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[children chattering]

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-[child squeals]
-[chattering continues]

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<i>Well, shit,</i>
<i>so I was trying to figure out</i>
<i>somewhere to put the camera.</i>

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<i>Hold on a minute.</i>

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<i>Today is, um, July 23rd.</i>

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[baby cooing]

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<i>And, uh...</i>

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<i>a lot of things have changed</i>
<i>since the beginning</i>
<i>of this tape.</i>

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<i>Uh, my husband is in jail.</i>

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<i>I’ve been out now</i>
<i>a week and a day...</i>

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<i>after being locked up,</i>
<i>uh, since May 24th.</i>

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<i>But I know that despite</i>
<i>how grim my circumstances</i>
<i>may look right now,</i>

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<i>everything is gonna be okay.</i>

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<i>We’ll come back.</i>

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[boy] <i>A motorcycle.</i>

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<i>We’ll come back.</i>

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<i>Stronger than before.</i>

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<i>I’m pregnant with twins.</i>

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<i>Let me get a shot</i>
<i>of the twins.</i>

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<i>Look there.</i>

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<i>That’s the twins at 22 weeks.</i>

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<i>Move. Laurence,</i>
<i>if you do not move...</i>

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[woman] <i>Good morning...</i>

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<i>six-year-old boy.</i>

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<i>Good morning.</i>

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<i>Today your first day</i>
<i>of school, buddy.</i>

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<i>Hey. Hey. Hey.</i>

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<i>Good morning, Robert.</i>

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<i>Today is August 24,</i>

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<i>Remington’s first day</i>
<i>of kindergarten.</i>

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<i>What you gonna do</i>
<i>in kindergarten, Rem?</i>

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[Remington]
<i>Do my alphabets,</i>

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<i>then find me</i>
<i>all the girlfriends I want.</i>

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[woman laughing]

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[crying]

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<i>Good morning, baby.</i>

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<i>You can hear the ice falling.</i>

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<i>And there are those ding-dongs</i>
<i>in the cold.</i>

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<i>Hey, Ding-a-ling Two and One.</i>

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<i>Hey. Hey!</i>

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It’s cold.

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-[squealing, laughter]
-[woman laughing]

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<i>Go, Laurence!</i>

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-[screaming, chattering]
-[woman] <i>It’s crazy, babe!</i>

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<i>Oh, my goodness.</i>
<i>How much is that...</i>

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[laughing]

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[woman] <i>Okay.</i>

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-<i>Planning on getting</i>
<i>married anytime soon?</i>
-[woman] <i>I am married.</i>

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<i>Are you?</i>
<i>Mm-hmm.</i>
<i>To Remington’s father.</i>

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<i>When?</i>

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<i>We’ve been married</i>
<i>a year and a half now.</i>

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<i>Almost a year and a half.</i>

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<i>Where is he?</i>

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<i>Uh, he’s-- he’s, uh,</i>
<i>out of town now.</i>

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<i>And you know what,</i>
<i>I don’t want you up there</i>

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<i>goofing off with</i>
<i>them other boys, okay?</i>

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<i>Mm-hmm.</i>
<i>You pay attention.</i>

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<i>Pay attention.</i>
<i>Center. Pay attention.</i>

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<i>That’s your objective</i>
<i>for today.</i>

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[girl] <i>Uh-huh.</i>
<i>Me and Jared don’t run.</i>

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[laughing]

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<i>Where my head at, Remington?</i>

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[Remington] <i>There it is.</i>

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<i>Boy, you better grow up</i>
<i>to be a man.</i>

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<i>With your cute self.</i>

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[boy] <i>Well, Dad,</i>
<i>this is the fall season.</i>

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[woman] <i>Trees</i>
<i>starting to turn colors.</i>

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<i>Today is October 18.</i>

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[boy] <i>October 18</i>
<i>is today’s date.</i>

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<i>I just want to show you</i>
<i>these houses, Dad.</i>

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[woman]
<i>See which one we gonna get.</i>

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[boy 1] <i>Yeah,</i>
<i>see which one we gonna get.</i>

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[woman] <i>Damn, they nice.</i>
<i>They close together.</i>

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<i>So, Pops, this is me.</i>
<i>This is myself.</i>

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<i>Back to you.</i>

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<i>It’s a beautiful day</i>
<i>today, baby.</i>

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<i>I wish you could</i>
<i>enjoy it with me.</i>

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<i>My passenger seat is vacant.</i>

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[chuckles]

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<i>Nigga, and just think,</i>
<i>I met your ass when I was 16.</i>

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<i>Sixteen years old.</i>

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[chuckles]

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<i>Always knew there was</i>
<i>something about you.</i>

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<i>Ooh, boy,</i>
<i>I love you, Robert.</i>

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<i>I love me some Robert.</i>
[chuckles]

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<i>Girl, you got</i>
<i>some kind of story.</i>

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<i>Do you see this smile, Robert?</i>

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<i>Do you know how hard I’m gonna</i>
<i>be smiling when you come home?</i>

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<i>Nigga, oh...</i> [laughs]

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<i>Nigga-- What? Smiling?</i>

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<i>Me and all my children</i>
<i>are probably gonna walk</i>
<i>around like this all day.</i>

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<i>Nigga’s jaw’s gonna be</i>
<i>hurtin’ all the time.</i>

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<i>Say what?</i>

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<i>Sibil Fox did what?</i>

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[sighs]

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<i>I feel like a champion.</i>

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Mm, I like.

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They call it the Big Easy,
but truth be told,

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without proper transportation,
she can--

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You know, as we’re saying
"proper transportation,"

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we’re zooming out, and then,
"She can be hard as hell."
Right.

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And, um--
And then coming back to me

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when I’m introducing
myself, um--

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Peace and love, family.
I’m Fox Rich.

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And as the wife
and mother of six boys, um...

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I know the importance
of transportation.

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As a wife and mother
of six boys...

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I appreciate
the opportunity to serve

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as your personal auto buyer
at Rich Motors of New Orleans.
Cool.

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I know what it means to need
proper transportation

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for you and your family
to get around in.

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Listen, truth be told,

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a car is more important
than a house, if you ask me.

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’Cause-- [chuckles]
you can sleep in your car,

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but, baby, you can’t drive
your house around.

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[chuckles]
Um, so that’s-- that’s it.

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Cool. So I think
what we’ll do is,

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we’ll get a shot of you
saying all of that.

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Okay.
And then we’ll also do--

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And then you can even
look over my shoulder

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and we can kind of do
the other stuff together
and make sure that’s right.

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We can time it out--

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What I wanted to do, too,
was just be able to see

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what I look like, hair-wise,
lip-gloss-wise, um--

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Yeah, sure,
we can do that, too.

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And see what the shot
looks like real quick.

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Yeah. It’s gonna
take me a second.

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We’re just gonna get
the lights right for you.
Okay.

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So I’m just gonna
take a look at what
we’re working with here.

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They may call her the Big Easy,
but truth be told,

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being in New Orleans
without transportation

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can be hard as hell.

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Awesome.
I think I need to roll
my shoulders back.

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Let’s try it again.
All right,
do it one more time.

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Or as many times
as you need, really.
Mm-hmm.

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Step out
just a little more.

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[Sibil] <i>I was born</i>
<i>Sibil Verdette Fox</i>

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<i>on August 18, 1971.</i>

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<i>My mother was an educator,</i>
<i>and my grandmother</i>

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<i>was the housekeeper</i>
<i>for Hank Williams’ mother.</i>

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<i>I came from a people</i>
<i>who had a strong desire</i>
<i>to have something,</i>

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<i>to make something</i>
<i>out of ourselves.</i>

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[lively chattering]

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<i>My mother...</i>

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<i>she taught me</i>
<i>from a very young age</i>

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<i>that the American Dream</i>
<i>was real.</i>

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<i>And she would say, "Sibil,</i>
<i>you can make it if you try."</i>

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[cheering, applause]

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<i>And so, here I was,</i>

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<i>a young girl</i>
<i>from the urban city,</i>

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<i>and I was determined to try.</i>

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<i>There’s the Rich family.</i>
<i>What you think about that?</i>

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<i>I met my husband Robert</i>
<i>when I was 16 years old.</i>

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<i>I had married</i>
<i>my high school sweetheart.</i>

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<i>We had purchased</i>
<i>our first home,</i>

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<i>put the deposit down</i>
<i>on our first business.</i>

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<i>We were about to blow up.</i>

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[Sibil chuckling]

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[Sibil] <i>Getting close</i>
<i>to Aunt Sandra’s house.</i>

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<i>And little does she know</i>
<i>what’s coming.</i> [laughs]

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[boy] <i>Mama.</i>

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<i>There they go right there.</i>
[laughing]

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-[excited chattering]
-[Sibil laughing]

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<i>Ah, Sibil!</i>

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[laughter,
excited chattering]

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[Sibil] <i>Surprise!</i>

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[laughing,
chattering continue]

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[Sibil]
<i>Little did I know,</i>

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<i>my family already had</i>
<i>everything we needed.</i>

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<i>We had each other.</i>

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Listen, my story is the story

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of over two million people
in the United States of America

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that are falling prey
to the incarceration

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of poor people
and people of color.

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So I’m asking you
to come out and join me.

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And I had one other thing.
What was it?

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Oh, we’re gonna be going live.
If you cannot make it tonight,

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then I would ask that you catch
the live broadcast at 7:00 p.m.
on my Facebook page,

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because we will be posting live
from the experience.

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Listen, it’s more than
a conversation, y’all.

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It is definitely the--
an experience,

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and I hope you can
meet me there.

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Tulane University,
7:00 p.m. tonight

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at the Rogers Memorial Chapel.

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Peace and love.

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[steam hissing]

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[Remington] Hey, you,
come here real quick.

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This is supposed to
always line up.

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Your belt is supposed
to always line up
with the seam of your shirt.

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[Sibil]
Who pulled the clothes
out the dryer like that?

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[people chattering]

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[man] <i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
<i>if you will please join me</i>

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<i>in giving your warmest</i>
<i>Green Wave welcome</i>

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<i>to my mother, your speaker</i>
<i>for this evening, Fox Rich.</i>

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[cheering, applause]

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[Sibil] Let me get it clear
from the start.

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I know I didn’t get away
with nothing but my life.

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[camera clicks, whirs]

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<i>September 16, 1997,</i>
<i>my husband and I arrive</i>

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<i>at Grambling Federal</i>
<i>Credit Union.</i>

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<i>Dang-- That’s what I said.</i>

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<i>Why the hell did I do that?</i>
[laughter]

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<i>What in the world</i>
<i>was I thinking of?</i>

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Rob and I had a dream
to open Shreveport’s first
hip-hop clothing store.

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But we were struggling
to make ends meet.

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And what I remember during
that time more than anything

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was not wanting to fail.

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And we had become
desperate.

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Desperate people
do desperate things.

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It’s as simple as that.

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When I dropped my husband
and his nephew off...

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to rob a bank...

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00:14:09.474 --> 00:14:13.019
immediately after they got
out of the car, I knew.

216
00:14:17.190 --> 00:14:20.235
We had entered
into a world...

217
00:14:21.236 --> 00:14:25.365
that we...
would never forget.

218
00:14:47.554 --> 00:14:49.431
At that time,

219
00:14:49.514 --> 00:14:53.602
armed robbery carried
a five- to 99-year sentence.

220
00:14:54.561 --> 00:14:58.315
And on June 15, 1999,

221
00:14:58.398 --> 00:15:01.610
my husband was sentenced
to 60 years in prison

222
00:15:02.152 --> 00:15:05.488
without the benefit
of probation,

223
00:15:05.572 --> 00:15:09.701
parole or
suspension of sentence.

224
00:15:21.588 --> 00:15:24.049
Sixty years...

225
00:15:26.718 --> 00:15:29.512
of human life.

226
00:15:35.727 --> 00:15:39.356
My mama said,
"Shit is easy to get into."

227
00:15:41.608 --> 00:15:43.902
Mm. Mm.

228
00:15:44.778 --> 00:15:46.488
Mm.

229
00:15:46.571 --> 00:15:49.032
It’s been 20 years, y’all.

230
00:15:49.115 --> 00:15:51.201
It’s been 20 years,
y’all.

231
00:15:51.284 --> 00:15:54.079
It’s been two decades, y’all.

232
00:15:54.162 --> 00:15:57.123
It’s been 20 long years.

233
00:15:57.207 --> 00:16:00.710
It is hard to get out of.

234
00:16:06.508 --> 00:16:09.886
It’s almost like slavery time.

235
00:16:12.180 --> 00:16:15.183
Like the white man
keep you there until...

236
00:16:16.101 --> 00:16:18.853
he figures it’s time
for you to get out.

237
00:16:18.937 --> 00:16:21.690
And that’s what
this situation is.

238
00:16:22.524 --> 00:16:24.567
A personal vendetta.

239
00:16:26.945 --> 00:16:30.031
Personal vendetta. Yep.

