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[♪♪♪]

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WOMAN: 
Welcome to BET headquarters.

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I'm Deborah Leevil. 
It's 2 p.m.,

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so it's time for 
our morning staff meeting.

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Our leader, Bob Johnson, 
had a dream.

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A dream of creating a network 
that would accomplish

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what hundreds of years 
of slavery,

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Jim Crow and malt liquor 
couldn't.

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The destruction of black people!

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MAN: Yo, sister!

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Is that so hard?

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Mistress Leevil, 
since BET came into existence,

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terrible things 
have happened to black people.

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Dropout rates, teen pregnancy, 
unemployment and incarceration

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have skyrocketed 
since our debut 25 years ago.

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We really believe 
we're making a difference--

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LEEVIL: 
Silence!

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Agh!

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MAN: 
What the devil?

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The destruction of black people

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is not happening fast enough.

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The other day I saw 
three niggas reading books.

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One of them was smiling.

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[PHONE RINGS]

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Yes.

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MAN: He gonna die.

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No, I'll have to call them back.

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Oh, and I need another math guy.

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He gonna die.

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You know, the dude 
with the charts and shit.

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He dead.

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Yeah, him. I need another one.

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Yeah, and a cleanup crew. 
Oh, and another shoe.

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Left. No, Prada.

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Wedgie Rudlin,

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my Harvard-educated 
president of entertainment,

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tell me about the evil shows 
you have in development.

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Um--

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MAN: Tell it, brother!

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--Mistress Leevil, 
my Harvard education tells us

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that our goal is to take 
all the shitty reality shows

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MTV did five years ago, 
and make them black.

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Anyone who wants to see a shitty 
black version

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of an MTV reality 
show, well,

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they'll have to come to us.

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What else?

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Next month, we're gonna 
have our first awards show

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honoring video hoes.

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MAN: Video hoes!

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Or as I like to call it, 
a "Hoe-wards" show.

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[COUGHS]

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Right.

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I don't get it.

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Must be that Harvard humor. 
Faggot-ass faggot.

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Personnel, how are we fucking up 
niggas' money?

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Well, let's see. 
As you've requested,

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nobody outside this room 
has been paid for months.

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And you fired everyone 
that could read.

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Mm-hm.

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I love it.

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Okay, and public relations?

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Mistress Leevil, we got one 
thing to report, a'ight?

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Some little nigga 
named Huey Freeman.

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He all critical 
of the network and shit,

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talking about 
a hunger strike.

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Why? What did we ever do to him

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except try to destroy 
black people? What?

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This hunger strike 
will continue

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until BET is taken off the air, 
the office is shut down,

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and all its top executives 
commit Japanese ritual suicide.

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[CACKLES]

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He's just a kid.

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No one can stand in my way 
of destroying black people.

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Especially not

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Huey Freeman.

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[CACKLES]

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[♪♪♪]

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♪ I am the stone 
The builder refused ♪

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♪ I am the visual 
The inspiration ♪

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♪ That made lady 
Sing the blues ♪

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♪ I'm the spark 
That makes your idea bright ♪

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♪ The same spark 
That lights the dark ♪

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♪ So that you can know 
Left from right ♪

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♪ I am the ballot in your box 
The bullet in the gun ♪

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♪ The inner glow 
That lets you know ♪

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♪ To call your brother sun ♪

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♪ The story that just begun ♪

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♪ The promise 
Of what's to come ♪

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♪ And I'm 'a remain a soldier ♪

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♪ Till the war is won 
Won ♪

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♪ Chop, chop, chop 
Judo flip ♪

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♪ Chop, chop, chop 
Judo flip ♪

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♪ Chop, chop, chop 
Judo flip ♪

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♪ Chop, chop, chop ♪

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[♪♪♪]

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GRANDDAD: 
♪ Fake meat ♪

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♪ Fake meat is good 
Ooh-hee, hey ♪

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HUEY: 
 It was the third day of my 
hunger strike to bring an end

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to the tyranny of 
Black Entertainment Television.

