Previously on "Queen Sugar..."
Seems like yesterday I waschasing this boy out of my room.
Now he's getting marriedtoday.
My word for todayis "jubilant."
And I get to use itfor real right now.
[ Laughs ]
Go!
Hey, girl, you said I wassupposed to call it!
I love you.I love you, too.
-Surprise!-Surprise!
Darla: I never thought this daywould come.
Hollywood:May your hearts always be filledwith joy and love.
May that joy and lovealways help you find your way.
C'mon, baby.
Oh, watch your head.
-Okay.-Ready?
Yeah.Yeah?
Yeah. Am I heavy?
Heavy?Yeah.
With all 100 pounds of you?
100 pounds?Oh, oh!
[ Gasps ] Ralph Angel,do not -- That is not funny!
I got you.That is not funny.
Oh, my gosh.
100 poundsisn't easy to carry.
I can carry you.Mm-hmm.
I got you.Okay.
Ain't no thing.I just...
You better not drop me.You better not drop me.
Come on.
Oh, no. Whoa, whoa,whoa, whoa, whoa.
After you.
Oh. [ Chuckles ]
That's the smileI want to see all weekend.
You will.Better make sure of it.
Just married!
Come on.
Four days on the Gulf.
The coast.The water.
Mm.
I promise you'll like it.
I can't wait.
[ Chuckles ]
♪♪
[ Engine starts ]
♪♪
♪ Dreams never die
♪ Take flightas the world turns ♪
♪ Dreams never die
♪ Take flightas the world turns ♪
♪ Keep the colors in the lines
♪ Take flight
♪ Dreams never die
♪♪
♪ Keep the colorsin the lines ♪
♪ Take flight
[ Cellphone chimes ]
[ Woman vocalizing ]
♪♪
The attempted arrest was caught on camera,
and we need to warn you here
that it's very difficult to watch.
The video of last night's confrontation
shows a white police officer with his knee
pinning down the neck of the suspect,
and you can clearly hear the man saying "I can't breathe"
several times before an ambulance arrives.
That video is...
[ Vocalizing continues ]
[ Remote clatters ]
♪♪
[ Vocalizing continues ]
Get out of the car!
Now!
[ Cell door slams ]
♪♪
♪ Say
♪ Her
♪ Name
The attempted arrest was caught on camera,
and we need to warn you here
that it's very difficult to watch.
The video of last night's confrontation
shows a white police officer with his knee...
My God. ...pinning down the neck
of the suspect, and you can clearly hear...
That boy'sgot some big energy.
[ Chuckles ]
You got Blue all set upfor school?
Uh, he is.
You seen the funny papers?
Oh.
I saved them for Blue.
I didn't knowyou like 'em, too.
Yes. Just trying to keepmy spirits up.
Trying hard.
Man: ...was trying to pay for groceries
with counterfeit $20 bill.
And this is a non-violent offense...
Penny for your thoughts?
How about $20 for 'em?
[ Speaking indistinctly]
That's the going ratefor Black life, right?
$20?
Mr. Floyd...
The whole situationdon't make no sense.
Racismain't never made sense.
If a man comes into my dinerand tries to pass a fake $20,
I can think of at leastten things that I would do
before I called the police.
You'd give it back to himand say, "I can't accept it."
Number one.Number two, I'd serve the man.
If you're passing fake money,you might need to survive.
And we don't even knowif it's really what happened.
Just, they lie.They do.
[ Scoffs ]
Man on TV: ...lies facedown in handcuffs.
Floyd is heard repeatedly saying that he can't breathe.
At one point, he even calls out to his mother.
He continues to call out until he can no longer speak.
♪♪
[ Breathes deeply ]
♪♪
[ Breathes deeply ]
♪♪
To our ancestors...
to those taken too soonfrom us...
I thank you for this opportunityto honor your life.
And the sacrificethat was forced from you.
[ Men singingin native language ]
I honor...
Trayvon Martin.
Michael Brown Jr.
Sandra Bland.
Eric Garner.
Natasha McKenna.
Tamir Rice.
