1 00:00:00,968 --> 00:00:02,636 [ Muffled speech ] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:06,173 --> 00:00:08,709 [ Rustling continues ] 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:15,315 Who gave you the box? 6 00:00:15,315 --> 00:00:18,151 Grandma, because I love boxes. 7 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:19,353 [ Knock on door ] 8 00:00:19,353 --> 00:00:21,655 They're ready for you. A'ight. 9 00:00:21,655 --> 00:00:23,190 Alright, you keep playing with the box 10 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:24,291 I'm-a check back on you in a little bit. 11 00:00:24,291 --> 00:00:26,760 I'm a box man, though. 12 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,629 [ Cheers and applause ] 13 00:00:28,629 --> 00:00:30,531 [ Mutters ] 14 00:00:30,531 --> 00:00:33,033 The box. That's all he fucking wants. 15 00:00:34,067 --> 00:00:35,736 [ Cheers and applause ] 16 00:00:35,736 --> 00:00:38,639 A'ight. 17 00:00:40,007 --> 00:00:42,976 I -- I hope you're okay. 18 00:00:42,976 --> 00:00:44,344 Man: Ow! 19 00:00:44,344 --> 00:00:47,981 I do. I hope you're okay. 20 00:00:47,981 --> 00:00:50,617 I'm not gonna ask. 21 00:00:50,617 --> 00:00:53,687 You know, I just hope you're okay. 22 00:00:53,687 --> 00:00:56,423 It's not a question you can throw around casually anymore, 23 00:00:56,423 --> 00:00:59,026 you know -- "How you doing?" 24 00:00:59,026 --> 00:01:01,195 We've been through too much, lost too many people, 25 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:02,863 been through too much struggle. 26 00:01:02,863 --> 00:01:05,199 You ask somebody how they doing now, you better be careful, 27 00:01:05,199 --> 00:01:06,934 because they might tell you. 28 00:01:06,934 --> 00:01:08,302 [ Audience laughs ] 29 00:01:08,302 --> 00:01:11,371 And that'll throw off your whole day. 30 00:01:11,371 --> 00:01:13,106 You ever have somebody you don't give a damn about 31 00:01:13,106 --> 00:01:16,376 start sharing they pain? Whoo-whoo. 32 00:01:16,376 --> 00:01:18,612 It'll throw off your whole schedule. 33 00:01:18,612 --> 00:01:20,180 "Hey, what's going on, man? How you been?" 34 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:21,748 "Well, the dog caught COVID, and --" 35 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:25,185 "I gotta call you back. That's my bad. That's my bad. 36 00:01:25,185 --> 00:01:26,286 I thought you knew I didn't give a shit. 37 00:01:26,286 --> 00:01:28,322 I'm so sorry for asking. 38 00:01:28,322 --> 00:01:31,925 I'm so sorry." 39 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:34,328 It's not a casual question. 40 00:01:34,328 --> 00:01:35,596 I called my uncle. This is when I knew 41 00:01:35,596 --> 00:01:37,097 my uncle was going through some shit. 42 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:39,099 I called my uncle. I said, "Unc, what's going on?" 43 00:01:39,099 --> 00:01:40,534 He said, "Well, you know, 44 00:01:40,534 --> 00:01:43,770 ain't nothing that the ancestors can't get me through." 45 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:46,540 And I said, "Oh, shit." 46 00:01:46,540 --> 00:01:49,443 This motherfucker is summoning dead Black people. 47 00:01:50,310 --> 00:01:52,546 That's when you know Black people going through some shit, 48 00:01:52,546 --> 00:01:56,116 when you start calling on the ancestors, 49 00:01:56,116 --> 00:01:58,385 calling on Black people floating around you, protecting. 50 00:01:58,385 --> 00:01:59,686 Which should just go to show you, 51 00:01:59,686 --> 00:02:02,222 that's how stressful it is being Black. 52 00:02:02,222 --> 00:02:03,757 Even after you die, 53 00:02:03,757 --> 00:02:07,561 you got to stay on Earth to give motherfuckers tips. 54 00:02:09,463 --> 00:02:11,865 Can't even go to heaven. 55 00:02:11,865 --> 00:02:13,667 Soon as you get to floating up to heaven, 56 00:02:13,667 --> 00:02:16,303 somebody down on Earth, "Ancestors, I need you." 57 00:02:16,303 --> 00:02:18,172 "Ain't this a bitch." 58 00:02:18,172 --> 00:02:20,207 [ Sighs heavily ] 59 00:02:22,943 --> 00:02:25,179 My Black friends always talking about their ancestors. 60 00:02:25,179 --> 00:02:29,917 My white friends always talking about their forefathers, 61 00:02:29,917 --> 00:02:33,787 which is two totally different types of dead people. 62 00:02:33,787 --> 00:02:35,923 And look, I'm not saying you're a racist 63 00:02:35,923 --> 00:02:37,324 if you bring up the forefathers, 64 00:02:37,324 --> 00:02:43,230 but I am saying you have my undivided attention. 65 00:02:43,230 --> 00:02:44,831 You know, because it's not racist, 66 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:47,100 but it just feels... 67 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:49,136 It -- You could have something that ain't racist, 68 00:02:49,136 --> 00:02:50,404 but it's got the residue -- 69 00:02:50,404 --> 00:02:55,409 it's got the residue of racism on it. 70 00:02:55,409 --> 00:02:56,877 You know what it feel like? You know, it's like 71 00:02:56,877 --> 00:02:58,612 somebody starts talking about their forefathers, 72 00:02:58,612 --> 00:03:00,280 you know what it feel like? You ever been somewhere 73 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,784 and there's too many American flags. 74 00:03:05,052 --> 00:03:07,588 It just feels... 75 00:03:07,588 --> 00:03:11,758 There's a little too much freedom in this space. 76 00:03:11,758 --> 00:03:15,229 And it just don't feel right. Like, how many American flags 77 00:03:15,229 --> 00:03:18,498 equal one Confederate flag? 78 00:03:20,701 --> 00:03:25,806 I don't know what the number is, but there is a number. 79 00:03:25,806 --> 00:03:27,674 And that's how I be feeling when people get to talking about 80 00:03:27,674 --> 00:03:30,744 their forefathers. Man, I ain't trying to hear that shit. 81 00:03:30,744 --> 00:03:33,413 "You know, Roy, this is a layered conversation 82 00:03:33,413 --> 00:03:34,815 with a lot of nuance, 83 00:03:34,815 --> 00:03:36,517 and I just think we need to think about 84 00:03:36,517 --> 00:03:38,986 what our forefathers would --" Hey. 85 00:03:38,986 --> 00:03:41,855 I think my ancestors would want your forefathers 86 00:03:41,855 --> 00:03:44,992 to shut the fuck up. How about that? 87 00:03:44,992 --> 00:03:47,794 [ Cheers and applause ] 88 00:03:47,794 --> 00:03:49,363 Denver, Colorado, what's going on? 89 00:03:49,363 --> 00:03:51,298 How y'all doing tonight? 90 00:03:51,298 --> 00:03:54,835 [ Cheers and applause ] 91 00:03:54,835 --> 00:03:57,204 A'ight. 92 00:03:57,204 --> 00:03:59,640 That's good. 93 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,043 I meant it that time. I meant it that time. 94 00:04:03,043 --> 00:04:04,378 [ Laughs ] 95 00:04:04,378 --> 00:04:05,946 We just out here trying to live, man. 96 00:04:05,946 --> 00:04:11,952 That's all we trying to do. Anything to feel good. 97 00:04:11,952 --> 00:04:13,654 That's what we after now, 98 00:04:13,654 --> 00:04:16,056 and you can't be embarrassed for trying to do that. 99 00:04:16,056 --> 00:04:18,659 Like, we try to follow all the rules and regulations, 100 00:04:18,659 --> 00:04:19,927 but every now and then, you just -- 101 00:04:19,927 --> 00:04:21,695 you just -- you'd be at the house, 102 00:04:21,695 --> 00:04:24,198 you'd be like, "Just fuck it. I'm okay if I catch it. 103 00:04:24,198 --> 00:04:26,266 I got to get out." 104 00:04:28,535 --> 00:04:30,204 We at the house, man. We at the house 105 00:04:30,204 --> 00:04:32,973 dealing with all of the shit. "Ooh, the virus is out there." 106 00:04:32,973 --> 00:04:34,474 You know, what else is a disease? 107 00:04:34,474 --> 00:04:36,743 Fucking sadness. 108 00:04:38,245 --> 00:04:40,948 It's tough. 109 00:04:40,948 --> 00:04:42,649 That's why I ain't mad at people. 110 00:04:42,649 --> 00:04:44,151 Whatever you got to do to feel good, do that shit. 111 00:04:44,151 --> 00:04:46,753 Like, at this point, life is basically a crab leg, 112 00:04:46,753 --> 00:04:49,823 and we're just all trying to work that bitch. 113 00:04:49,823 --> 00:04:52,960 And trying to find that one little nugget of feel good 114 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,962 inside that -- [ Moans ] 115 00:04:54,962 --> 00:04:57,431 Oh, yum! Oh! 116 00:04:57,431 --> 00:04:59,266 Oh, I found a little feel good today. 117 00:04:59,266 --> 00:05:01,034 I found just a little bit. 118 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:02,369 Num-num. 119 00:05:02,369 --> 00:05:03,871 The smallest things will send you to the moon. 120 00:05:03,871 --> 00:05:05,639 You post a picture of yourself online. 121 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:09,610 Somebody like it, you're like, "Ooh!" 122 00:05:09,610 --> 00:05:11,745 We're so addicted to that 123 00:05:11,745 --> 00:05:13,480 that our own face ain't even enough. 124 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,116 We've lost confidence in our own face. 125 00:05:16,116 --> 00:05:18,051 Won't put a picture of yourself online, 126 00:05:18,051 --> 00:05:20,287 but I'll put in a filter. 127 00:05:20,287 --> 00:05:22,222 They have a filter, ooh. Swipe, swipe. 128 00:05:22,222 --> 00:05:25,559 Sw-- Okay, that's the one I'mma post. That's the one. 129 00:05:25,559 --> 00:05:27,394 Gotta have dog ears on your head. 130 00:05:27,394 --> 00:05:29,463 Don't -- Don't run from the truth. 131 00:05:29,463 --> 00:05:31,465 Don't be putting no filters on your pictures. 132 00:05:31,465 --> 00:05:33,567 Accept the truth. 133 00:05:33,567 --> 00:05:35,402 Your mama's a 9. Your daddy's a 2. 134 00:05:35,402 --> 00:05:37,404 It is what it is. 135 00:05:39,773 --> 00:05:42,943 Stop putting filters on yourself. 136 00:05:42,943 --> 00:05:45,179 They got one app -- they got one app -- This shit is wild. 137 00:05:45,179 --> 00:05:47,848 They got an app where all it do is show you 138 00:05:47,848 --> 00:05:50,884 what you look like when you 80. 139 00:05:50,884 --> 00:05:52,619 That's it. That's all it do. It don't do nothing else. 140 00:05:52,619 --> 00:05:55,088 You take a picture of yourself now as a young person 141 00:05:55,088 --> 00:05:57,858 and you put it in your phone, and [gibbers] 80. 142 00:05:57,858 --> 00:05:59,393 That's it. 143 00:05:59,393 --> 00:06:01,862 Have we lost that much hope that we need a sneak preview 144 00:06:01,862 --> 00:06:04,031 of old age? 145 00:06:04,031 --> 00:06:06,366 Like, who is it -- A sneak preview of when you 80? 146 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:09,036 Who is this app for? Like -- Other than Black men, 147 00:06:09,036 --> 00:06:11,939 'cause we might not make it there, but... 148 00:06:17,077 --> 00:06:19,913 You never know. 149 00:06:19,913 --> 00:06:22,049 Anything, man. 150 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:25,686 Women getting plastic surgery to feel good. 151 00:06:25,686 --> 00:06:28,288 Yeah. Brazilian butt lifts. 152 00:06:28,288 --> 00:06:30,157 That's what they doing, fellas. 153 00:06:30,157 --> 00:06:32,826 Brazilian butt lifts, that's what the women are doing. 154 00:06:32,826 --> 00:06:34,494 They're going down to South America. 155 00:06:34,494 --> 00:06:36,129 Do you know what the Brazilian butt lift is? 156 00:06:36,129 --> 00:06:38,465 They go down there and they slice your booty cheek open. 157 00:06:38,465 --> 00:06:41,301 They slice your booty open, and they take some of your belly 158 00:06:41,301 --> 00:06:43,804 and they put it in your ass and they stitch you up 159 00:06:43,804 --> 00:06:45,739 and they put you on a Spirit Airlines flight 160 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:47,975 back to the States. 161 00:06:50,344 --> 00:06:51,578 That's what they do. Which is fine -- 162 00:06:51,578 --> 00:06:53,080 I'm not hating on plastic surgery. 163 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,383 If that's your crab leg, work it out, do what you do. 164 00:06:56,383 --> 00:06:59,086 My problem is that, women, y'all will get the new ass 165 00:06:59,086 --> 00:07:02,623 and then you get on the Internet and talk shit to men. 166 00:07:02,623 --> 00:07:05,125 Why are you attacking my self-esteem? 167 00:07:05,125 --> 00:07:07,227 You got a belly booty. Congratulations. 168 00:07:07,227 --> 00:07:10,197 Go enjoy your belly booty. 169 00:07:10,197 --> 00:07:12,165 But that's not what they do. The women get the new ass, 170 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:14,201 and then you be bent over on Instagram. 171 00:07:14,201 --> 00:07:15,669 "Look at all this ass. 172 00:07:15,669 --> 00:07:17,237 Do you have enough dick for this?" 173 00:07:17,237 --> 00:07:21,508 "No, ma'am. I don't. I don't have enough. 174 00:07:21,508 --> 00:07:24,311 I cannot reach it from this angle, ma'am. 175 00:07:24,311 --> 00:07:26,079 You -- You put a foot of meat in front of your -- 176 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:29,283 I cannot get to it from this way." 177 00:07:29,283 --> 00:07:33,053 You can't move the goalposts then turn around and talk shit. 178 00:07:37,057 --> 00:07:39,126 Turn around, we gotta do it front ways. 179 00:07:39,126 --> 00:07:41,061 It's the only way. 180 00:07:43,108 --> 00:07:45,669 {\an7}I see what you’re doing out there, white folks. 181 00:07:45,669 --> 00:07:46,372 {\an7}White allies. 182 00:07:46,372 --> 00:07:49,712 {\an7}\h\h\hThat’s what we got now, Black people -- white allies. 183 00:07:49,712 --> 00:07:53,306 {\an7}And you gotta call them that. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hThey like that. 184 00:07:54,075 --> 00:07:57,075 {\an7}White allies. And we know \h\h\hyou’re a white ally 185 00:07:57,075 --> 00:08:01,877 {\an7}’cause you won’t stop telling us that’s your job. 186 00:08:01,877 --> 00:08:03,745 {\an7}Shut the fuck up. 187 00:08:03,745 --> 00:08:05,042 {\an7}"I just want you to know \h\h\h\h\hthat I see you 188 00:08:05,042 --> 00:08:08,778 {\an7}and I understand your journey, \h\h\hand any time you want to 189 00:08:08,778 --> 00:08:12,570 {\an7}have a dialogue -- Would you \h\hlike to have a dialogue?" 