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GRANDDAD: 
Mm-mm. Man, fake meat is good.

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Hey, could you pass me 
one of them veggie burgers?

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There was someone around here 
who used to love veggie burgers.

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You wouldn't remember who 
that was, would you, boy? Hm?

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[BURPS]

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[CHUCKLES]

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What's with all 
this hunger strike, boy?

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What did food 
ever do to you, hm?

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[CHUCKLES]

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Can I be excused, please?

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No, you are gonna eat 
with the family, boy.

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Ain't nobody told you 
to crusade against BET.

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BET is out 
to destroy black people.

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My nigga, I watch BET every day, 
feel me?

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There ain't nothing wrong 
with me, feel me?

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Nigga, 
you just hating, feel me?

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That's why you ain't never gonna 
have no paper, no bitches.

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Boy, watch your mouth.

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See? That's BET.

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He's right though, Huey. 
Women don't like hating.

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You better listen 
to your granddaddy. Heh.

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You don't wanna be bitchless.

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I know bitchless. 
Look, I'm bitchless right now.

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It's no fun.

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You feel me?

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[PHONE RINGS]

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Hello?

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MAN: Hey. Uh, good day.

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I'm looking for 
brother Huey Freeman please.

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Speaking.

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Hey, brother Huey,

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my name is Reverend 
Rollo Goodlove.

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And it's my honor 
to speak with you.

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Wait, the Rollo Goodlove?

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You mean, 
the Rollo Goodlove

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who toured with Parliament 
Funkadelic in the '70s,

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became a community activist 
in the '80s,

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ran for president 
twice in the '90s,

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and currently is host of the 
syndicated public-access show

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"What's Goin' On?" with Rollo 
Goodlove, Rollo Goodlove?

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ROLLO: 
Mm-hm. The same. Hm. Glory.

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Anyway, I had to call 
and share with you my support

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of your hunger strike. 
How you feeling?

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Hungry.

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Well, you know,

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you made a powerful statement, 
young man.

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And I'm proud 
to call myself your ally.

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Are you going on a hunger strike 
with me?

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Uh, yeah. Um... 
Uh, no. No, no, no.

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You see, I have to have dinner 
with Puffy later on.

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But don't you worry though.

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Together we're gonna bring 
our enemies to their knees.

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Now, listen, I'm holding a rally 
downtown tomorrow, brother.

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And I would love for you 
to come and stand with us.

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[♪♪♪]

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ROLLO: 
Brothers and sisters.

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I said, bothers and sisters.

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[INDISTINCT YELLS]

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I don't know what 
this world is coming to.

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But if you ask me 
what I think about BET,

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I'll tell you with no shame:

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BET sucks.

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MAN: 
Suck that dick!

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Suck!

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Now, I say that because

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when I sit and watch BET,

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my dignity is sucked away.

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And, uh, 
my pride is sucked away.

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And the progress we've made 
in the freedom struggle

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over the last five decades 
is sucked away.

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[CROWD SHOUTING]

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Now, brothers and sisters,

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we are here today 
because we're not gonna let BET

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suck anything more from us.

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I say, stand up and tell 'em:

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"I will not be a prisoner 
to your foolishness. I am free.

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"And I will not be 
captured by your ignorance.

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"'Cause I'm free.

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"I will not be trapped

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"in your negrofied matrix, 
either.

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Because I am free."

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Uno, dos, tres, cuatro.

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[BAND PLAYING FUNK MUSIC]

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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♪ If you're wondering 
What it look like ♪

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♪ Look at me ♪

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♪ Ah! ♪

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MAN 1: 
Yeah, baby!

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MAN 2: 
Yeah, reverend.

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Let me show you 
how to do it.

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♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ Ah-hah, oh ♪

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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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Right here, baby! 
Yeah!

