Loudmouth

Description
Reviews
Citation
Cataloging
Transcript

Often controversial, occasionally fallible, and always quotable, Reverend Al Sharpton has spent a lifetime confronting America's deafening complacency in the fight against racial injustice -- amplifying the ugly truths about the ongoing impact of structural racism on our nation many would prefer to ignore. Sharpton has been a polarizing figure, inspiring both love and hate on local and national stages. Chronicling his work for social change from the streets of 1980s Brooklyn to 2020s Minneapolis, LOUDMOUTH presents never-before-seen footage of the social justice titan on the frontlines, in the media as well as in the corridors of power, to paint an intimate and revealing portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo.

A MARC record for this title is not available yet.

Keywords

Civil Rights Movement & Activists,Police Brutality,Criminal Justice Reform,Systemic and Structural Racism,Media Bias & Critique,New York City History, Race Relations,The Freedom Movement,Non Violence,Non-Violent Civil Disobedience,Never-before-seen Archival Material,George Floyd,2020 Summer of Racial Reckoning,The Howard Beach Case,The Tawana Brawley Case,2020 March on Washington; "Loudmouth"; GOOD DOCS

00:00:37.662 --> 00:00:43.668
[string music]

00:01:04.397 --> 00:01:06.274
We begin tonight with a man
who's been called everything

00:01:06.274 --> 00:01:08.026
from a troublemaker
and charlatan

00:01:08.026 --> 00:01:10.111
to a one-person
civil rights movement.

00:01:10.111 --> 00:01:11.696
Media manipulator,
a rabble-rouser,

00:01:11.696 --> 00:01:13.740
a tireless harbinger
of racial discord.

00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:16.951
A blabbermouth, a loudmouth,
too flamboyant, or an agitator,

00:01:16.951 --> 00:01:18.703
a racist, a race-baiter.

00:01:18.703 --> 00:01:19.788
-Yeah.
-[Interviewer]: Right?

00:01:19.788 --> 00:01:20.872
-Oh yeah.
-All of those things?

00:01:20.872 --> 00:01:22.290
Right.

00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:25.335
The question that I always
hear from whites,

00:01:25.335 --> 00:01:28.004
"Reverend Al, why do you
make everything about race?"

00:01:28.004 --> 00:01:30.799
The white media has painted
Reverend Al Sharpton

00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:32.759
with a broad stroke.

00:01:32.759 --> 00:01:36.971
The Black media rejects
this negative image.

00:01:36.971 --> 00:01:41.559
And the Black question
that's just as troubling is,

00:01:41.559 --> 00:01:43.603
"Why are you doin' that?
Ain't nothin' gonna change."

00:01:43.603 --> 00:01:44.729
And that's the price you pay

00:01:44.729 --> 00:01:46.439
or that's the price
you want to pay?

00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.441
That's the price you pay
for being someone

00:01:48.441 --> 00:01:51.319
that gets involved in
a high-profile fight

00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:52.695
all for things
you believe in.

00:01:52.695 --> 00:01:57.200
It's somewhere between
these two questions

00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.413
that I've had to do
a lot of my work in activism.

00:02:02.413 --> 00:02:04.582
Many people in the
Black community see him

00:02:04.582 --> 00:02:10.130
as reflecting the spirit of such
men as Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey,

00:02:10.130 --> 00:02:13.383
Dr. King, and his mentor,
Adam Clayton Powell.

00:02:13.383 --> 00:02:15.301
[Female interviewer]:
You're a civil rights leader.

00:02:15.301 --> 00:02:18.054
And then there's this other
side of you, you know?

00:02:18.054 --> 00:02:19.681
You live in a fancy place--

00:02:19.681 --> 00:02:22.183
First of all, I don't see
that as a contradiction.

00:02:22.183 --> 00:02:23.768
We fought for access.

00:02:23.768 --> 00:02:26.396
I think he's in the
civil rights business.

00:02:26.396 --> 00:02:28.982
I don't think he's a
civil rights leader.

00:02:28.982 --> 00:02:33.653
To explain to whites that
every Black born in America

00:02:33.653 --> 00:02:36.656
is born into
"it's all about race."

00:02:36.656 --> 00:02:41.035
[string music]

00:03:00.263 --> 00:03:05.518
The story of the lion and the hunter would be a lot different

00:03:05.518 --> 00:03:09.647
if the lion could
read and write.

00:03:09.647 --> 00:03:11.816
My fellow Americans,

00:03:11.816 --> 00:03:17.530
I am about to sign into law
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

00:03:17.530 --> 00:03:20.283
The reason the hunter
always comes off glorious

00:03:20.283 --> 00:03:22.202
is he's the one that
writes the story.

00:03:22.202 --> 00:03:25.413
Let us close the springs
of racial poison.

00:03:25.413 --> 00:03:28.041
[Sharpton]: The lion is
always depicted as less than

00:03:28.041 --> 00:03:29.209
what he is.

00:03:29.209 --> 00:03:33.588
Let us lay aside
irrelevant differences

00:03:33.588 --> 00:03:35.298
and make our nation whole.

00:03:35.298 --> 00:03:38.384
And that has been the
problem with many of us...

00:03:42.222 --> 00:03:45.516
...that have fought the
system in various ways.

00:03:45.516 --> 00:03:51.147
[indistinct chatter]

00:03:52.899 --> 00:03:54.734
But the system writes the story.

00:03:56.527 --> 00:03:57.904
[Male reporter]: In
more than 100 cities,

00:03:57.904 --> 00:03:59.239
violence broke out.

00:03:59.239 --> 00:04:00.573
[Male reporter]:
Detroit is afire.

00:04:00.573 --> 00:04:04.160
100 square blocks
are now under siege.

00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:09.165
Looting, murder, and arson have
nothing to do with civil rights.

00:04:09.165 --> 00:04:11.960
We've legitimatized
opposition to the police

00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.713
and disobendience to the law.

00:04:16.047 --> 00:04:18.132
Shoot me, goddamn it!

00:04:18.132 --> 00:04:19.550
Dr. Martin Luther King

00:04:19.550 --> 00:04:21.928
has been shot to death
in Memphis, Tennessee.

00:04:21.928 --> 00:04:23.179
[Male reporter]: What effect
Martin Luther King's death

00:04:23.179 --> 00:04:24.597
has had on you?

00:04:24.597 --> 00:04:28.184
They're bending over
backwards to idolize him.

00:04:29.102 --> 00:04:30.937
-[Man]: I am!
-[Crowd]: I am!

00:04:30.937 --> 00:04:32.522
-Somebody!
-[Crowd]: Somebody!

00:04:32.522 --> 00:04:34.274
-I am!
-I am!

00:04:34.274 --> 00:04:35.858
-[Crowd]: I am!
-Somebody!

00:04:35.858 --> 00:04:38.653
I stand before you
today as a candidate

00:04:38.653 --> 00:04:40.405
for the Democratic nomination

00:04:40.405 --> 00:04:43.283
for the presidency of the
United States of America.

00:04:43.283 --> 00:04:44.450
[applause]

00:04:44.450 --> 00:04:47.120
I am not the candidate
of Black America,

00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:49.664
although I am Black and proud.

00:04:49.664 --> 00:04:52.750
The way to end
discrimination against some

00:04:52.750 --> 00:04:55.753
is not to begin
discrimination against others.

00:04:55.753 --> 00:04:57.588
[Male reporter]: New York
City has more racial tensions

00:04:57.588 --> 00:04:59.799
than any other American city.

00:04:59.799 --> 00:05:02.343
Goetz shot four
young men on the subway.

00:05:02.343 --> 00:05:03.720
The shootings on the
crime-ridden

00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.014
transportation system
touched off a wide debate,

00:05:06.014 --> 00:05:07.682
with some calling
the man a hero.

00:05:07.682 --> 00:05:09.934
Reverend Sharpton is
a relatively new face

00:05:09.934 --> 00:05:11.519
among New York activists,

00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.521
and is asking the US Attorney
to have Goetz indicted

00:05:13.521 --> 00:05:16.190
on charges of violating the
young men's civil rights.

00:05:16.190 --> 00:05:18.568
Every time we come into a case,

00:05:18.568 --> 00:05:19.819
the first thing we have to do

00:05:19.819 --> 00:05:23.823
is fight the wrong
narrative of the story.

00:05:23.823 --> 00:05:25.700
The issue here is
there was no mugging.

00:05:25.700 --> 00:05:26.868
They talk about subway punks?

00:05:26.868 --> 00:05:30.121
Nobody proved they
were subway punks.

00:05:30.121 --> 00:05:34.792
They would try to criminalize
and demonize the victim.

00:05:34.792 --> 00:05:38.296
The issue here is there was
an illusion in his mind,

00:05:38.296 --> 00:05:40.298
that he have a right to shoot
people with that illusion.

00:05:40.298 --> 00:05:41.466
[Male reporter]: Were
there racial slurs?

00:05:41.466 --> 00:05:42.925
No, there were no racial slurs.

00:05:42.925 --> 00:05:44.844
[Male reporter]: Did anybody
say "nigger," the word?

00:05:44.844 --> 00:05:46.220
Maybe the word
"nigger" was said.

00:05:46.220 --> 00:05:47.722
If they behaved themsleves
in this neighborhood,

00:05:47.722 --> 00:05:49.974
maybe they could walk
the streets and be free.

00:05:49.974 --> 00:05:52.518
Is your community
racist, yes or no?

00:05:52.518 --> 00:05:54.896
[Al Sharpton]: Every
fight that I've fought

00:05:54.896 --> 00:05:57.565
to use for a bigger issue,
'cause people don't understand

00:05:57.565 --> 00:05:59.859
that it's not just the case.

00:05:59.859 --> 00:06:02.070
Is the criminal justice
system working for people?

00:06:02.070 --> 00:06:03.029
[shouts of "No!"]

00:06:03.029 --> 00:06:04.113
Eleanor Bumpurs,
Michael Stewart.

00:06:04.113 --> 00:06:07.158
Nobody went to jail on any case.

00:06:07.158 --> 00:06:09.577
You are, though, a media animal.

00:06:09.577 --> 00:06:11.871
If you're an activist,
the media is a tool

00:06:11.871 --> 00:06:13.122
to get your message across.

00:06:13.122 --> 00:06:17.335
We've got to turn these
stations upside down!

00:06:17.335 --> 00:06:19.921
They like to fight,
so let's fight!

00:06:19.921 --> 00:06:22.340
We demand a special prosecutor.

00:06:22.340 --> 00:06:23.716
Special prosecutor.

00:06:23.716 --> 00:06:25.885
We need a permanent
special prosecutor

00:06:25.885 --> 00:06:28.805
to investigate racial crime.

00:06:28.805 --> 00:06:34.727
Sometimes you have to be
loud to let people know

00:06:34.727 --> 00:06:36.187
that is not the real story.

00:06:36.187 --> 00:06:38.439
You people are
making it racist.

00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.108
No one looked at it that way

00:06:40.108 --> 00:06:42.568
until you people started
to brainwash people.

00:06:42.568 --> 00:06:43.778
[Sharpton]: We must
deal with reality.

00:06:43.778 --> 00:06:46.614
Either we have a racial problem

00:06:46.614 --> 00:06:50.660
or Black people have a
mass hallucination going.

00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:53.746
All of our lives
you had to fight

00:06:53.746 --> 00:06:56.416
to make sure that you
controlled the story.

00:06:56.416 --> 00:06:58.876
And I want the folks at CBS to know,

00:06:58.876 --> 00:07:01.170
if you can't tell
the story right,

00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:03.131
don't tell it all!

00:07:03.131 --> 00:07:05.675
One of these days I'm going in the door,

00:07:05.675 --> 00:07:07.593
and I'm gonna give 'em the news.

00:07:07.593 --> 00:07:09.053
Al Sharpton has
some photographers

00:07:09.053 --> 00:07:13.015
who are videotaping us as
we are being videotaped for you.

00:07:13.015 --> 00:07:14.809
We don't know exactly what
purpose it'll be used for,

00:07:14.809 --> 00:07:16.185
but we do wanna make note of it.

00:07:17.645 --> 00:07:21.232
Because whoever wrote
the story is gonna write it

00:07:21.232 --> 00:07:23.067
and slant it their way.

00:07:23.067 --> 00:07:28.322
[string music]

00:07:30.783 --> 00:07:34.704
[city traffic]

00:07:36.581 --> 00:07:39.083
[funk music]

00:07:39.083 --> 00:07:43.796
Whatever you do, Reverend Al told you personally,

00:07:43.796 --> 00:07:45.339
keep it real.

00:07:45.339 --> 00:07:47.008
Keep it real.

00:07:47.008 --> 00:07:48.968
Keep it real!

00:07:48.968 --> 00:07:50.303
Talk to you tomorrow.

00:07:55.558 --> 00:07:57.602
Alrighty.

00:08:03.858 --> 00:08:06.861
Good evening and welcome
to PoliticsNation.

00:08:06.861 --> 00:08:08.988
As the impeachment inquiry

00:08:08.988 --> 00:08:12.700
into President Trump's
abuses of power continues,

00:08:12.700 --> 00:08:16.329
2020 candidates will
have to thread the needle

00:08:16.329 --> 00:08:18.956
while campaigning with voters.

00:08:18.956 --> 00:08:20.458
You and I may
disagree on politics,

00:08:20.458 --> 00:08:23.169
but you're one of
the smart analysts

00:08:23.169 --> 00:08:25.046
and observers of politics.

00:08:25.046 --> 00:08:27.632
If the president is impeached,

00:08:27.632 --> 00:08:30.927
how will it affect the 2020
election, general election?

00:08:32.011 --> 00:08:33.262
Well, thank you,
Al, for the kind words--

00:08:33.262 --> 00:08:35.264
I think you've got
happy birthday cheer

00:08:35.264 --> 00:08:36.599
overflowing in your cup, there.

00:08:36.599 --> 00:08:39.018
I appreciate that. Um, I--

00:08:39.018 --> 00:08:40.353
[car horn honks]

00:08:43.523 --> 00:08:46.359
Right, after the
TV show Saturday.

00:08:46.359 --> 00:08:48.027
What I'm
trying to say is

00:08:48.027 --> 00:08:51.405
I want to do the TV show
from 30 Rock Saturday,

00:08:51.405 --> 00:08:53.157
go down to and
speak at Howard,

00:08:53.157 --> 00:08:56.327
and fly back and do the TV show
again from 30 Rock Saturday.

00:08:59.121 --> 00:09:00.331
-Appreciate you, Rev.
-Thank you.

00:09:00.331 --> 00:09:02.708
-Keep fighting.
-I'm gonna try.

00:09:03.501 --> 00:09:05.419
-[Sharpton]: Hey.
-Happy birthday.

00:09:05.419 --> 00:09:07.338
What's up?

00:09:07.338 --> 00:09:09.090
Everything good?

00:09:09.090 --> 00:09:10.383
65, Doc.

00:09:10.383 --> 00:09:11.676
[laughing]

00:09:11.676 --> 00:09:15.596
You're going to my--your
first Grandpa's birthday.

00:09:15.596 --> 00:09:18.099
Happy Birthday, Grandpapa!

00:09:18.099 --> 00:09:19.892
You lookin' in the camera?

00:09:19.892 --> 00:09:22.103
You like cameras already, huh?

00:09:24.355 --> 00:09:26.691
This is for the
Democratic debate?

00:09:26.691 --> 00:09:28.109
[Woman]: Yes.

00:09:28.109 --> 00:09:30.403
It's the only one that
looks pretty decent.

00:09:30.403 --> 00:09:33.364
[Sharpton]: Well,
let's go with it.

00:09:39.412 --> 00:09:41.706
[siren wailing]

00:09:41.706 --> 00:09:43.541
[phone ringing]

00:09:57.972 --> 00:09:59.265
[Female reporter]: What's
so special about having

00:09:59.265 --> 00:10:02.435
some of your famous
friends here tonight?

00:10:02.435 --> 00:10:04.520
[Sharpton]: It's always good
to have these kind of people

00:10:04.520 --> 00:10:05.896
wish you a happy birthday.

00:10:05.896 --> 00:10:08.649
We fight a lot.
We struggle a lot.

00:10:08.649 --> 00:10:12.737
And for them to find some
value in our work is important,

00:10:12.737 --> 00:10:15.448
especially now in this
day of Donald Trump,

00:10:15.448 --> 00:10:18.868
where a lot of what
we have fought for is at risk.

00:10:18.868 --> 00:10:20.745
It's time for all of
us to come together

00:10:20.745 --> 00:10:22.580
and really show we're
gonna stand together

00:10:22.580 --> 00:10:24.790
and protect voting rights
and civil rights.

00:10:24.790 --> 00:10:26.042
♪ One, two, three, four ♪

00:10:26.042 --> 00:10:27.918
[James Brown's Get Up plays]

00:10:27.918 --> 00:10:29.462
♪ Get up, get on up ♪

00:10:30.129 --> 00:10:32.298
♪ Get up, get on up ♪

00:10:32.298 --> 00:10:33.966
♪ Stay on the scene, get on up ♪

00:10:33.966 --> 00:10:36.260
♪ Like a sex machine,
get on up ♪

00:10:37.094 --> 00:10:38.596
[Man]: I watched you on television, you're great.

00:10:38.596 --> 00:10:41.307
I mean, really,
really--you're really good.

00:10:41.307 --> 00:10:43.142
[Sharpton]: There's one
of the Central Park 5.

00:10:43.142 --> 00:10:45.978
[overlapping voices]

00:10:47.313 --> 00:10:48.939
[Sharpton]: Randall,
let him know

00:10:48.939 --> 00:10:51.609
I'm mic'ed for a documentary,
so don't say nothin' stupid.

00:10:55.821 --> 00:10:57.573
That's right!

00:10:57.573 --> 00:10:59.116
[Sharpton]: I raised you well.

00:10:59.116 --> 00:11:01.202
[laughs] Birthday boy!

00:11:02.036 --> 00:11:03.371
Thanks for coming.

00:11:03.371 --> 00:11:04.664
You know what I was thinking?

00:11:04.664 --> 00:11:06.457
-We're still here.
-We're still here.

00:11:06.457 --> 00:11:08.459
Man, we're still kicking.

00:11:08.459 --> 00:11:10.252
[applause]

00:11:10.252 --> 00:11:11.921
[Chuck Schumer]:
Raise your glasses

00:11:11.921 --> 00:11:14.632
to the great and
wonderful birthday

00:11:14.632 --> 00:11:17.426
of Reverend Al Sharpton!

00:11:17.426 --> 00:11:20.471
[cheers and applause]

00:11:20.471 --> 00:11:22.390
I wanna say a few things.

00:11:22.390 --> 00:11:28.396
First, we know how much he
has done to defend civil rights,

00:11:28.396 --> 00:11:31.941
to defend the America
of its highest ideals.

00:11:31.941 --> 00:11:34.151
Are you in any way predicting
a long, hot summer?

00:11:34.151 --> 00:11:35.528
You're not predicting
urban strife.

00:11:35.528 --> 00:11:37.988
You're not predicting
disorder, or anything like that?

00:11:37.988 --> 00:11:39.740
Well, what I'm
saying is, you know,

00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:42.451
at home, you have an oven.

00:11:42.451 --> 00:11:44.245
You have flames on
top of the oven.

00:11:44.245 --> 00:11:46.288
And then there's
heat in the oven.

00:11:46.288 --> 00:11:49.750
We always discuss whether
there'll be a flame on the top,

00:11:49.750 --> 00:11:53.212
and don't discuss that it's
already 600 degrees inside.

00:11:53.212 --> 00:11:56.215
And he has been
relentless in doing that

00:11:56.215 --> 00:11:58.801
for close to 50 years.

00:11:58.801 --> 00:12:00.636
[cheers and applause]

00:12:00.636 --> 00:12:03.472
I'm not concerned as much
about a long, hot summer,

00:12:03.472 --> 00:12:05.558
because it's been
a long, hot winter.

00:12:05.558 --> 00:12:07.727
How do we cool
the long oven out?

00:12:07.727 --> 00:12:09.353
Let's not wait for the explosion

00:12:09.353 --> 00:12:11.731
and then just cut
the flames off upstairs.

00:12:11.731 --> 00:12:13.232
Let's put the flame out inside.

00:12:13.232 --> 00:12:15.735
Thank you, James Brown, for being with us again.

00:12:15.735 --> 00:12:18.446
I spent my entire
career working in media.

00:12:18.446 --> 00:12:22.199
I've been at NBC News
for almost 35 years.

00:12:22.199 --> 00:12:26.662
I always tell people, if you
wanna understand the media world

00:12:26.662 --> 00:12:28.706
and how it's changed,

00:12:28.706 --> 00:12:31.959
you follow the life of
Reverend Al Sharpton.

00:12:31.959 --> 00:12:33.377
"Hate on Earth."

00:12:33.377 --> 00:12:34.712
That's how the
New York Daily News described

00:12:34.712 --> 00:12:37.965
a savage racial attack in
New York City last weekend.

00:12:37.965 --> 00:12:39.508
The attack took place

00:12:39.508 --> 00:12:41.093
in a predominately
white neighborhood.

00:12:41.093 --> 00:12:44.096
The victims were three Black
men whose car had broken down.

00:12:44.096 --> 00:12:45.473
[Richard Valeriani]: The
Howard Beach section of Queens,

00:12:45.473 --> 00:12:46.974
where the attack occurred,

00:12:46.974 --> 00:12:48.100
is an almost all-white
working class neighborhood

00:12:48.100 --> 00:12:49.477
near Kennedy Airport.

00:12:49.477 --> 00:12:51.896
And it is known for its
hostility to Blacks.

00:12:51.896 --> 00:12:53.981
The three Blacks were
attacked outside this pizzeria

00:12:53.981 --> 00:12:55.524
after midnight Friday.

00:12:55.524 --> 00:12:57.485
They had walked about
3 miles to the pizzeria

00:12:57.485 --> 00:13:00.571
in search of a telephone
after their car broke down.

00:13:00.571 --> 00:13:02.490
One of the victims,
Cedric Sandiford,

00:13:02.490 --> 00:13:05.075
told the newspaper Newsday
the attacker shouted,

00:13:05.075 --> 00:13:07.077
"Niggers, you're in the
wrong neighborhood!"

00:13:07.077 --> 00:13:09.955
He said he was hollering,
"God, don't kill us!"

00:13:09.955 --> 00:13:11.457
Griffith will be
buried tomorrow.

00:13:11.457 --> 00:13:14.293
Richard Valeriani,
NBC News, New York.

00:13:14.293 --> 00:13:16.754
[camera shutters clicking]

00:13:16.754 --> 00:13:19.006
[police radio chatter]

00:13:31.393 --> 00:13:35.523
[Sharpton unintelligible]

00:13:35.523 --> 00:13:37.983
We must now go to the next step,

00:13:37.983 --> 00:13:39.610
that is vigilence.

