1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:07,334 --> 00:00:11,500 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:18,292 --> 00:00:20,334 (CHILDREN PLAYING) 5 00:00:20,417 --> 00:00:24,292 -CHILD 1: (SINGING) ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ -(CHILD 2 LAUGHING) 6 00:00:24,375 --> 00:00:28,209 CHILDREN: ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la ♪ 7 00:00:28,292 --> 00:00:30,667 (OVERLAPPING VOICES AND LAUGHTER) 8 00:00:30,751 --> 00:00:34,042 CHILDREN: ♪ La, la, la, la, la ♪ 9 00:00:48,709 --> 00:00:50,042 Dear son, 10 00:00:51,167 --> 00:00:53,459 I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 11 00:00:54,042 --> 00:00:55,209 Daughter... 12 00:00:55,834 --> 00:00:56,918 Son... 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,125 Dear son... 14 00:00:58,584 --> 00:00:59,626 Dear brothers... 15 00:00:59,709 --> 00:01:03,042 Nephew, I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 16 00:01:03,125 --> 00:01:05,959 I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 17 00:01:06,042 --> 00:01:09,375 I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 18 00:01:09,459 --> 00:01:10,834 To my daughter... 19 00:01:12,167 --> 00:01:14,584 I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 20 00:01:14,667 --> 00:01:17,042 ♪ ("SOUNDTRACK TO CONFUSION" BY BLACK THOUGHT PLAYING) ♪ 21 00:01:17,125 --> 00:01:19,042 ♪ Revelation of a blessin' In disguise ♪ 22 00:01:19,125 --> 00:01:20,417 ♪ I looked hate in the face ♪ 23 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:21,918 ♪ And read the message In his eyes ♪ 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,751 ♪ They clickbaited a nation Then requested the response ♪ 25 00:01:24,834 --> 00:01:27,542 ♪ And dictated the makings Of another renaissance ♪ 26 00:01:27,626 --> 00:01:30,542 ♪ But wait, the fate of it's What the government decides ♪ 27 00:01:30,626 --> 00:01:33,459 ♪ And I don't mean the state I mean this government of ours ♪ 28 00:01:33,542 --> 00:01:36,250 ♪ The mark Ark of the Covenant requires ♪ 29 00:01:36,334 --> 00:01:39,542 ♪ Frauds, I'm making a mockery Of 'em with the bars alone ♪ 30 00:01:39,626 --> 00:01:41,626 ♪ The population Of the world has grown ♪ 31 00:01:41,709 --> 00:01:44,459 ♪ And more people in the streets Than live in gorgeous homes ♪ 32 00:01:44,542 --> 00:01:47,250 ♪ A lotta heavy conflict zones The swords are shown ♪ 33 00:01:47,334 --> 00:01:48,959 ♪ I'm tryna study All the language ♪ 34 00:01:49,042 --> 00:01:50,250 ♪ On the Georgia Stones ♪ 35 00:01:50,334 --> 00:01:52,918 ♪ To quote the classic joint What a fool believes ♪ 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,959 ♪ And what the teachers Of the school believes ♪ 37 00:01:55,042 --> 00:01:56,709 ♪ Is very different From what the thieves ♪ 38 00:01:56,792 --> 00:01:58,500 ♪ And the class In rule believes ♪ 39 00:01:58,584 --> 00:02:00,542 ♪ I'm tryna give y'all Some jewelries ♪ 40 00:02:00,626 --> 00:02:02,584 ♪ We under pressure Like a diamond mine ♪ 41 00:02:02,667 --> 00:02:04,667 ♪ Huntin' it Somethin' like a phenomenon ♪ 42 00:02:04,751 --> 00:02:07,459 ♪ And we losin' light Like M. Night Shyamalan ♪ 43 00:02:07,542 --> 00:02:09,375 ♪ Them people Searchin' for somethin' ♪ 44 00:02:09,459 --> 00:02:10,459 ♪ With body armor on ♪ 45 00:02:10,542 --> 00:02:11,959 ♪ You never know Who they wantin' ♪ 46 00:02:12,042 --> 00:02:13,751 ♪ That's why we on the law ♪ 47 00:02:13,834 --> 00:02:15,709 ♪ Preparin' me That isn't necessary ♪ 48 00:02:15,792 --> 00:02:17,125 ♪ What I'm haunted by Is knowin' ♪ 49 00:02:17,209 --> 00:02:19,959 ♪ Where the bodies are buried Yet I'm taunted by the omen ♪ 50 00:02:20,042 --> 00:02:22,918 ♪ Knowin' my adversary I'm gone to Neveruary ♪ 51 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,334 ♪ It's on It's gettin' heavy for real ♪ 52 00:02:29,959 --> 00:02:32,209 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 53 00:02:39,834 --> 00:02:42,792 ♪ (QUIET MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 54 00:02:44,792 --> 00:02:46,167 Son... 55 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:49,709 I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 56 00:02:51,292 --> 00:02:53,083 I'm telling you because this is the year 57 00:02:53,167 --> 00:02:55,584 that you saw Eric Garner choked to death 58 00:02:55,667 --> 00:02:57,209 for selling cigarettes. 59 00:02:58,042 --> 00:03:00,417 Because... you know now 60 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:03,584 that Renisha McBride was shot for seeking help, 61 00:03:03,667 --> 00:03:06,375 that John Crawford was shot... 62 00:03:09,626 --> 00:03:12,334 for browsing a department store. 63 00:03:12,417 --> 00:03:15,709 You have seen men in uniform drive by 64 00:03:15,792 --> 00:03:18,667 and murder Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy 65 00:03:18,751 --> 00:03:22,083 whom they were oath-bound to protect. 66 00:03:22,167 --> 00:03:24,542 You've seen men in the same uniform 67 00:03:24,626 --> 00:03:28,250 pummel Marlene Pinnock, someone's grandmother, 68 00:03:28,334 --> 00:03:29,876 on the side of a road. 69 00:03:32,459 --> 00:03:38,209 Son, this is the week that you learned... 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,042 that the killers of Michael Brown 71 00:03:44,709 --> 00:03:46,250 would never be punished. 72 00:03:48,375 --> 00:03:50,709 You were young and still believed. 73 00:03:50,792 --> 00:03:53,042 You stayed up until 11:00 p.m. that night 74 00:03:53,125 --> 00:03:55,334 waiting for an announcement of an indictment, 75 00:03:55,417 --> 00:03:56,584 and when instead 76 00:03:56,667 --> 00:03:58,500 it was announced that there was none, 77 00:03:58,584 --> 00:04:01,417 you said, "I got to go." (CHUCKLES) 78 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:03,626 And you went into your room, 79 00:04:04,667 --> 00:04:06,209 and I heard you crying. 80 00:04:07,792 --> 00:04:10,792 I came in five minutes after, and I did not hug you, 81 00:04:10,876 --> 00:04:12,167 I did not comfort you. 82 00:04:12,250 --> 00:04:14,709 I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. 83 00:04:14,792 --> 00:04:16,792 I did not tell you that it would be okay 84 00:04:16,876 --> 00:04:20,250 because I never have believed that it would be okay. 85 00:04:20,334 --> 00:04:22,000 What I told you 86 00:04:22,083 --> 00:04:26,500 is what your grandparents tried to tell me. 87 00:04:26,584 --> 00:04:30,959 That this is your country, that this is your world, 88 00:04:31,042 --> 00:04:34,459 that this is your body. 89 00:04:34,542 --> 00:04:38,083 And that you must find some way to live 90 00:04:38,876 --> 00:04:40,459 within the all of it. 91 00:04:42,417 --> 00:04:44,459 ♪ (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 92 00:04:44,542 --> 00:04:48,083 (STUDENTS RECITING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE) 93 00:04:58,125 --> 00:04:59,959 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 94 00:05:00,042 --> 00:05:02,918 To be Black in the Baltimore of my youth 95 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,876 was to be naked before the elements, 96 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:12,751 before all the guns, fists, and knives, crack, 97 00:05:13,959 --> 00:05:15,792 rape, and disease. 98 00:05:15,876 --> 00:05:18,459 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 99 00:05:19,584 --> 00:05:21,667 The nakedness is not an error. 100 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:29,459 The nakedness is the intended result of policy. 101 00:05:31,417 --> 00:05:36,167 The system makes your body breakable. 102 00:05:36,250 --> 00:05:40,125 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 103 00:05:42,667 --> 00:05:46,209 I was 11 years old 104 00:05:46,292 --> 00:05:49,292 standing in the parking lot in front of the 7-Eleven 105 00:05:49,375 --> 00:05:53,167 and I was watching a crew of older boys 106 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:55,083 standing near the street. 107 00:05:56,250 --> 00:05:58,959 It was just before 3:00 in the afternoon. 108 00:05:59,042 --> 00:06:02,959 I was in sixth grade, and school had just gotten out. 109 00:06:03,042 --> 00:06:06,209 It was not yet the, uh, fighting weather 110 00:06:06,292 --> 00:06:09,417 of the early spring. (CHUCKLES) 111 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:14,083 I focused in on the light-skinned boy 112 00:06:14,167 --> 00:06:17,083 with the long head and small eyes. 113 00:06:19,209 --> 00:06:20,500 He was scowling. 114 00:06:24,292 --> 00:06:26,250 He reached into his ski jacket... 115 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:28,834 and pulled out a gun. 116 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:33,375 I recall this in the slowest motion 117 00:06:33,459 --> 00:06:35,500 as though it was a dream. 118 00:06:35,584 --> 00:06:37,417 There the boy stood with the gun brandished, 119 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:43,167 which he slowly untucked, tucked, then untucked once more. 120 00:06:43,250 --> 00:06:45,417 And in his small eyes, I... 121 00:06:47,125 --> 00:06:49,042 I saw this surging rage 122 00:06:49,125 --> 00:06:51,626 that could in an instant erase my body. 123 00:06:54,167 --> 00:06:56,250 The boy did not shoot. 124 00:06:56,334 --> 00:06:59,584 (SCOFFS) He did not need to shoot. 125 00:07:01,375 --> 00:07:03,250 He had affirmed my place in the order. 126 00:07:03,334 --> 00:07:07,500 He had let it be known how easily I could be selected. 127 00:07:08,250 --> 00:07:10,667 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 128 00:07:10,751 --> 00:07:13,167 JHARREL JEROME: West Baltimore... 129 00:07:13,250 --> 00:07:16,334 where children regularly fear for their bodies. 130 00:07:18,918 --> 00:07:21,334 Who knew what brought that knowledge. I mean... 131 00:07:22,584 --> 00:07:25,918 the projects, a drunken stepfather, 132 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,667 a... older brother concussed by the police, 133 00:07:28,751 --> 00:07:30,667 a cousin pinned in a city jail. 134 00:07:31,209 --> 00:07:33,125 (SCOFFS) 135 00:07:33,209 --> 00:07:34,751 Somewhere out there... 136 00:07:34,834 --> 00:07:36,292 -(CHILD GIGGLING) -...past the asteroid belt, 137 00:07:36,375 --> 00:07:40,334 there were other worlds where children did not fear. 138 00:07:41,125 --> 00:07:42,417 (SCOFFS) 139 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:43,959 I came to understand that 140 00:07:44,042 --> 00:07:46,834 my portion of the American galaxy 141 00:07:47,542 --> 00:07:48,918 is Black. 142 00:07:49,751 --> 00:07:53,375 And the other portion is not. 143 00:07:55,083 --> 00:07:58,792 I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a... 144 00:07:59,584 --> 00:08:01,250 profound cruelty, 145 00:08:02,542 --> 00:08:05,876 a... irrepressible desire 146 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:10,250 to unshackle my body and escape. 147 00:08:10,334 --> 00:08:11,667 ♪ ("BLACK" BY BUDDY FT. ASAP FERG PLAYING) ♪ 148 00:08:11,751 --> 00:08:13,459 ♪ Black on black Black, my thoughts so black ♪ 149 00:08:13,542 --> 00:08:15,334 ♪ Black, black on black My skin is so black ♪ 150 00:08:15,417 --> 00:08:17,042 ♪ I'm rockin' that Black on black ♪ 151 00:08:17,125 --> 00:08:18,834 -♪ It's black, black ♪ -♪ Black rims On these black wheels... ♪ 152 00:08:18,918 --> 00:08:21,375 ANGELA BASSETT: I knew there was this other world 153 00:08:21,459 --> 00:08:24,459 that was suburban and endless, 154 00:08:24,542 --> 00:08:30,334 organized around pot roast, pies, sundaes, 155 00:08:30,417 --> 00:08:34,417 and small toy trucks loosed in wooded backyards. 156 00:08:35,334 --> 00:08:37,959 I have seen that dream all my life. 157 00:08:40,209 --> 00:08:43,834 It is perfect houses with perfect lawns, 158 00:08:43,918 --> 00:08:47,000 Memorial Day cookouts and driveways, 159 00:08:47,083 --> 00:08:50,167 treehouses and Cub Scouts. 160 00:08:50,751 --> 00:08:52,083 The Dream. 161 00:08:52,167 --> 00:08:53,959 Smells like peppermint, 162 00:08:54,042 --> 00:08:58,042 but tastes like strawberry shortcake. 163 00:08:58,125 --> 00:09:00,042 ♪ (CHIMING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 164 00:09:00,125 --> 00:09:02,751 The Dream seemed to be the pinnacle, 165 00:09:02,834 --> 00:09:05,292 to grow rich and live in one of those 166 00:09:05,375 --> 00:09:08,167 disconnected houses out in the country, 167 00:09:08,250 --> 00:09:10,667 in one of those small communities, 168 00:09:10,751 --> 00:09:16,375 one of those cul-de-sacs with its gently curving ways, 169 00:09:16,459 --> 00:09:20,959 where they staged teen movies and built tree houses, 170 00:09:21,042 --> 00:09:24,959 and in that last lost year before college, 171 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:29,250 teenagers made love in cars parked by the lake. 172 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,042 The Dream seemed to be the end of the world for me, 173 00:09:36,125 --> 00:09:40,417 the height of American ambition. 174 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:44,542 What more could possibly exist beyond the dispatches, 175 00:09:44,626 --> 00:09:47,000 beyond the suburbs? 176 00:09:47,083 --> 00:09:50,167 ♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 177 00:09:52,542 --> 00:09:56,375 For so long, I've wanted to escape into the Dream, 178 00:09:56,459 --> 00:10:00,626 to fold my country over my head like a blanket. 