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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.81,0:00:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484384/
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.67,0:00:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ominous music in background, soundscape... sounds like a heartbeat]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.68,0:00:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked for directions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.31,0:00:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this guy gave me directions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.78,0:00:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I noticed in his hand he had a knife,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.97,0:00:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he had the knife out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.18,0:00:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that that knife was about this long...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.19,0:00:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[another voice] He came up to me and he said
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.92,0:00:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let me see your license",
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.26,0:01:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he spit at my shoe.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.30,0:01:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Atlanta...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.43,0:01:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one inch from my shoe...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.27,0:01:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it felt like he was saying "motherfucker, make a move"...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.07,0:01:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the only white worker
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.31,0:01:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got beat up and got it taken away...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.02,0:01:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look more white than we do...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.85,0:01:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may look more white but no way do I cross that line...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.22,0:01:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...the fear is still there because I know it can happen...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.26,0:01:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it has happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.33,0:01:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to me...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.66,0:01:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to other people who look just like me...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.48,0:01:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another one went in the laundromat at another time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.67,0:01:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came up to me with a $10 bill
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.27,0:01:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and waved it in front of me, said
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.80,0:01:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"change? change?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.84,0:01:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she was anunciating very carefully...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.24,0:01:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we always {\u1}_{\u0} you baby, always,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.81,0:01:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.55,0:01:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ride up here... it's all oh man where are we now??
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.05,0:02:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh god! I hate being out of the city!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.14,0:02:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I know who's out here"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.26,0:02:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You block your progress...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.86,0:02:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I block my own progress?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.63,0:02:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, as I look around this room,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.57,0:02:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realize, you know, the connection is really me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.67,0:02:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I actually know each one of you in a very special way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.04,0:02:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of you I just met actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.38,0:02:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of you were picked very particularly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.68,0:02:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it took time to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.42,0:02:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of you were picked for your honesty,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.49,0:02:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for your directness,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.96,0:02:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for your sincerity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.02,0:02:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the work that you do, too, on yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.19,0:02:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I really wanted to have you on film.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.28,0:02:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your ethnicity?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.46,0:02:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am American.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.07,0:02:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generations back, we came from England and Denmark,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.01,0:02:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but mostly when they got into America here,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.48,0:02:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever happened, we got mixed up,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.35,0:03:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'm American.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.65,0:03:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A white American I guess.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.75,0:03:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father is Mexican, my mother is Irish.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.22,0:03:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,African, and, some ways back, Cherokee descent.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.19,0:03:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a 3rd generation Japanese American man.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.86,0:03:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm 7th, at least 7th generation Euro-American.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.10,0:03:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, I have family is, on both sides, is Scot,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.87,0:03:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on my father's side is also English and German.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.48,0:03:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm uh, I'm Mexican.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.98,0:03:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Latino, I'm Mexican,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.75,0:03:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Mexican-American, I'm Chicano.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.04,0:03:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am Chinese, and I'm Chinese-American.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.52,0:03:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am an American also.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.43,0:03:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am an all-American man,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.76,0:03:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the reason I say that is that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.53,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born here, educated here, and that makes me American.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do always want to be identified as African-American or Black,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.98,0:04:04.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just an American.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.81,0:04:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason why I'm here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.18,0:04:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm glad to be here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.51,0:04:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because I have a lot of anger,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.55,0:04:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is a positive outlet for that anger.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.78,0:04:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could do a lot of destructive things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.65,0:04:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that would be, that wouldn't be productive whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.66,0:04:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here because, um, I'm a racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.33,0:04:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've been working at it for, that being un-learning that, since '76.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.60,0:04:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've still got it, and there's a lot of pain around that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.58,0:04:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm nervous about being here, cause I don't know what's gonna happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.11,0:04:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think one of the ways I've survived racism
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.25,0:04:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to be in complete control,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.98,0:04:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm not in complete control here [laughs].
