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All right, we'll jump right into it.
What was your first interaction
with law enforcement or police?
Probably when I was a child, you know?
I probably was around maybe 12.
It could have been 12 or 13 on the first incident.
What happened?
I think I was suspended from school one time,
and I didn't have my truancy papers at the time,
so they...
I was riding in Dinkytown.
And, you know, I guess they were getting those laws together
where you gotta ride a bike on the street.
And, you know, I'm a kid, I'm like
I'm not 'bout to ride a bike on the street.
He calls me out on a big megaphone, takes my bike.
He says, "You're supposed to have a permit for it."
I was like, "A permit for a bike?
"You trippin'."
So he takes me into the truancy center and everything
and drops me off to my grandma's house afterwards,
after, I think, when school let out.
So that was the child encounter that I had.
Did you ever get the bike back.
Hell no!
They ain't give me no bike back.
Government regulations are holding back
people from buying houses.
That's why you see more homeless people
than ever before in America.
Nah, nigga.
Banks were giving mortgages to niggas
that couldn't afford the shit, fam.
At a triple and double "A" rating.
That's fucked up.
Yeah.
But not having a home is even more fucked up.
Yeah, but you go homeless
when you don't get the banks they money, nigga.
What is you sayin'?
They couldn't 'cause they ain't have
the wages they trying to build up right now.
Who trying to build it up right now?
Donald Trump.
Donald fucking Trump?!
Are you kidding me, man?
He's gonna raise the wage
and then take off the housing regulations.
You watch, the economy is gonna boom.
Look, that's the shit they teach you in school, ain't it?
I already know.
Joe, you listening to your little brother, fam?
Think about Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae
or any other mortgage stock.
Trump's a business mogul.
He's gonna get his real estate popping.
Look, the Don is a fuckin' fraud, man.
Stay fuckin' over the low-class citizen, nigga.
Weren't you just talking about
how people couldn't afford housing anyway?
So what is you saying?
He ain't done nothing to us.
He ain't done nothing to us?!
Ain't that nigga just like a grandmaster
of the KKK or some shit like that?
What they call that nigga in the award show?
- Agent Orange. - Agent Orange.
Fuck that Agent Orange ass nigga.
Aight, fuck him.
That point ain't to like his ass anyway.
Right.
I'm just saying his real estate's gonna be poppin'
and we need to invest in these housing stocks.
I mean, that's what this book's about.
Passive income.
Rent's boomed because of '08,
houses are gonna boom because of 2017, rest assured.
Yeah, rest assured my ass, nigga.
Bro, you ain't got nothing to say?
I don't get involved in the political theory.
Right.
♪ Three niggas rollin' in the SUV ♪
♪ Drivin' while black so I'm guilty ♪
Y'all know I ain't talking smack.
Look at that situation in Manhattan, where he dominate.
Shiesty business ain't dominate, nigga.
He stay fucking over the hardworking man.
He also fucks over the government, which they deserve.
He's out here for money and power.
What's wrong with that?
Corruption.
Nah, you don't get it.
Nah, nigga, I get it.
Power and money don't create corruption.
People do.
Look at Warren Buffet.
He's still thrifty even on passive income.
It just takes a little bit of, you know,
strength to go down that path of righteousness.
What righteous path you on, Cole?
Shit, I'm trying to get this money.
Okay, you got that money invested in stock?
I got some financial aid left.
Yeah, okay.
You know what a black man needs
more than anything, especially in America?
It's to buy his freedom.
Wow.
Buy his own freedom.
White people know it.
They even say it too.
I was over at my girl's the other day...
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Your girl white?
Whatever, her granddad was talking about
the best thing to do was buy your freedom.
And guess what, he's rich as fuck!
You ain't gotta worry 'bout shit being rich and powerful.
And you damn sure ain't gotta worry about
doing some corrupt bullshit like a lot of people say.
It's just all about working the systems.
Like investing.
So, your girl is white, ain't she?
Ooh, nigga, I ain't know you had it in you, nigga!
Eh, eh, is her areolas peach, though?
Ah!
Is them motherfuckers peach?
You know, it's one thing to get money,
but it's a whole nother thing
to think about the stepping stones to getting there.
Okay?
It's more than likely not believing in a white guy
who tweets that black people kill more whites than whites.
I know his views are fucked up.
I'm just trying to tell you that...
And now he says he's gonna take
the housing regulations off.
But who has he appointed to do so?
You thought about that?
Do you know anything that you're talking about?
I mean, what has he done that's followed through
on anything he says he's gonna do?
It's like Alexander in this book.
He didn't become king because of his birthright,
not because he was born into privilege.
He became king because of his actions.
You and your ancient times.
All I'm saying is know your people.
I know my research.
Even if he don't, the Republican Party will.
Watch Freddie Mac.
All I'm saying.
Hey, yo.
There was this chick in there bad as hell.
You ready to have a side chick, Joe?
I'm good.
How 'bout you, Cole?
You ready to grab a bitch by the pussy, or what?
Huh?
Like your mans?
She has a gambling problem?
She ain't destitute though.
And it's not like she's going to Mystic every day.
Well, asking for 20 bucks so she can hold down
a slot machine sounds like a problem.
I thought you said her parents were loaded.
They cut her off.
Yeah, you need to get on something else, bro.
You don't wanna be hemmed up with all that.
It ain't nothing extreme.
It was her first.
If it was every day, I'd be tripping for real.
Where'd you meet her?
Social economics.
You need to get on something else, bro.
Not everyone has the perfect girl like you, Joe.
It's not all perfect, Cole.
When we get to mom's house,
do not tell her about Alyssa's addiction, all right?
Man, she ain't got an...
Yo, listen.
Y'all see this cop following us?
Mother fucker been following us for a few blocks now.
So?
It ain't like we done anything.
They make me nervous.
You holding?
Shit!
Come on, man!
They ain't gonna search me.
They'll search you anyways.
If they was gonna pull us over,
they woulda done it by now.
Shit!
What you all shittin' for?
Make it worse with yo looking ass!
How was I supposed to know?
Chill, everybody chill, okay?
Now I gotta talk to this fucking pig.
Look, worst case scenario, they just give us a ticket.
I ain't gonna get no ticket either, man.
Just pull over.
I'll talk to 'em.
Man, hell nah!
Make shit worse.
You can probably talk that Trump shit
and they'll let us loose.
These cock sucking mother fuckers, man!
Here we go.
You in the backseat!
