WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:12.074 Everyone is intimidated by a shark. Become a Card Shark AMERICASCARDROOM.COM 2 00:01:03.981 --> 00:01:06.111 - Lunch is almost up, honey. - Okay. 3 00:01:25.836 --> 00:01:26.836 Hmm. 4 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:06.500 Yes? 5 00:02:06.585 --> 00:02:07.745 I thought it wasn't a date. 6 00:02:07.837 --> 00:02:09.757 It wasn't, and it isn't. 7 00:02:09.839 --> 00:02:12.879 Thought you said he was just another smooth-talking brother. 8 00:02:12.967 --> 00:02:16.387 Going to an awful lot of trouble for just another smooth-talker. 9 00:02:16.470 --> 00:02:18.890 Mom, you know I try to look my best 10 00:02:18.973 --> 00:02:21.393 no matter where I go or who I'm going with. 11 00:02:24.061 --> 00:02:25.481 It's fun to look pretty. 12 00:02:26.939 --> 00:02:29.609 - He's a colleague. - Okay, if you say so. 13 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:51.509 - Hello? - Hi, Bar. 14 00:02:51.589 --> 00:02:53.169 Aren't you supposed to be on your date? 15 00:02:53.924 --> 00:02:56.474 I've got a few minutes before I need to leave. 16 00:02:57.011 --> 00:02:59.100 You're not checking up on me now, are you, Toot? 17 00:02:59.180 --> 00:03:00.220 Well, maybe I am. 18 00:03:00.306 --> 00:03:03.016 But it's a grandmother's God-given right. 19 00:03:03.100 --> 00:03:06.398 You have a bad habit of being late, and if you're late to the first date, 20 00:03:06.478 --> 00:03:08.608 I can promise you there won't be a second. 21 00:03:08.689 --> 00:03:11.279 I won't be late. I appreciate it. 22 00:03:12.026 --> 00:03:14.316 - How's Gramps? - How's Gramps? He's Gramps. 23 00:03:15.279 --> 00:03:17.909 He's got his bridge game on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 24 00:03:17.990 --> 00:03:20.660 golf on the weekends, but when he's home and bored, 25 00:03:20.743 --> 00:03:22.748 well, what can I say, Bar, he drives me up the wall. 26 00:03:30.544 --> 00:03:32.714 - Well, thank you, baby. - Of course. 27 00:03:35.341 --> 00:03:38.139 So, where you going looking so raggedy? 28 00:03:38.219 --> 00:03:40.969 - Girl's got herself a date. - Mm. 29 00:03:41.055 --> 00:03:42.845 It's not a date, Daddy. 30 00:03:42.932 --> 00:03:47.064 He's the summer associate I told y'all about, the one from Harvard Law. 31 00:03:47.144 --> 00:03:51.861 I mentioned I worked legal aid, and he invited me to a community event 32 00:03:51.941 --> 00:03:53.441 - at the Gardens. - Huh? 33 00:03:53.525 --> 00:03:55.395 Yeah, 'cause it doesn't get more romantic 34 00:03:55.486 --> 00:03:58.316 than broken plumbing and underfunded schools. 35 00:04:00.032 --> 00:04:02.121 TAnd tell me the young lady's name again. 36 00:04:02.201 --> 00:04:03.911 Michelle Robinson. 37 00:04:03.994 --> 00:04:06.164 She's my advisor at the firm, remember? 38 00:04:06.247 --> 00:04:08.037 And tell me again what she looks like. 39 00:04:08.916 --> 00:04:11.036 Well, she's tall. 40 00:04:11.126 --> 00:04:12.496 Ah. What else? 41 00:04:12.586 --> 00:04:14.046 What else would you like to know? 42 00:04:14.129 --> 00:04:16.419 Well, where's she from? 43 00:04:16.507 --> 00:04:17.627 Chicago. 44 00:04:17.716 --> 00:04:19.886 Uh-huh. Which part? 45 00:04:19.969 --> 00:04:21.549 The side that's predominantly black. 46 00:04:21.637 --> 00:04:23.177 Okay, so she's... 47 00:04:23.264 --> 00:04:26.312 Yes, Toot, her skin is of the darker persuasion. 48 00:04:26.392 --> 00:04:27.432 Good. 49 00:04:27.518 --> 00:04:29.938 So long as you're happy, Bar, that's all that really matters. 50 00:04:30.020 --> 00:04:31.270 Thanks, Toot. 51 00:04:31.355 --> 00:04:33.185 Now, I gotta go, or I will be late. 52 00:04:33.274 --> 00:04:34.778 Okay, love you. 53 00:04:34.858 --> 00:04:36.488 I love you, too. 54 00:04:38.570 --> 00:04:41.320 - So, what's this boy's name? - Barack Obama. 55 00:04:42.032 --> 00:04:43.202 Barack-a-what-a? 56 00:04:43.284 --> 00:04:44.330 He's half-white. 57 00:04:45.494 --> 00:04:48.964 His father's from Kenya and his mother's white. 58 00:04:49.665 --> 00:04:52.415 So, why isn't this a date? 59 00:04:53.168 --> 00:04:55.248 We work together. It's inappropriate. 60 00:04:55.337 --> 00:04:58.757 Mm. Maybe, but you are spending the day with him. 61 00:04:58.841 --> 00:05:01.181 Yeah, the meeting sounded interesting. 62 00:05:02.094 --> 00:05:04.600 Well, even if it's not a date, 63 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.057 the least thing you could've done is run a brush through your hair. 64 00:05:13.397 --> 00:05:14.977 You look real nice, Meesh. 65 00:05:16.900 --> 00:05:18.150 Thank you, Daddy. 66 00:05:26.243 --> 00:05:27.790 This heat, this heat, this heat! 67 00:05:27.870 --> 00:05:29.959 Hey, uh, women wearing the freeze hairdos, 68 00:05:30.039 --> 00:05:31.959 y'all doing that to keep cool during the summer? 69 00:05:32.041 --> 00:05:33.420 Sounds like a plan to me. 70 00:05:33.500 --> 00:05:34.670 What are you doing to keep cool? 71 00:05:34.752 --> 00:05:36.590 What are you doing to beat this heat? 72 00:05:36.670 --> 00:05:38.590 Speaking of hot, hot, hot! 73 00:05:38.672 --> 00:05:41.378 Janet's bring the heat with the number one single in the country. 74 00:05:41.467 --> 00:05:43.467 I miss it so much when I don't hear it. 75 00:05:43.552 --> 00:05:44.722 I know you do, too. 76 00:05:44.803 --> 00:05:46.642 So I'm playing it for me and for you. 77 00:06:32.101 --> 00:06:34.021 # Shot # 78 00:06:34.728 --> 00:06:38.268 # Like an arrow going through my heart # 79 00:06:38.941 --> 00:06:41.861 # That's the pain I feel # 80 00:06:42.945 --> 00:06:46.615 # I feel whenever we're apart # 81 00:06:47.282 --> 00:06:51.122 # Not to say that I'm in love with you # 82 00:06:51.203 --> 00:06:54.043 # But who's to say that I'm not? # 83 00:06:55.499 --> 00:06:58.629 # I just know that it feels wrong # 84 00:06:58.710 --> 00:07:00.750 # When I'm away too long # 85 00:07:00.838 --> 00:07:03.718 # It makes my body hot # 86 00:07:03.799 --> 00:07:05.839 # So let me tell ya, baby # 87 00:07:05.926 --> 00:07:07.966 # I'll tell your mama # 88 00:07:08.053 --> 00:07:10.263 # I'll tell your friends # 89 00:07:10.347 --> 00:07:13.727 # I'll tell anyone whose heart can comprehend # 90 00:07:13.809 --> 00:07:16.059 # Send it in a letter, baby # 91 00:07:16.145 --> 00:07:18.355 # Tell you on the phone # 92 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.689 # I'm not the kind of girl who likes to be alone # 93 00:07:21.775 --> 00:07:23.485 # I miss you much # 94 00:07:23.569 --> 00:07:25.609 # Oh, boy, I miss you much # 95 00:07:25.696 --> 00:07:27.656 # I really miss you much # 96 00:07:27.739 --> 00:07:29.869 # M-I-S-S you much # 97 00:07:29.950 --> 00:07:33.660 # I miss you much, baby # 98 00:07:33.745 --> 00:07:35.825 # I really miss you much # 99 00:07:35.914 --> 00:07:38.712 # M-I-S-S you much # 100 00:07:38.792 --> 00:07:41.172 # I'm rushing home # 101 00:07:41.253 --> 00:07:44.213 # Just as soon as I can # 102 00:07:45.716 --> 00:07:48.676 # I'm rushing home to see your smiling face # 103 00:07:48.760 --> 00:07:50.800 # And feel your warm embrace # 104 00:07:50.888 --> 00:07:53.678 # It makes feel so g-g-g-good # 105 00:07:53.765 --> 00:07:56.475 # So I'll tell you, baby # 106 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.310 # I'll tell your mama, I'll tell your friends # 107 00:08:00.397 --> 00:08:03.687 # I'll tell anyone whose heart can comprehend # 108 00:08:03.775 --> 00:08:08.485 # Send it in a letter, baby, tell you on the phone # 109 00:08:08.572 --> 00:08:11.582 # I'm not the kinda girl who likes to be alone... # 110 00:08:51.281 --> 00:08:53.701 - Hi. - Hello. 111 00:09:06.630 --> 00:09:09.300 - You're late. - I was hoping you wouldn't notice. 112 00:09:09.383 --> 00:09:11.513 It's okay, I expected it. 113 00:09:11.593 --> 00:09:13.393 You were late for your first day of work. 114 00:09:14.471 --> 00:09:16.681 - You noticed that, too. - Yeah. 115 00:09:16.765 --> 00:09:19.805 I'm your advisor, I'm supposed to notice. 116 00:09:23.313 --> 00:09:25.319 - Do you live here alone? - No. 117 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.779 No, this is my family's house. 118 00:09:27.859 --> 00:09:31.819 My parents still live here and, apparently, so do I. 119 00:09:34.449 --> 00:09:35.699 Should we? 120 00:09:35.784 --> 00:09:37.744 Oh, uh, yeah. Car's down this way. 121 00:09:56.096 --> 00:09:58.346 - All set? - Mm-hmm. 122 00:10:19.369 --> 00:10:23.869 # I can tell you how I feel about you... # 123 00:10:23.957 --> 00:10:26.077 You're on that account, right? 124 00:10:26.168 --> 00:10:27.918 - Which account? - Bottlecap? 125 00:10:28.837 --> 00:10:29.877 Yeah. 126 00:10:29.963 --> 00:10:31.301 Everything cool? 127 00:10:31.381 --> 00:10:33.261 Why, what did you hear? 128 00:10:33.342 --> 00:10:35.889 Some of the juniors said you weren't happy with the work. 129 00:10:35.969 --> 00:10:37.099 They're wrong. 130 00:10:37.179 --> 00:10:38.429 They weren't disparaging you. 131 00:10:38.513 --> 00:10:41.562 They were impressed that an associate stood up for herself 132 00:10:41.642 --> 00:10:43.142 the way you did. 133 00:10:43.935 --> 00:10:47.145 It's not the work. I mean, it is the work. 134 00:10:47.230 --> 00:10:50.320 It's tedious, but that's to be expected. 135 00:10:50.400 --> 00:10:52.860 Second year associates get the grunt work. 136 00:10:52.944 --> 00:10:54.614 I can live with that. 137 00:10:55.155 --> 00:10:57.865 I'll complain about it, but I can live with it. 138 00:10:57.949 --> 00:11:01.289 It's the trademark suit that's got me fuming. 139 00:11:01.370 --> 00:11:03.410 I take it you did not agree with the judge's decision. 140 00:11:03.497 --> 00:11:06.167 I completely agreed with the judge's decision. 141 00:11:07.584 --> 00:11:09.544 And I told Thompson six months ago 142 00:11:09.628 --> 00:11:12.338 that we would lose if we tried it like a trademark dispute. 143 00:11:12.422 --> 00:11:16.432 I was basically silenced for voicing a dissenting opinion. 144 00:11:16.927 --> 00:11:19.927 Hmm. There's no real contribution at our level. 145 00:11:20.597 --> 00:11:22.767 There's only the illusion of contribution. 146 00:11:23.767 --> 00:11:25.887 Get ready, buster. You're on deck. 147 00:11:31.066 --> 00:11:34.276 Are you sure it's the firm you're frustrated with? 148 00:11:35.529 --> 00:11:37.449 Shouldn't we be getting to the meeting? 