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[Roger Ross Williams]
Can you please tell me,

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what is wrong with Black people?

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What is wrong with Black people?

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[laughs]

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What is wrong with Black people?

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Okay, what do you mean by that?

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What is wrong with Black people?

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[bell tolls at intervals]

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-[explosion crackling]
-[distant screaming]

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-[chains clanking]
-[panting]

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[gavel banging]

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[Kendi] In 1860,

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Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis,

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on the floor of the US Senate,

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opposed a bill
funding education for Black people.

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To justify this,

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he made up this story
he said was from the Bible.

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[wind blowing]

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[Kendi] In this made-up fairy tale,

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when Cain was exiled
from the Garden of Eden,

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he comes across the Land of Nod.

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[insects chirping]

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[Kendi] And in this Land of Nod,
according to Senator Davis,

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were the animals and beasts

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that were created before humans,
before Adam and Eve.

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[hissing]

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[growling]

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[tense music playing]

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[Kendi] And among these beasts,

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was a particular animal-like group,
with darker skin.

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[low growling]

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[Kendi] Senator Davis
was talking about Black people.

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"Black inferiority is the will of God,"
he said, "as confirmed by history."

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That's the story that Senator Davis told.

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The same Senator Davis who would go on

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to become the president
of the Confederate States of America

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to justify this idea that the inequality
between the Black and white races

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was "stamped from the beginning."

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["On the Run" by Craig Craig playing]

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[Dr. Carol Anderson] What happens
when we tell these stories, these myths,

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about who Black people are,

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and what their role
in American society is?

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These stories that are all about
what's wrong with Black people

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become part
of the background understandings

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that help to then spread ideas,
false ideas, about Black people.

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[Dr. Imani Perry] We need to look
at our history with a sober perspective.

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There's a real battle,

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and it's a meaningful battle over ideas.

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[laughing]

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[Brittany Packnett Cunningham]
So the question is,

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how are we intentionally questioning
what is being given to us,

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and what we are ingesting?

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Because somebody is designing it.

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Are they designing it
for our benefit or for theirs?

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["On the Run" continues playing]

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[ocean waves lapping]

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["Cold Little Heart"
by Michael Kiwanuka playing]

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[ship creaking]

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[grunting]

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[clamoring]

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[screaming]

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[screaming]

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[splash]

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[screaming continues]

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["Cold Little Heart" continues playing]

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[thunderclap]

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[Honorée Fanonne Jeffers]
When we look at race,

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we have to look at the fact
that race has not always been a given.

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[evocative music playing]

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[Jeffers] We came across that water,
and we were Fula,

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we were Igbo, we were Yoruba, Wolof.

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We were Mandinka.

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But somewhere across the Atlantic,

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we became one community.

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[evocative music continues]

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Often times we assume that race
is only about the color of one's skin,

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the grade of one's hair, or whatever.

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It is about slavery.

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[somber music playing]

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I think it's important for people to know
that the original "slave,"

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when people thought about that--
that original slave,

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it wasn't people who look like me.

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The Western European slave market

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had been dominated for hundreds of years
by Eastern European Slavs.

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The root for the term slave is Slav.

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So why suddenly,

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are we primarily enslaving,
you know, African people?

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[introspective music playing]

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[Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan]
We need to remember that slavery,

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it's a piece of human history.

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Humans enslave each other.

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They have for as long as there have been
empires and states and war,

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but something different happens in 1444.

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It's the moment in which
the first large cargo of captives,

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who are captured
by the Portuguese in Senegambia,

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are brought to Portugal to be sold.

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That, for me,

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is the beginning of what becomes
the transatlantic slave trade.

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[rhythmic, tense music playing]

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[Kendi] Prince Henry of Portugal

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saw the value of African people
in Western European slave markets.

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They were more valuable
than Eastern European Slavs

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because it was harder for them
to run away.

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It was harder for them
to blend in to the population.

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And so he financed
expeditions to the source.

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[Lynae Vanee]
When Prince Henry rode up on Africa,

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there was an opportunity
for him to take something.

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There was a method that he used
to get what he wanted,

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and it worked.

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[tense music continues]

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[Kendi] Prince Henry didn't want to admit

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that he was violently and brutally
enslaving African people to make money.

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And so he dispatched a royal chronicler
by the name of Gomes Zurara,

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to write his story.

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[somber music playing]

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[Kendi] Gomes Zurara
justified his slave trading

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by stating that Prince Henry
was doing it to save souls,

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and that these people in Africa
were inferior, were beast-like.

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[animal roar]

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[Zurara] They have lived like beasts

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without any custom of reasonable beings.

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They have no understanding of good,

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but only know
how to live in a bestial sloth.

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[tense music playing]

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[Kendi] Gomes Zurara's book

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wasn't just the first major text
by a European written in Africa,

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it also became a bestseller.

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These racist ideas
of African people as beastly

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started circulating around Western Europe.

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[Dr. Autumn Womack] The work
is naturalizing these racial hierarchies.

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They're indoctrinating us.

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I mean, that's how popular culture works,
and that's how power works, right?

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We don't realize it's working
until it's done its job.

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[Jeffers] In order for you to do that
and to make yourself feel good about it,

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you've got to come up with a reason
why it was okay.

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Otherwise,

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what you have is brutality,
you have theft,

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you have murder, you have rape.

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Nobody wants
to think of themselves that way.

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Okay?

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[Kendi] Gomes Zurara wrote

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that people with different skin colors,
and different languages,

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and different cultures
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were one people.

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One Black people.

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One Black people worthy of enslavement.

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[introspective music playing]

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["Get Over Here" by Major Babe,
feat. Jayy Starr playing]

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[man 1] The Blackness.

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-[man 2] What's wrong with them?
-[man 1] The Blackness.

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[screeching]

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[man 3] Nobody in the town
has any use for 'em.

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Nobody likes 'em. Nobody wants 'em.

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Some niggers are clean and some aren't.

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I wished I had some chicken.

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[man 4] The Negro in this country today
stands for venereal disease,

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prostitution,

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the numbers racket,

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and crime.

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♪ Talk that talk ♪

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♪ Back that up… ♪

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[angry woman] Wetback, sand nigger,
motherfucking cocksucking bitch!

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Go back where you came from!

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[man, offscreen]
Look at what you're doing!

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This is my neighborhood…

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-[man, filming] Okay. Victims.
-You brought these people who are crazy.

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[man, offscreen] You're-- Look, look. Hey.

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-[angry man] Get that fucking--
-[man, filming] Dude. Seriously?

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[angry man]
Get the fuck out of my building.

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I'm calling the cops.

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[woman] This is happening
'cause we're Black.

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What are we, as people,
going to do about our Blackness?

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Hide it?

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Somebody told a lie one day.

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They made everything Black ugly and evil!

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Look in your dictionary
and see the synonyms of the word "black."

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♪ Grab the mirror
Look at you, ooh, ooh ♪

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[music stops]

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[Kendi] Gomes Zurara invented Blackness.

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But he didn't necessarily
create whiteness.

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And whiteness as a construct

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really didn't start to emerge
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and certainly the 1600s.

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[distant music playing]

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[Dr. Brittney Cooper] In the early days
of the slave trade here in the US,

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Black people
weren't the only enslaved people.

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We had indentured servants from Europe,
who were trying to make their way,

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and they lived in conditions
that were just one step above slavery.

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[whip crack]

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[unsettling music playing]

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[man chuckles]

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[Dr. Dorothy Roberts] One of the greatest
fears of white landowners

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was that white indentured servants
and Black enslaved people

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would come together
in their common interest

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to fight against the white elite.

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And it became clear
that this was a real possibility

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during an incident called
Bacon's Rebellion,

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when Black people
and white people joined together

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to revolt against white landowners.

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[tense music playing]

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[percussive music echoing]

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-[music stops]
-[fire roars]

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["Welcome to the Terrordome"
by Public Enemy plays]

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[in unison] War!

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♪ This is a journey ♪

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♪ Journey ♪

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♪ Journey into sound ♪

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[James Baldwin]
But it's not a matter of my liberation.

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It's also a matter of yours.

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If you're working--
we're working together,

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it's not because we're gonna do something
for poor Black people.

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We're gonna do something for each other.

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♪ I got so much trouble on my mind,
Refuse to lose ♪

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♪ Here's your ticket,
Hear the drummer get wicked ♪

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♪ The crew to you
To push the back… ♪

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[protester] It's really sad to see that

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there's people who are hindering
the development and the progress

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that this country can find
if we just unite together

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and utilize diversity as our--
as our instrumental key.

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Whether you're from the south,
north, east or west,

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whether you're a Negro,
hillbilly or a Yankee,

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we're gonna stand here and fight together.

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♪ …X on the flex, hit me now ♪

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["Fight the Power" by Public Enemy plays]

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♪ Fight the power! Fight the power! ♪

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[William Bouie Haden] Is it too much
to ask you to grant us human dignity?

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What the hell do you think
we care about dying

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if you're going to deny us
the right to live?

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[Kendi] Bacon's Rebellion
was able at one point

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to topple the capital of Virginia,

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It scared
wealthy white enslavers to death.

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[unsettling music playing]

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[Kendi] They saw that unity

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between white indentured servants
and enslaved Africans,

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you know, as their Armageddon.

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[Roberts] That made it very clear
to white landowners

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that they needed to invest more

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in separating indentured servants
and enslaved people.

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They created a whole legal apparatus

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to give indentured servants privileges

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by the fact that they were white,

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that Black people couldn't have.

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[Kendi] Ultimately, some of those
white indentured servants

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were able to work out their indenture.

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And then they were able to receive land

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and to make money.

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And then the money
they were able to acquire,

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allowed them to buy one of the very people

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that were involved,
side-by-side with them,

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for Bacon's Rebellion.

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And then they could turn around
and say to their former comrade,

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"You're in your position
and I'm in my position,

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not because of racist policies."

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"You're in your position
because you're inferior."

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[ominous music playing]

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They want to throw
white children and colored children

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into the melting pot of integration,

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out of which will come a conglomerated,
mulatto, mongrel class of people!

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Both races will be destroyed
in such a movement.

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America was built by and for

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the white Christian people of this nation!

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[chanting]

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[chanting continues] USA! USA!

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[Donald Trump] This is not just
a matter of values,

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it's also a matter of national survival.

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We have no choice.

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If we teach our children to hate America,

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there will be no one left
to defend our flag,

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or to protect our great country
or its freedom.

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[audience cheers]

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[Roberts]
This is the beginning of the idea

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that whiteness itself
is a benefit, is a privilege,

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is a status that white people
should want to have

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to the disadvantage of Black people.

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[tense music playing]

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-[woman 1] White people.
-[man 1] The white people.

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[man 2] Equal rights for whites.

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[woman 2] They'd all belong
to the white man.

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[man 3] The white man, who else?

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[man 4] White majority.

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[man 5] We are white
and we are proud of being white.

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[woman 3] I'm white!

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[tense music continues]

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[Roberts] Whiteness is an idea

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of who is entitled
to certain privileges in a society.

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[inaudible]

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[Perry] Whiteness keeps you
from being at the bottom,

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even when you're poor,
even when you're broke,

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even when you're dispossessed.

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It's something that has been
really a core part

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of what I think
white American identity is.

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There's something that you always know
you have over other people.

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[Cunningham] Once upon a time,
if you were Polish and you came here,

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you weren't white, you were Polish.

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If you were Italian and you came here,
you weren't white, you were Italian.

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But somewhere along the line,
folks figured out,

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"Hey, if we link arms
under this umbrella of whiteness,

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then we can protect
our collective interest

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and make sure
nobody has access to our power."

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[Kendi] What whiteness does,
is it blinds them

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to see who the real robbers are.

