1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:34,385 --> 00:01:37,639 Youth gangs in the urban slums across this country are a 4 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,725 constant of life for the ghetto poor. 5 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,322 You know, you have to look at where these kids come 6 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:57,283 from, why they do the things they do. 7 00:01:57,325 --> 00:02:00,286 You know, you just don't-- I-- I don't know know how I could get 8 00:02:00,328 --> 00:02:03,331 my point across, but you just don't get up in the morning and 9 00:02:03,373 --> 00:02:06,960 say, "This is what I'm gonna do with my life: I'm gonna land up 10 00:02:07,001 --> 00:02:08,336 in jail for the rest of my life. 11 00:02:08,378 --> 00:02:09,963 I'm gonna shoot-up drugs. 12 00:02:10,004 --> 00:02:12,173 No, I think I'll join a gang." 13 00:02:12,215 --> 00:02:17,220 smooth funky music 14 00:02:20,598 --> 00:02:21,391 Camera. 15 00:02:22,851 --> 00:02:24,352 My name is Blakie. 16 00:02:25,562 --> 00:02:26,980 - My name is Blackie-- - Try again. 17 00:02:27,856 --> 00:02:29,357 My name is Blackie. 18 00:02:29,399 --> 00:02:31,192 I was President of all Savage Skulls, 19 00:02:31,234 --> 00:02:34,362 which we started in 1969. 20 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:37,949 Uh, this is 16. 21 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:39,159 I'm Lorine. 22 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:40,160 I'm Blackie's wife. 23 00:02:40,201 --> 00:02:41,202 - Start again. - That's what you want? 24 00:02:41,244 --> 00:02:42,370 Yeah. 25 00:02:42,412 --> 00:02:44,330 When I became the Prez's woman, 26 00:02:44,372 --> 00:02:47,709 then I automatically became what they used to call "the 27 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:50,545 First Lady." 28 00:02:50,587 --> 00:02:54,174 A lot of people will say, "She wasn't a Skull 'cause she never 29 00:02:54,215 --> 00:02:56,342 wore patches." 30 00:02:56,384 --> 00:02:59,387 But I say to you: I was, 31 00:02:59,429 --> 00:03:04,184 because I spent a whole lifetime... 32 00:03:04,225 --> 00:03:06,186 doing... 33 00:03:06,227 --> 00:03:08,354 for them what needed to be done. 34 00:03:08,396 --> 00:03:09,731 Motherfucka! 35 00:03:09,772 --> 00:03:12,400 I was in rumbles, I got arrested, 36 00:03:12,442 --> 00:03:16,029 I did some time in the name of the club. 37 00:03:16,070 --> 00:03:18,406 So if that don't make me a member, 38 00:03:18,448 --> 00:03:21,242 I don't know what the fuck does. 39 00:03:21,284 --> 00:03:23,786 Yeah, Black Benjy, President of the Savage Nomads. 40 00:03:23,828 --> 00:03:26,456 Blackie was a very nasty individual. 41 00:03:26,497 --> 00:03:29,417 I'm not that sure that he's not still nasty if he wanted to be. 42 00:03:29,459 --> 00:03:33,046 These films that have been made about gangs, 43 00:03:33,087 --> 00:03:34,631 I've been in these films, and yes, 44 00:03:34,672 --> 00:03:39,385 I have spoken, but there's so much more. 45 00:03:39,427 --> 00:03:43,765 The part that women played, that's not shown. 46 00:03:43,806 --> 00:03:47,435 And it's really us -- the women -- that held it down. 47 00:04:05,495 --> 00:04:07,455 Hi! 48 00:04:07,497 --> 00:04:09,415 Hi! 49 00:04:09,457 --> 00:04:11,042 Hi, Mama! 50 00:04:11,084 --> 00:04:12,627 Hey! 51 00:04:16,965 --> 00:04:18,341 Listen, but didn't I tell you the other day... 52 00:04:23,888 --> 00:04:25,473 - Don't get a photo! - No, take it out! 53 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:27,141 Why you think my name is "Jay-J?" 54 00:04:29,185 --> 00:04:33,314 I am so grateful that you guys came over, 55 00:04:33,356 --> 00:04:36,401 and I'm so grateful that we are still together, 56 00:04:36,442 --> 00:04:40,822 and I am so grateful that I'm still here to enjoy the presence 57 00:04:40,863 --> 00:04:43,616 of my sisters, 'cause we are more than just friends. 58 00:04:43,658 --> 00:04:44,826 Mm-hm. 59 00:04:44,867 --> 00:04:46,411 Absolutely. Amen! 60 00:04:46,452 --> 00:04:47,620 Me, when I first met you, 61 00:04:47,662 --> 00:04:49,080 I was like 12. 62 00:04:49,122 --> 00:04:51,833 For me, you guys became my family and became everything to 63 00:04:51,874 --> 00:04:55,336 me because I didn't know what family was. 64 00:04:55,461 --> 00:04:57,463 I was a young Skull. 65 00:04:57,505 --> 00:04:59,924 Lorine was... 66 00:04:59,966 --> 00:05:02,510 She was a Skull! 67 00:05:02,552 --> 00:05:06,306 So to be honest with you, I was scared to talk to Lorine. 68 00:05:06,347 --> 00:05:07,515 A lot of people was! 69 00:05:07,557 --> 00:05:08,683 Listen! 70 00:05:08,725 --> 00:05:09,851 You was unapproachable! 71 00:05:09,892 --> 00:05:11,102 We used to call her "Mama Lorine." 72 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:12,478 - Everybody. - She's still unapproachable! 73 00:05:14,897 --> 00:05:16,149 There were different ways that women got 74 00:05:16,190 --> 00:05:17,692 into gangs. 75 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:21,529 Some of them jumped in, meaning you went through the Apache 76 00:05:21,571 --> 00:05:23,781 Line. 77 00:05:25,408 --> 00:05:27,910 Some of them because they started going out with one of 78 00:05:27,952 --> 00:05:29,912 the gang members. 79 00:05:29,954 --> 00:05:32,540 It's also important that I mention that some of them were 80 00:05:32,582 --> 00:05:34,375 sexed in. 81 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:38,087 That part, it's-- it's-- it's never mentioned, 82 00:05:38,129 --> 00:05:39,881 but it did happen. 83 00:05:39,922 --> 00:05:42,508 upbeat jazzy music 84 00:05:46,721 --> 00:05:51,309 The First Division, all the women there fought like dudes. 85 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:54,520 How many here, back in the days when we were growing up, 86 00:05:54,562 --> 00:05:56,564 carried guns? Could you raise your hand? 87 00:05:58,232 --> 00:05:59,150 Okay, Millie. 88 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:00,568 I'm not admitting to nothin'! 89 00:06:00,610 --> 00:06:02,195 Millie, raise that hand. 90 00:06:02,236 --> 00:06:04,572 I used to love them; I loved that feeling of... 91 00:06:04,614 --> 00:06:07,158 No, I hated them; I was very afraid of them. 92 00:06:08,409 --> 00:06:10,745 But I had to carry them because, you know, 93 00:06:10,787 --> 00:06:13,915 I was one of the girls, and there was no female cops at that 94 00:06:13,956 --> 00:06:15,541 time to be checking on us. 95 00:06:15,583 --> 00:06:16,751 They'd try and you'd say, 96 00:06:16,793 --> 00:06:17,919 "Oh, hold up, hold up, I just came to by a--" 97 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,087 Yeah. 98 00:06:19,128 --> 00:06:20,380 "A container of milk, do not touch me." 99 00:06:20,421 --> 00:06:21,422 Yeah. 100 00:06:21,464 --> 00:06:22,757 "Do not touch me." And I was packed! 101 00:06:22,799 --> 00:06:23,925 Yup, yup! 102 00:06:23,966 --> 00:06:24,926 Exactly. 103 00:06:24,967 --> 00:06:26,427 I was fully-loaded. 104 00:06:26,469 --> 00:06:27,428 I'm like, "Don't--" 105 00:06:27,470 --> 00:06:30,264 Exactly. 106 00:06:30,515 --> 00:06:32,600 We look at the Skulls and what do we have? 107 00:06:32,642 --> 00:06:34,227 We've got guys and they're sitting around. 108 00:06:34,268 --> 00:06:35,520 They think they're outlaws. 109 00:06:35,561 --> 00:06:37,605 I think they're bums. 110 00:06:37,647 --> 00:06:40,942 It's a well-known fact that they pass the gun to the woman. 111 00:06:40,983 --> 00:06:43,528 Woman's not gonna-- you know, she's not gonna get touched. 112 00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:46,739 Most of the gang women, they'd have their mouth, 113 00:06:46,781 --> 00:06:48,157 they'd sound off. 114 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:49,951 Matter of fact, they figured they were somewhat-- they could 115 00:06:49,992 --> 00:06:51,744 say a lot of stuff because they're not gonna have any 116 00:06:51,786 --> 00:06:54,539 repercussions because you're obviously not gonna take it out 117 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:55,748 on a woman. 118 00:06:55,790 --> 00:06:57,583 You couldn't pat me down. 119 00:06:57,625 --> 00:06:59,168 We weren't completely in the dark. 120 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:00,378 No. 121 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:01,754 Of course, you were my enemy -- all of you. 122 00:07:01,796 --> 00:07:04,590 The 41st-- Fort Apache, that was our enemy because we're gang 123 00:07:04,632 --> 00:07:06,968 members, we're in the streets, you know. 124 00:07:07,009 --> 00:07:07,510 We had our differences. 125 00:07:07,510 --> 00:07:10,221 Yeah, let's just put it like that. 126 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:11,722 You know what I oughta do? 127 00:07:11,764 --> 00:07:13,224 I oughta take this fucking bike and shove it up your ass. 128 00:07:13,266 --> 00:07:14,642 They always be checking on something, 129 00:07:14,684 --> 00:07:15,726 you know? 130 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:16,978 They always be checking on something. 131 00:07:17,019 --> 00:07:18,646 When I started hanging out with the Savage 132 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:20,815 Skulls, we had a lot of stuff going on. 133 00:07:20,857 --> 00:07:24,444 We came from just different types of dysfunction -- 134 00:07:24,485 --> 00:07:27,238 dysfunctional families. 135 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,241 My mom always told me, "You're gonna be a bitch 'cause it was a 136 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,826 bitch giving birth to you. 137 00:07:31,868 --> 00:07:36,831 smooth lounge music 138 00:07:39,459 --> 00:07:43,337 I always say I was born with gangsterism in my blood. 139 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:49,010 My mom was a Dragon and one of her brothers was a Dragon, 140 00:07:49,051 --> 00:07:52,597 and then I had an uncle that was a Viceroy. 141 00:07:52,638 --> 00:07:55,016 My mom was a divorcee... 142 00:07:55,057 --> 00:07:59,020 in 1955, which is not a good thing. 143 00:07:59,061 --> 00:08:03,691 Then, she got pregnant of me, so I'm out of wedlock. 144 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:07,653 My father, I have never met him, I don't have a picture. 145 00:08:07,695 --> 00:08:12,492 As the story goes, my mother and father went to see a movie that 146 00:08:13,576 --> 00:08:16,120 was pornographic. 147 00:08:16,162 --> 00:08:20,708 And the actress in the movie, her name was "Lorine." 148 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:22,710 And so they thought it was a beautiful name, 149 00:08:22,752 --> 00:08:24,504 and hence... 150 00:08:24,545 --> 00:08:26,923 that's my name. 151 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:31,552 I was born in the barrio, right in the heart of East Harlem -- 152 00:08:32,178 --> 00:08:36,015 103rd Street between Lexington and Park. 153 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:43,481 And my block, it was familia. 154 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:48,528 You'd leave your doors open, everybody knew everybody. 155 00:08:48,569 --> 00:08:53,491 We had a funeral home across the street from where I lived. 156 00:08:53,533 --> 00:08:56,702 eerie ambient music 157 00:09:04,168 --> 00:09:08,297 This was a playground for me and my friends. 158 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:15,096 We used to play hide and seek. 159 00:09:15,137 --> 00:09:17,348 We found the coffins, like, so exciting, 160 00:09:17,390 --> 00:09:19,934 so beautiful. 161 00:09:19,976 --> 00:09:24,981 When it got too scary, we'd just... 162 00:09:25,648 --> 00:09:28,776 My preoccupation with death started when I 163 00:09:28,818 --> 00:09:32,572 started seeing the spirits at the Ortiz Funeral Home. 164 00:09:32,613 --> 00:09:36,284 The first spirit I saw was the old lady. 165 00:09:36,325 --> 00:09:38,869 And she was standing by a coffin, 166 00:09:38,911 --> 00:09:41,872 right back here. 167 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:49,130 I remember as a kid that I had premonitions; 168 00:09:49,171 --> 00:09:53,134 I would tell my mom things about people. 169 00:09:53,175 --> 00:09:55,720 There was a older woman that lived in my building named 170 00:09:55,761 --> 00:09:57,138 Josefina. 171 00:09:57,179 --> 00:10:02,184 I told my mom that I had a dream that I was at her funeral. 172 00:10:03,394 --> 00:10:08,441 And she died a couple of days later. 173 00:10:09,859 --> 00:10:13,362 My mom thought something was not right with me because of all 174 00:10:13,404 --> 00:10:16,782 these dreams that I was having and all these things that were 175 00:10:16,824 --> 00:10:20,411 coming out of my mouth, but after everything came out that 176 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:25,166 there was nothing wrong with my brain and how it works, 177 00:10:25,207 --> 00:10:30,254 that's when I started working what's called "Mesa Blanca.".. 178 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:34,008 which is, you know, being a spiritualist. 179 00:10:34,050 --> 00:10:37,845 African percussion 180 00:10:37,887 --> 00:10:39,847 You can grab the African one. 181 00:10:39,889 --> 00:10:42,808 - I like that one. - I know. 182 00:10:42,850 --> 00:10:44,477 Put one arm down. 183 00:10:53,736 --> 00:10:57,907 I have godchildren in my religion in Santeria. 184 00:11:00,743 --> 00:11:03,245 But I have all sorts of godchildren. 185 00:11:03,287 --> 00:11:04,747 Good, I heard you got something new, right? 186 00:11:04,789 --> 00:11:06,874 People who come that are not understood, 187 00:11:06,916 --> 00:11:09,710 whether it's by their spouse, their children, 188 00:11:09,752 --> 00:11:11,504 you know, their club... 189 00:11:11,545 --> 00:11:13,714 can talk to me. 190 00:11:30,773 --> 00:11:32,733 And then, I have a lot of people who know me from 191 00:11:32,775 --> 00:11:35,403 my time in the streets and know my receipts, 192 00:11:35,444 --> 00:11:38,406 know that I have them, know my reputation. 193 00:11:41,909 --> 00:11:46,914 sparse ambient music 194 00:11:57,550 --> 00:12:01,554 Because I was the oldest girl, I had to iron my brothers' clothes 195 00:12:01,595 --> 00:12:02,555 for school. 196 00:12:02,596 --> 00:12:04,557 I also had to clean, cook. 197 00:12:04,598 --> 00:12:06,934 I had to take care of my brothers. 198 00:12:06,976 --> 00:12:10,938 My oldest brother, they called him "Waxy." 199 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:15,943 I had another brother; his name is Randy. 200 00:12:15,985 --> 00:12:18,571 We slept on a Castro Convertible, 201 00:12:18,612 --> 00:12:22,783 which was a sofa couch, and in that couch slept my brothers, 202 00:12:22,825 --> 00:12:25,786 my two younger sisters and myself, 203 00:12:25,828 --> 00:12:28,414 and a Great Dane. 204 00:12:28,456 --> 00:12:31,959 My mom went to nursing school, and she dropped out in order to 205 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:33,794 raise us. 206 00:12:36,797 --> 00:12:38,591 It was my mother's birthday. 207 00:12:38,632 --> 00:12:43,220 My sisters wanted to bake a cake for her. 208 00:12:43,471 --> 00:12:45,931 We baked a cake and we frosted it, 209 00:12:45,973 --> 00:12:48,601 and I dressed my sisters. 