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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?

9
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But I didn't mind,

10
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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.

12
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Why don't everybody smile?

13
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Teeth.

14
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Hattie, come on,
I need your help in the shed.

15
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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.

18
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Mama!

19
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Come here.

20
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Look at me, boy.

21
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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?

24
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Now, get on back to work.

25
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Pa, what you gonna do?

26
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Hey.

27
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Dad!

28
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Oh, my Lord.

29
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Who you looking at?! Huh?

30
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Who wants to go next?!
You get back to work.

31
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Hey, you. Get some of the hands
to help dig a hole for his pa.

32
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Hurry up!

33
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Stop crying.

34
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I'm gonna have you
in the house now.

35
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I'm gonna teach you
how to be a house nigger.

36
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- He's coming.
- Yes'm.

37
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And quiet when you're serving.

38
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I don't even want
to hear you breathe.

39
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Yes, ma'am.

40
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The room should feel
empty when you're in it.

41
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It was much nicer working in
the house than in the field.

42
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Crazy nigger, from the left.

43
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Give me more.

44
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Hmm.

45
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When I got older, I knew I had
to go before he killed me, too.

46
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Part of me was scared to leave.

47
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It was the only world I ever knew.

48
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Ma, I took Pa's watch.

49
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Ma?

50
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Ma, I'm leaving.

51
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My mama never spoke
much after that.

52
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I knew she'd miss me,

53
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but I also knew she wanted me
to leave that place.

54
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And even though
Miss Annabeth never said it,

55
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I knew she'd miss me, too.

56
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I don't think God meant for
people to not have a family.

57
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Outside the cotton fields was even worse
than I thought it would be.

58
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No one would give me a job
nor food nor a place to sleep.

59
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Any white man could kill
any of us at any time

60
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and not be punished for it.

61
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The law wasn't on our side.

62
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The law was against us.

63
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I was hungry all the time.

64
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You know what can happen
to you, son?

65
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Get up.

66
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I said, get up.

67
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I'm gonna have to lie
to the boss man about that window.

68
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The good Lord say we
ain't supposed to lie.

69
00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:14,986
Sorry, sir.

70
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Where's your ma and your pa?

71
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My ma crazy in the head,
and my pa got killed.

72
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I'll make you some
ham sandwiches

73
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and send you on your way.

74
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The boss will be here
in a minute.

75
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Sunday's our busiest morning.

76
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You looking for some help?
I know how to serve.

77
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You done broke our window,
you done stole our food,

78
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and now you asking for a job?

79
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Back in Macon,
I'm a house nigger, a good one.

80
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Don't you ever use that word, son.

81
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That's the white man's word.

82
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It's filled with hate.

83
00:10:01,968 --> 00:10:04,562
Didn't your father
ever teach you any better?

84
00:10:09,842 --> 00:10:12,470
- Slow down.
- Yes, sir.

85
00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:14,541
You got to look through their eyes.

86
00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:18,674
See what it is they want.

87
00:10:18,851 --> 00:10:20,443
- Got it?
- Strokes.

88
00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:22,986
- Yeah, I got it.
- Here.

89
00:10:27,893 --> 00:10:31,090
See what it is they need.

90
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Right this way.

91
00:10:35,101 --> 00:10:36,591
Anticipate.

92
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am.

93
00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:53,308
Bring a smile to the eyes...

94
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...of your principal.

95
00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:05,058
Perfect. Perfect.

96
00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:10,162
Don't forget to save me them chitlins.

97
00:11:10,336 --> 00:11:13,271
- Why you like chitlins so much?
- 'Cause they're good eating.

98
00:11:13,406 --> 00:11:19,038
The manager of Excelsior, in DC,
he came by yesterday.

99
00:11:19,845 --> 00:11:21,506
He offered me a job as a butler.

100
00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:24,650
He must be paying you
top dollar, huh, boss?

101
00:11:25,985 --> 00:11:27,543
Yeah.

102
00:11:28,888 --> 00:11:31,652
I was thinking about taking it,
but I don't know.

103
00:11:31,824 --> 00:11:33,758
I'm too old to be leaving
North Carolina.

104
00:11:35,227 --> 00:11:37,855
I'm just fine right here.

105
00:11:38,864 --> 00:11:41,799
I told him to hire you.

106
00:11:41,967 --> 00:11:44,697
I'm just now finding my way
around this hotel.

107
00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:46,497
Ain't ready for all them
highfalutin white people,

108
00:11:46,672 --> 00:11:48,230
all their fancy words.

109
00:11:48,407 --> 00:11:52,741
Cecil, we got two faces: ours,

110
00:11:52,912 --> 00:11:55,904
and the ones that we got
to show the white folks.

111
00:11:56,082 --> 00:11:59,245
Now, to get up in the world,

112
00:11:59,418 --> 00:12:02,819
you have to make
them feel nonthreatened.

113
00:12:03,923 --> 00:12:07,188
Use that, them fancy words
that I've taught you.

114
00:12:09,929 --> 00:12:14,957
White folks up north,
they like some uppity coloreds.

115
00:12:17,103 --> 00:12:19,037
Yeah.

116
00:12:19,905 --> 00:12:24,171
I took that job up in Washington, DC.

117
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It was the most beautiful hotel
I'd ever seen.

118
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I hope it wasn't too
presumptuous of me

119
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to have prepared a few spirits

120
00:12:39,725 --> 00:12:42,091
after your long journey here
from Buffalo.

121
00:12:43,729 --> 00:12:47,722
The best decision that court ever made
was to slow this whole mess down.

122
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Nigger boys in school with white girls.
Who ever heard of such a thing?

123
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Next thing you know,
they'd be fornicating.

124
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Gentlemen, this here is different.
We could start another Civil War.

125
00:13:01,147 --> 00:13:05,481
Cecil, what do you think about niggers
going to school with white children?

126
00:13:05,651 --> 00:13:08,677
To be honest with you,
Mr. Jenkins,

127
00:13:08,888 --> 00:13:11,254
I tend to not be too concerned

128
00:13:11,423 --> 00:13:14,654
with American or European politics.

129
00:13:14,827 --> 00:13:17,591
Nor should you, Cecil.
They're all criminals.

130
00:13:17,763 --> 00:13:20,425
Earl Warren should be shot
and hanged.

131
00:13:20,599 --> 00:13:25,332
That dumb son-of-a-bitch judge
is trying to integrate our schools.

132
00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:30,999
I think Judge Warren is going to find
that quite challenging.

133
00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:33,645
Damn right, Cecil. Damn right.

134
00:13:33,813 --> 00:13:39,251
Never in my life did I dream
I'd work in a place as fancy as this.

135
00:13:40,786 --> 00:13:43,550
I never dreamed my life
could be so good.

136
00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:56,266
Gloria and I met working
at the Excelsior.

137
00:13:56,435 --> 00:13:58,630
She was a maid at the hotel,

138
00:13:58,804 --> 00:14:01,500
but now her only job
was raising our two boys.

139
00:14:05,077 --> 00:14:08,240
I made sure that they never
laid eyes on a cotton field.

140
00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:15,146
- I got to pee.
- Not today. Don't try that.

141
00:14:15,321 --> 00:14:18,154
- Finish that homework.
- Where Louis at?

142
00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:20,952
- He's taking the trash out.
- Working late again?

143
00:14:21,093 --> 00:14:24,028
- How was your shift?
- Beats working for a living.

144
00:14:25,464 --> 00:14:27,489
I miss you at night, honey.

145
00:14:31,303 --> 00:14:34,295
Didn't you say you got to pee?
Go on, then.

146
00:14:34,473 --> 00:14:36,998
Wash your hands when you come
out of that bathroom, boy.

147
00:14:39,245 --> 00:14:41,509
- Good morning.
- Good morning.

148
00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:42,874
Good morning, sir.

149
00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:46,609
Mm-hm.

150
00:14:47,753 --> 00:14:50,916
- Hey, Dad.
- Hey, Louis.

151
00:14:51,090 --> 00:14:53,888
- You all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine.

152
00:14:54,059 --> 00:14:57,222
- Good. - That woman
whose son got killed,

153
00:14:57,396 --> 00:15:00,888
she's around doing speeches now.
What's her name, honey?

154
00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:03,261
- Mamie Till.
- Mamie...

155
00:15:03,435 --> 00:15:05,767
Mamie Till. Mm.

156
00:15:05,938 --> 00:15:09,032
I remember that story just
like it was yesterday,

157
00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:11,540
even though it was three years ago.

158
00:15:11,710 --> 00:15:14,941
It was a dis-damn-grace
what they did to that boy.

159
00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:17,082
Just for looking at a white woman.

160
00:15:17,249 --> 00:15:19,649
Beat him up,

161
00:15:19,852 --> 00:15:23,788
threw his body in the river,
killed him.

162
00:15:23,956 --> 00:15:26,789
He wasn't no older than Louis.
He was 14 at the time.

163
00:15:26,959 --> 00:15:29,792
- Crazy white folks down South.
- Thanks, Ma.

164
00:15:29,962 --> 00:15:31,953
At least we got it
a little better in DC, huh?

165
00:15:32,131 --> 00:15:34,565
Still treating us bad, too.

166
00:15:34,733 --> 00:15:37,065
Get on down here, Charlie!
Wash your hands.

167
00:15:37,236 --> 00:15:38,965
Louis said we should stop
taking the white man's shit.

168
00:15:39,138 --> 00:15:40,264
- Hey.
- Shut up.

169
00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:42,066
- Watch your mouth.
- Watch your mouth.

170
00:15:42,241 --> 00:15:45,540
Hello, Gaines' residence.

171
00:15:46,812 --> 00:15:48,746
Uh, yeah. Hold on, Mr. Kidgan.

172
00:15:49,848 --> 00:15:52,840
- It's the boss man, Dad.
- What's he calling for?

173
00:15:53,018 --> 00:15:57,580
When the white man call,
I always assume the worst.

174
00:15:57,756 --> 00:15:59,155
Yes, sir?

175
00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:01,088
I would have put money on it

176
00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:04,491
that I was getting laid off
or something that day.

177
00:16:31,623 --> 00:16:33,989
- Would you follow me, please?
- Yes, sir.

178
00:16:42,301 --> 00:16:43,768
I'm Cecil Gaines.

179
00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:45,699
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- You, as well.

180
00:16:45,871 --> 00:16:47,805
Have a seat.

181
00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:03,688
Are you political, Mr. Gaines?

182
00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,983
- No, sir.
- Good.

183
00:17:06,158 --> 00:17:11,391
We have no tolerance
for politics at the White House.

184
00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:14,499
- How'd you find me?
- I didn't.

185
00:17:14,666 --> 00:17:17,533
You served R.D. Warner
at the Excelsior Hotel.

186
00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:20,194
He oversees operations
for the entire White House.

187
00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:23,364
- You made quite an impression.
- I don't recall.

188
00:17:23,542 --> 00:17:27,911
Mr. Warner and myself make note
of potential staff around town.

189
00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,014
Butler positions rarely open,

190
00:17:30,182 --> 00:17:31,809
as most stay on for 30 years or more.

191
00:17:31,950 --> 00:17:34,510
I know I was quite surprised
when I got the call.

192
00:17:39,858 --> 00:17:42,088
It was a surprise
for me, as well.

193
00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:46,527
As the White House maître d',
I normally hire the butlers.

194
00:17:49,168 --> 00:17:51,568
Forgive me for saying this,
Mr. Fallows.

195
00:17:51,737 --> 00:17:54,501
I certainly wouldn't want to
be hired under circumstances

196
00:17:54,673 --> 00:17:57,369
that would make you
feel uncomfortable.

197
00:17:58,610 --> 00:18:00,237
Oh, really?

198
00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:02,812
You need butlers
that you've handpicked,

199
00:18:03,015 --> 00:18:05,745
men to your liking that
will fulfill your vision

200
00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:07,886
of a proper White House staff.

201
00:18:09,788 --> 00:18:11,449
Hmm.

202
00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:29,066
Is that... Louis Xlll?

203
00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:32,633
These decanters are replicas

204
00:18:32,778 --> 00:18:38,444
of metal flasks that were found
on the battlefield in Jarnac.

205
00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:40,551
Correct?

206
00:18:40,719 --> 00:18:42,744
The Italians, they
know their wines,

207
00:18:42,921 --> 00:18:46,652
and the Irish, they certainly know
how to make a great whiskey.

208
00:18:46,825 --> 00:18:50,955
But I believe the French
have a distinct advantage

209
00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:53,928
when it comes to Cognac.

210
00:18:56,068 --> 00:18:57,558
C'est vrai?

211
00:19:00,272 --> 00:19:02,866
Yeah, you'll make
a good house nigger.

212
00:19:06,178 --> 00:19:07,873
Would you care
for a demitasse?

213
00:19:12,718 --> 00:19:14,845
Sometimes it just be
me and Faye up in here.

214
00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:17,818
Me, Faye
and a little scotch.

215
00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:20,686
Have a good time.

216
00:19:24,663 --> 00:19:26,255
That's how you do it.

217
00:19:26,431 --> 00:19:27,955
You know how to throw
a bash, girl.

218
00:19:28,133 --> 00:19:29,998
What did you do
to this potato salad?

219
00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:32,262
I'll tell you what I did.
I put some dill in it,

220
00:19:32,437 --> 00:19:36,339
because I read in Woman's Day,
where pickles drown out the flavor

221
00:19:36,508 --> 00:19:38,271
and dill bring up the flavor.

222
00:19:38,443 --> 00:19:41,742
- That's what you tasting right now.
- OK. Yeah.

223
00:19:41,914 --> 00:19:44,508
- I like it.
- Make a difference, don't it?

224
00:19:44,683 --> 00:19:45,980
It really does.

225
00:19:46,151 --> 00:19:48,585
Girl, you must be so proud of Cecil.

226
00:19:48,787 --> 00:19:51,347
You know he got that job hisself.
The White House called him,

227
00:19:51,523 --> 00:19:53,821
- he didn't call the White House.
- He's a good man.

228
00:19:53,992 --> 00:19:56,324
- You got a good man.
- She's fun, man!

229
00:19:56,495 --> 00:19:59,328
Not like this one right here.
Ol sourpuss.

230
00:19:59,498 --> 00:20:02,831
- You still mad at me?
- I got reason.

231
00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:06,232
No, you don't. I told you,
I went down to the numbers spot,

232
00:20:06,405 --> 00:20:08,532
played my little numbers,
got me some barbecue,

233
00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:11,608
and then I went down...
I didn't even get nothing to drink!

234
00:20:11,777 --> 00:20:16,180
I am so... I'm so sick of these
numbers spot stories, Howard.

235
00:20:16,348 --> 00:20:18,680
How you expect me to believe you
was down at the numbers spot?

236
00:20:18,850 --> 00:20:20,545
Whether you believe it or
not don't mean it ain't true.

237
00:20:20,719 --> 00:20:22,584
- Come on, stop this mess.
- You want to do this right now?

238
00:20:22,754 --> 00:20:24,346
Come on, y'all.
Come on, come on, come on.

239
00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:26,423
You don't believe it, you don't
have to believe it, but...

240
00:20:26,592 --> 00:20:27,820
- Come on, y'all.
- Such a shuckster.

241
00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:29,688
- You really want to do this right now?
- Stop this right now.

242
00:20:29,861 --> 00:20:31,658
You need to pick on
somebody your own size.

243
00:20:31,797 --> 00:20:34,231
We are here to celebrate,
so y'all could be nice just one time.

244
00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:37,027
You heard the lady.
Come on, get over here, let's celebrate!

245
00:20:37,202 --> 00:20:38,396
Celebrate.

246
00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:40,731
That's why I was out,
trying to make you happy.

247
00:20:40,906 --> 00:20:44,000
- Y'all need to get a room.
- What? What?

248
00:20:44,176 --> 00:20:46,269
Ain't that the truth?
Or something.

249
00:20:46,445 --> 00:20:48,913
He drives me crazy.
He just... Ugh!

250
00:20:49,881 --> 00:20:52,611
You ain't, uh... You want to
come to the room with us?

251
00:20:52,784 --> 00:20:54,581
No.

252
00:20:54,753 --> 00:20:57,813
- Hey, where the boys at?
- They upstairs in the back room.

253
00:20:57,990 --> 00:21:00,959
Boys! Get on down here!
I need to see your face now!

254
00:21:01,126 --> 00:21:03,594
- What y'all doing up there?
- Yes, congratulations.

255
00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:05,593
Honey, when you gonna take me
to the White House?

256
00:21:05,764 --> 00:21:08,358
You want to go
to the White House, baby?

257
00:21:08,533 --> 00:21:10,524
You know I want to go
to the White House.

258
00:21:10,702 --> 00:21:12,226
When you want to go?

259
00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:14,565
- Don't play with me now...
- When you want to go?

260
00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,799
The White House,
now that's a big step up.

261
00:21:16,975 --> 00:21:18,772
- Ooh!
- Yeah, it's exciting.

262
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:22,710
Girl, you up in that house now!
I want to hear all the stories.

263
00:21:22,848 --> 00:21:24,975
I don't know how many stories
you gonna hear,

264
00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:27,812
'cause they done swore him
to some kind of secret code,

265
00:21:27,986 --> 00:21:31,547
- and he can't tell me nothing.
- No. Girl, you give it to him right.

266
00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:35,056
- Mm-hm! He'll tell you everything.
- That's the key right there.

267
00:21:35,227 --> 00:21:36,785
You listening?

268
00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:39,157
- Did you hear her?
- Who you been giving it to?

269
00:21:39,331 --> 00:21:41,822
Well, if you was at home,
I could be giving it to you.

270
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,331
I don't know what
you talking about.

271
00:21:43,502 --> 00:21:46,630
Boys, y'all better bring y'all
little narrow butts down here!