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♪ I'm on my way ♪

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♪ For most everything ♪

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♪ And this is my day ♪

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♪ Make me wanna say 
I'm free ♪

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♪ And everything 
I'm allowed to see ♪

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♪ Free ♪

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♪ Come and see ♪

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♪ No, no 
Look at me ♪

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♪ Ah 
What you waiting on? ♪

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♪ I want action, passion 
Smiling ♪

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♪ Laughing, yielding 
Feeling ♪

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♪ Helping, healing ♪

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♪ Introduce your neighbor 
To your savior ♪

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♪ I'm free ♪

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♪ Look at me ♪

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♪ Freedom in high fidelity ♪

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♪ Free ♪

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ALL: 
♪ Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah ♪

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[ROLLO LAUGHS]

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Yeah!

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Ooh, have mercy.

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Brothers and sisters, 
y'all give it on up

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for Otis and the Action Band.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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Granddad, you should have 
seen it.

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Reverend Goodlove, 
it was amazing.

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Man, the people 
were so inspired.

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Oh, yeah, I saw it on the news. 
Looked like American Idol to me.

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I still don't know what 
your problem is with BET.

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I love Beyoncé. Shoot. 
Little sweet thing.

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♪ Oh, shake it girl 
Shake it girl ♪

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♪ Shake it girl 
Yeah ♪

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Ain't you hungry yet?

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[♪♪♪]

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Well, I was thinking 
that tomorrow

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we could reach 
the people by marching

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to the BET headquarters--

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Now, now, we ain't 
gonna do no shit like that.

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Uh, now, Huey, 
black people have style.

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And we are attracted 
to things of class.

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Especially 
you young people.

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Ahem. Now, see,

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but that's what makes BET 
so dangerous now.

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Excuse me. 
It sells you young people

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a lifestyle 
that you're attracted to.

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Mm, that's good-- But, uh-- 
But you can't afford it.

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And in order to save them kids, 
I gotta reach them kids. Mm.

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Now, see, when I shine,

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they walk toward me for 
the light of them diamonds. Heh.

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Ain't nothing wrong with that. 
But when they walk away from me,

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they got the light 
of their truth.

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You think I wanna 
be at the VIBE awards?

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Do you really 
believe I want to be

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ringside at the championship 
fight? Mm-mm.

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You think I wanna be doing 
 Skating with the Stars,

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falling down, 
fucking up my ankles?

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Well, goddamn it!

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Waiter, 
this ain't no beluga caviar.

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Now, see, for example, 
let's look at music.

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Now, here's my rap demo.

254
00:09:40,212 --> 00:09:42,348
Personally, 
I like jazz and gospel.

255
00:09:42,348 --> 00:09:44,182
But if I spit that hot fire,

256
00:09:44,182 --> 00:09:47,453
I might be able to reach 
some of them kids out there.

257
00:09:47,453 --> 00:09:48,954
You see, thing with me 
though is,

258
00:09:48,954 --> 00:09:51,257
when I do it, I'm a gonna 
do it for the people, now.

259
00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:53,826
I work all day and night 
to get their attention.

260
00:09:53,826 --> 00:09:55,694
And it's hard. 
It's hard work, Huey.

261
00:09:55,694 --> 00:09:58,030
Look, I even know 
all the new dances.

262
00:09:58,030 --> 00:09:59,398
[HUMMING]

263
00:10:05,036 --> 00:10:06,505
♪ You-- ♪

264
00:10:06,505 --> 00:10:07,672
♪ You and-- ♪

265
00:10:07,672 --> 00:10:10,509
[♪♪♪]

266
00:10:10,509 --> 00:10:13,645
Mistress Leevil, the new slogans 
are ready for your approval.

267
00:10:13,645 --> 00:10:14,746
Oh.

268
00:10:14,746 --> 00:10:18,216
MAN [OVER TV]:

269
00:10:18,216 --> 00:10:19,384
Hm.

270
00:10:19,384 --> 00:10:22,988
MAN [OVER TV]:

271
00:10:22,988 --> 00:10:24,456
Uh-huh.

272
00:10:24,456 --> 00:10:28,561
MAN [OVER TV]:

273
00:10:28,561 --> 00:10:31,496
Hmm. I'll think about it.