240
00:16:31.449 --> 00:16:35.161
And see, I told my child,
I said, "What you need to do...

241
00:16:36.538 --> 00:16:40.709
is pin your hair up on your head

242
00:16:40.792 --> 00:16:42.669
like you half crazy...

243
00:16:45.046 --> 00:16:47.507
put you on a dress,

244
00:16:47.590 --> 00:16:51.136
a pair of pants
and some flat shoes,

245
00:16:51.219 --> 00:16:54.764
and go on down
to that courthouse, to court."

246
00:16:57.434 --> 00:16:59.644
She pressed that hair out

247
00:17:00.311 --> 00:17:04.149
and fling it all in them
white folks’ faces, okay?

248
00:17:04.232 --> 00:17:06.901
I said, "You ought to not
go down there like that.

249
00:17:06.985 --> 00:17:10.572
Them white folk
already don’t like you."

250
00:17:18.705 --> 00:17:20.248
Wouldn’t listen.

251
00:17:32.260 --> 00:17:36.639
I thought that my daughter
would marry a doctor,

252
00:17:36.723 --> 00:17:39.726
a lawyer or Indian chief...

253
00:17:40.852 --> 00:17:44.773
and that there’d be some things
she just wouldn’t do.

254
00:17:45.648 --> 00:17:48.693
You don’t do that.
You don’t do that.

255
00:17:53.114 --> 00:17:54.657
[sighs]

256
00:17:54.741 --> 00:17:57.368
I’ve always been
a firm believer...

257
00:18:00.246 --> 00:18:02.582
right don’t come to you
doing wrong.

258
00:18:03.792 --> 00:18:05.710
Does it? No.

259
00:18:05.794 --> 00:18:07.462
No. [sniffs]

260
00:18:07.545 --> 00:18:10.298
And that’s--
that’s all of that.

261
00:18:12.550 --> 00:18:14.552
[siren wailing]

262
00:18:27.315 --> 00:18:28.858
[woman on phone]
<i>I don’t have good credit,</i>

263
00:18:28.942 --> 00:18:31.694
<i>so I was trying to see</i>
<i>how that would work.</i>

264
00:18:31.778 --> 00:18:35.281
[Sibil] Okay, Miss Kaylin.
And which one of our vehicles
were you looking at?

265
00:18:36.658 --> 00:18:38.409
<i>The, uh--</i>
<i>It was, uh, the white one.</i>

266
00:18:38.493 --> 00:18:43.081
<i>It’s the Cadillac SRX 2008,</i>
<i>with a thousand to put down.</i>

267
00:18:43.164 --> 00:18:44.332
Oh, okay.

268
00:18:44.415 --> 00:18:46.417
[static crackles]
[phone dings]

269
00:18:46.501 --> 00:18:48.753
She got bad credit,
and the first thing
she want to do

270
00:18:48.837 --> 00:18:51.214
is get the most expensive car
we got online.

271
00:18:51.297 --> 00:18:53.383
Yes, ma’am, so do you want
to submit your application

272
00:18:53.466 --> 00:18:56.636
so we can see if we can get you
enough on that particular car?

273
00:18:56.719 --> 00:18:58.721
And if not,
then we can certainly get you

274
00:18:58.805 --> 00:19:01.057
in a car
with a thousand dollars down.

275
00:19:01.140 --> 00:19:02.725
<i>Okay, that’s fine.</i>

276
00:19:11.317 --> 00:19:13.611
I was reflecting
with my husband last night.

277
00:19:13.695 --> 00:19:16.865
It was March of 2013

278
00:19:16.948 --> 00:19:19.409
when I made the decision
to move to New Orleans.

279
00:19:20.910 --> 00:19:25.456
It was right after
March the 5th,
as a matter of fact.

280
00:19:25.540 --> 00:19:29.794
We got a letter in the mail
from the last high-priced
lawyer we hired.

281
00:19:31.337 --> 00:19:34.048
Spent 15 grand in cash...

282
00:19:35.717 --> 00:19:37.385
up front to--

283
00:19:37.468 --> 00:19:39.470
for him to send us
a letter

284
00:19:39.554 --> 00:19:43.683
a few days before
he was supposed to file
paperwork on our behalf

285
00:19:43.766 --> 00:19:46.686
saying that
there was nothing else
that they could do for us.

286
00:19:48.187 --> 00:19:50.398
And so I opened the letter

287
00:19:50.481 --> 00:19:54.569
and literally, um,
would not cry,

288
00:19:54.652 --> 00:19:58.239
but when we looked
in the back of the car,
Robert was crying.

289
00:19:58.323 --> 00:20:01.576
It was me,
Laurence, Freedom,
Justus and Robert.

290
00:20:02.368 --> 00:20:08.499
And I think the rest of us,
we were so accustomed to the--
to the letdowns

291
00:20:08.583 --> 00:20:11.544
that, you know, we just all
kind of sat in silence.

292
00:20:11.628 --> 00:20:15.506
And then, when we looked up,
baby boy was boo-hooing.

293
00:20:15.590 --> 00:20:18.301
You know, so he made us
tap back into the emotion

294
00:20:18.384 --> 00:20:20.845
that we were all
trying not to feel.

295
00:20:23.056 --> 00:20:25.266
And, uh, to have spent
all of that money

296
00:20:25.350 --> 00:20:27.268
and still have
absolutely no results,

297
00:20:27.352 --> 00:20:31.147
after I had expended all of
the family’s money again,

298
00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:34.400
um, I knew that
if it was gonna be,

299
00:20:34.484 --> 00:20:37.362
it was gonna be totally
up to me. [chuckles]

300
00:20:42.158 --> 00:20:44.077
[Sibil]
Brother Ronnie.

301
00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:45.954
[Ronald on speakerphone]
<i>Yeah, tell me the story.</i>

302
00:20:46.037 --> 00:20:47.914
[Sibil] Ah, we got
a few more hours

303
00:20:47.997 --> 00:20:49.832
before the judge
supposed to issue a ruling.

304
00:20:49.916 --> 00:20:53.544
He said two days,
so today is day two.

305
00:20:53.628 --> 00:20:56.589
[Ronald] <i>Yeah, yeah.</i>
Mm-hmm.

306
00:20:57.590 --> 00:20:59.509
Yeah, so that’s
what we’re working on.

307
00:20:59.592 --> 00:21:01.928
<i>That’s close.</i>
<i>This is as close</i>
<i>as you’ve ever been.</i>

308
00:21:02.011 --> 00:21:04.305
[laughs]
Yeah, don’t remind me.

309
00:21:04.389 --> 00:21:06.391
This is the closest
I’ve ever been.
[Ronald laughs]

310
00:21:06.474 --> 00:21:09.018
Just waiting on--
At least waiting on an answer.

311
00:21:09.102 --> 00:21:12.397
<i>Yeah, we might as well be</i>
<i>praying and be patient.</i>

312
00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:14.774
Yeah. Yeah.
<i>You know, like...</i>

313
00:21:15.692 --> 00:21:17.360
<i>Yeah,</i>
<i>send the Holy Ghost.</i>

314
00:21:17.443 --> 00:21:19.862
Yeah.
<i>Send the Holy Ghost.</i>

315
00:21:19.946 --> 00:21:22.198
So...
<i>Uh...</i>

316
00:21:22.281 --> 00:21:24.158
<i>All right, uh...</i>

317
00:21:25.159 --> 00:21:29.330
<i>we’re taking it</i>
<i>step by step.</i>

318
00:21:30.748 --> 00:21:32.500
<i>Uh...</i>

319
00:21:33.209 --> 00:21:35.670
Well, by 5:00
I oughta know something.

320
00:21:35.753 --> 00:21:37.588
I’ll either know
it wasn’t answered today,

321
00:21:37.672 --> 00:21:40.925
or I’ll know, um--
<i>What the answer is.</i>

322
00:21:41.009 --> 00:21:43.428
What the answer is.
[laughs]

323
00:21:43.511 --> 00:21:45.096
<i>We’ll know what</i>
<i>the answer is.</i>

324
00:21:45.179 --> 00:21:48.349
Really by 4:00, ’cause,
you know, they, um--

325
00:21:48.433 --> 00:21:51.102
I think the clerk of courts
closes about 4:00.

326
00:21:52.270 --> 00:21:54.939
So I’m gonna call after lunch
and see if it has come down,

327
00:21:55.023 --> 00:22:00.570
if it has been issued,
and, um, take it from there.

328
00:22:00.653 --> 00:22:02.280
I’ll keep you
posted, though.
<i>Yeah.</i>

329
00:22:02.363 --> 00:22:03.948
<i>All right,</i>
<i>keep me posted.</i>
All right.

330
00:22:04.032 --> 00:22:05.783
<i>Take care. Bye.</i>
Bye-bye.

331
00:22:05.867 --> 00:22:07.326
[line clicks]

332
00:22:11.414 --> 00:22:13.166
[phone: line ringing]

333
00:22:19.130 --> 00:22:21.132
[line continues ringing]

334
00:22:32.226 --> 00:22:33.770
[receptionist]
<i>Judge’s office.</i>

335
00:22:33.853 --> 00:22:36.272
Yes, I was trying to reach
Miss Sandra.

336
00:22:36.355 --> 00:22:37.982
<i>Just a minute.</i>

337
00:22:45.281 --> 00:22:47.033
<i>No, it’s for Sandr--</i>
[line cuts off]

338
00:22:47.116 --> 00:22:48.659
[on phone]
<i>♪ Birds flying-- ♪</i>

339
00:22:48.743 --> 00:22:51.287
[faint chattering]
[line goes silent]

340
00:23:35.164 --> 00:23:36.707
[receptionist]
<i>Sandra’s on her phone.</i>

341
00:23:36.791 --> 00:23:38.584
<i>I’m trying to wait</i>
<i>for her to get off.</i>

342
00:23:38.668 --> 00:23:40.670
I appreciate that.
<i>Do you want</i>
<i>to continue to hold?</i>

343
00:23:40.753 --> 00:23:42.630
Yes, ma’am,
if you’d be so kind.

344
00:23:42.713 --> 00:23:45.174
<i>Okay.</i>
[line goes silent]

345
00:24:08.573 --> 00:24:10.491
<i>Sandra.</i>
Hey, Miss Sandra.

346
00:24:10.575 --> 00:24:12.910
This is
Sibil Richardson again.
<i>Hi.</i>

347
00:24:12.994 --> 00:24:14.162
<i>Mm-hmm.</i>
Were you able--

348
00:24:14.245 --> 00:24:15.955
<i>No, we don’t</i>
<i>have anything.</i>

349
00:24:16.038 --> 00:24:17.832
<i>You have to check with us</i>
<i>on Monday.</i>

350
00:24:17.915 --> 00:24:19.375
Yes, ma’am.
Thank you so much.

351
00:24:19.458 --> 00:24:20.877
<i>Okay. All right.</i>
Have a good weekend.

352
00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.837
Bye-bye.
<i>All right. You, too.</i>

353
00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:25.756
[line clicks]
[sighs]

354
00:24:33.181 --> 00:24:35.391
<i>All right, it is, um,</i>

355
00:24:35.474 --> 00:24:37.602
<i>I think, probably about...</i>

356
00:24:38.311 --> 00:24:40.271
<i>2:20 in the morning.</i>

357
00:24:40.354 --> 00:24:44.901
<i>It is October 20th,</i>
<i>and we are on our way--</i>

358
00:24:44.984 --> 00:24:47.069
<i>uh, today is the 21st--</i>

359
00:24:47.153 --> 00:24:49.614
<i>on our way down</i>
<i>to go see my husband.</i>

360
00:24:50.990 --> 00:24:54.076
<i>Big Rob, it’s time to</i>
<i>go see your daddy, man.</i>

361
00:24:56.245 --> 00:24:59.540
[reporter on TV]
<i>Twenty-year-old Marcus Taylor,</i>
<i>18-year-old Jesse Stewart</i>

362
00:24:59.624 --> 00:25:01.959
<i>and 22-year-old</i>
<i>Joseph Kennedy Junior</i>

363
00:25:02.043 --> 00:25:05.213
<i>were charged with</i>
<i>the first-degree murder</i>
<i>of Lottie Myers.</i>

364
00:25:05.296 --> 00:25:07.673
<i>It’s day three</i>
<i>of jury selection</i>
<i>in the Virginia trial</i>

365
00:25:07.757 --> 00:25:09.675
<i>of sniper suspect</i>
<i>John Muhammad.</i>

366
00:25:20.186 --> 00:25:22.021
[Sibil] At the beginning
of every year,

367
00:25:22.104 --> 00:25:25.608
every New Year’s Eve
for the past 20 years,

368
00:25:25.691 --> 00:25:27.568
we have always started
the new year

369
00:25:27.652 --> 00:25:29.862
knowing that this was
gonna be the year

370
00:25:29.946 --> 00:25:31.822
that my husband
was coming home.

