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00:00:47,737 --> 00:00:49,187 --CPD gunned down-- 20 00:00:49,221 --> 00:00:51,292 --two of our beloved community members. 21 00:00:51,568 --> 00:00:53,881 --two of our beloved community members. 22 00:00:53,915 --> 00:00:55,400 Mayor Emanuel-- 23 00:00:55,434 --> 00:00:56,987 Mayor Emanuel-- 24 00:00:57,022 --> 00:00:58,092 --thinks more tasers-- 25 00:00:58,748 --> 00:01:00,474 --thinks more tasers-- 26 00:01:00,508 --> 00:01:01,751 --and more money-- 27 00:01:01,785 --> 00:01:02,648 --and more money-- 28 00:01:02,683 --> 00:01:04,202 --should go to the police. 29 00:01:04,236 --> 00:01:06,342 --should go to the police. 30 00:01:06,376 --> 00:01:07,170 While you are here-- 31 00:01:07,550 --> 00:01:09,241 While you are here-- 32 00:01:09,276 --> 00:01:11,036 --celebrating over brunch-- 33 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:12,727 --celebrating over brunch-- 34 00:01:12,762 --> 00:01:13,763 --Black families-- 35 00:01:14,039 --> 00:01:15,247 --Black families-- 36 00:01:15,282 --> 00:01:16,421 --are struggling to keep themselves-- 37 00:01:16,455 --> 00:01:19,044 --are struggling to keep themselves-- 38 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:20,839 --safe from CPD. 39 00:01:20,873 --> 00:01:22,427 --safe from CPD. 40 00:01:22,461 --> 00:01:25,671 These are some of the men, women, and children 41 00:01:25,706 --> 00:01:27,570 killed by the police. 42 00:01:27,604 --> 00:01:29,365 Tiara Thomas, 30. 43 00:01:29,399 --> 00:01:30,573 Say her name! 44 00:01:30,607 --> 00:01:32,506 Sandra Reever, 48. 45 00:01:32,540 --> 00:01:33,714 Say her name! 46 00:01:33,748 --> 00:01:35,647 India Kager, 48. 47 00:01:35,681 --> 00:01:36,717 Say her name! 48 00:01:36,751 --> 00:01:38,684 Sandra Bland, 28. 49 00:01:38,719 --> 00:01:39,927 Say her name! 50 00:01:40,410 --> 00:01:43,586 [chanting] Chant down, Babylon, Black people are the bomb. 51 00:01:43,620 --> 00:01:44,138 We ready. 52 00:01:44,173 --> 00:01:44,690 [stomping] 53 00:01:44,725 --> 00:01:45,312 We coming. 54 00:01:45,346 --> 00:01:46,002 [stomping] We ready. 55 00:01:46,036 --> 00:01:46,485 [stomping] 56 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,383 We coming. 57 00:01:47,417 --> 00:01:48,901 Director of Operations. 58 00:01:48,936 --> 00:01:51,145 This guy right here was real sarcastic with me, 59 00:01:51,180 --> 00:01:53,872 this lady as well, as I was trying to get them out of here. 60 00:01:54,183 --> 00:01:56,495 So they just disrupted the lunch of about 200 people. 61 00:01:56,530 --> 00:01:57,117 OK, well, they're leaving, so. 62 00:01:57,151 --> 00:01:57,910 [chanting continues] 63 00:01:57,945 --> 00:01:59,084 Excuse me. 64 00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:00,396 --Babylon, Black people are the bomb. 65 00:02:00,430 --> 00:02:01,086 We ready. 66 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:01,569 [stomping] 67 00:02:01,604 --> 00:02:02,191 We coming. 68 00:02:02,225 --> 00:02:03,088 [stomping] We ready. 69 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:03,571 [stomping] 70 00:02:03,606 --> 00:02:04,089 We coming. 71 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:05,055 [stomping] 72 00:02:05,090 --> 00:02:05,642 What is this helping though? 73 00:02:05,677 --> 00:02:07,196 That's my question. 74 00:02:07,230 --> 00:02:09,301 We think it's very important-- 75 00:02:09,336 --> 00:02:10,199 Really? 76 00:02:10,233 --> 00:02:11,234 To disrupt everyone's brunch. 77 00:02:11,269 --> 00:02:11,924 No. 78 00:02:11,959 --> 00:02:12,718 We all have TV. 79 00:02:12,753 --> 00:02:13,857 We all watch the news. 80 00:02:13,892 --> 00:02:15,859 Now, we return to Chicago-- 81 00:02:15,894 --> 00:02:18,034 --as violence continues to be topic A in Chicago-- 82 00:02:18,068 --> 00:02:19,725 --shot and killed 22-year-old-- 83 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,039 --showing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot 16-- 84 00:02:23,073 --> 00:02:26,076 Breaking news, another Black death. 85 00:02:28,355 --> 00:02:32,669 We often peep the slightest of hand, 86 00:02:32,704 --> 00:02:38,296 the Black death used as cape, the draping of our people 87 00:02:38,330 --> 00:02:40,056 to your cause. 88 00:02:40,090 --> 00:02:44,578 This is a story about that magic, about the historical, 89 00:02:44,612 --> 00:02:48,168 the unlikely, rarely-reported facts about leaders 90 00:02:48,202 --> 00:02:52,344 and communities like ours, about how much 91 00:02:52,379 --> 00:02:56,106 they fail and succeed, about how Black they 92 00:02:56,141 --> 00:02:58,247 are, how queer they are. 93 00:03:01,526 --> 00:03:04,529 When you take enough Ls, you refuse to surf. 94 00:03:04,563 --> 00:03:08,222 But eventually, if you stay here long enough, 95 00:03:08,257 --> 00:03:12,157 you'll plant your feet and stay upright. 96 00:03:12,192 --> 00:03:15,229 This is our city. 97 00:03:15,264 --> 00:03:17,576 But when you expect folks who you've held back 98 00:03:17,611 --> 00:03:21,304 for centuries to say, "sorry," I'm afraid you'll find 99 00:03:21,339 --> 00:03:22,857 us rather-- 100 00:03:22,892 --> 00:03:24,342 [music playing] 101 00:03:24,376 --> 00:03:26,413 Hold up. 102 00:03:26,447 --> 00:03:27,172 I need this-- 103 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:28,035 --unapologetic. 104 00:03:28,069 --> 00:03:30,900 [music playing] 105 00:03:34,628 --> 00:03:36,492 Hold up. 106 00:03:36,526 --> 00:03:38,908 Vibe shit. 107 00:03:38,942 --> 00:03:40,220 [music playing] 108 00:03:40,254 --> 00:03:41,221 [RAPPING] Hey, Westside get the money, 109 00:03:41,255 --> 00:03:43,015 roll through Austin in a Porsche. 110 00:03:43,050 --> 00:03:44,500 My niggas got Instagrams, you can't take a picture. 111 00:03:45,294 --> 00:03:46,640 Why you saving all your money? 112 00:03:46,674 --> 00:03:47,986 You know you can't take it with you. 113 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:50,575 Every time I get it, I flip it, to make me richer. 114 00:03:50,609 --> 00:03:51,369 And look out for the shorties, they 115 00:03:51,403 --> 00:03:53,233 got me when they get bigger. 116 00:03:53,267 --> 00:03:54,130 I don't really fuck with rappers. 117 00:03:54,441 --> 00:03:55,304 You ain't deep, so I don't dig ya. 118 00:03:55,338 --> 00:03:56,719 You cannot sit with us. 119 00:03:56,753 --> 00:03:58,376 I cannot hit your swisher. 120 00:03:58,410 --> 00:04:00,516 Loud, Mary keep on burning, roll, rolling on the river. 121 00:04:00,550 --> 00:04:02,828 I'm feeling like I'm Tina, no tolerance for misogynist, 122 00:04:02,863 --> 00:04:04,727 in a limo with the Nina. 123 00:04:04,761 --> 00:04:06,384 When you married to the game, ain't no such thing 124 00:04:06,418 --> 00:04:08,040 as a prenup. 125 00:04:08,075 --> 00:04:09,318 When all you niggas loyal, you don't give no fuck bout 126 00:04:09,352 --> 00:04:11,078 no subpoena, dream of selling out arenas. 127 00:04:11,112 --> 00:04:13,529 And the ball is in my court now, so my rap game is Serena. 128 00:04:13,563 --> 00:04:16,083 Got to make my parents proud, feel like Sasha and Malia. 129 00:04:16,117 --> 00:04:18,810 Young Black woman in Chicago, boy, I do this for Rekia. 130 00:04:18,844 --> 00:04:20,984 And all my songs are bangers, bang like onomatopoeia. 131 00:04:21,019 --> 00:04:23,159 Hold up. 132 00:04:23,193 --> 00:04:23,987 Hello. 133 00:04:24,022 --> 00:04:24,712 How's it going? 134 00:04:24,747 --> 00:04:25,368 Pretty well. 135 00:04:25,403 --> 00:04:27,681 How are you? 136 00:04:27,715 --> 00:04:30,960 [music playing] 137 00:04:32,548 --> 00:04:36,586 I fell in love with this city when I moved here. 138 00:04:36,621 --> 00:04:41,039 But during the months of December through March, 139 00:04:41,419 --> 00:04:44,594 that love affair is very, very fickle. 140 00:04:44,629 --> 00:04:47,321 It's like a really good significant other 141 00:04:47,356 --> 00:04:50,324 that just forgets every important date. 142 00:04:50,359 --> 00:04:51,325 [laughs] 143 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,398 [laughs] Your birthday, anniversary. 144 00:04:55,433 --> 00:04:59,160 But Chicago as a whole, it's a dope city. 145 00:04:59,195 --> 00:05:00,748 [chatter] 146 00:05:10,758 --> 00:05:12,760 Set my people free. 147 00:05:12,795 --> 00:05:14,659 I'm letting my people know-- 148 00:05:14,693 --> 00:05:17,040 I'm letting my people know-- 149 00:05:17,696 --> 00:05:19,802 --I love you like you were me. 150 00:05:19,836 --> 00:05:20,803 --I love you like were me. 151 00:05:20,837 --> 00:05:21,804 Look at somebody. 152 00:05:21,838 --> 00:05:23,875 I love you like you were me. 153 00:05:23,909 --> 00:05:26,187 I love you like you were me. 154 00:05:26,222 --> 00:05:28,051 [cheering and applause] 155 00:05:28,086 --> 00:05:29,363 We about to open this up. 156 00:05:29,398 --> 00:05:31,020 Black Youth Project 100 is a group 157 00:05:31,054 --> 00:05:32,711 that I'm so proud to be a part of. 158 00:05:32,746 --> 00:05:35,921 Please make some noise for Janaé Bonsu. 159 00:05:36,197 --> 00:05:38,786 [cheering and applause] 160 00:05:42,790 --> 00:05:43,377 Peace, everybody. 161 00:05:43,412 --> 00:05:44,413 How y'all doing? 162 00:05:44,447 --> 00:05:46,000 [crowd responds] 163 00:05:46,035 --> 00:05:47,761 I want to push us today to think about our futures. 164 00:05:47,795 --> 00:05:50,108 The reality is, especially Black women, 165 00:05:50,142 --> 00:05:51,972 been working hard since the beginning of time 166 00:05:52,006 --> 00:05:53,525 and been supporting everybody. 167 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,251 If you've ever been supported by a Black woman, 168 00:05:55,285 --> 00:05:56,666 just snap your fingers. 169 00:05:56,701 --> 00:05:57,322 Let me hear you. 170 00:05:57,357 --> 00:05:59,462 [cheering]Right? 171 00:05:59,497 --> 00:06:02,085 And I'm sure all y'all know the statistic that 40% of our city 172 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,191 budget goes to policing, right? 173 00:06:04,225 --> 00:06:07,677 So much money is being harbored in these institutions. 174 00:06:07,712 --> 00:06:09,161 Get your blocks together and say, "Yo, 175 00:06:09,196 --> 00:06:11,232 how can we pool our resources? 176 00:06:11,267 --> 00:06:12,717 You know, if we don't got a Whole Foods 177 00:06:12,751 --> 00:06:15,271 in our neighborhood, how can we start growing our own food?" 178 00:06:15,305 --> 00:06:16,824 [laughs] 179 00:06:16,859 --> 00:06:18,274 We've really got to think about how we build what 180 00:06:18,308 --> 00:06:19,689 we want from the ground up. 181 00:06:19,724 --> 00:06:21,553 And it's gone be hard, but we can do it. 182 00:06:21,588 --> 00:06:23,175 So I believe that we will win. 183 00:06:23,210 --> 00:06:24,280 That's it. 184 00:06:24,314 --> 00:06:26,144 [cheering and applause] 185 00:06:27,179 --> 00:06:31,149 My name is Janaé Ebone Bonsu. 186 00:06:31,183 --> 00:06:35,360 I work within an organization that radically challenges 187 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:37,914 that notion that women have limited 188 00:06:37,949 --> 00:06:41,573 capacity for leadership. 189 00:06:41,608 --> 00:06:45,335 And woman leadership has just been a lot more visible now 190 00:06:45,370 --> 00:06:47,027 than I think it's ever been. 191 00:06:47,130 --> 00:06:47,683 Whose streets? 192 00:06:47,717 --> 00:06:48,408 Our streets! 193 00:06:48,442 --> 00:06:49,339 Whose streets? 194 00:06:49,374 --> 00:06:50,202 Our streets! 195 00:06:50,237 --> 00:06:50,686 Whose streets? 196 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,341 Our streets! 197 00:06:51,376 --> 00:06:51,825 Whose streets? 198 00:06:51,859 --> 00:06:52,929 Our streets! 199 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:53,999 Whose streets? 200 00:06:54,034 --> 00:06:54,862 Our streets! 201 00:06:54,897 --> 00:06:55,553 Whose streets? 202 00:06:55,587 --> 00:06:56,277 Our streets! 203 00:06:56,312 --> 00:06:57,106 Whose streets? 204 00:06:57,140 --> 00:06:57,900 Our streets! 205 00:06:57,934 --> 00:06:58,556 Whose streets? 206 00:06:58,590 --> 00:06:59,419 Our streets! 207 00:06:59,453 --> 00:06:59,902 Whose streets? 208 00:06:59,936 --> 00:07:00,592 Our streets! 209 00:07:00,937 --> 00:07:01,559 Whose streets? 210 00:07:01,593 --> 00:07:02,214 Our streets! 211 00:07:02,629 --> 00:07:03,146 Whose streets? 212 00:07:03,181 --> 00:07:04,251 Our streets! 213 00:07:04,285 --> 00:07:04,734 Whose streets? 214 00:07:04,769 --> 00:07:05,839 Our streets! 215 00:07:05,873 --> 00:07:06,564 Whose streets? 216 00:07:06,598 --> 00:07:07,357 Our streets! 217 00:07:07,392 --> 00:07:07,875 Mic check! 218 00:07:07,910 --> 00:07:09,152 Mic check! 219 00:07:09,187 --> 00:07:10,257 Mic check! 220 00:07:10,291 --> 00:07:11,327 Mic check! 221 00:07:11,361 --> 00:07:11,983 Mic check! 222 00:07:12,017 --> 00:07:12,949 Mic check! 223 00:07:15,676 --> 00:07:19,024 You think that you've won. 224 00:07:19,059 --> 00:07:22,925 But we are here to remind you that you haven't. 225 00:07:22,959 --> 00:07:24,409 Nope. 226 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:28,275 We are here to protect and to serve our people. 227 00:07:28,309 --> 00:07:29,518 Yeah! 228 00:07:29,552 --> 00:07:31,347 I'm going to say, protect and serve. 229 00:07:31,381 --> 00:07:33,625 y'all going to say, we are the police. 230 00:07:33,660 --> 00:07:36,145 Then I'm going to say, we're taking back, 231 00:07:36,179 --> 00:07:38,492 and y'all gone say, our communities, OK? 232 00:07:38,527 --> 00:07:39,976 Yes. 233 00:07:40,011 --> 00:07:40,839 Protect and serve? 234 00:07:40,874 --> 00:07:42,427 We are the police. 235 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:43,532 Protect and serve? 236 00:07:43,566 --> 00:07:45,085 We are the police. 237 00:07:45,119 --> 00:07:45,810 Protect and serve! 238 00:07:45,844 --> 00:07:46,742 We are the police. 239 00:07:46,776 --> 00:07:48,019 We're taking back-- 240 00:07:48,053 --> 00:07:49,158 --our communities. 241 00:07:49,192 --> 00:07:50,090 We're taking back-- 242 00:07:50,124 --> 00:07:51,436 --our communities. 243 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:52,748 We're taking back-- 244 00:07:52,782 --> 00:07:55,578 --our communities. 245 00:07:55,613 --> 00:07:58,650 I went to they college, got magnum cum laude. 246 00:07:58,685 --> 00:08:01,653 Learned things that they taught me do not really matter. 247 00:08:01,688 --> 00:08:04,449 Won't help my brother who locked in they cellars. 248 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:07,487 So I yell, free my niggas, then aim at they sheriffs. 249 00:08:07,521 --> 00:08:10,248 You'd better stay inside if you are scared. 250 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:12,215 City so cold that we got to wear layers. 251 00:08:12,250 --> 00:08:15,805 But rocking the hoodie mean that they will prey us. 252 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,359 [CROWD RESPONDS WITH ENCOURAGEMENT] 253 00:08:18,394 --> 00:08:20,500 Walk out the door, my grandma say her prayers. 254 00:08:20,741 --> 00:08:23,330 As-salamu alaykum, don't mess with the pigs. 255 00:08:23,364 --> 00:08:24,814 I don't mess with the bacon. 