190 00:08:12,570 --> 00:08:15,273 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hStop talking to your Black friends about race. 191 00:08:15,273 --> 00:08:18,537 {\an7}Talk to your forefathers. 192 00:08:21,636 --> 00:08:23,273 {\an7}Call them up. 193 00:08:23,273 --> 00:08:24,778 {\an7}And I’m not trying attack white folks. 194 00:08:24,778 --> 00:08:26,075 {\an7}I know you’ve done a lot of good shit. 195 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:28,108 {\an7}I don’t want you to think I’m taking nothing away from you. 196 00:08:28,108 --> 00:08:30,075 {\an7}We’ve been seeing you out there \h\h\h\h\hputting in the work. 197 00:08:30,075 --> 00:08:33,811 {\an7}\hYou got your shirts on with your little slogans. 198 00:08:33,811 --> 00:08:37,009 {\an7}\hYou know, pretty much whatever you stand for as a white person, 199 00:08:37,009 --> 00:08:39,240 {\an7}there’s a slogan shirt for you. 200 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,811 {\an7}Black lives and trans lives \h\h\h\h\hand pussy hats -- 201 00:08:41,811 --> 00:08:46,009 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\ha lot of merch. Y’all got a lot of merch 202 00:08:46,009 --> 00:08:48,712 {\an7}in this ally game right now. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hWhich is cool, 203 00:08:48,712 --> 00:08:52,306 {\an7}\h’cause the merch -- the shirt does half the work for you now. 204 00:08:52,306 --> 00:08:53,811 {\an7}The shirt breaks the ice for you. 205 00:08:53,811 --> 00:08:56,009 {\an7}\hIt’s easy to be a white ally now. 206 00:08:56,009 --> 00:08:57,811 {\an7}Shit, if you was a white ally \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the ’90s, 207 00:08:57,811 --> 00:09:01,174 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know how hard that shit was with no merch? 208 00:09:01,174 --> 00:09:03,877 {\an7}\h\hYou just had to be nice to niggas and grin at them 209 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:06,844 {\an7}and hope they figured it out. 210 00:09:06,844 --> 00:09:10,240 {\an7}You know how much pressure that is as a white person? 211 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,339 {\an7}They’re gonna hold the elevator \h\h\h\hdoor open a little bit. 212 00:09:13,339 --> 00:09:15,372 {\an7}Ding! 213 00:09:18,712 --> 00:09:20,669 {\an7}Did you see what I did? 214 00:09:20,669 --> 00:09:25,108 {\an7}[ Audience laughs ] 215 00:09:28,108 --> 00:09:29,636 {\an7}But you could be doing more, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhite folks. 216 00:09:29,636 --> 00:09:30,976 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hDon’t think that what you’ve done is enough. 217 00:09:30,976 --> 00:09:34,042 {\an7}We appreciate what you’ve done, \h\h\h\hbut you could do more. 218 00:09:34,042 --> 00:09:37,174 {\an7}\h\h\hDig deep and help out your goddamn Black friends. 219 00:09:37,174 --> 00:09:39,778 {\an7}\h\h\hWe seen what y’all was doing at the Capitol. 220 00:09:39,778 --> 00:09:41,636 {\an7}Do that shit for us. 221 00:09:41,636 --> 00:09:43,778 {\an7}[ Cheers and applause ] 222 00:09:43,778 --> 00:09:46,240 {\an7}\h\h\hStorm the Capitol for your Black friends. 223 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,976 {\an7}Inside of every white person in this room is a Capitol rioter. 224 00:09:49,976 --> 00:09:53,778 {\an7}You should dig deep \h\hand find them. 225 00:09:54,712 --> 00:09:56,405 {\an7}You can storm the Capitol for a number of reasons. 226 00:09:56,405 --> 00:09:59,207 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hThat ain’t got to be the only reason. Do it for us. 227 00:09:59,207 --> 00:10:01,108 {\an7}You think we even discussed that at the Black meeting? 228 00:10:01,108 --> 00:10:03,943 {\an7}You think Black people ain’t discuss storming 229 00:10:03,943 --> 00:10:05,877 {\an7}a government facility 230 00:10:05,877 --> 00:10:08,844 {\an7}\h\has one of the options for getting our freedom? 231 00:10:08,844 --> 00:10:10,306 {\an7}Yeah, but you cannot do that \h\h\h\h\h\hif you are Black. 232 00:10:10,306 --> 00:10:12,669 {\an7}You can’t just go grab a shotgun and go to D.C. 233 00:10:12,669 --> 00:10:17,943 {\an7}"Boom, bitch! Where the freedom \hat?" [ Imitates gun cocking] 234 00:10:19,669 --> 00:10:21,943 {\an7}You would get shot immediately. 235 00:10:21,943 --> 00:10:22,943 {\an7}Immediately, you would get shot. 236 00:10:22,943 --> 00:10:25,438 {\an7}You’d get shot at the house, \h\h\h\h\hbooking the flight. 237 00:10:25,438 --> 00:10:28,240 {\an7}You wouldn’t even... 238 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,174 {\an7}You wouldn’t even get to D.C. 239 00:10:34,844 --> 00:10:39,778 {\an7}\h\h\hStorm that Capitol on Black people’s behalf. 240 00:10:39,778 --> 00:10:41,108 {\an7}And take a couple of Asians \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith you -- 241 00:10:41,108 --> 00:10:44,108 {\an7}\h\h\h\hmaybe we’ll get some laws passed, too. 242 00:10:44,108 --> 00:10:46,778 {\an7}[ Audience laughs ] 243 00:10:46,778 --> 00:10:49,042 {\an7}\h\h\h\hThat’s the one thing we don’t get, Black folks -- 244 00:10:49,042 --> 00:10:51,042 {\an7}we don’t get no legislation. 245 00:10:51,042 --> 00:10:53,108 {\an7}They give us everything \h\h\hbut legislation. 246 00:10:53,108 --> 00:10:56,141 {\an7}\h\hWe do all the marching and whooping and hollering. 247 00:10:56,141 --> 00:10:59,273 {\an7}They won’t pass a goddamn law. 248 00:10:59,273 --> 00:11:00,009 {\an7}[ Applause ] 249 00:11:00,009 --> 00:11:02,405 {\an7}We be asking for the law. \h\h\h"Can you pass a law 250 00:11:02,405 --> 00:11:03,910 {\an7}so that they’ll stop this shit?" 251 00:11:03,910 --> 00:11:07,778 {\an7}"Well, um... [ Grunts ] 252 00:11:07,778 --> 00:11:10,844 {\an7}\h\hWhat about a mural? Would you like a mural? 253 00:11:10,844 --> 00:11:13,438 {\an7}Colorful. We’ll make it \hthe whole crosswalk. 254 00:11:13,438 --> 00:11:15,009 {\an7}You know, mural?" 255 00:11:15,009 --> 00:11:18,438 {\an7}Bitch, we don’t want no mural. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hWe want the laws. 256 00:11:18,438 --> 00:11:20,306 {\an7}"What about a Juneteenth \h\h\h\h\h\has a holiday? 257 00:11:20,306 --> 00:11:21,306 {\an7}You like Juneteenth, right? 258 00:11:21,306 --> 00:11:26,075 {\an7}Extra barbecue. Don’t you want \h\h\h\h\hsome more barbecue?" 259 00:11:26,943 --> 00:11:28,504 {\an7}Yeah, man, white folks \h\h\hare contributing. 260 00:11:28,504 --> 00:11:30,438 {\an7}It’s good. It’s good to see \hwhite people contribute. 261 00:11:30,438 --> 00:11:32,471 {\an7}\h\h\hA lot of white people contributing, Black folks, 262 00:11:32,471 --> 00:11:34,273 {\an7}that we don’t recognize, \h\h\h\h\h\hand we got to 263 00:11:34,273 --> 00:11:35,943 {\an7}start tipping our hat to them. 264 00:11:35,943 --> 00:11:39,042 {\an7}Some white folks have been doing some really dope shit 265 00:11:39,042 --> 00:11:40,174 {\an7}helping Black folks. 266 00:11:40,174 --> 00:11:44,943 {\an7}You know one white ally that \hgoes unsung, in my opinion? 267 00:11:44,943 --> 00:11:51,042 {\an7}\hIs evil white actors in Civil Rights movies. 268 00:11:52,976 --> 00:11:57,537 {\an7}These are unsung heroes \h\h\hof the movement. 269 00:11:57,537 --> 00:11:59,174 {\an7}’Cause here’s the thing -- \h\h\hIf you’re gonna have 270 00:11:59,174 --> 00:12:01,976 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\ha Black struggle movie and you’re gonna tell the truth, 271 00:12:01,976 --> 00:12:05,042 {\an7}\hthat means you have to show some heinous shit happening. 272 00:12:05,042 --> 00:12:06,471 {\an7}And to show heinous shit \h\h\h\h\h\h\hhappening, 273 00:12:06,471 --> 00:12:08,273 {\an7}that means you need \h\h\hwhite actors 274 00:12:08,273 --> 00:12:12,910 {\an7}being motherfucking terrible \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hon camera. 275 00:12:14,141 --> 00:12:15,042 {\an7}You gotta have it. 276 00:12:15,042 --> 00:12:16,438 {\an7}\h\h\hAnd I’ve met some of these white actors. 277 00:12:16,438 --> 00:12:18,009 {\an7}\h\h\h\hThese are good, normal-ass white boys. 278 00:12:18,009 --> 00:12:20,240 {\an7}They gotta walk on set all nice \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand then 279 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,207 {\an7}just turn on the racism. 280 00:12:23,207 --> 00:12:24,570 {\an7}You know what kind of pressure \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthey under? 281 00:12:24,570 --> 00:12:28,570 {\an7}\h\h\h\hYou gotta walk on set and say "nigga" for 12 hours. 282 00:12:28,570 --> 00:12:33,372 {\an7}Gotta eat lunch by yourself. \h\h\h\hNobody talks to you. 283 00:12:34,306 --> 00:12:37,174 {\an7}\h\hGotta walk on set all chipper and shit. 284 00:12:37,174 --> 00:12:39,009 {\an7}\h\h\h"Hey, good morning. How you doing? Hey, guys! 285 00:12:39,009 --> 00:12:41,438 {\an7}Hey, director, good to see you. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHey, Denzel, 286 00:12:41,438 --> 00:12:43,537 {\an7}good to see you, too. \h\h\hWhat’s up, man? 287 00:12:43,537 --> 00:12:45,339 {\an7}\h\hWe ready?" "And, action." 288 00:12:45,339 --> 00:12:47,372 {\an7}"You our nigga." 289 00:12:47,372 --> 00:12:49,471 {\an7}"And cut." 290 00:12:49,471 --> 00:12:53,042 {\an7}"Was that good? Mm-hmm? 291 00:12:53,042 --> 00:12:56,339 {\an7}\h\h"We gotta go again? [ Groans ] Oh, my God. 292 00:12:56,339 --> 00:13:01,075 {\an7}I’m sorry, Denzel. We gotta go \h\h\hagain. I don’t want to." 293 00:13:01,636 --> 00:13:04,438 {\an7}If you gon’ tell the history of \h\h\hmy people the right way, 294 00:13:04,438 --> 00:13:06,943 {\an7}\h\hevery now and then, you need a white actor 295 00:13:06,943 --> 00:13:10,636 {\an7}being a heinous motherfucker \h\h\h\h\h\h\hon that camera. 296 00:13:10,636 --> 00:13:13,471 {\an7}You’re telling me Leo DiCaprio \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hdidn’t kill it 297 00:13:13,471 --> 00:13:16,273 {\an7}in "Django Unchained"? 298 00:13:17,603 --> 00:13:21,009 {\an7}Leonardo DiCaprio transformed \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin that movie. 299 00:13:21,009 --> 00:13:25,570 {\an7}That’s one of the bravest white allies I ever seen in my life. 300 00:13:25,570 --> 00:13:28,273 {\an7}Turned into an evil-ass \h\h\h\h\h\h\henslaver. 301 00:13:28,273 --> 00:13:32,009 {\an7}\h\hCalled Jamie Foxx a nigga to his face. 302 00:13:32,009 --> 00:13:33,603 {\an7}\h\h\hTo his face! Not an empty chair, 303 00:13:33,603 --> 00:13:37,976 {\an7}\h\h\hwhen, like, they do the CGI Jamie Foxx later. 304 00:13:37,976 --> 00:13:40,306 {\an7}Jamie Foxx was in that room, \h\hand Leo was right there, 305 00:13:40,306 --> 00:13:45,174 {\an7}grabbing Kerry Washington \h\hand shit by the hair. 306 00:13:45,174 --> 00:13:47,636 {\an7}Just being disrespectful. 307 00:13:47,636 --> 00:13:49,306 {\an7}Fucking put 10 toes \h\h\hon the ground 308 00:13:49,306 --> 00:13:51,603 {\an7}and called fucking Jamie Foxx \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\ha nigga 309 00:13:51,603 --> 00:13:56,943 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto his face in front of Samuel L. Jackson. 310 00:13:56,943 --> 00:14:00,570 {\an7}[ Audience laughs ] 311 00:14:00,570 --> 00:14:03,108 {\an7}Bravery. 312 00:14:03,108 --> 00:14:04,306 {\an7}And all they do -- \hThey love to say, 313 00:14:04,306 --> 00:14:06,372 {\an7}\h\h\h"Oh, Tom Cruise does his own stunts." 314 00:14:06,372 --> 00:14:10,438 {\an7}\h\h\hWell, so does Leonardo DiCaprio. 315 00:14:13,207 --> 00:14:16,405 {\an7}That’s a wild stunt. 316 00:14:16,405 --> 00:14:19,141 {\an7}Right next to Samuel L. Jackson. 317 00:14:19,141 --> 00:14:20,669 {\an7}Looked Jamie Foxx dead \h\h\h\h\hin the face, 318 00:14:20,669 --> 00:14:22,141 {\an7}"You said you would be willing \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto pay 319 00:14:22,141 --> 00:14:24,009 {\an7}an exorbitant amount of money \hfor what you consider to be 320 00:14:24,009 --> 00:14:25,306 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hthe right nigga? Well, it would seem to me, 321 00:14:25,306 --> 00:14:30,372 {\an7}\h\h\hthis lady right here is indeed the right nigga." 322 00:14:30,372 --> 00:14:33,669 {\an7}Same dude from "Titanic," \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hy’all. 323 00:14:37,405 --> 00:14:41,471 {\an7}You just got to respect \hthat transformation. 324 00:14:41,471 --> 00:14:44,405 {\an7}This dude went from "Titanic" 325 00:14:44,405 --> 00:14:46,273 {\an7}to enslaver. 326 00:14:46,273 --> 00:14:53,141 {\an7}\h\h\h\h♪ Near, far, wherever you are... ♪ 327 00:14:53,141 --> 00:14:55,471 {\an7}nigga! 328 00:15:00,174 --> 00:15:02,339 {\an7}\h\h\h\hAfter "Django" -- This is what a sacrifice 329 00:15:02,339 --> 00:15:03,273 {\an7}Leonardo DiCaprio made. 330 00:15:03,273 --> 00:15:06,636 {\an7}\hAfter "Django Unchained" in 2012, it was almost 10 years 331 00:15:06,636 --> 00:15:11,075 {\an7}before he did another scene \h\h\hwith a Black co-star. 332 00:15:11,075 --> 00:15:13,042 {\an7}That’s how -- And I’m not \hcalling the man racist. 333 00:15:13,042 --> 00:15:15,141 {\an7}\h\h\h\hHe’s done movies with every minority you can name. 334 00:15:15,141 --> 00:15:18,669 {\an7}He did a movie with a bear. \h\h\h\hHe’s a solid dude. 335 00:15:18,669 --> 00:15:21,009 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut he knew -- he knew when he made that movie. 336 00:15:21,009 --> 00:15:23,712 {\an7}\h\hOnce you call Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington "nigga" 337 00:15:23,712 --> 00:15:29,570 {\an7}\hin front of Samuel L. Jackson, you got to lay low for a decade. 338 00:15:32,075 --> 00:15:33,537 {\an7}And that’s sacrifice. 339 00:15:33,537 --> 00:15:36,240 {\an7}\h\h\hIf anybody know Leo, tell him he can come home. 340 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,438 {\an7}Tell him it’s time. 341 00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:41,603 {\an7}We’re trying, man. 342 00:15:45,726 --> 00:15:47,094 Some of us out there, we're trying to just help 343 00:15:47,094 --> 00:15:50,264 other people to feel good. That's our crab leg. 344 00:15:50,264 --> 00:15:51,565 It's trying to help other people. 