Philando Castile.
Alton Sterling.
Bettie Jones.
India Kager.
Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.
Jordan Davis.
Dominique Fells.
Riah Milton.
Walter Lamar Scott.
Antwon Rose II.
Atatiana Koquice Jefferson.
Michelle Cusseaux.
Elijah McClain.
Daniel Prude.
Ahmaud Arbery.
Breonna Taylor.
George Floyd.
[ Crying ]
[ Sobbing ]
Woman: Even as Floyd lay on the ground with the officer's knee
pressed on the back of his neck, Floyd...
My God.
He's not resisting.He's -- He's not...
It doesn't matter.
Not to them.
...and asking Chauvin to take his knee off his neck
as bystanders, including the grocery clerk
who initially called 91--[ Click ]
Talk to me.
I'm fine.I just...
I gotta study.
Please don't do thatto yourself.
Do what?
Push it down.
It doesn't work.
I've tried it.
[ Breathes deeply ]
You know we won'tstand for this.
It's murder.
It's unacceptable.
Is it?
This didn't happenon some dirt path
on the side of the road.
This didn't happenin the middle of the night.
They didn't take himfor a drive to a dark alley
so they could put a gunin his mouth.
Micah.This was broad daylight.
There were people acrossthe street begging him to stop,
but he didn't.
I know.
No, the murder of Black peopleis very acceptable.
The fact that it isis the whole point.
♪♪
[ Crying ]
I'm here for you, baby.
♪♪
[ Book closes ]
[ Sighs ]
Thank you.
You alright?
Could be better.
There's an opportunityright now,
and I want to do my small partto make sure his murder...
I don't know...
means something.
I don't want his name to trendfor a couple of days
and then disappear.
"Without Sanctuary: LynchingPhotography in America"?
A little light reading.
A little whitereading.
Sorry.
That wasn'tmeant for you.
It's fine.
It's not a timeto hold your tongue.
What's most interestingto me
isn't the lynchingthemselves.
It's the people who watched.
The white crowds that gatheredto make murder
a wear-your-Sunday's-bestpublic event.
There were three copswho stood there
and let another copkill a man.
I know cops are trainedto protect each other,
even before theyprotect civilians...
but how do they stand thereand just...
let it happen?
♪♪
It's hideous.
♪♪
[ Whispering indistinctly ]
♪♪
Mm.
Bystanders...
♪ The moment I met you
♪ You came in my lifeand made me feel special ♪
♪ You know, we got settledand ting ♪
♪ And then it got sexual
♪ Hitting the spotslike you do ♪
♪ I love when we wrestle
♪ Oh-oh
♪ Secret in my respitein my bed ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah
♪ Secrets we don't speakstay left unsaid ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Let's talk about love
♪ Let's talk about us
♪ Let's talk about love
♪ Let's talk about us
♪ Let's talk about love
♪ Let's talk about us
What's that face?
I'm just looking at you.
♪ Let's talk about L-O-V-E,L-O-V-E ♪
All love.♪ I wanna be loved like this
♪ From 6:00 to 6:00
♪ Phone calls missed
♪ I need your hit
♪ I'm so obsessed
♪ I need your lips
♪ It's hard for meto wait for this ♪
♪ Secret in my respitein my bed ♪
Hi.
What's your name?
Oh, I'm Darla the Wife.Mm.
I've replacedDarla the Girlfriend.
Mm.
And Darla the Fiancée.
It's a pleasure to meet you,Darla the Wife.
♪ Let's talk about us
♪ Let's talk about love
And you are?
I'm the man tryingto be everything you need.
Everything you deserve.
♪ Made me feel so anal
♪ Oh, whoa, oh-oh
♪ The way you
♪ Act like you saw me, angel
♪ Oh, whoa, oh-oh
[ Indistinct shouting on TV]
[ Explosion]
[ Gunfire]
♪♪
Hey.
Do you feel ashamed?
About what happenedto George Floyd?
[ Siren wailing]
-Ashamed?-Yes.
Ashamed.
