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The only thing
I ever knew was cotton.
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It was hard work.
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Now, you know cotton is ready
when the bud splits,
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and the boll is star-shaped,
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like a big ol' star in the sky.
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Or like your big ol' head.
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Hold on, is that some cotton?
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Is that cotton?
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But I didn't mind,
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'cause I got to spend all day
working with my daddy.
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- Hurry, take this picture.
- Take a picture of y'all.
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Why don't everybody smile?
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Teeth.
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Hattie, come on,
I need your help in the shed.
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Come on.
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- Pa... where he taking Ma?
- Get back to work.
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Cecil, come back here, boy.
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Mama!
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Come here.
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Look at me, boy.
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Don't you lose your temper
with that man.
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This his world.
We just living in it.
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You hear me?
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Now, get on back to work.
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Pa, what you gonna do?
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Hey.
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- Dad!
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Oh, my Lord.
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Who you looking at?! Huh?
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Who wants to go next?!
You get back to work.
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Hey, you. Get some of the hands
to help dig a hole for his pa.
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Hurry up!
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Stop crying.
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I'm gonna have you
in the house now.
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I'm gonna teach you
how to be a house nigger.
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- He's coming.
- Yes'm.
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And quiet when you're serving.
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I don't even want
to hear you breathe.
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Yes, ma'am.
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The room should feel
empty when you're in it.
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It was much nicer working
in the house than in the field.
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Crazy nigger, from the left.
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Give me more.
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Hmm.
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When I got older, I knew
I had to go before he killed me, too.
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Part of me was scared to leave.
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It was the only world I ever knew.
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Ma, I took Pa's watch.
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Ma?
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Ma, I'm leaving.
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My mama never
spoke much after that.
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I knew she'd miss me,
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but I also knew she wanted me
to leave that place.
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And even though
Miss Annabeth never said it,
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I knew she'd miss me, too.
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I don't think God meant
for people to not have a family.
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Outside the cotton fields was even worse
than I thought it would be.
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No one would give me a job
nor food nor a place to sleep.
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Any white man could kill
any of us at any time
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and not be punished for it.
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The law wasn't on our side.
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The law was against us.
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I was hungry all the time.
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You know what can happen
to you, son?
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Get up.
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I said, get up.
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I'm gonna have to lie
to the boss man about that window.
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The good Lord say
we ain't supposed to lie.
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Sorry, sir.
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Where's your ma and your pa?
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My ma crazy in the head,
and my pa got killed.
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I'll make you
some ham sandwiches
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and send you on your way.
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The boss will be here
in a minute.
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Sunday's our busiest morning.
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You looking for some help?
I know how to serve.
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You done broke our window,
you done stole our food,
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and now you asking for a job?
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Back in Macon,
I'm a house nigger, a good one.
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Don't you ever use that word, son.
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That's the white man's word.
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It's filled With hate.
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Didn't your father
ever teach you any better?
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- Slow down.
- Yes, sir.
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You got to look through their eyes.
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See what it is they want.
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- Got it?
- Strokes.
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- Yeah, I got it.
- Here.
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See what it is they need.
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Right this way.
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Anticipate.
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am.
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Bring a smile to the eyes...
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...of your principal.
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Perfect. Perfect.
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Don't forget to save me them chitlins.
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- Why you like chitlins so much?
- 'Cause they're good eating.
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The manager of Excelsior, in DC,
he came by yesterday.
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He offered me a job as a butler.
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He must be paying you
top dollar, huh, boss?
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Yeah.
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I was thinking about taking it,
but I don't know.
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I'm too old to be leaving
North Carolina.
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I'm just fine right here.
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I told him to hire you.
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I'm just now finding my way
around this hotel.
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Ain't ready for all them
highfalutin white people,
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all their fancy words.
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ours,
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and the ones that we got
to show the white folks.
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Now, to get up in the world,
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you have to make
them feel nonthreatened.
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Use that, them fancy words
that I've taught you.
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White folks up north,
they like some uppity coloreds.
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Yeah.
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I took that job
up in Washington, DC.
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It was the most beautiful hotel
I'd ever seen.
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I hope it wasn't
too presumptuous of me
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to have prepared a few spirits
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after your long journey here
from Buffalo.
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The best decision that court ever
made was to slow this whole mess down.
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Nigger boys in school with white girls.
Who ever heard of such a thing?
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Next thing you know,
they'd be fornicating.
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Gentlemen, this here is different.
We could start another Civil War.
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Cecil, what do you think about niggers
going to school with white children?
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To be honest with you,
Mr. Jenkins,
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I tend to not be too concerned
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with American or European politics.
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Nor should you, Cecil.
They're all criminals.
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Earl Warren should be shot
and hanged.
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That dumb son-of-a-bitch judge
is trying to integrate our schools.
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I think Judge Warren is going to find
that quite challenging.
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Damn right, Cecil. Damn right.
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Never in my life did I dream
I'd work in a place as fancy as this.
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I never dreamed my life
could be so good.
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Gloria and I met working
at the Excelsior.
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She was a maid at the hotel,
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but now her only job
was raising our two boys.
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I made sure that they
never laid eyes on a cotton field.
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- I got to pee.
- Not today. Don't try that.
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00:14:15,314 --> 00:14:18,150
- Finish that homework.
- Where Louis at?
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- He's taking the trash out.
- Working late again?
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00:14:21,111 --> 00:14:24,031
- How was your shift?
- Beats working for a living.
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I miss you at night, honey.
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Didn't you say you got to pee?
Go on, then.
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Wash your hands when you come
out of that bathroom, boy.
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- Good morning.
- Good morning.
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Good morning, sir.
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Mm-hm.
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- Hey, Dad.
- Hey, Louis.
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- You all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
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- Good.
- That woman whose son got killed,
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she's around doing speeches now.
What's her name, honey?
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- Mamie Till.
- Mamie...
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00:15:03,445 --> 00:15:05,781
Mamie Till. Mm.
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00:15:05,948 --> 00:15:09,034
I remember that story just
like it was yesterday,
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even though it was three years ago.
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It was a dis-damn-grace
what they did to that boy.
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Just for looking at a white woman.
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Beat him up,
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threw his body in the river,
killed him.
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00:15:23,966 --> 00:15:26,802
He wasn't no older than Louis.
He was 14 at the time.
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- Crazy white folks down South.
- Thanks, Ma.
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At least we got it
a little better in DC, huh?
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Still treating us bad, too.
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Get on down here, Charlie!
Wash your hands.
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Louis said we should stop
taking the white man's shit.
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- Hey.
- Shut up.
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- Watch your mouth.
- Watch your mouth.
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Hello, Gaines' residence.
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Uh, yeah. Hold on, Mr. Kidgan.
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- It's the boss man, Dad.
- What's he calling for?
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When the white man call,
I always assume the worst.
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00:15:57,750 --> 00:15:59,168
Yes, sir?
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I would have put money on it
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that I was getting laid off
or something that day.
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- Would you follow me, please?
- Yes, sir.
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I'm Cecil Gaines.
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- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- You, as well.
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Have a seat.
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Are you political, Mr. Gaines?
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00:17:03,857 --> 00:17:05,984
- No, sir.
- Good.
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00:17:06,151 --> 00:17:11,407
We have no tolerance
for politics at the White House.
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- How'd you find me?
- I didn't.
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00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:17,538
You served R.D. Warner
at the Excelsior Hotel.
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He oversees operations
for the entire White House.
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00:17:20,374 --> 00:17:23,377
- You made quite an impression.
- I don't recall.
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00:17:23,544 --> 00:17:27,923
Mr. Warner and myself make note
of potential staff around town.
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Butler positions rarely open,
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as most stay on for 30 years or more.
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00:17:31,969 --> 00:17:34,513
I know I was quite surprised
when I got the call.
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It was a surprise
for me, as well.
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00:17:42,271 --> 00:17:46,525
As the White House maître d',
I normally hire the butler.
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00:17:49,153 --> 00:17:51,572
Forgive me for saying this,
Mr. Fallows.
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00:17:51,739 --> 00:17:54,491
I certainly wouldn't want to
be hired under circumstances
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that would make you
feel uncomfortable.
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Oh, really?
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00:18:00,414 --> 00:18:02,833
You need butlers
that you've handpicked,
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men to your liking
that will fulfill your vision
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00:18:05,919 --> 00:18:07,880
of a proper White House staff.
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00:18:09,798 --> 00:18:11,467
Hmm.
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00:18:25,939 --> 00:18:29,067
Is that... Louis XIII?
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00:18:30,152 --> 00:18:31,904
These decanters are replicas
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00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:38,452
of metal flasks that were found
on the battlefield in Jarnac.
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00:18:38,619 --> 00:18:40,537
Correct?
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00:18:40,704 --> 00:18:42,748
The Italians, they
know their wines,
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00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:46,668
and the Irish, they certainly know
how to make a great whiskey.
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00:18:46,835 --> 00:18:50,964
But I believe the French
have a distinct advantage
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00:18:51,131 --> 00:18:53,926
when it comes to Cognac.
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00:18:56,053 --> 00:18:57,554
C'est vrai?
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00:19:00,265 --> 00:19:02,893
Yeah, you'll make
a good house nigger.
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00:19:06,188 --> 00:19:07,898
Would you care
for a demitasse?
213
00:19:12,736 --> 00:19:14,863
Sometimes it just be
me and Faye up in here.
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00:19:15,030 --> 00:19:17,825
Me, Faye
and a little scotch.
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00:19:17,991 --> 00:19:20,702
Have a good time.
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00:19:24,665 --> 00:19:26,250
That's how you do it.
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00:19:26,416 --> 00:19:27,960
You know how to throw
a bash, girl.
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00:19:28,126 --> 00:19:30,003
What did you do
to this potato salad?
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00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:32,256
I'll tell you what I did.
I put some dill in it,
220
00:19:32,422 --> 00:19:36,343
because I read in Woman's Day,
where pickles drown out the flavor
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00:19:36,510 --> 00:19:38,262
and dill bring up the flavor.
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00:19:38,428 --> 00:19:41,765
- That's what you tasting right now.
- OK. Yeah.
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00:19:41,932 --> 00:19:44,518
- I like it.
- Make a difference, don't it?
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00:19:44,685 --> 00:19:45,978
It really does.
225
00:19:46,144 --> 00:19:48,605
Girl, you must be so proud of Cecil.
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00:19:48,772 --> 00:19:51,358
You know he got that job hisself.
The White House called him,
227
00:19:51,525 --> 00:19:53,819
- he didn't call the White House.
- He's a good man.
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00:19:53,986 --> 00:19:56,321
- You got a good man.
- She's fun, man!
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00:19:56,488 --> 00:19:59,324
Not like this one right here.
OI' sourpuss.
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- You still mad at me?
- I got reason.
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00:20:02,995 --> 00:20:06,248
No, you don't. I told you,
I went down to the numbers spot,
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00:20:06,415 --> 00:20:08,542
played my little numbers,
got me some barbecue,
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00:20:08,709 --> 00:20:11,628
and then I went down...
I didn't even get nothing to drink!
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00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:16,174
I am so... I'm so sick of these
numbers spot stories, Howard.
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00:20:16,341 --> 00:20:18,677
How you expect me to believe you
was down at the numbers spot?
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00:20:18,844 --> 00:20:20,554
Whether you believe it
or not don't mean it ain't true.
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00:20:20,721 --> 00:20:22,598
- Come on, stop this mess.
- You want to do this right now?
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00:20:22,764 --> 00:20:24,349
Come on, y'all.
Come on, come on, come on.
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00:20:24,516 --> 00:20:26,435
You don't believe it, you don't
have to believe it, but...
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- Come on, y'all.
- Such a shuckster.
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00:20:27,978 --> 00:20:29,688
- You really want to do this right now?
- Stop this right now.
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00:20:29,855 --> 00:20:31,648
You need to pick on
somebody your own size.
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00:20:31,815 --> 00:20:34,234
We are here to celebrate,
so y'all could be nice just one time.
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00:20:34,401 --> 00:20:37,029
You heard the lady.
Come on, get over here, let's celebrate!
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Celebrate.
246
00:20:38,572 --> 00:20:40,741
That's why I was out,
trying to make you happy.
247
00:20:40,908 --> 00:20:43,994
- Y'all need to get a room.
- What? What?
248
00:20:44,161 --> 00:20:46,288
Ain't that the truth?
Or something.
249
00:20:46,455 --> 00:20:48,916
He drives me crazy. He just... Ugh!
250
00:20:49,875 --> 00:20:52,628
You ain't, uh...
You want to come to the room with us?
251
00:20:52,794 --> 00:20:54,588
No.
252
00:20:54,755 --> 00:20:57,841
- Hey, where the boys at?
- They upstairs in the back room.
253
00:20:58,008 --> 00:21:00,969
Boys! Get on down here!
I need to see your face now!
254
00:21:01,136 --> 00:21:03,597
- What y'all doing up there?
- Yes, congratulations.
255
00:21:03,764 --> 00:21:05,599
Honey, when you gonna take me
to the White House?
256
00:21:05,766 --> 00:21:08,352
You want to go
to the White House, baby?
257
00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:10,520
You know I want to go
to the White House.
258
00:21:10,687 --> 00:21:12,230
When you want to go?
259
00:21:12,397 --> 00:21:14,566
- Don't play with me now...
- When you want to go?
260
00:21:14,733 --> 00:21:16,818
The White House,
now that's a big step up.
261
00:21:16,985 --> 00:21:18,779
- Ooh!
- Yeah, it's exciting.
262
00:21:18,946 --> 00:21:22,699
Girl, you up in that house now!
I want to hear all the stories.
263
00:21:22,866 --> 00:21:24,993
I don't know how many stories
you gonna hear,
264
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,829
'cause they done swore him
to some kind of secret code,
265
00:21:27,996 --> 00:21:31,541
- and he can't tell me nothing.
- No. Girl, you give it to him right.
266
00:21:31,708 --> 00:21:35,045
- Mm-hm! He'll tell you everything.
- That's the key right there.
267
00:21:35,212 --> 00:21:36,797
You listening?
268
00:21:36,964 --> 00:21:39,174
- Did you hear her?
- Who you been giving it to?
269
00:21:39,341 --> 00:21:41,843
Well, if you was at home,
I could be giving it to you.
270
00:21:42,010 --> 00:21:43,345
I don't know
what you talking about.
271
00:21:43,512 --> 00:21:46,640
Boys, y'all better bring
y'all little narrow butts down here!
272
00:21:46,807 --> 00:21:48,976
- Here they come.
- Called y'all 19 times.
273
00:21:49,142 --> 00:21:51,228
Boys, stop running through this house.
You know better than that.
274
00:21:51,395 --> 00:21:56,191
Elroy! Get over here.
Come here.
275
00:21:57,401 --> 00:21:59,903
Give me some money.
276
00:22:00,070 --> 00:22:04,324
Nah. Tell them... Tell them what
you gonna be when you grow up.
277
00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:07,619
I want to work at the White
House just like Mr. Gaines.
278
00:22:07,786 --> 00:22:09,579
- Ah, that's my boy.
- Right there.
279
00:22:09,746 --> 00:22:11,123
All right, man.
280
00:22:11,289 --> 00:22:13,750
Louis! What you gonna be
when you grow up?
281
00:22:13,917 --> 00:22:15,544
You gonna work at
the White House like your daddy?
282
00:22:17,796 --> 00:22:20,882
- I don't know.
- I'll tell you one thing.
283
00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:23,719
I knew exactly what I wanted
to be when I was 13.
284
00:22:23,885 --> 00:22:26,471
Yeah, a number runner.
285
00:22:32,811 --> 00:22:34,896
I'm Cecil Gaines.
I'm the new butler.
286
00:22:36,231 --> 00:22:37,232
Yes, sir.
287
00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:39,609
There are 16 full-time maids.
288
00:22:39,776 --> 00:22:42,487
We have six butlers,
four carpenters, two painters,
289
00:22:42,654 --> 00:22:45,073
seven electricians,
three dishwashers, three doormen,
290
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,368
a full kitchen staff, including pastry
chef and three full-time calligraphers.
291
00:22:48,535 --> 00:22:51,371
Two painters, seven
electricians, nine engineers...
292
00:22:51,538 --> 00:22:53,707
Here comes Warner.
293
00:22:53,874 --> 00:22:57,836
Uh, Mr. Warner, wanted to thank you
for the opportunity
294
00:22:58,003 --> 00:22:59,713
to work in the White House...
295
00:23:06,053 --> 00:23:08,305
Come on. Here we go.
296
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,852
Ma'am, I'm Cecil Gaines.
I'll be working with you here.
297
00:23:14,019 --> 00:23:15,979
Mr. Gaines,
please don't do that.
298
00:23:16,146 --> 00:23:17,981
- Come on.
- Yes, sir.
299
00:23:18,857 --> 00:23:21,568
Now, when lifting a plate,
never scrape the bottom.
300
00:23:21,735 --> 00:23:24,988
Never listen
or react to conversation.
301
00:23:25,155 --> 00:23:28,700
- The room should feel as...
- Empty when I'm in it.
302
00:23:30,827 --> 00:23:32,496
So then she says...
303
00:23:34,414 --> 00:23:37,292
Then she says, "Stick..."
304
00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:39,336
"OK."
305
00:23:39,503 --> 00:23:41,713
Then she starts
screaming and yells,
306
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,342
"Stick your whole hand in!"
So I put my whole hand in.
307
00:23:45,509 --> 00:23:47,803
Then she yells out,
"Put both hands in!"
308
00:23:47,969 --> 00:23:50,722
"OK!"
