1 00:00:02,690 --> 00:00:08,563 >>> DOES THIS OFFEND? IT'S JUST A SIMPLE, SILENT GESTURE. 2 00:00:08,563 --> 00:00:10,064 ♪♪ 3 00:00:10,064 --> 00:00:13,678 HOW ABOUT NOW? OH, SO NOW THERE'S A PROBLEM. 4 00:00:13,678 --> 00:00:16,848 IS THE PROBLEM THAT STAR ATHLETES WOULD DARE DO SOMETHING 5 00:00:16,848 --> 00:00:20,017 DEEMED DISRESPECTFUL BY SOME DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? 6 00:00:20,017 --> 00:00:25,289 OR IS THE PROBLEM A COUNTRY THAT CONTINUES TO DEVALUE BLACK LIFE? 7 00:00:25,289 --> 00:00:27,925 ATHLETES THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE USED THEIR PLATFORMS. 8 00:00:27,925 --> 00:00:31,095 IN SOME CASES, SCREAMING FOR JUSTICE WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. 9 00:00:31,095 --> 00:00:34,198 MAKING STATEMENTS THAT BLACK BODIES ARE NOT JUST HERE FOR 10 00:00:34,198 --> 00:00:40,037 ENTERTAINMENT, THAT BLACK LIFE IS NOT EXPENDABLE. 11 00:00:40,037 --> 00:00:44,275 WE ARE IN AWE OF THEIR ATHLETIC ABILITY, CALL THEM HEROES FOR 12 00:00:44,275 --> 00:00:45,309 THE LAST‐SECOND SHOT, FOR A GAME‐WINNING CATCH. 13 00:00:45,309 --> 00:00:48,512 WORSHIP THEM FOR THEIR TALENTS. BUT WHEN THEY STAND UP ‐‐ 14 00:00:48,512 --> 00:00:54,452 THEY'VE BEEN OSTRACIZED AND VILIFIED. 15 00:00:54,452 --> 00:00:56,587 TOLD TO SHUT UP AND RUN. SHUT UP AND DRIVE. 16 00:00:56,587 --> 00:00:59,223 SHUT UP AND SCORE THAT TOUCHDOWN. SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE. SHUT UP. 17 00:00:59,223 --> 00:01:00,825 BUT THEY'VE FOUND THEIR VOICE, AGAIN. 18 00:01:00,825 --> 00:01:04,495 SO AS LONG AS THE VALUE OF BLACK LIFE REMAINS A PROBLEM, THIS 19 00:01:04,495 --> 00:01:09,800 GENERATION OF ATHLETES IS 20 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:15,706 DETERMINED TO BE A PROBLEM. 21 00:01:15,706 --> 00:01:37,395 ♪♪ 22 00:01:37,395 --> 00:01:42,667 >>> WELCOME TO "SOUL OF A NATION." I'M JEMELE HILL. 23 00:01:42,667 --> 00:01:45,836 AND TONIGHT, ATHLETES IN ACTIVISM TAKE CENTER STAGE. 24 00:01:45,836 --> 00:01:47,438 WE'LL SEE HOW SOME OF AMERICA'S TOP ATHLETES USED THEIR ENERGY 25 00:01:47,438 --> 00:01:50,074 AND RESOURCES, AND EVEN THEIR SPORTS, TO IMPROVE LIFE FOR 26 00:01:50,074 --> 00:01:54,312 THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS. I TALK TO WNBA STAR 27 00:01:54,312 --> 00:02:01,185 RENEE MONTGOMERY, WHO PUT IT ALL ON THE LINE OFF THE COURT. 28 00:02:01,185 --> 00:02:02,219 WE'LL MEET GYMNASTS WHO WENT TO THE FLOOR FOR THE CULTURE. 29 00:02:02,219 --> 00:02:03,821 WE LOOK AT SPORTS IN THE MOVIES. AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL 30 00:02:03,821 --> 00:02:07,525 PERFORMANCE FROM COMMON. BUT FIRST, THROUGHOUT HISTORY, 31 00:02:07,525 --> 00:02:11,195 WE'VE SEEN ATHLETES PUTTING THEIR CAREERS ON THE LINE, ALL 32 00:02:11,195 --> 00:02:16,567 FOR THE SAKE OF RACIAL JUSTICE. HERE'S MY FRIEND, ESPN'S MICHAEL 33 00:02:16,567 --> 00:02:19,270 WILBON. 34 00:02:19,270 --> 00:02:26,444 >> LEADING UP TO THE 1968 OLYMPIC GAMES, THE COUNTRY WAS 35 00:02:26,444 --> 00:02:29,714 AT A FLASHPOINT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 36 00:02:29,714 --> 00:02:30,748 >> THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS 37 00:02:30,748 --> 00:02:32,817 ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS TONIGHT. 38 00:02:32,817 --> 00:02:36,487 >> SIX MONTHS AFTER THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., 39 00:02:36,487 --> 00:02:39,123 OLYMPIANS JOHN CARLOS AND TOMMIE SMITH STOOD ATOP THE 40 00:02:39,123 --> 00:02:40,191 WORLD'S BIGGEST STAGE, CALLING ATTENTION TO THE PLIGHT OF BLACK 41 00:02:40,191 --> 00:02:43,995 AMERICA. 42 00:02:43,995 --> 00:02:46,797 >> DR. KING WAS GOING TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE OLYMPIC 43 00:02:46,797 --> 00:02:48,933 BOYCOTT. BUT I ASKED DR. KING, "WHY WOULD 44 00:02:48,933 --> 00:02:51,068 YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT?" 45 00:02:51,068 --> 00:02:53,704 AND HE SAID TO ME, HE SAID, "IMAGINE YOU GET IN A ROWBOAT, 46 00:02:53,704 --> 00:02:58,175 AND YOU ROW IT TO THE CENTER OF THIS ENORMOUS LAKE AND THEN YOU 47 00:02:58,175 --> 00:03:02,346 TAKE A ROCK AND THROW A ROCK OVERBOARD. IT CREATES WAVES." 48 00:03:02,346 --> 00:03:05,883 HE SAID, "THAT ROCK IS THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT. 49 00:03:05,883 --> 00:03:09,487 BUT THE GREATEST THING IS THAT YOU HAVE THE ATTENTION OF THE 50 00:03:09,487 --> 00:03:11,622 PLANET. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL OR MAIM 51 00:03:11,622 --> 00:03:16,560 OR HURT ANYONE TO MAKE THAT STATEMENT." 52 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,231 >> WHEN WE LEFT MEXICO CITY, IT WAS, LIKE, LIGHTNING AND 53 00:03:20,231 --> 00:03:22,333 THUNDERING, CHAOS, MAYHEM, HATRED. 54 00:03:22,333 --> 00:03:25,536 >> JOHN CARLOS WAS EVEN MORE DEFIANT AFTER THE AMERICAN 55 00:03:25,536 --> 00:03:27,104 OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ORDERED HIM OFF THE TEAM. 56 00:03:27,104 --> 00:03:29,240 >> I'M TELLING Y'ALL FOR THE LAST TIME, Y'ALL BETTER TIP AND 57 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,808 LEAVE ME ALONE. 58 00:03:30,808 --> 00:03:35,513 >> CLEARLY, YOU ANTICIPATED REPERCUSSION, BUT DID YOU HAVE 59 00:03:35,513 --> 00:03:40,785 ANY IDEA THE INTENSITY OF THE BACKLASH, OF THE HATRED? 60 00:03:40,785 --> 00:03:42,386 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I ‐‐ I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. 61 00:03:42,386 --> 00:03:45,022 THE REPERCUSSION WOULD BE DEATH. BUT MY THOUGHTS WERE, WHEN THE 62 00:03:45,022 --> 00:03:46,624 DEMONSTRATION IS GONE, YOU CAN KILL ME, BUT YOU CAN NEVER KILL 63 00:03:46,624 --> 00:03:48,726 WHAT I STAND FOR. YOU COULD NEVER ERASE THAT 64 00:03:48,726 --> 00:03:51,362 DEMONSTRATION. 65 00:03:51,362 --> 00:03:52,430 >> WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH? 66 00:03:52,430 --> 00:03:57,201 >> I MEAN, ULTIMATELY, IT'S TO BRING AWARENESS. 67 00:03:57,201 --> 00:04:00,671 COPS ARE GETTING PAID LEAVE FOR KILLING PEOPLE. 68 00:04:00,671 --> 00:04:03,340 >> AFTER THE SHOOTINGS OF PHILANDO CASTILE AND 69 00:04:03,340 --> 00:04:04,942 ALTON STERLING, NFL QUARTERBACK COLIN KAEPERNICK WAS VILIFIED 70 00:04:04,942 --> 00:04:09,914 FOR TAKING A KNEE DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. 71 00:04:09,914 --> 00:04:16,020 SOME CALLED HIM A DISTRACTION TO HIS TEAM. EVEN UN‐AMERICAN. 72 00:04:16,020 --> 00:04:17,955 >> YOU GOT TO RESPECT THE FLAG AND YOU GOT TO STAND UP WITH 73 00:04:17,955 --> 00:04:20,091 YOUR TEAMMATES. 74 00:04:20,091 --> 00:04:21,158 >> YOU HAVE TO SHOW SOME RESPECT. 75 00:04:21,158 --> 00:04:22,760 >> HAVE YOU TALKED TO COLIN KAEPERNICK? 76 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:23,794 >> I TALKED TO COLIN, LET HIM KNOW THAT I THOUGHT THAT HE WAS 77 00:04:23,794 --> 00:04:26,430 A HERO OF MINE. WHEN YOU JUMP OUT INTO THE POOL 78 00:04:26,430 --> 00:04:28,566 OF HUMANITARIANISM, IT'S A LONELY JOB. 79 00:04:28,566 --> 00:04:32,236 THE TIMES ARE DIFFERENT, BUT COLLECTIVELY, ALL THE RESPONSES 80 00:04:32,236 --> 00:04:37,475 TO EACH OF THOSE STATEMENTS WAS THE SAME, IN THE NEGATIVE SENSE. 81 00:04:37,475 --> 00:04:40,111 >> THIS IS A BACKUP QUARTERBACK WHOSE JOB IS TO BE QUIET. 82 00:04:40,111 --> 00:04:42,780 >> WITH VERY LITTLE PUBLIC SUPPORT FROM FANS AND THE 83 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:45,416 LEAGUE, THAT SEASON WENT ON TO BE KAEPERNICK'S LAST. 84 00:04:45,416 --> 00:04:48,052 >> I NEVER LOOKED AT MYSELF AS AN ACTIVIST. 85 00:04:48,052 --> 00:04:49,620 BUT REGARDLESS OF THE RAMIFICATIONS, I NEEDED TO STEP 86 00:04:49,620 --> 00:04:52,289 UP AND DO MORE. 87 00:04:52,289 --> 00:04:58,095 >> MICHAEL THOMAS IS ONE OF THE FEW PLAYERS THAT SEASON WHO TOOK 88 00:04:58,095 --> 00:05:02,333 A KNEE WITH KAEPERNICK IN SOLIDARITY. 89 00:05:02,333 --> 00:05:03,367 TELL ME ABOUT WHAT THE REACTION WAS, MAYBE IN YOUR FAMILY. 90 00:05:03,367 --> 00:05:04,435 >> YOU KNOW, I HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH MY PARENTS. 91 00:05:04,435 --> 00:05:06,036 LIKE, "LOOK, I'M THINKING ABOUT MAKING THE DECISION TO TAKE A 92 00:05:06,036 --> 00:05:08,672 KNEE." THEY WAS LIKE, "I DON'T WANT YOU 93 00:05:08,672 --> 00:05:11,308 TO BE PUNISHED FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST POLICE TERRORISM." 