345 00:15:51,565 --> 00:15:53,567 You want to, and sometimes the system 346 00:15:53,567 --> 00:15:56,170 don't let you do everything you want to do 347 00:15:56,170 --> 00:15:57,204 the way you want to do it. 348 00:15:57,204 --> 00:16:00,107 I got two cops in my family, 349 00:16:00,107 --> 00:16:02,710 which is kind of like saying some of my best friends 350 00:16:02,710 --> 00:16:04,545 are Black. 351 00:16:07,114 --> 00:16:09,083 You know. 352 00:16:11,452 --> 00:16:13,988 Well, I do. I got two cops my family. 353 00:16:13,988 --> 00:16:16,123 Chicago suburb and a Mississippi State Trooper. 354 00:16:16,123 --> 00:16:18,526 We get to talking about everything that's going on, man. 355 00:16:18,526 --> 00:16:21,228 And I was trying to explain to them, it's base-level shit 356 00:16:21,228 --> 00:16:22,763 the police could be doing. 357 00:16:22,763 --> 00:16:24,598 We ain't talking legislation and policy, 358 00:16:24,598 --> 00:16:26,434 just base-level shit you could do 359 00:16:26,434 --> 00:16:29,470 to help build a bridge to make things a little better. 360 00:16:29,470 --> 00:16:31,005 First thing the police need to do -- 361 00:16:31,005 --> 00:16:32,707 This is one thing I think the police should start doing. 362 00:16:32,707 --> 00:16:37,178 Stop talking in code on the radio. 363 00:16:37,178 --> 00:16:38,713 Use regular words. Why y'all talking 364 00:16:38,713 --> 00:16:40,114 all these abbreviations and shit? 365 00:16:40,114 --> 00:16:43,451 Why are you keeping secrets? 366 00:16:45,286 --> 00:16:47,221 Secrets is what got you in trouble all this time. 367 00:16:47,221 --> 00:16:49,290 Stop keeping secrets. 368 00:16:49,290 --> 00:16:50,791 You ain't in Iraq. You ain't giving away 369 00:16:50,791 --> 00:16:54,228 your position to the enemy. Use regular words. 370 00:16:54,228 --> 00:16:55,496 You're in front of the Walgreens. 371 00:16:55,496 --> 00:16:57,832 I can see you. Everybody can see you. 372 00:17:00,468 --> 00:17:01,969 But that ain't what the police do. 373 00:17:01,969 --> 00:17:03,371 You heard the police talk to each other on the radio? 374 00:17:03,371 --> 00:17:05,673 The shit is gibberish. 375 00:17:05,673 --> 00:17:06,907 And it's how the police talk to each other. 376 00:17:06,907 --> 00:17:08,342 It's just gibberish. 377 00:17:08,342 --> 00:17:09,944 "Three Victor, two David, two David, two Victor." 378 00:17:09,944 --> 00:17:12,613 [ Gibbers indistinctly ] 379 00:17:13,481 --> 00:17:15,282 When we be watching the police in the grocery store, 380 00:17:15,282 --> 00:17:17,084 they see us looking at the radio, 381 00:17:17,084 --> 00:17:18,619 the police love to play it off, 382 00:17:18,619 --> 00:17:21,355 act like they understood what dispatch was talking about. 383 00:17:21,355 --> 00:17:22,957 "Three Adam, David, three Adam, David. 384 00:17:22,957 --> 00:17:26,794 We have a respond code." [ Gibbers indistinctly ] 385 00:17:26,794 --> 00:17:28,529 "Three Victor, 10-4." Like, you don't know 386 00:17:28,529 --> 00:17:31,132 what she just said. 387 00:17:31,132 --> 00:17:33,034 Stop fucking around. You don't know 388 00:17:33,034 --> 00:17:35,636 what she just said to you. 389 00:17:35,636 --> 00:17:37,204 And you wonder why the police show up 390 00:17:37,204 --> 00:17:39,440 and shoot the wrong person. 391 00:17:41,375 --> 00:17:43,044 'Cause you ain't getting the right information 392 00:17:43,044 --> 00:17:44,678 through the radio. 393 00:17:44,678 --> 00:17:47,948 Slow it down. Slow it down. 394 00:17:47,948 --> 00:17:50,651 Use regular words. 395 00:17:50,651 --> 00:17:52,720 All you got to do, man. I was trying to explain 396 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,890 this shit to my cousin, man. Like -- Like, the other thing, 397 00:17:55,890 --> 00:17:57,491 though, to take some of the heat off the cops 398 00:17:57,491 --> 00:17:59,860 is if enough of y'all just did your job right 399 00:17:59,860 --> 00:18:01,262 for a little while, 400 00:18:01,262 --> 00:18:03,097 some of the heat will come off you. 401 00:18:03,097 --> 00:18:05,599 If you do your job well enough, long enough, 402 00:18:05,599 --> 00:18:08,602 people will let a couple of things slide. 403 00:18:08,602 --> 00:18:10,604 They'll let some stuff slide. Just do the job 404 00:18:10,604 --> 00:18:13,607 for a little while. Look at the fire department. 405 00:18:13,607 --> 00:18:15,710 Everybody loves firefighters. 406 00:18:15,710 --> 00:18:17,778 Everybody loves -- The truck pass by, 407 00:18:17,778 --> 00:18:20,214 you be cheering for them. [ Cheers ] 408 00:18:22,383 --> 00:18:24,085 Everybody love -- Firefighters get 409 00:18:24,085 --> 00:18:29,390 the same hero love as cops, none of the scrutiny. 410 00:18:29,390 --> 00:18:30,891 You've never looked at a firefighter 411 00:18:30,891 --> 00:18:34,829 and wondered to yourself if he's one of the good ones. 412 00:18:38,165 --> 00:18:40,234 They're just firefighters. Everybody loves firefighters. 413 00:18:40,234 --> 00:18:42,770 But don't forget, firefighters in the '60s 414 00:18:42,770 --> 00:18:46,807 used to shoot Black people in the face with water. 415 00:18:46,807 --> 00:18:49,176 They were terrible. Firefighters were a bunch of 416 00:18:49,176 --> 00:18:52,279 terrible, evil motherfuckers. 417 00:18:52,279 --> 00:18:54,715 And then one day they had a meeting 418 00:18:56,150 --> 00:18:58,986 and they was like, "You know, maybe we should 419 00:18:58,986 --> 00:19:00,888 just put out fires. 420 00:19:02,590 --> 00:19:05,926 Stop shooting these niggas in the face with the water." 421 00:19:05,926 --> 00:19:10,598 And we've been cool with the fire department ever since. 422 00:19:10,598 --> 00:19:14,235 We love the fire department. 423 00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:16,604 We so good with the fire department, 424 00:19:16,604 --> 00:19:19,673 they don't even show up to our protests anymore. 425 00:19:19,673 --> 00:19:22,309 That's why all the shit be burning. 426 00:19:25,179 --> 00:19:27,615 Because they're a good ally. 427 00:19:30,618 --> 00:19:32,520 Plus, if you are a racist firefighter, 428 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,622 like, how would you be a racist firefighter? 429 00:19:34,622 --> 00:19:38,726 Like, you in the smoke. You can't see who you saving. 430 00:19:40,761 --> 00:19:42,196 If you're a racist firefighter, 431 00:19:42,196 --> 00:19:44,465 that mean you get to listen for race in the dark, 432 00:19:44,465 --> 00:19:46,267 patting around. 433 00:19:46,267 --> 00:19:47,635 You know how racist you gotta be 434 00:19:47,635 --> 00:19:52,573 to hear Black over the crackle of flames? 435 00:19:52,573 --> 00:19:53,941 Patting around, "Fire department. 436 00:19:53,941 --> 00:19:55,710 Call out. Fire department, you in here?" 437 00:19:55,710 --> 00:19:58,412 "I'm over here, cuz. Save me, dawg." 438 00:20:02,349 --> 00:20:04,919 "This floor is all clear. Headed upstairs." 439 00:20:04,919 --> 00:20:08,589 "Roger that, engine 13, upstairs." [ Gibbers ] 440 00:20:08,589 --> 00:20:12,626 [ Audience laughs ] 441 00:20:20,601 --> 00:20:23,804 There's a lot of shit the cops could be doing, man. 442 00:20:24,304 --> 00:20:25,997 {\an7}could do -- This would really \h\h\h\h\h\h\hbuild a bridge. 443 00:20:25,997 --> 00:20:29,931 {\an7}Every cop in this country, \h\h\h\h\h\h\honce a month, 444 00:20:29,931 --> 00:20:32,667 {\an7}let a nigga go. 445 00:20:34,766 --> 00:20:36,403 {\an7}I’m serious. 446 00:20:36,403 --> 00:20:39,766 {\an7}Not every day, not every shift, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hnot every week, 447 00:20:39,766 --> 00:20:45,865 {\an7}but just once a month, \h\h\h\hlet a nigga go. 448 00:20:45,865 --> 00:20:49,799 {\an7}Like, someone who you know for \hsure should be going to jail. 449 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:50,799 {\an7}You got him dead to rights. 450 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:52,502 {\an7}You got all the evidence. \hYou could take him in. 451 00:20:52,502 --> 00:20:56,469 {\an7}Just open the car door. \hJust, "You good, bro. 452 00:20:56,469 --> 00:20:58,634 {\an7}Get on with you." 453 00:20:58,634 --> 00:21:01,832 {\an7}"You good, fam, go home." \h\h\h\h\h\h\h[ Mutters ] 454 00:21:01,832 --> 00:21:05,063 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"2 Victor, David, letting a nigga go." [ Gibbers ] 455 00:21:05,063 --> 00:21:10,403 {\an7}"Roger that, Victor, David, nigga go, let a nigga go." 456 00:21:13,898 --> 00:21:16,799 {\an7}\h\hAnd not for every crime. I’m not saying for all crime. 457 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:19,030 {\an7}There’s certain crimes \h\hthat have to be -- 458 00:21:19,030 --> 00:21:22,370 {\an7}like, murder, the ATF, SVU. 459 00:21:22,370 --> 00:21:23,931 {\an7}Like, you keep the hits. 460 00:21:23,931 --> 00:21:26,700 {\an7}You know, the major crime, you still gotta go to jail 461 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:28,898 {\an7}for that. But a lot of crime \h\h\h\h\h\hthat’s out there 462 00:21:28,898 --> 00:21:29,931 {\an7}that cops take us to jail for, 463 00:21:29,931 --> 00:21:32,469 {\an7}you ain’t got to take me to jail for this, man. 464 00:21:32,469 --> 00:21:34,535 {\an7}\h\h\hCome on, dawg. An expired tag, man? 465 00:21:34,535 --> 00:21:36,667 {\an7}Don’t let these folks turn you \h\h\h\hinto a bill collector. 466 00:21:36,667 --> 00:21:40,568 {\an7}You took an oath to fight crime. Let me go to work 467 00:21:40,568 --> 00:21:45,162 {\an7}\hso I can get the money to unexpire my tag, sir. 468 00:21:46,898 --> 00:21:48,535 {\an7}Hey. 469 00:21:48,535 --> 00:21:51,964 {\an7}You don’t have to write me \h\h\h\ha ticket for that. 470 00:21:51,964 --> 00:21:53,865 {\an7}Just ’cause it’s a crime \hdon’t mean that you’ve 471 00:21:53,865 --> 00:21:56,195 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hgot to enforce it. Really? Really, dawg, crack? 472 00:21:56,195 --> 00:21:59,964 {\an7}You’re gonna take me to jail \h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor some crack? 473 00:21:59,964 --> 00:22:03,964 {\an7}\h\h\hLike crack -- That’s what we arresting people for still? 474 00:22:03,964 --> 00:22:05,733 {\an7}\h\hCrack -- And not a shipment of crack. 475 00:22:05,733 --> 00:22:09,568 {\an7}\hI’m talking about my own personal allotment for me. 476 00:22:09,568 --> 00:22:13,700 {\an7}\h\h\hMy own -- My rock. A crack. One single rock. 477 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:15,502 {\an7}A crack. 478 00:22:15,502 --> 00:22:17,601 {\an7}\h\h\h\hYou gonna take me to jail for a crack, sir? 479 00:22:17,601 --> 00:22:18,898 {\an7}That’s what you’re gonna do? 480 00:22:18,898 --> 00:22:20,931 {\an7}\hIt’s drugs, dawg. It’s an addiction. 481 00:22:20,931 --> 00:22:22,700 {\an7}It’s not criminal. \h\hDrop me off at 482 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:26,162 {\an7}the don’t-do-crack-no-more \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbuilding 483 00:22:26,162 --> 00:22:29,733 {\an7}and go fight the real crime. 484 00:22:30,601 --> 00:22:32,733 {\an7}’Cause that’s how you build \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe bridge. 485 00:22:32,733 --> 00:22:35,733 {\an7}’Cause the rift between \hgood cop and bad cop 486 00:22:35,733 --> 00:22:37,667 {\an7}\h\hand the argument, it just boils down to 487 00:22:37,667 --> 00:22:40,898 {\an7}who had a good interaction \h\h\h\h\hwith the police. 488 00:22:40,898 --> 00:22:41,997 {\an7}That’s all it boils down to. 489 00:22:41,997 --> 00:22:44,261 {\an7}\hAnd if once a month, you letting a nigga go, 490 00:22:44,261 --> 00:22:47,898 {\an7}you are creating allies \h\h\h\h\hout the ass. 491 00:22:47,898 --> 00:22:51,535 {\an7}\h\h\h’Cause that’s who’s gonna defend you at the next protest. 492 00:22:51,535 --> 00:22:53,063 {\an7}Who you think gon’ defend you \h\h\h\hat the next protest? 493 00:22:53,063 --> 00:22:55,502 {\an7}You wouldn’t even need all that \h\h\h\hBlue Lives Matter flag 494 00:22:55,502 --> 00:22:58,667 {\an7}if you just start letting niggas go free once a month. 495 00:22:58,667 --> 00:23:01,898 {\an7}"We got to defund the police, \h\h\habolish these police!" 496 00:23:01,898 --> 00:23:05,634 {\an7}"Hang on. Hang on, now, baby. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHang on. 497 00:23:05,634 --> 00:23:09,667 {\an7}I had some crack on me \h\h\h\hlast Thursday, 498 00:23:09,667 --> 00:23:12,030 {\an7}and that brother \hjust let me go. 499 00:23:12,030 --> 00:23:13,832 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hLook, this is a nuanced conversation 500 00:23:13,832 --> 00:23:17,733 {\an7}with a lot of layers to it, \hand we just need to think 501 00:23:17,733 --> 00:23:19,733 {\an7}about what our forefathers \h\h\h\hwould have wanted. 502 00:23:19,733 --> 00:23:22,634 {\an7}That’s all I’m saying. That’s all I’m saying. 503 00:23:22,634 --> 00:23:24,865 {\an7}I’mma go smoke some crack. \h\h\h\hI’ll be right back. 504 00:23:24,865 --> 00:23:26,337 {\an7}[ Inhales deeply ] Ow!" 505 00:23:26,337 --> 00:23:28,667 {\an7}[ Sniffs ] 506 00:23:32,964 --> 00:23:34,799 {\an7}’Cause that’s the rift. 507 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:36,832 {\an7}All these people have had all \h\hthese great experiences, 508 00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,964 {\an7}and then there’s a lot of people who hadn’t had 509 00:23:38,964 --> 00:23:39,799 {\an7}a good experience. 510 00:23:39,799 --> 00:23:41,964 {\an7}\hLike, if you’ve had a good interaction with the police, 511 00:23:41,964 --> 00:23:46,601 {\an7}\hespecially if you Black, you can’t even tell nobody. 512 00:23:46,601 --> 00:23:51,337 {\an7}I had a life-changing run-in \h\hwith a good cop one time. 513 00:23:51,337 --> 00:23:54,700 {\an7}It was 2003. 514 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:57,931 {\an7}I was in South Dakota. 515 00:23:59,337 --> 00:24:01,865 {\an7}Don’t ask why. 516 00:24:01,865 --> 00:24:04,129 {\an7}\h\h\h\hIt was money -- There was money there. 517 00:24:04,129 --> 00:24:05,898 {\an7}So I drove, 518 00:24:05,898 --> 00:24:07,898 {\an7}and I’m riding around \h\h\h\hSouth Dakota 519 00:24:07,898 --> 00:24:10,129 {\an7}with Alabama plates. 