272
00:21:46,805 --> 00:21:48,966
- Here they come.
- Called y'all 19 times.

273
00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:51,200
Boys, stop running through this house.
You know better than that.

274
00:21:51,376 --> 00:21:56,177
Elroy! Get over here.
Come here.

275
00:21:57,382 --> 00:21:59,873
Give me some money.

276
00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:04,318
Nah. Tell them... Tell them what
you gonna be when you grow up.

277
00:22:04,489 --> 00:22:07,617
I want to work at the White
House just like Mr. Gaines.

278
00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:09,590
- Ah, that's my boy.
- Right there.

279
00:22:09,761 --> 00:22:11,126
All right, man.

280
00:22:11,296 --> 00:22:13,764
Louis! What you gonna be
when you grow up?

281
00:22:13,932 --> 00:22:15,524
You gonna work at
the White House like your daddy?

282
00:22:17,803 --> 00:22:20,863
- I don't know.
- I'll tell you one thing.

283
00:22:21,039 --> 00:22:23,701
I knew exactly what I wanted
to be when I was 13.

284
00:22:23,875 --> 00:22:26,469
Yeah, a number runner.

285
00:22:32,818 --> 00:22:34,877
I'm Cecil Gaines.
I'm the new butler.

286
00:22:36,221 --> 00:22:37,210
Yes, sir.

287
00:22:37,389 --> 00:22:39,584
There are 16 full-time maids.

288
00:22:39,791 --> 00:22:42,487
We have six butlers,
four carpenters, two painters,

289
00:22:42,661 --> 00:22:45,061
seven electricians,
three dishwashers, three doormen,

290
00:22:45,230 --> 00:22:48,358
a full kitchen staff, including pastry
chef and three full-time calligraphers.

291
00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:51,366
Two painters, seven
electricians, nine engineers...

292
00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:53,697
Here comes Warner.

293
00:22:53,872 --> 00:22:57,831
Uh, Mr. Warner, wanted to thank you
for the opportunity

294
00:22:58,009 --> 00:22:59,704
to work in the White House...

295
00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,281
Come on. Here we go.

296
00:23:10,655 --> 00:23:13,852
Ma'am, I'm Cecil Gaines.
I'll be working with you here.

297
00:23:14,025 --> 00:23:15,993
Mr. Gaines, please don't do that.

298
00:23:16,161 --> 00:23:17,992
- Come on.
- Yes, sir.

299
00:23:18,864 --> 00:23:21,560
Now, when lifting a plate,
never scrape the bottom.

300
00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:24,998
Never listen or react
to conversation.

301
00:23:25,170 --> 00:23:28,697
- The room should feel as...
- Empty when I'm in it.

302
00:23:30,809 --> 00:23:32,504
So then she says...

303
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:37,280
Then she says, "Stick... "

304
00:23:37,449 --> 00:23:39,349
"Ok. "

305
00:23:39,484 --> 00:23:41,714
Then she starts
screaming and yells,

306
00:23:41,887 --> 00:23:45,323
"Stick your whole hand in!"
So I put my whole hand in.

307
00:23:45,524 --> 00:23:47,788
Then she yells out,
"Put both hands in!"

308
00:23:47,959 --> 00:23:50,723
"Ok!"

309
00:23:50,896 --> 00:23:52,693
Then she screams,
"Now clap!"

310
00:23:52,864 --> 00:23:55,025
I say, "I can't. "

311
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,031
She looks up, smiles and says,

312
00:23:57,169 --> 00:23:59,933
"See, I told you my... "

313
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:01,697
That ain't funny.

314
00:24:01,873 --> 00:24:03,500
Hey, there he is!
Heard you were coming.

315
00:24:03,675 --> 00:24:05,142
- What's your name?
- Cecil.

316
00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:07,073
- Cecil Gaines.
- That ain't funny.

317
00:24:07,245 --> 00:24:10,840
I'm Carter Wilson, head butler.
Don't worry about Big Mo behind you.

318
00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:13,075
That brother will steal your wallet
before you even knew it.

319
00:24:13,251 --> 00:24:15,947
This brother in the mirror over here,
his name's James Holloway.

320
00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:17,611
- He's my second in command.
- James.

321
00:24:17,789 --> 00:24:19,654
Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays?

322
00:24:19,825 --> 00:24:21,053
Why don't you shake
the man's hand first

323
00:24:21,193 --> 00:24:23,286
before you start asking difficult
questions like that?

324
00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:25,123
I just want to know
where the man's coming from.

325
00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:27,595
Look like the jury's still
out on that one, right?

326
00:24:27,766 --> 00:24:29,996
Welcome. Fancy Freddie
give you the tour yet?

327
00:24:30,168 --> 00:24:33,296
He did. Is the Dodgers still...
still losing?

328
00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:35,804
I might be able to answer that question
if Carter over here

329
00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:37,498
stop running his nasty mouth.

330
00:24:37,676 --> 00:24:39,974
Cut the shit and let's get to work.

331
00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:04,963
- Ready.
- Lord, help us.

332
00:25:16,481 --> 00:25:20,645
Don't be nervous, man.
Just go on and get to it.

333
00:25:29,394 --> 00:25:32,386
You hear nothing,
you see nothing.

334
00:25:32,564 --> 00:25:34,293
You only serve.

335
00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:56,817
Send federal troops to Little Rock?

336
00:25:56,988 --> 00:25:58,421
If it comes to it, yes.

337
00:26:00,091 --> 00:26:04,425
I can't see any situation where
I'd send federal troops to the South.

338
00:26:04,596 --> 00:26:08,760
Ever. Could cause another Civil War.

339
00:26:08,934 --> 00:26:14,702
Sir, if the federal government
doesn't enforce Brown, then who will?

340
00:26:14,873 --> 00:26:16,500
The South must comply with the law.

341
00:26:16,675 --> 00:26:19,303
It's just gonna take some time
to adjust, that's all.

342
00:26:19,511 --> 00:26:21,376
I understand, Mr. President,

343
00:26:21,546 --> 00:26:25,482
but if Faubus continues to block the
Negro children, then what do we do?

344
00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:27,413
We must enforce
the Constitution.

345
00:26:28,219 --> 00:26:30,551
Give Faubus more time.

346
00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:32,383
With a little persuading,
he'll back down.

347
00:26:32,557 --> 00:26:34,457
We just want to move slowly.

348
00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:43,765
- How'd it go?
- I almost shit myself.

349
00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:49,067
I dated a girl once. Every time
I hit her, she shit herself.

350
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,641
- What?
- Got no sense.

351
00:26:52,811 --> 00:26:54,870
- Shut up.
- You shut up.

352
00:26:55,013 --> 00:26:56,412
I put a towel down.

353
00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,648
You know, Marcella said
the very same thing last night

354
00:27:00,819 --> 00:27:02,411
just before I put her to sleep.

355
00:27:08,727 --> 00:27:12,288
- Wow. You put her...
- Just like I did Ed.

356
00:27:14,099 --> 00:27:15,828
I'd do it real quick.

357
00:27:20,338 --> 00:27:22,602
- See you!
- Why?

358
00:27:24,175 --> 00:27:27,440
Dang... Got the popcorn
all over the sofa.

359
00:27:27,612 --> 00:27:29,170
Your dad's gonna kill...

360
00:27:29,347 --> 00:27:31,406
Hey, Dad.

361
00:27:31,549 --> 00:27:32,709
- Hi, Mr. Gaines.
- Hey, Dad.

362
00:27:32,917 --> 00:27:35,181
Hey, Elroy.

363
00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:38,618
Louis, I told you about letting these
kids watch that show.

364
00:27:38,790 --> 00:27:40,985
It's too scary.
They're too young for it.

365
00:27:41,159 --> 00:27:42,490
Turn it off.

366
00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:44,962
All you got to do is smile pretty,

367
00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:46,620
and a man will forget
everything he ever learned.

368
00:27:46,798 --> 00:27:48,356
Where your mama at?

369
00:27:48,533 --> 00:27:51,127
Miss Gloria tried staying up,
but she went to sleep.

370
00:27:51,302 --> 00:27:53,133
Elroy, ain't nobody
asked you nothing.

371
00:27:53,304 --> 00:27:54,965
Take your butt home before
your mama come up in here

372
00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:56,266
and whup the both of us.

373
00:27:56,441 --> 00:27:57,567
- Come on, Dad.
- Go on.

374
00:27:57,742 --> 00:27:59,266
- Bye.
- Turn it off.

375
00:28:07,952 --> 00:28:09,886
Don't go stomping up the stairs,
wake your mama up.

376
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,165
What is that?

377
00:28:21,332 --> 00:28:24,233
Is that that Mamie Till stuff?

378
00:28:24,402 --> 00:28:27,565
- I want to go to this.
- Absolutely not.

379
00:28:30,742 --> 00:28:32,835
How come?

380
00:28:33,912 --> 00:28:36,244
Ain't no good can come of that.

381
00:28:36,414 --> 00:28:38,348
Dad, you heard what Mama said?

382
00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:39,642
That mess right there
happened down South.

383
00:28:39,784 --> 00:28:42,548
- This could have been me.
- It happened down South.

384
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:44,848
I got out of there so we
could have us a better life.

385
00:28:45,023 --> 00:28:48,015
Right now, I'm working for the white
man, make things better for us.

386
00:28:48,193 --> 00:28:49,922
And not just any white man, either.

387
00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:52,495
Put the lights off. Go to bed.

388
00:29:11,249 --> 00:29:13,274
I have your chicken soup,
Mr. President.

389
00:29:13,451 --> 00:29:15,112
Just set it on the table, Cecil.

390
00:29:15,286 --> 00:29:16,514
Yes, sir.

391
00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:23,456
Did you ever complete school, Cecil?

392
00:29:23,628 --> 00:29:26,256
I didn't go to school,
Mr. President.

393
00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:28,626
I grew up on a cotton farm.

394
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,132
I grew up on a farm.

395
00:29:31,302 --> 00:29:33,532
Do you have any children?

396
00:29:33,705 --> 00:29:35,536
Yes, sir, I have two sons.

397
00:29:35,707 --> 00:29:37,106
Do they go
to an all-colored school?

398
00:29:38,810 --> 00:29:40,744
Yes, sir, they do.

399
00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:49,113
What is it?

400
00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,255
State Guard just blocked
all the colored kids again.

401
00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:54,220
Faubus promised me the guards
would escort the kids in.

402
00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:56,554
Governor of Arkansas lied,
Mr. President.

403
00:29:56,728 --> 00:30:00,562
What is wrong with him?
Why is he forcing me to do this?

404
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,738
Yes, sir.

405
00:30:08,306 --> 00:30:10,831
Our next move
needs to be bold and swift.

406
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:18,271
I have today issued
an executive order

407
00:30:18,449 --> 00:30:21,612
directing the use of troops
under federal authority

408
00:30:21,786 --> 00:30:25,415
to aid in the execution
of federal law

409
00:30:25,590 --> 00:30:28,150
at Little Rock, Arkansas.

410
00:30:28,326 --> 00:30:30,123
This became necessary...

411
00:30:30,295 --> 00:30:33,025
When the president sent those
troops down to Little Rock,

412
00:30:33,198 --> 00:30:37,999
it was the first time I ever seen a
white man stick his neck out for us.

413
00:30:39,304 --> 00:30:43,297
I told Louis that the president was
gonna make things better for us.

414
00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:48,067
All graduations are long.
She was so nosy.

415
00:30:48,246 --> 00:30:50,180
I'm gonna make
some potato salad.

416
00:30:50,348 --> 00:30:52,646
Now he could see that I knew
what I was talking about.

417
00:30:52,817 --> 00:30:55,012
That was wonderful.
I'm so proud of you.

418
00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:58,849
- Thanks, Mama.
- That hat looks stupid.

419
00:30:59,023 --> 00:31:00,786
Your face looks stupid.

420
00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:06,960
- Proud of you, too.
- Dad, did you see...

421
00:31:07,131 --> 00:31:08,962
Don't start something in there.

422
00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:13,030
Did you see one white kid
in my school?

423
00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:25,381
Why couldn't Louis see that
the president made things better for us?

424
00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:27,908
- Thank you.
- Cookie?

425
00:31:28,086 --> 00:31:29,678
- Cookies.
- Thanks.

426
00:31:29,854 --> 00:31:31,583
Thank you.

427
00:31:39,264 --> 00:31:41,061
Boy, I told you we
was gonna be late!

428
00:31:41,232 --> 00:31:42,824
You cannot miss this bus!

429
00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:45,902
- Oh, Lord have mercy.
- Wait, a sec. Wait, wait, wait.

430
00:31:46,070 --> 00:31:48,698
- What?
- Got to say good-bye.

431
00:31:48,873 --> 00:31:51,205
Bus can wait.

432
00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:58,342
Tennessee is
a long ways away, Pop.

433
00:31:58,483 --> 00:32:00,849
Fisk is a really
good school, Dad.

434
00:32:00,985 --> 00:32:03,419
You can change your mind
and go to Howard.

435
00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:07,217
I cannot believe you are still
talking about Howard University.

436
00:32:07,392 --> 00:32:11,351
- He's going to Fisk.
- I know, I know. It's just...

437
00:32:11,496 --> 00:32:13,896
It's just so far away, that's all.

438
00:32:14,065 --> 00:32:16,863
- That's the point.
- What's the point?

439
00:32:19,137 --> 00:32:20,695
Give me a cigarette, and don't
tell me you don't smoke.

440
00:32:20,872 --> 00:32:23,500
- I don't have one.
- Come here.

441
00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:27,304
- You know you want to cry, punk.
- Not for you.

442
00:32:27,478 --> 00:32:30,345
Look under your mattress.
I left you something.

443
00:32:30,548 --> 00:32:34,109
- I can't protect him down South.
- The South has changed, Cecil.

444
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:35,513
I'm too young for Playboy.

445
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,948
The South ain't what it
was when you was there.

446
00:32:37,121 --> 00:32:39,885
Ma, Louis is leaving me
his filthy magazines.

447
00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:41,889
- Stop lying on your brother.
- Why you slapping him?

448
00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:43,652
He's the one with the magazines.

449
00:32:43,828 --> 00:32:47,093
- I love you, Mama.
- I love you, son.

450
00:32:47,265 --> 00:32:49,165
- I love you, Louis.
- I love you.

451
00:32:49,334 --> 00:32:52,735
- I made you ham sandwiches.
- Thanks, Mama.

452
00:32:54,339 --> 00:32:56,102
Come on, Dad.

453
00:32:58,843 --> 00:33:01,073
Ok.

454
00:33:08,353 --> 00:33:09,877
You're the first.

455
00:33:11,689 --> 00:33:14,055
I know.

456
00:33:14,258 --> 00:33:15,987
I'm really proud of you.

457
00:33:16,861 --> 00:33:18,692
I got to go, Dad.

458
00:33:24,302 --> 00:33:27,328
I got to go.

459
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:34,269
If you need anything, you call me.

460
00:33:34,412 --> 00:33:36,209
- All right.
- All right?

461
00:33:36,381 --> 00:33:37,848
Bye, Mama.

462
00:33:44,122 --> 00:33:46,317
Bye, Louis.

463
00:33:55,833 --> 00:33:57,164
It's all right.

464
00:34:06,577 --> 00:34:08,568
Remind me again why
we're doing this, please.

465
00:34:08,746 --> 00:34:11,579
Somebody? Tell me?
That look like a mugging to me,

466
00:34:11,749 --> 00:34:14,183
- that's what that looks like.
- This is the art of French baking.

467
00:34:14,352 --> 00:34:17,617
Negro, please.
"Art of French baking. "

468
00:34:17,789 --> 00:34:19,848
This is absolutely nothing.
That's what this is.

469
00:34:20,024 --> 00:34:22,652
- I don't...
- Boy's always so simple.

470
00:34:22,794 --> 00:34:24,659
You want me to play with it?
I'll play with it.

471
00:34:24,829 --> 00:34:26,558
Play with it like this.

472
00:34:26,731 --> 00:34:29,598
It'd be good if it had a little...
a little nipple on it.

473
00:34:29,767 --> 00:34:31,029
Come on, man.

474
00:34:31,202 --> 00:34:33,227
That's how you play. You jiggle it.
You shake it, you know.

475
00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:34,701
This fool.

476
00:34:34,872 --> 00:34:37,705
Good evening,
Mr. Vice President.

477
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:42,440
That looks like a tasty treat.

478
00:34:42,613 --> 00:34:44,547
Yes, sir.

479
00:34:44,715 --> 00:34:46,546
I brought you all something.

480
00:34:50,655 --> 00:34:53,021
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

481
00:34:53,157 --> 00:34:54,886
I don't want to say
anything negative

482
00:34:55,059 --> 00:34:58,256
about that Kennedy boy.
I'm sure he's a real nice fellow.

483
00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:01,364
But do you really want that
spoiled rich son-of-a-bitch fuck

484
00:35:01,532 --> 00:35:03,932
to be your next president?

485
00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:07,399
Think about it.

486
00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:14,806
We'll cheer for you,
Mr. Vice President.

487
00:35:14,979 --> 00:35:16,742
Thank you, Cecil.

488
00:35:19,884 --> 00:35:22,352
Let me ask you something,
in all candor,

489
00:35:22,553 --> 00:35:26,887
as members of the Negro community,
what are your biggest concerns?

490
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:32,820
Now, come on now, boys.

491
00:35:33,898 --> 00:35:35,297
Don't be shy.

492
00:35:37,768 --> 00:35:40,430
Holloway, come on.

493
00:35:40,605 --> 00:35:44,268
- Well, since you asked, sir...
- I did.

494
00:35:44,442 --> 00:35:48,401
The colored help gets paid almost
40 percent less than the white help.

495
00:35:48,579 --> 00:35:50,604
- Is that right?
- Yes, sir.