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[Roberts] The people who actually benefit

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are a small group of wealthy, white elite

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that continues to accumulate
its wealth and power

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on the backs of everybody else.

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[chanting] Hear our voice! Hear our voice!

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[Kendi] You have white folks
who are struggling economically,

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and they think the source of their pain

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is people who don't look like them.

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[chanting] Niggers go to hell!

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Niggers go to hell!

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[protester] We don't need outsiders
helping us with our problems.

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We've been doing good
all these years we've been here,

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and we'll keep doing good enough.

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And we'll stay white, period.

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[chanting] You will not replace us!

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You will not replace us!

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[Vanee] Race is not a thing.
Race is not scientifically proven.

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You cannot trace
somebody's race in their DNA,

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but it has so many real
social ramifications

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because of the amount of people
who have bought into the myth.

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[atmospheric music playing]

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[interviewer] Do you think a Negro family
moving here will affect the community?

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Some of them, they're real dirty.

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But I wouldn't mind it if, you know,
they kept the neighborhood clean.

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Well, it just depends
upon that type of Negro.

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If they were like the, uh,
Negro that works for me,

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a fine, upstanding woman
who is proud of being a nigger,

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proud of her race, clean and industrious,

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no, I would not mind.

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[Cunningham] There is…

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a temporary prize

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that whiteness loves to dangle
in front of the rest of us.

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Temporary prize
of acceptance, of upliftment.

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If you go to the right schools
and you speak the King's English,

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and you never step out of line
and you tell the truth,

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but never too much truth
to make whiteness uncomfortable.

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If you are just the right kind of Negro.

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[propulsive music playing]

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Let me put it to you this way.

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We are proud of being Black

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and of our Black Heritage.

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But white America
does not accept the concept

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that this is a multiracial society.

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They've always looked upon America
as being white,

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and hence, all of its propaganda
is directed at us, to convince us

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that somehow we must become white
before they will accept us.

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There's no other way to think.
I can't think African. Can't think Irish.

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I can't think Norwegian.

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I have to think within the struct--

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the society in which I live,
which is a white society.

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Does it bother you
to be called African-American?

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-It does because I'm a Cablinasian.
-[Oprah] A Cablinasian.

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[Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson]
Assimilationist ideas are problematic

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because it compels you
to sort of shape-shift

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into something
that white people can approve of,

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that white people
won't feel threatened by,

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that white people can feel,
sort of safe in.

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"Why can't you just be white?"
You know? "Just assimilate."

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If you are Black and living
a contemporary Black experience,

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you probably have code switched
at some point in time.

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Hey, youngblood, lemme give you a tip.

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Use your white voice.

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Man, I ain't got no white voice.

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Come on, you know what I mean.

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You have a white voice in there,
you can use it.

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I'm just trying to give you some game.

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[Dr. Ruha Benjamin] An assimilationist
still adheres to the idea

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that a racialized group needs to change.

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"They need to work harder,
they need to value education,

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they need to take care
about their health more."

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[Womack] It's a different iteration
of inferiority,

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that there's no value
in what you have to offer.

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You either have
to assimilate into this way,

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or we need to create something different,
a different infrastructure,

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to account for your problematic presence.

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A high school senior was told
he can't walk the stage for graduation

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or even return to normal classes
unless he cuts his dreadlocks.

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There's an element
of being a progressive in that,

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because you believe people can change.

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-Brothers should pull up their pants.
-Just pull up their pants.

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You're walking by your mother,
your grandmother.

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Have some sense and--
and respect for other people.

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[Don Lemon] Pay attention,

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and think about what has been presented
in recent history as acceptable behavior.

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[Benjamin] That's the refrain we hear,
whether it's in 2021 or in 1821.

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"There's something in you,
either in your body or in your culture,

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that is producing
the difference we're looking at."

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Who taught you to hate
the texture of your hair?

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Who taught you to hate
the color of your skin to such extent

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that you bleach to get like the white man?

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[audience murmurs]

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Who taught you to hate
the shape of your nose

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and the shape of your lips?

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Who taught you to hate yourself

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from the top of your head
to the soles of your feet?

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[tense music playing]

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[Morgan] In the 18th century,

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European and American philosophers
are arguing

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that Black people should only be working.

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That Black bodies
are only good for brute labor

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because the highest form
of human expression is European,

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and the lowest form is African.

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That the only place where good art
and higher thinking is happening,

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is in Europe
or among people of European descent.

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They are so accustomed to the stories
they've been telling about Black people,

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that they literally cannot imagine
that a Black woman could produce art.

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["Black Woman" by Emanuel playing]

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♪ Cocoa-butter kisses ♪

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♪ Wipe my tears away… ♪

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[Phillis Wheatley]
I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate

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Was snatch'd from Afric's
fancy'd happy seat

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♪ …when you've got nothing
To smile about ♪

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[Wheatley] What pangs excruciating
must molest

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What sorrows labor in my parents' breast?

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♪ Black woman ♪

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♪ Sometimes ♪

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♪ Sad woman ♪

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[Jeffers] Phillis Wheatley
was the first Black woman

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to publish a book of poetry
in North America.

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♪ Why are you so displaced? ♪

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It was a shock to everyone.

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It shook up notions about Africans

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and their intellectual capabilities.

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There was something about poetry,

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which was a fine art,

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which meant Africans
could experience emotions

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beyond the trifling.

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♪ Sing your praise without knowing… ♪

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[Kendi] But, of course,
you had some people that were like,

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"Those poems couldn't have been written
by this Black girl."

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"That's-- that's crazy.
That is just impossible."

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And so as a result,

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a group of prominent Boston white men

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gathered together to investigate,

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and they brought
Phillis Wheatley before them

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to really ascertain whether she actually
was the one who wrote those poems.

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[unsettling music playing]

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-[bang on desk]
-[bell tolling]

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[coughing]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Morgan] In that interrogation,

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she's being asked to prove

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that she is more
than what these white men see her as,

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which is as just a Black woman.

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Just a slave.

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[sinuous music playing]

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[Morgan] It sets an example,
both of the need for Black women

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to constantly prove worth,

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but it also sets this kind of presumption

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that white men have the right
to ask you to prove your worth.

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[Jeffers] Every Black woman
has a Phillis Wheatley moment.

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[introspective music playing]

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[Jeffers] The most painful moment

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was a colleague of mine who said,

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"I'm concerned sometimes
about you, when you speak,

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because you sound ignorant."

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00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:49,644
"And you're African-American,

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so I just don't want people
to make assumptions about you."

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And I said,

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"Let me tell you one…"
insert expletive, "…thing."

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"Any…" insert expletive,
"…that wants to pull my card,

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all I have to do
is throw my resume at their feet."

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["Rebel" by Kelsey Lu playing]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[man] We whose names are underwritten,

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do assure the world that the poems
specified on the following page,

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were, as we verily believe,
written by Phillis,

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a young Negro girl,
who was but a few years since,

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brought an uncultivated barbarian
from Africa.

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♪ Rebel was your middle name ♪

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♪ When you were a young girl ♪

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[Jeffers] When we look
at Phillis Wheatley's poetry,

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she is pushing back

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against this attitude
that she is less than.

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♪ Times have really, really changed ♪

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♪ Changed ♪

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She thought there was
nothing wrong with her.

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♪ You don't really get to walk away… ♪

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[Morgan] What Phillis Wheatley is doing,
is very dangerous.

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00:30:20,735 --> 00:30:24,280
I mean, what's at stake
is the entire colonial economy.

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It needs Black labor.

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That's what it needs.
It does not need or want Black art.

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♪ Is it always gonna stay the same… ♪

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00:30:33,122 --> 00:30:36,376
[Morgan] "If we concede
that Black women can produce art,

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what else do we have to concede?"

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♪ …do you? ♪

490
00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:48,596
♪ Who will be the ones
To walk away with you? ♪

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00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,516
♪ Time should really, really change ♪

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♪ Change ♪

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00:30:54,435 --> 00:31:00,483
♪ Yet they always stay
The same way to you ♪

494
00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:06,281
♪ You don't really get
To walk away, do you? ♪

495
00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:12,787
♪ Who will be the ones
To walk away with you? ♪

496
00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:17,417
[music fades]

497
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,628
[Sonia Sanchez]
You, enigmatic woman exploding

498
00:31:20,712 --> 00:31:26,801
From clouds and intestines, riverbanks,
kneecaps, veins and horizons

499
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:29,220
Tongues embroidered with eyelashes

500
00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,347
You burn in my throat

501
00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:33,099
I walk your footsteps
Singing

502
00:31:33,182 --> 00:31:35,018
You are here, you are there

503
00:31:35,101 --> 00:31:36,895
You will never go away

504
00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:41,316
["Away Away" by Ibeyi]
♪ Away, away… ♪

505
00:31:41,399 --> 00:31:44,402
[Sanchez] I know you butterfly sweet

506
00:31:44,485 --> 00:31:46,571
Your lips taste of the sea

507
00:31:46,654 --> 00:31:48,823
The years dusty with herstory

508
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,825
Anticipate light

509
00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:52,702
Your hands riot with pain

510
00:31:52,785 --> 00:31:54,329
Collapse in new prayer

511
00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:55,872
Touch this Western stained

512
00:31:55,955 --> 00:31:59,792
Glass where ghosts
commit themselves to military blood

513
00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:03,463
If we merge mercy with might

514
00:32:03,546 --> 00:32:05,214
And might with right

515
00:32:05,798 --> 00:32:09,135
Then love becomes our legacy

516
00:32:09,218 --> 00:32:13,097
And change our children's birthright

517
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:15,433
So let us leave behind a country

518
00:32:15,516 --> 00:32:17,602
Better than the one we were left with

519
00:32:17,685 --> 00:32:20,104
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest

520
00:32:20,188 --> 00:32:23,691
We will raise this wounded world
into a wondrous one

521
00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:27,236
We will rise
from the gold-limbed hills of the west

522
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,614
We will rise from the windswept northeast

523
00:32:29,697 --> 00:32:32,408
Where our forefathers
first realized revolution

524
00:32:32,492 --> 00:32:36,412
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities
of the Midwestern states

525
00:32:36,496 --> 00:32:38,373
We will rise from the sun-baked south

526
00:32:38,456 --> 00:32:39,666
We will rebuild

527
00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:42,585
Seventy years in these folks' world

528
00:32:43,670 --> 00:32:47,006
The child I works for calls me "girl"

529
00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:51,135
I say "Ha! Ha! Ha! Yes ma'am!"

530
00:32:52,178 --> 00:32:53,429
For workin's sake

531
00:32:54,347 --> 00:32:57,141
I’m too proud to bend and
Too poor to break

532
00:32:57,850 --> 00:32:59,686
So [chuckles]

533
00:32:59,769 --> 00:33:00,645
I laugh!

534
00:33:02,021 --> 00:33:03,439
Until my stomach ache

535
00:33:04,607 --> 00:33:06,150
When I think about myself

536
00:33:07,151 --> 00:33:09,904
My folks can make me split my side

537
00:33:10,697 --> 00:33:12,198
I laugh so hard

538
00:33:12,281 --> 00:33:13,157
[laughs]

539
00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:14,826
I nearly died

540
00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:19,372
The tales they tell sound just like lying

541
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:22,375
They grow the fruit but eat the rind

542
00:33:22,959 --> 00:33:24,460
[soft chuckle]

543
00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:25,378
I laugh

544
00:33:25,461 --> 00:33:26,713
[laughs]

545
00:33:27,714 --> 00:33:29,173
Until I start to cry

546
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:31,801
When I think about myself

547
00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:36,597
It could and did derive
From living on the ledge of death

548
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:39,100
They kept my race alive

549
00:33:39,183 --> 00:33:40,435
By wearing the mask!

