

1023
00:45:49.703 --> 00:45:52.314
Preston always said
he wanted to go back in time

1024
00:45:52.358 --> 00:45:54.229
to undo his mistakes.

1025
00:45:57.580 --> 00:45:59.669
Malcolm is racing
for his son,

1026
00:45:59.713 --> 00:46:01.541
to show him another way.

1027
00:46:03.761 --> 00:46:06.067
Alvin's racing
to celebrate the fact

1028
00:46:06.111 --> 00:46:09.723
that he's still alive,
that he's still here.

1029
00:46:11.594 --> 00:46:14.293
Pookie says he wants to win,
but really,

1030
00:46:14.336 --> 00:46:16.817
he just doesn't want
to run into that brick wall.

1031
00:46:19.080 --> 00:46:22.083
Arshay's doing this to show
kids in the neighborhood

1032
00:46:22.127 --> 00:46:24.651
that they can't
move forward alone,

1033
00:46:24.694 --> 00:46:26.609
that to break the cycle,

1034
00:46:26.653 --> 00:46:30.048
they have to move together
as one.

1035
00:46:34.748 --> 00:46:39.666
♪♪♪

1036
00:46:39.709 --> 00:46:41.929
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

1037
00:46:41.973 --> 00:46:43.713
The erg machine came.

1038
00:46:43.757 --> 00:46:46.847
Oh, yeah. Training start
today, Arshay.

1039
00:46:46.891 --> 00:46:48.893
We're about to get
this workout in.

1040
00:46:48.936 --> 00:46:51.156
- Already there.
- It's been 20-plus years.

1041
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:54.202
20-plus years.

1042
00:46:54.246 --> 00:46:56.204
I feel like the Tin Man.

1043
00:46:56.248 --> 00:46:58.598
ARSHAY:
Chicago Sprints, here we come.

1044
00:46:58.641 --> 00:47:04.430
♪♪♪

1045
00:47:10.828 --> 00:47:12.699
[chatter]

1046
00:47:12.742 --> 00:47:15.136
All the fellas decided

1047
00:47:15.180 --> 00:47:17.573
to step on the scale
and weigh theyself.

1048
00:47:17.617 --> 00:47:19.227
Ugh, dude, 180.

1049
00:47:19.271 --> 00:47:20.489
It wasn't good.

1050
00:47:20.533 --> 00:47:23.536
If you put a stem
on top of Arshay's head,

1051
00:47:23.579 --> 00:47:25.103
he'll look like a pear.

1052
00:47:26.582 --> 00:47:29.585
Preston, he's pretty light,

1053
00:47:29.629 --> 00:47:31.457
but he's the skinniest
fat person

1054
00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:33.415
I ever met in my life.

1055
00:47:33.459 --> 00:47:37.593
Myself?
I weighed in at 260.

1056
00:47:37.637 --> 00:47:41.467
Not good at all,
but we're on a mission now.

1057
00:47:42.860 --> 00:47:44.905
♪ Uh, let's do the math

1058
00:47:44.949 --> 00:47:47.647
♪ How we make it tough
to subtract and not to add ♪

1059
00:47:47.690 --> 00:47:51.390
♪ So right to your brother
barrels, a bunch of crabs ♪

1060
00:47:51.433 --> 00:47:53.696
♪ Sometimes it feel like
the ghetto is all we have ♪

1061
00:47:53.740 --> 00:47:57.004
♪ See, it's hard how we livin',
need something different ♪

1062
00:47:57.048 --> 00:47:59.702
♪ One day
it's gonna change, uh ♪

1063
00:47:59.746 --> 00:48:01.922
♪ Till it's love
that we feeling ♪

1064
00:48:01.966 --> 00:48:03.271
♪ Breaking every ceiling

1065
00:48:03.315 --> 00:48:05.883
♪ We got to find
another way, uh ♪

1066
00:48:05.926 --> 00:48:08.929
♪ To live my life, uh,
to live my life, uh ♪

1067
00:48:08.973 --> 00:48:10.583
♪ To live my life...

1068
00:48:11.758 --> 00:48:14.065
ARSHAY: Pookie hadn't coxed
in 20-something years.

1069
00:48:14.108 --> 00:48:15.849
I bet this current
crazy as fuck.

1070
00:48:17.982 --> 00:48:19.070
Your feet okay, Malcolm?

1071
00:48:19.113 --> 00:48:20.462
Okay, slow down, slow down.

1072
00:48:20.506 --> 00:48:23.204
Your feet okay?
Your feet keep popping out?

1073
00:48:24.989 --> 00:48:27.600
Shoes too small.
I can't fit my feet in there.

1074
00:48:27.643 --> 00:48:29.689
They're sliding out
every time he pulls.

1075
00:48:29.732 --> 00:48:31.821
Malcolm catch a crab.

1076
00:48:31.865 --> 00:48:33.649
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, don't--

1077
00:48:33.693 --> 00:48:34.737
Left, left, left.

1078
00:48:34.781 --> 00:48:36.609
Don't let it go.
No, keep it up.

1079
00:48:36.652 --> 00:48:39.046
Keep it up, Malcolm.
No, Malcolm, keep it up!

1080
00:48:39.090 --> 00:48:42.832
Sometimes you almost see your
life flash before your eyes,

1081
00:48:42.876 --> 00:48:45.792
and you start telling yourself,
"The hell with this, man!"

1082
00:48:45.835 --> 00:48:48.664
It's not funny.
It's not funny, bro.

1083
00:48:48.708 --> 00:48:51.102
You know, these games start
playing in your head,

1084
00:48:51.145 --> 00:48:52.712
like, "Dude, what the hell
you doing in a boat?

1085
00:48:52.755 --> 00:48:53.713
You're 40!"

1086
00:48:53.756 --> 00:48:55.149
[laughter]

1087
00:48:55.193 --> 00:48:57.021
I had to get myself,
you know,

1088
00:48:57.064 --> 00:48:58.370
I had to calm myself down,

1089
00:48:58.413 --> 00:49:00.328
and it had nothing to do
with none of you guys.

1090
00:49:00.372 --> 00:49:01.939
You get in those boats
now man,

1091
00:49:01.982 --> 00:49:03.941
and you're thinking, okay,
I fall out this boat,

1092
00:49:03.984 --> 00:49:06.247
I got five people looking
at me for dinner

1093
00:49:06.291 --> 00:49:07.640
and I can't provide it,

1094
00:49:07.683 --> 00:49:08.902
you know what I'm saying?
Like--

1095
00:49:08.946 --> 00:49:12.819
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

1096
00:49:12.862 --> 00:49:14.908
Fuck.

1097
00:49:17.867 --> 00:49:21.175
ARSHAY: Our first time back
in the boat was not good.

1098
00:49:21.219 --> 00:49:23.221
We got to up our game.

1099
00:49:23.264 --> 00:49:26.050
So I had this crazy-ass idea.

1100
00:49:26.093 --> 00:49:27.703
Who better to help us

1101
00:49:27.747 --> 00:49:29.618
than the U.S. Olympic
Rowing Coach--

1102
00:49:29.662 --> 00:49:32.186
the one and only Mike Teti?

1103
00:49:32.230 --> 00:49:34.667
♪ I say first and foremost,
your boy, I made it ♪

1104
00:49:34.710 --> 00:49:36.408
♪ Ha, I was like that
because of street... ♪

1105
00:49:36.451 --> 00:49:38.714
The guy's
a three-time Olympian,

1106
00:49:38.758 --> 00:49:40.673
a total stud.

1107
00:49:40.716 --> 00:49:42.414
When I told Mike
that we were trying

1108
00:49:42.457 --> 00:49:43.937
to show the kids
from the neighborhood

1109
00:49:43.981 --> 00:49:46.026
another way out
with the sport of rowing,

1110
00:49:46.070 --> 00:49:47.288
Mike was all in.

1111
00:49:47.332 --> 00:49:48.507
♪ I'm, like, down with it,
uh, yo ♪

1112
00:49:48.550 --> 00:49:50.204
He invited us
to train with him

1113
00:49:50.248 --> 00:49:52.032
in San Francisco.

1114
00:49:52.076 --> 00:49:54.252
When he answered that call
and he said, "I'm down,"

1115
00:49:54.295 --> 00:49:56.384
I was so excited,
I called the guys right away.

1116
00:49:56.428 --> 00:49:58.038
They was like,
"We don't even know who he is,

1117
00:49:58.082 --> 00:49:59.257
but yes, let's do it."

1118
00:49:59.300 --> 00:50:01.041
Mike Teti,
we're coming for you.

1119
00:50:01.085 --> 00:50:03.391
Yes, sir! Large and in charge,
Big Malcolm.

1120
00:50:03.435 --> 00:50:05.176
We're here, baby.
San Francisco.

1121
00:50:05.219 --> 00:50:07.439
On our way to get in these boats
and do our thing.

1122
00:50:07.482 --> 00:50:08.483
Get this work, baby.

1123
00:50:08.527 --> 00:50:10.224
♪ ...tonight

1124
00:50:10.268 --> 00:50:14.054
♪ We're just trying
to catch our feelings tonight ♪

1125
00:50:14.098 --> 00:50:15.403
All right, man, hey.

1126
00:50:15.447 --> 00:50:16.535
- What's up, man?
- Good to see you!

1127
00:50:16.578 --> 00:50:18.102
We're nervous,
but we good to go.

1128
00:50:18.145 --> 00:50:19.320
- Nervous?
- Excited.

1129
00:50:19.364 --> 00:50:21.061
We get to get coached
by the legend,

1130
00:50:21.105 --> 00:50:22.584
- so...
- Yeah, well,

1131
00:50:22.628 --> 00:50:25.065
be prepared to be
severely underwhelmed,

1132
00:50:25.109 --> 00:50:27.981
okay? Did you get
them all warmed up?

1133
00:50:30.549 --> 00:50:32.029
Okay, ready? Go.

1134
00:50:33.334 --> 00:50:35.728
We don't want to complicate it.
It's only rowing.

1135
00:50:35.771 --> 00:50:37.991
It doesn't have to be perfect,

1136
00:50:38.035 --> 00:50:39.993
just approximately correct.

1137
00:50:41.386 --> 00:50:43.823
♪ As my days get harder

1138
00:50:43.866 --> 00:50:46.565
♪ And my days get longer

1139
00:50:46.608 --> 00:50:49.089
♪ I'll find waves
in the water ♪

1140
00:50:49.133 --> 00:50:52.179
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1141
00:50:52.223 --> 00:50:53.833
♪ Look, you know
we need you, dealer ♪

1142
00:50:53.876 --> 00:50:55.226
♪ Bein' a OG

1143
00:50:55.269 --> 00:50:57.967
♪ Thank God my OG's
took time to show me ♪

1144
00:50:58.011 --> 00:51:00.144
♪ I was a flower
and then how to grow me ♪

1145
00:51:00.187 --> 00:51:01.449
♪ And some did both

1146
00:51:01.493 --> 00:51:02.885
♪ As they would try
to console me ♪

1147
00:51:02.929 --> 00:51:04.409
♪ Some of my homies
from childhood ♪

1148
00:51:04.452 --> 00:51:05.801
♪ Grew up lonely

1149
00:51:05.845 --> 00:51:07.107
♪ Only told us to hoop,
now they shoot ♪

1150
00:51:07.151 --> 00:51:08.804
♪ Like they're Kobe,
'cause, man ♪

1151
00:51:08.848 --> 00:51:10.806
♪ The streets are changing,
nigga, that shit different ♪

1152
00:51:10.850 --> 00:51:13.287
♪ Especially when they don't
counsel, just detention ♪

1153
00:51:13.331 --> 00:51:15.637
♪ Dropped out, had to bounce
so many suspensions ♪

1154
00:51:15.681 --> 00:51:18.336
♪ Potential dean's list
now turned into a hit list ♪

1155
00:51:18.379 --> 00:51:20.642
♪ Failed school, and so now
you turned to a misfit ♪

1156
00:51:20.686 --> 00:51:22.122
♪ Strafe used to jump

1157
00:51:22.166 --> 00:51:23.819
♪ Gates could have made
an Olympian player ♪

1158
00:51:23.863 --> 00:51:25.647
♪ So I'm different
'cause they don't know ♪

1159
00:51:25.691 --> 00:51:28.302
♪ The ones who came from boats
create the wave, you know ♪

1160
00:51:28.346 --> 00:51:29.608
♪ Used to hate the water

1161
00:51:29.651 --> 00:51:30.826
♪ But now we row
gently down the stream ♪

1162
00:51:30.870 --> 00:51:32.176
♪ Life is but a dream

1163
00:51:32.219 --> 00:51:33.612
♪ When it's fueled
by your self-esteem ♪

1164
00:51:33.655 --> 00:51:35.222
♪ As my days get harder

1165
00:51:35.266 --> 00:51:36.484
MIKE: a little bit lighter.

