1 00:00:02,970 --> 00:00:05,339 ...ahead of you. You're developing a new consciousness. 2 00:00:05,339 --> 00:00:10,008 You're just starting to see how we as people of colour feel, 3 00:00:10,008 --> 00:00:15,549 getting to find out a little bit of our reality. 4 00:00:15,549 --> 00:00:20,254 It's gonna be a long process to really really fully understand it. 5 00:00:20,254 --> 00:00:22,556 [Roberto] Stretch out your arms 6 00:00:22,556 --> 00:00:27,051 and take hold of the cloth that covers you 7 00:00:27,051 --> 00:00:29,463 with both hands 8 00:00:29,463 --> 00:00:32,199 the cure for the pain 9 00:00:32,199 --> 00:00:35,769 is in the pain 10 00:00:35,769 --> 00:00:39,544 good and bad are mixed 11 00:00:39,544 --> 00:00:41,975 if you do not have both 12 00:00:41,975 --> 00:00:44,066 you don't belong with us 13 00:00:45,646 --> 00:00:50,384 I really worked to keep my expectations out comin' up here. 14 00:00:50,384 --> 00:00:57,327 And one I couldn't keep out was, um, fear. 15 00:00:59,293 --> 00:01:04,431 Because I represent, uh, the oppressor. 16 00:01:04,431 --> 00:01:06,199 I am the oppressor. 17 00:01:06,199 --> 00:01:11,204 But I really see my responsibility 18 00:01:11,204 --> 00:01:14,908 and the Euro-American responsibility 19 00:01:14,908 --> 00:01:19,013 to get together with our brothers, and talk. 20 00:01:19,013 --> 00:01:21,711 Come clean on what we've done, and what we've participated in, 21 00:01:21,711 --> 00:01:23,717 and what our ancestors have participated in. 22 00:01:23,717 --> 00:01:26,030 Put a stop to it. 23 00:01:26,030 --> 00:01:30,302 And one of the things that I really appreciate from all of you is tolerance 24 00:01:30,302 --> 00:01:33,290 [voice cracking] 25 00:01:35,262 --> 00:01:40,601 because we haven't given you much. 26 00:01:40,601 --> 00:01:49,775 And it really felt good that uh I wasn't treated by you the way we have treated you. 27 00:01:53,197 --> 00:01:54,812 And I thank you. 28 00:01:55,844 --> 00:02:04,324 As I look around the room, I have a lot of beautiful memories of each one of you. 29 00:02:04,324 --> 00:02:07,454 Particularly what sticks out at this moment for me 30 00:02:07,454 --> 00:02:12,566 is Yutaka and I being belly to belly last night, 31 00:02:12,566 --> 00:02:17,070 and talking, we sort of had a little world just within the two of us. 32 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:22,810 [Yutaka] I saw the genetic link that we had between each other that was just so amazing. 33 00:02:22,810 --> 00:02:28,082 And as I was looking into him, you were talking about seeing me, but I was seeing you, 34 00:02:28,082 --> 00:02:31,139 I was seeing a version of myself. 35 00:02:31,139 --> 00:02:33,787 [Roberto] And I could see myself inside him. 36 00:02:33,787 --> 00:02:36,713 That was a younger me standing in front of me. 37 00:02:37,687 --> 00:02:39,760 [Loren] I know when I got here Friday, 38 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,364 I found myself, would people would arrive, I was sizing them up, 39 00:02:44,364 --> 00:02:50,604 y'know, I was already trying to decide who was my friend, who was my enemy. 40 00:02:50,604 --> 00:02:56,010 I found out that you can really express your opinions with people who are different than you, 41 00:02:56,010 --> 00:02:58,492 without it leading to any kind of violence. 42 00:02:58,492 --> 00:03:04,618 Over this weekend, it was really important for me to see people express their anger against racism, 43 00:03:04,618 --> 00:03:08,709 because it's something that is very hard for me to do. 44 00:03:08,709 --> 00:03:14,978 I was raised, acculturated, to not express that kind of anger when I'm mistreated, 45 00:03:14,978 --> 00:03:17,639 and to take it silently. 46 00:03:19,232 --> 00:03:28,471 And I have always wanted to express it because when I keep it inside, I feel that it's killing me, 47 00:03:28,471 --> 00:03:31,475 as it has, I believe, killed my father. 48 00:03:33,310 --> 00:03:40,416 Hearing something, and being the nice Japanese man, and just sort of bowing my head, 49 00:03:40,416 --> 00:03:47,590 and not wanting to create any waves or not wanting to uh, disturb people, 50 00:03:47,590 --> 00:03:52,103 or not wanting to offend people, 51 00:03:52,103 --> 00:03:57,400 and, as I get older I'm not longer willing to do that anymore, 52 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,023 it's just not acceptable. 