210 00:12:48,642 --> 00:12:52,772 smooth Spanish music 211 00:12:52,813 --> 00:12:55,566 My mom was at the club on 106th Street and Lexington; 212 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:57,985 it was called Midnight's Club. 213 00:12:58,027 --> 00:12:59,612 She was a drinker. 214 00:12:59,653 --> 00:13:01,989 She liked to party. 215 00:13:02,031 --> 00:13:05,159 So I come in with my two little sisters and I tell her, 216 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:07,953 "Ma, happy birthday, we made you a cake!" 217 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:10,831 So she turned around... 218 00:13:10,873 --> 00:13:13,834 and she said, "What the fuck are you doing here?" 219 00:13:13,876 --> 00:13:15,169 And she just... 220 00:13:15,211 --> 00:13:17,630 put her hand in the cake and then just... 221 00:13:17,671 --> 00:13:19,632 slapped it. 222 00:13:24,929 --> 00:13:29,683 Walking back, my sisters were crying. 223 00:13:29,725 --> 00:13:33,020 We went home and I sang to my sisters until they went to 224 00:13:33,062 --> 00:13:34,855 sleep. 225 00:13:40,027 --> 00:13:44,990 I was at a school down by the 80s in Manhattan. 226 00:13:45,032 --> 00:13:48,369 My brother and I were the only Latinos there. 227 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:52,206 dreamy harp 228 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:55,835 I would take, like, a thick strand of my hair, 229 00:13:55,876 --> 00:13:58,838 and I would wet it, just to let it hang on my face so I could be 230 00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:02,007 able to do this, like all the white girls in the class. 231 00:14:02,049 --> 00:14:03,467 They would, you know, just... 232 00:14:03,509 --> 00:14:05,052 And I wanted to do that too. 233 00:14:05,094 --> 00:14:08,013 Like, I thought doing that would make me part of them, 234 00:14:08,055 --> 00:14:10,224 because I was so... 235 00:14:10,266 --> 00:14:14,895 ostracized, I was so put aside by all of them. 236 00:14:14,937 --> 00:14:18,065 There was a teacher who told me I would never be anybody. 237 00:14:18,107 --> 00:14:21,902 She said, "You'll never contribute anything to society." 238 00:14:21,944 --> 00:14:24,446 But actually, I was a very smart student. 239 00:14:24,488 --> 00:14:29,243 I aced all my exams. 240 00:14:29,285 --> 00:14:32,913 There was a dean, Mr. Torres. 241 00:14:32,955 --> 00:14:34,540 He saw something in me. 242 00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:39,044 He said I had a gift and that he knew that I would do very well 243 00:14:39,086 --> 00:14:41,422 in a private school up in Ossning, 244 00:14:41,463 --> 00:14:44,633 New York, and there was a scholarship. 245 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:48,095 So we had meetings with my mom and myself. 246 00:14:48,137 --> 00:14:50,890 Papers were signed, everything was set. 247 00:14:50,931 --> 00:14:54,685 tender piano music 248 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:59,064 When school finished and they came over to talk to my mom to 249 00:14:59,106 --> 00:15:03,110 get the final-- final papers and what have you, 250 00:15:03,152 --> 00:15:06,280 my mother told them no, that they couldn't take me because 251 00:15:06,322 --> 00:15:09,450 she needed me because she was pregnant and she needed me to 252 00:15:09,491 --> 00:15:12,953 help her with this baby. 253 00:15:13,162 --> 00:15:17,291 I did have dreams and goals, and I felt she had fucked it up for 254 00:15:17,333 --> 00:15:20,920 me, so, you know, my way of getting back at her was not 255 00:15:20,961 --> 00:15:22,963 going to school. 256 00:15:23,005 --> 00:15:25,966 I quit school in the seventh grade. 257 00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:28,761 I just went into the streets; the streets became my home. 258 00:15:28,802 --> 00:15:32,973 cool jazzy music 259 00:15:33,015 --> 00:15:36,268 I joined a gang, and that was on 102nd Street. 260 00:15:36,310 --> 00:15:40,272 They were called The Demons and I became a Demon Deb. 261 00:15:40,314 --> 00:15:43,275 This was around that time I started cutting myself. 262 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:48,906 I knew that every time I cut myself and I saw blood and it 263 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:51,533 came out, I felt good. 264 00:15:54,161 --> 00:15:58,165 So my mom was on welfare, and the welfare checks that 265 00:15:58,207 --> 00:16:00,501 were supposed to... 266 00:16:00,542 --> 00:16:05,756 pay the rent came in, and they were cashed by someone else... 267 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:09,593 in the family, and so we were evicted. 268 00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:14,181 My stepfather, his family lived in the Bronx. 269 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:17,351 I landed up on 149th Street and Southern Boulevard. 270 00:16:25,401 --> 00:16:29,571 When I stepped off that train and I saw the streets -- how 271 00:16:29,613 --> 00:16:32,574 dirty they were... 272 00:16:32,616 --> 00:16:34,410 I cursed my mother. 273 00:16:34,451 --> 00:16:37,579 I cursed her for bringing us to the Bronx. 274 00:16:37,621 --> 00:16:39,373 I hated it. 275 00:16:50,384 --> 00:16:53,345 A minority group member in the South Bronx... 276 00:16:53,387 --> 00:16:57,182 at 15 to 18 years old, had a better chance of being killed in 277 00:16:57,224 --> 00:16:59,560 the Bronx than they did a combat unit in Vietnam. 278 00:16:59,601 --> 00:17:00,644 Yeah. 279 00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:03,856 And that's how bad it was at times. 280 00:17:08,068 --> 00:17:10,237 When I was in the gangs in East Harlem, 281 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:13,073 we had silk jackets. 282 00:17:14,616 --> 00:17:19,246 When I came to the Bronx, they had cut-off jean jackets, 283 00:17:19,288 --> 00:17:23,250 long hair, pants that looked like they weren't washed, 284 00:17:23,292 --> 00:17:25,419 motorcycle boots. 285 00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:27,588 It was like a culture shock to me. 286 00:17:27,629 --> 00:17:31,091 It was like, "What the fuck is this?" 287 00:17:31,341 --> 00:17:33,844 The first guys I met were in the Savage Skulls; 288 00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:35,888 they lived in my building. 289 00:17:35,929 --> 00:17:38,599 You don't step on my toe, I don't step on your toe. 290 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,392 We go outside, we do our thing, we come back here, 291 00:17:40,434 --> 00:17:41,185 and we party. 292 00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:43,645 Whoo! 293 00:17:44,688 --> 00:17:47,274 funky music playing in club 294 00:17:47,316 --> 00:17:49,651 We became really good friends. 295 00:17:49,693 --> 00:17:54,281 They really took me in as a sister. 296 00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:56,200 And then my brothers started hanging out with them and my 297 00:17:56,241 --> 00:17:58,035 brother's became Skulls. 298 00:17:58,077 --> 00:18:01,080 upbeat funky music 299 00:18:22,142 --> 00:18:23,477 I can't with this bitch! 300 00:18:27,689 --> 00:18:29,108 When I came to the club, 301 00:18:29,149 --> 00:18:31,276 I became the caretaker. 302 00:18:31,318 --> 00:18:34,321 Like, I was the one that went to the restaurant when they were 303 00:18:34,363 --> 00:18:38,242 closing and take all the food that would have been going into 304 00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:40,035 the garbage. 305 00:18:40,077 --> 00:18:42,454 I'd take that back to the club and everybody ate. 306 00:18:42,496 --> 00:18:45,290 I made sure everybody ate. 307 00:18:53,924 --> 00:18:55,300 Buildings were burning. 308 00:18:55,342 --> 00:18:56,927 I mean, there was buildings that were empty 'cause they had been 309 00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:59,513 burned. 310 00:19:00,013 --> 00:19:03,892 Normally, it'd be the landlord or owner of the building... 311 00:19:03,934 --> 00:19:05,686 who wanna try to get out of the building and you'd realize you 312 00:19:05,727 --> 00:19:08,313 can't get any money out of it, so what he does is he tries to 313 00:19:08,355 --> 00:19:10,107 collect on his insurance. 314 00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:12,901 Well, I remember some of the landlords would invite you in, 315 00:19:12,943 --> 00:19:13,694 all right? 316 00:19:13,735 --> 00:19:14,987 And-- not you particularly but-- 317 00:19:15,028 --> 00:19:16,321 Yeah, the gangs. 318 00:19:16,363 --> 00:19:18,157 A gang would be invited in... 319 00:19:18,198 --> 00:19:19,783 you take over and drive the rest of the tenants out. 320 00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:21,368 That's right, they did that too. 321 00:19:21,410 --> 00:19:22,327 And then once you did that, sometimes, 322 00:19:22,369 --> 00:19:23,370 the gang turned around and said, "Nah, 323 00:19:23,412 --> 00:19:24,329 I'm not gonna leave." 324 00:19:24,371 --> 00:19:27,040 And now he has another problem. 325 00:19:27,541 --> 00:19:29,376 I think a lot of them would like to work. 326 00:19:29,418 --> 00:19:32,171 A lot of the gang members in the South Bronx -- or anywhere in 327 00:19:32,212 --> 00:19:35,549 New York City -- would like to work, 328 00:19:35,591 --> 00:19:38,135 but there's no jobs. 329 00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,094 I have to admit, you know, 330 00:19:39,136 --> 00:19:40,929 I was part of arson. 331 00:19:40,971 --> 00:19:42,097 I was part of it. 332 00:19:42,139 --> 00:19:43,307 You're living in the streets, you know, 333 00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:45,475 you're living in the club of a gang. 334 00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:46,935 You wanna eat? 335 00:19:46,977 --> 00:19:48,353 You wanna drink beer? 336 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:49,730 The landlord comes with $300. 337 00:19:49,771 --> 00:19:51,356 That's a lot of money at the time. 338 00:19:51,398 --> 00:19:52,649 Yup. 339 00:19:52,691 --> 00:19:54,359 Did we know we were destroying our community? 340 00:19:54,401 --> 00:19:55,360 - No! - No! 341 00:19:55,402 --> 00:19:56,737 'Cause it seemed natural. 342 00:19:56,778 --> 00:19:58,155 - Right. - It seemed normal. 343 00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:00,532 It was so normal, I was waiting for my building to burn down. 344 00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:02,159 - Yeah! 345 00:20:11,251 --> 00:20:15,964 I think I was 12 or 13. 346 00:20:16,006 --> 00:20:18,175 Because I had rheumatic heart disease, 347 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:21,011 the doctors were talking about surgery. 348 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:24,389 ominous ambient music 349 00:20:24,431 --> 00:20:27,226 I was in a pediatric ward. 350 00:20:27,267 --> 00:20:31,605 It was my first real experience with lots of death. 351 00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:34,274 Almost every day, a child was dying. 352 00:20:37,653 --> 00:20:40,405 One day, I was awoken by somebody. 353 00:20:40,447 --> 00:20:42,783 It was a priest. 354 00:20:42,824 --> 00:20:46,620 He prayed, and he told me, "You're not gonna die. 355 00:20:46,662 --> 00:20:49,414 And you're not gonna need the surgery." 356 00:20:49,456 --> 00:20:51,458 I told my mom when she came to visit me. 357 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,043 I told her, "Mommy, I'm not gonna die, 358 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:54,628 don't worry about it. 359 00:20:54,670 --> 00:20:56,296 They're not gonna even have to operate because the priest came 360 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:57,506 and he prayed." 361 00:20:57,547 --> 00:20:59,466 And so I said that to my mom, and she was like, 362 00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:01,134 "God, Lorine. 363 00:21:01,176 --> 00:21:02,636 Por favor. 364 00:21:02,678 --> 00:21:05,305 He's not a doctor, he's a priest." 365 00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:06,848 I said, "Watch, watch!" 366 00:21:06,890 --> 00:21:10,310 And exactly, I was discharged, I did not need surgery, 367 00:21:10,352 --> 00:21:12,104 and that was that. 368 00:21:12,145 --> 00:21:13,855 African percussion 369 00:21:13,897 --> 00:21:17,651 Maybe months later, we pass a botanica. 370 00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:20,487 I'm looking at the statues, and I tell my mother, 371 00:21:20,529 --> 00:21:21,697 "Ma! 372 00:21:21,738 --> 00:21:23,865 That's the priest that came to see me!" 373 00:21:23,907 --> 00:21:26,118 And she said, "Lorine, that's St Martin de Porres, 374 00:21:26,159 --> 00:21:28,328 he doesn't live anymore." 375 00:21:28,370 --> 00:21:30,539 I was crying; I really wanted her to understand and really 376 00:21:30,580 --> 00:21:34,751 believe that he came to me in the hospital! 377 00:21:34,793 --> 00:21:37,087 And he told me I wasn't gonna die and I just-- I lived with 378 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:38,505 that. 379 00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:40,674 Like, I think that's what allowed me sometimes to do some 380 00:21:40,716 --> 00:21:43,093 of the crazy stuff that I did in my life. 381 00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:47,306 I didn't feel invincible, but I felt like I'm not gonna die yet, 382 00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:49,933 it's not my time. 383 00:21:55,522 --> 00:21:58,317 My brother got busted. 384 00:21:58,358 --> 00:22:00,902 My brother was in Riker's Island. 385 00:22:00,944 --> 00:22:04,531 When I would go see my brother, I would take a group of girls. 386 00:22:04,573 --> 00:22:06,533 Like, I would take my brother's girl, 387 00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:08,535 so she would talk for a while with him, 388 00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:10,162 and then when he wanted to talk to me, 389 00:22:10,203 --> 00:22:11,705 she would go and talk to one of the brothers and I would talk to 390 00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:14,541 my brother, like that, and I ended up talking to Blackie many 391 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:18,795 times and, you know, we met-- that's how we met. 392 00:22:20,589 --> 00:22:23,550 My brother sent me a letter home and he had said to me, 393 00:22:23,592 --> 00:22:27,220 "Sis, I just want you to be careful because my prez, 394 00:22:27,262 --> 00:22:29,556 Blackie, he said he likes you." 395 00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:30,390 Godspeed. 396 00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:36,521 Blackie came home, and he had sent a poem to me, 397 00:22:36,563 --> 00:22:41,068 and that kinda, like, "Wow," you know? 398 00:22:41,318 --> 00:22:45,155 We got married, and we produced our own biological five 399 00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:49,576 children, we adopted my nephew and we helped raise his son. 400 00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:55,582 One day, I'm in one of these buses. 401 00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:59,169 All of a sudden it hit me that the bus was full of Blacks and 402 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:00,921 Latinos... 403 00:23:00,962 --> 00:23:03,590 and maybe one or two white women, 404 00:23:03,632 --> 00:23:08,595 and we were going to prison to visit Black and Latinos. 