550
00:33:40,518 --> 00:33:44,355
[laughs]

551
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,027
[gasps]

552
00:33:54,407 --> 00:33:57,577
[mournful choral music playing]

553
00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:08,880
[Jeffers] When we think
about white supremacy,

554
00:34:08,963 --> 00:34:11,215
when we think about racism,

555
00:34:11,299 --> 00:34:13,176
when you pull back the curtain,

556
00:34:13,259 --> 00:34:15,636
you see the filth.

557
00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:20,975
[choral music continues]

558
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:25,396
There is a myth
about the founding of this country.

559
00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:34,155
People want to erase American history
as it truly was.

560
00:34:37,241 --> 00:34:40,286
White supremacy has been embedded

561
00:34:40,953 --> 00:34:44,707
in this country since its founding.

562
00:34:44,791 --> 00:34:47,168
[ominous music playing]

563
00:34:49,003 --> 00:34:51,756
[sighs] You really want
to talk about Thomas Jefferson?

564
00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:53,591
Okay.

565
00:34:53,674 --> 00:34:56,177
Thomas "Contradiction" Jefferson.
[chuckles]

566
00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:58,763
There are few people I despise more.

567
00:35:01,974 --> 00:35:03,184
[chuckling] Thomas Je--

568
00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:05,895
Thomas Jefferson…

569
00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:09,440
[laughs]

570
00:35:09,524 --> 00:35:11,275
Thomas Jefferson was full of shit.

571
00:35:12,610 --> 00:35:19,033
He was someone who was very well aware
of the atrocities that existed in slavery.

572
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:23,746
He wasn't willing to let go of that divide
because of what slavery did for…

573
00:35:25,164 --> 00:35:26,082
for him.

574
00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:32,338
[Kendi] On the one hand,
he opposed slavery.

575
00:35:33,089 --> 00:35:36,092
But then on the other hand,
he opposed abolition.

576
00:35:37,593 --> 00:35:42,682
And so he would speak out against slavery,
particularly earlier in his career.

577
00:35:43,724 --> 00:35:47,937
He'd also speak out against people
trying to bring the end of slavery!

578
00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:53,609
[Anderson] That's the paradox
that sits right at the core of America.

579
00:35:54,652 --> 00:35:57,280
You say freedom, but you're an enslaver.

580
00:35:57,363 --> 00:36:00,867
You see, I must write
the Declaration of Independence.

581
00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:03,703
[Vanee] As kids, we're taught
to love Thomas Jefferson,

582
00:36:03,786 --> 00:36:07,665
because of all he did for this country,
but he's a villain to somebody.

583
00:36:07,748 --> 00:36:08,791
Mr. Jefferson…

584
00:36:08,875 --> 00:36:11,210
[Vanee] When we only talk
about one side of it,

585
00:36:11,294 --> 00:36:12,920
that villainhood is erased…

586
00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:17,341
So Thomas Jefferson
is still highly romanticized.

587
00:36:18,467 --> 00:36:20,011
[Jefferson] What's the matter?

588
00:36:21,470 --> 00:36:22,889
Master, I'm scared.

589
00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:25,016
Of what?

590
00:36:27,810 --> 00:36:29,645
[Jefferson] Interracial mixing

591
00:36:29,729 --> 00:36:33,399
is a degradation to which
no lover of his country,

592
00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:36,027
no lover of excellence
of the human character,

593
00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:37,904
can innocently consent.

594
00:36:38,487 --> 00:36:41,407
To this, I have a great aversion.

595
00:36:42,658 --> 00:36:45,036
[unsettling music playing]

596
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:50,333
Thomas Jefferson
spoke so poorly on Black women,

597
00:36:50,416 --> 00:36:52,960
talking about how unattractive they were.

598
00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:56,047
I think at one point
he likened them to orangutans.

599
00:36:56,130 --> 00:36:57,965
But he couldn't get enough
of Sally Hemings.

600
00:36:58,049 --> 00:37:00,426
How many children
did he have by that woman?

601
00:37:00,509 --> 00:37:02,094
He consistently…

602
00:37:04,263 --> 00:37:05,473
raped

603
00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:09,810
Sally Hemings, who was a teenage slave.

604
00:37:12,146 --> 00:37:14,315
That's Thomas Jefferson.

605
00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:18,194
Espousing the language of democracy,

606
00:37:18,861 --> 00:37:21,822
while he is breeding

607
00:37:22,657 --> 00:37:24,784
property for Monticello.

608
00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:28,496
[unsettling music playing]

609
00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:36,212
[Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers]
These white men, like Jefferson,

610
00:37:36,295 --> 00:37:39,757
rationalized sexual violence
perpetrated against Black women

611
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,385
by saying that
it wasn't sexual violence at all.

612
00:37:42,468 --> 00:37:45,763
["Introvert" by Little Simz playing]

613
00:37:53,980 --> 00:37:57,066
[Roberts] One of the most powerful myths
about Black women

614
00:37:57,149 --> 00:37:59,485
that came out of the slavery era,

615
00:37:59,568 --> 00:38:02,196
was the icon of the Black Jezebel.

616
00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:05,700
This was supposed to be a Black woman

617
00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:09,495
who was completely controlled
by her sexual appetites.

618
00:38:09,578 --> 00:38:14,417
She was innately predisposed
to always be hypersexual,

619
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:16,544
and want to engage with sex.

620
00:38:16,627 --> 00:38:20,089
["Introvert" continues playing]

621
00:38:22,758 --> 00:38:26,220
[Dr. Racquel Gates] If you take that
as fact, who does it let off the hook?

622
00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:31,767
What types of experiences
does it allow us to overlook or to ignore?

623
00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:39,942
[Roberts] This was an excuse
for white men's rape of enslaved women.

624
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,655
[woman] Oh, stop it!

625
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:46,741
Oh!

626
00:38:49,243 --> 00:38:50,077
[growls]

627
00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:54,123
[Jones-Rogers] By constructing Black women
as promiscuous, they can say,

628
00:38:54,874 --> 00:38:56,834
"Well, they wanted it."

629
00:38:56,917 --> 00:39:00,629
"Well, they came on to me,
they seduced me."

630
00:39:00,713 --> 00:39:04,383
♪ I see sinners in a church
Sometimes I might be introvert ♪

631
00:39:04,467 --> 00:39:08,637
[Gates] That is a trope
in American popular culture,

632
00:39:08,721 --> 00:39:11,891
that has become so part of the fabric,

633
00:39:11,974 --> 00:39:16,604
that I'm not even sure creators realize
that that's what they are invoking.

634
00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:21,233
We see that even with the way that people
talk about Black girls as being "fast."

635
00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:25,321
[woman] If you feel you've been harassed,
you cannot send mixed signals

636
00:39:25,404 --> 00:39:28,032
and I think that's
one of the problems in this area.

637
00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:30,951
It's not just men's behavior,
it's also women's behavior.

638
00:39:31,035 --> 00:39:32,578
♪ …when your grandma died ♪

639
00:39:32,661 --> 00:39:35,081
♪ I see the illness eat my aunt
Laying in her bed ♪

640
00:39:35,164 --> 00:39:38,417
♪ I see her soul rising
As her body gets closer to death ♪

641
00:39:42,088 --> 00:39:47,385
We have to understand that sexual violence
was fundamental to violence of slavery.

642
00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:49,136
The culture of slavery was a violent one.

643
00:39:50,221 --> 00:39:52,556
And sexual violence
was a part of that culture.

644
00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:56,060
["Introvert" continues playing]

645
00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:02,316
[Jackson] There is no consent,
there's no ability to say no.

646
00:40:03,484 --> 00:40:08,114
You are considered unrapeable in slavery,
legally considered unrapeable.

647
00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:14,703
[Vanee] There were so many different ways
Black women were violated

648
00:40:14,787 --> 00:40:19,625
that makes their experience
as enslaved people different,

649
00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:22,878
and makes the scholarship
surrounding their struggles different.

650
00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:29,718
[Kendi] White enslavers tried to cover up
their sexual assaults of Black women,

651
00:40:29,802 --> 00:40:33,806
but one woman refused
to let her voice be silenced.

652
00:40:35,641 --> 00:40:38,018
[Jackson] Harriet Jacobs
was the first woman

653
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:41,856
to ever write her own slave narrative.

654
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:45,526
And she writes it in a way

655
00:40:45,609 --> 00:40:50,406
in which she describes
what Black enslaved mothers went through.

656
00:40:50,489 --> 00:40:53,492
[evocative music playing]

657
00:41:03,502 --> 00:41:04,712
[Harriet Jacobs] Reader,

658
00:41:05,504 --> 00:41:08,674
I draw no imaginary pictures
of Southern homes.

659
00:41:11,969 --> 00:41:16,724
Slavery is terrible for men,
but it is far more terrible for women.

660
00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:25,441
Women have wrongs and sufferings
and mortifications peculiarly their own.

661
00:41:26,775 --> 00:41:29,028
[children talking indistinctly]

662
00:41:35,284 --> 00:41:37,495
[tense music playing]

663
00:41:39,538 --> 00:41:43,417
[Jacobs] My master met me at every turn,
reminding me that I belong to him

664
00:41:44,084 --> 00:41:48,380
and swearing by Heaven and Earth
that he could compel me to submit to him.

665
00:41:48,464 --> 00:41:50,716
[ominous music playing]

666
00:41:50,799 --> 00:41:53,677
[Jacobs] He'd people my young mind
with unclean images,

667
00:41:53,761 --> 00:41:56,847
such as only a vile monster
could think of.

668
00:41:56,931 --> 00:41:58,849
[whispering] Do as I say.

669
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:04,939
[panting]

670
00:42:05,022 --> 00:42:07,942
[Jacobs] I saw a man 40 years my senior

671
00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:11,570
daily violating
the most sacred commandments of nature.

672
00:42:12,655 --> 00:42:15,032
[thunder rumbling]

673
00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:17,368
[thunderclap]

674
00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:19,995
[Jacobs] He told me I was his property.

675
00:42:21,914 --> 00:42:25,209
That I must be subject to his will
in all things.

676
00:42:25,292 --> 00:42:26,460
[panting]

677
00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:29,338
My soul revolted against the mean tyranny.

678
00:42:29,421 --> 00:42:30,756
[breathing heavily]

679
00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:33,175
But where could I turn for protection?

680
00:42:41,308 --> 00:42:43,602
[Jacobs] They would hide me in Snaky Swamp

681
00:42:44,436 --> 00:42:48,232
till my Uncle Phillip had prepared
a place of concealment for me.

682
00:42:50,359 --> 00:42:53,237
I was about to risk everything
on the throw of a die.

683
00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:55,906
And if I failed,

684
00:42:58,325 --> 00:43:01,287
what would become of me
and my poor children?

685
00:43:07,293 --> 00:43:11,338
A place of concealment had been
provided for me at my grandmother's.

686
00:43:13,674 --> 00:43:15,676
[breathing heavily]

687
00:43:17,886 --> 00:43:21,640
A small shed never occupied by anything
but rats and mice.

688
00:43:21,724 --> 00:43:23,392
[wood creaking]

689
00:43:26,145 --> 00:43:30,274
[Jacobs] I suffered for air
even more than for light.

690
00:43:31,984 --> 00:43:34,361
But I was not comfortless.

691
00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:40,284
I heard the voices of my children.

692
00:43:44,663 --> 00:43:46,457
There was joy,

693
00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:48,709
and there was sadness in the sound.

694
00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:51,962
It made my tears flow.

695
00:43:52,046 --> 00:43:54,256
[sobs softly]

696
00:43:56,592 --> 00:44:01,096
I lived in that little dismal hole
for nearly seven years.