256 00:08:24,849 --> 00:08:27,679 Think that I'm wrong, then you're sadly mistaken. 257 00:08:27,714 --> 00:08:30,371 This is Black history that we are making. 258 00:08:30,406 --> 00:08:31,372 Right.Yes. 259 00:08:31,407 --> 00:08:32,512 Go ahead. 260 00:08:32,546 --> 00:08:34,928 This is Black history that we are making. 261 00:08:34,962 --> 00:08:36,585 Yeah! 262 00:08:36,619 --> 00:08:41,417 Even if we don't, our stories gone make it! 263 00:08:41,451 --> 00:08:42,073 Yeah! 264 00:08:44,834 --> 00:08:46,353 Thank, y'all. 265 00:08:46,387 --> 00:08:47,837 [cheering and applause] 266 00:08:47,872 --> 00:08:50,184 My name is Ambrell Gambrell, but most people 267 00:08:50,219 --> 00:08:52,704 know me as Bella BAHHS. 268 00:08:52,739 --> 00:08:56,846 Immediately after I graduated, Mike Brown was murdered. 269 00:08:56,881 --> 00:09:02,576 Then I really started getting into using rap as activism. 270 00:09:02,611 --> 00:09:05,752 Like, my first time performing was on a gospel stage. 271 00:09:05,786 --> 00:09:09,238 It was like Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC's. 272 00:09:09,272 --> 00:09:11,516 They were my grandmother's favorite. 273 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:13,173 So I used to always just perform they 274 00:09:13,207 --> 00:09:15,900 songs like in a bed with a remote 275 00:09:15,934 --> 00:09:17,729 and make my grandma happy. 276 00:09:17,764 --> 00:09:19,869 [laughs] Because I would learn all the songs 277 00:09:19,904 --> 00:09:21,491 and perform them for her. 278 00:09:21,526 --> 00:09:23,183 And then we went to one of their concerts. 279 00:09:23,217 --> 00:09:24,598 And he called me up on stage. 280 00:09:24,633 --> 00:09:25,703 I was excited. 281 00:09:25,737 --> 00:09:28,050 I was up there, like-- 282 00:09:28,084 --> 00:09:32,019 yes, that's my grandma, all her jewelry, iced up. 283 00:09:32,054 --> 00:09:35,575 This is my great-grandmother, my grandma's mom. 284 00:09:35,609 --> 00:09:38,060 And then that's her mom. 285 00:09:38,094 --> 00:09:41,857 I've always seen women who have raised children 286 00:09:41,891 --> 00:09:43,583 and raised communities on their own. 287 00:09:46,551 --> 00:09:51,383 That's my mama up there, stylin' on them. 288 00:09:51,418 --> 00:09:52,833 Yeah, my mom was in a federal penitentiary 289 00:09:52,868 --> 00:09:54,524 when she took that picture. 290 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:55,733 It was crazy. 291 00:09:55,767 --> 00:09:56,734 Like, they had picture days and shit. 292 00:09:56,768 --> 00:09:59,150 I don't know. 293 00:09:59,184 --> 00:10:00,738 [laughs] Yes indeed. 294 00:10:00,772 --> 00:10:02,256 This is me. 295 00:10:02,291 --> 00:10:03,223 Going to see my momma. 296 00:10:07,848 --> 00:10:10,230 [music playing] 297 00:10:17,099 --> 00:10:19,515 For a very long time, my grandmother 298 00:10:19,549 --> 00:10:21,724 told me that my parents were at college. 299 00:10:26,936 --> 00:10:31,492 I remember very vividly being about five-years-old 300 00:10:31,527 --> 00:10:35,496 and bawling, like, just crying my eyes out 301 00:10:35,531 --> 00:10:37,878 to my, to my grandma. 302 00:10:37,913 --> 00:10:40,501 And she didn't understand why I was crying. 303 00:10:40,536 --> 00:10:42,987 But she had just said something about me going to college one 304 00:10:43,021 --> 00:10:43,815 day. 305 00:10:43,850 --> 00:10:45,299 And I was devastated. 306 00:10:49,407 --> 00:10:51,547 Both of my parents were incarcerated by the time 307 00:10:51,581 --> 00:10:53,204 I was three-months-old. 308 00:10:58,002 --> 00:11:02,144 When people are serving time, their families 309 00:11:02,178 --> 00:11:03,283 are serving that time with them. 310 00:11:06,942 --> 00:11:09,185 That's where my fight against abolition 311 00:11:09,220 --> 00:11:12,499 comes from, because you are destroying families. 312 00:11:12,533 --> 00:11:16,814 Like, how I relate to people is completely fucked up. 313 00:11:16,848 --> 00:11:18,712 [laughs] 314 00:11:18,747 --> 00:11:21,197 [ambient street noise] 315 00:11:22,405 --> 00:11:24,200 You only have a few minutes to talk about it. 316 00:11:24,235 --> 00:11:25,823 It's not because they're not-- 317 00:11:25,857 --> 00:11:30,344 I am currently a doctoral student at Jane Addams College 318 00:11:30,379 --> 00:11:30,931 of Social Work. 319 00:11:32,208 --> 00:11:33,727 Really, just take a minute and think 320 00:11:33,762 --> 00:11:36,488 about the most important thing you want 321 00:11:36,523 --> 00:11:39,353 to tell us about your paper. 322 00:11:39,388 --> 00:11:40,838 Of course, it should be what it's about. 323 00:11:40,872 --> 00:11:43,806 So let's start with Janaé. 324 00:11:43,841 --> 00:11:46,395 OK, my paper is essentially talking 325 00:11:46,429 --> 00:11:50,917 about community accountability as an antidote 326 00:11:50,951 --> 00:11:53,989 to legal cynicism. 327 00:11:54,023 --> 00:11:59,546 And so I was drawn to write this paper because it's 328 00:11:59,580 --> 00:12:01,237 kind of grounded in my experience 329 00:12:01,272 --> 00:12:05,310 being an activist and organizer here in Chicago, 330 00:12:05,345 --> 00:12:10,039 being in a city where, you know, a mayor has committed 331 00:12:10,074 --> 00:12:12,801 to hiring 1,000 more cops and me being 332 00:12:12,835 --> 00:12:16,045 in, I guess, kind of a bubble where, you know, 333 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,703 people don't want more police, right? 334 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:23,777 I actually want to read a quote by Dr. Richie, 335 00:12:23,812 --> 00:12:27,436 actually, because abolition means 336 00:12:27,470 --> 00:12:29,334 that we have to talk about accountability, 337 00:12:29,369 --> 00:12:31,371 transformative justice, mobilizing 338 00:12:31,405 --> 00:12:32,821 people who are serving time. 339 00:12:32,855 --> 00:12:35,202 It means asking what are we not doing 340 00:12:35,237 --> 00:12:37,757 yet at home so that we are positioned to build 341 00:12:37,791 --> 00:12:39,828 another set of alternatives. 342 00:12:39,862 --> 00:12:43,728 A first draft of the lit review of my dissertation research. 343 00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:47,318 Great, good job. 344 00:12:47,352 --> 00:12:49,872 Over the years, Mayor Rahm Emanuel 345 00:12:49,907 --> 00:12:52,150 closed the public schools, closed the mental health 346 00:12:52,185 --> 00:12:53,358 centers. 347 00:12:53,393 --> 00:12:59,088 He is committed to sustaining and strengthening 348 00:12:59,123 --> 00:13:00,780 law enforcement. 349 00:13:00,814 --> 00:13:04,231 And now that it is actually the term where I am putting 350 00:13:04,266 --> 00:13:05,646 my dissertation together. 351 00:13:05,681 --> 00:13:07,890 [music playing] 352 00:13:08,270 --> 00:13:11,721 I really want my research grounded 353 00:13:11,756 --> 00:13:16,140 in how we can envision what safety looks 354 00:13:16,174 --> 00:13:17,451 like outside of that system. 355 00:13:22,422 --> 00:13:26,495 So it looks like this is 100 pages. 356 00:13:26,529 --> 00:13:28,566 I'm hoping that this 50-page page 357 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:33,743 limit is only text, because if not, 358 00:13:33,778 --> 00:13:36,919 then I'm kind of in trouble. 359 00:13:36,954 --> 00:13:41,303 I think one of the biggest missing pieces of system 360 00:13:41,337 --> 00:13:48,482 intersectionality, is basically how 361 00:13:48,517 --> 00:13:51,071 the welfare system, the criminal legal system, the immigration 362 00:13:51,106 --> 00:13:53,487 system, child protective services, the health care 363 00:13:53,522 --> 00:13:58,561 system, how they're all very interrelated. 364 00:13:58,596 --> 00:14:01,012 Like, when a Black woman has contact with the police. 365 00:14:10,746 --> 00:14:12,990 It's a photo of my nana and grandpa 366 00:14:13,024 --> 00:14:16,890 visiting my uncle in prison. 367 00:14:16,925 --> 00:14:20,894 Most of my life he was in prison, 368 00:14:20,929 --> 00:14:24,518 I knew that him spending so much time in prison 369 00:14:24,553 --> 00:14:28,695 wasn't just because he was a bad person. 370 00:14:28,729 --> 00:14:34,874 I knew that there had to be more to that cycle. 371 00:14:34,908 --> 00:14:38,878 A lot of my formative experiences and analysis 372 00:14:38,912 --> 00:14:44,331 of the criminal legal system, came from him. 373 00:14:44,366 --> 00:14:48,853 Such a cool dude, I put him on my wall 374 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:59,968 as just a consistent constant reminder of why I do this, 375 00:15:00,002 --> 00:15:01,659 yeah. 376 00:15:01,693 --> 00:15:02,936 [interposing voices] 377 00:15:07,251 --> 00:15:09,149 [SINGING] Set it up, set it up, send it up, set it off. 378 00:15:09,184 --> 00:15:10,875 Fuck with my sisters and you're set up for failure. 379 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,566 You're better off cooling off. 380 00:15:12,601 --> 00:15:14,189 Yeah, you're better off cooling off. 381 00:15:15,431 --> 00:15:17,399 So it's going to go something like that. 382 00:15:17,433 --> 00:15:18,469 [interposing voices] 383 00:15:19,332 --> 00:15:23,853 Do you want to do any overdubs on that part? 384 00:15:23,888 --> 00:15:24,371 Yes. 385 00:15:24,406 --> 00:15:25,994 OK. 386 00:15:26,028 --> 00:15:28,168 [SINGING] Laquan could have been the son of TT. 387 00:15:28,203 --> 00:15:29,929 They shot Pierre while he was running. 388 00:15:29,963 --> 00:15:31,654 That sound a lot to me like Frankie. 389 00:15:31,689 --> 00:15:34,140 Frankly, going out like Cleo is more likely. 390 00:15:34,174 --> 00:15:36,004 Take some CPD officers with me. 391 00:15:36,038 --> 00:15:37,971 If niggas want war, then just call me Achilles. 392 00:15:38,006 --> 00:15:39,697 Feds on my heels like I just stepped in feces. 393 00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:41,250 Oh, shit. 394 00:15:41,285 --> 00:15:43,321 This for niggas at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. 395 00:15:43,356 --> 00:15:44,874 Oshun, full of fresh water. 396 00:15:44,909 --> 00:15:45,668 This for Flint, Michigan. 397 00:15:45,703 --> 00:15:46,911 They're poisoning our children. 398 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:47,877 Fuck a politician. 399 00:15:47,912 --> 00:15:48,948 Criminals in the Senate-- 400 00:15:49,396 --> 00:15:53,918 I'm angry when I'm performing at street protests, 401 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:56,748 but at the studio, this is healing. 402 00:15:56,783 --> 00:15:58,026 [interposing voices] 403 00:15:58,060 --> 00:16:04,515 Can you punch me in at oh, shit? 404 00:16:04,549 --> 00:16:06,551 Mhm, you want before the shit or after the shit? 405 00:16:06,586 --> 00:16:08,415 [laughter] 406 00:16:08,450 --> 00:16:09,969 Blau, blau, blau, blau. 407 00:16:10,279 --> 00:16:12,419 Punch me in before the shit. 408 00:16:12,695 --> 00:16:14,490 [laughter] 409 00:16:14,525 --> 00:16:15,388 [SINGING] [RAPPING] Oshun, full of fresh water, this for Flint, 410 00:16:15,422 --> 00:16:16,423 Michigan. 411 00:16:16,458 --> 00:16:17,528 They're poisoning our children. 412 00:16:17,562 --> 00:16:18,322 Fuck a politician. 413 00:16:18,356 --> 00:16:19,426 Criminals in the Senate. 414 00:16:19,702 --> 00:16:20,910 And my niggas in the field, fuck the house. 415 00:16:20,945 --> 00:16:22,602 If I tell them send it up, that's where they send it. 416 00:16:22,636 --> 00:16:24,811 If I tell them send it up, that's where they send it. 417 00:16:25,053 --> 00:16:26,744 Set it up, set it up, send it up, set it off. 418 00:16:26,778 --> 00:16:27,710 Fuck with my sisters-- 419 00:16:27,745 --> 00:16:29,195 Want to play that back? 420 00:16:29,229 --> 00:16:33,682 My lyrics were very intentional about promoting 421 00:16:33,716 --> 00:16:36,857 Black liberation, and uplifting other Black women. 422 00:16:38,066 --> 00:16:40,033 Yeah, when we talk about Rekia Boyd, 423 00:16:40,068 --> 00:16:42,035 it doesn't get as much publicity as when 424 00:16:42,070 --> 00:16:43,657 we talk about Laquan McDonald. 425 00:16:43,692 --> 00:16:45,211 When we talk about Sandra Bland, it 426 00:16:45,245 --> 00:16:48,317 doesn't get as much publicity as when we talk about Mike Brown, 427 00:16:48,352 --> 00:16:49,629 as when we talk about Eric Garner. 428 00:16:53,184 --> 00:16:55,255 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was walking 429 00:16:55,290 --> 00:16:59,190 to a store with three friends near Douglas Park. 430 00:16:59,225 --> 00:17:03,367 Servin, who was off duty, was upset over noise. 431 00:17:03,401 --> 00:17:07,302 Sitting in his car, fired five shots over his shoulder. 432 00:17:07,336 --> 00:17:08,234 Boyd was hit and killed. 433 00:17:11,202 --> 00:17:17,553 March 21st 2012, Rekia Boyd was shot in the back of her head 434 00:17:17,588 --> 00:17:20,418 by Dante Servin. 435 00:17:20,453 --> 00:17:25,078 State's Attorney, Anita Alvarez, a year and a half 436 00:17:25,113 --> 00:17:30,256 later charged Servin with involuntary manslaughter. 437 00:17:35,019 --> 00:17:38,195 She undercharged Dante Servin. 438 00:17:38,229 --> 00:17:41,715 Judge Dennis Porter vacated the charge, 439 00:17:41,750 --> 00:17:43,683 saying that he should have been charged with first degree 440 00:17:43,717 --> 00:17:45,512 murder. 441 00:17:45,547 --> 00:17:48,239 Because it was a bench trial, it wasn't a jury trial, 442 00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:52,347 Dante Servin was able to walk away 443 00:17:52,381 --> 00:17:56,765 with no accountability via the judicial system. 444 00:18:00,424 --> 00:18:03,358 The Chicago Police Board is responsible 445 00:18:03,392 --> 00:18:07,086 for the ultimate firing of Dante Servin. 446 00:18:11,262 --> 00:18:12,505 This could be anybody. 447 00:18:12,539 --> 00:18:15,128 This could be anybody I know and love. 448 00:18:15,163 --> 00:18:16,750 This is my side of town. 449 00:18:16,785 --> 00:18:17,786 This is my-- like-- 450 00:18:24,517 --> 00:18:27,382 to neglect this side of Chicago, is to neglect my whole family. 451 00:18:36,045 --> 00:18:39,048 There'd be a lot going on over here. 452 00:18:39,083 --> 00:18:40,912 No, it wasn't like that when we was little. 453 00:18:40,947 --> 00:18:42,190 We could walk down the street. 454 00:18:42,224 --> 00:18:43,536 We could walk to the store, and not 455 00:18:43,570 --> 00:18:49,645 get worried about people getting shot or killed. 456 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:50,198 Can't do that now. 457 00:18:55,686 --> 00:18:57,170 And it's messed up. 458 00:18:57,205 --> 00:19:00,035 We used to be all up and down here. 459 00:19:13,324 --> 00:19:15,775 I see the world through the lens of the West Side of Chicago. 460 00:19:21,194 --> 00:19:22,989 I love Black people. 461 00:19:23,023 --> 00:19:24,024 They're so beautiful. 462 00:19:41,870 --> 00:19:44,390 ["new day" by wyclef jean plays] [interposing voices] And we see 463 00:19:44,424 --> 00:19:48,463 a very different and necessary direction. 464 00:19:48,497 --> 00:19:50,672 I want you to know on behalf of the police board, 465 00:19:50,706 --> 00:19:52,329 we have heard you. 466 00:19:52,363 --> 00:19:54,469 We have heard you at our meetings. 