179 00:10:00,709 --> 00:10:03,584 But this has never been an option... 180 00:10:05,042 --> 00:10:08,834 because the Dream rests on our backs, 181 00:10:08,918 --> 00:10:12,375 the bedding made from our bodies. 182 00:10:13,876 --> 00:10:19,000 And knowing this, knowing that the Dream persists 183 00:10:19,083 --> 00:10:21,667 by warring with the known world, 184 00:10:23,292 --> 00:10:25,292 I was sad for my country. 185 00:10:27,876 --> 00:10:29,876 But above all, 186 00:10:29,959 --> 00:10:33,042 in that moment, I was sad for you. 187 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:39,542 ...start off by saying that I don't feel very good today. 188 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:41,709 I don't feel very good 189 00:10:41,792 --> 00:10:43,792 because I walked down those steps 190 00:10:43,876 --> 00:10:46,626 and I saw people screaming, 191 00:10:46,709 --> 00:10:49,375 jumping up and down, throwing Frisbees 192 00:10:50,542 --> 00:10:52,334 when there's a war going on. 193 00:10:52,417 --> 00:10:55,167 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 194 00:10:55,250 --> 00:10:57,125 ANGELA DAVIS: I just wanna know, what were people 195 00:10:57,209 --> 00:10:58,584 out here celebrating? 196 00:10:58,667 --> 00:11:00,918 What is there to celebrate? 197 00:11:02,751 --> 00:11:05,209 For everybody who believes it, and can say it, 198 00:11:05,292 --> 00:11:07,834 and can fight for it, all power to the people. 199 00:11:07,918 --> 00:11:10,626 (APPLAUSE) 200 00:11:10,709 --> 00:11:13,250 YARA SHAHIDI: See, I was a curious child, 201 00:11:13,334 --> 00:11:17,125 but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. 202 00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:19,417 They were concerned with compliance. 203 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,417 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 204 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:23,834 SHAHIDI: Every February, my classmates and I 205 00:11:23,918 --> 00:11:25,459 were herded into assemblies 206 00:11:25,542 --> 00:11:28,500 for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. 207 00:11:28,584 --> 00:11:32,876 Our teachers urged us towards the example of freedom marchers, 208 00:11:32,959 --> 00:11:35,375 Freedom Riders, and Freedom Summers. 209 00:11:35,459 --> 00:11:38,167 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 210 00:11:39,959 --> 00:11:43,375 The month could not pass without a series of films 211 00:11:43,459 --> 00:11:47,751 dedicated to the glories of being beaten on camera. 212 00:11:47,834 --> 00:11:50,375 The firehoses that tore off their clothes 213 00:11:50,459 --> 00:11:52,417 and tumbled them into the streets. 214 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:56,459 They seemed to love the dogs that tear their children apart, 215 00:11:56,542 --> 00:11:58,417 the tear gas that clotted their lungs. 216 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:00,959 They seemed to love those terrorists. 217 00:12:03,542 --> 00:12:06,125 DAVIS: The world had no time 218 00:12:06,209 --> 00:12:10,626 for the childhoods of Black boys and girls. 219 00:12:10,709 --> 00:12:13,375 I sensed the schools were drugging us 220 00:12:13,459 --> 00:12:15,334 with false morality. 221 00:12:16,334 --> 00:12:20,667 Why were only our heroes non-violent? 222 00:12:22,167 --> 00:12:25,751 Why are they showing this to us? 223 00:12:25,834 --> 00:12:28,209 Why are they showing this to us? 224 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,667 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 225 00:12:35,918 --> 00:12:38,792 If I could've chosen a flag back then, 226 00:12:38,876 --> 00:12:41,667 it would've been embroidered with a portrait of Malcolm X 227 00:12:41,751 --> 00:12:43,876 dressed in a business suit, his tie dangling, 228 00:12:43,959 --> 00:12:45,834 one hand parting a window shade... 229 00:12:45,918 --> 00:12:47,500 DAVIS: ...the other holding a rifle. 230 00:12:47,584 --> 00:12:49,375 'Cause that portrait communicated 231 00:12:49,459 --> 00:12:51,167 everything I wanted to be. 232 00:12:52,959 --> 00:12:55,792 Controlled, intelligent... 233 00:12:55,876 --> 00:12:58,500 DAVIS: ...and beyond the fear. 234 00:12:58,584 --> 00:13:00,500 SHAHIDI: See, I loved Malcolm. 235 00:13:00,584 --> 00:13:01,959 Malcolm never lied. 236 00:13:02,042 --> 00:13:04,250 DAVIS: Unlike the world of dreamers... 237 00:13:04,334 --> 00:13:07,042 SHAHIDI: ...he was unconcerned with making the people 238 00:13:07,125 --> 00:13:09,626 who believed they were white comfortable. 239 00:13:09,709 --> 00:13:12,000 If you can't do for yourself 240 00:13:12,083 --> 00:13:14,417 what the white man is doing for himself, 241 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:16,292 don't say you're equal with the white man. 242 00:13:16,375 --> 00:13:17,542 (CROWD AGREEING) 243 00:13:17,626 --> 00:13:19,876 If you can't set up a factory like he sets up a factory, 244 00:13:19,959 --> 00:13:21,876 don't talk that old equality talk. 245 00:13:21,959 --> 00:13:24,250 SHAHIDI: It was a declaration of equality 246 00:13:24,334 --> 00:13:27,334 rooted in the sanctity of the Black body. 247 00:13:27,417 --> 00:13:31,042 DAVIS: You do not give your body 248 00:13:31,125 --> 00:13:34,375 to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs. 249 00:13:34,459 --> 00:13:38,334 Nor to the insidious gravity of the streets. 250 00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:41,375 Black is beautiful, 251 00:13:41,459 --> 00:13:43,876 which is to say that the Black body 252 00:13:43,959 --> 00:13:45,167 is beautiful, 253 00:13:45,250 --> 00:13:47,334 that Black hair must be guarded, 254 00:13:47,417 --> 00:13:50,000 Black skin must be guarded. 255 00:13:50,083 --> 00:13:52,959 Our noses must be protected. 256 00:13:53,042 --> 00:13:57,834 And we must never submit our original self... 257 00:13:57,918 --> 00:13:59,876 SHAHIDI: Our one of one. 258 00:13:59,959 --> 00:14:02,500 DAVIS: ...to defiling and plunder. 259 00:14:04,876 --> 00:14:07,876 "If you're Black, you were born in jail." 260 00:14:07,959 --> 00:14:10,209 SHAHIDI: And I felt the truth of this. 261 00:14:10,292 --> 00:14:13,083 I felt the truth of this in the blocks I had to avoid. 262 00:14:13,167 --> 00:14:16,083 DAVIS: In the times of day when I must not be caught 263 00:14:16,167 --> 00:14:18,250 walking home from school. 264 00:14:18,334 --> 00:14:21,375 In my lack of control over my body. 265 00:14:21,459 --> 00:14:23,209 Perhaps, I, too, might live free. 266 00:14:23,292 --> 00:14:25,834 Perhaps, I, too, might wield the same old power 267 00:14:25,918 --> 00:14:28,334 that animated the ancestors, and speak... 268 00:14:28,417 --> 00:14:30,542 No, act. 269 00:14:30,626 --> 00:14:32,959 ...as though my body were my own. 270 00:14:37,792 --> 00:14:40,584 ♪ ("REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE" BY PUBLIC ENEMY PLAYING) ♪ 271 00:14:40,667 --> 00:14:42,876 ♪ Yes, the rhythm, the rebel ♪ 272 00:14:42,959 --> 00:14:45,042 ♪ Without a pause I'm lowering my level ♪ 273 00:14:45,125 --> 00:14:47,626 ♪ The hard rhymer Where you never been I'm in ♪ 274 00:14:47,709 --> 00:14:49,959 ♪ You want stylin' You know it's time again ♪ 275 00:14:50,042 --> 00:14:52,167 ♪ D the enemy Tellin' you to hear it ♪ 276 00:14:52,250 --> 00:14:54,834 ♪ They praised the music This time they play the lyrics ♪ 277 00:14:54,918 --> 00:14:57,042 ♪ Some say no To the album, the show ♪ 278 00:14:57,125 --> 00:14:59,459 ♪ Bum rush the sound I made a year ago ♪ 279 00:14:59,542 --> 00:15:02,209 ♪ I guess you know You guess I'm just a radical ♪ 280 00:15:02,292 --> 00:15:04,500 ♪ Not on sabbatical Yes to make it critical ♪ 281 00:15:04,584 --> 00:15:06,918 ♪ The only part your body Should be partying to ♪ 282 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,417 ♪ Panther power on the hour From the rebel to you ♪ 283 00:15:13,250 --> 00:15:15,209 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 284 00:15:16,584 --> 00:15:18,626 ♪ (POP MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 285 00:15:18,709 --> 00:15:21,125 SUSAN KELECHI WATSON: I was admitted to Howard University, 286 00:15:21,209 --> 00:15:23,125 but formed and shaped by the Mecca. 287 00:15:23,209 --> 00:15:26,167 Now, these institutions are related but not the same. 288 00:15:26,250 --> 00:15:28,042 Howard University is an institution 289 00:15:28,125 --> 00:15:30,792 of higher education concerned with the LSAT, 290 00:15:30,876 --> 00:15:33,500 magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. 291 00:15:33,584 --> 00:15:37,542 The Mecca is a machine crafted to capture and concentrate 292 00:15:37,626 --> 00:15:39,417 the dark energies of all African peoples 293 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:42,125 and inject them directly into the student body. 294 00:15:42,209 --> 00:15:44,042 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 295 00:15:44,125 --> 00:15:45,876 Whereas most historically Black schools 296 00:15:45,959 --> 00:15:48,375 were scattered like forts in the great wilderness 297 00:15:48,459 --> 00:15:49,959 of the old Confederacy, 298 00:15:50,042 --> 00:15:55,125 Howard was in Washington, DC, Chocolate City, 299 00:15:55,209 --> 00:15:57,959 and thus in proximity to both federal power 300 00:15:58,042 --> 00:15:59,751 and Black power. 301 00:15:59,834 --> 00:16:02,375 (CHANTING) 302 00:16:02,459 --> 00:16:03,876 WATSON: The result was an alumni 303 00:16:03,959 --> 00:16:06,042 that spanned genre and generation. 304 00:16:06,125 --> 00:16:08,834 Amiri Baraka, Thurgood Marshall, 305 00:16:08,918 --> 00:16:12,042 Ossie Davis, Kwame Ture. 306 00:16:12,125 --> 00:16:14,876 The history, the location, the alumni, the Mecca, 307 00:16:14,959 --> 00:16:17,042 crossroads of the Black diaspora. 308 00:16:17,125 --> 00:16:19,083 Out on the Yard, the communal green space 309 00:16:19,167 --> 00:16:21,292 in the center of campus where the students gathered, 310 00:16:21,375 --> 00:16:24,500 I saw everything I knew of my Black self, 311 00:16:24,584 --> 00:16:27,375 multiplied into seemingly endless variations. 312 00:16:27,459 --> 00:16:29,167 (INDISTINCT LAUGHTER AND CHATTER) 313 00:16:29,250 --> 00:16:32,209 WATSON: There were the scions of the Nigerian aristocrats 314 00:16:32,292 --> 00:16:33,876 giving dap to the bald-headed Qs 315 00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:36,417 in their purple windbreakers and tan Timbs. 316 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:38,667 The California girls turned Muslim, 317 00:16:38,751 --> 00:16:40,584 in their long skirts and hijabs. 318 00:16:40,667 --> 00:16:42,626 And there were the Christian cultists, 319 00:16:42,709 --> 00:16:44,334 and the tabernacle fanatics, 320 00:16:44,417 --> 00:16:46,083 the mathematical geniuses. 321 00:16:46,167 --> 00:16:47,667 It was like listening to a hundred 322 00:16:47,751 --> 00:16:49,626 different renditions of "Redemption Song," 323 00:16:49,709 --> 00:16:52,083 each in a different color and key, 324 00:16:52,167 --> 00:16:54,334 and overlaying all of this... 325 00:16:54,417 --> 00:16:56,584 was the history of Howard itself. 326 00:16:56,667 --> 00:16:58,667 ♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 327 00:17:07,125 --> 00:17:10,292 WATSON: The Mecca, the vastness of Black people 328 00:17:10,375 --> 00:17:12,626 across space and time, could be experienced 329 00:17:12,709 --> 00:17:15,250 in a 20-minute walk across campus, 330 00:17:15,334 --> 00:17:17,626 in the footsteps of Zora Neale Hurston 331 00:17:17,709 --> 00:17:19,042 and Toni Morrison. 332 00:17:20,959 --> 00:17:22,542 And the students who were chopping it up 333 00:17:22,626 --> 00:17:24,709 in front of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, 334 00:17:24,792 --> 00:17:27,250 where Muhammad Ali had once addressed their fathers 335 00:17:27,334 --> 00:17:29,500 in defiance of Vietnam. 336 00:17:29,584 --> 00:17:32,918 It's not hard to tell a white man's heaven 337 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,584 is a Black man's hell. 338 00:17:34,667 --> 00:17:37,083 WATSON: I saw it in the epic sweep of the students 339 00:17:37,167 --> 00:17:40,876 in front of Ira Aldridge Theater where Donny Hathaway once sang. 340 00:17:44,876 --> 00:17:49,125 The students clapping, singing, stomping, chanting, stepping. 341 00:17:49,209 --> 00:17:51,292 Some of the girls sat in front of the flagpole 342 00:17:51,375 --> 00:17:53,250 with bell hooks and Sonia Sanchez 343 00:17:53,334 --> 00:17:54,417 in their straw totes. 344 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:57,250 Some of these boys, with their new Yoruba names, 345 00:17:57,334 --> 00:18:00,417 beseeched these girls by citing Frantz Fanon. 346 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:02,250 Some of them were Panamanian, Bajan, 347 00:18:02,334 --> 00:18:04,417 some of them from places I'd never even heard of, 348 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:07,667 but all of them were hot and incredible. 349 00:18:07,751 --> 00:18:11,000 ♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 350 00:18:14,626 --> 00:18:16,459 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 351 00:18:16,542 --> 00:18:18,667 I'd take a break from my studies, 352 00:18:18,751 --> 00:18:20,667 come out to the Yard, and I'd imagine Malcolm 353 00:18:20,751 --> 00:18:23,500 in his cell, studying the books. 