496
00:35:50,781 --> 00:35:54,615
And it's very difficult for
the colored staff to be promoted.

497
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,112
I'll tell you what. When I'm president,
I'm gonna look into getting you boys

498
00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:01,019
the raises and
the promotions you deserve.

499
00:36:01,192 --> 00:36:04,286
That... that would be swell, sir.

500
00:36:04,462 --> 00:36:08,262
- You got my word on that.
- Thank you, sir.

501
00:36:08,432 --> 00:36:10,161
Now, you tell your people
to vote for me,

502
00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:11,528
and that's exactly
what's gonna happen.

503
00:36:11,702 --> 00:36:14,466
Give that to somebody.

504
00:36:39,063 --> 00:36:41,998
What do you mean, you don't
want to date nobody?

505
00:36:42,166 --> 00:36:43,326
After all these guys
that come after you?

506
00:36:43,501 --> 00:36:46,902
- Girl, please. I'm just...
- Like that one?

507
00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:49,869
I'm talking about you and Isaac.

508
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:51,338
Now, come on,
tell me what happened.

509
00:36:51,509 --> 00:36:53,136
Y'all seemed happy.

510
00:36:53,311 --> 00:36:55,973
See, I can't even have a normal
conversation with you, because...

511
00:37:03,087 --> 00:37:07,319
- Hey.
- You looking for love, boy?

512
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,490
That's what we call the Lawson workshop,
the love school.

513
00:37:13,664 --> 00:37:17,430
- Is that what you're looking for?
- That's why I came to Fisk.

514
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:21,102
Me, too.

515
00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:28,776
- I'm Carol Hammie.
- Louis Gaines.

516
00:37:28,946 --> 00:37:30,937
Come on. Follow me.

517
00:37:33,217 --> 00:37:35,310
You a country boy, ain't you?

518
00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:37,612
He's a doctor.
What does your dad do?

519
00:37:37,788 --> 00:37:40,689
He's in politics.

520
00:37:40,858 --> 00:37:43,349
You were gonna need help
finding this place anyway.

521
00:37:43,527 --> 00:37:45,222
...nor can you sustain it
over a month.

522
00:37:45,396 --> 00:37:47,591
- Really?
- This requires time, commitment,

523
00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:49,198
dedication, discipline and focus.

524
00:37:49,367 --> 00:37:52,393
And we are measuring our
accomplishments in waves, right?

525
00:37:52,570 --> 00:37:54,765
This is not a fly-by-night affair.
This doesn't happen over a week.

526
00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:58,170
This requires a fierce discipline,
which is what we've been discussing.

527
00:37:58,342 --> 00:38:00,139
How do you measure these things?

528
00:38:00,311 --> 00:38:02,745
We go back, and we look
at somebody like Gandhi.

529
00:38:02,913 --> 00:38:05,677
Together, we are gonna study
and examine Gandhi's techniques.

530
00:38:05,883 --> 00:38:08,784
What has been so effective
in South Africa, so effective in India,

531
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:11,444
for his own people and others,

532
00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:14,455
and we're gonna employ it
right here, in Nashville.

533
00:38:14,625 --> 00:38:18,254
So we're gonna form an army.
You and I.

534
00:38:18,429 --> 00:38:21,262
This army has one weapon.
That weapon is love.

535
00:38:21,432 --> 00:38:23,161
Now, I am of the... yes.

536
00:38:23,334 --> 00:38:25,495
If our only weapon is love,

537
00:38:25,670 --> 00:38:27,831
and then their weapons
are weapons,

538
00:38:28,005 --> 00:38:31,497
- I mean, isn't that dangerous?
- Oh, you can be killed.

539
00:38:31,676 --> 00:38:33,906
If anybody's uncomfortable with that,
you know where the door is.

540
00:38:34,078 --> 00:38:36,979
I understand that sounds
provocative, but it's true.

541
00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:42,510
All right, kids.
It's show time.

542
00:39:01,706 --> 00:39:05,437
Gandhi has demonstrated for us
that the brown man,

543
00:39:05,609 --> 00:39:08,203
in his native land, or anywhere
that he's being oppressed...

544
00:39:10,414 --> 00:39:12,143
...can pull himself out of segregation

545
00:39:12,316 --> 00:39:14,807
with patience, with persistence,

546
00:39:14,985 --> 00:39:17,647
with intelligence and thought,
with discipline...

547
00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,161
...and a bit of a sense of humor.

548
00:39:33,504 --> 00:39:35,369
You know y'all can't sit here.

549
00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:37,734
We would like to be served, please.

550
00:39:37,908 --> 00:39:40,570
This is unprecedented,
what we're talking about,

551
00:39:40,745 --> 00:39:43,839
but it needs a patience
that none of us have ever seen.

552
00:39:44,014 --> 00:39:45,879
You can order food
in the colored section,

553
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:48,075
but I'm not gonna be
serving you here.

554
00:39:48,252 --> 00:39:51,710
We are organized.
We have a leader with every group.

555
00:39:51,889 --> 00:39:54,414
We have lookouts
with pocket change

556
00:39:54,592 --> 00:39:56,253
and the local phone numbers
for ambulances ready,

557
00:39:56,427 --> 00:39:59,362
and when one wave comes
off that lunch counter, what follows?

558
00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:01,191
A whole 'nother wave of Negro students

559
00:40:01,365 --> 00:40:03,299
sitting at that lunch counter,
blowing their mind.

560
00:40:03,501 --> 00:40:05,765
We would like
to be served, please.

561
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,034
Now, who wants to role-play?

562
00:40:12,209 --> 00:40:14,507
Jim, I need your help over here.

563
00:40:14,678 --> 00:40:16,509
Now, y'all know you're
not supposed to sit there.

564
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,444
- Attack.
- Get up, nigger! Get up!

565
00:40:19,617 --> 00:40:21,050
This is an experiment.

566
00:40:21,218 --> 00:40:23,379
So do whatever it takes
to break their spirits.

567
00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:25,647
- Come on, get up, nigger.
- Use the language.

568
00:40:25,823 --> 00:40:27,120
I need to hear "nigger" coming
out of your mouth.

569
00:40:27,291 --> 00:40:29,020
- I need to hear "coon. "
- I don't feel comfortable saying that.

570
00:40:29,193 --> 00:40:31,787
You came here to get yourself prepared
and to get her prepared.

571
00:40:31,962 --> 00:40:33,896
So let me hear it now.

572
00:40:35,032 --> 00:40:37,227
- Nigger.
- Louder.

573
00:40:37,401 --> 00:40:38,959
Say the words like you mean it.

574
00:40:39,136 --> 00:40:40,933
- Nigger.
- Louder.

575
00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:42,231
You are a nigger!

576
00:40:43,407 --> 00:40:46,035
You need to be sitting
in the colored seating.

577
00:40:46,210 --> 00:40:48,144
This is not for you,
you cannot be served here.

578
00:40:48,312 --> 00:40:50,439
You need to do as you're told
and sit in your place.

579
00:40:50,614 --> 00:40:52,605
- You are a nigger.
- Make her believe it.

580
00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:54,307
- I don't believe you.
- You're a nigger.

581
00:40:54,485 --> 00:40:55,611
You know that's where
the colored people sit.

582
00:40:55,786 --> 00:40:59,187
You see these people over here?
They're in their section over here.

583
00:40:59,390 --> 00:41:02,757
You coon ass!
Get up, you nigger!

584
00:41:02,927 --> 00:41:06,055
If you want us to shop
in this establishment, make them go.

585
00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:07,925
Come on, Robert, let's go.

586
00:41:24,582 --> 00:41:26,413
Nigger lover, get out!

587
00:41:26,584 --> 00:41:28,609
- Get up, monkey. Get up!
- What is this?

588
00:41:28,786 --> 00:41:31,619
Are you listening to us?

589
00:41:31,789 --> 00:41:34,280
This says "whites only. "

590
00:41:34,458 --> 00:41:36,926
Get up, nigger. Get up!

591
00:41:41,365 --> 00:41:43,333
- Coons here?
- What are you doing here?

592
00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:44,832
- Does it say "coons?"
- "Whites only. "

593
00:41:47,404 --> 00:41:50,168
You don't belong here with them.
This? What is this, huh?

594
00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:52,775
- Does it say "coons" here, huh?
- What are you doing here?

595
00:41:52,943 --> 00:41:55,468
- Pay attention.
- No, this is whites only.

596
00:41:56,213 --> 00:41:58,147
You don't belong here at all.

597
00:41:58,849 --> 00:42:00,874
What are you reading?
I didn't know niggers could read.

598
00:42:01,051 --> 00:42:02,609
What are you, stupid?
You're a nigger lover now?

599
00:42:02,753 --> 00:42:04,687
Get up, you nigger!
Look at me!

600
00:42:04,855 --> 00:42:06,846
- Look at me!
- What are you doing?

601
00:42:07,024 --> 00:42:10,016
You disrespectful monkey. Huh?

602
00:42:10,194 --> 00:42:12,094
Do you understand?
You understand?

603
00:42:12,296 --> 00:42:13,661
Stop it! Stop it!

604
00:42:13,831 --> 00:42:16,129
What do you thin
you're doing here?

605
00:42:18,235 --> 00:42:21,568
Get up! Get up, you nigger!
Look at me! Look at me!

606
00:42:21,739 --> 00:42:23,707
That up there or is that here?

607
00:42:27,177 --> 00:42:28,439
You don't have to tell me,

608
00:42:28,646 --> 00:42:30,511
- but you have to decide.
- I was a nigger.

609
00:42:42,927 --> 00:42:45,725
- Go back to where you came from!
- Here, you want some coffee?

610
00:43:07,017 --> 00:43:08,712
...the niggers are better
off in their own schools

611
00:43:08,886 --> 00:43:10,217
than they are in the white schools.

612
00:43:10,387 --> 00:43:12,855
- To serving our country.
- Serving our country.

613
00:43:13,023 --> 00:43:14,251
My man.

614
00:43:22,232 --> 00:43:26,669
I feel rich right now.
I like the way that tastes.

615
00:43:47,524 --> 00:43:49,151
They got no business out here.

616
00:43:49,326 --> 00:43:50,759
...better off in their
own schools than they are

617
00:43:50,928 --> 00:43:52,418
in the white schools.

618
00:43:57,334 --> 00:43:58,995
You're all sentenced to 30 days

619
00:43:59,169 --> 00:44:00,602
- in the county jail.
- What?

620
00:44:00,771 --> 00:44:03,433
Bailiff, get these
niggers out of here.

621
00:44:25,929 --> 00:44:28,864
Something special is going
on down here, Dad.

622
00:44:32,036 --> 00:44:35,267
What's so special about
another colored man in jail?

623
00:44:37,174 --> 00:44:40,666
What you doing
with my hard earned money, Pop?

624
00:44:40,844 --> 00:44:42,038
Are you even in school?

625
00:44:42,212 --> 00:44:43,474
I'm trying to change
the way Negroes...

626
00:44:43,647 --> 00:44:45,205
You're breaking the law.

627
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:49,683
That judge just sentenced you
to 30 days in the county workhouse.

628
00:44:49,853 --> 00:44:51,582
You fixing to get killed.

629
00:44:51,755 --> 00:44:53,188
If I can't sit at any
lunch counter I want,

630
00:44:53,357 --> 00:44:54,984
then I might as well be dead.

631
00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:57,127
- We're fighting for our rights.
- Rights?

632
00:44:57,294 --> 00:44:58,522
- What are you talking about?
- We're trying to change

633
00:44:58,696 --> 00:45:00,061
the nation's consciousness
toward the American Negro.

634
00:45:00,230 --> 00:45:01,492
Them postcards you've
been sending me?

635
00:45:01,665 --> 00:45:03,530
- You're a damn liar.
- I have been in school.

636
00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:08,504
Who do you think you're talking to?

637
00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:10,867
I brought you into this world,
I can take you out of it.

638
00:45:43,941 --> 00:45:47,342
- Y'all been able to talk to him?
- Talk to who?

639
00:45:47,478 --> 00:45:50,447
- Louis.
- Yeah, we talk to him.

640
00:45:51,615 --> 00:45:54,106
Said he's joined something
called the "Freedom Riders,"

641
00:45:54,284 --> 00:45:56,809
whatever the hell
that's supposed to mean.

642
00:45:56,987 --> 00:45:58,386
You gonna see him?

643
00:45:58,555 --> 00:46:00,546
I been fixing to trying to see him.

644
00:46:00,724 --> 00:46:02,851
Every time I do,
Cecil get all riled up.

645
00:46:02,993 --> 00:46:04,961
So I don't know when
that's gonna happen.

646
00:46:05,129 --> 00:46:07,461
"Fixing to trying. "
See, that's the problem.

647
00:46:07,631 --> 00:46:10,566
You got to stop trying,
and you just got to do it.

648
00:46:10,734 --> 00:46:12,759
He take you to the
White House yet?

649
00:46:14,404 --> 00:46:17,066
No. Cecil say we're going soon.

650
00:46:17,241 --> 00:46:19,801
"Cecil say, Cecil say. "

651
00:46:19,977 --> 00:46:23,606
Four years. That's what makes
you a little bit gullible, darling.

652
00:46:23,781 --> 00:46:25,908
I don't understand.
I don't understand why he can't

653
00:46:26,083 --> 00:46:28,381
- get the president to do something.
- See, Gina, that's your problem.

654
00:46:28,519 --> 00:46:30,749
You just say stupid stuff.

655
00:46:30,921 --> 00:46:35,119
President got more to do than be
thinking about Louis' foolishness.

656
00:46:36,493 --> 00:46:38,961
You know,
why don't you just shut up?

657
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:42,462
It's just a mess.
Be nice.

658
00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:45,602
Who told you you could
tell me to shut up?

659
00:46:45,769 --> 00:46:47,760
- Well... You...
- Go get me a drink.

660
00:46:47,938 --> 00:46:49,462
I want some scotch.

661
00:46:51,208 --> 00:46:56,009
Well, I personally think Louis is
gonna get every one of us killed.

662
00:46:56,180 --> 00:46:58,842
They coming to get us.
They coming to get us.

663
00:46:59,016 --> 00:47:02,349
He crazy like his mama.

664
00:47:02,519 --> 00:47:04,487
I meant it in a good way.

665
00:47:05,856 --> 00:47:09,189
I'm sorry!
I'm sorry.

666
00:47:09,359 --> 00:47:11,259
Get back over here.

667
00:47:11,395 --> 00:47:13,363
Let me get your ass.

668
00:47:13,530 --> 00:47:18,934
I received also a wire from
President Eisenhower, which says...

669
00:47:19,102 --> 00:47:22,128
The president lives
at the White House

670
00:47:22,306 --> 00:47:25,537
until the moment the next one
is sworn in.

671
00:47:25,709 --> 00:47:28,371
So the staff has exactly two hours

672
00:47:28,545 --> 00:47:33,244
during the inauguration ceremony,
to move the old president out

673
00:47:33,417 --> 00:47:35,783
and move the new one in.

674
00:47:35,919 --> 00:47:40,583
They say
this new white boy's smooth.

675
00:47:40,791 --> 00:47:42,952
I just need to get my
butt home to Gloria.

676
00:47:43,093 --> 00:47:45,618
'Cause these hours,
they're killing us.

677
00:47:45,762 --> 00:47:47,354
How's your boy doing, Cecil?

678
00:47:47,531 --> 00:47:50,557
Gentlemen, the president's arriving.

679
00:47:54,538 --> 00:47:56,768
- OK.
- Where shall we start?

680
00:47:56,940 --> 00:47:58,407
I'm not sure.
This end, maybe over there?

681
00:47:58,575 --> 00:48:00,042
- Thank you.
- Right this way, Mr. President.

682
00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:03,008
- Hello, everyone.
- Mr. President.

683
00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:06,274
I am thrilled to be
working with all of you

684
00:48:06,483 --> 00:48:08,178
over the next four years.

685
00:48:08,352 --> 00:48:10,843
Eight years, Jack.

686
00:48:12,089 --> 00:48:13,681
Well, you see who wears
the pants around here.

687
00:48:15,259 --> 00:48:17,887
I'm not gonna remember any
of your names, but I'm gonna try.

688
00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:20,086
Jessie. It's a good thing you're here
'cause I'm gonna forget.

689
00:48:20,264 --> 00:48:23,028
- Thank you. This is Lorraine.
- Pleasure to meet you.

690
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:24,667
- Mr. President.
- How are you, James?

691
00:48:24,801 --> 00:48:25,825
- Carter.
- Pleasure, Mr. President.

692
00:48:26,003 --> 00:48:27,527
- Carter.
- This is Cecil.

693
00:48:27,704 --> 00:48:29,171
- Pleasure to meet you, Mr. President.
- How are you?

694
00:48:29,339 --> 00:48:30,499
- William.
- Mrs. Kennedy.

695
00:48:30,641 --> 00:48:32,575
- Greg.
- How are you?

696
00:48:32,743 --> 00:48:33,903
Winslow.

697
00:48:34,077 --> 00:48:36,136
I got it. She's all right.

698
00:48:37,281 --> 00:48:39,078
Pleasure to meet you,
Miss Caroline.

699
00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:40,443
- Miles.
- Miles.

700
00:48:41,518 --> 00:48:44,817
What's that on your breath,
Gloria? Stop, OK. Stop.

701
00:48:45,022 --> 00:48:46,683
- What's that?
- Baby, that's gin.

702
00:48:46,823 --> 00:48:49,690
- I can smell it from here.
- It said "Addison's disease. "

703
00:48:49,826 --> 00:48:51,123
Stop. Stop it, will you stop?

704
00:48:51,295 --> 00:48:53,490
Did you take Charlie
to the dentist today?

705
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:59,630
Somebody at the White House
got Addison's disease?

