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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.21,0:00:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...on an interpersonal basis,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.34,0:00:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,institutionally? Not terribly much,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.30,0:00:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because most of the lethal, toxic, deadly racism that African American people experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.01,0:00:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that other people of colour experience in this country,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.98,0:00:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not come from them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.65,0:00:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It comes from moral, fair-minded people who believe that they are lovers of justice,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.06,0:00:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,church goers, people who experience themselvesas decent and actually very nice folk.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.10,0:00:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is there that I find my fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.36,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back to the question of what it means to be white.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what it means to be white in part
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.81,0:00:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you have the privilege of blaming people of colour
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.78,0:00:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their own victimization under white supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.74,0:00:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard you say that to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.52,0:00:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard you say that to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.09,0:00:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard you say that to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.57,0:00:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard you say it to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.86,0:00:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard you say it to, uh, every person of colour in the room
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.83,0:01:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who challenged your perception of yourself in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.22,0:01:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is part of what it means to be white.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.04,0:01:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] Maybe that's part of the answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.66,0:01:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we feel that the field is wide open,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.13,0:01:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each man can stand on his own...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.50,0:01:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Victor] No no. Each man does not stand on his own.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.31,0:01:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some men stand on other men, and other women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.34,0:01:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Light skinned men, men from Europe stand on the heads and the parts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.98,0:01:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of men and women and children of colour.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.18,0:01:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is.... and of course you also stand on the heads of white women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.96,0:01:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no, it's not a question of every man standing on his own ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.93,0:01:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the ground damn near of this planet has been taken
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.50,0:01:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from almost all of the people of colour on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.04,0:01:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Australia was a black continent.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.75,0:01:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Africa was a black continent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.51,0:01:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the people themselves were not taken from Africa,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.11,0:02:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then everything of value was taken from Africa to the extent that that was possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.42,0:02:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,North America was a red continent.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.32,0:02:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South America was a red continent.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.82,0:02:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are NOT stading on your own ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.02,0:02:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are standing on RED ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.46,0:02:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And THAT's what it means to be white.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.50,0:02:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To say that you're standing on your own ground and standing on somebody else's.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.24,0:02:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then mystify the whole process so it seems like you're not doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.24,0:02:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White. Why is being white such a unique thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.61,0:02:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it such a, an important thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.15,0:02:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never felt that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.62,0:02:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Roberto]It is kind of... y'kow...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.22,0:02:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] Well it must be. You're telling me that being white is special.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.82,0:02:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not feeling special.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.75,0:02:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've never felt special because I was white.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.50,0:02:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've pointed out to me where I have racial prejudisms.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.60,0:03:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've expressed that innocently, and naively, by just little questions & statement that I've made.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.24,0:03:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um. Yeah. Maybe I really am that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.25,0:03:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Gordon] I have a real difficult time talking with you about your experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.19,0:03:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can relate to their frustration.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.69,0:03:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just doesn't feel like anything's getting through.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.36,0:03:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Hugh] I'm working up my courage to ask you something, a request.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.80,0:03:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also there's a question with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.97,0:03:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The request is for you to not give up on David, to go after him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.87,0:03:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not able to get through,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.94,0:03:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many in the room are not able to get through.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.11,0:03:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've given statistics, and we've given personal stories, and we've given histories,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.82,0:03:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we've dadadadada.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.78,0:03:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've yelled, we've screamed, we've cried, you know, it's not getting through.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.39,0:03:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure you've met other white people that you just have said
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.29,0:04:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"bye, forget it, I'm not, I don't need to deal with you"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.100,0:04:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, that kind of thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.43,0:04:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have the privilege of not dealing with the Davids in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.97,0:04:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm askin', I'm askin' you to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.01,0:04:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm actually boldly expecting you to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.44,0:04:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughing]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.25,0:04:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were standing in front of a whole room full of white people,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.42,0:04:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would tell them much of what I've told some of the men in this group this weekend,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.02,0:04:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the white men in this group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.99,0:04:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would tell them that it's their responsibility to go educate their white brothers & sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.03,0:04:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would tell them it's their, that it's my expectation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.18,0:04:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I expect them to eliminate racism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.30,0:04:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I expect them to go out and intervene whenever they see racism going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.04,0:04:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I expect them to be as outraged about racism as I am outraged by racism,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.25,0:04:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as black people are outraged,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.02,0:04:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Asians are outraged,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.22,0:04:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Indians are outraged.