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Mic check!

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Mic check!Mic check!

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While you are here--

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While you are here--

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--celebrating over brunch--

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--celebrating over brunch--

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--CPD gunned down--

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--CPD gunned down--

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--two of our beloved
community members.

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--two of our beloved
community members.

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Mayor Emanuel--

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Mayor Emanuel--

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--thinks more tasers--

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--thinks more tasers--

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--and more money--

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--and more money--

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--should go to the police.

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--should go to the police.

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While you are here--

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While you are here--

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--celebrating over brunch--

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--celebrating over brunch--

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--Black families--

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--Black families--

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--are struggling to
keep themselves--

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--are struggling to
keep themselves--

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--safe from CPD.

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--safe from CPD.

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These are some of the
men, women, and children

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killed by the police.

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Tiara Thomas, 30.

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Say her name!

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Sandra Reever, 48.

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Say her name!

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India Kager, 48.

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Say her name!

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Sandra Bland, 28.

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Say her name!

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Chant down, Babylon,
Black people are the bomb.

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We ready.

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We coming.

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We ready.

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We coming.

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Director of Operations.

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This guy right here was
real sarcastic with me,

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this lady as well, as I was
trying to get them out of here.

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So they just disrupted the
lunch of about 200 people.

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OK, well, they're leaving, so.

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Excuse me.

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--Babylon, Black
people are the bomb.

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We ready.

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We coming.

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We ready.

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We coming.

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What is this helping though?

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That's my question.

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We think it's very important--

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Really?

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To disrupt everyone's brunch.

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No.

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We all have TV.

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We all watch the news.

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Now, we return to Chicago--

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--as violence continues
to be topic A in Chicago--

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--shot and killed 22-year-old--

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--showing 17-year-old Laquan
McDonald being shot 16--

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Breaking news,
another Black death.

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We often peep the
slightest of hand,

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the Black death used as cape,
the draping of our people

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to your cause.

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This is a story about that
magic, about the historical,

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the unlikely, rarely-reported
facts about leaders

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and communities like
ours, about how much

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they fail and succeed,
about how Black they

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are, how queer they are.

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When you take enough
Ls, you refuse to surf.

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But eventually, if you
stay here long enough,

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you'll plant your
feet and stay upright.

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This is our city.

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But when you expect folks
who you've held back

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for centuries to say, "sorry,"
I'm afraid you'll find

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us rather--

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Hold up.

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I need this--

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--unapologetic.

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Hold up.

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Vibe shit.

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Hey,
Westside get the money,

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roll through Austin
in a Porsche.

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My niggas got Instagrams,
you can't take a picture.

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Why you saving all your money?

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You know you can't
take it with you.

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Every time I get it, I
flip it, to make me richer.

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And look out for
the shorties, they

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got me when they get bigger.

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I don't really
fuck with rappers.

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You ain't deep,
so I don't dig ya.

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You cannot sit with us.

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I cannot hit your swisher.

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Loud, Mary keep on burning,
roll, rolling on the river.

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I'm feeling like I'm Tina,
no tolerance for misogynist,

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in a limo with the Nina.

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When you married to the
game, ain't no such thing

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as a prenup.

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When all you niggas loyal,
you don't give no fuck bout

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no subpoena, dream of
selling out arenas.

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And the ball is in my court
now, so my rap game is Serena.

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Got to make my parents proud,
feel like Sasha and Malia.

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Young Black woman in Chicago,
boy, I do this for Rekia.

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And all my songs are bangers,
bang like onomatopoeia.

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Hold up.

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Hello.

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How's it going?

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Pretty well.

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How are you?

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I fell in love with this
city when I moved here.

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But during the months of
December through March,

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that love affair is
very, very fickle.

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It's like a really
good significant other

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that just forgets
every important date.

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Your
birthday, anniversary.

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But Chicago as a whole,
it's a dope city.

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Set my people free.

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I'm letting my people know--

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I'm letting my people know--

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--I love you like you were me.

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--I love you like were me.

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Look at somebody.

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I love you like you were me.

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I love you like you were me.

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We about to open this up.

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Black Youth Project
100 is a group

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that I'm so proud
to be a part of.

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Please make some
noise for Janaé Bonsu.

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Peace, everybody.

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How y'all doing?

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I want to push us today to
think about our futures.

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The reality is,
especially Black women,

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been working hard since
the beginning of time

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and been supporting everybody.

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If you've ever been
supported by a Black woman,

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just snap your fingers.

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Let me hear you.

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Right?

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And I'm sure all y'all know the
statistic that 40% of our city

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budget goes to policing, right?

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So much money is being
harbored in these institutions.

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Get your blocks
together and say, "Yo,

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how can we pool our resources?

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You know, if we don't
got a Whole Foods

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in our neighborhood, how can
we start growing our own food?"

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We've really got to think
about how we build what

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we want from the ground up.

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And it's gone be hard,
but we can do it.

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So I believe that we will win.

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That's it.

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My name is Janaé Ebone Bonsu.

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I work within an organization
that radically challenges

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that notion that
women have limited

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capacity for leadership.

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And woman leadership has just
been a lot more visible now

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than I think it's ever been.

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Whose streets?

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Our streets!

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Mic check!

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Mic check!

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Mic check!

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Mic check!

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Mic check!

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Mic check!

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You think that you've won.

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But we are here to remind
you that you haven't.

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Nope.

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We are here to protect
and to serve our people.

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Yeah!

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I'm going to say,
protect and serve.

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y'all going to say,
we are the police.

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Then I'm going to say,
we're taking back,

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and y'all gone say,
our communities, OK?

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Yes.

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Protect and serve?

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We are the police.

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Protect and serve?

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We are the police.

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Protect and serve!

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We are the police.

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We're taking back--

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--our communities.

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We're taking back--

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--our communities.

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We're taking back--

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--our communities.

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I went to they college,
got magnum cum laude.

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Learned things that they
taught me do not really matter.

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Won't help my brother who
locked in they cellars.

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So I yell, free my niggas,
then aim at they sheriffs.

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You'd better stay inside
if you are scared.

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City so cold that we
got to wear layers.

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But rocking the hoodie mean
that they will prey us.

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Walk out the door, my
grandma say her prayers.

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As-salamu alaykum, don't
mess with the pigs.

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I don't mess with the bacon.

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Think that I'm wrong, then
you're sadly mistaken.

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This is Black history
that we are making.

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Right.Yes.

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Go ahead.

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This is Black history
that we are making.

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Yeah!

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Even if we don't, our
stories gone make it!

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Yeah!

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Thank, y'all.

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My name is Ambrell
Gambrell, but most people

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know me as Bella BAHHS.

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Immediately after I graduated,
Mike Brown was murdered.

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Then I really started getting
into using rap as activism.

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Like, my first time performing
was on a gospel stage.

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It was like Lee Williams
and the Spiritual QC's.

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They were my
grandmother's favorite.

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So I used to always
just perform they

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songs like in a
bed with a remote

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and make my grandma happy.

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Because I would
learn all the songs

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and perform them for her.

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And then we went to
one of their concerts.

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And he called me up on stage.

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I was excited.

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I was up there, like--

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yes, that's my grandma,
all her jewelry, iced up.

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This is my great-grandmother,
my grandma's mom.

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And then that's her mom.

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I've always seen women
who have raised children

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and raised communities
on their own.

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That's my mama up
there, stylin' on them.

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Yeah, my mom was in a
federal penitentiary

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when she took that picture.

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It was crazy.

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Like, they had
picture days and shit.

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I don't know.

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Yes indeed.

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This is me.

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Going to see my momma.

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For a very long
time, my grandmother

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told me that my parents
were at college.

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I remember very vividly
being about five-years-old

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and bawling, like,
just crying my eyes out

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to my, to my grandma.

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And she didn't understand
why I was crying.

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But she had just said something
about me going to college one

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day.

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And I was devastated.

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Both of my parents were
incarcerated by the time

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I was three-months-old.

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When people are serving
time, their families

282
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are serving that time with them.

283
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That's where my fight
against abolition

284
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comes from, because you
are destroying families.

285
00:11:12,533 --> 00:11:16,814
Like, how I relate to people
is completely fucked up.

286
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You only have a few
minutes to talk about it.

287
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It's not because they're not--

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I am currently a doctoral
student at Jane Addams College

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of Social Work.

290
00:11:32,208 --> 00:11:33,727
Really, just take
a minute and think

291
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about the most
important thing you want

292
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to tell us about your paper.

293
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Of course, it should
be what it's about.

294
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So let's start with Janaé.

295
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OK, my paper is
essentially talking

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about community
accountability as an antidote

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to legal cynicism.

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And so I was drawn to write
this paper because it's

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kind of grounded
in my experience

300
00:12:01,272 --> 00:12:05,310
being an activist and
organizer here in Chicago,

301
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being in a city where, you
know, a mayor has committed

302
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to hiring 1,000 more
cops and me being

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in, I guess, kind of a
bubble where, you know,

304
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people don't want
more police, right?

305
00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:23,777
I actually want to read
a quote by Dr. Richie,

306
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actually, because
abolition means

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that we have to talk
about accountability,

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transformative
justice, mobilizing

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people who are serving time.

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It means asking what
are we not doing

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yet at home so that we
are positioned to build

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another set of alternatives.

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A first draft of the lit review
of my dissertation research.

314
00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:47,318
Great, good job.

315
00:12:47,352 --> 00:12:49,872
Over the years,
Mayor Rahm Emanuel

316
00:12:49,907 --> 00:12:52,150
closed the public schools,
closed the mental health

317
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centers.

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He is committed to
sustaining and strengthening

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law enforcement.

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And now that it is actually
the term where I am putting

321
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my dissertation together.

322
00:13:08,270 --> 00:13:11,721
I really want my
research grounded

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in how we can envision
what safety looks

324
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like outside of that system.

325
00:13:22,422 --> 00:13:26,495
So it looks like
this is 100 pages.

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00:13:26,529 --> 00:13:28,566
I'm hoping that
this 50-page page

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limit is only text,
because if not,

328
00:13:33,778 --> 00:13:36,919
then I'm kind of in trouble.

329
00:13:36,954 --> 00:13:41,303
I think one of the biggest
missing pieces of system

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intersectionality,
is basically how

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the welfare system, the criminal
legal system, the immigration

332
00:13:51,106 --> 00:13:53,487
system, child protective
services, the health care

333
00:13:53,522 --> 00:13:58,561
system, how they're
all very interrelated.

334
00:13:58,596 --> 00:14:01,012
Like, when a Black woman
has contact with the police.

335
00:14:10,746 --> 00:14:12,990
It's a photo of my
nana and grandpa

336
00:14:13,024 --> 00:14:16,890
visiting my uncle in prison.

337
00:14:16,925 --> 00:14:20,894
Most of my life
he was in prison,

338
00:14:20,929 --> 00:14:24,518
I knew that him spending
so much time in prison

339
00:14:24,553 --> 00:14:28,695
wasn't just because
he was a bad person.

340
00:14:28,729 --> 00:14:34,874
I knew that there had to
be more to that cycle.

341
00:14:34,908 --> 00:14:38,878
A lot of my formative
experiences and analysis

342
00:14:38,912 --> 00:14:44,331
of the criminal legal
system, came from him.

343
00:14:44,366 --> 00:14:48,853
Such a cool dude, I
put him on my wall

344
00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:59,968
as just a consistent constant
reminder of why I do this,

345
00:15:00,002 --> 00:15:01,659
yeah.

346
00:15:07,251 --> 00:15:09,149
Set it up, set it
up, send it up, set it off.

347
00:15:09,184 --> 00:15:10,875
Fuck with my sisters and
you're set up for failure.

348
00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,566
You're better off cooling off.

349
00:15:12,601 --> 00:15:14,189
Yeah, you're better
off cooling off.

350
00:15:15,431 --> 00:15:17,399
So it's going to go
something like that.

351
00:15:19,332 --> 00:15:23,853
Do you want to do any
overdubs on that part?

352
00:15:23,888 --> 00:15:24,371
Yes.

353
00:15:24,406 --> 00:15:25,994
OK.

354
00:15:26,028 --> 00:15:28,168
Laquan could
have been the son of TT.

355
00:15:28,203 --> 00:15:29,929
They shot Pierre
while he was running.

356
00:15:29,963 --> 00:15:31,654
That sound a lot
to me like Frankie.

357
00:15:31,689 --> 00:15:34,140
Frankly, going out like
Cleo is more likely.

358
00:15:34,174 --> 00:15:36,004
Take some CPD officers with me.

359
00:15:36,038 --> 00:15:37,971
If niggas want war, then
just call me Achilles.

360
00:15:38,006 --> 00:15:39,697
Feds on my heels like I
just stepped in feces.

361
00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:41,250
Oh, shit.

362
00:15:41,285 --> 00:15:43,321
This for niggas at the
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

363
00:15:43,356 --> 00:15:44,874
Oshun, full of fresh water.

364
00:15:44,909 --> 00:15:45,668
This for Flint, Michigan.

365
00:15:45,703 --> 00:15:46,911
They're poisoning our children.

366
00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:47,877
Fuck a politician.

367
00:15:47,912 --> 00:15:48,948
Criminals in the Senate--

368
00:15:49,396 --> 00:15:53,918
I'm angry when I'm performing
at street protests,

369
00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:56,748
but at the studio,
this is healing.

370
00:15:58,060 --> 00:16:04,515
Can you punch me in at oh, shit?

371
00:16:04,549 --> 00:16:06,551
Mhm, you want before the
shit or after the shit?

372
00:16:08,450 --> 00:16:09,969
Blau, blau, blau, blau.

373
00:16:10,279 --> 00:16:12,419
Punch me in before the shit.

374
00:16:14,525 --> 00:16:15,388
Oshun, full
of fresh water, this for Flint,

375
00:16:15,422 --> 00:16:16,423
Michigan.

376
00:16:16,458 --> 00:16:17,528
They're poisoning our children.

377
00:16:17,562 --> 00:16:18,322
Fuck a politician.

378
00:16:18,356 --> 00:16:19,426
Criminals in the Senate.

379
00:16:19,702 --> 00:16:20,910
And my niggas in the
field, fuck the house.

380
00:16:20,945 --> 00:16:22,602
If I tell them send it up,
that's where they send it.

381
00:16:22,636 --> 00:16:24,811
If I tell them send it up,
that's where they send it.

382
00:16:25,053 --> 00:16:26,744
Set it up, set it up,
send it up, set it off.

383
00:16:26,778 --> 00:16:27,710
Fuck with my sisters--

384
00:16:27,745 --> 00:16:29,195
Want to play that back?

385
00:16:29,229 --> 00:16:33,682
My lyrics were very
intentional about promoting

386
00:16:33,716 --> 00:16:36,857
Black liberation, and
uplifting other Black women.

