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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.97,0:00:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...ahead of you. You're developing a new consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.34,0:00:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're just starting to see how we as people of colour feel,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.01,0:00:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting to find out a little bit of our reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.55,0:00:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's gonna be a long process to really really fully understand it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.25,0:00:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Roberto] Stretch out your arms
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.56,0:00:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take hold of the cloth that covers you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.05,0:00:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with both hands
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.46,0:00:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cure for the pain
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.20,0:00:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in the pain
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.77,0:00:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good and bad are mixed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.54,0:00:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you do not have both
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.98,0:00:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't belong with us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.65,0:00:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really worked to keep my expectations out comin' up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.38,0:00:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one I couldn't keep out was, um, fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.29,0:01:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I represent, uh, the oppressor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.43,0:01:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the oppressor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.20,0:01:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I really see my responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.20,0:01:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Euro-American responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.91,0:01:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get together with our brothers, and talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.01,0:01:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come clean on what we've done, and what we've participated in,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.71,0:01:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what our ancestors have participated in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.72,0:01:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put a stop to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.03,0:01:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the things that I really appreciate from all of you is tolerance
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.30,0:01:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[voice cracking]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.26,0:01:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we haven't given you much.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.60,0:01:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it really felt good that uh I wasn't treated by you the way we have treated you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.20,0:01:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.84,0:02:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I look around the room, I have a lot of beautiful memories of each one of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.32,0:02:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Particularly what sticks out at this moment for me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.45,0:02:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is Yutaka and I being belly to belly last night,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.57,0:02:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and talking, we sort of had a little world just within the two of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.07,0:02:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yutaka] I saw the genetic link that we had between each other that was just so amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.81,0:02:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I was looking into him, you were talking about seeing me, but I was seeing you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.08,0:02:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was seeing a version of myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.14,0:02:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Roberto] And I could see myself inside him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.79,0:02:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a younger me standing in front of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.69,0:02:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Loren] I know when I got here Friday,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.76,0:02:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself, would people would arrive, I was sizing them up,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.36,0:02:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'know, I was already trying to decide who was my friend, who was my enemy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.60,0:02:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found out that you can really express your opinions with people who are different than you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.01,0:02:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without it leading to any kind of violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.49,0:03:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over this weekend, it was really important for me to see people express their anger against racism,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.62,0:03:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's something that is very hard for me to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.71,0:03:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was raised, acculturated, to not express that kind of anger when I'm mistreated,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.98,0:03:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to take it silently.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.23,0:03:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have always wanted to express it because when I keep it inside, I feel that it's killing me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.47,0:03:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it has, I believe, killed my father.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.31,0:03:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hearing something, and being the nice Japanese man, and just sort of bowing my head,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.42,0:03:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not wanting to create any waves or not wanting to uh, disturb people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.59,0:03:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not wanting to offend people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.10,0:03:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, as I get older I'm not longer willing to do that anymore,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.40,0:04:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just not acceptable.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.24,0:04:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know, a lot of these guys I may never see again,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.62,0:04:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but um, they got a good, they got a special place inside here, everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.18,0:04:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they ever need an ally, they got one.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.88,0:04:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If somebody makes a remark about a Latino,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.33,0:04:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roberto's face will be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.79,0:04:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hughs face will be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.03,0:04:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I won't be able to put up with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.50,0:04:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were facing a white audience, and they were asking me what I wanted from them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.70,0:04:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say justice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.47,0:04:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I cannot love you until you give me justice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.81,0:04:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.92,0:04:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I will see change in individuals,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.02,0:04:56.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw that here with the white men, that there was change for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.93,0:05:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think I'm gonna see much change on a societal level or institutional level in my lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.37,0:05:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that makes me very sad to think that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.44,0:05:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I can hold onto are the individuals that I know are changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.14,0:05:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know David will go away and he will educate his daughters.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.18,0:05:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know he'll do that, and the people around him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.11,0:05:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what I have to hold onto.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.59,0:05:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really am appreciative that I was here [voice cracking] um...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.70,0:05:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will have an impact on me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.56,0:05:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout the remainder of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.28,0:05:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I will be your ally
