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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.79,0:00:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've got people in me."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.38,0:00:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So sang the late Abbey Lincoln.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.25,0:00:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I take that lyric as mantra.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.25,0:00:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've got people in me."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.50,0:00:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jomama Jones is the person in me\NI turn to as a guide.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.75,0:00:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's my alter ego.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.79,0:00:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been embodying her\Nin performance since 1995,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.79,0:00:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she comes around\Nwhen she has some insight to offer folks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.62,0:00:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this time of radical change,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.71,0:00:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm glad to be the vessel\Nfor her message to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.54,0:00:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jomama Jones: What if I told you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.17,0:00:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to be alright ...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.58,0:00:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what if I told you not yet?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.54,0:00:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you there are trials ahead
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.17,0:00:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond your deepest fears?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you will you fall ...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.92,0:00:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down, down, down?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if I told you\Nyou will surprise yourself?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.54,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you will be brave enough?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.33,0:01:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.21,0:01:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we won't all make it through?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.33,0:01:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if I told you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.67,0:01:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is as it must be?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.08,0:01:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you I've seen the future?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.12,0:01:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you like my hands?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.21,0:01:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're expressive, yeah?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.54,0:01:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look at your hands -- now go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.04,0:01:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so much history recorded\Nthrough their touches
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.75,0:01:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and marks of the future\Nsketched on their palms.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.33,0:01:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes hands grip tight,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.17,0:01:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes hands let go.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.38,0:01:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.79,0:01:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's all going to come undone?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.08,0:01:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hm.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.50,0:01:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ladies and gentlemen
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.25,0:02:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and otherwise described,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.79,0:02:03.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am Jomama Jones.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.92,0:02:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some call me a soul sonic superstar,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.79,0:02:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I agree,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.71,0:02:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though even in my past\Nthat was from the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.17,0:02:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me take you back to girlhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.29,0:02:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picture this:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.88,0:02:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was Planting Day,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.75,0:02:19.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a holiday I invented
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.92,0:02:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Black youth\Ncommunity group I founded.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.50,0:02:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I dashed home to put on\Nmy gardening ensemble
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.62,0:02:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I caught my uncle Freeman red-handed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.67,0:02:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was standing over my piggy bank\Nwith his hammer raised high.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.71,0:02:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was fixing to steal my coins.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.67,0:02:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my uncle Freeman was a handyman.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.50,0:02:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could fix anything --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.88,0:02:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a broken chair, a shattered pot --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.08,0:02:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even bring grandmother's\Nplants back to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.38,0:02:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had that magic touch\Nwith broken things ...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.50,0:02:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and broken people.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.21,0:02:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would take me with him on his jobs
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.21,0:02:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "C'mon Jo,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.54,0:03:00.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's go do something\Nto make this world a better place."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.92,0:03:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His hands were wide and calloused,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.17,0:03:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they always reminded me\Nof displaced tree roots.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.67,0:03:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we worked he would talk with folks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.04,0:03:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the change he was sure\Nwas just around the corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.00,0:03:20.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw him mend flagging hopes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.38,0:03:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leave folks\Nwith their heads held high.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.12,0:03:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His hands stirred the sunshine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.88,0:03:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now he was about\Nto break my piggy bank.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.04,0:03:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said "Step back, man,\Nand show me your hands."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.17,0:03:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the irony was
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.62,0:03:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he used to give me all the old coins\Nhe'd find under floorboards while working.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.42,0:03:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I put them in the piggy bank
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.04,0:03:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with the money I earned\Nthrough my childhood side hustles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.00,0:03:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But by the spring of 1970,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.00,0:03:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uncle Freeman had lost his touch ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.88,0:03:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with most of his jobs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.33,0:04:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He saw a heavy future
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.83,0:04:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of civil wrongs and Black power\Noutages in his palms.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.67,0:04:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last straw had come\Nthe previous winter
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.79,0:04:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they had gunned down Fred Hampton.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.42,0:04:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Overwhelmed with fear
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.46,0:04:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rage
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.25,0:04:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and grief,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.58,0:04:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uncle Freeman tried to game his future.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.04,0:04:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gripped too tight,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he started playing the numbers.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.33,0:04:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, one of these numbers\Nis gonna hit, little girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.96,0:04:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got a quarter for your uncle Free -- "
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.04,0:04:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now some of y'all have that relative.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.54,0:04:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I knew right then and there\NI had to do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.12,0:04:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I jumped up and I grabbed that hammer
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.96,0:04:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I brought it\Ncrashing down on that pig.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.21,0:04:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Uncle Freeman started to weep\Nas I gathered up all the coins.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.33,0:04:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're not buying\Nno lottery ticket, Uncle Freeman.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.88,0:04:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,C'mon."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.33,0:04:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We spent every last cent\Nat the seed store.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.54,0:05:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the kids in my gardening group?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.58,0:05:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't bat an eye\Nwhen I had Uncle Freeman get down
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.25,0:05:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put his hands in the earth again
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.71,0:05:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start breaking up\Nthat soil for our seeds.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.75,0:05:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my little friend Taesha even came over\Nand started slapping him on the back
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.58,0:05:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying, "Cry it out, Uncle Freeman.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.33,0:05:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cry it out."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.00,0:05:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I can't fix this," he sobbed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.58,0:05:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an ancient-future truism, that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.04,0:05:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wasn't the first to feel that way,\Nand he wouldn't be the last.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.75,0:05:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, it feels as though\Neverything is breaking beyond repair.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.62,0:05:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.71,0:05:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that breaking apart\Ncan be a breaking open,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.71,0:05:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter how violent and uncertain
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.83,0:05:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fearsome it seems.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.12,0:05:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing is ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.42,0:05:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can't do it alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.96,0:06:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uncle Freeman cried so much that day\Nas we planted our seeds,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.67,0:06:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was our very own irrigation system.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.12,0:06:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't know who I am\Nanymore, little girl,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.50,0:06:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said to me at sundown.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.08,0:06:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Good, Uncle Freeman.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.67,0:06:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.83,0:06:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're new again,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.54,0:06:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's just how we need you."