274
00:10:28,561 --> 00:10:31,496
[PHONE RINGS]

275
00:10:31,496 --> 00:10:33,332
MAN: 
 Sorry to bother you, 
Mistress Leevil,

276
00:10:33,332 --> 00:10:35,968
but the Freeman boy is on CNN.

277
00:10:33,332 --> 00:10:35,968
What's CNN?

278
00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:37,670
But I submit 
to you today--

279
00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:40,406
LEEVIL: 
Rollo Goodlove.

280
00:10:40,406 --> 00:10:44,109
I know just how to deal 
with the good reverend.

281
00:10:44,109 --> 00:10:46,444
[CACKLING]

282
00:10:46,444 --> 00:10:49,147
[♪♪♪]

283
00:10:49,147 --> 00:10:52,051
HUEY: 
 Thanks to Goodlove 
and a very slow news cycle,

284
00:10:52,051 --> 00:10:54,987
the boycott became a big story 
and started to take off.

285
00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,822
Man.

286
00:10:56,822 --> 00:11:00,625
Fuck BET. 
I'm gonna read a book.

287
00:11:00,625 --> 00:11:03,295
[♪♪♪]

288
00:11:03,295 --> 00:11:06,032
HUEY: 
Word got around: BET was evil.

289
00:11:07,933 --> 00:11:09,869
Okay, welcome back, 
little lambs.

290
00:11:09,869 --> 00:11:12,304
Uh, we are sitting here 
with former BET host,

291
00:11:12,304 --> 00:11:13,639
sister Sherry Carter.

292
00:11:13,639 --> 00:11:14,973
First things first.

293
00:11:14,973 --> 00:11:16,308
You never could get 
that hair right,

294
00:11:16,308 --> 00:11:17,876
now could you, baby? 
Oh, heh-heh.

295
00:11:17,876 --> 00:11:19,111
But we was with you, baby,

296
00:11:19,111 --> 00:11:20,846
because you had 
the big old thighs.

297
00:11:20,846 --> 00:11:22,481
And you was a red bone, mmm.

298
00:11:22,481 --> 00:11:24,349
Never could understand 
how a sister

299
00:11:24,349 --> 00:11:26,351
that light-skinned 
had bad hair, though.

300
00:11:26,351 --> 00:11:28,220
Is Tigger short 
for tiger and nigger?

301
00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:30,789
Or are you just a big old fan 
of Winnie the Pooh?

302
00:11:30,789 --> 00:11:33,492
We are now sitting here 
with a former BET host,

303
00:11:33,492 --> 00:11:36,594
Tavis Smiley. Now, Tavis, 
correct me if I'm wrong,

304
00:11:36,594 --> 00:11:38,463
but you had some problems over 
there at BET, now, didn't you?

305
00:11:38,463 --> 00:11:40,366
Well, I'm not gonna lie 
and say I didn't.

306
00:11:40,366 --> 00:11:42,901
Yeah, but things 
went okay for you afterwards.

307
00:11:42,901 --> 00:11:45,237
I mean, after all, 
you do have an NPR show.

308
00:11:45,237 --> 00:11:47,606
Well, yes, 
I do have the NPR radio show.

309
00:11:47,606 --> 00:11:49,240
And I also have 
a talk show on PBS.

310
00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,543
Oh, two shows. Hm.

311
00:11:51,543 --> 00:11:54,212
I guess that beats my one, huh? 
Heh-heh.

312
00:11:54,212 --> 00:11:55,748
You're doing real good, 
brother.

313
00:11:55,748 --> 00:11:57,182
You're doing real good.

314
00:11:57,182 --> 00:11:58,951
You know, I don't think 
I've ever been invited

315
00:11:58,951 --> 00:12:00,752
to either one of those shows, 
though.

316
00:12:00,752 --> 00:12:03,389
Well, then, we'll just have 
to get you on, now, won't we?

317
00:12:03,389 --> 00:12:05,524
I mean, heh, 
I put you on my show.