When horrible things happenand a Black person
is responsible,we feel shame.
I can't tell you how many timesI've thought,
"Please don't letthe shooter be Black,
or the terrorist be Black,or the abuser be Black,"
while I'm watching the newsor reading an article.
Do you all feel that?
Am I speakingfor all white people?
Just speak for yourself.
When you saw what happenedto George Floyd,
did you feel shame?
It's not a trick question.I'm just curious.
It's for my article.
♪♪
I felt disgust.
Watching a human lifebeing taken.
But no, I wasn't embarrassedby it personally
because I had nothingto do with it.
Right.
But if it were a Black copwho killed him,
I'd feel embarrassed,personally.
I'd feel shame.
But why?You didn't do it.
Every Black person's actions
are seenas a collective endeavor.
Every action besides success,of course.
Every bad thing that one of usmay experience
or cause reflects on all of usin the eyes of American society.
One robbery, they areinherently criminal.
One drug deal,they inherently lack restraint.
One person does somethingtrifling on the job,
they all lack discipline.
I see what you mean.
It's like Black people havea collective conscious
in the eyes of white America.
Like you think and behaveas a monolith.
But, of course, that's, like,so false.
You have a white manstrangling someone by the neck,
while being recorded,as both victim and bystanders
begged him to stop.
Y'all feelno personal shame in that.
If the tables were turned,I'd be in shambles.
Y'all have an imbecilein the White House,
and you just shrug it off.
If it were Obama,all the Black folks
would be hanging our heads.
Because all Black Americanswould be lumped together
because of the messhe was involved in.
And the mess that's happeningwith the white man
in the Oval now,
you don't feelat all connected to.
It's one of the treacherousand rarely-discussed
side effectsof white supremacy.
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
Whew! Man, I've never seenanything like this.
No.It's spreading everywhere.
It's because the peoplehave had it.
We've had it.
It's 2020.it's rise-up time, bro.
No cap.
Yo, you comin' through tomorrow?
Man, yo, let me knowas soon as possible.
But you don't want to miss it.
Yeah, I'm trying to tell you.
What?
Right now?
No, I got it on.I just had it on mute.
Woman: ...just set fire to one of the precincts
of the Minneapolis Police Department.
Police said...
They set the police stationon fire.
Oh, that's whatI'm talkin' about!
They deserve that!Burn that shit down!
Micah!
Yo, let me call you back,bro.
Alright. Alright.
...behind me in front of the precinct house,
where the four officers...
It's a little much,don't you think?
Officers used tear gas...
Someone could get hurt or diein that building burning.
Someone --Someone could be inside.
And?
Look, I'm just as upsetas you are.
But no matter what happensto us,
no matter what they doto us,
we can't becomethe thing that we hate.
[ Scoffs ]So what do you suppose
we fight back withthen, huh?
"Love?"
Don't -- Don't do that justbecause you're angry.
Love isn't a weakness.
Love isn't somethingto be mocked.
You can be enragedand still lead with love.
With light.
[ Scoffs ]
Ella Baker said,"Give light,
and the peoplewill find the way."
Dr. King said --
you know this, Micah --"Darkness can't drive
out darkness,only light can do that.
Hate can't drive out hate,only love can do that."
Dr. King also said
that "a riot isthe language of the unheard."
We have other ways.
We have our vote.
We can make laws, policies.
We can protest peacefully.
Mom, "protest peacefully"are two words
that just shouldn'tbe used together.
Micah!
You're talking about workingwithin a system
that's designed exactlythe way it's been working --
against us.All I'm saying is,
rioting and lootingaren't the answer.
Then what is?
Do you expect us to turnthe other cheek
when we have a gun in our mouthand a knee on our neck?
We have to get outin the streets.
It's the only way, Mom.Period.
♪♪
The council just got wordof a protest happening
at the City Hall heretomorrow night.
There's concernabout violence.
There'll bea police presence.
Are you goingto that protest?
I helped planthat protest.
♪♪
Woman: ...carrying signs, screaming,
that say "Am I next?"
There's a sense of injustice
and a sense of anger and outrage
at what has happened.