467 00:19:54,503 --> 00:19:57,541 We have heard and seen you in the streets. 468 00:19:57,575 --> 00:19:59,819 We have heard and listened to you, 469 00:19:59,853 --> 00:20:03,650 as you have corresponded with us individually and collectively. 470 00:20:03,685 --> 00:20:06,481 And we will continue to listen. 471 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:09,553 I think that's important for you all to know. 472 00:20:09,587 --> 00:20:10,243 [applause] 473 00:20:10,278 --> 00:20:11,520 LaCreshia Birts. 474 00:20:11,555 --> 00:20:13,419 [cheering] 475 00:20:14,454 --> 00:20:17,043 So McCarthy, where are you in the process of firing Dante 476 00:20:17,077 --> 00:20:18,113 Servin? 477 00:20:20,667 --> 00:20:23,739 Ma'am, do have a clear statement to make? 478 00:20:23,774 --> 00:20:25,534 So I can't ask questions? 479 00:20:25,776 --> 00:20:26,708 Answer the question! 480 00:20:26,742 --> 00:20:27,398 [interposing voices] 481 00:20:29,297 --> 00:20:31,091 What? 482 00:20:31,126 --> 00:20:31,782 It's still being worked on. 483 00:20:31,816 --> 00:20:33,232 It's still being worked on? 484 00:20:34,336 --> 00:20:38,547 As protesters, this case and all of the corruption around police 485 00:20:38,582 --> 00:20:40,273 is taking up a lot of our time. 486 00:20:40,308 --> 00:20:41,826 We're out here protesting, trying 487 00:20:41,861 --> 00:20:43,725 to make sure that we're safe, because you're not 488 00:20:43,759 --> 00:20:44,864 doing your job. 489 00:20:44,898 --> 00:20:46,245 Sister, your time is up. 490 00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:48,592 McCarthy, either stand up or step down. 491 00:20:49,144 --> 00:20:49,731 Hey! 492 00:20:49,765 --> 00:20:53,666 [applause] [cheering] 493 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:55,875 Next speaker, Martinez Sutton. 494 00:21:02,226 --> 00:21:03,469 [cheering] My sister was killed. 495 00:21:03,503 --> 00:21:05,402 Excuse my language, but it's fucked up. 496 00:21:05,436 --> 00:21:06,886 [interposing voices] 497 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,372 Every month I'm here, have your sister been killed? 498 00:21:10,407 --> 00:21:12,098 [interposing voices] 499 00:21:12,132 --> 00:21:14,307 Have you anybody in your family been killed by the police? 500 00:21:14,342 --> 00:21:16,344 [interposing voices] 501 00:21:16,378 --> 00:21:18,656 I got a feeling, he's going to resign 502 00:21:18,691 --> 00:21:20,348 when you make your decision. 503 00:21:20,382 --> 00:21:22,902 And a motherfucker gone get off scot-free. 504 00:21:22,936 --> 00:21:23,523 Yep. 505 00:21:23,558 --> 00:21:25,111 Yeah. 506 00:21:25,145 --> 00:21:26,664 It was my sister's birthday this month. 507 00:21:26,699 --> 00:21:28,114 She would have been 26, 26. 508 00:21:30,841 --> 00:21:34,707 You feel my pain, I'm just asking that you fire him. 509 00:21:34,741 --> 00:21:36,640 I'll just ask everybody to stand up 510 00:21:36,674 --> 00:21:39,263 with the remainder of my time, and salute my sister. 511 00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:39,884 Yup. 512 00:21:39,919 --> 00:21:42,197 I am Rekia Boyd. 513 00:21:42,231 --> 00:21:44,233 I am Rekia Boyd. 514 00:21:44,268 --> 00:21:45,580 I am Rekia Boyd. 515 00:21:46,443 --> 00:21:48,583 I am Rekia Boyd. 516 00:21:48,617 --> 00:21:50,757 I am Rekia Boyd. 517 00:21:50,792 --> 00:21:52,587 I am Rekia Boyd. 518 00:21:52,621 --> 00:21:54,865 I am Rekia Boyd. 519 00:21:54,899 --> 00:21:56,384 I am Rekia Boyd. 520 00:21:56,418 --> 00:22:00,629 27,000 complaints filed and only 80 of them 521 00:22:00,664 --> 00:22:04,392 result in any type of, like, discipline, out of 27,000. 522 00:22:04,426 --> 00:22:06,808 How I see it, is that when we do act civil and expect 523 00:22:06,842 --> 00:22:09,051 the response and don't get it, so next time-- 524 00:22:09,086 --> 00:22:09,673 Right. 525 00:22:09,707 --> 00:22:12,192 --we won't be as nice. 526 00:22:12,227 --> 00:22:13,021 If we don't get it. 527 00:22:13,055 --> 00:22:14,471 Shut it down! 528 00:22:14,505 --> 00:22:17,991 Only 3% of officers that have complaints against them 529 00:22:18,026 --> 00:22:19,372 end up getting disciplined, 530 00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:22,479 In more than 99% of the thousands 531 00:22:22,513 --> 00:22:25,344 of misconduct complaints, no disciplinary action 532 00:22:25,378 --> 00:22:26,103 was ever taken. 533 00:22:29,106 --> 00:22:32,627 Young people have attempted to impose upon me 534 00:22:32,661 --> 00:22:36,113 as president of a police board, a power that I don't possess. 535 00:22:38,874 --> 00:22:44,328 They want any police officer who kills an African-American 536 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:46,675 to be fired, stripped of their pension 537 00:22:46,710 --> 00:22:49,229 without any due process, any investigation. 538 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,822 There's clearly a role to play for protests. 539 00:22:55,857 --> 00:22:58,411 Some of the issues that we're talking about today, 540 00:22:58,446 --> 00:23:00,275 related to the Chicago Police Department, 541 00:23:00,309 --> 00:23:03,416 wouldn't be happening without people being out in the street, 542 00:23:03,451 --> 00:23:08,179 but there is a time and a place for everything. 543 00:23:08,214 --> 00:23:11,838 It's easy to yell, and scream and protest. 544 00:23:11,873 --> 00:23:14,151 What's more complicated, is to work 545 00:23:14,185 --> 00:23:17,016 towards actual solutions that improve 546 00:23:17,050 --> 00:23:18,569 the quality of people's lives. 547 00:23:23,678 --> 00:23:25,576 I believe the men and women of the police department 548 00:23:25,611 --> 00:23:28,061 are both professionally dedicated to meeting 549 00:23:28,096 --> 00:23:30,719 the public safety of the residents. 550 00:23:30,754 --> 00:23:33,446 But we've got to be also conscious of the fact 551 00:23:33,481 --> 00:23:36,760 that the world around them very quickly got changed. 552 00:23:36,794 --> 00:23:38,658 They don't think they get a fair shake. 553 00:23:38,693 --> 00:23:41,661 But we want our officers to know that their leadership has 554 00:23:41,696 --> 00:23:46,183 their back, to do the job that we hired them to do. 555 00:23:46,217 --> 00:23:48,012 Rahm must go!Rahm must go! 556 00:23:48,047 --> 00:23:49,013 Rahm must go! 557 00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:04,477 Oh, it goes down in the DM-- 558 00:24:04,512 --> 00:24:06,030 You so fine. 559 00:24:06,065 --> 00:24:07,653 [interposing voices] 560 00:24:07,687 --> 00:24:08,516 It goes down. 561 00:24:08,550 --> 00:24:09,275 Those DMs. 562 00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:18,802 [giggling] Woo, that's crazy, cause she's so fine. 563 00:24:18,836 --> 00:24:23,600 People don't really ask me on dates and shit. 564 00:24:28,052 --> 00:24:34,507 But, you know, I'm open. 565 00:24:34,542 --> 00:24:36,198 Maybe when people see this, they'll be like, "Oh." 566 00:24:41,307 --> 00:24:42,515 Are you going to speak on it? 567 00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:43,274 I'm going to speak on it. 568 00:24:43,309 --> 00:24:43,999 Oh. 569 00:24:44,034 --> 00:24:47,037 I'm going to speak on it. 570 00:24:47,071 --> 00:24:52,525 So I have dated men and women. 571 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:59,049 This community of women are warriors in a way that like, 572 00:24:59,083 --> 00:25:04,675 I just don't see in our men right now, 573 00:25:04,710 --> 00:25:09,680 like that you have a desire to protect me, to possess me, 574 00:25:09,715 --> 00:25:11,164 to control me-- 575 00:25:11,199 --> 00:25:12,580 Yes, but protect? 576 00:25:12,614 --> 00:25:13,512 --to have me. 577 00:25:17,481 --> 00:25:23,211 Like by dating men while our men are at this state, 578 00:25:23,245 --> 00:25:30,701 of complete and devastating psychological indoctrination 579 00:25:30,736 --> 00:25:38,088 into misogyny and misogynoir and a deep hatred for Black women. 580 00:25:38,122 --> 00:25:42,989 And if I know this, right, then am I going against my politics 581 00:25:43,024 --> 00:25:49,099 by still allowing them that access to me? 582 00:25:55,864 --> 00:25:57,383 They be so fine though. 583 00:26:00,938 --> 00:26:01,732 Yeah, they do. 584 00:26:01,767 --> 00:26:03,113 They be fine though. 585 00:26:06,116 --> 00:26:09,568 [sigh] 586 00:26:10,638 --> 00:26:11,984 Check it out. 587 00:26:12,018 --> 00:26:13,399 Ah, bitch. 588 00:26:13,433 --> 00:26:14,711 Shout out to HomeGoods. 589 00:26:14,745 --> 00:26:17,127 Shout out to HomeGoods. 590 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,752 [music playing] 591 00:26:21,787 --> 00:26:23,720 She wins again. 592 00:26:23,754 --> 00:26:25,411 She wins again. 593 00:26:25,445 --> 00:26:26,619 I did that. 594 00:26:26,654 --> 00:26:27,793 She did that. 595 00:26:27,827 --> 00:26:29,139 I did that. 596 00:26:29,173 --> 00:26:29,691 Mm. 597 00:26:29,726 --> 00:26:30,209 OK. 598 00:26:30,243 --> 00:26:31,003 OK. 599 00:26:31,037 --> 00:26:32,591 So you know how I'm not really-- 600 00:26:35,248 --> 00:26:36,525 girly is not the right word. 601 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,597 But you know I don't do makeup and stuff. 602 00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:45,500 But I went to Sally's today, got some foundation. 603 00:26:45,534 --> 00:26:47,191 Oh, shit. 604 00:26:47,226 --> 00:26:52,541 I am a member of BYP for life, forever ever, forever ever. 605 00:26:52,576 --> 00:26:54,440 Squad! 606 00:26:54,474 --> 00:26:59,652 And that's how I met Janaé. 607 00:26:59,687 --> 00:27:03,518 We were just like, she's so cute and her booty is so big. 608 00:27:03,552 --> 00:27:06,590 And I was just like, oh my God. 609 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:11,664 And so she was like, come over, I'm cooking. 610 00:27:11,699 --> 00:27:14,149 And I ain't never going to turn down a meal. 611 00:27:14,184 --> 00:27:15,254 And I came over. 612 00:27:15,288 --> 00:27:18,257 And she had fried tilapia. 613 00:27:18,291 --> 00:27:20,086 And I think I stayed over for two days. 614 00:27:23,849 --> 00:27:28,508 These women, all of them are just the bomb.com. 615 00:27:28,543 --> 00:27:32,961 And I just be--I just be my sister's keepers. 616 00:27:32,996 --> 00:27:33,824 You fine, girl. 617 00:27:37,172 --> 00:27:38,242 How do I do this? 618 00:27:38,277 --> 00:27:39,381 No, don't-- nah, just-- 619 00:27:39,416 --> 00:27:40,659 You said blot, what do-- 620 00:27:40,693 --> 00:27:43,144 Blot like with your-- 621 00:27:43,178 --> 00:27:47,217 [smacks lips repeatedly] [GIGGLING] 622 00:27:47,251 --> 00:27:48,252 Just so petty. 623 00:27:57,227 --> 00:27:59,367 [interposing voices] 624 00:28:04,096 --> 00:28:05,131 [phone ringing] 625 00:28:09,757 --> 00:28:15,694 This is the BYP100's space, office space. 626 00:28:15,728 --> 00:28:22,321 We got many pieces of butcher paper plastered on the wall. 627 00:28:22,355 --> 00:28:25,082 So I guess we'd be talking about something 628 00:28:25,117 --> 00:28:28,327 and documenting something, yeah. 629 00:28:28,361 --> 00:28:30,743 No, we actually talk about a lot and document a lot of things. 630 00:28:30,778 --> 00:28:32,089 It's really not a strategy session, 631 00:28:32,124 --> 00:28:33,919 unless you have butcher paper. 632 00:28:33,953 --> 00:28:35,921 Different people really help me think 633 00:28:35,955 --> 00:28:38,578 about how to be an organizer. 634 00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:44,412 [music playing] 635 00:28:44,446 --> 00:28:49,382 BYP100 being an organization that explicitly 636 00:28:49,417 --> 00:28:53,732 says that, we organize through this Black, queer, feminist 637 00:28:53,766 --> 00:28:55,699 lens. 638 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:59,185 If Rekia Boyd were alive today, we would be the same age, 639 00:28:59,220 --> 00:29:01,981 but Dante Servin took her life away. 640 00:29:02,016 --> 00:29:05,226 And as a young Black woman in this city, I do not feel safe. 641 00:29:09,057 --> 00:29:12,405 We are a national organization of young Black activists 642 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,754 between the ages of 18 and 35. 643 00:29:15,788 --> 00:29:19,827 How we situate our work is, as a part of a broader project 644 00:29:19,861 --> 00:29:22,899 for Black liberation. 645 00:29:22,933 --> 00:29:25,487 I've seen her blossom from a member coming 646 00:29:25,522 --> 00:29:28,974 in wanting to do something, to being a Chicago chapter 647 00:29:29,008 --> 00:29:33,150 co-chair and now being our national public policy chair. 648 00:29:33,185 --> 00:29:35,359 Say stop the cops and fund Black futures! 649 00:29:35,394 --> 00:29:39,398 Me being with comrades who also have that fire 650 00:29:39,432 --> 00:29:43,609 is kind of contagious in a way. 651 00:29:43,643 --> 00:29:45,749 For a lot of us, we are coming into these organizations, 652 00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:49,028 because we feel as if we are not being heard 653 00:29:49,063 --> 00:29:51,755 and we are not being represented. 654 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:55,069 Trayvon Martin is a marker in time. 655 00:29:55,103 --> 00:29:57,140 Black and brown folks being killed by the police. 656 00:29:57,174 --> 00:29:59,590 It began to become more and more on all the news outlets. 657 00:30:03,698 --> 00:30:05,527 There was three Black women who sort of 658 00:30:05,562 --> 00:30:08,565 ignited with this Movement for Black Lives. 659 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:11,257 From that, started a massive campaign 660 00:30:11,292 --> 00:30:12,776 in different cities and different states. 661 00:30:15,641 --> 00:30:19,196 In terms of locally, people form relationships. 662 00:30:19,231 --> 00:30:20,646 They were just like, all right, we're 663 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,303 going to fuck up the ops together. 664 00:30:22,337 --> 00:30:31,519 [interposing voices] 665 00:30:31,553 --> 00:30:35,143 Without Black trans women, gender nonconforming folks, 666 00:30:35,178 --> 00:30:41,080 femme folks, cis-identified young girls and women, 667 00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:43,703 this would not look the way that it does. 668 00:30:43,738 --> 00:30:45,740 Hell no, we won't go. 669 00:30:45,774 --> 00:30:47,846 Hell no, we won't go. 670 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,778 Hell no, we won't go. 671 00:30:49,813 --> 00:30:50,987 Hell no, we won't go. 672 00:30:51,021 --> 00:30:52,540 Hell no, we won't go. 673 00:30:52,574 --> 00:30:55,543 We need some of our people on the sidewalks, 674 00:30:55,577 --> 00:30:58,304 you will not make an illegal arrest today today. 675 00:30:58,339 --> 00:31:00,030 To go to a rally that's for Black Lives 676 00:31:00,065 --> 00:31:02,964 and to only see Black men being given any kind of authority 677 00:31:02,999 --> 00:31:05,518 on the subject, is absurd to me. 678 00:31:05,553 --> 00:31:08,038 The sexism and the homophobia that shows up in our movements 679 00:31:08,073 --> 00:31:10,247 weakens us, it destroys our power. 