697
00:44:08,145 --> 00:44:10,814
Reader, my story ends with freedom.

698
00:44:13,484 --> 00:44:16,654
[haunting music playing]

699
00:44:17,821 --> 00:44:22,117
[Jacobs] I have not written my experiences
in order to attract attention to myself.

700
00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:30,501
It would have been more pleasant to me
to have been silent about my own history,

701
00:44:30,584 --> 00:44:32,628
but I want to add my testimony.

702
00:44:37,132 --> 00:44:40,678
I do earnestly desire
to arouse the women of the North

703
00:44:40,761 --> 00:44:44,848
to the condition
of two million women at the South,

704
00:44:44,932 --> 00:44:46,767
still in bondage,

705
00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:48,394
suffering what I suffered.

706
00:44:50,062 --> 00:44:52,523
And most of them far worse.

707
00:44:52,606 --> 00:44:55,275
I want to convince
the people of the free states

708
00:44:55,359 --> 00:44:57,319
what slavery really is.

709
00:44:59,154 --> 00:45:02,324
[haunting music continues]

710
00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:12,251
[Jackson] The dominant
slave narratives in the United States

711
00:45:12,334 --> 00:45:14,795
was one that did not include women.

712
00:45:14,878 --> 00:45:18,757
Harriet Jacobs is the first,
and I don't think that you have

713
00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:23,011
a wave of Black women
telling their stories as enslaved women

714
00:45:23,095 --> 00:45:26,140
without Harriet Jacobs
opening up that door

715
00:45:26,223 --> 00:45:28,308
and allowing
for some of those conversations,

716
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:31,979
particularly those hard,
difficult conversations, to take place.

717
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:35,107
[pensive music playing]

718
00:45:37,317 --> 00:45:40,112
[Morgan] Jacobs telling her story
is really important,

719
00:45:40,195 --> 00:45:42,072
because if she didn't tell her story,

720
00:45:42,656 --> 00:45:48,495
we wouldn't understand the way
sexual predation was built in

721
00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:51,707
to this system
that was allegedly about work.

722
00:45:52,958 --> 00:45:57,504
And ironically, historians, they assumed
it was written by a white woman,

723
00:45:57,588 --> 00:46:01,383
by an abolitionist,
because they felt like it was too…

724
00:46:01,467 --> 00:46:05,888
[sighs] …dramatic, the story of her life,
that it couldn't have been real.

725
00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:09,475
Women like Harriet Jacobs,

726
00:46:09,558 --> 00:46:13,270
they know that the archive
is trying to eliminate them.

727
00:46:13,353 --> 00:46:17,399
They know that their stories
are not supposed to be told.

728
00:46:18,192 --> 00:46:20,402
So when they tell their story,

729
00:46:21,236 --> 00:46:23,906
it is crucial that we pay attention to it.

730
00:46:23,989 --> 00:46:27,367
[tense music playing]

731
00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:31,622
[woman 1] The creation
of a hostile environment,

732
00:46:31,705 --> 00:46:36,210
with or without physical contact,
is sexual harassment.

733
00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:41,173
[woman 2] I can't even explain
how I felt, even now.

734
00:46:41,256 --> 00:46:43,008
There's no way of telling

735
00:46:43,091 --> 00:46:46,261
whether I would have even been able
to be sitting here now,

736
00:46:46,345 --> 00:46:48,222
telling you what happened.

737
00:46:48,305 --> 00:46:50,808
[Porsha Olayiwola] At any given time,
and in any given space,

738
00:46:50,891 --> 00:46:52,100
I, as a Black woman,

739
00:46:52,184 --> 00:46:55,354
can suffer from racism, sexism,
homophobia, classism!

740
00:46:55,437 --> 00:46:57,940
I can be raped, beat, be burned alive,

741
00:46:58,023 --> 00:46:59,691
and no one, not a single soul,

742
00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:02,528
will look up to acknowledge
my absence from this universe

743
00:47:02,611 --> 00:47:05,823
because I am insignificant,
because I am a Black woman!

744
00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:07,157
[rapping] Try being a lady?

745
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:08,992
You mean you want me
To act catty and shady

746
00:47:09,076 --> 00:47:10,911
Play with me like a doll
Degrade me, trade me

747
00:47:10,994 --> 00:47:13,038
Use me as your trophy
So that you can parade me

748
00:47:13,121 --> 00:47:15,165
Use my vagina to only birth babies

749
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,753
[Tarana Burke] What started as a simple
exchange of empathy between survivors,

750
00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:21,880
has now become a rallying cry.

751
00:47:23,632 --> 00:47:25,759
They were simply trying to be heard

752
00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,637
and trying to be seen and believed.

753
00:47:30,305 --> 00:47:33,684
[Anita Hill] We deserve better systems,
we deserve better attention,

754
00:47:33,767 --> 00:47:38,772
we deserve leadership that will call out
and acknowledge this problem.

755
00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:40,440
I stand here

756
00:47:41,316 --> 00:47:45,028
as a survivor of sexual
and domestic violence.

757
00:47:46,530 --> 00:47:49,366
[Morgan] Harriet Jacobs, ultimately,

758
00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:53,579
her freedom was purchased for her.

759
00:47:55,455 --> 00:47:58,083
And Harriet Jacobs is really angered

760
00:47:58,166 --> 00:48:00,460
that she has to be given her freedom

761
00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:04,131
through the intervention
of white abolitionists.

762
00:48:04,214 --> 00:48:06,383
[robust music playing]

763
00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:14,433
[Jackson] Most of the time, when I talk
about abolitionists in my classroom,

764
00:48:14,516 --> 00:48:19,438
they think of kind, white people
that made this great sacrifice

765
00:48:19,521 --> 00:48:21,481
and they're not completely wrong.

766
00:48:21,982 --> 00:48:23,942
But when I think of the abolitionists,

767
00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:27,863
I think of Black men and Black women
that were courageous

768
00:48:27,946 --> 00:48:29,781
and did incredible things.

769
00:48:33,076 --> 00:48:36,038
I think of them
as the center of the movement,

770
00:48:36,121 --> 00:48:40,792
and really white allyship
and white abolitionists as the periphery.

771
00:48:43,211 --> 00:48:46,757
Unfortunately, people aren't going
to listen to minorities

772
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,469
until they have a majority figure
speak for them or alongside them.

773
00:48:50,552 --> 00:48:52,220
So we needed white abolitionists.

774
00:48:52,304 --> 00:48:54,640
However, it didn't stop them
from being problematic.

775
00:48:54,723 --> 00:48:57,643
[foreboding music playing]

776
00:49:00,145 --> 00:49:04,775
[Vanee] There were white abolitionists
who were in this school of thought where,

777
00:49:04,858 --> 00:49:06,234
"Yes, slavery is morally wrong,

778
00:49:06,318 --> 00:49:09,488
but I also don't feel
like Black people are equal to me."

779
00:49:11,156 --> 00:49:13,700
[Lincoln] Even when you cease
to be slaves,

780
00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:18,288
you're yet far removed from being placed
on an equality with the white race.

781
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:20,999
Whether this is right or wrong,

782
00:49:21,833 --> 00:49:23,919
I need not discuss.

783
00:49:25,462 --> 00:49:29,758
We have this idea of Lincoln
as the great emancipator.

784
00:49:29,841 --> 00:49:32,469
-[announcer] Abraham Lincoln!
-[crowd cheering]

785
00:49:32,552 --> 00:49:35,722
[Jackson] Because he abolished
the institution of slavery,

786
00:49:35,806 --> 00:49:38,100
people hold him in very high regard.

787
00:49:38,183 --> 00:49:41,103
[Chris Berman] Two African-American
quarterbacks starting against each other

788
00:49:41,186 --> 00:49:42,646
in the Superbowl for the first time.

789
00:49:42,729 --> 00:49:46,191
Fittingly, February 12th
is Abe Lincoln's birthday.

790
00:49:46,274 --> 00:49:49,444
[Jackson] But if you were to have
a conversation with Lincoln

791
00:49:49,528 --> 00:49:50,529
in the 19th century,

792
00:49:50,612 --> 00:49:53,407
you would probably be like,
"This dude is low-key racist."

793
00:49:54,658 --> 00:49:57,953
[Lincoln] I, as much as any other man,

794
00:49:58,036 --> 00:50:00,831
am in favor of having
the superior position

795
00:50:00,914 --> 00:50:03,166
assigned to the white race.

796
00:50:04,751 --> 00:50:07,629
[Vanee] He is painted often as a figure

797
00:50:07,713 --> 00:50:11,466
who saw the moral wrongs of slavery,
but let's be clear.

798
00:50:12,175 --> 00:50:13,468
He was just anti-slavery

799
00:50:13,552 --> 00:50:16,096
because of how he felt
the economy could benefit

800
00:50:16,179 --> 00:50:18,432
from moving away from slavery.

801
00:50:20,058 --> 00:50:22,144
[Jones-Rogers] We need to look
at all of what he said,

802
00:50:22,227 --> 00:50:24,688
not just what he said
in the Emancipation Proclamation.

803
00:50:25,313 --> 00:50:31,111
If we do that, then we realize that
Abraham Lincoln is a perplexing character,

804
00:50:31,194 --> 00:50:34,156
and especially in the history
of Black people in America.

805
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,534
Look, I'm half Abraham Lincoln, so…

806
00:50:37,617 --> 00:50:39,828
So, I should get on my knees
and kiss your ass?

807
00:50:39,911 --> 00:50:41,496
Well, no, but, eh…

808
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:46,043
Most of history has centered white men,
very much so,

809
00:50:46,126 --> 00:50:49,463
and has made them sort of like
the great white hope.

810
00:50:49,546 --> 00:50:52,340
They are the deliverer or the emancipator.

811
00:50:53,425 --> 00:50:57,137
It's problematic because
it robs Black people of their agency,

812
00:50:57,220 --> 00:51:02,017
it robs them of all the contributions
that they gave to the movement.

813
00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:04,061
["MASSA" by Tyler, the Creator playing]

814
00:51:04,144 --> 00:51:05,854
♪ My legs longer than a bitch ♪

815
00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:08,815
♪ Got too much self-respect
I wash my hands 'fore I piss ♪

816
00:51:08,899 --> 00:51:10,525
[woman] For the last 18 years,

817
00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:14,863
I visited areas where the day-to-day
living conditions are unthinkable,

818
00:51:14,946 --> 00:51:17,741
and it's the children
who always suffer the most.

819
00:51:17,824 --> 00:51:21,995
[Trump] I've done more
for Black Americans than anybody,

820
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:25,499
with the possible exception
of Abraham Lincoln.

821
00:51:25,582 --> 00:51:27,125
Nobody has even been close.

822
00:51:27,209 --> 00:51:31,880
Tonight I saved your ass,
so show a little appreciation, maybe.

823
00:51:33,131 --> 00:51:36,593
[Jeffers] The notion
of the white savior is really

824
00:51:36,676 --> 00:51:39,679
a counterpart

825
00:51:40,722 --> 00:51:42,557
to white supremacy.

826
00:51:43,975 --> 00:51:46,812
If whiteness reigns supreme…

827
00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:47,813
[inaudible]

828
00:51:47,896 --> 00:51:52,275
…if all the power rests with white people,

829
00:51:53,318 --> 00:51:56,363
then the power to save
rests with white people.

830
00:51:56,446 --> 00:51:59,491
[Janine Teagues] Look, you are
a white teacher in a Black school.

831
00:51:59,574 --> 00:52:01,910
I am not Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers.

832
00:52:01,993 --> 00:52:04,287
You are Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers.

833
00:52:04,371 --> 00:52:07,124
We see so many
different manifestations of it.

