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<v Speaker 1>Before we get into this excerpt of my one woman show,

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<v Speaker 1>What Would the Ancestors Say? The Live from LA twenty

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<v Speaker 1>Took the assassination of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King

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<v Speaker 1>Junior to push the pen for housing rights. So MLKA

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<v Speaker 1>had been a very prim and proper negro right. He

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<v Speaker 1>was very much that in the part in the Fight

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<v Speaker 1>for Black he marched, he got arrested, all of that,

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<v Speaker 1>but he was willing to work with the whites from

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<v Speaker 1>a place of moral grounds. He really believed, like he

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<v Speaker 1>genuinely believed that the issue we faced as black folks

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States was really much more of a

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<v Speaker 1>disconnect from it's humanity. Like if we just show them

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<v Speaker 1>that we are human like them, then they'll get it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. We just haven't had the chance to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>So using passive resistance was a way we could disarm

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<v Speaker 1>their hatred love. I mean, it was a noble vision.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a noble vision. What's I hate? Or should

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<v Speaker 1>I say a dream? It was right there, however, and

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<v Speaker 1>where do we go from here? Community or chaos? The

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<v Speaker 1>last book he wrote before being assassinated on that fateful

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<v Speaker 1>balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, he laments that a year after

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<v Speaker 1>the Voden Rights Act had passed, though the law changed,

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<v Speaker 1>the American sentiment toward the Negro, the black, the colored,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you want to call us, had not, Malcolm Pete

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<v Speaker 1>marchers in Chicago were being attacked by thousands waving Nazi flags.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry s s okay, all right. Negro leaders present in

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<v Speaker 1>Selma were removed from the offices of their organizations huh,

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<v Speaker 1>and political candidates like Ronald Reagan, who was running for

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<v Speaker 1>governor of California, or campaigning on a message of make

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<v Speaker 1>America great again. This was the burning house that MLK

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<v Speaker 1>Junior feared. He'd integrated people into, one that, though built

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<v Speaker 1>on a blueprint of morals right, was not furnished with them.

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<v Speaker 1>In the book, he lists a series of frustrating realities

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<v Speaker 1>that led him to a damning conclusion. The great majority

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<v Speaker 1>of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are

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<v Speaker 1>uneasy with unjust, they are uneasy with injustice, but unwilling

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<v Speaker 1>yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it. Does

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<v Speaker 1>this seem familiar. We're so often sold a version of

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<v Speaker 1>doctor King that is palatable to the oppressor, like one

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<v Speaker 1>that depicts him as like an obedient subject, passively asking

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<v Speaker 1>for their rights on bended knees like Pisa or rights,

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<v Speaker 1>rather than forcefully demanding them when in actuality, he was

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<v Speaker 1>only twenty six at the start of the Montgomery Boycott,

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<v Speaker 1>and by his death he was thirty nine. You know

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<v Speaker 1>how much you change and that amount of time. Like

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<v Speaker 1>I was dating drug dealers in twenty six, I still

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<v Speaker 1>was at thirty nine. We fall down, we grow up.

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<v Speaker 1>So like though MLK may have started seeking integration. He

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<v Speaker 1>eventually saw through the diyes and understood that it was

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<v Speaker 1>capitalism that was allowing racism to subsist. Like Ooh. He

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<v Speaker 1>began to support the labor unions. He questioned government allocation

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<v Speaker 1>of resources. He advocated for reparations where we cut in

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<v Speaker 1>the jack. It was after all of this, when he

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<v Speaker 1>had evolved into Martin Luther Lucking, that this nation thought

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<v Speaker 1>to be rid of him. And upon his exit, the

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<v Speaker 1>cities went up in flames. Folks had been living through

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<v Speaker 1>assassination after assassination after assassination after assassination, I mean riots

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<v Speaker 1>broke out, with anger and frustration and betrayal pouring into

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<v Speaker 1>the streets. The powers that be knew there was no

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<v Speaker 1>control to be found without causing a massacre. It was

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<v Speaker 1>righteous rage that screamed you will not ignore us. And

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<v Speaker 1>in their fear and desperation of a populace living in

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<v Speaker 1>their power, the American leadership did what they always do.

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<v Speaker 1>They pacified the people with another hen Nigger law, the

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<v Speaker 1>Fair Housing Act of nineteen sixty eight, signed just days

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<v Speaker 1>after we lost MLK, and it outlawed discriminatory practices in

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<v Speaker 1>the sale, rental, and financing of housing. The fact that

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<v Speaker 1>they had to make laws to outlaw the discrimination tells

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<v Speaker 1>you everything. They never wanted us here, Not when we

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<v Speaker 1>had to use the Green Book to navigate a safe

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<v Speaker 1>route through the South. Not when the officers who beat

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<v Speaker 1>Rodney King, the officer who killed Eric Gardner Garner, the

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<v Speaker 1>officer who killed Eric Garner, and the wannabe officer who

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<v Speaker 1>took the life of Treyvon Martin all walked free. Not

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<v Speaker 1>when Breonna Taylor was shot asleep in her bed, Keisha

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<v Speaker 1>McHale was shot thirteen times sitting in the park car.

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<v Speaker 1>We still have no idea what happened to Sandra Bland.

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<v Speaker 1>They never wanted us here, Not when they abandoned New

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<v Speaker 1>Orleans after Katrina, calling them people refugees in their own country,

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<v Speaker 1>Not when the maternity mortality rate of Black women remains

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<v Speaker 1>three times that of white, Hispanic and Asian women due

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<v Speaker 1>to discriminatory healthcare. They never wanted us here, And so

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<v Speaker 1>I do not consider myself American. I'm Black like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>of us, but I'm not them. If we were, we

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't have had to raise our voices again during BLM

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<v Speaker 1>to declare an inalienable fact Black lives better. The footage

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<v Speaker 1>of George Floyd being lynched by the chokehold of that

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<v Speaker 1>bastard cop. The same rage as the beatings of Bloody Sunday,

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<v Speaker 1>the pouring of acid into that swimming pool and the

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<v Speaker 1>taking of another leader's life. By the way, I just

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<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of relationships were saved due to

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<v Speaker 1>them protests during COVID, because like, after being cooped up,

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<v Speaker 1>I think folks was like, you know what, let me

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<v Speaker 1>get out of this house, get in this revolution before

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<v Speaker 1>we get at a boss my beret and this time

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<v Speaker 1>flurri few all over the world, but people in London

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<v Speaker 1>were knocking over statues of white men. I didn't know then,

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<v Speaker 1>I take that lunch Chessel, what fucking Tony you gotcha? Cottons,

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<v Speaker 1>Bloody broy Once again the people rose, but before we

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<v Speaker 1>could turn our pain into praticis and coalitions, once again,

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<v Speaker 1>they found a way to quiet our descent. Happy Jonesy

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<v Speaker 1>here nigga. Watch the full two and a half hour

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<v Speaker 1>We are a completely people powered movement, and you will

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