680 00:31:10,282 --> 00:31:18,773 [interposing voices] 681 00:31:18,807 --> 00:31:21,258 Even though you are also being oppressed, 682 00:31:21,293 --> 00:31:23,019 you also have privilege and you are also 683 00:31:23,053 --> 00:31:24,917 capable of doing the oppressing. 684 00:31:24,952 --> 00:31:28,024 If Black, queer, feminist people are not free, 685 00:31:28,058 --> 00:31:29,542 nobody else is going to be free. 686 00:31:29,577 --> 00:31:30,750 --looks like. 687 00:31:30,785 --> 00:31:32,166 Tell me what democracy looks like. 688 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:33,477 This is what democracy looks like. 689 00:31:33,512 --> 00:31:34,685 Michigan Avenue, y'all. 690 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,101 Michigan Avenue, come on, let's go! 691 00:31:37,550 --> 00:31:39,069 No justice, no profits. 692 00:31:39,104 --> 00:31:40,899 No justice, no profits! 693 00:31:40,933 --> 00:31:42,659 No justice, no profits. 694 00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:46,042 Cause they're not necessarily fighting for liberation, 695 00:31:46,076 --> 00:31:51,668 they're just fighting for their own relationship to power. 696 00:31:51,702 --> 00:31:53,704 There are some of us that are absolutely 697 00:31:53,739 --> 00:31:56,086 governed by ancestors. 698 00:31:56,121 --> 00:31:58,019 And we're not playing by your rules, 699 00:31:58,054 --> 00:32:00,125 and we're not interested in playing by your rules. 700 00:32:03,059 --> 00:32:05,820 OK. 701 00:32:05,854 --> 00:32:13,207 I'm reading a letter from my brother who is in prison. 702 00:32:17,176 --> 00:32:25,081 And I miss him. 703 00:32:25,115 --> 00:32:31,604 He said, "I appreciate you reaching out and dropping 704 00:32:31,639 --> 00:32:33,330 a few jewels. 705 00:32:33,365 --> 00:32:35,298 I needed that food for thought. 706 00:32:35,332 --> 00:32:40,544 It really touched my heart, and I love it. 707 00:32:40,579 --> 00:32:44,341 So again, thanks baby sister. 708 00:32:44,376 --> 00:32:47,068 I let a few lady correctional officers, 709 00:32:47,103 --> 00:32:49,415 and a few of my homies read the postcard 710 00:32:49,450 --> 00:32:53,005 you sent about your Chicago Arts Activism Campaign." 711 00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:03,188 Our entire existence is resistance. 712 00:33:03,222 --> 00:33:05,155 No matter where we're at doing it, 713 00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:07,675 so I just be needing them to find 714 00:33:07,709 --> 00:33:09,297 ways to celebrate themselves. 715 00:33:09,332 --> 00:33:11,230 Like every single day you survive 716 00:33:11,265 --> 00:33:14,199 in there is a day you done survive the war. 717 00:33:14,233 --> 00:33:15,890 Like you survived being kidnapped. 718 00:33:15,924 --> 00:33:19,307 You survive torture, right? 719 00:33:19,342 --> 00:33:20,239 Like prison are torture. 720 00:33:24,209 --> 00:33:30,767 I've always been like this very silenced Black girl, 721 00:33:30,801 --> 00:33:35,358 who had the weight of the world on her shoulders. 722 00:33:35,392 --> 00:33:41,985 The responsibility to free her mother, free her father, 723 00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:45,678 free her brothers, free her grandmother 724 00:33:45,713 --> 00:33:51,063 from the trauma of losing a daughter to prison system. 725 00:33:55,067 --> 00:33:56,413 I carry all of that all the time. 726 00:34:12,947 --> 00:34:15,743 [percussive music] 727 00:34:15,777 --> 00:34:17,848 How you choose what you choose to do 728 00:34:17,883 --> 00:34:20,851 and what your criteria for a successful demonstration are. 729 00:34:21,369 --> 00:34:23,509 A protest doesn't always have to have a target. 730 00:34:23,544 --> 00:34:26,167 It doesn't always have to have a goal, so to speak. 731 00:34:26,202 --> 00:34:28,549 Sometimes people take the streets, 732 00:34:28,583 --> 00:34:29,653 because they are-- they feel. 733 00:34:29,688 --> 00:34:31,379 [chuckles] 734 00:34:31,414 --> 00:34:33,347 Because in they textbooks, we're on one page. 735 00:34:33,381 --> 00:34:35,694 And the only thing it say is we was once slaves. 736 00:34:35,728 --> 00:34:38,006 So, of course, they think that I'm 737 00:34:38,041 --> 00:34:40,423 crazed when I tell them we had pyramids when they had caves. 738 00:34:40,457 --> 00:34:43,391 Y'all, this my mama. 739 00:34:43,426 --> 00:34:47,223 Yeah, like talking about criminalization and violence. 740 00:34:47,257 --> 00:34:51,227 And what it means to just inhabit these vessels. 741 00:34:51,261 --> 00:34:52,642 Create opportunities for other women 742 00:34:52,676 --> 00:34:55,852 to be involved and bringing these stories, 743 00:34:55,886 --> 00:34:58,026 these conversations to life. 744 00:34:58,061 --> 00:35:00,305 When you actually look and break down the numbers, 745 00:35:00,339 --> 00:35:02,307 and figure out how these people walked in, 746 00:35:02,341 --> 00:35:04,895 it helps you figure out where you can organize. 747 00:35:04,930 --> 00:35:07,726 I feel like I'm in a constant like, all right, 748 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,417 I need to learn this. 749 00:35:09,452 --> 00:35:12,144 And I need to move on this-- and help my people move on this. 750 00:35:12,179 --> 00:35:14,319 But like, for real, I don't even believe in this system. 751 00:35:14,353 --> 00:35:18,150 You're building an energy and a momentum. 752 00:35:18,185 --> 00:35:21,981 When your vision is bigger, you know where you're going. 753 00:35:22,016 --> 00:35:23,190 Don't stop that now. 754 00:35:23,224 --> 00:35:24,052 Don't stop that. 755 00:35:24,087 --> 00:35:24,743 Don't stop it. 756 00:35:24,777 --> 00:35:25,985 Thank you. 757 00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:27,159 Push 'em, make them uncomfortable. 758 00:35:27,194 --> 00:35:28,471 OK, we'll go ahead and get started 759 00:35:28,505 --> 00:35:30,852 with the intergenerational conversation. 760 00:35:30,887 --> 00:35:33,545 We controlled our communities. 761 00:35:33,579 --> 00:35:38,032 And we had the faith that a change was going to come. 762 00:35:38,066 --> 00:35:41,518 Our generation isn't taught Black culture, what it means 763 00:35:41,553 --> 00:35:44,935 to be Black from you anymore. 764 00:35:44,970 --> 00:35:49,181 So we hold our elders accountable for a lot 765 00:35:49,216 --> 00:35:52,633 of the state that we're in right now. 766 00:35:56,775 --> 00:35:57,638 [grunt] 767 00:35:57,672 --> 00:35:59,226 We know that this board. 768 00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:00,848 We know that this board. 769 00:36:00,882 --> 00:36:03,471 Does not care about Black women. 770 00:36:03,506 --> 00:36:06,681 Does not care about Black women. 771 00:36:06,716 --> 00:36:10,582 We are committed to confronting this board, city council, 772 00:36:10,616 --> 00:36:14,758 and the mayor until y'all fire Dante Servin with no pension-- 773 00:36:14,793 --> 00:36:16,070 If you want to be heard-- 774 00:36:16,104 --> 00:36:17,036 --no pension. 775 00:36:18,210 --> 00:36:18,900 --if you want to be heard, you sign up beforehand. 776 00:36:18,935 --> 00:36:19,556 We will be back! We hear her! 777 00:36:19,591 --> 00:36:20,695 We hear her! 778 00:36:30,774 --> 00:36:36,711 I feel like a broken record when I talk about why I'm tired, 779 00:36:36,746 --> 00:36:39,093 or why I'm stressed. 780 00:36:39,127 --> 00:36:42,993 So my final was due at 7:00 PM. 781 00:36:43,028 --> 00:36:45,479 And it was a 20 page paper. 782 00:36:45,513 --> 00:36:50,898 And at 6:50, I had 10 pages written. 783 00:36:50,932 --> 00:36:54,833 And I just-- I just broke down crying. 784 00:36:54,867 --> 00:36:57,249 I cried my eyes out. 785 00:36:57,284 --> 00:37:00,183 Like, I've never submitted something 786 00:37:00,218 --> 00:37:03,497 knowing that like, yeah, I failed that. 787 00:37:03,531 --> 00:37:09,227 It's never happened to me, so that moment, it hurt 788 00:37:09,261 --> 00:37:11,539 and I broke down. 789 00:37:11,574 --> 00:37:13,161 And I had just-- 790 00:37:13,196 --> 00:37:20,686 I was just so discouraged, and [exhale] 791 00:37:21,756 --> 00:37:22,895 [SINGING QUIETLY] Got ya back now. 792 00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:27,693 Got 4, 5 cats off in the 'Lac now. 793 00:37:27,728 --> 00:37:32,491 When it comes to these holidays, as much as I'm like, man, 794 00:37:32,526 --> 00:37:34,735 there's some stuff that we're having next week, 795 00:37:34,769 --> 00:37:37,669 that I'm going to have to miss, that I really want to be at. 796 00:37:37,703 --> 00:37:39,981 Especially in light of me traveling so much 797 00:37:40,016 --> 00:37:42,743 over the past few weeks. 798 00:37:42,777 --> 00:37:43,399 But I've got to go home. 799 00:37:44,331 --> 00:37:45,677 [ding] 800 00:37:46,056 --> 00:37:47,265 Please remain seated with your seat belt fastened, seat back 801 00:37:47,299 --> 00:37:49,232 and tray tables in the full upright position. 802 00:38:05,213 --> 00:38:07,975 Growing up in South Carolina, politically 803 00:38:08,009 --> 00:38:12,566 for me was pretty uneventful. 804 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,846 The experience of going to a predominantly white school, 805 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,470 made me yearn for Black spaces and made 806 00:38:20,505 --> 00:38:24,094 me want to do something more for my people. 807 00:38:24,129 --> 00:38:25,579 Moments like that led me to Chicago. 808 00:38:31,861 --> 00:38:33,863 How did you pick the name Janaé? 809 00:38:33,897 --> 00:38:35,934 There was a group called Zhane. 810 00:38:36,624 --> 00:38:37,349 They're the group that's like-- 811 00:38:37,384 --> 00:38:38,557 Zhane. 812 00:38:38,592 --> 00:38:41,664 [SINGING] Everybody, move your body. 813 00:38:41,698 --> 00:38:44,529 [IN UNISON] Now do it, this is something 814 00:38:44,563 --> 00:38:46,979 that's going to make you move and groove. 815 00:38:47,014 --> 00:38:50,189 Hey DJ, keep playing that song all night. 816 00:38:50,224 --> 00:38:51,363 Yep, that's Zhane. 817 00:38:51,398 --> 00:38:52,019 I like that song. 818 00:38:52,053 --> 00:38:53,054 Yes, yes. 819 00:38:53,089 --> 00:38:54,401 That's why I like that song. 820 00:38:55,056 --> 00:38:58,197 The only, only, only white boy I've ever had a crush on. 821 00:38:58,232 --> 00:39:00,993 His name was Zach. 822 00:39:01,028 --> 00:39:03,513 Because remember, that was during the time when you said, 823 00:39:03,548 --> 00:39:05,101 you was not Black? 824 00:39:05,135 --> 00:39:06,205 Tuh, OK. 825 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,898 Yeah, you was not Black, you was brown. 826 00:39:08,932 --> 00:39:13,523 You was brown, and you just created a whole other race. 827 00:39:13,558 --> 00:39:15,801 It wasn't just the Black and white race. 828 00:39:15,836 --> 00:39:17,458 Because I don't know what race was. 829 00:39:17,493 --> 00:39:19,011 Yes 830 00:39:19,046 --> 00:39:20,254 I looked at my skin tone and I said, oh, I'm brown. 831 00:39:20,288 --> 00:39:22,256 And it was very different, right. 832 00:39:22,290 --> 00:39:23,913 I'm not Black. 833 00:39:23,947 --> 00:39:25,708 You were very confused. 834 00:39:25,742 --> 00:39:29,850 OK, so that's when you and your dad went to Paris. 835 00:39:29,884 --> 00:39:32,404 Yeah. 836 00:39:32,439 --> 00:39:36,408 All I know is that dad wanted me to be 837 00:39:36,443 --> 00:39:40,481 as well-rounded of a person as he could, 838 00:39:40,516 --> 00:39:44,278 which included taking me to other countries 839 00:39:44,312 --> 00:39:47,212 and exposing me to different cultures. 840 00:39:47,246 --> 00:39:51,423 This is one of the few pictures that I have with you and dad 841 00:39:51,458 --> 00:39:52,562 together. 842 00:39:52,597 --> 00:39:55,358 It's in pictures like this, where 843 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,843 I can look to my left and right, and be like, yeah, 844 00:39:57,878 --> 00:39:59,397 I definitely do look like both of them. 845 00:40:03,297 --> 00:40:06,749 So this is the first squad picture 846 00:40:06,783 --> 00:40:08,060 I think that we've taken. 847 00:40:08,095 --> 00:40:13,203 So this was our one year anniversary. 848 00:40:13,238 --> 00:40:18,001 I admire the young generation. 849 00:40:18,036 --> 00:40:20,072 You teach me a lot. 850 00:40:21,557 --> 00:40:22,558 What? 851 00:40:23,524 --> 00:40:25,457 Mm, who is that? 852 00:40:25,492 --> 00:40:28,046 I certainly don't think that you are in the same place 853 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,636 now, that you were a few years ago. 854 00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:34,708 Yeah, just in terms of who you are, your identity. 855 00:40:34,742 --> 00:40:36,123 How you present and all of that. 856 00:40:39,057 --> 00:40:40,852 And what does queerness mean to you? 857 00:40:40,886 --> 00:40:45,235 Would you say it means the same thing it does to Janaé or--? 858 00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:50,586 For me, I identify as queer because I 859 00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:58,179 feel like I don't fit neatly into any other category. 860 00:40:58,214 --> 00:41:03,633 And for me, queer means different. 861 00:41:03,668 --> 00:41:09,915 It captures more of who I am, than to just identify as simply 862 00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:12,918 heterosexual or simply lesbian. 863 00:41:12,953 --> 00:41:18,752 That had everything to do with you, yeah. 864 00:41:19,546 --> 00:41:20,512 I'm glad. 865 00:41:22,756 --> 00:41:26,173 Dang, I'm so hungry. 866 00:41:26,207 --> 00:41:27,692 You got fish over there, too? 867 00:41:27,726 --> 00:41:28,796 My friend down the street-- 868 00:41:28,831 --> 00:41:30,384 Oh, she's coming over? 869 00:41:30,418 --> 00:41:33,421 Every time I fry fish, I always invite her. 870 00:41:33,456 --> 00:41:35,838 She's of the other color now. 871 00:41:35,872 --> 00:41:38,979 Nana, why are you talking to me like I don't like white people? 872 00:41:39,013 --> 00:41:42,051 [LAUGHTER] 873 00:41:42,879 --> 00:41:45,433 Shut up, Janaé! 874 00:41:46,227 --> 00:41:47,712 Dear Lord, we truly thank you for this food 875 00:41:47,746 --> 00:41:49,852 that we're about to receive. 876 00:41:49,886 --> 00:41:52,371 When I closed my eyes and think about home, 877 00:41:52,406 --> 00:41:56,375 it's here at my Nana and Grandpa's house. 878 00:41:56,410 --> 00:41:57,756 That was the first place that I lived 879 00:41:57,791 --> 00:42:00,725 when we moved to Columbia. 880 00:42:00,759 --> 00:42:02,450 This is where she was raised when she was four. 881 00:42:06,247 --> 00:42:09,527 This is called the pink room. 882 00:42:09,561 --> 00:42:14,324 That's Janaé when she graduated from the Montessori school. 883 00:42:14,359 --> 00:42:15,533 Mhm. 884 00:42:15,567 --> 00:42:16,706 But it does make it rough for kids. 885 00:42:16,741 --> 00:42:18,743 Ashley you're awfully quiet, are you OK? 886 00:42:18,777 --> 00:42:20,434 We're not ignoring you-- 887 00:42:20,468 --> 00:42:21,573 She's filming 888 00:42:21,608 --> 00:42:22,436 Huh? 889 00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:24,369 She's just filming us. 890 00:42:24,403 --> 00:42:25,543 We're not supposed to talk to Ashley. 