354 00:18:26,209 --> 00:18:28,292 I felt bound by my ignorance... 355 00:18:30,209 --> 00:18:33,250 by the questions that I hadn't yet understood. 356 00:18:33,334 --> 00:18:36,918 I wanted to pursue things, to know things. 357 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,542 The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me. 358 00:18:40,626 --> 00:18:42,500 The Black world was expanding before me, 359 00:18:42,584 --> 00:18:44,209 and I could see now that that world 360 00:18:44,292 --> 00:18:45,959 was more than just a photonegative 361 00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:48,626 of that of those who believe that they are white. 362 00:18:48,709 --> 00:18:52,417 Black people, who embody all physical varieties 363 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,125 and-- and life stories, 364 00:18:54,209 --> 00:18:59,709 we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitan. 365 00:18:59,792 --> 00:19:02,334 The Black diaspora wasn't just our own world 366 00:19:02,417 --> 00:19:03,667 but, in so many ways, 367 00:19:03,751 --> 00:19:06,459 it became the Western world itself. 368 00:19:06,542 --> 00:19:08,042 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 369 00:19:08,125 --> 00:19:09,667 (CROWD CHEERING) 370 00:19:09,751 --> 00:19:11,709 CHADWICK BOSEMAN: The light of new realization 371 00:19:11,792 --> 00:19:14,500 shines on you today. 372 00:19:14,584 --> 00:19:18,834 When completing a long climb, one first experiences dizziness, 373 00:19:18,918 --> 00:19:21,375 disorientation, and shortness of breath 374 00:19:21,459 --> 00:19:23,250 due to the high altitude. 375 00:19:23,334 --> 00:19:27,083 But once you become accustomed to the climb, your mind opens up 376 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:29,417 to the tranquility of the triumph. 377 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,083 Howard's legacy is not wrapped up 378 00:19:33,167 --> 00:19:35,250 in the money that you will make, 379 00:19:35,334 --> 00:19:39,584 but the challenges that you choose to confront. 380 00:19:39,667 --> 00:19:43,918 As you commence to your past, press on with pride 381 00:19:44,751 --> 00:19:47,167 and press on with purpose. 382 00:19:48,083 --> 00:19:49,792 God bless you. 383 00:19:49,876 --> 00:19:51,792 I love you, Howard. 384 00:19:51,876 --> 00:19:54,209 (CROWD CHEERING) 385 00:19:54,292 --> 00:19:55,834 Howard forever. 386 00:19:55,918 --> 00:19:59,000 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 387 00:20:13,542 --> 00:20:15,626 ♪ (APPLAUSE FADES) ♪ 388 00:20:15,709 --> 00:20:17,626 ♪ (SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 389 00:20:17,709 --> 00:20:20,083 (GIGGLING) 390 00:20:36,167 --> 00:20:38,792 MAHERSHALA ALI: My second year at Howard, uh... 391 00:20:40,584 --> 00:20:42,250 I fell hard for her. 392 00:20:43,626 --> 00:20:45,417 A lovely girl from California, 393 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,417 who was then in the habit of floating over the campus 394 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:50,459 in a long skirt and headwrap. 395 00:20:52,709 --> 00:20:54,876 Her father was from Bangalore. 396 00:20:55,792 --> 00:20:57,751 And where was that? 397 00:21:02,459 --> 00:21:03,792 I remember my ignorance. 398 00:21:05,417 --> 00:21:09,083 I remember watching her eat with her hand 399 00:21:09,167 --> 00:21:12,167 and feeling wholly uncivilized with my fork. 400 00:21:12,250 --> 00:21:14,459 (CHUCKLES) 401 00:21:14,542 --> 00:21:16,667 I remember her going to India for spring break 402 00:21:16,751 --> 00:21:18,751 and returning with the bindi and photos 403 00:21:18,834 --> 00:21:21,292 of her smiling Indian cousins. 404 00:21:21,375 --> 00:21:24,334 (LAUGHS) I told her, "Nigga, you Black." 405 00:21:25,959 --> 00:21:27,959 Because that's all I had back then. 406 00:21:34,626 --> 00:21:36,375 In my small apartment, she kissed me 407 00:21:36,459 --> 00:21:37,792 and the ground opened up. 408 00:21:42,125 --> 00:21:45,209 How many awful poems did I write about her? 409 00:21:45,292 --> 00:21:47,375 (CHUCKLES) 410 00:21:47,459 --> 00:21:51,542 She was to me a galactic portal off this bound and blind planet. 411 00:21:51,626 --> 00:21:54,876 She held the lineage of other worlds 412 00:21:54,959 --> 00:21:57,125 in the vessel of her Black body. 413 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 I fell again, a short time later, 414 00:22:05,083 --> 00:22:08,417 and in a similar fashion, for another girl. 415 00:22:10,918 --> 00:22:13,667 Tall with flowing dreadlocks. 416 00:22:13,751 --> 00:22:15,834 She was raised by a Jewish mother 417 00:22:15,918 --> 00:22:17,751 in a small town, nearly... 418 00:22:18,626 --> 00:22:21,626 all-white in Pennsylvania, 419 00:22:21,709 --> 00:22:24,709 and now, at Howard, ranged between women and men, 420 00:22:26,792 --> 00:22:30,042 asserted this with pride. I was amazed. 421 00:22:30,125 --> 00:22:32,209 This was something Black people did? 422 00:22:34,334 --> 00:22:36,584 She taught me to love in new ways. 423 00:22:38,667 --> 00:22:41,626 I grew up in a house where there was-- 424 00:22:41,709 --> 00:22:43,667 it was drawn between love and fear. 425 00:22:43,751 --> 00:22:45,918 There was no room for softness. 426 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,876 But this girl revealed something that love could be soft, 427 00:22:49,959 --> 00:22:52,876 that soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. 428 00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:59,876 ♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 429 00:22:59,959 --> 00:23:02,834 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 430 00:23:09,918 --> 00:23:13,042 ALI: I fell in love at the Mecca one last time. 431 00:23:18,584 --> 00:23:20,584 Lost my balance and all my boyhood 432 00:23:20,667 --> 00:23:22,834 under the spell of a girl from Chicago. 433 00:23:26,542 --> 00:23:27,751 This was your mother. 434 00:23:29,918 --> 00:23:31,959 I stood with a blunt in one hand, 435 00:23:32,042 --> 00:23:33,709 a beer in the other. 436 00:23:34,667 --> 00:23:36,792 I inhaled, passed it off... 437 00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:39,751 to the Chicago girl. 438 00:23:41,584 --> 00:23:44,876 And when I brushed her long elegant fingers, 439 00:23:46,626 --> 00:23:48,626 I shuddered a bit from the blast. 440 00:23:51,584 --> 00:23:55,042 She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled, 441 00:23:55,834 --> 00:23:56,959 exhaled, 442 00:23:58,083 --> 00:24:00,375 then pulled the smoke back in. 443 00:24:02,375 --> 00:24:04,626 Watching this display of smoke and flame, 444 00:24:04,709 --> 00:24:08,209 and already feeling the effects, was... 445 00:24:09,417 --> 00:24:13,083 I was lost, running. 446 00:24:13,167 --> 00:24:15,417 Wondering what it must be to embrace her, 447 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:19,834 to be exhaled by her, to return to her, 448 00:24:19,918 --> 00:24:22,167 and leave her high. 449 00:24:26,417 --> 00:24:28,918 She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a child 450 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,000 that she'd better be smart 451 00:24:30,083 --> 00:24:33,292 because her looks wouldn't save her. 452 00:24:35,125 --> 00:24:37,459 Told as a young woman that she was really pretty 453 00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:39,167 for a dark-skinned girl. 454 00:24:43,292 --> 00:24:48,083 There was all about her a knowledge 455 00:24:48,167 --> 00:24:52,167 of cosmic injustices, 456 00:24:53,417 --> 00:24:56,125 the same knowledge I'd glimpsed all those years ago, 457 00:24:56,209 --> 00:24:59,209 watching the golden-haired boys with their toy trucks 458 00:24:59,292 --> 00:25:01,042 and football cards and... 459 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,083 and dimly perceiving the great barrier 460 00:25:06,167 --> 00:25:08,250 between the world and me. 461 00:25:16,167 --> 00:25:18,292 Nothing between us was ever planned, 462 00:25:18,375 --> 00:25:19,709 not even you. 463 00:25:20,542 --> 00:25:22,626 We summoned you out of ourselves, 464 00:25:23,667 --> 00:25:25,918 and you were not given a vote. 465 00:25:28,250 --> 00:25:30,959 You deserved all the protection we could muster. 466 00:25:32,959 --> 00:25:37,375 There was before you, and then there was after. 467 00:25:39,584 --> 00:25:41,417 And in this after... 468 00:25:44,459 --> 00:25:46,542 you're the God I never had. 469 00:25:49,042 --> 00:25:52,876 I submitted before your needs, 470 00:25:52,959 --> 00:25:57,125 and I knew then that I must survive 471 00:25:57,209 --> 00:26:00,292 for something more than survival's sake. 472 00:26:07,167 --> 00:26:09,042 I must survive for you. 473 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,209 You... 474 00:26:16,709 --> 00:26:18,334 Born in August. 475 00:26:18,417 --> 00:26:21,167 ♪ (MUSIC ENDS) ♪ 476 00:26:27,792 --> 00:26:31,000 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 477 00:26:35,417 --> 00:26:41,083 JOE MORTON: Son, the struggle is in your name, Samori. 478 00:26:43,751 --> 00:26:45,834 You were named for Samori Touré, 479 00:26:45,918 --> 00:26:47,959 who struggled against the French colonizers 480 00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:50,209 for the right to his own Black body. 481 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,125 He died in captivity, 482 00:26:55,209 --> 00:26:59,209 but the profits of that struggle are ours, 483 00:26:59,292 --> 00:27:01,250 even when the object of our struggle 484 00:27:01,334 --> 00:27:03,626 escapes our grasp. 485 00:27:03,709 --> 00:27:06,209 None of us were promised to end the fight on our feet, 486 00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:08,167 fists raised to the sky. 487 00:27:09,250 --> 00:27:11,292 We could not control our enemy's number, 488 00:27:11,375 --> 00:27:12,751 strength, nor weaponry. 489 00:27:12,834 --> 00:27:15,584 We did not lay down the direction of the street. 490 00:27:17,626 --> 00:27:21,209 But despite that, we could and must fashion 491 00:27:21,292 --> 00:27:23,834 the way of our walk. 492 00:27:23,918 --> 00:27:27,167 And that is the deeper meaning of your name. 493 00:27:29,751 --> 00:27:33,500 That the struggle, in and of itself, has meaning. 494 00:27:35,083 --> 00:27:38,751 (SIRENS WAILING) 495 00:27:38,834 --> 00:27:40,584 LAWRENCE CROSBY: Okay. Now I'm getting pulled over. 496 00:27:40,667 --> 00:27:44,167 They gonna pull me over. See? I knew it was gonna happen. 497 00:27:44,250 --> 00:27:46,542 -(SIRENS WAILING) -(POLICE RADIO BEEPS) 498 00:27:46,626 --> 00:27:49,751 (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) 499 00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:51,876 DISPATCHER: Seward and Sherman, we've got a Black male, 500 00:27:51,959 --> 00:27:53,375 black hoodie, five foot ten, 165, 501 00:27:53,459 --> 00:27:54,959 just broke into a black four-door vehicle. 502 00:27:55,042 --> 00:27:57,042 Vehicle's located on Seward at Sherman. 503 00:27:57,667 --> 00:27:59,250 (SIRENS WAILING) 504 00:27:59,334 --> 00:28:01,751 OFFICER 1: Vehicle confirmed at St. Mark's Church. 505 00:28:01,834 --> 00:28:04,584 OFFICER 2: We're arriving at St. Mark's Church. Hold here. 506 00:28:04,667 --> 00:28:07,292 MAN 1: Gotta paint our garbage door again. 507 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:12,375 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 508 00:28:16,792 --> 00:28:19,083 Shortly before you were born, I was pulled over 509 00:28:19,167 --> 00:28:21,375 by the PG County Police, 510 00:28:21,459 --> 00:28:24,626 the same police that the DC poets warned me of. 511 00:28:26,209 --> 00:28:27,876 They approached both sides of the car, 512 00:28:27,959 --> 00:28:30,792 shining their flashing lights through the windows, 513 00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:34,375 took my identification, and returned to the squad car. 514 00:28:36,209 --> 00:28:38,918 I sat there terrified. (SIGHS) 515 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,667 POLICE OFFICER: The reason I pulled you over, 516 00:28:40,751 --> 00:28:42,292 your brake lights are out. 517 00:28:42,375 --> 00:28:45,000 So you only have one activated-- active brake light, 518 00:28:45,083 --> 00:28:46,459 and that's gonna be your passenger... 519 00:28:46,542 --> 00:28:48,334 Do you have your license and insurance? 520 00:28:50,042 --> 00:28:53,417 I knew the PG County Police had killed Elmer Clay Newman, 521 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:57,125 claimed that he'd rammed his own head into the wall 522 00:28:57,209 --> 00:28:58,250 of the jail cell. 523 00:28:58,334 --> 00:28:59,751 RUDY SAMUELS: Step out for what? Sir, no... 524 00:28:59,834 --> 00:29:01,375 I knew they shot Gary Hopkins, 525 00:29:01,459 --> 00:29:03,667 then said he'd gone after the officer's gun. 526 00:29:03,751 --> 00:29:07,834 I knew they beat Freddie McCollum half-blind, 527 00:29:07,918 --> 00:29:09,500 then blamed it on a collapsing floor. 528 00:29:09,584 --> 00:29:12,083 SANDRA BLAND: I'm in my car. Why do I have to put out my cigarette? 