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.55,0:05:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do all I can
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.92,0:05:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop racism wherever I encounter it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.46,0:06:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll fight, and he'll struggle, and he'll intervene on my behalf, um,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.36,0:06:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that it'll wear off.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.86,0:06:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That his ability to struggle against racism will wear off
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.54,0:06:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless he has other white men with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.61,0:06:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless he has other white people with him
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.74,0:06:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sayin' "keep going".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.38,0:06:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If David or people like David are going to depend on people of colour
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.75,0:06:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep him goin' against racism, it won't change.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.28,0:06:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Racism won't change.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.59,0:06:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we have a beautiful world that is in great danger,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.76,0:06:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know we have a beautiful world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.96,0:06:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know that it's in great danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.93,0:06:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I can't think of aything I'd rather do with my life
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.53,0:06:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than to see this great, um, project of human life and of life in general on this planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.57,0:06:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.88,0:07:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if I could talk to my father,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.16,0:07:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd say, "be brave, be proud, and do what you believe is right, and study,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.13,0:07:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always study, never stop studying."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.58,0:07:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what one of the first thoughts for me
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.68,0:07:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that I think I really wanted something for my father to see,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.08,0:07:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he thought that white people wouldn't listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.65,0:07:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or come to see or get really angry if they saw a film on racism.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.49,0:07:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides that, I think he also
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.38,0:07:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has indoctrinated me for years that people of colour and whites can't get along,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.67,0:07:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no way that's going to happen on this earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.17,0:07:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's gonna keep going on and on and on.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.06,0:07:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David, I liked it perfectly when you said, you know, about you like the anger,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.20,0:08:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it was needed, and it was honest, and it was appropriate, the word you used,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.45,0:08:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that we do need to get that anger out,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.27,0:08:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because underneath all that anger is all that hurt
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.81,0:08:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has never been allowed to come out for us,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.61,0:08:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then on the other end
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.22,0:08:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is I think what we all saw with David and Gordon also saw was the end of it, was the possibility
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.11,0:08:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get along,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.83,0:08:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we could just be heard and acknowledged.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.73,0:08:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember on Saturday evening I just broke down and I cried on Hughs shoulder,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.57,0:08:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I told him that I think that I could rest now after this film.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.47,0:08:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That I could say that I left something for my son.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.38,0:08:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that he's gonna go out into the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.92,0:08:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see what I had to see,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.81,0:08:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to know, to let him know that I, that I was with him in some way,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.16,0:08:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I wanted the world to be different for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.42,0:09:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted him to know that he wasn't crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.06,0:09:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I shared with you, David,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.26,0:09:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted my child to meet your children someday,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.90,0:09:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on an equal basis.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.57,0:09:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.64,0:09:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will remember every one of you for the rest of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.68,0:09:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I, some of you I've known,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.94,0:09:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but never quite in this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.85,0:09:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the rest of your lives, you too have this film
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.59,0:09:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your children and your partners.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.19,0:09:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Victor, you did your people proud.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.56,0:09:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of you did that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.00,0:09:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your fathers, your grandfathers, grandmothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.54,0:09:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You did it for them,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.38,0:09:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for that, from the deepest part of my heart, I want to thank each of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.52,0:10:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[all singing] may the work that I done speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.89,0:10:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the work that I done speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.10,0:10:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if I fall short of my goal
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.00,0:10:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone else come take a hold
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.68,0:10:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the work that I done speak for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.15,0:10:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the truth that I told speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.99,0:10:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the work that I done speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.46,0:10:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if I fall short of my goal,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.17,0:10:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone else come take a hold
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.00,0:11:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the work that I done speak for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.35,0:11:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the truth that I told speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.15,0:11:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the truth that I told speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.70,0:11:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if I fall short of my goal,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.46,0:11:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone else come take a hold
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.40,0:11:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the truth that I told speak for me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.71,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the love that I shared speak for me...\N