405 00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:14,434 I just couldn't put my finger on it but I felt it in my stomach 406 00:23:14,476 --> 00:23:16,812 that something wasn't right. 407 00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:23,276 The Young Lords used to meet in the barrio when I was growing 408 00:23:23,318 --> 00:23:25,320 up. 409 00:23:32,661 --> 00:23:35,789 Remember, we relate to an international struggle. 410 00:23:35,831 --> 00:23:38,542 So it may sound ridiculous... 411 00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:41,586 but this all links up to what's happening from Vietnam, 412 00:23:41,628 --> 00:23:45,215 Puerto Rico, to Watts. 413 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:47,592 'Cause we in the belly of the monster. 414 00:23:47,634 --> 00:23:51,304 And people all over are waiting for us to take care of business. 415 00:23:52,639 --> 00:23:55,642 One day, they had some kind of a protest up 416 00:23:55,684 --> 00:23:59,855 Lexington Avenue, and I just joined and chanted with them. 417 00:24:05,485 --> 00:24:08,280 I felt like I was part of them. 418 00:24:08,321 --> 00:24:13,243 I think I was a lot gangster, but that seed was already inside 419 00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:15,495 me. 420 00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:18,498 And so when I hit the visiting room, 421 00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:21,668 it stirred an anger in me. 422 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:25,046 It stirred...activism. 423 00:24:27,716 --> 00:24:29,718 We're gonna see Mr. Chancellor! 424 00:24:29,759 --> 00:24:32,053 Support education! 425 00:24:32,095 --> 00:24:34,848 Being an activist, it was in me, I had to. 426 00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:37,851 Like, I couldn't sit there and not do something about 427 00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:39,227 something. 428 00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:42,606 Two, four, six, eight, we the parents will not wait! 429 00:24:42,647 --> 00:24:47,694 Two, four, six, eight, we the parents will not wait! 430 00:24:48,111 --> 00:24:51,031 We had a problem over here at 150! 431 00:24:51,072 --> 00:24:52,699 Now, you know that's an elementary school; 432 00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:55,285 it only goes up to the sixth grade. 433 00:24:55,327 --> 00:24:57,704 And they put a GED program in there! 434 00:24:57,746 --> 00:25:00,874 And you had guys -- 16, 20, 22 -- smoking reefer, 435 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,335 you know, hanging out in front of the schoolyard and all this. 436 00:25:03,376 --> 00:25:05,879 There was nothing that anybody could do. 437 00:25:05,921 --> 00:25:09,299 This is what was in the people's mind until I got hold of it. 438 00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:10,717 And I said, "No! 439 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:12,677 It doesn't have to be this way. 440 00:25:12,719 --> 00:25:15,055 We'll start here... 441 00:25:15,096 --> 00:25:17,057 and we're gonna work our way up to here, 442 00:25:17,098 --> 00:25:20,727 and if that's not suffice, we remove our children from school, 443 00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:23,563 and we will continue to remove them every single day until they 444 00:25:23,605 --> 00:25:24,940 listen to what we have to say." 445 00:25:24,981 --> 00:25:27,776 Don't you know that those people-- that program was 446 00:25:27,817 --> 00:25:29,903 removed from the school? 447 00:25:29,945 --> 00:25:30,904 Why? 448 00:25:30,946 --> 00:25:32,906 Because we came out in masses, Ben. 449 00:25:32,948 --> 00:25:34,115 You know what I'm saying? 450 00:25:34,157 --> 00:25:36,409 We came out in masses, we voiced our opinion, 451 00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:38,662 and we refused to take it. 452 00:25:38,703 --> 00:25:40,747 Okay, I was wrong. 453 00:25:40,789 --> 00:25:42,707 I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that, 454 00:25:42,749 --> 00:25:43,875 you know, you shouldn't think that way. 455 00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:45,085 No, you beat me down, you beat me down. 456 00:25:45,126 --> 00:25:46,878 You got it, you beat me down. 457 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:48,505 Nah, not beat you down. 458 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:49,548 You a bad bitch. 459 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:57,556 mellow ambient music 460 00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:05,939 The guys that wear "Savage Skulls" and the girls that wear 461 00:26:05,981 --> 00:26:08,108 "Property of Savage Skulls," they're, 462 00:26:08,149 --> 00:26:10,360 like, considered our property, you know? 463 00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:11,945 And we take care of our girls, you know, 464 00:26:11,987 --> 00:26:13,738 they're like our property, they cook for us, 465 00:26:13,780 --> 00:26:17,617 and they, you know-- they take care of us, you know? 466 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,955 The patches always said "Property of," 467 00:26:21,997 --> 00:26:25,959 and deep within me -- deep within my spirit and my soul -- 468 00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:29,004 I could not wear those patches. 469 00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:30,422 "Property?" 470 00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:31,631 I don't think so. 471 00:26:31,673 --> 00:26:33,425 I am no your property. 472 00:26:33,466 --> 00:26:35,260 I'm your wife... 473 00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:36,720 but I'm not your property. 474 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:38,805 So Jay, you know, as you were saying... 475 00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:39,431 Jay-J, it's your turn. 476 00:26:39,431 --> 00:26:41,349 I am still faithful to the Savage Skulls. 477 00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:43,727 Comin' up -- hello -- they took care of me. 478 00:26:43,768 --> 00:26:46,771 When Blackie was a teenager, he always kept me on the side. 479 00:26:46,813 --> 00:26:47,731 You know, like, "This is my little sister, 480 00:26:47,772 --> 00:26:49,149 my little, you know, cousin." 481 00:26:49,190 --> 00:26:51,401 He treated me like a little princess all the time. 482 00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,778 Dealing with the guys... 483 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:58,742 at that time was difficult, because they were so into their 484 00:26:58,783 --> 00:27:02,829 life and so unpredictable that I never felt secure. 485 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,416 Whenever you do something wrong, 486 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:07,834 they hit you too. 487 00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:09,669 You do something that you're not supposed to, 488 00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:10,837 I mean... 489 00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:12,255 you gotta learn, you know? 490 00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:14,841 - You either love it or leave it. - I mean, even he could do it. 491 00:27:14,883 --> 00:27:16,176 Love it or leave it. 492 00:27:16,217 --> 00:27:17,636 Either you in there with all your heart and soul or 493 00:27:17,677 --> 00:27:18,803 you're not. 494 00:27:18,845 --> 00:27:21,014 There was a lot of bullets I had to duck, man. 495 00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:22,849 There was a lot of shit that I had to duck and-- 496 00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:23,850 That's true. 497 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:25,852 I would say, you know, "Am I gonna... 498 00:27:25,894 --> 00:27:26,561 die this way?" 499 00:27:26,561 --> 00:27:28,813 Because I thought I would never make it this far, 500 00:27:28,855 --> 00:27:29,856 to be honest. 501 00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:30,565 Absolutely. 502 00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:32,817 We were not only just fighting the war in the street, 503 00:27:32,859 --> 00:27:35,028 but we were fighting wars at home. 504 00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:36,988 When I first met Blackie, he was in the Skulls, 505 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:38,990 he was dirty... 506 00:27:39,032 --> 00:27:41,868 he was mean, he had all the traits that come with being a 507 00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:43,828 gang leader. 508 00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:45,664 And I had a hard time. 509 00:27:45,705 --> 00:27:48,792 ominous ambient music 510 00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:51,211 There were times where I had black eyes and some 511 00:27:51,252 --> 00:27:53,630 of the guys -- and girls -- would laugh. 512 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,215 Like, "Yo, you got a fucked up eye again? 513 00:27:55,256 --> 00:27:57,634 What the fuck you did?" 514 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:03,014 I knew that it was wrong 'cause I was going through it and I 515 00:28:03,056 --> 00:28:08,061 definitely felt it was wrong, but I also was that person that, 516 00:28:08,353 --> 00:28:11,231 you know, if you had a fight with your man and he hit you, 517 00:28:11,272 --> 00:28:13,066 you know, like I wouldn't get involved. 518 00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:14,859 I can listen to you, I could talk to you, 519 00:28:14,901 --> 00:28:17,904 but I would-- you know, that was your laundry, 520 00:28:17,946 --> 00:28:20,740 keep it in your house. 521 00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:25,912 One time, I was hit with an axe handle. 522 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:28,873 It broke my knee. 523 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:32,335 I crawled for two days. 524 00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,921 Crawled to feed my son... 525 00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:37,674 um... 526 00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:43,888 to bathe him... 527 00:28:43,930 --> 00:28:46,891 to do the things I had to do for him and, 528 00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:50,687 uh, Jacob, 'cause it was Philip and Jacob. 529 00:28:53,106 --> 00:28:54,941 And one day, I went to see my mom, 530 00:28:54,983 --> 00:28:57,318 and she saw me... 531 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,279 with the cast. 532 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,865 And she said, "What the fuck happened to you?" 533 00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:03,324 And I told her. 534 00:29:03,366 --> 00:29:06,286 And she said, "What did you do? 535 00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:10,790 What did you do? 536 00:29:10,832 --> 00:29:13,084 You have a mouth on you, so what did you do to make him get 537 00:29:13,126 --> 00:29:15,754 that angry? 538 00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:21,801 The funny thing about this is that my children's father was 539 00:29:21,843 --> 00:29:26,306 very against any of his members hitting their women. 540 00:29:26,347 --> 00:29:30,977 Their women came to him, and he would make sure that those dudes 541 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:32,604 were penalized. 542 00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:34,939 But it's okay when he hit me. 543 00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:35,774 That was cool. 544 00:29:36,733 --> 00:29:39,277 - Seven. - Okay, here we go. 545 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,070 Action. 546 00:29:41,112 --> 00:29:42,280 Dialogue. 547 00:29:42,322 --> 00:29:43,865 You see the TV? 548 00:29:43,907 --> 00:29:45,909 Yeah. 549 00:29:47,410 --> 00:29:49,746 What you think, this guy gonna get the jackpot or what? 550 00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:52,957 We have to see the way he ba-- the way the ball goes. 551 00:29:52,999 --> 00:29:54,542 Nah, but we gotta do like before; 552 00:29:54,584 --> 00:29:56,336 you take a guess and I take a guess. 553 00:29:56,377 --> 00:29:57,545 No. 554 00:29:57,587 --> 00:29:59,839 All right. 555 00:30:00,673 --> 00:30:02,133 You gonna cheat on me this time, right? 556 00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:04,552 Ma, look at Jacob! 557 00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:05,762 He's okay. 558 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,555 No, it's-- I can't see! 559 00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:08,765 He's spitting, that's all. 560 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:10,141 Oh, you can't see? I'm sorry. 561 00:30:10,183 --> 00:30:10,809 They . 562 00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:18,191 tender piano music 563 00:30:27,408 --> 00:30:28,201 Thank you. 564 00:30:28,243 --> 00:30:30,036 What you making? 565 00:30:30,078 --> 00:30:32,914 Rice and beans. 566 00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:36,042 That was you, right? 567 00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:37,627 No. 568 00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:39,003 That wasn't me. 569 00:30:40,421 --> 00:30:41,673 You think it's done? 570 00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:43,132 Oh, yeah. 571 00:30:43,174 --> 00:30:45,051 - I don't think so, it look pale. - It's overdone. 572 00:30:45,093 --> 00:30:45,718 - You think so? - It's dried up. 573 00:30:45,718 --> 00:30:48,054 - I have it on low. - I put it on low. 574 00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:49,055 Did you change his Pampers? 575 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:49,681 - Yeah. - Did you feed him? 576 00:30:49,722 --> 00:30:50,640 Yeah. 577 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:51,641 Did you put him in the room-- 578 00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:52,892 Everything, I know. 579 00:30:52,934 --> 00:30:54,060 I know, come on. 580 00:30:54,102 --> 00:30:55,061 Come on, Philip, let's go. 581 00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:56,104 You sure? 582 00:30:56,145 --> 00:30:57,272 Yeah, everything, he's all right. 583 00:30:57,313 --> 00:30:58,565 All right. You know what? 584 00:30:58,606 --> 00:31:00,525 - What? - Put some Vaseline on his ear. 585 00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:01,693 Yeah. 586 00:31:01,734 --> 00:31:04,445 Maybe that's what's bothering him. 587 00:31:04,487 --> 00:31:06,948 And cut. 588 00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:19,127 Next Wednesday, so that's the big travel day right before 589 00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:21,921 Thanksgiving, and I'll show you that... 590 00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:25,258 Who is it?! 591 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,759 Wassup, Comai?! 592 00:31:26,801 --> 00:31:28,136 Yeah! Gimme kisses! 593 00:31:28,177 --> 00:31:30,138 What the matter with you? You don't give me kisses? 