891 00:42:26,302 --> 00:42:27,406 We're supposed to talk to each other. 892 00:42:28,028 --> 00:42:28,891 I'm just in the background. 893 00:42:28,925 --> 00:42:29,719 I talk to everybody, Ashley. 894 00:42:29,754 --> 00:42:30,513 I appreciate that. 895 00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:31,341 Oh, we know. 896 00:42:31,376 --> 00:42:34,034 [interposing voices] 897 00:42:34,068 --> 00:42:36,243 [laughter] 898 00:42:36,830 --> 00:42:40,972 [wind] 899 00:42:41,006 --> 00:42:43,077 Now, we return to Chicago. 900 00:42:43,112 --> 00:42:44,423 Good afternoon, we're coming to you 901 00:42:44,458 --> 00:42:46,218 with breaking news happening right now. 902 00:42:46,253 --> 00:42:48,704 After months fighting the release of a dramatic dash cam 903 00:42:48,738 --> 00:42:52,535 video which allegedly shows a 17-year-old shot and killed, 904 00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:54,054 a judge orders it to be made public. 905 00:42:57,713 --> 00:43:00,716 Tonight City Hall says it will comply with the judge's order 906 00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:04,443 and release the dash cam video. 907 00:43:04,478 --> 00:43:06,618 What had people even more outraged 908 00:43:06,653 --> 00:43:09,069 was the conspiracy within city leadership 909 00:43:09,103 --> 00:43:11,209 and the police department to whitewash what happened. 910 00:43:15,006 --> 00:43:18,803 Who held the video and did Rahm know about it? 911 00:43:18,837 --> 00:43:20,598 He knew about the video, because I told him. 912 00:43:20,632 --> 00:43:23,393 I told him two days later after I had seen it. 913 00:43:23,428 --> 00:43:24,843 Did he ask to see it? 914 00:43:24,878 --> 00:43:26,086 Not to me. 915 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:26,707 Not to me. 916 00:43:26,742 --> 00:43:27,881 He didn't seem to care. 917 00:43:27,915 --> 00:43:29,330 You told him how volatile it was, 918 00:43:29,365 --> 00:43:30,331 Absolutely. 919 00:43:30,366 --> 00:43:31,505 And what did you tell him? 920 00:43:31,539 --> 00:43:33,058 I told him it was going to be a problem. 921 00:43:33,093 --> 00:43:34,266 Yeah, and what did he say? 922 00:43:34,301 --> 00:43:34,991 Can I see it? 923 00:43:35,026 --> 00:43:36,061 He didn't care. 924 00:43:36,096 --> 00:43:37,269 He didn't care? 925 00:43:37,304 --> 00:43:38,443 He didn't appear to care. 926 00:43:38,477 --> 00:43:39,064 What do you mean? 927 00:43:39,099 --> 00:43:40,341 So, so-- 928 00:43:40,376 --> 00:43:42,792 He didn't say, come show me the video. 929 00:43:42,827 --> 00:43:43,862 He didn't say that. 930 00:43:43,897 --> 00:43:48,660 I remember being pissed. 931 00:43:48,695 --> 00:43:53,320 at how the city had hyped up the release of this murder video. 932 00:43:53,354 --> 00:43:55,046 Like what? 933 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,498 It's not bad enough that we know that you shot this baby 16 934 00:43:59,533 --> 00:44:03,571 times in the street? 935 00:44:03,606 --> 00:44:05,263 We got to see it? 936 00:44:05,297 --> 00:44:06,954 Like we still need lynchings? 937 00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:13,409 Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald, who was 17 years old, 938 00:44:13,443 --> 00:44:14,168 16 times. 939 00:44:18,552 --> 00:44:22,418 It took over 400 days for the State's Attorney, Anita 940 00:44:22,452 --> 00:44:27,319 Alvarez, to charge Jason Van Dyke. 941 00:44:27,354 --> 00:44:37,260 She was known for protecting police officers who 942 00:44:37,295 --> 00:44:39,435 did some of the most heinous things, 943 00:44:39,469 --> 00:44:45,372 and punishing victims of police crimes and police violence. 944 00:44:45,406 --> 00:44:49,376 I sent an email out to a lot of folks 945 00:44:49,410 --> 00:44:52,172 who I knew were central decision makers 946 00:44:52,206 --> 00:44:54,519 to different organizations. 947 00:44:54,553 --> 00:45:00,387 They had took the lead on organizing, like, 948 00:45:00,421 --> 00:45:10,915 a Black space, for young Black abolitionists to come together. 949 00:45:10,949 --> 00:45:14,608 The room was very somber, very somber and very sober. 950 00:45:17,645 --> 00:45:22,720 So they released it. 951 00:45:22,754 --> 00:45:24,376 Some of us watched it. 952 00:45:24,411 --> 00:45:26,137 Some of us didn't. 953 00:45:26,171 --> 00:45:28,001 You know, I think all of us cried. 954 00:45:31,625 --> 00:45:34,973 And the collective response was, we want to resist. 955 00:45:35,008 --> 00:45:37,665 [alarm bell noise] [dramatic music] 956 00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:40,565 [interposing voices] 957 00:45:40,599 --> 00:45:41,531 Racism means-- 958 00:45:41,566 --> 00:45:43,430 --we've got to fight back. 959 00:45:43,464 --> 00:45:44,189 Eric Garner means-- 960 00:45:44,224 --> 00:45:44,845 --we've got to fight back. 961 00:45:45,708 --> 00:45:46,985 Racism means-- 962 00:45:47,020 --> 00:45:47,779 16 shots! 963 00:45:48,090 --> 00:45:49,401 16 shots! 964 00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:50,817 16 shots! 965 00:45:50,851 --> 00:45:52,542 16 shots! 966 00:45:52,577 --> 00:45:53,854 16 shots! 967 00:45:53,889 --> 00:45:56,305 He shot him twice. 968 00:45:56,339 --> 00:45:58,790 Then he went over Laquan's body 14 more times? 969 00:45:58,825 --> 00:45:59,757 We're tired of this shit. 970 00:46:00,067 --> 00:46:00,688 We're tired of this corrupt system. 971 00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:02,449 That's the only thing they do is shoot us down. 972 00:46:02,483 --> 00:46:03,484 What is that if it ain't racist? 973 00:46:03,519 --> 00:46:04,382 Who the fuck are they serving and protecting? 974 00:46:04,416 --> 00:46:05,590 It's foul. 975 00:46:05,624 --> 00:46:06,764 They killed that boy for no reason. 976 00:46:07,074 --> 00:46:09,249 We're going to stay out here on the streets 977 00:46:09,283 --> 00:46:10,353 until we see some type of justice. 978 00:46:11,285 --> 00:46:12,493 We love you. 979 00:46:12,528 --> 00:46:14,116 We, we love you. 980 00:46:14,633 --> 00:46:16,049 We love you. 981 00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:18,085 We, we love you. 982 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:24,782 [SINGING] As-salamu alaykum, don't fuck with the pigs, 983 00:46:24,816 --> 00:46:26,335 I don't fuck with the bacon. 984 00:46:26,369 --> 00:46:29,165 Think that I'll go, then you're sadly mistaken. 985 00:46:29,407 --> 00:46:32,168 This is much Black history that we are making. 986 00:46:32,203 --> 00:46:35,068 We are Black History, it's in the making. 987 00:46:35,102 --> 00:46:38,071 Even if we don't, our stories gon' make it! 988 00:46:38,105 --> 00:46:38,865 All right. 989 00:46:39,348 --> 00:46:39,831 Say that. 990 00:46:39,866 --> 00:46:42,800 [cheering] 991 00:46:43,214 --> 00:46:44,767 We have the right to protest. 992 00:46:47,874 --> 00:46:49,358 Touch my bike again, I'll punch you. 993 00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:51,739 Touch my bike again, bitch. 994 00:46:53,396 --> 00:46:53,880 Let her go! 995 00:46:53,914 --> 00:46:55,364 Let her go! 996 00:46:55,398 --> 00:46:56,227 Hold on! 997 00:46:57,469 --> 00:46:58,781 Let them go! 998 00:46:58,816 --> 00:47:05,719 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 999 00:47:06,444 --> 00:47:15,246 [chaotic crowd from recording] 1000 00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:22,011 Hoo, this motherfucker must have like, 1001 00:47:22,046 --> 00:47:25,428 pushed his bike towards me, Officer Trendle, 1002 00:47:26,913 --> 00:47:32,056 And I pushed the bike back. 1003 00:47:32,090 --> 00:47:37,647 And he was like, you touch my bike again, 1004 00:47:37,682 --> 00:47:38,441 I'll punch you bitch. 1005 00:47:45,759 --> 00:47:48,866 I'm t'd at this point. 1006 00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:52,007 I'm t'd, like I lost it. 1007 00:47:52,041 --> 00:47:55,079 You're going to call me a bitch and threaten me? 1008 00:47:55,113 --> 00:47:57,909 Today while I'm feeling like this? 1009 00:47:57,944 --> 00:47:59,877 While I'm feeling like this, because mind you, 1010 00:47:59,911 --> 00:48:02,569 it's more-- it's more than just Laquan that's impacting me, 1011 00:48:02,603 --> 00:48:04,260 right? 1012 00:48:04,295 --> 00:48:06,814 First of all, it's been a whole year of dealing with CPD, 1013 00:48:06,849 --> 00:48:09,887 and police murders around the nation. 1014 00:48:09,921 --> 00:48:13,718 And just all this trauma. 1015 00:48:13,752 --> 00:48:16,824 And it's so crazy now, this moment we're in 1016 00:48:16,859 --> 00:48:18,205 is just so different. 1017 00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:20,552 You can't go to no protest with no gun. 1018 00:48:20,587 --> 00:48:23,072 You can't go to no protest with no type of weapon, 1019 00:48:23,107 --> 00:48:24,591 with no type of nothing to fight. 1020 00:48:24,625 --> 00:48:26,973 But you know that you're going and you're putting your body 1021 00:48:27,007 --> 00:48:28,733 on the line, though. 1022 00:48:28,767 --> 00:48:30,079 And that's all you got, is your body. 1023 00:48:40,538 --> 00:48:42,298 After the release of the McDonald video 1024 00:48:42,333 --> 00:48:44,300 last week, Superintendent McCarthy and I 1025 00:48:44,335 --> 00:48:47,372 began a discussion on Sunday about the direction 1026 00:48:47,407 --> 00:48:49,719 of the department, and the undeniable fact 1027 00:48:49,754 --> 00:48:52,343 that the public trust in the leadership of the department 1028 00:48:52,377 --> 00:48:56,209 has been shaken and eroded. 1029 00:48:56,243 --> 00:49:00,903 This morning, I formally asked for his resignation. 1030 00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:06,288 Everyone in the political sphere that knew about that tape- 1031 00:49:08,048 --> 00:49:11,845 Was complicit in covering it up. 1032 00:49:11,879 --> 00:49:15,504 OK, one down, two more to go, Anita 1033 00:49:15,538 --> 00:49:18,852 Alvarez and Mayor Emanuel. 1034 00:49:18,886 --> 00:49:20,474 --freedom, freedom. 1035 00:49:20,509 --> 00:49:22,994 All these racist ass cops, we don't need 'em, need 'em. 1036 00:49:23,029 --> 00:49:23,719 What? 1037 00:49:23,753 --> 00:49:25,065 Back up, back up. 1038 00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:27,309 We want freedom, freedom. 1039 00:49:27,343 --> 00:49:30,588 All these racist-ass cops, we don't need 'em, need 'em. 1040 00:49:30,622 --> 00:49:31,416 Say what? 1041 00:49:31,451 --> 00:49:33,004 Back up, back up. 1042 00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:34,902 We want freedom, freedom. 1043 00:49:34,937 --> 00:49:38,458 All these racist-ass cops, we don't need 'em, need 'em. 1044 00:49:39,114 --> 00:49:41,979 [beat playing] [MUSIC - BOBBY SHMURDA, "HOT N GGA"] 1045 00:49:52,334 --> 00:49:54,198 Make no mistake. 1046 00:49:54,232 --> 00:49:57,580 It is because of the demands of the young Black organizations 1047 00:49:57,615 --> 00:50:01,032 that are represented behind me, that McCarthy got fired. 1048 00:50:01,067 --> 00:50:01,653 That's right. 1049 00:50:01,688 --> 00:50:03,138 Come on. 1050 00:50:03,172 --> 00:50:06,555 If folks really believe that we are the future. 1051 00:50:06,589 --> 00:50:07,176 Yes, you are. 1052 00:50:07,211 --> 00:50:08,833 Let us lead us there. 1053 00:50:08,867 --> 00:50:09,834 Aye! 1054 00:50:09,868 --> 00:50:10,766 Mic check! 1055 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,526 Mic check! 1056 00:50:12,561 --> 00:50:13,872 Mic check! 1057 00:50:13,907 --> 00:50:14,873 Mic check! 1058 00:50:14,908 --> 00:50:17,048 Go crazy! 1059 00:50:17,083 --> 00:50:18,877 We're going to fight until we free us. 1060 00:50:18,912 --> 00:50:19,913 Change been a nuance. 1061 00:50:19,947 --> 00:50:21,880 They still trying to noose us. 1062 00:50:21,915 --> 00:50:23,503 Trying to keep us muted. 1063 00:50:23,537 --> 00:50:26,471 I was told to speak up, 'bout to bug up, be a nuisance. 1064 00:50:26,506 --> 00:50:28,715 [cheering] 1065 00:50:28,749 --> 00:50:30,406 Millennials, this our movement. 1066 00:50:30,441 --> 00:50:32,650 Yes! 1067 00:50:32,684 --> 00:50:34,065 Girl! 1068 00:50:34,100 --> 00:50:35,860 Millennials, this our movement. 1069 00:50:35,894 --> 00:50:38,759 I'm Malcolm X in the booth and I'm Assata to the bullshit. 1070 00:50:42,418 --> 00:50:43,074 [cheering] 1071 00:50:43,109 --> 00:50:44,869 That mean I'm gone y'all. 1072 00:50:50,219 --> 00:50:52,394 So is it actually your birthday today? 1073 00:50:52,428 --> 00:50:53,326 It is my birthday today. 1074 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:54,223 And how old are you today? 1075 00:50:54,258 --> 00:50:55,569 I'm 23 today. 1076 00:50:55,604 --> 00:50:57,157 Oh my God. 1077 00:50:57,192 --> 00:50:59,366 Like this, it's the fun part of the movement. 1078 00:50:59,401 --> 00:51:07,512 Because like, protesting and the toll this takes on you. 1079 00:51:07,547 --> 00:51:13,760 Being in this, it's not-- it's not -- it's not fun, right? 1080 00:51:13,794 --> 00:51:17,074 We need to celebrate life, to keep doing this shit, right? 1081 00:51:22,700 --> 00:51:24,115 I don't know. 1082 00:51:24,150 --> 00:51:26,462 I have no idea who's coming or how many people is coming. 1083 00:51:26,497 --> 00:51:28,533 [SINGING] Mix that negro with that Creole , 1084 00:51:28,568 --> 00:51:30,225 make a Texas Bama. 1085 00:51:30,259 --> 00:51:34,470 I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros. 1086 00:51:34,505 --> 00:51:37,094 When he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster. 1087 00:51:38,129 --> 00:51:39,993 Because you're 25 and fine, girl! 1088 00:51:40,027 --> 00:51:40,994 Because I'm 25! 1089 00:51:41,028 --> 00:51:42,029 25! 1090 00:51:43,238 --> 00:51:44,446 [music playing] [interposing voices] 1091 00:51:56,354 --> 00:51:57,562 Look at how they love your daughter, girl 1092 00:51:57,597 --> 00:51:58,701 And I'm a bum. 1093 00:51:58,977 --> 00:52:00,151 Look at how they love your daughter, girl -- 1094 00:52:00,186 --> 00:52:01,532 They love you like they love me. 1095 00:52:05,743 --> 00:52:07,641 That's my baby. 1096 00:52:07,676 --> 00:52:11,818 I'm slightly intoxicated, but I'm feeling more overwhelmed 1097 00:52:11,852 --> 00:52:14,165 with all of this lovely energy that is in my home right now. 1098 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,580 [MUSIC - SEAN PAUL, "TURN ME ON"] 1099 00:52:15,615 --> 00:52:16,926 I would much rather be twerking in the middle 1100 00:52:16,961 --> 00:52:21,345 of my kitchen with people that I fucks with than writing 1101 00:52:21,379 --> 00:52:22,104 a scholarly paper. 1102 00:52:24,348 --> 00:52:26,936 If I'm an asshole, then who knows who Donald Trump is? 1103 00:52:26,971 --> 00:52:29,870 Stick a trumpet up his ass with a mouth full of explosives. 1104 00:52:29,905 --> 00:52:31,596 I don't understand what no is. 1105 00:52:31,631 --> 00:52:33,909 [SINGING] Menace to society, because of dykery, 1106 00:52:33,943 --> 00:52:35,807 but I've been chasing women since my diapers leaked 1107 00:52:35,842 --> 00:52:37,154 in hide and seek. 1108 00:52:37,188 --> 00:52:38,914 All that gentle crap didn't get me then, 1109 00:52:38,948 --> 00:52:40,226 so I wiggle middle fingers. 