309
00:23:50,889 --> 00:23:52,682
Then she screams,
"Now clap!"
310
00:23:52,849 --> 00:23:55,018
I say, "I can't."
311
00:23:55,185 --> 00:23:57,020
She looks up, smiles and says,
312
00:23:57,187 --> 00:23:59,940
"See, I told you my..."
313
00:24:00,107 --> 00:24:01,691
That ain't funny.
314
00:24:01,858 --> 00:24:03,527
Hey, there he is!
Heard you were coming.
315
00:24:03,693 --> 00:24:05,153
- What's your name?
- Cecil.
316
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,072
- Cecil Gaines.
- That ain't funny.
317
00:24:07,239 --> 00:24:10,867
I'm Carter Wilson, head butler.
Don't worry about Big Mo behind you.
318
00:24:11,034 --> 00:24:13,078
That brother will steal your wallet
before you even knew it.
319
00:24:13,245 --> 00:24:15,956
This brother in the mirror over here,
his name's James Holloway.
320
00:24:16,123 --> 00:24:17,624
- He's my second in command.
- James.
321
00:24:17,791 --> 00:24:19,668
Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays?
322
00:24:19,835 --> 00:24:21,044
Why don't you shake
the man's hand first
323
00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:23,296
before you start asking difficult
questions like that?
324
00:24:23,463 --> 00:24:25,132
I just want to know
where the man's coming from.
325
00:24:25,298 --> 00:24:27,592
Look like the jury's still
out on that one, right?
326
00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:30,011
Welcome.
Fancy Freddie give you the tour yet?
327
00:24:30,178 --> 00:24:33,306
He did.
Is the Dodgers still... still losing?
328
00:24:33,473 --> 00:24:35,809
I might be able to answer that question
if Carter over here
329
00:24:35,976 --> 00:24:37,519
stop running his nasty mouth.
330
00:24:37,686 --> 00:24:39,980
Cut the shit
and let's get to work.
331
00:25:02,252 --> 00:25:04,963
- Ready.
- Lord, help us.
332
00:25:16,474 --> 00:25:20,645
Don't be nervous, man.
Just go on and get to it.
333
00:25:29,404 --> 00:25:32,407
You hear nothing,
you see nothing.
334
00:25:32,574 --> 00:25:34,284
You only serve.
335
00:25:54,512 --> 00:25:56,806
Send federal troops to Little Rock?
336
00:25:56,973 --> 00:25:58,433
If it comes to it, yes.
337
00:26:00,101 --> 00:26:04,439
I can't see any situation where
I'd send federal troops to the South.
338
00:26:04,606 --> 00:26:08,777
Ever. Could cause another Civil War.
339
00:26:08,944 --> 00:26:14,699
Sir, if the federal government
doesn't enforce Brown, then who will?
340
00:26:14,866 --> 00:26:16,493
The South must comply with the law.
341
00:26:16,660 --> 00:26:19,329
It's just gonna take some time
to adjust, that's all.
342
00:26:19,496 --> 00:26:21,373
I understand, Mr. President,
343
00:26:21,539 --> 00:26:25,502
but if Faubus continues to block the
Negro children, then what do we do?
344
00:26:25,669 --> 00:26:27,420
We must enforce
the Constitution.
345
00:26:28,213 --> 00:26:30,548
Give Faubus more time.
346
00:26:30,715 --> 00:26:32,384
With a little persuading,
he'll back down.
347
00:26:32,550 --> 00:26:34,469
We just want to move slowly.
348
00:26:40,433 --> 00:26:43,770
- How'd it go?
- I almost shit myself.
349
00:26:45,855 --> 00:26:49,067
I dated a girl once. Every time
I hit her, she shit herself.
350
00:26:49,234 --> 00:26:52,654
- What?
- Got no sense.
351
00:26:52,821 --> 00:26:54,864
- Shut up.
- You shut up.
352
00:26:55,031 --> 00:26:56,408
I put a towel down.
353
00:26:58,368 --> 00:27:00,662
You know, Marcella said
the very same thing last night
354
00:27:00,829 --> 00:27:02,414
just before I put her to sleep.
355
00:27:08,712 --> 00:27:12,299
- Wow. You put her...
- Just like I did Ed.
356
00:27:14,092 --> 00:27:15,844
I'd do it real quick.
357
00:27:20,348 --> 00:27:22,600
- See you!
- Why?
358
00:27:24,185 --> 00:27:27,439
Dang...
Got the popcorn all over the sofa.
359
00:27:27,605 --> 00:27:29,190
Your dad's gonna kill...
360
00:27:29,357 --> 00:27:31,401
Hey, Dad.
361
00:27:31,568 --> 00:27:32,736
- Hi, Mr. Gaines.
- Hey, Dad.
362
00:27:32,902 --> 00:27:35,196
Hey, Elroy.
363
00:27:35,363 --> 00:27:38,616
Louis, I told you about letting these
kids watch that show.
364
00:27:38,783 --> 00:27:40,994
It's too scary.
They're too young for it.
365
00:27:41,161 --> 00:27:42,495
Turn it off.
366
00:27:43,496 --> 00:27:44,956
All you got to do is smile pretty,
367
00:27:45,123 --> 00:27:46,624
and a man will forget
everything he ever learned.
368
00:27:46,791 --> 00:27:48,376
Where your mama at?
369
00:27:48,543 --> 00:27:51,129
Miss Gloria tried staying up,
but she went to sleep.
370
00:27:51,296 --> 00:27:53,131
Elroy, ain't nobody
asked you nothing.
371
00:27:53,298 --> 00:27:54,966
Take your butt home before
your mama come up in here
372
00:27:55,133 --> 00:27:56,259
and whup the both of us.
373
00:27:56,426 --> 00:27:57,594
- Come on, Dad.
- Go on.
374
00:27:57,761 --> 00:27:59,262
- Bye.
- Turn it off.
375
00:28:07,937 --> 00:28:09,898
Don't go stomping up the stairs,
wake your mama up.
376
00:28:19,699 --> 00:28:21,159
What is that?
377
00:28:21,326 --> 00:28:24,245
Is that that Mamie Till stuff?
378
00:28:24,412 --> 00:28:27,582
- I want to go to this.
- Absolutely not.
379
00:28:30,752 --> 00:28:32,837
How come?
380
00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:36,257
Ain't no good can come of that.
381
00:28:36,424 --> 00:28:38,343
Dad, you heard what Mama said?
382
00:28:38,510 --> 00:28:39,636
That mess right there
happened down South.
383
00:28:39,803 --> 00:28:42,555
- This could have been me.
- It happened down South.
384
00:28:42,722 --> 00:28:44,849
I got out of there so we
could have us a better life.
385
00:28:45,016 --> 00:28:48,019
Right now, I'm working for the white
man, make things better for us.
386
00:28:48,186 --> 00:28:49,938
And not just any white man, either.
387
00:28:50,105 --> 00:28:52,482
Put the lights off.
Go to bed.
388
00:29:11,251 --> 00:29:13,294
I have your chicken soup,
Mr. President.
389
00:29:13,461 --> 00:29:15,130
Just set it on the table, Cecil.
390
00:29:15,296 --> 00:29:16,506
Yes, sir.
391
00:29:20,218 --> 00:29:23,471
Did you ever complete school, Cecil?
392
00:29:23,638 --> 00:29:26,266
I didn't go to school,
Mr. President.
393
00:29:26,433 --> 00:29:28,643
I grew up on a cotton farm.
394
00:29:28,810 --> 00:29:31,146
I grew up on a farm.
395
00:29:31,312 --> 00:29:33,523
Do you have any children?
396
00:29:33,690 --> 00:29:35,525
Yes, sir, I have two sons.
397
00:29:35,692 --> 00:29:37,110
Do they go
to an all-colored school?
398
00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:40,738
Yes, sir, they do.
399
00:29:47,454 --> 00:29:49,122
What is it?
400
00:29:49,289 --> 00:29:51,249
State Guard just blocked
all the colored kids again.
401
00:29:51,416 --> 00:29:54,210
Faubus promised me the guards
would escort the kids in.
402
00:29:54,377 --> 00:29:56,546
Governor of Arkansas lied,
Mr. President.
403
00:29:56,713 --> 00:30:00,550
What is wrong with him?
Why is he forcing me to do this?
404
00:30:05,805 --> 00:30:07,724
Yes, sir.
405
00:30:08,308 --> 00:30:10,852
Our next move
needs to be bold and swift.
406
00:30:14,814 --> 00:30:18,276
I have today
issued an executive order
407
00:30:18,443 --> 00:30:21,613
directing the use of troops
under federal authority
408
00:30:21,779 --> 00:30:25,408
to aid in the execution
of federal law
409
00:30:25,575 --> 00:30:28,161
at Little Rock, Arkansas.
410
00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:30,121
This became necessary...
411
00:30:30,288 --> 00:30:33,041
When the president
sent those troops down to Little Rock,
412
00:30:33,208 --> 00:30:38,004
it was the first time I ever seen a
white man stick his neck out for us.
413
00:30:39,297 --> 00:30:43,301
I told Louis that the president was
gonna make things better for us.
414
00:30:44,594 --> 00:30:48,097
All graduations are long.
She was so nosy.
415
00:30:48,264 --> 00:30:50,183
I'm gonna make
some potato salad.
416
00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:52,644
Now he could see that I knew
what I was talking about.
417
00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:55,021
That was wonderful.
I'm so proud of you.
418
00:30:55,188 --> 00:30:58,858
- Thanks, Mama.
- That hat looks stupid.
419
00:30:59,025 --> 00:31:00,777
Your face looks stupid.
420
00:31:02,654 --> 00:31:06,950
- Proud of you, too.
- Dad, did you see...
421
00:31:07,116 --> 00:31:08,952
Don't start something in there.
422
00:31:10,370 --> 00:31:13,039
Did you see one white kid
in my school?
423
00:31:21,005 --> 00:31:25,385
Why couldn't Louis see that
the president made things better for us?
424
00:31:26,386 --> 00:31:27,929
- Thank you.
- Cookie?
425
00:31:28,096 --> 00:31:29,681
- Cookies.
- Thanks.
426
00:31:29,847 --> 00:31:31,599
Thank you.
427
00:31:39,274 --> 00:31:41,067
Boy, I told you
we was gonna be late!
428
00:31:41,234 --> 00:31:42,819
You cannot miss this bus!
429
00:31:42,986 --> 00:31:45,905
- Oh, Lord have mercy.
- Wait, a sec. Wait, wait, wait.
430
00:31:46,072 --> 00:31:48,700
- What?
- Got to say good-bye.
431
00:31:48,866 --> 00:31:51,202
Bus can wait.
432
00:31:55,164 --> 00:31:58,334
Tennessee is
a long ways away, Pop.
433
00:31:58,501 --> 00:32:00,837
Fisk is a really
good school, Dad.
434
00:32:01,004 --> 00:32:03,423
You can change your mind
and go to Howard.
435
00:32:03,590 --> 00:32:07,218
I cannot believe you are still
talking about Howard University.
436
00:32:07,385 --> 00:32:11,347
- He's going to Fisk.
- I know, I know. It's just...
437
00:32:11,514 --> 00:32:13,891
It's just so far away, that's all.
438
00:32:14,058 --> 00:32:16,853
- That's the point.
- What's the point?
439
00:32:19,147 --> 00:32:20,690
Give me a cigarette, and don't
tell me you don't smoke.
440
00:32:20,857 --> 00:32:23,526
- I don't have one.
- Come here.
441
00:32:23,693 --> 00:32:27,322
- You know you want to cry, punk.
- Not for you.
442
00:32:27,488 --> 00:32:30,366
Look under your mattress.
I left you something.
443
00:32:30,533 --> 00:32:34,120
- I can't protect him down South.
- The South has changed, Cecil.
444
00:32:34,287 --> 00:32:35,538
I'm too young for Playboy.
445
00:32:35,705 --> 00:32:36,956
The South ain't what it
was when you was there.
446
00:32:37,123 --> 00:32:39,876
Ma, Louis is leaving me
his filthy magazines.
447
00:32:40,043 --> 00:32:41,878
- Stop lying on your brother.
- Why you slapping him?
448
00:32:42,045 --> 00:32:43,671
He's the one with the magazines.
449
00:32:43,838 --> 00:32:47,091
- I love you, Mama.
- I love you, son.
450
00:32:47,258 --> 00:32:49,177
- I love you, Louis.
- I love you.
451
00:32:49,344 --> 00:32:52,722
- I made you ham sandwiches.
- Thanks, Mama.
452
00:32:54,349 --> 00:32:56,100
Come on, Dad.
453
00:32:58,853 --> 00:33:01,064
OK.
454
00:33:08,363 --> 00:33:09,906
You're the first.
455
00:33:11,699 --> 00:33:14,077
I know.
456
00:33:14,243 --> 00:33:15,995
I'm really proud of you.
457
00:33:16,871 --> 00:33:18,706
I got to go, Dad.
458
00:33:24,295 --> 00:33:27,340
I got to go.
459
00:33:32,679 --> 00:33:34,263
If you need anything, you call me.
460
00:33:34,430 --> 00:33:36,224
- All right.
- All right?
461
00:33:36,391 --> 00:33:37,850
Bye, Mama.
462
00:33:44,107 --> 00:33:46,317
Bye, Louis.
463
00:33:55,827 --> 00:33:57,161
It's all right.
464
00:34:06,587 --> 00:34:08,589
Remind me again why
we're doing this, please.
465
00:34:08,756 --> 00:34:11,592
Somebody? Tell me?
That look like a mugging to me,
466
00:34:11,759 --> 00:34:14,178
- that's what that looks like.
- This is the art of French baking.
467
00:34:14,345 --> 00:34:17,640
Negro, please.
"Art of French baking."
468
00:34:17,807 --> 00:34:19,851
This is absolutely nothing.
That's what this is.
469
00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:22,645
- I don't...
- Boy's always so simple.
470
00:34:22,812 --> 00:34:24,647
You want me to play with it?
I'll play with it.
471
00:34:24,814 --> 00:34:26,566
Play With it like this.
472
00:34:26,733 --> 00:34:29,610
It'd be good if it had a little...
a little nipple on it.
473
00:34:29,777 --> 00:34:31,028
Come on, man.
474
00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:33,239
That's how you play. You jiggle it.
You shake it, you know.
475
00:34:33,406 --> 00:34:34,699
This fool.
476
00:34:34,866 --> 00:34:37,702
Good evening,
Mr. Vice President.
477
00:34:39,746 --> 00:34:42,457
That looks like a tasty treat.
478
00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:44,542
Yes, sir.
479
00:34:44,709 --> 00:34:46,544
I brought you all something.
480
00:34:50,673 --> 00:34:53,009
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
481
00:34:53,176 --> 00:34:54,886
I don't want to say anything negative
482
00:34:55,052 --> 00:34:58,264
about that Kennedy boy.
I'm sure he's a real nice fellow.
483
00:34:58,431 --> 00:35:01,350
But do you really want that
spoiled rich son-of-a-bitch fuck
484
00:35:01,517 --> 00:35:03,936
to be your next president?
485
00:35:05,688 --> 00:35:07,398
Think about it.
486
00:35:12,069 --> 00:35:14,822
We'll cheer for you,
Mr. Vice President.
487
00:35:14,989 --> 00:35:16,741
Thank you, Cecil.
488
00:35:19,869 --> 00:35:22,371
Let me ask you something,
in all candor,
489
00:35:22,538 --> 00:35:26,876
as members of the Negro community,
what are your biggest concerns?
490
00:35:30,797 --> 00:35:32,840
Now, come on now, boys.
491
00:35:33,883 --> 00:35:35,301
Don't be shy.
492
00:35:37,762 --> 00:35:40,431
Holloway, come on.
493
00:35:40,598 --> 00:35:44,268
- Well, since you asked, sir...
- I did.
494
00:35:44,435 --> 00:35:48,397
The colored help gets paid almost
40 percent less than the white help.
495
00:35:48,564 --> 00:35:50,608
- Is that right?
- Yes, sir.
496
00:35:50,775 --> 00:35:54,612
And it's very difficult for
the colored staff to be promoted.
497
00:35:56,113 --> 00:35:59,116
I'll tell you what. When I'm president,
I'm gonna look into getting you boys
498
00:35:59,283 --> 00:36:01,035
the raises and
the promotions you deserve.
499
00:36:01,202 --> 00:36:04,288
That... that would be swell, sir.
500
00:36:04,455 --> 00:36:08,251
- You got my word on that.
- Thank you, sir.
501
00:36:08,417 --> 00:36:10,169
Now, you tell your people
to vote for me,
502
00:36:10,336 --> 00:36:11,546
and that's exactly
what's gonna happen.
503
00:36:11,712 --> 00:36:14,465
Give that to somebody.
504
00:36:39,073 --> 00:36:41,993
What do you mean, you don't
want to date nobody?
505
00:36:42,159 --> 00:36:43,327
After all these guys
that come after you?
506
00:36:43,494 --> 00:36:46,914
- Girl, please. I'm just...
- Like that one?
507
00:36:47,081 --> 00:36:49,876
I'm talking about you and Isaac.
508
00:36:50,042 --> 00:36:51,335
Now, come on,
tell me what happened.
509
00:36:51,502 --> 00:36:53,129
Y'all seemed happy.
510
00:36:53,296 --> 00:36:55,965
See, I can't even have a normal
conversation with you, because...
511
00:37:03,097 --> 00:37:07,310
- Hey.
- You looking for love, boy?