00:13:39.610 --> 00:13:40.903
We must be there Monday.

00:13:40.903 --> 00:13:44.740
We must stay on Santucci.
We must not let Cuomo be silent.

00:13:44.740 --> 00:13:47.993
I'm very upset that the
governor is not here tonight.

00:13:47.993 --> 00:13:49.578
The governor comes from Queens.

00:13:49.578 --> 00:13:51.539
The governor hasn't
opened his mouth yet.

00:13:51.539 --> 00:13:54.625
We must not leave here tonight
saying the funeral is over,

00:13:54.625 --> 00:13:57.378
they're gonna have a
race harmony parade tomorrow,

00:13:57.378 --> 00:13:59.463
and whoop-de-doo, we must
say we're gonna be at

00:13:59.463 --> 00:14:01.173
Santucci's door Monday.

00:14:01.173 --> 00:14:03.759
We're going to monitor
the lawyers of the family

00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.804
and Santucci, and make
sure that justice is done.

00:14:06.804 --> 00:14:07.930
This is serious.

00:14:07.930 --> 00:14:10.307
Racism is alive and
well in New York.

00:14:10.307 --> 00:14:12.726
We just buried a boy.
And the only thing he did wrong

00:14:12.726 --> 00:14:15.020
was he was born on the
wrong side of the tracks.

00:14:15.020 --> 00:14:17.064
How do you feel about
the press conference earlier,

00:14:17.064 --> 00:14:20.276
Attorney Maddox to make comments on the allegations?

00:14:20.276 --> 00:14:21.694
[Sharpton]: I heard...

00:14:21.694 --> 00:14:25.406
There was always
these racial incidents

00:14:25.406 --> 00:14:28.117
and racial boundaries.

00:14:28.117 --> 00:14:30.536
We knew not to go in
certain neighborhoods.

00:14:30.536 --> 00:14:35.708
Fights between various segments
of the city and Blacks.

00:14:35.708 --> 00:14:38.043
[police radio chatter]

00:14:38.043 --> 00:14:42.381
When I graduated
junior high school in '68,

00:14:42.381 --> 00:14:43.883
I couldn't go to school
the first two months

00:14:43.883 --> 00:14:47.636
because there had
been a teacher strike.

00:14:47.636 --> 00:14:49.305
The Black Community School Board

00:14:49.305 --> 00:14:52.975
wanted to fire some white
teachers in Brownsville.

00:14:52.975 --> 00:14:56.645
And the teachers had a strike,
closed the schools down.

00:14:56.645 --> 00:14:58.188
[Female reporter]: What kind
of scars do you think

00:14:58.188 --> 00:14:59.315
this is gonna leave?

00:14:59.315 --> 00:15:01.358
Yes, there will be scars.

00:15:01.358 --> 00:15:03.444
The teachers must
realize that

00:15:03.444 --> 00:15:05.738
the communities must be heard.

00:15:05.738 --> 00:15:10.159
This kind of trauma
and back-and-forth

00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.494
was the climate in New York.

00:15:12.494 --> 00:15:13.662
[Ed Koch]: Good morning!

00:15:13.662 --> 00:15:16.165
I'm Ed Koch running for mayor.

00:15:16.165 --> 00:15:17.291
I need your help.

00:15:17.291 --> 00:15:18.959
Nice to say hello.
How am I doing?

00:15:18.959 --> 00:15:21.295
[Sharpton]: In the '80s, Ed Koch

00:15:21.295 --> 00:15:25.007
immediately cut a lot of
the programs

00:15:25.007 --> 00:15:26.842
that serviced our community.

00:15:26.842 --> 00:15:28.052
We had Neighborhood Youth Corps.

00:15:28.052 --> 00:15:30.512
We had Manpower Training
and Development.

00:15:30.512 --> 00:15:31.931
We had Model Cities.

00:15:31.931 --> 00:15:34.516
Many of these things
Adam Clayton Powell had

00:15:34.516 --> 00:15:38.020
put through Congress called
the Anti-Poverty Programs.

00:15:38.020 --> 00:15:41.815
Koch would run around, talking
about they're poverty pimps.

00:15:41.815 --> 00:15:44.360
They're misusing public funds.

00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:46.737
If we had given
to the poor people

00:15:46.737 --> 00:15:49.323
all the money that
we had appropriated

00:15:49.323 --> 00:15:52.701
for the poor people,
the poor would be rich!

00:15:52.701 --> 00:15:56.455
Instead, we allowed
poverty pimps to skim it off.

00:15:56.455 --> 00:16:01.418
And he was a Democrat,
but he could play to that side.

00:16:01.418 --> 00:16:03.170
And that created tension.

00:16:03.170 --> 00:16:06.090
[chanting]

00:16:06.090 --> 00:16:10.135
[Sharpton]: That led all the
way up to Bernhard Goetz, '84.

00:16:10.135 --> 00:16:12.763
'85 was the mayor's race.

00:16:12.763 --> 00:16:15.349
And '86 was Howard Beach.

00:16:15.349 --> 00:16:20.229
And I barely went home
to change clothes since then.

00:16:20.229 --> 00:16:21.730
[chuckles]

00:16:24.024 --> 00:16:25.776
[Man]: We know how
Howard Beach are.

00:16:25.776 --> 00:16:27.152
Howard Beach is no joke!

00:16:27.152 --> 00:16:29.196
They never welcomed Black
people in this neighborhood.

00:16:29.196 --> 00:16:31.532
See a Black person,
a colored person,

00:16:31.532 --> 00:16:34.076
first thing is you
yell at them, you know?

00:16:34.076 --> 00:16:35.995
This is the way it is
in this neighborhood.

00:16:35.995 --> 00:16:37.579
We had great leaders
in New York--

00:16:37.579 --> 00:16:39.748
Adam Powell, Malcolm X, and all.

00:16:39.748 --> 00:16:43.919
But I wanted to expose
what they spoke about.

00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:47.089
Black is beautiful.
Black is beautiful.

00:16:47.089 --> 00:16:52.511
We're gonna walk side by
side with you or through you,

00:16:52.511 --> 00:16:56.015
it's gotta be with
dignity and integrity!

00:16:56.015 --> 00:16:58.392
We don't want any
more than you have,

00:16:58.392 --> 00:17:01.145
and we're not gonna accept
any less than you have.

00:17:01.145 --> 00:17:03.480
It's one thing to
have a great orator

00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.359
that talks about the wickedness,
the hatred of people.

00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.946
It's another thing for you
to make them put them lens

00:17:10.946 --> 00:17:14.658
and show these guys
calling you a nigger

00:17:14.658 --> 00:17:16.493
in New York City, in the '80s.

00:17:16.493 --> 00:17:20.122
[shouts of "Nigger!"]

00:17:21.206 --> 00:17:21.999
Racism, huh?

00:17:21.999 --> 00:17:23.417
Tell the fucker go home.

00:17:23.417 --> 00:17:25.669
-Go home, niggers!
-No media, go home!

00:17:25.669 --> 00:17:27.463
This is who they are.

00:17:27.463 --> 00:17:30.424
This is who keeps us from
going to good schools.

00:17:30.424 --> 00:17:32.551
This is who makes us have

00:17:32.551 --> 00:17:35.387
certain levels of
employment we couldn't get.

00:17:35.387 --> 00:17:36.764
This is who they really are.

00:17:36.764 --> 00:17:40.809
This is your street? Fuck you!
White street, white street, white street!

00:17:40.809 --> 00:17:42.227
[Jesse Jackson]: Given
the racism in the country,

00:17:42.227 --> 00:17:44.396
we are the last hired
and the first fired.

00:17:44.396 --> 00:17:46.106
In times of war, the first drafted

00:17:46.106 --> 00:17:47.983
and the first to die.

00:17:47.983 --> 00:17:50.694
When the nation proper
is underemployed,

00:17:50.694 --> 00:17:54.448
we're unemployed, and then
stigmatized for being that way.

00:17:54.448 --> 00:17:56.992
[Sharpton]: All
of the activists,

00:17:56.992 --> 00:18:00.204
the ones that I've
studied and emulated,

00:18:00.204 --> 00:18:04.333
came at a time when
what we wanted to say,

00:18:04.333 --> 00:18:07.002
people did not want to hear.

00:18:07.002 --> 00:18:09.671
So you had to be loud

00:18:09.671 --> 00:18:13.884
because you were not invited
to address the public.

00:18:13.884 --> 00:18:15.344
Reverend Sharpton has organized

00:18:15.344 --> 00:18:18.138
a youth rally for tomorrow
afternoon in Howard Beach.

00:18:18.138 --> 00:18:20.724
He says it's to show the
public that young Black men

00:18:20.724 --> 00:18:22.976
have the right to
peacefully demonstrate

00:18:22.976 --> 00:18:26.688
in the predominantly
white section of Howard Beach.

00:18:26.688 --> 00:18:28.190
[Man]: I want you
to start assembling

00:18:28.190 --> 00:18:31.443
so we can start distributing
the armbands to the marchers.

00:18:31.443 --> 00:18:33.362
[Sharpton]:
I could've made a speech,

00:18:33.362 --> 00:18:35.656
but I decided we'd go out there

00:18:35.656 --> 00:18:38.408
and let them make
the speech for me.

00:18:38.408 --> 00:18:39.785
[indistinct chatter]

00:18:42.538 --> 00:18:43.831
That's my personal opinion.

00:18:47.126 --> 00:18:49.169
No, no.
Don't put words in my mouth.

00:18:49.169 --> 00:18:50.295
I'm not saying that.

00:18:52.047 --> 00:18:54.925
I'm just saying they had
no business at that time,

00:18:54.925 --> 00:18:56.969
four hours after
their car breaks down,

00:18:56.969 --> 00:18:59.012
to be eating pizza over there.

00:18:59.012 --> 00:19:02.349
Just because this is Howard
Beach, an all-white community,

00:19:02.349 --> 00:19:04.977
the media is what caused all of this!

00:19:06.478 --> 00:19:09.231
[crowd shouts
"Equal rights for whites!"]

00:19:12.442 --> 00:19:16.113
[chanting "Howard Beach have you
heard, this is not Johannesburg]

00:19:23.662 --> 00:19:26.248
[Man]: Fucking bullshit!

00:19:26.248 --> 00:19:27.833
Peace? You want a piece of us?

00:19:27.833 --> 00:19:29.793
You motherfuckers!

00:19:33.297 --> 00:19:36.341
These are people who are saying
that they are opposed to someone

00:19:36.341 --> 00:19:38.594
being killed by a mob,

00:19:38.594 --> 00:19:41.054
and there's actually community
residents who would come out

00:19:41.054 --> 00:19:43.807
to support somebody
being killed by a mob.

00:19:43.807 --> 00:19:47.394
I mean, that's a kind
of collective insanity.

00:19:47.394 --> 00:19:50.814
That's a whole
community that's nuts.

00:19:50.814 --> 00:19:53.317
Which is what racism does.

00:19:53.317 --> 00:19:55.652
It drives the racists crazy.

00:19:55.652 --> 00:19:57.988
All right?

00:19:58.906 --> 00:20:02.910
We're gonna ask all the people
to be in the green area.

00:20:02.910 --> 00:20:05.037
Please cooperate with security.

00:20:05.913 --> 00:20:07.039
♪ Everybody sing ♪

00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:12.794
♪ Amen, amen, amen ♪

00:20:12.794 --> 00:20:15.255
♪ Remember Michael Griffith ♪

00:20:16.840 --> 00:20:18.717
[Sharpton]: I was baptized
by Bishop Washington

00:20:18.717 --> 00:20:20.802
when I was three.

00:20:20.802 --> 00:20:23.931
The next year is when
I started preaching.

00:20:23.931 --> 00:20:27.267
And I've been
preaching ever since.

00:20:27.267 --> 00:20:28.685
♪ A little bit louder ♪

00:20:29.311 --> 00:20:32.731
All a preacher does is
take biblical stories

00:20:32.731 --> 00:20:37.110
and use the story to therefore
get to the moral message

00:20:37.110 --> 00:20:39.655
or ethical message
they're projecting.

00:20:39.655 --> 00:20:41.990
I transfer that
into social justice,

00:20:41.990 --> 00:20:45.535
whether it is Michael Griffith
being killed in Howard Beach

00:20:45.535 --> 00:20:48.038
or whether it's somebody
choked to death by a cop

00:20:48.038 --> 00:20:50.749
in Staten Island years
later, Eric Gardner.

00:20:50.749 --> 00:20:54.503
It is the story, but the
issue is racial violence.

00:20:54.503 --> 00:20:57.547
But you need the story
to make the issue live.

00:20:57.547 --> 00:20:59.466
[shouting]

00:20:59.466 --> 00:21:04.721
Can we hear now from Reverend-- our singing minister--Sharpton?

00:21:04.721 --> 00:21:07.099
Reverend Al Sharpton.

00:21:07.099 --> 00:21:09.518
Al Sharpton. Brief words.

00:21:09.977 --> 00:21:15.148
Twenty years ago,
World War II ended,

00:21:15.148 --> 00:21:20.570
with one race of people at their
Holocaust saying, "Never again."

00:21:20.570 --> 00:21:25.409
We've heard for 40 years
people remind us of that

00:21:25.409 --> 00:21:29.746
while we have been raped,
while we have been murdered,

00:21:29.746 --> 00:21:33.709
while we have been exploited,
while we have been denied.

00:21:33.709 --> 00:21:38.380
Here we stand in
New York City,

00:21:38.380 --> 00:21:40.090
Howard Beach,

00:21:40.090 --> 00:21:44.344
where people used to come
from the South for opportunity.

00:21:44.344 --> 00:21:47.264
Where people used to
come from the Caribbean

00:21:47.264 --> 00:21:49.308
feeling their problems
would be over.

00:21:49.308 --> 00:21:50.892
Now they don't even know

00:21:50.892 --> 00:21:53.895
if their children can
get home at night--

00:21:53.895 --> 00:21:56.398
not because they
did something wrong,

00:21:56.398 --> 00:21:58.900
but because of the
color of their skin.

00:21:59.735 --> 00:22:02.946
I come today to say
to Governor Cuomo,

00:22:02.946 --> 00:22:06.742
who's been silent during
this whole crisis,

00:22:06.742 --> 00:22:08.577
who hasn't opened his mouth,

00:22:08.577 --> 00:22:10.829
even though he
comes from Queens.

00:22:10.829 --> 00:22:13.373
He's got political laryngitis.

00:22:13.373 --> 00:22:15.584
To Mayor Koch and
the rest of them,

00:22:15.584 --> 00:22:20.047
that we did not have our
children to be target practice

00:22:20.047 --> 00:22:24.051
for some white mobs that
can't behave themselves!

00:22:24.051 --> 00:22:27.012
Never again will
we come and weep!

00:22:27.012 --> 00:22:28.472
We will organize!

00:22:28.472 --> 00:22:30.265
We will go to the precinct!

00:22:30.265 --> 00:22:32.100
We will go to Santucci!

00:22:32.100 --> 00:22:34.144
We will go wherever we got to go

00:22:34.144 --> 00:22:37.939
until you leave
our children alone!

00:22:38.982 --> 00:22:41.443
Next day, front page
of The New York Times--

00:22:41.443 --> 00:22:43.945
they had been ignoring
all of this stuff--

00:22:43.945 --> 00:22:47.657
was us standing in front of
that pizzeria in Howard Beach.

00:22:47.657 --> 00:22:51.912
Howard Beach, have you heard? You are Johannesburg.

00:22:51.912 --> 00:22:55.290
[Sharpton]: It was at that rally
I met Mason and Maddox.

00:22:55.290 --> 00:22:57.084
And they said,
we have a legal strategy

00:22:57.084 --> 00:22:59.753
of noncooperation.

00:22:59.753 --> 00:23:02.005
You keep doing what you doing,
we'll do what we're doing.

00:23:02.005 --> 00:23:04.383
[Male reporter]: Attorneys
Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox,

00:23:04.383 --> 00:23:06.510
representing the
surviving victims,

00:23:06.510 --> 00:23:08.553
says Sandiford
and Timothy Grimes

00:23:08.553 --> 00:23:10.097
would not testify

00:23:10.097 --> 00:23:13.266
until Governor Cuomo appoints
a special prosecutor.

00:23:13.266 --> 00:23:15.310
People know that in this city

00:23:15.310 --> 00:23:18.939
that no white person
has ever been convicted

00:23:18.939 --> 00:23:20.357
of murdering a Black person.

00:23:20.357 --> 00:23:25.112
The argument was that the
local Queens district attorney

00:23:25.112 --> 00:23:28.448
was not gonna indict these kids

00:23:28.448 --> 00:23:31.076
because he did
not want to offend

00:23:31.076 --> 00:23:32.869
the voters in Howard Beach.

00:23:32.869 --> 00:23:35.163
[Female reporter]: Some believe
that Blacks are responsible for

00:23:35.163 --> 00:23:37.040
most of the crime in their area.

00:23:37.040 --> 00:23:40.252
When they rob us, nobody
does anything about it.

00:23:40.252 --> 00:23:42.629
There are white racists,
there are Black racists.

00:23:42.629 --> 00:23:44.506
But the vast majority of people

00:23:44.506 --> 00:23:47.384
in every one of those
groups is decent.

00:23:47.384 --> 00:23:50.554
I think that unfortunately,
Howard Beach was inevitable.

00:23:50.554 --> 00:23:54.224
It's an inevitable result
of a national climate

00:23:54.224 --> 00:23:56.852
of an absence of national
leadership which says,

00:23:56.852 --> 00:24:01.022
people's rights, people's civil
rights, must be protected.

00:24:01.022 --> 00:24:03.024
A lot of white people
can't understand this.

00:24:03.024 --> 00:24:08.071
New York City is the
Birmingham of the '80s.

00:24:08.071 --> 00:24:10.031
[Sharpton]: We felt the only way

00:24:10.031 --> 00:24:14.035
that we would get an
impartial grand jury

00:24:14.035 --> 00:24:18.748
is if someone outside of
the politics of the county

00:24:18.748 --> 00:24:20.500
were to investigate the case.

00:24:20.500 --> 00:24:24.421
If you can't prosecute
the lynch mob for murder,

00:24:24.421 --> 00:24:28.925
the Griffith family does not
want anything less than that.

00:24:28.925 --> 00:24:32.179
Nothing can work, and nothing
can work as it should, at least,

00:24:32.179 --> 00:24:34.306
without Sandiford testifying.

00:24:34.306 --> 00:24:37.934
Why did Dr. King march
from Selma to Montgomery

00:24:37.934 --> 00:24:41.605
when they could've
flown in in an hour?

00:24:41.605 --> 00:24:42.647
[shouting]

00:24:42.647 --> 00:24:44.524
[Sharpton]:
It was that daily walk

00:24:44.524 --> 00:24:47.277
that arrested the
attention of the country.

00:24:47.277 --> 00:24:51.781
People are marching in Alabama
for the right to vote, day one.

00:24:51.781 --> 00:24:53.825
Day three, they're
still marching.

00:24:53.825 --> 00:24:56.244
It was drama.

00:24:56.244 --> 00:24:57.871
[shouting, chanting]

00:24:57.871 --> 00:24:59.498
And I'm bringing
all of this into

00:24:59.498 --> 00:25:01.791
what we were doing in New York.

00:25:01.791 --> 00:25:06.630
The Post called us loudmouths yesterday.

00:25:06.630 --> 00:25:10.342
But I think if the Post understands history,

00:25:10.342 --> 00:25:12.969
They will understand that

00:25:12.969 --> 00:25:15.347
they're putting us
in some good company.

00:25:15.347 --> 00:25:17.599
[cheers and applause]

00:25:18.350 --> 00:25:22.896
We're coming.
The summer is here.

00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:26.233
And we have a new saying.

00:25:26.233 --> 00:25:28.902
-No justice--
-[Crowd]: No peace.

00:25:28.902 --> 00:25:30.904
-No justice--
-[Crowd]: No peace.

00:25:30.904 --> 00:25:32.614
-No justice--
-[Crowd]: No peace.

00:25:33.657 --> 00:25:37.536
We'd finally gotten to where
the legal strategy worked

00:25:37.536 --> 00:25:39.287
as we kept agitating.

00:25:39.287 --> 00:25:41.706
Governor Mario Cuomo appointed
a special prosecutor.

00:25:41.706 --> 00:25:43.375
This is a special episode.

00:25:43.375 --> 00:25:46.002
It has lifted tensions
to a special level.

00:25:46.002 --> 00:25:48.505
It requires a special response.

00:25:48.505 --> 00:25:52.425
And that's what we intend by all
that we have done here today.

00:25:54.636 --> 00:26:00.058
[string music]

00:26:05.021 --> 00:26:06.731
[Man]: So I'm gonna turn
your speaker up a little bit.

00:26:06.731 --> 00:26:07.816
[Sharpton]: Okay.

00:26:07.816 --> 00:26:09.025
[Man]: Okay.

00:26:09.025 --> 00:26:10.860
[Man]: Airing commercial.

00:26:10.860 --> 00:26:12.445
[chatter]

00:26:12.445 --> 00:26:14.197
[Man]: Okay, we're back.

00:26:14.197 --> 00:26:16.491
This Wednesday, MSNBC
and The Washington Post

00:26:16.491 --> 00:26:19.661
are cohosting the next
presidential debate

00:26:19.661 --> 00:26:21.037
in Atlanta, Georgia.

00:26:21.037 --> 00:26:22.330
The event will feature

00:26:22.330 --> 00:26:24.708
the leading 10
Democratic contenders,

00:26:24.708 --> 00:26:29.963
and I will be there front and
center for all of the action.

00:26:29.963 --> 00:26:31.756
-Hi, how are you doing?
-I'm good, how are you?

00:26:31.756 --> 00:26:33.925
I'm all right.
How y'all doing?

00:26:33.925 --> 00:26:35.218
Good, how are you doing?

00:26:35.218 --> 00:26:37.178
-All right, how's everybody?
-Good to see you.

00:26:37.178 --> 00:26:39.347
Did you-- Did you
call Holly and them?

00:26:39.347 --> 00:26:41.182
'Cause I want to go
in the media room.

00:26:41.182 --> 00:26:43.184
-I'm following you?
-Yes, sir!

00:26:43.184 --> 00:26:45.729
Martin!
I think I changed my mind.

00:26:45.729 --> 00:26:48.189
I'm gonna announce tonight
I'm gonna run again.

00:26:48.189 --> 00:26:49.357
[laughing]

00:26:49.357 --> 00:26:51.234
That's not a bad idea.

00:26:51.234 --> 00:26:53.236
[Woman]: We'll send
Yolanda to be your cabinet.

00:26:53.236 --> 00:26:54.362
Cabinet?

00:26:54.362 --> 00:26:56.323
She gonna be on
top of the ticket.

00:26:56.323 --> 00:26:57.407
I'm gonna be--

00:26:57.407 --> 00:26:59.409
[laughing]
--vice president.