520 00:24:10,129 --> 00:24:12,931 {\an7}Well, yeah, you already knew \h\hthey was going to pull me 521 00:24:12,931 --> 00:24:15,195 {\an7}over on that. 522 00:24:15,195 --> 00:24:17,063 {\an7}I was in South Dakota. 523 00:24:17,063 --> 00:24:23,261 {\an7}And the cop pulls me over, \h\h\h\h\hand I blow 0.07. 524 00:24:23,832 --> 00:24:26,667 {\an7}Which isn’t the legal limit, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut it’s close. 525 00:24:26,667 --> 00:24:29,228 {\an7}I can feel the judgment. 526 00:24:31,832 --> 00:24:34,865 {\an7}It’s not the legal limit, \h\h\h\h\hbut it’s close. 527 00:24:34,865 --> 00:24:36,997 {\an7}And it’s -20 outside. 528 00:24:36,997 --> 00:24:41,700 {\an7}It’s -20 degrees outside. \h\h\hSo cold that I pass 529 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:44,228 {\an7}the first breathalyzer. 530 00:24:44,228 --> 00:24:46,304 {\an7}Like the wind -- the wind is \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hswirling 531 00:24:46,304 --> 00:24:48,370 {\an7}and is coming back through \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe tube. 532 00:24:48,370 --> 00:24:50,403 {\an7}\h\hAnd I blew -- [blows] I blew through the tube, 533 00:24:50,403 --> 00:24:51,898 {\an7}I blew like a 0.01 \h\hthe first time 534 00:24:51,898 --> 00:24:57,030 {\an7}I looked at the cop. I was like, "Well, I’m victorious." 535 00:24:59,096 --> 00:25:01,931 {\an7}\h\hAnd the cop was like, "Nah, dawg, you gotta get in the car. 536 00:25:01,931 --> 00:25:04,096 {\an7}\h\hLet’s run it back. Best two out of three. 537 00:25:04,096 --> 00:25:06,096 {\an7}Come on back." 538 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:10,898 {\an7}And I get in the car, \h\h\h\hI blow 0.07. 539 00:25:10,898 --> 00:25:14,634 {\an7}\h\h\h\hAnd, the cop, I can see him decide 540 00:25:14,634 --> 00:25:17,195 {\an7}whether or not he’s going to \h\h\htake me in on this one. 541 00:25:17,195 --> 00:25:19,261 {\an7}And I start explaining \hto him the situation. 542 00:25:19,261 --> 00:25:21,700 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI say, "Sir, before you make a decision 543 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:22,964 {\an7}\hon whether or not you gon’ charge me 544 00:25:22,964 --> 00:25:25,964 {\an7}with this buzzed driving, \h\hdrunk driving thing, 545 00:25:25,964 --> 00:25:30,129 {\an7}\h\h\hI need to let you know that I am a stand up comedian 546 00:25:30,129 --> 00:25:31,964 {\an7}who drives from state to state. 547 00:25:31,964 --> 00:25:37,370 {\an7}My driver’s license literally \h\his my employment permit. 548 00:25:37,370 --> 00:25:42,228 {\an7}Without that, I cannot -- I will effectively be unemployed." 549 00:25:42,228 --> 00:25:43,931 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd I can see the cop thinking about it. 550 00:25:43,931 --> 00:25:48,865 {\an7}The cop goes, "Alright, well, here’s what we gon’ do, man. 551 00:25:48,865 --> 00:25:51,865 {\an7}Rather than take you to jail, 552 00:25:51,865 --> 00:25:55,096 {\an7}give me the keys to your car 553 00:25:55,096 --> 00:25:59,228 {\an7}and I want you to walk \hback to your hotel." 554 00:26:01,370 --> 00:26:03,469 {\an7}-20. 555 00:26:05,129 --> 00:26:09,403 {\an7}\h\h\h\hTwo miles or be unemployed? 556 00:26:09,403 --> 00:26:11,799 {\an7}Which do you choose? 557 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:13,898 {\an7}The walk! The walk! 558 00:26:13,898 --> 00:26:16,931 {\an7}\hThe walk! I said, "T-Thank you, sir," 559 00:26:16,931 --> 00:26:19,370 {\an7}and I fucking froze. 560 00:26:21,865 --> 00:26:23,733 {\an7}\hSome two miles in -20 might as well have been 561 00:26:23,733 --> 00:26:26,337 {\an7}40 miles. Like, it -- I almost \h\h\h\h\hdied. I almost died. 562 00:26:26,337 --> 00:26:30,261 {\an7}But the next morning, I go down to the front desk of the hotel, 563 00:26:30,261 --> 00:26:31,162 {\an7}and I’ll be damned -- 564 00:26:31,162 --> 00:26:34,162 {\an7}\h\hthis police officer was a man of his word. 565 00:26:34,162 --> 00:26:35,535 {\an7}At the front desk was my car keys, 566 00:26:35,535 --> 00:26:38,931 {\an7}and he had them wrapped up in a nice little Jesus brochure. 567 00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:41,502 {\an7}I didn’t like that. 568 00:26:41,502 --> 00:26:42,799 {\an7}Now that, I didn’t like. 569 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:44,469 {\an7}’Cause he was treating me \hlike I just needed AA, 570 00:26:44,469 --> 00:26:47,228 {\an7}and like, -- like I needed \h\h\h\hJesus or something. 571 00:26:47,228 --> 00:26:49,261 {\an7}He had all the Bible verses -- \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe little -- 572 00:26:49,261 --> 00:26:50,502 {\an7}you know how, like, \h\h\hyou get drunk 573 00:26:50,502 --> 00:26:53,931 {\an7}\h\hand they give you them "get your shit together" brochures? 574 00:26:53,931 --> 00:26:55,997 {\an7}\h\h\h\hHe had my car keys stuffed in a bunch of them 575 00:26:55,997 --> 00:26:57,436 {\an7}"get your shit together" \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbrochures 576 00:26:57,436 --> 00:26:58,865 {\an7}\h\h\h\hand I’m like, "I don’t need Jesus. 577 00:26:58,865 --> 00:27:00,096 {\an7}I just need to use \h\hmy turn signal. 578 00:27:00,096 --> 00:27:03,403 {\an7}\h\h\hIf I had done that, we would have never met." 579 00:27:04,436 --> 00:27:06,502 {\an7}But that moment, man -- \h\hthat moment changed 580 00:27:06,502 --> 00:27:08,370 {\an7}my trajectory for the rest of \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmy life. 581 00:27:08,370 --> 00:27:10,436 {\an7}I never buzzed drive, \h\h\h\hdrunk drive, 582 00:27:10,436 --> 00:27:11,898 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hnever did anything of the like again, 583 00:27:11,898 --> 00:27:15,030 {\an7}and I didn’t have to go to jail \h\h\h\h\hto learn that lesson. 584 00:27:15,030 --> 00:27:17,535 {\an7}And I’m thankful to that cop \h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor doing that. 585 00:27:17,535 --> 00:27:19,403 {\an7}Like, I really appreciate it, 586 00:27:19,403 --> 00:27:20,898 {\an7}and it’s a story I never forgot. 587 00:27:20,898 --> 00:27:24,162 {\an7}And it’s also a story \hI could never share 588 00:27:24,162 --> 00:27:27,436 {\an7}at a Black barbershop. 589 00:27:29,337 --> 00:27:32,304 {\an7}They would run me out of \h\h\h\h\hthe barbershop. 590 00:27:32,304 --> 00:27:34,129 {\an7}\h\hAs soon as I go in the barbershop and say, 591 00:27:34,129 --> 00:27:35,931 {\an7}"I sat in the front seat \h\h\h\hof a police car." 592 00:27:35,931 --> 00:27:39,228 {\an7}\h\hThey’d be like, "Aww, get the fuck out of here. 593 00:27:39,228 --> 00:27:41,261 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMan, you lying. You ain’t never sit no front. 594 00:27:41,261 --> 00:27:46,162 {\an7}0.07 and in the front seat?! \h\h\h\hAww, shut yo ass up." 595 00:27:46,162 --> 00:27:47,469 {\an7}’Cause here’s the thing -- \h\h\h\h\h\h\hif you Black 596 00:27:47,469 --> 00:27:49,195 {\an7}and you had a good run-in \h\h\h\hwith the police, 597 00:27:49,195 --> 00:27:52,865 {\an7}you’re basically the farmer \h\h\h\hthat saw the alien. 598 00:27:52,865 --> 00:27:54,865 {\an7}That’s who you are. 599 00:27:54,865 --> 00:27:56,964 {\an7}That’s how you sound. You sound \h\hlike the farmer who saw -- 600 00:27:56,964 --> 00:27:59,502 {\an7}"I’m telling you what I saw! \hIt was some bright lights. 601 00:27:59,502 --> 00:28:04,931 {\an7}\h\hSomething grabbed me, then it just let me go." 602 00:28:06,337 --> 00:28:10,195 {\an7}Like, man, shut yo ass up. 603 00:28:14,195 --> 00:28:16,964 {\an7}The last Black person to have \h\h\ha positive interaction 604 00:28:16,964 --> 00:28:20,337 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith the police and speak about it on the record 605 00:28:20,337 --> 00:28:22,261 {\an7}is Ice Cube. 606 00:28:22,261 --> 00:28:26,304 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h"Just yesterday, them fools tried to blast me. 607 00:28:26,304 --> 00:28:27,931 {\an7}Saw the police and they..." 608 00:28:27,931 --> 00:28:30,096 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAudience: "Rolled right past me." 609 00:28:30,096 --> 00:28:33,370 {\an7}That was 30 years ago, y’all. 610 00:28:34,469 --> 00:28:38,436 {\an7}And we never forgot \h\h\hthat one cop. 611 00:28:38,436 --> 00:28:39,898 {\an7}And he didn’t even do shit to \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIce Cube. 612 00:28:39,898 --> 00:28:42,063 {\an7}He ain’t pull him over and give him ice cream. 613 00:28:42,063 --> 00:28:43,634 {\an7}He just let him go. 614 00:28:43,634 --> 00:28:45,228 {\an7}Ice Cube was sitting at \h\h\h\h\ha red light, 615 00:28:45,228 --> 00:28:46,997 {\an7}that cop saw Ice Cube \h\h\hand drove off, 616 00:28:46,997 --> 00:28:50,063 {\an7}and Ice Cube was like, \h"Oh, shit, I gotta go 617 00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:52,898 {\an7}to the studio right now. 618 00:28:52,898 --> 00:28:56,162 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCall D.J. Pooh. We got to fucking make a track 619 00:28:56,162 --> 00:28:57,403 {\an7}about this shit. 620 00:28:57,403 --> 00:29:00,634 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWhat’s the score of the Lakers Supersonic game?" 621 00:29:00,634 --> 00:29:05,261 {\an7}[ Audience laughs ] 622 00:29:09,337 --> 00:29:11,568 {\an7}[ Man cheers ] 623 00:29:11,568 --> 00:29:15,502 {\an7}Anything to feel good. 624 00:29:17,586 --> 00:29:19,477 {\an7}Anything to feel good. 625 00:29:19,477 --> 00:29:21,345 {\an7}But you got to be careful, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthough. 626 00:29:21,345 --> 00:29:23,048 {\an7}’Cause a lot of people out there, the only way 627 00:29:23,048 --> 00:29:27,411 {\an7}they know how to feel good \his to make you feel bad. 628 00:29:27,411 --> 00:29:29,477 {\an7}\hYou got to keep your head on a swivel for these folks 629 00:29:29,477 --> 00:29:33,345 {\an7}\h\h\h’cause they out there and they ain’t doing well. 630 00:29:33,345 --> 00:29:36,147 {\an7}They ain’t doing well. 631 00:29:36,147 --> 00:29:36,817 {\an7}[ Applause ] 632 00:29:36,817 --> 00:29:39,081 {\an7}\h\hThey got a full clip, they got an empty heart, 633 00:29:39,081 --> 00:29:43,411 {\an7}and they ain’t had a crab leg \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin a long time. 634 00:29:45,378 --> 00:29:47,312 {\an7}You gotta keep your head \h\h\h\h\h\hon a swivel. 635 00:29:47,312 --> 00:29:51,652 {\an7}Them folks got guns. They ready to shoot up whatever, anywhere. 636 00:29:51,652 --> 00:29:55,586 {\an7}\hThat’s why we gotta bring back profiling. 637 00:29:57,114 --> 00:29:59,685 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m gonna be real. Like, I know it ain’t worked out 638 00:29:59,685 --> 00:30:01,586 {\an7}well for us, 639 00:30:01,586 --> 00:30:03,543 {\an7}but there’s a lot of different \h\h\h\h\hways you can profile, 640 00:30:03,543 --> 00:30:05,949 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hnot just racial. I ain’t say racial profiling. 641 00:30:05,949 --> 00:30:07,279 {\an7}Just bring back profiling. 642 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:08,543 {\an7}Trying to stop these \h\h\hmass shootings, 643 00:30:08,543 --> 00:30:10,477 {\an7}\h\hthere’s certain stuff you got to be looking for 644 00:30:10,477 --> 00:30:11,444 {\an7}on people in public. 645 00:30:11,444 --> 00:30:14,246 {\an7}\h\h\hLike when I’m out, I be checking everybody’s haircut. 646 00:30:14,246 --> 00:30:16,378 {\an7}That’s the first thing \h\h\h\h\h\hI look at. 647 00:30:16,378 --> 00:30:18,477 {\an7}\h\hI don’t trust nobody with a messed-up haircut. 648 00:30:18,477 --> 00:30:24,619 {\an7}There’s too many different ways \h\hto edge yourself up for $3. 649 00:30:24,619 --> 00:30:25,751 {\an7}\hLook -- Go look at the mug shot. 650 00:30:25,751 --> 00:30:27,543 {\an7}Look at the mug shot of any mass shooter. 651 00:30:27,543 --> 00:30:30,246 {\an7}All of ’em, fucked up haircut. 652 00:30:30,246 --> 00:30:33,477 {\an7}Just sideways. [ Whines ] 653 00:30:33,477 --> 00:30:36,213 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThat’s what we need to be focused on. 654 00:30:36,213 --> 00:30:37,685 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hEvery time a mass shooting happen, 655 00:30:37,685 --> 00:30:39,652 {\an7}we ask all the wrong questions. 656 00:30:39,652 --> 00:30:42,685 {\an7}"What about -- what about mental health awareness? 657 00:30:42,685 --> 00:30:45,114 {\an7}What about -- what about \h\h\h\h\hthe gun laws?" 658 00:30:45,114 --> 00:30:49,279 {\an7}\h\hFuck all that. Who was his barber? 659 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:54,147 {\an7}\hWho gave him the murder cut? That’s who we need to talk to. 660 00:30:55,081 --> 00:30:56,510 {\an7}You got to be on the lookout. 661 00:30:56,510 --> 00:30:58,213 {\an7}You got to be on the lookout \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin this country 662 00:30:58,213 --> 00:31:00,312 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hfor people that ain’t doing well. 663 00:31:00,312 --> 00:31:03,213 {\an7}I was in Home Depot. The dude -- I was walking in the Home Depot. 664 00:31:03,213 --> 00:31:06,081 {\an7}The dude in front of me was walking diagonally. 665 00:31:06,081 --> 00:31:10,048 {\an7}\h\hI was like, "Eh. I’m good." 666 00:31:10,048 --> 00:31:10,883 {\an7}I left. I went to Lowe’s. 667 00:31:10,883 --> 00:31:14,246 {\an7}I was like, "I gotta \h\hget out of here." 668 00:31:14,246 --> 00:31:16,246 {\an7}Don’t be around no diagonals. 669 00:31:16,246 --> 00:31:21,312 {\an7}I am a perpendicular American, \h\h\h\h\hand I don’t trust... 670 00:31:21,510 --> 00:31:22,850 {\an7}I went and talked to the manager and everything. 671 00:31:22,850 --> 00:31:24,444 {\an7}I turned into a Karen. I went to the manager. 672 00:31:24,444 --> 00:31:28,378 {\an7}I was like, "You know you got \h\h\hsome diagonals in here? 673 00:31:28,378 --> 00:31:30,378 {\an7}\h\h\h\hBetter go in here and find these diagonals 674 00:31:30,378 --> 00:31:32,477 {\an7}and get them out." 675 00:31:38,345 --> 00:31:39,619 {\an7}Mass shootings, man. \h\h\hMass shootings 676 00:31:39,619 --> 00:31:42,510 {\an7}especially fucked up if you from the hood. 677 00:31:42,510 --> 00:31:46,378 {\an7}It’s especially messed up if you from the hood, a mass shooting. 