-That was amazing!-I told you.
I knew you'd love it.
Swimming in the moonlight?
If I didn't know better,
I'd thinkyou were trying to seduce me.
Every day, baby.
Mm.
I miss swimming.
Thank you.
We gotta get youback in the water.
[ Cellphone rings ]
Hey, Wood.Hollywood: Hey, Ra.
What's up, man?You good?
Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, bro,I'm sorry to bother you, man.
My bad.Everything good?
Blue good?Yeah, yeah, he cool, man.
Is everything okay?
Fine, baby.
Listen, Ra,something happened.
You seen the news?What you talking about?
Just turn on any channel,man.
It's on all the channels?Yeah.
Another Black man murderedin the middle of the street.
Cop had his knee on his neck.I don't even know what to do.
Man: George Floyd pleaded
for his life for over 5 minutes
while the police officer knelt on the back of his neck.
You can hear him saying over and over again,
"I can't breathe."Woman: George Floyd.
Protest is intensifying in Minneapolis...
There have been a few people looting, but you can see...
Got his knee on his neck.
Woman #2: ...tear gas and stun grenades and fired
rubber bullets into the screaming crowd.
Woman #3: I don't know. We're talking maybe a thousand,
but it has grown substantially.
Man #2: They are on their knees,
and you can hear them yelling "Don't shoot" at the officers.
[ Sniffles ]
[ Man speaking indistinctly on TV]
♪♪
[ Sobs ]
♪♪
[ Drill whirring ]
The back is all covered.
But I don't think you'regonna really need all this.
Well, I don't thinkwe're gonna need it either,
but Hollywood's right.
We gotta take precautions,'cause folks are hot
and I get it.Yep.
Hollywood?
Please don't crackmy molding and sash.
I heard you the firstthree times, Vi.
So, Prosper.
Outside of our honeymoon,I don't think I have spent
more than 3 days straightaway from this place
since I was 19 years old.
[ Chuckles ]
Aah!
Hollywood!
You and that drill!
Don't mess my diner up!
Baby, it's gonna bereal messed up
if somebody come in hereacting crazy.
Do you mind giving me
some hammer and nailsout the toolbox?
Well, you know,ain't nobody gonna mess
with my place, anyway.
I think we should just takesome of this stuff and board up
The Real Spot.
Don't matter about that.
Well, just 'cause it ain't opendon't mean it don't matter.
Well, it don't matter to me.
I'm over it.
You over it?
Vi, please.
Just leave it be.
I don't know wherethe hammer is.
Oh, it might bein this lower pocket.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!No, no, Vi, Vi, Vi!
[ Sighs ]
♪♪
What the hell you doingwith this?
♪♪
[ Door closes ]
I've had itfor a while, Vi.
You keep it in our house?
To protect our home, yeah.
I know you don't like it,but...
As far as I'm concerned,a gun ain't nothing
but violenceand death waiting to happen,
and I don't want itanywhere near me.
Vi.We agreed
a long time agothat you wouldn't keep one.
So every day thatyou kept it in our house,
you've been lying to me.
Why, Hollywood?
Why?!
Baby, look what's going onright now.
What are we doing?
They killed that man deadin the middle of the street.
What does George Floydhave to do with you
having a gunin our house?
Have you noticed that ain'tnobody saying nothing about
if that man had kids?
A wife?
Brother?
Sister?
Everybody paying all thisattention to how he died,
and nobody's saying nothingabout how that man lived.
He was a brother that was killedon camera for the world to see
and feelsome kind of way about it.
Now, if somebody run up on you,Prosper, Baby Blue,
them arguing-ass Bordelon kids,anybody who we love --
You will get yourselfkilled.
Well, if I got to takea bullet
to keep a bullet off of thosewho I'm charged with protecting
and providing for, then that'sjust how it's gotta be.
I hear you.
I do.
But that thing there...
I don't care what you say.
It don't work for me.
It ain't never worked for me,Hollywood. Please.
Chère, if I get got, the worldis gonna know that
I am a Black manwho knew what love feels like.