371
00:25:35.201 --> 00:25:38.579
And if you haven’t done
something in the courts
by Thanksgiving,

372
00:25:38.663 --> 00:25:41.791
then you know that you’re
about to end the year

373
00:25:41.874 --> 00:25:44.627
and you’re still
gonna be incarcerated.

374
00:25:46.462 --> 00:25:50.591
The hope that you’ve given
yourself all year long or the--

375
00:25:50.675 --> 00:25:55.554
truth be told,
the lie you’ve given yourself
all year long--

376
00:25:56.305 --> 00:26:00.685
you have to accept that maybe
this just wasn’t the year.

377
00:26:00.768 --> 00:26:02.979
But next year is the year.

378
00:26:36.971 --> 00:26:40.391
[woman] When I would see Rob,
they’d be coming or going.

379
00:26:42.935 --> 00:26:45.396
So, I got nothing
against him.

380
00:26:45.479 --> 00:26:47.064
I just don’t know him.

381
00:26:54.739 --> 00:26:56.657
Now, they did do it.

382
00:26:56.741 --> 00:26:58.784
Now, if...

383
00:26:59.952 --> 00:27:03.831
he had gone in there
and accepted the plea bargain,

384
00:27:03.914 --> 00:27:07.918
which was 12 years,
he’d have been on the ground.

385
00:27:09.295 --> 00:27:13.090
Sibil went in there,
she accepted her 12 years.

386
00:27:13.174 --> 00:27:14.842
She on the ground,
ain’t she?

387
00:27:14.925 --> 00:27:16.177
Okay.

388
00:27:20.556 --> 00:27:22.224
Life goes on.

389
00:27:23.476 --> 00:27:25.895
And keep hope alive.

390
00:27:25.978 --> 00:27:29.815
Ain’t that what
Jesse Jackson say?
Keep hope alive.

391
00:27:29.899 --> 00:27:32.151
Keep hoping that
one of these days,

392
00:27:32.234 --> 00:27:35.488
when you walk up
in that courtroom,
that this is it.

393
00:27:43.662 --> 00:27:48.209
What tenacity, what fortitude,
what hope, what faith

394
00:27:48.292 --> 00:27:50.503
to sit there
and a lawyer tell you

395
00:27:50.586 --> 00:27:53.172
that you looking at
300 years in prison,

396
00:27:53.255 --> 00:27:55.007
and you have the gird

397
00:27:55.091 --> 00:27:58.094
to stand before your wife
and say to her,

398
00:27:58.761 --> 00:28:00.513
"We gonna be all right."

399
00:28:06.227 --> 00:28:09.688
He said, "God looks after
the sparrows, Sibil.

400
00:28:10.648 --> 00:28:13.192
I know he gonna take care of us.

401
00:28:14.110 --> 00:28:17.446
God watches over the sparrows.

402
00:28:18.280 --> 00:28:20.408
I know God will watch us."

403
00:28:22.410 --> 00:28:25.454
My son, Remington,
he was the eldest at the time,

404
00:28:25.538 --> 00:28:28.207
and I said to him, uh...

405
00:28:30.251 --> 00:28:33.129
"They are requiring me
to go to prison.

406
00:28:33.212 --> 00:28:35.214
And I’m gonna
have to leave you,

407
00:28:35.297 --> 00:28:38.759
and I am going to need you
to help your grandmother

408
00:28:38.843 --> 00:28:40.428
with your brothers."

409
00:28:42.346 --> 00:28:45.224
He broke out crying.

410
00:28:46.976 --> 00:28:49.812
Screaming and howling.

411
00:28:49.895 --> 00:28:52.314
"I thought you said
you wasn’t gonna have to go."

412
00:28:53.107 --> 00:28:56.652
And I’m crying,
and I’m saying, "I know.

413
00:28:56.735 --> 00:28:59.196
I didn’t think
they were gonna make me go,

414
00:28:59.280 --> 00:29:02.032
but they are,
and so I have to.

415
00:29:02.116 --> 00:29:04.618
And I’m gonna need you
to go on, cry,

416
00:29:04.702 --> 00:29:07.371
and wipe your eyes
and come over here,

417
00:29:07.455 --> 00:29:10.875
and let’s start counting down
to when I leave."

418
00:29:10.958 --> 00:29:14.795
"Well, why we gotta count down
to when you leave, Mama?"

419
00:29:14.879 --> 00:29:17.339
I said, "Because
the sooner I can leave,

420
00:29:17.423 --> 00:29:21.010
the sooner I can
get back home."

421
00:29:28.893 --> 00:29:30.728
[Sibil] <i>What I’m gonna do</i>
<i>with a big boy like you?</i>

422
00:29:30.811 --> 00:29:32.938
<i>And I will say ma--</i>
<i>you will say,</i>

423
00:29:33.022 --> 00:29:36.108
<i>"Man, I don’t--</i>
<i>You gonna pick that up."</i>

424
00:29:36.192 --> 00:29:39.904
<i>And I’m gonna say, "Mama,</i>
<i>you don’t need to hold that.</i>
<i>Let me carry it."</i>

425
00:29:39.987 --> 00:29:42.031
<i>Yeah?</i>
<i>’Cause I’m</i>
<i>your kindergartener.</i>

426
00:29:42.114 --> 00:29:43.824
<i>Yeah.</i>
<i>My kindergartener.</i>

427
00:29:43.908 --> 00:29:46.452
<i>And then you put it in my hand,</i>
<i>I get ready to carry it.</i>

428
00:29:46.535 --> 00:29:50.289
<i>All right.</i>
<i>I carry it wherever</i>
<i>you tell me to take it.</i>

429
00:29:50.372 --> 00:29:51.957
<i>All right.</i>

430
00:29:56.837 --> 00:29:58.797
[faint chattering]

431
00:30:00.174 --> 00:30:01.258
What?

432
00:30:03.552 --> 00:30:06.680
[no audible dialogue]

433
00:30:16.649 --> 00:30:18.442
Yeah, you should.

434
00:30:18.526 --> 00:30:21.070
But this how we--
this how we are in class.

435
00:30:21.153 --> 00:30:22.780
This how they lined us up
yesterday.

436
00:30:24.490 --> 00:30:27.326
Bonita, Maggie, me, Regan.

437
00:30:27.409 --> 00:30:29.036
All right.
Wait, so over here?

438
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:31.330
Yeah, so you’re in front
of Maggie, right?

439
00:30:50.224 --> 00:30:52.184
[man] What, perhaps,
is most impressive

440
00:30:52.268 --> 00:30:55.646
are the things
you decided not to do.

441
00:30:56.397 --> 00:30:59.692
You decided not to be defined
by your limitations,

442
00:30:59.775 --> 00:31:03.946
not to be held captive
by the opinions of others,

443
00:31:04.029 --> 00:31:06.156
not to follow the crowd.

444
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.409
In fact, you have chosen
not to be limited

445
00:31:08.492 --> 00:31:12.037
to the most common pitfalls
of our very generation.

446
00:31:12.121 --> 00:31:15.165
And your families,
they probably don’t
understand it,

447
00:31:15.249 --> 00:31:17.376
and your friends,
they probably can’t explain it,

448
00:31:17.459 --> 00:31:19.461
and you probably
can’t explain it yourself.

449
00:31:19.545 --> 00:31:22.965
But it’s only
by the grace of God
that you are here today.

450
00:31:23.048 --> 00:31:25.175
[woman] Amen.
[applause]

451
00:31:30.097 --> 00:31:34.268
[Remington] Through dentistry,
you get the image
of who somebody is,

452
00:31:34.351 --> 00:31:35.936
from the first impression.

453
00:31:37.104 --> 00:31:40.482
And in our society,
image is everything.

454
00:31:43.485 --> 00:31:46.238
My family has
a very strong image,

455
00:31:46.322 --> 00:31:49.450
but hiding behind that
is a lot of hurt.

456
00:31:50.951 --> 00:31:52.453
Lot of pain.

457
00:32:19.188 --> 00:32:21.357
[cheering, shouting]

458
00:32:32.910 --> 00:32:37.331
[Remington]
Time is influenced
by our emotions.

459
00:32:38.123 --> 00:32:42.002
It’s influenced
by our actions.

460
00:33:05.192 --> 00:33:07.152
[Sibil]
Time is when
you look at pictures

461
00:33:07.236 --> 00:33:09.947
from when your babies
were small, and...

462
00:33:12.199 --> 00:33:14.076
then you look at them
and you see

463
00:33:14.159 --> 00:33:18.580
that they have
mustaches and beards,

464
00:33:18.664 --> 00:33:22.000
and that the biggest hope
that you had

465
00:33:22.084 --> 00:33:25.129
was that before
they turned into men,

466
00:33:25.212 --> 00:33:28.549
they would have a chance
to be with their father.

467
00:33:31.885 --> 00:33:33.929
[children laughing, chattering]

468
00:33:34.012 --> 00:33:36.515
[Sibil] <i>Today is</i>
<i>July the 3rd.</i>

469
00:33:36.598 --> 00:33:38.225
<i>Oh, you see me!</i>

470
00:33:38.308 --> 00:33:41.311
<i>And I am recording</i>
<i>Freedom and Justus.</i>

471
00:33:41.395 --> 00:33:43.147
[laughter]

472
00:33:43.230 --> 00:33:44.648
<i>You Mama.</i>

473
00:33:45.733 --> 00:33:47.067
<i>Ha!</i>
<i>What’s your name?</i>

474
00:33:47.151 --> 00:33:50.612
<i>"Justice."</i>
<i>Justus what?</i>

475
00:33:50.696 --> 00:33:51.989
<i>"Justice" Freedom.</i>

476
00:33:52.072 --> 00:33:54.867
<i>Your name is not Justice.</i>
<i>It’s Just-us.</i>

477
00:33:54.950 --> 00:33:57.494
<i>Justus. Oh.</i>

478
00:33:58.871 --> 00:34:02.249
[Sibil] <i>Freedom won</i>
<i>the student of the month award</i>

479
00:34:02.332 --> 00:34:05.544
<i>at Our Lady Blessed Sacrament.</i>
[woman cheering, clapping]

480
00:34:05.627 --> 00:34:09.214
<i>Everybody,</i>
<i>give Freedom a hand.</i>
<i>Give Freedom a hand.</i>

481
00:34:10.382 --> 00:34:12.176
[Sibil] <i>Did JJ get</i>
<i>a trophy of the month?</i>

482
00:34:12.259 --> 00:34:14.011
<i>No.</i>
<i>He wasn’t a student</i>
<i>of the month?</i>

483
00:34:14.094 --> 00:34:16.138
<i>No!</i>
<i>Why?</i>

484
00:34:16.221 --> 00:34:18.640
<i>He didn’t work hard.</i>
<i>JJ.</i>

485
00:34:18.724 --> 00:34:20.976
<i>So you’re not the--</i>
<i>You didn’t get an award</i>

486
00:34:21.059 --> 00:34:23.562
<i>for being student</i>
<i>of the month?</i>
<i>Let me see.</i>

487
00:34:23.645 --> 00:34:26.356
<i>No, I said, "You didn’t</i>
<i>get an award for being</i>
<i>student of the month?"</i>

488
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:28.859
<i>Uh-uh.</i>
<i>You didn’t?</i>

489
00:34:28.942 --> 00:34:30.861
<i>Why you didn’t get one?</i>

490
00:34:30.944 --> 00:34:33.030
[audio fades]

491
00:34:39.453 --> 00:34:42.331
[Justus] When my mother
and father were arrested

492
00:34:42.414 --> 00:34:46.293
for robbing a bank,

493
00:34:47.127 --> 00:34:50.130
she ended up having a--
a set of twins,

494
00:34:50.214 --> 00:34:52.049
one of them being myself

495
00:34:52.132 --> 00:34:54.551
and the other being
my twin brother Freedom.

496
00:34:55.677 --> 00:35:00.599
She named me Justus because,
during that time,

497
00:35:00.682 --> 00:35:02.768
in the early stages,

498
00:35:02.851 --> 00:35:06.188
it was just my mother
and my father.

499
00:35:06.772 --> 00:35:10.901
So she named me Justus without
any spacing in the middle.

500
00:35:14.738 --> 00:35:17.741
Time is what you make of it.

501
00:35:18.450 --> 00:35:20.077
Time is unbiased.

502
00:35:20.160 --> 00:35:23.330
Time is lost. Time flies.

503
00:35:23.413 --> 00:35:24.873
[chattering]

504
00:35:24.957 --> 00:35:27.251
This situation
has just been...

505
00:35:28.752 --> 00:35:30.587
a long time.

506
00:35:31.922 --> 00:35:33.632
A really long time.

507
00:35:39.680 --> 00:35:41.640
[Sibil] Here, Freedom.
You want to keep the key?

508
00:35:44.726 --> 00:35:46.353
[bell tolling]

509
00:35:46.436 --> 00:35:48.730
Y’all don’t have
no Bible, huh?