What's your hand doing?
- Show me your hand! - What?
What's in your hand?!
My phone.
What's in your other hand?
- Show it to me! - There's nothing in my hand.
You know how fast you were going?
The speed limit.
Sure you were.
Where you boys heading?
My auntie's place.
You in a hurry to get there?
Nah, not really.
You know why I pulled you over?
No, 'cause I wasn't speeding.
Your license plate light is out.
In the daylight?!
And?
You can see my license plate out in the daylight?!
What did I say?
You calling me a liar?
I'm not calling you anything.
License and insurance.
Got nothing better else to do.
What's that?
Nothing.
Show me your hands!
Reach for it slow.
I need you to show me the insurance.
You can't take it out of the envelope?
Do what I fucking said!
What has he done to disrespect you in any way?
What'd you say?!
Cole.
I'm saying what has he done to make you curse all crazy?
Give me your ID, kid.
I ain't no kid!
Give me your ID.
For what?
Give me your ID!
Are you on something?
Do you want to go downtown?!
You can't just...
Just do what he says, Cole!
IDs, everybody, now.
What the fuck was that, Cole?
What?
That man was on something.
Cops is killing niggas left and right out here!
All that righteous shit ain't gonna get you
brownie points when you dead, nigga!
Fuck him.
Derek has a point, all right?
He's itching for a reason, all right?
Did you see how hostile he was?
He had his hand on his pistol.
Cops are looking for a reason to shoot a black man.
Don't give 'em a reason.
They ain't gonna do shit.
Shut the fuck up, Cole!
You've been talking all day.
Be quiet!
Another day.
Always some shit, man.
Always some shit.
You got any warrants?
Hell nah.
They spending an awfully long time jacking each other off.
What are they looking for?
I couldn't tell you.
Probably plotting some shit.
How much you wanna bet?
I wouldn't want to consider that.
All right, you all chill.
Here they come.
I need you to exit the vehicle.
- What? - What'd he do?
- What I do? - Exit the vehicle now please.
Yo!
Hey, come on!
Hey, man!
Hands behind your back.
Joe, Joe, don't go out there, man.
Fuck, man!
Hey, stay where you are.
Ow, fuck!
Get off me!
Stay here you are!
My hands are up, my hands are up.
What'd he do?
He matches the description of a robbery suspect.
That's bullshit, you know it.
Come on.
What'd he do?
Whoa!
Whoa, man!
I said stay still!
Yo, put the gun away!
- What the fuck, man? - I said stay back!
- What'd he do? - Hey, shut up!
You shut the fuck up!
Get off!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing?
Don't move!
Hey!
Get on the ground!
Stay on the ground.
- Cole! - I didn't do nothing.
Stay down.
Hey, shut the fuck up!
Get off me, get off me.
Stay down.
Give me your hand.
What are you looking at, boy?
Cole!
♪ Nowhere was safe ♪
♪ Nowhere at all ♪
That pig motherfucker gonna get his.
Watch.
Karma's a bitch.
♪ Our blood still falls ♪
Karma doesn't do shit.
But I will.
♪ It's been so long ♪
♪ But to this day ♪
♪ The hate is strong ♪
♪ Where can we walk ♪
♪ Where can we play ♪
♪ Where can we find a safer place to talk to God and pray ♪
♪ Where can we go ♪
♪ Where can we breathe ♪
♪ Is there anywhere we can be young and black and free ♪
♪ Old and black and free ♪
♪ Just black and free ♪
♪ We deserve to live ♪
♪ Walk the streets and live ♪
♪ Worship God and live ♪
Let's go sit down, come on.
♪ Love ourselves and live ♪
♪ Where can we walk ♪
♪ Where can we play ♪
♪ Where can we find a safer space to talk to God and pray ♪
♪ Where can we go ♪
♪ Where can we breathe ♪
♪ Is there anywhere we can be young and black and free ♪
♪ Old and black and free ♪
♪ Just black and free ♪
♪ We deserve to live ♪
♪ Walk the streets and live ♪
♪ Worship God and live ♪
♪ Love ourselves and live ♪
♪ We deserve to live ♪
♪ Walk the streets and live ♪
♪ Worship God and live ♪
♪ Love ourselves and live ♪
Could you state your name
and the first time that you ever had an encounter
with police or law enforcement?
Okay.
My name is D'Azhane Felder-Johnson.
The first time I had an intercounter...
Yeah, an encounter with the police officers
was when I was eight years old
my dad was killed by two Minneapolis police officers,
and that was my first encounter.
Okay.
When you were eight, obviously things are different
in our minds when we're young children.
Yes.
What do you remember feeling
from that first encounter?
Honestly, I thought it was a joke.
When my mom told me, I didn't think it was real.
At that time I was a lot more innocent than I am now,
so I really felt like, "What?
"Police officers help us, they protect us."
And then I realized, no, this is reality.
What was the story that the police told?
They say that they got there
and it was a domestic situation,
which is came out that it wasn't.
It also came out that there was no drugs or alcohol involved
but that he was really angry they could tell.
They do agree that he lifted his shirt up
and was like, "I don't have anything."
But they say he came out like the Hulk or something.
That was some of the things they said.
And then when he was running, they ran after him,
and they said they got fearful
because he tried to grab one of their guns.
And so one shot, and then the other one emptied.
But they said it was a fight for their guns
and they were just fearful,
even though there was two officers.
Okay.
That does parallel to a lot of other stories cops tell.
There was one brother on 25th and Bryant
that was shot, but the same story always:
he grabbed the gun, there was a struggle.
Yeah, but the evidence shows
that he was shot facing down, in the back,
so there was no possible way that their story...
Yeah, it doesn't match.
The ballistics said
that he was shot in the back?
Mm-hm, they could tell that he was shot close-range
and in the back, from where the bullets entered.
Morning.
Did you sleep at all?
Nah.
I know it's hard, but you gotta try to get some sleep.
Morning, Joseph.
Morning.
There's an extra plate.
I just over-cooked, honey, that's all.
That's a waste of food.
Joe.
Shh.
What?
In what began as a routine traffic stop
turned deadly yesterday.
Captured by a bystander on their cellphone
shows an African American male, pulled out of an SUV,
tackled to the ground, and shot by police.
We don't need to start the morning off with that.
No, no, wait a second, wait a second.
It's confirmed that 23-year-old Cole Grant has died.
Now, we want to warn our viewers
that what you are about to watch may be disturbing.
Cole, Cole, Cole!