That I loved somebody,and somebody loved me enough
to let me fightfor our chance to live.
♪♪
Buon appetito.
Chicken Parmigiana.
-Mmm.-It looks great, Courtney.
I'll probably just havea few bites.
I don't wanna be late.
It smells great.
You could stay home.
Could you please passthe pepper?
Sure, but you don'thave to worry.
I season my food.
Mm-hmm.
If you want, we can record that,and you can watch it later.
Actually, I'd liketo keep up with it.
Things are developing fast.
How's your articlecoming along, Nova?
Slowly, but surely.
It's aboutthose who watch.
The so-called bystanders.
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng,and Thomas K. Lane.
They are the facilitatorsof his death, too,
yet they'll claimthey're innocent.
"Their innocenceconstitutes the crime."
Jimmy B said that.Who's Jimmy B?
James Baldwin,in "The Fire Next Time."
That's probably whatyou should call him.
Actually, Calvin,I was hoping you'd tell me
about the time you watched.
You admitted you watchedsome of your fellow officers
beat up a Black boy once.
When you first became a cop.
Wait. Dad, you what?
♪♪
It was over 20 years ago.
I was a rookie.I was just trying to fit in.
But you watched?
A Black kid in the Ninth Ward.
He got caught stealinga chocolate bar.
It was stupid.It was a waste of our time.
But the store owner,he knew my partner.
We got called in, and my partnerthen called a few more cops,
and I didn't realizeit at the time...
I just finally got the nerveto ask him
why he hadto take it so far.
What'd he say?
He saidit was a "down payment."
A down payment?
It was cop talk back then...
...for beating up a Black kid.
The idea was to hurt 'emwhen they were young.
So they knew what to expectwhen they got older.
Jesus Christ, Dad!
I swore that I'd never putmyself in that position again.
I know I should have done more,and I should've been stronger.
Better.
I am.
It was one of the worst daysof my life.
Yeah, I'm sure wasn't a redletter day for the kid either.
♪♪
[ Footsteps approaching ]
Hey.
I'm heading out.
Just wanted to let you know.
I'll be safe.I promise.
Micah...Mom.
Please don't try to talk meout of this.
I can't sit here.I have to do something.
I have to fight thissomehow.
I was just gonna ask you ifyou have another one of those.
♪♪
Yeah.
♪♪
Hey.
What's up, baby?
You talk to Blue again?
Mm-hmm.
How'd he soundthis time?
Same aswhen you talked to him.
Like he don't know nothing.
I think Vi been keeping himfrom it all.
[ Sighs ]That's a small miracle.
I don't like it,Ralph Angel.
Like what?
That the world has becomea place where Black kids can see
all the ways that the worldis trying to kill them,
right on their TVat any time.
They shouldn't beplaying clips in a loop.
It's traumatic.
Hey, La. Sit down.
I've been thinking...
What if we don'tcut things short?
What if we just stay?
I mean, we only gottwo more days left.
I don't know.
Things seem like they couldget really bad at home.
Things always get badat home.
And if they don't,they feel like it, right?
I don't knowwhat you mean.
I'm just tiredof feelin' like
death isalways at my doorstep.
I mean, we here.
Let's just be here,you know?
You got folk who do thison the regular --
vacation homes,all of this space.
Ain't gotta turn on the TVand see what the world think
about 'em, in cold bloodover and over again.
Those peoplealso ignore reality.
We can't.
Yeah, but we can rest.
We deserve to take careof ourselves.
I mean...
I ain't trying to rush backto all that.
Can't that painwait a few days?
I can't argue with whatyou're saying, but I just...
...I just wantto hold our son.
I just want...
I want to hold my babyin my arms.
I want to know he's okay.
♪♪
Okay.
That's what we'll do.
♪♪
Woman: ...they were responding to a call
over a fraudulent $20 bill.
So...they did not haveyour favorite flavor, but...
I got you something elseto try.
It's all good.What you got for me?
"Black Moms Matter?"
What about mymom?
It'll be all goodwhen all lives matter.