834
00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:08,041
[inaudible]

835
00:52:08,125 --> 00:52:11,878
[Raquel Willis] You'll see people
put up images of them

836
00:52:11,962 --> 00:52:15,715
going to some majority Black country,

837
00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:20,554
holding a Black kid, that's their moment
to kind of put forth this idea that,

838
00:52:20,637 --> 00:52:25,183
"Oh, see, I'm… nice to the Negros."

839
00:52:26,601 --> 00:52:31,815
If you are really doing something
in a truly altruistic manner,

840
00:52:31,898 --> 00:52:34,442
you don't have to use me up as a receipt.

841
00:52:35,777 --> 00:52:39,114
And it's so reductive… uh,

842
00:52:39,197 --> 00:52:41,116
what they're willing to do,

843
00:52:41,199 --> 00:52:44,911
not actually listen to you and figure out
what really needs to be done.

844
00:52:44,995 --> 00:52:47,080
♪ …"It's not good"
From your lunch break ♪

845
00:52:47,164 --> 00:52:49,416
["Stand Up" by Tierra Whack playing]

846
00:52:49,499 --> 00:52:50,333
♪ Yeah ♪

847
00:52:51,501 --> 00:52:52,377
♪ Yeah ♪

848
00:52:55,255 --> 00:52:56,089
♪ Yeah ♪

849
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:58,967
♪ Oh, will the real Negro
Please stand up? ♪

850
00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:02,053
[Jackson] Black abolitionists
are the first abolitionists.

851
00:53:02,929 --> 00:53:06,308
No one needed to tell enslaved people,
"You know what, slavery is wrong."

852
00:53:06,391 --> 00:53:08,476
"You know, this is bad for you." [laughs]

853
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:09,436
They knew that.

854
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:12,939
They knew that, and they're the first
to speak out about their grievances

855
00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:16,610
and about, you know,
the evils of this institution.

856
00:53:17,277 --> 00:53:21,865
And I think it's important to show
that, like, Black people freed themselves.

857
00:53:23,783 --> 00:53:25,660
But the white savior trope

858
00:53:25,744 --> 00:53:29,164
allows white people
to imagine Black people as children,

859
00:53:29,247 --> 00:53:31,583
and to say, "We're uplifting you."

860
00:53:31,666 --> 00:53:34,669
"We're developing you
as any parent would a child."

861
00:53:35,670 --> 00:53:38,089
But Black people are like,
"We ain't children."

862
00:53:38,173 --> 00:53:40,050
"We don't need you to lead us."

863
00:53:40,133 --> 00:53:44,054
"We need you to support us,
we need you to ally with us."

864
00:53:45,055 --> 00:53:49,976
If your goal to help under-serviced,
impoverished, Black communities

865
00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:52,729
come from your own personal research,

866
00:53:52,812 --> 00:53:56,107
and there's not
a Black voice anywhere around you,

867
00:53:56,191 --> 00:53:58,818
you need to check your inventory.

868
00:53:59,402 --> 00:54:01,863
[Jackson] That's why
it's so important for Lincoln

869
00:54:01,947 --> 00:54:05,784
to have people like
Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Keckley,

870
00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:07,911
and other Black people around him,

871
00:54:07,994 --> 00:54:13,458
that give him an alternative vision
of what Black people are capable of

872
00:54:13,541 --> 00:54:17,712
and what freedom
needs to look like for them.

873
00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:19,172
[thunderclap]

874
00:54:19,256 --> 00:54:21,800
♪ Oh, will the real Negro
please stand up? ♪

875
00:54:23,635 --> 00:54:25,428
♪ And all the fake sit down? ♪

876
00:54:26,471 --> 00:54:29,391
[Kendi] Lincoln initially
stated very clearly,

877
00:54:29,474 --> 00:54:34,646
"This is not a war of abolition,
this is a war to restore the union."

878
00:54:35,563 --> 00:54:38,984
And because he issued
the Emancipation Proclamation,

879
00:54:39,067 --> 00:54:42,195
about 200,000 Black men

880
00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:45,699
joined the Union Army
during the last two years of the war

881
00:54:46,616 --> 00:54:50,787
to fight what now became a war of freedom.

882
00:54:50,870 --> 00:54:52,580
[cannonball explosion]

883
00:54:52,664 --> 00:54:54,291
[soldiers shouting]

884
00:54:54,374 --> 00:54:57,335
["Can't Tell It All" by Hulvey playing]

885
00:54:57,419 --> 00:55:00,130
[soldiers screaming]

886
00:55:03,466 --> 00:55:06,094
♪ Just can't tell it all ♪

887
00:55:07,220 --> 00:55:10,890
♪ Just can't tell it all ♪

888
00:55:13,351 --> 00:55:15,645
♪ Just can't tell it all ♪

889
00:55:16,896 --> 00:55:18,148
♪ Just can't… ♪

890
00:55:18,231 --> 00:55:21,818
As soon as we got free,
we were like, "Go!"

891
00:55:21,901 --> 00:55:24,571
♪ I'm 'bout to step in the ring
For the fight of my… ♪

892
00:55:24,654 --> 00:55:27,324
[Cooper] We were in Congress,
we had senators.

893
00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:28,700
We built Black colleges.

894
00:55:28,783 --> 00:55:30,994
♪ …already covered in blood
Walking in love ♪

895
00:55:31,077 --> 00:55:32,829
[Cooper] We owned property.

896
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:35,332
We voted!

897
00:55:35,415 --> 00:55:37,208
♪ …God came and threw me the rope ♪

898
00:55:37,292 --> 00:55:40,170
The myth of Black inferiority
is destroyed.

899
00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:44,799
And you see
all that Black people desire to do,

900
00:55:44,883 --> 00:55:46,634
and what they're capable of,

901
00:55:46,718 --> 00:55:51,681
when they are empowered to have
autonomy and agency over their lives.

902
00:55:51,765 --> 00:55:53,975
♪ We the new Israel,
God when He lives here ♪

903
00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:55,810
♪ Washes the sin here way more… ♪

904
00:55:55,894 --> 00:55:59,022
[Cooper] It is this amazing ferment
of Black excellence.

905
00:55:59,105 --> 00:56:02,317
And we were so excellent,
at such a large scale,

906
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,279
in such a short amount of time,
that it shook the nation on its axis

907
00:56:06,363 --> 00:56:08,365
and it simply could not handle it.

908
00:56:08,448 --> 00:56:09,783
[gunshot]

909
00:56:13,787 --> 00:56:16,581
[foreboding music playing]

910
00:56:24,339 --> 00:56:26,508
[Vanee] Black progress is so terrifying

911
00:56:27,342 --> 00:56:30,553
to white Americans,
that they will do anything

912
00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:34,474
to harness power they thought was lost.

913
00:56:42,649 --> 00:56:47,112
[Jones-Rogers] White men saw Black men's
exercise of citizenship rights

914
00:56:47,195 --> 00:56:48,613
as a threat.

915
00:56:49,781 --> 00:56:53,076
And so they immediately begin to construct

916
00:56:53,159 --> 00:56:57,622
a very powerful mythology
around the Black man,

917
00:56:57,705 --> 00:57:04,129
who at all times had the ravishing
and rape of white women on their minds.

918
00:57:09,384 --> 00:57:11,428
[Gates] Racist ideas take root

919
00:57:11,511 --> 00:57:13,847
if they can connect
with something personal.

920
00:57:13,930 --> 00:57:15,723
With something emotional.

921
00:57:18,226 --> 00:57:24,441
By connecting that idea
of protecting the women in your community,

922
00:57:24,524 --> 00:57:27,193
to this alleged threat of Blackness,

923
00:57:28,319 --> 00:57:32,949
you transform racist violence into virtue.

924
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:35,285
[screams]

925
00:57:35,368 --> 00:57:37,078
And when you do that,

926
00:57:37,162 --> 00:57:40,582
it justifies all kinds
of horrific actions.

927
00:57:40,665 --> 00:57:43,668
[somber music playing]

928
00:58:02,812 --> 00:58:04,898
[Kendi] In the early 1890s,

929
00:58:04,981 --> 00:58:06,900
lynchings were at their height,

930
00:58:06,983 --> 00:58:12,489
and the justifications for why
so many Black people were being lynched,

931
00:58:12,572 --> 00:58:15,575
was because
of what those Black people did wrong.

932
00:58:18,369 --> 00:58:21,998
[Cunningham] It was not just about
the person who was hanging on the tree

933
00:58:22,081 --> 00:58:25,919
who was being punished
for whatever crime, usually invented,

934
00:58:26,002 --> 00:58:28,004
that they often did not do.

935
00:58:28,838 --> 00:58:32,800
The act of lynching
was also there to inflict terror,

936
00:58:32,884 --> 00:58:35,803
lest any of us
want to be hanging from a tree too.

937
00:58:37,055 --> 00:58:41,643
That we were to all be able
to look at that image and understand

938
00:58:42,435 --> 00:58:46,981
that we should never cross the line
and that we should stay in our place.

939
00:58:47,690 --> 00:58:49,275
[police officer shouting]

940
00:58:50,693 --> 00:58:52,195
Get on the ground!

941
00:58:52,278 --> 00:58:53,738
Get on the ground!

942
00:58:55,532 --> 00:58:56,950
[officer] What's wrong with you?

943
00:58:57,033 --> 00:58:59,202
[panting]

944
00:58:59,285 --> 00:59:00,453
[handcuffs rattling]

945
00:59:01,329 --> 00:59:05,375
White supremacist powers
created those stereotypes

946
00:59:05,458 --> 00:59:07,377
as a way to put fear in people.

947
00:59:07,460 --> 00:59:09,379
[somber music continues]

948
00:59:09,462 --> 00:59:13,383
[Bush] If you make us the threat,
then you remove our humanity.

949
00:59:17,345 --> 00:59:21,057
These are intentional choices
to hold us back.

950
00:59:22,475 --> 00:59:25,270
♪ Your life, would you risk that?
These kids never been bad ♪

951
00:59:25,353 --> 00:59:27,397
♪ Sixteen, run around with a big strap ♪

952
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:28,731
♪ Gone, how many died…?

953
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:31,317
[Roberts] The criminalization
of Black people

954
00:59:31,401 --> 00:59:35,238
has been an essential part
of white supremacy in America.

955
00:59:35,780 --> 00:59:38,783
It is a very powerful way

956
00:59:38,866 --> 00:59:45,373
for white people to explain
why it's important for a white power elite

957
00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:48,251
to control and contain Black communities.

958
00:59:49,460 --> 00:59:52,880
[Sabonjian] These guys have been in and
out of trouble so much you'd fill a book,

959
00:59:52,964 --> 00:59:56,426
but unfortunately we have to handle
these characters like daffodils,

960
00:59:56,509 --> 00:59:58,344
instead of the bums that they are,

961
00:59:58,428 --> 01:00:01,139
where we could throw them in a jail
where they belong.

962
01:00:01,222 --> 01:00:02,807
[chanting] Black lives matter!

963
01:00:02,890 --> 01:00:05,351
[Rudy Giuliani] Why aren't they classified
as a terrorist group?

964
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:07,729
Just because they're Black
and nobody can say it?

965
01:00:07,812 --> 01:00:11,024
Stop the nonsense. These are killers,
people who hate white people.

966
01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:14,027
Those ideas about "crime"
and "Black" and "race,"

967
01:00:14,110 --> 01:00:16,446
become ingrained
in the American imagination.

968
01:00:16,529 --> 01:00:18,865
Everybody that lives
with the colored has to move.

969
01:00:18,948 --> 01:00:19,782
[interviewer] Why?

970
01:00:19,866 --> 01:00:21,868
Because you're not safe
walking the streets at night.

971
01:00:21,951 --> 01:00:23,202
You cannot leave the house.