512
00:37:09,353 --> 00:37:13,482
That's what we call the Lawson workshop,
the love school.
513
00:37:13,649 --> 00:37:17,445
- Is that what you're looking for?
- That's why I came to Fisk.
514
00:37:19,238 --> 00:37:21,115
Me, too.
515
00:37:25,411 --> 00:37:28,789
- I'm Carol Hammie.
- Louis Gaines.
516
00:37:28,956 --> 00:37:30,958
Come on. Follow me.
517
00:37:33,210 --> 00:37:35,338
You a country boy, ain't you?
518
00:37:35,504 --> 00:37:37,632
He's a doctor.
What does your dad do?
519
00:37:37,798 --> 00:37:40,676
He's in politics.
520
00:37:40,843 --> 00:37:43,346
You were gonna need help
finding this place anyway.
521
00:37:43,512 --> 00:37:45,222
...nor can you sustain it
over a month.
522
00:37:45,389 --> 00:37:47,600
- Really?
- This requires time, commitment,
523
00:37:47,767 --> 00:37:49,185
dedication, discipline and focus.
524
00:37:49,352 --> 00:37:52,396
And we are measuring our
accomplishments in waves, right?
525
00:37:52,563 --> 00:37:54,774
This is not a fly-by-night affair.
This doesn't happen over a week.
526
00:37:54,941 --> 00:37:58,194
This requires a fierce discipline,
which is what we've been discussing.
527
00:37:58,361 --> 00:38:00,154
How do you measure these things?
528
00:38:00,321 --> 00:38:02,740
We go back, and we look
at somebody like Gandhi.
529
00:38:02,907 --> 00:38:05,701
Together, we are gonna study
and examine Gandhi's techniques.
530
00:38:05,868 --> 00:38:08,788
What has been so effective
in South Africa, so effective in India,
531
00:38:08,955 --> 00:38:11,457
for his own people and others,
532
00:38:11,624 --> 00:38:14,460
and we're gonna employ it
right here, in Nashville.
533
00:38:14,627 --> 00:38:18,255
So we're gonna form an army.
You and I.
534
00:38:18,422 --> 00:38:21,258
This army has one weapon.
That weapon is love.
535
00:38:21,425 --> 00:38:23,177
Now, I am of the... yes.
536
00:38:23,344 --> 00:38:25,513
If our only weapon is love,
537
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,848
and then their weapons
are weapons,
538
00:38:28,015 --> 00:38:31,519
- I mean, isn't that dangerous?
- Oh, you can be killed.
539
00:38:31,686 --> 00:38:33,896
If anybody's uncomfortable with that,
you know where the door is.
540
00:38:34,063 --> 00:38:36,983
I understand that sounds
provocative, but it's true.
541
00:38:38,985 --> 00:38:42,530
All right, kids.
It's show time.
542
00:39:01,716 --> 00:39:05,428
Gandhi has demonstrated for us
that the brown man,
543
00:39:05,594 --> 00:39:08,222
in his native land, or anywhere
that he's being oppressed...
544
00:39:10,433 --> 00:39:12,143
...can pull himself out
of segregation
545
00:39:12,309 --> 00:39:14,812
with patience, with persistence,
546
00:39:14,979 --> 00:39:17,648
with intelligence and thought,
with discipline...
547
00:39:22,194 --> 00:39:24,155
...and a bit
of a sense of humor.
548
00:39:33,497 --> 00:39:35,374
You know y'all can't sit here.
549
00:39:35,541 --> 00:39:37,752
We would like to be served, please.
550
00:39:37,918 --> 00:39:40,588
This is unprecedented,
what we're talking about,
551
00:39:40,755 --> 00:39:43,841
but it needs a patience
that none of us have ever seen.
552
00:39:44,008 --> 00:39:45,885
You can order food
in the colored section,
553
00:39:46,052 --> 00:39:48,095
but I'm not gonna be
serving you here.
554
00:39:48,262 --> 00:39:51,724
We are organized.
We have a leader with every group.
555
00:39:51,891 --> 00:39:54,435
We have lookouts
with pocket change
556
00:39:54,602 --> 00:39:56,270
and the local phone numbers
for ambulances ready,
557
00:39:56,437 --> 00:39:59,356
and when one wave comes
off that lunch counter, what follows?
558
00:39:59,523 --> 00:40:01,192
A whole 'nother wave
of Negro students
559
00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:03,319
sitting at that lunch counter,
blowing their mind.
560
00:40:03,486 --> 00:40:05,780
We would like
to be served, please.
561
00:40:09,450 --> 00:40:12,036
Now, who wants to role-play?
562
00:40:12,203 --> 00:40:14,497
Jim, I need your help over here.
563
00:40:14,663 --> 00:40:16,499
Now, y'all know you're
not supposed to sit there.
564
00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:19,460
- Attack.
- Get up, nigger! Get up!
565
00:40:19,627 --> 00:40:21,045
This is an experiment.
566
00:40:21,212 --> 00:40:23,380
So do whatever it takes
to break their spirits.
567
00:40:23,547 --> 00:40:25,674
- Come on, get up, nigger.
- Use the language.
568
00:40:25,841 --> 00:40:27,134
I need to hear "nigger" coming
out of your mouth.
569
00:40:27,301 --> 00:40:29,011
- I need to hear "coon."
- I don't feel comfortable saying that.
570
00:40:29,178 --> 00:40:31,806
You came here to get yourself prepared
and to get her prepared.
571
00:40:31,972 --> 00:40:33,891
So let me hear it now.
572
00:40:35,017 --> 00:40:37,228
- Nigger.
- Louder.
573
00:40:37,394 --> 00:40:38,979
Say the words like you mean it.
574
00:40:39,146 --> 00:40:40,940
- Nigger.
- Louder.
575
00:40:41,107 --> 00:40:42,233
You are a nigger!
576
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,028
You need to be sitting
in the colored seating.
577
00:40:46,195 --> 00:40:48,155
This is not for you,
you cannot be served here.
578
00:40:48,322 --> 00:40:50,449
You need to do as you're told
and sit in your place.
579
00:40:50,616 --> 00:40:52,618
- You are a nigger.
- Make her believe it.
580
00:40:52,785 --> 00:40:54,328
- I don't believe you.
- You're a nigger.
581
00:40:54,495 --> 00:40:55,621
You know that's where
the colored people sit.
582
00:40:55,788 --> 00:40:59,208
You see these people over here?
They're in their section over here.
583
00:40:59,375 --> 00:41:02,753
You coon ass!
Get up, you nigger!
584
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,048
If you want us to shop
in this establishment, make them go.
585
00:41:06,215 --> 00:41:07,925
Come on, Robert, let's go.
586
00:41:24,567 --> 00:41:26,402
Nigger lover, get out!
587
00:41:26,569 --> 00:41:28,612
- Get up, monkey. Get up!
- What is this?
588
00:41:28,779 --> 00:41:31,615
Are you listening to us?
589
00:41:31,782 --> 00:41:34,285
This says "whites only."
590
00:41:34,451 --> 00:41:36,912
Get up, nigger. Get up!
591
00:41:41,375 --> 00:41:43,335
- Coons here?
- What are you doing here?
592
00:41:43,502 --> 00:41:44,837
- Does it say "coons?"
- "Whites only."
593
00:41:47,423 --> 00:41:50,176
You don't belong here with them.
This? What is this, huh?
594
00:41:50,342 --> 00:41:52,761
- Does it say "coons" here, huh?
- What are you doing here?
595
00:41:52,928 --> 00:41:55,472
- Pay attention.
- No, this is whites only.
596
00:41:56,223 --> 00:41:58,142
You don't belong here at all.
597
00:41:58,851 --> 00:42:00,895
What are you reading?
I didn't know niggers could read.
598
00:42:01,061 --> 00:42:02,605
What are you, stupid?
You're a nigger lover now?
599
00:42:02,771 --> 00:42:04,690
Get up, you nigger!
Look at me!
600
00:42:04,857 --> 00:42:06,859
- Look at me!
- What are you doing?
601
00:42:07,026 --> 00:42:10,029
You disrespectful monkey. Huh?
602
00:42:10,196 --> 00:42:12,114
Do you understand?
You understand?
603
00:42:12,281 --> 00:42:13,657
Stop it! Stop it!
604
00:42:13,824 --> 00:42:16,118
What do you think you're doing here?
605
00:42:18,245 --> 00:42:21,582
Get up! Get up, you nigger!
Look at me! Look at me!
606
00:42:21,749 --> 00:42:23,709
That up there or is that here?
607
00:42:27,171 --> 00:42:28,464
You don't have to tell me,
608
00:42:28,631 --> 00:42:30,507
- but you have to decide.
- I was a nigger.
609
00:42:42,937 --> 00:42:45,731
- Go back to where you came from!
- Here, you want some coffee?
610
00:43:07,002 --> 00:43:08,712
...the niggers are better
off in their own schools
611
00:43:08,879 --> 00:43:10,214
than they are in the white schools.
612
00:43:10,381 --> 00:43:12,841
- To serving our country.
- Serving our country.
613
00:43:13,008 --> 00:43:14,260
My man.
614
00:43:22,226 --> 00:43:26,689
I feel rich right now.
I like the way that tastes.
615
00:43:47,543 --> 00:43:49,169
They got no business out here.
616
00:43:49,336 --> 00:43:50,754
...better off in their
own schools than they are
617
00:43:50,921 --> 00:43:52,423
in the white schools.
618
00:43:57,344 --> 00:43:59,013
You're all sentenced to 30 days
619
00:43:59,179 --> 00:44:00,597
- in the county jail.
- What?
620
00:44:00,764 --> 00:44:03,434
Bailiff, get these
niggers out of here.
621
00:44:25,914 --> 00:44:28,876
Something special
is going on down here, Dad.
622
00:44:32,046 --> 00:44:35,257
What's so special about
another colored man in jail?
623
00:44:37,176 --> 00:44:40,679
What you doing
with my hard earned money, Pop?
624
00:44:40,846 --> 00:44:42,056
Are you even in school?
625
00:44:42,222 --> 00:44:43,474
I'm trying to change
the way Negroes...
626
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,225
You're breaking the law.
627
00:44:46,352 --> 00:44:49,688
That judge just sentenced you
to 30 days in the county workhouse.
628
00:44:49,855 --> 00:44:51,607
You fixing to get killed.
629
00:44:51,774 --> 00:44:53,192
If I can't sit at any
lunch counter I want,
630
00:44:53,359 --> 00:44:54,985
then I might as well be dead.
631
00:44:55,152 --> 00:44:57,112
- We're fighting for our rights.
- Rights?
632
00:44:57,279 --> 00:44:58,530
- What are you talking about?
- We're trying to change
633
00:44:58,697 --> 00:45:00,074
the nation's consciousness
toward the American Negro.
634
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:01,492
Them postcards you've been sending me?
635
00:45:01,658 --> 00:45:03,535
- You're a damn liar.
- I have been in school.
636
00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:08,499
Who do you think you're talking to?
637
00:45:08,665 --> 00:45:10,876
I brought you into this world,
I can take you out of it.
638
00:45:43,951 --> 00:45:47,329
- Y'all been able to talk to him?
- Talk to who?
639
00:45:47,496 --> 00:45:50,457
- Louis.
- Yeah, we talk to him.
640
00:45:51,625 --> 00:45:54,128
Said he's joined something
called the "Freedom Riders,"
641
00:45:54,294 --> 00:45:56,839
whatever the hell
that's supposed to mean.
642
00:45:57,005 --> 00:45:58,382
You gonna see him?
643
00:45:58,549 --> 00:46:00,551
I been fixing to trying to see him.
644
00:46:00,717 --> 00:46:02,845
Every time I do,
Cecil get all riled up.
645
00:46:03,011 --> 00:46:04,972
So I don't know when
that's gonna happen.
646
00:46:05,139 --> 00:46:07,474
"Fixing to trying."
See, that's the problem.
647
00:46:07,641 --> 00:46:10,561
You got to stop trying,
and you just got to do it.
648
00:46:10,727 --> 00:46:12,771
He take you
to the White House yet?
649
00:46:14,398 --> 00:46:17,067
No. Cecil say we're going soon.
650
00:46:17,234 --> 00:46:19,820
"Cecil say, Cecil say."
651
00:46:19,987 --> 00:46:23,615
Four years. That's what makes
you a little bit gullible, darling.
652
00:46:23,782 --> 00:46:25,909
I don't understand.
I don't understand why he can't
653
00:46:26,076 --> 00:46:28,370
- get the president to do something.
- See, Gina, that's your problem.
654
00:46:28,537 --> 00:46:30,747
You just say stupid stuff.
655
00:46:30,914 --> 00:46:35,127
President got more to do than be
thinking about Louis' foolishness.
656
00:46:36,503 --> 00:46:38,964
You know,
why don't you just shut up?
657
00:46:39,131 --> 00:46:42,468
It's just a mess.
Be nice.
658
00:46:42,634 --> 00:46:45,596
Who told you
you could tell me to shut up?
659
00:46:45,762 --> 00:46:47,764
- Well... You...
- Go get me a drink.
660
00:46:47,931 --> 00:46:49,475
I want some scotch.
661
00:46:51,226 --> 00:46:56,023
Well, I personally think Louis is
gonna get every one of us killed.
662
00:46:56,190 --> 00:46:58,859
They coming to get us.
They coming to get us.
663
00:46:59,026 --> 00:47:02,362
He crazy like his mama.
664
00:47:02,529 --> 00:47:04,490
I meant it in a good way.
665
00:47:05,866 --> 00:47:09,203
I'm sorry!
I'm sorry.
666
00:47:09,369 --> 00:47:11,246
Get back over here.
667
00:47:11,413 --> 00:47:13,373
Let me get your ass.
668
00:47:13,540 --> 00:47:18,921
I received also a wire from
President Eisenhower, which says...
669
00:47:19,087 --> 00:47:22,132
The president lives
at the White House
670
00:47:22,299 --> 00:47:25,552
until the moment the next one
is sworn in.
671
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,388
So the staff has exactly two hours
672
00:47:28,555 --> 00:47:33,268
during the inauguration ceremony,
to move the old president out
673
00:47:33,435 --> 00:47:35,771
and move the new one in.
674
00:47:35,938 --> 00:47:40,609
They say
this new white boy's smooth.
675
00:47:40,776 --> 00:47:42,945
I just need to get my
butt home to Gloria.
676
00:47:43,111 --> 00:47:45,614
'Cause these hours,
they're killing us.
677
00:47:45,781 --> 00:47:47,366
How's your boy doing, Cecil?
678
00:47:47,533 --> 00:47:50,577
Gentlemen, the president's arriving.
679
00:47:54,540 --> 00:47:56,792
- OK.
- Where shall we start?
680
00:47:56,959 --> 00:47:58,418
I'm not sure.
This end, maybe over there?
681
00:47:58,585 --> 00:48:00,045
- Thank you.
- Right this way, Mr. President.
682
00:48:00,212 --> 00:48:03,006
- Hello, everyone.
- Mr. President.
683
00:48:03,173 --> 00:48:06,301
I am thrilled to be
working with all of you
684
00:48:06,468 --> 00:48:08,178
over the next four years.
685
00:48:08,345 --> 00:48:10,847
Eight years, Jack.
686
00:48:12,099 --> 00:48:13,684
Well, you see who wears
the pants around here.
687
00:48:15,269 --> 00:48:17,896
I'm not gonna remember any
of your names, but I'm gonna try.
688
00:48:18,063 --> 00:48:20,107
Jessie. It's a good thing you're here
'cause I'm gonna forget.
689
00:48:20,274 --> 00:48:23,026
- Thank you. This is Lorraine.
- Pleasure to meet you.
690
00:48:23,193 --> 00:48:24,653
- Mr. President.
- How are you, James?
691
00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:25,821
- Carter.
- Pleasure, Mr. President.
692
00:48:25,988 --> 00:48:27,531
- Carter.
- This is Cecil.
693
00:48:27,698 --> 00:48:29,157
- Pleasure to meet you, Mr. President.
- How are you?
694
00:48:29,324 --> 00:48:30,492
- William.
- Mrs. Kennedy.
695
00:48:30,659 --> 00:48:32,578
- Greg.
- How are you?
696
00:48:32,744 --> 00:48:33,912
Winslow.
697
00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:36,164
I got it. She's all right.
698
00:48:37,291 --> 00:48:39,084
Pleasure to meet you,
Miss Caroline.
699
00:48:39,251 --> 00:48:40,460
- Miles.
- Miles.
700
00:48:41,503 --> 00:48:44,840
What's that on your breath,
Gloria? Stop, OK. Stop.
701
00:48:45,007 --> 00:48:46,675
- What's that?
- Baby, that's gin.
702
00:48:46,842 --> 00:48:49,678
- I can smell it from here.
- It said "Addison's disease."
703
00:48:49,845 --> 00:48:51,138
Stop. Stop it, will you stop?
704
00:48:51,305 --> 00:48:53,515
Did you take Charlie
to the dentist today?
705
00:48:56,893 --> 00:48:59,646
Somebody at the White House
got Addison's disease?
706
00:49:02,441 --> 00:49:05,235
No, I did not take Charlie
to the dentist today.
707
00:49:05,402 --> 00:49:08,196
And what you asking me about it for?
You never home.
708
00:49:08,363 --> 00:49:10,866
Now you gonna act like you gonna
take Charlie to the dentist?
709
00:49:11,033 --> 00:49:13,952
You ain't never here.
I don't know how you gonna take him.
710
00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:16,496
His teeth fall out,
waiting on you to take him.