53 00:04:01,238 --> 00:04:03,620 Y'know, a lot of these guys I may never see again, 54 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:11,180 but um, they got a good, they got a special place inside here, everybody. 55 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:14,884 And if they ever need an ally, they got one. 56 00:04:14,884 --> 00:04:17,887 If somebody makes a remark about a Latino, 57 00:04:18,333 --> 00:04:21,791 Roberto's face will be there. 58 00:04:21,791 --> 00:04:24,027 Hughs face will be there. 59 00:04:24,027 --> 00:04:26,111 And I won't be able to put up with it. 60 00:04:26,496 --> 00:04:32,702 If I were facing a white audience, and they were asking me what I wanted from them, 61 00:04:32,702 --> 00:04:36,350 I would say justice. 62 00:04:37,474 --> 00:04:44,814 Because I cannot love you until you give me justice. 63 00:04:44,814 --> 00:04:46,426 First. 64 00:04:48,918 --> 00:04:52,021 I think I will see change in individuals, 65 00:04:52,021 --> 00:04:56,926 I saw that here with the white men, that there was change for them. 66 00:04:56,926 --> 00:05:04,371 I don't think I'm gonna see much change on a societal level or institutional level in my lifetime. 67 00:05:04,371 --> 00:05:07,441 And that makes me very sad to think that. 68 00:05:07,441 --> 00:05:11,144 What I can hold onto are the individuals that I know are changing. 69 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:16,183 And I know David will go away and he will educate his daughters. 70 00:05:16,183 --> 00:05:19,112 I know he'll do that, and the people around him. 71 00:05:19,112 --> 00:05:22,051 And that's what I have to hold onto. 72 00:05:22,589 --> 00:05:27,661 I really am appreciative that I was here [voice cracking] um... 73 00:05:34,702 --> 00:05:37,071 You will have an impact on me 74 00:05:37,563 --> 00:05:41,305 throughout the remainder of my life. 75 00:05:44,277 --> 00:05:48,548 And I will be your ally 76 00:05:48,548 --> 00:05:50,917 and do all I can 77 00:05:50,917 --> 00:05:55,119 to stop racism wherever I encounter it. 78 00:05:56,456 --> 00:06:02,363 He'll fight, and he'll struggle, and he'll intervene on my behalf, um, 79 00:06:02,363 --> 00:06:04,865 and I think that it'll wear off. 80 00:06:04,865 --> 00:06:08,535 That his ability to struggle against racism will wear off 81 00:06:08,535 --> 00:06:12,606 unless he has other white men with him. 82 00:06:12,606 --> 00:06:14,741 Unless he has other white people with him 83 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:16,376 sayin' "keep going". 84 00:06:16,376 --> 00:06:20,747 If David or people like David are going to depend on people of colour 85 00:06:20,747 --> 00:06:24,284 to keep him goin' against racism, it won't change. 86 00:06:24,284 --> 00:06:25,776 Racism won't change. 87 00:06:26,586 --> 00:06:29,757 I think we have a beautiful world that is in great danger, 88 00:06:29,757 --> 00:06:31,959 I know we have a beautiful world, 89 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:33,927 and I know that it's in great danger. 90 00:06:33,927 --> 00:06:36,530 And I can't think of aything I'd rather do with my life 91 00:06:36,530 --> 00:06:45,572 than to see this great, um, project of human life and of life in general on this planet, 92 00:06:45,572 --> 00:06:56,527 persist and go on and I'd like to leave a healthy and beautiful world for my son and any generations that come after him. 93 00:06:58,885 --> 00:07:02,156 Well, if I could talk to my father, 94 00:07:02,156 --> 00:07:11,131 I'd say, "be brave, be proud, and do what you believe is right, and study, 95 00:07:11,131 --> 00:07:17,609 always study, never stop studying." 96 00:07:24,577 --> 00:07:26,680 I think what one of the first thoughts for me 97 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,084 was that I think I really wanted something for my father to see, 98 00:07:31,084 --> 00:07:33,654 because he thought that white people wouldn't listen, 99 00:07:33,654 --> 00:07:37,491 or come to see or get really angry if they saw a film on racism. 