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.72,0:05:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I expect that of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.32,0:05:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what I would tell them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.68,0:05:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would tell them what I expect,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.99,0:05:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell them what I, I'd tell them what I never want to hear from them again.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.10,0:05:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never wanna hear stuff about um, how my experience is not valid,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.87,0:05:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or why can't I just pull myself up by my bootstraps.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.34,0:05:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are things that I would tell them about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.29,0:05:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd tell them that they've gotta end it. They've gotta end it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.18,0:05:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning, I felt this ray of hope and optimism, when you shared that you get nervous
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.41,0:05:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you would go down to San Francisco into an ethnically diverse neighbourhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.13,0:05:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that you actually got in touch with those messages,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.17,0:05:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether they were given to you directly, taught to you directly, or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.08,0:05:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or somehow that you felt how these things just started to come over you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.35,0:05:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lee Mun Wah] Why is that important to you...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.15,0:06:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yutaka] Because I just sort of felt that you finally connected with some feelings,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.12,0:06:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and getting down here, instead of being up here in the uh, frontal lobes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.66,0:06:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and analyzing every everything, and looking at everything rational.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.42,0:06:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause a lot of the fears or the anger, isn't rational.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.50,0:06:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] It's probably the looks that you get.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.92,0:06:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's where it comes from.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.38,0:06:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The looks, of the individuals,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.31,0:06:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, they stand on the corners and, uh, "what are you doin' here?" y'know?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.45,0:06:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they make me feel unwanted.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.09,0:06:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's what I feel.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.86,0:06:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yutaka] Yeah.As pickup trucks do...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.86,0:06:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughing]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.10,0:06:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guys with, cowboy, sitting there, you pull up in the gas station...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.36,0:06:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know my feelings are very opposed to some of yours,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.93,0:06:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't understand why you have all this intense anger, and emotions,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.70,0:06:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why it's so difficult for you to just be yourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.34,0:07:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make your place.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.35,0:07:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wh... I think that's the big difference here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.28,0:07:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We white men don't have this comraderie if you want, that you coloureds have.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.26,0:07:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We, we we have, we don't go out and organize, we don't go out and have discussions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.10,0:07:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we just do our stuff, whatever our stuff is, I guess.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.56,0:07:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see that we're living in 2 completely different consciousnesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.94,0:07:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, y'know, I think that I get yours, and that I have to be able to understand yours in order to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.24,0:07:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You live in a world where it's not necessary in most instances for you to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.98,0:07:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my consciousness and my experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.18,0:07:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like one of those parking garages with the spikes coming up.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.32,0:07:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you live in the world where when you drive your car past, the spikes lay down.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.56,0:07:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I live in the world, and the men of colour here live in the world where
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.80,0:07:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we come up to the spikes, man, they're facing right at us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.09,0:08:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thought comes to me, Victor, you're going the wrong direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.81,0:08:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the spikes are opposing you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.41,0:08:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does that ever occur to you, that you're going the wrong direction?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.59,0:08:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a beautiful statement to me, that I'm going the wrong direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.02,0:08:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a marvelous illustration of the consciousness of white supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.48,0:08:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let's not say white supremacy...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.38,0:08:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Victor] Well, I...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.61,0:08:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what I want to say...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.26,0:08:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] This is where as you speak this analogy,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.88,0:08:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm thinking to myself "golly, why does it always have to be in opposition
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.04,0:08:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the way things are structured?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.64,0:08:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I constantly sit here and think "why is he taking this direction?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.21,0:08:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't they as a group, why don't you with your people, look for something within yourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.55,0:08:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can make you feel equal to us?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.75,0:08:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what I hear is you are not equal, and I do not feel that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.83,0:09:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lee Mun Wah] So what's leeping you from believing that that's happening to Victor?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.97,0:09:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just believe it, not to know why that's happening to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.47,0:09:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what's keeping you from believing that that's happening...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.18,0:09:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] Because it seems like such a harsh life, and I just don't want to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.65,0:09:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would assume, Victor, that your life is really that hard, difficult, and unpleasant,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.96,0:09:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lee Mun Wah] What would it mean David then if the life really was that harsh?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.26,0:09:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would that mean in your life, if it really was that harsh...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.96,0:09:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] It would be a travesty of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.20,0:09:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have here something that shouldn't exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.74,0:09:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lee Mun Wah] And so what if it does?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.64,0:09:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if the world were not as you thought?