149 00:11:37.531 --> 00:11:39.911 We have some time. It's not for another few hours. 150 00:11:39.991 --> 00:11:40.991 What? 151 00:11:41.076 --> 00:11:42.736 I thought we'd swing by the Arts Center. 152 00:11:42.828 --> 00:11:44.618 There's an Afrocentric exhibit that's supposed to be... 153 00:11:44.705 --> 00:11:46.915 Wait. What is this? 154 00:11:46.998 --> 00:11:49.128 What is this? I don't know. 155 00:11:49.209 --> 00:11:51.963 I mean, taken at face value, that's a pretty existential question, Michelle. 156 00:11:52.045 --> 00:11:54.335 What happened to the meeting? 157 00:11:55.465 --> 00:11:56.715 It doesn't start till 4:00, 158 00:11:56.800 --> 00:11:59.550 so I thought we'd see some paintings, maybe grab a bite to eat. 159 00:12:01.596 --> 00:12:04.176 We don't have to. 160 00:12:04.641 --> 00:12:07.689 Barack, you seem like a really sweet guy. 161 00:12:07.769 --> 00:12:09.979 But how many times do I have to tell you? 162 00:12:10.063 --> 00:12:11.693 We're not going out together. 163 00:12:12.566 --> 00:12:14.476 Well, Michelle, thank you for saying that. 164 00:12:14.568 --> 00:12:17.779 You seem like a real sweet girl, but I have to correct you. 165 00:12:17.863 --> 00:12:20.533 We are in fact out, and we are in fact together. 166 00:12:20.615 --> 00:12:23.945 But not on a date. This is not a date. 167 00:12:24.035 --> 00:12:25.575 It doesn't have to be. 168 00:12:25.662 --> 00:12:27.912 Barack, I don't want it to be. 169 00:12:27.998 --> 00:12:30.418 You know, usually women I meet are willing to look past 170 00:12:30.500 --> 00:12:33.210 my hideous appearance and get to know the real me. 171 00:12:33.295 --> 00:12:35.798 If I thought you were hideous, I wouldn't have set you up with Gina. 172 00:12:35.881 --> 00:12:37.511 Gina's very attractive. 173 00:12:37.591 --> 00:12:39.721 Now that's true. Gina is very attractive. 174 00:12:40.844 --> 00:12:41.974 This is not a date. 175 00:12:43.555 --> 00:12:45.925 That's okay. I'll go at your pace. 176 00:12:46.016 --> 00:12:50.063 Barack, there's no pace to go at because there's no anything to speak of. 177 00:12:50.145 --> 00:12:52.555 I am your advisor at our law firm. 178 00:12:52.647 --> 00:12:55.187 - It would be tacky. - You keep saying that. 179 00:12:55.275 --> 00:12:57.485 - And you keep ignoring it. - For good reason. 180 00:12:57.569 --> 00:13:01.410 You're my advisor insomuch as you introduced me around at the beginning of the month, 181 00:13:01.490 --> 00:13:03.070 and you showed me how to use the copy machine. 182 00:13:03.158 --> 00:13:04.788 Which, by the way, I still can't figure out. 183 00:13:04.868 --> 00:13:06.948 So, some advisor. 184 00:13:07.037 --> 00:13:08.247 Secondly. 185 00:13:08.330 --> 00:13:11.210 It's not "our" law firm. It's your law firm. 186 00:13:11.833 --> 00:13:12.921 I'm just here for the summer. 187 00:13:13.001 --> 00:13:15.591 And while you're here, it's inappropriate. 188 00:13:16.087 --> 00:13:19.010 So you think I'm attractive enough to set up with your prettiest friend... 189 00:13:19.090 --> 00:13:20.090 You think she's that pretty? 190 00:13:20.175 --> 00:13:21.755 You and I share a lot of the same interests. 191 00:13:21.843 --> 00:13:24.013 - I don't know that that's true. - We both love Chicago. 192 00:13:24.095 --> 00:13:26.805 I get it. You think we have a lot in common. 193 00:13:26.890 --> 00:13:29.430 And maybe we do, maybe we can be friends. 194 00:13:29.518 --> 00:13:32.478 But if you can't understand this, then you can't understand me. 195 00:13:32.938 --> 00:13:36.608 It's hard enough being a woman at a giant corporate law firm. 196 00:13:36.691 --> 00:13:40.151 For all the talk of equality that goes around and all those filled quotas, 197 00:13:40.237 --> 00:13:42.447 I'm still surrounded by mostly men. 198 00:13:42.531 --> 00:13:46.241 So I gotta work just a little bit harder to earn everyone's respect. 199 00:13:46.326 --> 00:13:49.246 I gotta work a little bit harder to be taken seriously. 200 00:13:49.329 --> 00:13:51.329 Now add on that I'm black. 201 00:13:51.414 --> 00:13:54.838 All that extra work I put in to compensate for being a woman? 202 00:13:54.918 --> 00:13:58.628 Being black erases that and brings me back down to zero. 203 00:13:58.713 --> 00:14:00.173 So now I'm working double-time 204 00:14:00.257 --> 00:14:02.967 just to be seen for who I am and what I'm capable of. 205 00:14:03.051 --> 00:14:05.801 Now, how's it gonna look to a guy like Thompson 206 00:14:05.887 --> 00:14:08.387 if I swoop in and start dating the first cute black guy 207 00:14:08.473 --> 00:14:10.479 who walks through the firm's doors? 208 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.349 The liberal-minded people will think it's precious, 209 00:14:13.436 --> 00:14:16.516 and the close-minded people will think it's pathetic. 210 00:14:19.943 --> 00:14:23.113 - You think I'm cute? - I didn't say that. 211 00:14:23.196 --> 00:14:25.366 Some of the secretaries described you that way. 212 00:14:25.448 --> 00:14:27.198 Nice dodge. Listen, listen. 213 00:14:28.034 --> 00:14:29.581 We're a few blocks away. 214 00:14:29.661 --> 00:14:31.371 Why don't we go in and check out the exhibit? 215 00:14:31.454 --> 00:14:33.668 I'd still like us to go to the meeting a little later. 216 00:14:33.748 --> 00:14:35.828 It would mean a lot to me. 217 00:14:37.335 --> 00:14:38.915 Okay, it's not a date. 218 00:14:40.589 --> 00:14:43.049 - Fine. - Until you say it is. 219 00:15:04.446 --> 00:15:06.946 Oh. That's Ernie Barnes. 220 00:15:07.574 --> 00:15:09.494 You read that in a brochure? 221 00:15:09.576 --> 00:15:12.616 No, I'd spot a Barnes a mile away. 222 00:15:14.581 --> 00:15:16.920 You know, Barnes is a real interesting brother. 223 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:18.250 Did you watch "Good Times"? 224 00:15:18.335 --> 00:15:20.495 - Not a family staple. - Really? 225 00:15:21.379 --> 00:15:23.839 There was a black family in Chicago that didn't watch "Good Times"? 226 00:15:24.633 --> 00:15:28.348 We are more of a "Brady Bunch," "Dick Van Dyke" kind of family. 227 00:15:28.428 --> 00:15:32.220 Those kids on Euclid Avenue, man, I'm telling you, they had it good. 228 00:15:35.936 --> 00:15:37.306 Dy-no-mite! 229 00:15:38.730 --> 00:15:40.110 Do you remember that? 230 00:15:40.190 --> 00:15:42.360 Yes, I remember the line. 231 00:15:42.442 --> 00:15:44.952 - That character's name was J.J. - Right. 232 00:15:45.987 --> 00:15:47.907 He was kind of a screw-up. 233 00:15:48.448 --> 00:15:51.831 Would steal here and there, couldn't read or write, talked jive. 234 00:15:53.036 --> 00:15:55.746 You know, just a bad TV stereotype, right? 235 00:15:55.830 --> 00:15:57.250 Mm-hmm. 236 00:15:57.749 --> 00:16:02.296 But, see, as the show progressed, J.J. developed this interest in painting. 237 00:16:03.380 --> 00:16:06.264 As it turned out, he actually had a lot of talent. 238 00:16:07.258 --> 00:16:08.928 But he didn't take it seriously. 239 00:16:10.261 --> 00:16:14.348 Not until his dad, who was this tough blue-collar guy, 240 00:16:14.432 --> 00:16:16.482 encouraged him to keep painting. 241 00:16:17.060 --> 00:16:20.690 He saw it as his son's only way out of the projects. 242 00:16:22.482 --> 00:16:25.742 - What did he paint? - Black ghetto life. 243 00:16:26.903 --> 00:16:30.913 They were crisp, exaggerated, very colorful. 244 00:16:31.908 --> 00:16:34.698 His style was a lot like these. 245 00:16:36.705 --> 00:16:40.251 That's because Ernie Barnes did all the paintings for the show. 246 00:16:42.335 --> 00:16:43.335 Hmm. 247 00:16:57.100 --> 00:16:59.100 My brother would love this. 248 00:16:59.769 --> 00:17:02.109 - Craig, right? - Yeah. 249 00:17:02.981 --> 00:17:04.321 How did you know? 250 00:17:04.941 --> 00:17:08.448 I may have overheard you talking about him at the office. 251 00:17:08.528 --> 00:17:10.738 Stalker. 252 00:17:10.822 --> 00:17:13.370 Yeah, but who's the bigger Looney Tune, 253 00:17:13.450 --> 00:17:16.998 the stalker or victim who willingly goes to a museum with the stalker? 254 00:17:17.078 --> 00:17:18.408 Willingly? 255 00:17:19.289 --> 00:17:23.079 I'm more inclined to describe this as a hostage situation. 256 00:17:23.168 --> 00:17:25.088 I'm that bad, huh? 257 00:17:25.170 --> 00:17:26.380 Oh, hush. 258 00:17:29.299 --> 00:17:30.509 Craig shoot hoops? 259 00:17:31.176 --> 00:17:32.506 He's decent. 260 00:17:33.803 --> 00:17:35.809 Pickup games? Office league? 261 00:17:35.889 --> 00:17:38.349 He's an assistant coach at Illinois Tech. 262 00:17:38.975 --> 00:17:40.305 No kidding. 263 00:17:41.561 --> 00:17:43.941 I assume he played ball at school? 264 00:17:44.022 --> 00:17:48.399 Yeah, at Princeton, and then for a couple of years in the BBL. 265 00:17:48.485 --> 00:17:52.025 He actually got drafted by the Sixers, but they never played him. 266 00:17:52.113 --> 00:17:54.493 What? 267 00:17:55.158 --> 00:17:58.658 I'd say "decent ballplayer" is a gross understatement. 268 00:18:01.164 --> 00:18:03.003 He was decent. 269 00:18:03.083 --> 00:18:04.503 Great is NBA. 270 00:18:04.584 --> 00:18:07.173 Uh, no. Good is college. 271 00:18:07.253 --> 00:18:10.593 Great is your brother. Super-human is NBA. 272 00:18:12.634 --> 00:18:14.180 I think I came to my realization 273 00:18:14.260 --> 00:18:16.890 when I missed varsity my junior year of high school. 274 00:18:17.847 --> 00:18:19.767 Cut class for a week after that. 275 00:18:19.849 --> 00:18:21.059 Why? 276 00:18:21.142 --> 00:18:22.692 Oh, I was hapa. 277 00:18:23.436 --> 00:18:24.556 So in everyone's eyes, 278 00:18:24.646 --> 00:18:28.396 I shouldn't have just made the team, I should've been the best. 279 00:18:28.483 --> 00:18:29.779 What's "hapa"? 280 00:18:29.859 --> 00:18:31.779 Hawaiian for "mixed." 281 00:18:31.861 --> 00:18:32.861 Hmm. 282 00:18:35.907 --> 00:18:39.287 Maybe they didn't expect you to be the best. 283 00:18:39.369 --> 00:18:42.369 Maybe you put that expectation on yourself. 284 00:18:57.679 --> 00:19:00.059 Makes me think of Gwendolyn Brooks. 285 00:19:02.225 --> 00:19:03.885 "The pool players. 286 00:19:06.479 --> 00:19:09.109 Seven at the Golden Shovel. 287 00:19:10.441 --> 00:19:11.481 We real cool. 288 00:19:12.902 --> 00:19:14.702 We left school. 