678 00:31:46,378 --> 00:31:49,510 {\an7}That was the whole point of getting out the hood, 679 00:31:49,510 --> 00:31:52,279 {\an7}was to get away from the murder. 680 00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:54,180 {\an7}That’s what they tell you, \h\hgrowing up in the hood. 681 00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:56,586 {\an7}"Get you an education, \h\h\h\hget you a job, 682 00:31:56,586 --> 00:31:57,817 {\an7}get out there and see \h\h\h\h\hthe world." 683 00:31:57,817 --> 00:32:00,619 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hWell, bitch, I did. They shooting over there, too. 684 00:32:00,619 --> 00:32:02,444 {\an7}I’m back. 685 00:32:03,378 --> 00:32:04,784 {\an7}I’m better off here \h\hthe whole time. 686 00:32:04,784 --> 00:32:06,147 {\an7}Say what you want \habout the hood, 687 00:32:06,147 --> 00:32:10,784 {\an7}\h\h\hbut at least they shoot motherfuckers one at a time. 688 00:32:10,784 --> 00:32:12,510 {\an7}You got a chance. 689 00:32:12,510 --> 00:32:14,378 {\an7}I understand gentrification now. I get it. 690 00:32:14,378 --> 00:32:16,784 {\an7}White folks coming back \haround Black people, 691 00:32:16,784 --> 00:32:19,817 {\an7}where it’s safe. 692 00:32:20,345 --> 00:32:22,883 {\an7}Welcome back. 693 00:32:22,883 --> 00:32:24,510 {\an7}Welcome back. 694 00:32:24,510 --> 00:32:26,652 {\an7}"Oh, my God. Did you see all \h\h\hthat murder out there? 695 00:32:26,652 --> 00:32:29,784 {\an7}It’s okay, I’m an ally. \h\h\hGood to meet you. 696 00:32:29,784 --> 00:32:33,718 {\an7}Whew! Where can I get some \halmond milk around here? 697 00:32:33,718 --> 00:32:35,246 {\an7}\h\hOh, it’s okay. I’ll buy the block. 698 00:32:35,246 --> 00:32:39,213 {\an7}But good to meet you, though. \h\h\h\h\hGood to meet you." 699 00:32:43,718 --> 00:32:46,180 {\an7}You got to watch out \h\hfor these folks. 700 00:32:46,180 --> 00:32:49,883 {\an7}\h\h\hRecognize the signs, and the people that you care about, 701 00:32:49,883 --> 00:32:51,543 {\an7}check on them. 702 00:32:51,543 --> 00:32:52,817 {\an7}\h\h\h\h’Cause there’s some people out there, 703 00:32:52,817 --> 00:32:54,444 {\an7}the only way they know \h\h\hhow to feel good 704 00:32:54,444 --> 00:32:57,784 {\an7}is to make themselves feel bad. 705 00:32:57,784 --> 00:33:00,147 {\an7}\h\h\h\hHappiness is such a foreign concept to them 706 00:33:00,147 --> 00:33:03,916 {\an7}that the moment that happiness even remotely presents itself, 707 00:33:03,916 --> 00:33:05,850 {\an7}they’ll self-sabotage it. 708 00:33:05,850 --> 00:33:09,279 {\an7}We all been there. You gotta \h\h\hrecognize these people 709 00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:11,510 {\an7}who make themselves feel bad. \h\h\h\hYou know who they are 710 00:33:11,510 --> 00:33:13,345 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hin your circles. It’s the people in your -- 711 00:33:13,345 --> 00:33:15,718 {\an7}in your phone that don’t do \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hnothing 712 00:33:15,718 --> 00:33:18,543 {\an7}but watch documentaries. 713 00:33:21,345 --> 00:33:23,982 {\an7}You gotta check on these people. 714 00:33:23,982 --> 00:33:26,718 {\an7}Them documentary people, \hthere’s something wrong 715 00:33:26,718 --> 00:33:28,685 {\an7}with them. 716 00:33:28,685 --> 00:33:30,652 {\an7}And I’m not attacking you. \hIf that’s your crab leg, 717 00:33:30,652 --> 00:33:34,279 {\an7}hey, enjoy your crab leg. \hBut here’s the thing -- 718 00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:35,652 {\an7}here’s the thing with \hthem documentaries. 719 00:33:35,652 --> 00:33:36,916 {\an7}\h\h\hThe problem with your documentary people 720 00:33:36,916 --> 00:33:40,510 {\an7}\h\h\his that y’all watch, like, 8, 9 of them in a row 721 00:33:40,510 --> 00:33:42,444 {\an7}and then keep recommending \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthem to us 722 00:33:42,444 --> 00:33:44,312 {\an7}\h\h\h\hand recommending and recommending, and -- 723 00:33:44,312 --> 00:33:46,817 {\an7}"Have you seen the documentary \h\h\h\h\habout the fucking --" 724 00:33:46,817 --> 00:33:50,586 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"No! No, nigga. I ain’t watched the last five 725 00:33:50,586 --> 00:33:51,817 {\an7}you told me to watch." 726 00:33:51,817 --> 00:33:53,850 {\an7}I know the world is fucked up. \h\h\h\h\hI don’t need to hear 727 00:33:53,850 --> 00:33:56,850 {\an7}narration over a documentary \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hevery time. 728 00:33:56,850 --> 00:33:58,477 {\an7}\h\h\h\hAnd I’m not saying don’t watch documentaries. 729 00:33:58,477 --> 00:34:00,883 {\an7}\hI love a good documentary, but after two documentaries, 730 00:34:00,883 --> 00:34:03,784 {\an7}\h\hI have to watch me the "Paw Patrol" movie 731 00:34:03,784 --> 00:34:05,718 {\an7}for balance. 732 00:34:05,718 --> 00:34:07,246 {\an7}Yeah, you need leverage. 733 00:34:07,246 --> 00:34:10,982 {\an7}Can’t be watching all them \h\hdocumentaries in a row. 734 00:34:10,982 --> 00:34:12,685 {\an7}\h\h\hYou know them documentary people. 735 00:34:12,685 --> 00:34:14,883 {\an7}They never in a good mood. 736 00:34:14,883 --> 00:34:17,543 {\an7}You know the problem with you \h\h\h\h\hdocumentary people? 737 00:34:17,543 --> 00:34:18,883 {\an7}It’s that y’all don’t like -- 738 00:34:18,883 --> 00:34:24,048 {\an7}you gotta be more excited \h\hwhen you pitching it. 739 00:34:24,048 --> 00:34:27,916 {\an7}\h\h\hY’all never -- You’re never upbeat. 740 00:34:27,916 --> 00:34:29,982 {\an7}You know, I would watch \h\h\h\ha documentaries 741 00:34:29,982 --> 00:34:31,444 {\an7}if you came to it like, \h\h\h"Hey, man, I saw 742 00:34:31,444 --> 00:34:33,751 {\an7}\h\h\h\ha great documentary about the end of the world. 743 00:34:33,751 --> 00:34:34,982 {\an7}It’s a good documentary." 744 00:34:34,982 --> 00:34:36,378 {\an7}But that’s not how \hy’all come to us. 745 00:34:36,378 --> 00:34:39,619 {\an7}\h\hY’all come to us all cryptic and shit. 746 00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:42,543 {\an7}"I just thought documentary \h\h\h\h\habout the thing, 747 00:34:42,543 --> 00:34:46,411 {\an7}and they found two fingers inside the tire of the car 748 00:34:46,411 --> 00:34:50,015 {\an7}and they traced the fingers \h\h\h\hback to a Whopper." 749 00:34:50,015 --> 00:34:52,312 {\an7}[ Grunts ] 750 00:34:53,751 --> 00:34:54,543 {\an7}Ah, man. 751 00:34:54,543 --> 00:34:56,477 {\an7}\hAll I’m saying, if you gon’ watch a couple documentaries, 752 00:34:56,477 --> 00:34:59,784 {\an7}man, you got to break it up. Watch a "Fresh Prince" rerun. 753 00:34:59,784 --> 00:35:01,751 {\an7}Do something else. 754 00:35:01,751 --> 00:35:06,345 {\an7}Respectfully. I don’t know you, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut respectfully. 755 00:35:07,586 --> 00:35:08,411 {\an7}[ Chuckles ] 756 00:35:08,411 --> 00:35:11,510 {\an7}\h\hMan. Watch too many of them documentaries, 757 00:35:11,510 --> 00:35:14,279 {\an7}you become a diagonal. 758 00:35:16,048 --> 00:35:17,916 {\an7}I don’t want that for you. 759 00:35:17,916 --> 00:35:22,751 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hThat seems like a nice perpendicular woman right there. 760 00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:28,652 {\an7}\h\h\hIt’s the same thing with Civil Rights movies. 761 00:35:28,652 --> 00:35:31,619 {\an7}\hSame thing, same thing with Civil Rights movies. 762 00:35:34,846 --> 00:35:36,715 It'll alter you. 763 00:35:36,715 --> 00:35:38,216 You know, matter of fact -- matter of fact, 764 00:35:38,216 --> 00:35:39,584 I think all these streaming -- 765 00:35:39,584 --> 00:35:41,620 like, all these streaming services, they should... 766 00:35:41,620 --> 00:35:43,255 Black people shouldn't be allowed 767 00:35:43,255 --> 00:35:46,224 to watch more than two a year. 768 00:35:46,224 --> 00:35:48,260 Just to help keep us calm. For our own mental health. 769 00:35:48,260 --> 00:35:50,161 You should not be -- 'Cause you know what they do. 770 00:35:50,161 --> 00:35:53,365 Like, you watch one slavery, and then the algorithm show you 771 00:35:53,365 --> 00:35:56,134 12 more slaveries to choose from. 772 00:35:56,134 --> 00:35:58,536 You cannot watch 12 slaveries in a week 773 00:35:58,536 --> 00:36:00,972 and be normal. 774 00:36:00,972 --> 00:36:02,974 You'd be walking around work mad as a motherfucker. 775 00:36:02,974 --> 00:36:04,576 You'd just... 776 00:36:04,576 --> 00:36:06,544 Two slavery max. Like, that's -- 777 00:36:06,544 --> 00:36:08,079 Like, after you watch your second slavery, 778 00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:09,814 like, a prompt should just come up on the screen. 779 00:36:09,814 --> 00:36:12,417 "Hey, dawg, that's enough. 780 00:36:12,417 --> 00:36:15,353 You good, bro. You caught up. 781 00:36:15,353 --> 00:36:18,957 Just watch your two slaveries and keep it moving, man. 782 00:36:18,957 --> 00:36:20,759 But you know there's a 'Paw Patrol' movie? 783 00:36:20,759 --> 00:36:23,528 Let me get you the 'Paw Patrol' movie real quick, bro." 784 00:36:28,567 --> 00:36:30,435 I know a lot of people don't like those movies. 785 00:36:30,435 --> 00:36:31,736 I understand it. 786 00:36:31,736 --> 00:36:34,039 I understand the feeling. It's Black pain. 787 00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:36,441 It's terrible shit being documented on screen. 788 00:36:36,441 --> 00:36:38,710 People making money off of it. 789 00:36:38,710 --> 00:36:42,214 You know, but our history gotta be somewhere. 790 00:36:42,214 --> 00:36:45,283 It ain't in the textbooks. 791 00:36:45,283 --> 00:36:47,285 So... 792 00:36:47,285 --> 00:36:49,187 [ Applause ] 793 00:36:49,187 --> 00:36:50,522 Till we get some better options, 794 00:36:50,522 --> 00:36:51,790 we just got to have a couple struggle movies 795 00:36:51,790 --> 00:36:54,926 every now and then. It is what it is. 796 00:36:54,926 --> 00:36:56,328 But I'll tell you what throw me off, though -- 797 00:36:56,328 --> 00:36:58,063 I'll be watching them Civil Rights movies, man. 798 00:36:58,063 --> 00:36:59,764 What throw me off -- I'll watch a Civil Rights movie 799 00:36:59,764 --> 00:37:01,866 and be like, "Ooh, that was a good-ass movie." 800 00:37:01,866 --> 00:37:04,469 Then two weeks later, you find out the main Black dude 801 00:37:04,469 --> 00:37:05,503 in the movie is British. 802 00:37:05,503 --> 00:37:08,473 You be like, "Ah, shit. 803 00:37:08,473 --> 00:37:11,876 Motherfucker got me!" 804 00:37:11,876 --> 00:37:14,713 'Cause them Black Brits, they good. 805 00:37:14,713 --> 00:37:16,281 The anger is a compliment. 806 00:37:16,281 --> 00:37:19,684 Them Black Brits, they so good, it feel like betrayal. 807 00:37:19,684 --> 00:37:21,253 You be watching the movie, this motherfucker be 808 00:37:21,253 --> 00:37:23,488 Martin Luther King -- "I have a dream and in a dream, 809 00:37:23,488 --> 00:37:26,925 and I'll be dreaming it in a dream." 810 00:37:26,925 --> 00:37:28,860 And then you see him two weeks later in the interview. 811 00:37:28,860 --> 00:37:30,896 [ British accent ] "Well, my [gibbers indistinctly] 812 00:37:30,896 --> 00:37:34,065 Alright, now, me niggas." 813 00:37:34,065 --> 00:37:36,968 [ Normal Voice ] I'm like, "Why is Dr. King talking like this?" 814 00:37:39,671 --> 00:37:41,339 And this might not be an issue for most people, 815 00:37:41,339 --> 00:37:44,075 but every Black person remember the day they found out 816 00:37:44,075 --> 00:37:47,245 Idris Elba wasn't from Baltimore. 817 00:37:47,245 --> 00:37:49,481 [ Cheers and applause ] 818 00:37:49,481 --> 00:37:51,950 Oh, my God. 819 00:37:51,950 --> 00:37:56,221 That was a troubling day in the Black American community. 820 00:37:56,221 --> 00:38:00,025 It's like finding out your daddy wasn't your daddy. 821 00:38:00,025 --> 00:38:02,360 Idris Elba, that's Stringer Bell from "The Wire." 822 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,095 That's Stringer Bell, dawg. 823 00:38:04,095 --> 00:38:06,298 Like, "Naw, dawg, that motherfucker from over there." 824 00:38:06,298 --> 00:38:10,368 "No, he ain't! You shut the fuck up!" 825 00:38:10,368 --> 00:38:11,703 And then you saw Idris. 826 00:38:11,703 --> 00:38:13,204 You saw him in the interview. 827 00:38:13,204 --> 00:38:14,472 [British accent] "Well, I tell you, for breakfast, 828 00:38:14,472 --> 00:38:16,107 me love a warm bowl of beans." 829 00:38:16,107 --> 00:38:18,944 [ Normal voice ] They're like, "Oh! 830 00:38:18,944 --> 00:38:22,013 This nigga eat beans for breakfast?! 831 00:38:23,348 --> 00:38:26,151 Aww, not my dawg. 832 00:38:26,151 --> 00:38:28,153 Not my dawg. 833 00:38:28,153 --> 00:38:30,922 Oh! Oh!" 834 00:38:37,963 --> 00:38:39,231 I think -- I think part of the rift 835 00:38:39,231 --> 00:38:40,999 between Black Americans and Black Brits, 836 00:38:40,999 --> 00:38:43,001 it just boils down to we don't know enough about 837 00:38:43,001 --> 00:38:45,270 foreign Black people's struggle. 838 00:38:45,270 --> 00:38:47,072 We don't know enough about Black British people 839 00:38:47,072 --> 00:38:48,440 because they don't teach us they history, 840 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:49,741 and if I don't know your pain, 841 00:38:49,741 --> 00:38:52,510 I can't trust you to portray mine on camera. 842 00:38:52,510 --> 00:38:55,280 That's -- That's the issue. 843 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,082 But it ain't Black Brits' fault. It ain't they fault 844 00:38:57,082 --> 00:38:58,550 we don't know shit about they history. 845 00:38:58,550 --> 00:39:02,454 They ain't teaching us foreign racism in America. 846 00:39:02,454 --> 00:39:04,122 We ain't learning about the struggle across 847 00:39:04,122 --> 00:39:06,858 the diaspora. We just now learning about Tulsa. 848 00:39:06,858 --> 00:39:10,729 That shit happened 'round the corner. 849 00:39:10,729 --> 00:39:13,198 Yeah, we too busy learning Roman numerals 850 00:39:13,198 --> 00:39:16,201 in America. 