94 00:05:11,308 --> 00:05:12,877 SO THEY JUST WAS TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR SON, BUT IT WAS 95 00:05:12,877 --> 00:05:14,478 HARD. IT WAS TOUGH KNOWING THAT YOUR 96 00:05:14,478 --> 00:05:16,080 PARENTS, YOU KNOW, THEY FEARED FOR YOU. 97 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,182 >> WHAT WERE LOCKER ROOMS LIKE, THAT YOU WERE IN? 98 00:05:18,182 --> 00:05:21,352 >> THERE WERE DEFINITELY GUYS WHO, LIKE, BLACK TEAMMATES ‐‐ 99 00:05:21,352 --> 00:05:25,089 THAT'S THE PART THAT HURT ‐‐ THAT WERE TELLING US, LIKE, 100 00:05:25,089 --> 00:05:26,123 "NAH, MAN, Y'ALL STUPID. LIKE, WE AIN'T TRYING TO MESS UP 101 00:05:26,123 --> 00:05:30,895 OUR MONEY." IT WAS DEFINITELY A TIME IN THE 102 00:05:30,895 --> 00:05:34,064 NFL WHERE IF YOU SPEAK OUT ON ANYTHING THAT'S CONTROVERSIAL, 103 00:05:34,064 --> 00:05:36,967 YOU COULD PROBABLY LOSE YOUR JOB. 104 00:05:36,967 --> 00:05:40,004 >> OVER THE LAST DECADE, CELL PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE 105 00:05:40,004 --> 00:05:44,275 CAST A SPOTLIGHT ON THE BLACK VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE. 106 00:05:44,275 --> 00:05:46,410 >> HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT! HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT! 107 00:05:46,410 --> 00:05:49,046 >> IN THAT TIME, THE DEMANDS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY HAVE ONLY GROWN 108 00:05:49,046 --> 00:05:52,750 LOUDER AMONG BLACK ATHLETES. NBA PLAYERS LIKE CARMELO ANTHONY 109 00:05:52,750 --> 00:05:57,321 AND CHRIS PAUL. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU GOT TO 110 00:05:57,321 --> 00:05:59,023 A POINT WHERE IT WAS JUST, ALL RIGHT, THIS IS PART OF MY LIFE 111 00:05:59,023 --> 00:06:01,192 NOW? 112 00:06:01,192 --> 00:06:03,427 >> FOR ME, IT WAS ‐‐ IT WAS THE FREDDIE GRAY SITUATION. 113 00:06:03,427 --> 00:06:06,630 YOU KNOW, BEING BACK IN BALTIMORE, AND IT WAS LIKE, 114 00:06:06,630 --> 00:06:07,698 "DAMN, THIS IS MY CITY. THIS IS MY BACKYARD. 115 00:06:07,698 --> 00:06:08,732 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I KNOW. I KNOW THAT PERSON. 116 00:06:08,732 --> 00:06:11,902 I KNOW FREDDIE." 117 00:06:11,902 --> 00:06:17,508 >> WHAT LED TO YOUR ESPYS APPEARANCE? 118 00:06:17,508 --> 00:06:20,444 >> IT'S THE 2016 ESPYS. 119 00:06:20,444 --> 00:06:22,046 >> MELO STARTED IT IN THE GROUP CHAT. 120 00:06:22,046 --> 00:06:23,113 >> I COULDN'T SLEEP ONE NIGHT. IT WAS JUST ALL THE SENSELESS 121 00:06:23,113 --> 00:06:24,148 KILLINGS THAT WAS HAPPENING. 122 00:06:24,148 --> 00:06:27,351 >> AND SO YOU HEAR FROM HIM, AND YOU THINK WHAT? 123 00:06:27,351 --> 00:06:32,590 >> WE ALL TALKED ABOUT WHAT WAS, SORT OF, SPECIFIC TO EACH ONE OF 124 00:06:32,590 --> 00:06:36,126 US, WHAT WE WAS GOING TO SAY, HOW HE WAS GOING TO SAY IT. 125 00:06:36,126 --> 00:06:37,161 >> THIS IS FROM YOU GUYS. THIS WAS YOUR IDEA. 126 00:06:37,161 --> 00:06:37,695 THIS IS FROM THE HEART. 127 00:06:37,695 --> 00:06:39,296 >> WE DIDN'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN TOWARDS THE END. 128 00:06:39,296 --> 00:06:46,670 WE WANTED TO KICK IT OFF. A CALL TO ACTION. 129 00:06:46,670 --> 00:06:49,840 THE FOUR OF US TALKING TO OUR FELLOW ATHLETES WITH THE COUNTRY 130 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:50,908 WATCHING, BECAUSE WE CANNOT IGNORE THE REALITIES OF THE 131 00:06:50,908 --> 00:06:56,981 CURRENT STATE OF AMERICA. 132 00:06:56,981 --> 00:06:58,549 >> YOU COULD HEAR THE PASSION FROM ALL OF US. 133 00:06:58,549 --> 00:07:00,117 MUHAMMAD ALI, JOHN CARLOS AND COUNTLESS OTHERS. 134 00:07:00,117 --> 00:07:03,320 THEY SET A MODEL FOR WHAT ATHLETES SHOULD STAND FOR. 135 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:08,058 BASKETBALL HAS BEEN A PLATFORM. BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, WE ARE 136 00:07:08,058 --> 00:07:09,627 HUMANS AND WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT, JUST LIKE 137 00:07:09,627 --> 00:07:11,228 EVERYBODY ELSE. 138 00:07:11,228 --> 00:07:14,365 >> WHICH IS WHY "SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE" MUST HAVE MORE THAN 139 00:07:14,365 --> 00:07:17,101 ANNOYED YOU. 140 00:07:17,101 --> 00:07:20,337 >> KEEP THE POLITICAL COMMENTARY TO YOURSELF, OR AS 141 00:07:20,337 --> 00:07:22,439 SOMEONE ONCE SAID, "SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE." 142 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:26,644 >> WHEN YOU REALLY SIT BACK AND THINK ABOUT THAT PHRASE, IT GOES 143 00:07:26,644 --> 00:07:29,847 DEEP. I MEAN, WE HAVE FAMILY, WE HAVE 144 00:07:29,847 --> 00:07:31,949 FRIENDS WHO ARE STILL IN THOSE ‐‐ THOSE ENVIRONMENTS WHO 145 00:07:31,949 --> 00:07:36,120 ARE BEING AFFECTED. AND THAT MEANS YOU TELLING US TO 146 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,756 JUST BE QUIET AND LET OUR FAMILY SUFFER. 147 00:07:38,756 --> 00:07:42,926 >> BUT MELO AND PAUL WERE NOT GOING TO JUST SHUT UP AND 148 00:07:42,926 --> 00:07:47,197 DRIBBLE. NOT AFTER THE ESPYS. AND ESPECIALLY NOT LAST YEAR, AS 149 00:07:47,197 --> 00:07:52,469 A FAMILIAR TREND CAME ROARING BACK DURING THE PANDEMIC. 150 00:07:52,469 --> 00:07:57,207 >> BREONNA TAYLOR! BREONNA TAYLOR! 151 00:07:57,207 --> 00:08:01,745 >> IT WAS A SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS NO GAMES GOING ON, 152 00:08:01,745 --> 00:08:04,581 WASN'T NO TRAVELING, WE WAS HOME. IT FORCED US TO HAVE REAL 153 00:08:04,581 --> 00:08:05,616 CONVERSATIONS, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR FAMILIES, WITH US AS 154 00:08:05,616 --> 00:08:13,023 PLAYERS, AS A LEAGUE. IN THESE TIMES NOW, YOU CAN'T 155 00:08:13,023 --> 00:08:15,859 HIDE YOUR FEELINGS AND YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT CAN WAIT AND 156 00:08:15,859 --> 00:08:17,461 WHAT CAN'T WAIT. 157 00:08:17,461 --> 00:08:18,529 >> WHEN PLAY RESUMED WITH COVID PROTOCOLS IN PLACE, THE LEAGUE 158 00:08:18,529 --> 00:08:21,165 SUPPORTED THE PLAYERS' DESIRE TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE. 159 00:08:21,165 --> 00:08:23,834 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE REACTIONS TO HOW YOU HOLD YOUR EMPLOYER 160 00:08:23,834 --> 00:08:26,470 ACCOUNTABLE. 161 00:08:26,470 --> 00:08:30,174 >> I HOPE IT CONTINUES TO GET BETTER AND BETTER TO A POINT 162 00:08:30,174 --> 00:08:33,344 WHERE IT'S JUST SECOND NATURE. LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP 163 00:08:33,344 --> 00:08:34,311 BRINGING THESE ISSUES TO YOU. 164 00:08:34,311 --> 00:08:38,282 >> NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! 165 00:08:38,282 --> 00:08:40,617 >> AFTER JACOB BLAKE WAS SHOT IN KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, HUNDREDS OF 166 00:08:40,617 --> 00:08:43,787 ATHLETES AND COACHES FOLLOWED THE LEAD OF THEIR NBA AND WNBA 167 00:08:43,787 --> 00:08:45,889 COUNTERPARTS. 168 00:08:45,889 --> 00:08:50,627 >> IT'S AMAZING TO ME, WHY WE KEEP LOVING THIS COUNTRY AND 169 00:08:50,627 --> 00:08:52,763 THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT LOVE US BACK. 170 00:08:52,763 --> 00:08:57,000 >> WITH THE JACOB BLAKE SITUATION, IF YOU SAW THE WAY 171 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,205 THAT WE SORT OF REACTED, I THINK WE CONTINUE TO UNDERSTAND OUR 172 00:09:01,205 --> 00:09:02,272 INFLUENCE MORE AND MORE AND WE REALIZE HOW MUCH STRONGER WE ARE 173 00:09:02,272 --> 00:09:04,375 TOGETHER. 174 00:09:04,375 --> 00:09:05,976 >> WITH THE SEVEN BULLET HOLES, JACOB BLAKE SHOT SEVEN TIMES IN 175 00:09:05,976 --> 00:09:09,146 THE BACK. 176 00:09:09,146 --> 00:09:12,316 >> PLAYERS EVERYWHERE REFUSED TO WORK. 177 00:09:12,316 --> 00:09:16,854 >> I THINK THE MOST DIFFICULT PART IS TO SEE, LIKE, PEOPLE 178 00:09:16,854 --> 00:09:19,490 STILL DON'T CARE. 179 00:09:19,490 --> 00:09:22,126 >> AND FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST SUMMER, EVERY MAJOR SPORTS 180 00:09:22,126 --> 00:09:25,329 LEAGUE WAS COMPELLED TO PUBLICLY SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER. 181 00:09:25,329 --> 00:09:27,431 EVEN THE NFL. 182 00:09:27,431 --> 00:09:30,601 >> WE, THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, BELIEVE BLACK LIVES 183 00:09:30,601 --> 00:09:33,771 MATTER. 184 00:09:33,771 --> 00:09:36,340 >> WHEN YOU HEARD ROGER GOODELL, THE COMMISSIONER, YOU THOUGHT 185 00:09:36,340 --> 00:09:38,041 WHAT? 186 00:09:38,041 --> 00:09:41,245 >> I'M GOING TO SAY THIS. I LOVE THE FACT THAT IN 2020, 187 00:09:41,245 --> 00:09:44,948 2021, WE'RE AT A PLACE NOW WHERE THE LEAGUES ARE WILLING TO SAY, 188 00:09:44,948 --> 00:09:50,220 "BLACK LIVES MATTER." BUT USE THAT TO CONTINUE TO HOLD 189 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:51,288 THEM ACCOUNTABLE AND SAY, "HEY, LET'S GO TRY TO, LIKE, GET SOME 190 00:09:51,288 --> 00:09:52,890 REAL LAWS CHANGED. LET'S GO TRY TO MAKE REAL CHANGE 191 00:09:52,890 --> 00:09:56,460 IN OUR COMMUNITIES." 192 00:09:56,460 --> 00:10:00,531 >> THOMAS CONTINUES FIGHTING, WORKING WITH CONGRESSWOMAN 193 00:10:00,531 --> 00:10:03,333 SHEILA JACKSON LEE TO PASS THE GEORGE FLOYD ACT. 194 00:10:03,333 --> 00:10:04,401 >> OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS BEING THE LEADERS IN THE LOCKER ROOMS, 195 00:10:04,401 --> 00:10:05,469 BEING THE LEADERS ON THE FIELD, BUT ALSO LEADERS IN OUR 196 00:10:05,469 --> 00:10:06,503 COMMUNITY. 197 00:10:06,503 --> 00:10:09,673 >> UNLIKE THE PAST, PROFESSIONAL LEAGUES FEEL THE ONCOMING TIDE. 198 00:10:09,673 --> 00:10:12,843 > I THINK WE OPENED THE DOORS FOR A LOT OF ATHLETES TO FEEL 199 00:10:12,843 --> 00:10:16,013 COMFORTABLE AND CONFIDENT AND SPEAKING ON ISSUES. 