00:27:00.994 --> 00:27:03.413
[indistinct chatter]

00:27:05.081 --> 00:27:06.291
We love you in
Savannah, Georgia, man.

00:27:06.291 --> 00:27:08.251
-Thank you.
-You don't come enough.

00:27:10.795 --> 00:27:12.130
-Thank you, sir.
-All right, thank you.

00:27:13.089 --> 00:27:14.466
How are you?

00:27:14.466 --> 00:27:15.925
Marty Baron, Washington Post, how are you?

00:27:15.925 --> 00:27:17.385
-All right, how you been?
-Good.

00:27:18.637 --> 00:27:20.013
You might wanna get the shot.

00:27:20.013 --> 00:27:21.681
They got me sitting between
the chairman of the party

00:27:21.681 --> 00:27:23.099
and the mayor.

00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:25.727
[indistinct chatter]

00:27:30.106 --> 00:27:32.400
[indistinct chatter]

00:27:35.403 --> 00:27:38.198
[Sharpton]: Candidate for
2020 presidential nomination

00:27:38.198 --> 00:27:39.491
Andrew Yang.

00:27:40.450 --> 00:27:42.035
Amy Klobuchar.

00:27:42.035 --> 00:27:43.536
[Amy Kllobuchar]: Thank you!

00:27:43.536 --> 00:27:44.829
Tom Steyer.

00:27:46.790 --> 00:27:48.208
Senator Cory Booker.

00:27:50.251 --> 00:27:51.961
Pete Buttigieg.

00:27:57.217 --> 00:28:00.637
This election is going to be

00:28:00.637 --> 00:28:04.265
one of the most important
in American history.

00:28:04.265 --> 00:28:07.644
And certainly the most
important in our lifetime.

00:28:07.644 --> 00:28:11.272
Voting rights is under attack.

00:28:11.272 --> 00:28:16.403
And this president has put over
150 federal judges on the bench,

00:28:16.403 --> 00:28:19.155
most of who for a lifetime.

00:28:19.155 --> 00:28:22.867
If we don't fight and raise
the level of conversation

00:28:22.867 --> 00:28:26.705
to where it oughta be,
then who's gonna do it?

00:28:26.705 --> 00:28:27.997
That's why I wanted us to hear

00:28:27.997 --> 00:28:29.499
some of the candidates
this morning.

00:28:29.499 --> 00:28:31.835
All of them came to our
national convention.

00:28:31.835 --> 00:28:34.587
But I wanted some to
come and greet us,

00:28:34.587 --> 00:28:38.425
because I still say the strength
of our community, the backbone,

00:28:38.425 --> 00:28:41.094
is and always has
been the Black church.

00:28:41.094 --> 00:28:42.387
[Man]: Definitely!

00:28:42.387 --> 00:28:44.305
[Sharpton]: But Reggie's
preaching this morning,

00:28:44.305 --> 00:28:45.473
Don't let me get going.

00:28:45.473 --> 00:28:46.558
[laughing]

00:28:46.558 --> 00:28:48.309
[applause]

00:28:48.309 --> 00:28:50.019
-[Woman]: Thank you, Reverend.
-Thank you.

00:28:54.023 --> 00:28:55.191
[Reginald T Jackson]:
My brothers and sisters,

00:28:55.191 --> 00:28:59.279
our nation is on
the verge of shipwreck.

00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:01.072
-[Man]: All right.
-[Man]: Yes, sir.

00:29:01.072 --> 00:29:04.617
[Jackson]: And it's
imperative that the Black church

00:29:04.617 --> 00:29:08.997
again be the conscience
of the nation.

00:29:08.997 --> 00:29:10.790
[audience affirming]

00:29:10.790 --> 00:29:15.545
[Jackson]: God did not just
call us to be priestly.

00:29:15.545 --> 00:29:20.508
He also called us
to be prophetic.

00:29:20.508 --> 00:29:26.222
Too many of us are content
just to be priestly.

00:29:26.222 --> 00:29:28.725
We don't wanna rock the boat!

00:29:28.725 --> 00:29:31.686
We don't wanna
challenge the system!

00:29:31.686 --> 00:29:34.606
Maybe they'll give
us a proclamation.

00:29:34.606 --> 00:29:38.151
Maybe they'll invite us
to give the invocation.

00:29:38.151 --> 00:29:41.696
Maybe they'll invite us to
lunch at the governor's house.

00:29:41.696 --> 00:29:46.284
But God has called
us to be prophetic.

00:29:46.284 --> 00:29:48.286
To speak truth to power.

00:29:48.286 --> 00:29:50.872
[applause]

00:29:50.872 --> 00:29:55.210
Brothers and sisters,
2020 is gonna demonstrate

00:29:55.210 --> 00:29:59.464
whether we are
prophetic or pathetic.

00:29:59.464 --> 00:30:04.719
[audience affirming]

00:30:05.678 --> 00:30:09.182
[Jackson]: God wants us
not only to praise him!

00:30:09.182 --> 00:30:11.935
He wants us to serve him!

00:30:11.935 --> 00:30:17.440
That's why I like the name,
the National Action Network.

00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:20.068
We've gotta have some action!

00:30:20.068 --> 00:30:22.362
We gotta go to work!

00:30:22.362 --> 00:30:27.826
We've gotta turn the
world upside down!

00:30:28.409 --> 00:30:30.620
Black leaders are planning
massive demonstrations

00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:32.956
in New York tomorrow to
protest what they say

00:30:32.956 --> 00:30:35.208
is rampant racial violence.

00:30:35.208 --> 00:30:37.627
The demonstrations come
as a decision is awaited

00:30:37.627 --> 00:30:40.839
in a racial attack case that's
getting national attention.

00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:43.258
Richard Schlesinger
has our report.

00:30:43.258 --> 00:30:45.009
[Richard Schlesinger]: One year
after Michael Griffith died,

00:30:45.009 --> 00:30:48.179
a jury is still trying to
decide if a gang of white youths

00:30:48.179 --> 00:30:50.723
chased him to his death
on a busy highway,

00:30:50.723 --> 00:30:53.434
or if it was all just
a tragic accident.

00:30:53.434 --> 00:30:56.354
After 11 days, there
is still no verdict.

00:30:56.354 --> 00:30:58.565
My feeling is that
we're coming to an end.

00:30:58.565 --> 00:31:00.108
[Schlesinger]: Black
activists who have watched

00:31:00.108 --> 00:31:02.902
the trial closely plan a
mass demonstration tomorrow

00:31:02.902 --> 00:31:04.529
to tie up traffic,

00:31:04.529 --> 00:31:08.241
despite a judge's order hastily
issued today to stop them.

00:31:08.241 --> 00:31:09.617
We marched in Howard Beach.

00:31:09.617 --> 00:31:11.035
And we were called niggers.

00:31:11.035 --> 00:31:12.287
They threw sticks at us.

00:31:12.287 --> 00:31:14.038
Nobody gave them a
restraining order.

00:31:14.038 --> 00:31:17.208
No one has been restrained
through this whole crisis

00:31:17.208 --> 00:31:18.877
but Black leadership.

00:31:18.877 --> 00:31:20.503
[Male reporter]: Mr. Maddox,
what's your reaction, sir?

00:31:20.503 --> 00:31:22.213
[Maddox]: The police
department informed us

00:31:22.213 --> 00:31:25.925
that we do not have the right to
freely travel on certain days.

00:31:25.925 --> 00:31:28.553
The First Amendment to the
United States Constitution

00:31:28.553 --> 00:31:30.054
is being trampled upon.

00:31:30.054 --> 00:31:34.058
The nerve of them to use
legal apparatus on the victims

00:31:34.058 --> 00:31:36.895
while they still have not
addressed the victimizers.

00:31:36.895 --> 00:31:40.064
So he can get his best
handcuffs ready for me tomorrow.

00:31:40.064 --> 00:31:42.567
We intend to block the bridges.

00:31:42.567 --> 00:31:44.694
We intend to block
subway trains.

00:31:44.694 --> 00:31:47.238
We intend to block the
Long Island Railroad.

00:31:47.238 --> 00:31:49.699
And we intend to send
Johnson and Ben Ward

00:31:49.699 --> 00:31:52.368
their order back, so the
next time they have diarrhea,

00:31:52.368 --> 00:31:55.121
they can use a box of
Maalox and this order.

00:31:55.121 --> 00:31:56.623
[laughing]

00:32:01.461 --> 00:32:04.589
[chanting]

00:32:09.344 --> 00:32:10.637
[Man]: I want you
to line up behind

00:32:10.637 --> 00:32:12.722
the brothers and
sisters in the front.

00:32:12.722 --> 00:32:15.224
Listen to me very carefully.

00:32:15.224 --> 00:32:18.227
The entire area is
surrounded by the police.

00:32:18.227 --> 00:32:19.771
And there are many who
are not in uniform.

00:32:19.771 --> 00:32:22.649
There are many inside the march.

00:32:22.649 --> 00:32:27.737
Their plan is start a
contradiction in the march.

00:32:27.737 --> 00:32:32.408
If anyone starts any shit in the
march, get 'em out of the march.

00:32:32.408 --> 00:32:36.287
We will not allow them to
deter what we are trying to do.

00:32:36.287 --> 00:32:39.540
And most important,
be courageous!

00:32:39.540 --> 00:32:41.125
Be fearless!

00:32:41.125 --> 00:32:42.669
Don't let anybody down!

00:32:42.669 --> 00:32:44.087
[cheering]

00:32:47.006 --> 00:32:48.174
[whistle blowing]

00:32:48.174 --> 00:32:51.844
[shouts of "No Justice, no peace!"]

00:32:58.393 --> 00:32:59.602
[shouting]

00:32:59.602 --> 00:33:01.980
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!

00:33:03.356 --> 00:33:05.316
Move, move!

00:33:05.316 --> 00:33:07.360
[shouts of "No peace!"]

00:33:17.453 --> 00:33:20.456
[sirens wailing]

00:33:23.543 --> 00:33:26.004
[indistinct chatter]

00:33:31.676 --> 00:33:34.178
♪ Freedom way.
Don't you let Mayor Koch ♪

00:33:34.178 --> 00:33:37.640
♪ Turn you around,
turn you around ♪

00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:39.058
♪ Turn you around ♪

00:33:39.058 --> 00:33:42.979
♪ Don't you let nobody
turn you around ♪

00:33:42.979 --> 00:33:44.439
♪ Keep on walking ♪

00:33:44.439 --> 00:33:49.318
[shouts of "No justice,
no peace!"]

00:34:01.789 --> 00:34:05.251
[shouts of "No peace!"]

00:34:13.051 --> 00:34:15.136
[Sharpton]: We're here!

00:34:15.136 --> 00:34:20.016
This train will not
move until they move us!

00:34:20.016 --> 00:34:24.979
They arrested 214 of
us on false charges.

00:34:24.979 --> 00:34:27.273
So if they can't
ride us fair

00:34:27.273 --> 00:34:28.941
they don't need to ride!

00:34:28.941 --> 00:34:31.778
[shouting]

00:34:33.112 --> 00:34:35.990
[shouts of "No justice,
no peace!"]

00:34:38.117 --> 00:34:41.621
Brothers and sisters...

00:34:41.621 --> 00:34:44.082
This is the most
monumental occasion.

00:34:45.666 --> 00:34:48.836
This is a most
monumental occasion.

00:34:48.836 --> 00:34:51.547
This is the beginning of
a civil rights movement

00:34:51.547 --> 00:34:53.257
in the city of New York.

00:34:53.257 --> 00:34:56.636
Michael Stewart was killed
in one of these tunnels.

00:34:56.636 --> 00:34:58.554
And we are here in his memory.

00:34:58.554 --> 00:35:00.807
We're here in the memory
of Michael Griffith,

00:35:00.807 --> 00:35:02.809
of Yvonne Smallwood,
and all the countless others

00:35:02.809 --> 00:35:05.311
whose lives have been
taken away from us

00:35:05.311 --> 00:35:08.189
by racist oppressors.

00:35:08.189 --> 00:35:10.983
This city will never be
the same after this day.

00:35:10.983 --> 00:35:13.152
For 10 years, for 10 years

00:35:13.152 --> 00:35:15.571
we marched up and
down these streets.

00:35:15.571 --> 00:35:19.117
For 10 years, for 10 years,
we demonstrated.

00:35:19.117 --> 00:35:22.161
So now we've raised it to
the level of civil disobedience.

00:35:22.495 --> 00:35:24.122
You talk bad,
Ben Ward!

00:35:24.122 --> 00:35:25.706
You talk bad, Koch!

00:35:25.706 --> 00:35:29.377
You came in the midnight hours and served us.

00:35:29.377 --> 00:35:31.212
Now we're here to serve you.

00:35:31.212 --> 00:35:32.547
Come on with it!

00:35:32.547 --> 00:35:33.798
We're ready to go.

00:35:33.798 --> 00:35:35.591
We told you we'd be here.

00:35:35.591 --> 00:35:36.759
We're here!

00:35:36.759 --> 00:35:38.219
We ain't taking no more!

00:35:38.219 --> 00:35:39.387
We're fired up!

00:35:39.387 --> 00:35:41.055
We ain't taking no more!

00:35:41.055 --> 00:35:43.057
♪ We're fired up, we ain't
taking no more ♪

00:35:43.057 --> 00:35:45.101
♪ We're fired up, we ain't
taking no more ♪

00:35:45.101 --> 00:35:47.311
♪ Fired up, we ain't
taking no more ♪

00:35:47.311 --> 00:35:48.521
♪ Fired up ♪

00:35:48.521 --> 00:35:50.565
[clapping]

00:35:50.565 --> 00:35:52.233
[Male anchor]:
Echoes of a verdict.

00:35:52.233 --> 00:35:54.277
They rode over New York
and the nation today

00:35:54.277 --> 00:35:56.737
after a jury convicted
three young white men

00:35:56.737 --> 00:35:58.322
and acquitted a fourth

00:35:58.322 --> 00:36:00.908
in the death of a
Black man just a year ago.

00:36:00.908 --> 00:36:03.411
That fatal outburst of mob violence

00:36:03.411 --> 00:36:07.707
etched the words "Howard Beach"
on the nation's consciousness.

00:36:07.707 --> 00:36:09.458
And the anger, white and Black,

00:36:09.458 --> 00:36:11.169
didn't end with
the jury's verdict.

00:36:11.169 --> 00:36:12.420
[Male reporter]: Mason
and other Black leaders

00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:13.963
spent the night in jail.

00:36:13.963 --> 00:36:15.214
They were arrested yesterday

00:36:15.214 --> 00:36:17.717
when a group of
about 500 protestors

00:36:17.717 --> 00:36:19.510
blocked rush hour traffic.

00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:21.929
It was called a Day of Outrage--

00:36:21.929 --> 00:36:25.975
outrage which continued today
despite attempts by city leaders

00:36:25.975 --> 00:36:27.894
to put the best
face on the verdict.

00:36:27.894 --> 00:36:30.271
Mayor Koch says he's not gonna
give any special treatment

00:36:30.271 --> 00:36:32.899
to any of the people arrested
in the Day of Outrage.

00:36:32.899 --> 00:36:36.110
The Day of Outrage,
as they refer to it,

00:36:36.110 --> 00:36:38.613
took place before
the verdict

00:36:38.613 --> 00:36:39.947
in the Howard Beach case.

00:36:39.947 --> 00:36:42.241
They were knocking it,
condemning it, before

00:36:42.241 --> 00:36:43.659
they knew what it was.

00:36:43.659 --> 00:36:46.329
Is that the way to get your way?

00:36:46.329 --> 00:36:49.332
To demonstrate
and to impose yourself?

00:36:49.332 --> 00:36:53.127
'Cause I don't think that's
what Blacks or whites want.

00:36:53.127 --> 00:36:54.670
[Male reporter]: It would
be safe to say, though,

00:36:54.670 --> 00:36:55.838
that you're not hailing
last night's verdict

00:36:55.838 --> 00:36:57.715
as justice in New York City.

00:36:57.715 --> 00:36:59.258
We want to hold comment.

00:36:59.258 --> 00:37:02.637
We have to bury Yvonne Smallwood
tomorrow night in the Bronx.

00:37:02.637 --> 00:37:05.723
28-year-old Black
mother of four children

00:37:05.723 --> 00:37:08.684
beaten to death by New York
City policemen in the Bronx.

00:37:08.684 --> 00:37:11.437
And so we're gonna have
this funeral tomorrow night.

00:37:11.437 --> 00:37:13.522
This struggle of racism and
racially motivated violence

00:37:13.522 --> 00:37:15.566
in New York City
is not over with.

00:37:15.566 --> 00:37:18.069
The Howard Beach verdict
does not end anything.

00:37:18.069 --> 00:37:20.363
[indistinct chatter]

00:37:25.534 --> 00:37:28.496
We have everything
in this movement.

00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:33.292
We have nationalists.

00:37:33.292 --> 00:37:35.753
We have revolutionaries.

00:37:35.753 --> 00:37:37.880
We have people who want to
overthrow the government.

00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:43.427
[shouting, cheering, applause]

00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:46.681
And the reason why we
will continue to have

00:37:46.681 --> 00:37:48.224
everything in this movement,

00:37:48.224 --> 00:37:49.850
because it
frightens white folks,

00:37:49.850 --> 00:37:53.437
when we have everything
in this movement

00:37:53.437 --> 00:37:56.399
[cheers and applause]

00:37:56.524 --> 00:37:59.777
It lets white folks know that
we might be Malcolm today

00:37:59.777 --> 00:38:01.737
and Martin Luther King tomorrow.

00:38:01.737 --> 00:38:04.073
[cheering, shouting]

00:38:08.286 --> 00:38:10.371
[applause]

00:38:10.371 --> 00:38:13.040
Those that oppress us

00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:16.794
had the nerve to
try and advise us

00:38:16.794 --> 00:38:20.840
on how we ought to try
to get free from them.

00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:22.508
[laughing]

00:38:22.508 --> 00:38:25.594
[cheers and applause]

00:38:32.476 --> 00:38:36.105
[Sharpton]: We are
intelligent enough

00:38:36.105 --> 00:38:39.025
not to let you tell us

00:38:39.025 --> 00:38:44.155
what tactics that you
are comfortable with

00:38:44.155 --> 00:38:46.032
to hold us in slavery.

00:38:46.032 --> 00:38:49.201
[cheers and applause]

00:38:49.201 --> 00:38:52.079
[Sharpton]: You don't have
none of us under control.

00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:56.709
[cheers and applause]

00:38:59.587 --> 00:39:02.840
And you will never have
us under control again.

00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.302
[cheers and applause]

00:39:08.262 --> 00:39:10.139
[Sharpton]: That
was at Howard Beach.

00:39:12.058 --> 00:39:14.810
It felt like a victory,

00:39:14.810 --> 00:39:18.022
but you knew
that you won a case,

00:39:18.022 --> 00:39:21.525
not changed the system.

00:39:21.525 --> 00:39:23.069
I'd been in the
movement since 12,

00:39:23.069 --> 00:39:27.114
and I knew the difference
between moments

00:39:27.114 --> 00:39:29.867
and movements that won.

00:39:29.867 --> 00:39:33.162
So it was a good
momentary victory.

00:39:33.162 --> 00:39:38.167
[cheers and applause]

00:39:38.167 --> 00:39:41.420
But I knew there was
no structural change

00:39:41.420 --> 00:39:43.672
in the criminal justice system.

00:39:44.799 --> 00:39:47.718
If you had some advice
for young people,

00:39:47.885 --> 00:39:50.721
what would you tell 'em?

00:39:50.721 --> 00:39:53.557
Well, first thing I'd say,
get yourself together,

00:39:53.557 --> 00:39:56.227
because before you can
get anything else together,

00:39:56.227 --> 00:40:00.856
you gotta get me, I, yourself.

00:40:00.856 --> 00:40:03.567
Hey, that's very short,
but it's very direct.

00:40:03.567 --> 00:40:04.985
We have a young man
in the studio

00:40:04.985 --> 00:40:07.655
who I think is an
astounding young brother

00:40:07.655 --> 00:40:11.325
because of his youth,
he's only 19 years old,

00:40:11.325 --> 00:40:13.119
and he's accomplished a lot.

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:16.330
And he's here to make a
presentation to James Brown.

00:40:16.330 --> 00:40:18.624
And we'd like to welcome
him warmly.

00:40:18.624 --> 00:40:22.294
His name is Al Sharpton.
How about it for Al Sharpton?

00:40:22.294 --> 00:40:25.881
[applause]

00:40:25.881 --> 00:40:29.802
Al is the
national director of...

00:40:29.802 --> 00:40:31.637
-The National--
-The National Youth--

00:40:31.637 --> 00:40:33.222
-Movement.
-Movement, Incorporated.

00:40:33.222 --> 00:40:34.557
-Right, Al?
-That's right.

00:40:34.557 --> 00:40:36.267
And what do we have here?

00:40:36.267 --> 00:40:39.687
Well, we come
to break tradition.

00:40:39.687 --> 00:40:41.689
We know that in the
recording industry

00:40:41.689 --> 00:40:43.232
that they give a gold record

00:40:43.232 --> 00:40:45.651
to those that achieve
a million seller.

00:40:45.651 --> 00:40:48.904
But we view your
million seller, Payback,

00:40:48.904 --> 00:40:51.407
as a Black record,
because it is relevant

00:40:51.407 --> 00:40:54.785
and says many of the things that
young Blacks have tried to say

00:40:54.785 --> 00:40:58.998
and could not musically express
in our own little way.

00:40:58.998 --> 00:41:02.251
And we feel The Payback is sort
of the like the theme song

00:41:02.251 --> 00:41:05.296
of young Black America in 1974.

00:41:05.296 --> 00:41:07.548
[cheers and applause]

00:41:07.548 --> 00:41:10.551
[Sharpton]:
James Brown was the biggest,

00:41:10.551 --> 00:41:15.764
most regarded, legendary Black
star in the world at that time.

00:41:15.764 --> 00:41:21.729
And this was at one of
the lowest points in my life.

00:41:21.729 --> 00:41:23.564
-Where were you born?
-Brooklyn, New York.

00:41:23.564 --> 00:41:25.191
[Charlie Rose]: Yeah,
your dad left you--

00:41:25.191 --> 00:41:26.484
When I was 10 years old.

00:41:26.484 --> 00:41:28.444
[Rose]: And how
does that shape you?

00:41:28.444 --> 00:41:30.070
How have you lived with that?

00:41:30.070 --> 00:41:32.364
Well, it is certainly something

00:41:32.364 --> 00:41:36.327
that makes you reach outside
of your home for male figures.

00:41:36.327 --> 00:41:38.704
I woke up one morning.
My father had left.

00:41:38.704 --> 00:41:43.334
He had left with my stepsister,
and they had a child.

00:41:43.334 --> 00:41:47.630
It impacted me more than
I would admit to myself.