594 00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:31,139 Mwah! 595 00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:32,140 Dios te bendiga. 596 00:31:32,181 --> 00:31:33,349 What's going on, Ma? 597 00:31:33,391 --> 00:31:34,350 Ooh! 598 00:31:34,392 --> 00:31:35,310 Yeah, one for you, one for me. 599 00:31:35,351 --> 00:31:36,311 Okay. 600 00:31:36,352 --> 00:31:37,520 They're not both for you because-- 601 00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:38,730 Yeah, you have to tell me ahead of time! 602 00:31:38,771 --> 00:31:40,273 - Okay? - That for me? 603 00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:42,901 How you feel after, you know, being told that Yemaya's your 604 00:31:42,942 --> 00:31:43,943 mother. 605 00:31:43,985 --> 00:31:44,903 Like, that's your guardian angel. 606 00:31:44,944 --> 00:31:45,904 Oh, man... 607 00:31:45,945 --> 00:31:47,280 Maybe you didn't know it was Yemaya-- 608 00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:48,698 - But you always felt-- - I felt something. 609 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:50,116 You had a guardian. 610 00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:53,077 So when Yemaya came out and it came to me that I am Yemaya's 611 00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:55,747 daughter... 612 00:31:55,788 --> 00:31:58,082 I felt that-- I always felt that warmth, 613 00:31:58,124 --> 00:32:01,294 you know, because I felt safe through her, 614 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:02,962 because of all the stuff I went through, 615 00:32:03,004 --> 00:32:06,132 especially the time when I got kidnapped. 616 00:32:06,174 --> 00:32:07,133 What do you mean "kidnapped?" 617 00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:08,426 Like... 618 00:32:08,468 --> 00:32:11,304 Remember that time we were talking about, um... 619 00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:12,972 how far have I come? 620 00:32:13,014 --> 00:32:14,474 Yeah. 621 00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:15,975 And I said, you know, I felt like I wasn't gonna make it? 622 00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:17,435 Right. 623 00:32:17,477 --> 00:32:18,519 I mean, I know a little bit, but I don't really know. 624 00:32:18,561 --> 00:32:19,646 Oh, okay. 625 00:32:19,687 --> 00:32:20,605 We never really touched it because-- 626 00:32:24,192 --> 00:32:25,652 - And stuff like that. - Right. 627 00:32:25,693 --> 00:32:30,406 And I didn't know, and her name exactly like mine: Elizabeth. 628 00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:32,784 The same name. 629 00:32:32,825 --> 00:32:35,203 We looked alike, freckles and all. 630 00:32:35,244 --> 00:32:38,331 There was only one difference: she had light green eyes. 631 00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:40,166 Mm. 632 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:41,501 She had the red hair, everything, 633 00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:43,503 and she would tie her hair back like me, everything-- 634 00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:44,504 Wow. 635 00:32:44,545 --> 00:32:46,506 Same height, we used to hang out together, 636 00:32:46,547 --> 00:32:47,590 and that's what happened. 637 00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:50,134 I didn't know what was going on until one day, 638 00:32:50,176 --> 00:32:52,595 I'm walking and there was a white van. 639 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:53,972 And they say, "Oh, mira!" 640 00:32:54,013 --> 00:32:55,181 And they call my name, and I'm like, 641 00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:56,766 "Okay, hi! 642 00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:57,517 How you doin'? 643 00:32:57,558 --> 00:32:58,977 Oh, no, !" 644 00:32:59,018 --> 00:33:00,603 You know, and back then, I used to be dealing and stuff like 645 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:02,188 that -- you know, in my "stupidity," 646 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:03,356 I call it now. 647 00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:05,024 And... 648 00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:06,150 I went in. 649 00:33:06,192 --> 00:33:08,569 I went in, they attacked me. 650 00:33:08,611 --> 00:33:11,197 They bounded me, you know, they tied me up, 651 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:13,199 they covered my eyes. 652 00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:14,367 And it's how many people? 653 00:33:14,409 --> 00:33:16,035 Like, this is all men or women were there? 654 00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:16,661 Men. 655 00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:18,079 Four men. 656 00:33:18,121 --> 00:33:20,832 They hit me, they-- trying to get information from me, 657 00:33:20,873 --> 00:33:22,834 like where's the stuff that I took, 658 00:33:22,875 --> 00:33:24,585 and I didn't even know what they were talking about. 659 00:33:24,627 --> 00:33:26,212 They were talking about a bunch of jewelry, 660 00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:29,048 thousands of dollars, and I'm like... 661 00:33:29,090 --> 00:33:30,216 "I don't know what you're talking about." 662 00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:32,218 Then "Yes, you do, because look at the picture." 663 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:34,220 They showed me pictures! 664 00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:37,348 So when I looked and I told them that was not me-- 665 00:33:37,390 --> 00:33:38,599 Right. 666 00:33:38,641 --> 00:33:40,643 They wouldn't believe me. 667 00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:42,020 They pistol-whipped me. 668 00:33:42,061 --> 00:33:43,563 - Mm. - Okay? 669 00:33:43,604 --> 00:33:47,233 They-- they-- they freakin' raped me with a gun... 670 00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:50,403 you know, they-- they did so many horrible things. 671 00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:51,571 Right. 672 00:33:51,612 --> 00:33:54,824 But then, because I wanted to numb the feeling... 673 00:33:54,866 --> 00:33:57,035 of what I went through at that moment, 674 00:33:57,076 --> 00:33:58,411 so I kept on doing-- 675 00:33:58,453 --> 00:33:59,245 Doing what? 676 00:33:59,287 --> 00:34:01,205 My drugs, doing drugs. 677 00:34:01,247 --> 00:34:05,043 I kept on doing heroine, started smoking crack, 678 00:34:05,084 --> 00:34:07,420 and then I lost my brothers... 679 00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:09,589 three months apart... 680 00:34:09,630 --> 00:34:11,883 and I just... 681 00:34:11,924 --> 00:34:13,718 felt like that was it. 682 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,138 "I'm not gonna make it to 25." 683 00:34:17,638 --> 00:34:20,266 That's what woke me up and made me see, 684 00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:23,644 like, there has to be something better than this. 685 00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:26,898 That's what, like, started your road to recovery? 686 00:34:26,939 --> 00:34:28,399 Yeah. 687 00:34:28,441 --> 00:34:30,485 The only reason I can speak about it this way -- the way I'm 688 00:34:30,526 --> 00:34:34,113 speaking about it today without breaking down that I wanna-- you 689 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:36,741 know, that I can't handle it -- the only reason I'm doing that 690 00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:39,660 is because of this counseling, because of the therapy, 691 00:34:39,702 --> 00:34:42,413 because of the stuff like that, and I had to face reality for 692 00:34:42,455 --> 00:34:43,414 what it was. 693 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:45,249 It happened, it happened, okay. 694 00:34:45,291 --> 00:34:47,460 I cried about it, I dealt with it, 695 00:34:47,502 --> 00:34:50,088 I fought about it, I dreamt about it, 696 00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:52,882 but today, this moment... 697 00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:54,258 I win. 698 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:55,635 I feel good. 699 00:34:55,676 --> 00:34:57,095 And I cheer for me. 700 00:34:57,136 --> 00:34:59,305 This is something that I haven't told you-- 701 00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:00,264 Right. 702 00:35:00,306 --> 00:35:02,475 And I needed you to know it for me. 703 00:35:02,517 --> 00:35:03,893 Right. 704 00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:05,394 You understand? 705 00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:09,315 'Cause I wanna feel like I show you and I acknowledge... 706 00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:11,901 the appreciation that I have for you. 707 00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:13,945 It's not-- nothing special in me, 708 00:35:13,986 --> 00:35:17,907 it's that I am the vessel to which you were supposed 709 00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:19,325 to come-- 710 00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:20,868 Mm-hm. 711 00:35:20,910 --> 00:35:23,955 To be a child of-- you know, be crowned a child of Yemaya. 712 00:35:23,996 --> 00:35:27,166 But because of you being my godmother, 713 00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:31,003 and I am so grateful for that... 714 00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:33,714 it's woke me up to a lot of stuff that I'm starting to 715 00:35:33,756 --> 00:35:36,342 remember from when I was this high. 716 00:35:36,384 --> 00:35:37,301 Right. 717 00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:39,262 You know, when it comes to the religion. 718 00:35:39,303 --> 00:35:40,930 And Chango knows what I'm talking about 'cause He got me 719 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:42,682 all chilled up. 720 00:35:42,723 --> 00:35:44,892 You know, and I'm starting to see more, 721 00:35:44,934 --> 00:35:47,478 and I'm so grateful and I'm so thankful that you are still in 722 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,729 my life. 723 00:35:48,771 --> 00:35:50,523 This is why I fight with you when you got a cold. 724 00:35:50,565 --> 00:35:52,692 This is why I fight with you when you don't-- "Oh, 725 00:35:52,733 --> 00:35:53,693 I don't wanna go to the doctor." 726 00:35:53,734 --> 00:35:54,944 "Yes, you are!" 727 00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:58,197 You know, because I need you in my life, Ma. 728 00:36:00,366 --> 00:36:01,701 And I gotta start getting it together. 729 00:36:01,742 --> 00:36:03,161 Lemme give you my hug 'cause you know... 730 00:36:03,202 --> 00:36:04,787 I just need to-- 731 00:36:21,429 --> 00:36:26,225 mellow ambient music 732 00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:35,234 When I was pregnant of my first son, 733 00:36:35,276 --> 00:36:38,571 Philip, my then-husband went to prison. 734 00:36:38,988 --> 00:36:41,532 I was living with my mom on Tiffany, 735 00:36:41,574 --> 00:36:43,743 and I lived there until I gave birth. 736 00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:46,537 My mom and I got into some kind of argument and, 737 00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:49,248 uh, she threw me out. 738 00:36:49,624 --> 00:36:53,377 I had nowhere to go, absolutely nowhere to go. 739 00:36:53,419 --> 00:36:55,338 I was not gonna live in the clubhouse. 740 00:36:55,379 --> 00:36:57,965 I really didn't want to have my son in that environment. 741 00:36:58,007 --> 00:37:00,051 I mean, there was people sniffing glue, 742 00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:03,429 you know, shooting up, drinking. 743 00:37:03,471 --> 00:37:05,598 I went to the building next door, 744 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,435 and I was sleeping under the stairs there for about two weeks 745 00:37:09,477 --> 00:37:12,021 with my son. 746 00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:16,067 In the first couple of days, nobody knew I was there. 747 00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:19,862 There was an open hydrant, and I would just take that water. 748 00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:21,239 I would have gone to the restaurant, 749 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,616 gotten some sugar, and that's what I would give my son. 750 00:37:27,662 --> 00:37:30,456 This was about...for three days or something -- three or four 751 00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:32,500 days. 752 00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:35,461 And my mother lived in the building next door. 753 00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:38,297 She didn't know I was there either. 754 00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:43,594 This woman realized that I was sleeping there with my baby, 755 00:37:43,636 --> 00:37:46,430 and she took me in. 756 00:37:46,472 --> 00:37:47,807 I just grabbed my son and I said, 757 00:37:47,848 --> 00:37:49,433 "Never again, Papi. 758 00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:53,104 Never again will we be homeless." 759 00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:07,285 They were rebuilding the South Bronx. 760 00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:09,287 We became part of it. 761 00:38:09,328 --> 00:38:11,080 upbeat funky music 762 00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:12,832 Don't let these dirty streets get you down! 763 00:38:12,873 --> 00:38:15,084 Like Jesse Jackson says: "You can live in the ghetto, 764 00:38:15,126 --> 00:38:17,336 but don't let the ghetto live in you!" 765 00:38:21,007 --> 00:38:24,468 Change came about because of my boys. 766 00:38:24,510 --> 00:38:26,470 I had two children now. 767 00:38:26,512 --> 00:38:29,932 I lived in a building that was dilapidated. 768 00:38:30,474 --> 00:38:32,852 A few years ago, this neighborhood was on the verge of 769 00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:34,520 total collapse. 770 00:38:34,562 --> 00:38:37,857 But a group called SEBCO -- the South East Bronx Community 771 00:38:37,898 --> 00:38:41,277 Organization -- has struggled to bring better housing and a 772 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,863 better life to many of its residents. 773 00:38:43,904 --> 00:38:46,073 See, the city doesn't believe that 774 00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:48,659 any human being with any sense 775 00:38:48,701 --> 00:38:51,078 would wanna live in the South Bronx. 776 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,457 Well, if the opportunity comes, I'll buy a home here to stay 777 00:38:54,498 --> 00:38:57,293 here, because I think it's one of the finest neighborhoods to 778 00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,087 live, and the people are just together, 779 00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:05,176 and we're enjoying, uh, life together here. 780 00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:08,304 They started building on Simpson, 781 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:12,975 and the buildings looked, to me, like Manhattan, 782 00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:15,561 because there was buildings with balconies. 