972
01:00:24,621 --> 01:00:28,416
When we think about how criminals
are represented in the media,

973
01:00:28,499 --> 01:00:32,295
they tend to be people of color
and specifically Black men.

974
01:00:33,087 --> 01:00:34,756
[man] Horton broke into our home.

975
01:00:34,839 --> 01:00:38,051
For 12 hours,
I was beaten, slashed and terrorized.

976
01:00:38,134 --> 01:00:40,970
He was serving a life term
without the possibility of a parole

977
01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:43,056
when Governor Dukakis
gave him a few days off.

978
01:00:44,098 --> 01:00:46,726
[Dylann Roof] Black people
are killing white people every day.

979
01:00:47,644 --> 01:00:51,814
They rape white women--
100 white women a day.

980
01:00:51,898 --> 01:00:53,816
♪ He say it's a long story ♪

981
01:00:53,900 --> 01:00:55,401
♪ Just know these youths
Want a gunman ♪

982
01:00:55,485 --> 01:00:56,319
♪ So tell me now… ♪

983
01:00:56,402 --> 01:00:58,988
[Reagan] You're familiar enough
with the statistics.

984
01:00:59,072 --> 01:00:59,906
[officer] Police!

985
01:00:59,989 --> 01:01:02,784
[Reagan] Crime is an American epidemic.

986
01:01:02,867 --> 01:01:06,663
From these statistics, a portrait emerges.

987
01:01:06,746 --> 01:01:10,583
The portrait is that
of a stark, staring face.

988
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:14,587
A face that belongs
to a frightening reality of our time.

989
01:01:15,171 --> 01:01:16,839
The face of a human predator.

990
01:01:17,507 --> 01:01:19,842
The face of the habitual criminal.

991
01:01:19,926 --> 01:01:24,222
Nothing in nature
is more cruel and more dangerous.

992
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:30,019
There are ways to criminalize people
without it being in their face.

993
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:32,647
[Hillary Clinton] They are not
just gangs of kids anymore.

994
01:01:32,730 --> 01:01:36,234
They are often the kinds of kids
that are called super predators.

995
01:01:36,317 --> 01:01:38,361
No conscience, no empathy.

996
01:01:38,444 --> 01:01:39,946
First we have to join together

997
01:01:40,029 --> 01:01:44,534
to ensure the drug dealers
are punished swiftly, surely and severely.

998
01:01:44,617 --> 01:01:48,037
Crime becomes a code word

999
01:01:48,621 --> 01:01:51,207
for Black, for race.

1000
01:01:51,290 --> 01:01:52,709
-[grunts]
-[gunshot]

1001
01:01:55,420 --> 01:01:59,424
[Cunningham]
The invention of Black criminality

1002
01:01:59,507 --> 01:02:03,302
is by such intentional design,

1003
01:02:03,386 --> 01:02:06,681
that it pervades all of culture.

1004
01:02:06,764 --> 01:02:07,932
Teenage killers

1005
01:02:08,015 --> 01:02:09,809
the homicide rate for juveniles

1006
01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:12,854
now has surpassed
the rate for adults in this country…

1007
01:02:12,937 --> 01:02:14,814
[reporter] Kids that once stole hubcaps

1008
01:02:14,897 --> 01:02:16,607
now rape and murder.

1009
01:02:16,691 --> 01:02:20,778
[Jackson] Racist ideas
get reinforced over and over again

1010
01:02:20,862 --> 01:02:25,908
by what we see on TV,
what we see on the news.

1011
01:02:25,992 --> 01:02:30,288
Commercials, film,
social media, you name it.

1012
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,958
And a lot of those ideas are silent.

1013
01:02:34,041 --> 01:02:38,045
They're sort of subtle
because they're cloaked in, you know,

1014
01:02:38,129 --> 01:02:39,839
fancy dressing and disguise.

1015
01:02:39,922 --> 01:02:41,132
[low growl]

1016
01:02:41,215 --> 01:02:42,800
[screaming]

1017
01:02:46,095 --> 01:02:49,098
[Gates] By the time
that we start to get to like the 1930s,

1018
01:02:49,182 --> 01:02:51,934
it is sort of socially unacceptable
to just, you know,

1019
01:02:52,018 --> 01:02:54,562
like be lynching
Black folks on camera, right?

1020
01:02:54,645 --> 01:02:59,942
But what we get is still the invocation
of aspects of Blackness

1021
01:03:00,026 --> 01:03:02,570
even when you don't have
Black characters present.

1022
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:05,615
-[growling]
-[woman whimpers]

1023
01:03:06,866 --> 01:03:09,911
[Gates] In cinema,
you're not bound in reality.

1024
01:03:09,994 --> 01:03:13,122
You can make the villain as big and black,

1025
01:03:13,206 --> 01:03:15,708
and powerful and horrible
as you want them to be.

1026
01:03:15,792 --> 01:03:17,293
[screams in terror]

1027
01:03:17,376 --> 01:03:18,753
Shut up, you freak!

1028
01:03:19,754 --> 01:03:20,671
Julius, you--

1029
01:03:20,755 --> 01:03:22,423
I said shut up!

1030
01:03:22,507 --> 01:03:24,300
[Gates] The reason that it works,

1031
01:03:24,383 --> 01:03:27,136
the reason that
it's legible to us as audiences,

1032
01:03:27,220 --> 01:03:31,015
is because we've already been trained
in stereotypes about Blackness

1033
01:03:31,098 --> 01:03:35,645
that we may not even realize that
we are bringing in our viewing practices.

1034
01:03:36,395 --> 01:03:38,731
[officer] You need
to disperse immediately!

1035
01:03:38,815 --> 01:03:40,691
[reporter] Two things
happened here last night.

1036
01:03:40,775 --> 01:03:43,736
One was the protest
for that slain teenager,

1037
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:47,615
the second was lawlessness on fire
and out of control.

1038
01:03:48,324 --> 01:03:51,160
North of St. Louis,
thieves ruled the night.

1039
01:03:51,911 --> 01:03:55,706
[chanting] Hands up, don't shoot!
Hands up, don't shoot!

1040
01:03:55,790 --> 01:03:59,961
["Follow the Leader"
by Devon Gilfillian playing]

1041
01:04:00,044 --> 01:04:03,005
Black people
are no more violent or dangerous

1042
01:04:03,089 --> 01:04:04,674
than any other group of people.

1043
01:04:06,676 --> 01:04:10,388
But we are taught
the face of violence is Black,

1044
01:04:10,471 --> 01:04:12,974
causing us to overlook
the white individuals

1045
01:04:13,057 --> 01:04:14,725
who engage in violence,

1046
01:04:14,809 --> 01:04:19,021
because apparently,
they don't have the face of violence.

1047
01:04:23,276 --> 01:04:25,278
He doesn't look
like the type to kill somebody.

1048
01:04:26,654 --> 01:04:29,574
[Kendi] Widespread poverty
and access to guns

1049
01:04:29,657 --> 01:04:32,493
better explain violence than race.

1050
01:04:34,287 --> 01:04:38,040
But we are taught
that white violence is self-defense.

1051
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:40,918
Deadly chokehold in the subway.

1052
01:04:41,002 --> 01:04:43,671
[reporter] Neely, a former
Michael Jackson impersonator

1053
01:04:43,754 --> 01:04:46,465
had been acting erratically
and shouting at passengers

1054
01:04:46,549 --> 01:04:48,759
but didn't physically harm anyone onboard.

1055
01:04:48,843 --> 01:04:51,596
[reporter 2] Lawyers for Penny
say he acted in self-defense.

1056
01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:55,641
A Florida woman accused of shooting
and killing her neighbor.

1057
01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:58,769
Police say she fired a gun
through the front door of her home,

1058
01:04:58,853 --> 01:05:02,273
killing Ajike Owens, a mother of four.

1059
01:05:02,356 --> 01:05:05,276
Lorincz claims
that she was acting in self-defense.

1060
01:05:06,193 --> 01:05:09,488
There is an African-American man.
I am in Central Park.

1061
01:05:09,572 --> 01:05:12,575
He is recording me,
and threatened myself and my dog.

1062
01:05:13,075 --> 01:05:15,536
I'm being threatened
by a man in the Ramble!

1063
01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:17,830
Please send the cops immediately.

1064
01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:21,042
[Sean Noffke] Sanford police department.
Line's being recorded, this is Sean.

1065
01:05:21,125 --> 01:05:23,419
[G. Zimmerman] We've had
some break-ins in my neighborhood

1066
01:05:23,502 --> 01:05:25,630
and there's a real suspicious guy.

1067
01:05:25,713 --> 01:05:28,132
[Noffke] Okay, and this guy,
is he white, Black or Hispanic?

1068
01:05:28,841 --> 01:05:30,259
[Zimmerman] He looks Black.

1069
01:05:30,343 --> 01:05:32,178
[static]

1070
01:05:32,845 --> 01:05:37,892
The potential violence that comes
from propagating these ideas,

1071
01:05:38,476 --> 01:05:41,604
the potential violence is extraordinary.

1072
01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:45,733
They talked about George Floyd
as under the influence,

1073
01:05:45,816 --> 01:05:49,195
and thus at any moment
could potentially become a beast.

1074
01:05:50,655 --> 01:05:52,823
Ahmaud Arbery is running.

1075
01:05:52,907 --> 01:05:55,117
[solemn music playing]

1076
01:05:55,201 --> 01:05:56,535
And merely running,

1077
01:05:57,828 --> 01:06:00,873
he becomes bestial
in the minds of these white men.

1078
01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:05,169
These so-called innocuous ideas,

1079
01:06:05,252 --> 01:06:08,881
they have this power
to infect the minds of people,

1080
01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:12,301
who then use them and twist them

1081
01:06:13,427 --> 01:06:16,305
to justify the massacre of Black people.

1082
01:06:20,977 --> 01:06:24,689
[Benjamin] If we want to be fancy,
we could call it "cultural narratives."

1083
01:06:25,564 --> 01:06:29,193
I call it just straight-up lies
that people tell themselves

1084
01:06:29,276 --> 01:06:35,324
in order to justify the maintenance
of these policies and these inequalities.

1085
01:06:36,826 --> 01:06:40,329
Lynching was a reaction,
a racist reaction,

1086
01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,498
to Black folks doing well.

1087
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:50,589
Ida B. Wells looked at the stories,

1088
01:06:50,673 --> 01:06:54,260
and the data that was being produced
to justify lynching and said,

1089
01:06:54,343 --> 01:06:57,346
"No, I'm gonna collect my own data."

1090
01:07:03,602 --> 01:07:06,147
[Wells] If the Southern people,
in defense of their lawlessness,

1091
01:07:06,230 --> 01:07:07,940
would tell the truth about lynching,

1092
01:07:08,024 --> 01:07:11,777
there would not be now
the necessity for this defense.

1093
01:07:11,861 --> 01:07:16,907
But when they intentionally, maliciously,
and constantly belie the record,

1094
01:07:16,991 --> 01:07:21,120
then the Negro must give to the world
his side of the awful story.

1095
01:07:21,704 --> 01:07:25,082
[bell tolling]

1096
01:07:29,170 --> 01:07:31,589
[Wells] Everybody in town
knew my friend Tommy.

1097
01:07:32,131 --> 01:07:34,717
He owned a little home
and having saved his money,

1098
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,011
he went into the grocery business.

1099
01:07:38,888 --> 01:07:43,059
One day, some colored and white boys
quarreled over a game of marbles.

1100
01:07:43,142 --> 01:07:46,604
[children arguing]

1101
01:07:46,687 --> 01:07:49,523
[tense music playing]

1102
01:07:50,816 --> 01:07:54,111
Of course, the colored grocery keepers
have been drawn into the dispute.