318
00:12:05,524 --> 00:12:07,560
You know, 
I'm sharing my light.

319
00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,227
Helping you move a book or two.

320
00:12:09,227 --> 00:12:11,197
But I don't see 
the favor being returned.

321
00:12:11,197 --> 00:12:13,365
At all. 
So I was just checking to see

322
00:12:13,365 --> 00:12:14,767
if I had done 
something wrong to you.

323
00:12:16,835 --> 00:12:19,237
I think we're 
out of time.

324
00:12:19,237 --> 00:12:20,739
ROLLO: 
 Motherfucker, that's my line.

325
00:12:20,739 --> 00:12:23,242
See, Granddad? 
That's called exposure.

326
00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:25,477
And with enough of it, 
we can change the world.

327
00:12:25,477 --> 00:12:27,112
Mm-hm.

328
00:12:27,112 --> 00:12:30,182
And finally tonight, 
Reverend Rollo Goodlove,

329
00:12:30,182 --> 00:12:32,651
who's been very critical 
recently of BET

330
00:12:32,651 --> 00:12:34,353
and their sexually-explicit 
videos,

331
00:12:34,353 --> 00:12:38,023
starred in a pretty explicit 
video of his own.

332
00:12:38,023 --> 00:12:39,525
Oh.

333
00:12:39,525 --> 00:12:41,360
The video clearly shows

334
00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,462
the, uh, good Reverend Goodlove

335
00:12:43,462 --> 00:12:45,430
at the House of Cheeks 
strip club.

336
00:12:45,430 --> 00:12:47,299
♪ Shake that ass, girl ♪

337
00:12:47,299 --> 00:12:51,102
And it doesn't look 
like he was talking politics.

338
00:12:51,102 --> 00:12:52,571
[CHUCKLES]

339
00:12:52,571 --> 00:12:54,507
I bet you're 
hungry now.

340
00:12:57,776 --> 00:12:59,712
I'm saying, man, 
it doesn't look good.

341
00:12:59,712 --> 00:13:01,380
Jesus walked amongst the people.

342
00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:03,115
Mohammad walked 
amongst the people.

343
00:13:03,115 --> 00:13:04,416
I am a people person, Huey.

344
00:13:04,416 --> 00:13:06,051
All the great prophets 
embraced the people.

345
00:13:06,051 --> 00:13:07,753
You're embracing a butt, 
Reverend.

346
00:13:07,753 --> 00:13:10,121
Listen, child, I can speak 
in colleges

347
00:13:10,121 --> 00:13:11,590
and get paid 
a whole heap of money.

348
00:13:11,590 --> 00:13:13,291
But if you're in college 
already,

349
00:13:13,291 --> 00:13:14,993
you don't need 
Rollo Goodlove

350
00:13:14,993 --> 00:13:16,796
as much as a young brother 
out there in the gang

351
00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:18,229
or a young sister 
in the strip club

352
00:13:18,229 --> 00:13:19,564
needs Rollo Goodlove.

353
00:13:19,564 --> 00:13:22,801
Have mercy. Now, see. 
If I walk into the strip club

354
00:13:22,801 --> 00:13:24,302
and start talking to a sister

355
00:13:24,302 --> 00:13:25,971
about progressive politics 
and all that,

356
00:13:25,971 --> 00:13:28,240
bettering her life 
and voter registration,

357
00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,975
you think she gonna talk to me?

358
00:13:29,975 --> 00:13:32,411
But if I grab me a handful 
of that big old ass

359
00:13:32,411 --> 00:13:33,645
and ask for a dance,

360
00:13:33,645 --> 00:13:35,748
now, she's gonna think 
I'm just another trick.

361
00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:39,318
When I'm really 
an instrument of her salvation.

362
00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:41,987
Now, I have set 
the table for change.

363
00:13:41,987 --> 00:13:45,357
Yeah. She grinding on me, 
trying to get that little $20.