1166
00:51:36.528 --> 00:51:38.660
♪ And my days get longer

1167
00:51:38.704 --> 00:51:41.010
♪ I'll find waves
in the water ♪

1168
00:51:41.054 --> 00:51:43.012
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1169
00:51:43.056 --> 00:51:44.666
We need some finesse
from you, Alvin.

1170
00:51:44.710 --> 00:51:45.928
[laughter]

1171
00:51:45.972 --> 00:51:47.495
You bench pressing
refrigerators, bro.

1172
00:51:47.539 --> 00:51:49.541
We need couch,
not refrigerators, a'ight?

1173
00:51:49.584 --> 00:51:50.846
You two big motherfuckers,

1174
00:51:50.890 --> 00:51:52.239
big-arm motherfuckers
back there.

1175
00:51:52.283 --> 00:51:53.849
- [laughs]
- Hey, hey,

1176
00:51:53.893 --> 00:51:57.157
I don't even think Alvin know
how to go soft, you feel me?

1177
00:51:57.201 --> 00:51:59.420
You light-skinned
and hard-headed.

1178
00:51:59.464 --> 00:52:00.726
Bad combination.

1179
00:52:00.769 --> 00:52:02.597
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1180
00:52:02.641 --> 00:52:03.729
MIKE: Good job, good job.

1181
00:52:03.772 --> 00:52:05.948
♪ As my days get harder

1182
00:52:05.992 --> 00:52:08.255
♪ And my days get longer

1183
00:52:08.299 --> 00:52:09.691
♪ I'll find waves
in the water ♪

1184
00:52:09.735 --> 00:52:10.953
MIKE: Yeah, there you go!

1185
00:52:10.997 --> 00:52:12.520
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1186
00:52:12.564 --> 00:52:13.521
♪ This water, this water...

1187
00:52:13.565 --> 00:52:15.001
Paddle!

1188
00:52:15.044 --> 00:52:16.176
PRESTON:
All in all, though, man,

1189
00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:17.699
I swear to God,
you was going good, bro,

1190
00:52:17.743 --> 00:52:19.092
'cause it's been 20 years.

1191
00:52:19.136 --> 00:52:21.138
It's go--It's gonna
come together, though.

1192
00:52:26.230 --> 00:52:29.189
MIKE: Honestly,
I was expecting worse.

1193
00:52:29.233 --> 00:52:31.104
ALVIN: We was thinking
the same about you!

1194
00:52:31.148 --> 00:52:36.283
[laughter]

1195
00:52:36.327 --> 00:52:39.112
Before they hit the water,
I was really nervous.

1196
00:52:39.156 --> 00:52:40.374
I think it had been
20 years, maybe,

1197
00:52:40.418 --> 00:52:41.984
since they'd all been
in the boat.

1198
00:52:42.028 --> 00:52:43.421
MIKE:
And I thought, Uh-oh.

1199
00:52:43.464 --> 00:52:45.379
Number one, are they gonna
fit in the boat?

1200
00:52:45.423 --> 00:52:47.251
And number two,
are they gonna be able

1201
00:52:47.294 --> 00:52:48.600
to handle the conditions?

1202
00:52:48.643 --> 00:52:50.079
And you know what?
Flying colors.

1203
00:52:50.123 --> 00:52:51.298
DAVID: I was impressed.

1204
00:52:51.342 --> 00:52:53.344
The boat picked up,
and it was jumping.

1205
00:52:53.387 --> 00:52:54.432
What are we training for here?

1206
00:52:54.475 --> 00:52:55.955
Chicago Sprints, you know.

1207
00:52:55.998 --> 00:52:58.175
It's, um, about 1,000 meters.

1208
00:52:58.218 --> 00:53:00.264
- The skill's good, right?
- The skills are good.

1209
00:53:00.307 --> 00:53:02.091
Skills good. But a little bit
of fitness, maybe?

1210
00:53:02.135 --> 00:53:03.658
Little bit of rowing machine?

1211
00:53:03.702 --> 00:53:06.226
You go out there,
and you give 100%,

1212
00:53:06.270 --> 00:53:08.097
and you come up
a little bit short?

1213
00:53:08.141 --> 00:53:09.925
Hey, your family
will still love you.

1214
00:53:09.969 --> 00:53:11.013
Your girlfriend will still
love you.

1215
00:53:11.057 --> 00:53:13.102
But if you go out there
and win,

1216
00:53:13.146 --> 00:53:14.321
they're gonna love you
just a little bit more.

1217
00:53:14.365 --> 00:53:17.281
[laughter]

1218
00:53:19.544 --> 00:53:20.893
ARSHAY:
It was Malcolm's idea

1219
00:53:20.936 --> 00:53:24.026
to share the sport of rowing
with our kids,

1220
00:53:24.070 --> 00:53:26.246
so when we got
back to Chicago,

1221
00:53:26.290 --> 00:53:28.727
we invited them
to the indoor rowing tanks.

1222
00:53:39.999 --> 00:53:41.261
MALCOLM: My kids are
very proud of me

1223
00:53:41.305 --> 00:53:42.523
for doing this, you know.

1224
00:53:42.567 --> 00:53:44.264
They think
it's a very cool thing.

1225
00:53:44.308 --> 00:53:48.877
Me getting back in this boat
makes me feel like a kid again.

1226
00:53:48.921 --> 00:53:51.097
You know,
everybody have those moments

1227
00:53:51.140 --> 00:53:54.970
where they feel as if they can
do something over again,

1228
00:53:55.014 --> 00:53:58.147
redeem themselves
from the mistakes they made.

1229
00:54:01.020 --> 00:54:04.589
I feel like I want to accomplish
as much as I can

1230
00:54:04.632 --> 00:54:06.199
to show my sons.

1231
00:54:09.028 --> 00:54:11.204
I was raised
in a real rough household,

1232
00:54:11.248 --> 00:54:12.640
you feel me,
that kind of, like,

1233
00:54:12.684 --> 00:54:14.512
blew my opportunities
with rowing.

1234
00:54:16.688 --> 00:54:18.820
No matter how much
I explained to my father

1235
00:54:18.864 --> 00:54:20.735
how much
rowing meant to me,

1236
00:54:20.779 --> 00:54:22.084
he never cared.

1237
00:54:22.128 --> 00:54:24.043
He was like,
"Dude, no, rowing?

1238
00:54:24.086 --> 00:54:25.349
No, get outta my face
with that."

1239
00:54:27.916 --> 00:54:30.136
So, you know,
I kind of felt good

1240
00:54:30.179 --> 00:54:32.791
about being able to get my son
and teach him something

1241
00:54:32.834 --> 00:54:35.707
and for him to be proud
of me teaching it to him.

1242
00:54:38.884 --> 00:54:40.755
I'm just happy
to see that, you know,

1243
00:54:40.799 --> 00:54:42.322
we're starting to create
a group of fathers

1244
00:54:42.366 --> 00:54:43.845
that, you know,
training our kids

1245
00:54:43.889 --> 00:54:45.412
to do things that we did

1246
00:54:45.456 --> 00:54:47.414
and they're proud of it
and proud of us.

1247
00:54:49.808 --> 00:54:51.200
POOKIE: One thing
I seen at the tanks,

1248
00:54:51.244 --> 00:54:54.160
I did love the fact
that the fathers did spend

1249
00:54:54.203 --> 00:54:55.770
that quality time
with their kids

1250
00:54:55.814 --> 00:54:58.817
and the bond that they had,
it meant a lot.

1251
00:55:04.257 --> 00:55:06.041
It hurts my heart
sometimes

1252
00:55:06.085 --> 00:55:09.828
when I see, um, certain
Black fathers as absent.

1253
00:55:09.871 --> 00:55:13.092
It touched my heart to see
us being men out there.

1254
00:55:14.833 --> 00:55:16.008
MALCOLM: Yeah, that's
what it's about, man.

1255
00:55:16.051 --> 00:55:17.314
It's a good thing, man,

1256
00:55:17.357 --> 00:55:18.750
especially coming from
where we come from

1257
00:55:18.793 --> 00:55:20.273
and having the problems
that we had,

1258
00:55:20.317 --> 00:55:21.535
you know, growing up
with our fathers

1259
00:55:21.579 --> 00:55:22.884
and stuff like that, man.

1260
00:55:22.928 --> 00:55:25.191
It's just good to see
the change, you know.

1261
00:55:25.234 --> 00:55:26.845
Things are being
turned around.

1262
00:55:31.850 --> 00:55:33.373
ARSHAY:
What would you go back

1263
00:55:33.417 --> 00:55:36.245
and tell
your 13-year-old self?

1264
00:55:36.289 --> 00:55:38.465
Keep your head in your books,
do what you need to do, man,

1265
00:55:38.509 --> 00:55:39.640
and you're gonna succeed.

1266
00:55:39.684 --> 00:55:41.250
Definitely
be a lot smarter, man.

1267
00:55:41.294 --> 00:55:44.253
Think for myself
and just make better decisions.

1268
00:55:44.297 --> 00:55:45.864
During the time
of me going to school

1269
00:55:45.907 --> 00:55:47.735
to, uh, get my license
for being a barber,

1270
00:55:47.779 --> 00:55:50.782
I just made a--a rushed
and bad decision.

1271
00:55:50.825 --> 00:55:52.087
Money got a little funny,

1272
00:55:52.131 --> 00:55:54.307
and, uh, I was
introduced to some things

1273
00:55:54.351 --> 00:55:58.050
that was possibly, uh, a way
for me to make some quick cash,

1274
00:55:58.093 --> 00:56:00.748
and it kind of went south,
so I was arrested.

1275
00:56:00.792 --> 00:56:03.577
Cook County Correctional
Department wants me

1276
00:56:03.621 --> 00:56:05.536
to serve one year.

1277
00:56:05.579 --> 00:56:08.408
The fact that I'm shooting
this documentary

1278
00:56:08.452 --> 00:56:11.237
is basically what saved me
from being in prison.

1279
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.936
It keeps me
from being incarcerated.

1280
00:56:14.980 --> 00:56:16.851
I can't judge.
I think it was Jay-Z

1281
00:56:16.895 --> 00:56:19.201
who said there's no rules
to feeding your family, right?

1282
00:56:19.245 --> 00:56:20.507
- No.
- Uh,

1283
00:56:20.551 --> 00:56:22.640
and a lot of people
don't understand that,

1284
00:56:22.683 --> 00:56:24.337
but we do.

1285
00:56:24.381 --> 00:56:26.295
I took the plea deal
for one year,

1286
00:56:26.339 --> 00:56:28.385
but they needed me
to be on house arrest,

1287
00:56:28.428 --> 00:56:30.299
which is electronic
monitoring.

1288
00:56:30.343 --> 00:56:32.432
Making bad decisions,

1289
00:56:32.476 --> 00:56:35.392
it leads to this
type of outcome.

1290
00:56:44.009 --> 00:56:45.140
ARSHAY: We were lucky

1291
00:56:45.184 --> 00:56:46.968
that Preston was still
in the boat.

1292
00:56:47.012 --> 00:56:48.840
But with four months
left to go,

1293
00:56:48.883 --> 00:56:51.582
it was time
to kick it into high gear.

1294
00:56:51.625 --> 00:56:53.714
♪ Young boys
on a Black street brainless ♪

1295
00:56:53.758 --> 00:56:55.673
♪ When they bust they shots,
they end quick ♪

1296
00:56:55.716 --> 00:56:57.936
♪ How it feel to be
livin' in the matrix ♪

1297
00:56:57.979 --> 00:56:59.459
♪ When you're feelin'
on the shoulder lane? ♪

1298
00:56:59.503 --> 00:57:00.765
♪ And my whole damn team,
they'll be so damn... ♪

1299
00:57:00.808 --> 00:57:02.984
This workouts are
gonna be serious today.

1300
00:57:03.028 --> 00:57:04.508
♪ ...screamed,
I know how he felt ♪

1301
00:57:04.551 --> 00:57:05.639
♪ How he felt

1302
00:57:05.683 --> 00:57:07.598
So I'm gonna do
some sprints now.