711
00:49:16,663 --> 00:49:20,917
Just go to bed, Gloria.
I'll take him tomorrow.
712
00:49:21,084 --> 00:49:23,629
How many pairs of shoes
does she have?
713
00:49:26,381 --> 00:49:30,302
I said, how many pairs of shoes
does Mrs. Jackie Kennedy have?
714
00:49:30,469 --> 00:49:32,554
How the hell do I know?
715
00:49:36,558 --> 00:49:39,061
You're in that ol' White House
day and night.
716
00:49:39,227 --> 00:49:40,979
Thought you knew everything.
717
00:49:44,858 --> 00:49:46,943
Coming in,
trying to tell me what to do.
718
00:49:47,110 --> 00:49:49,821
Worried about me drinking.
719
00:49:49,988 --> 00:49:52,366
You ought to be worried
about your house.
720
00:49:52,532 --> 00:49:54,993
Our boy's in jail, Cecil.
721
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,914
Our boy's in jail,
and you can't come home.
722
00:50:00,123 --> 00:50:03,251
You... You don't see I'm here,
trying to talk to you?
723
00:50:05,337 --> 00:50:09,841
I bet you wish I spoke French,
just like Jackie.
724
00:50:10,008 --> 00:50:12,469
Jackie Kennedy.
725
00:50:12,636 --> 00:50:15,430
Que sera, sera.
726
00:50:16,807 --> 00:50:19,476
You like that?
727
00:50:19,643 --> 00:50:21,436
You like the way she talk?
728
00:50:22,896 --> 00:50:24,981
Cecil,
you hear me talking to you.
729
00:50:26,066 --> 00:50:27,859
You ain't asleep.
730
00:50:44,584 --> 00:50:46,837
Bobby told the president
731
00:50:47,003 --> 00:50:49,631
they shouldn't be worried about
the Negro sit-ins.
732
00:50:49,798 --> 00:50:53,176
Polls show the US
does not support civil rights.
733
00:50:53,343 --> 00:50:57,097
Told you that white boy was smooth.
A little too smooth for my money.
734
00:51:03,145 --> 00:51:06,940
- Hey, Cecil, how's your boy doing?
- Out of jail, says he's back in school,
735
00:51:07,107 --> 00:51:09,276
but I think he's doing
that freedom riding thing.
736
00:51:09,443 --> 00:51:11,737
How's Gloria doing
with that drinking?
737
00:51:13,196 --> 00:51:14,781
She's hanging.
738
00:51:18,118 --> 00:51:21,121
They say that cat
that's playing is a big deal.
739
00:51:21,288 --> 00:51:25,083
- Pablo Casals, world famous.
- Course he's world famous.
740
00:51:25,250 --> 00:51:27,002
You think Mrs. Kennedy
is gonna have, uh...
741
00:51:27,169 --> 00:51:29,463
some backwoods country fiddle
band playing out there for her?
742
00:51:29,629 --> 00:51:31,006
- Man.
- Why don't you start a band?
743
00:51:31,173 --> 00:51:32,758
Maybe you can go out there, too.
744
00:51:32,924 --> 00:51:35,051
You know what, in fact,
let's all start a band.
745
00:51:35,218 --> 00:51:37,012
I'll play the bongos.
What about you?
746
00:51:37,179 --> 00:51:39,473
I play a mean... skin flute.
747
00:51:43,310 --> 00:51:46,563
He refuses to play in any country
that recognizes Franco's regime.
748
00:51:46,730 --> 00:51:48,607
Who's Franco?
749
00:51:51,067 --> 00:51:52,736
- Forget it, man.
- Huh?
750
00:51:52,903 --> 00:51:55,989
Forget it. You're ignorant.
751
00:52:07,584 --> 00:52:09,503
Carol, are you tired?
752
00:52:09,669 --> 00:52:12,214
You just want me to put my head
on your shoulder.
753
00:52:12,380 --> 00:52:13,590
What wrong with that?
754
00:52:13,757 --> 00:52:14,966
I'm not putting my head
on your shoulder.
755
00:52:15,133 --> 00:52:16,134
You can.
756
00:52:19,513 --> 00:52:20,764
Ever been
on a freedom bus before?
757
00:52:20,931 --> 00:52:22,224
- No, it's my first time.
- No?
758
00:52:22,390 --> 00:52:24,267
- How's your boyfriend feel about that?
- My boyfriend?
759
00:52:24,434 --> 00:52:28,146
Yeah. I mean,
this must upset him, right?
760
00:52:28,313 --> 00:52:29,981
You being on this bus down here.
761
00:52:30,148 --> 00:52:32,234
- I don't have a boyfriend.
- You don't have a boyfriend?
762
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,444
How do you not have a boyfriend?
763
00:52:38,990 --> 00:52:40,826
- You want some peanuts?
- No, thank you.
764
00:52:40,992 --> 00:52:43,453
- You like peanuts or...?
- I don't like peanuts.
765
00:52:43,620 --> 00:52:46,248
- I'm too hot to eat.
- Hey, can I have some of those?
766
00:52:46,414 --> 00:52:48,708
- Long bus ride.
- OK.
767
00:52:53,964 --> 00:52:56,675
Louis, what is that?
768
00:53:02,931 --> 00:53:06,560
- It's a cross. It's a cross.
- Driver, turn! Turn the bus!
769
00:53:10,021 --> 00:53:11,356
Oh, shit.
770
00:53:18,738 --> 00:53:20,240
Niggers, get out here!
771
00:53:20,407 --> 00:53:23,952
Nigger, go home!
Nigger, go home!
772
00:54:14,628 --> 00:54:17,047
Oh, my God.
Everybody out!
773
00:54:26,806 --> 00:54:29,017
"In an old house in Paris
774
00:54:29,184 --> 00:54:32,395
that was covered with vines...
775
00:54:32,562 --> 00:54:37,567
...lived 12 little girls
in two straight lines.
776
00:54:38,568 --> 00:54:42,113
The smallest one
was Madeline."
777
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,991
- Like Caroline.
- Mm-hm.
778
00:54:45,158 --> 00:54:47,869
"She was not afraid of mice."
779
00:54:48,036 --> 00:54:51,081
Why do people ride
in the freedom bus?
780
00:54:54,876 --> 00:54:56,711
Uncle Bobby told my daddy
781
00:54:56,878 --> 00:55:00,548
that the freedom bus
exploded today.
782
00:55:05,720 --> 00:55:07,847
I can't tell you
if I walked off the bus
783
00:55:08,014 --> 00:55:11,559
or if I crawled off
or if someone pulled me off.
784
00:55:12,644 --> 00:55:15,438
I didn't know if my boy
was dead or alive.
785
00:55:15,605 --> 00:55:18,358
When I got off the bus,
a man came up to me,
786
00:55:18,525 --> 00:55:20,443
and I'm coughing and strangling,
787
00:55:20,610 --> 00:55:22,320
and he said, "Boy, you all right?"
788
00:55:22,487 --> 00:55:25,824
And I nodded my head,
and the next thing I knew,
789
00:55:25,991 --> 00:55:27,659
I was on the ground.
790
00:55:27,826 --> 00:55:31,621
He had hit me with a baseball bat.
791
00:55:33,123 --> 00:55:34,541
Hello.
792
00:55:34,708 --> 00:55:37,711
Hi, Dad.
I'm in Mississippi.
793
00:55:39,421 --> 00:55:40,880
I thought you was in Alabama.
794
00:55:41,047 --> 00:55:44,300
We spent two weeks in jail
there, now we're in Mississippi.
795
00:55:44,467 --> 00:55:46,720
I want you to listen
to me, Louis.
796
00:55:46,886 --> 00:55:49,097
I want you to come home.
797
00:55:49,264 --> 00:55:52,058
I know we ain't seen eye to eye,
798
00:55:52,225 --> 00:55:54,436
but your mama,
she wants you home.
799
00:55:57,939 --> 00:56:00,150
- They're keeping me.
- How long?
800
00:56:00,316 --> 00:56:02,068
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
801
00:56:02,235 --> 00:56:03,945
They said three months.
802
00:56:04,112 --> 00:56:06,865
When I get out,
I'm gonna take another ride.
803
00:56:07,032 --> 00:56:09,993
- What are you talking about?
- What's he saying?
804
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:11,745
Let me talk to him.
Give me that phone.
805
00:56:11,911 --> 00:56:14,664
It is my right to ride that bus.
That is my legal right.
806
00:56:14,831 --> 00:56:18,001
I will exercise my rights
as an American citizen.
807
00:56:18,168 --> 00:56:21,212
American citizen.
What you talking about?
808
00:56:21,379 --> 00:56:23,131
You know what
they're gonna do to you?
809
00:56:23,298 --> 00:56:25,717
They're gonna lynch you
810
00:56:25,884 --> 00:56:28,803
and then they're gonna throw
your little ass in the river.
811
00:56:29,846 --> 00:56:31,264
They're gonna kill you.
812
00:56:31,431 --> 00:56:34,350
Ma, then they're just
gonna have to kill me.
813
00:56:35,518 --> 00:56:37,103
...Negro
and white in Birmingham
814
00:56:37,270 --> 00:56:41,107
have been building up
to scenes with clashes, like this.
815
00:56:41,274 --> 00:56:44,611
The situation was perilously
close to an explosion.
816
00:56:44,778 --> 00:56:47,614
Arrests were made in mass lots.
817
00:56:47,781 --> 00:56:50,200
Everyone charged
with the same offense...
818
00:56:50,366 --> 00:56:52,327
Here you are, Mr. President.
819
00:56:53,870 --> 00:56:55,580
I'll wait for your signature.
820
00:56:55,747 --> 00:56:57,957
City police were
carrying out their pledge
821
00:56:58,124 --> 00:57:00,460
to fill their jails to
capacity if necessary.
822
00:57:00,627 --> 00:57:03,046
They are acting
according to the wishes...
823
00:57:03,213 --> 00:57:05,465
I don't know what country
I'm looking at.
824
00:57:07,717 --> 00:57:10,303
...tone of the city for many years.
825
00:57:26,361 --> 00:57:28,196
Get off! Get off!
826
00:57:34,369 --> 00:57:36,204
Residents here
have taken to the streets
827
00:57:36,371 --> 00:57:38,706
in Birmingham, Alabama,
to bring attention to their efforts
828
00:57:38,873 --> 00:57:41,584
against the segregation
of black Americans.
829
00:57:41,751 --> 00:57:45,797
This is following earlier boycotts
in Birmingham to pressure...
830
00:57:45,964 --> 00:57:49,342
Hey, Louis, man, that little
nigga might be onto something.
831
00:57:52,679 --> 00:57:55,890
Stop calling him a nigga,
'cause he ain't no nigga.
832
00:57:56,057 --> 00:57:57,851
What's wrong, baby?
833
00:57:58,017 --> 00:58:02,188
- What's wrong with me is this.
- What are you talking about?
834
00:58:02,355 --> 00:58:06,192
This is what's wrong with me.
This is wrong. This is wrong.
835
00:58:06,359 --> 00:58:09,571
- We ain't been wrong yet.
- I can't do this to Cecil.
836
00:58:09,737 --> 00:58:12,323
We ain't doing it to Cecil.
I'm doing it to you.
837
00:58:12,490 --> 00:58:15,034
I want you out of my house.
838
00:58:16,202 --> 00:58:19,205
Why do you think God brought us
next to each other each day?
839
00:58:19,372 --> 00:58:22,208
- God ain't got nothing to do with this.
- He put you right next door to me.
840
00:58:22,375 --> 00:58:24,836
You always talking about how
lonely you are without Cecil
841
00:58:25,003 --> 00:58:27,338
being at the White House,
and you need a man that can
842
00:58:27,505 --> 00:58:30,758
appreciate the love and the
woman that you are, like I do.
843
00:58:30,925 --> 00:58:33,511
I want your number-running
ass up out of my house,
844
00:58:33,678 --> 00:58:36,347
off of my sofa right now.
845
00:58:37,182 --> 00:58:39,726
I'm... I'm through.
I told you.
846
00:58:39,893 --> 00:58:41,394
Let me make
a demonstration for you.
847
00:58:41,561 --> 00:58:43,479
Don't come here with
this bullshit crazy talk.
848
00:58:43,646 --> 00:58:45,356
- It's not.
- Some more of this...
849
00:58:45,523 --> 00:58:47,859
This is you, right? You got
your direction that you move in.
850
00:58:48,026 --> 00:58:52,572
- What you doing with my hangers?
- This is you, and this is me.
851
00:58:52,739 --> 00:58:56,034
Now, we seem like we don't fit at all.
We just crash into each other.
852
00:58:56,201 --> 00:58:59,621
But then when
you align things properly,
853
00:58:59,787 --> 00:59:01,664
like God putting you
next door to me,
854
00:59:01,831 --> 00:59:05,126
everything kind of works out.
855
00:59:05,293 --> 00:59:09,130
And even if you slow down,
I got you.
856
00:59:10,298 --> 00:59:12,800
You need to get your yellow
ass up out of my house.
857
00:59:12,967 --> 00:59:15,678
- We need each other.
- What I need is my husband.
858
00:59:15,845 --> 00:59:18,556
And not to be laying up here
in the gutter with you.
859
00:59:30,443 --> 00:59:33,404
On average, how many pills do
you think I take a day, Cecil?
860
00:59:34,906 --> 00:59:38,159
About... 103, sir.
861
00:59:41,537 --> 00:59:44,791
- Help me up.
- Mr. President.
862
00:59:51,631 --> 00:59:54,384
I know your son is a Freedom Ryder.
863
00:59:57,136 --> 01:00:00,765
He's in prison right now in Birmingham
with Martin Luther King.
864
01:00:07,230 --> 01:00:09,107
Do you, uh...
865
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,360
...you know how he is, sir?
866
01:00:12,527 --> 01:00:16,948
I'm guessing he's pretty beat up,
but based on his record,
867
01:00:17,115 --> 01:00:19,033
he must be used to it.
868
01:00:21,786 --> 01:00:25,164
Cecil, he's been arrested 16 times
over the past two years.
869
01:00:27,875 --> 01:00:29,585
Yes, sir.
870
01:00:34,132 --> 01:00:37,093
- Will that be all, sir?
- That's it.
871
01:00:40,555 --> 01:00:42,640
You know, I never understood
872
01:00:42,807 --> 01:00:44,684
what you all really went through...
873
01:00:46,269 --> 01:00:48,521
...until I saw that.
874
01:00:51,899 --> 01:00:53,776
My brother says these kids have...
875
01:00:56,154 --> 01:00:57,822
...changed his heart.
876
01:01:03,494 --> 01:01:05,621
They've changed mine, too.
877
01:01:09,500 --> 01:01:13,379
The fires of discord are burning
in every city North and South,
878
01:01:13,546 --> 01:01:16,257
where legal remedies
are not at hand.
879
01:01:16,424 --> 01:01:17,884
Redress is sought in the streets,
880
01:01:18,051 --> 01:01:21,679
in demonstrations,
parades and protests.
881
01:01:21,846 --> 01:01:24,098
I am therefore
asking the Congress
882
01:01:24,265 --> 01:01:26,142
to enact legislation
883
01:01:26,309 --> 01:01:29,187
giving all Americans the right
to be served in facilities
884
01:01:29,354 --> 01:01:30,688
which are open to the public.
885
01:01:30,855 --> 01:01:33,608
Hotels, restaurants, theaters,
886
01:01:33,775 --> 01:01:36,778
retail stores
and similar establishments.
887
01:01:36,944 --> 01:01:40,198
This seems to me to be
an elementary right.
888
01:01:40,365 --> 01:01:42,658
Its denial is
an arbitrary indignity
889
01:01:42,825 --> 01:01:47,163
that no American in 1963
should have to endure, but many do.
890
01:01:47,330 --> 01:01:49,832
A great change is at hand.
891
01:01:49,999 --> 01:01:54,253
And our task, our obligation,
is to make that revolution,
892
01:01:54,420 --> 01:01:59,300
that change,
peaceful and constructive for all.
893
01:01:59,467 --> 01:02:03,596
Those who do nothing are
inviting shame as well as violence...
894
01:02:25,243 --> 01:02:30,248
Hey. Hey, Cecil.
Cecil, what's wrong?
895
01:02:33,042 --> 01:02:34,919
Cecil?
896
01:02:37,755 --> 01:02:39,340
Cecil?
897
01:02:40,842 --> 01:02:42,593
They blew his...
898
01:02:43,719 --> 01:02:45,638
...head off.
899
01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:52,478
- Who are you talking about?
- Kennedy.
900
01:02:59,026 --> 01:03:01,195
President Kennedy was shot
901
01:03:01,362 --> 01:03:03,906
as he drove from Dallas airport
to downtown Dallas...
902
01:03:04,073 --> 01:03:05,158
They killed him.
903
01:03:05,324 --> 01:03:08,703
Governor Connally of Texas
in the car with him was also shot.
904
01:03:08,870 --> 01:03:11,372
It is reported that
three bullets rang out.
905
01:03:11,539 --> 01:03:13,583
A Secret Serviceman has been...
906
01:03:13,749 --> 01:03:16,210
They killed our man.
907
01:03:16,377 --> 01:03:19,422
"He's dead." Whether he
referred to President Kennedy or not
908
01:03:19,589 --> 01:03:21,299
is not yet known.
909
01:03:21,466 --> 01:03:24,760
The president, cradled in the
arms of his wife, Mrs. Kennedy,
910
01:03:24,927 --> 01:03:27,472
was carried to an ambulance
and the car rushed
911
01:03:27,638 --> 01:03:29,515
to Parkland Hospital
outside Dallas...