364
00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:47,358
But she gonna get 
a whole lot more than that,

365
00:13:47,358 --> 00:13:49,628
believe me. Oh, glory.

366
00:13:49,628 --> 00:13:51,964
Now, sometimes 
you'll find her an apartment.

367
00:13:51,964 --> 00:13:53,999
Maybe even a job.

368
00:13:53,999 --> 00:13:55,834
Yeah, but it still 
looks pretty bad.

369
00:13:55,834 --> 00:13:57,869
I just hope it doesn't 
hurt the boycott.

370
00:13:57,869 --> 00:14:00,439
I don't think I can go 
without food much longer.

371
00:14:00,439 --> 00:14:02,173
HUEY: 
 This wasn't the first blow

372
00:14:02,173 --> 00:14:04,008
to Reverend Goodlove's 
public image.

373
00:14:04,008 --> 00:14:05,443
Do you own a car?

374
00:14:05,443 --> 00:14:08,413
'Cause if you do, 
you own the keys to some cash.

375
00:14:08,413 --> 00:14:10,615
HUEY: 
 Last year, 
Reverend Goodlove signed on

376
00:14:10,615 --> 00:14:12,083
to pitch high-interest loans

377
00:14:12,083 --> 00:14:13,952
that exploit 
the poor and desperate.

378
00:14:13,952 --> 00:14:16,154
Call the Loan Ranger.

379
00:14:16,154 --> 00:14:20,625
I feareth not your scandals. 
My name is Rollo Goodlove.

380
00:14:20,625 --> 00:14:22,961
You can't sully my reputation.

381
00:14:22,961 --> 00:14:25,130
I take your attacks 
as a badge of honor.

382
00:14:25,130 --> 00:14:28,166
They called Martin Luther King 
an adulterer.

383
00:14:28,166 --> 00:14:31,203
They called 
Muhammad Ali a communist.

384
00:14:31,203 --> 00:14:34,106
And for 2000 years, they called 
Mary Magdalene a prostitute.

385
00:14:34,106 --> 00:14:36,041
Come to find out 
that's Jesus' baby mama.

386
00:14:36,041 --> 00:14:37,609
Y'all saw The Da Vinci Code.

387
00:14:37,609 --> 00:14:40,212
HUEY: 
 I don't know, maybe Rollo 
just knew how to spin.

388
00:14:40,212 --> 00:14:42,147
I don't think 
there's anything wrong

389
00:14:42,147 --> 00:14:44,382
with a stripper's ass 
in a grown man's face.

390
00:14:44,382 --> 00:14:46,651
But I do have a problem 
with BET

391
00:14:46,651 --> 00:14:49,688
putting strippers' asses 
in the faces of our children.

392
00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:51,456
HUEY: 
Or maybe by now his followers

393
00:14:51,456 --> 00:14:53,692
just weren't surprised 
by anything he did anymore.

394
00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:55,394
Well, of course it was a setup.

395
00:14:55,394 --> 00:14:57,195
I believe the release 
of this video

396
00:14:57,195 --> 00:14:59,331
was engineered 
by BET themselves,

397
00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:01,467
working in conjunction 
with the Republican Party

398
00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:02,967
and-- And the FBI thing.

399
00:15:02,967 --> 00:15:05,804
HUEY: 
 Goodlove escalated 
the attack on BET

400
00:15:05,804 --> 00:15:10,475
by producing a DVD called BET: 
The High Cost of Low Standards.

401
00:15:10,475 --> 00:15:13,311
ROLLO: 
 These are the poor. 
These are the forgotten.

402
00:15:13,311 --> 00:15:15,814
The victims of 
black-on-black crime.

403
00:15:15,814 --> 00:15:17,249
These are the employees

404
00:15:17,249 --> 00:15:19,818
of Black Entertainment 
Television.

405
00:15:19,818 --> 00:15:21,487
Now, these two comedy writers

406
00:15:21,487 --> 00:15:24,222
were only offered two dollars 
for a pilot script.

407
00:15:24,222 --> 00:15:26,191
When will this tragedy end?