851 00:39:16,201 --> 00:39:18,003 They ain't teaching you about the struggle across 852 00:39:18,003 --> 00:39:19,838 the diaspora. They only gon' teach you -- 853 00:39:19,838 --> 00:39:21,339 "Well, thank God I know the Roman numerals. 854 00:39:21,339 --> 00:39:23,742 Now I know which Super Bowl we on." 855 00:39:23,742 --> 00:39:24,910 [ Audience laughs ] 856 00:39:24,910 --> 00:39:27,078 Fucking idiots. 857 00:39:29,247 --> 00:39:31,216 So a different type of nigga pull up to the country, 858 00:39:31,216 --> 00:39:33,151 you don't know shit about them. "You ain't my fucking --" 859 00:39:33,151 --> 00:39:35,420 [ Mutters ] 860 00:39:35,420 --> 00:39:38,957 We don't know nothing about Brits, not for real. 861 00:39:38,957 --> 00:39:40,759 And then, on the same token, 862 00:39:40,759 --> 00:39:42,427 Black Brits don't know nothing about us. 863 00:39:42,427 --> 00:39:45,630 You know, they ain't learning American racism over there. 864 00:39:45,630 --> 00:39:46,998 They ain't learning -- In England? Shit. 865 00:39:46,998 --> 00:39:49,267 You think they learning about American racism? 866 00:39:49,267 --> 00:39:51,836 And England is racism corporate headquarters. 867 00:39:51,836 --> 00:39:55,040 Like, that's -- 868 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,442 That is where it's created. 869 00:39:59,044 --> 00:40:01,146 So you know these Black Brits coming over here, 870 00:40:01,146 --> 00:40:03,181 they don't even know that they walking into a situation 871 00:40:03,181 --> 00:40:04,749 that benefits them more than the people 872 00:40:04,749 --> 00:40:07,152 that's been on the ground longer than them. 873 00:40:07,152 --> 00:40:09,588 And that's the riff. We just don't know. 874 00:40:09,588 --> 00:40:11,623 [ Applause ] 875 00:40:11,623 --> 00:40:14,192 Don't know shit, man. 876 00:40:14,192 --> 00:40:16,328 There's gotta be something going on in England, man. 877 00:40:16,328 --> 00:40:19,164 There's gotta be some racism over there, man. 878 00:40:19,164 --> 00:40:21,800 They ran off Meghan Markle. 879 00:40:24,302 --> 00:40:25,937 You know how jacked up your country got to be 880 00:40:25,937 --> 00:40:28,974 to not fuck with rating Meghan Markle? 881 00:40:28,974 --> 00:40:31,476 You don't fuck with Meghan Markle? 882 00:40:31,476 --> 00:40:32,711 They ran her out of there. 883 00:40:32,711 --> 00:40:35,847 One of our best biracial double agents. 884 00:40:38,183 --> 00:40:41,453 They sniffed her out immediately. 885 00:40:41,453 --> 00:40:45,290 Meghan Markle could pass for 8, 9 different races in America, 886 00:40:45,290 --> 00:40:47,158 but in England they was like, [British accent] "Mm, no. 887 00:40:47,158 --> 00:40:50,228 Something's off with that bird. Nah." 888 00:40:50,228 --> 00:40:53,665 Too many nigglers in her nabblers, if you know... 889 00:40:53,665 --> 00:40:57,335 Alright." 890 00:40:57,335 --> 00:40:59,237 [ Normal voice ] England was so racist to Meghan Markle, 891 00:40:59,237 --> 00:41:05,210 she came back to America and stayed at Tyler Perry's house. 892 00:41:05,210 --> 00:41:11,016 Do you understand how frustrated you have to be with racism? 893 00:41:11,016 --> 00:41:16,821 A pain that only Madea could fix. 894 00:41:16,821 --> 00:41:20,625 Then -- then she talked to Oprah. 895 00:41:20,625 --> 00:41:23,128 She was dealing with so much racism she had to talk 896 00:41:23,128 --> 00:41:26,731 to two of the most powerful Black women in the country. 897 00:41:29,267 --> 00:41:33,705 Had to get Madea and Oprah, had to double up. 898 00:41:33,705 --> 00:41:35,407 And poor Oprah Winfrey. 899 00:41:35,407 --> 00:41:36,908 Oprah was interviewing Meghan Markle. 900 00:41:36,908 --> 00:41:40,312 Oprah didn't have no solutions for that woman. 901 00:41:40,312 --> 00:41:42,414 That's how complicated racism is in England. 902 00:41:42,414 --> 00:41:45,217 Oprah couldn't help her. Oprah, Oprah. 903 00:41:45,217 --> 00:41:47,419 This is a woman who has built her empire 904 00:41:47,419 --> 00:41:50,488 on giving us solutions to our problems. 905 00:41:50,488 --> 00:41:51,957 That's all Oprah's done. 906 00:41:51,957 --> 00:41:55,060 She had the talk show, she had the damn magazine, 907 00:41:55,060 --> 00:41:56,895 she's got a TV network. 908 00:41:56,895 --> 00:41:58,430 It's all promoting positive imagery 909 00:41:58,430 --> 00:41:59,798 to make you a better you. 910 00:41:59,798 --> 00:42:01,566 Meghan Markle sat down in that backyard 911 00:42:01,566 --> 00:42:03,134 with Oprah for two hours, 912 00:42:03,134 --> 00:42:05,470 all she did was make faces. 913 00:42:07,606 --> 00:42:09,007 Couldn't help Meghan. 914 00:42:09,007 --> 00:42:10,242 Meghan Markle poured her heart out to Oprah. 915 00:42:10,242 --> 00:42:12,177 Oprah's just sitting there like, "Hmm. 916 00:42:12,177 --> 00:42:14,279 Hmm. 917 00:42:14,279 --> 00:42:16,748 Oh! 918 00:42:16,748 --> 00:42:18,016 I can't help you with that, baby. 919 00:42:18,016 --> 00:42:20,619 You gotta talk to the ancestors." 920 00:42:20,619 --> 00:42:22,454 [ Applause ] 921 00:42:24,890 --> 00:42:26,124 "Gayle, let's go. I can't help her. 922 00:42:26,124 --> 00:42:28,460 We got to go, Gayle." 923 00:42:32,564 --> 00:42:35,400 Yeah. 924 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,236 These Civil Rights movies, man. 925 00:42:38,236 --> 00:42:39,271 They're painful, but they're necessary. 926 00:42:41,638 --> 00:42:44,902 {\an7}\h\his the original "Fast and Furious." 927 00:42:49,836 --> 00:42:53,463 {\an7}I’m sure you have your favorite, but the original, 928 00:42:53,463 --> 00:42:58,166 {\an7}not the sequels, the original, \h\hthe OG "Fast and Furious." 929 00:42:58,166 --> 00:43:02,100 {\an7}That’s one of the most powerful fucking films. 930 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:03,364 {\an7}\h\h\h\hPaul Walker -- If you don’t remember, 931 00:43:03,364 --> 00:43:06,034 {\an7}if you never saw the OG \h\h"Fast and Furious," 932 00:43:06,034 --> 00:43:07,430 {\an7}Paul Walker... 933 00:43:07,430 --> 00:43:09,397 {\an7}Paul Walker is a cop \h\h\hin this movie. 934 00:43:09,397 --> 00:43:13,100 {\an7}Paul Walker’s job in the movie \h\h\h\h\h\his to go undercover 935 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:15,836 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand take down a treacherous street-racing game 936 00:43:15,836 --> 00:43:18,496 {\an7}that’s being run by a Black, \h\h\h\h\h\hMexican-looking, 937 00:43:18,496 --> 00:43:21,562 {\an7}Dominican, Italian... 938 00:43:21,562 --> 00:43:22,265 {\an7}Persian -- 939 00:43:22,265 --> 00:43:26,364 {\an7}\h\hWhatever Vin Diesel is, he’s got to take him down. 940 00:43:26,364 --> 00:43:29,067 {\an7}He’s got to take him down, \h\h\hand he does his job. 941 00:43:29,067 --> 00:43:32,166 {\an7}\h\h\h\hPaul Walker does his job, Vin Diesel finds out he’s a cop, 942 00:43:32,166 --> 00:43:34,298 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\htakes off, Paul Walker peeps came, 943 00:43:34,298 --> 00:43:35,199 {\an7}Vin Diesel crashes. 944 00:43:35,199 --> 00:43:38,562 {\an7}Paul Walker gives Vin Diesel \h\h\h\hthe keys to his car. 945 00:43:38,562 --> 00:43:40,100 {\an7}Vin Diesel speeds away to freedom, 946 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:44,199 {\an7}and for the next 9, \h\h10, 15 sequels, 947 00:43:44,199 --> 00:43:46,638 {\an7}all Vin Diesel has done \h\h\his save the world 948 00:43:46,638 --> 00:43:50,638 {\an7}over and over again with \hnothing but minorities. 949 00:43:50,638 --> 00:43:52,430 {\an7}It’s beautiful. 950 00:43:52,430 --> 00:43:56,562 {\an7}\h\h\hAll he’s done is hire minorities left and right, 951 00:43:56,562 --> 00:44:00,902 {\an7}formed a BIPOC coalition \h\h\h\hof street racers. 952 00:44:00,902 --> 00:44:04,100 {\an7}\hHe hired Tyrese, he hired Ludacris, 953 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:08,935 {\an7}he hired Bow Wow, he hired Ja Rule, 954 00:44:08,935 --> 00:44:10,298 {\an7}hired Michelle Rodriguez, 955 00:44:10,298 --> 00:44:13,001 {\an7}\hgrabbed the Asian from "Tokyo Drift," 956 00:44:13,001 --> 00:44:15,034 {\an7}\h\h\hEva Mendes, even Wonder Woman 957 00:44:15,034 --> 00:44:16,496 {\an7}was in one of the damn movies. 958 00:44:16,496 --> 00:44:21,595 {\an7}\h\h\hHe hired The Rock, whatever the fuck he is. 959 00:44:22,463 --> 00:44:23,562 {\an7}The original "Fast and Furious" 960 00:44:23,562 --> 00:44:25,595 {\an7}is proof of what a minority \h\h\h\h\h\his capable of, 961 00:44:25,595 --> 00:44:30,638 {\an7}\h\h\h\hif every now and then, the police just let a nigga go. 962 00:44:30,638 --> 00:44:34,199 {\an7}[ Cheers and applause ] 963 00:44:41,430 --> 00:44:42,562 {\an7}I’m just saying. 964 00:44:42,562 --> 00:44:45,232 {\an7}It’s the only Civil Rights movie with a sequel, 965 00:44:45,232 --> 00:44:47,496 {\an7}I’ll say that. 966 00:44:48,463 --> 00:44:51,496 {\an7}I like "Selma." "Selma" ain’t \h\h\h\hgot no sequel, do it? 967 00:44:51,496 --> 00:44:52,737 {\an7}No, it don’t. 968 00:44:52,737 --> 00:44:57,298 {\an7}Ain’t no "Selma 2: More Selma." 969 00:44:57,298 --> 00:45:00,704 {\an7}Still walking, more "Selma." 970 00:45:06,265 --> 00:45:10,638 {\an7}I’mma e-mail Ava DuVernay, \h\h\hand I’mma pitch that. 971 00:45:10,638 --> 00:45:15,671 {\an7}"Ava, I got an idea for a new ’Selma.’" 972 00:45:17,638 --> 00:45:20,704 {\an7}[ Laughs ] 973 00:45:20,704 --> 00:45:23,364 {\an7}Oh, man. 974 00:45:24,232 --> 00:45:28,232 {\an7}Anything to feel good. 975 00:45:28,232 --> 00:45:32,562 {\an7}Anything to feel good. 976 00:45:32,562 --> 00:45:34,496 {\an7}We got people out there, man, 977 00:45:34,496 --> 00:45:37,034 {\an7}\h\hthey doing whatever they can to feel good. 978 00:45:37,034 --> 00:45:38,496 {\an7}They’re helping other people. 979 00:45:38,496 --> 00:45:40,166 {\an7}That’s their crab leg, \h\h\hand I like that. 980 00:45:40,166 --> 00:45:43,704 {\an7}I love seeing charity, \h\h\h\h\hphilanthropy, 981 00:45:43,704 --> 00:45:45,364 {\an7}\h\hpeople pouring into other people. 982 00:45:45,364 --> 00:45:48,364 {\an7}\hYou know what I really love seeing the last couple years? 983 00:45:48,364 --> 00:45:50,298 {\an7}\h\h\h\hIs seeing all of these celebrities 984 00:45:50,298 --> 00:45:52,199 {\an7}that’s getting folks \h\h\h\hout of jail. 985 00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:54,331 {\an7}Now, that’s dope. 986 00:45:54,331 --> 00:45:56,331 {\an7}That’s been dope to see. 987 00:45:56,331 --> 00:45:57,397 {\an7}[ Applause ] 988 00:45:57,397 --> 00:45:59,496 {\an7}\h\hThese celebrities ain’t messing around. 989 00:45:59,496 --> 00:46:01,671 {\an7}Damn, Maya Moore from the WNBA, 990 00:46:01,671 --> 00:46:03,803 {\an7}Alicia Keys and Kim Kardashian. 991 00:46:03,803 --> 00:46:07,199 {\an7}Even Kim Kardashian’s ass \h\h\h\hgot somebody out. 992 00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:09,364 {\an7}No matter how you feel \habout Kim Kardashian, 993 00:46:09,364 --> 00:46:10,529 {\an7}you gotta fucking tip the hat 994 00:46:10,529 --> 00:46:13,034 {\an7}\h\h\hthat ass got a Black woman free. 995 00:46:13,034 --> 00:46:15,671 {\an7}You appreciate her. 996 00:46:15,671 --> 00:46:17,803 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThem celebrities make it look easy as hell, too. 997 00:46:17,803 --> 00:46:19,364 {\an7}They be getting folks \h\h\h\h\hout of jail 998 00:46:19,364 --> 00:46:20,463 {\an7}the way you get folks in VIP. 999 00:46:20,463 --> 00:46:22,562 {\an7}"Yeah, that’s my homeboy \h\h\h\h\h\hright there. 1000 00:46:22,562 --> 00:46:23,595 {\an7}Come on. 1001 00:46:23,595 --> 00:46:24,770 {\an7}Yeah, him and him, \h\h\h\hthey good. 1002 00:46:24,770 --> 00:46:26,133 {\an7}Yeah, get them out. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hYeah. 1003 00:46:26,133 --> 00:46:27,638 {\an7}Yeah, right there next to the electric chair. 1004 00:46:27,638 --> 00:46:29,397 {\an7}\h\h\h\hThat’s him. Yeah, get him out. 1005 00:46:29,397 --> 00:46:31,100 {\an7}Okay." 1006 00:46:31,100 --> 00:46:33,298 {\an7}What I don’t like, though -- \h\h\h\hWhat I don’t like... 1007 00:46:33,298 --> 00:46:36,397 {\an7}\h\h\hWhat’s weird is that when a celebrity gets somebody free, 1008 00:46:36,397 --> 00:46:40,100 {\an7}that’s the one time they become humble. 1009 00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:41,133 {\an7}That’s backwards. 1010 00:46:41,133 --> 00:46:42,638 {\an7}As soon as they get somebody \h\h\h\h\h\h\hout of prison, 1011 00:46:42,638 --> 00:46:44,397 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hthey bring them to the Freedom Conference, 1012 00:46:44,397 --> 00:46:45,430 {\an7}and they put them up front. 1013 00:46:45,430 --> 00:46:47,562 {\an7}"Here they are. They are free. 1014 00:46:47,562 --> 00:46:52,166 {\an7}And this is -- this moment \h\h\h\h\h\his about them." 1015 00:46:54,704 --> 00:46:55,737 {\an7}No! 1016 00:46:55,737 --> 00:46:58,232 {\an7}\h\h\hIf I got you out the jaws of injustice, 1017 00:46:58,232 --> 00:47:01,869 {\an7}I’m being your fucking \hP. Diddy immediately. 1018 00:47:01,869 --> 00:47:05,737 {\an7}I would fucking Puff Daddy \h\hthat press conference. 1019 00:47:05,737 --> 00:47:07,595 {\an7}I pushed a free ass out the way. 1020 00:47:07,595 --> 00:47:08,638 {\an7}Boom, "I’m the one freed him. 1021 00:47:08,638 --> 00:47:11,704 {\an7}It’s your boy, R. Wood, \hBirmingham, Alabama. 1022 00:47:11,704 --> 00:47:15,803 {\an7}\h\h\h205, represent, 35211, motherfucker, 1023 00:47:15,803 --> 00:47:18,265 {\an7}and he free ’cause of me, dawg. 1024 00:47:18,265 --> 00:47:19,397 {\an7}What’s up?" 1025 00:47:19,397 --> 00:47:22,232 {\an7}\h’Cause that’s how you get other celebrities on board. 1026 00:47:22,232 --> 00:47:23,298 {\an7}You make them jealous. 1027 00:47:23,298 --> 00:47:25,166 {\an7}\h\h\h’Cause it ain’t enough celebrities doing that shit, 1028 00:47:25,166 --> 00:47:27,166 {\an7}but it’s a lot of celebrities \htalking about what diamond 1029 00:47:27,166 --> 00:47:29,770 {\an7}they got and what car they got, \h\h\h\hand "Look at my house." 1030 00:47:29,770 --> 00:47:36,100 {\an7}Bitch, how many people have you \h\h\h\h\h\hfreed from prison? 