783 00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:16,562 Like, in the Bronx? 784 00:39:16,604 --> 00:39:17,730 Are you kidding?! 785 00:39:17,772 --> 00:39:20,566 I'm like, "I gotta get in there." 786 00:39:20,608 --> 00:39:25,404 I began to work with people that were involved in setting up 787 00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:29,158 those places, like Father Gigante -- he was very 788 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,994 instrumental. 789 00:39:32,536 --> 00:39:34,538 And so yeah, that's what happened; 790 00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:37,541 I got an apartment. 791 00:39:40,127 --> 00:39:41,087 Shh! 792 00:39:44,548 --> 00:39:47,551 Surprise! 793 00:39:55,226 --> 00:39:57,436 Look at this! 794 00:40:01,023 --> 00:40:03,609 Thank you, Papi! 795 00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:08,447 mellow jazzy music 796 00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:16,247 - Oh, dang! - How are you? 797 00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:27,133 How are you?! Look at you! 798 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:36,225 Oh my God! 799 00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:37,643 I need one! 800 00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:39,812 I love it! 801 00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:42,481 Although she had her own children, 802 00:40:42,523 --> 00:40:44,233 she was everyone's mother. 803 00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:47,445 The parade for Halloween... 804 00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:48,988 she was there for all of us. 805 00:40:49,029 --> 00:40:50,489 She was part of the school system, 806 00:40:50,531 --> 00:40:52,825 so when we went to school, she was there. 807 00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:53,826 I mean... 808 00:40:53,868 --> 00:40:55,119 Everywhere you turn! 809 00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:58,747 Yeah, she was just a part of everyone's life growing up. 810 00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:04,712 Why did you form a posse to begin with? 811 00:41:04,753 --> 00:41:07,506 They try to rule our own block... 812 00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:09,842 they can't do that. 813 00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:11,302 We fight with them. 814 00:41:11,343 --> 00:41:12,678 He lived with me. 815 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:14,013 Yes, I did. 816 00:41:14,054 --> 00:41:16,682 They lived on the first floor, and I took them in... 817 00:41:16,724 --> 00:41:19,059 because, you know, he was having some... 818 00:41:19,101 --> 00:41:20,060 issues. 819 00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:22,521 I was a bad boy. 820 00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:23,522 Yeah. 821 00:41:23,564 --> 00:41:25,900 She did hit me one time... 822 00:41:25,941 --> 00:41:27,735 so hard that it was piccante. 823 00:41:27,776 --> 00:41:28,903 Te amo, Papi. 824 00:41:28,944 --> 00:41:30,196 So, I was like, "Wow!" 825 00:41:30,237 --> 00:41:31,906 I thought she was related to Jackie Chan for a minute. 826 00:41:32,990 --> 00:41:34,116 I was like, "Oh my God, you felt that?" 827 00:41:35,576 --> 00:41:36,911 And I came out pretty good... 828 00:41:36,952 --> 00:41:38,704 between her and my moms. 829 00:41:38,746 --> 00:41:40,498 They straightened me out. 830 00:41:40,539 --> 00:41:42,374 I-- I already felt like...leaving school already 831 00:41:42,416 --> 00:41:44,710 and not telling my mother or my father. 832 00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:47,713 The person that helped me out a lot was my godmother, 833 00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:49,507 all right? But... 834 00:41:49,548 --> 00:41:50,883 just my Aunt Lorine. 835 00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:53,719 'Cuz when I had problems, I used to come to her. 836 00:41:53,761 --> 00:41:55,721 I used to ask about all questions about my mother, 837 00:41:55,763 --> 00:41:57,139 my father... 838 00:41:57,181 --> 00:41:59,099 I used to tell her the way I feel, 839 00:41:59,141 --> 00:42:02,561 she used to help me out, I used to go home feeling better. 840 00:42:02,603 --> 00:42:04,730 Your door was always open to me. 841 00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:06,774 You door was always open to me, and always open to everybody. 842 00:42:06,815 --> 00:42:07,733 Like, sometimes I would come in and be like, 843 00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:08,734 "Who's that?" "It's your uncle!" 844 00:42:08,776 --> 00:42:09,902 I'd be like, "I've never met him before, 845 00:42:09,944 --> 00:42:11,195 but, hey, Bendicion." 846 00:42:12,613 --> 00:42:13,739 Because if he's in Titi's house-- if he-- if he was in 847 00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:14,740 your house, he was family. 848 00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:16,951 There you go. 849 00:42:16,992 --> 00:42:19,119 Always made sure she wrote my father when he was 850 00:42:19,161 --> 00:42:20,746 in prison. 851 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:21,914 Always made sure she went to see go see him as much as she could. 852 00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:23,791 And he always said it, "If I'm not there, 853 00:42:23,832 --> 00:42:24,917 you go talk to Titi. 854 00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:26,085 Titi's there." 855 00:42:26,126 --> 00:42:28,587 Her name rang bells just like the guys' did. 856 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:29,922 Action! 857 00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:32,758 Okay, tell me after school, you guys... 858 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,803 pensive music 859 00:42:35,844 --> 00:42:37,721 Tell me a typical day after school. 860 00:42:37,763 --> 00:42:39,557 Phillip, you think it's worse now, why? 861 00:42:39,598 --> 00:42:40,766 Because, now, you look at somebody wrong, 862 00:42:40,808 --> 00:42:42,726 and they try to kill you. 863 00:42:42,768 --> 00:42:44,103 There's no more, you know, fighting, 864 00:42:44,144 --> 00:42:45,396 it's just, like, they try to kill you for looking at them, 865 00:42:45,437 --> 00:42:47,189 like... 866 00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:54,572 Okay, here we go... 867 00:42:54,613 --> 00:42:55,781 action! 868 00:43:08,669 --> 00:43:10,462 Hey, son. 869 00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:15,009 - Wassup? - Nothing. 870 00:43:15,050 --> 00:43:15,968 What's goin' down? 871 00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:17,970 I went to the store... 872 00:43:18,012 --> 00:43:18,971 see your ass here. 873 00:43:19,013 --> 00:43:20,806 What are you doing? 874 00:43:20,848 --> 00:43:22,016 They're filming. 875 00:43:22,057 --> 00:43:23,434 What now? 876 00:43:23,475 --> 00:43:25,811 Rolling...okay. 877 00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:26,812 What did you write? 878 00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:29,690 Kilo...that's my street identity. 879 00:43:30,858 --> 00:43:34,445 T-O-D..."Team of Destruction." 880 00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:35,988 Okay...cut. 881 00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:37,698 I'm out. 882 00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:40,618 Why are they getting a ton of attention, 883 00:43:40,659 --> 00:43:41,785 like, what the fuck? 884 00:43:41,827 --> 00:43:44,163 They're not celebrities, they're not movie stars... 885 00:43:44,204 --> 00:43:46,415 like, we still live here, you know what I mean? 886 00:43:46,457 --> 00:43:48,667 I couldn't grasp it, but, I guess-- the lure. 887 00:43:48,709 --> 00:43:50,836 I guess people look at it, and it's exciting. 888 00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:52,838 There are a lot of things that happened that I'll tell you, 889 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,175 like, shootouts, car chases, fights -- like, 890 00:43:56,216 --> 00:43:58,677 some of the shootouts they had was outrageous. 891 00:44:03,891 --> 00:44:05,267 That's one thing, it was always they'll come and be like, 892 00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:06,435 "Yo, y'all got to get out of here! 893 00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:07,686 Let's go, let's go!" 894 00:44:07,728 --> 00:44:09,188 And meanwhile, they shooting at people like... 895 00:44:09,229 --> 00:44:11,273 and we're like, "Oh, shit, what we gonna do?!" 896 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:13,317 I'm with my little brother and my little cousins, 897 00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:14,860 and I'm like, "Oh, I gotta get them to safety, 898 00:44:14,902 --> 00:44:15,903 let's go! 899 00:44:15,944 --> 00:44:17,696 Guys this way! Jump over the fence... 900 00:44:17,738 --> 00:44:19,865 run across the block, the park, wherever," 901 00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:21,075 just to get them out. 902 00:44:21,116 --> 00:44:22,493 He's the leader! 903 00:44:22,534 --> 00:44:23,869 He's the leader of everybody. 904 00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:25,871 He's a master. 905 00:44:25,913 --> 00:44:28,707 pensive piano music 906 00:44:28,749 --> 00:44:30,250 My father influenced me to be a different 907 00:44:30,292 --> 00:44:31,502 kind of man. 908 00:44:31,543 --> 00:44:32,878 When he first went to jail, that was his thing: 909 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,089 "You the man of the house, you take care of everything." 910 00:44:35,130 --> 00:44:36,340 So, that was it. 911 00:44:36,382 --> 00:44:37,341 I was the man of the house. 912 00:44:37,383 --> 00:44:38,801 I don't want to get shit from nobody, 913 00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:41,220 nobody tell me nothing. 914 00:44:41,261 --> 00:44:43,472 I was first, and I was there for everything. 915 00:44:43,514 --> 00:44:44,682 And it's not only that... 916 00:44:44,723 --> 00:44:48,727 you suffered my trials and tribulations with me. 917 00:44:48,769 --> 00:44:52,231 pensive music 918 00:44:52,272 --> 00:44:54,858 But it's because of him, like, I don't hit women and shit like 919 00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:57,236 that, and my moms... 920 00:44:57,277 --> 00:44:59,071 like, told me how women should be treated. 921 00:44:59,113 --> 00:45:00,864 I mean, she's a lady, she know how she want to be treated. 922 00:45:00,906 --> 00:45:03,909 So, she tried to instill that in all of us. 923 00:45:08,956 --> 00:45:10,332 Thank you. That's all you got? 924 00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:11,500 Yeah. 925 00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:12,876 Everything for him, what about me? 926 00:45:12,918 --> 00:45:16,922 I'm your mother, everything's for Daddy? 927 00:45:16,964 --> 00:45:18,757 Thank you. 928 00:45:20,968 --> 00:45:23,762 I mean, in retrospect I look back at stuff like, yeah. 929 00:45:23,804 --> 00:45:26,098 Like, there was times that I needed help with something, 930 00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:27,766 and you was too busy helping other people, 931 00:45:27,808 --> 00:45:29,935 and I had to figure it out-- figure this shit out for myself. 932 00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:32,312 Right. 933 00:45:44,116 --> 00:45:45,868 That's the newest edition...she's, uh, 934 00:45:45,909 --> 00:45:47,494 three months. 935 00:45:47,536 --> 00:45:50,080 Her name is Leiani Nova... 936 00:45:50,122 --> 00:45:51,957 Caridad. 937 00:45:51,999 --> 00:45:53,751 But I call her "LeiLei." 938 00:45:53,792 --> 00:45:54,918 Braelyn... 939 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,587 Lorine... 940 00:45:56,628 --> 00:45:58,297 Oyola. 941 00:45:58,338 --> 00:45:59,965 And this is Luis... 942 00:46:00,007 --> 00:46:00,966 Junior... 943 00:46:01,008 --> 00:46:02,968 - Antonio... - Antonio... 944 00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:04,803 - Oyola - Oyola 945 00:46:05,179 --> 00:46:06,555 You leaving? 946 00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:08,307 Dios te bendiga. 947 00:46:08,348 --> 00:46:09,975 Be careful, okay? 948 00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:10,934 I will. 949 00:46:10,976 --> 00:46:13,187 Pick up those pants. 950 00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:15,147 They're too low, Jay. 951 00:46:15,189 --> 00:46:17,858 I see your underwears...pick 'em up! 952 00:46:18,233 --> 00:46:21,612 Peace out, but pick 'em up! 953 00:46:21,653 --> 00:46:26,450 upbeat Latin percussion 954 00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:28,994 A woman I knew from the elections told me, 955 00:46:29,036 --> 00:46:30,996 "Why don't you go to college?" 956 00:46:31,038 --> 00:46:32,206 I told her, "College? 957 00:46:32,247 --> 00:46:33,624 I don't even have high school," and she says, 958 00:46:33,665 --> 00:46:37,002 "Oh, no, honey. You need to get your GED." 959 00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:40,798 Hostos Community College had a GED program, 960 00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:43,342 and I passed with a very high score. 961 00:46:43,383 --> 00:46:45,594 pensive piano music 962 00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:49,973 I enrolled at community college as soon as I got my GED. 963 00:46:50,015 --> 00:46:52,142 So I was going to school, raising a family, 964 00:46:52,184 --> 00:46:56,146 being a wife, working, being an activist, 965 00:46:56,188 --> 00:46:58,357 and getting my ass whipped... 966 00:47:12,037 --> 00:47:14,665 We already were not together, we were just living in the same 967 00:47:14,706 --> 00:47:19,545 household, and I kept telling him he had to leave. 968 00:47:23,048 --> 00:47:27,219 He didn't actually leave the household until my last child, 969 00:47:27,261 --> 00:47:30,848 Misty, was almost two years old. 970 00:47:30,889 --> 00:47:34,059 And then, you know, he left. 971 00:47:34,476 --> 00:47:36,270 And, uh... 972 00:47:36,311 --> 00:47:38,856 my life began. 973 00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:49,616 I remarried. 974 00:47:49,658 --> 00:47:53,829 I married what I consider -- and know to be -- the love of 975 00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:55,205 my life. 976 00:47:55,247 --> 00:47:58,417 This was a guy I dated way back in the day... 977 00:47:58,458 --> 00:47:59,418 Muah! 978 00:47:59,459 --> 00:48:01,044 Anniversary, it's our anniversary. 979 00:48:01,086 --> 00:48:03,046 He was the male version of me. 980 00:48:03,088 --> 00:48:06,091 He loved dancing, he loved old music... 981 00:48:06,133 --> 00:48:08,427 there was no putting hands on me. 982 00:48:08,468 --> 00:48:10,053 Go Maggie, it's your birthday. 983 00:48:10,095 --> 00:48:12,097 Go Maggie, it's your birthday. 984 00:48:12,139 --> 00:48:12,890 Okay! 985 00:48:12,931 --> 00:48:13,932 Okay! 986 00:48:24,484 --> 00:48:27,905 Who the fuck would ever think that with everything we did, 987 00:48:27,946 --> 00:48:30,073 everywhere we hung out, all this shit we did, 988 00:48:30,115 --> 00:48:33,952 I'd be a social worker and you'd be a teacher. 