200 00:10:16,013 --> 00:10:22,586 >> MORE AND MORE ATHLETES ARE ROILING THE WATERS, LIKE JOHN 201 00:10:22,586 --> 00:10:24,755 CARLOS SOME 50 YEARS AGO. 202 00:10:24,755 --> 00:10:27,925 >> YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAVE TO DO WHAT WE CAN DO TO BRING 203 00:10:27,925 --> 00:10:31,628 ATTENTION TO THE PLIGHT OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. 204 00:10:31,628 --> 00:10:35,766 BUT EVERY TIME I SEE MR. KAEPERNICK OR ANY YOUNG 205 00:10:35,766 --> 00:10:36,834 INDIVIDUAL THAT STEPS UP TO THE PLATE NOW, I FEEL THAT'S A PART 206 00:10:36,834 --> 00:10:43,173 OF ME. THAT'S AN EXTENSION OF ME. 207 00:10:43,173 --> 00:10:46,710 >>> COMING UP, ONE WNBA STAR FIGHTS TO GET THE VOTE OUT IN 208 00:10:46,710 --> 00:10:48,312 GEORGIA. 209 00:10:48,312 --> 00:10:49,379 >> AND I WANTED TO DO MORE AND MORE, AND SO I MADE A DECISION 210 00:10:49,379 --> 00:10:50,981 TO JUST BE ALL IN. 211 00:10:50,981 --> 00:10:53,617 >> AND LATER, COMMON RETURNS TO "SOUL OF A NATION" WITH RHYMES 212 00:10:53,617 --> 00:10:58,455 TO REFLECT THE MOVEMENT. 213 00:11:02,526 --> 00:11:05,729 ♪♪ 214 00:11:05,729 --> 00:11:08,981 >>> RENEE MONTGOMERY IS BASKETBALL ROYALTY. 215 00:11:08,981 --> 00:11:12,012 SHE LED THE BEST WOMEN'S PROGRAM IN AMERICA, THE UNIVERSITY OF 216 00:11:12,012 --> 00:11:14,828 CONNECTICUT, TO AN UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. 217 00:11:14,828 --> 00:11:19,699 AND SHE WENT ON TO BECOME AN ALL‐STAR AND CHAMPION IN THE 218 00:11:19,699 --> 00:11:21,768 WNBA. BUT LAST YEAR, SHE SHOCKED THE 219 00:11:21,768 --> 00:11:25,472 WORLD, PUTTING IT ALL ON THE LINE TO FIGHT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. 220 00:11:25,472 --> 00:11:33,146 I SAT DOWN WITH HER TO ASK HER A SIMPLE QUESTION ‐‐ WHY? 221 00:11:33,146 --> 00:11:35,782 >> ATLANTA WAS TURNT UP AND ATLANTA WAS PROTESTING. 222 00:11:35,782 --> 00:11:38,852 ATLANTA WAS UPSET. 223 00:11:38,852 --> 00:11:39,986 >> SAY HIS NAME! 224 00:11:39,986 --> 00:11:40,787 >> GEORGE FLOYD! 225 00:11:40,787 --> 00:11:44,157 >> WE STAND TODAY BECAUSE OF BREONNA TAYLOR. 226 00:11:44,157 --> 00:11:47,861 >> THERE WAS A SORT OF POLITICAL AWAKENING. 227 00:11:47,861 --> 00:11:49,462 >> A MULTIRACIAL COALITION OF CONSCIENCE POURED OUT INTO 228 00:11:49,462 --> 00:11:51,064 AMERICAN STREETS. 229 00:11:51,064 --> 00:11:54,200 >> I WAS LITERALLY LOOKING OUTSIDE OF MY WINDOW AT PEOPLE 230 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,836 UPSET. AT FIRST, I JUST STARTED OUT 231 00:11:56,836 --> 00:12:01,608 JUST BRINGING WATERS. AND I WANTED TO DO MORE AND 232 00:12:01,608 --> 00:12:02,675 MORE, AND THEN I FELT, LIKE, HOW COULD I DO MORE IF I WAS HALF IN 233 00:12:02,675 --> 00:12:05,311 AND HALF OUT? SO I MADE A DECISION TO JUST BE 234 00:12:05,311 --> 00:12:11,651 ALL IN. AFTER MUCH THOUGHT, I'VE DECIDED 235 00:12:11,651 --> 00:12:14,287 TO OPT OUT OF THE 2020 WNBA SEASON. 236 00:12:14,287 --> 00:12:15,355 THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE OFF THE COURT IN SO MANY AREAS IN OUR 237 00:12:15,355 --> 00:12:19,058 COMMUNITY. I DO FEEL THAT NOW IS THE TIME 238 00:12:19,058 --> 00:12:20,627 AND MOMENTS EQUAL MOMENTUM. 239 00:12:20,627 --> 00:12:24,864 >> "MOMENTS EQUAL MOMENTUM." WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY THAT? 240 00:12:24,864 --> 00:12:28,034 >> I MEANT THAT, LIKE, LOOK, THE PROTESTS, THAT'S ADDING MOMENTS. 241 00:12:28,034 --> 00:12:32,705 IT'S ADDING TO THE MOMENTUM. EVERYBODY THINKS YOU GOT TO DO 242 00:12:32,705 --> 00:12:35,875 SOMETHING AMAZING, AND YOU REALLY DON'T. YOU KNOW? 243 00:12:35,875 --> 00:12:36,943 LIKE, YOU JUST NEED TO ADD YOUR MOMENT. 244 00:12:36,943 --> 00:12:39,612 THAT COULD LITERALLY BE A TWEET THAT SOMEBODY READS, BUT 245 00:12:39,612 --> 00:12:40,647 EVERYBODY HAS A MOMENT. 246 00:12:40,647 --> 00:12:45,018 >> WHAT WERE SOME OF YOUR BIGGEST RESERVATIONS? 247 00:12:45,018 --> 00:12:46,352 WHEN YOU THOUGHT ABOUT SITTING OUT THE SEASON? 248 00:12:46,352 --> 00:12:47,954 >> I'VE BEEN PLAYING BASKETBALL, OH, MY GOD, SINCE I WAS, 249 00:12:47,954 --> 00:12:53,793 LIKE, 5. YOU KNOW, AND IT'S ‐‐ IT'S A 250 00:12:53,793 --> 00:12:56,095 PART OF MY BEING. GIVING THAT UP WAS TOUGH. 251 00:12:56,095 --> 00:12:57,163 I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THAT NEXT CHECK WAS COMING FROM. 252 00:12:57,163 --> 00:13:02,435 >> ACROSS THE BOARD, PROFESSIONAL FEMALE ATHLETES 253 00:13:02,435 --> 00:13:04,571 DON'T OFTEN MAKE THE SAME, OR EVEN COME CLOSE TO, WHAT MALE 254 00:13:04,571 --> 00:13:06,839 ATHLETES MAKE. 255 00:13:06,839 --> 00:13:10,877 >> YEAH, IT WAS A SCARY SITUATION IN THAT ASPECT. 256 00:13:10,877 --> 00:13:13,913 BUT HONESTLY, I JUST TOOK A LEAP OF FAITH. 257 00:13:13,913 --> 00:13:15,481 >> RENEE JOINED A LONG LINE OF FEMALE ATHLETE ACTIVISTS WHO 258 00:13:15,481 --> 00:13:17,083 HAVE SPOKEN UP, FROM TRACK AND FIELD STARS ROSE ROBINSON AND 259 00:13:17,083 --> 00:13:21,788 WILMA RUDOLPH, TO TENNIS STAR NAOMI OSAKA, TO FELLOW 260 00:13:21,788 --> 00:13:24,424 BASKETBALL PLAYERS MAYA MOORE AND TIFFANY HAYES. 261 00:13:24,424 --> 00:13:28,628 >> I THINK WHAT YOU WERE HEARING 262 00:13:28,628 --> 00:13:34,467 FROM RENEE MONTGOMERY, AS SHE TOOK A BREAK FROM BASKETBALL, 263 00:13:34,467 --> 00:13:36,603 WAS THAT THESE ARE NOT USUAL TIMES. 264 00:13:36,603 --> 00:13:39,239 >> THE WNBA AS A LEAGUE ALSO LED THE WAY, IN JULY DEDICATING THE 265 00:13:39,239 --> 00:13:43,443 ENTIRE 2020 SEASON TO SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, HONORING THE 266 00:13:43,443 --> 00:13:47,880 BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AND THE SAY HER NAME CAMPAIGN. 267 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,417 IN A CONTROVERSIAL MOVE, THEN DREAM CO‐OWNER 268 00:13:51,417 --> 00:13:55,288 KELLY LOEFFLER OPPOSED THE PLAN. THE CONSERVATIVE MILLIONAIRE 269 00:13:55,288 --> 00:13:57,423 REPUBLICAN WAS AN APPOINTED U. S. SENATOR AND FACED AN UPCOMING 270 00:13:57,423 --> 00:14:00,093 ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. 271 00:14:00,093 --> 00:14:04,797 >> SHE'S A LAW AND ORDER CONSERVATIVE WHO BACKS THE BLUE. 272 00:14:04,797 --> 00:14:08,701 >> SHE WROTE TO THE WNBA COMMISSIONER, SAYING, "THE LIVES 273 00:14:08,701 --> 00:14:14,040 OF EACH AND EVERY AMERICAN MATTER AND THERE'S NO 274 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,108 DEBATING THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO PLACE FOR RACISM IN OUR 275 00:14:15,108 --> 00:14:16,142 COUNTRY. HOWEVER, I ADAMANTLY OPPOSE THE 276 00:14:16,142 --> 00:14:18,811 BLACK LIVES MATTER POLITICAL MOVEMENT. I BELIEVE IT IS TOTALLY 277 00:14:18,811 --> 00:14:20,380 MISALIGNED WITH THE VALUES AND GOALS OF THE WNBA AND THE 278 00:14:20,380 --> 00:14:26,719 ATLANTA DREAM, WHERE WE SUPPORT TOLERANCE AND INCLUSION." 279 00:14:26,719 --> 00:14:30,757 >> THE WNBA HAS EMBRACED THE BLACK LIVES MATTER POLITICAL 280 00:14:30,757 --> 00:14:32,892 ORGANIZATION. IT'S A VERY DIVISIVE 281 00:14:32,892 --> 00:14:34,460 ORGANIZATION BASED ON MARXIST PRINCIPLES. 282 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:38,731 >> WELL, WHO DIDN'T HAVE YOUR BACK, AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT 283 00:14:38,731 --> 00:14:44,904 I WAS VERY CRITICAL OF WAS, OF COURSE, KELLY LOEFFLER. 284 00:14:44,904 --> 00:14:47,607 THIS IS A WOMAN THAT SIGNS YOUR CHECKS. 285 00:14:47,607 --> 00:14:47,974 >> YEAH. 286 00:14:47,974 --> 00:14:50,243 >> WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF WHAT SHE SAID? 287 00:14:50,243 --> 00:14:51,311 >> IF YOU FELT THAT WAY, WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY SOMETHING 288 00:14:51,311 --> 00:14:52,345 EARLIER? WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE RUNNING AS A 289 00:14:52,345 --> 00:14:53,413 REPUBLICAN SENATOR. FOR YOU NOT TO BE WITH BLACK 290 00:14:53,413 --> 00:14:56,082 LIVES MATTER, WELL, I MEAN, HALF OF OUR LEAGUE, MAJORITY OF OUR 291 00:14:56,082 --> 00:14:57,650 LEAGUE IS THE BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY. 292 00:14:57,650 --> 00:15:00,286 WHY ARE YOU WRITING THE LETTER NOW? 293 00:15:00,286 --> 00:15:03,990 >> RENEE RESPONDED WITH AN OPEN LETTER OF HER OWN. 294 00:15:03,990 --> 00:15:08,227 >> YOUR COMMENTS HURT DEEPLY BECAUSE IT WAS A VEILED "ALL 295 00:15:08,227 --> 00:15:11,397 LIVES MATTER" RESPONSE, AND YOU ARE SPEAKING FROM A POSITION OF 296 00:15:11,397 --> 00:15:12,465 IMMENSE INFLUENCE AS A TEAM CO‐OWNER IN OUR LEAGUE AND AS A 297 00:15:12,465 --> 00:15:14,567 U.S. SENATOR. 298 00:15:14,567 --> 00:15:19,605 >> YOU OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONVERSATION. 299 00:15:19,605 --> 00:15:20,573 >> YEAH. 300 00:15:20,573 --> 00:15:22,875 >> DID SHE EVER TAKE YOU UP ON THAT OFFER? 301 00:15:22,875 --> 00:15:24,544 >> SHE DID NOT. 302 00:15:24,544 --> 00:15:28,781 >> WE REACHED OUT TO LOEFFLER THROUGH THE DREAM AND HER 303 00:15:28,781 --> 00:15:31,684 ORGANIZATION GREATER GEORGIA AND RECEIVED NO RESPONSE. 