00:41:48.214 --> 00:41:50.758
When my daddy left,

00:41:50.758 --> 00:41:53.469
my mother became
mother and father.

00:41:53.469 --> 00:41:57.681
Sixty percent of young
African children grow up

00:41:57.681 --> 00:41:59.975
with just their momma at home.

00:41:59.975 --> 00:42:02.061
Hello, Rev, this is your mother.

00:42:02.061 --> 00:42:04.939
And I think so very much
every time I hear you speak,

00:42:04.939 --> 00:42:06.690
every time I see you perform,

00:42:06.690 --> 00:42:08.943
every time I see
your lovely work--

00:42:08.943 --> 00:42:11.987
I just think about how
good God has been to me

00:42:11.987 --> 00:42:14.323
now and through the years
that I delivered you

00:42:14.323 --> 00:42:16.575
for these, our people--

00:42:16.575 --> 00:42:21.455
[Sharpton]: I was looking
for a father figure.

00:42:21.455 --> 00:42:26.377
The wisdom of my mother
was she understood

00:42:26.377 --> 00:42:31.131
that if she didn't guide me
around the right male figures,

00:42:31.131 --> 00:42:35.052
that I was, because
of this hunger,

00:42:35.052 --> 00:42:39.098
would seek them out, and it
might be negative male figures.

00:42:39.098 --> 00:42:41.433
-Where did you grow up?
-[Sharpton]: In Brownsville,

00:42:41.433 --> 00:42:43.269
which is probably the
worst part in the city.

00:42:43.269 --> 00:42:46.647
Mike Tyson came out of there.
And you know, I'm 37 now.

00:42:46.647 --> 00:42:48.732
Most--I can't think
of two friends

00:42:48.732 --> 00:42:50.859
that are not either
in jail or dead.

00:42:50.859 --> 00:42:54.280
So when she brought me
to Bishop Washington,

00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.365
and he brought me
to a Reverend Jones

00:42:56.365 --> 00:42:58.117
and a Jesse Jackson,

00:42:58.117 --> 00:43:01.328
that was because she
was smart enough to say,

00:43:01.328 --> 00:43:03.831
he's gonna need
that in his life.

00:43:03.831 --> 00:43:08.210
My father's day is about those
that have fathered our community.

00:43:08.210 --> 00:43:09.253
[audience affirming]

00:43:09.253 --> 00:43:09.962
[Woman]: That's right!

00:43:09.962 --> 00:43:13.507
Those that pay the extra price.

00:43:13.507 --> 00:43:17.720
Those that have done
what needed to be done,

00:43:17.720 --> 00:43:21.432
even when others
were not willing to do.

00:43:21.432 --> 00:43:23.976
I always gave her credit,

00:43:23.976 --> 00:43:29.982
that this uneducated
Black woman from Alabama,

00:43:29.982 --> 00:43:34.069
never studied child-rearing,
never studied psychology,

00:43:34.069 --> 00:43:36.238
but she knew that.

00:43:36.238 --> 00:43:39.491
We got too many
young people in America

00:43:39.491 --> 00:43:42.411
who do not have two
parents to look up to,

00:43:42.411 --> 00:43:44.330
and there's only so
many hours in a day.

00:43:44.330 --> 00:43:46.874
And that problem is
compounded by a young mother

00:43:46.874 --> 00:43:48.917
who is now being unemployed,

00:43:48.917 --> 00:43:51.128
whose job's been given
to international markets,

00:43:51.128 --> 00:43:52.755
who has no daycare help,

00:43:52.755 --> 00:43:54.548
who has no
type of assistance

00:43:54.548 --> 00:43:55.966
from the federal government.

00:43:55.966 --> 00:43:57.593
So he has no role model.

00:43:57.593 --> 00:43:59.386
His mother can't
take care of him.

00:43:59.386 --> 00:44:02.056
He's thrown in the streets
with no educational program.

00:44:02.056 --> 00:44:05.392
He watches television that
gives him a digest of violence.

00:44:05.392 --> 00:44:08.270
And then he's incarcerated
when he takes TV's advice

00:44:08.270 --> 00:44:11.190
and picks up a gun and
plays Have Gun, Will Travel.

00:44:11.190 --> 00:44:14.109
Probably if he had not left
and they had stayed together,

00:44:14.109 --> 00:44:16.570
I would have been a
much different person,

00:44:16.570 --> 00:44:17.946
'cause I probably
would've never known

00:44:17.946 --> 00:44:19.406
the difference of zip codes.

00:44:19.406 --> 00:44:22.409
I would've never saw the
father figure in Adam Powell,

00:44:22.409 --> 00:44:25.829
or Jesse Jackson,
or James Brown.

00:44:25.829 --> 00:44:29.375
[chatter]

00:44:29.375 --> 00:44:32.544
[Sharpton]: And I understood
what a lot of people

00:44:32.544 --> 00:44:33.796
didn't get to understand--

00:44:33.796 --> 00:44:37.966
I knew both sides of
the Black experience.

00:44:37.966 --> 00:44:39.385
There's one thing
about you is

00:44:39.385 --> 00:44:41.470
I know as long as you're
involved, I'm involved.

00:44:41.470 --> 00:44:42.721
I'm committed to
you 'cause I know

00:44:42.721 --> 00:44:44.098
-you're trying to do something.
-Thank you, sir.

00:44:44.098 --> 00:44:45.349
I sure thank ya.

00:44:45.349 --> 00:44:47.226
[Sharpton]: I learned
from James Brown

00:44:47.226 --> 00:44:51.021
that if you really
find your rhythm

00:44:51.021 --> 00:44:55.025
and find what you
believe in and what you do,

00:44:55.025 --> 00:45:00.823
that sooner or later,
the world will cross over to you

00:45:00.823 --> 00:45:03.283
rather than you
cross over to them.

00:45:03.283 --> 00:45:05.703
[siren wailing]

00:45:21.635 --> 00:45:22.928
[phone ringing]

00:46:09.767 --> 00:46:15.063
[vocalizing]

00:46:24.490 --> 00:46:26.116
People have called for
charges to be laid,

00:46:26.116 --> 00:46:29.119
but this crowd is wondering
what does it take.

00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.121
Back before there were video,
they could understand that.

00:46:31.121 --> 00:46:32.539
Now they can't.

00:46:32.539 --> 00:46:34.082
People are calling
it a lynching.

00:46:34.082 --> 00:46:35.667
[Female anchor]: Frustration
over the lack of charges

00:46:35.667 --> 00:46:38.962
against the officers turned
into anger overnight,

00:46:38.962 --> 00:46:41.173
and it all comes as Minnesota
and the rest of the country

00:46:41.173 --> 00:46:44.510
are facing the dual toll
of rising jobless claims

00:46:44.510 --> 00:46:46.345
and cases of coronavirus.

00:46:46.345 --> 00:46:49.473
All you need is probable
cause to make an arrest.

00:46:49.473 --> 00:46:52.059
And there is no reason
why these four policemen

00:46:52.059 --> 00:46:54.228
should not have been
arrested by now.

00:46:54.228 --> 00:46:55.646
[Female anchor]: Protests
breaking out in at least

00:46:55.646 --> 00:46:59.024
140 cities across the country.

00:46:59.024 --> 00:47:03.320
[Male reporter]: The nation
erupted into scenes of chaos,

00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:04.947
violence.

00:47:04.947 --> 00:47:07.074
There are people here who
are really, really angry

00:47:07.074 --> 00:47:10.077
about the systemic issues
that they're talking about.

00:47:10.077 --> 00:47:12.454
As part of Minneapolis
burned last night,

00:47:12.454 --> 00:47:14.414
one of President
Trump's tweets, quote,

00:47:14.414 --> 00:47:17.501
"When the looting starts,
the shooting starts."

00:47:17.501 --> 00:47:19.628
These criminal acts
are not protest.

00:47:19.628 --> 00:47:21.547
They are not statements.

00:47:21.547 --> 00:47:23.799
Does this violence help?

00:47:23.799 --> 00:47:25.008
It doesn't help anything,

00:47:25.008 --> 00:47:27.511
but it lets you know
that they're tired!

00:47:27.511 --> 00:47:30.055
They're tired of being
oppressed, being misused,

00:47:30.055 --> 00:47:32.516
being abused, being
murdered at will!

00:47:32.516 --> 00:47:34.768
What do you mean by
"Justice should be served"?

00:47:34.768 --> 00:47:38.856
I'll leave that to the
justice system to work out.

00:47:38.856 --> 00:47:41.817
There's this tinge
a horrific irony,

00:47:41.817 --> 00:47:45.571
to hear calls for
tranquility and status quo

00:47:45.571 --> 00:47:47.948
when justice has still
not been delivered.

00:47:47.948 --> 00:47:50.909
I'm not gonna pretend
for a millisecond

00:47:50.909 --> 00:47:53.203
to know what it's like to be
a Black person in America.

00:47:53.203 --> 00:47:54.872
I don't.

00:47:54.872 --> 00:47:57.958
But the only thing I do know is
that we all need to do better.

00:47:57.958 --> 00:47:59.042
We need to love more.

00:47:59.042 --> 00:48:01.545
We need to respect more,
do better.

00:48:01.545 --> 00:48:02.880
So part of
what we have to do

00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:05.007
is try to understand
the context.

00:48:05.007 --> 00:48:06.508
[Tucker Carlson]:
Oh, the context.

00:48:06.508 --> 00:48:09.094
And squint your eyes, you said. The context--of course!

00:48:09.094 --> 00:48:11.555
There's a context to
setting fire to McDonald's,

00:48:11.555 --> 00:48:12.931
says Professor Gloud.

00:48:12.931 --> 00:48:16.560
I think that this could
be a tipping point

00:48:16.560 --> 00:48:18.437
to have this conversation.

00:48:18.437 --> 00:48:20.689
But you cannot
have a conversation

00:48:20.689 --> 00:48:22.524
until these officers
are arrested

00:48:22.524 --> 00:48:25.319
and show that we are
dealing on a playing field

00:48:25.319 --> 00:48:28.488
that is even and that
is fair to everyone.

00:48:28.488 --> 00:48:31.408
Without that, it's
talk with no action.

00:48:31.408 --> 00:48:33.160
We don't just need
a conversation.

00:48:33.160 --> 00:48:38.165
We need the implementation
and execution of the law.

00:48:38.916 --> 00:48:40.959
Solidarity and respect.

00:48:40.959 --> 00:48:42.711
All right, thanks.

00:48:50.552 --> 00:48:52.721
[Sharpton]: Tyler's
giving us the planes,

00:48:52.721 --> 00:48:57.059
and--and Robert Smith is
doing the funerals and hotels.

00:48:57.059 --> 00:48:59.811
So whatever rooms you get,
Robert is gonna pay for.

00:48:59.811 --> 00:49:02.606
He told me to lay it out
and he would reimburse me.

00:49:02.606 --> 00:49:05.817
So put the credit card up there. We'll pay for 'em.

00:49:05.817 --> 00:49:08.320
All right, anything
come up, let me know.

00:49:14.409 --> 00:49:15.869
Where am I going?

00:49:20.499 --> 00:49:23.543
[Woman]: If the question comes
from the media about looting,

00:49:23.543 --> 00:49:26.713
we wanted to pass to you
first to set the tone.

00:49:29.216 --> 00:49:32.260
I wanna say I'm sorry
that it's taken this long

00:49:32.260 --> 00:49:33.929
to pass these bills.

00:49:33.929 --> 00:49:38.225
These are bills that
should've passed long ago.

00:49:38.225 --> 00:49:41.895
And I wanna acknowledge the
fact that it should not take

00:49:41.895 --> 00:49:46.817
a murder of a Black man in
Minneapolis to pass these bills.

00:49:46.817 --> 00:49:48.485
These bills should've passed

00:49:48.485 --> 00:49:51.446
after Eric Garner was
murdered in New York City.

00:49:52.322 --> 00:49:54.032
[Gwen Carr]:
We want a federal law.

00:49:54.032 --> 00:49:57.119
And any time
anyone uses a chokehold,

00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:59.162
they are immediately,

00:49:59.162 --> 00:50:02.082
immediately locked up
and charged.

00:50:02.082 --> 00:50:03.834
[applause]

00:50:03.834 --> 00:50:06.044
Don't wait five years like mine.

00:50:06.044 --> 00:50:08.255
My case drug on for five years.

00:50:08.255 --> 00:50:11.633
And after five years,
the DOJ dropped the ball

00:50:11.633 --> 00:50:14.636
and said that they
weren't going forward.

00:50:14.636 --> 00:50:16.847
You may not be going
forward, but I am.

00:50:16.847 --> 00:50:18.974
[applause]

00:50:18.974 --> 00:50:21.977
To those that are
doing violent things,

00:50:21.977 --> 00:50:26.690
don't use George Floyd
and Eric Garner as props.

00:50:26.690 --> 00:50:29.026
If you are one that is a looter,

00:50:29.026 --> 00:50:32.654
don't act like
you are an activist.

00:50:32.654 --> 00:50:36.825
Because a activist goes
for causes and justice,

00:50:36.825 --> 00:50:38.785
not for designer shoes.

00:50:38.785 --> 00:50:40.620
[applause]

00:50:42.831 --> 00:50:45.333
[phone ringing]

00:50:45.333 --> 00:50:50.130
Senator Schumer, it was
the outrage of the day

00:50:50.130 --> 00:50:52.507
to call for militarization.

00:50:52.507 --> 00:50:54.384
You can't say the week
with this president

00:50:54.384 --> 00:50:56.511
'cause he does
at least one a day.

00:50:56.511 --> 00:50:58.346
I'm doing the eulogy
at the funeral,

00:50:58.346 --> 00:51:01.099
the first memorial
service on Thursday,

00:51:01.099 --> 00:51:04.061
and then the one on Saturday,
and the one on Tuesday.

00:51:04.061 --> 00:51:07.147
And I would hope that
we could let this family know

00:51:07.147 --> 00:51:09.858
that we are gonna
see legislative change.

00:51:09.858 --> 00:51:14.821
It's not enough just to keep
showing the activist part

00:51:14.821 --> 00:51:17.491
if the legislative
part is not there.

00:51:17.491 --> 00:51:19.659
What made the
sixties significant

00:51:19.659 --> 00:51:22.704
is with all the marching,
and the drama, and the rallies,

00:51:22.704 --> 00:51:25.457
we got the Civil Rights Act
of '64,

00:51:25.457 --> 00:51:29.294
the Voting Rights Act of '65, open housing of '68.

00:51:29.294 --> 00:51:32.798
We have not had the
legislative response

00:51:32.798 --> 00:51:35.592
to the litany of
cases of policing

00:51:35.592 --> 00:51:37.636
all the way from
Rodney King to now.

00:51:37.636 --> 00:51:39.721
It's time to be able
to translate that

00:51:39.721 --> 00:51:43.058
into legislation,
not just conversation.

00:51:47.646 --> 00:51:49.856
[Schumer]: I'm gonna send
everybody a speech I just gave

00:51:49.856 --> 00:51:51.608
on the floor of the Senate,

00:51:51.608 --> 00:51:53.902
where I was really strong
against the president.

00:51:55.112 --> 00:51:57.989
[Skype jingle]

00:51:57.989 --> 00:52:01.034
[phone ringing]

00:52:01.034 --> 00:52:02.744
Hello?

00:52:02.744 --> 00:52:03.954
[Derrick Johnson]:
Hey, Rev, how you doin'?

00:52:03.954 --> 00:52:06.998
Hey, how you feelin'?

00:52:06.998 --> 00:52:08.667
[Johnson]: I'm good,
I'm good, I'm good.

00:52:08.667 --> 00:52:11.837
I wanna start by saying
that the way you maneuver, man,

00:52:11.837 --> 00:52:15.048
I'm loving it.
I've watched it, I'm learning.

00:52:15.048 --> 00:52:19.761
Uh, I need to get some lessons
'cause you--you damn good.

00:52:19.761 --> 00:52:22.556
Well, coming from the
president of the NAACP,

00:52:22.556 --> 00:52:24.641
I take it as a
compliment, Derrick.

00:52:24.641 --> 00:52:27.769
Well, America, we are
about to open the door

00:52:27.769 --> 00:52:30.438
on our beloved city
called New York.

00:52:30.438 --> 00:52:33.525
Mr. Sharpton was one
of several arrested

00:52:33.525 --> 00:52:36.945
in a blocking of the
Brooklyn Bridge at rush hour,

00:52:36.945 --> 00:52:40.073
not to mention a couple
of subway trains here.

00:52:40.073 --> 00:52:41.408
[some applause]

00:52:41.408 --> 00:52:43.493
For which he gets an applause

00:52:43.493 --> 00:52:45.370
which does about
a two and a half

00:52:45.370 --> 00:52:48.165
on the old popularity meter.

00:52:48.165 --> 00:52:51.418
So we do 8 minutes...

00:52:51.418 --> 00:52:54.588
and 34 seconds
during the funeral.

00:52:54.588 --> 00:52:56.214
[Johnson]: 46 seconds.

00:52:56.214 --> 00:52:58.133
No, well, I don't know.
You tell me.

00:52:58.133 --> 00:53:00.385
Right before, right after?

00:53:00.385 --> 00:53:01.928
Hold one minute,
hold one minute.

00:53:02.846 --> 00:53:04.222
Hello?

00:53:04.222 --> 00:53:05.348
[Jesse Jackson]:
Hey Al.

00:53:05.348 --> 00:53:07.809
Hey, Reverend,
how are you doing?

00:53:07.809 --> 00:53:09.394
Hold one minute,
hold one minute.

00:53:10.896 --> 00:53:12.772
Yeah, that's Jesse
on the other line.

00:53:12.772 --> 00:53:14.191
Let's get this straight.

00:53:14.191 --> 00:53:18.111
New York now has visible,
politically active Black people

00:53:18.111 --> 00:53:21.865
who are not only speaking,
they are actually causing,

00:53:21.865 --> 00:53:25.327
on some--few
occasions, purposely,

00:53:25.327 --> 00:53:30.248
disruption of our city's life
not unlike the disruption,

00:53:30.248 --> 00:53:32.250
or peaceful demonstrations,

00:53:32.250 --> 00:53:34.419
that were led by
Martin Luther King, Jr.

00:53:34.419 --> 00:53:36.671
[Johnson]: What's the
call to action out of it?

00:53:36.671 --> 00:53:40.592
We're talking about calling
for big march and rally

00:53:40.592 --> 00:53:43.345
on August 28, the anniversary
of the March on Washington,

00:53:43.345 --> 00:53:46.514
as I jump off for voting
registration nationwide.

00:53:46.514 --> 00:53:49.935
We talking about 200-300,000
people in Washington.

00:53:49.935 --> 00:53:51.519
[Johnson]: Yeah,
no, this is your space,

00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.146
this is your space.

00:53:53.146 --> 00:53:56.775
It should surprise no one that
Mr. Maddox, Mr. Sharpton have,

00:53:56.775 --> 00:54:00.195
at various times,
been called hot dogs.

00:54:00.195 --> 00:54:03.198
You're out for
your own publicity,

00:54:03.198 --> 00:54:05.283
and you're just causing
a lot of trouble,

00:54:05.283 --> 00:54:07.452
and you're overdoing
this race thing.

00:54:07.452 --> 00:54:09.913
After all, we're
all God's children.

00:54:09.913 --> 00:54:13.083
Let's hold hands and
move on into the future.

00:54:13.083 --> 00:54:14.542
Well, I think--

00:54:14.542 --> 00:54:18.630
I think the charge of hot dogs to be really put to rest.

00:54:18.630 --> 00:54:21.508
If these cases did not exist,

00:54:21.508 --> 00:54:25.470
there would be no reason
for us to come to anybody.

00:54:25.470 --> 00:54:29.015
The media catches us in motion. They don't start the motion.

00:54:29.015 --> 00:54:31.810
And we've been marching long
before the media covering us.

00:54:31.810 --> 00:54:33.228
[applause]

00:54:33.228 --> 00:54:35.355
[Sharpton]: In
the '70s and '80s,

00:54:35.355 --> 00:54:37.732
you had the racy kind of show.

00:54:37.732 --> 00:54:41.736
[jeering]

00:54:41.736 --> 00:54:45.782
The Donahues,
Richard Bey, Morton Downey.

00:54:45.782 --> 00:54:46.908
[jeering]

00:54:46.908 --> 00:54:48.118
Now please zip it.

00:54:48.118 --> 00:54:49.869
We're gonna let
everyone talk tonight.

00:54:49.869 --> 00:54:51.413
And that's what the
loudmouths are for.

00:54:51.413 --> 00:54:53.248
Let these guys talk first.

00:54:53.248 --> 00:54:55.041
You can't debate
first before I give it.

00:54:55.041 --> 00:54:56.835
[Richard Bey]: Well, it's not an answer, it's a story.

00:54:56.835 --> 00:54:58.003
Go on and tell me.

00:54:58.003 --> 00:54:59.421
[Sharpton]:
No, it is an answer.

00:54:59.421 --> 00:55:01.548
What's the difference
between a "fag" and "nigger"?

00:55:01.548 --> 00:55:03.800
You wouldn't sit still
for the word "nigger".

00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:09.055
And sometimes we had
to go on the racy kind of shows.

00:55:09.055 --> 00:55:10.557
No, I won't apologize.

00:55:10.557 --> 00:55:13.268
In the manner in which
I use it, I do not apologize.

00:55:13.268 --> 00:55:14.602
[cheering]

00:55:14.602 --> 00:55:17.814
You just applauded a white
for refusing to apologize

00:55:17.814 --> 00:55:19.441
for using the word "nigger".

00:55:19.441 --> 00:55:22.277
Do you realize
what that does for America?

00:55:22.277 --> 00:55:25.071
[Sharpton]: The polished shows
wouldn't have us on

00:55:25.071 --> 00:55:26.823
'cause they didn't
wanna talk about race,

00:55:26.823 --> 00:55:30.327
and they certainly didn't want
to talk about it to people.

00:55:30.327 --> 00:55:32.495
that were going to
tell them the truth.

00:55:32.495 --> 00:55:36.583
This business of racism is
not new, and it's systemic.

00:55:36.583 --> 00:55:38.168
You have to know that.
You have to know that

00:55:38.168 --> 00:55:40.211
you're even unaware
that you're a racist.

00:55:40.211 --> 00:55:43.631
They would have these guys
that will hoot and howl at you

00:55:43.631 --> 00:55:45.467
in the studio audience.

00:55:45.467 --> 00:55:49.095
And I am sick of
you people promoting racism

00:55:49.095 --> 00:55:50.930
on its highest level,

00:55:50.930 --> 00:55:53.391
and that's exactly
what you're doing.

00:55:53.391 --> 00:55:55.852
[applause]

00:55:55.852 --> 00:56:00.148
So it was that kind of almost
confrontational television.

00:56:00.148 --> 00:56:03.318
You weren't here to help
build up America, most of you.