529 00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:13,834 BRIAN ENCINIA: Well, you can step on out now. 530 00:29:13,918 --> 00:29:16,334 -SANDRA: I don't have to step out of my car. -ENCINIA: Step out of the car. 531 00:29:16,417 --> 00:29:17,667 SANDRA: Other than to identify myself-- 532 00:29:17,751 --> 00:29:19,209 ENCINIA: Step out or I will remove you. 533 00:29:19,292 --> 00:29:21,500 I had heard reports of officers choking mechanics, 534 00:29:21,584 --> 00:29:23,334 shooting construction workers, 535 00:29:23,417 --> 00:29:26,667 slamming suspects through glass doors of shopping malls. 536 00:29:26,751 --> 00:29:28,792 I knew that they did this with regularity. 537 00:29:28,876 --> 00:29:30,542 VICTORIA GOODWIN: You gonna shoot me? He's got a gun, 538 00:29:30,626 --> 00:29:32,500 -and he's gonna shoot me. -Get out of the car now. 539 00:29:32,584 --> 00:29:33,959 I knew they shot at moving cars, 540 00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:37,417 shot at the unarmed, shot through the backs of men 541 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:39,959 then claimed it'd been they who had been under fire. 542 00:29:40,042 --> 00:29:41,834 At this point in American history, 543 00:29:41,918 --> 00:29:43,626 no police department have fired their guns 544 00:29:43,709 --> 00:29:46,542 more than that of Prince George's County. 545 00:29:46,626 --> 00:29:50,375 FBI has opened multiple cases. Sometimes within the same week. 546 00:29:50,459 --> 00:29:54,083 The police chief was rewarded a raise. 547 00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:56,000 KENDRICK SAMPSON: I replayed all this 548 00:29:56,083 --> 00:29:57,584 sitting there in my car, 549 00:29:58,250 --> 00:29:59,792 in their clutches. 550 00:30:02,125 --> 00:30:04,626 Better to be shot in Baltimore, 551 00:30:04,709 --> 00:30:07,125 where there was the justice of the streets. 552 00:30:07,209 --> 00:30:09,500 Someone might call the killer to account. 553 00:30:10,459 --> 00:30:11,500 But... 554 00:30:12,959 --> 00:30:16,542 But these officers had my body. 555 00:30:16,626 --> 00:30:18,918 MJ RODRIGUEZ: Had my body, 556 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,792 could do whatever they pleased, and should I live to explain, 557 00:30:21,876 --> 00:30:23,918 this complaint would mean nothing. 558 00:30:26,792 --> 00:30:28,459 The officer returned. 559 00:30:29,918 --> 00:30:31,709 He handed me back my license. 560 00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:36,292 He gave no explanation of the stop. 561 00:30:37,876 --> 00:30:39,459 (SIGHS) 562 00:30:44,167 --> 00:30:47,209 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 563 00:30:50,083 --> 00:30:52,417 (CAR ENGINE REVS) 564 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:53,792 (DOOR CLOSES) 565 00:30:59,375 --> 00:31:02,375 GREG ALVEREZ REID: That September, I picked up the Washington Post 566 00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:05,209 and saw that the PG County police 567 00:31:05,292 --> 00:31:06,417 had killed again. 568 00:31:09,584 --> 00:31:11,959 I could not help but think that this could've been me. 569 00:31:13,751 --> 00:31:17,250 And holding you, a month old by then... 570 00:31:19,292 --> 00:31:21,667 I knew that such loss would not be mine alone. 571 00:31:21,751 --> 00:31:25,667 ♪ (MELANCHOLIC PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 572 00:31:30,042 --> 00:31:32,000 I scanned the headline. 573 00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:35,125 Their atrocities seemed so common back then. 574 00:31:36,751 --> 00:31:38,459 The story spread into a second day, 575 00:31:38,542 --> 00:31:40,667 and reading slightly closer, 576 00:31:40,751 --> 00:31:42,584 I saw that it was a Howard student 577 00:31:42,667 --> 00:31:44,626 who had been killed. 578 00:31:44,709 --> 00:31:48,125 Then, on the third day, a photo appeared with the story, 579 00:31:49,250 --> 00:31:51,167 and I glimpsed at 580 00:31:51,250 --> 00:31:53,042 and then focused on the portrait. 581 00:31:54,125 --> 00:31:56,125 And I saw him there, 582 00:31:56,209 --> 00:31:59,417 frozen in the amber of his youth. 583 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:03,000 His face was lean, brown, and beautiful, 584 00:32:03,083 --> 00:32:06,542 and across that face, I saw the open, easy smile 585 00:32:06,626 --> 00:32:08,959 of Prince Carmen Jones. 586 00:32:13,083 --> 00:32:16,334 I know I had love for this boy, Prince Jones, 587 00:32:16,417 --> 00:32:20,042 which is to say I would smile whenever I saw him, 588 00:32:20,125 --> 00:32:22,834 I felt the warmth when I was around him, 589 00:32:23,918 --> 00:32:25,792 and was slightly sad when the day came 590 00:32:25,876 --> 00:32:28,167 to trade dap and for one of us to go. 591 00:32:29,417 --> 00:32:30,709 He was kind, 592 00:32:30,792 --> 00:32:35,042 and he seemed to have a facility with everyone and everything. 593 00:32:35,125 --> 00:32:38,042 This can never be true, but there are people 594 00:32:38,125 --> 00:32:40,417 who pull the illusion off without effort. 595 00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:42,834 And Prince was one of them. 596 00:32:45,459 --> 00:32:48,375 A boy about whom I think of every day, 597 00:32:48,459 --> 00:32:51,375 and about whom I expect to think of every day 598 00:32:51,459 --> 00:32:53,375 for the rest of my life. 599 00:32:55,709 --> 00:32:57,667 Because when the young are killed, 600 00:32:59,167 --> 00:33:02,083 they are haloed by all that was possible, 601 00:33:03,375 --> 00:33:05,375 all that was plundered. 602 00:33:07,918 --> 00:33:10,959 I can only say what I saw, what I felt. 603 00:33:12,876 --> 00:33:14,459 I think I stumbled back. 604 00:33:15,584 --> 00:33:17,918 I think I told your mother what I'd read. 605 00:33:19,918 --> 00:33:23,459 What I remember for sure is what I felt. 606 00:33:25,709 --> 00:33:26,876 Rage. 607 00:33:27,876 --> 00:33:30,209 And the old gravity of West Baltimore. 608 00:33:31,626 --> 00:33:34,000 The gravity that condemned me to the schools, 609 00:33:34,083 --> 00:33:35,667 the streets, the void. 610 00:33:37,167 --> 00:33:38,709 Prince Jones had made it through, 611 00:33:38,792 --> 00:33:40,792 and still they had taken him. 612 00:33:41,792 --> 00:33:43,167 And even though I already knew 613 00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:44,667 I would never believe any account 614 00:33:44,751 --> 00:33:47,792 that justified this taking, I sat down to read the story. 615 00:33:50,292 --> 00:33:53,083 There were very few details. 616 00:33:53,167 --> 00:33:54,959 He'd been shot by a PG County officer, 617 00:33:55,042 --> 00:33:57,042 not in PG County, not even in DC, 618 00:33:57,125 --> 00:33:59,459 but somewhere in Northern Virginia. 619 00:34:00,834 --> 00:34:04,500 Prince had been driving to see his fiancée. 620 00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:08,125 He was killed yards from her home. 621 00:34:08,209 --> 00:34:10,792 And the only witness to the killing of Prince Jones 622 00:34:10,876 --> 00:34:12,459 was the killer himself. 623 00:34:13,626 --> 00:34:15,459 The officer had been dressed like 624 00:34:15,542 --> 00:34:17,709 an undercover drug dealer. 625 00:34:17,792 --> 00:34:19,292 He'd been sent out to track a man 626 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:22,209 whose build was five foot four and 250 pounds. 627 00:34:22,292 --> 00:34:23,459 We know from the coroner 628 00:34:23,542 --> 00:34:26,834 that Prince's body was six foot three and 211 pounds. 629 00:34:28,459 --> 00:34:30,083 The officer claimed that Prince had tried 630 00:34:30,167 --> 00:34:32,626 to run him over with his Jeep, and I knew... 631 00:34:34,125 --> 00:34:35,876 prosecutors would believe him. 632 00:34:37,584 --> 00:34:40,209 We know that the authorities charged 633 00:34:40,292 --> 00:34:41,918 with investigating the shooting 634 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,083 did very little to investigate the officer 635 00:34:44,167 --> 00:34:45,834 and did everything in their power 636 00:34:45,918 --> 00:34:48,459 to investigate Prince Jones. 637 00:34:48,542 --> 00:34:51,500 This investigation produced no information 638 00:34:51,584 --> 00:34:53,876 that would explain why Prince Jones 639 00:34:53,959 --> 00:34:56,792 would suddenly shift his ambitions 640 00:34:56,876 --> 00:34:59,500 from college to cop killing. 641 00:35:05,167 --> 00:35:06,584 This officer... 642 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,792 given maximum power... 643 00:35:11,375 --> 00:35:13,125 bore minimum responsibility. 644 00:35:17,292 --> 00:35:19,500 (VOICE BREAKS) He was charged with nothing. 645 00:35:22,042 --> 00:35:24,459 He was punished by no one. 646 00:35:30,792 --> 00:35:32,584 He was returned to his work. 647 00:35:45,167 --> 00:35:47,876 ♪ (MELANCHOLIC PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 648 00:35:48,626 --> 00:35:50,584 MORTON: Son... 649 00:35:50,667 --> 00:35:52,876 you know now the police have the authority 650 00:35:52,959 --> 00:35:54,500 to destroy your body. 651 00:35:55,417 --> 00:35:56,751 It does not matter 652 00:35:56,834 --> 00:36:01,500 if it originates from a misunderstanding, 653 00:36:01,584 --> 00:36:03,959 it does not matter if the destruction springs 654 00:36:04,042 --> 00:36:05,667 from a foolish policy. 655 00:36:05,751 --> 00:36:07,834 Sell cigarettes without the proper authority, 656 00:36:07,918 --> 00:36:09,751 and your body can be destroyed. 657 00:36:09,834 --> 00:36:14,250 Turn into a dark stairwell, and your body can be destroyed. 658 00:36:14,334 --> 00:36:17,918 The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. 659 00:36:19,417 --> 00:36:22,959 Mostly, they will receive pensions. 660 00:36:26,667 --> 00:36:30,334 This is common for Black people. 661 00:36:31,584 --> 00:36:34,876 This is old for Black people. 662 00:36:40,042 --> 00:36:42,792 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 663 00:37:10,542 --> 00:37:14,709 ♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪ 664 00:37:21,667 --> 00:37:23,709 OLIVIA WASHINGTON: Mom, they sent 665 00:37:23,792 --> 00:37:27,709 the killer of Prince Jones back to his work 666 00:37:27,792 --> 00:37:30,751 because he was not a killer at all. 667 00:37:31,334 --> 00:37:34,000 (SCOFFS) He was... 668 00:37:34,876 --> 00:37:37,834 He was a force of nature, 669 00:37:37,918 --> 00:37:42,626 a helpless agent of our world's physical laws. 670 00:37:42,709 --> 00:37:45,709 ♪ (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 671 00:37:47,542 --> 00:37:49,334 PAULETTA WASHINGTON: It occurred to me that... 672 00:37:49,417 --> 00:37:51,709 you would not escape, 673 00:37:51,792 --> 00:37:56,292 that there were awful men who had laid plans for you. 674 00:37:56,375 --> 00:37:59,000 (SCOFFS) And I could not stop them. 675 00:38:00,626 --> 00:38:03,709 OLIVIA: Black people love their children 676 00:38:03,792 --> 00:38:06,918 with a... a kind of obsession. 677 00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:13,834 PAULETTA: You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. 678 00:38:16,209 --> 00:38:18,876 I think we'd rather kill you ourselves 679 00:38:18,959 --> 00:38:21,459 before seeing you killed 680 00:38:21,542 --> 00:38:25,209 by the streets that America made. 681 00:38:25,292 --> 00:38:30,751 It was only after you that I understood this love, 682 00:38:30,834 --> 00:38:33,375 that I understood my mother's grip. 683 00:38:34,751 --> 00:38:38,500 She knew that the galaxy itself could kill me, 684 00:38:38,584 --> 00:38:41,542 that all of me could be shattered, 685 00:38:41,626 --> 00:38:44,334 and all of her legacy 686 00:38:44,417 --> 00:38:48,834 spilled upon a curb like bum wine. 687 00:38:48,918 --> 00:38:51,167 OLIVIA: Think of Prince Jones. 688 00:38:51,250 --> 00:38:54,209 PAULETTA: Think of all the embraces, 689 00:38:54,292 --> 00:38:57,083 all the private jokes, 690 00:38:57,167 --> 00:39:01,500 customs, greetings, names, dreams, 691 00:39:01,584 --> 00:39:06,918 all the shared knowledge and capacity of a Black family 692 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,584 injected into that vessel of flesh and bone. 693 00:39:09,667 --> 00:39:11,751 OLIVIA: Think of surprise birthday parties, 694 00:39:11,834 --> 00:39:15,709 the daycare, racetracks, and model trains. 695 00:39:15,792 --> 00:39:19,000 Think of World Book and Childcraft. 696 00:39:19,083 --> 00:39:21,500 PAULETTA: Credit cards used for vacations, 697 00:39:21,584 --> 00:39:23,876 checks written for family photos. 698 00:39:23,959 --> 00:39:26,626 OLIVIA: Think how that vessel was taken, 699 00:39:27,375 --> 00:39:30,167 shattered on the concrete. 700 00:39:30,250 --> 00:39:33,459 PAULETTA: And no one would be brought to account 701 00:39:33,542 --> 00:39:34,876 for this destruction. 702 00:39:36,667 --> 00:39:41,000 ♪ (DRUM MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 703 00:39:49,876 --> 00:39:53,959 This entire episode took me from fear to rage, 704 00:39:54,042 --> 00:39:56,250 fire for the rest of my days. 705 00:39:58,209 --> 00:40:01,042 Most of us drink our travesties straight, 706 00:40:01,125 --> 00:40:02,959 -smile about it. -♪ (DRUM RIFF) ♪ 707 00:40:03,042 --> 00:40:06,125 I wrote about the history of Prince George's police. 708 00:40:06,209 --> 00:40:07,375 Here's what I knew. 709 00:40:07,459 --> 00:40:11,000 The officer that killed Prince Jones was Black. 710 00:40:11,083 --> 00:40:13,751 The politicians that empowered that officer, Black. 