304 00:15:31,684 --> 00:15:32,752 >> EVERYBODY SAW WHAT HAPPENED WITH COLIN KAEPERNICK. 305 00:15:32,752 --> 00:15:33,820 SO WHAT WAS YOUR LEVEL OF CONCERN THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT 306 00:15:33,820 --> 00:15:34,320 MIGHT HAPPEN TO YOU AS WELL? 307 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:39,092 >> PRETTY HIGH. YOU'RE GOING HEAD TO HEAD WITH 308 00:15:39,092 --> 00:15:41,728 YOUR BOSS AND THAT'S NEVER A GOOD IDEA. 309 00:15:41,728 --> 00:15:44,364 >> THE STAKES COULDN'T HAVE BEEN HIGHER. 310 00:15:44,364 --> 00:15:46,499 LOEFFLER WAS FIGHTING FOR HER SENATE SEAT AGAINST A FIELD THAT 311 00:15:46,499 --> 00:15:51,104 INCLUDED POLITICAL NEWCOMER REVEREND RAPHAEL WARNOCK. 312 00:15:51,104 --> 00:15:54,807 THE BALANCE OF THE SENATE WOULD DEPEND ON THE SENATE RACES IN 313 00:15:54,807 --> 00:15:55,842 GEORGIA, AND RENEE WAS IN THE FIGHT, URGING VOTERS TO MAKE 314 00:15:55,842 --> 00:15:59,245 THEIR VOICES HEARD. 315 00:15:59,245 --> 00:16:05,318 >> VOTE STRONG, VOTE INFORMED AND REMEMBER THE 3rd OF NOVEMBER. 316 00:16:05,318 --> 00:16:09,589 YOU CAN HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS BY HITTING THEM IN THE VOTING BOOTHS. 317 00:16:09,589 --> 00:16:12,225 >> THERE WAS NOTHING SHORT OF 318 00:16:12,225 --> 00:16:18,064 OUR DEMOCRACY AT STAKE. 319 00:16:18,064 --> 00:16:20,166 >> BY EARLY AUGUST, WNBA PLAYERS ACROSS THE LEAGUE, LED BY 320 00:16:20,166 --> 00:16:22,769 SEATTLE STORM'S SUE BIRD AND THE DREAM'S ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, WERE 321 00:16:22,769 --> 00:16:27,840 THROWING THEIR SUPPORT BEHIND REVEREND WARNOCK, SENDING A 322 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,776 CLEAR AND PROVOCATIVE MESSAGE THAT THEY WOULD NOT REMAIN 323 00:16:29,776 --> 00:16:31,377 SILENT. 324 00:16:31,377 --> 00:16:34,547 >> THEY ACTUALLY VETTED SENATOR WARNOCK, AND THEY FOUND OUT WHAT 325 00:16:34,547 --> 00:16:36,649 HE WAS RUNNING ON, AND THEN THEY LIKED IT. 326 00:16:36,649 --> 00:16:38,251 AND THEN THEY WORE THE SHIRTS. 327 00:16:38,251 --> 00:16:41,954 >> THEY EMERGED WITH THOSE T‐SHIRTS THAT SAID "VOTE 328 00:16:41,954 --> 00:16:46,159 WARNOCK," BUT AT REAL ‐‐ IN A REAL SENSE, WHILE THEY WERE 329 00:16:46,159 --> 00:16:50,396 SUPPORTING ME, IT WAS MUCH BIGGER THAN ME. 330 00:16:50,396 --> 00:16:53,065 IT WAS ABOUT THEM RAISING THEIR VOICES AS ATHLETES WHO KNEW THAT 331 00:16:53,065 --> 00:16:56,736 THIS WAS A DEFINING MOMENT. 332 00:16:56,736 --> 00:17:01,507 >> THE WNBA'S PLAYERS AMPLIFYING THEIR VOICES DID A LOT TO MAKE 333 00:17:01,507 --> 00:17:02,575 SURE THAT WE HAD THE OUTCOMES THAT WE HAD IN NOVEMBER AND 334 00:17:02,575 --> 00:17:06,879 JANUARY. 335 00:17:06,879 --> 00:17:09,282 >> HISTORY IN GEORGIA. 336 00:17:09,282 --> 00:17:12,685 >> THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I AM GOING TO THE SENATE TO WORK 337 00:17:12,685 --> 00:17:15,354 FOR ALL OF GEORGIA. 338 00:17:15,354 --> 00:17:17,457 >> RECORD VOTER TURNOUT, THANKS TO EARLY VOTING, DROP BOXES, 339 00:17:17,457 --> 00:17:19,592 MAIL‐IN BALLOTS AND GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS HELPED MAKE ALL THE 340 00:17:19,592 --> 00:17:21,093 DIFFERENCE. 341 00:17:21,093 --> 00:17:24,797 >> THIS WAS NATIONAL NEWS. THE WNBA HAS A PLACE IN HISTORY. 342 00:17:24,797 --> 00:17:29,569 >> ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. THIS IS THE NEW SOUTH. 343 00:17:29,569 --> 00:17:33,806 THIS IS THE EMERGING AMERICAN ELECTORATE UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR 344 00:17:33,806 --> 00:17:35,374 VERY EYES. 345 00:17:35,374 --> 00:17:41,747 >> BUT IN THE WAKE OF THE 2020 ELECTION, GEORGIA PASSED 346 00:17:41,747 --> 00:17:43,850 NEW LEGISLATION OVERHAULING ELECTION LAWS THAT REPUBLICAN 347 00:17:43,850 --> 00:17:48,087 SUPPORTERS SAY IMPROVES VOTING SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY. 348 00:17:48,087 --> 00:17:51,257 >> IT EXPANDS EARLY VOTING. IT ACTUALLY PUTS DROP BOXES INTO 349 00:17:51,257 --> 00:17:52,325 THE LAW FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. 350 00:17:52,325 --> 00:17:55,495 >> BUT OPPONENTS ARGUE THE NEW LAWS MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE 351 00:17:55,495 --> 00:17:58,664 OF COLOR AND THOSE WHO ARE LOW INCOME TO VOTE. 352 00:17:58,664 --> 00:18:02,869 >> WHAT WE'RE WITNESSING IN GEORGIA AND ALL ACROSS THE 353 00:18:02,869 --> 00:18:07,640 COUNTRY IS POLITICIANS WHO ARE TRYING TO TURN OUR DEMOCRACY ON 354 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,775 ITS HEAD SO THAT RATHER THAN THE VOTERS PICKING THE POLITICIANS, 355 00:18:09,775 --> 00:18:15,081 THE POLITICIANS GET TO PICK THEIR VOTERS. 356 00:18:15,081 --> 00:18:17,183 AND WE HAVE TO STAND UP IN THIS MOMENT. 357 00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:21,754 >> I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE TRY TO PUT POLITICS TO THE SIDE AND 358 00:18:21,754 --> 00:18:25,224 BE LIKE, AH, I'M NOT INTO POLITICS, I DON'T GET INTO IT. 359 00:18:25,224 --> 00:18:28,427 BUT POLITICS IS ALL THE WAY INTO US. POLITICS IS SCARED OF US. 360 00:18:28,427 --> 00:18:31,597 >> AND AS FOR RENEE? SHE CONTINUES TO PILE UP HER 361 00:18:31,597 --> 00:18:37,436 MOMENTS AS A STUDIO ANALYST FOR ATLANTA HAWKS GAMES AND PART 362 00:18:37,436 --> 00:18:39,772 OWNER OF A FAN‐CONTROLLED FOOTBALL TEAM. 363 00:18:39,772 --> 00:18:40,873 >> LET'S JUST GET IT DONE. 364 00:18:40,873 --> 00:18:41,908 >> AND WHILE SHE MAY HAVE WIPED AWAY TEARS AS SHE ANNOUNCED HER 365 00:18:41,908 --> 00:18:47,213 RETIREMENT AS A PLAYER ON HER PODCAST ‐‐ 366 00:18:47,213 --> 00:18:48,814 >> DEAR BASKETBALL ‐‐ I SHOULDN'T BE CRYING OVER YOU 367 00:18:48,814 --> 00:18:51,450 BECAUSE WE ARE STILL GOING TO BE TOGETHER. 368 00:18:51,450 --> 00:18:54,587 SO LET'S KEEP THIS MOMENTUM GOING. 369 00:18:54,587 --> 00:18:57,790 >> RENEE'S BIGGEST MOVE CAME IN FEBRUARY. 370 00:18:57,790 --> 00:18:58,824 FORMER SENATOR KELLY LOEFFLER SELLING HER INTEREST IN THE 371 00:18:58,824 --> 00:19:02,061 ATLANTA DREAM TO A GROUP THAT INCLUDED RENEE MONTGOMERY. 372 00:19:02,061 --> 00:19:04,196 SO WHAT'S NEXT? 373 00:19:04,196 --> 00:19:06,299 >> WHAT'S NEXT IS NOT LETTING WHAT HAPPENED IN 2020 JUST BE 374 00:19:06,299 --> 00:19:09,468 THAT LITTLE MOMENT. IT NEEDS TO BE A MOVEMENT NOW. 375 00:19:09,468 --> 00:19:12,071 LET'S CONTINUE WHAT WE STARTED. BECAUSE WE'RE DOING SOMETHING, 376 00:19:12,071 --> 00:19:14,540 SOMETHING'S HAPPENING. 377 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:19,178 >>> UP NEXT, TWO UCLA GYMNASTS GO FOR BOLD. 378 00:19:19,178 --> 00:19:21,213 >> IT'S THE FLOOR EXERCISE, BUT IT'S A STAGE TO ME. 379 00:19:21,213 --> 00:19:23,316 I'M REACHING POTENTIALLY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 380 00:19:23,316 --> 00:19:25,985 >> HOW THEY'RE BRINGING ACTIVISM TO THE ARENA WITH FLOOR ROUTINES 381 00:19:25,985 --> 00:19:30,990 FOR THE CULTURE. WHEN "SOUL OF A NATION" RETURNS. 382 00:19:34,694 --> 00:19:50,009 ♪♪ 383 00:19:50,009 --> 00:19:52,912 >>> WELCOME BACK. AS SOMEBODY BLACK WHO DEFIES THE 384 00:19:52,912 --> 00:19:56,248 STEREOTYPE ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN DANCE, THIS NEXT STORY 385 00:19:56,248 --> 00:20:00,886 DEFINITELY WARMS MY HEART. TWO GYMNASTS HAVE VAULTED 386 00:20:00,886 --> 00:20:03,956 THEMSELVES IN THE LIMELIGHT AS VIRAL SENSATIONS WITH THEIR 387 00:20:03,956 --> 00:20:05,725 SHOW‐STOPPING MOVES. THESE TUMBLING QUEENS ARE ALSO 388 00:20:05,725 --> 00:20:07,727 BRINGING THEIR FORM OF ACTIVISM TO THE FLOOR WITH EPIC ROUTINES 389 00:20:07,727 --> 00:20:10,663 THAT ALSO CELEBRATE BLACK EXCELLENCE. 390 00:20:10,663 --> 00:20:14,467 HERE'S ABC NEWS ANCHOR KENNETH MOTON. 391 00:20:14,467 --> 00:20:16,068 >> THE SPORT OF GYMNASTICS IS VERY MUCH SEEN AS A VERY RIGID 392 00:20:16,068 --> 00:20:21,874 SPORT. FOR GENERATIONS, IT PROMOTED A 393 00:20:21,874 --> 00:20:25,011 RUSSIAN BALLETIC CLASSICAL BODY TYPE, THAT'S WHO WAS DOMINATING 394 00:20:25,011 --> 00:20:29,081 THE SPORT OF GYMNASTICS. IF YOU CAME INTO THE SPORT, LIKE 395 00:20:29,081 --> 00:20:35,421 I DID IN THE '80s, HAVING BOU LEGS AND A VERY MUSCULAR 396 00:20:35,421 --> 00:20:36,389 PHYSIQUE, YOU WERE PENALIZED FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE BORN 397 00:20:36,389 --> 00:20:39,558 WITH. AND IF YOU WERE GOING TO TRY TO 398 00:20:39,558 --> 00:20:41,160 EXPRESS YOURSELF, TRUST ME, YOU WERE GOING TO GET DEDUCTED FOR 399 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:41,661 THAT. 400 00:20:41,661 --> 00:20:43,796 >> WE WILL NOW SEE DOMINIQUE DAWES LOCK IN HER NEW 401 00:20:43,796 --> 00:20:46,432 FLOOR EXERCISE ROUTINE. 402 00:20:46,432 --> 00:20:48,534 >> IN 1996, 19‐YEAR‐OLD DOMINIQUE DAWES STEPPED ONTO THE 403 00:20:48,534 --> 00:20:54,006 FLOOR AT THE USA GYMNASTICS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. 