00:56:03.318 --> 00:56:05.737
Your grandparents were,
right along with me.

00:56:05.737 --> 00:56:08.490
And you wouldn't know
what it is to be Black.

00:56:08.490 --> 00:56:11.284
That's why you can sit up
and say what you're saying.

00:56:11.284 --> 00:56:14.204
You don't know what it is,
and you may never know,

00:56:14.204 --> 00:56:15.705
because you're not Black.

00:56:15.705 --> 00:56:17.040
[Sharpton]: We went
through everywhere else.

00:56:17.040 --> 00:56:18.541
Richard Bey was all available.

00:56:18.541 --> 00:56:22.003
And the question is, you
do that, or you do nothing.

00:56:22.003 --> 00:56:23.797
We're not asking you to like us.

00:56:23.797 --> 00:56:26.841
We're not saying that we should
be protected under the law.

00:56:26.841 --> 00:56:31.096
Whatever America is,
white folks created it.

00:56:31.096 --> 00:56:32.806
We did not.

00:56:32.806 --> 00:56:35.141
It's a combination of
things that created racism.

00:56:35.141 --> 00:56:36.267
[Donahue]: Like what?

00:56:36.267 --> 00:56:37.852
Well, okay, you
have, as you said,

00:56:37.852 --> 00:56:38.978
the whites created the world--

00:56:38.978 --> 00:56:41.272
or created America,
I agree with you.

00:56:41.272 --> 00:56:42.440
[shouting]

00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:43.942
Wait a minute,
can I make my point?

00:56:43.942 --> 00:56:45.443
Can I make my point?

00:56:45.443 --> 00:56:48.571
I am feeling for you.
I am very empathetic.

00:56:48.571 --> 00:56:52.242
But then you had to button down
more sophisticated network types

00:56:52.242 --> 00:56:54.285
that talked very measured.

00:56:54.285 --> 00:56:56.663
It seems to me that part
of what you two gentlemen

00:56:56.663 --> 00:56:58.331
are trying to do is perhaps

00:56:58.331 --> 00:57:00.708
to change the legal
system in the street.

00:57:00.708 --> 00:57:03.211
We're trying to
establish the fact

00:57:03.211 --> 00:57:05.422
that there is a
prevalent racial--

00:57:05.422 --> 00:57:07.257
[Ted Koppel]: My question
was, are you trying

00:57:07.257 --> 00:57:09.426
to change the legal
system in the streets.

00:57:09.426 --> 00:57:10.260
[overlapping voices]

00:57:10.260 --> 00:57:11.469
I'm trying to answer you.

00:57:11.469 --> 00:57:13.388
[Sharpton]: But
had the same basic

00:57:13.388 --> 00:57:15.723
exclusion of Black thought,

00:57:15.723 --> 00:57:20.353
the distorted depiction of race.

00:57:20.353 --> 00:57:23.898
They just did it in
a more polished way.

00:57:23.898 --> 00:57:25.525
[Bey]: This
morning's newspapers.

00:57:25.525 --> 00:57:27.694
Sharpton "The Informer" is
as an entertaining racist

00:57:27.694 --> 00:57:29.779
playing the race game
for fun and profit,

00:57:29.779 --> 00:57:31.948
the way generations of white
Southern racists played it.

00:57:31.948 --> 00:57:33.324
There was a joke going around

00:57:33.324 --> 00:57:34.534
that was in The
Wall Street Journal,

00:57:34.534 --> 00:57:36.369
repeated in Esquire magazine.

00:57:36.369 --> 00:57:38.913
What do you do if you
have Saddam Hussein,

00:57:38.913 --> 00:57:41.291
Muammar Qaddafi,
and Al Sharpton,

00:57:41.291 --> 00:57:43.793
and in your hand is a
gun with two bullets?

00:57:43.793 --> 00:57:46.546
The answer is you shoot
Al Sharpton twice.

00:57:46.546 --> 00:57:49.549
[Sharpton]: So if you go back to
the '80s and '90s in New York,

00:57:49.549 --> 00:57:54.721
and you go to the editorial
room that decided the news,

00:57:54.721 --> 00:57:57.515
they were all white.

00:57:57.515 --> 00:57:59.976
Why would they help
a Black movement

00:57:59.976 --> 00:58:03.730
that they know would come to
get them for racial exclusion?

00:58:03.730 --> 00:58:05.690
The media is really
manipulating people

00:58:05.690 --> 00:58:07.650
to feel and think a certain way.

00:58:07.650 --> 00:58:08.860
Nobody's controlling me.

00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:10.487
Nobody comes down
here and says--

00:58:10.487 --> 00:58:12.071
-[Sharpton]: Come on, Richard.
-[Mason]: You need to wake up.

00:58:12.071 --> 00:58:13.740
You mean you're
doing this on your own?

00:58:13.740 --> 00:58:15.200
That's right!

00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:16.826
Okay, all right.

00:58:16.826 --> 00:58:20.246
[Sharpton]: The way you
discredit a movement

00:58:20.246 --> 00:58:23.416
is you discredit those that
are in front of the movement.

00:58:23.416 --> 00:58:27.086
Former president Truman
was quoted by the AP

00:58:27.086 --> 00:58:30.507
as saying that the march
from Selma was "silly."

00:58:30.507 --> 00:58:32.842
The march was not silly at all.

00:58:32.842 --> 00:58:34.344
[Sharpton]:
Martin Luther King, Jr.

00:58:34.344 --> 00:58:36.679
National holiday in his honor.

00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:38.848
You read books on
Martin Luther King.

00:58:38.848 --> 00:58:41.893
Isn't it interesting they
never say he was indicted

00:58:41.893 --> 00:58:46.022
for income tax fraud and
misappropriation of funds?

00:58:46.022 --> 00:58:47.899
They don't want you to remember
the first thing they did

00:58:47.899 --> 00:58:50.485
was try to make him a crook.

00:58:50.485 --> 00:58:53.446
He had to go on trial
and get acquitted.

00:58:53.446 --> 00:58:56.366
Adam Clayton Powell, indicted
for income tax evasion.

00:58:56.366 --> 00:58:57.867
The gentleman's question was

00:58:57.867 --> 00:58:59.619
that if the case
goes against me,

00:58:59.619 --> 00:59:01.746
could it be used
against me politically?

00:59:01.746 --> 00:59:03.248
You answer him, please?

00:59:03.248 --> 00:59:04.582
No!

00:59:04.582 --> 00:59:07.126
Marcus Gravey ran out
the country for a fraud.

00:59:07.126 --> 00:59:11.464
So either all Black
leaders are crooks,

00:59:11.464 --> 00:59:14.676
or there's the playbook
to discredit us.

00:59:14.676 --> 00:59:18.221
Sharpton is back in the news,
arrested for grand larceny.

00:59:18.221 --> 00:59:19.430
[Female reporter]:
Sharpton appeared in

00:59:19.430 --> 00:59:20.765
Manhattan Criminal Court,

00:59:20.765 --> 00:59:22.684
and with lawyer
Alton Maddox at his side,

00:59:22.684 --> 00:59:24.352
heard the charges against him.

00:59:24.352 --> 00:59:26.729
It's my induction into
the Activist Hall of Fame.

00:59:26.729 --> 00:59:31.442
There was too much evidence
that they knew better

00:59:31.442 --> 00:59:33.444
than what they were projecting.

00:59:33.444 --> 00:59:35.363
They knew that
I started in Breadbasket.

00:59:35.363 --> 00:59:37.073
They did articles on me.

00:59:39.492 --> 00:59:40.910
Cut that part out that

00:59:40.910 --> 00:59:42.787
that he grew up in the
King movement in the north.

00:59:42.787 --> 00:59:45.456
We will not sit by and watch
them shoot 14-year-old boys

00:59:45.456 --> 00:59:47.041
in the streets any longer.

00:59:47.041 --> 00:59:48.835
Start him mid '80s.

00:59:48.835 --> 00:59:50.920
[Female reporter]: Who is
this 33-year-old preacher

00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:52.171
without a church?

00:59:52.171 --> 00:59:54.632
[Sharpton]:
They had to redo me.

00:59:54.632 --> 00:59:57.677
This is just a guy conning.

00:59:57.677 --> 00:59:59.512
You know, he was in show
business with James Brown.

00:59:59.512 --> 01:00:02.432
This is just performance.

01:00:02.432 --> 01:00:05.560
At first, I resented it.
But then I came to understand

01:00:05.560 --> 01:00:07.895
that the people
writing the stories

01:00:07.895 --> 01:00:10.690
was part of the
institutionalized bias

01:00:10.690 --> 01:00:12.650
I was fighting.

01:00:12.650 --> 01:00:14.402
[Male anchor]:
To most white New Yorkers

01:00:14.402 --> 01:00:16.404
and a sizeable number of
Black New Yorkers as well,

01:00:16.404 --> 01:00:19.115
he is little more than
a pudgy exhibitionist

01:00:19.115 --> 01:00:21.868
who can be counted on to
show up, bullhorn in hand,

01:00:21.868 --> 01:00:23.536
at every racial incident.

01:00:23.536 --> 01:00:25.580
So who is Al Sharpton anyway?

01:00:25.580 --> 01:00:28.833
The objective was to stop

01:00:28.833 --> 01:00:32.045
raising the issue of race

01:00:32.045 --> 01:00:35.340
because they were guilty.

01:00:35.340 --> 01:00:39.218
They had made a
intentional decision

01:00:39.218 --> 01:00:41.512
to protect the status quo,

01:00:41.512 --> 01:00:44.265
'cause the status quo
was protecting them.

01:00:50.146 --> 01:00:52.315
[chanting] Stop the rape!
Stop the lies!

01:00:52.315 --> 01:00:54.567
Women of color on the rise!

01:00:54.567 --> 01:00:55.735
Stop your rape!

01:00:55.735 --> 01:00:56.944
Stop your lies!

01:00:56.944 --> 01:00:59.238
Women of color on the rise!

01:01:00.156 --> 01:01:02.075
Good afternoon, everybody.

01:01:02.075 --> 01:01:03.785
I'm really glad to be here.

01:01:03.785 --> 01:01:06.913
I'm here because, like
all of you, I'm pissed off

01:01:06.913 --> 01:01:10.083
and I'm mad as hell at
what's happening to our people,

01:01:10.083 --> 01:01:12.293
to our women, and
to our leaders.

01:01:12.293 --> 01:01:17.173
So this is in support
of our Black sister,

01:01:17.173 --> 01:01:18.341
Tawana Brawley.

01:01:18.341 --> 01:01:22.637
[cheers and applause]

01:01:36.526 --> 01:01:40.029
[applause]

01:02:02.677 --> 01:02:05.680
[applause]

01:02:05.680 --> 01:02:07.390
They're gonna continue
taking advantage of her

01:02:07.390 --> 01:02:09.225
'cause she's Black.

01:02:09.225 --> 01:02:10.935
Since the people are white,

01:02:10.935 --> 01:02:13.563
they're dealing with the
political campaigning,

01:02:13.563 --> 01:02:15.898
they're gonna pay
the white judge,

01:02:15.898 --> 01:02:18.776
and the white judge is
gonna throw the case out.

01:02:18.776 --> 01:02:20.653
But as long as we're
here to fight for her,

01:02:20.653 --> 01:02:22.780
it will not be thrown out.

01:02:22.780 --> 01:02:24.323
[Male reporter]: Last
November, Tawana Brawley

01:02:24.323 --> 01:02:26.701
was found dumped along
a road in Dutchess County.

01:02:26.701 --> 01:02:28.953
She was wrapped in a
feces-covered plastic bag.

01:02:28.953 --> 01:02:31.247
Racial slurs were
scrawled on her body.

01:02:31.247 --> 01:02:33.958
Her family claims that she
was abducted by six white men

01:02:33.958 --> 01:02:36.502
and sexually abused
for four days.

01:02:36.502 --> 01:02:38.004
One of the men
purportedly claimed to be

01:02:38.004 --> 01:02:39.797
a law enforcement officer.

01:02:39.797 --> 01:02:41.632
It was a cop.

01:02:41.632 --> 01:02:43.843
[Female reporter]:
He was a police officer?

01:02:43.843 --> 01:02:45.595
Showed me his badge.

01:02:45.595 --> 01:02:48.014
[Sharpton]: My position
on the Brawley case,

01:02:48.014 --> 01:02:49.849
which was always distorted,

01:02:49.849 --> 01:02:55.229
was that this is a young lady who made an accusation.

01:02:55.229 --> 01:02:57.190
So she deserved a day in court.

01:02:57.190 --> 01:02:58.858
And we promise this family

01:02:58.858 --> 01:03:01.319
that we'll fight until
hell freezes over.

01:03:01.319 --> 01:03:04.405
to get a special prosecutor
to go into the courtroom

01:03:04.405 --> 01:03:06.365
and bring justice
to Tawana Brawley.

01:03:06.365 --> 01:03:09.035
The case is plain.
We need a special prosecutor.

01:03:09.035 --> 01:03:12.038
And that the attorney
general is

01:03:12.038 --> 01:03:14.248
is the appropriate
person to appoint.

01:03:14.248 --> 01:03:19.545
Tawana, I know you have gone
through a traumatic experience.

01:03:19.545 --> 01:03:22.673
I and my colleagues
are here to help you.

01:03:22.673 --> 01:03:24.258
[Sharpton]: The had the
state attorney general

01:03:24.258 --> 01:03:27.970
become the prosecutor, who
I felt was playing politics.

01:03:27.970 --> 01:03:29.806
And at the same time,

01:03:29.806 --> 01:03:32.558
he announced he was
going to investigate

01:03:32.558 --> 01:03:34.435
the funds of National
Youth Movement.

01:03:34.435 --> 01:03:35.895
So I knew that playbook.

01:03:35.895 --> 01:03:38.523
Like they went at
Dr. King's charity.

01:03:38.523 --> 01:03:41.359
Mr. Abrams says he has leads.

01:03:41.359 --> 01:03:43.027
He's made no arrest.

01:03:43.027 --> 01:03:45.488
He's acting as if
only Tawana Brawley

01:03:45.488 --> 01:03:47.907
can give him the evidence
he needs for an arrest.

01:03:47.907 --> 01:03:49.909
[Male reporter]: The family
refuses to cooperate,

01:03:49.909 --> 01:03:53.204
saying the authorities are
only interested in a cover-up.

01:03:53.204 --> 01:03:57.333
I will not give in to
requests for a new prosecutor

01:03:57.333 --> 01:03:59.043
because somebody's
unhappy with Abrams.

01:03:59.043 --> 01:04:01.796
He's the best, as far as
I'm concerned, and that's that.

01:04:01.796 --> 01:04:04.924
You can scream, shout, protest,
lay on the railroad tracks,

01:04:04.924 --> 01:04:06.425
it won't make any difference.

01:04:06.425 --> 01:04:08.052
The story and the controversy
surrounding Tawana Brawley

01:04:08.052 --> 01:04:09.804
gets more and more curious.

01:04:09.804 --> 01:04:12.348
There was a television report
last night that she's lying.

01:04:12.348 --> 01:04:13.558
[Sharpton]: It's
easy to play back,

01:04:13.558 --> 01:04:15.351
oh, Brawley was this or that,

01:04:15.351 --> 01:04:17.770
but nobody ever stops to say,
well, first of all,

01:04:17.770 --> 01:04:21.315
if two prominent
attorneys told the story,

01:04:21.315 --> 01:04:22.692
mother backed it up,

01:04:22.692 --> 01:04:24.986
and the guy prosecuting the case

01:04:24.986 --> 01:04:26.988
is a guy that
also is after Sharpton,

01:04:26.988 --> 01:04:30.950
why wouldn't Sharpton believe
her and not believe him?

01:04:30.950 --> 01:04:32.952
Oh, I got it.

01:04:32.952 --> 01:04:34.912
All young Black girls lie.

01:04:34.912 --> 01:04:36.205
Just make it up.

01:04:36.205 --> 01:04:37.790
Tawana Brawley's
kidnapping and rape case

01:04:37.790 --> 01:04:39.417
has been mysterious
from the start.

01:04:39.417 --> 01:04:42.128
Just like Michael
Griffith and them.

01:04:42.128 --> 01:04:43.421
They said they was lying.

01:04:43.421 --> 01:04:45.006
Television station
reported witnesses

01:04:45.006 --> 01:04:46.883
had placed the Black
teenager at a party

01:04:46.883 --> 01:04:48.676
and accompanied
reputed drug dealers

01:04:48.676 --> 01:04:50.636
at the time she said
she was kidnapped.

01:04:50.636 --> 01:04:54.891
There has been a continuing
journalistic rape

01:04:54.891 --> 01:04:57.685
of Tawana Brawley by
the establishment media.

01:04:57.685 --> 01:04:58.936
The Brawley case
has been marked by

01:04:58.936 --> 01:05:00.271
one strange twist after another.

01:05:00.271 --> 01:05:02.231
The continuing theatrics
often overshadowed

01:05:02.231 --> 01:05:03.649
the alleged crime itself.

01:05:03.649 --> 01:05:05.026
[Female reporter]:
Sharpton dropped

01:05:05.026 --> 01:05:06.277
another questionable bombshell.

01:05:06.277 --> 01:05:07.820
The Reverend Al Sharpton charged

01:05:07.820 --> 01:05:11.032
that a group linked to the Irish
Republican Army is involved.

01:05:11.032 --> 01:05:13.284
It's almost as if the
lawyers themselves

01:05:13.284 --> 01:05:16.120
are saying the facts in this
case don't matter that much,

01:05:16.120 --> 01:05:18.331
because the general
proposition is true,

01:05:18.331 --> 01:05:20.124
that there's
institutionalized racism

01:05:20.124 --> 01:05:21.584
in the criminal justice system.

01:05:21.584 --> 01:05:23.961
Every time we seem to be
getting closer to the answers

01:05:23.961 --> 01:05:26.964
in the Tawana Brawley case,
there are a lot more questions.

01:05:26.964 --> 01:05:29.008
The question of did
I believe Brawley

01:05:29.008 --> 01:05:30.801
is like asking me do I
believe Michael Griffith

01:05:30.801 --> 01:05:33.763
was breaking in the house
that night in Howard Beach.

01:05:33.763 --> 01:05:36.682
I didn't go do an investigation
on either one of them.

01:05:36.682 --> 01:05:39.226
There's enough
prima facie evidence

01:05:39.226 --> 01:05:41.062
to go to court on this.

01:05:41.062 --> 01:05:43.272
And that, guess what?

01:05:43.272 --> 01:05:46.067
Is what all cases in
this country go by.

01:05:46.067 --> 01:05:48.444
Why is it different for us?

01:05:48.444 --> 01:05:51.489
My daughter was attacked
by some white officials.

01:05:51.489 --> 01:05:54.158
I have named them.
She has named them.

01:05:54.158 --> 01:05:56.911
Why don't you get your people
there to pick them up?

01:05:56.911 --> 01:05:59.372
[Mario Cuomo]: Tawana
Brawley I see as my daughter.

01:05:59.372 --> 01:06:02.041
We want a chance to prove
that she will be protected.

01:06:02.041 --> 01:06:03.626
And we will all be protected

01:06:03.626 --> 01:06:05.378
in the protecting
of Tawana Brawley.

01:06:05.378 --> 01:06:08.589
To do that, she has
to cooperate with us.

01:06:08.589 --> 01:06:11.425
The Brawley case was
sandwiched between Howard Beach

01:06:11.425 --> 01:06:12.927
and Central Park 5,

01:06:12.927 --> 01:06:14.679
and we were fighting
all of them.

01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:17.556
More than 30 boys in New York
City went wilding last week,

01:06:17.556 --> 01:06:19.600
and now eight of
them are in jail,

01:06:19.600 --> 01:06:21.310
charged with several attacks,

01:06:21.310 --> 01:06:24.271
including an especially
brutal one on a young woman.

01:06:24.271 --> 01:06:29.777
[Sharpton]: No victim identified
the five boys at Central Park.

01:06:29.777 --> 01:06:32.530
And Brawley, she
made identification.

01:06:32.530 --> 01:06:35.825
We are not going
to let this girl

01:06:35.825 --> 01:06:38.869
be the scapegoat of
a corrupt system!

01:06:38.869 --> 01:06:40.162
Mason and Maddox
have obligations

01:06:40.162 --> 01:06:42.248
as officers of the court,

01:06:42.248 --> 01:06:46.377
as well, uh, as attorneys
to Tawana Brawley.

01:06:46.377 --> 01:06:48.129
They have an obligation
to the system.

01:06:48.129 --> 01:06:50.423
They are representing
their own interests.

01:06:50.423 --> 01:06:53.884
They obviously had
a political agenda.

01:06:53.884 --> 01:06:56.846
If he serves a subpoena
on Tawana Brawley

01:06:56.846 --> 01:06:59.015
or any member of her family,

01:06:59.015 --> 01:07:01.017
we are prepared to be present

01:07:01.017 --> 01:07:03.310
to block the serving
of that subpoena.

01:07:03.310 --> 01:07:05.479
They will not appear in
front of a grand jury.

01:07:05.479 --> 01:07:08.065
And we're prepared to
do what is necessary,

01:07:08.065 --> 01:07:09.567
including going to jail.

01:07:09.567 --> 01:07:12.445
As we did with the
original subpoena,

01:07:12.445 --> 01:07:16.490
I ask that Bob Abrams,
that he take his subpoenas,

01:07:16.490 --> 01:07:18.034
he can do what he wants.

01:07:18.034 --> 01:07:20.119
They will have to
arrest us first.

01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:23.622
We had just won a
victory in Howard Beach.

01:07:23.622 --> 01:07:26.625
Had we met at a phone booth
at 125th Street and said,

01:07:26.625 --> 01:07:29.712
let's go upstate
and create a hoax--

01:07:29.712 --> 01:07:31.547
I mean, why would we do that?

01:07:31.547 --> 01:07:34.050
That doesn't make sense!

01:07:34.050 --> 01:07:36.427
The only reason we would
do it is we believed.

01:07:37.511 --> 01:07:39.513
[indistinct chatter]

01:07:40.431 --> 01:07:43.184
You don't want to hear
what Tawana has to say!

01:07:43.184 --> 01:07:46.103
You wanna get this behind you

01:07:46.103 --> 01:07:49.231
so you can go on with
racist business as usual.

01:07:49.231 --> 01:07:52.109
You've got enough
behind you now.

01:07:52.109 --> 01:07:54.987
You done got too
much behind you now.

01:07:54.987 --> 01:07:58.657
And our cups are
filled to the brim.

01:07:58.657 --> 01:08:02.411
Racism has run
over in this state.

01:08:02.411 --> 01:08:07.917
We will not allow any more of
our blood in New York State

01:08:07.917 --> 01:08:09.502
to go unresponded to.

01:08:09.502 --> 01:08:11.921
We're tired of burying folks.