1303
00:57:07.641 --> 00:57:09.382
♪ Just like you,
but we feel like steel ♪

1304
00:57:09.426 --> 00:57:11.340
♪ And the kook with the crew
that we in for the kill ♪

1305
00:57:11.384 --> 00:57:13.342
♪ I want more
for my fam and myself ♪

1306
00:57:13.386 --> 00:57:15.388
♪ Want peace, want love,
want life, want wealth ♪

1307
00:57:15.432 --> 00:57:17.521
♪ I made this, had to fight
for my own, man ♪

1308
00:57:17.564 --> 00:57:19.348
♪ Whether we can stay
when I come for the bell ♪

1309
00:57:19.392 --> 00:57:21.350
♪ Ah, let me know
what it's all for ♪

1310
00:57:21.394 --> 00:57:22.439
♪ If you want something...

1311
00:57:22.482 --> 00:57:23.701
One of the workers

1312
00:57:23.744 --> 00:57:25.485
changed my screensaver
on my laptop

1313
00:57:25.529 --> 00:57:26.834
to Mike Teti.

1314
00:57:26.878 --> 00:57:28.270
That's a gangster right there.

1315
00:57:28.314 --> 00:57:29.576
Put that back up there.

1316
00:57:29.620 --> 00:57:31.665
Gangsters drink pink coffee,
man, you know?

1317
00:57:31.709 --> 00:57:32.797
Get ya some.

1318
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:35.321
Oh, my God,
look at those guns!

1319
00:57:35.364 --> 00:57:37.192
♪ Yeah

1320
00:57:37.236 --> 00:57:38.977
♪ A-A

1321
00:57:39.020 --> 00:57:40.500
♪ Fraid-fraid

1322
00:57:40.544 --> 00:57:44.025
We went through too much
in our lives to stop now.

1323
00:57:44.069 --> 00:57:46.506
Little late-night erg.
Peace.

1324
00:57:46.550 --> 00:57:48.247
Biggest fan right there.

1325
00:57:49.640 --> 00:57:51.119
We're coming for gold, baby.

1326
00:57:51.163 --> 00:57:54.079
See you guys on the flip side,
motherfuckers!

1327
00:57:55.428 --> 00:57:56.385
♪ Uh-uh

1328
00:57:56.429 --> 00:57:58.779
♪ What, what, what, what

1329
00:57:58.823 --> 00:58:01.303
♪ What, what, what

1330
00:58:01.347 --> 00:58:03.915
- ♪ Yo, yo
- ♪ Yo, yo

1331
00:58:03.958 --> 00:58:06.961
- ♪ Yo, yo
- ♪ Yo, yo

1332
00:58:07.005 --> 00:58:08.136
- ♪ It's getting short
- ♪ Short

1333
00:58:08.180 --> 00:58:09.660
- ♪ Look
- ♪ Look

1334
00:58:09.703 --> 00:58:10.661
- ♪ Yo
- ♪ Yo

1335
00:58:10.704 --> 00:58:11.618
♪ Go against the current

1336
00:58:11.662 --> 00:58:12.576
♪ What my mother sang

1337
00:58:12.619 --> 00:58:13.968
♪ Mother sang

1338
00:58:14.012 --> 00:58:15.796
♪ I was always taught
to go the other way ♪

1339
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:18.146
♪ Crazy what happens
whenever minds meet ♪

1340
00:58:18.190 --> 00:58:20.540
♪ Never thought this would
happen coming from my street ♪

1341
00:58:20.584 --> 00:58:23.238
♪ FX, her gunshots,
whenever I sleep ♪

1342
00:58:23.282 --> 00:58:26.067
♪ They lack vision,
they don't see what I see ♪

1343
00:58:26.111 --> 00:58:27.416
♪ Star player for my...

1344
00:58:27.460 --> 00:58:29.244
Keep it relaxed
in the upper body.

1345
00:58:29.288 --> 00:58:31.551
Drive through the legs.
Drive through the hips.

1346
00:58:31.595 --> 00:58:33.988
Can't tell you how fun
this is for me to watch.

1347
00:58:34.032 --> 00:58:35.468
So when you're ready,
let's pick it up.

1348
00:58:35.512 --> 00:58:37.035
♪ ...I got crazy aim

1349
00:58:37.078 --> 00:58:39.559
♪ Lewis Hamilton, my handle,
never changed a lane ♪

1350
00:58:39.603 --> 00:58:41.518
♪ I run all four seasons,
never get a sprain ♪

1351
00:58:41.561 --> 00:58:42.867
- ♪ Track
- ♪ Track, track

1352
00:58:42.910 --> 00:58:44.695
♪ Take a couple reds
to ease the pain ♪

1353
00:58:44.738 --> 00:58:46.566
They're moving well together.

1354
00:58:46.610 --> 00:58:48.612
There's still
some serious power.

1355
00:58:48.655 --> 00:58:49.526
I was impressed.

1356
00:58:51.963 --> 00:58:54.879
♪ FX, her gunshots
whenever I sleep ♪

1357
00:58:54.922 --> 00:58:57.621
♪ They lack vision,
they don't see what I see ♪

1358
00:58:57.664 --> 00:58:59.274
♪ Star player for my city,
man ♪

1359
00:58:59.318 --> 00:59:01.146
- ♪ I does it all
- ♪ Does it all

1360
00:59:01.189 --> 00:59:02.669
♪ Never hooped,
but I wanna ball ♪

1361
00:59:02.713 --> 00:59:03.844
♪ Wanna ball, wanna ball

1362
00:59:03.888 --> 00:59:05.063
MARC:
Just to see them out there,

1363
00:59:05.106 --> 00:59:06.281
remember them
like it was yesterday,

1364
00:59:06.325 --> 00:59:07.805
it was just
really, really special.

1365
00:59:08.806 --> 00:59:09.937
- Thanks a lot, man.
- Yeah.

1366
00:59:09.981 --> 00:59:11.460
- Yeah, man.
- Just like old times.

1367
00:59:11.504 --> 00:59:12.897
- You seen--
- You guys haven't--

1368
00:59:12.940 --> 00:59:14.551
You guys haven't
changed a bit.

1369
00:59:16.378 --> 00:59:19.468
May has always been-

1370
00:59:19.512 --> 00:59:22.254
has always been
a messed-up month for me.

1371
00:59:25.170 --> 00:59:27.955
Um, my mother
passed away.

1372
00:59:27.999 --> 00:59:30.567
A few years after that,
my father passed away.

1373
00:59:30.610 --> 00:59:31.959
Every time this month come,

1374
00:59:32.003 --> 00:59:34.396
I always feel
some sense of sadness.

1375
00:59:37.182 --> 00:59:41.926
The most difficult obstacle
I had to overcome,

1376
00:59:41.969 --> 00:59:44.189
it had something to do
with my father.

1377
00:59:45.538 --> 00:59:48.323
I can't remember
when it started.

1378
00:59:48.367 --> 00:59:50.369
I was very young.

1379
00:59:51.979 --> 00:59:54.503
He was doing things
to my sisters

1380
00:59:54.547 --> 00:59:56.157
that wasn't right.

1381
00:59:56.201 --> 00:59:57.768
And the discussion

1382
00:59:57.811 --> 01:00:00.248
that you want to have
with each other, you don't.

1383
01:00:00.292 --> 01:00:02.511
You know, you don't want
to believe it.

1384
01:00:02.555 --> 01:00:04.949
When I figured out
it was wrong,

1385
01:00:04.992 --> 01:00:07.821
I was about 10.

1386
01:00:07.865 --> 01:00:11.912
You know, it was something
that was never spoke about.

1387
01:00:11.956 --> 01:00:13.914
I told her that I was gonna
kill my dad.

1388
01:00:14.959 --> 01:00:17.091
We both wanted to.

1389
01:00:17.135 --> 01:00:19.528
And my baby sister was like,

1390
01:00:19.572 --> 01:00:22.749
"Whatever you gonna do,
I'ma do it with you."

1391
01:00:22.793 --> 01:00:25.186
I looked at her,
I started thinking, like,

1392
01:00:25.230 --> 01:00:27.972
I can't have her
involved in this.

1393
01:00:28.015 --> 01:00:29.364
I'm the oldest,
so I was like,

1394
01:00:29.408 --> 01:00:32.063
I'll be okay,
but they won't be okay.

1395
01:00:35.327 --> 01:00:36.545
For a long time,

1396
01:00:36.589 --> 01:00:40.680
I felt like I allowed him
to keep doing it

1397
01:00:40.724 --> 01:00:42.595
because I didn't kill him.

1398
01:00:45.032 --> 01:00:47.687
I blamed myself
for a long time.

1399
01:00:47.731 --> 01:00:49.863
My mother,
she broke down and cried

1400
01:00:49.907 --> 01:00:51.996
and said she wished
she could've been there.

1401
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:54.041
But you know,
when you're on drugs,

1402
01:00:54.085 --> 01:00:55.477
y-you can't...

1403
01:00:55.521 --> 01:00:58.655
you can't be there
for someone.

1404
01:00:58.698 --> 01:01:01.832
It has to be talked about
in order to heal.

1405
01:01:01.875 --> 01:01:06.053
But I--I had a talk
with my sister Angie,

1406
01:01:06.097 --> 01:01:07.664
and she was like...

1407
01:01:14.758 --> 01:01:16.194
she w--[groan]--

1408
01:01:16.237 --> 01:01:18.500
she was like,
"It's not your fault."

1409
01:01:20.111 --> 01:01:21.373
Ahh.

1410
01:01:23.897 --> 01:01:26.595
The loyalty that he has
for the people that he's loved

1411
01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:29.163
is unmeasurable.

1412
01:01:34.952 --> 01:01:38.520
We found out
that his sister was beaten

1413
01:01:38.564 --> 01:01:42.655
and she grab a bat
and she leaves the house.

1414
01:01:42.699 --> 01:01:44.831
Alvin right away snapped.

1415
01:01:44.875 --> 01:01:47.747
And this guy's a known shooter.

1416
01:01:47.791 --> 01:01:50.054
So I get my gun.

1417
01:01:50.097 --> 01:01:52.491
When you confront someone
that's in a gang,

1418
01:01:52.534 --> 01:01:54.362
you don't go emptyhanded.

1419
01:01:54.406 --> 01:01:56.451
That's just suicide.

1420
01:01:56.495 --> 01:01:58.497
And then I just heard
a gunshot.

1421
01:02:00.368 --> 01:02:02.153
He shot at the van,

1422
01:02:02.196 --> 01:02:04.372
and it hit someone else
in the car.

1423
01:02:04.416 --> 01:02:06.984
Alvin was married,
owned his company,

1424
01:02:07.027 --> 01:02:10.248
and now he's on trial
for protecting his family.

1425
01:02:12.467 --> 01:02:15.340
So the stakes
were very, very high.

1426
01:02:15.383 --> 01:02:18.517
He was looking down the barrel
of decades in prison.

1427
01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:24.044
I was incarcerated
for five years.

1428
01:02:24.088 --> 01:02:25.785
I do regret that

1429
01:02:25.829 --> 01:02:28.222
'cause it could've probably
been handled different,

1430
01:02:28.266 --> 01:02:32.009
but, because of who he was
and his reputation,

1431
01:02:32.052 --> 01:02:34.576
I handled it the street way.

1432
01:02:36.274 --> 01:02:37.275
JENNIFER BONJEAN:
To this day,

1433
01:02:37.318 --> 01:02:38.580
I firmly believe

1434
01:02:38.624 --> 01:02:40.887
that he acted
in self-defense of others,

1435
01:02:40.931 --> 01:02:44.630
which means he should not
have been convicted, period.

1436
01:02:44.673 --> 01:02:46.371
When we're at sentencing,

1437
01:02:46.414 --> 01:02:49.461
the judge for the first time
looked at Alvin's background,

1438
01:02:49.504 --> 01:02:51.028
and there's nothing on it,

1439
01:02:51.071 --> 01:02:53.682
and he's like, "Oh, this guy
doesn't have a sheet at all,"

1440
01:02:53.726 --> 01:02:55.249
meaning he doesn't have
a background at all.

1441
01:02:55.293 --> 01:02:57.077
I'm like, "Yeah, you dumbass.

1442
01:02:57.121 --> 01:02:58.731
"He doesn't have a sheet

1443
01:02:58.775 --> 01:03:00.820
and you're about to send him
to prison!"