711 00:40:13,834 --> 00:40:17,375 Black politicians, twice as good, unconcerned. 712 00:40:18,334 --> 00:40:20,125 By then, the internet had bloomed. 713 00:40:20,209 --> 00:40:22,500 That must strike you as novel. 714 00:40:22,584 --> 00:40:24,500 All your life, whenever you've had a question, 715 00:40:24,584 --> 00:40:26,083 you typed that question on the keyboard 716 00:40:26,167 --> 00:40:28,959 and within seconds, the flood of potential answers. 717 00:40:29,042 --> 00:40:30,626 I remember typewriters, 718 00:40:30,709 --> 00:40:32,542 the dawn of the Commodore 64, 719 00:40:32,626 --> 00:40:35,209 days when the song that you love would have its moment 720 00:40:35,292 --> 00:40:37,709 on the radio and then disappear into nothing. 721 00:40:37,792 --> 00:40:39,667 My curiosity, in the case of Prince Jones, 722 00:40:39,751 --> 00:40:42,250 opened up a world of newspaper clippings, 723 00:40:42,334 --> 00:40:44,417 histories, and sociologies. 724 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,167 I called politicians, questioned them, 725 00:40:47,250 --> 00:40:49,292 was told that the citizens would rather ask 726 00:40:49,375 --> 00:40:51,959 for police support than complain about brutality, 727 00:40:52,042 --> 00:40:54,292 told that the Black citizens were comfortable, 728 00:40:54,375 --> 00:40:57,292 had "a certain impatience with crime." 729 00:40:57,375 --> 00:41:00,167 I'd seen these theories before, back in Moorland. 730 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:02,959 I knew these theories, even in the mouths 731 00:41:03,042 --> 00:41:05,417 of Black people, justified the jails, 732 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,876 argued for the ghettos and the projects, 733 00:41:07,959 --> 00:41:10,876 viewed the destruction of the Black body 734 00:41:10,959 --> 00:41:14,584 as incidental to the preservation of order. 735 00:41:14,667 --> 00:41:15,792 I understood. 736 00:41:15,876 --> 00:41:18,209 What I would not have given back in Baltimore 737 00:41:18,292 --> 00:41:22,000 for a line of police officers patrolling my route to school. 738 00:41:22,083 --> 00:41:23,500 No such officers. 739 00:41:23,584 --> 00:41:25,167 Whenever I saw the police, 740 00:41:25,250 --> 00:41:27,834 something had already gone wrong. 741 00:41:27,918 --> 00:41:29,626 All along I knew 742 00:41:29,709 --> 00:41:34,209 there are some for whom safety is in the schools, 743 00:41:34,292 --> 00:41:36,083 portfolios, skyscrapers. 744 00:41:36,167 --> 00:41:41,459 Ours, men with guns who view us with contempt. 745 00:41:41,542 --> 00:41:43,042 ♪ (DRUM STOPS) ♪ 746 00:41:43,125 --> 00:41:48,417 Safety was a higher value than justice. 747 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:50,417 ♪ ("WELCOME TO AMERICA" BY LECRAE PLAYING) ♪ 748 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:53,250 ♪ Man, I'd die for America I served my time for America ♪ 749 00:41:53,334 --> 00:41:55,417 ♪ Got shot, shot back Went to war, got back ♪ 750 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,459 ♪ And ain't nobody give a jack In America ♪ 751 00:41:57,542 --> 00:41:59,459 ♪ I coulda lost my life Boy, I lost my wife ♪ 752 00:41:59,542 --> 00:42:01,459 ♪ I can't even get right In my homeland ♪ 753 00:42:01,542 --> 00:42:03,250 ♪ Cold sweats, whole ticks Paranoia ♪ 754 00:42:03,334 --> 00:42:05,542 ♪ Lookin' out for a threat In my own land ♪ 755 00:42:05,626 --> 00:42:06,876 ♪ I was trained in America ♪ 756 00:42:06,959 --> 00:42:08,751 ♪ How they get up In the planes in America? ♪ 757 00:42:08,834 --> 00:42:10,167 ♪ Flew 'em Right into the buildings ♪ 758 00:42:10,250 --> 00:42:11,209 ♪ Takin' out civilians ♪ 759 00:42:11,292 --> 00:42:13,083 ♪ People gettin' killed In America? ♪ 760 00:42:13,167 --> 00:42:14,876 ♪ I got a brother In the cemetery now ♪ 761 00:42:14,959 --> 00:42:16,542 ♪ 'Cause he wanted y'all safe ♪ 762 00:42:16,626 --> 00:42:18,000 ♪ And everybody want The freedom ♪ 763 00:42:18,083 --> 00:42:20,584 ♪ But nobody want to hear "About face" ♪ 764 00:42:20,667 --> 00:42:22,375 ♪ We bled for America ♪ 765 00:42:22,459 --> 00:42:24,334 ♪ Aye, I was made in America ♪ 766 00:42:24,417 --> 00:42:25,751 ♪ But what's the point Of talkin'? ♪ 767 00:42:25,834 --> 00:42:27,667 ♪ A lot of y'all Don't really even care ♪ 768 00:42:27,751 --> 00:42:28,834 ♪ America ♪ 769 00:42:28,918 --> 00:42:31,876 ♪ Ta na na na muchawa Muchawa ta na na na... ♪ 770 00:42:31,959 --> 00:42:33,918 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 771 00:42:40,626 --> 00:42:44,542 MORTON: Son, I have raised you to respect 772 00:42:44,626 --> 00:42:46,334 every human being as singular, 773 00:42:46,417 --> 00:42:50,667 and you must extend that same respect into the past. 774 00:42:50,751 --> 00:42:54,125 Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. 775 00:42:54,209 --> 00:42:59,167 It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, 776 00:42:59,250 --> 00:43:01,751 whose mind is active as your own, 777 00:43:01,834 --> 00:43:04,417 whose range of feeling is as vast as your own, 778 00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:06,250 who prefers the way the light falls 779 00:43:06,334 --> 00:43:08,417 in one particular spot in the woods, 780 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:12,709 who loves her mother in her own complicated way, 781 00:43:12,792 --> 00:43:15,459 thinks her sister talks too loud, 782 00:43:15,542 --> 00:43:17,542 has a favorite cousin, a favorite season, 783 00:43:17,626 --> 00:43:19,876 who excels at dressmaking, 784 00:43:19,959 --> 00:43:23,792 and knows inside herself that she is as intelligent 785 00:43:23,876 --> 00:43:26,375 and capable as anyone. 786 00:43:26,459 --> 00:43:30,125 For this woman, enslavement is not a parable. 787 00:43:30,209 --> 00:43:33,459 It is damnation. It is the never-ending night. 788 00:43:33,542 --> 00:43:37,000 And the length of that night is most of our history. 789 00:43:38,667 --> 00:43:40,626 The enslaved were not bricks in your road, 790 00:43:40,709 --> 00:43:42,209 and their lives were not chapters 791 00:43:42,292 --> 00:43:44,709 in your redemptive history. They were people... 792 00:43:46,334 --> 00:43:49,959 turned to fuel for the American machine. 793 00:43:50,042 --> 00:43:53,042 And it is wrong to claim our present circumstance, 794 00:43:53,125 --> 00:43:55,542 no matter how improved, as the redemption 795 00:43:55,626 --> 00:43:57,834 for the lives of people who never asked 796 00:43:57,918 --> 00:44:00,834 for the posthumous, untouchable glory 797 00:44:00,918 --> 00:44:03,083 of dying for their children. 798 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,334 I love you, 799 00:44:06,417 --> 00:44:08,667 and I love the world, and I love it more 800 00:44:08,751 --> 00:44:10,667 with every new inch I discover. 801 00:44:12,167 --> 00:44:16,000 But you are a Black boy. 802 00:44:16,083 --> 00:44:21,417 You cannot forget how much they took from us, 803 00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:25,209 how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, 804 00:44:25,292 --> 00:44:29,667 tobacco, cotton, and gold. 805 00:44:38,626 --> 00:44:41,959 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 806 00:44:48,334 --> 00:44:52,751 (WIND BLOWING) 807 00:44:56,417 --> 00:45:00,000 COURTNEY B. VANCE: We lived in a basement apartment in Brooklyn. 808 00:45:00,083 --> 00:45:03,667 I remember borrowing the 200 dollars from Ben, 809 00:45:03,751 --> 00:45:06,209 feeling like a million. 810 00:45:06,292 --> 00:45:08,375 I remember your grandfather coming to New York, 811 00:45:08,459 --> 00:45:10,918 taking me out for Ethiopian. 812 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,459 He handed me a check for 120 dollars. 813 00:45:15,542 --> 00:45:19,042 I pitched to various magazines, no success. 814 00:45:19,125 --> 00:45:21,959 Chana lent me another 200. 815 00:45:22,042 --> 00:45:23,667 I burned it all on a scam. 816 00:45:27,083 --> 00:45:29,125 I delivered food for a small deli. 817 00:45:29,209 --> 00:45:31,209 I was trying to be a writer. 818 00:45:31,292 --> 00:45:33,083 I would take the train into Manhattan. 819 00:45:33,167 --> 00:45:35,250 My weeks felt aimless. 820 00:45:36,334 --> 00:45:40,459 We had arrived two months before September 11th. 821 00:45:41,792 --> 00:45:45,334 Everyone has a story. Here's mine. 822 00:45:45,417 --> 00:45:48,542 Your mother, your aunt Chana, her boyfriend, your mom, 823 00:45:48,626 --> 00:45:52,250 we were on the roof taking in the sight. 824 00:45:52,334 --> 00:45:55,542 -(WIND BLOWING) -(RUMBLING) 825 00:45:55,626 --> 00:45:58,334 Great plumes of smoke. 826 00:45:58,417 --> 00:46:02,209 Everyone knew someone who knew someone who was missing. 827 00:46:04,584 --> 00:46:07,584 But looking out upon the ruins of America, 828 00:46:07,667 --> 00:46:09,751 my heart was cold. 829 00:46:09,834 --> 00:46:12,459 I had disasters all my own. 830 00:46:13,083 --> 00:46:14,375 Prince Jones. 831 00:46:17,250 --> 00:46:22,500 I would never consider any American citizen pure. 832 00:46:22,584 --> 00:46:25,292 I kept thinking about how Southern Manhattan 833 00:46:25,375 --> 00:46:29,834 had always been Ground Zero for us. 834 00:46:29,918 --> 00:46:32,083 They auctioned our bodies down there 835 00:46:32,167 --> 00:46:34,000 in that same devastated, 836 00:46:34,083 --> 00:46:37,000 and rightly named, financial district. 837 00:46:37,083 --> 00:46:41,042 There was once a burial ground for the auctioned there. 838 00:46:41,125 --> 00:46:45,542 They built a department store over part of it. 839 00:46:49,083 --> 00:46:52,667 Bin Laden was not the first man to bring terror 840 00:46:52,751 --> 00:46:54,876 to that section of the city. 841 00:46:56,250 --> 00:46:57,876 I never forgot that. 842 00:47:00,459 --> 00:47:01,792 Neither should you. 843 00:47:03,751 --> 00:47:06,959 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 844 00:47:08,209 --> 00:47:10,709 (SIRENS WAILING DISTANTLY) 845 00:47:17,459 --> 00:47:20,334 MICHELLE WILSON: There was so much money everywhere. 846 00:47:20,417 --> 00:47:24,042 Money drawing intergalactic traffic through Times Square, 847 00:47:24,125 --> 00:47:27,375 money in the limestones and brownstones, 848 00:47:28,542 --> 00:47:30,792 money out on West Broadway 849 00:47:30,876 --> 00:47:33,626 where white people spilled out of wine bars 850 00:47:33,709 --> 00:47:36,459 with sloshing glasses and without police. 851 00:47:36,542 --> 00:47:39,792 (SCOFFS) They were utterly fearless. 852 00:47:43,459 --> 00:47:45,375 WENDELL PIERCE: I saw white parents 853 00:47:45,459 --> 00:47:47,667 pushing double-wide strollers, 854 00:47:47,751 --> 00:47:49,792 lost in conversation with each other, 855 00:47:50,959 --> 00:47:53,250 while their sons... (SCOFFS) 856 00:47:53,334 --> 00:47:56,792 ...commanded entire sidewalks with their tricycles. 857 00:47:58,292 --> 00:48:00,626 The galaxy belonged to them. 858 00:48:01,626 --> 00:48:03,792 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 859 00:48:03,876 --> 00:48:05,959 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 860 00:48:06,042 --> 00:48:08,459 I remember pushing you in your stroller 861 00:48:08,542 --> 00:48:10,209 to the West Village, 862 00:48:11,959 --> 00:48:14,626 instinctively believing you should see more. 863 00:48:15,876 --> 00:48:20,167 I remember feeling ill at ease. 864 00:48:21,626 --> 00:48:23,918 Perhaps you remember the time 865 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,792 we went to see Howl's Moving Castle... 866 00:48:26,876 --> 00:48:28,667 ...on the Upper West Side. 867 00:48:29,834 --> 00:48:32,000 You were almost five years old. 868 00:48:32,083 --> 00:48:33,584 The theater was crowded. 869 00:48:33,667 --> 00:48:35,918 -♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 870 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,918 The theater was crowded, and when we came out, 871 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,292 we rode the set of escalators down to the ground floor. 872 00:48:44,542 --> 00:48:47,209 And as you came off... (CHUCKLES WRYLY) 873 00:48:47,292 --> 00:48:51,876 ...you were moving at the speed of a dawdling small child. 874 00:48:52,876 --> 00:48:56,459 (WOMAN AND CHILDREN TALKING INDISTINCTLY) 875 00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:00,083 -And a white woman pushed you... -And said... 876 00:49:00,167 --> 00:49:01,834 -"Come on!" -"Come on!" 877 00:49:01,918 --> 00:49:03,751 Many things now happened at once. 878 00:49:03,834 --> 00:49:05,626 -There was the reaction... -...of any parent... 879 00:49:05,709 --> 00:49:09,083 ...when a stranger lays a hand on the body of his or her child. 880 00:49:09,167 --> 00:49:12,959 And there was my own insecurity 881 00:49:13,042 --> 00:49:16,375 in the ability to protect your Black body. 882 00:49:16,459 --> 00:49:18,000 -And more. -And more. 883 00:49:18,083 --> 00:49:19,334 There was my sense... 884 00:49:19,417 --> 00:49:21,334 ...that this woman was trying to pull rank. 885 00:49:21,417 --> 00:49:23,292 She would not have pushed a Black child 886 00:49:23,375 --> 00:49:24,626 on my part of Flatbush. 887 00:49:24,709 --> 00:49:26,459 Because she would have been afraid there. 888 00:49:26,542 --> 00:49:28,375 -Would sense... -...if not know... 889 00:49:28,459 --> 00:49:31,667 ...that there would be a penalty for such an action. 