706
00:49:02,439 --> 00:49:05,237
No, I did not take Charlie
to the dentist today.

707
00:49:05,409 --> 00:49:08,207
And what you asking me about it for?
You never home.

708
00:49:08,378 --> 00:49:10,846
Now you gonna act like you gonna
take Charlie to the dentist?

709
00:49:11,014 --> 00:49:13,949
You ain't never here.
I don't know how you gonna take him.

710
00:49:14,117 --> 00:49:16,483
His teeth fall out,
waiting on you to take him.

711
00:49:16,653 --> 00:49:20,919
Just go to bed, Gloria.
I'll take him tomorrow.

712
00:49:21,091 --> 00:49:23,616
How many pairs of shoes
does she have?

713
00:49:26,363 --> 00:49:30,299
I said, how many pairs of shoes
does Mrs. Jackie Kennedy have?

714
00:49:30,467 --> 00:49:32,560
How the hell do I know?

715
00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:39,065
You're in that ol White House
day and night.

716
00:49:39,242 --> 00:49:40,971
Thought you knew everything.

717
00:49:44,848 --> 00:49:46,941
Coming in,
trying to tell me what to do.

718
00:49:47,117 --> 00:49:49,813
Worried about me drinking.

719
00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:52,353
You ought to be worried
about your house.

720
00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:54,990
Our boy's in jail, Cecil.

721
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:58,924
Our boy's in jail,
and you can't come home.

722
00:50:00,130 --> 00:50:03,258
You... You don't see I'm here,
trying to talk to you?

723
00:50:05,335 --> 00:50:09,829
I bet you wish I spoke French,
just like Jackie.

724
00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:12,475
Jackie Kennedy.

725
00:50:12,642 --> 00:50:15,406
Que sera, sera.

726
00:50:16,813 --> 00:50:19,475
You like that?

727
00:50:19,649 --> 00:50:21,446
You like the way she talk?

728
00:50:22,886 --> 00:50:24,979
Cecil,
you hear me talking to you.

729
00:50:26,056 --> 00:50:27,853
You ain't asleep.

730
00:50:44,574 --> 00:50:46,838
Bobby told the president

731
00:50:47,010 --> 00:50:49,604
they shouldn't be worried about
the Negro sit-ins.

732
00:50:49,813 --> 00:50:53,180
Polls show the US
does not support civil rights.

733
00:50:53,350 --> 00:50:57,081
Told you that white boy was smooth.
A little too smooth for my money.

734
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,926
- Hey, Cecil, how's your boy doing?
- Out of jail, says he's back in school,

735
00:51:07,097 --> 00:51:09,258
but I think he's doing
that freedom riding thing.

736
00:51:09,433 --> 00:51:11,731
How's Gloria doing
with that drinking?

737
00:51:13,203 --> 00:51:14,761
She's hanging.

738
00:51:18,108 --> 00:51:21,100
They say that cat
that's playing is a big deal.

739
00:51:21,278 --> 00:51:25,078
- Pablo Casals, world famous.
- Course he's world famous.

740
00:51:25,248 --> 00:51:27,011
You think Mrs. Kennedy
is gonna have, uh...

741
00:51:27,184 --> 00:51:29,448
some backwoods country fiddle
band playing out there for her?

742
00:51:29,619 --> 00:51:30,984
- Man.
- Why don't you start a band?

743
00:51:31,154 --> 00:51:32,746
Maybe you can go out there, too.

744
00:51:32,923 --> 00:51:35,050
You know what, in fact,
let's all start a band.

745
00:51:35,225 --> 00:51:37,022
I'll play the bongos.
What about you?

746
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,458
I play a mean... skin flute.

747
00:51:39,629 --> 00:51:43,121
- # Babalu.
- Casals is a righteous soul.

748
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:46,565
He refuses to play in any country
that recognizes Franco's regime.

749
00:51:46,736 --> 00:51:48,601
Who's Franco?

750
00:51:51,074 --> 00:51:52,735
- Forget it, man.
- Huh?

751
00:51:52,909 --> 00:51:55,969
Forget it. You're ignorant.

752
00:52:07,591 --> 00:52:09,491
Carol, are you tired?

753
00:52:09,659 --> 00:52:12,184
You just want me to put my head
on your shoulder.

754
00:52:12,395 --> 00:52:13,589
What wrong with that?

755
00:52:13,763 --> 00:52:14,957
I'm not putting my head
on your shoulder.

756
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:16,121
You can.

757
00:52:19,503 --> 00:52:20,765
Ever been on a freedom bus before?

758
00:52:20,937 --> 00:52:22,234
- No, it's my first time.
- No?

759
00:52:22,405 --> 00:52:24,270
- How's your boyfriend feel about that?
- My boyfriend?

760
00:52:24,441 --> 00:52:28,138
Yeah. I mean,
this must upset him, right?

761
00:52:28,311 --> 00:52:29,972
You being on this bus down here.

762
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,206
- I don't have a boyfriend.
- You don't have a boyfriend?

763
00:52:32,415 --> 00:52:34,440
How do you not
have a boyfriend?

764
00:52:38,989 --> 00:52:40,820
- You want some peanuts?
- No, thank you.

765
00:52:40,991 --> 00:52:43,459
- You like peanuts or...?
- I don't like peanuts.

766
00:52:43,627 --> 00:52:46,255
- I'm too hot to eat.
- Hey, can I have some of those?

767
00:52:46,429 --> 00:52:48,693
- Long bus ride.
- OK.

768
00:52:53,970 --> 00:52:56,666
Louis, what is that?

769
00:53:02,913 --> 00:53:06,542
- It's a cross. It's a cross.
- Driver, turn! Turn the bus!

770
00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:11,351
Oh, shit.

771
00:53:18,728 --> 00:53:20,218
Niggers, get out here!

772
00:53:20,397 --> 00:53:23,958
Nigger, go home! Nigger, go home!

773
00:54:14,618 --> 00:54:17,052
Oh, my God.
Everybody out!

774
00:54:26,796 --> 00:54:29,026
"In an old house in Paris

775
00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:32,396
that was covered with vines...

776
00:54:32,569 --> 00:54:37,563
...lived 12 little girls
in two straight lines.

777
00:54:38,575 --> 00:54:42,102
The smallest one
was Madeline. "

778
00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:44,975
- Like Caroline.
- Mm-hm.

779
00:54:45,148 --> 00:54:47,878
"She was not afraid of mice. "

780
00:54:48,051 --> 00:54:51,077
Why do people ride
in the freedom bus?

781
00:54:54,858 --> 00:54:56,723
Uncle Bobby told my daddy

782
00:54:56,860 --> 00:55:00,523
that the freedom bus
exploded today.

783
00:55:05,702 --> 00:55:07,829
I can't tell you if I
walked off the bus

784
00:55:08,004 --> 00:55:11,565
or if I crawled off or if
someone pulled me off.

785
00:55:12,642 --> 00:55:15,440
I didn't know if my boy
was dead or alive.

786
00:55:15,612 --> 00:55:18,342
When I got off the bus,
a man came up to me,

787
00:55:18,515 --> 00:55:20,449
and I'm coughing and strangling,

788
00:55:20,617 --> 00:55:22,312
and he said, "Boy, you all right?"

789
00:55:22,485 --> 00:55:25,818
And I nodded my head,
and the next thing I knew,

790
00:55:25,989 --> 00:55:27,650
I was on the ground.

791
00:55:27,824 --> 00:55:31,624
He had hit me with
a baseball bat.

792
00:55:33,129 --> 00:55:34,528
Hello.

793
00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:37,690
Hi, Dad.
I'm in Mississippi.

794
00:55:39,436 --> 00:55:40,869
I thought you was in Alabama.

795
00:55:41,037 --> 00:55:44,302
We spent two weeks in jail
there, now we're in Mississippi.

796
00:55:44,474 --> 00:55:46,704
I want you to listen
to me, Louis.

797
00:55:46,876 --> 00:55:49,071
I want you to come home.

798
00:55:49,245 --> 00:55:52,043
I know we ain't seen eye to eye,

799
00:55:52,215 --> 00:55:54,410
but your mama,
she wants you home.

800
00:55:57,921 --> 00:56:00,151
- They're keeping me.
- How long?

801
00:56:00,323 --> 00:56:02,052
- Where is he?
- I don't know.

802
00:56:02,225 --> 00:56:03,954
They said three months.

803
00:56:04,094 --> 00:56:06,858
When I get out,
I'm gonna take another ride.

804
00:56:07,030 --> 00:56:09,999
- What are you talking about?
- What's he saying?

805
00:56:10,166 --> 00:56:11,724
Let me talk to him.
Give me that phone.

806
00:56:11,901 --> 00:56:14,665
It is my right to ride that bus.
That is my legal right.

807
00:56:14,838 --> 00:56:18,001
I will exercise my rights
as an American citizen.

808
00:56:18,174 --> 00:56:21,200
American citizen.
What you talking about?

809
00:56:21,378 --> 00:56:23,107
You know what
they're gonna do to you?

810
00:56:23,279 --> 00:56:25,713
They're gonna lynch you

811
00:56:25,882 --> 00:56:28,817
and then they're gonna throw
your little ass in the river.

812
00:56:29,853 --> 00:56:31,252
They're gonna kill you.

813
00:56:31,421 --> 00:56:34,356
Ma, then they're just
gonna have to kill me.

814
00:56:35,525 --> 00:56:37,083
...Negro and white
in Birmingham

815
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:41,094
have been building up
to scenes with clashes, like this.

816
00:56:41,264 --> 00:56:44,597
The situation was perilously
close to an explosion.

817
00:56:44,768 --> 00:56:47,601
Arrests were made in mass lots.

818
00:56:47,771 --> 00:56:50,205
Everyone charged
with the same offense...

819
00:56:50,373 --> 00:56:52,341
Here you are, Mr. President.

820
00:56:53,877 --> 00:56:55,572
I'll wait for your signature.

821
00:56:55,745 --> 00:56:57,940
City police were
carrying out their pledge

822
00:56:58,114 --> 00:57:00,446
to fill their jails to
capacity if necessary.

823
00:57:00,617 --> 00:57:03,051
They are acting
according to the wishes...

824
00:57:03,219 --> 00:57:05,449
I don't know what country
I'm looking at.

825
00:57:07,724 --> 00:57:10,284
...tone of the city for many years.

826
00:57:26,376 --> 00:57:28,207
Get off! Get off!

827
00:57:34,384 --> 00:57:36,181
Residents here have
taken to the streets

828
00:57:36,386 --> 00:57:38,684
in Birmingham, Alabama,
to bring attention to their efforts

829
00:57:38,888 --> 00:57:41,584
against the segregation
of black Americans.

830
00:57:41,758 --> 00:57:45,785
This is following earlier boycotts
in Birmingham to pressure...

831
00:57:45,962 --> 00:57:49,329
Hey, Louis, man, that little
nigga might be onto something.

832
00:57:52,669 --> 00:57:55,900
Stop calling him a nigga,
'cause he ain't no nigga.

833
00:57:56,072 --> 00:57:57,835
What's wrong, baby?

834
00:57:58,007 --> 00:58:02,171
- What's wrong with me is this.
- What are you talking about?

835
00:58:02,345 --> 00:58:06,179
This is what's wrong with me.
This is wrong. This is wrong.

836
00:58:06,349 --> 00:58:09,580
- We ain't been wrong yet.
- I can't do this to Cecil.

837
00:58:09,752 --> 00:58:12,312
We ain't doing it to Cecil.
I'm doing it to you.

838
00:58:12,489 --> 00:58:15,014
I want you out of my house.

839
00:58:16,192 --> 00:58:19,184
Why do you think God brought us
next to each other each day?

840
00:58:19,362 --> 00:58:22,195
- God ain't got nothing to do with this.
- He put you right next door to me.

841
00:58:22,365 --> 00:58:24,833
You always talking about how
lonely you are without Cecil

842
00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:27,333
being at the White House,
and you need a man that can

843
00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:30,769
appreciate the love and the
woman that you are, like I do.

844
00:58:30,940 --> 00:58:33,500
I want your number-running
ass up out of my house,

845
00:58:33,676 --> 00:58:36,338
off of my sofa right now.

846
00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:39,705
I'm... I'm through.
I told you.

847
00:58:39,883 --> 00:58:41,373
Let me make
a demonstration for you.

848
00:58:41,551 --> 00:58:43,485
Don't come here with
this bullshit crazy talk.

849
00:58:43,653 --> 00:58:45,348
- It's not.
- Some more of this...

850
00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:47,854
This is you, right? You got
your direction that you move in.

851
00:58:48,024 --> 00:58:52,552
- What you doing with my hangers?
- This is you, and this is me.

852
00:58:52,729 --> 00:58:56,028
Now, we seem like we don't fit at all.
We just crash into each other.

853
00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:59,635
But then when
you align things properly,

854
00:58:59,802 --> 00:59:01,667
like God putting you
next door to me,

855
00:59:01,838 --> 00:59:05,103
everything kind of works out.

856
00:59:05,275 --> 00:59:09,143
And even if you slow down,
I got you.

857
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,805
You need to get your yellow
ass up out of my house.

858
00:59:12,982 --> 00:59:15,678
- We need each other.
- What I need is my husband.

859
00:59:15,852 --> 00:59:18,548
And not to be laying up here
in the gutter with you.

860
00:59:30,433 --> 00:59:33,402
On average, how many pills do
you think I take a day, Cecil?

861
00:59:34,904 --> 00:59:38,135
About... 103, sir.

862
00:59:41,544 --> 00:59:44,775
- Help me up.
- Mr. President.

863
00:59:51,621 --> 00:59:54,385
I know your son is a Freedom Rider.

864
00:59:57,126 --> 01:00:00,755
He's in prison right now in Birmingham
with Martin Luther King.

865
01:00:07,236 --> 01:00:09,101
Do you, uh...

866
01:00:10,406 --> 01:00:12,374
...you know how he is, sir?

867
01:00:12,542 --> 01:00:16,945
I'm guessing he's pretty beat up,
but based on his record,

868
01:00:17,113 --> 01:00:19,047
he must be used to it.

869
01:00:21,784 --> 01:00:25,151
Cecil, he's been arrested 16 times
over the past two years.

870
01:00:27,890 --> 01:00:29,585
Yes, sir.

871
01:00:34,130 --> 01:00:37,099
- Will that be all, sir?
- That's it.

872
01:00:40,536 --> 01:00:42,629
You know, I never understood

873
01:00:42,805 --> 01:00:44,670
what you all really went through...

874
01:00:46,275 --> 01:00:48,505
...until I saw that.

875
01:00:51,881 --> 01:00:53,781
My brother says these kids have...

876
01:00:56,152 --> 01:00:57,813
...changed his heart.

877
01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:05,620
They've changed mine, too.

878
01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:13,367
The fires of discord are burning
in every city North and South,

879
01:01:13,536 --> 01:01:16,266
where legal remedies
are not at hand.

880
01:01:16,406 --> 01:01:17,873
Redress is sought in the streets,

881
01:01:18,041 --> 01:01:21,670
in demonstrations,
parades and protests.

882
01:01:21,844 --> 01:01:24,074
I am therefore
asking the Congress

883
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,145
to enact legislation

884
01:01:26,315 --> 01:01:29,182
giving all Americans the right
to be served in facilities

885
01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:30,683
which are open to the public.

886
01:01:30,853 --> 01:01:33,583
Hotels, restaurants, theaters,

887
01:01:33,756 --> 01:01:36,748
retail stores
and similar establishments.

888
01:01:36,926 --> 01:01:40,191
This seems to me to be
an elementary right.

889
01:01:40,363 --> 01:01:42,661
Its denial is
an arbitrary indignity

890
01:01:42,832 --> 01:01:47,166
that no American in 1963
should have to endure, but many do.

891
01:01:47,336 --> 01:01:49,827
A great change is at hand.

892
01:01:50,006 --> 01:01:54,238
And our task, our obligation,
is to make that revolution,

893
01:01:54,410 --> 01:01:59,313
that change,
peaceful and constructive for all.

894
01:01:59,482 --> 01:02:03,578
Those who do nothing are
inviting shame as well as violence...

895
01:02:25,241 --> 01:02:30,235
Hey. Hey, Cecil.
Cecil, what's wrong?

896
01:02:33,049 --> 01:02:34,914
Cecil?

897
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:39,312
Cecil?

898
01:02:40,857 --> 01:02:42,586
They blew his...

899
01:02:43,726 --> 01:02:45,626
...head off.

900
01:02:49,098 --> 01:02:52,465
- Who are you talking about?
- Kennedy.

901
01:02:59,041 --> 01:03:01,168
President Kennedy was shot

902
01:03:01,344 --> 01:03:03,904
as he drove from Dallas airport
to downtown Dallas...

903
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:05,138
They killed him.

904
01:03:05,314 --> 01:03:08,681
Governor Connally of Texas
in the car with him was also shot.

905
01:03:08,851 --> 01:03:11,342
It is reported that
three bullets rang out.

906
01:03:11,554 --> 01:03:13,579
A Secret Serviceman has been...

907
01:03:13,756 --> 01:03:16,224
They killed our man.

908
01:03:16,359 --> 01:03:19,419
"He's dead. " Whether he referred
to President Kennedy or not

909
01:03:19,595 --> 01:03:21,290
is not yet known.

910
01:03:21,464 --> 01:03:24,763
The president, cradled in the
arms of his wife, Mrs. Kennedy,

911
01:03:24,934 --> 01:03:27,459
was carried to an ambulance
and the car rushed

912
01:03:27,637 --> 01:03:29,502
to Parkland Hospital outside Dallas...

913
01:03:29,672 --> 01:03:33,335
Mrs. Kennedy refused
to change her clothes,

914
01:03:33,509 --> 01:03:38,003
so that everybody could see
what they did to her husband.

