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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.92,0:00:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can ask anyone you want
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.90,0:00:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they will tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.64,0:00:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are sick and tired\Nof fighting for justice.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.48,0:00:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People of color and members\Nof the LGBT community are tired
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.55,0:00:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of carrying the burden of speaking up
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.68,0:00:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stepping up
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.40,0:00:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when they're being silenced
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.63,0:00:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pushed back down.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.89,0:00:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And white allies
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.69,0:00:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cis allies are tired too.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.08,0:00:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tired of being told they're doing it wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.49,0:00:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that it isn't even their place\Nto show up at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.72,0:00:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This fatigue is impacting all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.02,0:00:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.58,0:00:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe we won't succeed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.39,0:00:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until we approach justice in a new way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.94,0:00:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in the middle\Nof the Civil Rights Movement
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.50,0:01:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the segregated South.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.45,0:01:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a five-year-old girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.30,0:01:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was very interested in ballet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.47,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seemed to be the five-year-old-girl\Nthing to do in the 1960s.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.100,0:01:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother took me to a ballet school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.68,0:01:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the kind of school\Nthat had teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.82,0:01:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that talked about your gifts and talents
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.72,0:01:22.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing that you'd never be a ballerina.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.15,0:01:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.34,0:01:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we arrived,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.85,0:01:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they said nicely that they\N"did not accept negroes."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.54,0:01:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got back in the car as if we were\Njust leaving a grocery store
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.25,0:01:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was out of orange juice.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.10,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We said nothing ...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just drove to the next ballet school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.49,0:01:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "We don't accept negroes."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.69,0:01:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I was confused.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.08,0:01:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I asked my mother\Nwhy they didn't want me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.41,0:02:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said, "Well, they're just not\Nsmart enough to accept you right now
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.86,0:02:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they don't know\Nhow excellent you are."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.99,0:02:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.14,0:02:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.32,0:02:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I didn't know what that meant.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.90,0:02:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.78,0:02:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I was sure it wasn't good
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.41,0:02:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I could see it\Nin my mother's eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.36,0:02:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was angry
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.61,0:02:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it looked like she was\Non the verge of tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.13,0:02:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I decided right then and right there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.02,0:02:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that ballet was dumb.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.94,0:02:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.05,0:02:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I had lots of experiences\Nlike that along the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.03,0:02:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as I got older,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.27,0:02:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to get angry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.72,0:02:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not just angry at the outright\Nracism and injustice.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.36,0:02:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was angry at people that stood by\Nand didn't say anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.26,0:02:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, why didn't the white parents\Nin that ballet school say
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:03:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Uh, that's wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.08,0:03:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let that little girl dance."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.98,0:03:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or why --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.16,0:03:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.86,0:03:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why didn't the white patrons\Nin the segregated restaurants say
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.83,0:03:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hey, that's not right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.78,0:03:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let that family eat."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.96,0:03:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it didn't take me long to realize
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.34,0:03:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that racial injustice\Nwasn't the only place
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.77,0:03:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people in the majority\Nwere staying quiet.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.41,0:03:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I'd sit in church and hear\Nsome homophobic comment
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.54,0:03:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being disguised as something scriptural,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.81,0:03:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd say, "I'm sorry,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.45,0:03:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why aren't the heterosexual\Nchurchgoers disrupting this nonsense?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.91,0:03:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.38,0:03:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.46,0:03:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a room filled with boomers and Gen-Xers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.48,0:03:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who started degrading their millennial\Ncolleagues as being spoiled, lazy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.84,0:03:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and overconfident,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.13,0:03:51.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.33,0:03:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm sorry,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.13,0:03:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why isn't someone my age\Nsaying 'stop stereotyping?'"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.78,0:03:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Audience) Yes!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.92,0:04:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.15,0:04:06.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was used to standing up\Non issues like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.11,0:04:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but why wasn't everyone else?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.76,0:04:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My fifth grade teacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.55,0:04:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mrs. McFarland,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.54,0:04:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taught me that justice\Nrequires an accomplice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.33,0:04:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just anyone will do.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.52,0:04:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said we need unlikely allies
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.71,0:04:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we want to see real change happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.70,0:04:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for those of us experiencing\Ninjustice up front,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.20,0:04:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to be willing to accept the help,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.49,0:04:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when we don't,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.32,0:04:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change takes too long.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.15,0:04:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, imagine if heterosexual\Nand gay people had not come together