1031 00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:37,463 {\an7}Flex that. 1032 00:47:37,463 --> 00:47:38,704 {\an7}\h\hThat’s what you should be flexing, 1033 00:47:38,704 --> 00:47:41,265 {\an7}’cause can I tell you right now, if I got somebody free 1034 00:47:41,265 --> 00:47:44,331 {\an7}the federal government, 1035 00:47:44,331 --> 00:47:46,737 {\an7}that’s like beating \h\hthe ’96 Bulls. 1036 00:47:46,737 --> 00:47:49,199 {\an7}Do you understand? 1037 00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:52,529 {\an7}\h\h\hIf I got somebody free from the federal government, 1038 00:47:52,529 --> 00:47:54,869 {\an7}that’s all you would \h\h\h\hknow about me 1039 00:47:54,869 --> 00:47:56,265 {\an7}for the next five years. 1040 00:47:56,265 --> 00:47:58,529 {\an7}Motherfucker wouldn’t even be allowed to go \hnowhere without me. 1041 00:47:58,529 --> 00:48:03,166 {\an7}I’d Jeff Dunham ventriloquist \h\h\h\h\hthat motherfucker. 1042 00:48:03,166 --> 00:48:05,430 {\an7}He’d be on my hip right here \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor five -- 1043 00:48:05,430 --> 00:48:06,737 {\an7}"Come on, motherfucker, \h\h\h\hI got you out. 1044 00:48:06,737 --> 00:48:10,166 {\an7}We going -- We going to \h\h\h\h\hWaffle House. 1045 00:48:10,166 --> 00:48:11,836 {\an7}Come with me, motherfucker." 1046 00:48:11,836 --> 00:48:14,562 {\an7}I’d walk the red carpet \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith him. 1047 00:48:14,562 --> 00:48:16,364 {\an7}"So, Roy, I see you on the red carpet. 1048 00:48:16,364 --> 00:48:19,166 {\an7}What are you wearing?" \h\h"His name is Keith. 1049 00:48:19,166 --> 00:48:21,331 {\an7}I got him out. 1050 00:48:21,331 --> 00:48:22,595 {\an7}\h\h\h\hThis my dawg. How you doing, Keith? 1051 00:48:22,595 --> 00:48:24,166 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hSay something to the people, Keith." 1052 00:48:24,166 --> 00:48:28,562 {\an7}"I’m happy to be free." \h\h"Good job, Keith." 1053 00:48:37,463 --> 00:48:39,265 {\an7}I love seeing it, 1054 00:48:39,265 --> 00:48:41,232 {\an7}and it was in seeing \h\hthose celebrities 1055 00:48:41,232 --> 00:48:45,704 {\an7}get people out of jail that I \hfinally found my crab leg. 1056 00:48:49,595 --> 00:48:52,331 {\an7}I’ve been on BET \h\hthree times. 1057 00:48:52,331 --> 00:48:55,463 {\an7}[ Cheers and applause ] 1058 00:48:55,463 --> 00:48:57,463 {\an7}You know? 1059 00:48:57,463 --> 00:49:03,529 {\an7}You know, my YouTube channel \h\hgot 100,000 subscribers. 1060 00:49:03,529 --> 00:49:07,265 {\an7}That’s nothing to clap at. \h\h\h\h\hThat’s no money. 1061 00:49:07,265 --> 00:49:09,902 {\an7}[ Laughs ] 1062 00:49:09,902 --> 00:49:12,770 {\an7}Yeah. 1063 00:49:12,770 --> 00:49:15,232 {\an7}I figured it out, man. 1064 00:49:15,232 --> 00:49:19,737 {\an7}My childhood next-door neighbor \h\h\his in prison for murder. 1065 00:49:19,737 --> 00:49:23,232 {\an7}\h\hHe been gone 20 years so far. 1066 00:49:23,463 --> 00:49:25,902 {\an7}And when I say -- When I say \h\h\h\h\hnext-door neighbor, 1067 00:49:25,902 --> 00:49:27,364 {\an7}I mean literally next door. 1068 00:49:27,364 --> 00:49:28,562 {\an7}Like, on report card day, 1069 00:49:28,562 --> 00:49:32,298 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwe could hear each other’s ass whoopings. 1070 00:49:32,298 --> 00:49:34,595 {\an7}You know, in the hood, \h\hon report card day, 1071 00:49:34,595 --> 00:49:37,364 {\an7}\hyou know, it sound like a zombie attack 1072 00:49:37,364 --> 00:49:39,364 {\an7}all over the neighborhood. 1073 00:49:39,364 --> 00:49:43,232 {\an7}[ Groaning ] 1074 00:49:47,562 --> 00:49:49,935 {\an7}And you get to the bus stop \h\h\h\h\hthe next morning 1075 00:49:49,935 --> 00:49:50,869 {\an7}and tease each other. 1076 00:49:50,869 --> 00:49:52,397 {\an7}"Well, look, I heard \hyour ass whooping." 1077 00:49:52,397 --> 00:49:56,902 {\an7}"That wasn’t my ass whooping. \hThat was his ass whooping." 1078 00:50:01,463 --> 00:50:03,869 {\an7}My dawg, Johnny Lee, man. 1079 00:50:03,869 --> 00:50:09,001 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hJohnny Lee, that’s an Alabama-ass name for your ass. 1080 00:50:09,001 --> 00:50:10,397 {\an7}She said, "Not Johnny Lee." 1081 00:50:10,397 --> 00:50:13,704 {\an7}Yes, baby, Johnny. \hDo you know him? 1082 00:50:13,704 --> 00:50:16,034 {\an7}Yes, Johnny Lee. 1083 00:50:17,628 --> 00:50:20,430 {\an7}My dawg, Johnny Lee, man, he was the getaway driver 1084 00:50:20,430 --> 00:50:23,628 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin a robbery that turned into a murder. 1085 00:50:23,628 --> 00:50:27,562 {\an7}He didn’t pull the trigger, \hwasn’t even in the store, 1086 00:50:27,562 --> 00:50:31,001 {\an7}but state of Alabama \hgave him 99 years. 1087 00:50:31,001 --> 00:50:33,595 {\an7}\h\h\hAnd I don’t know what the laws are here, 1088 00:50:33,595 --> 00:50:35,298 {\an7}\h\h\hbut in Alabama, the law’s basically, 1089 00:50:35,298 --> 00:50:40,397 {\an7}if I’m with you and you murder, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwe murdered, 1090 00:50:40,397 --> 00:50:42,968 {\an7}which damn that. 1091 00:50:42,968 --> 00:50:44,067 {\an7}They murdered. 1092 00:50:44,067 --> 00:50:46,331 {\an7}\h\h\hAnd I understand the spirit of the law. 1093 00:50:46,331 --> 00:50:48,595 {\an7}It’s to make you watch \hthe company you keep, 1094 00:50:48,595 --> 00:50:49,671 {\an7}but it’s a lot of court systems, 1095 00:50:49,671 --> 00:50:52,671 {\an7}\h\hthey use that law to lock up two people for the price of one, 1096 00:50:52,671 --> 00:50:54,562 {\an7}and it don’t feel right. 1097 00:50:54,562 --> 00:50:59,869 {\an7}It don’t feel right. 1098 00:51:01,737 --> 00:51:04,562 {\an7}It’s the same thing with drugs. \h\hThe same thing with drugs. 1099 00:51:04,562 --> 00:51:06,496 {\an7}Like, if I’m with you \hand you got crack, 1100 00:51:06,496 --> 00:51:08,430 {\an7}somehow we got crack. 1101 00:51:08,430 --> 00:51:10,803 {\an7}\hHow we both got crack? It’s one -- It’s a crack. 1102 00:51:10,803 --> 00:51:15,562 {\an7}\hWe cannot both smoke...a crack. 1103 00:51:15,562 --> 00:51:17,935 {\an7}You’ve seen the crack pipe. \h\h\hIt’s one mouthpiece. 1104 00:51:17,935 --> 00:51:19,034 {\an7}We can’t... 1105 00:51:19,034 --> 00:51:20,430 {\an7}There is no couples \h\h\h\hcrack pipe. 1106 00:51:20,430 --> 00:51:26,067 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLike, we cannot Lady and the Tramp the crack. 1107 00:51:27,496 --> 00:51:29,836 {\an7}Look, I can see if they found \h\h\h\h\h\h\ha crack hookah. 1108 00:51:29,836 --> 00:51:32,902 {\an7}Okay, fine, you got me. 1109 00:51:34,803 --> 00:51:37,133 {\an7}Tell me, can you smoke crack in \h\h\h\ha hookah? I don’t know. 1110 00:51:37,133 --> 00:51:39,902 {\an7}We’ll talk about it later. 1111 00:51:41,671 --> 00:51:43,803 {\an7}But that’s the law. 1112 00:51:43,803 --> 00:51:45,562 {\an7}\h\h\hSo 99 years was the sentence, 1113 00:51:45,562 --> 00:51:46,595 {\an7}and I know that part of it -- 1114 00:51:46,595 --> 00:51:48,628 {\an7}I know that part of it \h\his who they killed. 1115 00:51:48,628 --> 00:51:50,737 {\an7}They killed this man, \hMr. Mohammed, man. 1116 00:51:50,737 --> 00:51:53,529 {\an7}\h\hAnd Mr. Mohammed, he ran a Black-owned 1117 00:51:53,529 --> 00:51:56,496 {\an7}record store in Birmingham. 1118 00:51:56,496 --> 00:51:57,869 {\an7}Killed a Black business owner, 1119 00:51:57,869 --> 00:51:59,869 {\an7}This man ran this record \h\h\h\hstore for years, 1120 00:51:59,869 --> 00:52:01,869 {\an7}this assault to the comm-- \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSidebar. 1121 00:52:01,869 --> 00:52:06,628 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYoung people, a record store is a place... 1122 00:52:07,869 --> 00:52:09,770 {\an7}In the before times, there was a building 1123 00:52:09,770 --> 00:52:11,869 {\an7}\hyou would go to to buy the music. 1124 00:52:11,869 --> 00:52:14,595 {\an7}It did not just come \h\h\hto your phone. 1125 00:52:14,595 --> 00:52:16,968 {\an7}You had to go to a building \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand you say, 1126 00:52:16,968 --> 00:52:19,704 {\an7}"Do you have the music?" 1127 00:52:19,704 --> 00:52:21,034 {\an7}And then they would \h\hsay yes or no, 1128 00:52:21,034 --> 00:52:24,628 {\an7}and then you would \h\hleave the mall. 1129 00:52:24,628 --> 00:52:27,529 {\an7}A mall is a place... 1130 00:52:28,770 --> 00:52:31,199 {\an7}...where there used to be jobs \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand happiness. 1131 00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:33,430 {\an7}It was a dope spot. 1132 00:52:33,430 --> 00:52:35,628 {\an7}Old people would come there \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand exercise. 1133 00:52:35,628 --> 00:52:38,034 {\an7}It was a good hang. 1134 00:52:39,968 --> 00:52:41,463 {\an7}Mr. Mohammed, man. 1135 00:52:41,463 --> 00:52:42,737 {\an7}Mr. Mohammed took the money \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhe made 1136 00:52:42,737 --> 00:52:45,067 {\an7}\h\h\h\hfrom that record store, and he would pour it right back 1137 00:52:45,067 --> 00:52:46,595 {\an7}into the Black community \h\h\h\h\hin Birmingham. 1138 00:52:46,595 --> 00:52:50,133 {\an7}He would -- Mentorship programs, police athletic leagues, 1139 00:52:50,133 --> 00:52:51,704 {\an7}he’d buy blazers for kids 1140 00:52:51,704 --> 00:52:53,737 {\an7}to wear to job interviews, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hall that. 1141 00:52:53,737 --> 00:52:56,100 {\an7}\h\h\hThis is how much he loved Black people. 1142 00:52:56,100 --> 00:53:00,034 {\an7}He supported local rappers. 1143 00:53:00,902 --> 00:53:05,628 {\an7}Sidebar -- White people, \h\h\h\hlocal rappers... 1144 00:53:05,628 --> 00:53:08,133 {\an7}are terrible. 1145 00:53:08,133 --> 00:53:12,001 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hAnd their dreams should never be supported. 1146 00:53:13,704 --> 00:53:15,067 {\an7}98 percent of the rappers 1147 00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:16,562 {\an7}from where you live \h\h\hare terrible. 1148 00:53:16,562 --> 00:53:19,067 {\an7}They are not going to make it. 1149 00:53:19,067 --> 00:53:21,836 {\an7}But Mr. Mohammed, he supported \h\h\h\h\hthem because he knew, 1150 00:53:21,836 --> 00:53:25,166 {\an7}if they was in the studio, they wasn’t on the street. 1151 00:53:25,166 --> 00:53:27,166 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hSupported them, and I mean supported them. 1152 00:53:27,166 --> 00:53:29,968 {\an7}Gave them prime real estate \h\h\h\h\hin the record -- 1153 00:53:29,968 --> 00:53:31,935 {\an7}would put their albums \h\h\h\hby the register 1154 00:53:31,935 --> 00:53:35,496 {\an7}\h\hwhere you could see it, then guilt you into buying 1155 00:53:35,496 --> 00:53:36,628 {\an7}and supporting local. 1156 00:53:36,628 --> 00:53:38,232 {\an7}You’d show up -- I’d show up \h\h\h\h\hto the record store 1157 00:53:38,232 --> 00:53:40,496 {\an7}to buy Cash Money and Master P \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hor whatever, 1158 00:53:40,496 --> 00:53:42,935 {\an7}and he’d then size you up -- \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Oh, okay. 1159 00:53:42,935 --> 00:53:44,671 {\an7}You supporting New Orleans, 1160 00:53:44,671 --> 00:53:48,968 {\an7}\h\hbut I don’t see you supporting Birmingham." 1161 00:53:48,968 --> 00:53:51,935 {\an7}Stare at you with them \h\hCivil Rights eyes. 1162 00:53:51,935 --> 00:53:54,100 {\an7}"Hmm? 1163 00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:54,869 {\an7}Hmm? 1164 00:53:54,869 --> 00:53:57,671 {\an7}You buying all these out-of-town rappers. 1165 00:53:57,671 --> 00:53:58,770 {\an7}You ain’t even bought the new 1166 00:53:58,770 --> 00:54:03,166 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h’Buckle Up, Knuckle Up Volume 2.’" 1167 00:54:03,166 --> 00:54:07,935 {\an7}I’m like, "Who the fuck is \h\hBuckle Up, Knuckle Up? 1168 00:54:07,935 --> 00:54:09,902 {\an7}\h\hI didn’t even know they had a volume one." 1169 00:54:09,902 --> 00:54:12,628 {\an7}"I got that one right here, too, young blood. 1170 00:54:12,628 --> 00:54:14,133 {\an7}Ain’t no thing. 1171 00:54:14,133 --> 00:54:14,770 {\an7}Mnh! 1172 00:54:14,770 --> 00:54:17,133 {\an7}Support both of them, hmm? 1173 00:54:17,133 --> 00:54:18,902 {\an7}Hmm?" 1174 00:54:18,902 --> 00:54:24,869 {\an7}You leave the record store with \h\h\h\h\h\h$80 worth of music. 1175 00:54:24,869 --> 00:54:26,265 {\an7}Supported me. 1176 00:54:26,265 --> 00:54:27,133 {\an7}That store supported me. 1177 00:54:27,133 --> 00:54:29,067 {\an7}I used to do prank phone calls \h\h\h\h\h\h\hback in the day. 1178 00:54:29,067 --> 00:54:30,902 {\an7}\h\hPrank phone calls was my first hustle. 1179 00:54:30,902 --> 00:54:32,671 {\an7}The people who know, they know. 1180 00:54:32,671 --> 00:54:36,001 {\an7}So they would take my pranks \h\hand put them in the store 1181 00:54:36,001 --> 00:54:37,803 {\an7}\h\h\hand help me sell them, and that little bit of money 1182 00:54:37,803 --> 00:54:39,968 {\an7}\h\h\hthat I made in that store from selling them prank calls, 1183 00:54:39,968 --> 00:54:42,331 {\an7}\h\hthat was the difference between sleeping in my car 1184 00:54:42,331 --> 00:54:45,133 {\an7}and sleeping in a hotel \h\h\h\h\hon the road. 1185 00:54:45,133 --> 00:54:46,671 {\an7}Like, that money... 1186 00:54:46,671 --> 00:54:48,001 {\an7}[ Applause ] 1187 00:54:48,001 --> 00:54:49,902 {\an7}It ain’t a lot of money, 1188 00:54:49,902 --> 00:54:52,397 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h’cause it was either Mr. Mohammed or his son, Darius. 1189 00:54:52,397 --> 00:54:53,671 {\an7}It was usually his son, Darius. 1190 00:54:53,671 --> 00:54:54,968 {\an7}\hDarius was the one who would call me up 1191 00:54:54,968 --> 00:54:57,836 {\an7}\h\h\h\hevery week to give me the count on Monday morning. 1192 00:54:57,836 --> 00:54:59,671 {\an7}You wanted a call from \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hDarius 1193 00:54:59,671 --> 00:55:02,232 {\an7}\h’cause that means you have some bread coming. 1194 00:55:02,232 --> 00:55:06,166 {\an7}"Hey, young blood, \h\h\h\hgood news. 1195 00:55:06,166 --> 00:55:08,803 {\an7}You sold three. 1196 00:55:08,803 --> 00:55:13,803 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCome on down here and get your $18, young blood." 