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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.60,0:00:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SLOAN: The Chicago public school\Nsystem is having a tough time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.67,0:00:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there are some people\Nout there
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.34,0:00:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who say the students\Nare to blame.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.87,0:00:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Chicago, there's no incentive\Nfor kids to go to school.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.88,0:00:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would rather make money\Nselling drugs and guns.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.21,0:00:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, angry news lady.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.95,0:00:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you know what, let's hear\Nfrom a recent graduate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.48,0:00:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-I am donating $1 million\Nto CPS. -(cheering and applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.56,0:00:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's Chance the Rapper.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.23,0:00:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the dude\Nwith the Kit Kat commercials
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.29,0:00:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Super Mario overalls.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.56,0:00:31.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why is this guy giving\Nhis hard-earned candy money
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.53,0:00:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a public school system?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.100,0:00:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, according to writer\Nand sociologist Eve Ewing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.80,0:00:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the problem is that many people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.47,0:00:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have abandoned that system\Naltogether.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.67,0:00:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though Chicago, as a city,\Nis about a third white,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.01,0:00:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white residents in the city\Nare, by and large,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.88,0:00:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opting out\Nof the public school system.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.68,0:00:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you know, strong black\Nwomen. We can figure this out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.15,0:00:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that's part of the problem\Nthough, right,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.68,0:00:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that, like, when people\Nlike Chance step up and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.82,0:00:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm gonna give all this money\Nto try to fix the schools,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.75,0:00:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's awesome.\NBut, at the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.49,0:00:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he shouldn't have to do that\Nas a private citizen, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.56,0:01:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Public schools are supposed\Nto be for everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.29,0:01:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're supposed to be supported\Nby a public.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.70,0:01:05.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah...\NAmerica don't work that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.03,0:01:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know. It's a bummer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.57,0:01:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one way to put it.\NAnd Chance and Eve would know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.17,0:01:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They both went\Nto Chicago public schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.50,0:01:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they share\Nsomething else in common.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.17,0:01:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As students,\Nthey had some outside help
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.18,0:01:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Young Chicago Authors,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.78,0:01:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a nonprofit\Nafter school writing program.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.18,0:01:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I sat down with poet and\Nartistic director Kevin Coval
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.45,0:01:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find out more about YCA.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.45,0:01:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe that young people\Nare the best documenters
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.12,0:01:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the best experts\Nof their own experience
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.19,0:01:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that, as a civic society,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.19,0:01:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should probably be paying\Nattention, uh, more closely
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.86,0:01:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what young people are saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.33,0:01:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ooh, that sounds exhausting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.46,0:01:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, but they're great though.\NBut they're-they're...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.06,0:01:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, they're so smart\Nand they're so talented.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.87,0:01:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-They better be. -So it's...\NYeah, no, it really is.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.74,0:01:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And young people are\Nactually very hip, very savvy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.34,0:01:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They constantly make\Nthese brilliant, acute,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.67,0:01:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, political insights into-into\Nthe way our society should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.08,0:01:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, in some ways, it\Nbecomes the adult bureaucracies
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.01,0:01:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we create\Nthat become the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.22,0:01:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, you're definitely a poet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.28,0:02:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-You just said a lot of words\Nto me. -(stammers)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.82,0:02:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-They sounded so good.\N-Okay, that's good.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.76,0:02:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-I don't know what all of it\Nmeant, -All right. I'm not sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.89,0:02:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-but I am so impressed.\N-I might not even... Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.23,0:02:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SLOAN:\NOkay, a place where kids learn
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.63,0:02:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to find their own voice\Nis cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.23,0:02:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And YCA's annual youth\Npoetry competition,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.87,0:02:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Louder Than a Bomb,\Nis the largest in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.47,0:02:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just had one problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.74,0:02:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We run the longest-running
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.24,0:02:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youth open mic in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.37,0:02:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SLOAN:\NOpen mics? Open mics?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.31,0:02:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those things\Nwhere people get on stage
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.91,0:02:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speak a bunch\Nof bull (bleep)?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.48,0:02:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, white man,\Ncome out of your shell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.48,0:02:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, white man, don't kiss\Nyour cousin... and tell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.95,0:02:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Check my privilege.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.49,0:02:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(scattered applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.49,0:02:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, it's been three hours,\Nand I've heard the same poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.32,0:02:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-So...\N-Open mic's super dope, though.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.33,0:02:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guarantee if you are here,\Nyou will have a good time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.100,0:02:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SLOAN:\NKevin really had me with his