289 00:19:15.697 --> 00:19:17.157 We lurk late. 290 00:19:17.866 --> 00:19:20.076 We strike straight. 291 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:22.200 We sing sin. 292 00:19:23.246 --> 00:19:25.076 We thin gin. 293 00:19:26.249 --> 00:19:27.999 We jazz June. 294 00:19:29.544 --> 00:19:31.254 - We die soon." - "Die soon." 295 00:19:34.132 --> 00:19:36.012 Room Ful A'Sistahs. 296 00:19:37.135 --> 00:19:39.095 What do you like about this one? 297 00:19:39.929 --> 00:19:43.519 I guess it reminds me of our house on Sundays. 298 00:19:44.684 --> 00:19:48.274 The boys would be upstairs watching football, 299 00:19:48.354 --> 00:19:52.028 and the girls would be downstairs singing around the piano. 300 00:19:52.108 --> 00:19:54.028 - You sing? - I play. 301 00:19:54.110 --> 00:19:56.400 - Any good? - I'm not bad. 302 00:19:57.280 --> 00:20:01.911 My aunt Robbie was a piano teacher, so I started young. 303 00:20:01.993 --> 00:20:04.163 - How old? - Four. 304 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.419 - That's young. - Not for my mom. 305 00:20:09.167 --> 00:20:12.207 She started us early on everything. 306 00:20:13.213 --> 00:20:14.763 Reading... 307 00:20:15.632 --> 00:20:17.132 French lessons. 308 00:20:17.217 --> 00:20:19.087 - You speak French? - Mm. 309 00:20:19.177 --> 00:20:20.757 Are you fluent? 310 00:20:20.845 --> 00:20:22.505 I know a few words. 311 00:20:23.598 --> 00:20:26.058 I never would've taken you for a Frenchie. 312 00:20:26.142 --> 00:20:28.352 I mean, any other language but French. 313 00:20:28.436 --> 00:20:31.976 It's just so... sentimental. 314 00:20:33.483 --> 00:20:36.243 Il Ne faut pas Se fier aux apparences. 315 00:20:37.570 --> 00:20:39.280 What does that mean? 316 00:20:39.364 --> 00:20:43.034 It means, things are not always as they appear. 317 00:21:50.018 --> 00:21:52.898 - Turkey on rye coming right up. - Thanks. 318 00:21:53.604 --> 00:21:55.274 Here. 319 00:21:55.356 --> 00:21:57.356 It's on me. 320 00:22:02.238 --> 00:22:03.738 Okay, okay. 321 00:22:04.574 --> 00:22:08.287 And now, the grand finale. 322 00:22:11.122 --> 00:22:12.669 What, no good? 323 00:22:12.749 --> 00:22:16.749 That was sweet of you, but I don't like pie. 324 00:22:16.836 --> 00:22:18.546 No, you're mistaken. 325 00:22:18.629 --> 00:22:22.299 This is not a slice of pie, this is a slice of heaven. 326 00:22:23.509 --> 00:22:24.509 Mm. 327 00:22:25.970 --> 00:22:27.350 Who doesn't like pie? 328 00:22:27.430 --> 00:22:29.470 I'm an ice cream kind of girl. 329 00:22:29.557 --> 00:22:31.847 Oh, yeah? 330 00:22:31.934 --> 00:22:35.064 - Which flavor? - Chocolate. 331 00:22:36.689 --> 00:22:37.689 Ugh! 332 00:22:38.733 --> 00:22:41.113 What, you don't like chocolate ice cream? 333 00:22:41.194 --> 00:22:42.949 I don't like ice cream, period. 334 00:22:43.029 --> 00:22:45.909 Now that's weirder than not liking pie. 335 00:22:45.990 --> 00:22:49.330 Not when you spent a summer in high school working at Baskin-Robbins, it's not. 336 00:22:49.410 --> 00:22:50.870 I overdid it. 337 00:22:52.205 --> 00:22:54.665 They had Baskin-Robbins in Hawaii? 338 00:22:54.749 --> 00:22:57.669 You do know Hawaii is part of these here United States, don't you? 339 00:22:58.628 --> 00:23:01.088 It just seems so foreign. 340 00:23:03.800 --> 00:23:05.430 Honolulu's pretty normal. 341 00:23:05.510 --> 00:23:08.100 Played hoops all day. Went to a good school. 342 00:23:09.847 --> 00:23:12.267 Then again, there's a lot about my high school years 343 00:23:12.350 --> 00:23:13.890 I do not remember. 344 00:23:15.019 --> 00:23:16.059 Why? 345 00:23:16.687 --> 00:23:20.527 Let's just say a lot of it got lost in a cloudy haze. 346 00:23:21.234 --> 00:23:22.244 Oh. 347 00:23:23.444 --> 00:23:25.992 Because you smoked a lot of marijuana? 348 00:23:26.072 --> 00:23:29.492 Yes, because I smoked a lot of marijuana. 349 00:23:33.830 --> 00:23:35.500 I had a lot of growing up to do. 350 00:23:59.063 --> 00:24:01.819 One time, when I was nine years old, 351 00:24:01.899 --> 00:24:06.449 I go to this girl's birthday party, and I show up, and it's me and 20 girls. 352 00:24:06.529 --> 00:24:08.319 I'm the only boy there. 353 00:24:08.406 --> 00:24:11.739 When I asked them why, they all just started laughing at me. 354 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:15.369 I remember running all the way home. I was mortified. 355 00:24:16.372 --> 00:24:17.792 What made you think of that? 356 00:24:17.874 --> 00:24:20.004 I don't know, just popped in my head. 357 00:24:20.084 --> 00:24:21.504 I could never figure it out. 358 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.590 Hey, you're a smart lady. Why were they laughing at me? 359 00:24:27.133 --> 00:24:29.138 They probably had crushes on you. 360 00:24:29.218 --> 00:24:30.258 Hmm. 361 00:24:30.344 --> 00:24:33.851 I mean, everything's backwards when you're little. 362 00:24:33.931 --> 00:24:36.181 When a boy likes you, he pulls your hair. 363 00:24:36.267 --> 00:24:39.147 When you like a boy, you kick him in the shins. 364 00:24:39.228 --> 00:24:40.858 You do any shin-kicking back in the day? 365 00:24:40.938 --> 00:24:46.190 If you were on the playground, and you were brown and cute, watch out. 366 00:24:46.277 --> 00:24:48.357 You, uh... 367 00:24:48.446 --> 00:24:50.406 doing any shin-kicking these days? 368 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.329 Are you inquiring about my personal life? 369 00:24:53.409 --> 00:24:54.829 I might be. 370 00:24:55.870 --> 00:24:58.080 Well, the answer is no. 371 00:24:59.957 --> 00:25:01.787 Tell me more about your... 372 00:25:02.793 --> 00:25:04.753 grade-school Casanova years. 373 00:25:06.005 --> 00:25:08.665 No, no, I couldn't have been less popular. 374 00:25:08.758 --> 00:25:13.345 The kids in Indonesia used to throw me in the swamp and call me "Blackberry." 375 00:25:13.429 --> 00:25:14.559 Indonesia? 376 00:25:14.639 --> 00:25:16.849 Yeah, I lived in Jakarta for a few years. 377 00:25:17.600 --> 00:25:20.690 I'm not kidding. We had crocodiles in the backyard. 378 00:25:21.604 --> 00:25:23.524 But... 379 00:25:23.606 --> 00:25:27.146 but why were you living there? I mean, how did you end up there? 380 00:25:27.234 --> 00:25:31.658 Lolo, my mother's ex-husband, was from there and went back for work. 381 00:25:31.739 --> 00:25:34.579 - We went with him. - But where was your dad? 382 00:25:36.911 --> 00:25:38.371 He was back in Kenya. 383 00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:41.120 And you didn't wanna live with him? 384 00:25:44.794 --> 00:25:46.344 It wasn't an option. 385 00:25:56.806 --> 00:25:59.306 Anyway, I didn't have to suffer at the hands 386 00:25:59.392 --> 00:26:02.189 of my Indonesian tormentors for long. 387 00:26:02.269 --> 00:26:04.649 I moved back to Hawaii when I was 10. 388 00:26:04.730 --> 00:26:06.980 My mother wanted me to get a better education. 389 00:26:08.067 --> 00:26:10.897 Well, did you? 390 00:26:10.987 --> 00:26:12.357 I don't know. 391 00:26:12.446 --> 00:26:15.236 How would you rate my level of education? 392 00:26:17.326 --> 00:26:20.656 You're like that jive-talking stereotype from "Good Times." 393 00:26:22.707 --> 00:26:24.037 So, what about you? 394 00:26:25.626 --> 00:26:27.086 What about me? 395 00:26:27.169 --> 00:26:29.259 You're Ivy League through and through. 396 00:26:30.131 --> 00:26:32.011 Craig got the natural smarts. 397 00:26:32.091 --> 00:26:34.221 I just worked my butt off. 398 00:26:34.301 --> 00:26:35.890 I'm sure your mother made sure of that. 399 00:26:35.970 --> 00:26:37.680 She never had to. 400 00:26:37.763 --> 00:26:41.433 Education was always priority number one. 401 00:26:41.517 --> 00:26:43.887 My dad would stand for nothing less. 402 00:26:43.978 --> 00:26:46.806 And there was no way Craig and I were gonna disappoint him. 403 00:26:47.523 --> 00:26:49.033 What's he like? 404 00:26:51.068 --> 00:26:53.488 He's the greatest man in the world. 405 00:26:55.406 --> 00:27:00.162 He told us from day one, education was the key to our happiness, 406 00:27:00.244 --> 00:27:02.164 and he didn't let us forget it. 407 00:27:03.080 --> 00:27:05.210 What's he do for a living? 408 00:27:05.291 --> 00:27:08.291 Operations engineer for the Water Department. 409 00:27:08.377 --> 00:27:10.587 Basically, he fixes the boilers. 410 00:27:10.671 --> 00:27:12.718 He's been there since '68. 411 00:27:12.798 --> 00:27:15.378 That must be where you get your work ethic. 412 00:27:16.552 --> 00:27:18.849 You don't know the half of it. 413 00:27:18.929 --> 00:27:20.639 Well, tell me, then. 414 00:27:22.349 --> 00:27:24.139 You're asking a lot of questions. 415 00:27:25.144 --> 00:27:27.274 You don't have to answer them, Michelle. 416 00:27:32.276 --> 00:27:35.026 Can you keep what's said outside the office... 417 00:27:36.363 --> 00:27:38.413 outside the office? 418 00:27:39.950 --> 00:27:43.330 Michelle, I've been trying to get you outside the office for a month now. 419 00:27:44.830 --> 00:27:46.170 I'm serious. 420 00:27:48.084 --> 00:27:50.384 Yes, absolutely. 421 00:27:54.965 --> 00:27:56.795 My dad has MS. 422 00:27:59.637 --> 00:28:01.557 That why you live at home? 423 00:28:01.639 --> 00:28:04.429 It's better to be there and to help out. 424 00:28:05.434 --> 00:28:06.984 He's on crutches now. 425 00:28:08.646 --> 00:28:12.106 Still gets himself to work every day. 426 00:28:16.946 --> 00:28:19.736 You know, they're lucky to have a daughter like you. 427 00:28:21.283 --> 00:28:23.663 I'm lucky to have parents like them. 428 00:28:31.794 --> 00:28:33.254 Is your mother still alive? 429 00:28:34.004 --> 00:28:36.802 Oh, yeah. Still in Jakarta. 430 00:28:36.882 --> 00:28:38.512 She's a wonderful lady. 431 00:28:38.592 --> 00:28:40.181 But you don't see her much. 432 00:28:40.261 --> 00:28:42.301 No, she has her own life. 433 00:28:42.388 --> 00:28:44.558 But she's brilliant, warm... 434 00:28:45.307 --> 00:28:46.677 Truly wonderful. 435 00:28:47.643 --> 00:28:49.940 - And she's white. - Snow white. 436 00:28:50.020 --> 00:28:51.940 Born in Wichita, Kansas. 437 00:28:52.022 --> 00:28:53.902 - You were born in '60? - '61. 438 00:28:54.984 --> 00:28:56.034 Hmm. 439 00:28:57.862 --> 00:29:00.322 A white woman and a black man 440 00:29:00.406 --> 00:29:03.616 getting married and having a kid back then. 441 00:29:03.701 --> 00:29:05.491 They were ahead of their time. 442 00:29:06.287 --> 00:29:08.867 You want the God's honest truth about my folks? 