1197 00:55:13,803 --> 00:55:15,704 {\an7}And I raced to that store \h\h\h\h\hto get them $18 1198 00:55:15,704 --> 00:55:20,265 {\an7}because that little bit of money saved my life, dawg. 1199 00:55:20,265 --> 00:55:22,331 {\an7}That store supported people. 1200 00:55:22,331 --> 00:55:24,133 {\an7}[ Applause ] 1201 00:55:24,133 --> 00:55:25,968 {\an7}And that’s who they killed. 1202 00:55:25,968 --> 00:55:28,397 {\an7}That’s who they killed, \h\h\h\hand I don’t -- 1203 00:55:28,397 --> 00:55:30,265 {\an7}I’m not gonna sit here \h\h\h\h\hand say that 1204 00:55:30,265 --> 00:55:33,331 {\an7}20 years is enough time, 1205 00:55:33,331 --> 00:55:37,067 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\hbut I know 99 ain’t the number either. 1206 00:55:37,067 --> 00:55:38,133 {\an7}So I called up Darius. 1207 00:55:38,133 --> 00:55:39,671 {\an7}I called up Mr. Mohammed’s son, 1208 00:55:39,671 --> 00:55:41,331 {\an7}I called up Darius, \h\hand we’re cool, 1209 00:55:41,331 --> 00:55:43,133 {\an7}but we don’t talk \hon the regular. 1210 00:55:43,133 --> 00:55:44,034 {\an7}But we’re cool enough. 1211 00:55:44,034 --> 00:55:46,133 {\an7}\hAnd I call up Darius, and I start walking -- 1212 00:55:46,133 --> 00:55:47,836 {\an7}\h\h\hwalking him through what I’m thinking about, 1213 00:55:47,836 --> 00:55:48,902 {\an7}trying to get Johnny Lee -- 1214 00:55:48,902 --> 00:55:50,704 {\an7}\h\htrying to get him eligible for parole. 1215 00:55:50,704 --> 00:55:52,968 {\an7}And Darius stopped me dead \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin my tracks. 1216 00:55:52,968 --> 00:55:55,067 {\an7}\h\h\h\hHe said, "Roy, if that man 1217 00:55:55,067 --> 00:55:59,869 {\an7}\h\h\hgets out of prison, it’ll kill my mama, too." 1218 00:55:59,869 --> 00:56:03,397 {\an7}And that’s something I had never considered in the whole time 1219 00:56:03,397 --> 00:56:05,430 {\an7}that I’ve been thinking \h\h\habout doing this, 1220 00:56:05,430 --> 00:56:07,463 {\an7}\h\h\hbecause the thing is that once you get locked in 1221 00:56:07,463 --> 00:56:10,133 {\an7}on something and what you want to do and what your agenda is, 1222 00:56:10,133 --> 00:56:14,265 {\an7}you forget about all the other people that have been affected 1223 00:56:14,265 --> 00:56:15,935 {\an7}by something. 1224 00:56:15,935 --> 00:56:16,836 {\an7}And I lost sight of that. 1225 00:56:16,836 --> 00:56:18,232 {\an7}I ain’t never had nobody \hin my family murdered, 1226 00:56:18,232 --> 00:56:22,100 {\an7}\h\hso I didn’t even have the perspective. 1227 00:56:22,100 --> 00:56:25,001 {\an7}\h\h\hI learned two things in talking to this brother. 1228 00:56:25,001 --> 00:56:26,232 {\an7}First thing I learned, \h\h\h\h\h\hnumber one, 1229 00:56:26,232 --> 00:56:27,869 {\an7}if it ain’t your pain, \h\hit ain’t your place 1230 00:56:27,869 --> 00:56:30,836 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\hto tell somebody when to get past something. 1231 00:56:30,836 --> 00:56:32,902 {\an7}So... 1232 00:56:32,902 --> 00:56:34,397 {\an7}[ Applause ] 1233 00:56:34,397 --> 00:56:36,199 {\an7}Folks be suffering and dealing \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith stuff. 1234 00:56:36,199 --> 00:56:38,001 {\an7}"You need to get over that. \h\h\h\h\h\hYou need to..." 1235 00:56:38,001 --> 00:56:40,770 {\an7}\h\h\h\hOh, man, you got to let them process that. 1236 00:56:40,770 --> 00:56:41,562 {\an7}That’s they journey. 1237 00:56:41,562 --> 00:56:43,034 {\an7}\hThat’s they journey, and I hope that brother 1238 00:56:43,034 --> 00:56:47,166 {\an7}forgives me, because what I did \h\h\hwas hella disrespectful. 1239 00:56:47,166 --> 00:56:49,397 {\an7}\h\hYou’re 20 years past the death of your father, 1240 00:56:49,397 --> 00:56:51,100 {\an7}and some goofy-ass comedian \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcall you, 1241 00:56:51,100 --> 00:56:53,869 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Hey, man, I saw Kim Kardashian fat ass 1242 00:56:53,869 --> 00:56:55,968 {\an7}get somebody out of prison." 1243 00:56:55,968 --> 00:56:59,496 {\an7}\h\h\hWhat you think -- you and me help get..." 1244 00:56:59,496 --> 00:57:02,001 {\an7}I just hope the brother \hwill forgive me, man. 1245 00:57:02,001 --> 00:57:04,968 {\an7}I was just trying to feel good. 1246 00:57:06,902 --> 00:57:11,199 {\an7}\h\h\hOther thing I learned in talking to this brother is also 1247 00:57:11,199 --> 00:57:13,166 {\an7}I’m not famous enough \h\h\h\hto get nobody 1248 00:57:13,166 --> 00:57:16,397 {\an7}out of prison any damn way. 1249 00:57:16,397 --> 00:57:19,199 {\an7}Not Alabama. 1250 00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:20,430 {\an7}I ain’t got the résumé. 1251 00:57:20,430 --> 00:57:22,100 {\an7}I need to host "The Daily Show." 1252 00:57:22,100 --> 00:57:25,529 {\an7}Correspondent ain’t enough. 1253 00:57:25,529 --> 00:57:27,067 {\an7}That might be enough \h\h\h\hin Colorado, 1254 00:57:27,067 --> 00:57:29,770 {\an7}\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut trust me, it ain’t enough in Alabama. 1255 00:57:29,770 --> 00:57:32,463 {\an7}Ain’t but two people getting you out of prison in Alabama. 1256 00:57:32,463 --> 00:57:36,968 {\an7}That’s Nick Saban and barbecue. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThat’s it. 1257 00:57:41,463 --> 00:57:43,496 {\an7}But I understand what Darius \h\h\h\h\h\his going through. 1258 00:57:43,496 --> 00:57:45,770 {\an7}I understand what that brother’s going through 1259 00:57:45,770 --> 00:57:49,562 {\an7}in the sense of revenge, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know? 1260 00:57:49,562 --> 00:57:51,496 {\an7}Anything to feel good. 1261 00:57:56,159 --> 00:57:57,961 And I'm here to tell you, 1262 00:57:57,961 --> 00:58:01,264 it do feel good. 1263 00:58:01,264 --> 00:58:03,433 Oh, my God. Revenge feel good. 1264 00:58:03,433 --> 00:58:07,504 I'm ain't saying it's full of nutrients. 1265 00:58:07,504 --> 00:58:09,472 It ain't gonna help you in the long run, 1266 00:58:09,472 --> 00:58:11,508 but in the short run, it feels good 1267 00:58:11,508 --> 00:58:15,145 to get a little revenge on somebody sometimes. 1268 00:58:15,145 --> 00:58:16,680 'Cause revenge, that's an impulse 1269 00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,048 we learn at an early age. 1270 00:58:18,048 --> 00:58:20,183 We learn revenge early. 1271 00:58:20,183 --> 00:58:22,385 It's not taught, it's something that's just in us, 1272 00:58:22,385 --> 00:58:24,688 because you see someone who got away with something, 1273 00:58:24,688 --> 00:58:27,457 and they ain't got they thought behind the ear yet, 1274 00:58:27,457 --> 00:58:30,126 and you gotta make the world right. 1275 00:58:30,126 --> 00:58:34,831 My son, when he was 4, bit a kid at school. 1276 00:58:34,831 --> 00:58:39,636 4 years old, just chomped down on another boy's flesh, 1277 00:58:39,636 --> 00:58:41,671 just chomping, like Rottweilers. 1278 00:58:41,671 --> 00:58:43,139 Like... 1279 00:58:43,139 --> 00:58:44,808 He didn't bite and disengage. 1280 00:58:44,808 --> 00:58:46,876 [ Grunts ] 1281 00:58:48,211 --> 00:58:50,347 So -- So we go to the school. 1282 00:58:50,347 --> 00:58:53,249 We go to the school for the bite meeting. 1283 00:58:53,249 --> 00:58:55,585 You know, this is what they do with the parents. 1284 00:58:55,585 --> 00:58:56,753 They sit us down. 1285 00:58:56,753 --> 00:58:58,154 They sit us down for the bite meeting, 1286 00:58:58,154 --> 00:58:59,823 and come to find out at the bite meeting 1287 00:58:59,823 --> 00:59:01,791 my boy bit the same kid 1288 00:59:01,791 --> 00:59:06,029 that bit him the year before. 1289 00:59:06,029 --> 00:59:09,833 That's all in the game, fam. 1290 00:59:09,833 --> 00:59:12,335 This is not an incident. This is justice. 1291 00:59:14,271 --> 00:59:15,705 Like, I was proud. I was proud of my boy, 1292 00:59:15,705 --> 00:59:17,941 'cause not only did he bite this child, 1293 00:59:17,941 --> 00:59:21,278 but he waited a year to do it. 1294 00:59:23,079 --> 00:59:26,249 Do you know how diabolical that is? 1295 00:59:26,249 --> 00:59:28,351 This is a bite. This is an intimate attack. 1296 00:59:28,351 --> 00:59:31,521 This ain't throwing a rock from across the park. 1297 00:59:31,521 --> 00:59:33,223 You got to lure somebody in to bite them. 1298 00:59:33,223 --> 00:59:36,326 That means you gotta earn they trust. 1299 00:59:36,326 --> 00:59:40,397 You've gotta share snacks. You've gotta share toys. 1300 00:59:40,397 --> 00:59:43,533 And then one day on the yard, when the CO wasn't looking, 1301 00:59:43,533 --> 00:59:46,102 he go [growls] 1302 00:59:46,102 --> 00:59:49,105 I'm like, "Good job, dawg. Good job with that." 1303 00:59:53,376 --> 00:59:57,113 We act like revenge is a substitute for healing, 1304 00:59:57,113 --> 00:59:59,182 and that's the problem. 1305 00:59:59,182 --> 01:00:02,319 Revenge is not a substitute for healing. 1306 01:00:02,319 --> 01:00:04,487 Because no matter what, no matter what wrong 1307 01:00:04,487 --> 01:00:05,956 has been done to you, no matter how mean 1308 01:00:05,956 --> 01:00:09,492 you think somebody did you, at the end of the day, 1309 01:00:09,492 --> 01:00:11,061 it's on you to heal yourself. 1310 01:00:11,061 --> 01:00:14,631 Forgiveness is an internal journey. 1311 01:00:14,631 --> 01:00:17,300 It's the truth. 1312 01:00:17,300 --> 01:00:19,869 So you can be mad at them as long as you want, 1313 01:00:19,869 --> 01:00:21,271 but it ain't gonna fix it. 1314 01:00:21,271 --> 01:00:24,040 You got to fucking do that work on your own. 1315 01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,277 But in the meantime, talk that shit. 1316 01:00:29,512 --> 01:00:32,882 This concept of never letting go of something, 1317 01:00:32,882 --> 01:00:34,651 even after people have apologized, 1318 01:00:34,651 --> 01:00:38,021 even after people have tried to work with you to heal on it? 1319 01:00:38,021 --> 01:00:40,624 I understand. 1320 01:00:40,624 --> 01:00:44,527 If you don't understand that, go to a Civil Rights museum. 1321 01:00:44,527 --> 01:00:48,265 Then you'll understand the concept of never forgiving. 1322 01:00:48,265 --> 01:00:49,599 'Cause you go to a Civil Rights museum, 1323 01:00:49,599 --> 01:00:51,434 I don't know about y'all, but when I leave 1324 01:00:51,434 --> 01:00:56,273 a Civil Rights museum, I am not in a forgiving mood. 1325 01:00:56,273 --> 01:00:59,476 I'm not ready to have a dialogue. 1326 01:00:59,476 --> 01:01:01,211 Them Civil Rights mu-- That's why I like the way 1327 01:01:01,211 --> 01:01:02,779 they design these new Civil Rights museums 1328 01:01:02,779 --> 01:01:04,214 they've been building, where they put a bunch 1329 01:01:04,214 --> 01:01:07,851 of good news right before the exit. 1330 01:01:07,851 --> 01:01:09,819 Have you seen that? The new Civil Rights museums, 1331 01:01:09,819 --> 01:01:13,223 all of them, just, it's struggle, struggle, struggle. 1332 01:01:13,223 --> 01:01:16,126 Every level, it's just struggle, struggle, struggle. 1333 01:01:16,126 --> 01:01:17,627 And then you get up to the top level 1334 01:01:17,627 --> 01:01:19,062 right before you leave, it's like, 1335 01:01:19,062 --> 01:01:22,499 hey, Whitney Houston, Obama, Issa Rae. 1336 01:01:25,101 --> 01:01:26,536 And you leave and you feel good. 1337 01:01:26,536 --> 01:01:29,205 Like, "Alright, yeah, that is some good news. 1338 01:01:29,205 --> 01:01:30,573 Yeah, I like that Issa Rae. 1339 01:01:30,573 --> 01:01:32,042 I ain't gonna fight no white people today. 1340 01:01:32,042 --> 01:01:34,377 I feel good." 1341 01:01:34,377 --> 01:01:35,779 'Cause you go through the Civil Rights museum, 1342 01:01:35,779 --> 01:01:37,681 you don't want to let that shit go. 1343 01:01:37,681 --> 01:01:39,516 She didn't even happen to me, that's not my generation, 1344 01:01:39,516 --> 01:01:41,985 but it is my history, and I'm still mad. 1345 01:01:41,985 --> 01:01:46,523 Still mad, and it's been way more than 20 fucking years. 1346 01:01:46,523 --> 01:01:47,958 You go through these pictures... 1347 01:01:47,958 --> 01:01:49,893 You know what's wild about a Civil Rights museum, 1348 01:01:49,893 --> 01:01:50,994 is that you can look 1349 01:01:50,994 --> 01:01:52,929 at these pictures of these people, 1350 01:01:52,929 --> 01:01:56,800 these Black people being defamed, being defiled, 1351 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,268 and just syrup in they head, 1352 01:01:58,268 --> 01:02:01,237 and people hitting them with sticks. 1353 01:02:01,237 --> 01:02:03,506 And what's wild is to realize in that moment 1354 01:02:03,506 --> 01:02:07,777 that most of the people in those pictures are still alive. 1355 01:02:07,777 --> 01:02:10,313 That's the wild shit about a Civil Rights museum. 1356 01:02:10,313 --> 01:02:12,015 They are showing you people 1357 01:02:12,015 --> 01:02:16,486 that are mostly still taking in breath on this earth. 1358 01:02:16,486 --> 01:02:17,821 The Black people in the picture alive, 1359 01:02:17,821 --> 01:02:19,322 so if they alive, motherfucker, that mean 1360 01:02:19,322 --> 01:02:21,825 the white people in the picture alive, too. 1361 01:02:21,825 --> 01:02:24,828 Where they at? 1362 01:02:24,828 --> 01:02:26,830 [ Applause ] 1363 01:02:27,897 --> 01:02:31,635 'Cause that's who I want to have a dialogue with. 1364 01:02:31,635 --> 01:02:33,737 Track down these motherfuckers, but you can't find them, 1365 01:02:33,737 --> 01:02:35,705 because in the picture, they all nice and young. 1366 01:02:35,705 --> 01:02:38,375 You don't know what they look like today at old age. 1367 01:02:38,375 --> 01:02:41,244 If only there was an app... 1368 01:02:41,244 --> 01:02:44,114 [ Cheers and applause ] 1369 01:02:51,321 --> 01:02:53,723 I hope you feel good, Denver. 1370 01:02:53,723 --> 01:02:55,825 Good night. Thank you all. 1371 01:02:55,825 --> 01:02:58,128 [ Cheers and applause ] 1372 01:02:58,128 --> 01:03:00,130 I hope you feel good. 1373 01:03:04,768 --> 01:03:06,536 Thank you all. 1374 01:03:18,615 --> 01:03:21,384 You've been playing in this box this whole time? 1375 01:03:21,384 --> 01:03:23,553 Not really. 1376 01:03:26,256 --> 01:03:28,692 What makes you happy?