1444
01:03:00.864 --> 01:03:05.520
The time that I did in prison,
the five years,

1445
01:03:05.564 --> 01:03:07.174
I talked to God

1446
01:03:07.218 --> 01:03:10.830
'cause that place, man,
that place can change you.

1447
01:03:10.874 --> 01:03:12.310
I didn't let that place,

1448
01:03:12.353 --> 01:03:16.531
like, turn me into a--
a worse, you know...

1449
01:03:16.575 --> 01:03:19.099
I kind of--I made it out.

1450
01:03:33.374 --> 01:03:36.421
♪♪♪

1451
01:03:40.947 --> 01:03:43.123
ARSHAY: We were entering
the final stretch,

1452
01:03:43.167 --> 01:03:46.039
and our rowing was
getting better.

1453
01:03:46.083 --> 01:03:50.043
And then one night,
I had another crazy idea.

1454
01:03:50.087 --> 01:03:53.786
If all of us guys could
get together in a boat,

1455
01:03:53.830 --> 01:03:56.615
from different neighborhoods
and rival gangs,

1456
01:03:56.658 --> 01:04:01.663
maybe, just maybe, we can do the
same with the Chicago Police.

1457
01:04:05.015 --> 01:04:07.844
So I invited them
to row with us.

1458
01:04:07.887 --> 01:04:10.063
But when I told the guys
about it,

1459
01:04:10.107 --> 01:04:12.849
they didn't think
it was such a good idea.

1460
01:04:14.372 --> 01:04:16.940
When Arshay invited the police
to row with us, man,

1461
01:04:16.983 --> 01:04:18.898
I was thinking,
Nah, man, forget that.

1462
01:04:18.942 --> 01:04:21.901
You know, you grow up looking
at them as the enemy.

1463
01:04:21.945 --> 01:04:24.773
I've probably never committed
a crime in my life

1464
01:04:24.817 --> 01:04:28.647
but still got my face pushed
flat down on a police car.

1465
01:04:28.690 --> 01:04:30.779
That's my experience,
and I hated--

1466
01:04:30.823 --> 01:04:32.259
hated everything about it.

1467
01:04:32.303 --> 01:04:34.174
Get pulled over
by some white cops.

1468
01:04:34.218 --> 01:04:35.697
I had on some light jeans.

1469
01:04:35.741 --> 01:04:37.351
He rubbed his feet in mud.

1470
01:04:37.395 --> 01:04:39.179
He said, "Nice pants."
He took his boot,

1471
01:04:39.223 --> 01:04:41.225
and he rubbed the mud
down the back of your pants.

1472
01:04:42.269 --> 01:04:43.662
Were they white jeans?

1473
01:04:43.705 --> 01:04:45.577
[laughter]
No, they were--

1474
01:04:47.971 --> 01:04:50.451
That's the other thing we--
we like to do as Black men.

1475
01:04:50.495 --> 01:04:52.453
We--We laugh sometimes

1476
01:04:52.497 --> 01:04:55.326
to avoid the--
the pain and the tears

1477
01:04:55.369 --> 01:04:56.936
because that's--
that's another thing

1478
01:04:56.980 --> 01:04:59.199
that we learn how to do,
uh, back in the day.

1479
01:04:59.243 --> 01:05:00.679
We would make a joke
about something

1480
01:05:00.722 --> 01:05:02.289
to cover the pain up.

1481
01:05:02.333 --> 01:05:03.987
If I can find four cops

1482
01:05:04.030 --> 01:05:06.119
and change their perspective
on how we live

1483
01:05:06.163 --> 01:05:07.642
and how we think
and how we grow up,

1484
01:05:07.686 --> 01:05:09.035
it's worth it.

1485
01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:12.212
I just know that, if rowing
can bring us together,

1486
01:05:12.256 --> 01:05:14.911
it can change the thought
process of the cops.

1487
01:05:14.954 --> 01:05:19.350
Preston, a cop, Malcolm, a cop,
me, a cop, then Alvin--

1488
01:05:19.393 --> 01:05:20.481
- How you doing?
- What's up, man?

1489
01:05:20.525 --> 01:05:21.830
- Hey, how's it going?
- Matt.

1490
01:05:21.874 --> 01:05:22.962
- So Arshay.
- Arshay, nice to meet you.

1491
01:05:23.006 --> 01:05:23.963
- What's up? I'm John.
- Preston.

1492
01:05:24.007 --> 01:05:24.921
- Arshay.
- Louis.

1493
01:05:24.964 --> 01:05:25.922
- Preston.
- Al.

1494
01:05:25.965 --> 01:05:26.966
- Pleasure.
- Malcolm.

1495
01:05:27.010 --> 01:05:28.098
- Louis.
- Uh, thanks, guys.

1496
01:05:28.141 --> 01:05:30.143
I want to thank you guys
for coming.

1497
01:05:30.187 --> 01:05:31.579
I think working together

1498
01:05:31.623 --> 01:05:33.668
to serve and protect
our communities,

1499
01:05:33.712 --> 01:05:35.844
I think it's a--
it's a powerful thing.

1500
01:05:35.888 --> 01:05:37.324
We're gonna--just gonna work
with you guys

1501
01:05:37.368 --> 01:05:39.326
and show you guys the--
the power of rowing

1502
01:05:39.370 --> 01:05:40.893
- and how it changed our lives.
- Cool.

1503
01:05:40.937 --> 01:05:42.025
So we'll make our way
upstairs.

1504
01:05:42.068 --> 01:05:43.374
And the first thing we gonna do

1505
01:05:43.417 --> 01:05:46.507
is show you the rowing motion
on the erg.

1506
01:05:46.551 --> 01:05:48.161
So this is the erg room.

1507
01:05:48.205 --> 01:05:49.771
This is where
a lot of magic happens.

1508
01:05:49.815 --> 01:05:51.948
This is the, like, first
step of rowing, actually.

1509
01:05:51.991 --> 01:05:53.427
Let me grab the handle
for you.

1510
01:05:53.471 --> 01:05:55.299
And so right here.
You sit tall. There you go.

1511
01:05:55.342 --> 01:05:56.735
Lean back a little bit.

1512
01:05:56.778 --> 01:05:58.345
Okay. Awesome.

1513
01:05:58.389 --> 01:05:59.956
You want to get some power.

1514
01:05:59.999 --> 01:06:01.131
You hear that fan?

1515
01:06:01.174 --> 01:06:02.219
That means you're working.

1516
01:06:02.262 --> 01:06:04.351
That means you--you're pulling.

1517
01:06:04.395 --> 01:06:06.353
Amazing.

1518
01:06:06.397 --> 01:06:08.181
We're gonna race each other,

1519
01:06:08.225 --> 01:06:09.791
and we gonna go race 200 meters.

1520
01:06:09.835 --> 01:06:11.576
That's about what,
two football fields.

1521
01:06:11.619 --> 01:06:13.708
So the time--
the lowest time wins

1522
01:06:13.752 --> 01:06:15.014
Right.

1523
01:06:15.058 --> 01:06:17.016
All right.

1524
01:06:17.060 --> 01:06:18.800
Ready, set, row!

1525
01:06:18.844 --> 01:06:23.414
♪ We just want
to get up here tonight ♪

1526
01:06:23.457 --> 01:06:26.156
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

1527
01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:27.548
♪ Oh, I

1528
01:06:27.592 --> 01:06:30.247
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

1529
01:06:30.290 --> 01:06:31.596
♪ Oh, I

1530
01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:32.640
♪ Oh, I

1531
01:06:32.684 --> 01:06:33.946
♪ I say first and foremost

1532
01:06:33.990 --> 01:06:35.382
♪ Your boy, I made it

1533
01:06:35.426 --> 01:06:37.123
♪ Ha, I was like that
because of street... ♪

1534
01:06:37.167 --> 01:06:38.255
[laughter]

1535
01:06:38.298 --> 01:06:40.387
All right, guys,
up to the catch.

1536
01:06:40.431 --> 01:06:41.258
♪ Came from the bottom,
now I... ♪

1537
01:06:41.301 --> 01:06:42.694
Ready, set, row!

1538
01:06:42.737 --> 01:06:44.000
♪ I ain't no game

1539
01:06:44.043 --> 01:06:45.044
♪ Keying up
in this game like... ♪

1540
01:06:45.088 --> 01:06:46.611
Come on, CPD!

1541
01:06:46.654 --> 01:06:48.004
♪ Wanna see you just feeling
like a damn soul train ♪

1542
01:06:48.047 --> 01:06:49.179
- It's all good!
- ♪ I'm, like, down with it

1543
01:06:49.222 --> 01:06:50.615
♪ Uh, yeah,
I want that thing ♪

1544
01:06:50.658 --> 01:06:52.182
♪ Back, get back, get back,
let me get it ♪

1545
01:06:52.225 --> 01:06:53.661
♪ Oh, back, get back,
get back ♪

1546
01:06:53.705 --> 01:06:54.967
♪ No, we wanna get up
from the place ♪

1547
01:06:55.011 --> 01:06:56.142
♪ Where the dreams
get shot... ♪

1548
01:06:56.186 --> 01:06:57.491
I'm gonna get me
a firefighter next time!

1549
01:06:59.276 --> 01:07:00.668
You got this, baby!

1550
01:07:00.712 --> 01:07:01.930
Look! They're still rowing.

1551
01:07:01.974 --> 01:07:03.193
- That's it.
- They're still rowing.

1552
01:07:03.236 --> 01:07:04.368
- That's it!
- Good job, Louis.

1553
01:07:04.411 --> 01:07:05.934
This is awesome.
This is beautiful.

1554
01:07:05.978 --> 01:07:06.979
You guys did great.

1555
01:07:07.023 --> 01:07:08.415
When young people see us

1556
01:07:08.459 --> 01:07:10.243
working together
to protect our city,

1557
01:07:10.287 --> 01:07:13.464
I think great things happen
for our young people.

1558
01:07:13.507 --> 01:07:15.596
So were gonna go
down to the tanks.

1559
01:07:15.640 --> 01:07:18.034
♪♪♪

1560
01:07:18.077 --> 01:07:19.470
Arshay,

1561
01:07:19.513 --> 01:07:22.647
he's incredibly gifted
at bringing people together.

1562
01:07:23.952 --> 01:07:27.173
To go anywhere in the boat,
we have to be moving together.

1563
01:07:27.217 --> 01:07:29.828
To go anywhere in life,
we have to be moving together.

1564
01:07:37.444 --> 01:07:40.099
Let's find the person
in front of you.

1565
01:07:40.143 --> 01:07:42.362
Good job, Tim.
You're looking like a pro!

1566
01:07:44.147 --> 01:07:46.453
Seeing them, just all grown

1567
01:07:46.497 --> 01:07:48.803
and here together
with the police

1568
01:07:48.847 --> 01:07:50.718
and just doing
something positive.

1569
01:07:52.503 --> 01:07:54.461
Good job, Lou.

1570
01:07:54.505 --> 01:07:56.942
♪♪♪

1571
01:07:56.985 --> 01:07:59.162
What he's doing is
a beautiful thing to me.

1572
01:08:00.337 --> 01:08:03.862
White men, Black men,
all coming together,

1573
01:08:03.905 --> 01:08:05.733
and that's what he does--

1574
01:08:05.777 --> 01:08:08.084
making you come together
as a team.

1575
01:08:14.307 --> 01:08:17.484
That was a good job, guys.
That was good.

1576
01:08:17.528 --> 01:08:20.270
You hung on--hung in there.
Bow seat, hung in there.

1577
01:08:20.313 --> 01:08:21.662
Good job, guys.

1578
01:08:21.706 --> 01:08:22.620
I mean I thought
it was beautiful.

1579
01:08:22.663 --> 01:08:24.100
I seen you guys laughing.

1580
01:08:24.143 --> 01:08:26.058
I don't think Alvin had
this much fun with the cops

1581
01:08:26.102 --> 01:08:27.973
since, uh...
[laughter]

1582
01:08:28.016 --> 01:08:29.670
I was two!

1583
01:08:29.714 --> 01:08:31.107
Y'all definitely
should come out and support

1584
01:08:31.150 --> 01:08:32.630
when we do actually race
in July.

1585
01:08:32.673 --> 01:08:33.848
That'd be great to see
you guys on the side.

1586
01:08:33.892 --> 01:08:35.502
Tell us who you're
competing against,

1587
01:08:35.546 --> 01:08:37.461
and when they're
pulling in the parking lot,

1588
01:08:37.504 --> 01:08:39.158
we could pull them over.
[laughter]

1589
01:08:39.202 --> 01:08:40.420
Yeah! Play!