510
00:35:48.814 --> 00:35:50.274
[Freedom]
I have a mobile app.

511
00:35:50.357 --> 00:35:52.234
[Sibil scoffs]
[car door closes]

512
00:35:53.318 --> 00:35:54.987
Okay.
You good?

513
00:35:55.779 --> 00:35:57.072
Good morning.

514
00:36:01.743 --> 00:36:03.579
Y’all sent him
an e-mail?

515
00:36:03.662 --> 00:36:05.747
[chattering]

516
00:36:11.003 --> 00:36:13.964
-[Sibil] Where is he?
-Up front, in the,
uh, plaid shirt.

517
00:36:14.047 --> 00:36:15.674
Hmm.

518
00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:21.013
How you doing?
Happy Father’s Day.

519
00:36:21.513 --> 00:36:23.307
[man] Fox.
[Sibil] Yes, sir!

520
00:36:23.390 --> 00:36:26.018
I can’t even begin
to tell you how much
you blessed my life.

521
00:36:26.101 --> 00:36:28.520
When you talked about
what a real husband does.

522
00:36:28.604 --> 00:36:33.066
Um, Pastor, my husband
has been gone for
19 and a half years.

523
00:36:33.150 --> 00:36:35.319
September will make
20 years for us.

524
00:36:36.528 --> 00:36:37.988
And what’s
your husband’s name?

525
00:36:38.071 --> 00:36:39.114
Robert...

526
00:36:40.115 --> 00:36:41.658
Richardson.

527
00:36:45.495 --> 00:36:46.747
Okay.
Yeah?

528
00:36:46.830 --> 00:36:49.583
And he’s on
the West Yard, too?
Mm-hmm. He is.

529
00:36:49.666 --> 00:36:51.209
He’s, um,
in Walnut Four.

530
00:36:51.293 --> 00:36:52.711
Walnut Four.
You know what?
Mm-hmm.

531
00:36:52.794 --> 00:36:56.048
I, um-- I try to visit
on Fridays whenever I can

532
00:36:56.131 --> 00:36:58.175
because
Saturdays and Sundays
are so crowded.

533
00:36:58.258 --> 00:37:00.093
But I went last week,
and I went back-to-back,

534
00:37:00.177 --> 00:37:02.346
’cause I told him,
"I’m not coming up here
Father’s Day.

535
00:37:02.429 --> 00:37:04.473
It’s gonna be packed
in here."

536
00:37:04.556 --> 00:37:06.266
I wouldn’t never tell him
I’m gonna be here
Father’s Day.

537
00:37:06.350 --> 00:37:08.226
"You know I love you,
but I’ll see you
the week after."

538
00:37:08.310 --> 00:37:11.063
And mine was, I just,
uh, probably anger.

539
00:37:11.146 --> 00:37:14.024
They didn’t have power
all week, so they didn’t
have any visits on Friday.

540
00:37:14.107 --> 00:37:16.735
So, you know...
Right, yeah.
It is gonna be busy, huh?

541
00:37:16.818 --> 00:37:18.695
I didn’t go because
it was gonna be busy.

542
00:37:18.779 --> 00:37:21.448
I just didn’t go
because I just couldn’t
take it today.

543
00:37:21.531 --> 00:37:23.325
Yeah, it’s hard.
Not today. Yeah.

544
00:37:23.408 --> 00:37:26.203
You know, it’s like,
I can’t even believe
we’re still here,

545
00:37:26.286 --> 00:37:28.330
so today not to go
is just like...

546
00:37:28.413 --> 00:37:32.292
But, you know,
I be praying every year
that they cut their budget.

547
00:37:32.376 --> 00:37:34.503
Their budget needs to be cut,
so they have to release them.

548
00:37:34.586 --> 00:37:37.047
They cut everything. I mean,
we said that during Katrina.

549
00:37:37.130 --> 00:37:39.091
We said that during
the last great flood.

550
00:37:39.174 --> 00:37:40.676
We said that before Katrina,

551
00:37:40.759 --> 00:37:43.595
um, when the--
when oil and gas plummeted.

552
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:45.347
My husband and I,
you know, been saying,

553
00:37:45.430 --> 00:37:47.516
"Oh, this is gonna be the year
they’re gonna have to..."

554
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:50.060
And, baby,
they will cut from education,
they will cut from health care,

555
00:37:50.143 --> 00:37:52.980
but they will not
cut that budget.

556
00:37:53.063 --> 00:37:54.606
They will not cut that budget.

557
00:37:54.690 --> 00:37:56.274
I think they went back
and fully funded it.

558
00:37:56.358 --> 00:37:59.361
[chattering, fades]

559
00:38:09.204 --> 00:38:11.707
[Freedom]
Statistics say that children
of incarcerated parents

560
00:38:11.790 --> 00:38:14.001
aren’t even supposed to
graduate from high school.

561
00:38:14.084 --> 00:38:16.586
So the fact that I can
graduate from high school
two years early

562
00:38:16.670 --> 00:38:19.339
and then be at a prestigious
university like this
just speaks volumes.

563
00:38:19.423 --> 00:38:21.091
It’s like
everything that I do--

564
00:38:21.174 --> 00:38:22.718
And that’s why I always
talk to a lot of people.

565
00:38:22.801 --> 00:38:25.053
What’s your major?
My major’s poli sci.

566
00:38:25.137 --> 00:38:26.972
So political science.

567
00:38:27.055 --> 00:38:30.684
And so my whole thing is,
if we are to transform
the criminal justice system

568
00:38:30.767 --> 00:38:33.061
in order to make it more
a forgiving system,

569
00:38:33.145 --> 00:38:35.480
uh, then you have to understand
how it operates.

570
00:38:35.564 --> 00:38:38.275
And so, my whole thing is,
as soon as I learn how it is
that it operates,

571
00:38:38.358 --> 00:38:41.486
uh, then being able to be
some kind of policy advocate

572
00:38:41.570 --> 00:38:43.280
or even a maker,

573
00:38:43.363 --> 00:38:44.906
uh, being able to reform
those policies

574
00:38:44.990 --> 00:38:46.992
that have targeted
communities of color.

575
00:38:48.118 --> 00:38:50.662
[applause, cheering]

576
00:38:50.746 --> 00:38:52.414
Thank you so much.
Hey, man, best of luck to you.

577
00:38:52.497 --> 00:38:54.207
[woman]
I have a question.

578
00:38:54.291 --> 00:38:56.376
[man] For the Senate
here at large?
Yeah.

579
00:38:56.460 --> 00:38:59.921
Um, two of them have never
served on Senate before.

580
00:39:00.005 --> 00:39:01.590
Except for Kirsten.

581
00:39:01.673 --> 00:39:03.008
I’m sorry.
I’ve actually--

582
00:39:03.091 --> 00:39:04.634
You’ve been in FYC.

583
00:39:04.718 --> 00:39:07.054
Well, well-- Thank you.
Uh, so I did--

584
00:39:07.137 --> 00:39:11.141
I’m so sorry to cut you off,
but I do feel like experience
is extremely important to have.

585
00:39:11.224 --> 00:39:12.934
Something that I’ve done,
though I am a sophomore,

586
00:39:13.018 --> 00:39:14.352
I have served
on the first-year council,

587
00:39:14.436 --> 00:39:16.396
so I know where to find
the bathroom,

588
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:18.148
and I know what
the legislative processes are

589
00:39:18.231 --> 00:39:19.441
and how to go about doing them.

590
00:39:19.524 --> 00:39:21.276
Did you know
that the board,

591
00:39:21.359 --> 00:39:23.862
whatever you’re talking about,
already exists on OrgSync?

592
00:39:23.945 --> 00:39:26.448
Every piece of legislation
is uploaded on OrgSync.

593
00:39:26.531 --> 00:39:28.950
I’m--
Anybody that wants
to see legislation

594
00:39:29.034 --> 00:39:32.329
that’s being worked on
in Senate can sign in
to OrgSync.

595
00:39:32.412 --> 00:39:34.998
Rhonda, let’s be truthful here.
When we’re talking
about transparency--

596
00:39:35.082 --> 00:39:37.250
And I appreciate you
confronting me on this issue,

597
00:39:37.334 --> 00:39:39.544
because it’s something
that every student
needs to have access to

598
00:39:39.628 --> 00:39:41.338
and something that
every student should know.

599
00:39:41.421 --> 00:39:43.757
Whenever we’re
navigating OrgSync,

600
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:46.426
you know darn well
that students on our campus,

601
00:39:46.510 --> 00:39:47.761
particularly
first-year students,

602
00:39:47.844 --> 00:39:50.097
do not navigate OrgSync
easily.

603
00:39:50.180 --> 00:39:53.016
It is a personal issue
because when I wanted to
first get involved,

604
00:39:53.100 --> 00:39:54.935
I had to look around
every bathroom

605
00:39:55.018 --> 00:39:57.270
and every flyer
that was posted, uh...
[chuckles]

606
00:39:57.354 --> 00:39:59.397
necessarily, uh, in Monroe,
the second floor,

607
00:39:59.481 --> 00:40:01.274
or even the fourth floor,
in order to get involved.

608
00:40:01.358 --> 00:40:03.485
SGA has to play
a more active role

609
00:40:03.568 --> 00:40:07.114
and a more personalized role
in confronting students
so that we play a more--

610
00:40:07.197 --> 00:40:09.908
[Rhonda]
I’m not disagreeing with you.
I’m saying it already exists.

611
00:40:09.991 --> 00:40:11.952
[man] Let’s let
Richard respond
to the question.

612
00:40:12.035 --> 00:40:15.455
Of course, and I’d love to
talk to you about that
after the debate.

613
00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:18.583
[rhythmic clanking]

614
00:40:32.305 --> 00:40:33.849
[sighs]

615
00:40:33.932 --> 00:40:35.433
Come on, Lord.

616
00:40:36.768 --> 00:40:38.520
Let this be the day.

617
00:40:57.205 --> 00:40:59.040
[line beeps, clicks]
<i>This is Marcy.</i>

618
00:40:59.124 --> 00:41:01.918
Hi, Miss Marcy.
How you doing?
<i>I’m good. How are you?</i>

619
00:41:02.002 --> 00:41:03.962
Good. Thank you so much
for asking.

620
00:41:04.045 --> 00:41:08.300
I hear you have the pleasure
of being Judge Rogers’,
um, secretary.

621
00:41:08.383 --> 00:41:09.843
Is that the right word?
<i>I am.</i>

622
00:41:09.926 --> 00:41:11.469
[chuckles]
Okay, wonderful.

623
00:41:11.553 --> 00:41:13.180
My name is, um,
Sibil Richardson,

624
00:41:13.263 --> 00:41:15.432
and, um, my family,
the Richardson family,

625
00:41:15.515 --> 00:41:19.060
is waiting on a ruling
from Judge Rogers,

626
00:41:19.144 --> 00:41:21.521
um, regarding
my husband’s matter.

627
00:41:21.605 --> 00:41:24.649
And I know he had said
in open court

628
00:41:24.733 --> 00:41:27.444
that he would, um, have it out
in a couple of days.

629
00:41:27.527 --> 00:41:30.030
I was just wondering if
you might have any information

630
00:41:30.113 --> 00:41:32.657
on an update on it,
if it’s not asking too much?

631
00:41:32.741 --> 00:41:35.202
<i>I do not. I have</i>
<i>not typed any rulings.</i>

632
00:41:35.285 --> 00:41:38.496
<i>I was out of the office</i>
<i>on Friday, but I didn’t</i>
<i>type any on Thursday.</i>

633
00:41:38.580 --> 00:41:41.833
Okay. Okay.
All right, then.
<i>Okay?</i>

634
00:41:41.917 --> 00:41:43.752
Yes, ma’am. Thank you
so much for your time.

635
00:41:43.835 --> 00:41:45.337
<i>You’re welcome.</i>
Bye-bye.

636
00:41:45.420 --> 00:41:47.714
<i>Bye-bye.</i>
[line clicks]

637
00:41:47.797 --> 00:41:49.466
[sighs] So she’s the one.

638
00:41:49.549 --> 00:41:52.385
I call back and ask for her.
She’ll know when it’s typed up.

639
00:41:52.469 --> 00:41:54.679
She gotta type it.

640
00:41:54.763 --> 00:41:58.600
Maybe he wrote it today.
Maybe he gonna give it to her
tomorrow to type.

641
00:42:03.021 --> 00:42:05.774
[line rings, clicks]

642
00:42:05.857 --> 00:42:08.068
[woman] <i>Good afternoon.</i>

643
00:42:08.151 --> 00:42:10.070
[Sibil] Hey, this is,
um, Sibil again.

644
00:42:10.153 --> 00:42:12.906
Did you-- Were you able
to get that message to Val?