Hey, he ignorant.Don't mind him.
What you got for me,baby?
How -- How would you feelif I walked around
with a shirt that said,"White Lives Matter?"
I would say thatit was redundant.
Oh.
I see you got oneof them mouthy ones, huh?
You better watchyour mouth, boy.
You don't want this smokeover here, man.
Go ahead, pump your gas.A'ight?
So we're just gonna burn downthe cities
'cause one brother wouldn'tstop resisting arrest?
The cops were called on himfor a reason.
Yeah, not a good one.
Says you.
He got what he deserved.
That's a fact.
Know what else a fact?
You and your kind,you in your last days.
Ralph Angel, let's go.Unh-unh.
Take that gas you just pumpedand keep a-pushing
if you knowwhat's good for you.
Punk ass.
♪ Alright
♪ Take back the power
[ Crowd chanting"No justice, no peace" ]
♪ Take back the power
[ Chanting continues ]
♪ Take back the power
♪♪
♪ Take back the power
[ Chanting continues ]
♪ Take back the power
[ Crowd chanting"No justice, no peace" ]
♪ Take back the power
No peace!-No peace!
♪ Take back the power
♪♪
Hollywood:I made myself watch that video.
I had to.
I had to bear witness,I guess.
Pay my respects to the man.
I had to let him know,"We see you, brother."
I see you.
The whole thing was bad.
But, my God, when he called outto his mother...
She was the only thing,
the only person, thathe thought might save him.
Do you understandwhat it is to be a grown
Black man and all you haveto protect you
and what you loveis your mother?
And she's passed on.
♪♪
Did he feel her...
...in those last moments?
Did he see herin those final minutes?
♪♪
Did you have funon your honeymoon?
We did.Um, let's see.
We danced, and we swam, andwe celebrated being married.
Then why did you come backso early?
Well...
we missed you.
And there's a lotgoing on right now.
Seemed best that we allbe together at home.
Are you talking aboutwhat happened to Mr. Floyd?
Did you hear about thatat Aunt Vi's?
I heard people saying "BlackLives Matter" a lot on TV.
Then they said somethinghorrible happened
to him, and he died.
But I don't know why.
Um...
George Floydwas a man who...
He got killed.
By some police officers.
You know what Black Lives Mattermean, right?
Yes, but...
don't all lives matter?
Yeah, but everybodydon't act like it.
So we can't say"all lives matter"
till they act likeBlack lives matter.
Ralph Angel...You understand?
It's time.
Blue...
♪♪
...this world is filledwith good people.
Good things.
And I want you to experienceall of that.
Everything the world has tooffer you, I want that for you.
You understand?
The thing is...
this world ain't all good.
There's a lot of bad thingsout there.
A lot of bad stuff.
And bad people.
My teacher says there'sno such thing as bad people.
Well, there is.
I wish we lived in a worldwhere everybody was nice
and everybody was good.
But bad peopledon't see you.
They won't see you.
I wish I could be there to makesure everybody you meet in life
will treat you right,but I can't.
So I need youto know what to do
when somebody don't loveyou the way...
me and Mommy do.
You have to beextra careful
if you're ever stoppedby the police.
But I'm not gonna breakthe law.
That don't matter.
You will be stoppedby the police, Blue.
Why?
Because you Black, and that'sjust what happen
to Black boysand men in America.
But that's not right.I know.
Can't we change it?
Like Auntie Novaalways says.
We can change thingsif we work for change.
Right. You wanna knowhow you change it?
By staying alive and doingsomething special
with your life.
That's how.
I need you hereso you can do that.
Understand?
Well...
how do I...
stay alive?
[ Breathes sharply ]
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
Rule number one is,you don't run.
Even when you're scared,you don't run.
You hear me?
That's how they shoot youin the back.
Number two, if anythingever happens,
you call meor your momma first.
Immediately.
Understand?
I will.
You're smart.
I know you'll be finein this world.
Ain't got nothingto be scared of, okay?
♪♪
[ Sobs ]Hey.
♪♪
Come here.
♪♪