912
01:03:29,682 --> 01:03:33,352
Mrs. Kennedy refused
to change her clothes,
913
01:03:33,519 --> 01:03:38,024
so that everybody could see
what they did to her husband.
914
01:03:45,865 --> 01:03:48,951
The last time
I saw that much blood
915
01:03:49,118 --> 01:03:52,038
was the day my daddy was killed.
916
01:04:00,630 --> 01:04:03,424
Please tell me how I could help you.
917
01:04:41,170 --> 01:04:43,214
Ma, what you doing?
918
01:04:44,715 --> 01:04:48,344
Here. Want you to take this box
and put it in the basement.
919
01:04:48,511 --> 01:04:50,680
- Make sure you label it "trophies."
- This is Louis' stuff, Ma.
920
01:04:50,846 --> 01:04:52,348
You know he gonna be pissed.
921
01:04:52,515 --> 01:04:54,225
I don't care nothing about
Louis being pissed.
922
01:04:54,392 --> 01:04:56,519
I'm the one pissed.
He ain't been here in three years.
923
01:04:56,686 --> 01:04:58,229
Why you pissed, Mama?
924
01:04:58,396 --> 01:05:00,064
And don't put that next
to my jarred okra either.
925
01:05:00,231 --> 01:05:01,857
Ain't nobody trying to smell
that stankin' okra.
926
01:05:02,024 --> 01:05:03,943
And when you come back, I want
you to get me some fish food.
927
01:05:22,837 --> 01:05:25,548
Look what the president...
928
01:05:25,715 --> 01:05:27,383
...Mrs. Kennedy gave me.
929
01:05:27,550 --> 01:05:29,719
Belonged to the president.
930
01:05:32,597 --> 01:05:34,223
Gloria...
931
01:05:35,391 --> 01:05:36,976
President was killed.
932
01:05:38,644 --> 01:05:40,855
I'm really sorry about the president.
933
01:05:41,731 --> 01:05:43,608
I really am.
934
01:05:43,774 --> 01:05:46,110
But you and that White House
can kiss my ass.
935
01:05:46,277 --> 01:05:48,029
I don't care what
goes on in that house.
936
01:05:48,195 --> 01:05:50,239
I care about what goes on in this house.
937
01:06:28,778 --> 01:06:33,991
I knew that Gloria had been
unhappy for some time now.
938
01:06:35,159 --> 01:06:37,870
I knew that's probably
why she drank.
939
01:06:39,372 --> 01:06:42,416
She wanted me to get along
better with Louis.
940
01:06:43,959 --> 01:06:46,128
I didn't know how.
941
01:06:46,295 --> 01:06:47,838
I couldn't.
942
01:06:48,839 --> 01:06:52,968
I could cut back them
long hours at the White House.
943
01:06:53,135 --> 01:06:55,388
And I did just that.
944
01:06:55,554 --> 01:06:57,640
How many pairs of shoes she got?
945
01:06:57,807 --> 01:07:00,685
She got about... 125.
946
01:07:00,851 --> 01:07:03,354
- A hundred twenty-five pairs of shoes?
- Yeah.
947
01:07:03,521 --> 01:07:08,234
Put them in a line from the blacks
all the way to the whites.
948
01:07:08,609 --> 01:07:12,196
And I'll tell you what. Next time
there's a light on in an empty room,
949
01:07:12,363 --> 01:07:15,366
I will fire every sorry son of a bitch
in this house. I mean it, Cecil!
950
01:07:15,533 --> 01:07:18,661
Go back to Texas and run the country
from a dirt shack if I have to.
951
01:07:18,828 --> 01:07:20,204
Is that what you want?
952
01:07:20,371 --> 01:07:21,956
Who do you think pays the
goddamned bills around here?
953
01:07:22,123 --> 01:07:23,457
I don't, but you
know what I mean.
954
01:07:23,624 --> 01:07:24,917
Yes, sir.
955
01:07:26,085 --> 01:07:28,796
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot.
956
01:07:28,963 --> 01:07:32,049
Lady Bird and I want you to have this.
957
01:07:32,216 --> 01:07:35,511
- Matches your eyes.
- Thank you, sir.
958
01:07:38,431 --> 01:07:40,516
- Get it, Gloria.
- Do it, baby.
959
01:07:40,683 --> 01:07:43,102
Swim it! Go ahead, Gloria.
960
01:07:43,269 --> 01:07:47,398
- I see you, baby.
- You see me, babe? Put it on.
961
01:07:50,818 --> 01:07:52,528
Get it, Gloria.
962
01:07:52,695 --> 01:07:55,448
- Now that's what I'm talking about.
- Get it, girl! Shake it out! Get it!
963
01:07:59,952 --> 01:08:02,204
Negro! Get out here.
964
01:08:02,371 --> 01:08:03,998
Back there stinking up
my bathroom.
965
01:08:04,165 --> 01:08:05,791
- Oh, Lord.
- Oh, Lord.
966
01:08:05,958 --> 01:08:07,251
What you doing?
967
01:08:07,418 --> 01:08:09,378
Hey! Whoo!
968
01:08:09,545 --> 01:08:11,672
What?
969
01:08:11,839 --> 01:08:13,090
Get you some!
970
01:08:14,925 --> 01:08:17,219
- You know.
- That's your friend.
971
01:08:19,013 --> 01:08:21,474
Give me my wig!
What's wrong with you?!
972
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,393
- This my good wig!
- Oh, shit!
973
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:27,229
- Sit down.
- We got the spades up.
974
01:08:27,396 --> 01:08:28,856
Brother just handling his business.
975
01:08:29,023 --> 01:08:30,691
He can still do the splits,
I'll tell you.
976
01:08:30,858 --> 01:08:33,068
James told me
that Dr. King told the president
977
01:08:33,235 --> 01:08:36,280
that we would be going to the streets
down South for our right to vote.
978
01:08:36,447 --> 01:08:38,157
- Didn't you, baby?
- What?
979
01:08:38,324 --> 01:08:40,367
Didn't you tell me
that Dr. King told the president
980
01:08:40,534 --> 01:08:42,578
that we was going down South
for our right to vote?
981
01:08:42,745 --> 01:08:45,289
- I ain't make that up.
- Is that what you heard?
982
01:08:45,456 --> 01:08:47,583
That Dr. King ain't no joke,
with his little militant ass.
983
01:08:47,750 --> 01:08:50,127
- She talking too damned much.
- Well, sound like somebody talking.
984
01:08:50,294 --> 01:08:51,212
Shut up.
985
01:08:51,420 --> 01:08:53,881
- Leave my bird alone.
- Well, you know them three kids
986
01:08:54,048 --> 01:08:56,801
got killed down there, trying to get
colored folks registered to vote.
987
01:08:56,967 --> 01:08:58,302
That's why I didn't want
Louis to go down there.
988
01:08:58,469 --> 01:08:59,887
That's what I was
trying to tell you.
989
01:09:00,054 --> 01:09:01,388
You shouldn't have
sent him down there.
990
01:09:01,555 --> 01:09:03,599
- I know.
- He is down there now,
991
01:09:03,766 --> 01:09:05,643
and there ain't nothing
we can do about it.
992
01:09:05,810 --> 01:09:07,353
The only reason
the president sent the FBI
993
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:08,729
is 'cause two of them were white.
994
01:09:08,896 --> 01:09:11,774
- Now who told you that?
- Yeah, who told her that?
995
01:09:11,941 --> 01:09:15,611
It was in one of them colored newspapers
from Baltimore. That all right with you?
996
01:09:15,778 --> 01:09:18,113
See, she getting smart now.
997
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,407
Honey, you think the president
ought to do something
998
01:09:20,574 --> 01:09:22,993
- about the Voting Rights bill?
- That ain't the trump.
999
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:24,662
President Johnson
just passed the greatest piece
1000
01:09:24,829 --> 01:09:27,832
of civil rights legislation
since Lincoln freed the slaves.
1001
01:09:27,998 --> 01:09:30,459
It's gonna be very difficult to
pass another bill anytime soon.
1002
01:09:30,626 --> 01:09:32,837
- That's it.
- You see how my wife quizzes me?
1003
01:09:33,003 --> 01:09:35,965
- I get it every day.
- Only, you got to know
1004
01:09:36,131 --> 01:09:38,175
how much to say,
when you cross the line.
1005
01:09:38,342 --> 01:09:39,885
You deal with your woman,
I'll deal with mine.
1006
01:09:40,052 --> 01:09:42,096
At least you tell your wife
what's going on over there.
1007
01:09:42,263 --> 01:09:43,681
- Aces!
- Damn!
1008
01:09:43,848 --> 01:09:45,975
Can't be a king
in your own castle.
1009
01:09:46,141 --> 01:09:48,143
You hit the strip joint,
that's what I say.
1010
01:09:48,310 --> 01:09:51,856
Hey, uh, Glo. Did you hear about
your neighbor, Howard?
1011
01:09:54,108 --> 01:09:58,904
Guy down on 8th Street,
caught him in bed with his wife.
1012
01:09:59,071 --> 01:10:00,531
Shot him dead.
1013
01:10:00,698 --> 01:10:03,868
- Shot him in the back.
- That's it. That's all of it.
1014
01:10:04,034 --> 01:10:08,122
I don't know, maybe he got
what he deserved.
1015
01:10:09,456 --> 01:10:11,375
You sorry sap asses
got to realize
1016
01:10:11,542 --> 01:10:13,460
the Negro ain't gonna take it no more.
1017
01:10:13,627 --> 01:10:15,462
This entire country is a tinderbox.
1018
01:10:15,629 --> 01:10:19,049
Goddamn tinderbox of nigger rage
just waiting to explode!
1019
01:10:19,216 --> 01:10:21,343
Now, I want you all
to get on the phone,
1020
01:10:21,510 --> 01:10:23,721
call the NAACP, CORE
and whoever else
1021
01:10:23,888 --> 01:10:25,389
will listen to your sorry asses
1022
01:10:25,556 --> 01:10:27,766
and help me keep them Negroes
off the street.
1023
01:10:27,933 --> 01:10:31,020
Buck, I smell your ass from here!
What the hell are you waiting for?!
1024
01:10:31,186 --> 01:10:34,106
Jesus Christ.
1025
01:10:34,273 --> 01:10:36,984
Cecil, get me some of
that goddamned prune juice.
1026
01:10:43,115 --> 01:10:46,035
I'm not sure what to make
of Malcolm X.
1027
01:10:46,201 --> 01:10:47,703
I know what to make of him.
1028
01:10:47,870 --> 01:10:49,872
Got a better plan
in place than Dr. King.
1029
01:10:50,039 --> 01:10:53,250
If someone puts their hands on
you, put them in the cemetery.
1030
01:10:53,417 --> 01:10:56,545
- That a better plan?
- Ooh, We fixin' to go.
1031
01:10:56,712 --> 01:10:58,005
Bye, Claramay.
1032
01:10:58,172 --> 01:11:00,090
- Good night.
- Good night.
1033
01:11:01,717 --> 01:11:03,510
I mean...
1034
01:11:05,930 --> 01:11:08,849
You just mad 'cause he was
talking about your daddy.
1035
01:11:09,016 --> 01:11:10,935
What?
1036
01:11:11,101 --> 01:11:13,103
He was saying all that
stuff about house Negroes.
1037
01:11:13,270 --> 01:11:15,189
I saw you get mad.
1038
01:11:15,356 --> 01:11:17,608
My dad is not a house Negro.
1039
01:11:21,445 --> 01:11:24,323
- He a butler, ain't he?
- Don't talk about my dad.
1040
01:11:24,490 --> 01:11:26,867
I don't talk about your dad,
all right?
1041
01:11:27,034 --> 01:11:28,869
That's 'cause my daddy's
proud of what I'm doing.
1042
01:11:42,758 --> 01:11:44,551
You all right?
1043
01:12:27,136 --> 01:12:31,598
Everybody went to church to
raise money for the kids down in Selma.
1044
01:12:32,433 --> 01:12:36,937
But I didn't go. I wasn't gonna give
money to pay for my son to be killed.
1045
01:12:44,403 --> 01:12:48,115
Once again, them kids got beat.
1046
01:12:48,282 --> 01:12:53,245
This one was so bad that the press
called it "Bloody Sunday."
1047
01:12:53,412 --> 01:12:55,289
They barely left Selma.
1048
01:12:55,456 --> 01:12:58,083
They marched in small groups
through the city of Selma
1049
01:12:58,250 --> 01:12:59,960
- and were not stopped...
- ...mortars and rockets...
1050
01:13:00,127 --> 01:13:02,129
...can pound Con Thien
around the clock
1051
01:13:02,296 --> 01:13:03,964
with devastating effect.
1052
01:13:04,131 --> 01:13:05,799
And our ground troops
cannot go into...
1053
01:13:05,966 --> 01:13:07,718
...it was a different story.
1054
01:13:07,885 --> 01:13:10,554
Mounted sheriff's deputies
helped to break up the column.
1055
01:13:10,721 --> 01:13:12,431
Once the line was broken...
1056
01:13:12,598 --> 01:13:15,017
How are your boys, Cecil?
1057
01:13:22,816 --> 01:13:27,237
I don't know how my oldest is,
Mr. President.
1058
01:13:27,404 --> 01:13:29,656
I believe he might
be in Selma.
1059
01:13:29,823 --> 01:13:32,284
And, you know,
sometime I feel like
1060
01:13:32,451 --> 01:13:34,703
we're living in
two different worlds.
1061
01:13:36,997 --> 01:13:39,083
Just want to keep him safe.
1062
01:13:40,417 --> 01:13:43,128
...marchers were
treated for tear gas burns,
1063
01:13:43,295 --> 01:13:44,838
open wounds and broken bones.
1064
01:13:45,005 --> 01:13:46,423
One hospital treated...
1065
01:13:46,590 --> 01:13:52,304
Every American citizen
must have an equal right to vote.
1066
01:13:52,471 --> 01:13:56,809
Yet the harsh fact is that
in many places in this country,
1067
01:13:56,975 --> 01:14:01,355
men and women
are kept from voting
1068
01:14:01,522 --> 01:14:04,066
simply because they are Negroes.
1069
01:14:04,233 --> 01:14:05,943
"Negroes?"
1070
01:14:06,110 --> 01:14:08,570
Since when did he start
calling us Negroes?
1071
01:14:09,655 --> 01:14:11,573
That nigger uses the word
"nigger" more than I use it.
1072
01:14:12,908 --> 01:14:15,536
But really it's all of us...
1073
01:14:15,702 --> 01:14:20,707
...who must overcome
the crippling legacy
1074
01:14:20,874 --> 01:14:23,877
of bigotry and injustice.
1075
01:14:24,044 --> 01:14:26,588
And we shall overcome.
1076
01:14:31,802 --> 01:14:33,554
First,
a barrage of cover fire,
1077
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,597
and then a charge across the street.
1078
01:14:35,764 --> 01:14:38,350
The Marines moved out from
the fortified Army compound
1079
01:14:38,517 --> 01:14:40,144
blitzed by the original attack.
1080
01:14:40,310 --> 01:14:42,062
Hey, hey, LBJ!
1081
01:14:42,229 --> 01:14:44,439
How many kids
did you kill today?!
1082
01:14:44,606 --> 01:14:46,650
Hey, hey, LBJ!
1083
01:14:46,817 --> 01:14:48,569
How many kids
did you kill today?!
1084
01:14:48,735 --> 01:14:50,237
...the ancient imperial city.
1085
01:14:50,404 --> 01:14:53,657
It is to Vietnamese
what old Boston is to Americans,
1086
01:14:53,824 --> 01:14:56,660
where many of its country's
leaders are born or educated.
1087
01:14:56,827 --> 01:14:59,705
I wish they'd shut up.
1088
01:14:59,872 --> 01:15:03,000
The first sniper shots ricochet
around the thick walls of the building,
1089
01:15:03,167 --> 01:15:06,879
taking the first casualties
of the first squad.
1090
01:15:07,045 --> 01:15:09,006
The snipers may be
only two or three,
1091
01:15:09,590 --> 01:15:11,758
invisible to the buildings
beyond the wall.
1092
01:15:11,925 --> 01:15:14,303
But there is also a machine gun
down the street to the left.
1093
01:15:14,469 --> 01:15:18,932
Dr. King, you might want to
lie down with that fever.
1094
01:15:19,850 --> 01:15:24,438
President Johnson is making
a tragic error in Vietnam.
1095
01:15:24,605 --> 01:15:27,274
Move over, big yellow.
1096
01:15:27,441 --> 01:15:29,526
Why shouldn't we fight in Vietnam?
1097
01:15:29,693 --> 01:15:31,778
The Vietcong don't call us
"niggers," for one.
1098
01:15:35,073 --> 01:15:38,535
Seriously, how many of
your parents support the war?
1099
01:15:39,870 --> 01:15:44,333
Well, my Lord.
Why do your parents support it?
1100
01:15:45,459 --> 01:15:48,629
We haven't spoken about it specifically,
I just know they do.
1101
01:15:48,795 --> 01:15:51,924
Well, what do your daddy do?
1102
01:15:52,090 --> 01:15:55,302
He's a butler.
1103
01:15:55,469 --> 01:15:58,639
The black domestic play an
important role in our history.
1104
01:15:58,805 --> 01:16:00,891
I didn't tell you that
to make fun of me.
1105
01:16:01,058 --> 01:16:04,770
Young brother, the black
domestic defy racial stereotypes
1106
01:16:04,937 --> 01:16:08,190
by being hardworking and trustworthy.
