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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growing up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't always understand why\Nmy parents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made me follow the rules that they did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, why did I really have to mow the lawn?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why was homework really that important?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why couldn't I put jelly beans in my oatmeal?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My childhood was abound with questions like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normal things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like being a kid
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and realizing that sometimes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was best to listen to my parents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when I didn't exactly know why.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not that they didn't want\Nme to think critically.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their parenting always sought to reconcile\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tension between having my siblings\Nand I understand the realities of the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while ensuring that we never accept \Nthe status quo as inevitable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to realize that this,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in and of itself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a very purposeful form of education.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my favorite educators,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brazilian author and scholar Paulo Freire,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks quiete explicitly about the need\Nfor edcuation to be used
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a tool for critical awakening,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shared humanity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his most famous book,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pedagogy of the Oppresed",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he states, "No one can be \Nauthentically human
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while he prevents others from being so."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been thinking a lot \Nabout this lately.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea of humanity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And specifically, who in this world\Nis afforded the privilege
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being perceived as fully human.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the course of the past several months,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world has watched as \Nunarmed black men, and women,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had their lives taken at the hands\Nof the police and vigilante.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These events and all that has transpired\Nafter them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have brought me back to my own childhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the decisions that my parents \Nmade about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raising a black boy in America
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that growing up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't always understand in a way\Nthat I do now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of how hard it must have been,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how profoundly unfair it must have felt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them to feel like they had to strip away
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts of my childhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just so that I could come home at night.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, I think of how one night,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was around 12-years-old\Non an overnight field trip to another city,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friends and I bought Supersoakers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and turned the hotel parking lot\Ninto our own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water-filled battle zone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hid behind cars,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running through the darkness that\Nlaid between the streetlights,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boundless laughter ubiquitous \Nacross the pavement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But within ten minutes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my father came outside,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grabbed my by my forearm
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lead me unto our room\Nwith an unfamiliar grip.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before I could say anything,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell him how foolish he had \Nmade me look in front of my friends,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he derided me for being so naive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looked me in the eye,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fear consuming his face,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "Son, I'm sorry,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can't act the same \Nas your white friends.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't pretend to shoot guns.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't run around in the dark.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't hide behind anything\Nother than your own teeth."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know now how scared he must have been.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How easily I could have fallen\Ninto the empty of the night,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some man would mistake this water
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for reason to wash all of this away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the sorts of messages\NI've been inundated with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my entire life:\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Always keep your hands where\Nthey can see them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't move too quickly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take off your hood when the sun goes down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My parents raised me and my siblings\Nin an armor of advice,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an ocean of alarm bells so someone\Nwouldn't steal the breath from our lungs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they wouldn't make\Na memory of this skin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that we could be kids,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not casket or concrete.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not because they thought\Nit would make us better than anyone else,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's simply because they wanted \Nto keep us alive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of my black friends were raised\Nwith the same message:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the talk, given to us when we\Nwere old enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be mistaken for a nail ready\Nto be hammered to the ground,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people made our melanin\Nsynonymous with something to be feared.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what does it do to a child,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to grow up knowing that you\Nsimply cannot be a child?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the whims of adolescence\Nare too dangerous for your breath,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you cannot simply be curious,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are not afforded the luxury\Nof making a mistake,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that someone's implicit bias may be\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reason why you don't wake up \Nin the morning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this cannot be what defines us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have parents that \Nraised us to understand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our bodies weren't meant\Nfor the backside of a bullet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for flying kites and jumping rope
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and laughing until our stomach burst.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had teachers who taught us\Nhow to raise our hands
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in class, and not just to signal\Nsurrender
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the only thing we should\Ngive up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the idea that we aren't worthy\Nof this world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we say that black lives matter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not because others don't,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's simply because we must affirm\Nthat we are worthy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of existing without fear
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when so many things tell us that we are not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to live in a world where my son\Nwill not be presumed "guilty"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment he is born,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where a toy in his hand is not mistaken\Nfor anything other than a toy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I refuse to accept that we can't\Nbuild this world into something new,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a place where a child's name \Ndoesn't have to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,written on a t-shirt or a tombstone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the value of someone's life\Nisn't determined
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by anything other than the fact\Nthat they had lungs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a place where every single one of us\Ncan breathe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)