100 00:07:37,491 --> 00:07:40,385 Besides that, I think he also 101 00:07:40,385 --> 00:07:46,666 has indoctrinated me for years that people of colour and whites can't get along, 102 00:07:46,666 --> 00:07:50,170 there's no way that's going to happen on this earth, 103 00:07:50,170 --> 00:07:53,059 it's gonna keep going on and on and on. 104 00:07:53,059 --> 00:07:58,197 David, I liked it perfectly when you said, you know, about you like the anger, 105 00:07:58,197 --> 00:08:04,451 I mean, it was needed, and it was honest, and it was appropriate, the word you used, 106 00:08:04,451 --> 00:08:08,274 but that we do need to get that anger out, 107 00:08:08,274 --> 00:08:11,811 because underneath all that anger is all that hurt 108 00:08:11,811 --> 00:08:14,614 that has never been allowed to come out for us, 109 00:08:14,614 --> 00:08:16,216 and then on the other end 110 00:08:16,216 --> 00:08:24,114 is I think what we all saw with David and Gordon also saw was the end of it, was the possibility 111 00:08:24,114 --> 00:08:26,826 to get along, 112 00:08:26,826 --> 00:08:28,728 if we could just be heard and acknowledged. 113 00:08:28,728 --> 00:08:34,567 I remember on Saturday evening I just broke down and I cried on Hughs shoulder, 114 00:08:34,567 --> 00:08:39,472 because I told him that I think that I could rest now after this film. 115 00:08:39,472 --> 00:08:43,376 That I could say that I left something for my son. 116 00:08:43,376 --> 00:08:44,923 And I know that he's gonna go out into the world, 117 00:08:44,923 --> 00:08:48,814 to see what I had to see, 118 00:08:48,814 --> 00:08:56,155 I wanted to know, to let him know that I, that I was with him in some way, 119 00:08:56,155 --> 00:08:59,425 but I wanted the world to be different for him. 120 00:08:59,425 --> 00:09:03,062 I wanted him to know that he wasn't crazy. 121 00:09:03,062 --> 00:09:05,265 And then I shared with you, David, 122 00:09:05,265 --> 00:09:08,902 that I wanted my child to meet your children someday, 123 00:09:08,902 --> 00:09:10,570 on an equal basis. 124 00:09:10,570 --> 00:09:12,062 And I want that. 125 00:09:14,641 --> 00:09:17,677 I will remember every one of you for the rest of my life. 126 00:09:17,677 --> 00:09:19,945 I mean, I, some of you I've known, 127 00:09:19,945 --> 00:09:22,848 but never quite in this way, 128 00:09:22,848 --> 00:09:27,586 and for the rest of your lives, you too have this film 129 00:09:27,586 --> 00:09:31,560 for your children and your partners. 130 00:09:32,191 --> 00:09:37,564 And Victor, you did your people proud. 131 00:09:37,564 --> 00:09:41,000 Each of you did that. 132 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:47,540 Your fathers, your grandfathers, grandmothers. 133 00:09:47,540 --> 00:09:50,376 You did it for them, 134 00:09:50,376 --> 00:09:54,536 and for that, from the deepest part of my heart, I want to thank each of you. 135 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:06,893 [all singing] may the work that I done speak for me 136 00:10:06,893 --> 00:10:15,101 may the work that I done speak for me 137 00:10:15,101 --> 00:10:19,005 and if I fall short of my goal 138 00:10:19,005 --> 00:10:22,675 someone else come take a hold 139 00:10:22,675 --> 00:10:30,149 may the work that I done speak for me. 140 00:10:30,149 --> 00:10:37,991 may the truth that I told speak for me 141 00:10:37,991 --> 00:10:45,465 may the work that I done speak for me 142 00:10:45,465 --> 00:10:49,168 and if I fall short of my goal, 143 00:10:49,168 --> 00:10:53,005 someone else come take a hold 144 00:10:53,005 --> 00:11:00,346 may the work that I done speak for me. 145 00:11:00,346 --> 00:11:08,154 may the truth that I told speak for me 146 00:11:08,154 --> 00:11:15,695 may the truth that I told speak for me 147 00:11:15,695 --> 00:11:19,465 and if I fall short of my goal, 148 00:11:19,465 --> 00:11:23,402 someone else come take a hold 149 00:11:23,402 --> 00:11:30,709 may the truth that I told speak for me 150 00:11:30,709 --> 99:59:59,999 may the love that I shared speak for me...