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.65,0:04:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm a little worried about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.46,0:04:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm just, y'know, trippin' on the, y'know, walkin' in here and seein' who was here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.19,0:04:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't expect white men to be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.36,0:05:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a local boy, grown, raised right here in this small community,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.57,0:05:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when the subject of racism was mentioned to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.30,0:05:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found it extremely exciting
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.64,0:05:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I grew up in this area,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.94,0:05:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with friends of all races,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.61,0:05:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we would read in the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.68,0:05:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see on the television,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.02,0:05:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of racial struggles in other areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.68,0:05:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and could not comprehend how that could be.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.12,0:05:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why they had to cause struggle and strife for each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.39,0:05:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why couldn't they be just like at home?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.53,0:05:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Happy and productive together.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.46,0:05:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ad I don't think that anybody should be any less than another.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.40,0:05:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh, I grew up in this area right alongside the Native Americans,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.74,0:05:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of them to this day are my dearest friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.63,0:05:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ... I like their cultures, yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.68,0:05:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I even seek after artifacts from their history...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.62,0:05:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's no struggle or strife,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.12,0:05:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't cause it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.16,0:06:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Chinese, y'know, the word "American" really means "white" to us;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.13,0:06:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and uh, that's why today I actually will not use the word American either,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.27,0:06:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I do believe that it really does not incorporate all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.91,0:06:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there really still is not that political, social, and economic equality.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.85,0:06:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when that day comes, I'll be the first to stand up and say "I'm an American,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.76,0:06:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stand with everyone".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.89,0:06:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh, but until I feel that, I think that I'll always feel that I have to say Chinese,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.06,0:06:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that people know who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.34,0:06:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3 years ago I went to Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.70,0:06:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, I gotta go find my roots,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.40,0:06:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and find out who I really am.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.64,0:06:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Applied for the passport, filling out the things,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.38,0:06:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ... nationality, it says "American".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.27,0:06:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Said to my wife "I can't put down 'American', I'm not 'American'".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.82,0:07:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She says "yeah, you're American, you gotta put down American".
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.36,0:07:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said "I'm Japanese".
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.09,0:07:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not Japanese, you're American!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.73,0:07:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, I can't do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.96,0:07:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never in my life claimed myself to be...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.23,0:07:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I just said, like, well I'm gonna put Japanese down.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.40,0:07:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She says "you're not from Japan!"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.07,0:07:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughing]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.60,0:07:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.80,0:07:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You were born here, you're American"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.77,0:07:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And... it just... I was just blown away by...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.78,0:07:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'know, for the first time I had to put that down,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.78,0:07:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,otherwise it would've been rejected,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.28,0:07:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no choice in that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.78,0:07:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think that we don't get excited as Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.69,0:07:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you say you are something other than just American?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.33,0:07:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got excited when Mun Wah said to us that he is Chinese American,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.03,0:07:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why can't he be just American,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.17,0:07:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and excited about being just American like David is?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.13,0:07:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait a minute, I just...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.70,0:07:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He calls himself an American...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.61,0:07:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm doing that for a very specific purpose...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.91,0:08:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm doing it because I'm turning my identity as American
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.83,0:08:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight against the white supremacist notion
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.86,0:08:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that only white people merit the status of the title of American.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.53,0:08:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I agree with that...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.33,0:08:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I refuse to to be segregated to, or to be allocated to a lower status
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.04,0:08:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by not being recognized as an American.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.31,0:08:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like that attitude, and I think that's a correct and proper attitude...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.14,0:08:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm also Chinese and very proud of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.65,0:08:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for a person to look at me and say "you're just",
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.52,0:08:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a white person to look at me and say "you're just like me, we're both American"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.39,0:08:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,totally insults me because it denies my identity as a Chinese person too.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.60,0:08:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel in a sense that I have a claim to be American
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.87,0:08:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that you don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.24,0:09:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because my people came from this continent.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.24,0:09:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My ancestors came across the Bering Straight from Asia,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.44,0:09:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and came down the coast,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.45,0:09:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on into central Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.85,0:09:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and others of my ancestors came from Arabia,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.19,0:09:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through Egypt, through north Africa, and into Spain.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.36,0:09:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they all melted together in central Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.33,0:09:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America is not the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.57,0:09:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America is the entire continent.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.20,0:09:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we think here, or Americans here think that America means just this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.34,0:09:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I feel like I have, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.84,0:09:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been in kind of...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.10,0:09:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to say "I have...",
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.75,0:09:44.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause I don't feel it like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.35,0:09:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my people, the people that I come from,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.76,0:09:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been sort of robbed of that term.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.72,0:09:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not Americans,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.33,0:09:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though WE ARE, [voice cracking]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.19,0:10:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, I don't know where that came from.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.91,0:10:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know where that came from,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.44,0:10:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, um, you know, when you say you know "I wish you would be American,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.32,0:10:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you would all agree to be American",