1590
01:08:40.464 --> 01:08:42.118
Feel like these guys are
working together.

1591
01:08:42.161 --> 01:08:44.903
That's how you work together.
That's what I'm talking about.

1592
01:08:44.946 --> 01:08:47.210
We got your back.

1593
01:08:47.253 --> 01:08:49.255
Would you guys row with us
at some point?

1594
01:08:49.299 --> 01:08:50.561
Yeah, yeah.

1595
01:08:50.604 --> 01:08:52.084
We could figure out
a race, find a race.

1596
01:08:52.128 --> 01:08:53.129
- Yeah?
- Absolutely.

1597
01:08:53.172 --> 01:08:54.130
Without a doubt.

1598
01:08:54.173 --> 01:08:55.479
Yeah? Maybe we can row a eight.

1599
01:08:55.522 --> 01:08:57.045
We can race a eight,
you know, I mean together.

1600
01:08:57.089 --> 01:08:59.309
- My boy Lou!
- Yeah, let's hear-- We can--

1601
01:08:59.352 --> 01:09:01.180
I tell you what.
You bring your crew,

1602
01:09:01.224 --> 01:09:03.878
and we bring our crew.
[laughter]

1603
01:09:03.922 --> 01:09:05.358
When we actually got
in the tanks,

1604
01:09:05.402 --> 01:09:07.795
I felt there was just
a little connection with them.

1605
01:09:07.839 --> 01:09:09.536
So I was like, "Maybe this--

1606
01:09:09.580 --> 01:09:11.756
this can be a good thing,
you know, for us."

1607
01:09:11.799 --> 01:09:13.061
They was pretty cool.

1608
01:09:13.105 --> 01:09:14.933
Starting rowing with them,
uh, it was cool.

1609
01:09:14.976 --> 01:09:16.587
Once they came
out of them uniforms,

1610
01:09:16.630 --> 01:09:18.458
they was regular human beings,
you know?

1611
01:09:18.502 --> 01:09:19.677
They was no different

1612
01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:21.113
than anybody else
on the street, you know.

1613
01:09:21.157 --> 01:09:22.810
We was able
to relate to them,

1614
01:09:22.854 --> 01:09:24.769
kick it with them, crack jokes,
have a ball.

1615
01:09:24.812 --> 01:09:26.074
You know,
at the end of the day,

1616
01:09:26.118 --> 01:09:28.381
they go--they go home
to a family and kids

1617
01:09:28.425 --> 01:09:30.644
and mothers and wives, too.

1618
01:09:30.688 --> 01:09:32.342
So, you know,
we just don't get the chance

1619
01:09:32.385 --> 01:09:34.518
to see them in their element
or in that light sometimes.

1620
01:09:34.561 --> 01:09:36.737
It was cool to see that.

1621
01:09:36.781 --> 01:09:37.651
Goodbye, Lou!

1622
01:09:37.695 --> 01:09:39.436
[chatter]

1623
01:09:50.447 --> 01:09:52.666
I think this is
the start of, um,

1624
01:09:52.710 --> 01:09:54.712
something amazing
and something great.

1625
01:09:54.755 --> 01:09:57.193
I want to thank CPD
for coming out,

1626
01:09:57.236 --> 01:09:58.803
uh, rowing with us.

1627
01:09:58.846 --> 01:10:00.326
I'm excited to get
this eight together.

1628
01:10:00.370 --> 01:10:03.416
We also have U.S. Rowing
Olympic Coach Mike Teti with us

1629
01:10:03.460 --> 01:10:04.809
who's gonna coach us today.

1630
01:10:04.852 --> 01:10:08.508
I mean, there was a four,
and now there's an eight.

1631
01:10:08.552 --> 01:10:11.250
So I want to know
who selected this crew.

1632
01:10:11.294 --> 01:10:12.860
The Man upstairs
selected this crew.

1633
01:10:12.904 --> 01:10:15.080
- Yeah.
- That's it, man. Yeah.

1634
01:10:15.123 --> 01:10:17.300
We have a special guest
coxswain today--

1635
01:10:17.343 --> 01:10:19.737
Uh, Kevin, who rowed at Yale.

1636
01:10:19.780 --> 01:10:21.521
This is some bullshit.

1637
01:10:21.565 --> 01:10:24.437
[laughter]

1638
01:10:24.481 --> 01:10:26.309
There's the man.

1639
01:10:26.352 --> 01:10:27.397
Can we bring it in?

1640
01:10:28.963 --> 01:10:30.008
What do we want to say?

1641
01:10:30.051 --> 01:10:31.009
What's the word?
What's the word?

1642
01:10:31.052 --> 01:10:32.010
Anybody have a word?

1643
01:10:32.053 --> 01:10:33.141
"Chicago" on three.

1644
01:10:33.185 --> 01:10:34.230
"Row Chicago" on three.

1645
01:10:34.273 --> 01:10:35.840
One, two, three.

1646
01:10:35.883 --> 01:10:37.276
ALL: Row Chicago!

1647
01:10:37.320 --> 01:10:38.538
All right.

1648
01:10:44.152 --> 01:10:47.591
The fact that Arshay and--
and these guys are rowing

1649
01:10:47.634 --> 01:10:49.375
with members of the--
of the police department,

1650
01:10:49.419 --> 01:10:52.073
I don't have words for sort
of the symbolism behind it.

1651
01:10:52.117 --> 01:10:53.292
Given
what they've gone through,

1652
01:10:53.336 --> 01:10:54.946
it's just--it's indescribable.

1653
01:10:58.297 --> 01:10:59.777
ALVIN:
What I do want to see, man,

1654
01:10:59.820 --> 01:11:02.214
- is all of us to--
- Swing the bow?

1655
01:11:02.258 --> 01:11:03.781
Yep. All of us get together

1656
01:11:03.824 --> 01:11:06.871
for like a, one of them
picnics or something, man.

1657
01:11:06.914 --> 01:11:09.003
Just turn a little bit?

1658
01:11:09.047 --> 01:11:11.876
Hearing the stories
that they share of growing up,

1659
01:11:11.919 --> 01:11:14.313
it was more of an antagonistic
relationship,

1660
01:11:14.357 --> 01:11:17.011
so creating an opportunity,
you know,

1661
01:11:17.055 --> 01:11:18.448
where they can share
with the police

1662
01:11:18.491 --> 01:11:19.797
something that's
special about them,

1663
01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:21.581
maybe it'll
change some minds

1664
01:11:21.625 --> 01:11:24.715
and maybe be a positive thing
in the end.

1665
01:11:29.981 --> 01:11:32.375
MIKE: So it goes in square,

1666
01:11:32.418 --> 01:11:33.767
comes all the way through,

1667
01:11:33.811 --> 01:11:35.726
and then you feather.

1668
01:11:35.769 --> 01:11:38.076
As soon as I say the word "Go,"
you square it up.

1669
01:11:38.119 --> 01:11:39.295
Go.

1670
01:11:39.338 --> 01:11:40.861
ALVIN: Remember,
never let go of your oar.

1671
01:11:40.905 --> 01:11:42.559
- Keep one hand on it.
- That's it.

1672
01:11:48.434 --> 01:11:50.828
And relax. Relax more.

1673
01:11:50.871 --> 01:11:52.308
These guys were in gangs.

1674
01:11:52.351 --> 01:11:53.874
It doesn't matter
where they were.

1675
01:11:53.918 --> 01:11:55.528
It matters
where they're going.

1676
01:11:55.572 --> 01:11:57.704
- Hold up. Wait up.
- MIKE: Wait up.

1677
01:11:57.748 --> 01:11:59.445
Usually,
when we interact with guys

1678
01:11:59.489 --> 01:12:01.229
who were previously in gangs,

1679
01:12:01.273 --> 01:12:02.970
guys who were
previously in prison,

1680
01:12:03.014 --> 01:12:05.669
this is the last place ever
we would come together.

1681
01:12:10.717 --> 01:12:17.594
♪♪♪

1682
01:12:37.178 --> 01:12:38.397
It feels like a big family.

1683
01:12:38.441 --> 01:12:40.138
Literally, we're all
in the same boat.

1684
01:12:47.145 --> 01:12:48.973
These guys didn't need
to come back.

1685
01:12:49.016 --> 01:12:51.889
They came back, and their
focus is to help kids from--

1686
01:12:51.932 --> 01:12:53.717
in the neighborhood
they grew up in.

1687
01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:56.981
That's--That's amazing.
That's amazing to me.

1688
01:12:59.505 --> 01:13:02.421
This is an obvious sign,
a physical sign,

1689
01:13:02.465 --> 01:13:04.467
that police and the guys
from the neighborhood

1690
01:13:04.510 --> 01:13:05.859
are physically working
together.

1691
01:13:05.903 --> 01:13:06.773
You can't miss it.

1692
01:13:06.817 --> 01:13:12.910
♪♪♪

1693
01:13:58.390 --> 01:14:00.305
MIKE: I thought it was
pretty good progress.

1694
01:14:00.348 --> 01:14:02.699
First time in the boat
for some of you?

1695
01:14:02.742 --> 01:14:04.309
- Lou?
- Me, yeah.

1696
01:14:04.352 --> 01:14:06.354
Okay. I actually think
that this is remarkable

1697
01:14:06.398 --> 01:14:09.749
to have you guys
and the police together.

1698
01:14:09.793 --> 01:14:11.316
Get all in the same boat,

1699
01:14:11.359 --> 01:14:12.535
and then it's, you know,

1700
01:14:12.578 --> 01:14:14.145
now you're all part
of the same team,

1701
01:14:14.188 --> 01:14:15.929
- so we're all family now.
- A family.

1702
01:14:15.973 --> 01:14:18.192
That's right, working together
as one team, you know?

1703
01:14:18.236 --> 01:14:19.237
Yeah.

1704
01:14:20.543 --> 01:14:22.370
We got a chance
to row with the cops,

1705
01:14:22.414 --> 01:14:26.505
and, um, I think the moment
that was--was awesome

1706
01:14:26.549 --> 01:14:29.552
is you--you have the biggest
cop out there, Big Lou,

1707
01:14:29.595 --> 01:14:30.814
who's about 6'7",

1708
01:14:30.857 --> 01:14:32.946
and sitting behind him
is Alvin,

1709
01:14:32.990 --> 01:14:37.342
who was locked up
for four and a half years.

1710
01:14:37.385 --> 01:14:39.518
I felt Big Lou
shaking next to me.

1711
01:14:39.562 --> 01:14:42.869
He--That's how hard
he was shaking.

1712
01:14:42.913 --> 01:14:44.697
And I tried
to calm him down,

1713
01:14:44.741 --> 01:14:48.527
telling him
to sit tall, breathe, relax.

1714
01:14:48.571 --> 01:14:49.528
"This is your moment.

1715
01:14:49.572 --> 01:14:50.790
"I've been here before,

1716
01:14:50.834 --> 01:14:54.751
and trust the fact
that we got your back."

1717
01:14:54.794 --> 01:14:56.143
ARSHAY: In my community,

1718
01:14:56.187 --> 01:14:58.537
we have no relationships
with the cops.

1719
01:14:58.581 --> 01:15:01.888
And people may not agree
with what I am doing.

1720
01:15:01.932 --> 01:15:04.935
ALVIN: It shocked me
when Arshay said,

1721
01:15:04.978 --> 01:15:08.199
"We should race with
the Chicago Police officers."

1722
01:15:08.242 --> 01:15:10.375
You know, I laughed and said,
"That's a good idea!"

1723
01:15:10.418 --> 01:15:11.768
But in the back of my head,

1724
01:15:11.811 --> 01:15:14.292
I was like, "Man, I don't
wanna row with their ass."

1725
01:15:15.423 --> 01:15:19.253
But Arshay explained
what he was trying to do.

1726
01:15:19.297 --> 01:15:20.907
I want my city to change.

1727
01:15:20.951 --> 01:15:25.608
I'm so tired of hearing kids
killing kids in my neighborhood.

1728
01:15:25.651 --> 01:15:27.871
I'm so tired of hearing, uh,

1729
01:15:27.914 --> 01:15:30.438
misconduct of the police
in my community,

1730
01:15:30.482 --> 01:15:32.440
so how do we fix it?

1731
01:15:32.484 --> 01:15:34.921
I'm not sure,
but what I do know

1732
01:15:34.965 --> 01:15:36.706
is that this sport has
the ability

1733
01:15:36.749 --> 01:15:39.578
to bring all different
kinds of people together.