Two other men put into custody for questioning
were released later that night.
This morning, police are in full investigation.
Now we're gonna be some fucking news story!
Joseph!
This is gonna be another cop shooting nigga story.
I mean, that was my brother.
- That wasn't just any nigga. - And that was my son!
And I don't want to hear any more cursing in my house.
You understand?
- They're gonna spin it... - I mean it!
Joseph, I mean it.
Selma, don't watch any more news.
To describe the Attorney General
and not the President.
The remarks come at a fraught time
in the White House's relationship with the FBI
and the Justice Department.
Trump has said the FBI's reputation is intact.
Handling of politically...
You either.
Ms. Grant, may I please ask you a few questions?
I better take mom's car.
Hey, if they approach you, please don't say anything.
Okay?
I don't know anything.
Anything about anything.
Look, if they get anything out of you,
they're gonna turn it in into some media scandal bullshit...
Look after yourself, okay?
Don't worry about me.
And if you need to let off some steam,
I'm only a phone call away, okay?
- All right. - Okay.
Mom, don't leave the house, okay?
I'm not gonna be a prisoner in my own home.
It's not about all that, okay?
Those people are vultures, all right?
They want to twist Cole's murder into some fu...
Some helpless black man story, all right?
They want us to look bad.
I know all of that, Joseph!
I'm not gonna talk to them.
All right, well you don't have to creep on them either.
I'm not creeping.
I just like to keep watch.
Is that okay?
Now listen, don't touch me, please.
Do not touch me.
He's got a gun!
Gun!
Hey bro, if you fucking move, I swear to God!
Get on the ground!
And the officer just shot him in his arm.
We're waiting for a backup.
Ma'am, just keep your hands where they are!
I will, sir, don't worry, I will.
Fuck!
♪ Saying all type of feelings that them guys won't ♪
♪ Trying to hold it all together but I'm heart broke ♪
♪ Don't try to tell me 'bout myself like I don't know me ♪
♪ If you ain't where I'm from ♪
♪ Then ain't much that you could show me ♪
♪ I been hustling crumbs ♪
♪ I'm trying to get it by my lonely ♪
♪ Asking why I need a gun ♪
♪ I say protection from the police ♪
♪ Thinking 'bout these kids makes it hard at times ♪
♪ But it is what it is when you on the grind ♪
♪ I be willing to do a fee long as my children fine ♪
♪ While repenting for all my sins I live a life of crime ♪
♪ See I'm headed down the block but got the fear of dying ♪
♪ So you saying it's safe don't make me feel alright ♪
♪ When knowing every day that when I go outside ♪
♪ If I'm wearing a hoodie I could lose my life ♪
♪ So trust me where I stay you could not survive ♪
♪ Imagine every day like the 4th of July ♪
♪ Under covers run away and we look just alike ♪
♪ They supposed to protect us instead they taking lives ♪
♪ I pray to God that it change though ♪
♪ Gotta know we angels ♪
♪ Let's go trade our whips and our chains in for our halos ♪
♪ Money like the rain pour it down on a stripper ♪
♪ 'Cause she just want her pain to go down with the liquor ♪
♪ Police raid us like we roaches right ♪
♪ They saying that they racist but I'm black it's white ♪
♪ All I feel is pain so I just close my eyes ♪
Joe.
Have you seen the news?
Nah, haven't got around to it.
Come through.
You good?
Yeah.
Yeah, just come through.
All right.
♪ So much pain built up inside ♪
♪ Instead of cry I just close my eyes ♪
♪ So much pain built up inside ♪
♪ Instead of cry I just close my eyes ♪
What up, man?
What's this?
Watch the video.
Nah, man.
Watch it.
I was there.
I don't need to.
D.
What the fuck, Joe?
You're not as pissed off as me?
I don't wanna watch a fucking video
of your brother being shot by the police!
Read the comments then.
Read the comments?
Yeah, just read 'em.
Is this what you been doing?
You need to stop that shit, Joe.
It's fucking with your psyche, man.
"Black people are getting killed out here
"because of racist white cops!"
- Are you really... - "Dumb nigger deserved it."
"What happened to this country?"
Joe, I got it. "Dude prolly has a rap sheet."
- Come on now. - "Blue lives matter."
- Joe. - "You can take that uniform
"off at the end of the day, we can't."
"Glad someone is exterminating these porch monkeys."
Are you fucking done yet?
"Cop's gonna get off, blue privileges."
Come on, man!
"Somebody stop these murderers!"
Joe, what is the fucking point?!
I only have sisters now, D.
We gotta do something.
We?
Excuse me?
I'm tired of this shit.
These cops are out here killing us,
and we have to stop them.
Mm-mm, mm-mm.
Stop them how?
Hm?
By any means necessary.
What is you Malcolm X now?!
You're fucking crazy, man!
Tell me I'm wrong.
Yeah, okay.
How are we supposed to do that?
By gathering our black brothers.
None of them is my brothers, man.
What the fuck are you talking about?!
Cops will shoot anybody out here with pigment in their skin!
And then when they get off
we get disrespected by ignorant fucks!
If we don't stop them, who's gonna do it?
Not niggas, that's for sure!
None of them niggas.
Out here black people don't even like black people.
How do you supposed to get niggas on board
with this new world order shit, huh?
What, you gonna bring 'em bitches?
Cookies?
"Opportunities multiply when seized."
What the fuck are you talking about?
This.
Some little punk ass book?!
Is you serious?!
Sun Tzu.
This is a book on war and the means to win.
Uh-uh, uh-uh.
D, this is real!
Yeah, real fucking stupid, man!
You think a book about war is gonna teach you
about war in the real life?
When I was 12, my uncle told me
that the secrets are in the writing,
and that I should read as much and whenever that I could.
I wasn't that into it, because most the shit
that I was forced to read in school was garbage.
It was old dead white men literature.
Iliad and the Odyssey, Mice and Men, The Founding Fathers.
That bullshit.
You know, but I did alright, I did okay.
But it wasn't until I was 20,
when Cole was laughing at me.
He said, "That's funny.
"That's how they keep black men stupid.
"They know we don't read,
"so they keep all the secrets in the writing."
I guess I needed to hear it twice, especially from Cole.
But I decided to pick up the Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
And that shit changed my life.
From that day forward, I was able to see things clearer,
understand why politicians do what they do,
why people succeed, why people fail.
I mean, I read so many books,
I took the GED, passed with a perfect core.