387
00:16:38,066 --> 00:16:40,033
Yeah, when we talk
about Rekia Boyd,

388
00:16:40,068 --> 00:16:42,035
it doesn't get as
much publicity as when

389
00:16:42,070 --> 00:16:43,657
we talk about Laquan McDonald.

390
00:16:43,692 --> 00:16:45,211
When we talk about
Sandra Bland, it

391
00:16:45,245 --> 00:16:48,317
doesn't get as much publicity as
when we talk about Mike Brown,

392
00:16:48,352 --> 00:16:49,629
as when we talk
about Eric Garner.

393
00:16:53,184 --> 00:16:55,255
22-year-old Rekia
Boyd was walking

394
00:16:55,290 --> 00:16:59,190
to a store with three
friends near Douglas Park.

395
00:16:59,225 --> 00:17:03,367
Servin, who was off duty,
was upset over noise.

396
00:17:03,401 --> 00:17:07,302
Sitting in his car, fired
five shots over his shoulder.

397
00:17:07,336 --> 00:17:08,234
Boyd was hit and killed.

398
00:17:11,202 --> 00:17:17,553
March 21st 2012, Rekia Boyd was
shot in the back of her head

399
00:17:17,588 --> 00:17:20,418
by Dante Servin.

400
00:17:20,453 --> 00:17:25,078
State's Attorney, Anita
Alvarez, a year and a half

401
00:17:25,113 --> 00:17:30,256
later charged Servin with
involuntary manslaughter.

402
00:17:35,019 --> 00:17:38,195
She undercharged Dante Servin.

403
00:17:38,229 --> 00:17:41,715
Judge Dennis Porter
vacated the charge,

404
00:17:41,750 --> 00:17:43,683
saying that he should have
been charged with first degree

405
00:17:43,717 --> 00:17:45,512
murder.

406
00:17:45,547 --> 00:17:48,239
Because it was a bench trial,
it wasn't a jury trial,

407
00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:52,347
Dante Servin was
able to walk away

408
00:17:52,381 --> 00:17:56,765
with no accountability
via the judicial system.

409
00:18:00,424 --> 00:18:03,358
The Chicago Police
Board is responsible

410
00:18:03,392 --> 00:18:07,086
for the ultimate
firing of Dante Servin.

411
00:18:11,262 --> 00:18:12,505
This could be anybody.

412
00:18:12,539 --> 00:18:15,128
This could be anybody
I know and love.

413
00:18:15,163 --> 00:18:16,750
This is my side of town.

414
00:18:16,785 --> 00:18:17,786
This is my-- like--

415
00:18:24,517 --> 00:18:27,382
to neglect this side of Chicago,
is to neglect my whole family.

416
00:18:36,045 --> 00:18:39,048
There'd be a lot
going on over here.

417
00:18:39,083 --> 00:18:40,912
No, it wasn't like that
when we was little.

418
00:18:40,947 --> 00:18:42,190
We could walk down the street.

419
00:18:42,224 --> 00:18:43,536
We could walk to
the store, and not

420
00:18:43,570 --> 00:18:49,645
get worried about people
getting shot or killed.

421
00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:50,198
Can't do that now.

422
00:18:55,686 --> 00:18:57,170
And it's messed up.

423
00:18:57,205 --> 00:19:00,035
We used to be all
up and down here.

424
00:19:13,324 --> 00:19:15,775
I see the world through the lens
of the West Side of Chicago.

425
00:19:21,194 --> 00:19:22,989
I love Black people.

426
00:19:23,023 --> 00:19:24,024
They're so beautiful.

427
00:19:41,870 --> 00:19:44,390
And we see

428
00:19:44,424 --> 00:19:48,463
a very different and
necessary direction.

429
00:19:48,497 --> 00:19:50,672
I want you to know on
behalf of the police board,

430
00:19:50,706 --> 00:19:52,329
we have heard you.

431
00:19:52,363 --> 00:19:54,469
We have heard you
at our meetings.

432
00:19:54,503 --> 00:19:57,541
We have heard and seen
you in the streets.

433
00:19:57,575 --> 00:19:59,819
We have heard and
listened to you,

434
00:19:59,853 --> 00:20:03,650
as you have corresponded with us
individually and collectively.

435
00:20:03,685 --> 00:20:06,481
And we will continue to listen.

436
00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:09,553
I think that's important
for you all to know.

437
00:20:10,278 --> 00:20:11,520
LaCreshia Birts.

438
00:20:14,454 --> 00:20:17,043
So McCarthy, where are you in
the process of firing Dante

439
00:20:17,077 --> 00:20:18,113
Servin?

440
00:20:20,667 --> 00:20:23,739
Ma'am, do have a clear
statement to make?

441
00:20:23,774 --> 00:20:25,534
So I can't ask questions?

442
00:20:25,776 --> 00:20:26,708
Answer the question!

443
00:20:29,297 --> 00:20:31,091
What?

444
00:20:31,126 --> 00:20:31,782
It's still being worked on.

445
00:20:31,816 --> 00:20:33,232
It's still being worked on?

446
00:20:34,336 --> 00:20:38,547
As protesters, this case and all
of the corruption around police

447
00:20:38,582 --> 00:20:40,273
is taking up a lot of our time.

448
00:20:40,308 --> 00:20:41,826
We're out here
protesting, trying

449
00:20:41,861 --> 00:20:43,725
to make sure that we're
safe, because you're not

450
00:20:43,759 --> 00:20:44,864
doing your job.

451
00:20:44,898 --> 00:20:46,245
Sister, your time is up.

452
00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:48,592
McCarthy, either
stand up or step down.

453
00:20:49,144 --> 00:20:49,731
Hey!

454
00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:55,875
Next speaker, Martinez Sutton.

455
00:21:02,226 --> 00:21:03,469
My sister was killed.

456
00:21:03,503 --> 00:21:05,402
Excuse my language,
but it's fucked up.

457
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,372
Every month I'm here, have
your sister been killed?

458
00:21:12,132 --> 00:21:14,307
Have you anybody in your family
been killed by the police?

459
00:21:16,378 --> 00:21:18,656
I got a feeling,
he's going to resign

460
00:21:18,691 --> 00:21:20,348
when you make your decision.

461
00:21:20,382 --> 00:21:22,902
And a motherfucker
gone get off scot-free.

462
00:21:22,936 --> 00:21:23,523
Yep.

463
00:21:23,558 --> 00:21:25,111
Yeah.

464
00:21:25,145 --> 00:21:26,664
It was my sister's
birthday this month.

465
00:21:26,699 --> 00:21:28,114
She would have been 26, 26.

466
00:21:30,841 --> 00:21:34,707
You feel my pain, I'm just
asking that you fire him.

467
00:21:34,741 --> 00:21:36,640
I'll just ask
everybody to stand up

468
00:21:36,674 --> 00:21:39,263
with the remainder of my
time, and salute my sister.

469
00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:39,884
Yup.

470
00:21:39,919 --> 00:21:42,197
I am Rekia Boyd.

471
00:21:42,231 --> 00:21:44,233
I am Rekia Boyd.

472
00:21:44,268 --> 00:21:45,580
I am Rekia Boyd.

473
00:21:46,443 --> 00:21:48,583
I am Rekia Boyd.

474
00:21:48,617 --> 00:21:50,757
I am Rekia Boyd.

475
00:21:50,792 --> 00:21:52,587
I am Rekia Boyd.

476
00:21:52,621 --> 00:21:54,865
I am Rekia Boyd.

477
00:21:54,899 --> 00:21:56,384
I am Rekia Boyd.

478
00:21:56,418 --> 00:22:00,629
27,000 complaints filed
and only 80 of them

479
00:22:00,664 --> 00:22:04,392
result in any type of, like,
discipline, out of 27,000.

480
00:22:04,426 --> 00:22:06,808
How I see it, is that when
we do act civil and expect

481
00:22:06,842 --> 00:22:09,051
the response and don't
get it, so next time--

482
00:22:09,086 --> 00:22:09,673
Right.

483
00:22:09,707 --> 00:22:12,192
--we won't be as nice.

484
00:22:12,227 --> 00:22:13,021
If we don't get it.

485
00:22:13,055 --> 00:22:14,471
Shut it down!

486
00:22:14,505 --> 00:22:17,991
Only 3% of officers that
have complaints against them

487
00:22:18,026 --> 00:22:19,372
end up getting disciplined,

488
00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:22,479
In more than 99%
of the thousands

489
00:22:22,513 --> 00:22:25,344
of misconduct complaints,
no disciplinary action

490
00:22:25,378 --> 00:22:26,103
was ever taken.

491
00:22:29,106 --> 00:22:32,627
Young people have
attempted to impose upon me

492
00:22:32,661 --> 00:22:36,113
as president of a police board,
a power that I don't possess.

493
00:22:38,874 --> 00:22:44,328
They want any police officer
who kills an African-American

494
00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:46,675
to be fired, stripped
of their pension

495
00:22:46,710 --> 00:22:49,229
without any due process,
any investigation.

496
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,822
There's clearly a role
to play for protests.

497
00:22:55,857 --> 00:22:58,411
Some of the issues that
we're talking about today,

498
00:22:58,446 --> 00:23:00,275
related to the Chicago
Police Department,

499
00:23:00,309 --> 00:23:03,416
wouldn't be happening without
people being out in the street,

500
00:23:03,451 --> 00:23:08,179
but there is a time and
a place for everything.

501
00:23:08,214 --> 00:23:11,838
It's easy to yell, and
scream and protest.

502
00:23:11,873 --> 00:23:14,151
What's more
complicated, is to work

503
00:23:14,185 --> 00:23:17,016
towards actual
solutions that improve

504
00:23:17,050 --> 00:23:18,569
the quality of people's lives.

505
00:23:23,678 --> 00:23:25,576
I believe the men and women
of the police department

506
00:23:25,611 --> 00:23:28,061
are both professionally
dedicated to meeting

507
00:23:28,096 --> 00:23:30,719
the public safety
of the residents.

508
00:23:30,754 --> 00:23:33,446
But we've got to be also
conscious of the fact

509
00:23:33,481 --> 00:23:36,760
that the world around them
very quickly got changed.

510
00:23:36,794 --> 00:23:38,658
They don't think they
get a fair shake.

511
00:23:38,693 --> 00:23:41,661
But we want our officers to
know that their leadership has

512
00:23:41,696 --> 00:23:46,183
their back, to do the job
that we hired them to do.

513
00:23:46,217 --> 00:23:48,012
Rahm must go!Rahm must go!

514
00:23:48,047 --> 00:23:49,013
Rahm must go!

515
00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:04,477
Oh, it goes down in the DM--

516
00:24:04,512 --> 00:24:06,030
You so fine.

517
00:24:07,687 --> 00:24:08,516
It goes down.

518
00:24:08,550 --> 00:24:09,275
Those DMs.

519
00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:18,802
Woo, that's
crazy, cause she's so fine.

520
00:24:18,836 --> 00:24:23,600
People don't really ask
me on dates and shit.

521
00:24:28,052 --> 00:24:34,507
But, you know, I'm open.

522
00:24:34,542 --> 00:24:36,198
Maybe when people see this,
they'll be like, "Oh."

523
00:24:41,307 --> 00:24:42,515
Are you going to speak on it?

524
00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:43,274
I'm going to speak on it.

525
00:24:43,309 --> 00:24:43,999
Oh.

526
00:24:44,034 --> 00:24:47,037
I'm going to speak on it.

527
00:24:47,071 --> 00:24:52,525
So I have dated men and women.

528
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:59,049
This community of women are
warriors in a way that like,

529
00:24:59,083 --> 00:25:04,675
I just don't see in
our men right now,

530
00:25:04,710 --> 00:25:09,680
like that you have a desire
to protect me, to possess me,

531
00:25:09,715 --> 00:25:11,164
to control me--

532
00:25:11,199 --> 00:25:12,580
Yes, but protect?

533
00:25:12,614 --> 00:25:13,512
--to have me.

534
00:25:17,481 --> 00:25:23,211
Like by dating men while
our men are at this state,

535
00:25:23,245 --> 00:25:30,701
of complete and devastating
psychological indoctrination

536
00:25:30,736 --> 00:25:38,088
into misogyny and misogynoir and
a deep hatred for Black women.

537
00:25:38,122 --> 00:25:42,989
And if I know this, right, then
am I going against my politics

538
00:25:43,024 --> 00:25:49,099
by still allowing them
that access to me?

539
00:25:55,864 --> 00:25:57,383
They be so fine though.

540
00:26:00,938 --> 00:26:01,732
Yeah, they do.

541
00:26:01,767 --> 00:26:03,113
They be fine though.

542
00:26:10,638 --> 00:26:11,984
Check it out.

543
00:26:12,018 --> 00:26:13,399
Ah, bitch.

544
00:26:13,433 --> 00:26:14,711
Shout out to HomeGoods.

545
00:26:14,745 --> 00:26:17,127
Shout out to HomeGoods.

546
00:26:21,787 --> 00:26:23,720
She wins again.

547
00:26:23,754 --> 00:26:25,411
She wins again.

548
00:26:25,445 --> 00:26:26,619
I did that.

549
00:26:26,654 --> 00:26:27,793
She did that.

550
00:26:27,827 --> 00:26:29,139
I did that.

551
00:26:29,173 --> 00:26:29,691
Mm.

552
00:26:29,726 --> 00:26:30,209
OK.

553
00:26:30,243 --> 00:26:31,003
OK.

554
00:26:31,037 --> 00:26:32,591
So you know how I'm not really--

555
00:26:35,248 --> 00:26:36,525
girly is not the right word.

556
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,597
But you know I don't
do makeup and stuff.

557
00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:45,500
But I went to Sally's
today, got some foundation.

558
00:26:45,534 --> 00:26:47,191
Oh, shit.

559
00:26:47,226 --> 00:26:52,541
I am a member of BYP for life,
forever ever, forever ever.

560
00:26:52,576 --> 00:26:54,440
Squad!

561
00:26:54,474 --> 00:26:59,652
And that's how I met Janaé.

562
00:26:59,687 --> 00:27:03,518
We were just like, she's so
cute and her booty is so big.

563
00:27:03,552 --> 00:27:06,590
And I was just like, oh my God.

564
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:11,664
And so she was like,
come over, I'm cooking.

565
00:27:11,699 --> 00:27:14,149
And I ain't never going
to turn down a meal.

566
00:27:14,184 --> 00:27:15,254
And I came over.

567
00:27:15,288 --> 00:27:18,257
And she had fried tilapia.

568
00:27:18,291 --> 00:27:20,086
And I think I stayed
over for two days.

569
00:27:23,849 --> 00:27:28,508
These women, all of them
are just the bomb.com.

570
00:27:28,543 --> 00:27:32,961
And I just be--I just
be my sister's keepers.

571
00:27:32,996 --> 00:27:33,824
You fine, girl.

572
00:27:37,172 --> 00:27:38,242
How do I do this?