989 00:48:33,994 --> 00:48:35,454 And now I'm doing your feet. 990 00:48:35,495 --> 00:48:37,956 Ah, that feels so good! 991 00:48:37,998 --> 00:48:39,249 I know you need it. 992 00:48:39,291 --> 00:48:40,250 Ahh! 993 00:48:40,292 --> 00:48:42,085 That's Listerine in there, I put Listerine. 994 00:48:42,127 --> 00:48:42,878 Listerine? 995 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,546 Yeah, it's supposed to... 996 00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:45,589 Como es? 997 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:46,882 It's an antiseptic, so you like-- 998 00:48:46,924 --> 00:48:48,300 - Yeah. - Okay, 'cause I got a fungus? 999 00:48:48,342 --> 00:48:50,093 Yeah, it's real good. 1000 00:48:50,135 --> 00:48:51,470 It softens your skin and stuff. 1001 00:48:51,511 --> 00:48:52,930 I never knew that. 1002 00:48:52,971 --> 00:48:54,056 If I had little fishes, I would have put it in there too, 1003 00:48:54,097 --> 00:48:55,098 but I don't have-- 1004 00:48:55,140 --> 00:48:56,516 - Fish!? - You put fish in there. 1005 00:48:56,558 --> 00:48:57,893 Little fishes that eat your little-- 1006 00:48:57,935 --> 00:48:59,686 - No, no, that's never gonna-- - Eat your skin. 1007 00:48:59,728 --> 00:49:01,480 No, don't ever even think about it. 1008 00:49:01,521 --> 00:49:04,483 It's never gonna happen. 1009 00:49:04,524 --> 00:49:06,485 In 1986, my first brother, 1010 00:49:06,526 --> 00:49:09,529 Randy, died of AIDS. 1011 00:49:09,905 --> 00:49:13,492 He was in the hospital, and his food would be left outside. 1012 00:49:13,533 --> 00:49:16,787 They would not clean his room, because everybody was fearful of 1013 00:49:16,828 --> 00:49:19,122 the AIDS virus. 1014 00:49:19,164 --> 00:49:22,584 That really, really got to me. 1015 00:49:24,002 --> 00:49:27,506 I'm doing my internship now at Bronx Lebanon, 1016 00:49:27,547 --> 00:49:30,175 and I'm working with people with AIDS... 1017 00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:35,013 and one of my biggest problems is the incarcerated. 1018 00:49:35,138 --> 00:49:39,476 I would like to someday see a legislator where those who are 1019 00:49:39,518 --> 00:49:42,896 full-blown AIDS where there is some policy made that they can 1020 00:49:42,938 --> 00:49:44,940 come home and die. 1021 00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:48,318 I don't feel that just because you're an inmate, 1022 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,154 you shouldn't have the dignity to die. 1023 00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:54,825 And then my brother, Waxy, died of AIDS. 1024 00:49:55,575 --> 00:49:58,787 I've always had that special things with you because you're 1025 00:49:58,829 --> 00:50:00,998 my only connection... 1026 00:50:01,039 --> 00:50:03,166 to my brother. 1027 00:50:03,208 --> 00:50:06,962 That real connection, like, you know... 1028 00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:10,841 He left nothing else behind, you know? 1029 00:50:11,883 --> 00:50:12,968 I don' think I would be, 1030 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:14,011 right now, where I'm at right now. 1031 00:50:14,052 --> 00:50:16,179 I got like 14/15 years in the union. 1032 00:50:16,221 --> 00:50:17,180 Uh-huh. 1033 00:50:17,222 --> 00:50:19,182 Never been arrested... 1034 00:50:19,224 --> 00:50:21,226 never got in trouble, clean record, 1035 00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:22,227 finished high school. 1036 00:50:22,269 --> 00:50:23,812 Whenever... 1037 00:50:23,854 --> 00:50:25,564 you... 1038 00:50:25,605 --> 00:50:28,233 have an accomplishment... 1039 00:50:28,275 --> 00:50:32,863 I always say, you know, "Bro... 1040 00:50:32,904 --> 00:50:34,406 we did good." 1041 00:50:34,448 --> 00:50:37,075 I always say that. 1042 00:50:38,118 --> 00:50:40,579 I never ever got to tell you that, 1043 00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:45,250 the greatest gift you gave me... 1044 00:50:45,292 --> 00:50:49,838 was when I called you, and I told you 1045 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,257 that my brother was not gonna make it. 1046 00:50:52,299 --> 00:50:53,633 Mm-hm. 1047 00:50:53,675 --> 00:50:55,302 I remember when you walked in, 1048 00:50:55,343 --> 00:50:58,889 and I asked him, "Bro, you know who's that?" 1049 00:50:58,930 --> 00:51:02,100 And he said, "The love of my life." 1050 00:51:02,142 --> 00:51:03,268 And then you kissed him. 1051 00:51:04,978 --> 00:51:07,439 And remember? 1052 00:51:07,481 --> 00:51:08,899 And you did. 1053 00:51:08,940 --> 00:51:10,442 That's the way I am, I'm family. 1054 00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:11,651 Right. 1055 00:51:11,693 --> 00:51:13,278 - You know? - Right, right. 1056 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,280 When he died on us... 1057 00:51:15,322 --> 00:51:17,908 I was-- I went there before you... 1058 00:51:17,949 --> 00:51:20,452 So what I did was -- and I started feeling him-- feeling 1059 00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:23,288 his feet, 'cause, you know, I loved his feet -- so, 1060 00:51:23,330 --> 00:51:25,707 I opened the... 1061 00:51:25,749 --> 00:51:28,502 the thing, and I saw him naked. 1062 00:51:28,543 --> 00:51:30,962 And I touched his huevos... 1063 00:51:31,004 --> 00:51:33,965 and I touched his feet, and I kissed his feet, 1064 00:51:34,007 --> 00:51:36,510 and I closed it back. 1065 00:51:36,551 --> 00:51:38,637 I wasn't aware of that. 1066 00:51:38,678 --> 00:51:40,931 You know-- you know what my brother meant to me -- and still 1067 00:51:40,972 --> 00:51:42,641 does. 1068 00:51:42,682 --> 00:51:45,310 But I never knew that. 1069 00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:48,897 That gives me comfort because... 1070 00:51:48,939 --> 00:51:50,899 I know he knew you did that. 1071 00:51:50,941 --> 00:51:52,067 Yeah. 1072 00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:54,486 And so, you know, I know wherever he is, 1073 00:51:54,528 --> 00:51:56,154 he's happy. 1074 00:51:56,196 --> 00:51:59,699 That's what sealed more the love that I have for you. 1075 00:51:59,741 --> 00:52:01,201 Mm-hm. 1076 00:52:01,243 --> 00:52:03,495 And that's why I will always call you "my sister-in-law." 1077 00:52:03,537 --> 00:52:05,956 - Me too, I love you too. - You know...yeah. 1078 00:52:05,997 --> 00:52:07,707 And I love you... 1079 00:52:07,749 --> 00:52:10,335 and I want you to know that. 1080 00:52:10,377 --> 00:52:15,382 emotional music 1081 00:52:15,632 --> 00:52:20,804 I did go into the field of domestic violence after AIDS. 1082 00:52:22,556 --> 00:52:26,017 A woman should never be asked, "Why didn't you leave?" 1083 00:52:26,059 --> 00:52:29,521 Or "Why don't you leave?" 1084 00:52:29,563 --> 00:52:32,774 There are many different reasons why a woman stays... 1085 00:52:32,816 --> 00:52:35,360 economics, fear, 1086 00:52:35,402 --> 00:52:37,779 children, culture, 1087 00:52:37,821 --> 00:52:40,782 religion, immigration -- 1088 00:52:40,824 --> 00:52:45,245 they're undocumented, so they'll stay. 1089 00:52:50,208 --> 00:52:53,545 There's also love -- you really think you love this man. 1090 00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:55,338 The hope that you can change him, 1091 00:52:55,380 --> 00:52:57,340 that this is gonna pass, that, you know, 1092 00:52:57,382 --> 00:52:59,968 sooner or later it's gonna stop. 1093 00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:09,060 My children's father...he did apologize. 1094 00:53:09,102 --> 00:53:11,229 When I told him that I forgave him, 1095 00:53:11,271 --> 00:53:13,398 he got angry and he said, "You don't fuckin' need to 1096 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,774 forgive me!" 1097 00:53:14,816 --> 00:53:15,775 You know? 1098 00:53:15,817 --> 00:53:17,402 "I need to forgive myself. 1099 00:53:17,444 --> 00:53:19,571 I need to work on this." 1100 00:53:34,628 --> 00:53:35,420 Will you eat the flower? 1101 00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:38,089 Yeah, I'll eat that. 1102 00:53:38,131 --> 00:53:40,425 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 1103 00:53:40,467 --> 00:53:42,219 Only recently... 1104 00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:43,762 I began... 1105 00:53:43,803 --> 00:53:48,850 my journey to peace with my mom. 1106 00:53:50,477 --> 00:53:52,771 My mom was very stubborn... 1107 00:53:52,812 --> 00:53:56,399 like, she didn't say sorry, I did. 1108 00:53:56,441 --> 00:53:58,235 I said, "If I've ever offended you, 1109 00:53:58,276 --> 00:54:00,028 hurt, whatever, disrespected you, 1110 00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:02,447 I'm sorry, but I was me at that time, 1111 00:54:02,489 --> 00:54:04,074 and you was you." 1112 00:54:04,115 --> 00:54:06,409 And, um... 1113 00:54:06,451 --> 00:54:10,455 She said, "Ay, mi hija, no, no, no, no... 1114 00:54:10,497 --> 00:54:11,623 forget that. 1115 00:54:11,665 --> 00:54:13,625 You was a good daughter, you never disrespected me, 1116 00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:15,627 you never yelled..." and so on, and so forth. 1117 00:54:15,669 --> 00:54:17,087 And I'm looking at her like, "No, 1118 00:54:17,128 --> 00:54:20,924 that's not true, but I'll take it." 1119 00:54:22,676 --> 00:54:25,470 For the past months, like, I would call her, 1120 00:54:25,512 --> 00:54:27,472 and she'd be, "Don't come over. 1121 00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:29,641 You know your legs are bad, you know, stay home. 1122 00:54:29,683 --> 00:54:32,936 I'm okay, you could just call me." 1123 00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:37,524 My mom died... 1124 00:54:37,565 --> 00:54:40,151 Sunday. 1125 00:54:41,903 --> 00:54:44,281 She just left. 1126 00:54:44,322 --> 00:54:47,826 And I feel angry because, like, I didn't have you long enough, 1127 00:54:47,867 --> 00:54:49,286 so... 1128 00:54:49,327 --> 00:54:51,454 Why'd you do that, like, why'd you just... 1129 00:54:51,496 --> 00:54:54,332 you know? 1130 00:54:54,582 --> 00:54:59,087 Become my mommy and then... 1131 00:54:59,129 --> 00:55:02,173 and then just leave. 1132 00:55:05,343 --> 00:55:07,929 Yeah. 1133 00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:15,603 If anybody wants to say something you can because once I 1134 00:55:15,645 --> 00:55:18,523 go into pray and I'm finished, that will be it. 1135 00:55:18,565 --> 00:55:20,358 That's it, I'm just gonna pray. 1136 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:21,901 Go ahead. 1137 00:55:21,943 --> 00:55:25,155 She was my second mom... 1138 00:55:25,196 --> 00:55:28,700 and that woman always tried to guide me to the right path. 1139 00:55:28,742 --> 00:55:33,204 No matter what I'd done, she never judged me. 1140 00:55:33,246 --> 00:55:36,916 And if it wasn't for her that I had my last daughter, 1141 00:55:36,958 --> 00:55:40,086 and I was in prison at the time, when I got home, 1142 00:55:40,128 --> 00:55:42,672 I gave her my daughter's birth certificate, 1143 00:55:42,714 --> 00:55:46,509 paperwork, everything to prove that that was my child. 1144 00:55:46,551 --> 00:55:49,471 She told me, 1145 00:55:49,512 --> 00:55:51,139 Until you need 'em. 1146 00:55:51,181 --> 00:55:53,558 And I remember, I said, "Oh! 1147 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,518 Ma got my papers." 1148 00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,354 If it wasn't for having those papers, 1149 00:55:57,395 --> 00:55:59,731 I would never have my daughter back. 1150 00:55:59,773 --> 00:56:01,566 And I know you in the right place, 1151 00:56:01,608 --> 00:56:03,526 and you okay -- you ain't hurting no more -- because I 1152 00:56:03,568 --> 00:56:06,905 don't want you to hurt, that's how much I love you. 1153 00:56:06,946 --> 00:56:10,408 Bendicion, may you rest in peace. 1154 00:56:11,576 --> 00:56:14,162 Our Father, who art in Heaven, 1155 00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:17,374 hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; 1156 00:56:17,415 --> 00:56:20,752 thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. 1157 00:56:20,794 --> 00:56:23,588 Give us this day our daily bread... 1158 00:56:49,406 --> 00:56:50,573 Great... 1159 00:56:50,615 --> 00:56:52,992 somebody don't want me to smoke. 1160 00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:14,639 I was cleaning up the desk, and I found this, right? 1161 00:57:14,681 --> 00:57:17,600 Oh, man, that was our sister. 1162 00:57:17,642 --> 00:57:19,602 Yeah. Like, Mija and Evelyn-- 1163 00:57:19,644 --> 00:57:20,645 Don't get mad. 1164 00:57:20,687 --> 00:57:22,647 No, why would I get mad? 1165 00:57:22,689 --> 00:57:24,441 You know she was in love with me. 1166 00:57:24,482 --> 00:57:25,442 Yes, she told me. 1167 00:57:26,693 --> 00:57:27,652 She told me, "Oh my God, Johnny called," 1168 00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:29,612 and I told you, she said, "Johnny Cool? 1169 00:57:29,654 --> 00:57:31,656 Oh my God, do you know I have a crush on him?" 1170 00:57:31,698 --> 00:57:33,324 I said, "Well, it ends now." 1171 00:57:34,868 --> 00:57:36,119 It's like, every time I turn around, 1172 00:57:36,161 --> 00:57:38,288 somebody else dies from the old school, 1173 00:57:38,329 --> 00:57:38,997 you know what I mean? 1174 00:57:39,038 --> 00:57:41,416 And it's a lot of people. 1175 00:57:41,458 --> 00:57:43,001 I made a list... 1176 00:57:43,042 --> 00:57:44,002 look. 1177 00:57:44,043 --> 00:57:45,587 It's Nuni, Satch, Mingi, Hippie, 1178 00:57:45,628 --> 00:57:47,589 Carlito, Julito, Hollywood, Giganto, 1179 00:57:47,630 --> 00:57:51,217 Marlo, Robot T, Dulce, Lil' Outlaw, 1180 00:57:51,259 --> 00:57:54,637 then Gary, Chino -- his brother, Chino -- 1181 00:57:54,679 --> 00:57:55,680 then is Wilson, my compai, Beef... 1182 00:57:55,722 --> 00:57:56,598 Yeah, yeah. 1183 00:57:56,639 --> 00:57:57,807 Franco, my brother Waxy, 1184 00:57:57,849 --> 00:58:00,602 my brother Randy, Shadow, Smokey. 1185 00:58:00,643 --> 00:58:04,022 That's Savage Skulls alone -- men... 1186 00:58:04,063 --> 00:58:05,648 that have died. 1187 00:58:05,690 --> 00:58:07,859 The women, I got one, two, three, 1188 00:58:07,901 --> 00:58:10,278 four, five, six. 1189 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,030 Yep. 1190 00:58:12,071 --> 00:58:15,533 We lived through a really... 1191 00:58:15,575 --> 00:58:17,660 violent era, John. 1192 00:58:17,702 --> 00:58:18,703 We really did. 1193 00:58:18,745 --> 00:58:19,871 Yeah, yeah. 1194 00:58:19,913 --> 00:58:23,708 And for you and I to still be standing... 1195 00:58:23,750 --> 00:58:26,711 and being able to... 1196 00:58:26,753 --> 00:58:29,714 to be in the lives of our grandchildren, 1197 00:58:29,756 --> 00:58:30,798 our children... 1198 00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:31,716 - We are blessed. - Exactly. 1199 00:58:31,758 --> 00:58:33,676 - I'm glad you're alive. - You too.  1200 00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:36,554 Me too. 1201 00:58:36,596 --> 00:58:41,559 ominous music 1202 00:58:50,735 --> 00:58:53,863 A scary scene in one Bronx neighborhood as two people are 1203 00:58:53,905 --> 00:58:57,283 shot -- one of the victims, a three-year-old child. 1204 00:58:57,325 --> 00:59:02,372 dramatic music 1205 00:59:09,754 --> 00:59:13,091 My grandson calls me "Nona.".. 