1107
01:16:14,112 --> 01:16:15,906
He slowly
tears down racial hatred
1108
01:16:16,073 --> 01:16:22,162
with his example of a strong work ethic
and dignified character.
1109
01:16:25,374 --> 01:16:29,336
Now, while we perceive the butler
or the maid to be subservient,
1110
01:16:29,503 --> 01:16:33,966
in many ways, they are subversive,
without even knowing it.
1111
01:16:37,010 --> 01:16:40,555
- Come in, Cecil.
- Afternoon, Mr. Warner.
1112
01:16:45,102 --> 01:16:46,895
Thank you for seeing me.
1113
01:17:01,868 --> 01:17:04,246
Since the colored...
1114
01:17:04,413 --> 01:17:06,456
...the black staff
1115
01:17:06,623 --> 01:17:10,043
does just as much work
as the white staff,
1116
01:17:10,210 --> 01:17:14,548
I believe that our salaries
should reflect our service, sir.
1117
01:17:16,466 --> 01:17:18,093
"Black" staff?
1118
01:17:19,386 --> 01:17:22,973
I also feel
that we should have...
1119
01:17:24,850 --> 01:17:28,937
...opportunities of advancement.
1120
01:17:29,104 --> 01:17:31,690
No black houseman
1121
01:17:31,857 --> 01:17:35,777
has ever been promoted
to the engineer's office.
1122
01:17:38,071 --> 01:17:40,824
You're very well liked here, Cecil.
1123
01:17:40,991 --> 01:17:42,993
But if you're unhappy
with your salary or position,
1124
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:45,370
then I suggest you seek
employment elsewhere.
1125
01:17:45,537 --> 01:17:47,539
- With all due respect...
- Don't let that Martin Luther King shit
1126
01:17:47,706 --> 01:17:51,877
fill your britches out.
Just remember where I found you.
1127
01:18:00,010 --> 01:18:01,803
Yes, sir.
1128
01:18:08,435 --> 01:18:09,936
Excuse me.
1129
01:18:18,862 --> 01:18:22,074
Dr. Martin Luther King,
the apostle of non-violence
1130
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:26,078
in the civil rights movement has been
shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.
1131
01:18:26,244 --> 01:18:28,497
Police have issued
an All Points Bulletin
1132
01:18:28,663 --> 01:18:31,708
for a well-dressed, young white
man seen running from the scene.
1133
01:18:31,875 --> 01:18:34,669
Officers also reportedly
chased and fired on
1134
01:18:34,836 --> 01:18:37,672
a radio-equipped car
containing two white men.
1135
01:19:04,741 --> 01:19:08,578
I didn't know if I was
gonna get home alive.
1136
01:19:10,288 --> 01:19:14,418
It was the first time I felt like
I didn't belong in my own neighborhood.
1137
01:19:16,044 --> 01:19:17,838
The whole world was changing,
1138
01:19:18,004 --> 01:19:20,590
and I didn't know where I fit in.
1139
01:19:22,259 --> 01:19:24,719
Dr. King has been a buffer
the last two years,
1140
01:19:24,886 --> 01:19:27,139
between the black community
and the white community.
1141
01:19:27,305 --> 01:19:28,598
The white people do not know it,
1142
01:19:28,765 --> 01:19:31,435
but the white people's
best friend is dead.
1143
01:19:31,601 --> 01:19:34,104
The black people's leader,
our Moses,
1144
01:19:34,271 --> 01:19:37,482
the once in a four-
or five-hundred year leader,
1145
01:19:37,649 --> 01:19:40,152
has been taken from us
by hatred and bitterness.
1146
01:19:40,318 --> 01:19:42,028
Even as I stand at this hour,
1147
01:19:42,195 --> 01:19:46,616
I cannot even allow hate
to enter my heart at this time,
1148
01:19:46,783 --> 01:19:50,203
for it was sickness,
not meanness, that killed him.
1149
01:20:29,618 --> 01:20:32,829
Ma... my room's pink.
1150
01:20:37,250 --> 01:20:41,296
Make sure you get some more
of my sweet potatoes, Carol.
1151
01:20:41,463 --> 01:20:43,340
I use orange juice
when I make 'em,
1152
01:20:43,507 --> 01:20:45,634
that's what make 'em so... tart.
1153
01:20:47,427 --> 01:20:48,595
How long y'all been dating?
1154
01:20:48,762 --> 01:20:50,180
- Five years.
- We're just friends.
1155
01:20:55,727 --> 01:20:58,230
Is, uh,
all the rest of the students
1156
01:20:58,396 --> 01:21:00,482
are they getting involved
in politics, too?
1157
01:21:05,695 --> 01:21:08,448
There's been a division.
Kind of a split, Ma.
1158
01:21:08,615 --> 01:21:11,993
A few of them,
like John Lewis, they're still...
1159
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:15,413
- I love John Lewis.
- How you know who John Lewis is?
1160
01:21:15,580 --> 01:21:17,457
'Cause, honey,
I read Jet magazine.
1161
01:21:17,624 --> 01:21:20,544
I'm not just sitting up there
sewing for you all day.
1162
01:21:20,710 --> 01:21:22,337
Ooh.
1163
01:21:22,504 --> 01:21:25,340
I'm sick and tired of getting
thrown in jail.
1164
01:21:26,258 --> 01:21:27,884
Yeah, well, that makes
two of us, don't it?
1165
01:21:29,928 --> 01:21:32,472
Dr. King's philosophy ultimately
got him murdered.
1166
01:21:32,639 --> 01:21:34,683
It worked when we started,
1167
01:21:34,849 --> 01:21:38,895
but... now it's time to take
the next step, which is politics.
1168
01:21:39,062 --> 01:21:40,647
So y'all going
to the White House now?
1169
01:21:40,814 --> 01:21:42,023
Daddy, Louis going
to the White House.
1170
01:21:42,190 --> 01:21:43,567
You know they ain't gonna
let you in there
1171
01:21:43,733 --> 01:21:45,151
with them nipples out.
1172
01:21:45,318 --> 01:21:47,362
Maybe one, but not both of 'em.
1173
01:21:47,529 --> 01:21:50,991
Shut up. Nah, we're...
we're more grass roots.
1174
01:21:51,157 --> 01:21:53,493
One-on-one with the community.
1175
01:21:53,660 --> 01:21:55,745
Although we have started
our own political party.
1176
01:21:55,912 --> 01:21:58,248
What's your party?
1177
01:21:58,415 --> 01:21:59,791
You like to party?
1178
01:21:59,958 --> 01:22:03,712
I like to party.
What's your party called?
1179
01:22:05,630 --> 01:22:07,632
The Black Panther Party.
1180
01:22:07,799 --> 01:22:12,095
What kind of name is that?
What's that stand for?
1181
01:22:12,262 --> 01:22:14,931
We... provide free breakfast
for children,
1182
01:22:15,098 --> 01:22:19,019
free medical clinics, free clothing,
self-defense classes.
1183
01:22:19,185 --> 01:22:21,438
And why y'all need self-defense?
1184
01:22:21,605 --> 01:22:23,273
We ain't gettin' beat no more.
1185
01:22:28,612 --> 01:22:30,947
Me and your daddy saw a
wonderful movie the other night.
1186
01:22:31,114 --> 01:22:32,741
Reminded me so much of you.
1187
01:22:32,907 --> 01:22:35,327
Oh, yeah?
1188
01:22:35,493 --> 01:22:37,370
What was the name
of that movie, honey?
1189
01:22:37,537 --> 01:22:39,164
In the Heat of the Night.
1190
01:22:40,332 --> 01:22:46,046
In the Heat... of the Night,
with Sidney Poitier.
1191
01:22:46,212 --> 01:22:48,632
Lord, Sidney Poitier.
I love Sidney Poitier.
1192
01:22:48,798 --> 01:22:52,177
Sidney Poitier's a white man's fantasy
of what he wants us to be.
1193
01:22:52,344 --> 01:22:55,847
But his movies have him
fighting for equal rights.
1194
01:22:56,014 --> 01:22:57,891
Only in a way that's acceptable
to the white status quo.
1195
01:22:58,058 --> 01:23:01,936
- Ah.
- The brother can't act.
1196
01:23:02,103 --> 01:23:03,897
What are you talking about?
1197
01:23:04,064 --> 01:23:05,690
He just won the Academy Award.
1198
01:23:05,857 --> 01:23:07,817
He's breaking down barriers
for all of us.
1199
01:23:07,984 --> 01:23:11,821
By being white.
By acting white.
1200
01:23:11,988 --> 01:23:14,574
Sidney Poitier is nothing but
a rich Uncle Tom.
1201
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:19,954
Look at you.
1202
01:23:20,121 --> 01:23:22,374
All puffed up.
1203
01:23:22,540 --> 01:23:24,584
With your hat on your head.
1204
01:23:24,751 --> 01:23:27,212
Coming in here,
saying whatever you want.
1205
01:23:27,379 --> 01:23:28,838
Girlfriend belching at the table.
1206
01:23:30,131 --> 01:23:31,549
You don't even feel
you gotta go to school,
1207
01:23:31,716 --> 01:23:33,718
even though I gave you the money.
1208
01:23:35,303 --> 01:23:37,430
You need to go.
1209
01:23:39,766 --> 01:23:43,395
Yeah, Louis.
I need you to get out of my house.
1210
01:23:43,561 --> 01:23:47,190
- What?
- Get the hell out of my house!
1211
01:23:47,357 --> 01:23:48,775
- What are you doing?
- Get on out!
1212
01:23:48,942 --> 01:23:50,694
- He's gotta go!
- No, Cecil, no!
1213
01:23:50,860 --> 01:23:52,654
- I can't take this no more!
- We ain't seen this boy!
1214
01:23:52,821 --> 01:23:54,072
We ain't seen this boy!
1215
01:23:54,239 --> 01:23:55,407
I'm gonna snatch the life
out of you, boy!
1216
01:23:55,573 --> 01:23:56,991
- Now, everybody just sit down.
- I'm sorry, Mr. Butler,
1217
01:23:57,158 --> 01:23:59,536
I didn't mean to make
fun of your hero.
1218
01:24:01,371 --> 01:24:04,708
Everything you are and
everything you have is...
1219
01:24:04,874 --> 01:24:07,127
...'cause of that butler.
1220
01:24:07,293 --> 01:24:10,547
Now you take that trifling
low-class bitch...
1221
01:24:12,590 --> 01:24:14,926
...and get out of this house.
1222
01:24:30,191 --> 01:24:32,152
I like Sidney Poitier, Daddy.
1223
01:24:34,654 --> 01:24:36,656
What's that movie he did?
Look Who's Coming to Dinner?
1224
01:24:36,823 --> 01:24:38,241
Everything ain't a joke.
1225
01:24:38,408 --> 01:24:40,827
- Carol came to dinner.
- Hush, Charlie.
1226
01:24:43,997 --> 01:24:46,666
Police took Louis the next day.
1227
01:24:53,006 --> 01:24:56,092
Y'all gonna make me late for work.
1228
01:24:56,259 --> 01:24:57,719
Unc, I'm sorry.
1229
01:24:57,886 --> 01:24:59,137
Who else I'm supposed to call
to bail him out?
1230
01:24:59,304 --> 01:25:02,932
What they got him in for this time?
Sit up!
1231
01:25:03,099 --> 01:25:06,686
Louis said they
stopped him just because.
1232
01:25:07,854 --> 01:25:09,856
Just because.
1233
01:25:10,940 --> 01:25:13,318
He said he wasn't going
to get beat no more, so...
1234
01:25:13,485 --> 01:25:16,112
...he got out the car
and he hit 'em back.
1235
01:25:16,279 --> 01:25:18,406
What about that little gal of his?
1236
01:25:19,365 --> 01:25:21,743
They put her in the hospital.
1237
01:25:21,910 --> 01:25:23,286
The hospital.
1238
01:25:23,453 --> 01:25:25,246
Charlie.
1239
01:25:25,413 --> 01:25:27,665
This shit's gotta stop, man.
1240
01:25:30,084 --> 01:25:32,045
I'm late for work.
1241
01:25:32,212 --> 01:25:34,130
You tell Louis I'm not his mama.
1242
01:25:34,297 --> 01:25:36,716
I want my money back.
1243
01:25:40,094 --> 01:25:41,971
You all right?
1244
01:25:42,138 --> 01:25:43,640
Yeah, I'm all right.
1245
01:25:44,933 --> 01:25:47,101
Thanks, Uncle Carter.
1246
01:25:47,268 --> 01:25:49,938
You need to take all this Black
Panther shit somewhere else.
1247
01:25:50,104 --> 01:25:52,941
Now, I'm not them.
I want my money back, hear me?
1248
01:25:53,107 --> 01:25:55,401
- Yes, sir.
- Every dime.
1249
01:25:57,028 --> 01:26:01,199
- Yes, sir.
- Hey, Unc... don't tell Daddy.
1250
01:26:08,915 --> 01:26:12,418
How you avoid all that sex
in prison?
1251
01:26:12,585 --> 01:26:14,629
Do they teach you that
with the Panthers?
1252
01:26:14,796 --> 01:26:18,383
They teach you how to... to sit...
1253
01:26:23,429 --> 01:26:27,392
- She been drinking again?
- No. She's sober.
1254
01:26:27,559 --> 01:26:30,812
She ain't doing nothing but sewing
and feeding them damn fishes.
1255
01:26:30,979 --> 01:26:33,356
Feed them more than she feed me.
1256
01:26:34,399 --> 01:26:36,860
You excited about
going back to Howard?
1257
01:26:37,026 --> 01:26:39,529
Excited about not going back.
1258
01:26:40,822 --> 01:26:43,157
- What?
- Yeah.
1259
01:26:43,324 --> 01:26:45,535
I'm going to Vietnam.
1260
01:26:45,702 --> 01:26:48,705
Charlie, don't do this.
Don't do this.
1261
01:26:48,872 --> 01:26:52,834
- This country treats us like dogs!
- And do what? Don't do this?
1262
01:26:54,878 --> 01:26:58,548
You fight your country.
1263
01:26:58,715 --> 01:27:01,092
I want to fight for my country.
1264
01:27:01,259 --> 01:27:04,429
- I won't go to your funeral.
- Good.
1265
01:27:04,596 --> 01:27:07,682
'Cause I don't want you there
with all of that...
1266
01:27:08,349 --> 01:27:12,562
...black leather and latex,
1267
01:27:12,729 --> 01:27:17,025
shining and taking away the attention
off of my pretty face in my casket.
1268
01:27:20,403 --> 01:27:22,614
What do they call you now, Louise?
1269
01:27:22,780 --> 01:27:24,407
- Shut up.
- Louise Gaines.
1270
01:27:24,574 --> 01:27:25,700
Charlie, shut up.
1271
01:27:26,075 --> 01:27:29,871
I want to know every goddamn
domestic policy decision right now,
1272
01:27:30,038 --> 01:27:31,372
and I want it on the table right now.
1273
01:27:31,539 --> 01:27:32,540
- OK.
- OK.
1274
01:27:32,707 --> 01:27:34,834
Did you get
the memos we sent last week?
1275
01:27:35,001 --> 01:27:39,172
John and I strongly agree
that the time calls for...
1276
01:27:39,339 --> 01:27:41,090
A goddamn fly,
a goddamn fly in here.
1277
01:27:41,257 --> 01:27:42,926
- Jesus Christ.
- John and I both think
1278
01:27:43,092 --> 01:27:46,512
that the time calls for
a period of benign neglect.
1279
01:27:46,679 --> 01:27:47,847
- Benign neglect.
- Yes.
1280
01:27:48,014 --> 01:27:50,475
I like that. I like that.
1281
01:27:50,642 --> 01:27:54,145
You know, the pigs in the
media describe us as terrorists.
1282
01:27:54,312 --> 01:27:58,650
A terrorist is one who
terrorizes and frightens others.
1283
01:27:58,816 --> 01:28:01,361
We the ones getting terrorized.
1284
01:28:01,527 --> 01:28:03,446
How can we exist in, in peace,
1285
01:28:03,613 --> 01:28:06,658
when we scared to walk
down the street to the store?
1286
01:28:06,824 --> 01:28:09,202
All right, there's this whole black
power movement going on, right?
1287
01:28:09,369 --> 01:28:12,205
- Right.
- What if we, um...
1288
01:28:16,376 --> 01:28:18,503
What if Nixon promotes black power
1289
01:28:18,670 --> 01:28:22,548
to mean "black businesses"
and we find ways to support
1290
01:28:22,715 --> 01:28:26,094
black entrepreneurs, pass the buck
on desegregation to the courts.
1291
01:28:26,260 --> 01:28:28,805
Push black enterprise
1292
01:28:28,972 --> 01:28:30,723
to win the 20 percent
of the votes it could swing our way.
1293
01:28:30,890 --> 01:28:32,976
- Excellent, sir.
- Absolutely.
1294
01:28:33,142 --> 01:28:35,311
You don't know if your ceiling gonna
cave in 'cause your slum lord
1295
01:28:35,478 --> 01:28:37,981
too busy running around
collecting rent checks.
1296
01:28:38,147 --> 01:28:40,024
But he won't fix your roof.
1297
01:28:40,191 --> 01:28:43,820
It's time we take a stand
against these injustices
1298
01:28:43,987 --> 01:28:45,488
that have plagued our community.
1299
01:28:45,655 --> 01:28:49,200
They take one of ours,
we taking two of theirs.
1300
01:28:49,367 --> 01:28:50,994
- That's right.
- It's been time.