1734
01:15:39.622 --> 01:15:41.841
ALVIN: You know it's a funny
thing about Arshay, man.

1735
01:15:41.885 --> 01:15:43.800
God blessed him with a gift.

1736
01:15:43.843 --> 01:15:46.498
That guy got the gift
to talk to people.

1737
01:15:46.542 --> 01:15:50.241
He's all about
bringing everyone together,

1738
01:15:50.284 --> 01:15:55.507
people you'd never think
would ever be together.

1739
01:15:55.551 --> 01:15:57.727
Chicago CPD.

1740
01:15:57.770 --> 01:15:59.598
I think that's gonna be
a great experience

1741
01:15:59.642 --> 01:16:02.209
not only for us
but for our city as well.

1742
01:16:02.253 --> 01:16:03.950
We all definitely
can come together as one

1743
01:16:03.994 --> 01:16:06.692
and make
something good happen.

1744
01:16:08.302 --> 01:16:10.653
ARSHAY: I know it's not
gonna change the system,

1745
01:16:10.696 --> 01:16:13.090
but it's a start.

1746
01:16:13.133 --> 01:16:15.396
One cop at a time.

1747
01:16:20.010 --> 01:16:23.579
♪♪♪

1748
01:16:25.537 --> 01:16:26.538
Ah!

1749
01:16:27.583 --> 01:16:30.847
Just finished my four-mile run.

1750
01:16:30.890 --> 01:16:34.198
I just finished my 10,000-meter
workout for the day.

1751
01:16:38.985 --> 01:16:41.640
Really didn't want to do it.
Didn't feel like it.

1752
01:16:41.684 --> 01:16:43.511
- Tired as hell.
- I just don't want

1753
01:16:43.555 --> 01:16:44.861
to get out there
and get embarrassed.

1754
01:16:44.904 --> 01:16:47.777
I'm too old.
I'm too old for this shit.

1755
01:16:49.996 --> 01:16:53.173
♪♪♪

1756
01:16:53.217 --> 01:16:54.871
ARSHAY:
We had two weeks to go,

1757
01:16:54.914 --> 01:16:57.308
and all of us
was feeling exhausted.

1758
01:16:57.351 --> 01:17:00.311
I thought a visit from
a friend of mine, Uriah Hall,

1759
01:17:00.354 --> 01:17:02.618
would be exactly
what we needed.

1760
01:17:02.661 --> 01:17:06.012
Uriah Hall is a UFC fighter,
top 10 in the world,

1761
01:17:06.056 --> 01:17:08.754
and he is a force of nature.

1762
01:17:08.798 --> 01:17:11.191
I want to bring in
my friend Uriah Hall.

1763
01:17:11.235 --> 01:17:14.194
You know everything about
competing and not giving up.

1764
01:17:14.238 --> 01:17:15.456
Hope that you can come

1765
01:17:15.500 --> 01:17:16.719
and just motivate the guys,
you know?

1766
01:17:23.290 --> 01:17:25.075
I've never seen a Black team.

1767
01:17:25.118 --> 01:17:27.773
That is uplifting.
That's awesome.

1768
01:17:29.819 --> 01:17:32.996
So now you get an opportunity
to inspire another generation.

1769
01:17:34.040 --> 01:17:35.128
What are you gonna do with it?

1770
01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:39.524
Pain is temporary.

1771
01:17:39.567 --> 01:17:41.657
Self-doubt
and negative affirmation

1772
01:17:41.700 --> 01:17:43.223
or "I wish,"
"I could've," "should've,"

1773
01:17:43.267 --> 01:17:45.617
that's gonna last
a long time.

1774
01:17:50.491 --> 01:17:52.842
When your want
becomes a must...

1775
01:17:54.844 --> 01:17:56.584
nothing can stop that.

1776
01:17:59.544 --> 01:18:01.154
DAVID: It's pretty cool
to see those guys

1777
01:18:01.198 --> 01:18:02.721
kind of come back together.

1778
01:18:02.765 --> 01:18:04.375
You're all in one boat,
right?

1779
01:18:04.418 --> 01:18:06.072
So if you don't do
everything together,

1780
01:18:06.116 --> 01:18:07.900
you're gonna go nowhere.

1781
01:18:07.944 --> 01:18:10.207
It creates a special--
special bond.

1782
01:18:10.250 --> 01:18:12.122
Who knows what
the outcome will be?

1783
01:18:12.165 --> 01:18:14.472
But everybody, each of them,

1784
01:18:14.515 --> 01:18:15.908
each person in the sport,

1785
01:18:15.952 --> 01:18:17.562
and the sport itself
will be better

1786
01:18:17.605 --> 01:18:19.042
because of what they've done.

1787
01:18:21.305 --> 01:18:25.744
Preston, Pookie, Alvin,
Malcolm mean a lot to me.

1788
01:18:25.788 --> 01:18:27.006
I love those guys,
you know.

1789
01:18:29.226 --> 01:18:31.489
We will always be brothers.

1790
01:18:31.532 --> 01:18:34.318
MALCOLM: These guys mean
everything to me.

1791
01:18:34.361 --> 01:18:35.623
PRESTON:
Those are my brothers.

1792
01:18:35.667 --> 01:18:37.060
I don't look at them
as teammates anymore.

1793
01:18:37.103 --> 01:18:39.366
I look at them as family.

1794
01:18:47.635 --> 01:18:50.813
Well, it's the day
before race day.

1795
01:18:53.032 --> 01:18:55.382
I can't lie. I am nervous.

1796
01:18:55.426 --> 01:18:56.470
I'm super nervous.

1797
01:18:56.514 --> 01:18:58.690
Been up since 5:30 a.m.

1798
01:18:58.734 --> 01:19:00.823
The conditions is ridiculous
out here.

1799
01:19:00.866 --> 01:19:02.563
The boathouse
is flooded real bad,

1800
01:19:02.607 --> 01:19:04.696
so we have to walk
into that cold water.

1801
01:19:04.740 --> 01:19:05.784
That shit was icy.

1802
01:19:05.828 --> 01:19:07.568
We all have on rubber duckies.

1803
01:19:07.612 --> 01:19:08.656
Everything's
going through your head,

1804
01:19:08.700 --> 01:19:10.136
like, Oh, my God,
are we gonna win?

1805
01:19:10.180 --> 01:19:11.659
Are we gonna lose?
Are we gonna catch a crab?

1806
01:19:11.703 --> 01:19:12.878
Are we gonna hit the wall?

1807
01:19:12.922 --> 01:19:14.401
No crabs this time.

1808
01:19:14.445 --> 01:19:16.360
No shorts
getting caught in the tracks.

1809
01:19:16.403 --> 01:19:17.578
Okay, we're going
for the unisuits,

1810
01:19:17.622 --> 01:19:18.971
so that's the plan.

1811
01:19:19.015 --> 01:19:22.496
Small shorts, tight shorts,
leggings, whatever.

1812
01:19:22.540 --> 01:19:24.847
I want to look like
a real official rower this time.

1813
01:19:24.890 --> 01:19:27.284
So Arshay gave me
the postman shorts.

1814
01:19:27.327 --> 01:19:29.242
They're really short
and really tight.

1815
01:19:29.286 --> 01:19:32.289
The squad's gonna look pretty
fucking good, man. Pretty good.

1816
01:19:32.332 --> 01:19:34.204
We're making history,
the first Black--

1817
01:19:34.247 --> 01:19:36.380
all-Black rowing team

1818
01:19:36.423 --> 01:19:37.990
and the first time

1819
01:19:38.034 --> 01:19:40.601
that somebody's gonna be
rowing in an ankle bracelet.

1820
01:19:40.645 --> 01:19:42.647
[laughter]

1821
01:19:42.690 --> 01:19:43.909
History in the making, baby.

1822
01:19:43.953 --> 01:19:45.781
- Yeah. That's...
- Making history out here.

1823
01:19:45.824 --> 01:19:47.217
We're gonna try to,
you know, get out here

1824
01:19:47.260 --> 01:19:49.523
and--and--and--and make
some real shit happen.

1825
01:19:49.567 --> 01:19:51.830
We're trying to rewrite
history here.

1826
01:19:51.874 --> 01:19:54.398
Me, Preston, Malcolm,
Alvin, Pookie,

1827
01:19:54.441 --> 01:19:55.660
we're the boat men.

1828
01:19:55.703 --> 01:19:56.835
And we're gonna win.

1829
01:19:56.879 --> 01:19:58.924
This is our time.

1830
01:19:58.968 --> 01:20:01.318
See you guys
at the start line.

1831
01:20:01.361 --> 01:20:02.232
Peace out.

1832
01:20:12.285 --> 01:20:14.244
♪ Yo, ahem

1833
01:20:14.287 --> 01:20:15.723
♪ I've been gone
for way too long ♪

1834
01:20:15.767 --> 01:20:17.116
♪ Now I'm Black,
and I'm back... ♪

1835
01:20:18.683 --> 01:20:22.339
Today's the day. Their day.

1836
01:20:22.382 --> 01:20:24.123
♪ On my way up,
saw when this day wasn't there ♪

1837
01:20:24.167 --> 01:20:25.690
♪ But you can't
struggle for... ♪

1838
01:20:25.733 --> 01:20:29.215
Preston, Alvin,
Malcolm, and Arshay

1839
01:20:29.259 --> 01:20:33.002
have entered not one
but two races.

1840
01:20:33.045 --> 01:20:35.787
♪ You struggle forever, baby,
you struggle forever ♪

1841
01:20:35.831 --> 01:20:36.875
♪ Struggle forever, baby...

1842
01:20:36.919 --> 01:20:38.224
The first race

1843
01:20:38.268 --> 01:20:41.401
is with the Chicago
Police Department.

1844
01:20:41.445 --> 01:20:43.316
A beautiful gesture

1845
01:20:43.360 --> 01:20:45.753
with great
generosity of spirit.

1846
01:20:45.797 --> 01:20:48.321
Big Lou! What's up, baby?

1847
01:20:48.365 --> 01:20:49.975
- Preacher man!
- How are you, sir?

1848
01:20:50.019 --> 01:20:51.020
Preacher Man,
what's going on?

1849
01:20:51.063 --> 01:20:52.064
Race day. Race day.

1850
01:20:52.108 --> 01:20:53.413
Father, we come before You,

1851
01:20:53.457 --> 01:20:55.067
and we pray,
God, for our city,

1852
01:20:55.111 --> 01:20:57.113
that You
continue to protect it,

1853
01:20:57.156 --> 01:20:58.897
bring change to communities

1854
01:20:58.941 --> 01:21:01.291
that have been looking
for change for so long.

1855
01:21:01.334 --> 01:21:03.249
Lord, today,
bring us all together.

1856
01:21:03.293 --> 01:21:04.860
We all know
that hope is a big part

1857
01:21:04.903 --> 01:21:06.818
of getting past
all of our differences

1858
01:21:06.862 --> 01:21:08.907
and things that have
gone wrong in this city.

1859
01:21:08.951 --> 01:21:10.561
The Good Book said
that hope floats,

1860
01:21:10.604 --> 01:21:13.433
and hopefully we're full
of hope today, so we float.

1861
01:21:13.477 --> 01:21:15.740
Keep us fast
and keep us safe.

1862
01:21:15.783 --> 01:21:17.916
In Your name we pray.

1863
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:21.093
- Amen.
- "Chicago" on three.

1864
01:21:21.137 --> 01:21:22.181
One, two, three.

1865
01:21:22.225 --> 01:21:24.053
Chicago!

1866
01:21:24.096 --> 01:21:26.055
AMANDA: Overheads, ready, up.

1867
01:21:26.098 --> 01:21:28.753
Shoulders, ready, split.

1868
01:21:28.796 --> 01:21:31.669
[applause]

1869
01:21:33.018 --> 01:21:34.672
- Let's go!
- Let's go!

1870
01:21:34.715 --> 01:21:36.587
Let's go!

1871
01:21:50.688 --> 01:21:52.298
So, Amanda,
I want to appreciate you

1872
01:21:52.342 --> 01:21:54.170
coming on board
and stepping in for me.

1873
01:21:54.213 --> 01:21:55.171
It means a lot.

1874
01:21:55.214 --> 01:21:56.389
Honestly, my pleasure.

1875
01:21:56.433 --> 01:21:57.564
Thanks for having me.

1876
01:21:57.608 --> 01:21:59.001
I appreciate it. Thank you.

1877
01:21:59.044 --> 01:22:00.219
Now hug.