573
00:27:38,277 --> 00:27:39,381
No, don't-- nah, just--

574
00:27:39,416 --> 00:27:40,659
You said blot, what do--

575
00:27:40,693 --> 00:27:43,144
Blot like with your--

576
00:27:47,251 --> 00:27:48,252
Just so petty.

577
00:28:09,757 --> 00:28:15,694
This is the BYP100's
space, office space.

578
00:28:15,728 --> 00:28:22,321
We got many pieces of butcher
paper plastered on the wall.

579
00:28:22,355 --> 00:28:25,082
So I guess we'd be
talking about something

580
00:28:25,117 --> 00:28:28,327
and documenting something, yeah.

581
00:28:28,361 --> 00:28:30,743
No, we actually talk about a lot
and document a lot of things.

582
00:28:30,778 --> 00:28:32,089
It's really not a
strategy session,

583
00:28:32,124 --> 00:28:33,919
unless you have butcher paper.

584
00:28:33,953 --> 00:28:35,921
Different people
really help me think

585
00:28:35,955 --> 00:28:38,578
about how to be an organizer.

586
00:28:44,446 --> 00:28:49,382
BYP100 being an
organization that explicitly

587
00:28:49,417 --> 00:28:53,732
says that, we organize through
this Black, queer, feminist

588
00:28:53,766 --> 00:28:55,699
lens.

589
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:59,185
If Rekia Boyd were alive today,
we would be the same age,

590
00:28:59,220 --> 00:29:01,981
but Dante Servin
took her life away.

591
00:29:02,016 --> 00:29:05,226
And as a young Black woman in
this city, I do not feel safe.

592
00:29:09,057 --> 00:29:12,405
We are a national organization
of young Black activists

593
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,754
between the ages of 18 and 35.

594
00:29:15,788 --> 00:29:19,827
How we situate our work is,
as a part of a broader project

595
00:29:19,861 --> 00:29:22,899
for Black liberation.

596
00:29:22,933 --> 00:29:25,487
I've seen her blossom
from a member coming

597
00:29:25,522 --> 00:29:28,974
in wanting to do something,
to being a Chicago chapter

598
00:29:29,008 --> 00:29:33,150
co-chair and now being our
national public policy chair.

599
00:29:33,185 --> 00:29:35,359
Say stop the cops and
fund Black futures!

600
00:29:35,394 --> 00:29:39,398
Me being with comrades
who also have that fire

601
00:29:39,432 --> 00:29:43,609
is kind of contagious in a way.

602
00:29:43,643 --> 00:29:45,749
For a lot of us, we are coming
into these organizations,

603
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:49,028
because we feel as if
we are not being heard

604
00:29:49,063 --> 00:29:51,755
and we are not
being represented.

605
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:55,069
Trayvon Martin is
a marker in time.

606
00:29:55,103 --> 00:29:57,140
Black and brown folks
being killed by the police.

607
00:29:57,174 --> 00:29:59,590
It began to become more and
more on all the news outlets.

608
00:30:03,698 --> 00:30:05,527
There was three Black
women who sort of

609
00:30:05,562 --> 00:30:08,565
ignited with this
Movement for Black Lives.

610
00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:11,257
From that, started
a massive campaign

611
00:30:11,292 --> 00:30:12,776
in different cities
and different states.

612
00:30:15,641 --> 00:30:19,196
In terms of locally,
people form relationships.

613
00:30:19,231 --> 00:30:20,646
They were just like,
all right, we're

614
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,303
going to fuck up
the ops together.

615
00:30:31,553 --> 00:30:35,143
Without Black trans women,
gender nonconforming folks,

616
00:30:35,178 --> 00:30:41,080
femme folks, cis-identified
young girls and women,

617
00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:43,703
this would not look
the way that it does.

618
00:30:43,738 --> 00:30:45,740
Hell no, we won't go.

619
00:30:45,774 --> 00:30:47,846
Hell no, we won't go.

620
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,778
Hell no, we won't go.

621
00:30:49,813 --> 00:30:50,987
Hell no, we won't go.

622
00:30:51,021 --> 00:30:52,540
Hell no, we won't go.

623
00:30:52,574 --> 00:30:55,543
We need some of our
people on the sidewalks,

624
00:30:55,577 --> 00:30:58,304
you will not make an
illegal arrest today today.

625
00:30:58,339 --> 00:31:00,030
To go to a rally
that's for Black Lives

626
00:31:00,065 --> 00:31:02,964
and to only see Black men being
given any kind of authority

627
00:31:02,999 --> 00:31:05,518
on the subject, is absurd to me.

628
00:31:05,553 --> 00:31:08,038
The sexism and the homophobia
that shows up in our movements

629
00:31:08,073 --> 00:31:10,247
weakens us, it
destroys our power.

630
00:31:18,807 --> 00:31:21,258
Even though you are
also being oppressed,

631
00:31:21,293 --> 00:31:23,019
you also have privilege
and you are also

632
00:31:23,053 --> 00:31:24,917
capable of doing the oppressing.

633
00:31:24,952 --> 00:31:28,024
If Black, queer, feminist
people are not free,

634
00:31:28,058 --> 00:31:29,542
nobody else is going to be free.

635
00:31:29,577 --> 00:31:30,750
--looks like.

636
00:31:30,785 --> 00:31:32,166
Tell me what
democracy looks like.

637
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:33,477
This is what
democracy looks like.

638
00:31:33,512 --> 00:31:34,685
Michigan Avenue, y'all.

639
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,101
Michigan Avenue,
come on, let's go!

640
00:31:37,550 --> 00:31:39,069
No justice, no profits.

641
00:31:39,104 --> 00:31:40,899
No justice, no profits!

642
00:31:40,933 --> 00:31:42,659
No justice, no profits.

643
00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:46,042
Cause they're not necessarily
fighting for liberation,

644
00:31:46,076 --> 00:31:51,668
they're just fighting for their
own relationship to power.

645
00:31:51,702 --> 00:31:53,704
There are some of us
that are absolutely

646
00:31:53,739 --> 00:31:56,086
governed by ancestors.

647
00:31:56,121 --> 00:31:58,019
And we're not playing
by your rules,

648
00:31:58,054 --> 00:32:00,125
and we're not interested
in playing by your rules.

649
00:32:03,059 --> 00:32:05,820
OK.

650
00:32:05,854 --> 00:32:13,207
I'm reading a letter from
my brother who is in prison.

651
00:32:17,176 --> 00:32:25,081
And I miss him.

652
00:32:25,115 --> 00:32:31,604
He said, "I appreciate you
reaching out and dropping

653
00:32:31,639 --> 00:32:33,330
a few jewels.

654
00:32:33,365 --> 00:32:35,298
I needed that food for thought.

655
00:32:35,332 --> 00:32:40,544
It really touched my
heart, and I love it.

656
00:32:40,579 --> 00:32:44,341
So again, thanks baby sister.

657
00:32:44,376 --> 00:32:47,068
I let a few lady
correctional officers,

658
00:32:47,103 --> 00:32:49,415
and a few of my homies
read the postcard

659
00:32:49,450 --> 00:32:53,005
you sent about your Chicago
Arts Activism Campaign."

660
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:03,188
Our entire existence
is resistance.

661
00:33:03,222 --> 00:33:05,155
No matter where
we're at doing it,

662
00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:07,675
so I just be
needing them to find

663
00:33:07,709 --> 00:33:09,297
ways to celebrate themselves.

664
00:33:09,332 --> 00:33:11,230
Like every single
day you survive

665
00:33:11,265 --> 00:33:14,199
in there is a day you
done survive the war.

666
00:33:14,233 --> 00:33:15,890
Like you survived
being kidnapped.

667
00:33:15,924 --> 00:33:19,307
You survive torture, right?

668
00:33:19,342 --> 00:33:20,239
Like prison are torture.

669
00:33:24,209 --> 00:33:30,767
I've always been like this
very silenced Black girl,

670
00:33:30,801 --> 00:33:35,358
who had the weight of the
world on her shoulders.

671
00:33:35,392 --> 00:33:41,985
The responsibility to free
her mother, free her father,

672
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:45,678
free her brothers,
free her grandmother

673
00:33:45,713 --> 00:33:51,063
from the trauma of losing a
daughter to prison system.

674
00:33:55,067 --> 00:33:56,413
I carry all of
that all the time.

675
00:34:15,777 --> 00:34:17,848
How you choose what
you choose to do

676
00:34:17,883 --> 00:34:20,851
and what your criteria for a
successful demonstration are.

677
00:34:21,369 --> 00:34:23,509
A protest doesn't always
have to have a target.

678
00:34:23,544 --> 00:34:26,167
It doesn't always have to
have a goal, so to speak.

679
00:34:26,202 --> 00:34:28,549
Sometimes people
take the streets,

680
00:34:28,583 --> 00:34:29,653
because they are-- they feel.

681
00:34:31,414 --> 00:34:33,347
Because in they textbooks,
we're on one page.

682
00:34:33,381 --> 00:34:35,694
And the only thing it say
is we was once slaves.

683
00:34:35,728 --> 00:34:38,006
So, of course,
they think that I'm

684
00:34:38,041 --> 00:34:40,423
crazed when I tell them we had
pyramids when they had caves.

685
00:34:40,457 --> 00:34:43,391
Y'all, this my mama.

686
00:34:43,426 --> 00:34:47,223
Yeah, like talking about
criminalization and violence.

687
00:34:47,257 --> 00:34:51,227
And what it means to just
inhabit these vessels.

688
00:34:51,261 --> 00:34:52,642
Create opportunities
for other women

689
00:34:52,676 --> 00:34:55,852
to be involved and
bringing these stories,

690
00:34:55,886 --> 00:34:58,026
these conversations to life.

691
00:34:58,061 --> 00:35:00,305
When you actually look and
break down the numbers,

692
00:35:00,339 --> 00:35:02,307
and figure out how
these people walked in,

693
00:35:02,341 --> 00:35:04,895
it helps you figure out
where you can organize.

694
00:35:04,930 --> 00:35:07,726
I feel like I'm in a
constant like, all right,

695
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,417
I need to learn this.

696
00:35:09,452 --> 00:35:12,144
And I need to move on this--
and help my people move on this.

697
00:35:12,179 --> 00:35:14,319
But like, for real, I don't
even believe in this system.

698
00:35:14,353 --> 00:35:18,150
You're building an
energy and a momentum.

699
00:35:18,185 --> 00:35:21,981
When your vision is bigger,
you know where you're going.

700
00:35:22,016 --> 00:35:23,190
Don't stop that now.

701
00:35:23,224 --> 00:35:24,052
Don't stop that.

702
00:35:24,087 --> 00:35:24,743
Don't stop it.

703
00:35:24,777 --> 00:35:25,985
Thank you.

704
00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:27,159
Push 'em, make
them uncomfortable.

705
00:35:27,194 --> 00:35:28,471
OK, we'll go ahead
and get started

706
00:35:28,505 --> 00:35:30,852
with the intergenerational
conversation.

707
00:35:30,887 --> 00:35:33,545
We controlled our communities.

708
00:35:33,579 --> 00:35:38,032
And we had the faith that
a change was going to come.

709
00:35:38,066 --> 00:35:41,518
Our generation isn't taught
Black culture, what it means

710
00:35:41,553 --> 00:35:44,935
to be Black from you anymore.

711
00:35:44,970 --> 00:35:49,181
So we hold our elders
accountable for a lot

712
00:35:49,216 --> 00:35:52,633
of the state that
we're in right now.

713
00:35:57,672 --> 00:35:59,226
We know that this board.

714
00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:00,848
We know that this board.

715
00:36:00,882 --> 00:36:03,471
Does not care about Black women.

716
00:36:03,506 --> 00:36:06,681
Does not care about Black women.

717
00:36:06,716 --> 00:36:10,582
We are committed to confronting
this board, city council,

718
00:36:10,616 --> 00:36:14,758
and the mayor until y'all fire
Dante Servin with no pension--

719
00:36:14,793 --> 00:36:16,070
If you want to be heard--

720
00:36:16,104 --> 00:36:17,036
--no pension.

721
00:36:18,210 --> 00:36:18,900
--if you want to be heard,
you sign up beforehand.

722
00:36:18,935 --> 00:36:19,556
We will be back!
We hear her!

723
00:36:19,591 --> 00:36:20,695
We hear her!

724
00:36:30,774 --> 00:36:36,711
I feel like a broken record
when I talk about why I'm tired,

725
00:36:36,746 --> 00:36:39,093
or why I'm stressed.

726
00:36:39,127 --> 00:36:42,993
So my final was due at 7:00 PM.

727
00:36:43,028 --> 00:36:45,479
And it was a 20 page paper.

728
00:36:45,513 --> 00:36:50,898
And at 6:50, I had
10 pages written.

729
00:36:50,932 --> 00:36:54,833
And I just-- I just
broke down crying.

730
00:36:54,867 --> 00:36:57,249
I cried my eyes out.

731
00:36:57,284 --> 00:37:00,183
Like, I've never
submitted something

732
00:37:00,218 --> 00:37:03,497
knowing that like,
yeah, I failed that.

733
00:37:03,531 --> 00:37:09,227
It's never happened to me,
so that moment, it hurt

734
00:37:09,261 --> 00:37:11,539
and I broke down.

735
00:37:11,574 --> 00:37:13,161
And I had just--

736
00:37:13,196 --> 00:37:20,686
I was just so
discouraged, and

737
00:37:21,756 --> 00:37:22,895
Got ya back now.

738
00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:27,693
Got 4, 5 cats off
in the 'Lac now.

739
00:37:27,728 --> 00:37:32,491
When it comes to these holidays,
as much as I'm like, man,

740
00:37:32,526 --> 00:37:34,735
there's some stuff that
we're having next week,

741
00:37:34,769 --> 00:37:37,669
that I'm going to have to miss,
that I really want to be at.

742
00:37:37,703 --> 00:37:39,981
Especially in light of
me traveling so much

743
00:37:40,016 --> 00:37:42,743
over the past few weeks.

744
00:37:42,777 --> 00:37:43,399
But I've got to go home.

745
00:37:46,056 --> 00:37:47,265
Please remain seated with your
seat belt fastened, seat back

746
00:37:47,299 --> 00:37:49,232
and tray tables in the
full upright position.

747
00:38:05,213 --> 00:38:07,975
Growing up in South
Carolina, politically

748
00:38:08,009 --> 00:38:12,566
for me was pretty uneventful.

749
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,846
The experience of going to a
predominantly white school,

750
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,470
made me yearn for
Black spaces and made

751
00:38:20,505 --> 00:38:24,094
me want to do something
more for my people.

752
00:38:24,129 --> 00:38:25,579
Moments like that
led me to Chicago.

753
00:38:31,861 --> 00:38:33,863
How did you pick the name Janaé?

754
00:38:33,897 --> 00:38:35,934
There was a group called Zhane.