01:08:11.921 --> 01:08:14.882
We're tired of mothers
who we can't explain

01:08:14.882 --> 01:08:17.718
why this is happening to them.

01:08:17.718 --> 01:08:20.346
And you sit up there
and bring a subpoena

01:08:20.346 --> 01:08:23.057
on the mother of
a raped daughter.

01:08:23.057 --> 01:08:24.934
And you expect for
us to sit around

01:08:24.934 --> 01:08:26.769
and talk about how
we're gonna comply?

01:08:26.769 --> 01:08:28.062
[Man]: Right on.

01:08:28.062 --> 01:08:30.940
We cannot honor something
that is dishonorable.

01:08:30.940 --> 01:08:32.942
That's where we stand today.

01:08:32.942 --> 01:08:34.151
We're not entertaining
any questions.

01:08:34.151 --> 01:08:35.402
Thank you.

01:08:35.402 --> 01:08:37.822
[indistinct chatter]

01:08:48.415 --> 01:08:49.708
-[Sharpton]: No justice!
-[Audience]: No Peace!

01:08:49.708 --> 01:08:52.002
-No justice!
-[Audience]: No peace!

01:08:52.002 --> 01:08:57.174
Why is Glenda so
important to us this week?

01:08:57.174 --> 01:09:01.929
Look at the history of
the state of New York.

01:09:01.929 --> 01:09:06.350
No white man has
ever been convicted

01:09:06.350 --> 01:09:09.645
of raping a Black woman in
the history of the state.

01:09:09.645 --> 01:09:11.313
They keep talking every
night on the news,

01:09:11.313 --> 01:09:13.691
[imitates news anchor]
It's been six months!

01:09:13.691 --> 01:09:15.109
They're still angry!

01:09:15.109 --> 01:09:16.986
[laughing and applause]

01:09:16.986 --> 01:09:18.112
Can you believe it?

01:09:18.112 --> 01:09:20.990
The negroes are
still with Tawana.

01:09:20.990 --> 01:09:25.578
They will say that we are
exasperating racial tensions.

01:09:25.578 --> 01:09:28.247
But the people know the truth.

01:09:28.247 --> 01:09:30.624
The people know that
we've taken more

01:09:30.624 --> 01:09:32.668
than we should've ever taken.

01:09:32.668 --> 01:09:35.796
We should've stopped you
with Michael Stewart.

01:09:35.796 --> 01:09:38.674
We should've stopped you
with Eleanor Bumpurs.

01:09:38.674 --> 01:09:41.177
We should've stopped
you with Randy Evans.

01:09:41.177 --> 01:09:43.929
We should've stopped you
with Michael Griffith.

01:09:43.929 --> 01:09:47.850
And we're gonna stop
you with Tawana Brawley!

01:09:47.850 --> 01:09:50.186
Sorry, Reverend, are
you talking violence?

01:09:50.186 --> 01:09:53.230
I'm talking what is necessary.

01:09:53.230 --> 01:09:57.276
When it was necessary,
God got violent.

01:09:57.276 --> 01:10:00.487
Say that God got mad one day
and drowned the whole world.

01:10:00.487 --> 01:10:03.115
Yeah, y'all say we're crazy?

01:10:03.115 --> 01:10:05.784
You've driven us crazy!

01:10:05.784 --> 01:10:06.911
[applause]

01:10:06.911 --> 01:10:09.496
400 years of abuse.

01:10:09.496 --> 01:10:11.498
Let me tell you
something, Mario.

01:10:11.498 --> 01:10:13.959
We are not scared of you.

01:10:13.959 --> 01:10:16.295
You think 'cause you're
Italian and know some boys

01:10:16.295 --> 01:10:17.796
somebody's scared of you?

01:10:17.796 --> 01:10:20.758
We are the
descendants of Hannibal

01:10:20.758 --> 01:10:22.635
that walked all over Italy!

01:10:22.635 --> 01:10:27.348
[cheers and applause]

01:10:30.893 --> 01:10:33.520
You will pay from now on

01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:37.650
for everything you
do to our people.

01:10:37.650 --> 01:10:42.446
If we've got to take justice
in our hands, we will do that.

01:10:42.446 --> 01:10:48.202
The Bible said there's a time
for everything under the sun.

01:10:48.911 --> 01:10:52.831
Time to be born
and a time to die.

01:10:52.831 --> 01:10:57.002
A time to plant and a time
to pluck up what is planted.

01:10:57.002 --> 01:11:00.547
Time of war and a time of peace.

01:11:00.547 --> 01:11:04.677
It's going to be
a day in history

01:11:04.677 --> 01:11:09.223
if you missed the Selma
to Montgomery march,

01:11:09.223 --> 01:11:13.227
if you missed the
March on Washington,

01:11:13.227 --> 01:11:17.481
if you missed Marcus Garvey organizing an army

01:11:17.481 --> 01:11:20.276
coming down 125th Street,

01:11:20.276 --> 01:11:22.027
don't miss Monday.

01:11:22.027 --> 01:11:25.906
[cheers and applause]

01:11:27.074 --> 01:11:28.367
[Sharpton]:
There's many moments

01:11:28.367 --> 01:11:29.868
that people would come in

01:11:29.868 --> 01:11:33.122
and have righteous anger
and want to fight back.

01:11:33.122 --> 01:11:37.543
And we had to develop
ways that we would put our

01:11:37.543 --> 01:11:40.879
security teams out there and marshals to keep people cool.

01:11:40.879 --> 01:11:43.924
I don't care if you're
left wing, right wing,

01:11:43.924 --> 01:11:45.217
dropped both wings.

01:11:45.217 --> 01:11:49.013
Whoever you are, you're
gonna listen to security.

01:11:49.013 --> 01:11:52.182
There's many times I got angry
and would want to rhetorically--

01:11:52.182 --> 01:11:55.269
I've never been violent,
but I'd get in exchanges.

01:11:55.269 --> 01:11:58.772
And you had to learn to
fine tune it as you went.

01:11:58.772 --> 01:12:01.650
If you cannot listen
to security, don't go.

01:12:01.650 --> 01:12:04.403
If you go and get out there
and start cutting up,

01:12:04.403 --> 01:12:05.696
we're gonna take you
behind in the bus

01:12:05.696 --> 01:12:07.614
and break both your legs.

01:12:07.614 --> 01:12:12.369
You've gotta be able to
raise the theater level

01:12:12.369 --> 01:12:15.998
to where you don't lose control,
you don't have violence.

01:12:15.998 --> 01:12:21.045
But it is dramatic enough that
you can't be ignored, either.

01:12:21.045 --> 01:12:24.089
[contemplative music]

01:12:46.904 --> 01:12:49.073
[chatter]

01:13:02.461 --> 01:13:04.713
This is one of those moments

01:13:04.713 --> 01:13:08.092
that transcends the
category of the ordinary.

01:13:08.092 --> 01:13:10.010
[laughing]

01:13:10.010 --> 01:13:11.637
You know there are
two great words

01:13:11.637 --> 01:13:15.474
in the Greek language for time.

01:13:15.474 --> 01:13:20.646
And one of things I like about
the Greek language is that it

01:13:20.646 --> 01:13:25.025
has a greater capacity
for lifting up nuances

01:13:25.025 --> 01:13:27.778
and shades of meaning.

01:13:27.778 --> 01:13:30.364
Two great words in the
Greek language for time,

01:13:30.364 --> 01:13:34.827
one is kairos, and
the other is chronos.

01:13:34.827 --> 01:13:37.413
Now, you're probably
familiar with chronos.

01:13:37.413 --> 01:13:41.250
That's the word...

01:13:41.250 --> 01:13:45.671
That's the root word
for "chronometer."

01:13:45.671 --> 01:13:49.341
Chronos has to do
with clock time.

01:13:49.341 --> 01:13:51.176
Right now,
according to chronos,

01:13:51.176 --> 01:13:53.303
it is 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.

01:13:53.303 --> 01:13:55.097
[laughing]

01:13:55.097 --> 01:13:59.893
But there's another kind of time
that is referred to in the Greek

01:13:59.893 --> 01:14:05.023
by the word kairos,
and that's God time.

01:14:05.023 --> 01:14:09.027
[somber music]

01:14:23.584 --> 01:14:25.878
[Jones]:
And every now and then,

01:14:25.878 --> 01:14:29.047
God time breaks in
on clock time.

01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:33.594
-[Man]: Say his name!
-[Crowd]: George Floyd!

01:14:34.553 --> 01:14:37.806
[Jones]: The infinite
intersects the finite.

01:14:48.609 --> 01:14:53.530
And you get caught up in
the transcendent experience.

01:15:02.706 --> 01:15:04.708
[camera shutters clicking]

01:15:04.708 --> 01:15:07.920
[Sharpton]: This young lady,
if she had not shot that video,

01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:11.715
the world would've never
know what happened to George.

01:15:11.715 --> 01:15:15.719
And I want her mother to know
we gonna look out for her.

01:15:15.719 --> 01:15:17.471
We'll talk about
that in private.

01:15:18.347 --> 01:15:21.391
My daughter was--she was
on her way to a bonfire,

01:15:21.391 --> 01:15:23.227
like in the opposite direction.

01:15:23.227 --> 01:15:25.938
And she saw what was
happening, it wasn't right.

01:15:25.938 --> 01:15:28.398
So she pulled out her phone.

01:15:28.398 --> 01:15:31.735
[somber music]

01:15:40.452 --> 01:15:42.579
[camera shutters clicking]

01:16:03.016 --> 01:16:08.647
I want us to not sit here

01:16:08.647 --> 01:16:12.734
and act like we had

01:16:12.734 --> 01:16:14.987
a funeral on the schedule.

01:16:16.071 --> 01:16:17.197
[Woman]: That's
right, that's right.

01:16:17.197 --> 01:16:18.574
[Man]: Right.

01:16:19.658 --> 01:16:24.871
George Floyd should not be

01:16:24.871 --> 01:16:26.331
among the deceased.

01:16:26.331 --> 01:16:29.251
[mourners affirming]

01:16:29.251 --> 01:16:34.548
[Sharpton]: He did not die
of common health conditions.

01:16:36.049 --> 01:16:41.972
He died of a common American
criminal justice malfunction.

01:16:41.972 --> 01:16:44.391
[mourners affirming,
clapping]

01:16:44.391 --> 01:16:46.351
[Sharpton]:
One of the things, Martin,

01:16:46.351 --> 01:16:49.271
that I've always had to
deal with,

01:16:49.271 --> 01:16:50.772
as critics would say,

01:16:50.772 --> 01:16:54.443
all Al Sharpton wants
is publicity.

01:16:54.443 --> 01:16:56.945
Well, that's
exactly what I want.

01:16:56.945 --> 01:16:59.323
'Cause nobody calls
me to keep a secret.

01:16:59.323 --> 01:17:03.577
[applause]

01:17:03.577 --> 01:17:08.498
People call me to blow up issues

01:17:08.498 --> 01:17:10.876
that nobody else
would deal with,

01:17:10.876 --> 01:17:14.713
'cause I'm the blow up man,
and I don't apologize for that.

01:17:14.713 --> 01:17:18.091
[applause]

01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:22.638
[Sharpton]: George Floyd's story

01:17:22.638 --> 01:17:25.390
has been the story
of Black folks,

01:17:25.390 --> 01:17:30.562
because ever since
401 years ago,

01:17:30.562 --> 01:17:33.231
the reason we could never be

01:17:33.231 --> 01:17:36.318
who we wanted
and dreamed of being

01:17:36.318 --> 01:17:38.737
is you kept your
knee on our neck.

01:17:38.737 --> 01:17:42.240
[cheers and applause]

01:17:49.164 --> 01:17:52.501
[Sharpton]: What happened
to Floyd happens every day

01:17:52.501 --> 01:17:56.922
in this country in education,
in health services,

01:17:56.922 --> 01:18:00.676
and in every area
of American life.

01:18:00.676 --> 01:18:05.138
It's time for us to
stand up in George's name

01:18:05.138 --> 01:18:08.558
and say, get your
knee off our necks!

01:18:08.558 --> 01:18:10.811
[cheers and applause]

01:18:10.811 --> 01:18:12.771
[Sharpton]: We don't
want no favors!

01:18:12.771 --> 01:18:14.940
Just get up off of us!

01:18:14.940 --> 01:18:19.319
And we can be and do
whatever we can be.

01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:22.989
[cheers and applause]

01:18:25.325 --> 01:18:28.995
[string music]

01:18:37.963 --> 01:18:41.091
[Sharpton]: As a minister, I
have to look at the providence

01:18:41.091 --> 01:18:43.593
of in the middle of
a nation lockdown,

01:18:43.593 --> 01:18:46.430
George Floyd happens,
Breonna Taylor happens,

01:18:46.430 --> 01:18:47.597
Ahmaud Arbery happens,

01:18:47.597 --> 01:18:49.808
all within the
same span of time.

01:18:49.808 --> 01:18:51.685
And all while everybody
was locked down

01:18:51.685 --> 01:18:57.441
and had to watch the news
over and over and over again.

01:18:57.441 --> 01:19:01.236
And it's our job to come out
this other side of this pandemic

01:19:01.236 --> 01:19:03.655
different than when we went in.

01:19:03.655 --> 01:19:07.826
But I'm more hopeful
today than ever.

01:19:07.826 --> 01:19:09.286
Why?
Well, let me go back.

01:19:09.286 --> 01:19:12.122
Reverend Jackson always
taught me, stay on your text.

01:19:12.122 --> 01:19:15.709
Go back to my
text, Ecclesiastes.

01:19:15.709 --> 01:19:19.337
There is a time and a season.

01:19:19.337 --> 01:19:21.923
And when I looked this time

01:19:21.923 --> 01:19:25.927
and saw marches
where in some cases,

01:19:25.927 --> 01:19:30.599
young whites outnumbered
the Blacks marching,

01:19:30.599 --> 01:19:35.479
I know that it's a different
time and a different season.

01:19:35.479 --> 01:19:38.398
When I looked and
saw people in Germany

01:19:38.398 --> 01:19:40.734
marching for George Floyd,

01:19:40.734 --> 01:19:44.780
it's a different time
and a different season.

01:19:44.780 --> 01:19:48.742
When they went in front of the
parliament in London, England,

01:19:48.742 --> 01:19:53.038
and said it's a different
time and a different season,

01:19:53.038 --> 01:19:55.916
we need to go back to Washington

01:19:55.916 --> 01:20:00.629
and stand up in the shadows
of Lincoln and tell them,

01:20:00.629 --> 01:20:05.008
this is the time of
dealing with accountability

01:20:05.008 --> 01:20:07.302
in the criminal justice system.

01:20:07.302 --> 01:20:09.679
[applause]

01:20:13.517 --> 01:20:15.811
I'd like to ask
Reverend Al Sharpton,

01:20:15.811 --> 01:20:17.771
what is the purpose
of a family advisor

01:20:17.771 --> 01:20:19.356
compared to a lawyer?

01:20:19.356 --> 01:20:23.485
The lawyer is handling the
legal part of the case.

01:20:23.485 --> 01:20:26.863
I am advising them as a minister
and as a community activist,

01:20:26.863 --> 01:20:28.907
as we feel that has
racial overtones--

01:20:28.907 --> 01:20:30.617
[Bey]: But it's not
your community, is it?

01:20:30.617 --> 01:20:32.244
Well, what is my community?

01:20:32.244 --> 01:20:33.662
[Bey]: You tell me.

01:20:33.662 --> 01:20:34.913
Martin Luther King
marched all over the country.

01:20:34.913 --> 01:20:36.206
Wasn't his community.

01:20:36.206 --> 01:20:37.833
I mean, I mean, what
kind of question is that?

01:20:37.833 --> 01:20:39.042
[Bey]: Well, is
that what you are?

01:20:39.042 --> 01:20:40.669
You're now a national
Black leader?

01:20:40.669 --> 01:20:41.795
Is that what you are?

01:20:41.795 --> 01:20:43.672
[Sharpton]: No, I
am a family advisor.

01:20:43.672 --> 01:20:45.674
I mean, which question
do you want me to answer?

01:20:45.674 --> 01:20:48.677
I am an activist fighting
injustice where I find it.

01:20:48.677 --> 01:20:52.138
[Bey]: You're Superman.
You go all over the world or?

01:20:52.138 --> 01:20:55.058
[Sharpton]: I've seen other
people on your show, Richard,

01:20:55.058 --> 01:20:56.935
like, uh...that
have been active,

01:20:56.935 --> 01:20:58.562
and they weren't asked that.

01:20:58.562 --> 01:21:00.063
I mean, no one asks Curtis Sliwa

01:21:00.063 --> 01:21:01.565
why does he have Guardian
Angels everywhere

01:21:01.565 --> 01:21:02.983
when he lives in one community?

01:21:02.983 --> 01:21:04.234
I mean, that's ridiculous!

01:21:04.234 --> 01:21:05.318
[Bey]: But there's
some people that think

01:21:05.318 --> 01:21:06.486
that you'll just look at a case

01:21:06.486 --> 01:21:08.029
that you think might
be controversial,

01:21:08.029 --> 01:21:10.031
you'll look at a case that
might be able to get headlines.

01:21:10.031 --> 01:21:11.741
You might be able to make
something out of a case

01:21:11.741 --> 01:21:13.243
to make a name for yourself.

01:21:13.243 --> 01:21:16.121
We were all involved in
the Howard Beach case.

01:21:16.121 --> 01:21:19.958
And Reverend Sharpton--
I did not know this.

01:21:19.958 --> 01:21:23.795
Ms. Griffith told me this
about November of '77.

01:21:23.795 --> 01:21:27.340
This was some nearly 11 months
after her son had been killed.

01:21:27.340 --> 01:21:32.220
She indicated to me that
there was one man who had,

01:21:32.220 --> 01:21:37.392
on a daily basis, called
her, or come to see her,

01:21:37.392 --> 01:21:39.686
or asked her if she
needed something.

01:21:39.686 --> 01:21:41.938
And this didn't ever
get in the headlines.

01:21:41.938 --> 01:21:44.190
This person never called
any press conferences

01:21:44.190 --> 01:21:47.611
when he made those
contacts with that family.

01:21:47.611 --> 01:21:49.738
That person was
Reverend Al Sharpton.

01:21:49.738 --> 01:21:52.282
The reality of it is, is
that there's a lot of things

01:21:52.282 --> 01:21:55.285
that Reverend Sharpton
do for a lot of victims

01:21:55.285 --> 01:21:58.079
that people never knew about.

01:21:58.079 --> 01:21:59.831
He counseled the
Griffith family.

01:21:59.831 --> 01:22:01.666
He counseled other victims.

01:22:01.666 --> 01:22:05.503
And he's doing a great job with
respect to the Brawley family.

01:22:05.503 --> 01:22:08.673
[indistinct chatter]

01:22:20.352 --> 01:22:23.772
[shouting, chanting]

01:22:28.318 --> 01:22:30.111
Back up, back up.

01:22:31.404 --> 01:22:33.114
-[Man]: What do we need?
-[Crowd]: A Black army!

01:22:33.198 --> 01:22:38.078
-[Man]: What do we need?
-[Crowd]: A Black army!

01:22:39.621 --> 01:22:42.916
Ms. Brawley will not
attend this hearing

01:22:42.916 --> 01:22:45.335
unless the members
of the community

01:22:45.335 --> 01:22:47.045
are allowed to go in with her.

01:22:47.045 --> 01:22:49.172
[Man]: Right, right.

01:22:49.172 --> 01:22:52.050
[Sharpton]: We have the
right to a public hearing.

01:22:52.050 --> 01:22:55.595
We will not allow Glenda
to be disenfranchised.

01:22:55.595 --> 01:22:59.891
We have come prepared
to give our show cause.

01:22:59.891 --> 01:23:01.643
We will do it at
a public hearing.

01:23:01.643 --> 01:23:04.270
We will not do it in
a private setting.

01:23:04.270 --> 01:23:05.480
So we will stand here.

01:23:05.480 --> 01:23:07.649
If the lawyers cannot
open the courtroom,

01:23:07.649 --> 01:23:12.028
we will be leaving and holding
this court in contempt.

01:23:12.654 --> 01:23:15.240
You sure you don't want to
bring your client up here?

01:23:15.240 --> 01:23:17.409
Judge, my client already
knew the outcome of this.

01:23:17.409 --> 01:23:21.663
She had no confidence in
the judicial system here.

01:23:21.663 --> 01:23:24.249
Black people in this
state have no confidence.

01:23:24.249 --> 01:23:26.042
[Judge]: Is that their defense?

01:23:26.042 --> 01:23:27.836
--to the judiciary.

01:23:27.836 --> 01:23:29.587
[Judge]: Let me ask
you, Mr. Maddox.

01:23:29.587 --> 01:23:32.590
And I'm pretty sure Mr. Abrams
will ask for his 30 days.

01:23:32.590 --> 01:23:35.343
That's the maximum
allowed by law--

01:23:35.343 --> 01:23:36.761
[Judge]: Mister--Mr. Maddox.

01:23:36.761 --> 01:23:38.013
--right now, we can all leave.

01:23:38.013 --> 01:23:41.141
[Judge]: Mr. Maddox,
is it your defense--

01:23:41.141 --> 01:23:42.100
[Maddox]: I have no defense.

01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:43.977
Is it the defense in this case

01:23:43.977 --> 01:23:46.730
that Black people
cannot receive justice?

01:23:46.730 --> 01:23:49.399
[Maddox]: Yes.

01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:51.818
That's your defense
to this motion to--

01:23:51.818 --> 01:23:53.361
[Maddox]: Yes, absolutely.

01:23:53.361 --> 01:23:56.948
Do you wish to be heard?

01:23:58.616 --> 01:24:00.493
[Mason]: He agrees with us.

01:24:00.493 --> 01:24:01.911
[Maddox]: He agrees with it.

01:24:01.911 --> 01:24:04.122
-[Judge]: Pardon me?
-[Maddox]: He agrees with it.

01:24:04.122 --> 01:24:05.540
[Judge]: Agrees
with that statement?

01:24:05.540 --> 01:24:09.794
-I doubt that.
-[Maddox]: I'm hoping he does.

01:24:09.794 --> 01:24:11.296
[Judge]: Who made the statement?

01:24:11.296 --> 01:24:13.214
Mr. Ryan, do you
agree that Black people

01:24:13.214 --> 01:24:15.425
can't receive justice
in this state?

01:24:15.425 --> 01:24:16.801
No, I do not.

01:24:17.510 --> 01:24:19.262
[Judge]: The moving
papers before me

01:24:19.262 --> 01:24:21.598
have raised no factual issue.

01:24:21.598 --> 01:24:25.560
All that the defense has raised
have been political in nature,

01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:29.856
and might very well be raised
in another form and not here.

01:24:29.856 --> 01:24:32.692
Glenda Brawley's in
criminal contempt of this court

01:24:32.692 --> 01:24:34.903
and is sentenced and
committed to the county jail

01:24:34.903 --> 01:24:37.739
for a period of 30 days.