1301
01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:53,913
We just need to make sure
that Nixon black power
1302
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:55,999
doesn't equate Nixon
with the Black Panthers.
1303
01:28:56,165 --> 01:28:58,835
Have you lost your mind, man?
Did you read Hoover's last memo on that?
1304
01:28:59,002 --> 01:29:01,170
- That's my point.
- Goddamn terrifying.
1305
01:29:01,337 --> 01:29:03,756
No, no, no. I gave him the green light
to gut those sons of bitches.
1306
01:29:03,923 --> 01:29:05,258
- Good.
- Good. Absolutely.
1307
01:29:05,425 --> 01:29:07,969
No, round 'em all up and
throw 'em down an elevator shaft.
1308
01:29:10,555 --> 01:29:14,517
I don't proclaim to know everything.
But I promise you...
1309
01:29:15,435 --> 01:29:17,979
...they'll always beware
of the nigger with a gun.
1310
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:24,694
Will there be anything else,
Mr. President?
1311
01:29:35,788 --> 01:29:38,291
How many kids we got coming
to the breakfast tomorrow morning?
1312
01:29:38,458 --> 01:29:40,460
Got about 25 to 30 coming.
1313
01:29:40,626 --> 01:29:43,046
Twenty-five to 30 kids
will be able to go to school
1314
01:29:43,212 --> 01:29:45,131
and focus on their lessons.
1315
01:29:45,298 --> 01:29:47,717
'Cause they don't want us
to be able to feed our kids.
1316
01:29:47,884 --> 01:29:51,220
They don't want us
to be able to protect ourselves.
1317
01:29:57,977 --> 01:29:59,687
What are we doing here?
1318
01:30:01,731 --> 01:30:04,400
Thought this was going to be
our community service.
1319
01:30:04,567 --> 01:30:07,111
This is community service.
1320
01:30:07,278 --> 01:30:09,655
"Someone kills one of ours,
we kill two of theirs?"
1321
01:30:09,822 --> 01:30:11,491
Community protection.
1322
01:30:11,657 --> 01:30:15,244
Are you ready to kill somebody, Carol?
1323
01:30:16,996 --> 01:30:19,082
'Cause I ain't.
1324
01:30:20,583 --> 01:30:22,752
I am.
1325
01:30:29,425 --> 01:30:31,344
Did you ever love me, baby?
1326
01:30:56,994 --> 01:31:00,081
Today, a day after police
shot it out with the Black Panthers,
1327
01:31:00,248 --> 01:31:02,291
killing two of them,
they raided the apartment...
1328
01:31:02,458 --> 01:31:04,377
...the shooting of 26
Panthers in the past year,
1329
01:31:04,544 --> 01:31:07,797
may represent a national campaign
by police to wipe out the Panthers...
1330
01:31:07,964 --> 01:31:10,216
...the criminal reaction
of the occupants in shooting
1331
01:31:10,383 --> 01:31:12,510
at announced police officers,
1332
01:31:12,677 --> 01:31:17,431
emphasizes the extreme viciousness
of the Black Panther Party.
1333
01:31:45,543 --> 01:31:47,128
- Hey, baby.
- Hey.
1334
01:31:47,295 --> 01:31:49,297
- Happy birthday.
- Happy birthday to me, huh?
1335
01:31:49,463 --> 01:31:50,756
Happy birthday to you.
1336
01:31:53,926 --> 01:31:55,720
Right now, this is the present
I want, right here.
1337
01:31:55,887 --> 01:31:58,181
Well, you want it right here?
1338
01:31:58,347 --> 01:32:00,266
Mm-mm, you know right...
1339
01:32:00,433 --> 01:32:02,185
- Right here?
- Kids up... Kids down...?
1340
01:32:02,351 --> 01:32:04,312
Ain't no kids in the house no more.
1341
01:32:04,478 --> 01:32:06,230
Hey, I made you a birthday cake.
1342
01:32:06,397 --> 01:32:08,357
I got all the cake
I want right here.
1343
01:32:08,524 --> 01:32:10,234
No, you crazy.
1344
01:32:10,401 --> 01:32:13,237
I got some champagne
cooling in the icebox.
1345
01:32:13,404 --> 01:32:15,198
And some ice cream, too.
Get some ice cream.
1346
01:32:15,364 --> 01:32:16,782
You gonna be drinking with me?
1347
01:32:18,201 --> 01:32:20,036
You know I don't drink.
1348
01:32:20,203 --> 01:32:22,038
I don't drink.
1349
01:32:22,205 --> 01:32:23,539
Just playing with you.
1350
01:32:23,706 --> 01:32:25,708
I just want to see you move
a little bit. Go ahead.
1351
01:32:27,251 --> 01:32:30,379
Oh, my God!
1352
01:32:37,345 --> 01:32:39,513
We get any mail
from Charlie today?
1353
01:32:41,474 --> 01:32:43,059
No.
1354
01:32:44,644 --> 01:32:46,312
- No?
- Haven't heard from Charlie.
1355
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:48,439
I know. I got an idea.
1356
01:32:48,606 --> 01:32:50,691
I think we should go
to Shantay's tonight.
1357
01:32:50,858 --> 01:32:52,944
Oh, no.
No, I'm too old for disco.
1358
01:32:53,110 --> 01:32:54,278
We not old. Come on. We ain't old.
1359
01:32:54,445 --> 01:32:56,155
I just don't feel like
doing no disco.
1360
01:32:56,322 --> 01:32:58,074
Our boys are gone.
It's just you and me.
1361
01:32:58,241 --> 01:33:02,119
You and me, we are free.
I forgot this. I forgot this.
1362
01:33:03,454 --> 01:33:08,376
Now, look at us.
Little happy birthday present.
1363
01:33:10,002 --> 01:33:11,796
I want you to go put it on, upstairs.
1364
01:33:11,963 --> 01:33:13,881
- Put it on?
- Yeah. Go put it on.
1365
01:33:14,048 --> 01:33:15,800
- All right.
- Make it snappy.
1366
01:33:15,967 --> 01:33:18,219
Bring down my sewing kit,
'cause I need to do some alterations.
1367
01:33:22,348 --> 01:33:24,642
Make it snappy!
1368
01:33:28,562 --> 01:33:30,523
Hello.
1369
01:33:32,900 --> 01:33:34,819
Hi. Where are you?
1370
01:33:35,820 --> 01:33:37,488
Where?
1371
01:33:38,698 --> 01:33:40,866
You should call me back,
because this is not a good time.
1372
01:33:41,033 --> 01:33:44,161
- He's home again.
- It fit!
1373
01:33:44,328 --> 01:33:45,830
- We gonna go on out tonight.
- Where?
1374
01:33:45,997 --> 01:33:47,915
- He's home and...
- Boy, you good, aren't you?
1375
01:33:48,082 --> 01:33:50,751
- You all right?
- Who that?
1376
01:33:50,918 --> 01:33:53,004
Call me back.
1377
01:33:53,170 --> 01:33:55,047
- OK?
- Oh, it's Louis.
1378
01:33:55,214 --> 01:33:56,799
He asking for some money?
1379
01:33:59,343 --> 01:34:00,886
Hey, Louis.
1380
01:34:02,346 --> 01:34:04,223
I didn't expect to hear
from you on my birthday.
1381
01:34:05,308 --> 01:34:07,226
You should feel
ashamed of yourself.
1382
01:34:07,393 --> 01:34:10,104
You're a grown-ass man calling
your mama, asking for money.
1383
01:34:10,271 --> 01:34:12,815
And guess what?
It's the butler's money.
1384
01:34:12,982 --> 01:34:14,525
It's Uncle Tom's money.
1385
01:34:14,692 --> 01:34:16,736
And he ain't giving
none out today.
1386
01:34:18,362 --> 01:34:19,864
Bye.
1387
01:34:23,492 --> 01:34:25,077
I got it.
1388
01:34:36,213 --> 01:34:37,882
You got the wrong house.
1389
01:34:43,220 --> 01:34:44,805
It's the wrong house.
1390
01:35:42,488 --> 01:35:45,157
Vietnam took my boy,
1391
01:35:45,324 --> 01:35:48,828
and I didn't understand why we
were there in the first place.
1392
01:36:21,485 --> 01:36:23,571
Your father still alive, Cecil?
1393
01:36:25,197 --> 01:36:27,158
No, sir.
1394
01:36:27,324 --> 01:36:29,618
My father died when I was a child.
1395
01:36:36,834 --> 01:36:41,505
Is there anything else that you
would like, Mr. President?
1396
01:36:41,672 --> 01:36:43,632
Yeah. Come sit.
1397
01:36:43,799 --> 01:36:45,593
Sit down, you know?
1398
01:37:04,487 --> 01:37:07,698
There's been a lot of talk
of me resigning and...
1399
01:37:08,574 --> 01:37:10,534
...things of that nature,
but I just want you to know
1400
01:37:10,701 --> 01:37:12,453
it's never gonna happen.
1401
01:37:14,205 --> 01:37:16,749
I'm gonna come out of this thing
stronger than ever.
1402
01:37:24,089 --> 01:37:26,717
Is there anything else
that you would like...
1403
01:37:26,884 --> 01:37:28,344
...Mr. President?
1404
01:37:35,226 --> 01:37:37,561
Louis is here, looking for you.
1405
01:37:42,233 --> 01:37:45,611
- Got everybody all worried.
- Well, I finished school.
1406
01:37:45,778 --> 01:37:46,987
I got my master's
in political science.
1407
01:37:47,154 --> 01:37:50,115
Hey! That's what I'm talking about.
1408
01:37:50,282 --> 01:37:52,576
Get that education.
1409
01:37:52,743 --> 01:37:56,747
There he is!
Well, I'm gonna let you all to it.
1410
01:37:56,914 --> 01:37:59,250
Ain't no need for that, Carter.
1411
01:38:01,001 --> 01:38:04,713
- Hey, Dad.
- Get out of here, Louis.
1412
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:11,804
- Dad...
- I said leave.
1413
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:22,189
Keep doing what you doing.
1414
01:38:24,733 --> 01:38:27,820
Thank you, Uncle Carter.
1415
01:38:30,072 --> 01:38:33,534
Why you do that? Huh?
That was wrong.
1416
01:38:33,701 --> 01:38:36,412
That boy's hurting, too. He's just
trying to get his act together.
1417
01:38:36,579 --> 01:38:38,789
He should be hurting, Carter.
1418
01:38:39,790 --> 01:38:42,751
Boy didn't even go
to his own brother's funeral.
1419
01:38:43,752 --> 01:38:48,632
He's full of shit is what he is.
He ain't doing nothing right.
1420
01:38:48,799 --> 01:38:51,635
He just got his master's!
What more you want him to do?
1421
01:38:51,802 --> 01:38:56,056
Every gray hair I have
is 'cause of that boy.
1422
01:39:07,860 --> 01:39:09,945
The years started to drift by,
1423
01:39:10,112 --> 01:39:13,699
but the pain in my heart
never went away.
1424
01:39:22,875 --> 01:39:27,087
Through it all,
Louis and I never spoke.
1425
01:39:31,508 --> 01:39:36,138
As we are a nation under God,
so I am sworn...
1426
01:39:56,575 --> 01:39:57,826
Half of our
oil is now imported...
1427
01:39:57,993 --> 01:40:00,037
It is a crisis that strikes
at the very hear':
1428
01:40:00,204 --> 01:40:02,456
and soul and spirit
of our national will.
1429
01:40:02,623 --> 01:40:04,291
- I feel one coming now.
- Not to worry.
1430
01:40:04,458 --> 01:40:06,126
Two of you,
stay home until you feel better.
1431
01:40:06,293 --> 01:40:10,589
OK, Barn, I'll stay.
But I ain't never gonna feel no better.
1432
01:40:19,139 --> 01:40:22,976
In our district alone,
we have nine percent unemployment.
1433
01:40:23,143 --> 01:40:25,771
In the country at large, 14 percent
are living below the poverty line.
1434
01:40:25,938 --> 01:40:29,149
Sixty percent of those
are either black or Hispanic.
1435
01:40:29,316 --> 01:40:31,985
Now, if I'm voted to Congress,
reducing those figures is gonna be
1436
01:40:32,152 --> 01:40:35,280
one of my primary objectives.
1437
01:40:38,826 --> 01:40:40,327
Yeah?
1438
01:40:40,494 --> 01:40:42,246
Oh, hey.
1439
01:40:42,413 --> 01:40:44,164
Thanks for getting back to me.
1440
01:40:48,293 --> 01:40:50,087
How much did he lose by?
1441
01:40:52,840 --> 01:40:55,926
Really?
1442
01:40:56,093 --> 01:40:57,720
All right, then.
1443
01:40:57,886 --> 01:40:59,680
I appreciate it.
1444
01:41:04,643 --> 01:41:06,562
No, he didn't win.
1445
01:41:08,439 --> 01:41:10,691
I think you should call him.
1446
01:41:12,985 --> 01:41:15,988
Right after Charlie passed,
1447
01:41:16,155 --> 01:41:18,657
Louis came over
and paid me a visit.
1448
01:41:18,824 --> 01:41:20,451
Hmm.
1449
01:41:22,035 --> 01:41:25,456
He found me on the kitchen floor.
1450
01:41:25,622 --> 01:41:27,875
I had passed out.
1451
01:41:28,041 --> 01:41:30,043
Drunk.
1452
01:41:30,210 --> 01:41:33,922
I'd gone to the bathroom
all over myself.
1453
01:41:37,050 --> 01:41:39,428
He's the one that cleaned me up.
1454
01:41:42,765 --> 01:41:46,727
And then he told me
I was the best mother
1455
01:41:46,894 --> 01:41:49,688
anybody could ever want.
1456
01:41:52,983 --> 01:41:55,277
I think, about now...
1457
01:41:57,070 --> 01:41:59,948
...he'd want to hear from his daddy.
1458
01:42:01,867 --> 01:42:03,994
I think you ought to call him.
1459
01:42:08,957 --> 01:42:10,626
Mm-hm.
1460
01:42:10,793 --> 01:42:11,794
Cecil?
1461
01:42:14,254 --> 01:42:15,255
Cecil?
1462
01:42:15,422 --> 01:42:18,175
Yes, sir, Mr. President.
1463
01:42:18,342 --> 01:42:20,177
You stay there, I'm coming to you.
1464
01:42:20,344 --> 01:42:23,889
I... have a...
1465
01:42:24,056 --> 01:42:26,683
...secret mission for you.
1466
01:42:26,850 --> 01:42:28,143
Yes, sir.
1467
01:42:28,310 --> 01:42:30,604
I like to send people
money when they write me
1468
01:42:30,771 --> 01:42:32,940
about their financial problems,
1469
01:42:33,106 --> 01:42:37,110
but my staff has been
trying to get me to stop.
1470
01:42:37,277 --> 01:42:41,031
You think you could
help me to keep this going?
1471
01:42:41,198 --> 01:42:43,951
Absolutely, Mr. President.
1472
01:42:44,117 --> 01:42:46,703
Well, I appreciate
your help with this.
1473
01:42:46,870 --> 01:42:49,581
And, please, don't tell Nancy.
1474
01:42:49,748 --> 01:42:51,500
Of course not.
1475
01:42:55,337 --> 01:42:58,423
- Morning, Cecil.
- Morning, Mr. Warner.
1476
01:43:02,845 --> 01:43:04,638
May I sit down?
1477
01:43:13,313 --> 01:43:16,692
I've been here
for over 20 years now.
1478
01:43:19,653 --> 01:43:24,491
For all that time,
the black help
1479
01:43:24,658 --> 01:43:28,954
has been paid a smaller salary
than the white help.
1480
01:43:30,914 --> 01:43:34,418
And I just don't think
that's right, Mr. Warner.
1481
01:43:36,670 --> 01:43:42,301
There are black housemen
who should be engineers by now.
1482
01:43:43,677 --> 01:43:46,805
They should've been promoted
years ago.
1483
01:43:49,308 --> 01:43:51,101
You think so?
1484
01:43:53,979 --> 01:43:59,651
I'm gonna have to be paid
the same as the white help,
1485
01:43:59,818 --> 01:44:03,071
or I'm gonna have to move on.
1486
01:44:04,781 --> 01:44:07,242
I guess you'll be moving on then.
1487
01:44:11,371 --> 01:44:14,666
I told the president
that you'd say that.
1488
01:44:16,460 --> 01:44:21,340
He told me to tell you
to take this up with him, personally.
1489
01:44:25,677 --> 01:44:27,095
Excuse me.
1490
01:44:35,771 --> 01:44:38,315
I'm not comfortable
with all the foreign policy hawks
1491
01:44:38,482 --> 01:44:40,025
surrounding Ronnie, Jim.
1492
01:44:40,192 --> 01:44:44,363
We need more moderates on his staff.
And a summit with the Russians.
1493
01:44:44,529 --> 01:44:46,698
Ronnie has to meet
with them face to face
1494
01:44:46,865 --> 01:44:48,200
if we're ever
going to thaw this ice.
1495
01:44:48,367 --> 01:44:50,869
- Cecil.
- Yes, Mrs. Reagan?
1496
01:44:51,036 --> 01:44:53,705
We will talk, Jim. Yes.
1497
01:44:53,872 --> 01:44:55,540
Yes, ma'am?
1498
01:44:55,707 --> 01:44:57,960
You're very popular around here.
1499
01:44:58,126 --> 01:45:02,547
Everyone says you're the man
that got them raises and promotions.
1500
01:45:02,714 --> 01:45:06,426
- I had no idea.
- I wish I could take credit for that.