755
00:38:36,624 --> 00:38:37,349
They're the group that's like--

756
00:38:37,384 --> 00:38:38,557
Zhane.

757
00:38:38,592 --> 00:38:41,664
Everybody,
move your body.

758
00:38:41,698 --> 00:38:44,529
Now do
it, this is something

759
00:38:44,563 --> 00:38:46,979
that's going to make
you move and groove.

760
00:38:47,014 --> 00:38:50,189
Hey DJ, keep playing
that song all night.

761
00:38:50,224 --> 00:38:51,363
Yep, that's Zhane.

762
00:38:51,398 --> 00:38:52,019
I like that song.

763
00:38:52,053 --> 00:38:53,054
Yes, yes.

764
00:38:53,089 --> 00:38:54,401
That's why I like that song.

765
00:38:55,056 --> 00:38:58,197
The only, only, only white
boy I've ever had a crush on.

766
00:38:58,232 --> 00:39:00,993
His name was Zach.

767
00:39:01,028 --> 00:39:03,513
Because remember, that was
during the time when you said,

768
00:39:03,548 --> 00:39:05,101
you was not Black?

769
00:39:05,135 --> 00:39:06,205
Tuh, OK.

770
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,898
Yeah, you was not
Black, you was brown.

771
00:39:08,932 --> 00:39:13,523
You was brown, and you just
created a whole other race.

772
00:39:13,558 --> 00:39:15,801
It wasn't just the
Black and white race.

773
00:39:15,836 --> 00:39:17,458
Because I don't know
what race was.

774
00:39:17,493 --> 00:39:19,011
Yes

775
00:39:19,046 --> 00:39:20,254
I looked at my skin tone
and I said, oh, I'm brown.

776
00:39:20,288 --> 00:39:22,256
And it was very
different, right.

777
00:39:22,290 --> 00:39:23,913
I'm not Black.

778
00:39:23,947 --> 00:39:25,708
You were very confused.

779
00:39:25,742 --> 00:39:29,850
OK, so that's when you and
your dad went to Paris.

780
00:39:29,884 --> 00:39:32,404
Yeah.

781
00:39:32,439 --> 00:39:36,408
All I know is that
dad wanted me to be

782
00:39:36,443 --> 00:39:40,481
as well-rounded of a
person as he could,

783
00:39:40,516 --> 00:39:44,278
which included taking
me to other countries

784
00:39:44,312 --> 00:39:47,212
and exposing me to
different cultures.

785
00:39:47,246 --> 00:39:51,423
This is one of the few pictures
that I have with you and dad

786
00:39:51,458 --> 00:39:52,562
together.

787
00:39:52,597 --> 00:39:55,358
It's in pictures
like this, where

788
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,843
I can look to my left and
right, and be like, yeah,

789
00:39:57,878 --> 00:39:59,397
I definitely do look
like both of them.

790
00:40:03,297 --> 00:40:06,749
So this is the
first squad picture

791
00:40:06,783 --> 00:40:08,060
I think that we've taken.

792
00:40:08,095 --> 00:40:13,203
So this was our one
year anniversary.

793
00:40:13,238 --> 00:40:18,001
I admire the young generation.

794
00:40:18,036 --> 00:40:20,072
You teach me a lot.

795
00:40:21,557 --> 00:40:22,558
What?

796
00:40:23,524 --> 00:40:25,457
Mm, who is that?

797
00:40:25,492 --> 00:40:28,046
I certainly don't think that
you are in the same place

798
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,636
now, that you were
a few years ago.

799
00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:34,708
Yeah, just in terms of who
you are, your identity.

800
00:40:34,742 --> 00:40:36,123
How you present and all of that.

801
00:40:39,057 --> 00:40:40,852
And what does
queerness mean to you?

802
00:40:40,886 --> 00:40:45,235
Would you say it means the same
thing it does to Janaé or--?

803
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:50,586
For me, I identify
as queer because I

804
00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:58,179
feel like I don't fit neatly
into any other category.

805
00:40:58,214 --> 00:41:03,633
And for me, queer
means different.

806
00:41:03,668 --> 00:41:09,915
It captures more of who I am,
than to just identify as simply

807
00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:12,918
heterosexual or simply lesbian.

808
00:41:12,953 --> 00:41:18,752
That had everything
to do with you, yeah.

809
00:41:19,546 --> 00:41:20,512
I'm glad.

810
00:41:22,756 --> 00:41:26,173
Dang, I'm so hungry.

811
00:41:26,207 --> 00:41:27,692
You got fish over there, too?

812
00:41:27,726 --> 00:41:28,796
My friend down the street--

813
00:41:28,831 --> 00:41:30,384
Oh, she's coming over?

814
00:41:30,418 --> 00:41:33,421
Every time I fry fish,
I always invite her.

815
00:41:33,456 --> 00:41:35,838
She's of the other color now.

816
00:41:35,872 --> 00:41:38,979
Nana, why are you talking to me
like I don't like white people?

817
00:41:42,879 --> 00:41:45,433
Shut up, Janaé!

818
00:41:46,227 --> 00:41:47,712
Dear Lord, we truly
thank you for this food

819
00:41:47,746 --> 00:41:49,852
that we're about to receive.

820
00:41:49,886 --> 00:41:52,371
When I closed my eyes
and think about home,

821
00:41:52,406 --> 00:41:56,375
it's here at my Nana
and Grandpa's house.

822
00:41:56,410 --> 00:41:57,756
That was the first
place that I lived

823
00:41:57,791 --> 00:42:00,725
when we moved to Columbia.

824
00:42:00,759 --> 00:42:02,450
This is where she was
raised when she was four.

825
00:42:06,247 --> 00:42:09,527
This is called the pink room.

826
00:42:09,561 --> 00:42:14,324
That's Janaé when she graduated
from the Montessori school.

827
00:42:14,359 --> 00:42:15,533
Mhm.

828
00:42:15,567 --> 00:42:16,706
But it does make
it rough for kids.

829
00:42:16,741 --> 00:42:18,743
Ashley you're awfully
quiet, are you OK?

830
00:42:18,777 --> 00:42:20,434
We're not ignoring you--

831
00:42:20,468 --> 00:42:21,573
She's filming

832
00:42:21,608 --> 00:42:22,436
Huh?

833
00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:24,369
She's just filming us.

834
00:42:24,403 --> 00:42:25,543
We're not supposed
to talk to Ashley.

835
00:42:26,302 --> 00:42:27,406
We're supposed to
talk to each other.

836
00:42:28,028 --> 00:42:28,891
I'm just in the background.

837
00:42:28,925 --> 00:42:29,719
I talk to everybody, Ashley.

838
00:42:29,754 --> 00:42:30,513
I appreciate that.

839
00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:31,341
Oh, we know.

840
00:42:41,006 --> 00:42:43,077
Now, we return to Chicago.

841
00:42:43,112 --> 00:42:44,423
Good afternoon,
we're coming to you

842
00:42:44,458 --> 00:42:46,218
with breaking news
happening right now.

843
00:42:46,253 --> 00:42:48,704
After months fighting the
release of a dramatic dash cam

844
00:42:48,738 --> 00:42:52,535
video which allegedly shows a
17-year-old shot and killed,

845
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:54,054
a judge orders it
to be made public.

846
00:42:57,713 --> 00:43:00,716
Tonight City Hall says it will
comply with the judge's order

847
00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:04,443
and release the dash cam video.

848
00:43:04,478 --> 00:43:06,618
What had people
even more outraged

849
00:43:06,653 --> 00:43:09,069
was the conspiracy
within city leadership

850
00:43:09,103 --> 00:43:11,209
and the police department
to whitewash what happened.

851
00:43:15,006 --> 00:43:18,803
Who held the video and
did Rahm know about it?

852
00:43:18,837 --> 00:43:20,598
He knew about the video,
because I told him.

853
00:43:20,632 --> 00:43:23,393
I told him two days later
after I had seen it.

854
00:43:23,428 --> 00:43:24,843
Did he ask to see it?

855
00:43:24,878 --> 00:43:26,086
Not to me.

856
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:26,707
Not to me.

857
00:43:26,742 --> 00:43:27,881
He didn't seem to care.

858
00:43:27,915 --> 00:43:29,330
You told him how
volatile it was,

859
00:43:29,365 --> 00:43:30,331
Absolutely.

860
00:43:30,366 --> 00:43:31,505
And what did you tell him?

861
00:43:31,539 --> 00:43:33,058
I told him it was
going to be a problem.

862
00:43:33,093 --> 00:43:34,266
Yeah, and what did he say?

863
00:43:34,301 --> 00:43:34,991
Can I see it?

864
00:43:35,026 --> 00:43:36,061
He didn't care.

865
00:43:36,096 --> 00:43:37,269
He didn't care?

866
00:43:37,304 --> 00:43:38,443
He didn't appear to care.

867
00:43:38,477 --> 00:43:39,064
What do you mean?

868
00:43:39,099 --> 00:43:40,341
So, so--

869
00:43:40,376 --> 00:43:42,792
He didn't say, come
show me the video.

870
00:43:42,827 --> 00:43:43,862
He didn't say that.

871
00:43:43,897 --> 00:43:48,660
I remember being pissed.

872
00:43:48,695 --> 00:43:53,320
at how the city had hyped up the
release of this murder video.

873
00:43:53,354 --> 00:43:55,046
Like what?

874
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,498
It's not bad enough that we
know that you shot this baby 16

875
00:43:59,533 --> 00:44:03,571
times in the street?

876
00:44:03,606 --> 00:44:05,263
We got to see it?

877
00:44:05,297 --> 00:44:06,954
Like we still need lynchings?

878
00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:13,409
Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan
McDonald, who was 17 years old,

879
00:44:13,443 --> 00:44:14,168
16 times.

880
00:44:18,552 --> 00:44:22,418
It took over 400 days for
the State's Attorney, Anita

881
00:44:22,452 --> 00:44:27,319
Alvarez, to charge
Jason Van Dyke.

882
00:44:27,354 --> 00:44:37,260
She was known for protecting
police officers who

883
00:44:37,295 --> 00:44:39,435
did some of the
most heinous things,

884
00:44:39,469 --> 00:44:45,372
and punishing victims of police
crimes and police violence.

885
00:44:45,406 --> 00:44:49,376
I sent an email out
to a lot of folks

886
00:44:49,410 --> 00:44:52,172
who I knew were
central decision makers

887
00:44:52,206 --> 00:44:54,519
to different organizations.

888
00:44:54,553 --> 00:45:00,387
They had took the lead
on organizing, like,

889
00:45:00,421 --> 00:45:10,915
a Black space, for young Black
abolitionists to come together.

890
00:45:10,949 --> 00:45:14,608
The room was very somber,
very somber and very sober.

891
00:45:17,645 --> 00:45:22,720
So they released it.

892
00:45:22,754 --> 00:45:24,376
Some of us watched it.

893
00:45:24,411 --> 00:45:26,137
Some of us didn't.

894
00:45:26,171 --> 00:45:28,001
You know, I think
all of us cried.

895
00:45:31,625 --> 00:45:34,973
And the collective response
was, we want to resist.

896
00:45:40,599 --> 00:45:41,531
Racism means--

897
00:45:41,566 --> 00:45:43,430
--we've got to fight back.

898
00:45:43,464 --> 00:45:44,189
Eric Garner means--

899
00:45:44,224 --> 00:45:44,845
--we've got to fight back.

900
00:45:45,708 --> 00:45:46,985
Racism means--

901
00:45:47,020 --> 00:45:47,779
16 shots!

902
00:45:48,090 --> 00:45:49,401
16 shots!

903
00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:50,817
16 shots!

904
00:45:50,851 --> 00:45:52,542
16 shots!

905
00:45:52,577 --> 00:45:53,854
16 shots!

906
00:45:53,889 --> 00:45:56,305
He shot him twice.

907
00:45:56,339 --> 00:45:58,790
Then he went over Laquan's
body 14 more times?

908
00:45:58,825 --> 00:45:59,757
We're tired of this shit.

909
00:46:00,067 --> 00:46:00,688
We're tired of this
corrupt system.

910
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:02,449
That's the only thing
they do is shoot us down.

911
00:46:02,483 --> 00:46:03,484
What is that if it ain't racist?

912
00:46:03,519 --> 00:46:04,382
Who the fuck are they
serving and protecting?

913
00:46:04,416 --> 00:46:05,590
It's foul.

914
00:46:05,624 --> 00:46:06,764
They killed that
boy for no reason.

915
00:46:07,074 --> 00:46:09,249
We're going to stay
out here on the streets

916
00:46:09,283 --> 00:46:10,353
until we see some
type of justice.

917
00:46:11,285 --> 00:46:12,493
We love you.

918
00:46:12,528 --> 00:46:14,116
We, we love you.

919
00:46:14,633 --> 00:46:16,049
We love you.

920
00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:18,085
We, we love you.

921
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:24,782
As-salamu alaykum,
don't fuck with the pigs,

922
00:46:24,816 --> 00:46:26,335
I don't fuck with the bacon.

923
00:46:26,369 --> 00:46:29,165
Think that I'll go, then
you're sadly mistaken.

924
00:46:29,407 --> 00:46:32,168
This is much Black history
that we are making.

925
00:46:32,203 --> 00:46:35,068
We are Black History,
it's in the making.

926
00:46:35,102 --> 00:46:38,071
Even if we don't, our
stories gon' make it!

927
00:46:38,105 --> 00:46:38,865
All right.

928
00:46:39,348 --> 00:46:39,831
Say that.

929
00:46:43,214 --> 00:46:44,767
We have the right to protest.

930
00:46:47,874 --> 00:46:49,358
Touch my bike again,
I'll punch you.

931
00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:51,739
Touch my bike again, bitch.

932
00:46:53,396 --> 00:46:53,880
Let her go!

933
00:46:53,914 --> 00:46:55,364
Let her go!

934
00:46:55,398 --> 00:46:56,227
Hold on!

935
00:46:57,469 --> 00:46:58,781
Let them go!

936
00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:22,011
Hoo, this motherfucker
must have like,

937
00:47:22,046 --> 00:47:25,428
pushed his bike towards
me, Officer Trendle,

938
00:47:26,913 --> 00:47:32,056
And I pushed the bike back.

939
00:47:32,090 --> 00:47:37,647
And he was like, you
touch my bike again,

940
00:47:37,682 --> 00:47:38,441
I'll punch you bitch.

941
00:47:45,759 --> 00:47:48,866
I'm t'd at this point.

942
00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:52,007
I'm t'd, like I lost it.

943
00:47:52,041 --> 00:47:55,079
You're going to call me
a bitch and threaten me?

944
00:47:55,113 --> 00:47:57,909
Today while I'm
feeling like this?

945
00:47:57,944 --> 00:47:59,877
While I'm feeling like
this, because mind you,

946
00:47:59,911 --> 00:48:02,569
it's more-- it's more than just
Laquan that's impacting me,

947
00:48:02,603 --> 00:48:04,260
right?