1878
01:22:00.263 --> 01:22:01.220
[chuckles]

1879
01:22:01.264 --> 01:22:02.395
Let's go!

1880
01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:04.397
We all going
balls to the wall, baby.

1881
01:22:04.441 --> 01:22:05.877
Winner take all!

1882
01:22:08.532 --> 01:22:11.404
ANNOUNCER: Lane 74,
go ahead, get onto the course.

1883
01:22:11.448 --> 01:22:12.753
Lane 74.

1884
01:22:13.885 --> 01:22:16.192
Boat into the water.

1885
01:22:16.235 --> 01:22:17.671
Ease into the water.

1886
01:22:25.636 --> 01:22:27.246
They'll race with a purpose

1887
01:22:27.290 --> 01:22:29.422
far greater
than who might win,

1888
01:22:29.466 --> 01:22:32.164
a symbol
for what can be possible

1889
01:22:32.208 --> 01:22:35.559
when unlikely rivals manage
to come together.

1890
01:22:35.602 --> 01:22:37.778
AMANDA: Seven seat, back it.
Sit ready at the catch.

1891
01:22:37.822 --> 01:22:42.087
They'll head down the course
today on this water.

1892
01:22:42.131 --> 01:22:43.262
STARTER: Lincoln Park.

1893
01:22:43.306 --> 01:22:45.482
Together, as one.

1894
01:22:45.525 --> 01:22:48.572
Manley CPD.

1895
01:22:48.615 --> 01:22:49.877
♪ Yeah

1896
01:22:49.921 --> 01:22:52.010
Attention.

1897
01:22:52.054 --> 01:22:54.012
- Go!
- ♪ Holla up

1898
01:22:54.056 --> 01:22:56.493
♪ Uh, yeah, yeah

1899
01:22:56.536 --> 01:22:58.408
♪ I got to fight,
I got to fight ♪

1900
01:22:58.451 --> 01:22:59.626
♪ I got to breathe

1901
01:22:59.670 --> 01:23:01.454
Aah! Let's go!

1902
01:23:01.498 --> 01:23:03.413
[Amanda shouting]

1903
01:23:03.456 --> 01:23:04.675
Aah!

1904
01:23:04.718 --> 01:23:06.633
AMANDA:
Yeah, Preston, go for it!

1905
01:23:06.677 --> 01:23:08.026
Yeah, Preston!

1906
01:23:08.070 --> 01:23:10.028
Hold on to them, guys!

1907
01:23:10.072 --> 01:23:11.987
♪ Uh, get back to the lack

1908
01:23:12.030 --> 01:23:14.076
♪ Spreading my dreams
from the way life made us ♪

1909
01:23:14.119 --> 01:23:16.034
♪ Everyone seems
so different lately ♪

1910
01:23:16.078 --> 01:23:17.905
♪ It's all good
'cause we came a long way ♪

1911
01:23:17.949 --> 01:23:19.211
♪ From that neck of the woods

1912
01:23:19.255 --> 01:23:21.126
♪ Lifestyles
of the rich and famous ♪

1913
01:23:21.170 --> 01:23:22.519
♪ Some live with a name,
some die nameless ♪

1914
01:23:22.562 --> 01:23:24.347
- Go!
- AMANDA: Five on the legs,

1915
01:23:24.390 --> 01:23:25.870
four for me.

1916
01:23:25.913 --> 01:23:28.046
Right here this is
three, two...

1917
01:23:28.090 --> 01:23:29.482
♪ How it feel to be
livin' in a matrix ♪

1918
01:23:29.526 --> 01:23:30.962
♪ When you're feeling
on the shoulder lane? ♪

1919
01:23:31.006 --> 01:23:33.051
♪ And my whole damn team,
they be so damn clean ♪

1920
01:23:33.095 --> 01:23:34.705
♪ The only thing,
we're gonna blow this... ♪

1921
01:23:34.748 --> 01:23:35.880
PRESTON:
Hey, every time I got tired,

1922
01:23:35.923 --> 01:23:37.751
she called my name.
I'm like, "Fuck!"

1923
01:23:37.795 --> 01:23:40.145
[grunts, chuckles]

1924
01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:45.803
[cheers and applause]

1925
01:23:48.806 --> 01:23:50.242
All right!

1926
01:23:50.286 --> 01:23:51.852
We're gonna bring it in
on three.

1927
01:23:51.896 --> 01:23:53.419
"Bridge the water."

1928
01:23:53.463 --> 01:23:54.942
One, two, three.

1929
01:23:54.986 --> 01:23:56.509
ALL: Bridge the water!

1930
01:23:59.295 --> 01:24:01.471
ARSHAY: What if everyone
came together--

1931
01:24:01.514 --> 01:24:03.821
cops, gang members, clergy,

1932
01:24:03.864 --> 01:24:07.477
teachers, companies,
prosecutors, and judges--

1933
01:24:07.520 --> 01:24:10.523
just like we all came
together?

1934
01:24:16.138 --> 01:24:17.356
It's time, baby.

1935
01:24:17.400 --> 01:24:18.618
- Let's go.
- Bring it in.

1936
01:24:18.662 --> 01:24:20.229
- Bring it here.
- Three on the homies.

1937
01:24:20.272 --> 01:24:22.144
- One, two, three.
- On the homies!

1938
01:24:34.852 --> 01:24:37.028
I'm so proud of them.

1939
01:24:37.072 --> 01:24:38.421
Arshay didn't have to do it.

1940
01:24:38.464 --> 01:24:40.814
He didn't have to get them
back on the water.

1941
01:24:40.858 --> 01:24:43.078
The guys didn't
have to say yes.

1942
01:24:43.121 --> 01:24:45.210
But they're doing it.

1943
01:24:45.254 --> 01:24:47.647
Brothers encouraging brothers.

1944
01:24:47.691 --> 01:24:49.736
That needs to spread
like wildfire

1945
01:24:49.780 --> 01:24:51.129
through our communities.

1946
01:24:51.173 --> 01:24:53.740
AMANDA: All right, hands on.
Ready, push.

1947
01:24:55.655 --> 01:24:57.744
The fact that we're still--

1948
01:24:57.788 --> 01:24:59.485
we're still alive,

1949
01:24:59.529 --> 01:25:01.487
survived the West Side...

1950
01:25:01.531 --> 01:25:02.880
Their age group,

1951
01:25:02.923 --> 01:25:04.534
too many of them didn't make it.

1952
01:25:04.577 --> 01:25:07.450
Still being alive,
this is just such a blessing.

1953
01:25:09.060 --> 01:25:11.802
It's gonna be a remarkable
moment for everybody

1954
01:25:11.845 --> 01:25:13.020
when they come together

1955
01:25:13.064 --> 01:25:15.240
and get to that
starting line again.

1956
01:25:16.415 --> 01:25:18.678
They're gonna be
in front of their hometown.

1957
01:25:18.722 --> 01:25:20.332
There's gonna be
kids of color

1958
01:25:20.376 --> 01:25:21.942
seeing, you know,
seeing these, you know,

1959
01:25:21.986 --> 01:25:23.553
these men of color, you know,

1960
01:25:23.596 --> 01:25:27.383
actually in this boat racing
and doing something special.

1961
01:25:27.426 --> 01:25:30.951
I missed all the others,
but this one I won't miss.

1962
01:25:30.995 --> 01:25:33.911
Couldn't keep me away.
[chuckles]

1963
01:25:33.954 --> 01:25:36.000
I will cheer him on.

1964
01:25:37.567 --> 01:25:39.134
This race is about more

1965
01:25:39.177 --> 01:25:42.006
than the 1,000 meters
they'll cover.

1966
01:25:42.049 --> 01:25:44.965
It's about the content
of their character

1967
01:25:45.009 --> 01:25:47.707
and their commitment
to each other,

1968
01:25:47.751 --> 01:25:51.450
a brotherhood
pulling together,

1969
01:25:51.494 --> 01:25:54.627
a new path
drawn in their wake

1970
01:25:54.671 --> 01:25:56.629
for others to follow.

1971
01:25:58.457 --> 01:26:02.809
Win or lose,
when that flag comes down,

1972
01:26:02.853 --> 01:26:04.768
there's only one truth--

1973
01:26:07.249 --> 01:26:09.947
that they are still here.

1974
01:26:15.518 --> 01:26:18.434
STARTER:
Attention, Manley.

1975
01:26:18.477 --> 01:26:20.740
AMANDA: Just be ready
for anything.

1976
01:26:20.784 --> 01:26:21.654
Go!

1977
01:26:21.698 --> 01:26:26.703
♪♪♪

1978
01:26:28.270 --> 01:26:30.185
AMANDA: Row! Row!

1979
01:26:37.017 --> 01:26:39.759
Bury the blades!
Bury the fucking blades!

1980
01:26:46.462 --> 01:26:48.246
- [cheering]
- Come on!

1981
01:26:48.290 --> 01:26:49.987
You may write me down
in history

1982
01:26:50.030 --> 01:26:51.902
with your bitter, twisted lies.

1983
01:26:51.945 --> 01:26:53.773
You may trod me
in the very dirt,

1984
01:26:53.817 --> 01:26:55.601
but still, like dust,
I'll rise.

1985
01:26:55.645 --> 01:26:58.256
Malcolm, this is your time
to shine. Let's go for it!

1986
01:26:58.300 --> 01:26:59.866
Do you want to see me broken?

1987
01:26:59.910 --> 01:27:01.825
Bowed head and lowered eyes?

1988
01:27:01.868 --> 01:27:04.567
[cheering]

1989
01:27:04.610 --> 01:27:06.308
Yes, Preston,
you lay down the pace,

1990
01:27:06.351 --> 01:27:08.571
and everyone else
will follow.

1991
01:27:08.614 --> 01:27:10.964
Shoulders falling down
like teardrops.

1992
01:27:11.008 --> 01:27:13.315
Wakened by my soulful cries.

1993
01:27:14.838 --> 01:27:18.407
One for Preston!
Two for Malcolm!

1994
01:27:18.450 --> 01:27:21.671
Three for Arshay!
Four for Alvin!

1995
01:27:21.714 --> 01:27:23.716
You may shoot me
with your words.

1996
01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:25.501
You may cut me with your eyes.

1997
01:27:25.544 --> 01:27:27.154
You may kill me
with your hatefulness.

1998
01:27:27.198 --> 01:27:31.463
But still, like air, I'll rise.

1999
01:27:31.507 --> 01:27:33.813
AMANDA: Everyone's out here
to see you win, guys.

2000
01:27:33.857 --> 01:27:35.946
Pookie wants to see you win!

2001
01:27:35.989 --> 01:27:37.774
Out of the huts
of history's shame.

2002
01:27:37.817 --> 01:27:39.341
I rise.

2003
01:27:39.384 --> 01:27:41.734
Up from a past
that's rooted in pain.

2004
01:27:41.778 --> 01:27:42.561
I rise.

2005
01:27:42.605 --> 01:27:44.389
- I rise.
- I rise.

2006
01:27:44.433 --> 01:27:47.914
I'm a black ocean,
leaping and wide,

2007
01:27:47.958 --> 01:27:51.657
welling and swelling,
I bear in the tide.

2008
01:27:51.701 --> 01:27:55.313
Leaving behind
nights of terror and fear.

2009
01:27:55.357 --> 01:27:56.923
- I rise.
- I rise.

2010
01:27:56.967 --> 01:27:58.447
I rise.

2011
01:27:58.490 --> 01:28:01.754
Into a daybreak
that's wondrously clear.

2012
01:28:01.798 --> 01:28:03.190
I rise.

2013
01:28:03.234 --> 01:28:06.150
Bringing the gifts
that my ancestors gave.

2014
01:28:06.193 --> 01:28:09.545
I am the dream
and the hope of the slave.

2015
01:28:09.588 --> 01:28:10.720
I rise.

2016
01:28:10.763 --> 01:28:12.199
- I rise.
- I rise.

2017
01:28:12.243 --> 01:28:14.419
- I rise.
- I rise.

2018
01:28:31.436 --> 01:28:34.047
♪♪♪

2019
01:28:39.792 --> 01:28:43.535
And here to present the medals
for the Men's Novice 4

2020
01:28:43.579 --> 01:28:46.364
is two-time Olympian
David Banks.

2021
01:28:46.408 --> 01:28:49.324
[cheers and applause]

2022
01:29:12.434 --> 01:29:16.089
Bam. Two silver medals.