404 00:20:54,006 --> 00:20:58,010 >> THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A CLASS CALL ROUTINE, WHICH IS 405 00:20:58,010 --> 00:21:03,883 NOT MY STRONG SUIT. WE CHOSE THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS 406 00:21:03,883 --> 00:21:06,519 PLAYING TO THE JUDGES. IT'S NOT PLAYING TO MY FANS. 407 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:08,654 >> DAWES WOULD WIN A BRONZE MEDAL AT THE OLYMPICS FOR THIS 408 00:21:08,654 --> 00:21:14,994 SAME ROUTINE. 409 00:21:14,994 --> 00:21:16,028 >> NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS WOULD I EVER SEE HIP HOP, POP, 410 00:21:16,028 --> 00:21:17,096 OR SOUL MUSIC USED AT AN OLYMPIC GAMES. 411 00:21:17,096 --> 00:21:18,698 HOWEVER, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE ON THE 412 00:21:18,698 --> 00:21:26,605 HORIZON. 413 00:21:26,605 --> 00:21:28,741 >> BEFORE I GO ON, I ‐‐ I SHUT EVERYTHING. 414 00:21:28,741 --> 00:21:32,978 I SHUT EVERYTHING OFF, EXCEPT FOR WHICH OF MY 18 PERSONALITIES 415 00:21:32,978 --> 00:21:35,848 DO I WANT TO BE TODAY. 416 00:21:35,848 --> 00:21:41,620 >> NEXT ON THE FLOOR FOR UCLA ‐‐ 417 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:46,258 >> AND I PRESENT AND I STEP ONTO THE FLOOR. 418 00:21:46,258 --> 00:21:49,995 ♪♪ 419 00:21:49,995 --> 00:21:52,665 IT'S THE FLOOR EXERCISE, BUT IT'S A STAGE TO ME. 420 00:21:52,665 --> 00:21:55,835 I'M REACHING POTENTIALLY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 421 00:21:55,835 --> 00:21:59,004 >> MORE THAN 15 MILLION TO BE EXACT. 422 00:21:59,004 --> 00:22:02,708 UCLA GYMNASTS MARGZETTA FRAZIER AND NIA DENNIS GOING VIRAL WITH 423 00:22:02,708 --> 00:22:06,946 THEIR FLOOR EXERCISES CELEBRATING BLACK CULTURE. 424 00:22:06,946 --> 00:22:11,317 MARGZETTA JOINING JANET'S RHYTHM NATION. 425 00:22:11,317 --> 00:22:19,492 ♪♪ 426 00:22:19,492 --> 00:22:21,927 NIA THROWING UP A FIST TO KENDRICK. 427 00:22:21,927 --> 00:22:23,496 >> WE STARTED WITH KENDRICK LAMAR BECAUSE HE'S A HUGE 428 00:22:23,496 --> 00:22:26,699 ACTIVIST IN HIS MUSIC. AND I WANTED TO TRY TO BRING THE 429 00:22:26,699 --> 00:22:28,801 SAME MESSAGE THROUGH DANCE, THROUGH GYMNASTICS. 430 00:22:28,801 --> 00:22:31,437 >> WHEN PEOPLE SEE YOUR ROUTINES, I THINK THERE'S A 431 00:22:31,437 --> 00:22:34,106 SURPRISE ELEMENT ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY'RE LIKE, "OH MY 432 00:22:34,106 --> 00:22:40,246 GOD, THEY DID THAT." AND THE WORD AUDACITY COMES UP, 433 00:22:40,246 --> 00:22:42,615 LIKE, WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION? DID YOU GIVE IT TO YOURSELF? 434 00:22:42,615 --> 00:22:47,353 >> I'VE DEFINITELY GIVEN MYSELF THE AUDACITY TO DO THESE FLOOR 435 00:22:47,353 --> 00:22:51,590 ROUTINES THAT BEST SUIT ME. BUT I WOULD SAY UCLA GYMNASTICS 436 00:22:51,590 --> 00:22:53,692 GAVE ME THE OPENING. 437 00:22:53,692 --> 00:22:57,396 >> FOR YEARS, THE UCLA GYMNASTICS PROGRAM HAS 438 00:22:57,396 --> 00:23:01,634 CHAMPIONED AND EMBRACED EACH ATHLETE'S PERSONALITY. 439 00:23:01,634 --> 00:23:08,674 IN 2019, KATELYN OHASHI'S ROUTINE BROKE THE INTERNET. 440 00:23:08,674 --> 00:23:11,777 ♪♪ 441 00:23:11,777 --> 00:23:13,946 >> THE GYMNAST HAVING THE COURAGE TO EXPRESS THEIR TRUE 442 00:23:13,946 --> 00:23:17,116 SELVES AND CHOOSE MUSIC THAT THEY GREW UP WITH IS A HUGE STEP. 443 00:23:17,116 --> 00:23:20,286 WHEN GYMNASTICS IS SUCH A CUTTHROAT, VERY STRICT SPORT. 444 00:23:20,286 --> 00:23:24,723 >> I'VE BEEN DOING GYMNASTICS SINCE I WAS 4 YEARS OLD. 445 00:23:24,723 --> 00:23:27,426 IT HAS ITS HIGHS AND DEFINITELY HAS ITS LOWS. 446 00:23:27,426 --> 00:23:29,528 IT'S TAUGHT ME SO MANY LIFE LESSONS THAT MADE ME STRONGER AS 447 00:23:29,528 --> 00:23:31,163 A BLACK WOMAN. 448 00:23:31,163 --> 00:23:33,799 >> YOU'RE IN A WHITE DOMINATED SPORT AND YOU'RE A COUPLE OF 449 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:34,867 BLACK GIRLS WHO SAID, "I'M GOING TO COME UP HERE AND CHANGE THE 450 00:23:34,867 --> 00:23:39,038 GAME." WAS IT TOUGH? 451 00:23:39,038 --> 00:23:42,208 >> BEING A BLACK WOMAN IN GENERAL, YOU ALWAYS KNOW THAT 452 00:23:42,208 --> 00:23:45,911 YOU HAVE TO RAISE THE BAR FOR YOURSELF HIGHER THAN MOST TO GET 453 00:23:45,911 --> 00:23:49,081 HALF AS FAR AS YOUR WHITE COUNTERPARTS. 454 00:23:49,081 --> 00:23:53,919 GROWING UP, IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION, THE STYLE OF MY 455 00:23:53,919 --> 00:23:57,690 GYMNASTICS, IT WAS ALWAYS VERY, VERY STRONG. 456 00:23:57,690 --> 00:24:00,860 AND THEN THE OTHER GIRLS WOULD GET ELEGANT, POISED, ARTISTIC ‐‐ 457 00:24:00,860 --> 00:24:02,428 >> GRACEFUL. 458 00:24:02,428 --> 00:24:06,398 >> YEAH. GRACEFUL. 459 00:24:06,398 --> 00:24:08,200 >> IS THERE A LITTLE SADNESS TO IT? 460 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,403 >> IT STINGS A LITTLE, BUT WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT I 461 00:24:11,403 --> 00:24:14,573 KNOW THAT I'M GRACEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL, AND THOSE ARE JUST 462 00:24:14,573 --> 00:24:17,743 OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS AND IT IS A SUBJECTIVE SPORT THAT I DID 463 00:24:17,743 --> 00:24:20,412 SIGN UP FOR. 464 00:24:20,412 --> 00:24:22,514 >> WHILE MARGZETTA AND NIA ROCK THE WORLD OF COLLEGIATE 465 00:24:22,514 --> 00:24:25,150 GYMNASTICS, MANY OTHERS HAVE STARTED SPEAKING UP ON A RANGE 466 00:24:25,150 --> 00:24:29,388 OF SOCIAL ISSUES. SIMONE BILES, THE MOST DECORATED 467 00:24:29,388 --> 00:24:33,626 GYMNAST IN HISTORY, USING HER PLATFORM TO PUSH FOR EQUALITY. 468 00:24:33,626 --> 00:24:37,263 >> I LOVE THE FACT TODAY THAT SIMONE BILES CAN BE AS OUTSPOKEN 469 00:24:37,263 --> 00:24:44,136 AND TRUTHFUL AS SHE IS TODAY. I WOULD SAY TO KEEP IT UP. 470 00:24:44,136 --> 00:24:45,204 YOUNG ATHLETES NEED TO SEE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT GOING TO BE 471 00:24:45,204 --> 00:24:53,145 CONTROLLED BY THE SYSTEM. WE DO NEED TO BREAK THE RIGIDITY 472 00:24:53,145 --> 00:24:54,179 OF THE SPORT OF GYMNASTICS. WE NEED TO LEARN TO EMBRACE 473 00:24:54,179 --> 00:24:57,883 PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES, EMBRACE THE MESSAGES THAT THEY WANT TO 474 00:24:57,883 --> 00:24:59,985 PUT OUT. 475 00:24:59,985 --> 00:25:03,155 >> WILL YOU SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN THE OLYMPICS? 476 00:25:03,155 --> 00:25:07,293 >> HOPEFULLY. I HOPE WE HAVE INSPIRED SOMEBODY 477 00:25:07,293 --> 00:25:13,365 TO GO OUT THERE AND DO A HIP HOP/POP ROUTINE AT THE OLYMPICS. 478 00:25:13,365 --> 00:25:14,400 IT'S SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH, LIKE, WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO SEE 479 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,835 THAT ON THE BIGGEST STAGE? 480 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:20,105 >>> STILL AHEAD, MY FRIEND SUNNY HOSTIN TAKES THINGS UP A NOTCH 481 00:25:20,105 --> 00:25:23,909 IN THE KITCHEN AND GETS REAL ABOUT RACE IN SPORTS WITH BLACK JOURNALISTS. 482 00:25:23,909 --> 00:25:27,813 >> I WANTED TO ASK ALL OF YOU WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE THE 483 00:25:27,813 --> 00:25:29,532 ONLY BROWN FACE IN THE ROOM. 484 00:25:29,532 --> 00:25:31,468 >> WHEN "SOUL OF A NATION" RETURNS. 485 00:25:36,188 --> 00:25:39,225 ♪♪ 486 00:25:39,225 --> 00:25:41,260 >>> WELCOME TO THE KITCHEN. 487 00:25:41,260 --> 00:25:42,328 >> HEY. 488 00:25:42,328 --> 00:25:44,430 >> THANKS FOR HAVING US. 489 00:25:44,430 --> 00:25:45,965 >> AND IT FEELS LIKE, KIND OF, A SPORTS FAMILY REUNION? 490 00:25:45,965 --> 00:25:46,498 >> IT IS. 491 00:25:46,498 --> 00:25:47,533 >> YES? 492 00:25:47,533 --> 00:25:49,668 >> OH, MAN. THESE MY SISTERS RIGHT HERE. 493 00:25:49,668 --> 00:25:50,202 >> THAT'S WHAT WE DO. 494 00:25:50,202 --> 00:25:51,770 >> LITERALLY, BIG BROTHER. 495 00:25:51,770 --> 00:25:56,742 >> WELL, I WANTED TO ASK ALL OF YOU WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE THE 496 00:25:56,742 --> 00:26:00,412 ONLY BROWN FACE IN THE ROOM? I THINK WE'VE PROBABLY ALL HAD 497 00:26:00,412 --> 00:26:01,480 THAT FEELING, RIGHT? AND I'VE INTERVIEWED 498 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:06,218 BUBBA WALLACE. I'VE INTERVIEWED TIGER WOODS. 499 00:26:06,218 --> 00:26:12,591 AND SERENA WILLIAMS RECENTLY TALKED ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE AND 500 00:26:12,591 --> 00:26:14,159 HER EXPERIENCE OF BEING THE ONLY IN A ROYAL FAMILY. 501 00:26:14,159 --> 00:26:17,329 WHAT'S BEEN YOUR EXPERIENCE OF BEING THE ONLY? 502 00:26:17,329 --> 00:26:19,999 >> WHEN YOU'RE THE ONLY BLACK WOMAN IN THE ROOM, WHEN YOU'RE 503 00:26:19,999 --> 00:26:22,101 THE ONLY AFRICAN‐AMERICAN PERSON IN THE ROOM, IT'S JUST PART OF 504 00:26:22,101 --> 00:26:27,840 YOUR EXPERIENCE. IN MY EARLY DAYS OF DOING 505 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,709 FOOTBALL, I WOULD FEEL THAT, THEY'RE NOT LOOKING AT ME. 506 00:26:30,709 --> 00:26:34,680 THEY'RE NOT LOOKING AT ME IN THE ROOM. SO, YOU JUST HAVE TO KEEP 507 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,283 CLIMBING AND STAY TRUE. BUT YOU ALSO KNOW YOU CAN'T MESS 508 00:26:38,283 --> 00:26:39,918 UP. IF YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE, YOU'RE 509 00:26:39,918 --> 00:26:43,589 REPRESENTING EVERYONE WHO LOOKS LIKE YOU. 510 00:26:43,589 --> 00:26:47,259 >> DOES IT FEEL MORE LIKE A BURDEN OR A PRIVILEGE? 