443 00:29:08.956 --> 00:29:10.666 - Sure. - Okay. 444 00:29:10.749 --> 00:29:14.419 My mother thought Harry Belafonte was the most handsome man 445 00:29:14.503 --> 00:29:16.258 on the face of the planet. 446 00:29:16.338 --> 00:29:18.798 Yeah, I'd say chocolate was her favorite flavor, too. 447 00:29:20.843 --> 00:29:21.931 No, really. 448 00:29:22.011 --> 00:29:23.721 I think their attraction was that simple. 449 00:29:24.972 --> 00:29:29.938 My father looked like Nat King Cole, and my mother looked like Patsy Cline. 450 00:30:27.910 --> 00:30:28.950 Whoo! 451 00:30:57.940 --> 00:30:59.610 Not bad at all, Miss Robinson. 452 00:30:59.692 --> 00:31:01.612 Those drummers were incredible. 453 00:31:01.694 --> 00:31:02.904 - Yeah, they were. - Mm. 454 00:31:02.987 --> 00:31:04.027 I wonder if they were African. 455 00:31:04.113 --> 00:31:05.910 - Why? - Well, it could be a ritual. 456 00:31:05.990 --> 00:31:08.910 I was part of one while visiting my family's village in Kenya. 457 00:31:08.993 --> 00:31:10.703 What were the rituals for? 458 00:31:11.495 --> 00:31:12.955 Prayer, mostly. 459 00:31:14.123 --> 00:31:16.462 Hey, do you believe in God? 460 00:31:16.542 --> 00:31:19.042 You like to go straight for the jugular, don't you? 461 00:31:19.128 --> 00:31:20.378 You have a real nice jugular. 462 00:31:20.462 --> 00:31:22.802 - Real defined, real sexy. - Watch it now. 463 00:31:23.716 --> 00:31:27.046 Growing up, we went to church on Sundays, but... 464 00:31:27.761 --> 00:31:28.849 I don't know. 465 00:31:28.929 --> 00:31:32.429 I believe in some sort of guiding spirit. 466 00:31:32.516 --> 00:31:36.436 But I also think God helps those who help themselves. 467 00:31:36.520 --> 00:31:39.020 I think I saw that on a bumper sticker somewhere. 468 00:31:39.106 --> 00:31:41.356 - That's how you know it's good. - Ah. 469 00:31:41.942 --> 00:31:44.072 And your religious proclivities? 470 00:31:44.153 --> 00:31:46.863 Let's just say I'm still evolving. 471 00:31:46.947 --> 00:31:49.197 - What were you raised? - Nothing, really. 472 00:31:49.283 --> 00:31:51.703 My mom didn't associate with any one religion. 473 00:31:51.785 --> 00:31:54.575 And your father, was he like you? 474 00:31:55.164 --> 00:31:59.251 About the only thing my father and I had in common is that we both went to Harvard. 475 00:31:59.335 --> 00:32:01.335 The only difference is, he got kicked out. 476 00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:03.010 You still got two years. 477 00:32:03.756 --> 00:32:06.126 Think that's enough time for me to develop a drinking problem 478 00:32:06.216 --> 00:32:08.546 and burn through all my student loans? 479 00:32:09.762 --> 00:32:11.722 You don't like talking about him. 480 00:32:11.805 --> 00:32:13.515 There isn't much to say, unfortunately. 481 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:15.059 That can't be true. 482 00:32:16.185 --> 00:32:17.385 It is true. 483 00:32:17.478 --> 00:32:19.058 His life was incomplete. 484 00:32:19.563 --> 00:32:21.153 In every imaginable way. 485 00:32:21.774 --> 00:32:24.904 He married my mother, they had me, he left. 486 00:32:25.569 --> 00:32:28.489 Went to Harvard, got kicked out, never got his Ph.D. 487 00:32:29.198 --> 00:32:32.658 Got a job at the Kenyan government, got fired. 488 00:32:33.202 --> 00:32:35.202 Never found a stable job again. 489 00:32:35.287 --> 00:32:37.707 Had a few too many drinks at a bar one night, 490 00:32:37.790 --> 00:32:40.580 got behind the wheel, never made it home. 491 00:32:41.794 --> 00:32:44.514 He died when he was 46. His life was incomplete. 492 00:32:45.881 --> 00:32:47.761 Even his tombstone is blank. 493 00:32:47.841 --> 00:32:49.680 No one bothered to have it engraved. 494 00:32:49.760 --> 00:32:52.599 No one bothered? All that family over there? 495 00:32:52.679 --> 00:32:54.599 No one had the money. 496 00:32:59.061 --> 00:33:00.561 You'll do it. 497 00:33:01.397 --> 00:33:05.153 When you have the money, you'll go back there and have his name engraved. 498 00:33:07.444 --> 00:33:09.658 You think you know me well enough to make that prediction? 499 00:33:09.738 --> 00:33:11.198 No. 500 00:33:11.281 --> 00:33:13.579 But I am a pretty hopeful person, 501 00:33:13.659 --> 00:33:17.409 so I'll just say, I hope you do it. 502 00:33:24.837 --> 00:33:26.507 We should probably get to the meeting. 503 00:33:30.259 --> 00:33:32.509 - # The world is yours # - # Hey, young world # 504 00:33:32.594 --> 00:33:35.724 - # The world is yours # - # Young world, young world # 505 00:33:35.806 --> 00:33:39.266 - # The world is yours # - # Young world # 506 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:43.108 # It may cause concern # 507 00:33:44.940 --> 00:33:46.900 ...Denby of "New York" magazine 508 00:33:46.984 --> 00:33:50.199 thinks Spike Lee's new picture is gonna cause them black folk to riot, 509 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:53.449 but Chicago's native son Roger Ebert calls it a masterpiece. 510 00:33:53.532 --> 00:33:54.742 Have you seen it? Who's seen it? 511 00:33:54.825 --> 00:33:56.695 What's the good word? You rioting yet? 512 00:33:56.785 --> 00:33:59.365 Hit the phones and let me know, and if you haven't checked it out yet, 513 00:33:59.455 --> 00:34:01.495 do the right thing and see it now! 514 00:34:02.374 --> 00:34:03.754 Dying to see this movie. 515 00:34:03.834 --> 00:34:06.382 Sounds interesting enough. 516 00:34:06.462 --> 00:34:08.882 Blick, Thompson, and Cohen were talking about it in the office. 517 00:34:08.964 --> 00:34:12.012 And Thompson said the film might be racist towards white people. 518 00:34:12.092 --> 00:34:13.472 No, he didn't. 519 00:34:13.552 --> 00:34:15.302 He didn't mean anything by it. 520 00:34:15.888 --> 00:34:18.178 He's just a little out of touch, that's all. 521 00:34:19.141 --> 00:34:21.939 I'm just tired of being two different people. 522 00:34:22.019 --> 00:34:24.730 I played that game at Princeton, and I played it again at Harvard. 523 00:34:25.481 --> 00:34:28.225 There were white kids at school who would talk to me in class, 524 00:34:28.317 --> 00:34:31.987 but if I saw them out on the quad, and they were with their other friends, 525 00:34:32.070 --> 00:34:34.910 they would walk right past me without so much as a nod. 526 00:34:34.990 --> 00:34:38.370 Now, obviously, the firm is not like that 527 00:34:38.452 --> 00:34:41.542 but sometimes when I'm leaving Southside in the morning, 528 00:34:41.622 --> 00:34:44.920 headed for the Loop, I feel like I'm leaving Planet Black 529 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:46.880 and landing on Planet White. 530 00:34:48.462 --> 00:34:51.922 Come on, you got wooed, just like me. 531 00:34:52.007 --> 00:34:53.547 You got wined and dined. 532 00:34:53.634 --> 00:34:56.390 You saw the corporate culture, the racial culture. 533 00:34:56.470 --> 00:34:58.560 You knew the score, and you still said yes. 534 00:34:59.765 --> 00:35:01.595 You sure it's the firm you're frustrated with? 535 00:35:01.683 --> 00:35:03.939 That's the second time you've asked me that question. 536 00:35:04.019 --> 00:35:06.149 It's the second time you haven't answered it. 537 00:35:07.773 --> 00:35:09.653 What are you suggesting? 538 00:35:09.733 --> 00:35:11.863 Take the Bottlecap case as an example. 539 00:35:11.944 --> 00:35:15.993 Once you made your point, why bother pressing further? 540 00:35:16.073 --> 00:35:19.283 - To try and get through to Thompson. - Come on, you knew you wouldn't. 541 00:35:19.368 --> 00:35:21.448 Like you said, you're a second year associate. 542 00:35:21.537 --> 00:35:23.287 Thompson wants you doing research, 543 00:35:23.372 --> 00:35:25.461 interfacing with the clients, preparing his arguments. 544 00:35:25.541 --> 00:35:27.581 - The grunt work, right? - Right. 545 00:35:27.668 --> 00:35:29.878 But if I don't speak up, what's the alternative? 546 00:35:29.962 --> 00:35:32.301 Shut my mouth and sit there looking pretty? 547 00:35:32.381 --> 00:35:34.261 First of all, you always sit there looking pretty. 548 00:35:34.341 --> 00:35:37.551 Second of all, I'm not suggesting you silence yourself. 549 00:35:37.636 --> 00:35:40.506 I'm just wondering why you chose to work at a corporate firm 550 00:35:40.597 --> 00:35:42.677 where you knew your silence would be expected. 551 00:35:43.433 --> 00:35:45.481 And really what I'm wondering is why 552 00:35:45.561 --> 00:35:47.561 you're wasting the fight you have inside you 553 00:35:47.646 --> 00:35:50.606 on battles you can't win and issues you don't care about? 554 00:35:52.025 --> 00:35:53.605 Excuse me? 555 00:35:54.987 --> 00:35:57.947 You think because we spend one afternoon together 556 00:35:58.031 --> 00:36:00.201 and you tried to buy me a sandwich, 557 00:36:00.284 --> 00:36:03.504 you're entitled to pass judgment on the choices I made in my life? 558 00:36:04.580 --> 00:36:07.370 - You think I'm wasting my life. - Now, I never used those words. 559 00:36:07.457 --> 00:36:09.627 You didn't have to use those words. 560 00:36:09.710 --> 00:36:13.090 You used other ones, and they stung just as much. 561 00:36:13.171 --> 00:36:14.381 Why? 562 00:36:14.464 --> 00:36:17.804 If you really loved what you were doing, would you be bothered by what I said? 563 00:36:18.594 --> 00:36:19.848 No. 564 00:36:19.928 --> 00:36:22.678 You'd tell me to go screw myself, and you'd go on your merry way, 565 00:36:22.764 --> 00:36:25.521 making tons of cash and doing trademark law for the rest of your life. 566 00:36:25.601 --> 00:36:28.061 And how do you know that's not exactly what I plan to do? 567 00:36:28.145 --> 00:36:31.355 Because you spent two years of law school in Gannett House, 568 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:33.860 working pro Bono cases for poor, single moms. 569 00:36:33.942 --> 00:36:35.652 And my guess is that it kills you 570 00:36:35.736 --> 00:36:38.446 to know you can't put the same passion and intelligence 571 00:36:38.530 --> 00:36:40.450 towards cases that actually mean something. 572 00:36:41.783 --> 00:36:45.913 You're more than welcome to pass judgment on your own father. 