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.98,0:09:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it actually is happening to lots of human beings on this earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.35,0:09:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if it actually were, and you didn't know about it? What would that mean to you?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.65,0:09:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well that's very saddening.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.30,0:10:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[voice cracking] You don't want to believe that man can be so cruel to himself or his own kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.44,0:10:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not want to accept that it has to be that way... maybe it {\i1}is{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.74,0:10:21.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it must be, because you express it and, the others in the group express that it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.28,0:10:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From here I can work with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.96,0:10:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not find you to be an enemy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.16,0:10:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aggressive, and frightening when you become very animated and agitated, but...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.56,0:10:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Victor] We spend a lot of time being nice,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.60,0:10:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and conciliatory, and thoughtful, and careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.50,0:10:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to be exciteable with you about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.87,0:10:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I become excitable
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.71,0:10:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I feel like there's no way for my humanity to get affirmed,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.75,0:11:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I can't say no with my whole aliveness to being mistreated or invalidated,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.72,0:11:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, yeah, then I'm dead, I'm as good as dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.12,0:11:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there were some way that I could be of use and service to you, I would.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.26,0:11:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how. I've never looked at that possibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.70,0:11:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think how you could help me is to begin to understand yourself better.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.91,0:11:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't need help from you or from white folks,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.14,0:11:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as I need a sense of fairness, which is lacking,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.52,0:11:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as much as I need a sense of awareness about this invisible protection that you have,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.70,0:11:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this invisible privilege that you have...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.23,0:11:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Victor was telling you about you being asleep, not being conscious of your privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.81,0:11:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and taking it for granted,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.24,0:12:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was revealed to me that that is true when you referred to us as "you coloureds",
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.48,0:12:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I find that is a very demeaning term.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.45,0:12:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find it alienating,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.59,0:12:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've heard it in the context of referring to people of colour in a negative fashion.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.86,0:12:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's painful for me to hear it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.09,0:12:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would you like me to address you?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.36,0:12:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, not as "you anything".
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.63,0:12:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not "you people", not "you coloureds", not "you Asians", not "you blacks", not "you Latinos".
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.84,0:12:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David C] You David.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.07,0:12:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[David L] It's people of colour, or David if you want to talk about non-whites,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.73,0:12:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm more comfortable with that,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.44,0:12:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause when you say "you", it's sort of, um, it's alienating.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.48,0:12:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You bastards, you pigs, you lowlifes, you no-good people, you people of colour,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.99,0:12:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's how it feels.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.19,0:12:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I have talked to black people who have said you know
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.83,0:12:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have immigrants that come to this country and they can't speak a word of the language,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.37,0:12:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except for one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.80,0:12:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can all say "nigger".
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.70,0:13:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Racism between whites and people of colour isn't the only racism that exists.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.41,0:13:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's racism amongst people of colour.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.22,0:13:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was dusk, it was dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.58,0:13:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this whole group of black people they're
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.36,0:13:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going home, and I had this anxiety, this tension,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.19,0:13:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said why am I so, y'know, what's this big deal,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.33,0:13:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I started to relax and I said these people are just going home from work.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.47,0:13:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.47,0:13:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all waiting at the busstop,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.07,0:13:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as soon as I opened my eyes and scanned, and released myself from all this fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.81,0:13:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it still comes up, I get frightened,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.82,0:13:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you guys are powerful, you guys got a lot of power.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.99,0:13:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain Asian people have reacted toward me, and that really hurt me
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.33,0:14:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I felt they were, uh, they took their cues from white people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.10,0:14:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, like, I've walked by Asian women, and you can see them tense up.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.31,0:14:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that really bothered me,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.98,0:14:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that here was somebody who is another minority,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.28,0:14:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet they had all these, um, they treated me in a way that they wouldn't want to be treated.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.12,0:14:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like they were treating me like some kind of thug off the street, and I really hated that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.59,0:14:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the table behind us were 2, um, young black women,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.16,0:14:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're laughing and then looking over at my table where I was sitting,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.20,0:14:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I heard one say "all Chinese look alike".
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.70,0:14:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got up and I walked over to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.87,0:14:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they just wouldn't look at me,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.94,0:14:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they kept kind of giggling not looking at me.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.88,0:14:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said I heard you, I heard what you said and I disagree with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.75,0:14:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think all blacks look alike?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.90,0:14:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I came back to my car and there was a motorcycle parked in front of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.22,0:14:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I looked around, and there was a black man in a motorcycle helmet
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.56,0:14:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting money out of the money machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.73,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was pissed...