1501
01:45:07,177 --> 01:45:09,763
I'd like to invite you
to the State Dinner next week.
1502
01:45:09,930 --> 01:45:12,307
- I'm gonna be there, Mrs. Reagan.
- No.
1503
01:45:12,474 --> 01:45:17,229
Not as a... Not as a butler, Cecil.
I'm inviting you as a guest.
1504
01:45:18,188 --> 01:45:21,358
But the president prefers
for me to serve him personally.
1505
01:45:22,359 --> 01:45:25,404
Don't you worry about, Ronnie.
I'll take care of that.
1506
01:45:26,279 --> 01:45:29,950
So we'll see you next week.
You and your wife.
1507
01:45:30,117 --> 01:45:31,952
My Wife?
1508
01:45:34,955 --> 01:45:37,916
It's... It's Gloria, yes?
1509
01:45:38,083 --> 01:45:40,627
- Yes, ma'am.
- Yes.
1510
01:45:42,754 --> 01:45:44,089
Hmm.
1511
01:45:56,935 --> 01:45:58,770
Here's the Entrance Hall.
1512
01:46:03,108 --> 01:46:04,860
Beautiful.
1513
01:46:20,083 --> 01:46:22,711
Can I get you a glass
of champagne, Mr. Gaines?
1514
01:46:22,878 --> 01:46:26,715
- Shut up.
- Right.
1515
01:46:28,717 --> 01:46:30,343
Ladies and gentlemen,
1516
01:46:30,510 --> 01:46:33,972
the President and First Lady
of the United States.
1517
01:46:55,285 --> 01:46:58,997
It was different sitting
at the table instead of serving it.
1518
01:46:59,164 --> 01:47:00,582
Real different.
1519
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:06,630
I could see the two faces
the butlers wore to survive.
1520
01:47:08,090 --> 01:47:12,385
And I knew I'd lived my life
with those same two faces.
1521
01:47:18,934 --> 01:47:24,189
Gloria looked so happy,
but I didn't feel the same way.
1522
01:47:24,356 --> 01:47:28,276
I guess I wished we were there
for real instead of for show.
1523
01:47:38,703 --> 01:47:41,289
I think that's bon appétit, everybody.
1524
01:47:41,456 --> 01:47:42,833
You black mother...
1525
01:47:48,797 --> 01:47:53,009
I want to make myself clear
on this issue.
1526
01:47:54,803 --> 01:48:01,226
If Congress passes sanctions
against South Africa,
1527
01:48:01,393 --> 01:48:05,689
I will be forced to
veto those sanctions.
1528
01:48:05,856 --> 01:48:10,026
Well, Mr. President, we feel
that that would be a major mistake.
1529
01:48:10,193 --> 01:48:13,905
The brutal repression
of South African black citizens
1530
01:48:14,072 --> 01:48:16,867
makes this no longer
a foreign policy issue,
1531
01:48:17,033 --> 01:48:20,620
but a United States racial issue.
1532
01:48:20,787 --> 01:48:23,540
We're senators
from your own party.
1533
01:48:23,707 --> 01:48:25,667
That's why we feel so comfortable
in letting you know
1534
01:48:25,834 --> 01:48:28,879
that South Africa
is a human rights disaster.
1535
01:48:29,045 --> 01:48:32,591
Black people are
being beaten, tortured,
1536
01:48:32,757 --> 01:48:34,759
gunned down
in the middle of the street.
1537
01:48:34,926 --> 01:48:38,680
Americans see all this on TV,
they're horrified by apartheid.
1538
01:48:38,847 --> 01:48:41,558
I've made my decision.
1539
01:48:41,725 --> 01:48:46,188
Mr. President, your reputation
as a world leader is at stake.
1540
01:48:46,354 --> 01:48:48,732
United States of America needs to be
1541
01:48:48,899 --> 01:48:51,067
on the right side of history
on the race issue.
1542
01:48:51,234 --> 01:48:52,819
I say again.
1543
01:48:54,237 --> 01:48:58,158
If Congress passes this bill,
1544
01:48:58,325 --> 01:49:00,994
I Will veto it.
1545
01:49:01,161 --> 01:49:02,829
Period.
1546
01:49:12,297 --> 01:49:16,134
What? You reading now?
1547
01:49:16,301 --> 01:49:18,720
Get up and do the dishes
'fore I shoot your little ass.
1548
01:49:32,567 --> 01:49:36,404
Nothing seemed right to me
after that State Dinner.
1549
01:49:36,571 --> 01:49:38,782
Got all confused.
1550
01:50:05,517 --> 01:50:08,436
They had started writing books
1551
01:50:08,603 --> 01:50:12,899
about everything Louis
and his friends had done.
1552
01:50:18,321 --> 01:50:20,657
Louis was never a criminal.
1553
01:50:24,536 --> 01:50:27,872
He was a hero,
1554
01:50:28,039 --> 01:50:31,376
fighting to save
the soul of our country.
1555
01:50:42,554 --> 01:50:45,390
- Would you like a cookie?
- Thank you, sir.
1556
01:50:45,557 --> 01:50:47,350
- Cookies.
- Thank you.
1557
01:50:47,517 --> 01:50:48,935
Cookie?
1558
01:50:49,102 --> 01:50:51,062
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
1559
01:50:51,229 --> 01:50:52,689
Thank you.
1560
01:50:52,856 --> 01:50:53,982
Cookie?
1561
01:51:08,788 --> 01:51:14,044
I had always loved sewing.
But just felt different now.
1562
01:51:17,505 --> 01:51:21,968
I didn't know that an old man
could feel so lost.
1563
01:51:22,886 --> 01:51:24,679
That's how I felt.
1564
01:51:25,972 --> 01:51:27,891
That's how I felt.
1565
01:51:34,647 --> 01:51:36,733
Americans always turned
1566
01:51:36,900 --> 01:51:41,780
a blind eye to what we'd done
to our own.
1567
01:51:41,946 --> 01:51:45,742
We look out to the world
and judge.
1568
01:51:45,909 --> 01:51:48,870
We hear about
the concentration camps,
1569
01:51:49,037 --> 01:51:54,000
but these camps went on
for 200 years
1570
01:51:54,167 --> 01:51:56,920
right here in America.
1571
01:52:09,140 --> 01:52:11,267
Buried my daddy right over there.
1572
01:52:15,563 --> 01:52:19,609
My mama would've been
right proud of me,
1573
01:52:19,776 --> 01:52:22,570
being with a man like you's.
1574
01:52:22,737 --> 01:52:26,116
Taking such good care of me
all of these years.
1575
01:52:29,077 --> 01:52:31,121
I love you, Cecil Gaines.
1576
01:52:33,665 --> 01:52:36,000
I love you more, Gloria.
1577
01:52:48,471 --> 01:52:51,891
Are you sure about this?
1578
01:52:52,058 --> 01:52:53,810
Yes, sir.
1579
01:52:53,977 --> 01:52:58,815
I just want to be the one
to tell you first, that's all.
1580
01:52:58,982 --> 01:53:01,568
But you're the best butler here.
1581
01:53:01,734 --> 01:53:04,195
You're like family, Cecil.
1582
01:53:06,197 --> 01:53:08,783
Been an honor serving you.
1583
01:53:08,950 --> 01:53:13,163
Well, not just for me,
I'm sure I speak for all the presidents
1584
01:53:13,329 --> 01:53:17,500
when I say that you've
served your country well.
1585
01:53:19,794 --> 01:53:21,546
Thank you, Mr. President.
1586
01:53:26,468 --> 01:53:27,927
Cecil?
1587
01:53:30,054 --> 01:53:32,682
This whole civil rights issue...
1588
01:53:36,311 --> 01:53:39,439
I sometimes fear I'm...
1589
01:53:39,606 --> 01:53:42,150
on the wrong side of it,
that I'm...
1590
01:53:43,276 --> 01:53:45,361
...just wrong.
1591
01:53:45,528 --> 01:53:49,449
Sometimes I think I'm just
scared of what it really means.
1592
01:53:51,743 --> 01:53:54,579
But I'm trying not to be
so scared anymore.
1593
01:53:55,371 --> 01:53:57,999
- Who do we want to free?!
- Mandela!
1594
01:53:58,166 --> 01:53:59,375
When do we want him free?
1595
01:53:59,542 --> 01:54:00,877
- Now!
- Free Mandela!
1596
01:54:01,044 --> 01:54:05,548
Twenty years ago, we marched
in this country for our rights.
1597
01:54:07,717 --> 01:54:11,638
Today, we march to free
the people of South Africa.
1598
01:54:11,804 --> 01:54:13,181
Yeah!
1599
01:54:13,348 --> 01:54:17,894
Ronald Reagan has attacked or dismantled
every civil rights program
1600
01:54:18,061 --> 01:54:20,063
that has ever been put in place.
1601
01:54:20,230 --> 01:54:21,606
- Yeah!
- Right!
1602
01:54:21,773 --> 01:54:25,443
Aiding the oppression of black South
Africans is absolutely consistent
1603
01:54:25,610 --> 01:54:29,113
with his policies on race issues.
Am I right?
1604
01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:31,699
- Am I right?
- Yes!
1605
01:54:33,701 --> 01:54:35,578
Hold on, hold on.
1606
01:54:37,080 --> 01:54:39,832
Excuse me. Steven?
Where's Steven?
1607
01:54:39,999 --> 01:54:41,834
- Free Mandela!
- Free Mandela, y'all!
1608
01:54:42,001 --> 01:54:43,836
Free Mandela!
1609
01:54:45,588 --> 01:54:50,426
Free Mandela!
Free Mandela! Free Mandela!
1610
01:55:00,937 --> 01:55:03,189
Hi, Dad.
1611
01:55:03,356 --> 01:55:05,692
Hi, Louis.
1612
01:55:07,443 --> 01:55:10,446
What are you doing here?
1613
01:55:15,868 --> 01:55:18,580
I came here to protest with you.
1614
01:55:21,708 --> 01:55:24,294
You'll get arrested, Dad.
You'll lose your job.
1615
01:55:26,629 --> 01:55:28,715
I lost you.
1616
01:55:32,635 --> 01:55:34,470
I'm sorry.
1617
01:55:44,647 --> 01:55:47,483
I'm sorry, son.
1618
01:56:06,711 --> 01:56:10,423
Don't worry, Dad, we'll be
out of here in a few hours.
1619
01:56:10,590 --> 01:56:12,800
Who said I was worried?
1620
01:56:17,555 --> 01:56:21,976
After going to jail,
I thought I'd seen it all.
1621
01:56:22,352 --> 01:56:26,105
- You OK, Daddy?
- Yeah, no, no, no. I'm good.
1622
01:56:26,272 --> 01:56:29,734
But I never imagined I'd see...
1623
01:56:29,901 --> 01:56:31,986
...a black man
1624
01:56:32,153 --> 01:56:37,075
be a real contender for
the President of the United States.
1625
01:56:41,454 --> 01:56:43,498
Here we go.
1626
01:56:43,665 --> 01:56:47,418
- It's that sweet corn.
- That corn look good.
1627
01:57:00,390 --> 01:57:03,518
Gloria and I would walk
to our polling place
1628
01:57:03,685 --> 01:57:08,731
every night to see where
we'd be voting for Barack Obama.
1629
01:57:10,400 --> 01:57:14,529
We'd just... stare at it, smile.
1630
01:57:20,368 --> 01:57:23,413
- You done?
- Pretty much.
1631
01:57:23,579 --> 01:57:25,790
Good. Time to go.
1632
01:57:27,291 --> 01:57:30,002
You done pretty good there.
1633
01:57:30,169 --> 01:57:32,088
Thanks, honey.
1634
01:57:33,423 --> 01:57:37,468
How come Louis' wife
named that child...
1635
01:57:37,635 --> 01:57:40,471
- ...Shaquanda?
- Now, don't start that again.
1636
01:57:40,638 --> 01:57:44,892
I ain't starting it, I just don't know
what kind of name that is.
1637
01:57:45,059 --> 01:57:48,563
I mean, really! Shaquanda?
1638
01:57:48,730 --> 01:57:50,732
I think she done that just to spite me.
1639
01:57:50,898 --> 01:57:54,652
Ain't nobody
done nothing to spite you.
1640
01:57:54,819 --> 01:57:56,738
Yes, she did.
1641
01:57:58,531 --> 01:58:02,118
She a ugly little old girl, too.
That little pug nose.
1642
01:58:02,285 --> 01:58:06,372
- I hope she grow out of it.
- Now, you need to stop that.
1643
01:58:06,539 --> 01:58:08,416
- You know that ain't right.
- Don't you think
1644
01:58:08,583 --> 01:58:10,460
she look a little like
Louis around the mouth?
1645
01:58:10,626 --> 01:58:14,589
I think... she look just like you.
1646
01:58:14,756 --> 01:58:16,591
- Like me?
- Yeah, so you need to...
1647
01:58:16,758 --> 01:58:19,510
...you need
to stop talking about her.
1648
01:58:19,677 --> 01:58:22,680
Let me look at her again,
then, real good.
1649
01:58:25,141 --> 01:58:30,396
She do look a little bit like me.
She a pretty little thing.
1650
01:58:31,731 --> 01:58:34,567
I guess I can put up
with the name Shaquanda.
1651
01:58:36,152 --> 01:58:39,238
I forgot where I put my Bible.
1652
01:58:39,405 --> 01:58:43,117
- You know I need my Bible.
- Mm-hm.
1653
01:58:43,284 --> 01:58:46,871
- I think I left it in the bathroom.
- Why is Louis late?
1654
01:58:48,289 --> 01:58:51,209
Boy gets elected to Congress...
1655
01:58:51,375 --> 01:58:54,754
...and he ain't been on time
getting us to church ever since.
1656
01:58:54,921 --> 01:58:58,883
- I can't believe you still... fussing.
- He gonna be late to his own funeral.
1657
01:58:59,050 --> 01:59:00,718
Are you still fussing
about Louis?
1658
01:59:00,885 --> 01:59:03,596
He said he's gonna be here for us.
1659
01:59:03,763 --> 01:59:07,225
- Go ahead, call him.
- I ain't calling Louis.
1660
01:59:08,100 --> 01:59:11,062
I'm gonna get my purse and...
1661
01:59:15,191 --> 01:59:18,486
What'd you say? Isaiah?
1662
01:59:18,653 --> 01:59:22,198
I see you got... your mark here.
1663
01:59:24,033 --> 01:59:26,160
I'm gonna fall all over myself.
1664
01:59:26,327 --> 01:59:29,247
Baby, you need...
to move that to the other side.
1665
01:59:42,635 --> 01:59:44,428
Baby?
1666
01:59:47,181 --> 01:59:49,308
Honey?
1667
01:59:52,144 --> 01:59:53,688
You sleeping?
1668
01:59:57,692 --> 01:59:59,277
Baby?
1669
02:00:01,654 --> 02:00:03,573
Are you all right?
1670
02:00:28,890 --> 02:00:30,766
...states will be closing,
1671
02:00:30,933 --> 02:00:33,019
and there are some big ones,
especially California,
1672
02:00:33,185 --> 02:00:35,187
the largest state
in the United States,
1673
02:00:35,354 --> 02:00:36,981
with 55 electoral votes.
1674
02:00:37,148 --> 02:00:39,942
Hawaii, that's where
Barack Obama was born.
1675
02:00:40,109 --> 02:00:41,819
will be closing its polls.
1676
02:00:41,986 --> 02:00:45,239
Idaho, Oregon
and Washington state,
1677
02:00:45,406 --> 02:00:47,533
and those states
have been going Democratic
1678
02:00:47,700 --> 02:00:49,827
in presidential contests
in recent years.
1679
02:00:49,994 --> 02:00:51,454
So in a few seconds
1680
02:00:51,621 --> 02:00:53,748
those states
will be closing their polls,
1681
02:00:53,915 --> 02:00:56,500
and presumably we'll
be able to see what's...
1682
02:00:56,667 --> 02:00:58,502
Louis!
1683
02:00:58,669 --> 02:01:00,504
...a major projection at that point.
1684
02:01:00,671 --> 02:01:03,883
This is a moment that a lot of
people have been waiting for...
1685
02:01:04,050 --> 02:01:06,510
Louis, come on down!
Come down!
1686
02:01:06,677 --> 02:01:08,721
...could be rather historic.
1687
02:01:10,598 --> 02:01:14,143
And CNN can now project
that Barack Obama, 47 years old,
1688
02:01:14,310 --> 02:01:16,771
will become the President-Elect
1689
02:01:16,938 --> 02:01:20,024
of the United States. We project...
1690
02:01:20,191 --> 02:01:23,402
If there is anyone out there
1691
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who still doubts that America
is a place where
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all things are possible...
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...who still wonders if the dream of our
founders is alive in our time,
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who still questions
the power of our democracy,
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tonight is your answer.
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You must look
through their eyes...
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...see what it is that they want...
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...see what it is that they need...
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...anticipate...
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...bring a smile
to the principal's eyes.
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Mr. Gaines.
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I'm Admiral Rochon, the chief usher.
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- Nice to meet you, admiral.
- Pleasure's all mine, sir.
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I just wanted to tell you
what an honor it is to meet you, sir.
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The honor is mine.
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The president's so excited
to meet with you.
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Well...
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...that's just fine, isn't it?
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Let me show
you the way.
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I know the way.
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The heart of the question is,
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whether all Americans
are to be afforded equal rights
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and equal opportunities.
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02:04:13,155 --> 02:04:19,537
It is the effort of American
Negroes to secure for themselves
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the full blessings of American life.
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We will respond
with that timeless creed
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Yes, we can.