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.95,0:04:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the banner of marriage equality.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.04,0:04:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or what if President Kennedy
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.58,0:04:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just wasn't interested\Nin the civil rights movement?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.38,0:05:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of our major movements\Nin this country might have been delayed
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.94,0:05:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even dead
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.84,0:05:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it weren't for the presence\Nof unlikely allies.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.18,0:05:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the same people speak up
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.60,0:05:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same ways they've always spoken up,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.77,0:05:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most we'll ever get\Nare the same results
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.70,0:05:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over and over again.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.90,0:05:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, allies often\Nstand on the sidelines
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.64,0:05:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting to be called up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.12,0:05:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if unlikely allies\Nled out in front of issues?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.23,0:05:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.54,0:05:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if Black and Native American people\Nstood in front of immigration issues?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.92,0:05:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.46,0:05:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or what if white people led the charge
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.68,0:05:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to end racism?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.72,0:05:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.72,0:05:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.15,0:05:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if men led the charge\Non pay equity for women?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.70,0:06:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.59,0:06:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.03,0:06:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what if heterosexual people\Nstood in front of LGBTQ issues?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.27,0:06:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.02,0:06:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what if able-bodied people advocated
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.91,0:06:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for people living with disabilities?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.63,0:06:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.14,0:06:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we can stand up for issues,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.99,0:06:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weigh in and advocate
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.20,0:06:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when it seems like the issue\Nhas nothing to do with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.23,0:06:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.44,0:06:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those are the issues\Nthat are most compelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.84,0:06:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sure,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.00,0:06:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people will have no idea\Nwhy you are there,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.13,0:06:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's why those of us\Nfacing injustice
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.48,0:06:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must be willing to accept the help.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.51,0:06:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we have to fight injustice
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.41,0:06:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a consciousness of grace.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.80,0:07:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When white guys stand up to fight
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.33,0:07:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the liberation\Nof Black and Brown people,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.67,0:07:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black and Brown people will have to be\Nwilling to accept their help.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.86,0:07:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that's complicated,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.39,0:07:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is collective work
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.71,0:07:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it requires everyone to be all in.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.30,0:07:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day when I was at kindergarten,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.96,0:07:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our teacher introduced us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.48,0:07:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this beautiful, tall,\Nwhite lady named Miss Ann.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.85,0:07:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought she was the prettiest\Nwhite lady I'd ever seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.74,0:07:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well if I can be honest with you,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.37,0:07:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was the first time we'd ever\Nseen a white lady in our school ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.99,0:07:40.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.44,0:07:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miss Ann stood in front of us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.13,0:07:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said she was going\Nto start teaching ballet classes
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.32,0:07:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right there are our school,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.21,0:07:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that she was proud\Nto be our dance teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.69,0:07:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was unreal.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.50,0:08:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of a sudden --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.39,0:08:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(singing)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.39,0:08:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't think ballet was dumb anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.35,0:08:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.97,0:08:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, what I know now\Nis Miss Ann was fully aware
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.28,0:08:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the white ballet schools\Nwould not accept Black girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.01,0:08:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was incensed by that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.38,0:08:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she came to the Black neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.02,0:08:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to start teaching\Nthe dance classes herself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.97,0:08:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know it took love\Nand courage for her to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.10,0:08:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.78,0:08:38.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And where there was no justice,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.39,0:08:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she just built it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.30,0:08:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all survived
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.42,0:08:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we stood on the shoulders\Nof our Black ancestors.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.88,0:08:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all thrived because\NMiss Ann was an unlikely ally.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.73,0:08:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, when you add your voice
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.86,0:09:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your actions
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.11,0:09:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to situations that you\Ndon't think involve you,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.82,0:09:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you actually inspire\Nothers to do the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.80,0:09:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miss Ann inspired me\Nto always be on the lookout
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.85,0:09:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for situations that weren't about me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.59,0:09:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but where I saw injustice
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.76,0:09:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and inequality happening anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.51,0:09:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope she inspires you too,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.19,0:09:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because to win the fight for equity
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.35,0:09:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will all need to speak up
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.25,0:09:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stand up.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.62,0:09:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will all need to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.13,0:09:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we will all need to do that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.13,0:09:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when it's hard
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.84,0:09:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even when we feel out of place,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.13,0:09:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it is your place,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.15,0:09:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is our place.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.28,0:09:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Justice counts on all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.34,0:09:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.72,0:10:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)