1206 00:59:13,132 --> 00:59:14,926 and he was crying and calling my name. 1207 00:59:14,968 --> 00:59:17,345 He was like, "Nona, help me! 1208 00:59:17,387 --> 00:59:19,931 Nona, it hurts!" 1209 00:59:19,973 --> 00:59:21,933 And I couldn't do anything. 1210 00:59:21,975 --> 00:59:24,561 I couldn't even go in the room. 1211 00:59:43,329 --> 00:59:45,373 I held a press conference. 1212 00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:50,461 We discuss what we can do to make the laws tougher. 1213 00:59:54,966 --> 00:59:57,343 They cannot shoot where there's a school, 1214 00:59:57,385 --> 01:00:01,598 where there's a playground, wherever children gather... 1215 01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:04,350 then you should get an automatic sentence. 1216 01:00:04,392 --> 01:00:07,937 I believe you should get 15 years. 1217 01:00:07,979 --> 01:00:10,565 We decided to call the law "Luisito's Law" after my 1218 01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:12,775 grandson. 1219 01:00:12,817 --> 01:00:15,361 After that, I haven't heard a word from anybody. 1220 01:00:15,403 --> 01:00:20,450 hopeful music 1221 01:00:29,667 --> 01:00:33,630 And the shooter was apprehended? 1222 01:00:33,671 --> 01:00:37,508 What's your son? 1223 01:00:38,885 --> 01:00:40,803 All right, of course. 1224 01:00:40,845 --> 01:00:43,097 We'll talk soon. 1225 01:00:44,057 --> 01:00:46,017 - Hello. - Buenos dias. 1226 01:00:46,059 --> 01:00:48,853 Have a seat, and get a seat for your aide. 1227 01:00:48,895 --> 01:00:50,688 So, the way that it works is that you have an Assembly and a 1228 01:00:50,730 --> 01:00:52,315 Senate, right? 1229 01:00:52,357 --> 01:00:54,233 Both of those have to pass the same bills -- so it's called a 1230 01:00:54,275 --> 01:00:57,862 "same as" -- and then it gets-- once-- once it pass-- it's 1231 01:00:57,904 --> 01:00:59,489 passed by the Assembly, passed by the Senate on the same 1232 01:00:59,530 --> 01:01:01,491 version, then the Governor signs it, 1233 01:01:01,532 --> 01:01:02,700 and it becomes a law. 1234 01:01:02,742 --> 01:01:04,869 Or the governor vetos it, and it doesn't become a law. 1235 01:01:04,911 --> 01:01:07,872 So in the case, right now, there is no same as. 1236 01:01:07,914 --> 01:01:10,249 Right now, the version in the Assembly and the Senate are not 1237 01:01:10,291 --> 01:01:12,877 the same ones, so it seems that Klein and Sepulveda have 1238 01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:15,046 stopped talking to each other about this particular thing. 1239 01:01:15,088 --> 01:01:17,507 So it tells me that it's not really a priority. 1240 01:01:17,548 --> 01:01:18,257 Mm-hm. 1241 01:01:18,299 --> 01:01:19,050 And that-- 1242 01:01:19,092 --> 01:01:19,884 But it's gonna be. 1243 01:01:19,926 --> 01:01:22,053 Okay, this-- and that certainly-- 1244 01:01:22,095 --> 01:01:26,099 Is gonna be a priority, because I don't play. 1245 01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:30,061 Smile, you're on 'Candid Camera.' 1246 01:01:30,395 --> 01:01:33,731 Show Titi Lena -- Josie. 1247 01:01:33,773 --> 01:01:35,149 Ay, que linda! 1248 01:01:37,193 --> 01:01:41,239 pensive piano music 1249 01:01:46,285 --> 01:01:47,704 I don't know if you remember what I told you, 1250 01:01:47,745 --> 01:01:50,540 like, you know, I never knew who strong you were, 1251 01:01:50,581 --> 01:01:53,543 or had to be until-- until I had to be. 1252 01:01:53,584 --> 01:01:55,086 Right. 1253 01:01:58,965 --> 01:02:02,760 I know inside somewhere, 1254 01:02:02,802 --> 01:02:05,304 she's hurting that she couldn't avoid 1255 01:02:05,346 --> 01:02:08,933 that trauma for my grandson... 1256 01:02:08,975 --> 01:02:12,937 - but it's a trauma that happened - - not only to my grandson -- 1257 01:02:12,979 --> 01:02:15,815 but to the family. 1258 01:02:18,818 --> 01:02:20,778 You know, I appreciate everything -- everything you 1259 01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:22,947 taught me -- and... 1260 01:02:22,989 --> 01:02:25,783 I am who I am today because of you. 1261 01:02:25,825 --> 01:02:27,785 Yeah, thanks. 1262 01:02:27,827 --> 01:02:28,578 I love you. 1263 01:02:28,619 --> 01:02:29,787 I love you more. 1264 01:02:29,829 --> 01:02:31,038 You're my spirit... 1265 01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:32,039 always will be. 1266 01:02:39,797 --> 01:02:42,300 I'm really glad we're doing this...it is cold, though. 1267 01:02:42,341 --> 01:02:44,135 I am too. 1268 01:02:44,177 --> 01:02:46,179 I know. 1269 01:02:48,848 --> 01:02:50,308 How are you, nice to see you again. 1270 01:02:50,349 --> 01:02:50,975 Good to see you. 1271 01:02:51,017 --> 01:02:52,560 It's good to see you. 1272 01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:54,145 She just wants you to know that, yes, 1273 01:02:54,187 --> 01:02:55,980 she-- I do represent her. 1274 01:02:56,022 --> 01:02:57,982 - Okay. - Oh, all right  1275 01:02:58,024 --> 01:02:59,567 Whatever I say goes. 1276 01:02:59,609 --> 01:03:01,944 All right, Mami, dios te bendiga. 1277 01:03:01,986 --> 01:03:03,321 I'll see you later, okay? 1278 01:03:03,362 --> 01:03:05,823 All right. 1279 01:03:08,409 --> 01:03:11,829 Let me begin by saying that I appreciate 1280 01:03:11,871 --> 01:03:14,624 that you're taking the time to 1281 01:03:14,665 --> 01:03:17,376 really put some time into this particular, 1282 01:03:17,418 --> 01:03:19,378 um, bill. 1283 01:03:19,420 --> 01:03:21,464 So what I want to know... 1284 01:03:21,506 --> 01:03:22,673 is there an update? 1285 01:03:22,715 --> 01:03:24,383 Is there anything that we're going to do, 1286 01:03:24,425 --> 01:03:25,676 we need to do? 1287 01:03:25,718 --> 01:03:28,638 You know, I want you guys to fill me in. 1288 01:03:28,679 --> 01:03:30,014 Okay. 1289 01:03:30,056 --> 01:03:32,016 Well, I have passed the bill before in the Senate. 1290 01:03:32,058 --> 01:03:36,020 I think we need a strategy to get it done again, 1291 01:03:36,062 --> 01:03:38,231 but most importantly, in the Assembly. 1292 01:03:38,272 --> 01:03:40,024 Another problem we face in the Assembly is, 1293 01:03:40,066 --> 01:03:43,194 historically, uh... 1294 01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:47,990 criminal justice penalties have been 1295 01:03:48,032 --> 01:03:52,036 unfair to communities of color, and there is a built-in 1296 01:03:52,078 --> 01:03:54,872 resistance to increase penalties in the Assembly 1297 01:03:54,914 --> 01:03:59,001 Chamber for this kind of offense. 1298 01:03:59,043 --> 01:04:03,464 I know how it has been unfair to us, 1299 01:04:03,506 --> 01:04:07,009 but I think that the message we have to give is that this is not 1300 01:04:07,051 --> 01:04:10,888 about what color you are or what community it happens -- although 1301 01:04:10,930 --> 01:04:13,057 it's happening so much in our communities. 1302 01:04:13,099 --> 01:04:17,895 My daughter has-- um, is suffering from anxiety attacks 1303 01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:19,272 - - something she never had. 1304 01:04:19,313 --> 01:04:20,857 We'll put together a plan. 1305 01:04:20,898 --> 01:04:24,068 As I said, we want to start getting letters to newspapers, 1306 01:04:24,110 --> 01:04:26,696 and then, finally, let's organize a trip, 1307 01:04:26,737 --> 01:04:31,242 you know, to Albany, and tell your story to legislators. 1308 01:04:31,284 --> 01:04:32,702 That's how you're thinking too? 1309 01:04:32,743 --> 01:04:35,121 That's what we're thinking, absolutely. 1310 01:04:36,289 --> 01:04:41,252 anxious music 1311 01:05:05,151 --> 01:05:07,945 Yeah, I've been in the same apartment 35 years. 1312 01:05:07,987 --> 01:05:10,114 They're building four new buildings...great. 1313 01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:13,117 But now there's not even a patch of grass for the kids to play. 1314 01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:15,077 You're gonna put a dog park, and you're gonna take the kid 1315 01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:16,287 park away? That don't make no sense. 1316 01:05:16,329 --> 01:05:18,497 They took the playground. 1317 01:05:18,539 --> 01:05:20,583 They took the two basketball courts. 1318 01:05:20,625 --> 01:05:23,961 They took the basketball courts. 1319 01:05:26,005 --> 01:05:26,964 How are you, Lorine? 1320 01:05:27,006 --> 01:05:28,299 Hey, yes, how are you? 1321 01:05:28,341 --> 01:05:30,509 This is the legend...it's a pleasure to finally meet you. 1322 01:05:30,551 --> 01:05:32,511 Ah, no, you're the legend now. You're the legend now. 1323 01:05:32,553 --> 01:05:34,180 Can I have a hug? You're a constituent, so... 1324 01:05:34,221 --> 01:05:36,182 - Sure, sure, sure. - Good to meet you. 1325 01:05:36,223 --> 01:05:37,975 You know, I'm gonna tell you something... 1326 01:05:38,017 --> 01:05:39,685 Please. 1327 01:05:39,727 --> 01:05:41,687 I didn't vote for you. 1328 01:05:41,729 --> 01:05:43,105 I'm shocked, why? 1329 01:05:43,147 --> 01:05:44,690 - Ima tell you. - Yeah. 1330 01:05:44,732 --> 01:05:48,069 Um, during your interviews and all that, um... 1331 01:05:48,110 --> 01:05:50,321 I really thought you was like this uppity Puerto Rican that 1332 01:05:50,363 --> 01:05:51,781 came from Riverdale or... 1333 01:05:51,822 --> 01:05:53,491 - Somewhere like that. 1334 01:05:53,532 --> 01:05:54,492 You know, they said Obama was uppity. 1335 01:05:54,533 --> 01:05:55,952 He didn't do too bad, right? 1336 01:05:55,993 --> 01:05:57,495 I don't know, but we're not talking about Obama. 1337 01:05:57,536 --> 01:05:58,955 - We're talking about you. 1338 01:05:58,996 --> 01:06:01,332 And, um... 1339 01:06:01,374 --> 01:06:04,168 so, you know, I said, "I can't vote for this guy. 1340 01:06:04,210 --> 01:06:06,754 Who he think he is, Captain Save-a-Ho or something? 1341 01:06:06,796 --> 01:06:08,005 He's gonna come into my-- 1342 01:06:08,047 --> 01:06:09,340 By the way, I'm not from Riverdale . 1343 01:06:09,382 --> 01:06:10,758 No, hey, I read your bio. 1344 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:12,176 Projects-- I'm from the projects. 1345 01:06:12,218 --> 01:06:13,970 After I read your bio, you know, 1346 01:06:14,011 --> 01:06:16,973 and then I-- I started to kind of watch you and follow you and 1347 01:06:17,014 --> 01:06:19,767 that kind of stuff -- you know, on the news and stuff -- and I'm 1348 01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:22,186 pretty happy, you know, with what I see, 1349 01:06:22,228 --> 01:06:23,354 especially because you're-- I don't know, 1350 01:06:23,396 --> 01:06:24,522 what is it? 1351 01:06:24,563 --> 01:06:26,023 You're chairman or something of housing? 1352 01:06:26,065 --> 01:06:28,025 So, originally I was Chair of NYCHA. 1353 01:06:28,067 --> 01:06:29,068 Right. 1354 01:06:30,069 --> 01:06:31,195 and now I'm Chair of Investigations, so... 1355 01:06:31,237 --> 01:06:33,030 Oh, very good. 1356 01:06:33,072 --> 01:06:38,035 All this you're walking on, I was part of rebuilding. 1357 01:06:38,077 --> 01:06:39,161 So you're living in something you created. 1358 01:06:39,203 --> 01:06:40,162 I created. 1359 01:06:40,204 --> 01:06:41,330 - Isn't that-- - This was-- well-- 1360 01:06:41,372 --> 01:06:42,957 This is your legacy. 1361 01:06:42,999 --> 01:06:44,125 Kind of, yeah. 1362 01:06:44,166 --> 01:06:45,334 And this is Frankie. 1363 01:06:45,376 --> 01:06:46,711 I'm Ritchie, how are you? 1364 01:06:46,752 --> 01:06:47,294 - How are you? Welcome. - Good to meet you. 1365 01:06:47,294 --> 01:06:50,214 He's one of the few original tenants here. 1366 01:06:50,256 --> 01:06:51,132 Hey, Ma, bendicion. 1367 01:06:51,173 --> 01:06:52,800 Que Dios te bendiga, mi hijo. 1368 01:06:52,842 --> 01:06:53,759 How are you? 1369 01:06:53,801 --> 01:06:55,219 I'm good, dear. 1370 01:06:55,261 --> 01:06:56,637 What do you think of politicians? 1371 01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:57,805 You can... 1372 01:06:57,847 --> 01:06:59,015 In the most part, you want me to be honest? 1373 01:06:59,056 --> 01:07:00,307 Yeah, be honest with me. 1374 01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:01,392 - I think they're full of shit. - Yeah. 1375 01:07:01,434 --> 01:07:02,643 In the most part. 1376 01:07:02,685 --> 01:07:04,228 You know, they promise you a rose garden, 1377 01:07:04,270 --> 01:07:06,230 and when you get there... 1378 01:07:06,272 --> 01:07:08,232 it's dead weed. 1379 01:07:08,274 --> 01:07:09,567 You have to be in the streets. 1380 01:07:09,608 --> 01:07:11,235 You have to be with the people. 1381 01:07:11,277 --> 01:07:12,403 You have to really listen. 1382 01:07:12,445 --> 01:07:14,238 You have to walk around, look around, 1383 01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:18,200 and-- and-- listen to their-- what their passionate about. 1384 01:07:18,242 --> 01:07:20,578 There was a shootout the other day, 1385 01:07:20,619 --> 01:07:22,830 my daughter, she's getting out her car to go into the 1386 01:07:22,872 --> 01:07:26,250 supermarket, and the shooting began. 1387 01:07:26,292 --> 01:07:29,837 This is the same mother of the child who was shot. 1388 01:07:29,879 --> 01:07:32,882 You know, poverty in America, poverty in the inner-cities 1389 01:07:32,923 --> 01:07:35,718 often means the experience of trauma... 1390 01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,095 because when you're living in poverty you're not only lacking 1391 01:07:38,137 --> 01:07:40,848 access to healthcare, and to housing, 1392 01:07:40,890 --> 01:07:44,602 and to fresh food, but you're often experiencing the trauma. 1393 01:07:44,643 --> 01:07:46,854 dramatic music 1394 01:07:46,896 --> 01:07:48,022 I worry for my son. 1395 01:07:48,064 --> 01:07:49,815 My son goes to school, and sometimes, 1396 01:07:49,857 --> 01:07:51,609 you know, I listen to the conversations he comes back home 1397 01:07:51,650 --> 01:07:54,028 with about what the stuff his friends talk about, 1398 01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:55,404 and the things that they're worried about. 1399 01:07:55,446 --> 01:07:56,655 You know, my son is nine years old, 1400 01:07:56,697 --> 01:07:58,240 and they're worried about bills. 1401 01:07:58,282 --> 01:07:59,825 He's worried about if I have enough money to buy him a 1402 01:07:59,867 --> 01:08:00,826 birthday gift. 1403 01:08:00,868 --> 01:08:02,036 Why should he worry about that? 1404 01:08:02,078 --> 01:08:04,455 That should be the furthest thing on his mind. 1405 01:08:04,497 --> 01:08:07,458 But he's worried if we have enough light on in the house so 1406 01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:09,085 that anything left over on the side, 1407 01:08:09,126 --> 01:08:11,128 he can get some. 1408 01:08:12,922 --> 01:08:15,299 Look at the earrings Brandon gave me everybody. 1409 01:08:15,341 --> 01:08:17,635 They're gorgeous. 1410 01:08:17,676 --> 01:08:19,261 See, everybody likes them. 1411 01:08:19,303 --> 01:08:20,930 They're jealous because they don't got them. 1412 01:08:23,682 --> 01:08:26,644 You have a daughter and you have this handsome dude over 1413 01:08:26,685 --> 01:08:28,646 here... 1414 01:08:28,687 --> 01:08:31,107 and, um, and you're not working. 1415 01:08:31,148 --> 01:08:32,149 Yes. 1416 01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:34,110 Sometimes I feel this sense of desperation. 1417 01:08:34,151 --> 01:08:36,779 Now, granted, I have a mind to know better, 1418 01:08:36,821 --> 01:08:40,241 but not everybody can, you know, maintain their emotions, 1419 01:08:40,282 --> 01:08:42,243 which is what causes somebody, uh, 1420 01:08:42,284 --> 01:08:43,869 to act out in society. 