915
01:03:45,855 --> 01:03:48,949
The last time
I saw that much blood

916
01:03:49,125 --> 01:03:52,026
was the day my daddy was killed.

917
01:04:00,636 --> 01:04:03,434
Please tell me how I could help you.

918
01:04:41,177 --> 01:04:43,202
Ma, what you doing?

919
01:04:44,714 --> 01:04:48,343
Here. Want you to take this box
and put it in the basement.

920
01:04:48,517 --> 01:04:50,678
- Make sure you label it "trophies. "
- This is Louis' stuff, Ma.

921
01:04:50,853 --> 01:04:52,343
You know he gonna be pissed.

922
01:04:52,521 --> 01:04:54,216
I don't care nothing about
Louis being pissed.

923
01:04:54,390 --> 01:04:56,517
I'm the one pissed.
He ain't been here in three years.

924
01:04:56,692 --> 01:04:58,216
Why you pissed, Mama?

925
01:04:58,394 --> 01:05:00,055
And don't put that next
to my jarred okra either.

926
01:05:00,229 --> 01:05:01,856
Ain't nobody trying to smell
that stankin' okra.

927
01:05:02,031 --> 01:05:03,931
And when you come back, I want
you to get me some fish food.

928
01:05:22,852 --> 01:05:25,548
Look what the president...

929
01:05:25,721 --> 01:05:27,382
...Mrs. Kennedy gave me.

930
01:05:27,556 --> 01:05:29,717
Belonged to the president.

931
01:05:32,595 --> 01:05:34,222
Gloria...

932
01:05:35,398 --> 01:05:36,956
President was killed.

933
01:05:38,634 --> 01:05:40,864
I'm really sorry about the president.

934
01:05:41,737 --> 01:05:43,602
I really am.

935
01:05:43,773 --> 01:05:46,105
But you and that White House
can kiss my ass.

936
01:05:46,275 --> 01:05:48,004
I don't care what
goes on in that house.

937
01:05:48,210 --> 01:05:50,235
I care about what goes on in this house.

938
01:06:28,784 --> 01:06:33,983
I knew that Gloria had been
unhappy for some time now.

939
01:06:35,157 --> 01:06:37,853
I knew that's probably
why she drank.

940
01:06:39,362 --> 01:06:42,388
She wanted me to get along
better with Louis.

941
01:06:43,966 --> 01:06:46,127
I didn't know how.

942
01:06:46,302 --> 01:06:47,826
I couldn't.

943
01:06:48,838 --> 01:06:52,968
I could cut back them
long hours at the White House.

944
01:06:53,142 --> 01:06:55,372
And I did just that.

945
01:06:55,544 --> 01:06:57,637
How many pairs of shoes she got?

946
01:06:57,813 --> 01:07:00,680
She got about... 125.

947
01:07:00,850 --> 01:07:03,341
- A hundred twenty-five pairs of shoes?
- Yeah.

948
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:08,218
Put them in a line from the blacks
all the way to the whites.

949
01:07:08,591 --> 01:07:12,186
And I'll tell you what. Next time
there's a light on in an empty room,

950
01:07:12,361 --> 01:07:15,353
I will fire every sorry son of a bitch
in this house. I mean it, Cecil!

951
01:07:15,531 --> 01:07:18,659
Go back to Texas and run the country
from a dirt shack if I have to.

952
01:07:18,834 --> 01:07:20,199
Is that what you want?

953
01:07:20,369 --> 01:07:21,927
Who do you think pays the
goddamned bills around here?

954
01:07:22,104 --> 01:07:23,435
I don't, but you
know what I mean.

955
01:07:23,639 --> 01:07:24,901
Yes, sir.

956
01:07:26,075 --> 01:07:28,805
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot.

957
01:07:28,978 --> 01:07:32,038
Lady Bird and I want you to have this.

958
01:07:32,214 --> 01:07:35,513
- Matches your eyes.
- Thank you, sir.

959
01:07:38,421 --> 01:07:40,514
- Get it, Gloria.
- Do it, baby.

960
01:07:40,689 --> 01:07:43,089
Swim it! Go ahead, Gloria.

961
01:07:43,259 --> 01:07:47,389
- I see you, baby.
- You see me, babe? Put it on.

962
01:07:50,833 --> 01:07:52,528
Get it, Gloria.

963
01:07:52,701 --> 01:07:55,431
- Now that's what I'm talking about.
- Get it, girl! Shake it out! Get it!

964
01:07:59,942 --> 01:08:02,206
Negro! Get out here.

965
01:08:02,378 --> 01:08:03,970
Back there stinking up
my bathroom.

966
01:08:04,146 --> 01:08:05,773
- Oh, Lord.
- Oh, Lord.

967
01:08:05,948 --> 01:08:07,245
What you doing?

968
01:08:07,416 --> 01:08:09,384
Hey! Whoo!

969
01:08:09,552 --> 01:08:11,645
What?

970
01:08:11,854 --> 01:08:13,082
Get you some!

971
01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:17,222
- You know.
- That's your friend.

972
01:08:19,028 --> 01:08:21,462
Give me my wig!
What's wrong with you?!

973
01:08:21,630 --> 01:08:24,394
- This my good wig!
- Oh, shit!

974
01:08:24,567 --> 01:08:27,229
- Sit down.
- We got the spades up.

975
01:08:27,403 --> 01:08:28,870
Brother just handling his business.

976
01:08:29,038 --> 01:08:30,665
He can still do the splits,
I'll tell you.

977
01:08:30,873 --> 01:08:33,068
James told me
that Dr. King told the president

978
01:08:33,242 --> 01:08:36,268
that we would be going to the streets
down South for our right to vote.

979
01:08:36,445 --> 01:08:38,140
- Didn't you, baby?
- What?

980
01:08:38,314 --> 01:08:40,339
Didn't you tell me
that Dr. King told the president

981
01:08:40,549 --> 01:08:42,574
that we was going down South
for our right to vote?

982
01:08:42,751 --> 01:08:45,276
- I ain't make that up.
- Is that what you heard?

983
01:08:45,454 --> 01:08:47,581
That Dr. King ain't no joke,
with his little militant ass.

984
01:08:47,756 --> 01:08:50,020
- She talking too damned much.
- Well, sound like somebody talking.

985
01:08:50,159 --> 01:08:51,091
Shut up.

986
01:08:51,427 --> 01:08:53,895
- Leave my bird alone.
- Well, you know them three kids

987
01:08:54,063 --> 01:08:56,793
got killed down there, trying to get
colored folks registered to vote.

988
01:08:56,966 --> 01:08:58,297
That's why I didn't want
Louis to go down there.

989
01:08:58,467 --> 01:08:59,866
That's what I was
trying to tell you.

990
01:09:00,069 --> 01:09:01,400
You shouldn't have
sent him down there.

991
01:09:01,537 --> 01:09:03,596
- I know.
- He is down there now,

992
01:09:03,772 --> 01:09:05,637
and there ain't nothing
we can do about it.

993
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:07,332
The only reason
the president sent the FBl

994
01:09:07,510 --> 01:09:08,738
is 'cause two of them were white.

995
01:09:08,878 --> 01:09:11,779
- Now who told you that?
- Yeah, who told her that?

996
01:09:11,947 --> 01:09:15,610
It was in one of them colored newspapers
from Baltimore. That all right with you?

997
01:09:15,784 --> 01:09:18,116
See, she getting smart now.

998
01:09:18,287 --> 01:09:20,380
Honey, you think the president
ought to do something

999
01:09:20,589 --> 01:09:22,989
- about the Voting Rights bill?
- That ain't the trump.

1000
01:09:23,159 --> 01:09:24,649
President Johnson
just passed the greatest piece

1001
01:09:24,827 --> 01:09:27,819
of civil rights legislation
since Lincoln freed the slaves.

1002
01:09:27,997 --> 01:09:30,465
It's gonna be very difficult to
pass another bill anytime soon.

1003
01:09:30,633 --> 01:09:32,828
- That's it.
- You see how my wife quizzes me?

1004
01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:35,971
- I get it every day.
- Only, you got to know

1005
01:09:36,138 --> 01:09:38,163
how much to say,
when you cross the line.

1006
01:09:38,340 --> 01:09:39,864
You deal with your woman,
I'll deal with mine.

1007
01:09:40,042 --> 01:09:42,101
At least you tell your wife
what's going on over there.

1008
01:09:42,244 --> 01:09:43,677
- Aces!
- Damn!

1009
01:09:43,846 --> 01:09:45,973
Can't be a king
in your own castle.

1010
01:09:46,148 --> 01:09:48,139
You hit the strip joint,
that's what I say.

1011
01:09:48,317 --> 01:09:51,844
Hey, uh, Glo. Did you hear about
your neighbor, Howard?

1012
01:09:54,089 --> 01:09:58,890
Guy down on 8th Street,
caught him in bed with his wife.

1013
01:09:59,061 --> 01:10:00,528
Shot him dead.

1014
01:10:00,696 --> 01:10:03,859
- Shot him in the back.
- That's it. That's all of it.

1015
01:10:04,033 --> 01:10:08,129
I don't know, maybe he got
what he deserved.

1016
01:10:09,471 --> 01:10:11,371
You sorry sap asses
got to realize

1017
01:10:11,540 --> 01:10:13,474
the Negro ain't gonna take it no more.

1018
01:10:13,642 --> 01:10:15,473
This entire country is a tinderbox.

1019
01:10:15,611 --> 01:10:19,047
Goddamn tinderbox of nigger rage
just waiting to explode!

1020
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:21,342
Now, I want you all
to get on the phone,

1021
01:10:21,517 --> 01:10:23,712
call the NAACP, CORE
and whoever else

1022
01:10:23,886 --> 01:10:25,376
will listen to your sorry asses

1023
01:10:25,554 --> 01:10:27,749
and help me keep them Negroes
off the street.

1024
01:10:27,923 --> 01:10:31,017
Buck, I smell your ass from here!
What the hell are you waiting for?!

1025
01:10:31,193 --> 01:10:34,094
Jesus Christ.

1026
01:10:34,263 --> 01:10:36,959
Cecil, get me some of
that goddamned prune juice.

1027
01:10:43,105 --> 01:10:46,040
I'm not sure what to make
of Malcolm X.

1028
01:10:46,208 --> 01:10:47,698
I know what to make of him.

1029
01:10:47,876 --> 01:10:49,867
Got a better plan
in place than Dr. King.

1030
01:10:50,045 --> 01:10:53,242
If someone puts their hands on
you, put them in the cemetery.

1031
01:10:53,415 --> 01:10:56,543
- That a better plan?
- Ooh, We fixin' to go.

1032
01:10:56,719 --> 01:10:57,981
Bye, Claramay.

1033
01:10:58,187 --> 01:11:00,087
- Good night.
- Good night.

1034
01:11:01,724 --> 01:11:03,487
I mean...

1035
01:11:05,928 --> 01:11:08,829
You just mad 'cause he was
talking about your daddy.

1036
01:11:09,031 --> 01:11:10,931
What?

1037
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,091
He was saying all that
stuff about house Negroes.

1038
01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:15,203
I saw you get mad.

1039
01:11:15,371 --> 01:11:17,601
My dad is not a house Negro.

1040
01:11:21,443 --> 01:11:24,310
- He a butler, ain't he?
- Don't talk about my dad.

1041
01:11:24,480 --> 01:11:26,880
I don't talk about your dad,
all right?

1042
01:11:27,016 --> 01:11:28,847
That's 'cause my daddy's
proud of what I'm doing.

1043
01:11:42,765 --> 01:11:44,562
You all right?

1044
01:12:27,142 --> 01:12:31,579
Everybody went to church to raise
money for the kids down in Selma.

1045
01:12:32,414 --> 01:12:36,908
But I didn't go. I wasn't gonna give
money to pay for my son to be killed.

1046
01:12:44,393 --> 01:12:48,124
Once again, them kids got beat.

1047
01:12:48,263 --> 01:12:53,223
This one was so bad that the press
called it "Bloody Sunday. "

1048
01:12:53,402 --> 01:12:55,302
They barely left Selma.

1049
01:12:55,471 --> 01:12:58,065
They marched in small groups
through the city of Selma

1050
01:12:58,240 --> 01:12:59,969
- and were not stopped...
- ... mortars and rockets...

1051
01:13:00,142 --> 01:13:02,133
...can pound Con Thien
around the clock

1052
01:13:02,311 --> 01:13:03,938
with devastating effect.

1053
01:13:04,113 --> 01:13:05,774
And our ground troops
cannot go into...

1054
01:13:05,948 --> 01:13:07,711
...it was a different story.

1055
01:13:07,883 --> 01:13:10,545
Mounted sheriff's deputies
helped to break up the column.

1056
01:13:10,719 --> 01:13:12,414
Once the line was broken...

1057
01:13:12,588 --> 01:13:15,022
How are your boys, Cecil?

1058
01:13:22,798 --> 01:13:27,235
I don't know how my oldest is,
Mr. President.

1059
01:13:27,403 --> 01:13:29,667
I believe he might
be in Selma.

1060
01:13:29,838 --> 01:13:32,272
And, you know,
sometime I feel like

1061
01:13:32,441 --> 01:13:34,705
we're living in
two different worlds.

1062
01:13:36,979 --> 01:13:39,072
Just want to keep him safe.

1063
01:13:40,416 --> 01:13:43,112
...marchers were
treated for tear gas burns,

1064
01:13:43,285 --> 01:13:44,809
open wounds and broken bones.

1065
01:13:45,020 --> 01:13:46,419
One hospital treated...

1066
01:13:46,588 --> 01:13:52,288
Every American citizen must
have an equal right to vote.

1067
01:13:52,461 --> 01:13:56,795
Yet the harsh fact is that
in many places in this country,

1068
01:13:56,965 --> 01:14:01,334
men and women
are kept from voting

1069
01:14:01,537 --> 01:14:04,062
simply because they are Negroes.

1070
01:14:04,239 --> 01:14:05,934
"Negroes?"

1071
01:14:06,108 --> 01:14:08,576
Since when did he start
calling us Negroes?

1072
01:14:09,645 --> 01:14:11,579
That nigger uses the word
"nigger" more than I use it.

1073
01:14:12,915 --> 01:14:15,509
But really it's all of us...

1074
01:14:15,684 --> 01:14:20,678
...who must overcome
the crippling legacy

1075
01:14:20,856 --> 01:14:23,848
of bigotry and injustice.

1076
01:14:24,059 --> 01:14:26,584
And we shall overcome.

1077
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,529
First, a barrage of cover fire,

1078
01:14:33,735 --> 01:14:35,600
and then a charge across the street.

1079
01:14:35,771 --> 01:14:38,331
The Marines moved out from
the fortified Army compound

1080
01:14:38,507 --> 01:14:40,134
blitzed by the original attack.

1081
01:14:40,309 --> 01:14:42,038
Hey, hey, LBJ!

1082
01:14:42,244 --> 01:14:44,439
How many kids
did you kill today?!

1083
01:14:44,613 --> 01:14:46,638
Hey, hey, LBJ!

1084
01:14:46,815 --> 01:14:48,544
How many kids
did you kill today?!

1085
01:14:48,717 --> 01:14:50,207
...the ancient imperial city.

1086
01:14:50,385 --> 01:14:53,650
It is to Vietnamese
what old Boston is to Americans,

1087
01:14:53,822 --> 01:14:56,655
where many of its country's
leaders are born or educated.

1088
01:14:56,825 --> 01:14:59,692
I wish they'd shut up.

1089
01:14:59,862 --> 01:15:02,990
The first sniper shots ricochet
around the thick walls of the building,

1090
01:15:03,165 --> 01:15:06,862
taking the first casualties
of the first squad.

1091
01:15:07,202 --> 01:15:08,999
The snipers may be
only two or three,

1092
01:15:09,571 --> 01:15:11,766
invisible to the buildings
beyond the wall.

1093
01:15:11,940 --> 01:15:14,306
But there is also a machine gun
down the street to the left.

1094
01:15:14,476 --> 01:15:18,913
Dr. King, you might want to
lie down with that fever.

1095
01:15:19,848 --> 01:15:24,410
President Johnson is making
a tragic error in Vietnam.

1096
01:15:24,620 --> 01:15:27,248
Move over, big yellow.

1097
01:15:27,422 --> 01:15:29,515
Why shouldn't we fight in Vietnam?

1098
01:15:29,691 --> 01:15:31,784
The Vietcong don't call us
"niggers" for one.

1099
01:15:35,063 --> 01:15:38,521
Seriously, how many of
your parents support the war?

1100
01:15:39,868 --> 01:15:44,328
Well, my Lord.
Why do your parents support it?

1101
01:15:45,474 --> 01:15:48,602
We haven't spoken about it specifically,
I just know they do.

1102
01:15:48,777 --> 01:15:51,905
Well, what do your daddy do?

1103
01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:55,277
He's a butler.

1104
01:15:55,450 --> 01:15:58,613
The black domestic play an
important role in our history.

1105
01:15:58,787 --> 01:16:00,880
I didn't tell you that
to make fun of me.

1106
01:16:01,056 --> 01:16:04,753
Young brother, the black
domestic defy racial stereotypes

1107
01:16:04,927 --> 01:16:08,192
by being hardworking and trustworthy.

1108
01:16:14,102 --> 01:16:16,002
He slowly tears down racial hatred

1109
01:16:16,138 --> 01:16:22,134
with his example of a strong work ethic
and dignified character.

1110
01:16:25,380 --> 01:16:29,316
Now, while we perceive the butler
or the maid to be subservient,

1111
01:16:29,484 --> 01:16:33,944
in many ways, they are subversive,
without even knowing it.

1112
01:16:37,025 --> 01:16:40,552
- Come in, Cecil.
- Afternoon, Mr. Warner.