890 00:49:31,751 --> 00:49:34,417 But I was not on my part of Flatbush. 891 00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:38,500 And I was not in West Baltimore. And I was far from the Mecca. 892 00:49:38,584 --> 00:49:39,709 I forgot all that. 893 00:49:39,792 --> 00:49:43,876 I was only aware that someone had invoked their right 894 00:49:43,959 --> 00:49:46,083 over the body of my son. 895 00:49:46,167 --> 00:49:48,417 So I turned and spoke to that woman. 896 00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:50,167 And my words were hot 897 00:49:50,250 --> 00:49:52,959 with all of the moment and all of my history. 898 00:49:53,042 --> 00:49:56,500 And she shrunk back, shocked. 899 00:49:56,584 --> 00:50:00,000 -A white man standing nearby spoke up in her defense. -(INDISTINCT ARGUING) 900 00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:02,834 His attempt to rescue the damsel from the beast. 901 00:50:02,918 --> 00:50:05,334 He made no such attempt on behalf of my son. 902 00:50:05,417 --> 00:50:08,417 And he was now supported by other white people 903 00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:10,083 in the assembling crowd. 904 00:50:10,167 --> 00:50:11,626 The man came closer. 905 00:50:11,709 --> 00:50:13,542 He grew louder. I pushed him away. 906 00:50:13,626 --> 00:50:15,918 He said, "I could have you arrested." 907 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,375 I didn't care. 908 00:50:17,459 --> 00:50:20,167 I told him this, and the desire to do much more 909 00:50:20,250 --> 00:50:22,000 was hot in my throat. 910 00:50:22,083 --> 00:50:26,167 And this desire was only controllable 911 00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:30,375 because someone standing off to the side there 912 00:50:30,459 --> 00:50:36,667 bearing witness to more fury than he had ever seen in me. 913 00:50:38,375 --> 00:50:39,542 -You. -You. 914 00:50:41,626 --> 00:50:43,542 PIERCE: I came home shook. 915 00:50:45,667 --> 00:50:46,959 It was shame. 916 00:50:47,459 --> 00:50:48,667 Rage. 917 00:50:48,751 --> 00:50:52,375 -"I could have you arrested." -"I could have you arrested." 918 00:50:52,459 --> 00:50:55,792 Which is to say, "I could take your body." 919 00:50:55,876 --> 00:50:59,000 "I could have you arrested." 920 00:50:59,083 --> 00:51:00,751 Which is to say, 921 00:51:00,834 --> 00:51:03,626 "One of your son's earliest memories 922 00:51:03,709 --> 00:51:06,834 will be watching the men who sodomized Abner Louima 923 00:51:06,918 --> 00:51:08,500 and choked Anthony Baez 924 00:51:08,584 --> 00:51:11,918 cuff, club, tase, and break you." 925 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,209 I had forgotten all the rules. 926 00:51:15,459 --> 00:51:16,751 An error as dangerous 927 00:51:16,834 --> 00:51:18,500 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan... 928 00:51:18,584 --> 00:51:20,751 ...as on the Westside of Baltimore. 929 00:51:22,834 --> 00:51:24,375 One must be... 930 00:51:24,459 --> 00:51:26,626 ...without error here. 931 00:51:26,709 --> 00:51:28,375 Make no mistakes. 932 00:51:30,083 --> 00:51:31,626 PIERCE: But you are human. 933 00:51:31,709 --> 00:51:35,792 You will make mistakes. You will misjudge. 934 00:51:35,876 --> 00:51:39,375 You will yell. You will drink too much. 935 00:51:40,584 --> 00:51:42,834 Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson. 936 00:51:42,918 --> 00:51:46,542 Not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. 937 00:51:46,626 --> 00:51:49,125 But the price of error is highest for you 938 00:51:49,209 --> 00:51:51,459 than it is for your countrymen. 939 00:51:51,542 --> 00:51:55,417 I am ashamed of how I acted that day. 940 00:51:57,375 --> 00:52:00,292 Ashamed that I endangered your body. 941 00:52:00,375 --> 00:52:03,876 But I am not ashamed of being a bad father. 942 00:52:03,959 --> 00:52:07,042 I am ashamed I made an error... 943 00:52:08,918 --> 00:52:14,167 knowing our errors always cost us more. 944 00:52:16,125 --> 00:52:19,250 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 945 00:52:24,959 --> 00:52:26,709 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 946 00:52:27,292 --> 00:52:30,000 (WIND BLOWING) 947 00:52:31,417 --> 00:52:34,834 OPRAH WINFREY: Here's what I'd like for you to know. 948 00:52:34,918 --> 00:52:38,209 In America, it is traditional 949 00:52:38,292 --> 00:52:40,876 to destroy the Black body. 950 00:52:41,584 --> 00:52:43,542 It is heritage. 951 00:52:43,626 --> 00:52:46,751 There's no uplifting way to say this. 952 00:52:46,834 --> 00:52:51,918 I have no praise anthems, nor old Negro spiritual. 953 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,751 The soul did not escape. 954 00:52:53,834 --> 00:52:55,083 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 955 00:52:55,167 --> 00:52:59,876 The spirit did not steal away on gospel wings. 956 00:52:59,959 --> 00:53:04,083 The soul was the body that fed the tobacco, 957 00:53:04,167 --> 00:53:08,417 and the spirit was the blood that watered the cotton, 958 00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:11,751 and these created the first fruits 959 00:53:11,834 --> 00:53:14,000 -of the American garden. -(BIRD CAWING) 960 00:53:14,083 --> 00:53:16,042 And the fruits were secured 961 00:53:16,125 --> 00:53:18,834 through the bashing of children with stovewood, 962 00:53:18,918 --> 00:53:21,292 through hot iron peeling skin away 963 00:53:21,375 --> 00:53:23,751 like husk from corn. 964 00:53:23,834 --> 00:53:25,626 It had to be blood. 965 00:53:27,334 --> 00:53:30,542 It had to be nails driven through tongue 966 00:53:30,626 --> 00:53:32,250 and ears pruned away. 967 00:53:32,334 --> 00:53:35,751 It had to be the thrashing of kitchen hands 968 00:53:35,834 --> 00:53:40,459 for the crime of churning butter at a leisurely clip. 969 00:53:40,542 --> 00:53:45,250 It could only be the carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, 970 00:53:45,334 --> 00:53:48,042 handsaws, stones, paperweights, 971 00:53:48,125 --> 00:53:51,792 whatever might be handy to break the Black body, 972 00:53:51,876 --> 00:53:53,417 the Black family, 973 00:53:53,500 --> 00:53:55,334 the Black community, 974 00:53:55,417 --> 00:53:57,083 the Black nation. 975 00:53:59,375 --> 00:54:02,083 For the men who needed to believe themselves white, 976 00:54:02,167 --> 00:54:05,709 the bodies were the key to a social club, 977 00:54:05,792 --> 00:54:07,918 and the right to break the bodies 978 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,083 was the mark of civilization. 979 00:54:10,167 --> 00:54:14,125 And that right has always given them meaning, 980 00:54:14,209 --> 00:54:17,292 has always meant that there was someone 981 00:54:17,375 --> 00:54:19,375 down in the valley 982 00:54:19,459 --> 00:54:21,876 because a mountain is not a mountain 983 00:54:21,959 --> 00:54:24,209 if there is nothing below. 984 00:54:24,292 --> 00:54:27,876 You and I, my son, are that below. 985 00:54:28,584 --> 00:54:31,167 That was true in 1776. 986 00:54:31,250 --> 00:54:32,792 It is true today. 987 00:54:33,584 --> 00:54:35,584 There is no them without you. 988 00:54:35,667 --> 00:54:37,626 And without the right to break you, 989 00:54:37,709 --> 00:54:40,876 they must necessarily fall from the mountain, 990 00:54:40,959 --> 00:54:44,209 lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream. 991 00:54:45,542 --> 00:54:48,083 They would have to determine how to build their suburbs 992 00:54:48,167 --> 00:54:50,626 on something other than human bones, 993 00:54:50,709 --> 00:54:53,125 how to angle their jails toward something 994 00:54:53,209 --> 00:54:55,667 other than a human stockyard. 995 00:54:55,751 --> 00:54:57,042 (METAL GATE CLOSING) 996 00:54:57,125 --> 00:55:00,959 How to erect a democracy independent of cannibalism. 997 00:55:02,250 --> 00:55:06,667 But because they believe themselves to be white, 998 00:55:06,751 --> 00:55:10,584 they would rather subscribe to the myth of Trayvon Martin, 999 00:55:10,667 --> 00:55:11,959 slight teenager, 1000 00:55:12,042 --> 00:55:14,250 hands full of candy and soft drinks, 1001 00:55:14,334 --> 00:55:17,042 transforming into a murderous juggernaut. 1002 00:55:19,083 --> 00:55:22,042 They would rather see Prince Jones 1003 00:55:22,125 --> 00:55:26,375 followed by a bad cop through three jurisdictions 1004 00:55:26,459 --> 00:55:30,000 and shot down for acting like a human. 1005 00:55:31,250 --> 00:55:34,334 They would rather reach out, in all their sanity, 1006 00:55:34,417 --> 00:55:37,626 and push my four-year-old son as though he were merely 1007 00:55:37,709 --> 00:55:41,292 an obstacle in the path of their too-important day. 1008 00:55:42,375 --> 00:55:46,417 It is truly horrible... to understand yourself 1009 00:55:46,500 --> 00:55:48,876 as the essential below of your country. 1010 00:55:48,959 --> 00:55:50,375 ♪ ("THE BIGGER PICTURE" BY LIL BABY PLAYING) ♪ 1011 00:55:50,459 --> 00:55:51,667 ♪ It's bigger Than black and white ♪ 1012 00:55:51,751 --> 00:55:53,459 ♪ It's a problem With the whole way of life ♪ 1013 00:55:53,542 --> 00:55:55,375 -♪ It can't change overnight ♪ -PROTESTERS: (CHANTING) I can't breathe! 1014 00:55:55,459 --> 00:55:57,292 -♪ But we gotta Start somewhere ♪ -(CHANTING) I can't breathe! 1015 00:55:57,375 --> 00:55:59,125 -♪ Might as well Gon' head start here ♪ -(CHANTING) I can't breathe! 1016 00:55:59,209 --> 00:56:01,375 -♪ We done had A hell of a year... ♪ -(CHANTING) I can't breathe! 1017 00:56:01,459 --> 00:56:04,334 It breaks too much of what we'd like 1018 00:56:04,417 --> 00:56:06,375 to think about ourselves, 1019 00:56:06,459 --> 00:56:10,042 our lives, the world we move through, 1020 00:56:10,125 --> 00:56:12,459 and the people who surround us. 1021 00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:17,459 The struggle... 1022 00:56:18,626 --> 00:56:20,751 the struggle to understand... 1023 00:56:21,959 --> 00:56:24,751 is our only advantage over this madness. 1024 00:56:26,918 --> 00:56:28,042 The struggle... 1025 00:56:30,626 --> 00:56:32,626 is really all I have for you. 1026 00:56:34,209 --> 00:56:37,751 I am sorry that I cannot make it okay. 1027 00:56:38,792 --> 00:56:41,500 I'm sorry that I cannot save you, 1028 00:56:41,584 --> 00:56:43,417 but not that sorry. 1029 00:56:43,500 --> 00:56:47,083 Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability 1030 00:56:47,167 --> 00:56:50,209 brings you closer to the meaning of life. 1031 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,209 The fact is... 1032 00:56:54,334 --> 00:56:56,459 I would not have you live like them. 1033 00:56:57,500 --> 00:56:59,375 You've been cast into a race 1034 00:56:59,459 --> 00:57:03,834 in which the wind is always at your face, 1035 00:57:03,918 --> 00:57:07,626 the hounds always at your heels. 1036 00:57:09,125 --> 00:57:13,000 You do not have the privilege of living in ignorance. 1037 00:57:15,417 --> 00:57:18,209 I'm speaking to you as I always have. 1038 00:57:18,292 --> 00:57:20,083 You're growing into consciousness, 1039 00:57:20,167 --> 00:57:23,083 and my wish for you is that you feel no need 1040 00:57:23,167 --> 00:57:24,834 to constrict yourself 1041 00:57:24,918 --> 00:57:27,209 to make other people feel comfortable. 1042 00:57:28,375 --> 00:57:31,959 I never wanted you to be twice as good as them. 1043 00:57:32,042 --> 00:57:37,626 I have always wanted you to attack every day 1044 00:57:37,709 --> 00:57:41,834 of your brief, bright life in struggle. 1045 00:57:43,584 --> 00:57:46,083 ♪ (QUIET MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1046 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,375 Dear daughter, 1047 00:57:49,459 --> 00:57:52,834 I'm telling you this in your 15th year. 1048 00:57:58,751 --> 00:58:01,542 JANET MOCK: Not long ago, I was standing in an airport 1049 00:58:01,626 --> 00:58:03,417 retrieving a bag from a conveyor belt. 1050 00:58:03,500 --> 00:58:06,751 I bumped into a young Black man. I said, "My bad." 1051 00:58:06,834 --> 00:58:09,876 Without even looking up, he said, "You straight." 1052 00:58:09,959 --> 00:58:12,751 And in that exchange, there was so much 1053 00:58:12,834 --> 00:58:15,000 of that private rapport that can only exist 1054 00:58:15,083 --> 00:58:16,584 between two particular strangers... 1055 00:58:16,667 --> 00:58:19,667 CLIFFORD "T.I." HARRIS: ...of this tribe that we call Black. 1056 00:58:19,751 --> 00:58:23,834 In other words, I was part of a world. 1057 00:58:23,918 --> 00:58:25,959 I was a part of a world. 1058 00:58:26,042 --> 00:58:28,000 Now, to call that feeling racial... 1059 00:58:28,083 --> 00:58:30,417 ...is to hand over all those diamonds 1060 00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:33,042 fashioned by our ancestors to the plunderer. 1061 00:58:33,125 --> 00:58:35,334 We made that feeling. 1062 00:58:35,417 --> 00:58:37,626 By then, I knew that I wasn't so much bound 1063 00:58:37,709 --> 00:58:39,542 to a biological race... 1064 00:58:39,626 --> 00:58:41,334 ...as to a group of people. 1065 00:58:41,417 --> 00:58:44,751 And these people were not Black because of any uniform color 1066 00:58:44,834 --> 00:58:46,584 or any uniform physical feature. 1067 00:58:46,667 --> 00:58:49,167 They were bound because they suffered 1068 00:58:49,250 --> 00:58:50,792 under the weight of the Dream. 1069 00:58:50,876 --> 00:58:53,375 The people who must believe they're white 1070 00:58:53,459 --> 00:58:55,209 can never be your measuring stick. 