Read some books on finances, saved 17 G, put it away.
Read Chicken Soup for the Soul,
pulled a beautiful black queen, call her my girlfriend now.
I'm just saying a book can do a lot
if you put in into practice.
Alright.
Say that I go along with it, right?
You still haven't gotten to the meat
of how we convince niggas that would just as quick
shoot another nigga than a cop.
I'll convince 'em.
I just need your help.
Help doing what?
I need your old connects.
Ah, hell nah, man!
Come on, now.
Fuck that!
Are you serious?
- D, listen, man. - Nah, nigga.
- Look... - No, no, no.
Don't do that, don't do that.
- Don't be like that. - That life is behind me,
and that's where I want to keep it, man.
Hey, we need the streets.
Joe, the streets don't need you, bro.
I'm not asking you to be there.
I'm just asking for an introduction.
Do I gotta tell you the story
about the homie holding his own brains
in his own motherfucking hands, bro?
It's real.
I'm not scared.
You're hard-headed.
It's not about being scared.
It's about not getting killed, Joe!
The niggas I used to fuck with
only kill blacks, not whites.
And I'm gonna need that gas money up out you
for coming over here, man.
Then who am I supposed to talk to then?!
Nigga, I don't know!
You been reading the books and shit.
Figure it out!
You can't give me a name and an address,
least you can do is give me a fucking suggestion!
You want a suggestion?
Yeah!
Then why don't you go ahead
and contact the niggas in the fucking comments!
You want me to message them individually?
You want me to explain my plan through text?
Look, I don't know.
What you want me to do?
- You need people, right? - Yeah.
Need a whole bunch of motherfuckers.
Mm-hm.
Well where did Sin Tzu get his shit?
- Sun Tzu. - Whatever, nigga.
Where did he go?
- The military. - Okay then.
Okay, where can we find a large group of black people?
Other than the hood?
Nigga, I don't know!
Black Lives Matter.
Fuck with them.
You're joking.
What you mean?
They be on TV all the time.
They're idiots!
Okay, if they're idiots,
then why don't you go tell 'em that?
Look, as far as I'm concerned,
they got a whole bunch of people.
Go see 'em, give 'em the same speech you gave me,
convince 'em, and then, boom, you got it.
That's just better than having some idiotic ass gangsters.
- Listen. - Yeah.
Joe, hear me out, man.
You my brother.
We all we got, man.
Alright?
So either away, I'm a ride with you, regardless.
No other options?
Prison.
Lotta niggas in prison.
Plan B.
Fuck it.
Alright, well let's go.
Where we goin'?
If you'd been watching TV,
you woulda saw that there's a protest.
Black Lives Matter's there.
Nigga, I told you they be on TV, homie!
And so, what were the ripples
that came from that that changed your life in a certain way?
I know you were talking about you do certain trainings.
Did that influence you getting into
the field of training police officers.
Mm-hm.
What that did for me was made me more political.
Because what I realized, I was always political,
but it made me more political,
and more questioning of the system,
because I realized in that moment
that it can really happen to any black guy.
I doesn't matter who you are.
It doesn't matter your degree.
It doesn't matter the smile you have,
what kind of glasses, what kind of shoes,
what kind of this, that, any of your background.
If you're black, you're fucked.
You know what I mean?
You can't get out of that situation.
So it made me walk through the world like that
and noticing that difference of like...
Or noticing that how unfair it is makes me angry.
And so that gave me drive and a push to
do more work as an artist, as a brother,
as an uncle, as a son, to really
just question everything and like...
bring my authentic self to it, and hold my ground.
I got into a field where I train police officers,
and that has...
I would never do that, but I only chose to do that
because I know my experience.
We have to stay focused,
we have to stay diligent in our efforts,
and we have to do every single thing that we can possible
every single day, until that legislature
gets their ass in those seats
and does the jobs that we elected them to do.
And if they can't do it, then each and every one of you
out there has an obligation to find your inner strength
and run for office yourself,
so that you can represent people;
not parties, not rhetoric, not divisive tactics,
but people, every single person,
because that's the only way that we're gonna...
♪ Everybody want to be a nigga ♪
♪ But don't nobody really want to be a nigga ♪
♪ Want to say nigga want to spend a day a nigga ♪
♪ You equal to this white boy okay nigga ♪
♪ I'm black like fried chicken chitlins and evictions ♪
♪ Life was a sweet so diabetes in us ♪
♪ Niggas got bars and roof in the prisons ♪
I'm a hold back.
Too many niggas?
Nah, man, I ain't gonna fuck it up.
Excuse me, Miss?
Yeah?
Who's the boss around here?
Boss?
We don't have a boss.
The organizer.
Who organized?
Why, what do you want?
I want to help.
If that's the case, you can get us some water.
Or make a sign.
I want to help in a different way.
And what way is that?
Well I...
Are you the organizer?
Who's asking?!
Okay, hi, I'm Joseph Grant.
Hey.
Oh...
I'm sorry, I didn't realize...
No, no, don't be, don't be.
Look, I just want to speak with
who's ever organizing the protest
to figure out a different way of getting the word out,
that black lives, in fact, do matter,
just more than picket signs.
Okay.
Come on.
Hey Markus, this is Joseph...
Joe is fine.
Thanks.
Cool, cool.
Have you ever been to a Black Live Matter protest?
No, this is my first one.
Oh, no problem.
Standard protest, nothin' fancy...
Hey, look, I was actually just
looking to talk to you about something.
Okay.
'Bout what?
So what can I do for you, brotha?
How are y'all doing?
It's a struggle, but we out here.
Making any headway?
Hell, I hope so.
It's hard to tell when black men
keep getting killed, right?
Yeah, it's a sad thing.
Which is why we gotta stay strong.
Our people, we gotta stick together.
Seems that way.
You know anybody that's been a victim of police brutality?
My cousins, my brothers.
Hell, me.
Did I miss somethin'?
This feels like some sort of interrogation on me?
Oh, no!
No, no, no, not at all.
Look, I'm just trying to figure out
the best way to approach this proposal, that's all.
Hey, I'm all ears.
Propose, brotha.
Okay.
So, there is an army of black people in the United States.
And there's enough fuel for vengeance
to last a hundred years.
Now, to that extent, we have enough communities,
organizations, churches, cell blocks,
whatever you wanna call it, to unite men and women together
and fend off those that oppress us.
And right now, what I'm doing is I'm finding the generals
that are gonna lead us into that promised land.