1110 00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:41,710 Ain't I fucking feminine, yo! 1111 00:52:41,744 --> 00:52:43,298 [SINGING] Hand up on my bosom trigger, 1112 00:52:43,332 --> 00:52:44,816 I'm about to put it like crunk. 1113 00:52:44,851 --> 00:52:46,163 Think this as far as they go. 1114 00:52:46,197 --> 00:52:47,543 You aren't as real as they come. 1115 00:52:47,578 --> 00:52:49,925 If this as hard as you go, you niggas never gon' come. 1116 00:52:49,959 --> 00:52:51,306 [SINGING] Hey, Black men. 1117 00:52:51,340 --> 00:52:53,308 We love you, we understand your struggle, 1118 00:52:53,342 --> 00:52:56,207 do you understand your privilege and oppression of Black women? 1119 00:52:56,242 --> 00:52:59,210 Niggas sell they souls to make their mamas rich. 1120 00:52:59,245 --> 00:53:01,212 Get on the radio and call Black women bitch, 1121 00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:03,180 like it's synonymous. 1122 00:53:03,214 --> 00:53:07,218 Hip hop's Huey P. Newton's third law, I put a hit on the beat. 1123 00:53:07,253 --> 00:53:08,633 They say you sow what you reap. 1124 00:53:08,668 --> 00:53:09,876 They ran Assata away. 1125 00:53:09,910 --> 00:53:11,395 They bet not run up on me! 1126 00:53:12,258 --> 00:53:14,639 Strong advocate for the FOID. 1127 00:53:14,674 --> 00:53:17,401 Free all of my niggas and fuck the police. 1128 00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:18,885 It's 2016. 1129 00:53:18,919 --> 00:53:20,542 Fuck Trump, Bernie, and Hillary. 1130 00:53:20,576 --> 00:53:22,440 Vote for Black liberty, peace! 1131 00:53:23,579 --> 00:53:27,169 [cheering] 1132 00:53:27,204 --> 00:53:34,556 [SINGING] Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, 1133 00:53:34,590 --> 00:53:38,111 happy birthday to you, it's your birthday! 1134 00:53:38,145 --> 00:53:45,739 [interposing voices] 1135 00:53:48,155 --> 00:53:48,708 Make a wish! 1136 00:53:48,742 --> 00:53:49,847 Make a wish! 1137 00:53:49,881 --> 00:53:51,745 [fake dancehall horn] 1138 00:54:02,273 --> 00:54:04,482 I've been working on a draft of my proposal 1139 00:54:04,517 --> 00:54:09,073 for, it seems like forever, but I finally got it to a place 1140 00:54:09,107 --> 00:54:13,353 where I felt OK with sending it to my dissertation committee 1141 00:54:13,388 --> 00:54:16,149 chair. 1142 00:54:16,183 --> 00:54:21,292 And she has since sent it back to me with some revisions, 1143 00:54:21,327 --> 00:54:24,951 and edits that we're about to talk about. 1144 00:54:29,438 --> 00:54:31,164 Hi. 1145 00:54:31,198 --> 00:54:34,650 Thank you for your edits, are there just 1146 00:54:34,685 --> 00:54:38,240 other general things? 1147 00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:40,518 Remember you don't have to tell everybody everything that you 1148 00:54:40,553 --> 00:54:41,761 know. 1149 00:54:41,795 --> 00:54:43,383 So you want to give the reader more 1150 00:54:43,418 --> 00:54:45,316 of an overview of what you know, as opposed 1151 00:54:45,351 --> 00:54:48,250 to everything you know. 1152 00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:50,079 For social work people who are out there lobbying, 1153 00:54:50,114 --> 00:54:53,324 what do they need to know? 1154 00:54:53,359 --> 00:54:56,500 Social work's collusion-- and maybe that might not be 1155 00:54:56,534 --> 00:54:58,847 a strong word, but that's what's coming to mind right now-- 1156 00:54:58,881 --> 00:55:00,504 with law enforcement as it relates 1157 00:55:00,538 --> 00:55:03,058 to intimate partner violence. 1158 00:55:03,092 --> 00:55:05,198 But you just have to be sure how you talk about it, 1159 00:55:05,232 --> 00:55:07,338 because one is saying that social workers are actively 1160 00:55:07,373 --> 00:55:08,719 going out, including with the police, 1161 00:55:08,753 --> 00:55:12,170 to ensure that women are systematically victimized. 1162 00:55:12,205 --> 00:55:14,587 The other is saying, that social workers are doing their jobs 1163 00:55:14,621 --> 00:55:17,486 based on what these larger structures provide for them 1164 00:55:17,521 --> 00:55:20,351 to do, but the result is that women, 1165 00:55:20,386 --> 00:55:23,354 they are impacted negatively. 1166 00:55:23,389 --> 00:55:25,632 What do we now know should be the implications for what 1167 00:55:25,667 --> 00:55:28,048 they should be doing, based on your findings? 1168 00:55:32,225 --> 00:55:44,410 OK, I think that those are the big things. 1169 00:55:44,444 --> 00:55:48,448 Everything else is just up to me to actually, like, address. 1170 00:55:51,796 --> 00:55:54,489 And if there's things that you got to do and don't make sense, 1171 00:55:54,523 --> 00:55:55,938 just write down, then we'll just talk about it. 1172 00:55:58,424 --> 00:55:59,804 So when I address all these comments, 1173 00:55:59,839 --> 00:56:01,358 I won't be almost done? 1174 00:56:01,392 --> 00:56:03,670 We've got to go through another round? 1175 00:56:03,705 --> 00:56:04,844 Yes, you do. 1176 00:56:04,878 --> 00:56:05,845 Dr. McCoy! 1177 00:56:05,879 --> 00:56:07,122 A dissertation is your job. 1178 00:56:10,608 --> 00:56:11,402 But what do you mean? 1179 00:56:11,437 --> 00:56:13,473 It doesn't work that way. 1180 00:56:13,508 --> 00:56:15,510 You don't get the write two drafts of a proposal, 1181 00:56:15,544 --> 00:56:16,234 and think that's it. 1182 00:56:16,269 --> 00:56:17,581 It doesn't work that way. 1183 00:56:17,615 --> 00:56:18,892 But these are two drafts that you've seen. 1184 00:56:18,927 --> 00:56:21,481 I got 20 drafts on my computer. 1185 00:56:21,516 --> 00:56:22,689 Good. 1186 00:56:22,724 --> 00:56:25,899 Oh God, I'm never going to finish. 1187 00:56:25,934 --> 00:56:27,660 And I've sat in committees. 1188 00:56:27,694 --> 00:56:29,006 "She's got to change this section." 1189 00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,697 "This theory doesn't work." 1190 00:56:30,732 --> 00:56:31,733 I know. 1191 00:56:31,767 --> 00:56:34,874 And that is why you're my chair. 1192 00:56:34,908 --> 00:56:36,876 But I'm going to knock your socks off 1193 00:56:36,910 --> 00:56:39,879 with how well I address everything. 1194 00:56:39,913 --> 00:56:40,535 Thank you. 1195 00:56:40,569 --> 00:56:41,087 You're welcome. 1196 00:56:41,121 --> 00:56:45,816 [exhale] 1197 00:56:45,850 --> 00:56:48,059 [music playing] 1198 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,653 I'm writing my brother. 1199 00:56:55,688 --> 00:56:57,103 He just called me. 1200 00:56:57,137 --> 00:57:01,418 He needed to vent about some shit. 1201 00:57:01,452 --> 00:57:06,250 The least I could do is answer the fucking phone 1202 00:57:06,284 --> 00:57:08,252 and let him say this shit because he can't 1203 00:57:08,286 --> 00:57:09,943 say this shit to nobody else. 1204 00:57:18,607 --> 00:57:30,032 I want to use my personal story, and start to let that healing 1205 00:57:30,067 --> 00:57:30,964 impact the world. 1206 00:57:36,694 --> 00:57:40,042 Ah, da, da, da, da, OK. 1207 00:57:40,664 --> 00:57:45,427 I'm starting working on this proposal for the Soros Youth 1208 00:57:45,462 --> 00:57:50,259 Activist Fellowship, it's a paid full-time fellowship. 1209 00:57:54,712 --> 00:58:00,580 I get to do social justice work that I design for a whole year, 1210 00:58:00,615 --> 00:58:04,826 and that's my full-time job. 1211 00:58:04,860 --> 00:58:06,621 I knew that this was a whole different type 1212 00:58:06,655 --> 00:58:08,864 of writing process. 1213 00:58:08,899 --> 00:58:10,176 I've never written for grants. 1214 00:58:16,458 --> 00:58:26,537 Man, man, it is our duty to fight-- 1215 00:58:26,572 --> 00:58:29,885 I want to develop a network that actively supports 1216 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,956 my community on my own terms. 1217 00:58:34,925 --> 00:58:38,342 You know, it's good, like, to come together right now 1218 00:58:38,376 --> 00:58:43,796 and we're going to celebrate all the fallen soldiers. 1219 00:58:43,830 --> 00:58:46,557 It seems like every three weeks, we're going to a funeral, man. 1220 00:58:46,592 --> 00:58:51,804 Rest in peace, Henry C. Rest in peace, Henry C, man. 1221 00:58:51,838 --> 00:58:54,634 We a family, man. 1222 00:58:54,669 --> 00:58:55,704 440 for life. 1223 00:58:58,707 --> 00:59:01,779 [music playing] Meet your family, man, know your family. 1224 00:59:08,579 --> 00:59:10,236 We at the Black Soul Nation picnic. 1225 00:59:14,689 --> 00:59:15,724 What's up, what's up? 1226 00:59:15,759 --> 00:59:16,587 Shooting a video, OK. 1227 00:59:16,622 --> 00:59:19,348 How y'all doing? 1228 00:59:19,383 --> 00:59:21,730 Somebody's gon' tell you the gangs in Chicago 1229 00:59:21,765 --> 00:59:25,872 are causing all the problems, and is responsible for all 1230 00:59:25,907 --> 00:59:28,530 the killings going on. 1231 00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:31,878 I learned how to be a leader from gangs. 1232 00:59:31,913 --> 00:59:36,573 I learned how to organize from gang members. 1233 00:59:36,607 --> 00:59:38,505 They went into our community, and they took away 1234 00:59:38,540 --> 00:59:41,750 all our heroes and people that we've looked up to. 1235 00:59:41,785 --> 00:59:43,269 They kidnapped them. 1236 00:59:43,303 --> 00:59:46,859 And so that's why you see the violence in the neighborhood, 1237 00:59:46,893 --> 00:59:48,585 because you don't have those figures who 1238 00:59:48,619 --> 00:59:51,864 could come in and with one word, they can stop this. 1239 00:59:51,898 --> 00:59:54,487 We're talking about people who fed the block every single day. 1240 00:59:54,521 --> 00:59:55,246 Like-- 1241 00:59:55,281 --> 00:59:55,868 Back to school-- 1242 00:59:55,902 --> 00:59:57,317 Back to school drives. 1243 00:59:57,352 --> 00:59:59,009 --back to school program and everything. 1244 00:59:59,043 --> 01:00:01,667 Not nobody to say, hey, go over there and shoot this person. 1245 01:00:01,701 --> 01:00:03,220 Or go over there-- 1246 01:00:03,254 --> 01:00:05,325 you know, we cleaned the block up. 1247 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,432 Old ladies and kids was able to play, 1248 01:00:08,466 --> 01:00:10,641 when we was growing up in the 80s and 90s. 1249 01:00:10,676 --> 01:00:13,679 Now you can't even get the kids to come outside, 1250 01:00:13,713 --> 01:00:17,683 because there's no leadership and guidance. 1251 01:00:17,717 --> 01:00:19,098 I'm rooted in this. 1252 01:00:19,132 --> 01:00:21,721 You see that, how I've got to take that fist. 1253 01:00:21,756 --> 01:00:24,344 It takes root from the soil-- 1254 01:00:24,379 --> 01:00:26,381 Not even from the soil, from the concrete. 1255 01:00:26,415 --> 01:00:27,071 From the concrete. 1256 01:00:27,106 --> 01:00:29,418 But still we rise. 1257 01:00:29,453 --> 01:00:32,042 So I'm here because this means a lot to me. 1258 01:00:32,076 --> 01:00:34,044 It's for my soul. 1259 01:00:34,078 --> 01:00:36,874 All my life, all my love forever. 1260 01:00:36,909 --> 01:00:38,842 [interposing voices] 1261 01:00:45,745 --> 01:00:49,197 Wassup, wassup, wassup. 1262 01:00:53,028 --> 01:00:55,652 Never realize how, like, complicated academia 1263 01:00:55,686 --> 01:00:58,516 can be, until someone asks you to explain 1264 01:00:58,551 --> 01:01:02,659 some shit to a five-year-old and you're like, oh. 1265 01:01:02,693 --> 01:01:04,971 So tell me about it. 1266 01:01:05,006 --> 01:01:10,597 My dissertation is exploring the experiences 1267 01:01:10,632 --> 01:01:14,740 between interpersonal violence and state violence. 1268 01:01:14,774 --> 01:01:17,225 Black women experience violence in our households, 1269 01:01:17,259 --> 01:01:19,745 in our communities, at the hands of police. 1270 01:01:19,779 --> 01:01:23,852 Many of us can't actually imagine what community 1271 01:01:23,887 --> 01:01:26,613 based interventions look like. 1272 01:01:26,648 --> 01:01:30,065 I mean, I think that the re-imagining of everything, 1273 01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:33,517 it's really hard just to like re-imagine what this life could 1274 01:01:33,551 --> 01:01:40,558 look like without these punitive systems, and just thinking 1275 01:01:40,593 --> 01:01:46,668 like, what is the, what is the what's next? 1276 01:01:46,703 --> 01:01:51,500 What is the what's next, but also what ensures our safety? 1277 01:01:51,535 --> 01:01:55,056 You know, having some interviews to really dig deeper 1278 01:01:55,090 --> 01:01:58,231 into like, under what circumstances can 1279 01:01:58,266 --> 01:02:01,752 you imagine not calling the police-- 1280 01:02:01,787 --> 01:02:03,374 Right. 1281 01:02:03,409 --> 01:02:06,412 -- how that shapes the way that we think about safety? 1282 01:02:06,446 --> 01:02:07,275 I'm excited. 1283 01:02:07,758 --> 01:02:08,241 You and me both. 1284 01:02:08,725 --> 01:02:10,002 You and me both. 1285 01:02:10,036 --> 01:02:11,313 Cheers. 1286 01:02:11,348 --> 01:02:12,659 [giggling] 1287 01:02:12,694 --> 01:02:24,568 [DRUMS PLAYING] 1288 01:02:31,817 --> 01:02:33,853 [MUSIC PLAYING] 1289 01:02:33,888 --> 01:02:35,475 This the famous coat. 1290 01:02:35,510 --> 01:02:38,133 This the coat I had on the night of the Laquan McDonald 1291 01:02:38,168 --> 01:02:42,862 protest on that video that went everywhere. 1292 01:02:42,897 --> 01:02:44,415 My mama said when I wear this coat, 1293 01:02:44,450 --> 01:02:47,004 it reminds her of Hakeem Lyon from "Empire." 1294 01:02:47,039 --> 01:02:48,661 I'm sure they probably stole that nigga's 1295 01:02:48,695 --> 01:02:52,492 swag from me though, actually. 1296 01:02:52,527 --> 01:02:59,810 The last time I want to go see my brother, me and my mom went. 1297 01:02:59,845 --> 01:03:01,501 I got in, but my mom didn't get in. 1298 01:03:01,536 --> 01:03:04,435 The time before that, my mama got in 1299 01:03:04,470 --> 01:03:08,992 and my auntie, but I didn't get in. 1300 01:03:09,026 --> 01:03:13,824 But there was an issue because there is a typo on one 1301 01:03:13,859 --> 01:03:15,515 of these, the year of birth. 1302 01:03:15,550 --> 01:03:18,139 And it's off by one year. 1303 01:03:18,173 --> 01:03:22,488 So even though they're looking at me, 1304 01:03:22,522 --> 01:03:29,771 they know I'm this person, I'm authorized to come visit him 1305 01:03:29,806 --> 01:03:33,257 and everything, they still don't let me in because of that. 1306 01:03:33,292 --> 01:03:36,847 Drove all the way down there, couldn't get in, crazy. 1307 01:03:36,882 --> 01:03:40,989 So now I have to make sure I take two IDs 1308 01:03:41,024 --> 01:03:43,371 with the same birth year on it. 1309 01:03:46,926 --> 01:03:49,308 Is Charlie the name of the brother we're going to see? 1310 01:03:49,342 --> 01:03:50,343 Yes. 1311 01:03:50,378 --> 01:03:53,830 My first love. 1312 01:03:53,864 --> 01:03:58,386 And how far is where he is now from from where y'all live? 1313 01:03:58,420 --> 01:04:00,491 Four hours. 1314 01:04:00,526 --> 01:04:01,389 Four hours. 1315 01:04:01,423 --> 01:04:02,010 Yep, like four. 1316 01:04:03,184 --> 01:04:06,152 He was like five when she was taken, 1317 01:04:06,187 --> 01:04:10,743 so they had a relationship. 