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.69,0:10:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what, what is presented to me as an American,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.39,0:10:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not look like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.36,0:10:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not think like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.10,0:10:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not smell like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.30,0:10:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not cry like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.97,0:10:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not play like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.57,0:10:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for me to say that,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.94,0:10:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use that as my primary identification,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.97,0:10:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me, it means to deny
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.61,0:10:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all, nearly all of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.74,0:10:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked in corporate America for awhile,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.85,0:10:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now when I see guys walkin' down the street in a suit and tie,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.99,0:10:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm like whew, I bet he can't wait to go home and become a black man again.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.16,0:11:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.59,0:11:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you're not allowed to be a black man in corporate America.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.90,0:11:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walk through some halls with some pride,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.72,0:11:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're gonna scare some people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.40,0:11:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Show that you have some intelligence,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.64,0:11:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you scare people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.17,0:11:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You gotta shuffle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.47,0:11:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a 1993 shuffle, but it's still a shuffle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.08,0:11:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You give us a hard time for being white,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.38,0:11:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being American,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.21,0:11:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being in control.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.15,0:11:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never felt in control.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.05,0:11:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had vineyards, and pear orchards for many years,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.12,0:11:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I employed many of your people,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.96,0:11:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you wish to call them that,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.23,0:11:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're my dear friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.30,0:11:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me they are friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.03,0:11:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,equal to any that I would have.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.84,0:11:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I greet them,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.64,0:11:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now they come into my business and they just want to come in and say hi and talk to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.71,0:11:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something different that's happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.66,0:11:56.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's different that's happened for us,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.65,0:11:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm speaking as a people,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.88,0:12:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,borders on genocide,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.39,0:12:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takeover,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.09,0:12:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,colonization,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.09,0:12:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what happenes to me when I pass a mission?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.23,0:12:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yknow?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.13,0:12:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the same thing that happens to every group that passes a mission.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.53,0:12:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something different.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.40,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I hear Father Junipero Serra, what do you think I think of?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.70,0:12:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.83,0:12:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's chopping off hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.70,0:12:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's slavery,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.07,0:12:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you know, that's what's different,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.74,0:12:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it gets tiring to not have that difference known.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.28,0:12:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gets tiring to not have that difference acknowledged,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.35,0:12:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to have to keep talking about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.15,0:12:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what gets tiring.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.79,0:12:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I see here an attitude expressed by Yutaka and by Roberto
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.76,0:12:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that says how can I be an American? I can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.36,0:12:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I won't.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.33,0:12:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to cling to my heritage.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.67,0:13:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this clinging the problem?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.84,0:13:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this belief that you cannot become American the problem?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.74,0:13:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years, I've said why do these guys have such a problem being a colour?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.85,0:13:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why can't they just be individuals?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.65,0:13:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And go out and make a place for themselves?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.22,0:13:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hear you saying that we whites don't allow that.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.66,0:13:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we keep you down,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.69,0:13:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why aren't we just humans?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.19,0:13:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, why aren't we just... brothers?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.40,0:13:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a certain um, um, sort of, silent consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.04,0:13:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what it mean to be American,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.94,0:13:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I sense coming from, uh. white folks,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.71,0:13:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'd like to talk about.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.15,0:13:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But before I do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.92,0:13:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd like to say one more thing that's tired about talking about racism,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.48,0:13:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is that, uh, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.29,0:13:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people of colour are spilling their guts,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.76,0:13:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "doing education" uh, to white people.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.63,0:13:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let me explain to you how you got this wrong...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.56,0:14:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me explain to you how you got that wrong...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.26,0:14:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me explain..."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.53,0:14:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we get cross-examined,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.44,0:14:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's like "well, maybe you're problem is ... bababababa???"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.04,0:14:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's always, you know, racism gets looked at as a person of colour's problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.38,0:14:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.34,0:14:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we're like on the receiving end of the problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.05,0:14:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are not the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.58,0:14:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know, I walk in a world where, uh,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.18,0:14:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where black people, where Latinos, where Asians, where Arabs,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.02,0:14:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these different people are... experienced as problem people,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.66,0:14:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that "well, we're gonna deal with the...with the person of colour problem..."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.33,0:14:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when in fact, uh, racism is essentially a white problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.34,0:14:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that for you to understand what racism is about,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.14,0:14:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're gonna be so uncomfortable,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.28,0:14:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're gonna be so different from who you see yourself to be now,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.45,0:14:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that uh, you know, there's just no way for you to get it from where you're sitting.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.35,0:14:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not saying that you could not ever get it,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.33,0:14:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean that you need to step outside of your skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.59,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and step out...