1103
01:07:54,195 --> 01:07:56,614
[clamoring]

1104
01:07:56,697 --> 01:07:59,450
[somber music playing]

1105
01:08:08,709 --> 01:08:10,336
[Wells] Sunday morning's paper came out

1106
01:08:10,419 --> 01:08:12,963
with lurid headlines
about the grocery store.

1107
01:08:13,047 --> 01:08:15,674
The newspaper
fanned the flames of racial prejudice,

1108
01:08:15,758 --> 01:08:19,345
calling the grocery store
a resort of thieves and thugs.

1109
01:08:25,017 --> 01:08:26,018
[glass shatters]

1110
01:08:26,102 --> 01:08:28,229
-[man] Get him!
-[grunting]

1111
01:08:30,898 --> 01:08:32,233
[ominous music continues]

1112
01:08:32,316 --> 01:08:33,901
[indistinct shouting]

1113
01:08:34,902 --> 01:08:37,071
[man] Whoo!

1114
01:08:41,700 --> 01:08:42,910
[gunshot]

1115
01:08:48,874 --> 01:08:50,835
[plaintive music playing]

1116
01:08:53,295 --> 01:08:55,756
[Wells, voice breaking]
A finer, cleaner man than he,

1117
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,175
never walked the streets of Memphis,

1118
01:08:58,259 --> 01:09:00,803
yet he was murdered
with no more consideration

1119
01:09:00,886 --> 01:09:02,513
than if he had been a dog.

1120
01:09:03,639 --> 01:09:07,309
This is what opened my eyes
to what lynching really was,

1121
01:09:08,102 --> 01:09:12,314
an excuse to get rid of Negroes
who were acquiring wealth and property

1122
01:09:12,398 --> 01:09:15,401
and thus, keep the race terrorized.

1123
01:09:16,277 --> 01:09:18,445
[purposeful music playing]

1124
01:09:27,079 --> 01:09:30,040
[Wells] The more I studied the situation,
the more I was convinced

1125
01:09:30,124 --> 01:09:33,335
that the Southerner
had never gotten over his resentment

1126
01:09:33,419 --> 01:09:37,464
that the Negro was no longer
his plaything, his servant,

1127
01:09:37,548 --> 01:09:39,592
and his source of income.

1128
01:09:39,675 --> 01:09:42,636
[purposeful music continues]

1129
01:09:52,313 --> 01:09:54,732
[Wells] During these years,
more than 10 thousand Negroes

1130
01:09:54,815 --> 01:09:56,901
have been killed in cold blood,

1131
01:09:56,984 --> 01:10:01,030
without the formality
of judicial trial and legal execution.

1132
01:10:01,780 --> 01:10:04,241
The same record shows
that during all these years,

1133
01:10:04,325 --> 01:10:06,076
and for all these murders,

1134
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:10,915
only three white men
have been tried, convicted and executed.

1135
01:10:10,998 --> 01:10:14,501
[purposeful music continues]

1136
01:10:21,842 --> 01:10:24,762
[Wells] The very frequent inquiry
made after my lectures

1137
01:10:24,845 --> 01:10:26,972
by interested friends is,

1138
01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:29,183
"What can I do to help the cause?"

1139
01:10:29,934 --> 01:10:31,769
The answer always is,

1140
01:10:32,603 --> 01:10:34,897
"Tell the world the facts."

1141
01:10:37,107 --> 01:10:39,526
[mournful music playing]

1142
01:10:50,788 --> 01:10:54,625
When it comes to telling our stories,

1143
01:10:55,626 --> 01:10:59,838
and forcing this country
to take an unflinching look at itself,

1144
01:10:59,922 --> 01:11:01,215
she is the originator.

1145
01:11:03,300 --> 01:11:08,639
We can see those postcards of lynch mobs,

1146
01:11:08,722 --> 01:11:10,599
and their wives and children

1147
01:11:10,683 --> 01:11:15,271
standing underneath
a Black body swinging from a tree,

1148
01:11:15,354 --> 01:11:18,107
and know that it's horrifying.

1149
01:11:19,024 --> 01:11:20,985
But we can only do that,

1150
01:11:21,068 --> 01:11:26,573
because Ida B. Wells took it upon herself,
in the day and time when it was happening,

1151
01:11:27,199 --> 01:11:28,742
to make sure that we knew,

1152
01:11:28,826 --> 01:11:32,413
to make sure that we could not look away.

1153
01:11:36,083 --> 01:11:39,712
[dramatic music playing]

1154
01:11:39,795 --> 01:11:41,797
[clamoring]

1155
01:11:44,008 --> 01:11:45,843
[woman] You just opened my car door,

1156
01:11:45,926 --> 01:11:48,387
so you're threatening
to drag me out of my own car.

1157
01:11:48,470 --> 01:11:49,638
Get out of the car!

1158
01:11:49,722 --> 01:11:51,849
-[woman] You gonna stun me?
-I'll light you up. Get out!

1159
01:11:52,433 --> 01:11:56,186
-Get down, stay! On your face!
-[screaming]

1160
01:11:56,270 --> 01:11:58,564
-One, two…
-I am no threat to this officer.

1161
01:11:58,647 --> 01:11:59,606
I've been threatened.

1162
01:11:59,690 --> 01:12:02,526
-Watch the show, folks.
-My life is in danger! My life…

1163
01:12:02,609 --> 01:12:05,487
For what? Every time you see me,
you wanna mess with me.

1164
01:12:05,571 --> 01:12:07,114
I'm tired of it! This stops today.

1165
01:12:07,197 --> 01:12:09,491
[bystander]
He's not responsive right now, bro.

1166
01:12:09,575 --> 01:12:10,534
Does he have a pulse?

1167
01:12:10,617 --> 01:12:13,787
No, bro! Look at him,
he's not responsive right now, bro.

1168
01:12:13,871 --> 01:12:15,748
-Check for a pulse.
-Bro, are you serious?

1169
01:12:15,831 --> 01:12:18,167
You gonna let him sit here
with that on his neck?

1170
01:12:18,250 --> 01:12:21,045
[dramatic music continues]

1171
01:12:43,275 --> 01:12:45,444
[Cunningham] Police violence
is modern day lynching.

1172
01:12:45,527 --> 01:12:49,573
State violence against Black bodies,
inside and outside of prison cells,

1173
01:12:49,656 --> 01:12:51,533
is lynching.

1174
01:12:51,617 --> 01:12:53,744
It is a form of racial terror,

1175
01:12:53,827 --> 01:12:56,538
meant not only
to punish the Black individual,

1176
01:12:57,539 --> 01:13:00,709
but to send a message
to all Black people, to stay in our place.

1177
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:08,467
Even as policing
and their techniques have evolved,

1178
01:13:08,550 --> 01:13:10,969
there is a single common thread.

1179
01:13:12,096 --> 01:13:15,557
[Cooper] Every time there's a huge,
fan out, push forward, go…

1180
01:13:15,641 --> 01:13:17,684
[crowd cheering]

1181
01:13:19,686 --> 01:13:21,230
[loud cheering]

1182
01:13:22,815 --> 01:13:25,109
…there's a tidal wave back.

1183
01:13:26,568 --> 01:13:29,363
A wall of white supremacy
that shows up and says, like,

1184
01:13:29,446 --> 01:13:31,949
"This far and no farther."

1185
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:36,954
[dramatic music intensifies]

1186
01:13:37,037 --> 01:13:38,539
[loud rattling]

1187
01:13:39,540 --> 01:13:42,292
-[indistinct clamoring]
-Back up!

1188
01:13:43,043 --> 01:13:44,795
-[shouting]
-[glass shattering]

1189
01:13:44,878 --> 01:13:47,673
[clamoring]

1190
01:13:48,257 --> 01:13:51,093
[Perry] The response to Black progress

1191
01:13:51,176 --> 01:13:52,636
is punishment.

1192
01:13:52,719 --> 01:13:54,138
[siren blaring]

1193
01:13:54,221 --> 01:13:55,806
[Perry] It's not articulated like that.

1194
01:13:55,889 --> 01:13:59,226
It's articulated as problems of crime,
problems of drugs.

1195
01:14:00,102 --> 01:14:01,061
But the reality is,

1196
01:14:01,145 --> 01:14:06,525
it's an effort to reassert
racial domination through "order."

1197
01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:11,405
This nation must make
an all-out effort to combat crime.

1198
01:14:12,656 --> 01:14:14,867
Our country's laws must be respected.

1199
01:14:15,868 --> 01:14:18,745
Order must be maintained.

1200
01:14:18,829 --> 01:14:21,665
[Nixon] My friends,
let this message come through clear

1201
01:14:21,748 --> 01:14:23,167
from what I say tonight.

1202
01:14:23,709 --> 01:14:27,379
The wave of crime
is not going to be the wave of the future

1203
01:14:27,463 --> 01:14:29,381
in the United States of America.

1204
01:14:29,465 --> 01:14:32,593
The first responsibility of government

1205
01:14:33,552 --> 01:14:35,721
is law and order.

1206
01:14:35,804 --> 01:14:41,435
I am the law and order candidate.

1207
01:14:41,518 --> 01:14:44,688
[crowd cheering and applauding]

1208
01:14:46,899 --> 01:14:48,484
[applause]

1209
01:14:51,570 --> 01:14:54,490
[Mike Wallace] When you read stories
about difficulties,

1210
01:14:54,573 --> 01:14:59,870
riots in Omaha, or Cleveland,
or Brooklyn, or Chicago, or wherever…

1211
01:15:00,913 --> 01:15:02,372
I call them rebellions.

1212
01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:04,041
-[Wallace] They're rebellions?
-Right.

1213
01:15:04,124 --> 01:15:06,752
[Wallace] And you--
you see nothing wrong with them?

1214
01:15:06,835 --> 01:15:10,839
I think that it is people
who are rebelling against a system

1215
01:15:10,923 --> 01:15:14,092
that has locked them
inside, tight, of ghettos,

1216
01:15:14,176 --> 01:15:15,844
that exploits and oppresses them,

1217
01:15:15,928 --> 01:15:19,806
and they have no means of redress
to break that system down.

1218
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:23,560
You have moved to destroy and disrupt,

1219
01:15:24,102 --> 01:15:26,438
you have taken people away,

1220
01:15:26,522 --> 01:15:29,525
you have broken down their systems,

1221
01:15:29,608 --> 01:15:32,819
and you have called all that,
"civilization."

1222
01:15:32,903 --> 01:15:37,074
And we who have suffered at this,
are now saying to you,

1223
01:15:37,157 --> 01:15:40,410
"You are the killers of the dreams."

1224
01:15:40,494 --> 01:15:42,329
"You are the savages."

1225
01:15:42,412 --> 01:15:46,875
"Yes, it is you
who have always been uncivilized."

1226
01:15:47,543 --> 01:15:49,586
Civilize yourself.

1227
01:15:49,670 --> 01:15:53,131
[gloomy music playing]

1228
01:16:05,852 --> 01:16:10,315
[Anderson] This nation
is drawn to the spectacular.

1229
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:13,318
Drawn to the flames.

1230
01:16:15,612 --> 01:16:18,490
But we don't pay attention
to the kindling,

1231
01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:24,371
and the kindling are those policies
that are predicated on anti-Blackness.

1232
01:16:26,248 --> 01:16:29,626
The denial of education, kindling.

1233
01:16:31,003 --> 01:16:35,799
Unequal housing
and employment opportunities, kindling.

1234
01:16:36,925 --> 01:16:40,971
The hyper-policing
of Black communities, kindling.

1235
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:42,806
[Vanee] Stop-and-frisk…

1236
01:16:44,391 --> 01:16:45,684
[officer] Police, freeze!

1237
01:16:45,767 --> 01:16:47,185
[Benjamin] The war on drugs.