So what you're saying is you wanna use Black Lives Matter
as an army against white people?
No, that's not white I'm saying.
White people aren't the problem.
Certain issues, yes, but the main problem
I'm talking about is law enforcement.
So you want an army to fight against law enforcement?
In simple terms, yeah.
And what's to stop the country
from callin' the National Guard?
Well, if it comes to that,
then we're doing something right.
Look, I can't condone that plan.
And you want to...
Resist.
What I'm talking about is resistance.
No, brotha, you talkin' civil war.
Civil War ended slavery.
Look, violence is never the answer.
Says who?
Martin Luther King.
Hell, Malcolm in his last days.
Last days?
Come on, man,
That's what got him killed.
And what changed?
You could've went with Mandela,
but he tried to overthrow the government
and wound up doing 27 years in prison.
And the only reason why they let him out
is because they feared that a racial civil war
was on the rise.
You know your history.
There's no better way to know your future.
I agree, I agree.
But I don't agree with your judgment.
I can't help you.
Okay, what about your people?
Is this all y'all want, just signs?
Look, you gotta find an army someplace else.
You're not listening.
All right?
Your people, your brothers and sisters,
How many of them do you want to save?
Okay?
How many of them do you want to save?
Otherwise, you might as well just be looking at them
as body bags, 'cause that's what's gonna end up happening.
I heard you.
You don't wanna accept my answer.
Because your answer is bullshit, Markus!
I mean, have you Googled Black Lives Matter recently?
Have you?
'Cause people think it's a fuckin' joke.
Black, white, police, everybody.
First thing that pops us is why BLM is a terrorist group.
The second thing that pops up is a video
of Black Lives Matter protesters on the highway
blocking traffic, getting hit by cars
while some happy-go-lucky music plays in the backdrop.
The third thing that pops up...
Look, I heard you.
Is a black guy preaching for all lives matter
and talking about how y'all do more harm the help.
You take care of yourself.
No, you're gonna listen to me!
Listen, listen!
Hey, man, get your hands off me!
Listen.
I don't want any blood between us, all right?
Although it seems inevitable sometimes.
I'm telling you that this is not a debate.
There's gonna be one of us standing at the end.
The weak or the strong.
And I'm offering you salvation right now, okay?
We can fight them together.
If you wanna protest, we can help.
Violence is not the answer.
♪ Black lives ♪
♪ The biggest joke laughing as we all die ♪
'Bout to knock that nigga out.
Come on.
♪ I'll tell you why ♪
♪ They say we too loud if we take a knee ♪
♪ Keep your mouth shut ♪
And I thought I was gonna fuck it up.
You know, this proves that they're idiots.
It's a waste of damn time.
Aight, so what now?
Plan B.
You and these fucking plans.
Plan B.
Hey, real talk, I need that money up out you, man.
What is it with the money all the time?
Hey!
I just wanted to say...
I heard you, and I'm in.
Okay.
So what's the next step?
Okay, I gotta be honest, I'm not 100% clear
on what Black Lives Matter exactly is.
It's a chapter-based organization.
BLM chapters are the moderators.
Okay, then we need to talk to those people.
Do you know anybody in the chapters here?
Only the one you punched out.
I wouldn't exactly say punched.
I'll check out who the other chapters are.
But what for?
Protests are going to lead to arrests
with the laws they're making.
Large penalties and criminalizing people
that want to see change.
Explain to them that we have a major way to combat them.
Once we get people onboard, that's when we can strike.
Outright violence, huh?
You knew what this was when I talked to Markus.
I don't disagree with the plan.
It's just the approach that needs some finessing.
You got a better way?
Is it possible to make a change?
What's the plan of action?
Ask the chapters questions, and then land on
an approach that works for both sides of the coin.
Without the attack part in the plan of action,
there's no need for a tossup.
If the coin always lands face up,
why not give the chapters a choice?
Okay.
So what will you two do?
Well, Derek's gonna talk to some inmates.
I'mma what?
I'm gonna see if I can get a law changed, all right?
Wait a second.
All right, you got this, you got this.
I'll keep in touch.
Thank you.
Yo man, you didn't say I was going to prison yards.
D, you knew this at the protest.
Baby, I got this, I can...
It's fine, I'm here now.
Nigga!
She already knows.
No, not that.
Me personally, in prison?!
D, you're not gonna be in prison!
You're gonna be at the visitation rooms.
Plus, you're the one who initially brought this up.
As a joke!
I didn't know you was gonna be serious with it.
I am, and I will.
What are they supposed to do from the inside anyway?
How many cats do you know that have hands
in the outside world that are locked up?
Not a lot.
But a few.
And how many cats do you know
that have influence inside a prison?
Okay.
Exactly.
I see what you sayin'.
We need to reach out to all the communities, okay?
They can't hold us locked up,
and they can't hold us all in supposed freedom.
We need to fuck 'em every which way.
Next, we reach out to the black military families,
that aren't treated with the same respect,
then black businesses, all right?
And so on, and so on.
We don't stop with just one.
So then what you want me to say?
Tell them that we have a way out.
A way out?
I don't know about that, man.
They want their freedom.
We want ours too.
We need a little bit of help.
Tell them that.
Nigga, if this shit works, them books you be reading,
they gonna make one about yo ass.
I hope so.
Aight.
They lied.
They said that Cole matched a robbery suspect.
And he didn't.
They said he had a weapon on him, and he couldn't.
Now I have to carry Cole in a casket next week.
Do you think what I'm doing is wrong?
I just don't want to see you hurt or in prison, Joseph.
And I don't know your pain.
I just want you to be safe.
If you asked me to stop, I would.
I think a solution could be better training.
Everything nowadays is getting cut.
Funding is getting cut on a lot of things.
I mean, if you bring a cop that's raised in
Wisconsin that's never been in the inner city
to go and police an area
which he's not familiar with the people, the neighborhood,
that's putting him in a lose-lose situation, if you ask me.
So, not only does he suffer, but the community suffers.
I know they get out and they talk to people.
They want people to relate to them.
But...
to what point, you know, does your training
show you that not everybody is the same,
not everybody is a criminal, or not everybody
is brandishing a weapon illegally.
I don't know, I think it's the training.
It think that's a start.
I'm pretty sure there's more things involved
than just training, but I think the training is a start.
Better training, better funding,
better interacting in the community.
Because what you see on TV, that's just...
a glimpse of what's not caught on tape, if you ask me.
Joe Grant is here.