511 00:26:47,259 --> 00:26:51,463 >> IS IT A BURDEN? YOU COULD LOOK AT IT THAT WAY. 512 00:26:51,463 --> 00:26:58,604 BUT IT IS ALSO IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE PAVING THE WAY AND INSPIRING 513 00:26:58,604 --> 00:27:00,606 PEOPLE BEHIND YOU. AND YOU SAID YOU WERE LOOKING UP 514 00:27:00,606 --> 00:27:02,207 TO HER. 515 00:27:02,207 --> 00:27:03,809 >> ABSOLUTELY. 516 00:27:03,809 --> 00:27:06,178 >> AWW. 517 00:27:06,178 --> 00:27:08,247 >> OF COURSE I WAS LOOKING UP TO YOU, LISA. 518 00:27:08,247 --> 00:27:12,818 YOU KNOW, WHEN ‐‐ WHEN YOU'RE A BLACK GIRL AND YOU WANT TO BE A 519 00:27:12,818 --> 00:27:13,886 SPORTS BROADCASTER, I MEAN, THERE ARE VERY FEW NAMES THAT 520 00:27:13,886 --> 00:27:14,953 COME TO MIND. AND YOU GUYS WERE DOING EXACTLY 521 00:27:14,953 --> 00:27:15,988 WHAT I WANTED TO DO. BUT I REMEMBER HOW DIFFICULT IT 522 00:27:15,988 --> 00:27:17,056 WAS WHEN I FIRST STARTED COLLEGE FOOTBALL. 523 00:27:17,056 --> 00:27:18,090 AND YOU WALK INTO THESE PRODUCTION MEETINGS. 524 00:27:18,090 --> 00:27:19,691 AND YOU'RE SITTING THERE WITH THE HEAD COACH. 525 00:27:19,691 --> 00:27:21,293 YOU'RE SITTING THERE WITH YOUR PLAY‐BY‐PLAY AND YOUR ANALYSTS, 526 00:27:21,293 --> 00:27:22,861 AND USUALLY THESE ARE ALL WHITE MEN. 527 00:27:22,861 --> 00:27:26,665 AND I ALWAYS JUST FELT LIKE I DIDN'T BELONG IN THE ROOM. 528 00:27:26,665 --> 00:27:27,199 >> WOW. 529 00:27:27,199 --> 00:27:29,802 >> AND YOU'RE IN THOSE ROOMS FOR A REASON. YOUR VOICE MATTERS. 530 00:27:29,802 --> 00:27:31,937 YOUR OPINION MATTERS. AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE, LIKE YOU 531 00:27:31,937 --> 00:27:35,140 SAID, BUT I ALSO FEEL LIKE IT'S A DUTY. 532 00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:38,510 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK, MARC? 533 00:27:38,510 --> 00:27:42,381 >> YOU KNOW HOW I THINK MORE OF US GET INTO THE ROOM? 534 00:27:42,381 --> 00:27:43,449 THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE OF THE PEOPLE WE SEE OVER AND ‐‐ I 535 00:27:43,449 --> 00:27:44,983 GUESS THEY'RE NOT IN THE KITCHEN. THEY'RE IN THE LIVING ROOM. 536 00:27:44,983 --> 00:27:51,323 THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES WHO BRING US IN. 537 00:27:51,323 --> 00:27:56,595 I REMEMBER GOING TO THIS SPORTS EDITORS CONVENTION AND 90% OF 538 00:27:56,595 --> 00:27:58,730 THE SPORTS EDITORS WERE WHITE. AND THEM SAYING THAT THEY DIDN'T 539 00:27:58,730 --> 00:28:03,235 KNOW HOW TO FIND BLACK SPORTS WRITERS, SPORTS JOURNALISTS. 540 00:28:03,235 --> 00:28:07,339 I'M LIKE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? THEY'RE JUST CALLING THEIR 541 00:28:07,339 --> 00:28:09,741 FRIENDS AND GETTING REFERENCES. 542 00:28:09,741 --> 00:28:10,275 >> YEAH. 543 00:28:10,275 --> 00:28:11,343 >> BUT IT'S THE SPORTS EDITOR, IT'S THE PRODUCERS, THE STATION 544 00:28:11,343 --> 00:28:14,446 MANAGERS. ULTIMATELY, I THINK THOSE ARE 545 00:28:14,446 --> 00:28:16,949 THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO CHANGE HOW EVERYTHING LOOKS. 546 00:28:16,949 --> 00:28:18,016 >> IF WE GET MORE DECISIONMAKERS IN THE ROOM, THEN SOME OF THE 547 00:28:18,016 --> 00:28:20,619 CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAVE SOUND A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 548 00:28:20,619 --> 00:28:23,255 >> MY WHOLE TIME COMING UP, I THINK I WORKED FOR ONE BLACK 549 00:28:23,255 --> 00:28:24,890 SPORTS EDITOR. 550 00:28:24,890 --> 00:28:28,060 >> I DON'T THINK I HAVE EVER HAD A BOSS OF COLOR. 551 00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:28,560 >> REALLY? 552 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:29,628 >> NOT AT ESPN. 553 00:28:29,628 --> 00:28:30,696 >> YEAH. 554 00:28:30,696 --> 00:28:36,001 >> NOT COVERING COLLEGE FOOTBALL. NOT COVERING THE NBA. 555 00:28:36,001 --> 00:28:36,535 NOT COVERING THE NFL. 556 00:28:36,535 --> 00:28:37,569 >> NEVER? 557 00:28:37,569 --> 00:28:39,171 >> WOW. HOW LONG? 20 YEARS? 558 00:28:39,171 --> 00:28:41,273 >> 21 YEARS. 559 00:28:41,273 --> 00:28:42,875 >> EVERY DECISION ABOUT YOUR CAREER IS MADE WHEN YOU'RE NOT 560 00:28:42,875 --> 00:28:49,181 IN THE ROOM. AND SO, REPRESENTATION MATTERS 561 00:28:49,181 --> 00:28:51,917 TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE GET INTO THE ROOM WITH YOU. 562 00:28:51,917 --> 00:28:52,451 >> OH, ABSOLUTELY. 563 00:28:52,451 --> 00:28:58,290 >> I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION IN THE KITCHEN. 564 00:28:58,290 --> 00:29:01,760 WHEN IS THE MOMENT THAT YOU KNEW YOU WERE BLACK? 565 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,464 >> I WAS IN SECOND GRADE AND MY FAMILY HAD MOVED FROM THE INNER 566 00:29:05,464 --> 00:29:11,270 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TO A SUBURB OF PHILADELPHIA AND WE WERE IN A 567 00:29:11,270 --> 00:29:16,041 PREDOMINANTLY WHITE COMMUNITY. WE HAD A PLAY AND I WAS CAST AS 568 00:29:16,041 --> 00:29:18,177 THE LEAD. AND I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS THE 569 00:29:18,177 --> 00:29:20,812 GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. BUT SOME OF THOSE PARENTS, THEY 570 00:29:20,812 --> 00:29:23,482 DID NOT. THEY COMPLAINED TO THE SCHOOL. 571 00:29:23,482 --> 00:29:27,686 MANY PARENTS DIDN'T THINK THAT THIS LITTLE BLACK GIRL SHOULD 572 00:29:27,686 --> 00:29:32,457 HAVE THE LEAD IN THE CLASS PLAY. I JUST REMEMBER MY PARENTS 573 00:29:32,457 --> 00:29:34,059 TELLING ME HOW PROUD OF ME THAT THEY WERE. 574 00:29:34,059 --> 00:29:37,229 THEY WERE FUELED, LIKE, "THAT'S OUR KID." THAT'S RIGHT. 575 00:29:37,229 --> 00:29:38,263 THAT'S OUR KID WHO'S THE LEAD IN THE PLAY. 576 00:29:38,263 --> 00:29:41,466 >> THAT'S KEY. YOUR PARENTS' REACTION TO IT. 577 00:29:41,466 --> 00:29:46,572 BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE LITTLE, YOU'RE JUST KIND OF LIKE, 578 00:29:46,572 --> 00:29:48,207 SOMETHING'S WRONG. 579 00:29:48,207 --> 00:29:48,740 >> HOLD ON. 580 00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:51,443 >> YOU KNOW, I DON'T REALLY QUITE KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT I CAN 581 00:29:51,443 --> 00:29:54,413 TELL THAT SOMETHING'S UP BECAUSE YOUR PARENTS ARE SO FIRED UP. 582 00:29:54,413 --> 00:29:55,480 >> YEAH. 583 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,014 >> SO THAT WAS MY MOMENT. 584 00:29:56,014 --> 00:29:59,885 >> THAT WAS YOUR MOMENT. MARC, WHEN WAS THE MOMENT? 585 00:29:59,885 --> 00:30:00,953 >> AROUND THIRD OR FOURTH GRADE. AND THERE WAS ONE NIGHT I HAD A 586 00:30:00,953 --> 00:30:02,521 FRIEND, A KID THAT WAS A ASIAN KID AND HE INVITED ME OVER TO 587 00:30:02,521 --> 00:30:04,623 STAY THE NIGHT AT HIS HOUSE. STAYED THE NIGHT. 588 00:30:04,623 --> 00:30:06,225 HAD A GOOD TIME. GOT UP THE MORNING. 589 00:30:06,225 --> 00:30:10,462 MY DAD PICKED ME UP. SOON AS WE WALKED INTO THE 590 00:30:10,462 --> 00:30:16,568 HOUSE, HIS MOTHER HAD CALLED. DAD PICKED UP THE PHONE AND SHE 591 00:30:16,568 --> 00:30:21,173 SAID, YEAH, YOUR SON, HE STOLE $20 OUT OF MY PURSE. 592 00:30:21,173 --> 00:30:24,209 SHE ‐‐ SO MY DAD SAID, HOLD ON A SECOND. 593 00:30:24,209 --> 00:30:27,512 HE SAID, SON, DID YOU STEAL $20 FROM YOUR FRIEND'S MOM? 594 00:30:27,512 --> 00:30:29,781 I SAID NO. I'M GOING TO ASK YOU ONE MORE 595 00:30:29,781 --> 00:30:32,884 TIME. DID YOU STEAL $20 FROM YOUR FRIEND'S MOM? NO. 596 00:30:32,884 --> 00:30:36,388 MY DAD PICKS UP THE PHONE UP, MY SON DOESN'T LIE TO ME, HE DIDN'T 597 00:30:36,388 --> 00:30:39,291 STEAL $20, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. 598 00:30:39,291 --> 00:30:41,727 TEN MINUTES LATER, SHE CALLED BACK. 599 00:30:41,727 --> 00:30:48,000 MR. SPEARS, MY APOLOGY, I FOUND THE $20 IN MY COUCH. 600 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,838 AND SO HE HANGS UP THE PHONE, HE TOOK ME ASIDE AND HE SAYS, SON, 601 00:30:52,838 --> 00:30:57,075 THEY THOUGHT YOU TOOK THE MONEY BECAUSE YOU'RE BLACK. 602 00:30:57,075 --> 00:31:00,145 YOU KNOW, SEEING THE PAIN ON MY DAD'S FACE, THE ANGER ‐‐ 603 00:31:00,145 --> 00:31:00,612 >> YEAH. 604 00:31:00,612 --> 00:31:02,014 >> THAT'S WHEN IT HIT. 605 00:31:02,014 --> 00:31:04,716 >> ANGRY AND THE FEAR THAT THEIR CHILD COULD BE ACCUSED OF 606 00:31:04,716 --> 00:31:08,086 SOMETHING WHEN THEY'RE NOT GUILTY OF IT. MARIA? 607 00:31:08,086 --> 00:31:11,189 >> I REMEMBER ME AND MY FAMILY WOULD ALWAYS TAKE ROAD TRIPS SO 608 00:31:11,189 --> 00:31:14,760 WE WOULD DRIVE DOWN FROM CHICAGO TO ATLANTA AND SO, YOU KNOW, 609 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,061 WE'D GET DOWN TO THE SOUTH AND 610 00:31:16,061 --> 00:31:24,269 IT WAS KIND OF ‐‐ IT SHIFTED. 