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.43,0:02:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big words and beautiful eyes,\Nbut these open mics?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.87,0:02:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.30,0:02:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess it was time for me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.87,0:02:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet one\Nof these little YCA kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.77,0:02:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I headed down\Nto Chicago's South Side
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.27,0:02:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I met 17-year-old Trey.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.68,0:02:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trey claims YCA has helped him\Ndevelop as a poet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.91,0:03:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be the judge of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.31,0:03:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you written any,\Nuh, like, love poems
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.25,0:03:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for, like, you know,\Nsomebody you like?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.62,0:03:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.95,0:03:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote my first love poem\Nas a sophomore.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.56,0:03:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ooh!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.09,0:03:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Did you give it to her?\N-I read it to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.96,0:03:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gasps) Did you do it where,\Nlike, Romeo and Juliet,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.40,0:03:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"stand on this balcony and\NI'll read to you" situation?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.80,0:03:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, if the balcony was a stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.47,0:03:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gasps) You performed it\Nand read it to her?!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.37,0:03:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Performed it. -Guys,\Nthe balls on this young man.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.37,0:03:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's dudes\Nthat won't even text me back,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.77,0:03:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a 17-year-old is out here\Ngetting you in these streets!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.68,0:03:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Step your game up, gentlemen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.24,0:03:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On top of everything else,\NYCA taught this kid
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.35,0:03:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to play the game of love?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.98,0:03:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Damn!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.18,0:03:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think YCA's really helped me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.72,0:03:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, kind of realize who I am,\Nnot just as an artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.02,0:03:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, but as a person in general.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.16,0:03:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just gives you a chance\Nto, um, speak your truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.30,0:03:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, so, I mean...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.30,0:03:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are you going\Nto this open mic tonight?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.70,0:03:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Yes, I... Matter of fact,\NI'll be performing. -Ugh!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:03:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know\Nwhat would make my day?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.14,0:04:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-What?\N-I would love if you came.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.37,0:04:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ugh! This baby-faced poet's\Nreally gonna have me going
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.98,0:04:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the one thing I can't stand?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.58,0:04:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, I'll make you a deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.88,0:04:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will come to the open mic,\Nbut you got to win.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.08,0:04:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh, there's not really\Na winner.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.88,0:04:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, there's always\Nwinners, Trey.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.88,0:04:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause you've been to open mic.\NYou've seen losers before.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.75,0:04:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank... thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.09,0:04:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Okay, look, I got to go.\NI'm gonna go. -Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.32,0:04:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-There are no winners. -Go to\Nclass. Get your ass to class.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.16,0:04:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-I'll see you.\N-Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.23,0:04:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Okay.\N-You win it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.56,0:04:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-There are no winners!\N-Winning!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.70,0:04:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(imitates horn blowing)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.40,0:04:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That night I showed up\Nlooking amazing, as usual.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.40,0:04:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I got to say, when\NTrey went up on stage, I was
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.41,0:04:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nervous as hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.74,0:04:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following is a letter\Nto poetry
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.64,0:04:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to earn my spot at the table.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.14,0:04:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear Poetry,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.25,0:04:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-baby girl, you are fine.\N-(laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.62,0:04:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've been thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.02,0:04:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we plan it right,\Nand put space
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.99,0:04:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in between our stanzas,\Nwe could be stars.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.02,0:04:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what do you know
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.42,0:04:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a man who has been\Nmacking with verses,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.96,0:04:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back from a curse\Nhe chatted with first,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.43,0:04:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relaxed up in church, the magic\Nof church to trap muse?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.03,0:05:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gospel of rap,\Nthe hostile cast, the back pew.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.87,0:05:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The crew was never developed\Nthe fellas to ask you, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.27,0:05:04.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is your castle like?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.50,0:05:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you attracted to?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.84,0:05:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Ooh! -Yeah. -SLOAN:\NI didn't need to be nervous.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.91,0:05:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trey and the other performers\Nkilled it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.31,0:05:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And instead\Nof treating these kids like
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.71,0:05:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bunch of hoodlums\Nwho don't care about school,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.95,0:05:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe we should be helping them\Ndevelop their voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.98,0:05:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like YCA does.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.72,0:05:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, and I guess I was wrong\Nabout open mics, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.22,0:05:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's at least one of them\Nthat doesn't suck.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.12,0:05:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Thank you.\N-(applause and cheering)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.02,0:05:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SLOAN:\NMy baby!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.49,0:00:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My baby. My baby.\N(whooping)