1113
01:16:45,100 --> 01:16:46,897
Thank you for seeing me.

1114
01:17:01,883 --> 01:17:04,249
Since the colored...

1115
01:17:04,419 --> 01:17:06,444
...the black staff

1116
01:17:06,622 --> 01:17:10,023
does just as much work
as the white staff,

1117
01:17:10,225 --> 01:17:14,559
I believe that our salaries
should reflect our service, sir.

1118
01:17:16,465 --> 01:17:18,092
"Black" staff?

1119
01:17:19,401 --> 01:17:22,962
I also feel
that we should have...

1120
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:28,936
...opportunities of advancement.

1121
01:17:29,111 --> 01:17:31,671
No black houseman

1122
01:17:31,847 --> 01:17:35,783
has ever been promoted
to the engineer's office.

1123
01:17:38,086 --> 01:17:40,816
You're very well liked here, Cecil.

1124
01:17:40,989 --> 01:17:42,980
But if you're unhappy
with your salary or position,

1125
01:17:43,158 --> 01:17:45,353
then I suggest you seek
employment elsewhere.

1126
01:17:45,527 --> 01:17:47,518
- With all due respect...
- Don't let that Martin Luther King shit

1127
01:17:47,696 --> 01:17:51,860
fill your britches out.
Just remember where I found you.

1128
01:18:00,008 --> 01:18:01,805
Yes, sir.

1129
01:18:08,450 --> 01:18:09,917
Excuse me.

1130
01:18:18,860 --> 01:18:22,057
Dr. Martin Luther King,
the apostle of non-violence

1131
01:18:22,230 --> 01:18:26,064
in the civil rights movement has been
shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

1132
01:18:26,234 --> 01:18:28,498
Police have issued
an All Points Bulletin

1133
01:18:28,670 --> 01:18:31,696
for a well-dressed, young white
man seen running from the scene.

1134
01:18:31,873 --> 01:18:34,671
Officers also reportedly
chased and fired on

1135
01:18:34,843 --> 01:18:37,676
a radio-equipped car
containing two white men.

1136
01:19:04,740 --> 01:19:08,574
I didn't know if I was
gonna get home alive.

1137
01:19:10,278 --> 01:19:14,408
It was the first time I felt like
I didn't belong in my own neighborhood.

1138
01:19:16,051 --> 01:19:17,814
The whole world was changing,

1139
01:19:17,986 --> 01:19:20,580
and I didn't know where I fit in.

1140
01:19:22,257 --> 01:19:24,725
Dr. King has been a buffer
the last two years,

1141
01:19:24,893 --> 01:19:27,123
between the black community
and the white community.

1142
01:19:27,295 --> 01:19:28,592
The white people do not know it,

1143
01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:31,426
but the white people's
best friend is dead.

1144
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,091
The black people's leader, our Moses,

1145
01:19:34,269 --> 01:19:37,466
the once in a four-
or five-hundred year leader,

1146
01:19:37,639 --> 01:19:40,130
has been taken from us
by hatred and bitterness.

1147
01:19:40,308 --> 01:19:42,037
Even as I stand at this hour,

1148
01:19:42,177 --> 01:19:46,614
I cannot even allow hate
to enter my heart at this time,

1149
01:19:46,782 --> 01:19:50,183
for it was sickness,
not meanness, that killed him.

1150
01:20:29,624 --> 01:20:32,821
Ma... my room's pink.

1151
01:20:37,232 --> 01:20:41,293
Make sure you get some more
of my sweet potatoes, Carol.

1152
01:20:41,469 --> 01:20:43,334
I use orange juice
when I make 'em,

1153
01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:45,632
that's what make 'em so... tart.

1154
01:20:47,409 --> 01:20:48,603
How long y'all been dating?

1155
01:20:48,743 --> 01:20:50,176
- Five years.
- We're just friends.

1156
01:20:55,717 --> 01:20:58,208
Is, uh,
all the rest of the students

1157
01:20:58,386 --> 01:21:00,479
are they getting involved
in politics, too?

1158
01:21:05,694 --> 01:21:08,458
There's been a division.
Kind of a split, Ma.

1159
01:21:08,597 --> 01:21:11,998
A few of them,
like John Lewis, they're still...

1160
01:21:12,167 --> 01:21:15,398
- I love John Lewis.
- How you know who John Lewis is?

1161
01:21:15,570 --> 01:21:17,470
'Cause, honey,
I read Jet magazine.

1162
01:21:17,639 --> 01:21:20,540
I'm not just sitting up there
sewing for you all day.

1163
01:21:20,709 --> 01:21:22,336
Ooh.

1164
01:21:22,510 --> 01:21:25,343
I'm sick and tired of getting
thrown in jail.

1165
01:21:26,248 --> 01:21:27,875
Yeah, well, that makes
two of us, don't it?

1166
01:21:29,918 --> 01:21:32,443
Dr. King's philosophy ultimately
got him murdered.

1167
01:21:32,621 --> 01:21:34,680
It worked when we started,

1168
01:21:34,856 --> 01:21:38,883
but... now it's time to take
the next step, which is politics.

1169
01:21:39,060 --> 01:21:40,652
So y'all going
to the White House now?

1170
01:21:40,795 --> 01:21:42,023
Daddy, Louis going
to the White House.

1171
01:21:42,197 --> 01:21:43,562
You know they ain't gonna
let you in there

1172
01:21:43,732 --> 01:21:45,165
with them nipples out.

1173
01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:47,359
Maybe one, but not both of 'em.

1174
01:21:47,535 --> 01:21:50,993
Shut up. Nah, we're...
we're more grass roots.

1175
01:21:51,172 --> 01:21:53,504
One-on-one with the community.

1176
01:21:53,642 --> 01:21:55,735
Although we have started
our own political party.

1177
01:21:55,911 --> 01:21:58,243
What's your party?

1178
01:21:58,413 --> 01:21:59,778
You like to party?

1179
01:21:59,948 --> 01:22:03,714
I like to party.
What's your party called?

1180
01:22:05,620 --> 01:22:07,611
The Black Panther Party.

1181
01:22:07,789 --> 01:22:12,089
What kind of name is that?
What's that stand for?

1182
01:22:12,260 --> 01:22:14,922
We... provide free breakfast
for children,

1183
01:22:15,096 --> 01:22:19,032
free medical clinics, free clothing,
self-defense classes.

1184
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:21,430
And why y'all need self-defense?

1185
01:22:21,603 --> 01:22:23,264
We ain't gettin' beat no more.

1186
01:22:28,610 --> 01:22:30,942
Me and your daddy saw a
wonderful movie the other night.

1187
01:22:31,112 --> 01:22:32,739
Reminded me so much of you.

1188
01:22:32,914 --> 01:22:35,314
Oh, yeah?

1189
01:22:35,483 --> 01:22:37,383
What was the name
of that movie, honey?

1190
01:22:37,519 --> 01:22:39,146
In the Heat of the Night.

1191
01:22:40,322 --> 01:22:46,056
In the Heat... of the Night,
with Sidney Poitier.

1192
01:22:46,194 --> 01:22:48,628
Lord, Sidney Poitier.
I love Sidney Poitier.

1193
01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:52,164
Sidney Poitier's a white man's fantasy
of what he wants us to be.

1194
01:22:52,334 --> 01:22:55,826
But his movies have him
fighting for equal rights.

1195
01:22:56,004 --> 01:22:57,904
Only in a way that's acceptable
to the white status quo.

1196
01:22:58,073 --> 01:23:01,941
- Ah.
- The brother can't act.

1197
01:23:02,110 --> 01:23:03,873
What are you talking about?

1198
01:23:04,079 --> 01:23:05,671
He just won the Academy Award.

1199
01:23:05,847 --> 01:23:07,815
He's breaking down barriers
for all of us.

1200
01:23:07,983 --> 01:23:11,817
By being white.
By acting white.

1201
01:23:11,987 --> 01:23:14,581
Sidney Poitier is nothing but
a rich Uncle Tom.

1202
01:23:17,158 --> 01:23:19,956
Look at you.

1203
01:23:20,128 --> 01:23:22,358
All puffed up.

1204
01:23:22,530 --> 01:23:24,589
With your hat on your head.

1205
01:23:24,766 --> 01:23:27,200
Coming in here,
saying whatever you want.

1206
01:23:27,369 --> 01:23:28,836
Girlfriend belching at the table.

1207
01:23:30,138 --> 01:23:31,537
You don't even feel
you gotta go to school,

1208
01:23:31,706 --> 01:23:33,697
even though I gave you the money.

1209
01:23:35,310 --> 01:23:37,437
You need to go.

1210
01:23:39,748 --> 01:23:43,377
Yeah, Louis.
I need you to get out of my house.

1211
01:23:43,551 --> 01:23:47,180
- What?
- Get the hell out of my house!

1212
01:23:47,355 --> 01:23:48,754
- What are you doing?
- Get on out!

1213
01:23:48,957 --> 01:23:50,686
- He's gotta go!
- No, Cecil, no!

1214
01:23:50,859 --> 01:23:52,656
- I can't take this no more!
- We ain't seen this boy!

1215
01:23:52,827 --> 01:23:54,055
We ain't seen this boy!

1216
01:23:54,229 --> 01:23:55,389
I'm gonna snatch the life
out of you, boy!

1217
01:23:55,563 --> 01:23:56,996
- Now, everybody just sit down.
- I'm sorry, Mr. Butler,

1218
01:23:57,165 --> 01:23:59,531
I didn't mean to make
fun of your hero.

1219
01:24:01,369 --> 01:24:04,702
Everything you are and
everything you have is...

1220
01:24:04,873 --> 01:24:07,103
...'cause of that butler.

1221
01:24:07,308 --> 01:24:10,539
Now you take that trifling
low-class bitch...

1222
01:24:12,580 --> 01:24:14,912
...and get out of this house.

1223
01:24:30,198 --> 01:24:32,132
I like Sidney Poitier, Daddy.

1224
01:24:34,669 --> 01:24:36,660
What's that movie he did?
Look Who's Coming to Dinner?

1225
01:24:36,838 --> 01:24:38,237
Everything ain't a joke.

1226
01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:40,840
- Carol came to dinner.
- Hush, Charlie.

1227
01:24:44,012 --> 01:24:46,640
Police took Louis the next day.

1228
01:24:52,987 --> 01:24:56,081
Y'all gonna make me late for work.

1229
01:24:56,257 --> 01:24:57,724
Unc, I'm sorry.

1230
01:24:57,892 --> 01:24:59,120
Who else I'm supposed to call
to bail him out?

1231
01:24:59,294 --> 01:25:02,923
What they got him in for this time?
Sit up!

1232
01:25:03,098 --> 01:25:06,693
Louis said they
stopped him just because.

1233
01:25:07,869 --> 01:25:09,860
Just because.

1234
01:25:10,939 --> 01:25:13,305
He said he wasn't going
to get beat no more, so...

1235
01:25:13,475 --> 01:25:16,103
...he got out the car
and he hit 'em back.

1236
01:25:16,277 --> 01:25:18,404
What about that little gal of his?

1237
01:25:19,347 --> 01:25:21,747
They put her in the hospital.

1238
01:25:21,916 --> 01:25:23,281
The hospital.

1239
01:25:23,451 --> 01:25:25,248
Charlie.

1240
01:25:25,420 --> 01:25:27,650
This shit's gotta stop, man.

1241
01:25:30,091 --> 01:25:32,059
I'm late for work.

1242
01:25:32,227 --> 01:25:34,127
You tell Louis I'm not his mama.

1243
01:25:34,295 --> 01:25:36,695
I want my money back.

1244
01:25:40,101 --> 01:25:41,966
You all right?

1245
01:25:42,137 --> 01:25:43,627
Yeah, I'm all right.

1246
01:25:44,939 --> 01:25:47,100
Thanks, Uncle Carter.

1247
01:25:47,275 --> 01:25:49,937
You need to take all this Black
Panther shit somewhere else.

1248
01:25:50,111 --> 01:25:52,944
Now, I'm not them.
I want my money back, hear me?

1249
01:25:53,114 --> 01:25:55,412
- Yes, sir.
- Every dime.

1250
01:25:57,018 --> 01:26:01,182
- Yes, sir.
- Hey, Unc... don't tell Daddy.

1251
01:26:08,930 --> 01:26:12,422
How you avoid all that sex
in prison?

1252
01:26:12,567 --> 01:26:14,626
Do they teach you that
with the Panthers?

1253
01:26:14,802 --> 01:26:18,363
They teach you how to... to sit...

1254
01:26:23,411 --> 01:26:27,370
- She been drinking again?
- No. She's sober.

1255
01:26:27,549 --> 01:26:30,814
She ain't doing nothing but sewing
and feeding them damn fishes.

1256
01:26:30,985 --> 01:26:33,351
Feed them more than she feed me.

1257
01:26:34,389 --> 01:26:36,857
You excited about
going back to Howard?

1258
01:26:37,025 --> 01:26:39,516
Excited about not going back.

1259
01:26:40,828 --> 01:26:43,160
- What?
- Yeah.

1260
01:26:43,331 --> 01:26:45,526
I'm going to Vietnam.

1261
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:48,692
Charlie, don't do this.
Don't do this.

1262
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:52,829
- This country treats us like dogs!
- And do what? Don't do this?

1263
01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:58,539
You fight your country.

1264
01:26:58,713 --> 01:27:01,079
I want to fight for my country.

1265
01:27:01,249 --> 01:27:04,412
- I won't go to your funeral.
- Good.

1266
01:27:04,586 --> 01:27:07,680
'Cause I don't want you there
with all of that...

1267
01:27:08,356 --> 01:27:12,554
...black leather and latex,

1268
01:27:12,727 --> 01:27:17,027
shining and taking away the attention
off of my pretty face in my casket.

1269
01:27:20,401 --> 01:27:22,596
What do they call you now, Louise?

1270
01:27:22,770 --> 01:27:24,397
- Shut up.
- Louise Gaines.

1271
01:27:24,572 --> 01:27:25,698
Charlie, shut up.

1272
01:27:26,074 --> 01:27:29,874
I want to know every goddamn
domestic policy decision right now,

1273
01:27:30,044 --> 01:27:31,375
and I want it on the table right now.

1274
01:27:31,546 --> 01:27:32,535
- OK.
- OK.

1275
01:27:32,714 --> 01:27:34,841
Did you get
the memos we sent last week?

1276
01:27:35,016 --> 01:27:39,180
John and I strongly agree
that the time calls for...

1277
01:27:39,354 --> 01:27:41,083
A goddamn fly,
a goddamn fly in here.

1278
01:27:41,256 --> 01:27:42,917
- Jesus Christ.
- John and I both think

1279
01:27:43,091 --> 01:27:46,527
that the time calls for
a period of benign neglect.

1280
01:27:46,694 --> 01:27:47,820
- Benign neglect.
- Yes.

1281
01:27:47,996 --> 01:27:50,464
I like that. I like that.

1282
01:27:50,632 --> 01:27:54,124
You know, the pigs in the
media describe us as terrorists.

1283
01:27:54,302 --> 01:27:58,636
A terrorist is one who
terrorizes and frightens others.

1284
01:27:58,806 --> 01:28:01,366
We the ones getting terrorized.

1285
01:28:01,542 --> 01:28:03,442
How can we exist in, in peace,

1286
01:28:03,611 --> 01:28:06,637
when we scared to walk
down the street to the store?

1287
01:28:06,814 --> 01:28:09,214
All right, there's this whole black
power movement going on, right?

1288
01:28:09,350 --> 01:28:12,183
- Right.
- What if we, um...

1289
01:28:16,391 --> 01:28:18,484
What if Nixon promotes black power

1290
01:28:18,660 --> 01:28:22,528
to mean "black businesses"
and we find ways to support

1291
01:28:22,730 --> 01:28:26,097
black entrepreneurs, pass the buck
on desegregation to the courts.

1292
01:28:26,267 --> 01:28:28,792
Push black enterprise

1293
01:28:28,970 --> 01:28:30,733
to win the 20 percent
of the votes it could swing our way.

1294
01:28:30,872 --> 01:28:32,965
- Excellent, sir.
- Absolutely.

1295
01:28:33,141 --> 01:28:35,302
You don't know if your ceiling gonna
cave in 'cause your slum lord

1296
01:28:35,476 --> 01:28:37,967
too busy running around
collecting rent checks.

1297
01:28:38,146 --> 01:28:40,011
But he won't fix your roof.

1298
01:28:40,181 --> 01:28:43,810
It's time we take a stand
against these injustices

1299
01:28:43,985 --> 01:28:45,475
that have plagued our community.

1300
01:28:45,653 --> 01:28:49,180
They take one of ours,
we taking two of theirs.

1301
01:28:49,357 --> 01:28:50,984
- That's right.
- It's been time.

1302
01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:53,923
We just need to make sure
that Nixon black power

1303
01:28:54,095 --> 01:28:55,995
doesn't equate Nixon
with the Black Panthers.

1304
01:28:56,164 --> 01:28:58,826
Have you lost your mind, man?
Did you read Hoover's last memo on that?

1305
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:01,161
- That's my point.
- Goddamn terrifying.

1306
01:29:01,336 --> 01:29:03,770
No, no, no. I gave him the green light
to gut those sons of bitches.

1307
01:29:03,938 --> 01:29:05,269
- Good.
- Good. Absolutely.

1308
01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:07,965
No, round 'em all up and throw
'em down an elevator shaft.

1309
01:29:10,545 --> 01:29:14,504
I don't proclaim to know everything.
But I promise you...

1310
01:29:15,450 --> 01:29:17,975
...they'll always beware
of the nigger with a gun.

1311
01:29:22,390 --> 01:29:24,688
Will there be anything else,
Mr. President?

1312
01:29:35,770 --> 01:29:38,295
How many kids we got coming to
the breakfast tomorrow morning?