2023
01:29:16.133 --> 01:29:18.048
And you hear people
cheering for us--

2024
01:29:18.091 --> 01:29:19.528
Black people, white people,

2025
01:29:19.571 --> 01:29:22.835
men, women, gay, straight,
Christian, Muslim--

2026
01:29:22.879 --> 01:29:24.620
everyone's cheering for us.

2027
01:29:24.663 --> 01:29:26.970
I made my mom proud, too,
my sons, too.

2028
01:29:27.013 --> 01:29:28.450
They had a ball watching it.

2029
01:29:29.842 --> 01:29:33.368
My silver medals.
[chuckles]

2030
01:29:35.021 --> 01:29:36.849
When we first started
this team years ago,

2031
01:29:36.893 --> 01:29:38.111
most people would walk past

2032
01:29:38.155 --> 01:29:39.591
and looked at us
like we was contagious,

2033
01:29:39.635 --> 01:29:42.507
versus Chicago Sprints 2019,

2034
01:29:42.551 --> 01:29:44.379
we were welcomed
with open arms.

2035
01:29:44.422 --> 01:29:46.250
We won before the race.

2036
01:29:46.293 --> 01:29:47.338
We won before any of this.

2037
01:29:47.382 --> 01:29:48.992
We won in life.

2038
01:29:49.035 --> 01:29:50.515
We have a responsibility

2039
01:29:50.559 --> 01:29:52.343
to change
the West Side of Chicago.

2040
01:29:52.387 --> 01:29:54.171
The time is now to change,

2041
01:29:54.214 --> 01:29:57.130
to seek help.
The time is now.

2042
01:29:57.174 --> 01:29:58.828
That's it for now.

2043
01:29:58.871 --> 01:30:00.003
Enjoy yourself.

2044
01:30:09.839 --> 01:30:11.841
♪♪♪

2045
01:30:11.884 --> 01:30:14.104
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2046
01:30:14.147 --> 01:30:16.193
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2047
01:30:16.236 --> 01:30:18.325
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2048
01:30:18.369 --> 01:30:20.371
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2049
01:30:20.415 --> 01:30:21.981
♪ Pull it up on 'em

2050
01:30:22.025 --> 01:30:23.026
♪ Yo

2051
01:30:23.069 --> 01:30:24.810
♪ Pull it up on 'em

2052
01:30:24.854 --> 01:30:26.203
♪ Pull it up on 'em

2053
01:30:26.246 --> 01:30:30.555
♪ You might wanna
step out here tonight ♪

2054
01:30:30.599 --> 01:30:34.690
♪ We're just tryin'
to catch the feeling tonight ♪

2055
01:30:34.733 --> 01:30:37.344
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2056
01:30:37.388 --> 01:30:39.129
♪ Oh, I

2057
01:30:39.172 --> 01:30:41.653
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2058
01:30:41.697 --> 01:30:43.481
♪ Oh, I

2059
01:30:43.525 --> 01:30:47.703
♪ We not gonna act
out here tonight ♪

2060
01:30:47.746 --> 01:30:51.881
♪ We just want to get
up in tonight ♪

2061
01:30:51.924 --> 01:30:54.623
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2062
01:30:54.666 --> 01:30:56.189
♪ Oh, I

2063
01:30:56.233 --> 01:30:59.062
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2064
01:30:59.105 --> 01:31:00.933
♪ A whole lot, whole lot

2065
01:31:00.977 --> 01:31:02.544
♪ Uh, I say
first and foremost ♪

2066
01:31:02.587 --> 01:31:04.067
♪ Your boy done made it

2067
01:31:04.110 --> 01:31:06.069
♪ Ha, I was like that
because of street failing ♪

2068
01:31:06.112 --> 01:31:08.288
♪ This feeling can't wait,
this feeling can't take it ♪

2069
01:31:08.332 --> 01:31:10.377
♪ Came from the bottom,
now we done made it ♪

2070
01:31:10.421 --> 01:31:12.205
♪ Now no PlayStation,
I ain't no game ♪

2071
01:31:12.249 --> 01:31:14.381
♪ Keying up in this game
like there were no pain ♪

2072
01:31:14.425 --> 01:31:16.471
♪ Wanna see you just feelin'
like the damn soul train ♪

2073
01:31:16.514 --> 01:31:17.689
♪ I'm, like, down with it

2074
01:31:17.733 --> 01:31:19.125
♪ Uh, yeah,
I want that thing ♪

2075
01:31:19.169 --> 01:31:20.692
♪ Back, get back, get back,
let me get it ♪

2076
01:31:20.736 --> 01:31:22.172
♪ Oh, back, get back,
get back ♪

2077
01:31:22.215 --> 01:31:23.695
♪ No, we wanna get up
from the place ♪

2078
01:31:23.739 --> 01:31:24.827
♪ Where the dreams get shot

2079
01:31:24.870 --> 01:31:25.871
♪ And I feel like what

2080
01:31:25.915 --> 01:31:26.916
♪ Can't stop, won't stop

2081
01:31:26.959 --> 01:31:28.221
♪ Got me feeling like aah!

2082
01:31:28.265 --> 01:31:29.919
♪ No, if you ready or not
we gonna rise ♪

2083
01:31:29.962 --> 01:31:31.573
♪ So you holding on steady
tonight ♪

2084
01:31:31.616 --> 01:31:33.749
♪ And in a droptop screaming,
oh, you'll hear me tonight ♪

2085
01:31:33.792 --> 01:31:35.402
♪ That was good,
you won't have to come out ♪

2086
01:31:35.446 --> 01:31:39.363
♪ You might wanna
step out here tonight ♪

2087
01:31:39.406 --> 01:31:43.672
♪ We're just trying
to catch the feeling tonight ♪

2088
01:31:43.715 --> 01:31:46.370
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2089
01:31:46.413 --> 01:31:48.024
♪ Oh, I

2090
01:31:48.067 --> 01:31:50.635
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2091
01:31:50.679 --> 01:31:52.158
♪ Oh, I

2092
01:31:52.202 --> 01:31:56.554
♪ We not gonna act
out here tonight ♪

2093
01:31:56.598 --> 01:31:59.731
♪ We just want to get
up here tonight ♪

2094
01:31:59.775 --> 01:32:00.950
♪ Night, night

2095
01:32:00.993 --> 01:32:03.561
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2096
01:32:03.605 --> 01:32:05.432
♪ Oh, I

2097
01:32:05.476 --> 01:32:08.435
♪♪♪

2098
01:32:11.787 --> 01:32:13.702
♪ Yeah

2099
01:32:13.745 --> 01:32:15.617
♪ I got to fight

2100
01:32:15.660 --> 01:32:17.662
- ♪ I got to breathe
- ♪ I got to breathe

2101
01:32:17.706 --> 01:32:19.577
- ♪ Livin' my life
- Livin' my life ♪

2102
01:32:19.621 --> 01:32:20.709
♪ Holla, yeah

2103
01:32:23.755 --> 01:32:25.757
- ♪ I got to breathe
- ♪ I got to breathe

2104
01:32:25.801 --> 01:32:28.107
- ♪ Livin' my life
- Livin' my life ♪

2105
01:32:28.151 --> 01:32:29.152
♪ Uh

2106
01:32:32.024 --> 01:32:33.199
♪ Yeah

2107
01:32:33.243 --> 01:32:34.505
♪ Whoo-ooh

2108
01:32:37.943 --> 01:32:39.945
- ♪ I got to fight
- Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

2109
01:32:43.819 --> 01:32:45.472
♪ Holla

2110
01:32:45.516 --> 01:32:47.779
♪ Uh, yeah

2111
01:32:47.823 --> 01:32:49.868
- ♪ I got to fight
- ♪ I got to fight

2112
01:32:49.912 --> 01:32:51.783
- ♪ I to breathe
- I got to breathe ♪

2113
01:32:51.827 --> 01:32:53.611
- ♪ Livin' my life
- Livin' my, livin' my ♪

2114
01:32:53.655 --> 01:32:54.960
- ♪ Oh
- ♪ Yeah

2115
01:32:58.137 --> 01:32:59.791
♪ Whoo

2116
01:32:59.835 --> 01:33:01.445
♪ I got to

2117
01:33:01.488 --> 01:33:03.273
♪ Uh, in the back of the lack

2118
01:33:03.316 --> 01:33:05.362
♪ Spreading my dreams
from the way life made us ♪

2119
01:33:05.405 --> 01:33:07.407
♪ Everyone seems
so different lately ♪

2120
01:33:07.451 --> 01:33:09.148
♪ It's all good
'cause we came a long way ♪

2121
01:33:09.192 --> 01:33:10.628
♪ From that neck of the woods

2122
01:33:10.672 --> 01:33:12.543
♪ Lifestyles
of the rich and famous ♪

2123
01:33:12.587 --> 01:33:14.545
♪ Some live with a name,
some die nameless ♪

2124
01:33:14.589 --> 01:33:16.634
♪ Young boys
on a Black street brainless ♪

2125
01:33:16.678 --> 01:33:18.636
♪ When they bust their shots,
they end quick ♪

2126
01:33:18.680 --> 01:33:20.638
♪ How it feel to be
livin' in the matrix ♪

2127
01:33:20.682 --> 01:33:22.161
♪ When you're feeling
on the shoulder lane? ♪

2128
01:33:22.205 --> 01:33:24.163
♪ And my whole damn team,
they be so damn clean ♪

2129
01:33:24.207 --> 01:33:26.165
♪ And the only thing,
we gonna blow this dream ♪

2130
01:33:26.209 --> 01:33:28.559
♪ I know how it feel,
how it feel ♪

2131
01:33:28.603 --> 01:33:30.474
♪ How it feel
just to be so real ♪

2132
01:33:30.517 --> 01:33:32.215
♪ Just like you,
but we feel like steel ♪

2133
01:33:32.258 --> 01:33:33.912
♪ And the kook with the crew
that we're in for the kill ♪

2134
01:33:33.956 --> 01:33:35.871
♪ I want more
for my fam and myself ♪

2135
01:33:35.914 --> 01:33:37.960
♪ Want peace, want love,
want life, want wealth ♪

2136
01:33:38.003 --> 01:33:40.136
♪ I made this, had to fight
for my own, man ♪

2137
01:33:40.179 --> 01:33:41.877
♪ Whether we can stay
when I come for the bell ♪

2138
01:33:41.920 --> 01:33:43.879
♪ Ah, let me know
what it's all for ♪

2139
01:33:43.922 --> 01:33:46.142
♪ If you want something,
then it's all yours ♪

2140
01:33:46.185 --> 01:33:48.231
♪ If you need something,
you can call for ♪

2141
01:33:48.274 --> 01:33:50.015
♪ Now we're making waves,
and we're on board ♪

2142
01:33:50.059 --> 01:33:52.061
- ♪ And we're free
- ♪ Free

2143
01:33:52.104 --> 01:33:53.018
♪ Wave

2144
01:33:54.106 --> 01:33:55.978
- ♪ Free
- ♪ Free, free, free

2145
01:33:56.021 --> 01:33:58.023
♪ Whoo-ooh

2146
01:33:58.067 --> 01:33:59.851
- ♪ Yeah
- ♪ Yeah

2147
01:33:59.895 --> 01:34:01.897
♪ Uh, uh, uh

2148
01:34:01.940 --> 01:34:03.246
♪ Breathe, breathe

2149
01:34:29.054 --> 01:34:31.274
- You making a YouTube video?
- No, I did, uh--

2150
01:34:31.317 --> 01:34:33.537
We're finishing up
a documentary.

2151
01:34:33.580 --> 01:34:35.147
So I'm just doing a little,
you know what I'm saying?

2152
01:34:35.191 --> 01:34:36.322
A couple of vlogging pieces

2153
01:34:36.366 --> 01:34:38.150
so I can go ahead
and get it edited.

2154
01:34:38.194 --> 01:34:39.499
What's the documentary about?

2155
01:34:39.543 --> 01:34:41.327
Um, it's about the first
all-Black rowing team.

2156
01:34:41.371 --> 01:34:42.589
Uh, uh...

2157
01:34:42.633 --> 01:34:44.330
Crew team.
Rowing team.

2158
01:34:44.374 --> 01:34:45.984
Rowing? Crew?

2159
01:34:46.028 --> 01:34:47.594
- Rowing?
- Yeah. Rowing boats and shit.

2160
01:34:47.638 --> 01:34:48.726
- What?
- Yeah.

2161
01:34:48.770 --> 01:34:50.685
That's dope.
Thank you, brother.