573 00:36:45.996 --> 00:36:49.036 You know what, you're more than welcome to pass judgment on me. 574 00:36:50.417 --> 00:36:54.835 But quite frankly, it sounds like you know me about as little as you knew him. 575 00:36:54.921 --> 00:36:56.631 - Michelle... - And the biggest offense is, 576 00:36:56.715 --> 00:36:59.255 this is coming from a guy who quit community organizing 577 00:36:59.343 --> 00:37:03.600 for Harvard Law, only to take a summer position at the same corporate firm 578 00:37:03.680 --> 00:37:05.390 he's railing against. 579 00:37:07.059 --> 00:37:10.149 Now that is the height of hypocrisy. 580 00:37:13.190 --> 00:37:15.320 I apologize. I meant no offense. 581 00:39:28.783 --> 00:39:30.163 Barack! 582 00:39:31.828 --> 00:39:32.908 Ladies! 583 00:39:33.788 --> 00:39:34.788 Hey! 584 00:39:35.916 --> 00:39:37.166 Oh... 585 00:39:37.709 --> 00:39:39.539 So happy to see you guys. 586 00:39:39.628 --> 00:39:40.878 Looks like we got a full house today. 587 00:39:40.962 --> 00:39:42.759 Well, everyone heard you was coming, Barack. 588 00:39:42.839 --> 00:39:45.719 We all wanted to get a look at our Harvard man all grown up. 589 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:47.050 Does a year and a half change a man? 590 00:39:47.135 --> 00:39:50.305 No, but apparently it gets you a lady. 591 00:39:50.388 --> 00:39:52.268 And finally a sista. 592 00:39:52.349 --> 00:39:53.889 How you doing, sweetie? 593 00:39:53.975 --> 00:39:56.385 - My name's Bernadette. - Oh! I'm Michelle. 594 00:39:56.478 --> 00:39:57.848 Very nice to meet you. 595 00:39:57.938 --> 00:39:59.768 - I'm Janice. - Hi. 596 00:39:59.856 --> 00:40:02.476 We was your boyfriend's ladies while he was working here in the Gardens. 597 00:40:02.567 --> 00:40:05.317 - Oh, we're not... - Platonic ladies, Janice. 598 00:40:05.403 --> 00:40:08.033 Don't go giving her any ideas. 599 00:40:08.114 --> 00:40:09.870 We did everything together. 600 00:40:09.950 --> 00:40:11.538 Except the sexy stuff. 601 00:40:11.618 --> 00:40:15.208 Hmm. Now this is a real man you got yourself here. 602 00:40:15.830 --> 00:40:17.580 Just going right over there. 603 00:40:21.836 --> 00:40:23.416 Tommy, my man! 604 00:40:23.505 --> 00:40:25.295 B! 605 00:40:26.049 --> 00:40:27.429 Oh, it's so good to see you. 606 00:40:27.509 --> 00:40:29.009 Yo, Rafiqa! 607 00:40:29.094 --> 00:40:31.892 This Barack's woman, Michelle. 608 00:40:31.972 --> 00:40:33.560 - He done well for himself. - Mm-hmm. 609 00:40:33.640 --> 00:40:34.850 Welcome. 610 00:40:34.933 --> 00:40:36.730 Janice, we're not together. 611 00:40:36.810 --> 00:40:38.350 You say this Barack's girl? 612 00:40:38.436 --> 00:40:41.356 No, Kyle, this Barack's woman, Michelle. 613 00:40:41.439 --> 00:40:42.729 Y'all married and shit? 614 00:40:42.816 --> 00:40:45.856 Kyle, watch your mouth. Your ass in church. 615 00:40:49.447 --> 00:40:51.067 Y'all married? 616 00:40:51.157 --> 00:40:53.827 No. We're not together. 617 00:40:53.910 --> 00:40:55.040 At all. 618 00:40:58.456 --> 00:41:00.826 Let me tell you a little something about Barack. 619 00:41:02.210 --> 00:41:04.500 My son LaJuan wanted to be in the Navy 620 00:41:04.588 --> 00:41:07.418 since he was playing with toy boats in the tub. 621 00:41:08.008 --> 00:41:10.888 But growing up in the Gardens, ooh! 622 00:41:10.969 --> 00:41:13.259 Little by little, the place was getting to him, 623 00:41:13.346 --> 00:41:15.466 and he was starting to get the same ideas 624 00:41:15.557 --> 00:41:17.977 as every other young Negro around here. 625 00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:21.099 Thinking there ain't no place for 'em outside these walls. 626 00:41:21.187 --> 00:41:23.727 And even if there was, ain't no way out. 627 00:41:24.691 --> 00:41:26.231 Well, in comes Barack. 628 00:41:26.943 --> 00:41:30.492 And every time he come by the house to talk business, 629 00:41:30.572 --> 00:41:36.122 he sets aside a little time to talk with my LaJuan about Navy boats. 630 00:41:36.202 --> 00:41:38.792 I don't even know how Barack knew about Navy boats. 631 00:41:38.872 --> 00:41:41.292 And he could've been making up names, for all I know. 632 00:41:41.374 --> 00:41:44.964 The USS this and the USS that. 633 00:41:45.503 --> 00:41:47.259 Didn't matter. 634 00:41:47.339 --> 00:41:49.379 He kept LaJuan interested. 635 00:41:50.675 --> 00:41:54.716 He told my boy that he could be anything 636 00:41:54.804 --> 00:41:56.354 if he worked hard enough. 637 00:41:57.515 --> 00:41:59.845 You see, he didn't have a father to tell him that. 638 00:42:00.518 --> 00:42:02.188 And you know what? 639 00:42:07.651 --> 00:42:10.111 - He made it out. - Mm, mm. 640 00:42:10.195 --> 00:42:13.985 My son is sailing across the seas 641 00:42:14.074 --> 00:42:16.788 on the "USS Dakota." 642 00:42:16.868 --> 00:42:21.830 Looking all fly and professional in his military uniform. 643 00:42:21.915 --> 00:42:25.165 Hands off, girl. That's my boy you talking about. 644 00:42:32.008 --> 00:42:34.088 Afternoon, everybody. Afternoon. 645 00:42:34.177 --> 00:42:36.097 - Afternoon. - Afternoon. 646 00:42:36.179 --> 00:42:37.639 Right, right, right. Okay now. 647 00:42:37.722 --> 00:42:39.972 Today, you know we here to discuss the Community Center. 648 00:42:40.058 --> 00:42:42.268 What Community Center? 649 00:42:42.352 --> 00:42:43.440 Look, I know. 650 00:42:43.520 --> 00:42:45.609 I know the city's decision was a disappointment, all right? 651 00:42:45.689 --> 00:42:48.479 No, Tommy, it was more than a disappointment. 652 00:42:48.566 --> 00:42:51.736 It was six months of our lives down the drain. 653 00:42:54.948 --> 00:42:57.118 Okay, hold on. Everybody, just hold on. 654 00:42:57.200 --> 00:42:59.910 It was a disappointment. But it wasn't all bad. 655 00:42:59.994 --> 00:43:02.208 See, now we got ourselves not one, not two, 656 00:43:02.288 --> 00:43:04.668 but three foundations to fund our Community Center programs 657 00:43:04.749 --> 00:43:07.499 when the time is right, and I got that in writing. 658 00:43:08.878 --> 00:43:11.758 Now, how in God's name are they supposed to fund 659 00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:15.220 our Community Center programs when we ain't got no Community Center? 660 00:43:15.301 --> 00:43:17.511 That's right. That's right. 661 00:43:17.595 --> 00:43:20.515 Well, that's the dilemma we here today to solve. 662 00:43:20.598 --> 00:43:24.098 Now, what we have to do first is take a look at why the City Council said no. 663 00:43:24.185 --> 00:43:26.805 Well, what difference does it make? They say no to everything we ask for. 664 00:43:26.896 --> 00:43:28.896 Now, that's just not always true, Curtis. 665 00:43:28.982 --> 00:43:31.232 Now, we got that job center up and running. 666 00:43:31.317 --> 00:43:33.987 We got people's apartments on hold for them while they rehabbing. 667 00:43:34.070 --> 00:43:35.780 Look, all I know is this, 668 00:43:35.864 --> 00:43:38.662 Senator Torrance got himself a state grant 669 00:43:38.742 --> 00:43:41.492 to build a church that he's gonna preach in, 670 00:43:41.578 --> 00:43:43.788 and Alderman Said helped him get it. 671 00:43:45.957 --> 00:43:49.537 Meanwhile, my little girls can't go but a mile up the road 672 00:43:49.627 --> 00:43:52.257 to play for all the gangs running around the Gardens, 673 00:43:52.338 --> 00:43:55.258 pushing they drugs, littering they garbage, 674 00:43:55.341 --> 00:43:58.761 shooting they guns like this is the Wild West or something. 675 00:43:58.845 --> 00:44:02.095 Shoot, our kids can't even go play in they friends' house 676 00:44:02.182 --> 00:44:04.562 across the street at the Gates. 677 00:44:05.351 --> 00:44:09.857 The Senator got himself a church, our kids got themselves the shaft. 678 00:44:15.653 --> 00:44:17.200 Okay, okay, okay! 679 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:21.786 There's a lot of issues to address, and I know better than anyone else. 680 00:44:22.619 --> 00:44:24.749 Come on, I've devoted my life to helping this community, 681 00:44:24.829 --> 00:44:26.918 - but we got to stay focused. - That's right. 682 00:44:26.998 --> 00:44:29.998 Look, we got to take our anger and channel it towards the goals we set, 683 00:44:30.084 --> 00:44:32.714 and right now that's the Community Center. 684 00:44:32.796 --> 00:44:34.296 Now, you know from past experiences, 685 00:44:34.380 --> 00:44:37.010 we got things done because we honed in on one issue, 686 00:44:37.091 --> 00:44:40.799 we pressed, we squeezed, and we screamed until somebody finally listened. 687 00:44:40.887 --> 00:44:43.137 It's taking too long. We tired of screaming. 688 00:44:43.223 --> 00:44:45.483 - Well, then ain't nothing gonna change. - Well, maybe it can't. 689 00:44:47.435 --> 00:44:48.685 Huh? 690 00:44:53.191 --> 00:44:54.531 Look, I disagree. 691 00:44:56.694 --> 00:45:00.318 And I'm sure our guest here disagrees, too, because I seem to recall 692 00:45:00.406 --> 00:45:04.491 when he was standing here in my position, by this podium, a year and a half ago, 693 00:45:04.577 --> 00:45:05.697 y'all got something done. 694 00:45:06.412 --> 00:45:08.462 I seem to recall, with his guidance... 695 00:45:09.457 --> 00:45:13.037 your patience and persistence, y'all got that asbestos problem cleared up. 696 00:45:14.295 --> 00:45:17.835 Got them toilets fixed. The pipes cleaned. 697 00:45:19.050 --> 00:45:22.010 Now, I know when times were tough, this brother right here... 698 00:45:23.429 --> 00:45:25.139 had a lot of motivational words for us. 699 00:45:25.223 --> 00:45:28.062 And I'm gonna ask him to come up and say a few right now. 700 00:45:28.142 --> 00:45:30.852 'Cause I'm gonna tell you something, we might be down for the count... 701 00:45:32.897 --> 00:45:34.357 but we ain't out. 702 00:45:37.235 --> 00:45:39.945 Brother Barack, would you come on up? 703 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:45.739 - It's all you. - Thanks, bro. Thank you. 704 00:45:48.162 --> 00:45:49.332 Thank you. 705 00:45:51.541 --> 00:45:52.831 It's good to be back. 706 00:45:54.669 --> 00:45:56.459 It's good to see all of you. 707 00:45:57.422 --> 00:45:59.922 I missed that musty smell up here. 708 00:46:01.885 --> 00:46:05.386 Looks like Pastor Mike hasn't gotten around to filling in that hole in the roof. 709 00:46:05.471 --> 00:46:06.601 No. 710 00:46:06.681 --> 00:46:09.271 Think we're gonna have to organize a meeting just to get that leak fixed. 