1318 01:04:10,777 --> 01:04:15,368 It was like, my brother loved my mama, like loved my mama. 1319 01:04:15,403 --> 01:04:20,546 And I was just born. 1320 01:04:20,580 --> 01:04:22,030 I was-- 1321 01:04:22,065 --> 01:04:25,137 Were you born when she was in prison or was it-- 1322 01:04:25,171 --> 01:04:27,139 I was pregnant going to prison. 1323 01:04:27,173 --> 01:04:28,726 So they let me go home and have her, 1324 01:04:28,761 --> 01:04:30,211 and then I went back to prison. 1325 01:04:30,245 --> 01:04:32,040 Got it. 1326 01:04:32,075 --> 01:04:33,352 It was very hard. 1327 01:04:33,386 --> 01:04:35,526 That's what I'm saying. 1328 01:04:35,561 --> 01:04:38,771 You like to visit, but then they walking away from you. 1329 01:04:38,805 --> 01:04:39,737 They leaving you. 1330 01:04:39,772 --> 01:04:41,429 You can't go with them. 1331 01:04:41,463 --> 01:04:44,501 And all other kids would be hugging to be around me. 1332 01:04:44,535 --> 01:04:48,194 She would be standing off and look. 1333 01:04:48,229 --> 01:04:54,925 I remember looking to Charlie to try to learn from him I guess, 1334 01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,307 what I was-- 1335 01:04:57,341 --> 01:04:59,826 what the interaction was supposed to be like. 1336 01:04:59,861 --> 01:05:01,587 Everybody had these relationships, 1337 01:05:01,621 --> 01:05:05,246 and I don't have that relationship , you feel me? 1338 01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,558 So I'm just kind of watching everybody else 1339 01:05:07,593 --> 01:05:10,561 and feeling like left out. 1340 01:05:10,596 --> 01:05:12,425 I will always remember, we're going 1341 01:05:12,460 --> 01:05:15,014 to see my mama and my brother telling her 1342 01:05:15,049 --> 01:05:16,498 these pickup lines he learned. 1343 01:05:16,533 --> 01:05:19,191 We're little kids and this boy was up there 1344 01:05:19,225 --> 01:05:22,090 telling his mama about the pickup lines he used on girls. 1345 01:05:28,234 --> 01:05:31,375 Never will my son lose the spirit. 1346 01:05:31,410 --> 01:05:33,239 So that's why I do what I do. 1347 01:05:33,274 --> 01:05:38,900 Because if I can keep his spirit up, nothing will stop him. 1348 01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:41,938 Come out a better person. 1349 01:05:41,972 --> 01:05:44,664 He'll come out more stronger, and then 1350 01:05:44,699 --> 01:05:50,015 in his life, his testimony, how much more he'll be able to do. 1351 01:05:50,049 --> 01:05:54,053 So it's like my life ain't the same, Life ain't 1352 01:05:54,088 --> 01:05:56,021 the same till my son come home. 1353 01:05:58,161 --> 01:06:00,957 [music playing] 1354 01:06:08,861 --> 01:06:11,312 [SINGING] I can't help you unless you want to. 1355 01:06:11,346 --> 01:06:12,969 I can 't help you, unless you help, too 1356 01:06:16,938 --> 01:06:17,904 Hey, how you doing? 1357 01:06:19,113 --> 01:06:19,389 If you want to back out and we'll get these guys out. 1358 01:06:20,321 --> 01:06:20,562 We have to shake down vehicles today. 1359 01:06:20,597 --> 01:06:21,874 OK. 1360 01:06:21,908 --> 01:06:26,568 All we're looking for is weapons or drugs, that's it. 1361 01:06:26,603 --> 01:06:28,846 When you go in there, they'll need your driver's license, 1362 01:06:28,881 --> 01:06:30,987 the name of the visitor, name and number of the visitor 1363 01:06:31,021 --> 01:06:32,333 you're going to visit. 1364 01:06:32,367 --> 01:06:33,506 Uh huh. 1365 01:06:33,541 --> 01:06:35,025 And then everybody keep your IDs, 1366 01:06:35,060 --> 01:06:35,681 just take it in and write it on a piece of paper. 1367 01:06:41,618 --> 01:06:42,860 And then when I'm done, you guys will park and just go in 1368 01:06:42,895 --> 01:06:44,655 like normal. 1369 01:06:44,690 --> 01:06:50,661 Alright. 1370 01:06:50,696 --> 01:06:51,938 Go see my brother. 1371 01:06:51,973 --> 01:07:05,676 Oh. 1372 01:07:05,711 --> 01:07:08,886 [melancholy music] 1373 01:07:08,921 --> 01:07:11,579 Working on this proposal, I opened up 1374 01:07:11,613 --> 01:07:13,029 telling my story in a poem. 1375 01:07:19,552 --> 01:07:22,383 [music playing] 1376 01:07:22,417 --> 01:07:24,557 When they took him, I kicked. 1377 01:07:24,592 --> 01:07:26,732 Led my first protest in my mother's womb, 1378 01:07:26,766 --> 01:07:28,596 filling her core with howls, hoping they'd 1379 01:07:28,630 --> 01:07:30,046 hear me and give my father back. 1380 01:07:34,498 --> 01:07:37,743 Gave my mother back pains carrying me to courtrooms. 1381 01:07:37,777 --> 01:07:39,986 Knew when a bailiff had her hand on his gun, by the way 1382 01:07:40,021 --> 01:07:41,402 my mother coddled me in her stomach. 1383 01:07:41,436 --> 01:07:43,749 I could feel the fear of a federal judge, 1384 01:07:43,783 --> 01:07:45,337 forcefully forfeiting her freedom, 1385 01:07:45,371 --> 01:07:46,717 fill my mother's fingertips. 1386 01:07:50,204 --> 01:07:53,310 When they took her, I didn't even bother to scream. 1387 01:07:53,345 --> 01:07:55,243 I didn't protest when they plucked me from her plump 1388 01:07:55,278 --> 01:07:57,694 breast at the podium, because I learned 1389 01:07:57,728 --> 01:08:00,766 to be afraid of my mother's milk well before I was born. 1390 01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,734 Well, before I was full matter, I didn't matter. 1391 01:08:03,769 --> 01:08:04,908 I was never meant to survive. 1392 01:08:07,945 --> 01:08:11,190 I'm the daughter of the discriminatory destruction 1393 01:08:11,225 --> 01:08:13,675 disguised as America's war on drugs 1394 01:08:13,710 --> 01:08:16,678 and having suckled the stigmas of Blackness, womanhood 1395 01:08:16,713 --> 01:08:18,197 and imprisonment. 1396 01:08:18,232 --> 01:08:20,889 My shame kept me silent, and pacified long enough. 1397 01:08:31,762 --> 01:08:33,868 There's been a major development in the police shooting 1398 01:08:33,902 --> 01:08:38,079 of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd. 1399 01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:40,495 Servin resigned from the Chicago Police Department 1400 01:08:40,530 --> 01:08:42,325 just days before hearings were scheduled 1401 01:08:42,359 --> 01:08:44,120 to begin into whether he should be fired. 1402 01:08:59,618 --> 01:09:02,759 [music playing] 1403 01:09:02,793 --> 01:09:07,660 He resigned so that he could keep his pension, 1404 01:09:07,695 --> 01:09:10,767 and ultimately skate accountability. 1405 01:09:24,367 --> 01:09:33,479 Seeing all this on the board, signifies all that we invest 1406 01:09:33,514 --> 01:09:37,207 and what the outcome has been. 1407 01:09:37,242 --> 01:09:40,728 Like, this is the return on investment 1408 01:09:40,762 --> 01:09:45,698 in police in Chicago, and that's really sad to me. 1409 01:09:49,081 --> 01:09:58,573 [click] 1410 01:09:58,608 --> 01:10:00,299 [music playing] 1411 01:10:00,334 --> 01:10:00,920 [inaudible lyrics] 1412 01:10:02,405 --> 01:10:04,372 Woo! 1413 01:10:04,407 --> 01:10:06,236 Woo! 1414 01:10:06,271 --> 01:10:07,099 Hold on. 1415 01:10:07,133 --> 01:10:07,927 What? 1416 01:10:07,962 --> 01:10:08,825 What? 1417 01:10:08,859 --> 01:10:10,758 Ah. 1418 01:10:10,792 --> 01:10:11,828 What the fuck? 1419 01:10:11,862 --> 01:10:13,795 She just went stupid. 1420 01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:18,214 I'll never forget, the lady said, yeah, 1421 01:10:18,248 --> 01:10:21,631 so we're going to have to give you the Radio Media Fellowship. 1422 01:10:21,665 --> 01:10:23,874 I said, lady, you can call it what you want. 1423 01:10:23,909 --> 01:10:25,497 Just call me funded, OK? 1424 01:10:25,531 --> 01:10:27,188 What is you talking about? 1425 01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,570 I don't give a fuck what you call it, like. 1426 01:10:29,604 --> 01:10:34,230 Yep, yep, yep yep, yep, all right, so this part right here, 1427 01:10:34,264 --> 01:10:37,094 Sister Survivor, Chicago-based arts activism campaign, 1428 01:10:37,129 --> 01:10:40,063 by and for Black women and femmes. 1429 01:10:40,097 --> 01:10:42,341 As a Soros Justice Youth Activist fellow, 1430 01:10:42,376 --> 01:10:45,102 I will create a survival network conducted 1431 01:10:45,137 --> 01:10:47,588 by and for Black women and femmes, 1432 01:10:47,622 --> 01:10:50,004 who have been directly and disproportionately 1433 01:10:50,038 --> 01:10:52,075 affected by prison policies. 1434 01:10:52,109 --> 01:10:56,631 It's very new, this idea of this being work, feel me, 1435 01:10:56,666 --> 01:10:59,910 of protest being work, advocating for people in prison 1436 01:10:59,945 --> 01:11:01,843 being work, you feel me? 1437 01:11:01,878 --> 01:11:05,226 This has always been life, so. 1438 01:11:05,261 --> 01:11:07,642 If you really want to do the work, 1439 01:11:07,677 --> 01:11:09,541 you've gotta work on yourself. 1440 01:11:09,575 --> 01:11:13,027 I think that's my biggest takeaway from Sister Survivor. 1441 01:11:13,061 --> 01:11:14,649 Like, that's how I'm able to do-- 1442 01:11:14,684 --> 01:11:15,892 I feel like I'm able to do work. 1443 01:11:17,238 --> 01:11:19,413 How healed we are now really got me 1444 01:11:19,447 --> 01:11:21,760 thinking of just about how much of a different space 1445 01:11:21,794 --> 01:11:26,247 I was in 2016, I mean-- 1446 01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:28,663 That shit is important, like to-- 1447 01:11:28,698 --> 01:11:32,391 for young people to be in spaces where 1448 01:11:32,426 --> 01:11:38,363 they see women, where they see Black women who are healing. 1449 01:11:38,397 --> 01:11:41,642 Who are talking to them from a place of healing. 1450 01:11:41,676 --> 01:11:47,993 It has become so clear that we cannot accomplish that goal 1451 01:11:48,027 --> 01:11:50,340 until we heal ourselves. 1452 01:11:50,375 --> 01:11:51,755 This is the Sister Survivor Network. 1453 01:11:56,864 --> 01:12:00,281 [interposing voices] 1454 01:12:00,316 --> 01:12:03,974 [MUSIC - STEVIE WONDER, "THAT GIRL"] 1455 01:12:25,789 --> 01:12:28,171 Hey, Black people! 1456 01:12:28,205 --> 01:12:30,484 [interposing voices] 1457 01:12:30,518 --> 01:12:33,245 Alright, I'm ready to have some real conversations. 1458 01:12:33,279 --> 01:12:37,353 So I would like to talk to the Founder of the Decarceration 1459 01:12:37,387 --> 01:12:38,871 Collective. 1460 01:12:38,906 --> 01:12:42,219 Come on, gas her up, gas her up, MiAngel Cody, y'all. 1461 01:12:42,254 --> 01:12:47,915 [cheering] 1462 01:12:47,949 --> 01:12:52,851 I'm also going to invite my mother to come -- 1463 01:12:52,885 --> 01:12:53,576 come talk to me. 1464 01:12:56,924 --> 01:12:59,271 We're here to talk about Black women. 1465 01:12:59,305 --> 01:13:00,755 I think it's important that we do 1466 01:13:00,790 --> 01:13:03,551 that, because the intersections of violence 1467 01:13:03,586 --> 01:13:08,625 for Black women on an individual, community, 1468 01:13:08,660 --> 01:13:13,354 and institutional level, it's a very unique experience. 1469 01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,737 I'm so proud now that we setting space up, 1470 01:13:16,771 --> 01:13:19,498 so that we can have the conversation. 1471 01:13:19,533 --> 01:13:23,053 It's so many people like me, they told me life. 1472 01:13:23,088 --> 01:13:25,366 I laugh, because what the hell I done 1473 01:13:25,401 --> 01:13:28,024 did that you talking about taking my life for? 1474 01:13:28,058 --> 01:13:30,095 I had an addiction and money and living good, 1475 01:13:30,129 --> 01:13:32,338 but I ain't killed nobody. 1476 01:13:32,373 --> 01:13:34,237 So the conversation has to start now, 1477 01:13:34,271 --> 01:13:37,171 so that we don't have a future Bella BAHHS going 1478 01:13:37,205 --> 01:13:39,518 to prison for a life sentence. 1479 01:13:39,553 --> 01:13:42,866 Everybody I know-- family members, friends-- 1480 01:13:42,901 --> 01:13:46,801 has been afflicted by this prison system. 1481 01:13:46,836 --> 01:13:49,804 This is healing space, and I think sometimes I 1482 01:13:49,839 --> 01:13:52,082 see where we need systems. 1483 01:13:52,117 --> 01:13:54,740 We need process, we need intake forms, we need numbers, 1484 01:13:54,775 --> 01:13:57,363 we need-- and it's like, no, this is it. 1485 01:13:57,398 --> 01:13:58,468 This is it. 1486 01:13:58,503 --> 01:14:01,713 Like you sharing what you've been through, 1487 01:14:01,747 --> 01:14:04,474 me sharing what I've been through, people holding space, 1488 01:14:04,509 --> 01:14:06,269 listening-- medicine. 1489 01:14:06,303 --> 01:14:09,168 We, we become a movement, a resistance. 1490 01:14:09,203 --> 01:14:10,238 I'm real militant y'all. 1491 01:14:10,273 --> 01:14:11,585 I'm trying not to-- 1492 01:14:11,619 --> 01:14:14,726 I'm Bella's mom, and I try to keep it lowkey. 1493 01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:15,830 That's Mama BAHHS, y'all. 1494 01:14:15,865 --> 01:14:17,142 But sometime it come out. 1495 01:14:17,176 --> 01:14:18,902 Y'all are going to be helping me heal, 1496 01:14:18,937 --> 01:14:20,421 and I hope I help y'all heal. 1497 01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,078 Come on. 1498 01:14:22,112 --> 01:14:23,631 And then when people say, these kids are out of control. 1499 01:14:23,666 --> 01:14:24,494 What's going on? 1500 01:14:24,529 --> 01:14:26,427 Well, who raised them? 1501 01:14:26,462 --> 01:14:29,257 It's survival of the fittest, it's Lord of the Flies. 1502 01:14:29,292 --> 01:14:32,640 They're trying to survive the best way they can. 1503 01:14:32,675 --> 01:14:34,884 I've had these ideas for a long time. 1504 01:14:34,918 --> 01:14:37,680 And finally being able to get them out 1505 01:14:37,714 --> 01:14:40,165 and give Black women a platform. 1506 01:14:40,199 --> 01:14:42,581 All of that was incredible. 1507 01:14:42,616 --> 01:14:45,757 So a lot of us are literally acting out inferiority 1508 01:14:45,791 --> 01:14:48,863 on each other, and I think that's a form of violence. 1509 01:14:48,898 --> 01:14:50,002 This is a pathway to love. 1510 01:14:57,458 --> 01:15:00,737 Of course, still making edits of the presentation 1511 01:15:00,772 --> 01:15:01,566 right beforehand. 1512 01:15:08,262 --> 01:15:10,506 He said, wasn't your graduation in the dark? 1513 01:15:10,540 --> 01:15:11,748 I'm like, yes, it was. 1514 01:15:11,783 --> 01:15:13,750 Yes, it was. 1515 01:15:13,785 --> 01:15:18,099 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 1516 01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:20,032 OK. 1517 01:15:20,067 --> 01:15:22,966 So we're going to get started. 1518 01:15:23,001 --> 01:15:24,140 Yes, thank you. 1519 01:15:26,729 --> 01:15:28,903 We will work towards this, but if it doesn't happen, 1520 01:15:28,938 --> 01:15:30,318 it's not your fault necessarily. 1521 01:15:30,353 --> 01:15:31,388 OK? 1522 01:15:31,423 --> 01:15:32,044 OK. 1523 01:15:41,606 --> 01:15:48,578 Hi, I have to pee. 1524 01:15:48,613 --> 01:15:52,202 So right now, they're deliberating 1525 01:15:52,237 --> 01:15:54,895 on whether I passed my hearing or not, 1526 01:15:54,929 --> 01:15:57,035 this preliminary examination. 1527 01:16:00,003 --> 01:16:07,563 All of the other little dissertation handbook, things 1528 01:16:07,597 --> 01:16:10,220 I've read, it's always like, practice. 