948
00:48:04,295 --> 00:48:06,814
First of all, it's been a
whole year of dealing with CPD,

949
00:48:06,849 --> 00:48:09,887
and police murders
around the nation.

950
00:48:09,921 --> 00:48:13,718
And just all this trauma.

951
00:48:13,752 --> 00:48:16,824
And it's so crazy now,
this moment we're in

952
00:48:16,859 --> 00:48:18,205
is just so different.

953
00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:20,552
You can't go to no
protest with no gun.

954
00:48:20,587 --> 00:48:23,072
You can't go to no protest
with no type of weapon,

955
00:48:23,107 --> 00:48:24,591
with no type of
nothing to fight.

956
00:48:24,625 --> 00:48:26,973
But you know that you're going
and you're putting your body

957
00:48:27,007 --> 00:48:28,733
on the line, though.

958
00:48:28,767 --> 00:48:30,079
And that's all you
got, is your body.

959
00:48:40,538 --> 00:48:42,298
After the release of
the McDonald video

960
00:48:42,333 --> 00:48:44,300
last week, Superintendent
McCarthy and I

961
00:48:44,335 --> 00:48:47,372
began a discussion on
Sunday about the direction

962
00:48:47,407 --> 00:48:49,719
of the department, and
the undeniable fact

963
00:48:49,754 --> 00:48:52,343
that the public trust in the
leadership of the department

964
00:48:52,377 --> 00:48:56,209
has been shaken and eroded.

965
00:48:56,243 --> 00:49:00,903
This morning, I formally
asked for his resignation.

966
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:06,288
Everyone in the political sphere
that knew about that tape-

967
00:49:08,048 --> 00:49:11,845
Was complicit in covering it up.

968
00:49:11,879 --> 00:49:15,504
OK, one down, two
more to go, Anita

969
00:49:15,538 --> 00:49:18,852
Alvarez and Mayor Emanuel.

970
00:49:18,886 --> 00:49:20,474
--freedom, freedom.

971
00:49:20,509 --> 00:49:22,994
All these racist ass cops,
we don't need 'em, need 'em.

972
00:49:23,029 --> 00:49:23,719
What?

973
00:49:23,753 --> 00:49:25,065
Back up, back up.

974
00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:27,309
We want freedom, freedom.

975
00:49:27,343 --> 00:49:30,588
All these racist-ass cops,
we don't need 'em, need 'em.

976
00:49:30,622 --> 00:49:31,416
Say what?

977
00:49:31,451 --> 00:49:33,004
Back up, back up.

978
00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:34,902
We want freedom, freedom.

979
00:49:34,937 --> 00:49:38,458
All these racist-ass cops,
we don't need 'em, need 'em.

980
00:49:52,334 --> 00:49:54,198
Make no mistake.

981
00:49:54,232 --> 00:49:57,580
It is because of the demands of
the young Black organizations

982
00:49:57,615 --> 00:50:01,032
that are represented behind
me, that McCarthy got fired.

983
00:50:01,067 --> 00:50:01,653
That's right.

984
00:50:01,688 --> 00:50:03,138
Come on.

985
00:50:03,172 --> 00:50:06,555
If folks really believe
that we are the future.

986
00:50:06,589 --> 00:50:07,176
Yes, you are.

987
00:50:07,211 --> 00:50:08,833
Let us lead us there.

988
00:50:08,867 --> 00:50:09,834
Aye!

989
00:50:09,868 --> 00:50:10,766
Mic check!

990
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,526
Mic check!

991
00:50:12,561 --> 00:50:13,872
Mic check!

992
00:50:13,907 --> 00:50:14,873
Mic check!

993
00:50:14,908 --> 00:50:17,048
Go crazy!

994
00:50:17,083 --> 00:50:18,877
We're going to fight
until we free us.

995
00:50:18,912 --> 00:50:19,913
Change been a nuance.

996
00:50:19,947 --> 00:50:21,880
They still trying to noose us.

997
00:50:21,915 --> 00:50:23,503
Trying to keep us muted.

998
00:50:23,537 --> 00:50:26,471
I was told to speak up, 'bout
to bug up, be a nuisance.

999
00:50:28,749 --> 00:50:30,406
Millennials, this our movement.

1000
00:50:30,441 --> 00:50:32,650
Yes!

1001
00:50:32,684 --> 00:50:34,065
Girl!

1002
00:50:34,100 --> 00:50:35,860
Millennials, this our movement.

1003
00:50:35,894 --> 00:50:38,759
I'm Malcolm X in the booth and
I'm Assata to the bullshit.

1004
00:50:43,109 --> 00:50:44,869
That mean I'm gone y'all.

1005
00:50:50,219 --> 00:50:52,394
So is it actually
your birthday today?

1006
00:50:52,428 --> 00:50:53,326
It is my birthday today.

1007
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:54,223
And how old are you today?

1008
00:50:54,258 --> 00:50:55,569
I'm 23 today.

1009
00:50:55,604 --> 00:50:57,157
Oh my God.

1010
00:50:57,192 --> 00:50:59,366
Like this, it's the fun
part of the movement.

1011
00:50:59,401 --> 00:51:07,512
Because like, protesting and
the toll this takes on you.

1012
00:51:07,547 --> 00:51:13,760
Being in this, it's not-- it's
not -- it's not fun, right?

1013
00:51:13,794 --> 00:51:17,074
We need to celebrate life, to
keep doing this shit, right?

1014
00:51:22,700 --> 00:51:24,115
I don't know.

1015
00:51:24,150 --> 00:51:26,462
I have no idea who's coming
or how many people is coming.

1016
00:51:26,497 --> 00:51:28,533
Mix that
negro with that Creole,

1017
00:51:28,568 --> 00:51:30,225
make a Texas Bama.

1018
00:51:30,259 --> 00:51:34,470
I like my baby heir with
baby hair and afros.

1019
00:51:34,505 --> 00:51:37,094
When he fuck me good, I
take his ass to Red Lobster.

1020
00:51:38,129 --> 00:51:39,993
Because you're 25
and fine, girl!

1021
00:51:40,027 --> 00:51:40,994
Because I'm 25!

1022
00:51:41,028 --> 00:51:42,029
25!

1023
00:51:56,354 --> 00:51:57,562
Look at how they love
your daughter, girl

1024
00:51:57,597 --> 00:51:58,701
And I'm a bum.

1025
00:51:58,977 --> 00:52:00,151
Look at how they love
your daughter, girl --

1026
00:52:00,186 --> 00:52:01,532
They love you like they love me.

1027
00:52:05,743 --> 00:52:07,641
That's my baby.

1028
00:52:07,676 --> 00:52:11,818
I'm slightly intoxicated, but
I'm feeling more overwhelmed

1029
00:52:11,852 --> 00:52:14,165
with all of this lovely energy
that is in my home right now.

1030
00:52:15,615 --> 00:52:16,926
I would much rather be
twerking in the middle

1031
00:52:16,961 --> 00:52:21,345
of my kitchen with people
that I fucks with than writing

1032
00:52:21,379 --> 00:52:22,104
a scholarly paper.

1033
00:52:24,348 --> 00:52:26,936
If I'm an asshole, then who
knows who Donald Trump is?

1034
00:52:26,971 --> 00:52:29,870
Stick a trumpet up his ass with
a mouth full of explosives.

1035
00:52:29,905 --> 00:52:31,596
I don't understand what no is.

1036
00:52:31,631 --> 00:52:33,909
Menace to
society, because of dykery,

1037
00:52:33,943 --> 00:52:35,807
but I've been chasing women
since my diapers leaked

1038
00:52:35,842 --> 00:52:37,154
in hide and seek.

1039
00:52:37,188 --> 00:52:38,914
All that gentle crap
didn't get me then,

1040
00:52:38,948 --> 00:52:40,226
so I wiggle middle fingers.

1041
00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:41,710
Ain't I fucking feminine, yo!

1042
00:52:41,744 --> 00:52:43,298
Hand up
on my bosom trigger,

1043
00:52:43,332 --> 00:52:44,816
I'm about to put it like crunk.

1044
00:52:44,851 --> 00:52:46,163
Think this as far as they go.

1045
00:52:46,197 --> 00:52:47,543
You aren't as real as they come.

1046
00:52:47,578 --> 00:52:49,925
If this as hard as you go,
you niggas never gon' come.

1047
00:52:49,959 --> 00:52:51,306
Hey, Black men.

1048
00:52:51,340 --> 00:52:53,308
We love you, we
understand your struggle,

1049
00:52:53,342 --> 00:52:56,207
do you understand your privilege
and oppression of Black women?

1050
00:52:56,242 --> 00:52:59,210
Niggas sell they souls
to make their mamas rich.

1051
00:52:59,245 --> 00:53:01,212
Get on the radio and
call Black women bitch,

1052
00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:03,180
like it's synonymous.

1053
00:53:03,214 --> 00:53:07,218
Hip hop's Huey P. Newton's third
law, I put a hit on the beat.

1054
00:53:07,253 --> 00:53:08,633
They say you sow what you reap.

1055
00:53:08,668 --> 00:53:09,876
They ran Assata away.

1056
00:53:09,910 --> 00:53:11,395
They bet not run up on me!

1057
00:53:12,258 --> 00:53:14,639
Strong advocate for the FOID.

1058
00:53:14,674 --> 00:53:17,401
Free all of my niggas
and fuck the police.

1059
00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:18,885
It's 2016.

1060
00:53:18,919 --> 00:53:20,542
Fuck Trump, Bernie, and Hillary.

1061
00:53:20,576 --> 00:53:22,440
Vote for Black liberty, peace!

1062
00:53:27,204 --> 00:53:34,556
Happy birthday to
you, happy birthday to you,

1063
00:53:34,590 --> 00:53:38,111
happy birthday to you,
it's your birthday!

1064
00:53:48,155 --> 00:53:48,708
Make a wish!

1065
00:53:48,742 --> 00:53:49,847
Make a wish!

1066
00:54:02,273 --> 00:54:04,482
I've been working on
a draft of my proposal

1067
00:54:04,517 --> 00:54:09,073
for, it seems like forever,
but I finally got it to a place

1068
00:54:09,107 --> 00:54:13,353
where I felt OK with sending
it to my dissertation committee

1069
00:54:13,388 --> 00:54:16,149
chair.

1070
00:54:16,183 --> 00:54:21,292
And she has since sent it back
to me with some revisions,

1071
00:54:21,327 --> 00:54:24,951
and edits that we're
about to talk about.

1072
00:54:29,438 --> 00:54:31,164
Hi.

1073
00:54:31,198 --> 00:54:34,650
Thank you for your
edits, are there just

1074
00:54:34,685 --> 00:54:38,240
other general things?

1075
00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:40,518
Remember you don't have to tell
everybody everything that you

1076
00:54:40,553 --> 00:54:41,761
know.

1077
00:54:41,795 --> 00:54:43,383
So you want to give
the reader more

1078
00:54:43,418 --> 00:54:45,316
of an overview of what
you know, as opposed

1079
00:54:45,351 --> 00:54:48,250
to everything you know.

1080
00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:50,079
For social work people who
are out there lobbying,

1081
00:54:50,114 --> 00:54:53,324
what do they need to know?

1082
00:54:53,359 --> 00:54:56,500
Social work's collusion--
and maybe that might not be

1083
00:54:56,534 --> 00:54:58,847
a strong word, but that's what's
coming to mind right now--

1084
00:54:58,881 --> 00:55:00,504
with law enforcement
as it relates

1085
00:55:00,538 --> 00:55:03,058
to intimate partner violence.

1086
00:55:03,092 --> 00:55:05,198
But you just have to be
sure how you talk about it,

1087
00:55:05,232 --> 00:55:07,338
because one is saying that
social workers are actively

1088
00:55:07,373 --> 00:55:08,719
going out, including
with the police,

1089
00:55:08,753 --> 00:55:12,170
to ensure that women are
systematically victimized.

1090
00:55:12,205 --> 00:55:14,587
The other is saying, that social
workers are doing their jobs

1091
00:55:14,621 --> 00:55:17,486
based on what these larger
structures provide for them

1092
00:55:17,521 --> 00:55:20,351
to do, but the
result is that women,

1093
00:55:20,386 --> 00:55:23,354
they are impacted negatively.

1094
00:55:23,389 --> 00:55:25,632
What do we now know should
be the implications for what

1095
00:55:25,667 --> 00:55:28,048
they should be doing,
based on your findings?

1096
00:55:32,225 --> 00:55:44,410
OK, I think that those
are the big things.

1097
00:55:44,444 --> 00:55:48,448
Everything else is just up to
me to actually, like, address.

1098
00:55:51,796 --> 00:55:54,489
And if there's things that you
got to do and don't make sense,

1099
00:55:54,523 --> 00:55:55,938
just write down, then
we'll just talk about it.

1100
00:55:58,424 --> 00:55:59,804
So when I address
all these comments,

1101
00:55:59,839 --> 00:56:01,358
I won't be almost done?

1102
00:56:01,392 --> 00:56:03,670
We've got to go
through another round?

1103
00:56:03,705 --> 00:56:04,844
Yes, you do.

1104
00:56:04,878 --> 00:56:05,845
Dr. McCoy!

1105
00:56:05,879 --> 00:56:07,122
A dissertation is your job.

1106
00:56:10,608 --> 00:56:11,402
But what do you mean?

1107
00:56:11,437 --> 00:56:13,473
It doesn't work that way.

1108
00:56:13,508 --> 00:56:15,510
You don't get the write
two drafts of a proposal,

1109
00:56:15,544 --> 00:56:16,234
and think that's it.

1110
00:56:16,269 --> 00:56:17,581
It doesn't work that way.

1111
00:56:17,615 --> 00:56:18,892
But these are two
drafts that you've seen.

1112
00:56:18,927 --> 00:56:21,481
I got 20 drafts on my computer.

1113
00:56:21,516 --> 00:56:22,689
Good.

1114
00:56:22,724 --> 00:56:25,899
Oh God, I'm never
going to finish.

1115
00:56:25,934 --> 00:56:27,660
And I've sat in committees.

1116
00:56:27,694 --> 00:56:29,006
"She's got to change
this section."

1117
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,697
"This theory doesn't work."

1118
00:56:30,732 --> 00:56:31,733
I know.

1119
00:56:31,767 --> 00:56:34,874
And that is why you're my chair.

1120
00:56:34,908 --> 00:56:36,876
But I'm going to
knock your socks off

1121
00:56:36,910 --> 00:56:39,879
with how well I
address everything.

1122
00:56:39,913 --> 00:56:40,535
Thank you.

1123
00:56:40,569 --> 00:56:41,087
You're welcome.

1124
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,653
I'm writing my brother.

1125
00:56:55,688 --> 00:56:57,103
He just called me.

1126
00:56:57,137 --> 00:57:01,418
He needed to vent
about some shit.