711 00:46:13.146 --> 00:46:14.396 But listen. 712 00:46:17.233 --> 00:46:19.993 I, uh... I feel your pain. 713 00:46:21.738 --> 00:46:22.778 I do. 714 00:46:22.864 --> 00:46:24.244 It's... 715 00:46:24.324 --> 00:46:25.624 It's a part of me now, that pain. 716 00:46:27.410 --> 00:46:29.830 Sometimes it hits me like a heart attack, 717 00:46:29.913 --> 00:46:32.923 hundreds of miles away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 718 00:46:34.709 --> 00:46:38.459 Now, I could be listening to a lecture in class, 719 00:46:38.546 --> 00:46:40.586 or studying in the library... 720 00:46:41.883 --> 00:46:44.053 or watching a movie, or talking to a friend... 721 00:46:45.094 --> 00:46:46.764 and I think of all of you. 722 00:46:48.514 --> 00:46:51.394 I may have gone on to a different life at Harvard... 723 00:46:51.893 --> 00:46:53.813 but you know what I've realized? 724 00:46:56.773 --> 00:46:59.443 I never left the Gardens. 725 00:47:00.652 --> 00:47:02.532 Now... 726 00:47:02.612 --> 00:47:04.492 Tommy deserves some credit here, folks. 727 00:47:05.323 --> 00:47:07.533 Our fight with the City Council two years ago 728 00:47:07.617 --> 00:47:11.866 was proof that these victories do not come easy, and they don't come big. 729 00:47:12.580 --> 00:47:14.250 They are few and far between. 730 00:47:15.917 --> 00:47:18.247 But you gotta use them like building blocks. 731 00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:22.838 One by one, one on top of the other, and little by little... 732 00:47:23.591 --> 00:47:25.091 you got yourself a building. 733 00:47:25.969 --> 00:47:27.679 And that's exactly what you need in this case, 734 00:47:27.762 --> 00:47:30.522 is a building for your Community Center. 735 00:47:31.140 --> 00:47:33.350 Now, I feel your disappointment. 736 00:47:35.520 --> 00:47:37.190 But the truth is... 737 00:47:38.564 --> 00:47:40.361 you're in a good position right now. 738 00:47:41.484 --> 00:47:42.989 Still ain't got no Community Center! 739 00:47:43.069 --> 00:47:44.359 All right, all right. All right. 740 00:47:45.279 --> 00:47:47.909 Tommy got funding pledges. That's real. 741 00:47:47.991 --> 00:47:50.201 That's money down the line, and that's hard to secure. 742 00:47:51.452 --> 00:47:54.584 Now, I know it's not the whole package, but think about it. 743 00:47:55.331 --> 00:47:56.921 Now all you need is a building. 744 00:47:57.792 --> 00:47:59.252 You're halfway there. 745 00:47:59.961 --> 00:48:02.211 Now, the Council said no to the building, 746 00:48:02.296 --> 00:48:04.256 but that was before you had funding pledges 747 00:48:04.340 --> 00:48:07.300 secured with the help of Brother Tommy here. 748 00:48:08.511 --> 00:48:10.891 So now, when you remount your campaign... 749 00:48:11.681 --> 00:48:13.728 you have something to bring to the table. 750 00:48:13.808 --> 00:48:15.058 You're contributing. 751 00:48:15.143 --> 00:48:18.103 And the folks downtown like to see us contributing. 752 00:48:18.187 --> 00:48:21.267 Makes 'em feel like the money they give you is gonna be put to good use. 753 00:48:22.150 --> 00:48:23.940 Just wanna know that you care. 754 00:48:25.153 --> 00:48:29.573 And Tommy's right when he says we need to take a look at why they said no. 755 00:48:29.657 --> 00:48:31.237 Not because it's the right decision, 756 00:48:31.325 --> 00:48:33.995 but because you've gotta understand where they're coming from. 757 00:48:34.537 --> 00:48:37.827 You've gotta understand the city's motivations, its self-interest 758 00:48:37.915 --> 00:48:40.585 in order to align them with your own. 759 00:48:41.919 --> 00:48:44.799 We turn self-interest into mutual interest. 760 00:48:45.965 --> 00:48:49.545 So, let's give the council members 761 00:48:49.635 --> 00:48:51.425 the benefit of the doubt for a moment. 762 00:48:52.680 --> 00:48:55.430 Let's say they want you to have your Community Center. 763 00:48:59.854 --> 00:49:02.274 Okay, okay. But let's say for a moment 764 00:49:02.356 --> 00:49:04.646 that we got some good folks on that Council, 765 00:49:04.734 --> 00:49:07.532 and they'd like to see your kids have a place to go after school and play. 766 00:49:07.612 --> 00:49:08.652 Yeah, right. 767 00:49:08.738 --> 00:49:11.238 Now, I believe there probably are a few. 768 00:49:11.991 --> 00:49:13.991 So, if we've got some good-hearted folks there... 769 00:49:15.495 --> 00:49:18.245 why can't they get your funding request approved? 770 00:49:19.040 --> 00:49:21.250 Getting paid to say no. 771 00:49:21.334 --> 00:49:23.840 Okay, Curtis, I hear you, I hear you. 772 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:26.210 - Anyone else? - Don't care enough. 773 00:49:26.297 --> 00:49:29.337 All right. Any other ideas? 774 00:49:30.176 --> 00:49:31.796 Maybe they don't think they can. 775 00:49:36.474 --> 00:49:37.934 That's what I'm thinking, Kyle. 776 00:49:39.852 --> 00:49:42.232 I don't think they believe they can get it done. 777 00:49:42.313 --> 00:49:43.563 Even if they wanted to. 778 00:49:44.524 --> 00:49:46.654 They know developers don't wanna build in the Gardens. 779 00:49:47.693 --> 00:49:51.451 There's nothing in it for them. No stores. No economy. 780 00:49:51.531 --> 00:49:54.451 These council members don't necessarily want the answer to be no, 781 00:49:54.534 --> 00:49:56.414 they just believe it will be. 782 00:49:56.494 --> 00:49:59.083 So, what are you proposing, Barack, that we build the damn thing ourselves? 783 00:49:59.163 --> 00:50:01.463 Almost. Almost, Curtis. 784 00:50:02.041 --> 00:50:05.001 Now, Tommy and I have been discussing this. 785 00:50:05.086 --> 00:50:09.625 And we both think you might wanna consider changing the goal slightly. 786 00:50:10.174 --> 00:50:13.304 Refocus your efforts on obtaining a land designation. 787 00:50:14.929 --> 00:50:16.349 Now, if you control the land... 788 00:50:17.473 --> 00:50:21.063 you can cut a deal with one developer to build everything in the area... 789 00:50:22.061 --> 00:50:26.652 on the condition that one of the buildings be the Community Center. 790 00:50:27.775 --> 00:50:31.445 Now, that's more jobs, more stores, 791 00:50:31.529 --> 00:50:34.239 and a Community Center for your children. 792 00:50:34.323 --> 00:50:37.121 They just gonna say no like they say no to everything else! 793 00:50:37.201 --> 00:50:40.121 Now, we gotta stop thinking the word "no" is the end of the line, Curtis. 794 00:50:40.955 --> 00:50:42.955 "No" is just a word. 795 00:50:43.040 --> 00:50:45.920 You flip those letters around, you get an entirely different word. 796 00:50:47.128 --> 00:50:49.918 - "On." - That's right. 797 00:50:50.006 --> 00:50:52.426 As in "carry on." 798 00:50:53.593 --> 00:50:55.303 Say it with me now. 799 00:50:55.386 --> 00:50:57.466 - Carry on! - Carry on! 800 00:50:57.555 --> 00:50:59.925 - They say no, we say... - Carry on. 801 00:51:00.016 --> 00:51:02.976 - They say no, we say... - Carry on! 802 00:51:06.814 --> 00:51:09.364 That's it! There you go! 803 00:51:21.954 --> 00:51:24.334 - Harold Washington... - My man. 804 00:51:25.416 --> 00:51:28.836 Harold Washington was one of the reasons I moved to Chicago. 805 00:51:30.421 --> 00:51:33.171 When I first came here, every barbershop 806 00:51:33.257 --> 00:51:36.257 and chicken shack on the Southside had a squeaky-clean picture of him 807 00:51:36.344 --> 00:51:37.974 hanging up on the wall for everyone to see. 808 00:51:38.054 --> 00:51:40.514 - You right about that. - Still do. 809 00:51:40.598 --> 00:51:42.348 Chicago's first black mayor. 810 00:51:43.517 --> 00:51:45.897 - He was our mayor. - Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 811 00:51:46.604 --> 00:51:50.734 But even Mayor Washington disappointed in some respects. 812 00:51:52.401 --> 00:51:54.951 He had to face the great truth of our country... 813 00:51:56.197 --> 00:51:58.157 that it's not easy to get things done. 814 00:52:00.284 --> 00:52:02.454 The founders made it that way on purpose. 815 00:52:03.537 --> 00:52:04.907 They made it messy... 816 00:52:06.165 --> 00:52:11.166 so that no one law, no one government, no one man 817 00:52:11.253 --> 00:52:13.763 could decide the fate of everything and everyone. 818 00:52:19.220 --> 00:52:20.930 In very simple terms... 819 00:52:22.306 --> 00:52:25.426 we got a heck of a lot of different people 820 00:52:25.518 --> 00:52:27.808 with a heck of a lot of different agendas. 821 00:52:28.896 --> 00:52:32.146 But I also believe that people, most people... 822 00:52:33.150 --> 00:52:36.400 are basically, at their core, good people. 823 00:52:38.364 --> 00:52:42.244 And so, if at first we don't understand their agenda... 824 00:52:42.952 --> 00:52:46.042 the City Council, the Alderman, the State Senator... 825 00:52:48.249 --> 00:52:52.548 we have to try our hardest to understand who they are 826 00:52:52.628 --> 00:52:54.338 and what they need. 827 00:52:59.301 --> 00:53:00.891 We have to let go of judgment. 828 00:53:05.266 --> 00:53:06.846 That's a lesson... 829 00:53:09.395 --> 00:53:12.305 I learned today from a friend. 830 00:53:16.277 --> 00:53:18.277 No matter what we think about someone... 831 00:53:20.072 --> 00:53:22.282 we never truly know what it's like 832 00:53:22.366 --> 00:53:23.946 to walk in their shoes. 833 00:53:26.704 --> 00:53:28.214 But we have to try. 834 00:53:30.916 --> 00:53:34.036 Whether it's a colleague, a family member... 835 00:53:34.837 --> 00:53:38.007 or a particular opponent, especially our opponents. 836 00:53:39.967 --> 00:53:43.047 Because where their needs align with our needs... 837 00:53:44.805 --> 00:53:46.595 is where things get done. 838 00:53:49.477 --> 00:53:50.897 That's America. 839 00:53:53.314 --> 00:53:55.074 Just a bunch of different states. 840 00:53:55.983 --> 00:53:57.943 States of land, states of mind... 841 00:53:58.819 --> 00:54:00.569 states of people. 842 00:54:02.364 --> 00:54:04.454 And it's up to us, all of us... 843 00:54:05.659 --> 00:54:09.659 to keep all those different states... 844 00:54:11.499 --> 00:54:12.789 united. 845 00:54:35.272 --> 00:54:37.319 Thanks for inviting me. 846 00:54:37.399 --> 00:54:40.952 It's been a while since I've had that kind of connection to real-life struggle. 847 00:54:41.821 --> 00:54:42.821 Me, too. 848 00:54:46.325 --> 00:54:49.865 In high school, my typing teacher gave me an A minus. 