408
00:15:26,191 --> 00:15:28,126
The situation's gotten so bad

409
00:15:28,126 --> 00:15:30,128
that workers 
at this Wal-Mart store

410
00:15:30,128 --> 00:15:33,565
took up a collection 
for BET employees. Wow.

411
00:15:33,565 --> 00:15:36,434
I don't know, just seemed 
like the right thing to do,

412
00:15:36,434 --> 00:15:38,303
helping people 
less fortunate, you know.

413
00:15:38,303 --> 00:15:40,506
ROLLO: 
 But, as a Wal-Mart employee,

414
00:15:40,506 --> 00:15:42,174
isn't it true 
that you were forced

415
00:15:42,174 --> 00:15:43,942
to work overtime hours 
off the books,

416
00:15:43,942 --> 00:15:46,078
and you had to get on 
food stamps?

417
00:15:46,078 --> 00:15:47,780
Yeah, they forced me 
to work overtime

418
00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,081
and get on the food stamps.

419
00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:50,682
But at least 
I ain't workin' at BET.

420
00:15:50,682 --> 00:15:53,085
So thank you, Lord. 
Thank you, Jesus.

421
00:15:53,085 --> 00:15:55,654
ROLLO: 
 Even this non-legal 
immigrant worker

422
00:15:55,654 --> 00:15:59,524
donates money to BET employees 
every month. Wow.

423
00:15:59,524 --> 00:16:02,160
Me and my family, 
we don't have much,

424
00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,996
but we give everything we have

425
00:16:03,996 --> 00:16:07,065
to the poor BET workers.

426
00:16:07,065 --> 00:16:09,968
This is not 
what America is about.

427
00:16:09,968 --> 00:16:12,704
[♪♪♪]

428
00:16:12,704 --> 00:16:14,806
REPORTER [ON TV]: 
 And Black Entertainment 
Television

429
00:16:14,806 --> 00:16:16,341
is really feeling the heat now

430
00:16:16,341 --> 00:16:19,011
from this nationwide boycott, 
started a week ago

431
00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:21,647
by a 10-year-old boy 
on a hunger strike.

432
00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:23,582
The NAACP 
announced this morning

433
00:16:23,582 --> 00:16:25,717
that it is asking its members 
to join the boycott

434
00:16:25,717 --> 00:16:28,320
to make the network 
more socially responsible.

435
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,424
Master. Oh, this is 
an unexpected pleasure.

436
00:16:32,424 --> 00:16:34,793
We are honored by your presence.

437
00:16:34,793 --> 00:16:36,194
Ah.

438
00:16:34,793 --> 00:16:36,194
Okay, first of all,

439
00:16:36,194 --> 00:16:38,830
why do you always kneel when 
I walk in? That's just so weird.

440
00:16:38,830 --> 00:16:40,999
Second, we've got to 
figure out this boycott thing.

441
00:16:40,999 --> 00:16:43,435
It's killing us.

442
00:16:40,999 --> 00:16:43,435
Ah, but it is Huey Freeman

443
00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:46,638
and Reverend Goodlove 
who'll soon be doing the dying.

444
00:16:46,638 --> 00:16:49,441
But we're looking 
at getting some ninjas in

445
00:16:49,441 --> 00:16:51,043
for a cheap price.

446
00:16:52,677 --> 00:16:54,546
Yeah, look, 
just talk to 'em.

447
00:16:54,546 --> 00:16:56,681
Give 'em whatever they want, 
okay? Just handle it.

448
00:16:56,681 --> 00:16:59,151
Not everyone is in support 
of the boycott.

449
00:16:59,151 --> 00:17:02,187
Listen to what this BET 
supporter had to say.

450
00:17:02,187 --> 00:17:04,022
Every time 
a black baby is born,

451
00:17:04,022 --> 00:17:07,458
I'd give 'em a plasma TV 
and one channel: BET.

452
00:17:07,458 --> 00:17:09,594
Slap it right on the ceiling 
over the crib.