645
00:42:12.989 --> 00:42:16.868
<i>Uh, he just got off the phone,</i>
<i>and I’ve got it up there</i>
<i>waiting on him.</i>

646
00:42:16.952 --> 00:42:20.538
Okay. Um... all right.

647
00:42:21.331 --> 00:42:24.334
<i>So, as soon as he gets--</i>
<i>Hold on just a minute.</i>

648
00:42:31.007 --> 00:42:32.550
<i>Sibil?</i>
Yes, ma’am.

649
00:42:32.634 --> 00:42:35.220
<i>Uh, he said he has</i>
<i>not heard anything,</i>

650
00:42:35.303 --> 00:42:37.264
<i>and as soon as</i>
<i>he does hear something,</i>

651
00:42:37.347 --> 00:42:39.474
<i>he will definitely</i>
<i>let you know.</i>

652
00:42:39.557 --> 00:42:42.060
Yeah, I just know
the judge had said two days.

653
00:42:42.143 --> 00:42:45.188
I guess maybe
he changed his mind and took
a little bit longer, huh?

654
00:42:45.272 --> 00:42:47.565
<i>Oh.</i> [scoffs]
<i>Judges’ll lie.</i>

655
00:42:47.649 --> 00:42:49.943
<i>No, they don’t</i>
<i>intentionally, but--</i>
Yeah.

656
00:42:50.026 --> 00:42:52.570
<i>I’m sure he intended,</i>
<i>you know...</i>
Yeah.

657
00:42:52.654 --> 00:42:54.781
<i>Um, but I guess,</i>
<i>like everybody else,</i>

658
00:42:54.864 --> 00:42:56.366
<i>you never know</i>
<i>what’s gonna come up.</i>

659
00:42:56.449 --> 00:42:57.951
Yeah. Yeah.

660
00:42:58.034 --> 00:43:01.204
Um... all righty,
thank you so much.

661
00:43:01.288 --> 00:43:03.373
<i>Okay, hon.</i>
<i>Bye-bye.</i>
[line clicks]

662
00:43:05.417 --> 00:43:07.252
[sighs]

663
00:43:40.744 --> 00:43:44.414
[grunting, exhaling]

664
00:44:21.493 --> 00:44:24.621
I’ve been home from prison
for 15 years now.

665
00:44:24.704 --> 00:44:27.791
[applause]

666
00:44:27.874 --> 00:44:30.001
You ain’t never lie.

667
00:44:30.085 --> 00:44:32.754
Yeah, give me mine.
Give me a little bit more
of that. Yeah.

668
00:44:32.837 --> 00:44:34.881
I appreciate you.
[applause continues]

669
00:44:37.634 --> 00:44:39.511
Because one of the things
that I committed to was

670
00:44:39.594 --> 00:44:42.639
that they would never, ever,
ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,

671
00:44:42.722 --> 00:44:47.644
ever, ever, ever, ever,
ever, ever, ever, ever...

672
00:44:47.727 --> 00:44:52.482
and ever get me
like that again.

673
00:44:52.565 --> 00:44:55.151
Would never give up my freedom.

674
00:44:55.235 --> 00:44:57.487
Would never let myself
be subjugated

675
00:44:57.570 --> 00:44:59.489
to such inhumane treatment.

676
00:44:59.572 --> 00:45:03.076
Ain’t touched my husband.
Can’t sleep in the bed with him.
Can’t hold him.

677
00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:05.662
And by law,
he belongs to me.

678
00:45:05.745 --> 00:45:08.248
Had to raise my children
by myself.

679
00:45:08.331 --> 00:45:10.708
When I was in prison,
I had to bend over and cough

680
00:45:10.792 --> 00:45:14.254
and allow somebody
to look up my rectal cavity.

681
00:45:15.422 --> 00:45:17.799
At a whim, tell me
to take off all my clothes

682
00:45:17.882 --> 00:45:19.759
’cause they want to see.

683
00:45:20.802 --> 00:45:25.223
Can only visit my family
when they say I can
visit my family.

684
00:45:26.182 --> 00:45:29.811
I get to visit my husband
two times a month.

685
00:45:31.604 --> 00:45:37.318
The state is only committed
to giving us two visits a month.

686
00:45:38.736 --> 00:45:41.239
And they are only
required by law

687
00:45:41.322 --> 00:45:45.702
to allow us to visit
for two hours.

688
00:45:52.125 --> 00:45:57.213
You raise a family
for 20 years behind bars.

689
00:45:57.922 --> 00:46:00.008
You keep a family together

690
00:46:00.091 --> 00:46:03.678
for two decades
in this institution.

691
00:46:05.305 --> 00:46:08.975
You hold on to your loved ones
and your sanity

692
00:46:09.058 --> 00:46:13.980
in the midst of this cruel
and unusual punishment.

693
00:46:15.398 --> 00:46:17.442
Then you can talk to me.

694
00:46:20.028 --> 00:46:22.989
Then you can tell me,

695
00:46:23.072 --> 00:46:27.410
if I do the crime,
I should do the time.

696
00:46:29.746 --> 00:46:32.999
[children, woman singing,
faint]

697
00:46:37.879 --> 00:46:41.883
[singing continues]

698
00:46:45.553 --> 00:46:47.222
[man] Amen! Amen!
[song ends]

699
00:46:47.305 --> 00:46:49.057
[cheering, applause]

700
00:46:51.351 --> 00:46:53.603
<i>I hadn’t taken this chair</i>
<i>since I was four years old.</i>

701
00:46:53.686 --> 00:46:55.438
[laughs]
[man] <i>Amen.</i>

702
00:46:55.522 --> 00:47:00.568
<i>I, um, had to share with</i>
<i>my church family on, um--</i>

703
00:47:00.652 --> 00:47:03.488
<i>Most of you, well--</i>
<i>This September</i>
<i>will make seven years</i>

704
00:47:03.571 --> 00:47:05.990
<i>since my husband and I</i>
<i>robbed a bank.</i>

705
00:47:06.074 --> 00:47:08.952
<i>And, uh, last week,</i>
<i>God made it possible for me</i>

706
00:47:09.035 --> 00:47:13.248
<i>to meet with two of the,</i>
<i>uh, women from the bank.</i>

707
00:47:14.165 --> 00:47:17.126
<i>I never understood how</i>
<i>the choices we can make</i>

708
00:47:17.210 --> 00:47:19.254
<i>affect the people around us.</i>

709
00:47:19.337 --> 00:47:21.798
<i>Before this happened,</i>
<i>thought I was an island,</i>

710
00:47:21.881 --> 00:47:24.968
<i>that what I do is just me</i>
<i>and it doesn’t bother</i>
<i>anybody else.</i>

711
00:47:25.051 --> 00:47:28.429
<i>But I saw the rippling effect</i>
<i>that the choice that I made</i>

712
00:47:28.513 --> 00:47:30.723
<i>not only had on my own family,</i>

713
00:47:30.807 --> 00:47:32.976
<i>but I can only imagine</i>
<i>the effect that it had</i>

714
00:47:33.059 --> 00:47:35.436
<i>on all of those women</i>
<i>that were in the bank</i>

715
00:47:35.520 --> 00:47:38.022
<i>the day that we went in there.</i>

716
00:47:38.106 --> 00:47:39.774
<i>And one of the women</i>
<i>said to me,</i>

717
00:47:39.857 --> 00:47:41.651
<i>as I was asking</i>
<i>for their forgiveness,</i>

718
00:47:41.734 --> 00:47:43.319
<i>she said,</i>
<i>"Well, the choices</i>
<i>that you make--"</i>

719
00:47:43.403 --> 00:47:45.113
<i>I said, "I saw how</i>
<i>it affected my family."</i>

720
00:47:45.196 --> 00:47:48.199
<i>She says, "Well, did you</i>
<i>apologize to your family?</i>

721
00:47:48.283 --> 00:47:49.826
<i>Did you apologize</i>
<i>to your mother?"</i>

722
00:47:49.909 --> 00:47:51.244
And I said...

723
00:47:53.496 --> 00:47:58.209
<i>"You know, I know that</i>
<i>I told my mother I loved her.</i>

724
00:47:58.835 --> 00:48:01.879
<i>I know that I told my mother</i>
<i>I appreciate her.</i>

725
00:48:02.922 --> 00:48:05.008
<i>But I cannot recall</i>

726
00:48:05.091 --> 00:48:08.803
<i>asking my mama</i>
<i>to forgive me...</i>

727
00:48:08.886 --> 00:48:11.431
[congregation murmuring]
<i>...for the choices I made."</i>

728
00:48:13.308 --> 00:48:14.851
<i>And so the lady goes on,</i>
<i>and I say,</i>

729
00:48:14.934 --> 00:48:17.478
<i>"I’m gonna go home today</i>
<i>and I’m gonna do that.</i>

730
00:48:17.562 --> 00:48:19.856
<i>I’m gonna go home right</i>
<i>when this meeting is over</i>

731
00:48:19.939 --> 00:48:21.941
<i>and ask and beg</i>
<i>her forgiveness."</i>

732
00:48:22.025 --> 00:48:24.611
<i>And she says, "No, you don’t</i>
<i>just do it like that.</i>

733
00:48:24.694 --> 00:48:28.239
<i>I want you to remember</i>
<i>that moment when</i>
<i>you apologize to her,</i>

734
00:48:28.323 --> 00:48:30.074
<i>just like you’ll remember</i>
<i>this moment</i>

735
00:48:30.158 --> 00:48:32.577
<i>when you’re sitting here</i>
<i>at the table with us."</i>

736
00:48:33.620 --> 00:48:35.705
<i>And so, as I’m going through</i>
<i>and I’m trying to figure out,</i>

737
00:48:35.788 --> 00:48:37.957
<i>Lord,</i>
<i>how am I gonna do this?</i>

738
00:48:38.041 --> 00:48:40.460
<i>You know, I can’t just,</i>
<i>you know--</i> [laughs]

739
00:48:40.543 --> 00:48:43.254
<i>get my ego out of the way</i>
<i>and bow down</i>
<i>and just let her--</i>

740
00:48:43.338 --> 00:48:46.716
<i>I know I feel it, but,</i>
<i>you know, just getting</i>
<i>those words out.</i>

741
00:48:46.799 --> 00:48:49.886
<i>"Please forgive me,</i>
<i>’cause I know my choice</i>

742
00:48:49.969 --> 00:48:52.764
<i>was not a good choice</i>
<i>and I know I hurt you."</i>

743
00:48:53.806 --> 00:48:57.894
<i>And so, um,</i>
<i>I thought to myself,</i>
<i>"What better way than--"</i>

744
00:48:57.977 --> 00:49:02.357
<i>Because not only did I need</i>
<i>to ask for forgiveness</i>
<i>from my mother.</i>

745
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:05.777
<i>I need to ask for forgiveness</i>
<i>from my children.</i>

746
00:49:05.860 --> 00:49:09.238
<i>And I need to ask</i>
<i>for forgiveness</i>
<i>from my pastor.</i>

747
00:49:09.322 --> 00:49:13.076
<i>And I need to ask</i>
<i>for forgiveness</i>
<i>from my church family.</i>

748
00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:16.245
<i>Because all of you</i>
<i>helped raise me.</i>

749
00:49:16.329 --> 00:49:20.375
<i>So, to all of you, I ask</i>
<i>that you please forgive me...</i>

750
00:49:20.458 --> 00:49:23.127
[congregation] <i>Amen.</i>
<i>...for the choice I made.</i>

751
00:49:23.211 --> 00:49:25.338
[applause]

752
00:49:44.816 --> 00:49:46.651
[Sibil] While incarcerated,

753
00:49:46.734 --> 00:49:50.154
my prayer was that,
upon my release from prison,

754
00:49:50.238 --> 00:49:54.492
God would allow me
to use my voice
for the voiceless.

755
00:49:55.118 --> 00:49:57.328
Because what
I clearly understood

756
00:49:57.412 --> 00:50:01.749
was that our prison system
is nothing more than slavery.

757
00:50:01.833 --> 00:50:06.421
And I see myself
as an abolitionist.

758
00:50:06.504 --> 00:50:09.882
That power operating
inside of you--
You remember the pulse?

759
00:50:10.717 --> 00:50:12.802
When we could feel
our power?

760
00:50:13.636 --> 00:50:15.388
That same power got you
through those storms,

761
00:50:15.471 --> 00:50:17.598
that same power will get you
through the next one.

762
00:50:17.682 --> 00:50:19.600
And this one,
if you’re going through one.

763
00:50:19.684 --> 00:50:22.270
I’m here to tell you,
great ones, it ain’t
what you go through.

764
00:50:22.353 --> 00:50:26.315
It’s how you choose to grow
as a person through it.

765
00:50:26.399 --> 00:50:29.277
Anybody in here want
a little bit more?
[applause, shouting]

766
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.362
I mean, a project
and a welfare check

767
00:50:31.446 --> 00:50:32.905
just ain’t gonna
cut it for you.