1529 01:16:10,255 --> 01:16:13,258 Practice your presentation before your hearing, 1530 01:16:13,292 --> 01:16:16,537 time yourself, et cetera, et cetera. 1531 01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:22,716 And I had all the anticipation doing that, and I, you know, 1532 01:16:22,750 --> 01:16:24,545 didn't have time and it showed. 1533 01:16:24,580 --> 01:16:29,481 I mean, I did not practice that presentation at all. 1534 01:16:29,515 --> 01:16:30,378 That was nerve wracking. 1535 01:16:30,413 --> 01:16:31,000 Janaé? 1536 01:16:31,034 --> 01:16:41,079 Yes. 1537 01:16:41,079 --> 01:16:52,918 Yes. 1538 01:16:52,953 --> 01:16:56,266 [sobbing] 1539 01:16:56,301 --> 01:16:58,406 Passing is such a great thing. 1540 01:16:58,441 --> 01:17:03,377 So I'm crying because I'm happy. 1541 01:17:03,411 --> 01:17:08,900 And I'm sleep deprived, and I'm just so glad, 1542 01:17:08,934 --> 01:17:16,286 I'm so glad that all this was not for naught. 1543 01:17:22,741 --> 01:17:23,984 I believe in this work. 1544 01:17:24,018 --> 01:17:26,400 I believe that my research is connected 1545 01:17:26,434 --> 01:17:37,583 to my political imperative, to find ways for Black women 1546 01:17:37,618 --> 01:17:40,690 to be safe, to be free from violence. 1547 01:17:40,725 --> 01:17:45,902 And I'm really glad that my committee saw that today, 1548 01:17:45,937 --> 01:17:51,183 and I'm happy to be a PhD candidate and-- 1549 01:18:10,409 --> 01:18:11,687 If we don't get it-- shut it down! 1550 01:18:11,721 --> 01:18:13,550 If we don't get it-- 1551 01:18:13,585 --> 01:18:16,553 I'm happy that I chose Chicago, because of the community 1552 01:18:16,588 --> 01:18:20,350 that I've been able to cultivate and build here, 1553 01:18:20,385 --> 01:18:25,735 both within and outside of BYP 100. 1554 01:18:25,770 --> 01:18:30,878 Someday, one day, we will be free. 1555 01:18:30,913 --> 01:18:31,741 Come on! 1556 01:18:31,776 --> 01:18:33,260 One day, someday-- 1557 01:18:33,294 --> 01:18:37,264 Come on, one day, we will get free. 1558 01:18:38,299 --> 01:18:40,716 One day, someday, today! 1559 01:18:41,578 --> 01:18:44,167 We will get free! 1560 01:18:44,202 --> 01:18:48,516 Organizing, its healing in a way that 1561 01:18:48,551 --> 01:18:55,075 meant that I was surrounded by a community of people, who 1562 01:18:55,109 --> 01:19:00,908 understood the plight of Blackness 1563 01:19:00,943 --> 01:19:03,877 and understood what I was going through as a Black woman. 1564 01:19:09,434 --> 01:19:11,608 I've seen time and time again, how 1565 01:19:11,643 --> 01:19:15,371 Black women do a lot of thankless and undervalued work 1566 01:19:15,405 --> 01:19:17,718 that no one else wants to do. 1567 01:19:17,753 --> 01:19:20,307 The bulk of putting out fires, and just carrying things 1568 01:19:20,341 --> 01:19:20,928 to the end. 1569 01:19:24,207 --> 01:19:26,037 It's not our sole responsibility to do 1570 01:19:26,071 --> 01:19:29,488 all of the emotional labor. 1571 01:19:29,523 --> 01:19:31,870 It's not our sole responsibility to carry the burdens 1572 01:19:31,905 --> 01:19:33,044 that we often end up having to. 1573 01:19:37,462 --> 01:19:40,430 And on one hand, it points to our strength, 1574 01:19:40,465 --> 01:19:44,400 our resilience and the realness of Black girl magic. 1575 01:19:44,434 --> 01:19:47,817 But on the other hand, Black women cannot continue to be 1576 01:19:47,852 --> 01:19:49,957 the mules of the world. 1577 01:19:49,992 --> 01:19:52,788 We have a collective responsibility to get free. 1578 01:19:56,239 --> 01:19:58,690 [clapping] 1579 01:19:58,724 --> 01:20:00,830 [SINGING] Black women can't go no lacking. 1580 01:20:00,865 --> 01:20:02,004 No. 1581 01:20:02,038 --> 01:20:05,248 No, Black women don't do no lacking. 1582 01:20:05,283 --> 01:20:06,663 Never lacking, I be packing like a-- 1583 01:20:06,698 --> 01:20:08,251 Suitcase! 1584 01:20:08,286 --> 01:20:10,184 I ain't tripping, I'll be right here on my-- 1585 01:20:10,219 --> 01:20:11,530 Off days! 1586 01:20:11,565 --> 01:20:12,877 Women back me like I'm bout to toss the-- 1587 01:20:12,911 --> 01:20:14,016 Bouquet! 1588 01:20:14,050 --> 01:20:14,982 Niggas fronting. 1589 01:20:15,017 --> 01:20:16,363 They say I'm not really-- 1590 01:20:16,397 --> 01:20:17,467 That great! 1591 01:20:17,813 --> 01:20:19,711 Need to reconstruct the Reconstruction Act. 1592 01:20:19,745 --> 01:20:21,955 Sorry, I'm not sorry, unapologetically Black. 1593 01:20:23,232 --> 01:20:26,166 [MUSIC - JAMILA WOODS, "BLK GIRL SOLDIER"] 1594 01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,169 Oh, oh, oh, oh. 1595 01:20:32,758 --> 01:20:38,661 See, she's telepathic, call it Black girl magic. 1596 01:20:38,695 --> 01:20:41,595 Yeah, she scares the government. 1597 01:20:41,629 --> 01:20:45,564 Deja vu of Tubman. 1598 01:20:45,599 --> 01:20:47,912 We go missing by the hundreds. 1599 01:20:47,946 --> 01:20:49,775 Ain't nobody checking for us. 1600 01:20:49,810 --> 01:20:51,156 Ain't nobody checking for us. 1601 01:20:51,191 --> 01:20:53,883 The camera loves us, Oscar doesn't. 1602 01:20:53,918 --> 01:20:55,126 Ain't nobody checkin' for us. 1603 01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:56,575 Ain't nobody checkin' for us. 1604 01:20:56,610 --> 01:21:00,614 They want us in the kitchen, kill our sons with lynchings. 1605 01:21:01,753 --> 01:21:04,687 We get loud about it. 1606 01:21:04,721 --> 01:21:08,484 Oh, now we're the bitches. 1607 01:21:08,518 --> 01:21:12,488 Look at what they did to my sister, last century, 1608 01:21:12,522 --> 01:21:14,041 last week. 1609 01:21:14,076 --> 01:21:16,837 They put her body in a jar and forget her. 1610 01:21:16,872 --> 01:21:20,013 They love how it repeats. 1611 01:21:20,047 --> 01:21:24,396 Look at what they did to my sister, last century, 1612 01:21:24,431 --> 01:21:26,019 last week. 1613 01:21:26,053 --> 01:21:29,332 They make her hate her own skin, treat her like a sin. 1614 01:21:29,367 --> 01:21:31,334 Oh, I-- 1615 01:21:31,369 --> 01:21:33,923 But what they don't understand-- but what 1616 01:21:33,958 --> 01:21:36,236 they don't understand-- but what they don't understand 1617 01:21:36,270 --> 01:21:37,927 is-- but what they don't understand-- 1618 01:21:37,962 --> 01:21:40,205 but what they don't understand-- but what 1619 01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,898 they don't understand-- see, what they don't understand. 1620 01:21:42,932 --> 01:21:45,245 See, she's telepathic. 1621 01:21:45,279 --> 01:21:47,212 Call it Black girl magic. 1622 01:21:47,247 --> 01:21:50,595 Yeah, she scares the government. 1623 01:21:50,629 --> 01:21:53,839 Deja vu of Tubman. 1624 01:21:53,874 --> 01:21:55,841 And she, she, she, she, she don't give up. 1625 01:21:55,876 --> 01:21:58,844 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she don't give up. 1626 01:21:58,879 --> 01:22:01,744 She don't don't don't don't don't give up. 1627 01:22:01,778 --> 01:22:05,575 No, no, no, no, no, she don't give up, up. 1628 01:22:05,610 --> 01:22:06,818 Rosa was a-- 1629 01:22:06,852 --> 01:22:20,142 [music - bella bahhs, "og"] 1630 01:22:20,176 --> 01:22:24,491 OG, OG, Granny was an entrepreneur. 1631 01:22:24,525 --> 01:22:26,493 When she moved to the Chi, she was dirt poor. 1632 01:22:26,527 --> 01:22:28,909 Had kids to provide for, would die for, Black woman 1633 01:22:28,944 --> 01:22:30,324 in America, a mule woman. 1634 01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:32,775 Made something out of nothing, made millions 1635 01:22:32,809 --> 01:22:33,983 off flipping work. 1636 01:22:34,018 --> 01:22:35,122 No, the feds watching real niggas flip the bird, 1637 01:22:35,157 --> 01:22:36,675 speak in code. 1638 01:22:36,710 --> 01:22:38,367 If they catch you, keep the code, keep your soul. 1639 01:22:38,401 --> 01:22:40,093 My mama didn't fold, did time, never told. 1640 01:22:40,886 --> 01:22:44,476 My mama, she a OG, bought a Benz at 14. 1641 01:22:44,511 --> 01:22:47,583 At 23, my OG had a different car for every day of the week, 1642 01:22:47,617 --> 01:22:49,930 still got a '95 AMG. 1643 01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:52,691 Baby girl was born in '93, finally, now here is me. 1644 01:22:52,726 --> 01:22:53,865 Granny raised a bunch of queens. 1645 01:22:53,899 --> 01:22:55,142 I done seen a bunch of things. 1646 01:22:55,177 --> 01:22:56,730 I'm the heir to a bunch of dreams. 1647 01:22:56,764 --> 01:22:58,180 All they dreams live inside of me. 1648 01:22:58,214 --> 01:23:00,527 I know that they all count on me to bring them to reality. 1649 01:23:00,561 --> 01:23:02,529 I know they already proud of me, got to keep 1650 01:23:02,563 --> 01:23:04,048 making them proud of me. 1651 01:23:04,082 --> 01:23:06,602 I do it for the family, love is what inspires me. 1652 01:23:06,636 --> 01:23:09,053 Mookey said I could be anything I want to be. 1653 01:23:09,087 --> 01:23:11,193 I should never want to be anything that wasn't me. 1654 01:23:11,227 --> 01:23:12,711 I just wanted to be free. 1655 01:23:12,746 --> 01:23:15,128 Half our family tree been trapped by the streets 1656 01:23:15,162 --> 01:23:16,819 or the penitentiary. 1657 01:23:16,853 --> 01:23:19,408 I just want to set them free, run away from poverty. 1658 01:23:19,442 --> 01:23:21,375 I'm feeling like Harriett, burden of a Black woman, 1659 01:23:21,410 --> 01:23:23,170 you can't carry it. 1660 01:23:23,205 --> 01:23:24,585 Why should I tell my story if I know they're going to bury it? 1661 01:23:24,620 --> 01:23:25,931 Why should I have this baby if I know I'm going to bury it? 1662 01:23:25,966 --> 01:23:27,899 Look, this some heavy shit. 1663 01:23:27,933 --> 01:23:30,315 And my mama had weight on top of it, moving it, 1664 01:23:30,350 --> 01:23:34,181 did it all for the fam, did it all for her kids, uh. 1665 01:23:34,216 --> 01:23:36,666 My mama, she a OG. 1666 01:23:36,701 --> 01:23:38,841 Grandmama, she a OG. 1667 01:23:38,875 --> 01:23:42,810 I got a bunch of aunties and they all OGs, 1668 01:23:42,845 --> 01:23:44,812 a long line of Black queens. 1669 01:23:44,847 --> 01:23:46,711 They all helped raise me. 1670 01:23:46,745 --> 01:23:48,920 So what you think they taught me? 1671 01:23:48,954 --> 01:23:50,370 What you think that make me? 1672 01:23:50,404 --> 01:23:52,544 My mama, she a OG. 1673 01:23:52,579 --> 01:23:54,822 Grandmama, she a OG. 1674 01:23:54,857 --> 01:23:58,757 I got a bunch of aunties and they all OGs, 1675 01:23:58,792 --> 01:24:00,725 a long line of Black queens. 1676 01:24:00,759 --> 01:24:02,727 They all helped raise me. 1677 01:24:02,761 --> 01:24:04,867 So what do you think they taught me? 1678 01:24:04,901 --> 01:24:06,386 What you think that make me? 1679 01:24:06,420 --> 01:24:08,181 Look, growing up I never thought that I was poor. 1680 01:24:08,215 --> 01:24:09,423 I was spoiled. 1681 01:24:09,458 --> 01:24:10,355 I got everything I wanted plus more. 1682 01:24:10,390 --> 01:24:12,012 Every week, another pair of Jordans, 1683 01:24:12,047 --> 01:24:13,531 every game system and every game for them. 1684 01:24:13,565 --> 01:24:15,119 I thought we could afford it. 1685 01:24:15,153 --> 01:24:17,328 All our cars were imported, like drugs across borders. 1686 01:24:17,362 --> 01:24:19,847 Feds help that cross borders, but arrest kids, deport them. 1687 01:24:19,882 --> 01:24:20,848 I wish I was postmortem. 1688 01:24:20,883 --> 01:24:21,849 Like granny taught granddaughter, 1689 01:24:21,884 --> 01:24:23,127 but devils walking upon us. 1690 01:24:23,161 --> 01:24:24,818 They hate the shine, hope it tarnish. 1691 01:24:24,852 --> 01:24:26,371 Glowed up, I got it honest. 1692 01:24:26,406 --> 01:24:27,579 My parents, they kept their promise, sent their baby 1693 01:24:27,614 --> 01:24:29,857 girl to college, gave me the life that they wanted. 1694 01:24:29,892 --> 01:24:33,827 I appreciate it. $100,000 piece of paper, my granny framed it. 1695 01:24:33,861 --> 01:24:35,518 To her, I'm already famous. 1696 01:24:35,553 --> 01:24:37,693 Fame has never been a goal, but I'm a natural born leader 1697 01:24:37,727 --> 01:24:39,522 so I already know, that it's coming 1698 01:24:39,557 --> 01:24:41,697 so I'm ready like I'm all packed to go. 1699 01:24:41,731 --> 01:24:43,940 Niggas hunting, they aim at me, but I might be next to go, 1700 01:24:43,975 --> 01:24:45,908 supposed to be the next to blow. 1701 01:24:45,942 --> 01:24:47,806 West Side of Chicago, you never really know, 1702 01:24:47,841 --> 01:24:49,463 bottom of the totem pole. 1703 01:24:49,498 --> 01:24:50,844 That's why niggas toting poles. 1704 01:24:50,878 --> 01:24:52,087 I ain't really ready to go. 1705 01:24:52,121 --> 01:24:53,571 I ain't stepping at the door. 1706 01:24:53,605 --> 01:24:54,882 OK, I'll pop out. 1707 01:24:54,917 --> 01:24:56,919 I'm Nell daughter, niggas better watch out. 1708 01:24:56,953 --> 01:24:58,645 I might pull a Cartier watch out. 1709 01:24:58,679 --> 01:24:59,853 Time is money. 1710 01:24:59,887 --> 01:25:01,372 I ain't sitting in the damn house. 1711 01:25:01,406 --> 01:25:02,856 Granny worried, steady calling about my whereabouts. 1712 01:25:02,890 --> 01:25:04,685 I'm probably with the shooters when they air it out. 1713 01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:06,653 Lord, forgive me, I'm just trying to make it out, 1714 01:25:06,687 --> 01:25:09,069 sending all these prayers up, hope a blessing come down. 1715 01:25:09,104 --> 01:25:11,485 Lately I've been feeling if I stick around, be another Nipsey 1716 01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,038 Hussle, be a Mike Brown. 1717 01:25:13,073 --> 01:25:14,592 Even with our hands up, still getting gunned down. 1718 01:25:14,626 --> 01:25:15,662 That ain't how I'm going out. 1719 01:25:15,696 --> 01:25:16,490 That's his story. 1720 01:25:16,525 --> 01:25:17,181 That ain't my story. 1721 01:25:17,215 --> 01:25:18,009 I'm about to white it out. 1722 01:25:18,043 --> 01:25:18,699 Fuck it. 1723 01:25:18,734 --> 01:25:21,530 Black it out. 1724 01:25:21,564 --> 01:25:22,047 Man. 1725 01:25:22,082 --> 01:25:22,634 Fuck it. 1726 01:25:22,669 --> 01:25:24,533 Black it out. 1727 01:25:24,567 --> 01:25:28,571 Look, my mama, she a OG. 1728 01:25:28,606 --> 01:25:30,918 Grandmama, she a OG. 1729 01:25:30,953 --> 01:25:34,888 I got a bunch of aunties and they all OGs, 1730 01:25:34,922 --> 01:25:36,717 a long line of Black queens. 1731 01:25:36,752 --> 01:25:38,754 They all helped raise me. 1732 01:25:38,788 --> 01:25:40,894 So what you think they taught me? 1733 01:25:40,928 --> 01:25:42,378 What you think that make me? 1734 01:25:42,413 --> 01:25:44,484 My mama, she a OG. 1735 01:25:44,518 --> 01:25:46,900 Grandmama, she a OG. 1736 01:25:46,934 --> 01:25:50,904 I got a bunch of aunties and they all OGs, 1737 01:25:50,938 --> 01:25:52,871 a long line of Black queens. 1738 01:25:52,906 --> 01:25:54,735 They all helped raise me. 1739 01:25:54,770 --> 01:25:56,875 So what you think they taught me. 1740 01:25:56,910 --> 01:25:58,739 What you think that make me? 1741 01:25:58,774 --> 01:26:03,882 My mama, she a OG, a long line of Black queens. 1742 01:26:06,713 --> 01:26:07,921 So what you think they taught me. 1743 01:26:10,786 --> 01:26:11,787 What you think that make me?