1071 00:58:55,292 --> 00:58:58,292 I would not have you descend into your own Dream. 1072 00:58:58,375 --> 00:59:01,375 I would have you be a conscious citizen... 1073 00:59:01,459 --> 00:59:05,000 ...of this terrible and beautiful world. 1074 00:59:07,375 --> 00:59:10,542 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 1075 00:59:20,375 --> 00:59:23,250 MAN 2: In the years after Prince Jones died, 1076 00:59:24,417 --> 00:59:25,959 I thought often of those who were left 1077 00:59:26,042 --> 00:59:28,417 to make their lives in the shadow of his death. 1078 00:59:30,709 --> 00:59:32,834 I wondered about Prince's mother. 1079 00:59:34,834 --> 00:59:37,292 I searched for her, emailed her, 1080 00:59:37,375 --> 00:59:39,792 called, made an appointment to visit. 1081 00:59:42,709 --> 00:59:44,751 She was just outside of Philadelphia. 1082 00:59:45,959 --> 00:59:47,542 It was a Tuesday. 1083 00:59:48,876 --> 00:59:50,751 I seem to recall music. 1084 00:59:51,751 --> 00:59:52,751 Jazz. 1085 00:59:52,834 --> 00:59:53,834 Gospel. 1086 00:59:54,792 --> 00:59:56,500 MAN 2: I thought she'd been crying. 1087 00:59:56,584 --> 00:59:58,167 I could not tell. 1088 00:59:59,417 --> 01:00:03,667 She was what people once referred to as a lady. 1089 01:00:05,167 --> 01:00:07,667 PHYLICIA RASHAD: I escaped the sharecropper life of my father 1090 01:00:07,751 --> 01:00:09,834 and all the others around me. 1091 01:00:09,918 --> 01:00:13,375 I said to myself, "I am not gonna live like this." 1092 01:00:16,834 --> 01:00:20,292 I integrated the high school in my town. 1093 01:00:20,375 --> 01:00:22,959 In the beginning, I fought the white children 1094 01:00:23,042 --> 01:00:24,334 who insulted me. 1095 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,459 In the end, they voted me class president. 1096 01:00:29,542 --> 01:00:30,709 (CHUCKLES) 1097 01:00:32,042 --> 01:00:36,417 MAN 2: I could feel the power and the presence of Dr. Jones. 1098 01:00:38,250 --> 01:00:39,834 I asked about his childhood. 1099 01:00:41,292 --> 01:00:44,834 He once hammered a nail into an electrical socket. 1100 01:00:44,918 --> 01:00:46,584 Shorted out the whole house. 1101 01:00:48,876 --> 01:00:54,417 He once dressed himself in a suit and tie and... 1102 01:00:54,500 --> 01:00:57,250 sang "Three Times a Lady." 1103 01:00:59,042 --> 01:01:02,167 MAN 2: I asked if she had wanted him to go to Howard. 1104 01:01:02,250 --> 01:01:04,584 She smiled, said... 1105 01:01:04,667 --> 01:01:08,709 Harvard. And if not Harvard, Princeton. 1106 01:01:09,417 --> 01:01:11,751 And if not Princeton, Yale. 1107 01:01:12,876 --> 01:01:15,083 And if not Yale, Columbia. 1108 01:01:15,167 --> 01:01:18,292 And if not Columbia, Stanford. 1109 01:01:19,959 --> 01:01:22,000 He was that caliber of student. 1110 01:01:24,167 --> 01:01:26,792 But Prince was tired of having to represent. 1111 01:01:29,417 --> 01:01:32,584 MAN 2: I asked if she regretted Prince choosing Howard. 1112 01:01:32,667 --> 01:01:33,876 She gasped. 1113 01:01:34,667 --> 01:01:35,918 No. 1114 01:01:38,459 --> 01:01:40,667 I regret that he is dead. 1115 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,751 ♪ (GENTLE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1116 01:01:54,626 --> 01:01:57,959 It was unlike anything I'd ever felt before. 1117 01:01:59,250 --> 01:02:04,042 It was extremely physically painful. 1118 01:02:05,709 --> 01:02:07,792 So much so that whenever he came to mind, 1119 01:02:07,876 --> 01:02:10,876 all I could do was pray and ask for mercy. 1120 01:02:13,167 --> 01:02:15,626 MAN 2: I asked if she expected the police officer 1121 01:02:15,709 --> 01:02:17,584 who shot Prince would be charged. 1122 01:02:18,209 --> 01:02:19,876 Yes. 1123 01:02:19,959 --> 01:02:22,042 MAN 2: She spoke like an American, 1124 01:02:23,375 --> 01:02:25,959 with the same expectation of fairness, 1125 01:02:26,042 --> 01:02:29,292 even fairness belated and begrudged. 1126 01:02:31,167 --> 01:02:33,000 She spoke like a Black woman. 1127 01:02:35,918 --> 01:02:39,542 Prince loved to read. 1128 01:02:42,292 --> 01:02:44,626 Oh, he loved to travel. 1129 01:02:47,167 --> 01:02:50,918 When he turned 23, I bought him a Jeep 1130 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:55,918 with a big purple bow on it. 1131 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,250 And I can still see him there... 1132 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,542 looking at that Jeep, saying... 1133 01:03:06,125 --> 01:03:07,834 "Thank you, Mom." 1134 01:03:14,417 --> 01:03:17,250 And that was the Jeep he was killed in. 1135 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:29,834 He had a family. 1136 01:03:32,375 --> 01:03:35,000 He was living like a human being. 1137 01:03:39,375 --> 01:03:42,792 And one racist act took him back. 1138 01:03:51,167 --> 01:03:54,709 ♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1139 01:04:06,417 --> 01:04:09,125 TAMIKA PALMER: 1140 01:04:16,667 --> 01:04:20,209 -(FOOTSTEPS) -(CAR ENGINE STARTING) 1141 01:04:22,751 --> 01:04:25,542 -(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) -(SIRENS WAILING) 1142 01:04:36,584 --> 01:04:39,792 PALMER: She told me I needed to get to the hospital. 1143 01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:41,292 Of course I went down, 1144 01:04:41,375 --> 01:04:43,876 and I told them why I were there. 1145 01:04:43,959 --> 01:04:46,792 She looked it up. She didn't see her. 1146 01:04:46,876 --> 01:04:49,834 So the lady said, "Well, I don't think she's here yet." 1147 01:04:51,292 --> 01:04:53,584 PALMER: 1148 01:05:06,167 --> 01:05:08,876 PALMER: It's still taped off. 1149 01:05:08,959 --> 01:05:11,751 I told the officer there that, you know, 1150 01:05:11,834 --> 01:05:13,292 I needed to get in her apartment. 1151 01:05:13,375 --> 01:05:15,083 Something was going on with my daughter. 1152 01:05:15,167 --> 01:05:17,500 And he told me to hang tight. 1153 01:05:18,834 --> 01:05:22,250 So it took another two hours or so for him to come. 1154 01:05:23,542 --> 01:05:26,000 He kinda just went on to ask me 1155 01:05:26,083 --> 01:05:29,000 if Breonna and Kenny had been having any problems. 1156 01:05:29,083 --> 01:05:30,584 And I said, "Absolutely not. 1157 01:05:30,667 --> 01:05:34,334 Kenny would never do anything to Breonna." 1158 01:05:34,417 --> 01:05:37,626 I said, "Well, where's Kenny?" Like, "I need to talk to Kenny." 1159 01:05:37,709 --> 01:05:40,083 And he said, "Well, Kenny's at one of our offices. 1160 01:05:40,167 --> 01:05:42,459 He's trying to help us piece together 1161 01:05:42,542 --> 01:05:44,626 what happened here tonight." 1162 01:05:44,709 --> 01:05:47,000 (RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES) 1163 01:05:47,834 --> 01:05:50,375 PALMER: 1164 01:05:59,709 --> 01:06:02,375 (CRICKETS CHIRPING) 1165 01:06:03,834 --> 01:06:07,584 PALMER: It was about 11:00 the next day. 1166 01:06:10,042 --> 01:06:12,542 -(FOOTSTEPS) -(KNOCKING) 1167 01:06:12,626 --> 01:06:15,417 He comes over and he says they were about done 1168 01:06:15,500 --> 01:06:18,542 and they were wrapping up, and then we would be able 1169 01:06:18,626 --> 01:06:21,542 to get in there once they got finished. 1170 01:06:22,792 --> 01:06:25,584 And I said, "Where's Breonna? 1171 01:06:28,959 --> 01:06:31,918 Why won't anybody say where Breonna is?" 1172 01:06:40,584 --> 01:06:43,000 And he said, "Well, ma'am... 1173 01:06:45,292 --> 01:06:47,626 she's still in the apartment." 1174 01:06:52,834 --> 01:06:55,876 I knew what that meant then. 1175 01:07:07,959 --> 01:07:10,542 TA-NEHISI COATES: After I left, I sat in the car, 1176 01:07:10,626 --> 01:07:12,209 idle for a few minutes. 1177 01:07:14,918 --> 01:07:16,751 I thought of all that Prince's mother 1178 01:07:16,834 --> 01:07:18,584 had invested in him. 1179 01:07:18,667 --> 01:07:21,334 ♪ (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1180 01:07:21,417 --> 01:07:23,209 I thought of all that Breonna's mother 1181 01:07:23,292 --> 01:07:24,667 had invested in her. 1182 01:07:27,042 --> 01:07:28,709 And all that was lost. 1183 01:07:31,250 --> 01:07:33,792 I thought of the loneliness that sent Prince to the Mecca, 1184 01:07:33,876 --> 01:07:36,584 and how the Mecca could not save him. 1185 01:07:36,667 --> 01:07:41,000 How we, ultimately, cannot save ourselves. 1186 01:07:42,292 --> 01:07:46,834 Son, we are captured, surrounded by bandits. 1187 01:07:49,751 --> 01:07:52,250 This has happened here in our only home. 1188 01:07:54,667 --> 01:07:56,792 I do not believe we can stop the Dreamers 1189 01:07:56,876 --> 01:07:59,667 because they must ultimately stop themselves. 1190 01:08:00,959 --> 01:08:03,584 And still, I urge you to struggle. 1191 01:08:03,667 --> 01:08:06,792 Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. 1192 01:08:06,876 --> 01:08:10,209 Struggle for the warmth of the Mecca. 1193 01:08:10,292 --> 01:08:13,459 Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, 1194 01:08:14,083 --> 01:08:15,667 for your name. 1195 01:08:16,751 --> 01:08:18,500 ♪ (SOMBER VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1196 01:08:18,584 --> 01:08:20,584 -Dad! -(LAUGHS) 1197 01:08:29,751 --> 01:08:31,792 COATES: I thought back on the sit-ins, 1198 01:08:31,876 --> 01:08:35,000 the protesters with their stoic faces, 1199 01:08:35,083 --> 01:08:37,459 the ones I had scorned for hurling their bodies 1200 01:08:37,542 --> 01:08:39,042 at the worst things in life. 1201 01:08:41,500 --> 01:08:43,542 (INDISTINCT CLAMOR) 1202 01:08:45,042 --> 01:08:47,125 COATES: Perhaps they had known something. 1203 01:08:47,209 --> 01:08:51,751 These Black people prostrate before clubs and dogs 1204 01:08:51,834 --> 01:08:53,709 were not simply shameful, 1205 01:08:53,792 --> 01:08:56,626 indeed were not shameful at all. 1206 01:08:58,125 --> 01:08:59,500 They were just true. 1207 01:09:02,959 --> 01:09:06,959 ♪ ("BLUE" BY MOSES SUMNEY PLAYING) ♪ 1208 01:09:07,626 --> 01:09:09,626 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1209 01:09:09,709 --> 01:09:14,959 ♪ What is crucified In light... ♪ 1210 01:09:15,042 --> 01:09:16,751 -PROTESTER 1: What do we want? -CROWD: Justice! 1211 01:09:16,834 --> 01:09:18,500 -PROTESTER 1: When do we want it? -CROWD: Now! 1212 01:09:18,584 --> 01:09:20,083 -What do we want? -CROWD: Justice! 1213 01:09:20,167 --> 01:09:22,000 -When do we want it? -CROWD: Now! 1214 01:09:22,083 --> 01:09:25,500 ♪ Seeks redemption in that... ♪ 1215 01:09:25,584 --> 01:09:27,709 PROTESTER 2: Our Black bodies are being disposed of 1216 01:09:27,792 --> 01:09:29,626 and thrown away like we are nothing. 1217 01:09:29,709 --> 01:09:31,083 (SCREAMING) 1218 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:33,918 If you Black, put your hands up. The whole world learns respect 1219 01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,584 with your hands up. Gotta keep your hands up. 1220 01:09:36,667 --> 01:09:38,000 (SHOUTING) 1221 01:09:38,083 --> 01:09:39,751 ♪ The socially undressed ♪ 1222 01:09:39,834 --> 01:09:42,792 ♪ And hues you are Taught to loathe ♪ 1223 01:09:42,876 --> 01:09:46,083 ♪ Two could become a cloak... ♪ 1224 01:09:46,167 --> 01:09:49,459 (ALL CHANTING) 1225 01:09:49,542 --> 01:09:52,250 PROTESTERS: (CHANTING) Black lives matter! Black lives matter! 1226 01:09:52,334 --> 01:09:53,876 Black lives matter! 1227 01:09:53,959 --> 01:09:56,584 ♪ Darkness can't grasp ♪ 1228 01:09:56,667 --> 01:09:59,042 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1229 01:09:59,125 --> 01:10:01,626 ♪ The socially undressed ♪ 1230 01:10:01,709 --> 01:10:04,959 ♪ And hues you are Taught to loathe ♪ 1231 01:10:05,042 --> 01:10:08,042 ♪ Two could become a cloak ♪ 1232 01:10:08,125 --> 01:10:09,792 ♪ No shame ♪ 1233 01:10:13,292 --> 01:10:16,250 ♪ Who burns blue in the... ♪ 1234 01:10:16,334 --> 01:10:19,083 -(SCREAMING) -(SIREN WAILS) 1235 01:10:19,167 --> 01:10:21,167 ♪ Moonlight Who... ♪ 1236 01:10:21,250 --> 01:10:23,042 -PROTESTER 3: Hands up! -CROWD: Don't shoot! 1237 01:10:23,125 --> 01:10:24,542 -Hands up! -Don't shoot! 1238 01:10:26,417 --> 01:10:28,250 ♪ Who burns blue... ♪ 1239 01:10:28,334 --> 01:10:30,334 -PROTESTER 4: Say her name! -CROWD: Breonna Taylor! 1240 01:10:30,417 --> 01:10:32,250 -PROTESTER 4: Say her name! -CROWD: Breonna Taylor! 1241 01:10:32,334 --> 01:10:34,250 -PROTESTER 4: Say her name! -CROWD: Breonna Taylor! 1242 01:10:34,334 --> 01:10:37,167 -PROTESTER 4: Say her name! -CROWD: Breonna Taylor! 1243 01:10:38,500 --> 01:10:41,584 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1244 01:10:49,834 --> 01:10:53,667 Son, I think back to our trip to Homecoming. 1245 01:10:53,751 --> 01:10:56,334 You and I were at the football game. 1246 01:10:56,417 --> 01:10:57,709 We were sitting in the bleachers 1247 01:10:57,792 --> 01:10:59,417 with old friends and their children. 1248 01:10:59,500 --> 01:11:00,542 (DISTANT CHEERING) 1249 01:11:00,626 --> 01:11:02,751 I remember watching a pack of alumni cheerleaders 1250 01:11:02,834 --> 01:11:04,542 so enamored with Howard University 1251 01:11:04,626 --> 01:11:06,459 that they donned their old colors 1252 01:11:06,542 --> 01:11:08,000 and took out their old uniforms 1253 01:11:08,083 --> 01:11:10,334 just a little, so they'd fit. 1254 01:11:11,375 --> 01:11:13,000 I remember them dancing. 