I'm ready for him.
Thank you.
Thank you for seeing me.
Appreciate it.
Of course.
There's always time for our chapter of Black Lives Matter.
And please, call me Lamar.
Again, I want to thank you for seeing me so quickly,
and I really appreciate the work as an attorney
which you've done for the black community.
I do what I can.
I'm sure you've been briefed
on this cover letter for the proposal.
Yes, it's...
It's interesting.
But before we begin, I'd personally like to say
how sorry I am to hear about your loss.
I and the other representatives are working closely
with law enforcement in an effort
to better understand and abolish this...
stigma that they have about black people.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
However, I feel the understanding of police
and their fear is beyond rehabilitation, or the problem.
What I've outlined here is a systematic problem
with the police force.
And what's outlined in the document
are new ways of training police,
both in racial sensitivity, and in non-lethal weaponry.
With your background in the community,
we feel you are the perfect Representative
to present a bill on police reform.
While I do appreciate your thinking that highly of me,
I may not have that kind of pull
that you're foreseeing here.
You've gotten bills passed before
that have benefited black communities
and stood up against those that went against you.
My foresight is pretty clear.
Yes.
That's all small fish compared to...
Well, growth doesn't come from comfort zones.
You know that.
Okay.
I'll certainly be looking into it, Joe.
And I do appreciate you stopping by.
You know, as much as I want police reform,
I don't believe in it for a second.
I'm sorry?
We're not dumb enough to go it alone.
We don't have the money to pay for a lobbyist.
That's why we're here to ask for your help.
Well, if you're not receptive, and the proposal is an issue,
we'll be forced into Old Testament approaches.
You know there are 40 million blacks in America?
Not including multiracial.
And there are 34 million free black people
outside of prison in America,
85% of which support Black Lives Matter.
And after a census yesterday, 50% of those people believe
that the only means of change in this country
come through an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Now, I'm gonna strongly advise that you stop right there.
Do not incriminate yourself
simply because you're a little upset...
There are only two million
law enforcement individuals in this country.
You do the math.
That's a threat.
You're making a threat against a governmental organization!
Don't you think we know that?!
We know how we got into this position in the first place.
Who brought us here?
Release our brothers from prison, Lamar.
Give us police reform.
Because being a second-class citizen
just ain't cuttin' it anymore.
- Joe! - What about reparations?
Huh?
You're a politician.
What happened to 40 acres and a mule?
I don't know.
They got taken away after Abraham Lincoln
got assassinated, 'cause they didn't want
to see a nigga have shit.
Fuck a threat on the government.
This is a guarantee.
Now, you're upset.
And I understand that.
Losing someone will...
Yes, I am!
Of course I am!
Don't fucking bring up my brother.
Please don't.
All right?
Yeah, tragedy makes you act a little irrational.
But I'm not some uneducated idiot
just throwing around conspiracies and rhetoric.
You know who the law protects.
You know who made the laws.
You know how laws affect black people,
because you fought against the law.
Yes I did.
How many grams of weed does a nigga
need to have on him to get thrown into prison?
How many, Lamar?
42.6 grams.
42.6 grams!
That ain't shit!
How many young black men got written up
for sexual assault crimes until Lamar Ali came in,
started asking questions and getting DNA samples?
Joe, alright!
Now, I have fought, yes.
But I cannot write a proposal
that involves what it is that you're talk...
How do I know that you won't take up arms
against law enforcement if reform gets passed?
You don't.
Then I cannot in good faith
pitch this proposal up the chain of command.
How would that make me look, Joe?
All the work that I've done, all of it,
undone, discredited, thanks to this proposal
which by its very nature is terroristic.
I'm not asking, okay?
And this isn't about you.
They couldn't have slavery, so they gave us segregation.
Couldn't have that, so they gave us the war on crime.
We commit no crime, so they give us the war on drugs.
Give us crack and take our freedom.
It's all law and order, right?
Law and order where a citizen
can shoot a young black man for wearing a hoodie
because he feels threatened for his life,
then turn around and sell the murder weapon
for half-a-fucking-million dollars.
How does that make us look?!
You ever thought about that?!
I'm tired, Lamar.
I'm tired of it all.
And I bet you are too.
We all are.
But you can be one of our biggest allies
if you just fucking try.
♪ It seems like any time a black man opens his mouth ♪
♪ It's a problem ♪
♪ Gets pissed raises his voice or his fist ♪
♪ That's a problem ♪
Why the hostility toward the police?
When did all this develop?
Since the inception of America,
these laws aren't for black people.
Whoever heard of a "stand your ground"
to help the young, black civilian in baggy clothing?
When America goes into another country
and occupies that country and kills thousands
of their people, militant groups occur, they are created.
America has killed thousands,
hundreds of thousands of young black lives.
And Black Lives Matter is created in the same format.
It is a response to being colonized.
It is a response to being killed.
It's a response to being marginalized.
Are you advocating for terrorism?
I'm advocating for change.
Or else.
I didn't say that.
You did.
You're implying it.
Are you racist?
No, I'm not a racist.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I'm not talking about terroristic activities.
I'm talking about the preservation of black lives.
Yeah.
I spoke with Atlanta's chapter.
Good news?
Great news.
That makes...
27 cities for the regime.
Only 20 more to go.
The press you've done has helped.
Roshida...
Thank you.
Of course.
They made everything black ugly and evil.
Look in your dictionary and see
the synonyms of the word black.
We're in Stillwater's ear.
Dominic's gonna connect with some folks in San Jose.
After California, we're gonna hit up Rikers Island.
You're doing good work, D.
You know, that's what I do.
Hey, I'm 'bout to sit down with the fam.
We can chop it up later, though.
Alright, peace.
What y'all watching?
The Longest Walk.
How you doing?
I'm good.
You sure?
Okay.
Police, warrant!
Stay where you are!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up, hold up.
Please just hold up.
I said stay put!
Brother, just slow down.
I said stay put!
What are y'all doing?!
Shut the fuck up!
Get off of me!
Hey, get off my wife!
Get off my wife!
♪ I pledge my love to this United States of America ♪
♪ Land of my blood she's all that I've known ♪
♪ And I wouldn't trade this song for another one ♪
What's been...
the most defining experience you've had
with law enforcement or police in your lifetime?
The most defining moment you said?
Mm-hm.
Definitely when my stepmom was murdered by the police.
It seems like murder, anyway.
We don't know much about it.
We haven't been told much.