1127
00:57:01,452 --> 00:57:06,250
The least I could do is
answer the fucking phone

1128
00:57:06,284 --> 00:57:08,252
and let him say this
shit because he can't

1129
00:57:08,286 --> 00:57:09,943
say this shit to nobody else.

1130
00:57:18,607 --> 00:57:30,032
I want to use my personal story,
and start to let that healing

1131
00:57:30,067 --> 00:57:30,964
impact the world.

1132
00:57:36,694 --> 00:57:40,042
Ah, da, da, da, da, OK.

1133
00:57:40,664 --> 00:57:45,427
I'm starting working on this
proposal for the Soros Youth

1134
00:57:45,462 --> 00:57:50,259
Activist Fellowship, it's a
paid full-time fellowship.

1135
00:57:54,712 --> 00:58:00,580
I get to do social justice work
that I design for a whole year,

1136
00:58:00,615 --> 00:58:04,826
and that's my full-time job.

1137
00:58:04,860 --> 00:58:06,621
I knew that this was
a whole different type

1138
00:58:06,655 --> 00:58:08,864
of writing process.

1139
00:58:08,899 --> 00:58:10,176
I've never written for grants.

1140
00:58:16,458 --> 00:58:26,537
Man, man, it is
our duty to fight--

1141
00:58:26,572 --> 00:58:29,885
I want to develop a network
that actively supports

1142
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,956
my community on my own terms.

1143
00:58:34,925 --> 00:58:38,342
You know, it's good, like,
to come together right now

1144
00:58:38,376 --> 00:58:43,796
and we're going to celebrate
all the fallen soldiers.

1145
00:58:43,830 --> 00:58:46,557
It seems like every three weeks,
we're going to a funeral, man.

1146
00:58:46,592 --> 00:58:51,804
Rest in peace, Henry C.
Rest in peace, Henry C, man.

1147
00:58:51,838 --> 00:58:54,634
We a family, man.

1148
00:58:54,669 --> 00:58:55,704
440 for life.

1149
00:58:58,707 --> 00:59:01,779
Meet your
family, man, know your family.

1150
00:59:08,579 --> 00:59:10,236
We at the Black
Soul Nation picnic.

1151
00:59:14,689 --> 00:59:15,724
What's up, what's up?

1152
00:59:15,759 --> 00:59:16,587
Shooting a video, OK.

1153
00:59:16,622 --> 00:59:19,348
How y'all doing?

1154
00:59:19,383 --> 00:59:21,730
Somebody's gon' tell
you the gangs in Chicago

1155
00:59:21,765 --> 00:59:25,872
are causing all the problems,
and is responsible for all

1156
00:59:25,907 --> 00:59:28,530
the killings going on.

1157
00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:31,878
I learned how to be
a leader from gangs.

1158
00:59:31,913 --> 00:59:36,573
I learned how to organize
from gang members.

1159
00:59:36,607 --> 00:59:38,505
They went into our
community, and they took away

1160
00:59:38,540 --> 00:59:41,750
all our heroes and people
that we've looked up to.

1161
00:59:41,785 --> 00:59:43,269
They kidnapped them.

1162
00:59:43,303 --> 00:59:46,859
And so that's why you see the
violence in the neighborhood,

1163
00:59:46,893 --> 00:59:48,585
because you don't
have those figures who

1164
00:59:48,619 --> 00:59:51,864
could come in and with one
word, they can stop this.

1165
00:59:51,898 --> 00:59:54,487
We're talking about people who
fed the block every single day.

1166
00:59:54,521 --> 00:59:55,246
Like--

1167
00:59:55,281 --> 00:59:55,868
Back to school--

1168
00:59:55,902 --> 00:59:57,317
Back to school drives.

1169
00:59:57,352 --> 00:59:59,009
--back to school
program and everything.

1170
00:59:59,043 --> 01:00:01,667
Not nobody to say, hey, go over
there and shoot this person.

1171
01:00:01,701 --> 01:00:03,220
Or go over there--

1172
01:00:03,254 --> 01:00:05,325
you know, we cleaned
the block up.

1173
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,432
Old ladies and kids
was able to play,

1174
01:00:08,466 --> 01:00:10,641
when we was growing
up in the 80s and 90s.

1175
01:00:10,676 --> 01:00:13,679
Now you can't even get
the kids to come outside,

1176
01:00:13,713 --> 01:00:17,683
because there's no
leadership and guidance.

1177
01:00:17,717 --> 01:00:19,098
I'm rooted in this.

1178
01:00:19,132 --> 01:00:21,721
You see that, how I've
got to take that fist.

1179
01:00:21,756 --> 01:00:24,344
It takes root from the soil--

1180
01:00:24,379 --> 01:00:26,381
Not even from the soil,
from the concrete.

1181
01:00:26,415 --> 01:00:27,071
From the concrete.

1182
01:00:27,106 --> 01:00:29,418
But still we rise.

1183
01:00:29,453 --> 01:00:32,042
So I'm here because
this means a lot to me.

1184
01:00:32,076 --> 01:00:34,044
It's for my soul.

1185
01:00:34,078 --> 01:00:36,874
All my life, all
my love forever.

1186
01:00:45,745 --> 01:00:49,197
Wassup, wassup, wassup.

1187
01:00:53,028 --> 01:00:55,652
Never realize how, like,
complicated academia

1188
01:00:55,686 --> 01:00:58,516
can be, until someone
asks you to explain

1189
01:00:58,551 --> 01:01:02,659
some shit to a five-year-old
and you're like, oh.

1190
01:01:02,693 --> 01:01:04,971
So tell me about it.

1191
01:01:05,006 --> 01:01:10,597
My dissertation is
exploring the experiences

1192
01:01:10,632 --> 01:01:14,740
between interpersonal
violence and state violence.

1193
01:01:14,774 --> 01:01:17,225
Black women experience
violence in our households,

1194
01:01:17,259 --> 01:01:19,745
in our communities, at
the hands of police.

1195
01:01:19,779 --> 01:01:23,852
Many of us can't actually
imagine what community

1196
01:01:23,887 --> 01:01:26,613
based interventions look like.

1197
01:01:26,648 --> 01:01:30,065
I mean, I think that the
re-imagining of everything,

1198
01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:33,517
it's really hard just to like
re-imagine what this life could

1199
01:01:33,551 --> 01:01:40,558
look like without these punitive
systems, and just thinking

1200
01:01:40,593 --> 01:01:46,668
like, what is the, what
is the what's next?

1201
01:01:46,703 --> 01:01:51,500
What is the what's next, but
also what ensures our safety?

1202
01:01:51,535 --> 01:01:55,056
You know, having some
interviews to really dig deeper

1203
01:01:55,090 --> 01:01:58,231
into like, under what
circumstances can

1204
01:01:58,266 --> 01:02:01,752
you imagine not
calling the police--

1205
01:02:01,787 --> 01:02:03,374
Right.

1206
01:02:03,409 --> 01:02:06,412
-- how that shapes the way
that we think about safety?

1207
01:02:06,446 --> 01:02:07,275
I'm excited.

1208
01:02:07,758 --> 01:02:08,241
You and me both.

1209
01:02:08,725 --> 01:02:10,002
You and me both.

1210
01:02:10,036 --> 01:02:11,313
Cheers.

1211
01:02:33,888 --> 01:02:35,475
This the famous coat.

1212
01:02:35,510 --> 01:02:38,133
This the coat I had on the
night of the Laquan McDonald

1213
01:02:38,168 --> 01:02:42,862
protest on that video
that went everywhere.

1214
01:02:42,897 --> 01:02:44,415
My mama said when
I wear this coat,

1215
01:02:44,450 --> 01:02:47,004
it reminds her of Hakeem
Lyon from "Empire."

1216
01:02:47,039 --> 01:02:48,661
I'm sure they probably
stole that nigga's

1217
01:02:48,695 --> 01:02:52,492
swag from me though, actually.

1218
01:02:52,527 --> 01:02:59,810
The last time I want to go see
my brother, me and my mom went.

1219
01:02:59,845 --> 01:03:01,501
I got in, but my
mom didn't get in.

1220
01:03:01,536 --> 01:03:04,435
The time before
that, my mama got in

1221
01:03:04,470 --> 01:03:08,992
and my auntie, but
I didn't get in.

1222
01:03:09,026 --> 01:03:13,824
But there was an issue
because there is a typo on one

1223
01:03:13,859 --> 01:03:15,515
of these, the year of birth.

1224
01:03:15,550 --> 01:03:18,139
And it's off by one year.

1225
01:03:18,173 --> 01:03:22,488
So even though
they're looking at me,

1226
01:03:22,522 --> 01:03:29,771
they know I'm this person, I'm
authorized to come visit him

1227
01:03:29,806 --> 01:03:33,257
and everything, they still
don't let me in because of that.

1228
01:03:33,292 --> 01:03:36,847
Drove all the way down there,
couldn't get in, crazy.

1229
01:03:36,882 --> 01:03:40,989
So now I have to make
sure I take two IDs

1230
01:03:41,024 --> 01:03:43,371
with the same birth year on it.

1231
01:03:46,926 --> 01:03:49,308
Is Charlie the name of the
brother we're going to see?

1232
01:03:49,342 --> 01:03:50,343
Yes.

1233
01:03:50,378 --> 01:03:53,830
My first love.

1234
01:03:53,864 --> 01:03:58,386
And how far is where he is now
from from where y'all live?

1235
01:03:58,420 --> 01:04:00,491
Four hours.

1236
01:04:00,526 --> 01:04:01,389
Four hours.

1237
01:04:01,423 --> 01:04:02,010
Yep, like four.

1238
01:04:03,184 --> 01:04:06,152
He was like five
when she was taken,

1239
01:04:06,187 --> 01:04:10,743
so they had a relationship.

1240
01:04:10,777 --> 01:04:15,368
It was like, my brother loved
my mama, like loved my mama.

1241
01:04:15,403 --> 01:04:20,546
And I was just born.

1242
01:04:20,580 --> 01:04:22,030
I was--

1243
01:04:22,065 --> 01:04:25,137
Were you born when she
was in prison or was it--

1244
01:04:25,171 --> 01:04:27,139
I was pregnant going to prison.

1245
01:04:27,173 --> 01:04:28,726
So they let me go
home and have her,

1246
01:04:28,761 --> 01:04:30,211
and then I went back to prison.

1247
01:04:30,245 --> 01:04:32,040
Got it.

1248
01:04:32,075 --> 01:04:33,352
It was very hard.

1249
01:04:33,386 --> 01:04:35,526
That's what I'm saying.

1250
01:04:35,561 --> 01:04:38,771
You like to visit, but then
they walking away from you.

1251
01:04:38,805 --> 01:04:39,737
They leaving you.

1252
01:04:39,772 --> 01:04:41,429
You can't go with them.

1253
01:04:41,463 --> 01:04:44,501
And all other kids would
be hugging to be around me.

1254
01:04:44,535 --> 01:04:48,194
She would be standing
off and look.

1255
01:04:48,229 --> 01:04:54,925
I remember looking to Charlie to
try to learn from him I guess,

1256
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,307
what I was--

1257
01:04:57,341 --> 01:04:59,826
what the interaction
was supposed to be like.

1258
01:04:59,861 --> 01:05:01,587
Everybody had these
relationships,

1259
01:05:01,621 --> 01:05:05,246
and I don't have that
relationship, you feel me?

1260
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,558
So I'm just kind of
watching everybody else

1261
01:05:07,593 --> 01:05:10,561
and feeling like left out.

1262
01:05:10,596 --> 01:05:12,425
I will always
remember, we're going

1263
01:05:12,460 --> 01:05:15,014
to see my mama and my
brother telling her

1264
01:05:15,049 --> 01:05:16,498
these pickup lines he learned.

1265
01:05:16,533 --> 01:05:19,191
We're little kids and
this boy was up there

1266
01:05:19,225 --> 01:05:22,090
telling his mama about the
pickup lines he used on girls.

1267
01:05:28,234 --> 01:05:31,375
Never will my son
lose the spirit.

1268
01:05:31,410 --> 01:05:33,239
So that's why I do what I do.

1269
01:05:33,274 --> 01:05:38,900
Because if I can keep his spirit
up, nothing will stop him.

1270
01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:41,938
Come out a better person.

1271
01:05:41,972 --> 01:05:44,664
He'll come out more
stronger, and then

1272
01:05:44,699 --> 01:05:50,015
in his life, his testimony, how
much more he'll be able to do.

1273
01:05:50,049 --> 01:05:54,053
So it's like my life
ain't the same, Life ain't

1274
01:05:54,088 --> 01:05:56,021
the same till my son come home.

1275
01:06:08,861 --> 01:06:11,312
I can't help
you unless you want to.

1276
01:06:11,346 --> 01:06:12,969
I can 't help you,
unless you help, too

1277
01:06:16,938 --> 01:06:17,904
Hey, how you doing?

1278
01:06:19,113 --> 01:06:19,389
If you want to back out and
we'll get these guys out.

1279
01:06:20,321 --> 01:06:20,562
We have to shake
down vehicles today.

1280
01:06:20,597 --> 01:06:21,874
OK.

1281
01:06:21,908 --> 01:06:26,568
All we're looking for is
weapons or drugs, that's it.

1282
01:06:26,603 --> 01:06:28,846
When you go in there, they'll
need your driver's license,

1283
01:06:28,881 --> 01:06:30,987
the name of the visitor, name
and number of the visitor

1284
01:06:31,021 --> 01:06:32,333
you're going to visit.

1285
01:06:32,367 --> 01:06:33,506
Uh huh.

1286
01:06:33,541 --> 01:06:35,025
And then everybody
keep your IDs,

1287
01:06:35,060 --> 01:06:35,681
just take it in and write
it on a piece of paper.

1288
01:06:41,618 --> 01:06:42,860
And then when I'm done, you
guys will park and just go in

1289
01:06:42,895 --> 01:06:44,655
like normal.

1290
01:06:44,690 --> 01:06:50,661
Alright.

1291
01:06:50,696 --> 01:06:51,938
Go see my brother.

1292
01:06:51,973 --> 01:07:05,676
Oh.

1293
01:07:08,921 --> 01:07:11,579
Working on this
proposal, I opened up

1294
01:07:11,613 --> 01:07:13,029
telling my story in a poem.

1295
01:07:22,417 --> 01:07:24,557
When they took him, I kicked.

1296
01:07:24,592 --> 01:07:26,732
Led my first protest
in my mother's womb,

1297
01:07:26,766 --> 01:07:28,596
filling her core with
howls, hoping they'd

1298
01:07:28,630 --> 01:07:30,046
hear me and give my father back.

1299
01:07:34,498 --> 01:07:37,743
Gave my mother back pains
carrying me to courtrooms.

1300
01:07:37,777 --> 01:07:39,986
Knew when a bailiff had her
hand on his gun, by the way

1301
01:07:40,021 --> 01:07:41,402
my mother coddled
me in her stomach.