01:24:40.533 --> 01:24:43.828
We will be seeking
religious asylum for her.

01:24:43.828 --> 01:24:47.540
We challenge Bob Abrams
to come into the church

01:24:47.540 --> 01:24:49.501
and do what he's got to do.

01:24:49.501 --> 01:24:53.213
We're going to force you to show
the world how beastly you are.

01:24:54.464 --> 01:24:57.550
-Hi, Bob.
-Hi, hi, hi.

01:24:57.550 --> 01:25:00.386
The advisors of Ms. Brawley
have apparently set up

01:25:00.386 --> 01:25:03.640
a staged circumstance today,

01:25:03.640 --> 01:25:07.560
and I've advised the sheriff
not to bite at their bait.

01:25:07.560 --> 01:25:09.145
A media circus has been staged.

01:25:09.145 --> 01:25:14.692
[shouting]

01:25:16.611 --> 01:25:18.279
No justice, no peace!

01:25:19.697 --> 01:25:21.449
-When do we want it?
-[Crowd]: Now!

01:25:21.449 --> 01:25:22.951
-What do you want?
-[Crowd]: Justice!

01:25:22.951 --> 01:25:24.744
-When do you want it?
-[Crowd]: Now!

01:25:24.744 --> 01:25:26.496
-When do you want it?
-[Crowd]: Now!

01:25:26.496 --> 01:25:27.872
[applause]

01:25:27.872 --> 01:25:29.040
[Man]: WLIB Radio
in New York City.

01:25:29.040 --> 01:25:31.126
It's Monday, June 27, 1988.

01:25:31.126 --> 01:25:33.378
Good morning and greetings
to the WLIB family.

01:25:33.378 --> 01:25:36.673
Anyone that understands
the history of our people

01:25:36.673 --> 01:25:39.801
understand that any
time you start shaking

01:25:39.801 --> 01:25:42.762
the root of this system,
then you're gonna have

01:25:42.762 --> 01:25:45.682
a discredit campaign.
And what we've seen is that.

01:25:45.682 --> 01:25:48.226
This is the largest crowd

01:25:48.226 --> 01:25:50.603
that we have ever had
at Bethany.

01:25:50.603 --> 01:25:52.313
Give yourselves a
round of applause.

01:25:52.313 --> 01:25:54.190
[applause]

01:25:54.190 --> 01:25:56.693
[Maddox]: Every time
that there's a report,

01:25:56.693 --> 01:25:59.237
it attracts a large
white audience.

01:25:59.237 --> 01:26:01.406
It's like seeing a
lynching, you know?

01:26:01.406 --> 01:26:04.868
I'm getting ready to see
these Black men lynched.

01:26:04.868 --> 01:26:07.453
This is something I want to do. I have a thirst for this.

01:26:07.453 --> 01:26:11.749
And TV is satisfying
that thirst.

01:26:14.502 --> 01:26:16.504
Wait, wait, wait.

01:26:21.593 --> 01:26:23.511
Everybody that is on this list

01:26:23.511 --> 01:26:27.056
has signed in from
a news media station

01:26:27.056 --> 01:26:29.058
that thinks that
they can attack us

01:26:29.058 --> 01:26:32.604
and we cannot answer them
by name have walked out.

01:26:32.604 --> 01:26:33.813
I'll turn this over
to the army.

01:26:33.813 --> 01:26:35.023
They will never be allowed

01:26:35.023 --> 01:26:37.108
in a press conference
or rally of ours.

01:26:37.108 --> 01:26:38.818
[cheers and applause]

01:26:38.818 --> 01:26:42.238
The very strident, militant,
confrontational policy

01:26:42.238 --> 01:26:45.533
that you've taken in terms of
dealing with the justice system,

01:26:45.533 --> 01:26:48.161
uh, and the fact that
there has been, what?

01:26:48.161 --> 01:26:51.247
At least four incidents
of racist violence

01:26:51.247 --> 01:26:53.958
in this town over the
last four or five days

01:26:53.958 --> 01:26:55.418
are somehow linked.

01:26:55.418 --> 01:26:59.297
There are people in
this town, of color,

01:26:59.297 --> 01:27:02.675
who are more concerned
about white feelings

01:27:02.675 --> 01:27:05.887
than they are about
black lives, you see.

01:27:05.887 --> 01:27:10.934
And so they should be
happy that all we're doing

01:27:10.934 --> 01:27:14.520
is to insist and demand justice.

01:27:14.520 --> 01:27:16.856
[Maddox]: The one thing that
the white man has always done

01:27:16.856 --> 01:27:19.734
and the one thing
that he will never change,

01:27:19.734 --> 01:27:23.988
he will always give you a signal

01:27:23.988 --> 01:27:28.409
as to who he fears and
who you should follow.

01:27:29.702 --> 01:27:34.582
But there are some of us
who watch out for his signals.

01:27:34.582 --> 01:27:37.460
We ignore what he says,

01:27:37.460 --> 01:27:41.631
because the Native American
told us many years ago

01:27:41.631 --> 01:27:43.716
that the white man speaks
with a forked tongue.

01:27:43.716 --> 01:27:49.264
[applause]

01:27:49.264 --> 01:27:53.059
If we did not have
radio station WLIB--

01:27:53.059 --> 01:27:55.103
-[DJ]: That's right.
- --where would we go?

01:27:55.103 --> 01:27:57.105
People are gonna say, well,
you're talking about separatism.

01:27:57.105 --> 01:28:00.024
I don't care what
they call it, see?

01:28:00.024 --> 01:28:01.818
White folks are crazy.

01:28:01.818 --> 01:28:06.823
We know what the white man
did with the Native American.

01:28:08.366 --> 01:28:13.454
Now the white man is calling
himself the native American.

01:28:15.915 --> 01:28:20.962
White people will rewrite
history in your face.

01:28:20.962 --> 01:28:23.298
[applause]

01:28:23.298 --> 01:28:25.216
[Sharpton]: We're tired of this!

01:28:25.216 --> 01:28:27.010
Enough is enough!

01:28:27.010 --> 01:28:29.095
Payback has come!

01:28:29.095 --> 01:28:31.472
You now have the nerve

01:28:31.472 --> 01:28:33.308
after all we did for you,

01:28:33.308 --> 01:28:36.853
to put your wicked
hands on our daughter!

01:28:36.853 --> 01:28:40.273
You will pay for Tawana Brawley!

01:28:40.273 --> 01:28:43.318
You will pay for Tawana Brawley!

01:28:43.318 --> 01:28:45.403
[cheers and applause]

01:28:46.988 --> 01:28:50.658
[somber music]

01:28:58.374 --> 01:29:01.210
[Sharpton]: Later in life,
I became more conscious.

01:29:02.211 --> 01:29:06.966
I saw Tawana, in many ways,

01:29:06.966 --> 01:29:08.301
like the Black mother I had

01:29:08.301 --> 01:29:14.015
that was fighting for
her kids, or my sister.

01:29:14.015 --> 01:29:21.230
I saw in her a Black woman
Black men wouldn't stand up for.

01:29:21.230 --> 01:29:25.943
And I was gonna be the
one to walk away from her,

01:29:25.943 --> 01:29:28.071
no matter how hard it got.

01:29:28.071 --> 01:29:30.656
I just wasn't gonna do it.

01:29:30.656 --> 01:29:32.158
Okay, that's close enough.

01:29:32.158 --> 01:29:33.534
That's close enough.

01:29:35.286 --> 01:29:39.248
[cheers and applause]

01:29:40.875 --> 01:29:42.794
-No justice!
-[Crowd]: No peace!

01:29:42.794 --> 01:29:44.670
-No justice!
-[Crowd]: No peace!

01:29:44.670 --> 01:29:46.798
-No justice!
-[Crowd]: No peace!

01:29:48.216 --> 01:29:50.802
[cheers and applause]

01:29:50.802 --> 01:29:54.555
[Sharpton]: To this day, I
don't know all of what happened

01:29:54.555 --> 01:29:56.474
with Brawley.

01:29:56.474 --> 01:29:59.060
But I know she
deserved the right

01:29:59.060 --> 01:30:00.895
that everybody else deserved.

01:30:00.895 --> 01:30:02.313
[Tawana Brawley]: My
name is Tawana Brawley.

01:30:02.313 --> 01:30:05.149
I'm not a liar,
and I'm not crazy.

01:30:05.149 --> 01:30:06.943
I simply just want justice,

01:30:06.943 --> 01:30:09.112
and then I want to be
left alone.

01:30:09.112 --> 01:30:12.365
My family and I saw that
we couldn't get any justice.

01:30:12.365 --> 01:30:15.243
So we decided not to cooperate.

01:30:15.243 --> 01:30:17.703
We had no New York
Times to leak to.

01:30:17.703 --> 01:30:19.372
[chatter]

01:30:19.372 --> 01:30:21.666
[Male reporter]: Tawana, why
won't you answer any questions?

01:30:21.666 --> 01:30:23.126
Reverend Sharpton?

01:30:23.126 --> 01:30:25.461
After seven months
of investigation,

01:30:25.461 --> 01:30:28.631
the grand jury found no evidence

01:30:28.631 --> 01:30:31.342
that a crime had been committed

01:30:31.342 --> 01:30:32.969
against Tawana Brawley.

01:30:32.969 --> 01:30:34.470
[Male reporter]: Governor,
do you have a reaction

01:30:34.470 --> 01:30:37.265
to the Brawley
grand jury report?

01:30:37.265 --> 01:30:39.684
It's not a perfect system, but
it's better than any system

01:30:39.684 --> 01:30:41.227
anywhere in the world.

01:30:41.227 --> 01:30:44.897
Reverend Sharpton was part of
the group of three advisors--

01:30:44.897 --> 01:30:47.859
and the same kinds of
adjectives apply to him.

01:30:47.859 --> 01:30:51.988
Abominable behavior, deplorable,
disgraceful, reprehensible.

01:30:51.988 --> 01:30:53.698
[Male reporter]: The attorney
general says that not only you,

01:30:53.698 --> 01:30:55.533
but Mr. Mason
and Mr. Maddox,

01:30:55.533 --> 01:30:57.118
are under investigation.

01:30:57.118 --> 01:30:58.953
What do you think is
going to come out of that?

01:30:58.953 --> 01:31:00.746
Hardy-ha-ha.

01:31:00.746 --> 01:31:01.789
[Male reporter]:
What do you think

01:31:01.789 --> 01:31:03.040
is going to come out of it?

01:31:03.040 --> 01:31:04.500
Nothing.

01:31:04.500 --> 01:31:07.128
I'm saddened and angry
that we've come to this point,

01:31:07.128 --> 01:31:10.381
where people would
use a young woman,

01:31:10.381 --> 01:31:13.801
or use anyone in our community
for their own amibition.

01:31:13.801 --> 01:31:18.014
They have made it less likely
that the victims of racial bias

01:31:18.014 --> 01:31:21.309
in the criminal justice system
will be heard in the future.

01:31:21.309 --> 01:31:23.811
They have disserved their cause.

01:31:23.811 --> 01:31:25.855
[Sharpton]: I remember I
was on a show one night.

01:31:25.855 --> 01:31:27.773
And a guy said to
me, "You done well,

01:31:27.773 --> 01:31:29.150
"you're doing all right now.

01:31:29.150 --> 01:31:32.445
But I still disagree
with you on Brawley."

01:31:32.445 --> 01:31:33.779
I said, "What do
you disagree with?

01:31:33.779 --> 01:31:35.323
That they should've
gone to court?"

01:31:35.323 --> 01:31:37.116
"Well, I think she lied.

01:31:37.116 --> 01:31:40.870
And I think
the jury was right."

01:31:40.870 --> 01:31:43.915
I said, "Let me ask
you a question."

01:31:43.915 --> 01:31:45.500
He said, "Yeah?"

01:31:45.500 --> 01:31:47.835
I said, "Do you think
OJ killed his wife?"

01:31:47.835 --> 01:31:49.086
He said, "Absolutely."

01:31:49.086 --> 01:31:51.380
I said, "Well, the
jury said he didn't."

01:31:51.380 --> 01:31:55.885
So I got it.
You can question juries.

01:31:55.885 --> 01:31:59.388
I should just be a
nice boy and shut up.

01:32:02.725 --> 01:32:06.020
[indistinct chatter]

01:32:14.695 --> 01:32:16.656
AR2 is back in session.

01:32:17.532 --> 01:32:20.910
[Maddox]: In 1988,
we are being told

01:32:20.910 --> 01:32:24.247
that every person
of African descent

01:32:24.247 --> 01:32:26.958
cannot participate in
First Amendment rights.

01:32:26.958 --> 01:32:31.170
And the responsibility that
you have at this moment

01:32:31.170 --> 01:32:35.841
is to dismiss each and every
one of allegations set forth

01:32:35.841 --> 01:32:37.802
in those complaints.

01:32:37.802 --> 01:32:40.263
In the event that they
are not dismissed,

01:32:40.263 --> 01:32:45.434
I have 1,000 people who are
ready to go to jail right now.

01:32:45.434 --> 01:32:47.436
What you are talking about
is putting something down

01:32:47.436 --> 01:32:50.815
for a week from now, when
people have already been harmed

01:32:50.815 --> 01:32:53.109
as a result of this.
You can't undo that.

01:32:53.109 --> 01:32:55.611
You are sanctioning.

01:32:55.611 --> 01:32:58.698
By allowing this to go on
for one further minute,

01:32:58.698 --> 01:33:02.618
you are sanctioning
the misconduct in this order.

01:33:02.618 --> 01:33:05.705
[applause]

01:33:12.044 --> 01:33:14.505
[indistinct chatter]

01:33:36.652 --> 01:33:37.945
[Maddox]: Well, there are people

01:33:37.945 --> 01:33:39.363
who are prepared
to go to jail now.

01:33:39.363 --> 01:33:41.449
Revoke this-- no, no, no.

01:33:41.449 --> 01:33:43.326
Your Honor, before you do that--

01:33:43.326 --> 01:33:44.493
[Maddox]: Yeah, right now.

01:33:44.493 --> 01:33:45.578
[Man]: Your Honor.

01:33:45.578 --> 01:33:46.871
Your Honor.

01:33:46.871 --> 01:33:50.458
[shouting]

01:34:05.806 --> 01:34:08.893
[Sharpton]: We marched
peacefully through

01:34:08.893 --> 01:34:12.021
these downtown streets.

01:34:12.021 --> 01:34:14.815
We didn't break a window glass.

01:34:14.815 --> 01:34:17.109
We didn't touch a pane.

01:34:17.109 --> 01:34:19.487
We didn't close a business.

01:34:19.487 --> 01:34:21.697
We didn't touch a pedestrian.

01:34:21.697 --> 01:34:23.741
We didn't snatch a pocketbook.

01:34:23.741 --> 01:34:25.576
We didn't damage any property.

01:34:25.576 --> 01:34:28.371
[shouts and applause]

01:34:29.288 --> 01:34:33.084
Now they're telling us that
they can delay and adjourn

01:34:33.084 --> 01:34:37.338
and pick the date that they
will decide on our freedom.

01:34:37.338 --> 01:34:40.007
I'm sorry,
Officer Gallagher.

01:34:40.007 --> 01:34:43.135
But you can't choose
the day no more.

01:34:43.135 --> 01:34:45.429
We've had all we can take.

01:34:45.429 --> 01:34:48.307
You think you're God,
and you're not God!

01:34:48.307 --> 01:34:49.767
[shouts and applause]

01:34:49.767 --> 01:34:51.894
I'm telling you,
we're not leaving.

01:34:51.894 --> 01:34:55.856
We'll spend this night
in jail or in this room.

01:34:55.856 --> 01:34:58.693
I'm telling you that
you drew the line!

01:34:58.693 --> 01:35:02.154
It don't mean nothing!
Take God's name off the wall!

01:35:02.154 --> 01:35:04.281
[cheers and applause]

01:35:06.659 --> 01:35:09.787
[Sharpton]: Jews-- Jews ran through the precinct

01:35:09.787 --> 01:35:12.581
and you didn't lock up nobody.

01:35:12.581 --> 01:35:14.959
Italians marched, you don't lock up nobody.

01:35:14.959 --> 01:35:18.045
And you're gonna tell us,
the children of slaves

01:35:18.045 --> 01:35:19.880
that built your nasty streets,

01:35:19.880 --> 01:35:22.091
that cleaned your nasty behinds,

01:35:22.091 --> 01:35:24.176
that we can't walk the streets,

01:35:24.176 --> 01:35:26.846
we'll turn this
town upside down!

01:35:26.846 --> 01:35:28.347
[cheers and applause]

01:35:29.890 --> 01:35:32.143
[string music]

01:35:33.269 --> 01:35:37.398
[chatter, shouting]

01:35:47.241 --> 01:35:51.370
All of them jumped on me and
started knocking me around.

01:35:56.709 --> 01:36:00.629
[screaming, shouting]

01:36:02.965 --> 01:36:06.051
[string music]

01:36:25.946 --> 01:36:29.366
[crowd shouts
"No justice, no peace!"]

01:36:52.264 --> 01:36:55.768
[Sharpton]: Michael Stewart,
Barry Allen, Troy Canty,

01:36:55.768 --> 01:36:58.938
Darrell Cabey, Daryl Dotson,

01:36:58.938 --> 01:37:02.107
Michael Harris,
Michael Griffith,

01:37:02.107 --> 01:37:03.776
Cedric Sandiford,

01:37:03.776 --> 01:37:05.110
Tawana Brawley,

01:37:05.110 --> 01:37:07.363
Yusuf Hawkins,

01:37:07.363 --> 01:37:12.535
Kevin Richardson, Antron
McCray, Raymond Santana,

01:37:12.535 --> 01:37:15.412
Korey Wise, Phillip Pannell,

01:37:15.412 --> 01:37:18.999
Mary Mitchell, Rodney King,

01:37:18.999 --> 01:37:22.545
Gavin Cato, Ralph Nimmons,

01:37:22.545 --> 01:37:25.506
Anthony Baez, Ernest Sayon,

01:37:25.506 --> 01:37:27.591
Jay Walker, Jr,

01:37:27.591 --> 01:37:30.427
Caroline "Sissy" Adams.

01:37:30.427 --> 01:37:35.266
Most of them on that list
never made high media.

01:37:35.266 --> 01:37:38.227
But they say I only do
it for media attention.

01:37:38.227 --> 01:37:40.855
And most of them that we
got a lot of media attention

01:37:40.855 --> 01:37:43.482
didn't get media attention
before we came in,

01:37:43.482 --> 01:37:46.235
and certainly we prolonged it.

01:37:46.235 --> 01:37:48.404
I do this 'cause it's what I do.

01:37:54.034 --> 01:37:56.161
The week of our march leading in

01:37:56.161 --> 01:37:59.164
is the week of the
Republican convention.

01:37:59.164 --> 01:38:02.626
So it's gonna be the major
event going into the fall.

01:38:02.626 --> 01:38:07.047
Marches and protesting's
always about timing in history.

01:38:07.047 --> 01:38:09.091
I don't know the right time.

01:38:09.091 --> 01:38:11.844
Here the challenge
comes for the movement.

01:38:11.844 --> 01:38:14.138
Say Biden wins.

01:38:14.138 --> 01:38:16.765
Does everybody calm down, then?

01:38:16.765 --> 01:38:20.185
And you gotta make
it above politics.

01:38:20.185 --> 01:38:25.399
Trump losing does not
assure justice is present.

01:38:25.399 --> 01:38:28.027
It is less of an impediment,

01:38:28.027 --> 01:38:30.487
but you still gotta put
pressure on the system.

01:38:34.783 --> 01:38:36.327
[Female reporter]:
Tulsa, Oklahoma bracing for

01:38:36.327 --> 01:38:38.662
a possible
political storm tonight.

01:38:38.662 --> 01:38:40.789
[Male reporter]: The city
expects 100,000 people

01:38:40.789 --> 01:38:44.043
this weekend for President
Trump's campaign rally

01:38:44.043 --> 01:38:46.587
and the city's
Juneteenth celebration.

01:38:46.587 --> 01:38:48.088
[Female reporter]: The
Reverend Al Sharpton

01:38:48.088 --> 01:38:50.507
is expected to speak at
the Juneteenth celebration

01:38:50.507 --> 01:38:52.092
in Tulsa tonight.

01:38:52.092 --> 01:38:53.719
The city's mayor declared
a civil emergency...

01:38:53.719 --> 01:38:55.304
Yeah.

01:38:56.513 --> 01:38:58.140
You know how to do
Facetime, right?

01:38:58.140 --> 01:39:00.684
Okay, yeah, we can do that.

01:39:01.769 --> 01:39:03.979
[cheers and applause]

01:39:03.979 --> 01:39:08.442
You say that he's done more than
any president for Black people.

01:39:08.442 --> 01:39:10.027
What do you think of that?

01:39:12.488 --> 01:39:15.240
Are you the opening act?
Are you the comedian tonight?

01:39:16.575 --> 01:39:18.577
Mother Crutcher,
how are you doing?

01:39:18.577 --> 01:39:21.163
[unintelligible]

01:39:21.163 --> 01:39:22.456
Thank you.

01:39:22.456 --> 01:39:24.959
I told y'all I'd be
here when y'all need me.

01:39:25.751 --> 01:39:28.921
[Woman]: Now, you need to move yourself physically to the left

01:39:28.921 --> 01:39:31.298
about an inch.

01:39:32.383 --> 01:39:33.968
[Female anchor]: So of course,
Trump is throwing it back

01:39:33.968 --> 01:39:35.928
to the bad old days
on this Juneteenth

01:39:35.928 --> 01:39:38.681
with another George
Wallace-style threat

01:39:38.681 --> 01:39:41.308
to those who don't
support his reelection.

01:39:41.308 --> 01:39:43.769
Rev, I wanna start with you.

01:39:43.769 --> 01:39:45.896
What do you make of
that kind of language

01:39:45.896 --> 01:39:49.817
coming out of the president of
the United States on Juneteenth?

01:39:49.817 --> 01:39:52.611
I think that it is offensive.

01:39:52.611 --> 01:39:54.571
I think that it is insulting.

01:39:54.571 --> 01:39:56.490
[phone ringing]

01:39:57.866 --> 01:40:01.787
Yeah, Mike, Chris did a
walkthrough with the police.

01:40:01.787 --> 01:40:03.247
Yeah, I'm sorry--
I walked through

01:40:03.247 --> 01:40:05.416
with two of the police officers.

01:40:05.416 --> 01:40:07.584
And it's a very open field.

01:40:07.584 --> 01:40:12.256
There's not a lot of cover-- well
you can see everybody.

01:40:12.256 --> 01:40:13.841
So it's kind of open.

01:40:13.841 --> 01:40:17.678
I don't believe it's--
it's a security risk.

01:40:19.179 --> 01:40:22.516
[Michael Hardy]: So is the
concern a shooter?