1238
01:16:48,812 --> 01:16:50,397
[Jeffers] Mass incarceration.

1239
01:16:54,318 --> 01:16:58,905
[Cunningham] When you have policies,
structures, and institutions

1240
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:01,491
that intentionally subjugate Black people,

1241
01:17:01,575 --> 01:17:06,330
you intentionally create communities
that can be continuously criminalized.

1242
01:17:06,413 --> 01:17:07,873
And there's that thread again.

1243
01:17:07,956 --> 01:17:10,751
[plaintive music playing]

1244
01:17:19,593 --> 01:17:21,094
[music fades]

1245
01:17:22,054 --> 01:17:24,056
[heartbeat]

1246
01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:32,981
[Kendi] When we think
of the history of racism in this country,

1247
01:17:33,065 --> 01:17:36,151
we're really thinking
of the history of power.

1248
01:17:36,234 --> 01:17:38,945
[unsettling music playing]

1249
01:17:40,781 --> 01:17:42,240
[Bush] Everything in our society

1250
01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:45,452
that has been used
to oppress Black people in this country,

1251
01:17:46,244 --> 01:17:48,246
it's so they can continue to keep power.

1252
01:17:49,915 --> 01:17:51,458
The white elite.

1253
01:17:52,084 --> 01:17:53,835
That's how they benefit.

1254
01:17:53,919 --> 01:17:56,129
They get to maintain their power.

1255
01:17:59,424 --> 01:18:02,552
[Cunningham] We are taught that power
is some kind of finite resource,

1256
01:18:02,636 --> 01:18:03,929
that it is a pie.

1257
01:18:04,930 --> 01:18:08,892
The more I have, the less you have.
The more you have, the less I have.

1258
01:18:13,313 --> 01:18:15,482
If your guiding principle is that,

1259
01:18:15,565 --> 01:18:20,862
whatever you have, keep it at all costs,
then you will do whatever you have to do.

1260
01:18:20,946 --> 01:18:23,907
You will lie, you will cheat,
you will steal, you will kill,

1261
01:18:23,990 --> 01:18:25,701
to make sure you hold on to it.

1262
01:18:29,121 --> 01:18:33,041
[evocative music playing]

1263
01:18:51,977 --> 01:18:55,814
[Dr. Angela Davis] The work
that ought to have been done

1264
01:18:55,897 --> 01:18:59,735
in the immediate aftermath of slavery,

1265
01:18:59,818 --> 01:19:04,406
the work of reorganizing, retooling,

1266
01:19:04,489 --> 01:19:08,410
reconceptualizing the entire society,

1267
01:19:09,202 --> 01:19:15,000
so that it might be possible
for previously enslaved individuals

1268
01:19:15,083 --> 01:19:17,419
to be free and equal,

1269
01:19:18,086 --> 01:19:20,088
that work was never done.

1270
01:19:20,172 --> 01:19:21,882
[clamoring]

1271
01:19:21,965 --> 01:19:23,633
[man] Watch out, watch out, watch out!

1272
01:19:23,717 --> 01:19:25,635
[explosives going off]

1273
01:19:27,554 --> 01:19:31,266
[Jones-Rogers] I think that white people
are afraid of what will happen

1274
01:19:31,349 --> 01:19:34,186
if they put a mirror up to themselves.

1275
01:19:35,687 --> 01:19:40,358
They'll be able to see
that for generations, for centuries,

1276
01:19:40,442 --> 01:19:46,031
they have tormented and repressed
Black, brown and tan people.

1277
01:19:46,114 --> 01:19:48,950
They might not know
what to do with that history.

1278
01:19:49,034 --> 01:19:51,161
There will be a "Then what?" question.

1279
01:19:51,244 --> 01:19:53,997
"Now that you know, then what?"

1280
01:19:54,706 --> 01:19:57,250
They'll have to think about
whether they want to continue

1281
01:19:57,334 --> 01:19:58,919
to live in that legacy.

1282
01:20:00,754 --> 01:20:04,341
[Kendi] The heartbeat
of being racist is denial,

1283
01:20:04,424 --> 01:20:10,388
is constantly looking for ways
to deny the persistence of racism.

1284
01:20:14,142 --> 01:20:19,397
In order to address the way
in which racism is-- is baked in,

1285
01:20:21,233 --> 01:20:25,320
actually requires an active disposition.

1286
01:20:26,321 --> 01:20:28,323
And that is anti-racism.

1287
01:20:35,914 --> 01:20:40,126
[gentle music playing]

1288
01:20:56,017 --> 01:20:58,395
[Kendi]
People are constantly thinking about,

1289
01:20:58,478 --> 01:21:00,856
if we create an anti-racist society,

1290
01:21:02,315 --> 01:21:03,942
what are they going to lose,

1291
01:21:05,610 --> 01:21:07,529
as opposed to what they're going to gain.

1292
01:21:12,033 --> 01:21:17,038
[Perry] If you want an effective
social network of human beings,

1293
01:21:17,122 --> 01:21:19,457
an effective society,

1294
01:21:19,541 --> 01:21:23,712
keeping your heel on the back
of a portion of the community,

1295
01:21:23,795 --> 01:21:25,505
is probably not the best move.

1296
01:21:25,589 --> 01:21:28,258
[gentle music continues]

1297
01:21:30,719 --> 01:21:33,805
[Jones-Rogers] I don't know what
it'll look like, but I know it's possible

1298
01:21:33,889 --> 01:21:37,392
because someone, some series of people,

1299
01:21:37,475 --> 01:21:39,394
put the system together
in the first place.

1300
01:21:39,477 --> 01:21:42,355
And if they can put the system together
in the first place,

1301
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:44,149
then we can undo the system.

1302
01:21:44,232 --> 01:21:45,859
[inaudible]

1303
01:21:45,942 --> 01:21:49,696
[Cooper] It isn't about a better idea
that allows you to love your neighbor.

1304
01:21:49,779 --> 01:21:52,198
That's not what we're talking about.

1305
01:21:52,282 --> 01:21:53,950
If all "anti-racist" means,

1306
01:21:54,034 --> 01:21:56,953
is that you personally
don't dislike people of color,

1307
01:21:57,037 --> 01:22:02,792
how does that make my life any better
because you personally don't dislike me?

1308
01:22:04,044 --> 01:22:08,506
But if, after you have reckoned with that,
you then go out and say,

1309
01:22:08,590 --> 01:22:11,343
"But how has our structural dislike
of these people,

1310
01:22:11,426 --> 01:22:14,220
our structural disregard of these people,

1311
01:22:14,304 --> 01:22:16,431
made it harder for them to actually live?"

1312
01:22:16,514 --> 01:22:19,267
Then, now we're talking.
Now we're cooking with grease.

1313
01:22:19,351 --> 01:22:22,395
[evocative music playing]

1314
01:22:23,772 --> 01:22:25,690
[Jackson]
Black people know what they want.

1315
01:22:25,774 --> 01:22:30,070
They have ideas about what freedom
and liberation will look like.

1316
01:22:30,904 --> 01:22:35,283
And it doesn't look
like this radical utopia.

1317
01:22:35,367 --> 01:22:38,203
It looks a lot
like the world that white people live in.

1318
01:22:38,286 --> 01:22:41,539
[chuckling] The world that
white people living in never question.

1319
01:22:41,623 --> 01:22:43,792
[percussive music playing]

1320
01:22:47,337 --> 01:22:49,297
I love being Black.

1321
01:22:49,381 --> 01:22:51,800
I thank God every day
that He made me Black.

1322
01:22:51,883 --> 01:22:53,259
I love my Black husband.

1323
01:22:53,343 --> 01:22:55,303
I love the Black baby we're gonna have.

1324
01:22:55,387 --> 01:22:56,763
I love my Black family.

1325
01:22:56,846 --> 01:22:58,807
I love my Black neighbor, Miss Janet.

1326
01:22:58,890 --> 01:23:00,433
I love my Black church.

1327
01:23:00,517 --> 01:23:02,102
I love my Black music.

1328
01:23:02,185 --> 01:23:04,896
I love all of the things
that Blackness has given America,

1329
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:07,649
whether or not America acknowledges it.

1330
01:23:07,732 --> 01:23:11,987
♪ Alive ♪

1331
01:23:12,070 --> 01:23:15,991
♪ Alive ♪

1332
01:23:16,074 --> 01:23:21,830
♪ If the sun decide to rise
I'm still alive ♪

1333
01:23:21,913 --> 01:23:23,039
[Williams] So tell me,

1334
01:23:24,165 --> 01:23:26,251
what is wrong with Black people?

1335
01:23:27,961 --> 01:23:28,962
Nothing.

1336
01:23:29,713 --> 01:23:31,464
Nothing is wrong with Black people.

1337
01:23:31,548 --> 01:23:33,967
There is nothing wrong with Black people.

1338
01:23:34,050 --> 01:23:38,054
You see how absolutely absurd it is.

1339
01:23:38,138 --> 01:23:40,432
The only thing wrong with Black people

1340
01:23:40,515 --> 01:23:43,184
is that we think
something is wrong with Black people.

1341
01:23:43,268 --> 01:23:47,439
[rhythmic choral song plays]

1342
01:24:00,326 --> 01:24:04,080
♪ I'll rise ♪

1343
01:24:04,164 --> 01:24:09,127
♪ I'll rise ♪

1344
01:24:09,210 --> 01:24:12,547
♪ One breath at a time ♪

1345
01:24:12,630 --> 01:24:17,052
♪ Go down but still alive ♪

1346
01:24:17,135 --> 01:24:20,889
♪ The master of my mind ♪

1347
01:24:20,972 --> 01:24:25,727
♪ Still I rise ♪

1348
01:24:25,810 --> 01:24:30,023
♪ I'll rise ♪

1349
01:24:30,106 --> 01:24:34,402
♪ I'll rise ♪

1350
01:24:34,486 --> 01:24:38,698
♪ The sun decide to rise ♪

1351
01:24:38,782 --> 01:24:43,286
♪ I'm still alive ♪

1352
01:24:43,369 --> 01:24:47,373
♪ Alive ♪

1353
01:24:47,457 --> 01:24:51,127
♪ Alive ♪

1354
01:24:51,211 --> 01:24:56,132
♪ If the sun decide to rise ♪

1355
01:24:56,216 --> 01:24:59,969
♪ I'm still alive ♪

1356
01:25:00,053 --> 01:25:04,390
♪ If the sun decide to rise ♪

1357
01:25:04,474 --> 01:25:08,728
♪ If the sun decide to rise ♪

1358
01:25:08,812 --> 01:25:14,484
♪ If the sun decide to rise ♪

1359
01:25:14,567 --> 01:25:19,072
♪ I'm still alive ♪

1360
01:25:19,155 --> 01:25:21,324
[song fades to an evocative melody]

1361
01:26:08,413 --> 01:26:10,874
♪ Blind man, send him my way ♪

1362
01:26:11,416 --> 01:26:13,918
♪ Blind man, send him my way ♪

1363
01:26:14,419 --> 01:26:16,880
♪ Blind man, send him my way ♪

1364
01:26:17,380 --> 01:26:19,841
♪ Blind man, send him my way ♪

1365
01:26:20,341 --> 01:26:22,343
[syncopated rhythm begins]

1366
01:26:32,187 --> 01:26:34,939
[more rhythms layer]

1367
01:27:41,589 --> 01:27:44,008
[chorus vocalizes hauntingly]

1368
01:28:53,077 --> 01:28:55,079
[song ends]

1369
01:28:58,541 --> 01:29:00,543
[steady rhythm playing]

1370
01:29:15,558 --> 01:29:18,144
[piano playing robustly]

1371
01:31:25,104 --> 01:31:26,481
[song ends]