611 00:31:24,269 --> 00:31:27,606 SO WE'D GO INTO THIS RESTAURANT AND THEY HAVE A TON OF TOYS THAT 612 00:31:27,606 --> 00:31:30,375 ARE IN THERE AND SO I'M PLAYING, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF KIDS IN 613 00:31:30,375 --> 00:31:32,544 THE RESTAURANT, PLAYING WITH TOYS. 614 00:31:32,544 --> 00:31:33,578 AND THERE'S A LADY WHO WORKS THERE THAT'S WALKING AROUND. 615 00:31:33,578 --> 00:31:34,646 SHE'S LIKE, "YOU GUYS NEED TO PUT THOSE DOWN." 616 00:31:34,646 --> 00:31:35,714 AND I'M LIKE, 5 YEARS OLD. MY BROTHER'S 9. 617 00:31:35,714 --> 00:31:36,782 AND I JUST KEEP PLAYING. AND MY BROTHER GRABS ME AND IS 618 00:31:36,782 --> 00:31:37,816 LIKE, "OKAY, COME ON." AND HE WAS LIKE, "LISTEN, SHE 619 00:31:37,816 --> 00:31:40,485 CAME OVER THERE BECAUSE YOU'RE BLACK. AND YOU CAN'T PLAY LIKE 620 00:31:40,485 --> 00:31:42,054 EVERYBODY ELSE." 621 00:31:42,054 --> 00:31:43,655 >> WOW. 622 00:31:43,655 --> 00:31:46,224 >> AND IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME FOR IT TO SET IN, BUT I 623 00:31:46,224 --> 00:31:48,860 KNEW THAT, LIKE, ME NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY HAD SOMETHING TO DO 624 00:31:48,860 --> 00:31:52,831 WITH ME BEING BLACK AND JUST, KIND OF, LIKE, SITTING WITH THAT. 625 00:31:52,831 --> 00:31:56,001 >> THAT'S HEAVY FOR LITTLE ONES BECAUSE ALL OF YOUR EXPERIENCES 626 00:31:56,001 --> 00:31:58,136 WHERE WHEN YOU WERE SMALL. 627 00:31:58,136 --> 00:31:58,670 >> UH‐HUH. 628 00:31:58,670 --> 00:31:59,204 >> BUT AIN'T THAT HORRIBLE? 629 00:31:59,204 --> 00:32:00,238 >> RIGHT. 630 00:32:00,238 --> 00:32:01,907 >> NOT THAT UNUSUAL. 631 00:32:01,907 --> 00:32:03,742 >> I KNOW. 632 00:32:03,742 --> 00:32:04,142 >> YEAH. 633 00:32:04,142 --> 00:32:06,278 >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME IN THE KITCHEN. 634 00:32:06,278 --> 00:32:06,812 >> THANK YOU. 635 00:32:06,812 --> 00:32:07,612 >> THANK YOU. 636 00:32:07,612 --> 00:32:09,781 >> IT'S MY PRIVILEGE ‐‐ 637 00:32:09,781 --> 00:32:11,516 >> NO, THANK YOU FOR DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 638 00:32:11,516 --> 00:32:13,385 >> YEP. KEEP HOLDING IT DOWN. 639 00:32:13,385 --> 00:32:16,455 >> THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO TRY. 640 00:32:16,455 --> 00:32:17,155 >> WE NEED YOU OUT HERE. 641 00:32:17,155 --> 00:32:18,957 >> I'M GOING TO TRY. 642 00:32:18,957 --> 00:32:21,793 >> I KNOW ‐‐ I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE'S NO FOOD. 643 00:32:21,793 --> 00:32:23,395 >> THERE'S NO FOOD. YEAH. WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT THAT. 644 00:32:23,395 --> 00:32:25,797 >> EVERYONE HAS MENTIONED THAT THERE'S NO FOOD. 645 00:32:25,797 --> 00:32:29,801 >>> COMING UP, MOVIES GIVE A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES OF BLACK 646 00:32:29,801 --> 00:32:32,537 ATHLETES. OUR PARTNERS AT "THE UNDEFEATED" 647 00:32:32,537 --> 00:32:37,843 SHOW HOW FILMED PULL BACK THE CURTAIN AND GET REAL ABOUT RACE. 648 00:32:37,843 --> 00:32:39,979 >> THESE ARE MOVIES THAT WE LIVE AND CAN IDENTIFY WITH. 649 00:32:39,979 --> 00:32:41,401 >> WHEN "SOUL OF A NATION" RETURNS. 650 00:32:45,050 --> 00:32:51,390 >>> WELCOME BACK TO "SOUL OF A NATION." 651 00:32:51,390 --> 00:32:54,192 ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME KNOWS I LOVE FILMS. 652 00:32:54,192 --> 00:32:58,997 AND WHEN IT COMES TO SPORTS, MOVIES HAVE A WAY OF MAKING OUR 653 00:32:58,997 --> 00:33:04,403 ATHLETIC HEROES LARGER THAN LIFE. SOME SHOW THE UGLY REALITIES OF 654 00:33:04,403 --> 00:33:07,239 RACISM ATHLETES FACE IN THEIR QUEST FOR GLORY. 655 00:33:07,239 --> 00:33:11,042 OUR PARTNERS AT "THE UNDEFEATED" TAKE AN EVEN CLOSER LOOK INTO 656 00:33:11,042 --> 00:33:13,178 THE MOVIE GAME. 657 00:33:13,178 --> 00:33:16,381 >> WHEN I THINK ABOUT ICONIC SPORTS MOVIES THAT REPRESENT 658 00:33:16,381 --> 00:33:18,917 BLACK LIFE AND CULTURE. 659 00:33:18,917 --> 00:33:24,423 >> "BRIAN'S SONG" WITH BILLY DEE WILLIAMS. 660 00:33:24,423 --> 00:33:27,926 >> I THINK OF COACH CARTER. BECAUSE WHEN I WATCHED THAT, I 661 00:33:27,926 --> 00:33:30,395 WAS LIKE, I LIKE HIM, HIM, HIM. 662 00:33:30,395 --> 00:33:32,931 >> THAT'S A SHOUTOUT TO THE REST OF YOU. 663 00:33:32,931 --> 00:33:35,634 >> YES, SIR. 664 00:33:35,634 --> 00:33:40,405 >> "ALI," WILL SMITH, THAT'S A GREAT, GREAT FILM. 665 00:33:40,405 --> 00:33:45,343 >> "42" FOR JACK SEE ROBINSON. LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM, MANY 666 00:33:45,343 --> 00:33:46,411 PEOPLE OF MY COLOR WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PLAY IN THE MAJOR 667 00:33:46,411 --> 00:33:46,945 LEAGUES. 668 00:33:46,945 --> 00:33:47,446 >> SHOW ME THE MONEY. 669 00:33:47,446 --> 00:33:49,581 >> SHOW ME THE MONEY IS THE MOST ICONIC LINE. 670 00:33:49,581 --> 00:33:53,351 >> THESE ARE MOVIES THAT WE LIVE AND THAT WE KNOW ABOUT. 671 00:33:53,351 --> 00:33:53,885 THESE ARE FILMS WE CAN IDENTIFY 672 00:33:53,885 --> 00:34:02,127 WITH. 673 00:34:02,127 --> 00:34:08,867 >> BLACK SPORTS FILMS CAN BE USED TO MAKE CULTURAL STATEMENTS 674 00:34:08,867 --> 00:34:11,069 EFFORTLESSLY, BECAUSE SPORTS WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT FABRIC OF THE 675 00:34:11,069 --> 00:34:11,803 COMMUNITY. 676 00:34:11,803 --> 00:34:15,507 >> WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ME THEN. 677 00:34:15,507 --> 00:34:16,541 >> I DEFINITELY THINK SPORTS FILMS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE MOST 678 00:34:16,541 --> 00:34:19,177 APPETIZING WAY TO DELIVER RACE QUESTIONS AND CHALLENGES TO A 679 00:34:19,177 --> 00:34:20,245 MAINSTREAM AUDIENCE. 680 00:34:20,245 --> 00:34:22,380 >> YOU GOT A JOB? 681 00:34:22,380 --> 00:34:23,248 >> I HAVE A JOB. 682 00:34:23,248 --> 00:34:25,817 >> YOU BEEN DOING YOUR JOB? 683 00:34:25,817 --> 00:34:28,053 >> I'VE BEEN DOING MY JOB. 684 00:34:28,053 --> 00:34:31,556 >> THEN WHY DON'T YOU TELL YOUR WHITE BUDDIES TO BLOCK FOR REV 685 00:34:31,556 --> 00:34:33,158 BETTER BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT BLOCKED FOR HIM WORTH A BLOOD 686 00:34:33,158 --> 00:34:36,428 NICKLE AND YOU KNOW IT! 687 00:34:36,428 --> 00:34:38,864 >> "REMEMBER THE TITANS" HAS CHANGED THE CONVERSATION AROUND 688 00:34:38,864 --> 00:34:41,466 RACE. 689 00:34:41,466 --> 00:34:43,101 ♪ WE ARE THE TITANS ♪ 690 00:34:43,101 --> 00:34:44,870 ♪ WE ARE THE TITANS ♪ 691 00:34:44,870 --> 00:34:49,341 ♪ THE MIGHTY, MIGHTY TITANS ♪ 692 00:34:49,341 --> 00:34:50,408 >> IN THAT MOVIE IT SHOWED WHITES AND BLACKS BEING ABLE TO 693 00:34:50,408 --> 00:34:51,443 COME TOGETHER FOR A COMMON CAUSE. 694 00:34:51,443 --> 00:34:55,614 >> DON'T FORGET YOU STILL PLAYING WITH ME HOMIE. 695 00:34:55,614 --> 00:34:57,983 >> I'VE ALWAYS LOVED "ABOVE THE RIM" BECAUSE IT WASN'T JUST A 696 00:34:57,983 --> 00:35:02,554 BASKETBALL MOVIE. IT TALKED ABOUT STREET BALL 697 00:35:02,554 --> 00:35:05,657 CULTURE IN NEW YORK. LOOK AT BIGGIE SMALLS ON HIS 698 00:35:05,657 --> 00:35:10,795 FIRST ALBUM, HE SAID, "THE STREETS IS A SHORTSTOP. 699 00:35:10,795 --> 00:35:11,863 EITHER YOU SLINGIN' CRACK ROCK OR YOU GOT A WICKED JUMP SHOT." 700 00:35:11,863 --> 00:35:13,431 >> IT'S MY FIRST FILM. VERY FIRST FILM I AUDITIONED FOR. 701 00:35:13,431 --> 00:35:17,402 I WAS VERY BLESSED TO GET A FILM THAT SHOWS URBAN 702 00:35:17,402 --> 00:35:18,436 SPORTS IN A SENSE WHERE MONEY IS BEING WAGED. 703 00:35:18,436 --> 00:35:20,038 AND THEN POWER AND SORT GHETTO PRIDE IS AT STAKE. 704 00:35:20,038 --> 00:35:24,743 >> THIS BOY AIN'T GOT IT, THIS BOY AIN'T GOT IT. 705 00:35:24,743 --> 00:35:27,345 >> "HOOP DREAMS" SPOKE TO THE OTHER SIDE. 706 00:35:27,345 --> 00:35:29,147 >> JCHLT JOE'S BEGINS TO UNRAVEL. 707 00:35:29,147 --> 00:35:34,686 >> WHEN THE BALL STOPS BOUNCING, WHEN THE GAME'S OVER, THEN WHAT? 708 00:35:34,686 --> 00:35:37,789 >> THIS IS YOU'RE DECISION AND YOU GOTO LIVE AND DIE WITH IT. 709 00:35:37,789 --> 00:35:41,126 >> I THINK "HE GOT GAME" REALLY SHOWS A LOT OF THE CHALLENGES 710 00:35:41,126 --> 00:35:42,627 THESE PLAYERS HAVE TO FACE BEFORE THEY EVEN GO TO COLLEGE. 711 00:35:42,627 --> 00:35:44,863 >> I'M TEACHING BROTHER. I'M TEACHING SON. 712 00:35:44,863 --> 00:35:49,034 >> SORT OF PULLING AT YOUR HEART STRINGS. 713 00:35:49,034 --> 00:35:53,605 >> IT'S YOUR BALL. 714 00:35:53,605 --> 00:35:57,108 >> AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE STORIES OF SORT OF THE GLORY OF 715 00:35:57,108 --> 00:36:02,647 MAKING IT TO THE OTHER SIDE. 716 00:36:02,647 --> 00:36:08,787 ♪ WILLIE BEAMEN ♪ 717 00:36:08,787 --> 00:36:10,789 >> I FORGET HOW IT GOES. BUT HE HAWES THE DRINK AND THE 718 00:36:10,789 --> 00:36:12,390 SIP. 719 00:36:12,390 --> 00:36:13,458 >> IT WAS SO GREAT TO SEE THAT. IT WAS ONE OF OURS DOING IT 720 00:36:13,458 --> 00:36:16,528 FLARED UP DOING IT THE WAY WE DO IT OR WHATEVER BECAUSE IN SPORTS 721 00:36:16,528 --> 00:36:19,731 THERE WASN'T REALLY ANY BLACK QUARTERBACKS LIKE THAT. 722 00:36:19,731 --> 00:36:25,337 >> I'M GOING TO STAY WHO I AM. STEAMIN WILLIE BEAMEN. 