But so, basically I woke up to a call from my mom,
or my grandma, my dad, and a family friend.
And then they were like, "Don't go home."
Call us first before you go home.
So I'm like, okay, that's really weird.
Usually Justine, my stepmom
would have been one to call as well.
And so I was like, okay.
So I called them, and they're like, "Come over."
So I went to my family friend's house and...
my grandma was just like bawling,
and I had never really seen my grandma cry or anything.
And so I was like, "What's going on?"
And she couldn't even tell me.
She had to have a friend tell me.
And basically just, that morning I found out
that the police shot her and killed her.
And I literally thought that I was still dreaming,
'cause I had just woken up.
I was just like, "What do you mean?"
This innocent human being just shot for what reason?
So I drove home, and there were just neighbors
and journalists outside.
And I was like, where are the police?
Why is there no police around?
Why is there no caution tape?
Apparently they'd already cleaned off the sidewalk
and did all the stuff, because it happened that night.
So then I called the police and was like,
"So, give me some answers.
"What happened?"
You just called them.
Yeah, I called them, like, "All right, so what happened?
"Why is my stepmom dead, and you have no answers for me?
"What is this bullshit?"
And basically they're like, "Well, we'll have to send you
"to someone else to talk to them."
And I'm like, "Okay."
So then they did that, and they didn't answer,
and they wouldn't get back to me.
So basically I've heard nothing but silence.
Not an apology for like, you know,
whether the police were in fault or not,
an apology could be nice, or "How are you doing?"
You know?
Like checking up on the family
who lost someone to law enforcement.
My eyes are just open to more of the corruption.
I feel like that is in the...
Not necessarily but corruption but just...
I don't even know how to put it in words.
Just like, from everything that happened.
Like from them not even saying, "How are you doing?"
And doing the investigation right
and not having police investigate police.
Things like that.
How has it affected the rest of your family?
Well they're devastated.
Yeah, I don't even...
There's just so much...
It's just weird when someone's around for 40 years
and then they're just off the planet, just by one second.
Yeah.
So it's just very confusing.
It felt like I was waking up in a nightmare for a long time.
♪ What's going on within this nation ♪
♪ We look around things steady changing ♪
♪ Another brother died today ♪
♪ Oh things have got to change ♪
♪ So don't you give up hope ♪
♪ It's life it's worth the fight ♪
♪ Keep your head to the sky ♪
♪ It's gonna be alright ♪
♪ Oh my God have mercy ♪
♪ Oh my God have mercy on me ♪
These cops is ruthless.
Don't make no sense.
I think I need to sit down.
All right, I'm gonna get this chair for auntie.
♪ Only a moment before destruction ♪
♪ It seems like the norm today ♪
♪ It seems like there's no place safe ♪
♪ We gotta pull together band together ♪
♪ United we stand so let's stand together ♪
♪ We can fight hand in hand together ♪
♪ We can make the change ♪
♪ Oh my God have mercy ♪
♪ Oh my God have mercy on me ♪
♪ God have mercy ♪
♪ Oh my God have mercy on me ♪
♪ God have mercy ♪
My oldest used to help me around the house
when his brothers and sisters were being stubborn.
I feel partly responsible for all the mess the police did.
If I don't help, I'm no better than they are.
Oh, auntie, no.
No, no, come here.
Come here.
Joe's gonna wake up.
He's a fool, you know that.
He's gonna wake up.
Cole is gone!
And now Joe...
No.
No, auntie, Joe's gonna wake up.
I promise you that.
If he doesn't I'll...
go to the hospital and slap him upside his head
and make him open his eyes.
I promise you.
He ain't going nowhere.
That man ain't going nowhere.
God, please!
Please!
Save my son!
Auntie, listen.
He's gonna wake up.
Watch.
♪ Oh my God have mercy on me ♪
♪ I'm just a blackbird in the white sky ♪
♪ But whenever they see me ♪
♪ They just see a fat turd when they ride by ♪
♪ Like we pieces of shit ♪
♪ But fuck what you last heard ♪
♪ Nigga I am high ♪
♪ You ain't makin' no sense ♪
♪ But I'll get the last word ♪
The fuck?
In case the feds are listening.
Jesus!
We have to take precaution.
Yeah-fucking-right.
When did this become Federal?
Police the only ones speculating.
Caution is never a bad thing.
So what did you want to talk about?
This!
I don't even know what to do anymore.
But I do know is I don't want to be looking over my back
every 10 minutes, listening to police scanners and shit.
I feel like I'm Snowden.
No.
No what?
I'm saying no.
No to what, Roshida?
What did you think was gonna happen?
This isn't some retreat where we get together
as black people and sing campfire songs.
I'm not laughing!
And I'm not joking!
Joe's in a coma!
And?
And...
And?!
Are you fucking kidding me?
He was the leader of this whole shit!
Joe told me and I'm sure he told you too.
If anything happens, we keep the train moving forward.
I've 34 chapters on deck.
That's Philly, that's Chicago, that's Detroit.
34 major cities with thousands of fighters behind us.
Do you want the blood of people's kids on your hands?
I don't want that shit!
Kill a hundred to save a thousand.
I'm sure you've heard of that.
Yeah, but I don't agree with it.
I know his mom personally.
A mother who lost children.
Children, Roshida!
You know what that's like?
I lost a brother.
And I have the police to thank for that.
We all got stories, Derek.
Point is to not make any more bad ones.
Fuck.
Minneapolis police arrested seven members
of the group Black Lives Matter
believed to be planning terrorist attacks.
Officials say their searches
did not turn up any explosives or...
Get my lawyer on the phone please.
- Right away. - But the federal prosecutor
in charge says much more needs to be
discovered to get to the bottom
of what has taken place.
Johnnie.
Have you seen today's news by chance?
The attorney called.
Johnnie says there's a really good chance
that Joe will get bail after his release from the hospital.
I think the pictures they took
really help our case for a suit.
Selma, the money can pay for the damages
the cops did to the house.
Joseph's never gonna stop.
Would you leave him?
What?
I mean, if it made him stop, would you leave him?
No.
Joe is still a good man.
And he's my son!
And he's laying in a hospital room right now,
and we don't know if he's coming back!
Hello?
Selma.
Joe's awake.
Oh, thank God!
Thank God!
I got an eight-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son.
I should never have to be nervous
when a cop gets behind me, yo.
True.
Period.
What you said earlier,
you said you were raised by educated black people
that informed you that, look for the badge number.
Absolutely.