1255 01:11:13,083 --> 01:11:15,542 -They'd shake, freeze, shake again. -(CHEERLEADERS CHANTING) 1256 01:11:15,626 --> 01:11:19,584 And when the crowd yelled, "Do it, do it, do it!" 1257 01:11:19,667 --> 01:11:22,209 A Black woman two rows in front of me, 1258 01:11:22,292 --> 01:11:23,959 in her tightest jeans, 1259 01:11:24,042 --> 01:11:27,626 stood and shook as though she was not somebody's mama 1260 01:11:27,709 --> 01:11:30,792 and the past 20 years had barely been a week. 1261 01:11:30,876 --> 01:11:33,542 I remember walking down to the tailgate party. 1262 01:11:33,626 --> 01:11:36,792 I saw the entire diaspora around me. 1263 01:11:36,876 --> 01:11:39,876 Hustlers, lawyers, Kappas, 1264 01:11:39,959 --> 01:11:43,083 busters, doctors, barbers, 1265 01:11:43,167 --> 01:11:46,125 Deltas, drunkards, geeks, and nerds. 1266 01:11:46,209 --> 01:11:47,334 (LAUGHTER ECHOES) 1267 01:11:47,417 --> 01:11:50,959 The DJ hollered into the mic. A girl with him smiled, 1268 01:11:51,042 --> 01:11:55,459 tilted her head back, imbibed, laughed. 1269 01:11:55,542 --> 01:11:58,626 And I felt myself disappearing into all of their bodies. 1270 01:11:59,459 --> 01:12:02,042 The birthmark of damnation faded, 1271 01:12:02,125 --> 01:12:04,500 and I could feel the weight of my arms 1272 01:12:04,584 --> 01:12:07,042 and I could hear the heave in my breath 1273 01:12:07,125 --> 01:12:10,959 and I was not talking then, because there was no point. 1274 01:12:12,125 --> 01:12:13,584 That was a moment, 1275 01:12:13,667 --> 01:12:17,292 a joyous moment beyond the Dream, 1276 01:12:17,375 --> 01:12:19,042 a moment imbued by a power 1277 01:12:19,125 --> 01:12:22,083 more gorgeous than any voting rights bill. 1278 01:12:22,167 --> 01:12:25,209 This power, this Black power, 1279 01:12:25,292 --> 01:12:27,584 originates in a view of the American galaxy 1280 01:12:27,667 --> 01:12:30,959 taken from a dark and essential planet. 1281 01:12:31,042 --> 01:12:33,876 Black power is the dungeon-side view of Monticello, 1282 01:12:33,959 --> 01:12:36,876 which is to say, the view taken in struggle. 1283 01:12:38,125 --> 01:12:40,417 The warmth of our particular world is beautiful, 1284 01:12:40,500 --> 01:12:42,584 no matter how brief and breakable. 1285 01:12:43,417 --> 01:12:45,876 We have made something down here. 1286 01:12:45,959 --> 01:12:48,334 They made us into a race. 1287 01:12:48,417 --> 01:12:52,083 We made ourselves into a people. 1288 01:12:52,167 --> 01:12:57,167 ♪ ("AMERICAN HEARTBREAK" BY BLACK THOUGHT FT. LEDISI PLAYING) ♪ 1289 01:13:21,542 --> 01:13:22,918 ♪ Yo, America the ugly ♪ 1290 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,250 ♪ This country is deep To say the least ♪ 1291 01:13:25,334 --> 01:13:27,959 ♪ As from Louisville, Kentucky To LA to the East ♪ 1292 01:13:28,042 --> 01:13:29,209 ♪ Where the race been on ♪ 1293 01:13:29,292 --> 01:13:31,042 ♪ But recently I've been making peace ♪ 1294 01:13:31,125 --> 01:13:33,083 ♪ With the fact Black bodies are worth ♪ 1295 01:13:33,167 --> 01:13:34,334 ♪ More if they're deceased ♪ 1296 01:13:34,417 --> 01:13:37,083 ♪ Or trapped in a 9 by 12 Awaiting our release ♪ 1297 01:13:37,167 --> 01:13:38,792 ♪ Not taking it upon ourselves ♪ 1298 01:13:38,876 --> 01:13:41,000 ♪ To break away and teach The next new crop ♪ 1299 01:13:41,083 --> 01:13:43,167 ♪ Before they face The next few cops ♪ 1300 01:13:43,250 --> 01:13:45,000 ♪ 'Cause a traffic stop At night alone ♪ 1301 01:13:45,083 --> 01:13:46,500 ♪ Could get you popped ♪ 1302 01:13:46,584 --> 01:13:49,209 ♪ Nina Simone sang What's the matter With you, rock? ♪ 1303 01:13:49,292 --> 01:13:50,334 ♪ Is it my hip-hop? ♪ 1304 01:13:50,417 --> 01:13:52,125 ♪ And what's the matter With Tupac? ♪ 1305 01:13:52,209 --> 01:13:54,334 ♪ We will finish the journey From Mecca ♪ 1306 01:13:54,417 --> 01:13:56,125 ♪ The pilgrimage Build bridges ♪ 1307 01:13:56,209 --> 01:13:58,042 ♪ Over burial grounds They filled with us ♪ 1308 01:13:58,125 --> 01:14:00,375 -♪ Oh, America ♪ -♪ I grimaced upon A photo I found ♪ 1309 01:14:00,459 --> 01:14:02,292 ♪ A still image of a friend ♪ 1310 01:14:02,375 --> 01:14:04,292 ♪ Who said to lean on him Like Bill Withers ♪ 1311 01:14:04,375 --> 01:14:06,542 -♪ I wish he was still with us ♪ -♪ Oh, America ♪ 1312 01:14:06,626 --> 01:14:08,250 ♪ They issue moratoriums On the truth ♪ 1313 01:14:08,334 --> 01:14:10,792 -♪ And label us Revisionist historians ♪ -♪ Oh, America ♪ 1314 01:14:10,876 --> 01:14:12,959 ♪ Changing the point of origin And all the events ♪ 1315 01:14:13,042 --> 01:14:14,792 ♪ Any prince With some kind of sense ♪ 1316 01:14:14,876 --> 01:14:16,626 -♪ Is all they're against ♪ -♪ Oh, America ♪ 1317 01:14:16,709 --> 01:14:18,000 ♪ For generations They've shown us ♪ 1318 01:14:18,083 --> 01:14:19,918 ♪ That the American Modus operandi's ♪ 1319 01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,000 ♪ To hold us, control us And try to fold us ♪ 1320 01:14:22,083 --> 01:14:24,042 -♪ Ooh, America ♪ -♪ Watch your body ♪ 1321 01:14:24,125 --> 01:14:26,209 ♪ Not gon' bring me down Today ♪ 1322 01:14:26,292 --> 01:14:30,709 ♪ Don't want to see another American heartbreak ♪ 1323 01:14:30,792 --> 01:14:33,459 ♪ Oh, you can't keep me down ♪ 1324 01:14:33,542 --> 01:14:34,709 ♪ Oh, America ♪ 1325 01:14:34,792 --> 01:14:36,334 ♪ Yeah, watch your body for me ♪ 1326 01:14:36,417 --> 01:14:38,167 ♪ I wasn't built to break ♪ 1327 01:14:38,250 --> 01:14:41,584 ♪ I won't be another American heartbreak ♪ 1328 01:14:42,876 --> 01:14:44,918 ♪ My soul you won't take ♪ 1329 01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:46,250 ♪ You can't keep me down ♪ 1330 01:14:46,334 --> 01:14:49,292 ♪ The beast brand is strong To each man his own ♪ 1331 01:14:49,375 --> 01:14:52,167 ♪ For every Tamika Mallory And Nikole Hannah-Jones ♪ 1332 01:14:52,250 --> 01:14:55,083 ♪ Get up like Jalen Rose So they don't stand alone ♪ 1333 01:14:55,167 --> 01:14:58,167 ♪ Leaders understand the codes Pawns do what they're supposed ♪ 1334 01:14:58,250 --> 01:15:01,000 ♪ The part that's hard as stone Is for you to make it home ♪ 1335 01:15:01,083 --> 01:15:02,709 ♪ If I perish When you're grown ♪ 1336 01:15:02,792 --> 01:15:04,209 ♪ I want you To take the throne ♪ 1337 01:15:04,292 --> 01:15:05,834 ♪ But when driving You a target ♪ 1338 01:15:05,918 --> 01:15:07,334 ♪ Don't be talking On the phone ♪ 1339 01:15:07,417 --> 01:15:10,083 ♪ You a alien, you might as well Be walking on the moon ♪ 1340 01:15:10,167 --> 01:15:13,209 ♪ When you walk into a room Never shrink so you can fit in ♪ 1341 01:15:13,292 --> 01:15:14,918 ♪ Your beauty And your brilliance ♪ 1342 01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:16,250 ♪ Ain't built To keep it hidden ♪ 1343 01:15:16,334 --> 01:15:18,542 ♪ Your path more like the vision Of Richard Wright ♪ 1344 01:15:18,626 --> 01:15:20,792 ♪ Was written too long ago To give in ♪ 1345 01:15:20,876 --> 01:15:22,459 ♪ Too strong to be forbidden ♪ 1346 01:15:22,542 --> 01:15:25,250 ♪ So whether saint or sinner Here's the tenor like Kamasi ♪ 1347 01:15:25,334 --> 01:15:28,334 ♪ I'm from the kind of posse That's down with Ta-Nehisi ♪ 1348 01:15:28,417 --> 01:15:31,167 ♪ Clowns can try to box me ♪ ♪ Their hate can never stop me ♪ 1349 01:15:31,250 --> 01:15:33,542 ♪ I'm a product Of American heartbreak ♪ 1350 01:15:33,626 --> 01:15:34,667 ♪ But watch me ♪ 1351 01:15:34,751 --> 01:15:36,334 ♪ I'm still a problem Lifting my wings ♪ 1352 01:15:36,417 --> 01:15:38,876 ♪ Despite the system That vilified the victim ♪ 1353 01:15:38,959 --> 01:15:40,334 ♪ I'm still alive and kicking ♪ 1354 01:15:40,417 --> 01:15:43,375 ♪ I'm a striver, survivor A husband and a father ♪ 1355 01:15:43,459 --> 01:15:45,125 ♪ From the bloodline of kings ♪ 1356 01:15:45,209 --> 01:15:47,167 -♪ I move differently ♪ -♪ Oh, America ♪ 1357 01:15:47,250 --> 01:15:48,500 ♪ Watch your body ♪ 1358 01:15:48,584 --> 01:15:50,292 ♪ Not gon' bring me down today ♪ 1359 01:15:50,375 --> 01:15:54,125 ♪ Don't wanna see another American heartbreak ♪ 1360 01:15:54,876 --> 01:15:57,292 ♪ Oh, you can't keep me down ♪ 1361 01:15:57,375 --> 01:15:59,125 -♪ Oh, America ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪ 1362 01:15:59,209 --> 01:16:02,292 -♪ Watch your body for me ♪ -♪ I wasn't built to break ♪ 1363 01:16:02,375 --> 01:16:06,667 ♪ I won't be another American heartbreak ♪ 1364 01:16:06,751 --> 01:16:08,876 ♪ My soul you won't take ♪ 1365 01:16:08,959 --> 01:16:11,918 ♪ You can't keep me down ♪ 1366 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:16,125 ♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1367 01:16:55,459 --> 01:16:57,667 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1368 01:16:59,959 --> 01:17:03,626 ♪ ("FALLEN STARS FLYING" BY NAS PLAYING) ♪ 1369 01:17:10,459 --> 01:17:13,292 ♪ Black youth flyin' Fallen stars ♪ 1370 01:17:13,375 --> 01:17:16,542 ♪ Black youth flyin' Fallen stars flyin' ♪ 1371 01:17:16,626 --> 01:17:18,709 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof ♪ 1372 01:17:18,792 --> 01:17:20,417 ♪ Nowadays, Stayin' real is a loss ♪ 1373 01:17:20,500 --> 01:17:21,459 ♪ So I pray for them ♪ 1374 01:17:21,542 --> 01:17:22,792 ♪ Heavy gold chains Of our laws ♪ 1375 01:17:22,876 --> 01:17:23,876 ♪ Body language boss ♪ 1376 01:17:23,959 --> 01:17:25,375 ♪ On this highly Dangerous course ♪ 1377 01:17:25,459 --> 01:17:26,709 ♪ Between the streets And up north ♪ 1378 01:17:26,792 --> 01:17:29,209 ♪ Can't expect Pray the angels direct my walk ♪ 1379 01:17:29,292 --> 01:17:32,209 ♪ I just talked with Big Homie Up in federal court ♪ 1380 01:17:32,292 --> 01:17:33,500 ♪ He was double crossed ♪ 1381 01:17:33,584 --> 01:17:35,459 ♪ Nowadays Stayin' real is a loss ♪ 1382 01:17:35,542 --> 01:17:37,542 ♪ 'Cause cowards prey On niggas with good hearts ♪ 1383 01:17:37,626 --> 01:17:40,167 ♪ So I pray for them They violate this way ♪ 1384 01:17:40,250 --> 01:17:42,542 ♪ I got the K for them But I refrain from ♪ 1385 01:17:42,626 --> 01:17:43,709 ♪ Doin' Satan's work ♪ 1386 01:17:43,792 --> 01:17:45,876 ♪ We doin' wrong Takin' our face off Earth ♪ 1387 01:17:45,959 --> 01:17:48,584 ♪ Black victory, I envision Tiffany blue coupes ♪ 1388 01:17:48,667 --> 01:17:51,167 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof, Black youth ♪ 1389 01:17:51,250 --> 01:17:54,250 ♪ What's the science, man We the fallen stars flyin' ♪ 1390 01:17:54,334 --> 01:17:55,876 ♪ Black youth, flyin' ♪ 1391 01:17:55,959 --> 01:17:58,500 ♪ Fallen stars Black youth, flyin' ♪ 1392 01:17:58,584 --> 01:18:00,083 ♪ Fallen stars, flyin' ♪ 1393 01:18:00,167 --> 01:18:02,083 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof ♪ 1394 01:18:02,167 --> 01:18:04,125 ♪ Nowadays Stayin' real is a loss ♪ 1395 01:18:04,209 --> 01:18:05,250 ♪ So I pray for them ♪ 1396 01:18:05,334 --> 01:18:06,709 ♪ When you a strong Stand-tall solider ♪ 1397 01:18:06,792 --> 01:18:09,250 ♪ They lean on you Expectin' you not to fall over ♪ 1398 01:18:09,334 --> 01:18:12,083 ♪ Like you never feel pressure Like you made of steel ♪ 1399 01:18:12,167 --> 01:18:14,626 ♪ So I absorb your pain I like to see you chill ♪ 1400 01:18:14,709 --> 01:18:16,751 ♪ But this shit Start weighin' on me ♪ 1401 01:18:16,834 --> 01:18:18,834 ♪ Liftin' you up Without a day off, homie ♪ 1402 01:18:18,918 --> 01:18:20,792 ♪ It's gettin' hard Plus the haters on me ♪ 1403 01:18:20,876 --> 01:18:22,542 ♪ I met a young queen A little girl ♪ 1404 01:18:22,626 --> 01:18:23,918 ♪ Asked for my autograph ♪ 1405 01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:25,792 ♪ She said my verse From "Black Girl Lost" ♪ 1406 01:18:25,876 --> 01:18:27,375 ♪ Made her find her way ♪ 1407 01:18:27,459 --> 01:18:30,292 ♪ She says she got Tatted wings on her back ♪ 1408 01:18:30,375 --> 01:18:32,209 ♪ So when she wants She can fly away ♪ 1409 01:18:32,292 --> 01:18:34,918 ♪ Black youth, flyin' Fallen stars ♪ 1410 01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:38,292 ♪ Black youth, flyin' Fallen stars, flyin' ♪ 1411 01:18:38,375 --> 01:18:40,250 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof ♪ 1412 01:18:40,334 --> 01:18:42,459 ♪ Nowadays Stayin' real is a loss ♪ 1413 01:18:42,542 --> 01:18:43,959 ♪ So I pray for them Black youth ♪ 1414 01:18:44,042 --> 01:18:47,083 ♪ Flyin', fallen stars Black youth, flyin' ♪ 1415 01:18:47,167 --> 01:18:49,250 ♪ Fallen stars flyin' Black youth ♪ 1416 01:18:49,334 --> 01:18:51,167 ♪ Flyin' high, fly high Fallen stars flyin' ♪ 1417 01:18:51,250 --> 01:18:53,209 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof ♪ 1418 01:18:53,292 --> 01:18:54,667 ♪ So I pray for them ♪ 1419 01:18:59,209 --> 01:19:00,626 ♪ Pray for them ♪ 1420 01:19:04,667 --> 01:19:06,000 ♪ Pray for them ♪ 1421 01:19:10,042 --> 01:19:11,876 ♪ Pray for them Black youth ♪ 1422 01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:16,375 ♪ Fallen stars flyin' ♪ 1423 01:19:16,459 --> 01:19:18,459 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof ♪ 1424 01:19:18,542 --> 01:19:20,626 ♪ Nowadays Stayin' real is a loss ♪ 1425 01:19:20,709 --> 01:19:23,000 ♪ So I pray for them Black youth ♪ 1426 01:19:23,083 --> 01:19:24,959 ♪ Fallen stars Black youth ♪ 1427 01:19:25,918 --> 01:19:27,584 ♪ Fallen stars Black youth ♪ 1428 01:19:27,667 --> 01:19:29,584 ♪ Flyin' high, fly high ♪ 1429 01:19:29,667 --> 01:19:31,542 ♪ Angels pop out the hood Like poof ♪ 1430 01:19:31,626 --> 01:19:33,417 ♪ So I pray for them ♪ 1431 01:19:35,250 --> 01:19:37,334 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