1302
01:07:41,436 --> 01:07:43,749
I could feel the fear
of a federal judge,

1303
01:07:43,783 --> 01:07:45,337
forcefully forfeiting
her freedom,

1304
01:07:45,371 --> 01:07:46,717
fill my mother's fingertips.

1305
01:07:50,204 --> 01:07:53,310
When they took her, I didn't
even bother to scream.

1306
01:07:53,345 --> 01:07:55,243
I didn't protest when they
plucked me from her plump

1307
01:07:55,278 --> 01:07:57,694
breast at the podium,
because I learned

1308
01:07:57,728 --> 01:08:00,766
to be afraid of my mother's
milk well before I was born.

1309
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,734
Well, before I was full
matter, I didn't matter.

1310
01:08:03,769 --> 01:08:04,908
I was never meant to survive.

1311
01:08:07,945 --> 01:08:11,190
I'm the daughter of the
discriminatory destruction

1312
01:08:11,225 --> 01:08:13,675
disguised as
America's war on drugs

1313
01:08:13,710 --> 01:08:16,678
and having suckled the stigmas
of Blackness, womanhood

1314
01:08:16,713 --> 01:08:18,197
and imprisonment.

1315
01:08:18,232 --> 01:08:20,889
My shame kept me silent,
and pacified long enough.

1316
01:08:31,762 --> 01:08:33,868
There's been a major development
in the police shooting

1317
01:08:33,902 --> 01:08:38,079
of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd.

1318
01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:40,495
Servin resigned from the
Chicago Police Department

1319
01:08:40,530 --> 01:08:42,325
just days before
hearings were scheduled

1320
01:08:42,359 --> 01:08:44,120
to begin into whether
he should be fired.

1321
01:09:02,793 --> 01:09:07,660
He resigned so that he
could keep his pension,

1322
01:09:07,695 --> 01:09:10,767
and ultimately skate
accountability.

1323
01:09:24,367 --> 01:09:33,479
Seeing all this on the board,
signifies all that we invest

1324
01:09:33,514 --> 01:09:37,207
and what the outcome has been.

1325
01:09:37,242 --> 01:09:40,728
Like, this is the
return on investment

1326
01:09:40,762 --> 01:09:45,698
in police in Chicago, and
that's really sad to me.

1327
01:10:02,405 --> 01:10:04,372
Woo!

1328
01:10:04,407 --> 01:10:06,236
Woo!

1329
01:10:06,271 --> 01:10:07,099
Hold on.

1330
01:10:07,133 --> 01:10:07,927
What?

1331
01:10:07,962 --> 01:10:08,825
What?

1332
01:10:08,859 --> 01:10:10,758
Ah.

1333
01:10:10,792 --> 01:10:11,828
What the fuck?

1334
01:10:11,862 --> 01:10:13,795
She just went stupid.

1335
01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:18,214
I'll never forget,
the lady said, yeah,

1336
01:10:18,248 --> 01:10:21,631
so we're going to have to give
you the Radio Media Fellowship.

1337
01:10:21,665 --> 01:10:23,874
I said, lady, you can
call it what you want.

1338
01:10:23,909 --> 01:10:25,497
Just call me funded, OK?

1339
01:10:25,531 --> 01:10:27,188
What is you talking about?

1340
01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,570
I don't give a fuck
what you call it, like.

1341
01:10:29,604 --> 01:10:34,230
Yep, yep, yep yep, yep, all
right, so this part right here,

1342
01:10:34,264 --> 01:10:37,094
Sister Survivor, Chicago-based
arts activism campaign,

1343
01:10:37,129 --> 01:10:40,063
by and for Black
women and femmes.

1344
01:10:40,097 --> 01:10:42,341
As a Soros Justice
Youth Activist fellow,

1345
01:10:42,376 --> 01:10:45,102
I will create a survival
network conducted

1346
01:10:45,137 --> 01:10:47,588
by and for Black
women and femmes,

1347
01:10:47,622 --> 01:10:50,004
who have been directly
and disproportionately

1348
01:10:50,038 --> 01:10:52,075
affected by prison policies.

1349
01:10:52,109 --> 01:10:56,631
It's very new, this idea of
this being work, feel me,

1350
01:10:56,666 --> 01:10:59,910
of protest being work,
advocating for people in prison

1351
01:10:59,945 --> 01:11:01,843
being work, you feel me?

1352
01:11:01,878 --> 01:11:05,226
This has always been life, so.

1353
01:11:05,261 --> 01:11:07,642
If you really want
to do the work,

1354
01:11:07,677 --> 01:11:09,541
you've gotta work on yourself.

1355
01:11:09,575 --> 01:11:13,027
I think that's my biggest
takeaway from Sister Survivor.

1356
01:11:13,061 --> 01:11:14,649
Like, that's how
I'm able to do--

1357
01:11:14,684 --> 01:11:15,892
I feel like I'm able to do work.

1358
01:11:17,238 --> 01:11:19,413
How healed we are
now really got me

1359
01:11:19,447 --> 01:11:21,760
thinking of just about how
much of a different space

1360
01:11:21,794 --> 01:11:26,247
I was in 2016, I mean--

1361
01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:28,663
That shit is
important, like to--

1362
01:11:28,698 --> 01:11:32,391
for young people to
be in spaces where

1363
01:11:32,426 --> 01:11:38,363
they see women, where they see
Black women who are healing.

1364
01:11:38,397 --> 01:11:41,642
Who are talking to them
from a place of healing.

1365
01:11:41,676 --> 01:11:47,993
It has become so clear that
we cannot accomplish that goal

1366
01:11:48,027 --> 01:11:50,340
until we heal ourselves.

1367
01:11:50,375 --> 01:11:51,755
This is the Sister
Survivor Network.

1368
01:12:25,789 --> 01:12:28,171
Hey, Black people!

1369
01:12:30,518 --> 01:12:33,245
Alright, I'm ready to have
some real conversations.

1370
01:12:33,279 --> 01:12:37,353
So I would like to talk to the
Founder of the Decarceration

1371
01:12:37,387 --> 01:12:38,871
Collective.

1372
01:12:38,906 --> 01:12:42,219
Come on, gas her up, gas
her up, MiAngel Cody, y'all.

1373
01:12:47,949 --> 01:12:52,851
I'm also going to invite
my mother to come --

1374
01:12:52,885 --> 01:12:53,576
come talk to me.

1375
01:12:56,924 --> 01:12:59,271
We're here to talk
about Black women.

1376
01:12:59,305 --> 01:13:00,755
I think it's
important that we do

1377
01:13:00,790 --> 01:13:03,551
that, because the
intersections of violence

1378
01:13:03,586 --> 01:13:08,625
for Black women on an
individual, community,

1379
01:13:08,660 --> 01:13:13,354
and institutional level, it's
a very unique experience.

1380
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,737
I'm so proud now that
we setting space up,

1381
01:13:16,771 --> 01:13:19,498
so that we can have
the conversation.

1382
01:13:19,533 --> 01:13:23,053
It's so many people like
me, they told me life.

1383
01:13:23,088 --> 01:13:25,366
I laugh, because
what the hell I done

1384
01:13:25,401 --> 01:13:28,024
did that you talking
about taking my life for?

1385
01:13:28,058 --> 01:13:30,095
I had an addiction and
money and living good,

1386
01:13:30,129 --> 01:13:32,338
but I ain't killed nobody.

1387
01:13:32,373 --> 01:13:34,237
So the conversation
has to start now,

1388
01:13:34,271 --> 01:13:37,171
so that we don't have a
future Bella BAHHS going

1389
01:13:37,205 --> 01:13:39,518
to prison for a life sentence.

1390
01:13:39,553 --> 01:13:42,866
Everybody I know--
family members, friends--

1391
01:13:42,901 --> 01:13:46,801
has been afflicted by
this prison system.

1392
01:13:46,836 --> 01:13:49,804
This is healing space,
and I think sometimes I

1393
01:13:49,839 --> 01:13:52,082
see where we need systems.

1394
01:13:52,117 --> 01:13:54,740
We need process, we need
intake forms, we need numbers,

1395
01:13:54,775 --> 01:13:57,363
we need-- and it's
like, no, this is it.

1396
01:13:57,398 --> 01:13:58,468
This is it.

1397
01:13:58,503 --> 01:14:01,713
Like you sharing what
you've been through,

1398
01:14:01,747 --> 01:14:04,474
me sharing what I've been
through, people holding space,

1399
01:14:04,509 --> 01:14:06,269
listening-- medicine.

1400
01:14:06,303 --> 01:14:09,168
We, we become a
movement, a resistance.

1401
01:14:09,203 --> 01:14:10,238
I'm real militant y'all.

1402
01:14:10,273 --> 01:14:11,585
I'm trying not to--

1403
01:14:11,619 --> 01:14:14,726
I'm Bella's mom, and I
try to keep it lowkey.

1404
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:15,830
That's Mama BAHHS, y'all.

1405
01:14:15,865 --> 01:14:17,142
But sometime it come out.

1406
01:14:17,176 --> 01:14:18,902
Y'all are going to
be helping me heal,

1407
01:14:18,937 --> 01:14:20,421
and I hope I help y'all heal.

1408
01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,078
Come on.

1409
01:14:22,112 --> 01:14:23,631
And then when people say,
these kids are out of control.

1410
01:14:23,666 --> 01:14:24,494
What's going on?

1411
01:14:24,529 --> 01:14:26,427
Well, who raised them?

1412
01:14:26,462 --> 01:14:29,257
It's survival of the fittest,
it's Lord of the Flies.

1413
01:14:29,292 --> 01:14:32,640
They're trying to survive
the best way they can.

1414
01:14:32,675 --> 01:14:34,884
I've had these ideas
for a long time.

1415
01:14:34,918 --> 01:14:37,680
And finally being
able to get them out

1416
01:14:37,714 --> 01:14:40,165
and give Black women a platform.

1417
01:14:40,199 --> 01:14:42,581
All of that was incredible.

1418
01:14:42,616 --> 01:14:45,757
So a lot of us are literally
acting out inferiority

1419
01:14:45,791 --> 01:14:48,863
on each other, and I think
that's a form of violence.

1420
01:14:48,898 --> 01:14:50,002
This is a pathway to love.

1421
01:14:57,458 --> 01:15:00,737
Of course, still making
edits of the presentation

1422
01:15:00,772 --> 01:15:01,566
right beforehand.

1423
01:15:08,262 --> 01:15:10,506
He said, wasn't your
graduation in the dark?

1424
01:15:10,540 --> 01:15:11,748
I'm like, yes, it was.

1425
01:15:11,783 --> 01:15:13,750
Yes, it was.

1426
01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:20,032
OK.

1427
01:15:20,067 --> 01:15:22,966
So we're going to get started.

1428
01:15:23,001 --> 01:15:24,140
Yes, thank you.

1429
01:15:26,729 --> 01:15:28,903
We will work towards this,
but if it doesn't happen,

1430
01:15:28,938 --> 01:15:30,318
it's not your fault necessarily.

1431
01:15:30,353 --> 01:15:31,388
OK?

1432
01:15:31,423 --> 01:15:32,044
OK.

1433
01:15:41,606 --> 01:15:48,578
Hi, I have to pee.

1434
01:15:48,613 --> 01:15:52,202
So right now,
they're deliberating

1435
01:15:52,237 --> 01:15:54,895
on whether I passed
my hearing or not,

1436
01:15:54,929 --> 01:15:57,035
this preliminary examination.

1437
01:16:00,003 --> 01:16:07,563
All of the other little
dissertation handbook, things

1438
01:16:07,597 --> 01:16:10,220
I've read, it's
always like, practice.

1439
01:16:10,255 --> 01:16:13,258
Practice your presentation
before your hearing,

1440
01:16:13,292 --> 01:16:16,537
time yourself, et
cetera, et cetera.

1441
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:22,716
And I had all the anticipation
doing that, and I, you know,

1442
01:16:22,750 --> 01:16:24,545
didn't have time and it showed.

1443
01:16:24,580 --> 01:16:29,481
I mean, I did not practice
that presentation at all.

1444
01:16:29,515 --> 01:16:30,378
That was nerve wracking.

1445
01:16:30,413 --> 01:16:31,000
Janaé?

1446
01:16:31,034 --> 01:16:41,079
Yes.

1447
01:16:41,079 --> 01:16:52,918
Yes.

1448
01:16:56,301 --> 01:16:58,406
Passing is such a great thing.

1449
01:16:58,441 --> 01:17:03,377
So I'm crying because I'm happy.

1450
01:17:03,411 --> 01:17:08,900
And I'm sleep deprived,
and I'm just so glad,

1451
01:17:08,934 --> 01:17:16,286
I'm so glad that all
this was not for naught.

1452
01:17:22,741 --> 01:17:23,984
I believe in this work.

1453
01:17:24,018 --> 01:17:26,400
I believe that my
research is connected

1454
01:17:26,434 --> 01:17:37,583
to my political imperative,
to find ways for Black women

1455
01:17:37,618 --> 01:17:40,690
to be safe, to be
free from violence.

1456
01:17:40,725 --> 01:17:45,902
And I'm really glad that my
committee saw that today,

1457
01:17:45,937 --> 01:17:51,183
and I'm happy to be
a PhD candidate and--

1458
01:18:10,409 --> 01:18:11,687
If we don't get
it-- shut it down!

1459
01:18:11,721 --> 01:18:13,550
If we don't get it--

1460
01:18:13,585 --> 01:18:16,553
I'm happy that I chose Chicago,
because of the community

1461
01:18:16,588 --> 01:18:20,350
that I've been able to
cultivate and build here,

1462
01:18:20,385 --> 01:18:25,735
both within and
outside of BYP 100.

1463
01:18:25,770 --> 01:18:30,878
Someday, one day,
we will be free.

1464
01:18:30,913 --> 01:18:31,741
Come on!

1465
01:18:31,776 --> 01:18:33,260
One day, someday--

1466
01:18:33,294 --> 01:18:37,264
Come on, one day,
we will get free.

1467
01:18:38,299 --> 01:18:40,716
One day, someday, today!

1468
01:18:41,578 --> 01:18:44,167
We will get free!

1469
01:18:44,202 --> 01:18:48,516
Organizing, its
healing in a way that

1470
01:18:48,551 --> 01:18:55,075
meant that I was surrounded
by a community of people, who

1471
01:18:55,109 --> 01:19:00,908
understood the
plight of Blackness

1472
01:19:00,943 --> 01:19:03,877
and understood what I was
going through as a Black woman.

1473
01:19:09,434 --> 01:19:11,608
I've seen time and
time again, how

1474
01:19:11,643 --> 01:19:15,371
Black women do a lot of
thankless and undervalued work

1475
01:19:15,405 --> 01:19:17,718
that no one else wants to do.

1476
01:19:17,753 --> 01:19:20,307
The bulk of putting out fires,
and just carrying things

1477
01:19:20,341 --> 01:19:20,928
to the end.