768
00:50:32.989 --> 00:50:35.825
Anybody in here want
a little bit more?
[cheering]

769
00:50:35.908 --> 00:50:37.744
Let me
hear you say it.
"It’s my power."

770
00:50:37.827 --> 00:50:40.246
[all] It’s my power.
And I’m taking it back.

771
00:50:40.329 --> 00:50:42.498
I won’t quit.
[all] I won’t quit.

772
00:50:42.582 --> 00:50:44.375
Because I’m too rich.
Because I’m too rich.

773
00:50:44.459 --> 00:50:46.085
I’m Fox Rich.
Fox Rich.

774
00:50:46.169 --> 00:50:47.879
I won’t quit.
I won’t quit.

775
00:50:47.962 --> 00:50:49.547
Because I’m too rich.
Because I’m too rich.

776
00:50:49.630 --> 00:50:50.840
Oh, say it like
you mean it.

777
00:50:50.923 --> 00:50:52.717
You Fox Rich?
Fox Rich!

778
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:54.260
I won’t quit.
I won’t quit.

779
00:50:54.343 --> 00:50:55.636
Fox Rich.
Fox Rich.

780
00:50:55.720 --> 00:50:57.638
I got the power.
I got the power.

781
00:50:57.722 --> 00:51:00.266
The power’s in me.
The power’s in me.

782
00:51:00.349 --> 00:51:02.518
And as long as you don’t quit
in this life,

783
00:51:02.602 --> 00:51:04.604
anything that
your heart desires,

784
00:51:04.687 --> 00:51:07.356
I’m telling y’all,
you can have.

785
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.525
No matter
what your obstacle is,

786
00:51:09.609 --> 00:51:12.487
all you got to do
is just believe and keep
putting one, one, one,

787
00:51:12.570 --> 00:51:14.113
one foot in front
of the other foot

788
00:51:14.197 --> 00:51:15.656
and one foot in front
of the other foot,

789
00:51:15.740 --> 00:51:17.450
and you keep walking
up here to class,

790
00:51:17.533 --> 00:51:20.828
and I promise you, great ones,
life can get better.

791
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:24.081
But you gotta believe.

792
00:51:25.583 --> 00:51:29.212
You only need to let those
enter into the gates of heaven

793
00:51:29.295 --> 00:51:32.465
that you can look at and say,
"If I were a man...

794
00:51:33.549 --> 00:51:36.135
that’s the type of man
I would be."

795
00:51:37.428 --> 00:51:39.055
The men that we date
are supposed to be

796
00:51:39.138 --> 00:51:41.140
a reflection of
our masculine energy.

797
00:51:41.224 --> 00:51:43.392
[applause, chattering]

798
00:51:43.476 --> 00:51:45.603
Say, "If I were a man...

799
00:51:47.188 --> 00:51:49.607
if this energy was embodied
in the male species,

800
00:51:49.690 --> 00:51:53.027
that is the type of man
I would be."

801
00:51:59.575 --> 00:52:01.911
[siren wailing in distance]

802
00:52:05.790 --> 00:52:09.669
[man] We are three weeks out
from Robert’s parole hearing.

803
00:52:09.752 --> 00:52:12.338
Game plan is different
from the last time.

804
00:52:12.421 --> 00:52:17.385
Instead of Jim going
to the parole board with you,

805
00:52:17.468 --> 00:52:19.554
I’m gonna accompany you
to the parole board.

806
00:52:19.637 --> 00:52:22.139
And I believe your mother
is gonna be with us as well.

807
00:52:22.223 --> 00:52:24.183
[Sibil] Yes.
[Robert] <i>Okay.</i>

808
00:52:25.184 --> 00:52:28.563
[man 2] I really think
they very much resent

809
00:52:28.646 --> 00:52:32.900
that, um-- that you all are
coming from a place of power

810
00:52:32.984 --> 00:52:34.902
and assertion
of your rights,

811
00:52:34.986 --> 00:52:38.531
as opposed to
soliciting a favor.

812
00:52:38.614 --> 00:52:43.327
But the impact that
you have together as parents

813
00:52:43.411 --> 00:52:46.914
on the growth
of these young men

814
00:52:46.998 --> 00:52:48.583
and to who they are

815
00:52:48.666 --> 00:52:54.255
is-- is such a strong point
that, um...

816
00:52:54.338 --> 00:52:56.757
I thought it was great that,
just on the fly...

817
00:52:56.841 --> 00:52:58.342
[voice fades]

818
00:52:58.426 --> 00:53:00.428
[siren wailing
in distance]

819
00:53:07.351 --> 00:53:11.230
[boy] Mom, so this is
what happened to the guy,
the coach.

820
00:53:11.314 --> 00:53:13.524
He said that I can’t play
on that team.

821
00:53:13.608 --> 00:53:16.569
-He said I’m too advanced
for the team.
-[Sibil] Aw.

822
00:53:16.652 --> 00:53:19.614
So I was playing ’cause
I’m 11 years old, so...

823
00:53:19.697 --> 00:53:21.616
the rest of the kids
on there are, like,
nine and ten.

824
00:53:21.699 --> 00:53:24.035
Oh.
And so he told--
So he recommended me

825
00:53:24.118 --> 00:53:26.537
to the coach for the,
um, elite team.

826
00:53:26.621 --> 00:53:28.539
Mm-hmm.
Chicago Fire.

827
00:53:28.623 --> 00:53:31.626
And so I’m gonna call--
So he told me to
call them tomorrow

828
00:53:31.709 --> 00:53:33.669
and set up an appointment
or trial date.

829
00:53:33.753 --> 00:53:35.296
[phone: ringtone]
Yeah.

830
00:53:36.547 --> 00:53:38.507
[automated voice] <i>This is</i>
<i>a prepaid collect call from...</i>

831
00:53:38.591 --> 00:53:39.842
[Robert]
<i>Rob.</i>

832
00:53:41.344 --> 00:53:44.805
[automated voice]
<i>An inmate at the Louisiana</i>
<i>State Penitentiary.</i>

833
00:53:44.889 --> 00:53:47.266
<i>This call is subject to</i>
<i>recording and monitoring.</i>

834
00:53:47.350 --> 00:53:49.060
<i>This is a call</i>
<i>from an offender</i>

835
00:53:49.143 --> 00:53:51.354
<i>at a Louisiana Department</i>
<i>of Corrections facility.</i>

836
00:53:51.437 --> 00:53:55.066
<i>To accept charges, press one.</i>
<i>To refuse charges, press...</i>

837
00:53:55.149 --> 00:53:57.234
<i>Thank you</i>
<i>for using Securus.</i>

838
00:53:57.318 --> 00:53:59.236
<i>You may start</i>
<i>the conversation now.</i>

839
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:01.822
[Robert] <i>Hey, girlie.</i>
Hey.

840
00:54:01.906 --> 00:54:03.074
<i>How you doing?</i>

841
00:54:03.157 --> 00:54:05.368
Good.
What took you so long?

842
00:54:06.243 --> 00:54:09.330
<i>Uh, I don’t know.</i>
<i>Just, uh, giving you, um...</i>

843
00:54:09.413 --> 00:54:12.333
Now you getting short and--
you getting short and shitty.

844
00:54:12.416 --> 00:54:14.961
You’re acting all funny
’cause you’re about to go home.

845
00:54:15.044 --> 00:54:18.005
<i>No, no, no, no, no.</i>
And you’re taking
your time calling.

846
00:54:18.089 --> 00:54:20.716
That’s how they get
when they get short.

847
00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:24.553
<i>Uh-uh. That’s why I’ve been</i>
<i>e-mailing you in between,</i>
<i>trying to pick up.</i>

848
00:54:24.637 --> 00:54:26.681
Oh, boy, you ain’t
e-mailed me in hours.

849
00:54:26.764 --> 00:54:27.974
What? Yeah.

850
00:54:28.057 --> 00:54:29.475
<i>I did e-mail you,</i>

851
00:54:29.558 --> 00:54:31.268
<i>uh, once--</i>
<i>no, twice.</i>

852
00:54:31.352 --> 00:54:34.105
Robert all at the bathroom
trying to talk to you.

853
00:54:34.188 --> 00:54:35.523
Tell him I said hey.
Hey.

854
00:54:35.606 --> 00:54:36.983
[Robert]
<i>What he up to over there?</i>

855
00:54:37.066 --> 00:54:38.651
He need to be
up to that shower

856
00:54:38.734 --> 00:54:40.486
that he got running,
wasting my water.

857
00:54:40.569 --> 00:54:42.321
I thought water was free.
[Robert] <i>All right.</i>

858
00:54:42.405 --> 00:54:44.740
I don’t care if water--
Water ain’t free.
[laughing]

859
00:54:44.824 --> 00:54:46.409
Tell me he thought
water was free.

860
00:54:46.492 --> 00:54:48.953
[Robert laughs]
<i>Uh-huh.</i>

861
00:54:49.036 --> 00:54:51.872
I got a manicure
and a pedicure.

862
00:54:51.956 --> 00:54:53.916
<i>Oh!</i>

863
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.419
And I got my hair done.

864
00:54:57.336 --> 00:54:58.421
<i>Whoa.</i>

865
00:54:58.504 --> 00:55:00.548
[laughing]
<i>Yeah. What?</i>

866
00:55:00.631 --> 00:55:03.342
I got my hair straight,
just like you like it.

867
00:55:03.426 --> 00:55:07.054
And I went to a Dominican
hair shop and got it done.

868
00:55:07.138 --> 00:55:09.515
And when I tell you
they know how to straighten...

869
00:55:10.933 --> 00:55:14.061
What’s the first thing
you’re gonna do when you
come home, Mr. Richardson?

870
00:55:14.937 --> 00:55:17.231
<i>Oh, shit.</i>
<i>I don’t know.</i>

871
00:55:18.482 --> 00:55:20.818
<i>Gonna pack up</i>
<i>and go to Disney World.</i>

872
00:55:20.901 --> 00:55:23.029
Ooh, ooh, that sound good.

873
00:55:23.112 --> 00:55:25.364
<i>That’s what they say after</i>
<i>they win the championship.</i>

874
00:55:25.448 --> 00:55:28.159
<i>Every time they win</i>
<i>the championship,</i>
<i>they be like, "So what’s next?"</i>

875
00:55:28.242 --> 00:55:31.495
<i>They say-- Yeah.</i>
Disney World.

876
00:55:31.579 --> 00:55:33.456
[laughter]

877
00:55:33.539 --> 00:55:36.667
<i>Are you excited?</i>
Um, am I excited?

878
00:55:36.751 --> 00:55:39.086
I guess I should be,
but I guess I’m spoiled.

879
00:55:39.170 --> 00:55:41.547
I’m Robert’s mama,
so I’m tired of, you know,

880
00:55:41.630 --> 00:55:45.217
looking for the little lining
at the end of the road.

881
00:55:45.301 --> 00:55:47.553
The little nugget.

882
00:55:47.636 --> 00:55:50.848
Well, we didn’t get
everything we wanted,
but we got a little something.

883
00:55:50.931 --> 00:55:54.060
We a little further along
than we were last time.

884
00:55:57.188 --> 00:56:00.066
I want my man. [scoffs]

885
00:56:00.149 --> 00:56:01.942
[laughs] <i>All right.</i>

886
00:56:02.651 --> 00:56:04.612
And there ain’t nothing else
pacifying me.

887
00:56:04.695 --> 00:56:06.822
Ain’t no
"further on up the road."

888
00:56:06.906 --> 00:56:08.699
Ain’t no
"I think y’all are wonderful.

889
00:56:08.783 --> 00:56:10.409
Y’all are doing a great job."

890
00:56:10.493 --> 00:56:13.829
I want my family home.
I want my family together.

891
00:56:13.913 --> 00:56:15.873
I want my children
to have their daddy.

892
00:56:15.956 --> 00:56:19.543
And I want him before my--
my-- my twins turn 18.

893
00:56:21.796 --> 00:56:24.256
<i>And we have</i>
<i>the possibility to do it.</i>

894
00:56:24.340 --> 00:56:26.926
And you got the possibility
to get it done.

895
00:56:30.012 --> 00:56:31.263
<i>Uh-huh.</i>

896
00:56:34.100 --> 00:56:36.685
<i>What’s Robert doing?</i>
[Sibil] He left out.

897
00:56:36.769 --> 00:56:39.939
He just wanted
to hear your voice.
I think he getting excited.

898
00:56:40.022 --> 00:56:43.818
Gonna come sit in here
by me to hear you talk.
[chuckles]

899
00:56:43.901 --> 00:56:45.694
<i>Yeah.</i> [laughs]

900
00:56:49.031 --> 00:56:51.242
<i>Boy, I looked up</i>
<i>at the clouds today.</i>

901
00:56:53.619 --> 00:56:56.372
<i>You know,</i>
<i>those big old fluffy clouds.</i>

902
00:56:57.081 --> 00:56:59.542
<i>Like I could just jump</i>
<i>from one to the other one.</i>

903
00:57:02.878 --> 00:57:07.466
<i>They have the,</i>
<i>um, pecan orchard</i>
<i>that they have right there.</i>

904
00:57:07.550 --> 00:57:10.636
<i>And I’m looking</i>
<i>and thinking, like, wow,</i>
<i>they planted those trees</i>

905
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:14.014
<i>20 years ago</i>
<i>when I first got here.</i>
Really?