1313
01:29:38,473 --> 01:29:40,464
Got about 25 to 30 coming.

1314
01:29:40,608 --> 01:29:43,042
Twenty-five to 30 kids
will be able to go to school

1315
01:29:43,211 --> 01:29:45,111
and focus on their lessons.

1316
01:29:45,313 --> 01:29:47,713
'Cause they don't want us
to be able to feed our kids.

1317
01:29:47,882 --> 01:29:51,215
They don't want us
to be able to protect ourselves.

1318
01:29:57,992 --> 01:29:59,687
What are we doing here?

1319
01:30:01,729 --> 01:30:04,391
Thought this was going to be
our community service.

1320
01:30:04,565 --> 01:30:07,090
This is community service.

1321
01:30:07,268 --> 01:30:09,634
"Someone kills one of ours,
we kill two of theirs?"

1322
01:30:09,837 --> 01:30:11,498
Community protection.

1323
01:30:11,672 --> 01:30:15,233
Are you ready to kill somebody, Carol?

1324
01:30:16,978 --> 01:30:19,071
'Cause I ain't.

1325
01:30:20,581 --> 01:30:22,742
I am.

1326
01:30:29,424 --> 01:30:31,358
Did you ever love me, baby?

1327
01:30:56,984 --> 01:31:00,078
Today, a day after police shot
it out with the Black Panthers,

1328
01:31:00,254 --> 01:31:02,279
killing two of them,
they raided the apartment...

1329
01:31:02,457 --> 01:31:04,391
...the shooting of 26
Panthers in the past year,

1330
01:31:04,559 --> 01:31:07,790
may represent a national campaign
by police to wipe out the Panthers...

1331
01:31:07,962 --> 01:31:10,192
...the criminal reaction
of the occupants in shooting

1332
01:31:10,398 --> 01:31:12,491
at announced police officers,

1333
01:31:12,667 --> 01:31:17,434
emphasizes the extreme viciousness
of the Black Panther Party.

1334
01:31:45,533 --> 01:31:47,125
- Hey, baby.
- Hey.

1335
01:31:47,301 --> 01:31:49,292
- Happy birthday.
- Happy birthday to me, huh?

1336
01:31:49,470 --> 01:31:50,767
Happy birthday to you.

1337
01:31:53,941 --> 01:31:55,704
Right now, this is the present
I want, right here.

1338
01:31:55,877 --> 01:31:58,175
Well, you want it right here?

1339
01:31:58,346 --> 01:32:00,246
Mm-mm, you know right...

1340
01:32:00,414 --> 01:32:02,177
- Right here?
- Kids up... Kids down...?

1341
01:32:02,350 --> 01:32:04,318
Ain't no kids in the house no more.

1342
01:32:04,485 --> 01:32:06,214
Hey, I made you a birthday cake.

1343
01:32:06,387 --> 01:32:08,355
I got all the cake
I want right here.

1344
01:32:08,523 --> 01:32:10,218
No, you crazy.

1345
01:32:10,391 --> 01:32:13,224
I got some champagne
cooling in the icebox.

1346
01:32:13,394 --> 01:32:15,191
And some ice cream, too.
Get some ice cream.

1347
01:32:15,363 --> 01:32:16,796
You gonna be drinking with me?

1348
01:32:18,199 --> 01:32:20,030
You know I don't drink.

1349
01:32:20,201 --> 01:32:22,032
I don't drink.

1350
01:32:22,203 --> 01:32:23,534
Just playing with you.

1351
01:32:23,704 --> 01:32:25,695
I just want to see you move
a little bit. Go ahead.

1352
01:32:27,241 --> 01:32:30,369
Oh, my God!

1353
01:32:37,351 --> 01:32:39,512
We get any mail
from Charlie today?

1354
01:32:41,455 --> 01:32:43,047
No.

1355
01:32:44,625 --> 01:32:46,286
- No?
- Haven't heard from Charlie.

1356
01:32:46,494 --> 01:32:48,428
I know. I got an idea.

1357
01:32:48,596 --> 01:32:50,689
I think we should go
to Shantay's tonight.

1358
01:32:50,865 --> 01:32:52,924
Oh, no.
No, I'm too old for disco.

1359
01:32:53,100 --> 01:32:54,260
We not old. Come on. We ain't old.

1360
01:32:54,435 --> 01:32:56,164
I just don't feel like
doing no disco.

1361
01:32:56,337 --> 01:32:58,066
Our boys are gone.
It's just you and me.

1362
01:32:58,239 --> 01:33:02,107
You and me, we are free.
I forgot this. I forgot this.

1363
01:33:03,444 --> 01:33:08,381
Now, look at us.
Little happy birthday present.

1364
01:33:10,017 --> 01:33:11,780
I want you to go put it on, upstairs.

1365
01:33:11,953 --> 01:33:13,887
- Put it on?
- Yeah. Go put it on.

1366
01:33:14,055 --> 01:33:15,784
- All right.
- Make it snappy.

1367
01:33:15,957 --> 01:33:18,221
Bring down my sewing kit,
'cause I need to do some alterations.

1368
01:33:22,363 --> 01:33:24,627
Make it snappy!

1369
01:33:28,569 --> 01:33:30,537
Hello.

1370
01:33:32,907 --> 01:33:34,807
Hi. Where are you?

1371
01:33:35,810 --> 01:33:37,471
Where?

1372
01:33:38,713 --> 01:33:40,840
You should call me back,
because this is not a good time.

1373
01:33:41,048 --> 01:33:44,142
- He's home again.
- It fit!

1374
01:33:44,318 --> 01:33:45,808
- We gonna go on out tonight.
- Where?

1375
01:33:45,987 --> 01:33:47,921
- He's home and...
- Boy, you good, aren't you?

1376
01:33:48,089 --> 01:33:50,751
- You all right?
- Who that?

1377
01:33:50,925 --> 01:33:52,984
Call me back.

1378
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:55,060
- OK?
- Oh, it's Louis.

1379
01:33:55,196 --> 01:33:56,788
He asking for some money?

1380
01:33:59,333 --> 01:34:00,891
Hey, Louis.

1381
01:34:02,336 --> 01:34:04,236
I didn't expect to hear
from you on my birthday.

1382
01:34:05,306 --> 01:34:07,240
You should feel
ashamed of yourself.

1383
01:34:07,408 --> 01:34:10,104
You're a grown-ass man calling
your mama, asking for money.

1384
01:34:10,277 --> 01:34:12,802
And guess what?
It's the butler's money.

1385
01:34:12,980 --> 01:34:14,504
It's Uncle Tom's money.

1386
01:34:14,682 --> 01:34:16,741
And he ain't giving
none out today.

1387
01:34:18,352 --> 01:34:19,842
Bye.

1388
01:34:23,491 --> 01:34:25,083
I got it.

1389
01:34:36,203 --> 01:34:37,864
You got the wrong house.

1390
01:34:43,210 --> 01:34:44,802
It's the wrong house.

1391
01:35:42,503 --> 01:35:45,165
Vietnam took my boy,

1392
01:35:45,339 --> 01:35:48,831
and I didn't understand why we
were there in the first place.

1393
01:36:21,475 --> 01:36:23,568
Your father still alive, Cecil?

1394
01:36:25,179 --> 01:36:27,147
No, sir.

1395
01:36:27,314 --> 01:36:29,612
My father died when I was a child.

1396
01:36:36,824 --> 01:36:41,488
Is there anything else that you
would like, Mr. President?

1397
01:36:41,662 --> 01:36:43,630
Yeah. Come sit.

1398
01:36:43,798 --> 01:36:45,595
Sit down, you know?

1399
01:37:04,485 --> 01:37:07,682
There's been a lot of talk
of me resigning and...

1400
01:37:08,589 --> 01:37:10,523
...things of that nature,
but I just want you to know

1401
01:37:10,691 --> 01:37:12,454
it's never gonna happen.

1402
01:37:14,195 --> 01:37:16,720
I'm gonna come out of this thing
stronger than ever.

1403
01:37:24,104 --> 01:37:26,698
Is there anything else
that you would like...

1404
01:37:26,874 --> 01:37:28,341
...Mr. President?

1405
01:37:35,216 --> 01:37:37,548
Louis is here, looking for you.

1406
01:37:42,223 --> 01:37:45,590
- Got everybody all worried.
- Well, I finished school.

1407
01:37:45,793 --> 01:37:46,987
I got my master's
in political science.

1408
01:37:47,161 --> 01:37:50,130
Hey! That's what I'm talking about.

1409
01:37:50,297 --> 01:37:52,561
Get that education.

1410
01:37:52,733 --> 01:37:56,726
There he is!
Well, I'm gonna let you all to it.

1411
01:37:56,904 --> 01:37:59,236
Ain't no need for that, Carter.

1412
01:38:01,008 --> 01:38:04,705
- Hey, Dad.
- Get out of here, Louis.

1413
01:38:07,781 --> 01:38:11,774
- Dad...
- I said leave.

1414
01:38:20,461 --> 01:38:22,190
Keep doing what you doing.

1415
01:38:24,732 --> 01:38:27,826
Thank you, Uncle Carter.

1416
01:38:30,070 --> 01:38:33,528
Why you do that? Huh?
That was wrong.

1417
01:38:33,707 --> 01:38:36,403
That boy's hurting, too. He's just
trying to get his act together.

1418
01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:38,772
He should be hurting, Carter.

1419
01:38:39,780 --> 01:38:42,749
Boy didn't even go
to his own brother's funeral.

1420
01:38:43,751 --> 01:38:48,620
He's full of shit is what he is.
He ain't doing nothing right.

1421
01:38:48,789 --> 01:38:51,622
He just got his master's!
What more you want him to do?

1422
01:38:51,792 --> 01:38:56,058
Every gray hair I have
is 'cause of that boy.

1423
01:39:07,875 --> 01:39:09,934
The years started to drift by,

1424
01:39:10,110 --> 01:39:13,705
but the pain in my heart
never went away.

1425
01:39:22,890 --> 01:39:27,088
Through it all,
Louis and I never spoke.

1426
01:39:31,498 --> 01:39:36,128
As we are a nation under God,
so I am sworn...

1427
01:39:56,590 --> 01:39:57,818
Half of our oil is now imported...

1428
01:39:57,992 --> 01:40:00,017
It is a crisis that strikes
at the very heart

1429
01:40:00,194 --> 01:40:02,458
and soul and spirit
of our national will.

1430
01:40:02,629 --> 01:40:04,290
- I feel one coming now.
- Not to worry.

1431
01:40:04,465 --> 01:40:06,126
Two of you,
stay home until you feel better.

1432
01:40:06,300 --> 01:40:10,600
OK, Barn, I'll stay. But I ain't
never gonna feel no better.

1433
01:40:19,146 --> 01:40:22,980
In our district alone,
we have nine percent unemployment.

1434
01:40:23,150 --> 01:40:25,778
In the country at large, 14 percent
are living below the poverty line.

1435
01:40:25,953 --> 01:40:29,150
Sixty percent of those
are either black or Hispanic.

1436
01:40:29,323 --> 01:40:31,985
Now, if I'm voted to Congress,
reducing those figures is gonna be

1437
01:40:32,159 --> 01:40:35,253
one of my primary objectives.

1438
01:40:38,832 --> 01:40:40,322
Y eah?

1439
01:40:40,501 --> 01:40:42,230
Oh, hey.

1440
01:40:42,403 --> 01:40:44,166
Thanks for getting back to me.

1441
01:40:48,275 --> 01:40:50,072
How much did he lose by?

1442
01:40:52,846 --> 01:40:55,906
Really?

1443
01:40:56,083 --> 01:40:57,710
All right, then.

1444
01:40:57,885 --> 01:40:59,682
I appreciate it.

1445
01:41:04,625 --> 01:41:06,559
No, he didn't win.

1446
01:41:08,429 --> 01:41:10,693
I think you should call him.

1447
01:41:12,966 --> 01:41:15,958
Right after Charlie passed,

1448
01:41:16,170 --> 01:41:18,661
Louis came over
and paid me a visit.

1449
01:41:18,839 --> 01:41:20,431
Hmm.

1450
01:41:22,042 --> 01:41:25,443
He found me on the kitchen floor.

1451
01:41:25,612 --> 01:41:27,876
I had passed out.

1452
01:41:28,048 --> 01:41:30,039
Drunk.

1453
01:41:30,217 --> 01:41:33,914
I'd gone to the bathroom
all over myself.

1454
01:41:37,057 --> 01:41:39,423
He's the one that cleaned me up.

1455
01:41:42,763 --> 01:41:46,722
And then he told me
I was the best mother

1456
01:41:46,900 --> 01:41:49,664
anybody could ever want.

1457
01:41:52,973 --> 01:41:55,271
I think, about now...

1458
01:41:57,077 --> 01:41:59,944
...he'd want to hear from his daddy.

1459
01:42:01,849 --> 01:42:03,976
I think you ought to call him.

1460
01:42:08,956 --> 01:42:10,617
Mm-hm.

1461
01:42:10,791 --> 01:42:11,780
Cecil?

1462
01:42:14,261 --> 01:42:15,250
Cecil?

1463
01:42:15,429 --> 01:42:18,159
Yes, sir, Mr. President.

1464
01:42:18,332 --> 01:42:20,163
You stay there, I'm coming to you.

1465
01:42:20,334 --> 01:42:23,861
I... have a...

1466
01:42:24,071 --> 01:42:26,665
...secret mission for you.

1467
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:28,137
Yes, sir.

1468
01:42:28,308 --> 01:42:30,606
I like to send people
money when they write me

1469
01:42:30,777 --> 01:42:32,938
about their financial problems,

1470
01:42:33,113 --> 01:42:37,106
but my staff has been
trying to get me to stop.

1471
01:42:37,284 --> 01:42:41,015
You think you could
help me to keep this going?

1472
01:42:41,188 --> 01:42:43,952
Absolutely, Mr. President.

1473
01:42:44,124 --> 01:42:46,684
Well, I appreciate
your help with this.

1474
01:42:46,860 --> 01:42:49,590
And, please, don't tell Nancy.

1475
01:42:49,763 --> 01:42:51,492
Of course not.

1476
01:42:55,335 --> 01:42:58,429
- Morning, Cecil.
- Morning, Mr. Warner.

1477
01:43:02,843 --> 01:43:04,640
May I sit down?

1478
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,687
I've been here
for over 20 years now.

1479
01:43:19,660 --> 01:43:24,495
For all that time,
the black help

1480
01:43:24,665 --> 01:43:28,965
has been paid a smaller salary
than the white help.

1481
01:43:30,904 --> 01:43:34,396
And I just don't think
that's right, Mr. Warner.

1482
01:43:36,677 --> 01:43:42,309
There are black housemen
who should be engineers by now.

1483
01:43:43,684 --> 01:43:46,778
They should've been promoted
years ago.

1484
01:43:49,289 --> 01:43:51,086
You think so?

1485
01:43:53,961 --> 01:43:59,627
I'm gonna have to be paid
the same as the white help,

1486
01:43:59,833 --> 01:44:03,064
or I'm gonna have to move on.

1487
01:44:04,771 --> 01:44:07,239
I guess you'll be moving on then.

1488
01:44:11,378 --> 01:44:14,643
I told the president
that you'd say that.

1489
01:44:16,450 --> 01:44:21,353
He told me to tell you
to take this up with him, personally.

1490
01:44:25,692 --> 01:44:27,091
Excuse me.

1491
01:44:35,769 --> 01:44:38,294
I'm not comfortable
with all the foreign policy hawks

1492
01:44:38,472 --> 01:44:40,030
surrounding Ronnie, Jim.

1493
01:44:40,207 --> 01:44:44,371
We need more moderates on his staff.
And a summit with the Russians.

1494
01:44:44,511 --> 01:44:46,672
Ronnie has to meet
with them face to face

1495
01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:48,177
if we're ever
going to thaw this ice.

1496
01:44:48,382 --> 01:44:50,873
- Cecil.
- Yes, Mrs. Reagan?

1497
01:44:51,018 --> 01:44:53,680
We will talk, Jim. Yes.

1498
01:44:53,854 --> 01:44:55,549
Yes, ma'am?

1499
01:44:55,689 --> 01:44:57,953
You're very popular around here.

1500
01:44:58,125 --> 01:45:02,528
Everyone says you're the man
that got them raises and promotions.

1501
01:45:02,729 --> 01:45:06,426
- I had no idea.
- I wish I could take credit for that.

1502
01:45:07,167 --> 01:45:09,761
I'd like to invite you
to the State Dinner next week.

1503
01:45:09,936 --> 01:45:12,302
- I'm gonna be there, Mrs. Reagan.
- No.

1504
01:45:12,472 --> 01:45:17,205
Not as a... Not as a butler, Cecil.
I'm inviting you as a guest.

1505
01:45:18,178 --> 01:45:21,341
But the president prefers
for me to serve him personally.

1506
01:45:22,349 --> 01:45:25,375
Don't you worry about, Ronnie.
I'll take care of that.

1507
01:45:26,286 --> 01:45:29,949
So we'll see you next week.
You and your wife.

1508
01:45:30,123 --> 01:45:31,954
My wife?

1509
01:45:34,961 --> 01:45:37,896
It's... It's Gloria, yes?

1510
01:45:38,098 --> 01:45:40,623
- Yes, ma'am.
- Yes.

1511
01:45:42,769 --> 01:45:44,066
Hmm.

1512
01:45:56,950 --> 01:45:58,747
Here's the Entrance Hall.

1513
01:46:03,090 --> 01:46:04,853
Beautiful.

1514
01:46:20,073 --> 01:46:22,701
Can I get you a glass
of champagne, Mr. Gaines?

1515
01:46:22,876 --> 01:46:26,710
- Shut up.
- Right.