453
00:17:09,594 --> 00:17:12,964
By the time that nigga's 12, 
he'll be watching it in jail.

454
00:17:12,964 --> 00:17:15,199
Ha-ha-ha-ha! BET forever!

455
00:17:15,199 --> 00:17:17,268
BET! Boom-bye-ya!

456
00:17:17,268 --> 00:17:19,370
BET! Boom-bye-ya.

457
00:17:19,370 --> 00:17:21,306
That's the kind 
of language they understand.

458
00:17:21,306 --> 00:17:25,043
Huh. Surprised you guys 
haven't given him a show.

459
00:17:25,043 --> 00:17:29,047
Call Goodlove. Set up a meeting!

460
00:17:29,047 --> 00:17:32,350
[♪♪♪]

461
00:17:32,350 --> 00:17:35,387
HUEY: 
It was in the news that I first 
heard the boycott had ended.

462
00:17:35,387 --> 00:17:37,522
The details were sketchy, 
but there was no mention

463
00:17:37,522 --> 00:17:40,491
of the network shutting down, 
nor of ritual suicide.

464
00:17:40,491 --> 00:17:42,995
So I feared I had been had.

465
00:17:42,995 --> 00:17:46,131
A show? 
You sold me out for a show?

466
00:17:46,131 --> 00:17:49,201
Damn it, Huey, you can't 
change BET from the outside.

467
00:17:49,201 --> 00:17:51,169
You got to change it 
from the inside.

468
00:17:51,169 --> 00:17:52,237
This is victory, 
brother.

469
00:17:52,237 --> 00:17:53,471
Now, my message--

470
00:17:53,471 --> 00:17:55,306
Our message 
will get to the people.

471
00:17:55,306 --> 00:17:58,811
It's a sitcom called 
 My Dad, Rollo.

472
00:17:58,811 --> 00:18:01,746
Do you have any idea 
how hungry I am?

473
00:18:01,746 --> 00:18:03,748
You think I want my own sitcom, 
Huey?

474
00:18:03,748 --> 00:18:05,350
No, I really don't.

475
00:18:05,350 --> 00:18:07,185
But you can catch 
more flies with honey

476
00:18:07,185 --> 00:18:08,553
than you ever gonna 
catch with vinegar.

477
00:18:08,553 --> 00:18:12,690
And, brother Huey, laughter 
is that sweet, sweet honey.

478
00:18:12,690 --> 00:18:14,759
Oh, Lord, child.

479
00:18:14,759 --> 00:18:16,161
Have mercy.

480
00:18:16,161 --> 00:18:19,498
Niggas is just gonna be niggas.

481
00:18:19,498 --> 00:18:22,768
So you might as well get that 
money while you bullshit.

482
00:18:22,768 --> 00:18:25,637
Why starve? 
Why just starve?

483
00:18:25,637 --> 00:18:27,072
Then go get 
something to eat.

484
00:18:27,072 --> 00:18:28,807
Me and Puffy having dinner 
at the Chateau.

485
00:18:28,807 --> 00:18:30,375
You know you're welcome 
to come, don't you?

486
00:18:30,375 --> 00:18:32,678
[♪♪♪]

487
00:18:34,846 --> 00:18:37,115
Thanks, Granddad.

488
00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:40,251
Granddad, what do you do 
when you can't do nothing,

489
00:18:40,251 --> 00:18:41,920
but there's nothing 
you can do?

490
00:18:43,321 --> 00:18:45,923
You do what you can.

491
00:18:45,923 --> 00:18:48,860
By the way, did you hear they're 
giving Ruckus a job at BET?

492
00:18:48,860 --> 00:18:50,061
Can you believe that?

493
00:18:50,061 --> 00:18:51,930
What the hell's wrong 
with those people over there?

494
00:18:51,930 --> 00:18:55,500
Damn, they'll give anybody 
a job at BET.

495
00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:57,836
I don't 
want one. Shoot.

496
00:18:58,903 --> 00:19:01,807
[♪♪♪]