1478
01:19:24,207 --> 01:19:26,037
It's not our sole
responsibility to do

1479
01:19:26,071 --> 01:19:29,488
all of the emotional labor.

1480
01:19:29,523 --> 01:19:31,870
It's not our sole responsibility
to carry the burdens

1481
01:19:31,905 --> 01:19:33,044
that we often end up having to.

1482
01:19:37,462 --> 01:19:40,430
And on one hand, it
points to our strength,

1483
01:19:40,465 --> 01:19:44,400
our resilience and the
realness of Black girl magic.

1484
01:19:44,434 --> 01:19:47,817
But on the other hand, Black
women cannot continue to be

1485
01:19:47,852 --> 01:19:49,957
the mules of the world.

1486
01:19:49,992 --> 01:19:52,788
We have a collective
responsibility to get free.

1487
01:19:58,724 --> 01:20:00,830
Black women
can't go no lacking.

1488
01:20:00,865 --> 01:20:02,004
No.

1489
01:20:02,038 --> 01:20:05,248
No, Black women
don't do no lacking.

1490
01:20:05,283 --> 01:20:06,663
Never lacking, I
be packing like a--

1491
01:20:06,698 --> 01:20:08,251
Suitcase!

1492
01:20:08,286 --> 01:20:10,184
I ain't tripping, I'll
be right here on my--

1493
01:20:10,219 --> 01:20:11,530
Off days!

1494
01:20:11,565 --> 01:20:12,877
Women back me like
I'm bout to toss the--

1495
01:20:12,911 --> 01:20:14,016
Bouquet!

1496
01:20:14,050 --> 01:20:14,982
Niggas fronting.

1497
01:20:15,017 --> 01:20:16,363
They say I'm not really--

1498
01:20:16,397 --> 01:20:17,467
That great!

1499
01:20:17,813 --> 01:20:19,711
Need to reconstruct
the Reconstruction Act.

1500
01:20:19,745 --> 01:20:21,955
Sorry, I'm not sorry,
unapologetically Black.

1501
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,169
Oh, oh, oh, oh.

1502
01:20:32,758 --> 01:20:38,661
See, she's telepathic,
call it Black girl magic.

1503
01:20:38,695 --> 01:20:41,595
Yeah, she scares the government.

1504
01:20:41,629 --> 01:20:45,564
Deja vu of Tubman.

1505
01:20:45,599 --> 01:20:47,912
We go missing by the hundreds.

1506
01:20:47,946 --> 01:20:49,775
Ain't nobody checking for us.

1507
01:20:49,810 --> 01:20:51,156
Ain't nobody checking for us.

1508
01:20:51,191 --> 01:20:53,883
The camera loves
us, Oscar doesn't.

1509
01:20:53,918 --> 01:20:55,126
Ain't nobody checkin' for us.

1510
01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:56,575
Ain't nobody checkin' for us.

1511
01:20:56,610 --> 01:21:00,614
They want us in the kitchen,
kill our sons with lynchings.

1512
01:21:01,753 --> 01:21:04,687
We get loud about it.

1513
01:21:04,721 --> 01:21:08,484
Oh, now we're the bitches.

1514
01:21:08,518 --> 01:21:12,488
Look at what they did to
my sister, last century,

1515
01:21:12,522 --> 01:21:14,041
last week.

1516
01:21:14,076 --> 01:21:16,837
They put her body in
a jar and forget her.

1517
01:21:16,872 --> 01:21:20,013
They love how it repeats.

1518
01:21:20,047 --> 01:21:24,396
Look at what they did to
my sister, last century,

1519
01:21:24,431 --> 01:21:26,019
last week.

1520
01:21:26,053 --> 01:21:29,332
They make her hate her own
skin, treat her like a sin.

1521
01:21:29,367 --> 01:21:31,334
Oh, I--

1522
01:21:31,369 --> 01:21:33,923
But what they don't
understand-- but what

1523
01:21:33,958 --> 01:21:36,236
they don't understand-- but
what they don't understand

1524
01:21:36,270 --> 01:21:37,927
is-- but what they
don't understand--

1525
01:21:37,962 --> 01:21:40,205
but what they don't
understand-- but what

1526
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,898
they don't understand-- see,
what they don't understand.

1527
01:21:42,932 --> 01:21:45,245
See, she's telepathic.

1528
01:21:45,279 --> 01:21:47,212
Call it Black girl magic.

1529
01:21:47,247 --> 01:21:50,595
Yeah, she scares the government.

1530
01:21:50,629 --> 01:21:53,839
Deja vu of Tubman.

1531
01:21:53,874 --> 01:21:55,841
And she, she, she,
she, she don't give up.

1532
01:21:55,876 --> 01:21:58,844
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, she don't give up.

1533
01:21:58,879 --> 01:22:01,744
She don't don't don't
don't don't give up.

1534
01:22:01,778 --> 01:22:05,575
No, no, no, no, no,
she don't give up, up.

1535
01:22:05,610 --> 01:22:06,818
Rosa was a--

1536
01:22:20,176 --> 01:22:24,491
OG, OG, Granny was
an entrepreneur.

1537
01:22:24,525 --> 01:22:26,493
When she moved to the
Chi, she was dirt poor.

1538
01:22:26,527 --> 01:22:28,909
Had kids to provide for,
would die for, Black woman

1539
01:22:28,944 --> 01:22:30,324
in America, a mule woman.

1540
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:32,775
Made something out of
nothing, made millions

1541
01:22:32,809 --> 01:22:33,983
off flipping work.

1542
01:22:34,018 --> 01:22:35,122
No, the feds watching
real niggas flip the bird,

1543
01:22:35,157 --> 01:22:36,675
speak in code.

1544
01:22:36,710 --> 01:22:38,367
If they catch you, keep
the code, keep your soul.

1545
01:22:38,401 --> 01:22:40,093
My mama didn't fold,
did time, never told.

1546
01:22:40,886 --> 01:22:44,476
My mama, she a OG,
bought a Benz at 14.

1547
01:22:44,511 --> 01:22:47,583
At 23, my OG had a different
car for every day of the week,

1548
01:22:47,617 --> 01:22:49,930
still got a '95 AMG.

1549
01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:52,691
Baby girl was born in '93,
finally, now here is me.

1550
01:22:52,726 --> 01:22:53,865
Granny raised a bunch of queens.

1551
01:22:53,899 --> 01:22:55,142
I done seen a bunch of things.

1552
01:22:55,177 --> 01:22:56,730
I'm the heir to a
bunch of dreams.

1553
01:22:56,764 --> 01:22:58,180
All they dreams
live inside of me.

1554
01:22:58,214 --> 01:23:00,527
I know that they all count on
me to bring them to reality.

1555
01:23:00,561 --> 01:23:02,529
I know they already
proud of me, got to keep

1556
01:23:02,563 --> 01:23:04,048
making them proud of me.

1557
01:23:04,082 --> 01:23:06,602
I do it for the family,
love is what inspires me.

1558
01:23:06,636 --> 01:23:09,053
Mookey said I could be
anything I want to be.

1559
01:23:09,087 --> 01:23:11,193
I should never want to be
anything that wasn't me.

1560
01:23:11,227 --> 01:23:12,711
I just wanted to be free.

1561
01:23:12,746 --> 01:23:15,128
Half our family tree been
trapped by the streets

1562
01:23:15,162 --> 01:23:16,819
or the penitentiary.

1563
01:23:16,853 --> 01:23:19,408
I just want to set them
free, run away from poverty.

1564
01:23:19,442 --> 01:23:21,375
I'm feeling like Harriett,
burden of a Black woman,

1565
01:23:21,410 --> 01:23:23,170
you can't carry it.

1566
01:23:23,205 --> 01:23:24,585
Why should I tell my story if I
know they're going to bury it?

1567
01:23:24,620 --> 01:23:25,931
Why should I have this baby if
I know I'm going to bury it?

1568
01:23:25,966 --> 01:23:27,899
Look, this some heavy shit.

1569
01:23:27,933 --> 01:23:30,315
And my mama had weight
on top of it, moving it,

1570
01:23:30,350 --> 01:23:34,181
did it all for the fam, did
it all for her kids, uh.

1571
01:23:34,216 --> 01:23:36,666
My mama, she a OG.

1572
01:23:36,701 --> 01:23:38,841
Grandmama, she a OG.

1573
01:23:38,875 --> 01:23:42,810
I got a bunch of aunties
and they all OGs,

1574
01:23:42,845 --> 01:23:44,812
a long line of Black queens.

1575
01:23:44,847 --> 01:23:46,711
They all helped raise me.

1576
01:23:46,745 --> 01:23:48,920
So what you think
they taught me?

1577
01:23:48,954 --> 01:23:50,370
What you think that make me?

1578
01:23:50,404 --> 01:23:52,544
My mama, she a OG.

1579
01:23:52,579 --> 01:23:54,822
Grandmama, she a OG.

1580
01:23:54,857 --> 01:23:58,757
I got a bunch of aunties
and they all OGs,

1581
01:23:58,792 --> 01:24:00,725
a long line of Black queens.

1582
01:24:00,759 --> 01:24:02,727
They all helped raise me.

1583
01:24:02,761 --> 01:24:04,867
So what do you think
they taught me?

1584
01:24:04,901 --> 01:24:06,386
What you think that make me?

1585
01:24:06,420 --> 01:24:08,181
Look, growing up I never
thought that I was poor.

1586
01:24:08,215 --> 01:24:09,423
I was spoiled.

1587
01:24:09,458 --> 01:24:10,355
I got everything I
wanted plus more.

1588
01:24:10,390 --> 01:24:12,012
Every week, another
pair of Jordans,

1589
01:24:12,047 --> 01:24:13,531
every game system and
every game for them.

1590
01:24:13,565 --> 01:24:15,119
I thought we could afford it.

1591
01:24:15,153 --> 01:24:17,328
All our cars were imported,
like drugs across borders.

1592
01:24:17,362 --> 01:24:19,847
Feds help that cross borders,
but arrest kids, deport them.

1593
01:24:19,882 --> 01:24:20,848
I wish I was postmortem.

1594
01:24:20,883 --> 01:24:21,849
Like granny taught
granddaughter,

1595
01:24:21,884 --> 01:24:23,127
but devils walking upon us.

1596
01:24:23,161 --> 01:24:24,818
They hate the shine,
hope it tarnish.

1597
01:24:24,852 --> 01:24:26,371
Glowed up, I got it honest.

1598
01:24:26,406 --> 01:24:27,579
My parents, they kept their
promise, sent their baby

1599
01:24:27,614 --> 01:24:29,857
girl to college, gave me
the life that they wanted.

1600
01:24:29,892 --> 01:24:33,827
I appreciate it. $100,000 piece
of paper, my granny framed it.

1601
01:24:33,861 --> 01:24:35,518
To her, I'm already famous.

1602
01:24:35,553 --> 01:24:37,693
Fame has never been a goal,
but I'm a natural born leader

1603
01:24:37,727 --> 01:24:39,522
so I already know,
that it's coming

1604
01:24:39,557 --> 01:24:41,697
so I'm ready like
I'm all packed to go.

1605
01:24:41,731 --> 01:24:43,940
Niggas hunting, they aim at
me, but I might be next to go,

1606
01:24:43,975 --> 01:24:45,908
supposed to be the next to blow.

1607
01:24:45,942 --> 01:24:47,806
West Side of Chicago,
you never really know,

1608
01:24:47,841 --> 01:24:49,463
bottom of the totem pole.

1609
01:24:49,498 --> 01:24:50,844
That's why niggas toting poles.

1610
01:24:50,878 --> 01:24:52,087
I ain't really ready to go.

1611
01:24:52,121 --> 01:24:53,571
I ain't stepping at the door.

1612
01:24:53,605 --> 01:24:54,882
OK, I'll pop out.

1613
01:24:54,917 --> 01:24:56,919
I'm Nell daughter,
niggas better watch out.

1614
01:24:56,953 --> 01:24:58,645
I might pull a
Cartier watch out.

1615
01:24:58,679 --> 01:24:59,853
Time is money.

1616
01:24:59,887 --> 01:25:01,372
I ain't sitting
in the damn house.

1617
01:25:01,406 --> 01:25:02,856
Granny worried, steady
calling about my whereabouts.

1618
01:25:02,890 --> 01:25:04,685
I'm probably with the
shooters when they air it out.

1619
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:06,653
Lord, forgive me, I'm just
trying to make it out,

1620
01:25:06,687 --> 01:25:09,069
sending all these prayers up,
hope a blessing come down.

1621
01:25:09,104 --> 01:25:11,485
Lately I've been feeling if I
stick around, be another Nipsey

1622
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,038
Hussle, be a Mike Brown.

1623
01:25:13,073 --> 01:25:14,592
Even with our hands up,
still getting gunned down.

1624
01:25:14,626 --> 01:25:15,662
That ain't how I'm going out.

1625
01:25:15,696 --> 01:25:16,490
That's his story.

1626
01:25:16,525 --> 01:25:17,181
That ain't my story.

1627
01:25:17,215 --> 01:25:18,009
I'm about to white it out.

1628
01:25:18,043 --> 01:25:18,699
Fuck it.

1629
01:25:18,734 --> 01:25:21,530
Black it out.

1630
01:25:21,564 --> 01:25:22,047
Man.

1631
01:25:22,082 --> 01:25:22,634
Fuck it.

1632
01:25:22,669 --> 01:25:24,533
Black it out.

1633
01:25:24,567 --> 01:25:28,571
Look, my mama, she a OG.

1634
01:25:28,606 --> 01:25:30,918
Grandmama, she a OG.

1635
01:25:30,953 --> 01:25:34,888
I got a bunch of aunties
and they all OGs,

1636
01:25:34,922 --> 01:25:36,717
a long line of Black queens.

1637
01:25:36,752 --> 01:25:38,754
They all helped raise me.

1638
01:25:38,788 --> 01:25:40,894
So what you think
they taught me?

1639
01:25:40,928 --> 01:25:42,378
What you think that make me?

1640
01:25:42,413 --> 01:25:44,484
My mama, she a OG.

1641
01:25:44,518 --> 01:25:46,900
Grandmama, she a OG.

1642
01:25:46,934 --> 01:25:50,904
I got a bunch of aunties
and they all OGs,

1643
01:25:50,938 --> 01:25:52,871
a long line of Black queens.

1644
01:25:52,906 --> 01:25:54,735
They all helped raise me.

1645
01:25:54,770 --> 01:25:56,875
So what you think
they taught me.

1646
01:25:56,910 --> 01:25:58,739
What you think that make me?

1647
01:25:58,774 --> 01:26:03,882
My mama, she a OG, a long
line of Black queens.

1648
01:26:06,713 --> 01:26:07,921
So what you think
they taught me.

1649
01:26:10,786 --> 01:26:11,787
What you think that make me?