1516
01:46:28,715 --> 01:46:30,342
Ladies and gentlemen,

1517
01:46:30,517 --> 01:46:33,953
the President and First Lady
of the United States.

1518
01:46:55,275 --> 01:46:58,972
It was different sitting at the
table instead of serving it.

1519
01:46:59,179 --> 01:47:00,578
Real different.

1520
01:47:01,982 --> 01:47:06,612
I could see the two faces
the butlers wore to survive.

1521
01:47:08,088 --> 01:47:12,388
And I knew I'd lived my life
with those same two faces.

1522
01:47:18,932 --> 01:47:24,199
Gloria looked so happy,
but I didn't feel the same way.

1523
01:47:24,337 --> 01:47:28,273
I guess I wished we were there
for real instead of for show.

1524
01:47:38,685 --> 01:47:41,279
I think that's bon appétit, everybody.

1525
01:47:41,455 --> 01:47:42,820
You black mother...

1526
01:47:48,795 --> 01:47:52,993
I want to make myself clear
on this issue.

1527
01:47:55,101 --> 01:48:01,097
If Congress passes sanctions
against South Africa,

1528
01:48:01,241 --> 01:48:05,678
I will be forced to
veto those sanctions.

1529
01:48:05,846 --> 01:48:10,010
Well, Mr. President, we feel that
that would be a major mistake.

1530
01:48:10,183 --> 01:48:13,914
The brutal repression
of South African black citizens

1531
01:48:14,087 --> 01:48:16,851
makes this no longer
a foreign policy issue,

1532
01:48:17,023 --> 01:48:20,618
but a United States racial issue.

1533
01:48:20,794 --> 01:48:23,524
We're senators
from your own party.

1534
01:48:23,697 --> 01:48:25,665
That's why we feel so comfortable
in letting you know

1535
01:48:25,832 --> 01:48:28,858
that South Africa
is a human rights disaster.

1536
01:48:29,035 --> 01:48:32,596
Black people are
being beaten, tortured,

1537
01:48:32,772 --> 01:48:34,763
gunned down
in the middle of the street.

1538
01:48:34,908 --> 01:48:38,674
Americans see all this on TV,
they're horrified by apartheid.

1539
01:48:38,845 --> 01:48:41,541
I've made my decision.

1540
01:48:41,715 --> 01:48:46,175
Mr. President, your reputation
as a world leader is at stake.

1541
01:48:46,353 --> 01:48:48,719
United States of America needs to be

1542
01:48:48,889 --> 01:48:51,050
on the right side of history
on the race issue.

1543
01:48:51,224 --> 01:48:52,816
I say again.

1544
01:48:54,227 --> 01:48:58,163
If Congress passes this bill,

1545
01:48:58,331 --> 01:49:00,993
I will veto it.

1546
01:49:01,167 --> 01:49:02,828
Period.

1547
01:49:12,279 --> 01:49:16,147
What? You reading now?

1548
01:49:16,283 --> 01:49:18,717
Get up and do the dishes
'fore I shoot your little ass.

1549
01:49:32,566 --> 01:49:36,400
Nothing seemed right to me
after that State Dinner.

1550
01:49:36,570 --> 01:49:38,765
Got all confused.

1551
01:50:05,532 --> 01:50:08,433
They had started writing books

1552
01:50:08,602 --> 01:50:12,902
about everything Louis
and his friends had done.

1553
01:50:18,311 --> 01:50:20,643
Louis was never a criminal.

1554
01:50:24,517 --> 01:50:27,884
He was a hero,

1555
01:50:28,021 --> 01:50:31,388
fighting to save
the soul of our country.

1556
01:50:42,569 --> 01:50:45,402
- Would you like a cookie?
- Thank you, sir.

1557
01:50:45,538 --> 01:50:47,335
- Cookies.
- Thank you.

1558
01:50:47,507 --> 01:50:48,940
Cookie?

1559
01:50:49,109 --> 01:50:51,043
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

1560
01:50:51,244 --> 01:50:52,677
Thank you.

1561
01:50:52,846 --> 01:50:53,972
Cookie?

1562
01:51:08,795 --> 01:51:14,028
I had always loved serving.
But just felt different now.

1563
01:51:17,504 --> 01:51:21,964
I didn't know that an old man
could feel so lost.

1564
01:51:22,876 --> 01:51:24,673
That's how I felt.

1565
01:51:25,979 --> 01:51:27,879
That's how I felt.

1566
01:51:34,654 --> 01:51:36,713
Americans always turned

1567
01:51:36,890 --> 01:51:41,759
a blind eye to what we'd done
to our own.

1568
01:51:41,961 --> 01:51:45,727
We look out to the world and judge.

1569
01:51:45,899 --> 01:51:48,868
We hear about
the concentration camps,

1570
01:51:49,035 --> 01:51:53,995
but these camps went on
for 200 years

1571
01:51:54,174 --> 01:51:56,904
right here in America.

1572
01:52:09,155 --> 01:52:11,248
Buried my daddy right over there.

1573
01:52:15,562 --> 01:52:19,589
My mama would've been
right proud of me,

1574
01:52:19,766 --> 01:52:22,564
being with a man like you's.

1575
01:52:22,736 --> 01:52:26,103
T aking such good care of me
all of these years.

1576
01:52:29,075 --> 01:52:31,100
I love you, Cecil Gaines.

1577
01:52:33,680 --> 01:52:35,978
I love you more, Gloria.

1578
01:52:48,461 --> 01:52:51,897
Are you sure about this?

1579
01:52:52,065 --> 01:52:53,794
Yes, sir.

1580
01:52:53,967 --> 01:52:58,802
I just want to be the one
to tell you first, that's all.

1581
01:52:58,972 --> 01:53:01,566
But you're the best butler here.

1582
01:53:01,741 --> 01:53:04,175
You're like family, Cecil.

1583
01:53:06,179 --> 01:53:08,773
Been an honor serving you.

1584
01:53:08,948 --> 01:53:13,146
Well, not just for me,
I'm sure I speak for all the presidents

1585
01:53:13,319 --> 01:53:17,483
when I say that you've
served your country well.

1586
01:53:19,793 --> 01:53:21,556
Thank you, Mr. President.

1587
01:53:26,466 --> 01:53:27,933
Cecil?

1588
01:53:30,036 --> 01:53:32,664
This whole civil rights issue...

1589
01:53:36,309 --> 01:53:39,437
I sometimes fear I'm...

1590
01:53:39,612 --> 01:53:42,137
on the wrong side of it,
that I'm...

1591
01:53:43,283 --> 01:53:45,342
...just wrong.

1592
01:53:45,518 --> 01:53:49,454
Sometimes I think I'm just
scared of what it really means.

1593
01:53:51,758 --> 01:53:54,591
But I'm trying not to be
so scared anymore.

1594
01:53:55,361 --> 01:53:57,989
- Who do we want to free?!
- Mandela!

1595
01:53:58,164 --> 01:53:59,358
When do we want him free?

1596
01:53:59,532 --> 01:54:00,863
- Now!
- Free Mandela!

1597
01:54:01,034 --> 01:54:05,528
Twenty years ago, we marched
in this country for our rights.

1598
01:54:07,707 --> 01:54:11,643
Today, we march to free
the people of South Africa.

1599
01:54:11,811 --> 01:54:13,176
Yeah!

1600
01:54:13,346 --> 01:54:17,874
Ronald Reagan has attacked or dismantled
every civil rights program

1601
01:54:18,051 --> 01:54:20,042
that has ever been put in place.

1602
01:54:20,220 --> 01:54:21,619
- Yeah!
- Right!

1603
01:54:21,788 --> 01:54:25,417
Aiding the oppression of black South
Africans is absolutely consistent

1604
01:54:25,592 --> 01:54:29,119
with his policies on race issues.
Am I right?

1605
01:54:29,295 --> 01:54:31,695
- Am I right?
- Yes!

1606
01:54:33,700 --> 01:54:35,565
Hold on, hold on.

1607
01:54:37,070 --> 01:54:39,834
Excuse me. Steven?
Where's Steven?

1608
01:54:40,006 --> 01:54:41,837
- Free Mandela!
- Free Mandela, y'all!

1609
01:54:42,008 --> 01:54:43,839
Free Mandela!

1610
01:54:45,578 --> 01:54:50,413
Free Mandela!
Free Mandela! Free Mandela!

1611
01:55:00,927 --> 01:55:03,191
Hi, Dad.

1612
01:55:03,363 --> 01:55:05,695
Hi, Louis.

1613
01:55:07,433 --> 01:55:10,425
What are you doing here?

1614
01:55:15,875 --> 01:55:18,571
I came here to protest with you.

1615
01:55:21,714 --> 01:55:24,274
You'll get arrested, Dad.
You'll lose your job.

1616
01:55:26,619 --> 01:55:28,712
I lost you.

1617
01:55:32,625 --> 01:55:34,456
I'm sorry.

1618
01:55:44,637 --> 01:55:47,470
I'm sorry, son.

1619
01:56:06,693 --> 01:56:10,424
Don't worry, Dad, we'll be
out of here in a few hours.

1620
01:56:10,596 --> 01:56:12,791
Who said I was worried?

1621
01:56:17,570 --> 01:56:21,973
After going to jail,
I thought I'd seen it all.

1622
01:56:22,342 --> 01:56:26,108
- You OK, Daddy?
- Yeah, no, no, no. I'm good.

1623
01:56:26,279 --> 01:56:29,715
But I never imagined I'd see...

1624
01:56:29,882 --> 01:56:31,975
...a black man

1625
01:56:32,151 --> 01:56:37,054
be a real contender for
the President of the United States.

1626
01:56:41,461 --> 01:56:43,486
Here we go.

1627
01:56:43,663 --> 01:56:47,429
- It's that sweet corn.
- That corn look good.

1628
01:57:00,380 --> 01:57:03,508
Gloria and I would walk
to our polling place

1629
01:57:03,683 --> 01:57:08,711
every night to see where
we'd be voting for Barack Obama.

1630
01:57:10,390 --> 01:57:14,520
We'd just... stare at it, smile.

1631
01:57:20,366 --> 01:57:23,392
- You done?
- Pretty much.

1632
01:57:23,569 --> 01:57:25,799
Good. Time to go.

1633
01:57:27,306 --> 01:57:30,002
You done pretty good there.

1634
01:57:30,176 --> 01:57:32,076
Thanks, honey.

1635
01:57:33,413 --> 01:57:37,440
How come Louis' wife
named that child...

1636
01:57:37,617 --> 01:57:40,450
- ... Shaquanda?
- Now, don't start that again.

1637
01:57:40,620 --> 01:57:44,886
I ain't starting it, I just don't know
what kind of name that is.

1638
01:57:45,058 --> 01:57:48,550
I mean, really! Shaquanda?

1639
01:57:48,728 --> 01:57:50,719
I think she done that just to spite me.

1640
01:57:50,897 --> 01:57:54,663
Ain't nobody done
nothing to spite you.

1641
01:57:54,834 --> 01:57:56,734
Yes, she did.

1642
01:57:58,538 --> 01:58:02,099
She a ugly little old girl, too.
That little pug nose.

1643
01:58:02,275 --> 01:58:06,371
- I hope she grow out of it.
- Now, you need to stop that.

1644
01:58:06,546 --> 01:58:08,411
- You know that ain't right.
- Don't you think

1645
01:58:08,581 --> 01:58:10,446
she look a little like
Louis around the mouth?

1646
01:58:10,616 --> 01:58:14,575
I think... she look just like you.

1647
01:58:14,754 --> 01:58:16,585
- Like me?
- Yeah, so you need to...

1648
01:58:16,756 --> 01:58:19,520
...you need to stop
talking about her.

1649
01:58:19,659 --> 01:58:22,685
Let me look at her again,
then, real good.

1650
01:58:25,131 --> 01:58:30,398
She do look a little bit like me.
She a pretty little thing.

1651
01:58:31,737 --> 01:58:34,570
I guess I can put up
with the name Shaquanda.

1652
01:58:36,142 --> 01:58:39,236
I forgot where I put my Bible.

1653
01:58:39,412 --> 01:58:43,109
- You know I need my Bible.
- Mm-hm.

1654
01:58:43,282 --> 01:58:46,877
- I think I left it in the bathroom.
- Why is Louis late?

1655
01:58:48,287 --> 01:58:51,188
Boy gets elected to Congress...

1656
01:58:51,357 --> 01:58:54,758
...and he ain't been on time
getting us to church ever since.

1657
01:58:54,927 --> 01:58:58,886
- I can't believe you still... fussing.
- He gonna be late to his own funeral.

1658
01:58:59,065 --> 01:59:00,692
Are you still fussing
about Louis?

1659
01:59:00,900 --> 01:59:03,596
He said he's gonna be here for us.

1660
01:59:03,769 --> 01:59:07,227
- Go ahead, call him.
- I ain't calling Louis.

1661
01:59:08,107 --> 01:59:11,042
I'm gonna get my purse and...

1662
01:59:15,181 --> 01:59:18,480
What'd you say? Isaiah?

1663
01:59:18,651 --> 01:59:22,178
I see you got... your mark here.

1664
01:59:24,023 --> 01:59:26,150
I'm gonna fall all over myself.

1665
01:59:26,325 --> 01:59:29,260
Baby, you need...
to move that to the other side.

1666
01:59:42,642 --> 01:59:44,405
Baby?

1667
01:59:47,180 --> 01:59:49,307
Honey?

1668
01:59:52,151 --> 01:59:53,675
You sleeping?

1669
01:59:57,690 --> 01:59:59,248
Baby?

1670
02:00:01,661 --> 02:00:03,561
Are you all right?

1671
02:00:28,888 --> 02:00:30,753
...states will be closing,

1672
02:00:30,923 --> 02:00:33,016
and there are some big ones,
especially California,

1673
02:00:33,192 --> 02:00:35,183
the largest state
in the United States,

1674
02:00:35,361 --> 02:00:36,988
with 55 electoral votes.

1675
02:00:37,129 --> 02:00:39,927
Hawaii, that's where
Barack Obama was born.

1676
02:00:40,099 --> 02:00:41,828
will be closing its polls.

1677
02:00:41,968 --> 02:00:45,233
Idaho, Oregon
and Washington state,

1678
02:00:45,404 --> 02:00:47,531
and those states
have been going Democratic

1679
02:00:47,707 --> 02:00:49,834
in presidential contests
in recent years.

1680
02:00:50,009 --> 02:00:51,442
So in a few seconds

1681
02:00:51,611 --> 02:00:53,738
those states
will be closing their polls,

1682
02:00:53,913 --> 02:00:56,473
and presumably we'll
be able to see what's...

1683
02:00:56,649 --> 02:00:58,480
Louis!

1684
02:00:58,651 --> 02:01:00,482
...a major projection at that point.

1685
02:01:00,653 --> 02:01:03,884
This is a moment that a lot of
people have been waiting for...

1686
02:01:04,056 --> 02:01:06,524
Louis, come on down!
Come down!

1687
02:01:06,692 --> 02:01:08,717
...could be rather historic.

1688
02:01:10,596 --> 02:01:14,123
And CNN can now project
that Barack Obama, 47 years old,

1689
02:01:14,300 --> 02:01:16,768
will become the President-Elect

1690
02:01:16,936 --> 02:01:20,030
of the United States.
We project...

1691
02:01:20,206 --> 02:01:23,403
If there is anyone out there

1692
02:01:23,576 --> 02:01:27,535
who still doubts that America
is a place where

1693
02:01:27,713 --> 02:01:29,544
all things are possible...

1694
02:01:31,217 --> 02:01:37,213
...who still wonders if the dream of our
founders is alive in our time,

1695
02:01:37,356 --> 02:01:41,452
who still questions
the power of our democracy,

1696
02:01:41,627 --> 02:01:43,993
tonight is your answer.

1697
02:02:49,328 --> 02:02:52,058
You must look through their eyes...

1698
02:02:54,400 --> 02:02:56,800
...see what it is that they want...

1699
02:02:58,571 --> 02:03:01,301
...see what it is that they need...

1700
02:03:03,209 --> 02:03:05,200
...anticipate...

1701
02:03:08,247 --> 02:03:12,081
...bring a smile
to the principal's eyes.

1702
02:03:20,760 --> 02:03:22,455
Mr. Gaines.

1703
02:03:22,628 --> 02:03:24,994
I'm Admiral Rochon, the chief usher.

1704
02:03:31,237 --> 02:03:35,970
- Nice to meet you, admiral.
- Pleasure's all mine, sir.

1705
02:03:39,311 --> 02:03:42,280
I just wanted to tell you
what an honor it is to meet you, sir.

1706
02:03:43,783 --> 02:03:45,307
The honor is mine.

1707
02:03:45,518 --> 02:03:48,214
The president's so excited
to meet with you.

1708
02:03:49,422 --> 02:03:50,946
Well...

1709
02:03:53,993 --> 02:03:56,518
...that's just fine, isn't it?

1710
02:03:56,695 --> 02:03:58,526
Let me show
you the way.

1711
02:03:58,697 --> 02:04:00,528
I know the way.

1712
02:04:04,970 --> 02:04:06,801
The heart of the question is,

1713
02:04:06,972 --> 02:04:10,135
whether all Americans are
to be afforded equal rights

1714
02:04:10,309 --> 02:04:12,971
and equal opportunities.

1715
02:04:13,546 --> 02:04:19,542
It is the effort of American
Negroes to secure for themselves

1716
02:04:19,685 --> 02:04:24,281
the full blessings of American life.

1717
02:04:24,457 --> 02:04:26,721
We will respond with
that timeless creed

1718
02:04:26,892 --> 02:04:29,486
that sums up the spirit of a people:

1719
02:04:29,662 --> 02:04:31,493
Yes, we can.

1720
02:04:38,260 --> 02:04:44,170