906
00:57:14.098 --> 00:57:15.808
<i>Yeah.</i>
[rapid beeping
over phone]

907
00:57:15.891 --> 00:57:17.643
[automated voice]
<i>Thank you for</i>
<i>using Securus.</i>

908
00:57:17.726 --> 00:57:18.978
<i>Goodbye.</i>

909
00:57:25.860 --> 00:57:28.195
[Sibil] My twins
will be 18 next month.

910
00:57:34.160 --> 00:57:35.828
18 years old.

911
00:57:35.911 --> 00:57:40.249
When their daddy got sentenced,
I was three months’ pregnant.

912
00:57:42.751 --> 00:57:44.587
They have absolutely...

913
00:57:45.462 --> 00:57:49.800
no idea about what it means

914
00:57:49.884 --> 00:57:52.803
to have a father in their house.

915
00:57:52.887 --> 00:57:54.930
What fathers even do.

916
00:58:01.145 --> 00:58:02.980
[Sibil] Justus, can you
bring me the hammer?

917
00:58:03.063 --> 00:58:04.398
[Justus] Sure.

918
00:58:08.152 --> 00:58:09.820
Thank you.

919
00:58:09.904 --> 00:58:11.155
[Robert Jr.]
Where is it?

920
00:58:11.238 --> 00:58:12.781
[Justus] Throw it away.

921
00:58:12.865 --> 00:58:15.201
Oh, Justus,
you taller than me.

922
00:58:15.284 --> 00:58:18.120
-Fit it into
that hole right there?
-Mm-hmm.

923
00:58:27.254 --> 00:58:30.424
Thank you. You the man.
I appreciate you.
[Justus] I try to be.

924
00:58:44.521 --> 00:58:46.023
[Sibil]
<i>Whose birthday is it?</i>

925
00:58:46.106 --> 00:58:47.733
<i>Me.</i>
<i>Freedom.</i>

926
00:58:47.816 --> 00:58:50.694
[Sibil] <i>It’s Freedom’s</i>
<i>birthday today, Mama.</i>

927
00:58:50.778 --> 00:58:52.071
[woman] <i>Yeah.</i>

928
00:58:52.154 --> 00:58:53.656
<i>Yes, yes, yes.</i>

929
00:58:53.739 --> 00:58:57.284
[Sibil]
<i>And JJ’s birthday.</i>

930
00:58:57.368 --> 00:58:59.870
<i>Happy birthday, JJ.</i>

931
00:59:00.829 --> 00:59:03.165
<i>Hold on. Here,</i>
<i>come talk to your daddy.</i>

932
00:59:03.249 --> 00:59:05.793
[chattering]

933
00:59:05.876 --> 00:59:08.337
[Sibil] <i>Hey, Miss Moore.</i>
<i>Peace and love to you.</i>

934
00:59:08.420 --> 00:59:10.798
[Miss Moore] <i>How are you?</i>
<i>And peace and love</i>
<i>to you also.</i>

935
00:59:10.881 --> 00:59:12.633
[Sibil]
<i>I’m sorry I’m late.</i>

936
00:59:12.716 --> 00:59:14.718
[children chattering]

937
00:59:14.802 --> 00:59:17.721
<i>We understand,</i>
<i>because you’re a busy lady.</i>

938
00:59:17.805 --> 00:59:19.473
[boy] <i>Hi.</i>

939
00:59:19.556 --> 00:59:22.268
[Sibil] <i>Hi. How you doing?</i>
[children] <i>Hi.</i>

940
00:59:22.351 --> 00:59:24.270
<i>Hi.</i>

941
00:59:24.353 --> 00:59:26.063
<i>You want to talk</i>
<i>to Daddy?</i>

942
00:59:26.146 --> 00:59:28.649
[Sibil] <i>No, he wanted</i>
<i>to talk to you.</i>

943
00:59:30.150 --> 00:59:31.860
<i>If you’re through talking,</i>
<i>give me the phone.</i>

944
00:59:31.944 --> 00:59:34.113
<i>No. I’m talking.</i>
<i>Yeah, here you go.</i>

945
00:59:34.196 --> 00:59:37.241
<i>Get that from him.</i>
<i>It’s my daddy.</i>

946
00:59:37.324 --> 00:59:39.201
<i>Here you go.</i>
<i>Thank you.</i>

947
00:59:39.285 --> 00:59:40.494
<i>Okay.</i>

948
00:59:42.371 --> 00:59:46.792
[woman] It seems like
there is some kind of a need

949
00:59:46.875 --> 00:59:49.920
or a compulsion that we feel
as individuals

950
00:59:50.004 --> 00:59:51.463
to rank people, right?

951
00:59:51.547 --> 00:59:53.632
To come up with
a ranking system.

952
00:59:53.716 --> 00:59:55.676
And so that is
the question that, uh,

953
00:59:55.759 --> 00:59:57.303
we are trying to
make sense of,

954
00:59:57.386 --> 00:59:59.805
is that,
is it an inevitable feature

955
00:59:59.888 --> 01:00:02.308
of human, uh, society?

956
01:00:02.391 --> 01:00:05.894
Even within a prison system,
among prisoners,

957
01:00:05.978 --> 01:00:08.397
where everybody is equal

958
01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:11.233
in the sense of that they
have committed a crime,

959
01:00:11.317 --> 01:00:15.779
we nevertheless see there’s
a stratification system
that comes into place.

960
01:00:45.100 --> 01:00:47.019
[automated voice]
<i>Quatre-vingt-douze.</i>

961
01:00:48.103 --> 01:00:50.856
[slowly]
<i>Quatre-vingt-douze.</i>

962
01:00:53.442 --> 01:00:55.527
[regular speed]
<i>Quatre-vingt-douze.</i>

963
01:00:56.779 --> 01:00:58.739
<i>Quatre-vingt-treize.</i>

964
01:00:59.865 --> 01:01:01.408
[Sibil] It’s Thursday.

965
01:01:02.993 --> 01:01:06.872
His brother and his, um,
sister-in-law called last night

966
01:01:06.955 --> 01:01:08.749
and said that they had
some plumbing issue

967
01:01:08.832 --> 01:01:10.751
at their house this week
and their house flooded

968
01:01:10.834 --> 01:01:14.254
and that they were not gonna
be able to make it down.

969
01:01:14.338 --> 01:01:17.299
Uh, and I don’t have enough
people at Angola with him.

970
01:01:17.383 --> 01:01:18.967
Is that, like,
pushing you too far

971
01:01:19.051 --> 01:01:21.595
to ask for you
to be with him at Angola?

972
01:01:22.721 --> 01:01:26.266
Yes, sir.
You can make that one?

973
01:01:28.977 --> 01:01:31.480
Praise God.
You’re gonna make me shout.

974
01:01:32.022 --> 01:01:33.315
Thank you.

975
01:01:39.279 --> 01:01:41.323
[automated voice]
<i>Quatre-vingt-quatorze.</i>

976
01:01:44.785 --> 01:01:46.495
<i>Quatre-vingt-quinze.</i>

977
01:01:47.955 --> 01:01:50.374
<i>Quatre-vingt-seize.</i>

978
01:01:50.457 --> 01:01:52.876
<i>"Je t’en prie."</i>

979
01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:54.545
[Justus]
<i>"Je t’en prie"?</i>

980
01:01:54.628 --> 01:01:56.755
Uh, it means
"you’re welcome."

981
01:01:56.839 --> 01:01:59.383
-Mm, you’re doing good.
-But informal.

982
01:01:59.466 --> 01:02:02.553
[Sibil]
<i>"Comment ça s’éscrit?"</i>

983
01:02:03.178 --> 01:02:04.847
<i>"Comment ça s’éscrit?"</i>
Uh, "how do you spell it?"

984
01:02:04.930 --> 01:02:06.640
<i>"Comment ça s’éscrit?"</i>

985
01:02:06.723 --> 01:02:08.308
Mm-hmm.
<i>"Comment ça s’éscrit?"</i>

986
01:02:08.809 --> 01:02:10.352
<i>"Ça va?"</i>

987
01:02:10.894 --> 01:02:12.521
"How is it going?"

988
01:02:12.604 --> 01:02:15.482
Okay, so this one is:
"Ça va."

989
01:02:15.566 --> 01:02:17.443
And then this one is,
"Comment ça va?"

990
01:02:17.526 --> 01:02:19.486
The thing about French
is how you say it.

991
01:02:19.570 --> 01:02:21.613
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
So <i>"ça va,"</i>

992
01:02:21.697 --> 01:02:24.283
in the question form, is,
"How are you doing?"

993
01:02:24.366 --> 01:02:27.619
But if you say,
like, <i>"ça va,"</i>
like, as a statement,

994
01:02:27.703 --> 01:02:29.329
it just means "good."

995
01:02:30.038 --> 01:02:32.207
So, like, if I was like,
<i>"Ça va?"</i>

996
01:02:32.291 --> 01:02:34.418
And you’d be like, <i>"Ça va."</i>

997
01:02:34.501 --> 01:02:36.753
Or you could say, uh...
"Good." Like, "You good"?

998
01:02:36.837 --> 01:02:38.881
Yeah, or you could say,
<i>"Ça va bien. Et toi?"</i>

999
01:02:38.964 --> 01:02:41.216
Like, "Doing well. And you?"

1000
01:02:41.300 --> 01:02:42.885
Boy, you learning
something.

1001
01:02:42.968 --> 01:02:44.386
Let me see.
Say that again.
I’m trying.

1002
01:02:44.470 --> 01:02:45.929
Say that again.
That’s sexy, boy.

1003
01:02:46.013 --> 01:02:47.639
<i>Ça va bien. Et toi?</i>

1004
01:02:47.723 --> 01:02:49.308
Ooh, you get to talking
like that, J,

1005
01:02:49.391 --> 01:02:50.726
you gonna have
all the girls.

1006
01:02:50.809 --> 01:02:52.186
Freedom ain’t gonna have
nothing on you.

1007
01:02:52.269 --> 01:02:53.729
We got a lot more
cards to go.

1008
01:02:53.812 --> 01:02:55.731
[laughs]
<i>"Bonjour, madame."</i>

1009
01:02:55.814 --> 01:02:58.901
Uh, "Good morning,
ma’am, madam."

1010
01:02:58.984 --> 01:03:01.069
<i>"Bonjour, madame."</i>

1011
01:03:01.153 --> 01:03:03.530
[woman] Kids are resilient.

1012
01:03:04.781 --> 01:03:06.408
[sighs] I think the old--

1013
01:03:06.492 --> 01:03:09.536
They’re getting
a little older now.

1014
01:03:09.620 --> 01:03:15.167
And I’m thinking that they
understand life a little more.

1015
01:03:15.250 --> 01:03:18.629
Uh, that they want to grab

1016
01:03:18.712 --> 01:03:22.216
a piece of life--

1017
01:03:22.299 --> 01:03:25.719
positive life--
for themselves.

1018
01:03:26.637 --> 01:03:28.096
[chattering, faint]

1019
01:03:28.180 --> 01:03:30.766
And I think it’s all
because of Sibil.

1020
01:03:31.892 --> 01:03:34.937
I think she set the tone.

1021
01:03:35.020 --> 01:03:36.897
[applause on TV]

1022
01:03:37.773 --> 01:03:41.193
<i>And I have always known</i>
<i>black women who rock.</i>

1023
01:03:41.902 --> 01:03:44.488
<i>I was raised</i>
<i>by black women who rock.</i>

1024
01:03:44.571 --> 01:03:47.366
<i>My mother is</i>
<i>a black woman who rocks.</i>

1025
01:03:47.449 --> 01:03:50.911
<i>My sisters</i>
<i>are black women who rock.</i>

1026
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:54.373
<i>And it’s taken me a while</i>

1027
01:03:54.456 --> 01:03:56.333
<i>for me to realize</i>
<i>that I rock.</i>

1028
01:03:56.416 --> 01:04:00.295
<i>It took me a long time</i>
<i>to get here, to stand here.</i>

1029
01:04:00.379 --> 01:04:02.172
[audience cheering]
<i>As a black woman,</i>

1030
01:04:02.256 --> 01:04:06.009
<i>it is so, so hard</i>
<i>out here for us.</i>

1031
01:04:06.093 --> 01:04:07.970
<i>And it means so much to me</i>

1032
01:04:08.053 --> 01:04:11.890
<i>for the world to see</i>
<i>black girls rocking together.</i>

1033
01:04:11.974 --> 01:04:13.433
<i>Thank you so much.</i>

1034
01:04:13.517 --> 01:04:15.644
<i>Good night.</i>
[audience cheering]

1035
01:04:21.775 --> 01:04:24.570
<i>Thank you. Thank you.</i>

1036
01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:31.076
<i>Dear God, it’s just</i>
<i>so overwhelming, brother,</i>

1037
01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:33.370
<i>to be able to...</i>
<i>as early as tomorrow,</i>

1038
01:04:33.453 --> 01:04:35.706
<i>to be able to hold you</i>
<i>in my arms.</i>

1039
01:04:37.124 --> 01:04:38.584
<i>Whew.</i>

1040
01:04:43.797 --> 01:04:46.216
<i>To be sitting here</i>
<i>recording with you</i>

1041
01:04:46.300 --> 01:04:48.135
<i>this time tomorrow night.</i>

1042
01:04:48.218 --> 01:04:54.308
[woman]
♪ <i>I’ve been going through</i> ♪

1043
01:04:56.393 --> 01:04:58.145
[woman continues singing]

1044
01:04:58.228 --> 01:05:00.689
Oh, baby.