- You can report them. - My question to you is,
how do you feel that your parents had to tell you that?
And that somebody told them that,
that this information was passed on,
what does that tell you?
That speaks volumes to me.
The fact that they even were knowledgeable enough
to have to tell me that and...
They probably went through situations themselves
where they, okay, like, you may need to report an officer
for something that's not right ethically or whatever it is.
You know what I mean?
That, in hindsight, looking back on it, that fucks me up.
Why did my momma just tell me that
when I was 14, 13 years old and shit?
It's wrong.
Does it make you feel like
it's been going on for a long time?
A very long time, absolutely.
I mean, but now I'm a little more,
I'm older myself and I'm educated.
I've seen...
I know my history, I know what's going on in America
and what's been going on, and all the injustices
that's been going on.
Do you think things are going to change
now that they're in the spotlight
and white people are seeing the injustice that's happening?
I think that all depends on who's at the helms of...
making changes in our communities,
in our society, period, in general.
I feel like, as long as...
I can't just specifically point my fingers
at the Republican Party or, you know what I mean,
whoever else is in charge right now.
But I feel like there has to be a,
for lack of better words, changing of the guards
for people to really...
for a change to actually happen.
That's how I feel like because nothing's changing right now.
There's cops still getting away with murder
on innocent, young, unarmed black men.
And there's people getting killed every day,
and there's all type of social injustices
happening all the time.
Come in.
Johnnie sent over the names of the police
involved on the Grant residence.
Excellent.
Could you leave those on the desk, would you?
Yeah.
And send him a gift basket.
Oh, could you make sure that this gets in the mail today?
Yes.
Thank you, Liz.
Mom's yelling at me, and I got frickin' whole in my chest.
She's worried about you.
I know.
And so am I.
I know.
Hey, I know.
I don't think you do.
I can't undo what's been done.
Believe me, if I could go back a year,
I would tell Cole to stay home.
But I can't.
All right?
I can't.
Your mom says I should leave you.
To get you to stop.
But you'll stop if I asked you to.
Wouldn't you?
I'm not gonna ask you to do that.
We can't be broken by devils in blue suits, can we?
Auntie's a bit shaken up, but she'll be alright though.
[Georgina] I'll check on her
Okay, cool.
Thank you.
What's up, man?
Crazy, right?
Yeah, this shit is crazy as hell, man.
Guess God's looking out for me.
Indeed.
All the reason to keep going.
What?
D, We've come so far.
Are you serious?
We're gonna make a ton of money after this settlement.
All the more reason to fund the new BLM business plan.
I can't believe...
Nigga, you almost died!
But I didn't.
You're still fucked up, man!
I'll heal.
The cops are still onto you.
They ain't gonna do shit
when Johnnie ties 'em up in red tape.
Joe.
Like I told you before, man...
you're all I got.
You're like a brother to me.
This shit isn't working.
Why not?
For all the reasons I just told you.
How many prisons you connect with?
Not enough to keep up with this bullshit.
That's not a number.
I don't know.
Two.
Maybe three.
Two, maybe three?
Yeah.
Hundred?
About that.
Okay.
How many prisons are there?
Nigga, I'm not about to get in this conversation with you.
Look at your chest, man!
Humor me, as in injured black man
who just got shot by the cops.
Humor me.
Depends on how you count 'em.
Every state's got a state penitentiary.
Then you got county, federal,
all the independent prisons in-between.
So about four, maybe five thousand.
Damn.
That's more prisons than colleges in the country.
Prisons probably make more money.
See, that's why we gotta stay in this.
It would be ridiculous not to.
The more I learn about the U.S., the sicker I get.
Joe.
Your momma loves you.
Got yourself a good woman.
Don't let your emotion dictate your judgment, man.
Did I just hear you right?
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard you say.
Yeah, okay.
I'm not in this for myself.
With or without you, with or without me,
this thing's gonna continue.
That's why I'm in it.
And I hope that you wouldn't have me go it alone.
Let me think about it.
I'm not gonna force you to do anything
you don't want to do.
I'm gonna let you get some rest, homie.
- All right. - All right?
Hey, while you're at it,
could you grab that journal over there for me?
What, you writing a book?
Maybe I took your advice.
Yeah, I wish you'd take it now.
Time just moves so quick and I...
I don't know if I would have gone through it all
had I come here sooner.
You know, and I...
I miss you.
I miss you so much.
And your death won't be in vain.
I won't let it.
Some people blame black people
when they try to impose that accountability on police
with their own hands.
Do you kinda blame certain black people
for maybe just kinda losing it?
No.
Backed into a corner for so long.
Well, the thing is is it's kinda like, you know,
let's say someone slap you, you tell them stop.
They slap you again, you like, aight, you better stop.
Then they slap you again.
Well, stop don't work.
I'm goin' slap the fuck out you.
♪ If we agree to disagree then there's no right or wrong ♪
♪ You just see it how you see it from what side you on ♪
D, it's been a while.
It has.
Can we talk?
There's nothing I can say to talk you out of it, huh?
Nah.
We talked enough.
What are you doing?
Somebody's gotta protect you, somebody you can trust.
So how's this going down?
Well...
we protest.
Word.
♪ Young black boy I'm a king around here. ♪
♪ Stand tall black Yao Ming around here ♪
♪ Everything's not what it seems round here ♪
♪ Y'all play dirty you acting like it's clean round here. ♪
♪ Yeah I got hope ♪
♪ Yeah I'm goin' make it ♪
♪ Yeah I got a dream ♪
♪ You bet I'm goin' chase it ♪
♪ Imagine Dr. King if I was with him on that balcony ♪
♪ I'll make sure he had calvary ready for war ♪
♪ Went and made us slaves ♪
♪ after you done learned from the Moors ♪
♪ Y'all was back of woods and went to Africa for resource ♪
♪ Though you cropped that out the picture ♪
♪ Open up the brain does it remain an enigma ♪
♪ I wonder when the same dame questions her nascent. ♪
♪ But that's just life ♪
♪ I'm tired of all these double-standards ♪
♪ I done asked them twice for real ♪
♪ But tell them that the end is near ♪
♪ We 'bout to start a revolution I hope you in fear ♪
♪ Young black boy what you doin' round here huh ♪
♪ Go back to the ghetto ♪
♪ What you doin' young fellow ♪
♪ Young black boy what you doin' round here huh ♪
♪ Go back to the ghetto ♪
♪ What you doin' young fellow ♪
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