849 00:54:52.498 --> 00:54:56.538 I wrote her a letter every day until she changed it to an A. 850 00:54:58.379 --> 00:55:00.169 I celebrated all day long. 851 00:55:01.799 --> 00:55:04.589 But that night, I couldn't sleep. 852 00:55:05.761 --> 00:55:09.601 I kept asking myself over and over again, 853 00:55:09.682 --> 00:55:11.812 "Did I even deserve the A?" 854 00:55:14.186 --> 00:55:16.646 Sometimes I forget why I'm fighting. 855 00:55:18.190 --> 00:55:20.230 Or even that I am fighting. 856 00:55:22.069 --> 00:55:25.989 I didn't know I was wrestling with myself about the firm. 857 00:55:30.202 --> 00:55:31.502 I understand that. 858 00:55:35.541 --> 00:55:37.291 You think you're real smooth, don't you? 859 00:55:37.376 --> 00:55:38.836 Why? 860 00:55:38.919 --> 00:55:41.008 Did you know you were speaking today? 861 00:55:41.088 --> 00:55:42.088 No. 862 00:55:43.757 --> 00:55:45.717 Well, not exactly. 863 00:55:47.970 --> 00:55:50.180 I knew there was a decent chance, yeah. 864 00:55:51.056 --> 00:55:52.516 Mm-hmm. 865 00:55:52.600 --> 00:55:55.190 Pretty good setting to bring a girl. 866 00:55:56.186 --> 00:55:58.726 Surrounded by people who adore you. 867 00:55:59.857 --> 00:56:02.317 People who might tell this girl heart-tugging stories 868 00:56:02.401 --> 00:56:05.401 about how inspired their sons to join the Navy. 869 00:56:06.989 --> 00:56:11.489 And an inspirational speech that had everybody in awe, Mr. Obama. 870 00:56:13.787 --> 00:56:14.957 Including you? 871 00:56:27.885 --> 00:56:30.385 It wasn't bad. 872 00:56:30.471 --> 00:56:33.060 You sounded a little professorial. 873 00:56:36.644 --> 00:56:40.234 But you definitely have a knack for making speeches. 874 00:56:42.816 --> 00:56:44.106 Thank you. 875 00:56:48.989 --> 00:56:53.040 You know, that being said, it didn't hurt to take you there on our first date. 876 00:56:54.536 --> 00:56:57.076 - Our first what? - You heard me. 877 00:57:00.501 --> 00:57:04.166 You must have misspoken because according to you, 878 00:57:04.254 --> 00:57:07.014 this isn't a date until I say so. 879 00:57:09.385 --> 00:57:13.309 You know, if you don't wanna spend any more time with me today, I'll respect that. 880 00:57:13.389 --> 00:57:16.679 I won't like it, but I'll respect your wishes. 881 00:57:21.105 --> 00:57:23.975 But if you wanna keep hanging... 882 00:57:24.525 --> 00:57:27.565 let's call it a date and move on to the next event. 883 00:57:27.653 --> 00:57:31.283 - Next event? - Drinks and a movie. 884 00:57:34.243 --> 00:57:35.953 You think you're real smooth. 885 00:57:36.036 --> 00:57:38.616 And real cute. 886 00:57:40.290 --> 00:57:42.880 I don't know about the "cute" part. 887 00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:45.460 I mean, they did look good on Dumbo. 888 00:57:47.214 --> 00:57:48.674 Well, I'd rather be Dumbo than the Wicked Queen. 889 00:57:48.757 --> 00:57:50.297 Wicked Queen? 890 00:57:50.384 --> 00:57:53.432 Now, you can't just say any old wicked queen. 891 00:57:53.512 --> 00:57:55.682 From which movie? 892 00:58:03.022 --> 00:58:04.568 - There you go. - Thanks, Steve. 893 00:58:04.648 --> 00:58:08.898 # Why can't nobody love me # 894 00:58:10.237 --> 00:58:13.317 # Like my baby does? # 895 00:58:16.076 --> 00:58:19.576 # Young girl turned out to be two times # 896 00:58:19.663 --> 00:58:22.123 # Twice the woman # 897 00:58:22.207 --> 00:58:24.537 # That I thought she was... # 898 00:58:24.752 --> 00:58:27.462 Don't even come at me with that "Innervisions" nonsense. 899 00:58:27.546 --> 00:58:29.086 It's a better album all around. 900 00:58:29.173 --> 00:58:31.679 "You and I," "Sunshine of My Life," 901 00:58:31.759 --> 00:58:33.009 "Superstition." 902 00:58:33.093 --> 00:58:34.890 - All great songs. - His best. 903 00:58:34.970 --> 00:58:36.350 Not better than "Higher Ground." 904 00:58:36.430 --> 00:58:39.100 "Talking Book" was the first album I ever heard, 905 00:58:39.183 --> 00:58:41.689 and if it was the last, I'd be set for life. 906 00:58:41.769 --> 00:58:44.479 - That's how brilliant it is. - Uh-uh. 907 00:58:44.563 --> 00:58:46.153 Man! 908 00:58:46.815 --> 00:58:50.315 Well, at least we can agree that Stevie is the best. 909 00:58:50.402 --> 00:58:53.822 - Mm. - At least we can start from there. 910 00:58:59.453 --> 00:59:03.502 Okay, so what about that moment in the church 911 00:59:03.582 --> 00:59:05.712 before the meeting? 912 00:59:05.793 --> 00:59:06.922 Which? 913 00:59:07.002 --> 00:59:11.417 I think Bernadette said it, about you finally dating a sister. 914 00:59:13.342 --> 00:59:15.889 Who knows with those two. They love to gossip. 915 00:59:15.969 --> 00:59:17.969 - Is it true? - Is what true? 916 00:59:18.055 --> 00:59:19.635 That you never date black women. 917 00:59:19.723 --> 00:59:21.103 Not true. 918 00:59:21.183 --> 00:59:22.813 But you did date white women? 919 00:59:23.769 --> 00:59:26.689 I've dated a couple of white women, yes. 920 00:59:26.772 --> 00:59:28.612 And which do you prefer? 921 00:59:32.945 --> 00:59:35.565 Come on, buster, now it's your turn to ante up. 922 00:59:42.162 --> 00:59:44.922 My girlfriend at Columbia was white. 923 00:59:45.833 --> 00:59:47.423 It was pretty serious. 924 00:59:48.168 --> 00:59:50.378 - What was her name? - Jennifer. 925 00:59:51.797 --> 00:59:53.627 How long were you with Jennifer? 926 00:59:54.174 --> 00:59:56.434 A little over two years. 927 00:59:57.261 --> 00:59:58.931 Mm-hmm... 928 01:00:03.475 --> 01:00:07.145 Columbia was a strange time in my life. 929 01:00:07.938 --> 01:00:12.727 I was reading a lot, figuring stuff out, had very few friends. 930 01:00:12.818 --> 01:00:15.528 - Except for Jennifer. - Exactly. 931 01:00:17.197 --> 01:00:18.277 She was lovely. 932 01:00:19.449 --> 01:00:20.449 She really was. 933 01:00:21.702 --> 01:00:23.791 She was very caring. 934 01:00:23.871 --> 01:00:25.411 Kept me company when I was lonely. 935 01:00:28.834 --> 01:00:31.381 We fell into that private little universe 936 01:00:31.461 --> 01:00:32.711 couples can fall into, 937 01:00:32.796 --> 01:00:36.381 where you develop your own kind of language and customs, you know? 938 01:00:38.427 --> 01:00:42.351 I've never had that with anyone other than my own family. 939 01:00:42.431 --> 01:00:43.561 It's nice. 940 01:00:50.689 --> 01:00:51.729 Anyway... 941 01:00:52.733 --> 01:00:57.741 when we went to visit her family, they were incredibly gracious to me. 942 01:00:57.821 --> 01:01:01.618 Very nice, open-minded people, but, you know, I looked around 943 01:01:01.700 --> 01:01:04.160 at all the pictures on the walls, you know... 944 01:01:05.078 --> 01:01:06.828 all the white faces... 945 01:01:08.248 --> 01:01:12.127 and I knew I couldn't spend any more of my life living as an outsider. 946 01:01:16.089 --> 01:01:17.629 Does that answer your question? 947 01:01:19.259 --> 01:01:21.219 So, why did you come to Chicago? 948 01:01:23.430 --> 01:01:25.970 - To try and make a difference. - Mm-hmm. 949 01:01:27.225 --> 01:01:28.805 Thought I would, too. 950 01:01:28.894 --> 01:01:32.901 I thought maybe I'd work civil cases, 951 01:01:32.981 --> 01:01:35.611 help women, empower them. 952 01:01:37.778 --> 01:01:42.120 Being at that meeting today aroused some of those old dreams. 953 01:01:43.241 --> 01:01:44.991 Lit some kind of fire. 954 01:01:46.370 --> 01:01:48.790 But those last couple years, 955 01:01:48.872 --> 01:01:53.126 the corporate firms descend upon the campus like a pack of wolves. 956 01:01:54.211 --> 01:01:56.211 And they're so appealing. 957 01:01:57.631 --> 01:02:02.465 I wanted to be in a position to pay off my loans, pay my folks back. 958 01:02:03.011 --> 01:02:04.261 Live a little. 959 01:02:05.138 --> 01:02:06.428 Enjoy life. 960 01:02:06.515 --> 01:02:07.765 There's nothing wrong with that. 961 01:02:08.558 --> 01:02:11.098 There's nothing wrong with it until there is. 962 01:02:11.186 --> 01:02:12.726 Yeah. I know what you mean. 963 01:02:14.898 --> 01:02:17.188 I feel like something else is pulling at me. 964 01:02:17.776 --> 01:02:19.316 I wonder if I can write books, 965 01:02:19.403 --> 01:02:23.201 or hold a position of influence in civil rights. 966 01:02:23.281 --> 01:02:25.531 - Politics? - Maybe. 967 01:02:28.662 --> 01:02:30.622 I just wanna do more. 968 01:02:31.498 --> 01:02:33.038 Yeah, so do I. 969 01:02:35.002 --> 01:02:37.342 And maybe just wanting it is enough for now. 970 01:02:43.593 --> 01:02:46.513 Whatever I end up doing, I take comfort in knowing 971 01:02:46.596 --> 01:02:48.516 I can't do much worse than my dad did. 972 01:02:51.601 --> 01:02:55.482 That doesn't sound like the same guy who gave that fancy speech earlier. 973 01:02:56.732 --> 01:02:59.782 The one who talked about letting go of judgment. 974 01:03:03.363 --> 01:03:06.413 I've noticed how you talk about your father. 975 01:03:08.035 --> 01:03:10.155 Such an angry way to live your life. 976 01:03:11.538 --> 01:03:13.168 Judging him. 977 01:03:13.248 --> 01:03:15.328 Living your life against his. 978 01:03:16.752 --> 01:03:18.802 You're still fighting him. 979 01:03:19.755 --> 01:03:21.665 But he's not here anymore. 980 01:03:24.551 --> 01:03:28.221 You said earlier you felt his life was incomplete. 981 01:03:30.348 --> 01:03:33.058 Every father's life is incomplete. 982 01:03:33.769 --> 01:03:35.479 That's why they have sons... 983 01:03:37.064 --> 01:03:38.734 to finish what they started. 984 01:03:43.070 --> 01:03:46.660 You know, my grandfather was not a very generous man. 985 01:03:47.741 --> 01:03:50.331 He could've helped my dad through college. 986 01:03:51.078 --> 01:03:54.998 But he was so terrified of getting into debt, 987 01:03:55.082 --> 01:03:57.962 he refused to lend him any money. 988 01:03:59.252 --> 01:04:02.922 So my dad had to drop out of school after a year. 989 01:04:05.008 --> 01:04:09.389 It took a while, but he forgave my grandfather. 990 01:04:12.099 --> 01:04:14.179 Then he got his job with the city... 991 01:04:16.019 --> 01:04:19.151 and he has spent the rest of his life working in that boiler room, 992 01:04:19.231 --> 01:04:23.528 making sure not to do to his kids what his father did to him. 993 01:04:26.988 --> 01:04:28.868 You have to forgive your father... 