1045
01:05:07.237 --> 01:05:11.491
If I could come home
to you... [laughs]

1046
01:05:22.753 --> 01:05:27.132
[woman, faint]
♪ <i>Since we were</i>
<i>Very young...</i> ♪

1047
01:05:27.215 --> 01:05:29.760
[exhales slowly]

1048
01:05:29.843 --> 01:05:31.637
[siren blaring]

1049
01:05:38.894 --> 01:05:40.228
[woman on phone]
<i>Hello.</i>

1050
01:05:40.312 --> 01:05:42.105
Hey, Miss Judy.
<i>Hey.</i>

1051
01:05:42.189 --> 01:05:44.358
Did you get any word from
over at the big house today?

1052
01:05:44.441 --> 01:05:45.776
<i>No, not anything yet.</i>

1053
01:05:45.859 --> 01:05:47.611
Nothing yet?
<i>No.</i>

1054
01:05:47.694 --> 01:05:50.030
Okay. You got a chance
to call today?

1055
01:05:50.113 --> 01:05:52.532
<i>I have not.</i>
No? Okay.

1056
01:05:52.616 --> 01:05:54.368
All right, then.
I appreciate you.

1057
01:05:54.451 --> 01:05:56.703
<i>All right, thank you.</i>
[line clicks]

1058
01:05:56.787 --> 01:05:58.664
How the hell she gonna
sit there and say

1059
01:05:58.747 --> 01:06:01.541
she ain’t got nothing today
and she ain’t even call?

1060
01:06:02.542 --> 01:06:04.336
[laughing]

1061
01:06:08.632 --> 01:06:12.678
Man, these people
have no respect for
other human beings’ lives.

1062
01:06:12.761 --> 01:06:14.638
I mean, that just
drives you crazy.

1063
01:06:14.721 --> 01:06:17.391
No matter how sane
or how cognizant

1064
01:06:17.474 --> 01:06:20.519
or understanding
you try to be,

1065
01:06:20.602 --> 01:06:24.564
it just will make you lose
your absolute mind.

1066
01:06:25.899 --> 01:06:30.153
I’m not gonna do it.
I’m just freaking
not gon’ do it.

1067
01:06:31.405 --> 01:06:33.990
Success is
the best revenge.

1068
01:06:34.074 --> 01:06:36.868
Success is the best revenge.

1069
01:06:36.952 --> 01:06:39.204
See, I’m like one of those
little retarded children.

1070
01:06:39.287 --> 01:06:42.708
Success is the best revenge.
You gon’ get ’em, Fox.
You gon’ get ’em.

1071
01:06:42.791 --> 01:06:45.836
You gon’ show ’em
that they can’t treat
human life this way.

1072
01:06:45.919 --> 01:06:49.965
Success is the best revenge.
Just hang in there,
’cause when you get him home,

1073
01:06:50.048 --> 01:06:52.426
they gon’ pay,
they gon’ pay, they gon’ pay.

1074
01:06:52.509 --> 01:06:54.928
They gon’--
They gon’ fucking pay!

1075
01:06:55.011 --> 01:06:58.765
Goddamn! He could’ve been home,
been home with his family.

1076
01:06:58.849 --> 01:07:01.101
Just ’cause they bullshitting.

1077
01:07:02.394 --> 01:07:03.895
Ain’t no hurry.

1078
01:07:05.814 --> 01:07:08.942
"Oh, just some more niggas
trying to get home
from the penitentiary.

1079
01:07:09.025 --> 01:07:10.652
All of them will be trying
to come out.

1080
01:07:10.736 --> 01:07:12.821
If I rehear one sentence,

1081
01:07:12.904 --> 01:07:14.823
then the rest of them
will be trying to
come out of there."

1082
01:07:14.906 --> 01:07:16.825
Do you know that’s what
they told our lawyer?

1083
01:07:16.908 --> 01:07:18.785
Don’t you want anybody
out of the system

1084
01:07:18.869 --> 01:07:20.579
that ain’t supposed
to be there?

1085
01:07:23.540 --> 01:07:26.376
[sighs] You know,
"I open this matter up,

1086
01:07:26.460 --> 01:07:29.629
then they’ll all be
trying to come in here
and get resentenced."

1087
01:07:32.924 --> 01:07:34.551
Bless me, Lord.

1088
01:07:36.970 --> 01:07:38.680
All right, what we got next?

1089
01:07:38.764 --> 01:07:40.891
I need to--
So, you putting, um...

1090
01:07:40.974 --> 01:07:42.851
[man]
Jonathan on it.

1091
01:07:42.934 --> 01:07:45.103
...Jonathan on the system,
and then can you...

1092
01:07:45.187 --> 01:07:46.938
[voice fades]

1093
01:08:06.958 --> 01:08:10.796
[Sibil] By the time
that little Robert is 18...

1094
01:08:12.714 --> 01:08:16.218
I want to be as far away
from this level of pain

1095
01:08:16.301 --> 01:08:19.095
for my whole family
as I can be.

1096
01:08:20.263 --> 01:08:23.058
So far away that
I don’t even remember

1097
01:08:23.141 --> 01:08:25.185
how bad it really hurt.

1098
01:08:34.194 --> 01:08:35.821
[rattling]

1099
01:08:47.457 --> 01:08:49.751
[dog barking in distance]

1100
01:09:09.980 --> 01:09:13.233
[woman] In the name of
all that is holy,
we salute you, sister.

1101
01:09:13.316 --> 01:09:15.110
In the name of
all that is holy,

1102
01:09:15.193 --> 01:09:18.154
we give thanks
for your spirit,
for your Ori,

1103
01:09:18.238 --> 01:09:21.408
the spirit guides
that guide you.

1104
01:09:21.491 --> 01:09:23.118
Thank you.

1105
01:09:23.201 --> 01:09:25.912
And I give thanks
for your whole family.

1106
01:09:25.996 --> 01:09:27.581
Then we say, "Ase."

1107
01:09:27.664 --> 01:09:29.207
Ase.

1108
01:09:29.916 --> 01:09:31.376
[bell dings]

1109
01:09:34.337 --> 01:09:36.339
We give thanks
from the north.

1110
01:09:37.966 --> 01:09:40.051
[dings]

1111
01:09:40.719 --> 01:09:43.263
We give thanks
from the west.

1112
01:09:45.390 --> 01:09:46.933
[bell dings]

1113
01:09:48.351 --> 01:09:50.353
[bell dinging repeatedly]

1114
01:09:55.734 --> 01:09:56.943
East.

1115
01:09:58.111 --> 01:09:59.321
South.

1116
01:10:00.530 --> 01:10:02.699
Thank you for giving
your husband the endurance

1117
01:10:02.782 --> 01:10:04.743
to stand the test of time.

1118
01:10:05.869 --> 01:10:07.495
[bell dings]

1119
01:10:14.544 --> 01:10:17.005
[traffic passing]

1120
01:10:56.252 --> 01:10:57.754
[Sibil] Curtis Ray.

1121
01:10:58.755 --> 01:11:00.590
Angola just called me, baby,

1122
01:11:00.674 --> 01:11:03.468
said that they gonna have his
paperwork done in 30 minutes,

1123
01:11:03.551 --> 01:11:05.512
so they’ll have him free
before I get there.

1124
01:11:05.595 --> 01:11:07.681
But the limo is already
on its way.

1125
01:11:09.099 --> 01:11:11.351
You may not have
butterflies, but I do.

1126
01:11:11.434 --> 01:11:13.228
[Sibil laughs]

1127
01:11:34.749 --> 01:11:38.420
[yelling]

1128
01:11:43.925 --> 01:11:48.054
Boy, you better come here!
You better come here, Robert!

1129
01:11:48.138 --> 01:11:50.098
[Sibil yelling]

1130
01:11:58.231 --> 01:12:00.608
[laughing]

1131
01:12:14.122 --> 01:12:17.000
[both yell]

1132
01:12:19.544 --> 01:12:21.379
[laughing]

1133
01:13:59.811 --> 01:14:02.355
[no audible dialogue]

1134
01:14:43.146 --> 01:14:45.315
[Remington]
I’ve been riding around
with you all day,

1135
01:14:45.398 --> 01:14:47.525
and it still
don’t feel real.
[laughter]

1136
01:14:47.609 --> 01:14:49.444
It’s all right, baby.
It’s okay.

1137
01:14:49.527 --> 01:14:51.571
God is good. God is good.
[clapping]

1138
01:14:51.654 --> 01:14:53.364
[people chattering]

1139
01:14:56.910 --> 01:14:59.495
[Robert] I love you, man.
[Remington] I love you, too.

1140
01:14:59.579 --> 01:15:01.289
[Remington]
And, um, from here on out,

1141
01:15:01.372 --> 01:15:02.624
I just want you to love
that woman.

1142
01:15:02.707 --> 01:15:04.417
That’s right.
Yes.

1143
01:15:04.500 --> 01:15:06.586
[chattering continues]

1144
01:15:06.669 --> 01:15:08.922
And we gonna have
a great rest of this life.

1145
01:15:09.005 --> 01:15:10.423
[laughter]

1146
01:15:10.506 --> 01:15:12.258
[clapping]

1147
01:15:14.928 --> 01:15:16.971
When they speak about love,

1148
01:15:17.055 --> 01:15:21.142
you spoke about the fact that
before God created the church,
he created the family.

1149
01:15:21.226 --> 01:15:24.729
But before he created family,
he created what I believe to be

1150
01:15:24.812 --> 01:15:26.981
the most powerful force
in the universe,

1151
01:15:27.065 --> 01:15:29.150
and that is,
is when he created love.

1152
01:15:29.234 --> 01:15:30.735
If it could be an acronym,

1153
01:15:30.818 --> 01:15:32.820
it would be
"life’s only valid expression."

1154
01:15:39.410 --> 01:15:42.622
There were about four things
that I went into prison
understanding,

1155
01:15:42.705 --> 01:15:44.916
and I got these
from my Uncle Vernon.

1156
01:15:44.999 --> 01:15:48.211
I said that
once I went to prison,
I would stand like a man,

1157
01:15:48.294 --> 01:15:51.422
that I would speak truth
to falsehoods,

1158
01:15:51.506 --> 01:15:53.549
that I would finish strong.

1159
01:15:53.633 --> 01:15:55.551
And God knows
I’d never give up.

1160
01:15:55.635 --> 01:15:57.804
Because y’all are worth
fighting for.

1161
01:15:57.887 --> 01:16:00.265
[laughs] I love you.
[clapping]

1162
01:16:05.186 --> 01:16:09.065
It’s always good
to see you. Yeah.

1163
01:16:12.777 --> 01:16:14.779
[women chattering, faint]

1164
01:16:14.862 --> 01:16:16.906
[woman] <i>Remy,</i>
<i>get out of her shoes.</i>

1165
01:16:16.990 --> 01:16:18.950
[chattering continues]

1166
01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:22.537
<i>In somebody else shoes.</i>
<i>Calvin Kleins!</i>

1167
01:16:22.620 --> 01:16:25.415
[chattering continues]

1168
01:16:25.498 --> 01:16:27.500
[Remington]
<i>Calvin Kleins!</i>

1169
01:16:31.921 --> 01:16:34.590
[Sibil] I thank God that
I am surrounded by fighters.

1170
01:16:34.674 --> 01:16:36.009
[woman] Mm-hmm.

1171
01:16:40.430 --> 01:16:46.019
I’m thankful for
a community of people
that are willing to love us...

1172
01:16:46.102 --> 01:16:48.146
[woman] Yes.
...through it all.

1173
01:16:48.229 --> 01:16:49.522
[woman 2]
Through it all.

1174
01:16:49.605 --> 01:16:52.567
And through it all
is how we get there.

1175
01:17:45.578 --> 01:17:47.455
[crying]

1176
01:17:56.255 --> 01:17:59.717
[screaming, squealing]