723 00:36:25,337 --> 00:36:26,404 >> FOR A LOT OF US, THOSE CHARACTERS ARE THE FIRST TIMES 724 00:36:26,404 --> 00:36:29,975 WE SAW THREE DIMENSIONAL VERSIONS OF OURSELVES ON SCREEN. 725 00:36:29,975 --> 00:36:33,578 >> DON'T TEMPT ME. DON'T TEMPT ME, I'M WARNING YOU. 726 00:36:33,578 --> 00:36:35,747 >> MONICA WRIGHT IS SUCH AN AMAZING CHARACTER BECAUSE HERE, 727 00:36:35,747 --> 00:36:38,049 YOU HAVE A WOMAN ATHLETE THAT PUTS THE GAME FIRST. 728 00:36:38,049 --> 00:36:41,319 >> I'M A BALL PLAYER. IF ANYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT 729 00:36:41,319 --> 00:36:42,053 MEANS, IT SHOULD BE YOU. 730 00:36:42,053 --> 00:36:47,425 >> I REMEMBER BEING IN FIFTH GRADE AND PLAYING BASKETBALL AND 731 00:36:47,425 --> 00:36:51,162 I THOUGHT IT WAS SO FLY THAT SHE WAS AN EXPERT, A PRO, IN 732 00:36:51,162 --> 00:36:53,865 BASKETBALL. 733 00:36:53,865 --> 00:36:55,934 >> WHAT HE SAY? 734 00:36:55,934 --> 00:36:58,236 >> HE SAY TO GIVE THE BALL TO YOU. 735 00:36:58,236 --> 00:37:01,640 >> I LOVE THAT MOVIE ENDS WITH MONICA BEING THE ONE TO MAKE IT 736 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:02,440 TO THE LEAGUE ‐‐ 737 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:08,647 >> NUMBER 32, MONICA WRIGHT McCALL! 738 00:37:08,647 --> 00:37:10,215 >> YOU KNOW, A LOT OF BLACK GIRLS, BLACK WOMEN AND WOMEN IN 739 00:37:10,215 --> 00:37:11,282 GENERAL ARE TOLD, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T LIVE, YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE 740 00:37:11,282 --> 00:37:15,520 ONE OR THE OTHER. AND HERE YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY 741 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,522 OF THIS BLACK GIRL CHOOSING BOTH? 742 00:37:17,522 --> 00:37:19,090 >> ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND BASKETBALL BABY. 743 00:37:19,090 --> 00:37:22,794 >> WE WANT TO SEE THE UNDERDOG. WE WANT TO SEE SOMEBODY MAKE IT 744 00:37:22,794 --> 00:37:27,565 WHO PROBABLY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO AND SO WHEN A FILM SATISFIES 745 00:37:27,565 --> 00:37:28,099 THAT, YOU REMEMBER IT. 746 00:37:28,099 --> 00:37:30,735 >> WE NEED MORE MOVIES LIKE THIS. TO SHOW THE DIFFERENT 747 00:37:30,735 --> 00:37:35,473 PERSPECTIVES OF WHAT BEING A BLACK WOMAN, A BLACK MAN, A 748 00:37:35,473 --> 00:37:37,075 BLACK PERSON WAS. SO I THINK THESE MOVIES 749 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:40,779 RESONATE, BECAUSE THEY WERE SO GOOD. AND HOPEFULLY, WE CAN BRING 750 00:37:40,779 --> 00:37:43,381 THOSE TYPE OF MOVIES BACK. 751 00:37:43,381 --> 00:37:48,853 >> HEY. DOUBLE OR NOTHING. 752 00:37:48,853 --> 00:37:52,390 >>> WHEN WE COME BACK, AN EMPOWERING PERFORMANCE FROM MY 753 00:37:52,390 --> 00:37:55,660 MAN COMMON. 754 00:38:02,067 --> 00:38:05,546 >>> WITH A SPECIAL FIRST LOOK FROM HIS NEW ALBUM, "A BEAUTIFUL 755 00:38:05,546 --> 00:38:11,719 REVOLUTION PART TWO," DROPPING THIS SPRING, HERE'S MY MAN 756 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,989 COMMON WITH "GET IT RIGHT." 757 00:38:14,989 --> 00:38:20,828 ♪♪ 758 00:38:20,828 --> 00:38:21,896 ♪ NO TIME TO WASTE ♪ 759 00:38:21,896 --> 00:38:24,332 ♪ LIFE IS PASSING YOU BY ♪ 760 00:38:24,332 --> 00:38:26,967 ♪ TIME FLIES ♪ 761 00:38:26,967 --> 00:38:28,302 ♪ BE PATIENT ♪ 762 00:38:28,302 --> 00:38:31,072 ♪ BECAUSE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN IN 763 00:38:31,072 --> 00:38:31,672 TIME ♪ 764 00:38:31,672 --> 00:38:33,107 ♪ WE GONNA GET IT RIGHT ♪ 765 00:38:33,107 --> 00:38:34,842 ♪ WE GONNA GET IT RIGHT ♪ 766 00:38:34,842 --> 00:38:36,911 ♪ WE GONNA GET IT RIGHT ♪ 767 00:38:36,911 --> 00:38:38,412 ♪ WE GONNA GET IT RIGHT ♪ 768 00:38:38,412 --> 00:38:38,913 ♪ PROTEST AND ANTHEMS 769 00:38:38,913 --> 00:38:40,514 YES WE CHANTIN' A MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE 770 00:38:40,514 --> 00:38:41,048 IT'S LIKE WE'RE DANCIN' ♪ 771 00:38:41,048 --> 00:38:42,116 ♪ TO THE MINISTRY OF 772 00:38:42,116 --> 00:38:46,320 IT'S THE ENERGY OF IN MEMORY OF OF THEM THAT WE LOVE ♪ 773 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:46,854 ♪ THE TRINITY OF THE PEOPLE 774 00:38:46,854 --> 00:38:48,422 THAT PEACE THE POWER THE TRUTH WE SPEAK 775 00:38:48,422 --> 00:38:50,558 TO POWER IS EVEN LOUDER ♪ 776 00:38:50,558 --> 00:38:51,625 ♪ WE CAN SAY IT BLACKER 777 00:38:51,625 --> 00:38:52,660 WE CAN SAY IT PROUDER A WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT 778 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:54,261 THAT WENT TO HOWARD ♪ 779 00:38:54,261 --> 00:38:54,795 ♪ NOW WE TALK HEALTH 780 00:38:54,795 --> 00:38:57,431 AND BLACK BUSINESSES AND OUR DIFFERENCES 781 00:38:57,431 --> 00:38:58,466 IS MAGNIFICENT BRINGING ♪ 782 00:38:58,466 --> 00:38:59,533 ♪ LIGHT TO THE POOR AND 783 00:38:59,533 --> 00:39:01,635 WHERE THE PRISONS IS I WAS TOLD GOOD LIFE 784 00:39:01,635 --> 00:39:02,703 IS WHERE FORGIVENESS LIVES ♪ 785 00:39:02,703 --> 00:39:03,738 ♪ THE ACCESSION IS TO 786 00:39:03,738 --> 00:39:06,440 LEAVE WHAT'S LEFT BEHIND AND FEED THE SEEDS WITH 787 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:06,941 DEEDS THAT BLESS THE MIND ♪ 788 00:39:06,941 --> 00:39:07,475 ♪ CARESS THE MIND AND 789 00:39:07,475 --> 00:39:10,111 QUESTION JUST DEFINE WHEN YOU AND GOD 790 00:39:10,111 --> 00:39:13,280 AND TIME ARE BEST ALIGNED ♪ 791 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,984 ♪ TIME FLIES 792 00:39:16,984 --> 00:39:22,823 NO TIME TO WASTE WHILE ITS PASSING YOU BY 793 00:39:22,823 --> 00:39:25,459 TIME FLIES ♪ 794 00:39:25,459 --> 00:39:28,028 ♪ BE PATIENT BECAUSE 795 00:39:28,028 --> 00:39:35,336 GOOD THINGS HAPPEN IN TIME WE GONE GET IT RIGHT 796 00:39:35,336 --> 00:39:37,138 WE GONE GET IT RIGHT ♪ 797 00:39:37,138 --> 00:39:37,671 ♪ WE GONE GET IT RIGHT 798 00:39:37,671 --> 00:39:41,909 WE GONE GET IT RIGHT HOW CAN I BE A BETTER 799 00:39:41,909 --> 00:39:42,410 FATHER, SON ♪ 800 00:39:42,410 --> 00:39:42,943 ♪ A BETTER GRANDSON 801 00:39:42,943 --> 00:39:44,011 HONORING FANNIE LOU'S AND THE FRED HAMPTONS 802 00:39:44,011 --> 00:39:44,545 THE HARRIET'S THE CHARIOTS ♪ 803 00:39:44,545 --> 00:39:45,079 ♪ THAT CARRY US TO VARIOUS 804 00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:47,715 AREAS THAT MARRY US TO PROGRESS YEAH WE THE HARVEST ♪ 805 00:39:47,715 --> 00:39:48,749 ♪ THE LOVELY DAYS 806 00:39:48,749 --> 00:39:50,885 THE MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS EVEN THROUGH CHARGES 807 00:39:50,885 --> 00:39:52,453 AND DAYS OF DARKNESS ♪ 808 00:39:52,453 --> 00:39:52,987 ♪ KNOW WE IN THE HANDS 809 00:39:52,987 --> 00:39:55,122 OF THE GREATEST ARTIST I SEE IT IN THE WATERS 810 00:39:55,122 --> 00:39:56,157 I SEE IT IN OUR DAUGHTERS ♪ 811 00:39:56,157 --> 00:39:57,224 ♪ THEY CAN BE BRIDGES 812 00:39:57,224 --> 00:39:59,326 THAT KNOW NO BORDERS FOR SO LONG THEM 813 00:39:59,326 --> 00:40:00,928 FOLK TRIED TO IGNORE US ♪ 814 00:40:00,928 --> 00:40:02,496 ♪ WHEN WE AT THE BALLOT BOX 815 00:40:02,496 --> 00:40:03,564 IT'S A VOTE FOR US PEACE TO STACEY AND 816 00:40:03,564 --> 00:40:04,598 THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA ♪ 817 00:40:04,598 --> 00:40:05,666 ♪ WHO GALVANIZED SO 818 00:40:05,666 --> 00:40:07,768 WE COULD MOVE FORWARD STEPS ARE ORDERED WITH 819 00:40:07,768 --> 00:40:09,370 THE PRESENCE OF MIND ♪ 820 00:40:09,370 --> 00:40:09,904 ♪ EVERYTHING IS MORE 821 00:40:09,904 --> 00:40:17,812 BEAUTIFUL IN TIME TIME FLIES 822 00:40:17,812 --> 00:40:18,345 NO TIME TO WASTE WHILE ♪ 823 00:40:18,345 --> 00:40:19,947 ♪ ITS PASSING YOU BY 824 00:40:19,947 --> 00:40:27,354 TIME FLIES BE PATIENT BECAUSE GOOD 825 00:40:27,354 --> 00:40:29,924 THINGS HAPPEN IN TIME ♪ 826 00:40:29,924 --> 00:40:31,525 ♪ WE GONE GET IT RIGHT 827 00:40:31,525 --> 00:40:37,865 WE GONE GET IT RIGHT WE GONE GET IT RIGHT 828 00:40:37,865 --> 00:40:42,236 WE GONE GET IT RIGHT ♪ 829 00:40:42,236 --> 00:40:43,704 ♪ TIME FLIES ♪ 830 00:40:43,704 --> 00:40:46,273 ♪ BE PATIENT BECAUSE GOOD THINGS 831 00:40:46,273 --> 00:40:53,147 HAPPEN IN TIME ♪ 832 00:40:53,147 --> 00:40:53,914 ♪ "SOUL OF A NATION" ♪ 833 00:40:53,914 --> 00:40:55,816 ♪ WE GETTING IT RIGHT ♪ 834 00:40:55,816 --> 00:40:56,317 ♪ FOR THE PEOPLE ♪ 835 00:40:56,317 --> 00:40:57,151 ♪ OUR PEOPLE ♪ 836 00:40:57,151 --> 00:41:00,921 ♪ FOR THE WORLD ♪ 837 00:41:00,921 --> 00:41:07,127 ♪ WE GONE GET IT RIGHT ♪ 838 00:41:07,127 --> 00:41:10,498 >> I GIVE THAT PERFORMANCE ALL THE FIRE EMOJIS. 839 00:41:10,498 --> 00:41:13,434 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON "SOUL OF A NATION." 840 00:41:13,434 --> 00:41:16,871 WE'RE BACK NEXT WEEK WITH MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS AS YOUR HOST. 841 00:41:16,871 --> 00:41:20,741 AND WE'LL EXPLORE HOW BLACK FOLKS ARE TURNING PAIN INTO 842 00:41:20,741 --> 00:41:24,241 POWER. I'M JEMELE HILL. GOOD NIGHT.