1421 01:08:43,911 --> 01:08:45,121 Meaning violence. 1422 01:08:45,162 --> 01:08:46,455 People are in desperation -- violence, yeah. 1423 01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:48,457 People act out in violence, people feel the need to steal, 1424 01:08:48,499 --> 01:08:49,458 to take. 1425 01:08:49,500 --> 01:08:51,252 People are just lookin for a resort; 1426 01:08:51,293 --> 01:08:54,880 they're looking for a solution to a problem. 1427 01:08:54,922 --> 01:08:57,299 My son walks from el barrio to the Bronx, 1428 01:08:57,341 --> 01:09:00,261 and so he sees those condos down by -- I think it's 138 -- 1429 01:09:00,302 --> 01:09:01,887 I don't know, some waterfront. 1430 01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:03,305 You've got the piano district... 1431 01:09:03,347 --> 01:09:04,682 Yeah. 1432 01:09:04,723 --> 01:09:06,475 What the-- what the fuck is that...piano district? 1433 01:09:06,517 --> 01:09:07,476 Bullshit. 1434 01:09:07,518 --> 01:09:08,686 Yeah, you know what I'm saying? 1435 01:09:08,727 --> 01:09:10,312 We're screwed. We're screwed. 1436 01:09:10,354 --> 01:09:13,357 We're gonna become, you know, Brooklyn. 1437 01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:15,151 I've watched you bring neighborhoods where 1438 01:09:15,192 --> 01:09:15,943 neighborhoods didn't exist. 1439 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:19,530 I've watched you bring school programs where schools didn't 1440 01:09:19,572 --> 01:09:21,031 exist. 1441 01:09:21,073 --> 01:09:23,159 I've watched you bring the district to a-- to a brighter 1442 01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:24,535 light for the community. 1443 01:09:24,577 --> 01:09:26,954 I've seen you bring the relations between the school 1444 01:09:26,996 --> 01:09:30,374 districts and the community themselves together, 1445 01:09:30,416 --> 01:09:33,335 and I've watched-- I've also watched it crumble. 1446 01:09:33,377 --> 01:09:36,380 And it gives me a sense of, again, 1447 01:09:36,422 --> 01:09:41,135 the word "fear" for my future, but I haven't lost hope... 1448 01:09:41,552 --> 01:09:44,305 because there's still people out there who's fighting for us. 1449 01:09:44,346 --> 01:09:47,933 There's still people out there who believe strongly in 1450 01:09:47,975 --> 01:09:49,518 community. 1451 01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:54,398 dramamtic music 1452 01:10:07,369 --> 01:10:09,538 I ran for office when I was 24.... 1453 01:10:09,580 --> 01:10:12,750 I'm 30 -- what's your advice for me? 1454 01:10:12,791 --> 01:10:15,211 My advice... 1455 01:10:15,252 --> 01:10:17,838 continue to fight -- you fighting now -- but reach out to 1456 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,217 that young generation, and look, look around. 1457 01:10:21,258 --> 01:10:22,843 Really listen to them, look around, 1458 01:10:22,885 --> 01:10:26,597 and find that person or people 1459 01:10:26,639 --> 01:10:28,432 that you can mentor -- 1460 01:10:28,474 --> 01:10:31,018 bring them into your office, show them how it works. 1461 01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:32,019 Yeah. 1462 01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:33,020 And you came from the projects, 1463 01:10:33,062 --> 01:10:34,396 and you come from a single home. 1464 01:10:34,438 --> 01:10:35,606 Yeah. 1465 01:10:35,648 --> 01:10:37,608 So, you've been in those trenches. 1466 01:10:37,650 --> 01:10:40,027 You know, when I was young and people would try to get me out 1467 01:10:40,069 --> 01:10:44,031 of gangs and all this stuff because they saw what I see, 1468 01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:45,449 um... 1469 01:10:45,491 --> 01:10:48,244 if you didn't-- if you didn't walk the walk, 1470 01:10:48,285 --> 01:10:50,621 then you can't talk the talk to me, 1471 01:10:50,663 --> 01:10:51,622 you know? 1472 01:10:51,664 --> 01:10:53,624 Don't come from Riverdale, talking about, 1473 01:10:53,666 --> 01:10:55,459 "I want to help you, let's do..." 1474 01:10:55,501 --> 01:10:57,294 No, I don't want to deal with you. 1475 01:10:57,336 --> 01:10:58,462 You don't know. 1476 01:10:58,504 --> 01:10:59,463 Or country club. 1477 01:10:59,505 --> 01:11:00,506 Yeah. 1478 01:11:00,547 --> 01:11:01,465 You don't know. 1479 01:11:01,507 --> 01:11:02,675 You're not here in the pit... 1480 01:11:02,716 --> 01:11:05,094 in the, you know, the bowel of the city. 1481 01:11:05,135 --> 01:11:07,471 This is the South Bronx, you know? 1482 01:11:07,513 --> 01:11:10,391 So, connect with that. 1483 01:11:10,891 --> 01:11:12,142 But I'm here. 1484 01:11:12,184 --> 01:11:13,477 - And you have hope. - And I have hope. 1485 01:11:13,519 --> 01:11:14,853 - And you're fighting. - And I'm fighting. 1486 01:11:14,895 --> 01:11:17,106 And I'm gonna fight until I can't breathe anymore -- and I'm 1487 01:11:17,147 --> 01:11:19,316 a smoker, so I don't know when that's gonna be. 1488 01:11:19,358 --> 01:11:21,860 But, uh, I'm gonna fight. 1489 01:11:21,902 --> 01:11:26,949 anxious music 1490 01:11:31,745 --> 01:11:33,789 Okay. 1491 01:12:03,736 --> 01:12:06,780 - Going up? - Mm-hm. 1492 01:12:11,201 --> 01:12:15,372 For the purposes of an introduction, Mr. Sepulveda. 1493 01:12:15,414 --> 01:12:16,582 Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me 1494 01:12:16,623 --> 01:12:18,208 this introduction. 1495 01:12:18,250 --> 01:12:20,919 I've been here six years now, um, 1496 01:12:20,961 --> 01:12:24,173 and I've brought many people to this chamber, 1497 01:12:24,214 --> 01:12:26,550 but none more important than the young man that I'm bringing 1498 01:12:26,592 --> 01:12:30,387 today, Luisito Oyola. 1499 01:12:30,429 --> 01:12:32,389 He's a survivor. 1500 01:12:32,431 --> 01:12:35,601 His grandmother has been an activist in the South Bronx for 1501 01:12:35,642 --> 01:12:38,562 many years, she has helped fight for just causes throughout our 1502 01:12:38,604 --> 01:12:42,566 community, and today she's here with her grandson who was the 1503 01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:45,569 victim of the senseless gun violence. 1504 01:12:45,611 --> 01:12:48,572 She's here to advocate for justice for her grandson... 1505 01:12:48,614 --> 01:12:51,408 We welcome both of you here to the New York State Assembly. 1506 01:12:51,450 --> 01:12:54,578 We extend to you the priveledges of the floor, 1507 01:12:54,620 --> 01:12:58,374 and, Grandma, thank you for being there to support and grow 1508 01:12:58,415 --> 01:12:59,166 with him. 1509 01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:00,584 Thank you so very much. 1510 01:13:04,463 --> 01:13:06,048 That's for you! 1511 01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:08,967 That's for you! 1512 01:13:09,009 --> 01:13:10,427 That's for you! 1513 01:13:10,469 --> 01:13:11,595 Thank you. 1514 01:13:11,637 --> 01:13:13,639 An incident broke out between a couple of induviduals, 1515 01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:17,226 and one of them discharged his weapon -- this was by a 1516 01:13:17,267 --> 01:13:20,437 playground -- and Lucito was, uh, injured. 1517 01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,774 He was shot in the arm -- thank God it wasn't fatal -- and you 1518 01:13:23,816 --> 01:13:27,069 can see he's a healthy, handsome... 1519 01:13:27,111 --> 01:13:28,445 Much better-looking than you, man. 1520 01:13:29,655 --> 01:13:30,781 Not hard to do. 1521 01:13:30,823 --> 01:13:32,282 He's wondering-- wondering here what-- 1522 01:13:32,324 --> 01:13:34,785 And I think that you can see in his eyes that, 1523 01:13:34,827 --> 01:13:35,786 you know... 1524 01:13:35,828 --> 01:13:37,037 - He's emotional. - Come on, baby. 1525 01:13:37,079 --> 01:13:38,664 Come with me. Come with me. 1526 01:13:38,705 --> 01:13:39,581 Sit next to grandma. 1527 01:13:39,623 --> 01:13:41,417 Come, come, Nono. 1528 01:13:41,458 --> 01:13:43,419 - Sit next to grandma - - as you can see... 1529 01:13:43,460 --> 01:13:44,795 Come, Nono. 1530 01:13:44,837 --> 01:13:46,213 It's okay. 1531 01:13:46,255 --> 01:13:48,424 As a result of the incident that Jeff Klein in the Senate -- 1532 01:13:48,465 --> 01:13:49,967 myself in the Assembly -- we, uh, 1533 01:13:50,008 --> 01:13:53,220 are trying to pass a bill called Lucitio's Law, 1534 01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:56,807 which creates a specific Class-B Felony for anyone who discharges 1535 01:13:56,849 --> 01:13:58,809 a weapon by a playgorund, by a school, 1536 01:13:58,851 --> 01:14:00,602 anywhere where you know there's a tendency to be a lot 1537 01:14:00,644 --> 01:14:01,979 of children. 1538 01:14:02,020 --> 01:14:04,481 We understand that-- that the criminal justice system in 1539 01:14:04,523 --> 01:14:06,650 this-- in this state, in this country, 1540 01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:08,819 is extremely unfair to comunities of color, 1541 01:14:08,861 --> 01:14:12,823 but when it comes to people discharging their weapons in an 1542 01:14:12,865 --> 01:14:15,868 area where you have children, I have no sympathy. 1543 01:14:15,909 --> 01:14:18,871 And so I'm going ot ask all of you for your support. 1544 01:14:18,912 --> 01:14:20,831 So, thank you all. I have the bill here. 1545 01:14:20,873 --> 01:14:22,291 I have a-- the letter. 1546 01:14:22,332 --> 01:14:24,501 If you want more information, uh, 1547 01:14:24,543 --> 01:14:26,920 I'd be happy ot give it to you. 1548 01:14:37,723 --> 01:14:39,141 Senate will come to order. 1549 01:14:39,183 --> 01:14:41,435 Uh, yes, Mr. President, can you please recognize Senator 1550 01:14:41,477 --> 01:14:44,271 Klein for a brief introduciton? 1551 01:14:44,313 --> 01:14:45,481 Senator Klien. 1552 01:14:45,522 --> 01:14:46,857 Thank you, Mr. President. 1553 01:14:46,899 --> 01:14:49,693 I rise today to introduce, uh, a very speical, 1554 01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:51,278 uh, young visitor. 1555 01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,657 Today visiting Albany is Luis Oyola Jr, 1556 01:14:55,699 --> 01:14:58,869 and his wonderful grandmother, Lorine. 1557 01:14:58,911 --> 01:15:02,498 I first met the two of them after an unfortunate incident 1558 01:15:02,539 --> 01:15:06,543 that took place in a Bronx playground in 2013. 1559 01:15:06,585 --> 01:15:10,714 Him and his granmother, uh, have been a fighting force to pass a 1560 01:15:10,756 --> 01:15:12,883 very important piece of legislation, 1561 01:15:12,925 --> 01:15:15,552 uh, called Luicito's Law. 1562 01:15:15,594 --> 01:15:17,346 Messages from the Assembly... 1563 01:15:17,387 --> 01:15:21,892 I will always live with one foot in the activist world, 1564 01:15:21,934 --> 01:15:24,561 and the other foot in the outlaw, 1565 01:15:24,603 --> 01:15:27,397 street-gang world. 1566 01:15:28,815 --> 01:15:32,361 It's my life, I cannot separate the two. 1567 01:15:32,402 --> 01:15:35,405 Oh my God, always good to see you, my love. 1568 01:15:36,782 --> 01:15:37,950 Bendicion. 1569 01:15:37,991 --> 01:15:39,368 Santo, Dios te bendiga. 1570 01:15:39,409 --> 01:15:41,119 Santo, Dios te bendiga. 1571 01:15:41,912 --> 01:15:43,705 Come here! 1572 01:15:43,747 --> 01:15:45,707 And even though our kids grew up with this, 1573 01:15:45,749 --> 01:15:46,208 our kids came out fine. 1574 01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:47,668 They are fine. And our grandkids. 1575 01:15:47,709 --> 01:15:49,753 Oh! Even better. 1576 01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:52,548 Our grandkids are gonna be even better. 1577 01:15:52,589 --> 01:15:54,341 Absolutely. 1578 01:15:54,383 --> 01:15:55,592 Circles! 1579 01:15:55,634 --> 01:15:56,593 No, this way. 1580 01:15:56,635 --> 01:15:58,762 This way, you're coming this way. 1581 01:15:58,804 --> 01:16:01,765 I hope that everybody gets to hear me. 1582 01:16:01,807 --> 01:16:03,559 - Yeah, you've got a big mouth! 1583 01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,102 Oh, you shut the fuck up! 1584 01:16:07,813 --> 01:16:10,357 Lord, you know that we are all gathered here in the name of 1585 01:16:10,399 --> 01:16:12,568 Jerry, our sister. 1586 01:16:12,609 --> 01:16:15,362 Just remember that we all brothers and sisters -- no 1587 01:16:15,404 --> 01:16:19,741 matter what club, no matter uh, whether it's a card club or 1588 01:16:19,783 --> 01:16:22,786 a outlaw club, a MC club -- it doesn't matter -- or 1589 01:16:22,828 --> 01:16:26,415 a street commando -- we're all brothers and sisters, 1590 01:16:26,456 --> 01:16:27,791 and let's all look out for each other, 1591 01:16:27,833 --> 01:16:30,794 respect each other, and love each other...in the name of 1592 01:16:30,836 --> 01:16:32,421 Jerry, I ask you. 1593 01:16:32,462 --> 01:16:34,798 And now we should let these balloons go. 1594 01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,968 "I Wish You Love" performed by Joe Bataan 1595 01:16:51,773 --> 01:16:55,777 I wish you bluebirds in the spring 1596 01:16:55,819 --> 01:17:00,240 To give your heart a song to sing 1597 01:17:00,282 --> 01:17:04,620 And then a kiss, but more than this 1598 01:17:04,661 --> 01:17:08,040 I wish you love 1599 01:17:09,041 --> 01:17:13,170 And in July, a lemonade 1600 01:17:13,211 --> 01:17:17,633 To cool you in some leafy glade 1601 01:17:17,674 --> 01:17:19,676 I wish you health 1602 01:17:19,718 --> 01:17:21,845 But more than wealth 1603 01:17:21,887 --> 01:17:26,850 I wish you love 1604 01:17:26,892 --> 01:17:30,479 My breaking heart & I agree 1605 01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:34,691 That you & I could never be 1606 01:17:34,733 --> 01:17:36,902 So with my best 1607 01:17:36,943 --> 01:17:39,237 My very best 1608 01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:43,659 I set you free 1609 01:17:43,700 --> 01:17:47,829 I wish you shelter from the storm 1610 01:17:47,871 --> 01:17:51,792 A cozy fire to keep you warm 1611 01:17:51,833 --> 01:17:55,253 But most of all when snowflakes fall... 1612 01:17:55,295 --> 01:17:56,880 Where are you? You see him? 1613 01:17:56,922 --> 01:17:58,048 Hi. 1614 01:17:58,090 --> 01:17:59,424 You see her? 1615 01:17:59,466 --> 01:18:00,425 It's weird. 1616 01:18:00,467 --> 01:18:03,261 It's weird, right? 1617 01:18:04,763 --> 01:18:07,557 I wish you love 1618 01:18:38,964 --> 01:18:41,675 I wish you bluebirds in the spring 1619 01:18:41,717 --> 01:18:43,885 To give your heart a song to sing, girl 1620 01:18:43,927 --> 01:18:45,846 And then a kiss, but more than this 1621 01:18:45,887 --> 01:18:48,306 I wish you love, girl 1622 01:19:09,619 --> 01:19:11,788 And in July, a lemonade 1623 01:19:11,830 --> 01:19:13,915 To cool you in some leafy glade, girl 1624 01:19:13,957 --> 01:19:15,959 I wish you health, but more than wealth 1625 01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:20,797 I wish you love, girl 1626 01:19:40,942 --> 01:19:44,529 My breaking heart & I agree, girl 1627 01:19:44,571 --> 01:19:47,908 That you & I could never be, girl 1628 01:19:47,949 --> 01:19:50,118 So with my best, my very best 1629 01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,370 I set you free, girl 1630 01:19:52,412 --> 01:19:54,372 I wish you shelter from the storm 1631 01:19:54,414 --> 01:19:58,752 A cozy fire to keep you warm, girl