994 01:04:30.826 --> 01:04:33.366 so your anger doesn't turn you into him. 995 01:04:35.372 --> 01:04:37.332 You have to forgive him... 996 01:04:38.875 --> 01:04:41.125 so you can be better than him. 997 01:04:43.004 --> 01:04:44.974 That's what he would want. 998 01:05:07.154 --> 01:05:09.954 - Get his arm! Get his arm! - Gary, that's enough! 999 01:05:11.032 --> 01:05:13.082 Gary, that's enough, man! 1000 01:05:14.578 --> 01:05:16.538 - Gary, that's enough! - Shut up! 1001 01:05:17.247 --> 01:05:20.827 Radio Raheem! Radio Raheem! 1002 01:05:20.917 --> 01:05:22.877 - No! - Radio! 1003 01:05:24.296 --> 01:05:26.716 Radio Raheem! Radio Raheem! 1004 01:05:49.446 --> 01:05:50.606 What's the matter? 1005 01:05:50.697 --> 01:05:52.567 Be careful. I feel a riot coming on. 1006 01:05:52.657 --> 01:05:54.367 Oh! 1007 01:05:54.451 --> 01:05:56.371 - I'm gonna use the restroom. - Okay. 1008 01:06:08.215 --> 01:06:09.585 Michelle? 1009 01:06:10.217 --> 01:06:13.597 It is you. Your height gave you away. 1010 01:06:14.888 --> 01:06:16.258 Avery. 1011 01:06:17.182 --> 01:06:18.522 What are you doing here? 1012 01:06:19.517 --> 01:06:21.057 Uh... Picking up groceries. 1013 01:06:21.144 --> 01:06:23.400 What do you think? We came to the movies. 1014 01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:24.770 - You did? - Yeah. 1015 01:06:24.856 --> 01:06:27.726 We partners do that from time to time. 1016 01:06:27.817 --> 01:06:32.027 And on occasion, we bring along our wives. 1017 01:06:32.113 --> 01:06:37.286 Laura, this is Michelle Robinson, one of our more tenacious associates. 1018 01:06:37.369 --> 01:06:38.999 Michelle, this is my wife Laura. 1019 01:06:39.079 --> 01:06:40.619 So pleased to make your acquaintance. 1020 01:06:40.705 --> 01:06:41.825 Likewise. Likewise. 1021 01:06:41.915 --> 01:06:45.245 I think Avery mentions you at least a dozen times a day. 1022 01:06:46.294 --> 01:06:47.591 Are you here alone? 1023 01:06:47.671 --> 01:06:49.171 Me? Um... 1024 01:06:49.256 --> 01:06:51.626 I'm with a friend. 1025 01:06:51.716 --> 01:06:54.586 Actually, I have to go. 1026 01:06:54.678 --> 01:06:56.548 What did you think of the film? 1027 01:06:56.638 --> 01:06:58.928 What did I think? I liked it. 1028 01:06:59.015 --> 01:07:02.135 All the hoopla leading up to it, I had to see for myself. 1029 01:07:04.145 --> 01:07:06.645 - Oh, what did you think? - Compelling. 1030 01:07:06.731 --> 01:07:09.611 Though the ending was puzzling and more than a little infuriating. 1031 01:07:15.490 --> 01:07:17.329 Barack! 1032 01:07:17.409 --> 01:07:18.699 - Avery! - Wow! 1033 01:07:18.785 --> 01:07:21.285 Having a Sidley Austin reunion here. 1034 01:07:21.371 --> 01:07:23.541 We just came from a community meeting 1035 01:07:23.623 --> 01:07:25.083 that we attended as colleagues and friends, 1036 01:07:25.166 --> 01:07:27.376 and just thought it might be a good idea to stop and see the movie 1037 01:07:27.460 --> 01:07:29.550 since it's something everybody was talking about. 1038 01:07:33.091 --> 01:07:34.301 Um... 1039 01:07:34.384 --> 01:07:36.640 Thank you for that illuminating explanation. 1040 01:07:36.720 --> 01:07:39.260 Laura, this is one of our summer associates, 1041 01:07:39.347 --> 01:07:42.847 a very talented young man, Barack Obama. 1042 01:07:42.934 --> 01:07:44.314 Very pleased to make your acquaintance. 1043 01:07:44.394 --> 01:07:46.274 Pleasure's all mine. 1044 01:07:49.983 --> 01:07:51.943 So, you got around to seeing the movie, I take it? 1045 01:07:52.027 --> 01:07:52.987 Yes, yes, we did. 1046 01:07:53.069 --> 01:07:56.905 In fact, I was just explaining to Michelle how angry that ending made me. 1047 01:07:56.990 --> 01:07:59.780 Why would the delivery man have thrown the trash can 1048 01:07:59.868 --> 01:08:01.448 through his employer's window? 1049 01:08:01.536 --> 01:08:04.616 He must've known his actions would cause the mob to riot. 1050 01:08:04.706 --> 01:08:06.206 Seemed totally irrational. 1051 01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:09.250 Let me put it to you another way, Avery. 1052 01:08:09.336 --> 01:08:10.706 I'm all ears. 1053 01:08:10.795 --> 01:08:13.005 If Mookie hadn't thrown the trash can, 1054 01:08:13.089 --> 01:08:15.509 maybe the crowd would've turned on Sal and his sons. 1055 01:08:15.592 --> 01:08:17.302 So instead of the store being destroyed... 1056 01:08:18.053 --> 01:08:19.723 they might be dead. 1057 01:08:19.804 --> 01:08:23.103 And Mookie knew the insurance would cover the damage to the store. 1058 01:08:23.183 --> 01:08:24.603 He was saving Sal's life. 1059 01:08:25.769 --> 01:08:28.099 I never would've considered that perspective, Barack. 1060 01:08:28.188 --> 01:08:31.068 See, that's why we need a guy like you full-time. 1061 01:08:32.359 --> 01:08:34.569 Michelle, make sure to treat him real good. 1062 01:08:34.652 --> 01:08:37.032 We want him sticking around. 1063 01:08:37.989 --> 01:08:40.239 - We'll see you both Monday. - Good night. 1064 01:08:40.325 --> 01:08:41.945 - Good night. - Night. 1065 01:08:48.583 --> 01:08:51.713 You know I only said that to make Avery feel better. 1066 01:08:51.795 --> 01:08:54.335 Mookie threw that trash can 'cause he was fucking angry. 1067 01:08:58.051 --> 01:09:00.351 What a coincidence seeing him here. 1068 01:09:01.179 --> 01:09:02.719 It's really wild. 1069 01:09:02.806 --> 01:09:06.426 It wasn't a coincidence. It was cosmic justice. 1070 01:09:07.769 --> 01:09:10.439 I knew damn well going out with you was the wrong thing to do. 1071 01:09:10.522 --> 01:09:11.522 Pun intended. 1072 01:09:11.606 --> 01:09:13.896 And don't even try to convince me otherwise, Barack, 1073 01:09:13.983 --> 01:09:16.783 because there is nothing you can say. 1074 01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:19.279 Nothing? 1075 01:09:19.364 --> 01:09:22.577 I can't tell you that Avery doesn't give a hoot about seeing the two of us out? 1076 01:09:22.659 --> 01:09:24.699 "Make sure to treat him real good." 1077 01:09:25.286 --> 01:09:28.326 That was not okay, Barack, by any measure. 1078 01:09:29.040 --> 01:09:30.628 It was smarmy. 1079 01:09:30.708 --> 01:09:33.208 You don't think that was laced with anything? 1080 01:09:33.294 --> 01:09:35.964 You don't think he meant anything by that? 1081 01:09:37.257 --> 01:09:39.257 Maybe he did. So what? 1082 01:09:40.802 --> 01:09:44.257 First thing Monday morning he is gonna spread this juicy little anecdote 1083 01:09:44.347 --> 01:09:47.057 around the office like wildfire. 1084 01:09:47.142 --> 01:09:48.229 You know, none of this would've happened 1085 01:09:48.309 --> 01:09:50.899 if you had just respected the boundaries I laid out. 1086 01:09:50.979 --> 01:09:52.519 But you refused. 1087 01:09:52.605 --> 01:09:55.435 You didn't respect our working relationship. 1088 01:09:55.525 --> 01:09:57.605 And now that's all there's going to be. 1089 01:11:00.590 --> 01:11:02.510 I don't want any... 1090 01:13:18.895 --> 01:13:21.435 It's pretty good. 1091 01:13:21.522 --> 01:13:22.772 You want some? 1092 01:13:24.317 --> 01:13:25.897 Sure. 1093 01:16:48.396 --> 01:16:54.526 # What goes underneath your armor # 1094 01:16:54.610 --> 01:16:59.118 # Underneath your clothes # 1095 01:16:59.198 --> 01:17:03.368 # Do you know? # 1096 01:17:04.704 --> 01:17:08.834 # Let's find out together # 1097 01:17:08.916 --> 01:17:14.586 # Let's find what we're looking for # 1098 01:17:15.756 --> 01:17:19.006 # We'll explore # 1099 01:17:20.678 --> 01:17:25.058 # Leave your house of mirrors # 1100 01:17:25.141 --> 01:17:28.191 # Hear me out # 1101 01:17:29.186 --> 01:17:32.816 # Fear no consequence # 1102 01:17:32.899 --> 01:17:36.859 # Forget your doubts # 1103 01:17:39.322 --> 01:17:43.582 # I don't know where the road leads # 1104 01:17:47.413 --> 01:17:52.843 # You don't know if I'll break your heart # 1105 01:17:55.588 --> 01:18:00.548 # We don't know how the winds will blow # 1106 01:18:00.635 --> 01:18:04.175 # And we won't know # 1107 01:18:04.263 --> 01:18:08.229 # We won't go # 1108 01:18:08.309 --> 01:18:12.939 # Unless we start # 1109 01:18:15.775 --> 01:18:20.905 # Ooh, start # 1110 01:18:25.910 --> 01:18:29.709 # Fall into the sea # 1111 01:18:29.789 --> 01:18:34.088 # Of possibility # 1112 01:18:34.168 --> 01:18:36.878 # And hope # 1113 01:18:36.963 --> 01:18:41.303 # Letting go # 1114 01:18:42.301 --> 01:18:46.011 # Float away with me # 1115 01:18:46.097 --> 01:18:52.647 # Until we can't see any coast # 1116 01:18:53.396 --> 01:18:57.646 # That we know # 1117 01:18:58.526 --> 01:19:02.276 # Hold on tight until # 1118 01:19:02.363 --> 01:19:06.579 # We become one # 1119 01:19:06.659 --> 01:19:09.869 # Find our island # 1120 01:19:09.954 --> 01:19:14.714 # Underneath the sun # 1121 01:19:17.003 --> 01:19:21.173 # I don't know where the road leads # 1122 01:19:24.802 --> 01:19:30.392 # You don't know if I'll break your heart # 1123 01:19:32.852 --> 01:19:38.110 # And we don't know how the winds will blow # 1124 01:19:38.190 --> 01:19:42.030 # And we won't know # 1125 01:19:42.111 --> 01:19:46.160 # We won't go # 1126 01:19:46.240 --> 01:19:50.330 # Unless we start # 1127 01:19:52.121 --> 01:19:55.961 # Ooh # 1128 01:19:56.042 --> 01:19:58.632 # Start # 1129 01:19:59.086 --> 01:20:01.506 # Yeah # 1130 01:20:04.633 --> 01:20:08.349 # Our beloved beside us # 1131 01:20:08.429 --> 01:20:12.478 # All you want to give up # 1132 01:20:12.558 --> 01:20:19.818 # Only happens if we let it live # 1133 01:20:21.734 --> 01:20:26.244 # And I don't know where the road leads # 1134 01:20:27.198 --> 01:20:30.078 # Ooh # 1135 01:20:30.159 --> 01:20:35.159 # You don't know if I'll break your heart # 1136 01:20:38.250 --> 01:20:43.210 # We don't know how the winds will blow # 1137 01:20:43.297 --> 01:20:46.757 # And we won't know # 1138 01:20:47.426 --> 01:20:51.216 # We won't go # 1139 01:20:51.305 --> 01:20:56.015 # Unless we start # 1140 01:20:57.603 --> 01:21:00.313 # Ooh # 1141 01:21:00.397 --> 01:21:03.647 # Start # 1142 01:21:04.610 --> 01:21:06.449 # Yeah # 1143 01:21:06.529 --> 01:21:12.279 # Oh, unless we start # 1144 01:21:12.368 --> 01:21:14.748 # Ooh # 1145 01:21:15.496 --> 01:21:19.746 # Oh, start # 1146 01:21:20.709 --> 01:21:23.209 # Yeah # 1147 01:21:24.505 --> 01:21:30.085 # Unless we start # 1147 01:21:31.305 --> 01:21:37.490 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/rafb Help other users to choose the best subtitles