01:40:23.434 --> 01:40:24.852
I mean, it's--it's--

01:40:24.852 --> 01:40:27.646
[Hardy]: Do you have a
recommendation, Chris?

01:40:27.646 --> 01:40:30.774
Honestly...Rev shouldn't...

01:40:30.774 --> 01:40:33.360
really shouldn't do this.

01:40:33.360 --> 01:40:36.530
I don't believe it's
feasible with the climate,

01:40:36.530 --> 01:40:38.699
with the reports
that we're getting

01:40:38.699 --> 01:40:40.409
even from the officers of

01:40:40.409 --> 01:40:42.703
the amount of people
that are out there.

01:40:42.703 --> 01:40:46.123
I mean, I think, Hardy,
the best thing you can do is,

01:40:46.123 --> 01:40:48.459
is let them secure
as much as they can.

01:40:48.459 --> 01:40:50.961
I'm going to do it.
I don't, you know...

01:40:50.961 --> 01:40:52.212
We get threats all the time.

01:40:52.212 --> 01:40:53.047
[Hardy]: Right.

01:40:53.047 --> 01:40:55.132
I'm not going to
not do the rally.

01:40:55.132 --> 01:40:56.592
[Woman]: The
Reverend Al Sharpton,

01:40:56.592 --> 01:40:59.928
president of the
National Action Network!

01:40:59.928 --> 01:41:02.181
Give it up Tulsa!

01:41:02.181 --> 01:41:03.724
[cheers and applause]

01:41:03.724 --> 01:41:06.518
I love you.
I love you so much.

01:41:06.518 --> 01:41:07.770
I love you.

01:41:09.104 --> 01:41:10.230
No justice!

01:41:10.230 --> 01:41:11.648
[Crowd]: No peace!

01:41:11.648 --> 01:41:12.733
No justice!

01:41:12.733 --> 01:41:13.817
[Crowd]: No peace!

01:41:13.817 --> 01:41:14.943
No justice!

01:41:14.943 --> 01:41:16.945
[Crowd]: No peace!

01:41:17.821 --> 01:41:20.449
[chants of "Yusuf!"]

01:41:23.702 --> 01:41:25.370
Coming in, coming in,
coming in.

01:41:25.370 --> 01:41:26.622
Sorry, baby.

01:41:29.374 --> 01:41:31.794
[Female reporter]: The killing
of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins

01:41:31.794 --> 01:41:35.255
has had a chilling effect on
race relations in New York.

01:41:35.255 --> 01:41:37.674
Hawkins was shot dead
after a confrontation

01:41:37.674 --> 01:41:41.178
with a gang of whites in an
Italian-American neighborhood.

01:41:41.178 --> 01:41:44.306
The peace seems to be getting
harder and harder to keep.

01:41:44.306 --> 01:41:46.350
[shouting]

01:41:50.104 --> 01:41:52.648
[Man]: Hey, we want
Al Sharpton out here!

01:41:52.648 --> 01:41:54.316
White power!

01:41:56.276 --> 01:41:57.820
Kill 'em mother fucker,
we kill 'em!

01:41:57.820 --> 01:41:59.404
This is all the media's fault!

01:41:59.404 --> 01:42:02.116
The media should not
publicize this kind of crap

01:42:02.116 --> 01:42:04.827
because they're all wanting
wars to start in another place.

01:42:04.827 --> 01:42:06.954
These things should
be kept quiet.

01:42:06.954 --> 01:42:08.872
Al Sharpton, go home!

01:42:08.872 --> 01:42:11.500
[Man]: New tape, new tape.

01:42:11.500 --> 01:42:13.544
Tape man.

01:42:13.544 --> 01:42:14.753
[Man]: Where's Al Sharpton?

01:42:14.753 --> 01:42:16.505
[Man]: Bullshit and lies!

01:42:16.505 --> 01:42:18.715
[shouting]

01:42:24.847 --> 01:42:27.015
[Woman]: Get an ambulance!

01:42:29.643 --> 01:42:34.022
[Sharpton]: Until you face
what could be the end,

01:42:34.022 --> 01:42:37.985
you guess what you would do
if you looked death in the face.

01:42:39.778 --> 01:42:42.114
But it's different when you
think you're looking death

01:42:42.114 --> 01:42:44.283
in the face, and death
is saying to you,

01:42:44.283 --> 01:42:45.909
"Now what you gonna do?"

01:42:46.743 --> 01:42:48.078
[Female anchor]: The
controversial activist

01:42:48.078 --> 01:42:49.496
Al Sharpton is in
the hospital tonight

01:42:49.496 --> 01:42:51.290
with a stab wound to the chest.

01:42:51.290 --> 01:42:53.292
Police say a white man
from the Bensonhurst area

01:42:53.292 --> 01:42:55.669
attacked Sharpton as
he prepared to lead a march

01:42:55.669 --> 01:42:57.004
in that community.

01:42:57.004 --> 01:42:59.214
They rushed him here to
Coney Island Hospital,

01:42:59.214 --> 01:43:02.009
where doctors treated him for
a wound in the upper chest,

01:43:02.009 --> 01:43:03.719
just below the collarbone.

01:43:03.719 --> 01:43:06.263
The weapon?
A 5-inch kitchen knife.

01:43:06.263 --> 01:43:08.557
[Sharpton]: It changed
me in two ways.

01:43:08.557 --> 01:43:10.934
One way, it made me know

01:43:10.934 --> 01:43:14.229
that I really was not gonna
stop no matter what they did.

01:43:14.229 --> 01:43:15.814
[Male reporter]: How do
you feel about the attack

01:43:15.814 --> 01:43:18.275
and the guy who came out of
the crowd and attacked you?

01:43:18.275 --> 01:43:22.154
Well, I think that he is
the personification

01:43:22.154 --> 01:43:23.697
of a lot of hate,

01:43:23.697 --> 01:43:26.325
and I don't have ill
feelings toward him.

01:43:26.325 --> 01:43:28.952
I would much rather concentrate
on the justice system.

01:43:28.952 --> 01:43:32.998
Second thing, if I am
going to die for this,

01:43:32.998 --> 01:43:35.918
I want to change to society.

01:43:35.918 --> 01:43:38.086
That means you've
got to change laws.

01:43:38.086 --> 01:43:41.965
[Male reporter]: Mr.
Mason and Mr. Maddox,

01:43:41.965 --> 01:43:45.552
there seems to be
some divisiveness.

01:43:45.552 --> 01:43:47.095
Are you calling for calm?

01:43:47.095 --> 01:43:49.348
Are you supporting
the march today?

01:43:49.348 --> 01:43:52.517
Oh, I'm absolutely
calling for calm.

01:43:52.517 --> 01:43:56.980
Maddox was always more in the
nationalist, Malcolm tradition.

01:43:56.980 --> 01:44:00.901
[applause]

01:44:01.401 --> 01:44:02.986
[Sharpton]: They
made a decision,

01:44:02.986 --> 01:44:04.613
them three or four days
I was in the hospital,

01:44:04.613 --> 01:44:06.531
that they were not gonna
let whites

01:44:06.531 --> 01:44:10.786
attend the rallies
anymore like Slave Theater.

01:44:10.786 --> 01:44:12.788
That's when I left.

01:44:12.788 --> 01:44:15.499
Maddox understood I
was going another way.

01:44:15.499 --> 01:44:20.212
We just saw our roles and
our traditions differently.

01:44:22.589 --> 01:44:25.050
Vernon Mason went
to Harlem went me

01:44:25.050 --> 01:44:28.262
and helped me start
National Action Network,

01:44:28.262 --> 01:44:29.721
an organization
on the principles

01:44:29.721 --> 01:44:31.306
of Martin Luther King.

01:44:31.306 --> 01:44:35.936
We must not reduce ourselves
to, if you don't do it my way,

01:44:35.936 --> 01:44:38.355
you ain't right.

01:44:38.355 --> 01:44:41.817
If you ain't out here
with me, you ain't right.

01:44:41.817 --> 01:44:44.736
Because all of us don't
need to be outside.

01:44:44.736 --> 01:44:48.407
Somebody better be inside
helping us outside,

01:44:48.407 --> 01:44:51.994
or we gonna be outside forever.

01:44:51.994 --> 01:44:55.497
Mrs. Coretta Scott King,
Martin Luther King's widow,

01:44:55.497 --> 01:44:57.416
was the one that challenged me.

01:44:57.416 --> 01:45:01.211
She says, "Al,
let me ask you,

01:45:01.211 --> 01:45:03.755
why did you say 'so-and-so'
in this occasion?"

01:45:03.755 --> 01:45:09.261
I will never bow down to one
of these chicken shit negroes

01:45:09.261 --> 01:45:12.639
that y'all have elected
to one of these offices,

01:45:12.639 --> 01:45:13.932
that have done nothing

01:45:13.932 --> 01:45:16.226
but kiss crackers'
behinds all their life!

01:45:16.226 --> 01:45:18.478
[applause]

01:45:18.478 --> 01:45:21.565
[Sharpton]: And I'm trying
to explain and justify--

01:45:21.565 --> 01:45:23.400
I mean, it was almost
like I'm in a court

01:45:23.400 --> 01:45:25.485
being a defense attorney.

01:45:25.485 --> 01:45:28.322
And I'm half shocked that
Mrs. Coretta Scott King

01:45:28.322 --> 01:45:31.700
knows about all this stuff
I did and said.

01:45:31.700 --> 01:45:33.952
And then she says...

01:45:33.952 --> 01:45:36.830
"Al, you realize that
words have power?"

01:45:36.830 --> 01:45:38.373
So as we rebuild the family,

01:45:38.373 --> 01:45:41.960
know that what you
put in Black children

01:45:41.960 --> 01:45:43.545
is what will grow in them.

01:45:43.545 --> 01:45:46.048
"So you oughta be
careful with that."

01:45:46.048 --> 01:45:51.178
She says, "You can
either go for the crown

01:45:51.178 --> 01:45:55.057
"that we talk about
in Christianity,

01:45:55.057 --> 01:45:57.184
"or you can go for the crowd.

01:45:57.184 --> 01:45:58.560
You gotta choose."

01:45:58.560 --> 01:46:00.228
This is your life.

01:46:00.228 --> 01:46:01.897
It's like a blank
piece of paper.

01:46:01.897 --> 01:46:04.107
You can write on
it what you want,

01:46:04.107 --> 01:46:06.318
or the world will
write on it for you.

01:46:06.318 --> 01:46:10.072
You should write for yourself
the things that are positive

01:46:10.072 --> 01:46:11.907
and powerful for you.

01:46:11.907 --> 01:46:15.535
You don't give people
room to misinterpret,

01:46:15.535 --> 01:46:19.539
because the cause is the bigger
than the applause you get.

01:46:19.539 --> 01:46:21.083
The Reverend Al Sharpton says

01:46:21.083 --> 01:46:22.959
he'll run for the
US Senate seat.

01:46:22.959 --> 01:46:25.921
We must be concerned
about the agenda

01:46:25.921 --> 01:46:28.215
that empowers our community.

01:46:28.215 --> 01:46:31.468
And I had to learn
to discipline myself.

01:46:31.468 --> 01:46:34.262
[Male reporter]: Amadou Diallo
was shot by four police officers

01:46:34.262 --> 01:46:36.223
who fired 41 shots at him.

01:46:36.223 --> 01:46:39.059
[shouts of "Amadou!"]

01:46:39.059 --> 01:46:40.352
[Sharpton]: This is not the end.

01:46:40.352 --> 01:46:41.686
This is the beginning.

01:46:41.686 --> 01:46:43.855
We intend to
nationalize this fight.

01:46:43.855 --> 01:46:48.693
I became more defined as in the
lane that I was born in.

01:46:48.693 --> 01:46:50.862
It was not I had changed.

01:46:50.862 --> 01:46:53.824
I had returned,
and that's who I was.

01:46:53.824 --> 01:46:58.870
We are angry, but we are bright
enough and intelligent enough

01:46:58.870 --> 01:47:01.373
to channel our anger
to get results!

01:47:01.373 --> 01:47:03.250
[Male reporter]: The Reverend
Al Sharpton and others today

01:47:03.250 --> 01:47:06.294
found justice not outside of
the system, but through it.

01:47:06.294 --> 01:47:07.379
[Woman]: Please welcome

01:47:07.379 --> 01:47:09.506
Democratic
presidential candidate

01:47:09.506 --> 01:47:11.133
Reverend Al Sharpton!

01:47:11.133 --> 01:47:12.717
[applause]

01:47:12.717 --> 01:47:15.011
[Sharpton]: There's
a difference between

01:47:15.011 --> 01:47:17.973
making news and making history.

01:47:17.973 --> 01:47:20.058
I think you gotta go
beyond your comfort zone.

01:47:20.058 --> 01:47:23.311
Civil rights activist who now
hosts his own program on MSNBC--

01:47:23.311 --> 01:47:25.689
Welcome to PoliticsNation.
I'm Al Sharpton.

01:47:25.689 --> 01:47:27.899
In the fifties,
it was Emmitt Till.

01:47:27.899 --> 01:47:30.569
Now it is Trayvon Martin.

01:47:30.569 --> 01:47:34.114
This boy should be alive today!

01:47:34.114 --> 01:47:35.282
The work we've done with

01:47:35.282 --> 01:47:37.325
the Taskforce for
21st Century Policing,

01:47:37.325 --> 01:47:39.077
that at times you've
participated in,

01:47:39.077 --> 01:47:40.579
terrific recommendations.

01:47:40.579 --> 01:47:42.664
Appreciate you, sir.
Thank you.

01:47:42.664 --> 01:47:44.666
And Mrs. King was a
large part of that.

01:47:51.590 --> 01:47:53.008
[Female reporter]:
Developing now,

01:47:53.008 --> 01:47:54.384
crowds are gathering
in the nation's capital

01:47:54.384 --> 01:47:56.928
for a rally called
The Commitment March--

01:47:56.928 --> 01:47:59.598
Get Your Knee Off Our Necks.

01:47:59.598 --> 01:48:02.309
It also marks the
57th anniversary

01:48:02.309 --> 01:48:03.935
of the March on Washington,

01:48:03.935 --> 01:48:06.271
one of the most important
civil rights demonstrations

01:48:06.271 --> 01:48:09.191
in our nation's history.

01:48:09.191 --> 01:48:12.402
Joining us now, the organizer
of today's march on Washington,

01:48:12.402 --> 01:48:14.321
my dear friend, the
Reverend Al Sharpton.

01:48:14.321 --> 01:48:16.698
He is the president of the
National Action Network.

01:48:16.698 --> 01:48:20.785
He also hosts MSNBC's
PoliticsNation.

01:48:20.785 --> 01:48:22.370
I understand the anger,

01:48:22.370 --> 01:48:24.789
but your anger should
be directed in a way

01:48:24.789 --> 01:48:27.542
that you're going to deal
with what you're angry about.

01:48:27.542 --> 01:48:31.796
You cannot let your anger make
you like what you're fighting.

01:48:31.796 --> 01:48:33.256
Nobody's more angry than me.

01:48:33.256 --> 01:48:35.759
I've been fighting these
issues for decades.

01:48:35.759 --> 01:48:38.678
But am I angry enough
to channel my anger

01:48:38.678 --> 01:48:40.555
toward what I'm angry about?

01:48:40.555 --> 01:48:43.183
Or, am I gonna start being
like what I'm angry about,

01:48:43.183 --> 01:48:45.435
reckless and violent?

01:48:45.435 --> 01:48:47.270
[indistinct chatter]

01:48:48.897 --> 01:48:50.774
97.6--you are good to go!

01:48:50.774 --> 01:48:52.651
-Thank you.
-Of course.

01:48:52.651 --> 01:48:54.194
-How are you doin', boss?
-Good, how are you?

01:48:54.194 --> 01:48:55.320
[Yamiche Alcindor]:
Yesterday was crazy.

01:48:55.320 --> 01:48:57.405
The gathering at
the White House,

01:48:57.405 --> 01:48:59.324
hoping that none of those
germs will kill us all.

01:48:59.324 --> 01:49:02.035
You see how careful
we're trying to be.

01:49:02.035 --> 01:49:03.411
It's crazy.

01:49:03.411 --> 01:49:04.746
[Alcindor]: Nobody was tested. It was just crazy.

01:49:04.746 --> 01:49:07.624
We tested everybody, and
those that we had to let in

01:49:07.624 --> 01:49:09.376
we tested in brackets
in the back.

01:49:09.376 --> 01:49:10.335
Yeah.

01:49:10.335 --> 01:49:11.836
[Sharpton]: Everybody's here?

01:49:11.836 --> 01:49:13.380
The busses are in,
but they have to walk over

01:49:13.380 --> 01:49:14.631
from Union Station.

01:49:14.631 --> 01:49:15.799
Good to see you.
You all right?

01:49:15.799 --> 01:49:17.634
-The kids are all right?
-Yeah.

01:49:17.634 --> 01:49:20.428
If [unintelligible] don't take care
of you, you let me know.

01:49:24.099 --> 01:49:27.852
[chanting "No
justice--no peace!"]

01:49:27.852 --> 01:49:30.272
No racist police.

01:49:30.272 --> 01:49:32.524
[Man]: Show me what
democracy looks like!

01:49:32.524 --> 01:49:35.068
[Group]: This is what
democracy looks like!

01:49:35.402 --> 01:49:39.114
[Sharpton]: You slowly helped
some families to understand

01:49:39.114 --> 01:49:42.117
that it's bigger than them,

01:49:42.117 --> 01:49:45.579
and that their loved one
can be the Emmitt Till,

01:49:45.579 --> 01:49:47.455
can be the symbol,

01:49:47.455 --> 01:49:49.207
then we can change it
for other families.

01:49:49.207 --> 01:49:51.167
We can't bring 'em back.
I wish we could.

01:49:51.167 --> 01:49:52.586
[Female reporter]:
Reverend Sharpton,

01:49:52.586 --> 01:49:54.296
What is your call to action?

01:49:54.296 --> 01:50:00.051
We want to push the George
Floyd Policing and Justice bill

01:50:00.051 --> 01:50:01.761
and the John Lewis voting bill.

01:50:01.761 --> 01:50:04.389
They ought to go to
their senators, email them,

01:50:04.389 --> 01:50:06.182
and say those bills must pass.

01:50:06.182 --> 01:50:09.060
But we can make a
historic statement

01:50:09.060 --> 01:50:10.645
if we just work together.

01:50:10.645 --> 01:50:14.274
Anything you need, let us know. All right? Anything.

01:50:14.274 --> 01:50:16.359
I'm gonna give you my number
if you need anything.

01:50:22.407 --> 01:50:26.161
You have to have somebody
that's been there with them,

01:50:26.161 --> 01:50:28.079
they know what to talk about.

01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:29.831
There's not coming in
with platitudes and all,

01:50:29.831 --> 01:50:32.876
but they're coming
with real-life stuff.

01:50:32.876 --> 01:50:34.044
And I've been there.

01:50:34.044 --> 01:50:36.421
[cheers and applause]

01:50:36.421 --> 01:50:41.551
[Sharpton]: When I go up, have
Mr. Blake, Philonise Floyd,

01:50:41.551 --> 01:50:44.679
Breonna's mother, and
Arbery's father standing,

01:50:44.679 --> 01:50:47.098
ready to come down when I call.

01:50:47.098 --> 01:50:50.143
I always questioned
when I was younger,

01:50:50.143 --> 01:50:51.853
why did God let this happen?

01:50:52.937 --> 01:50:55.649
To me, my father, my sister.

01:50:56.691 --> 01:50:59.903
[cheers and applause]

01:51:00.487 --> 01:51:02.113
No justice!

01:51:02.113 --> 01:51:03.448
[Crowd]: No peace!

01:51:03.448 --> 01:51:04.783
No justice!

01:51:04.783 --> 01:51:05.909
[Crowd]: No peace!

01:51:05.909 --> 01:51:07.202
No justice!

01:51:07.202 --> 01:51:08.703
[Crowd]: No peace!

01:51:08.703 --> 01:51:10.163
[Sharpton]: And I thought
about it later in life,

01:51:10.163 --> 01:51:11.623
that if I hadn't
went through that,

01:51:11.623 --> 01:51:13.833
I probably couldn't have
ministered to those families,

01:51:13.833 --> 01:51:16.378
'cause I would've never
known that experience.

01:51:16.378 --> 01:51:22.258
2020, we must deal
with police brutality.

01:51:22.258 --> 01:51:25.512
2020, we must deal with those

01:51:25.512 --> 01:51:28.390
that want to rob
our right to vote.

01:51:28.390 --> 01:51:30.558
[applause]

01:51:30.558 --> 01:51:33.353
[Sharpton]: So I know what
a lot of those families I end up

01:51:33.353 --> 01:51:37.982
later in life had to go through, 'cause I was that kid.

01:51:37.982 --> 01:51:42.070
And I didn't come to
shame 'em or use 'em.

01:51:42.070 --> 01:51:43.947
I came to help 'em...

01:51:43.947 --> 01:51:46.241
and help the cause.

01:51:46.241 --> 01:51:50.036
I bring you the brother
of George Floyd,

01:51:50.036 --> 01:51:52.372
Philonise Floyd.

01:51:52.372 --> 01:51:56.459
But you can't ignore
their needs to help the cause.

01:51:56.459 --> 01:51:59.838
And I never talk about it,
won't talk about it now.

01:51:59.838 --> 01:52:02.298
That's between me
and the families.

01:52:02.298 --> 01:52:04.634
It's part of that vow I made.

01:52:04.634 --> 01:52:09.389
[Philonise]: I wish George were
here to see this right now.

01:52:09.389 --> 01:52:12.434
That's who I'm marching for.

01:52:12.434 --> 01:52:17.021
I'm marching for
George, for Breonna,

01:52:17.021 --> 01:52:21.818
for Ahmaud, for Jacob,

01:52:21.818 --> 01:52:27.198
for Michael Brown, Trayvon,

01:52:27.198 --> 01:52:31.953
and anybody else who
lost their lives.

01:52:31.953 --> 01:52:34.456
All to evil...

01:52:36.541 --> 01:52:38.376
[indistinct chatter]

01:52:38.460 --> 01:52:40.128
Sorry man.

01:52:44.257 --> 01:52:47.093
[shouts of "George Floyd!"]

01:53:06.488 --> 01:53:07.864
[shouts of "Breonna Taylor!"]

01:53:07.864 --> 01:53:09.407
[shouts of "Jacob Blake!"]

01:53:09.407 --> 01:53:10.617
[shouts of "George Floyd!"]

01:53:10.617 --> 01:53:12.702
[Man]: Atatiana Jefferson!

01:53:12.702 --> 01:53:14.412
Jemel Roberson!

01:53:14.412 --> 01:53:16.164
Ahmaud Arbery!

01:53:16.164 --> 01:53:17.832
Sylville Smith!

01:53:17.832 --> 01:53:19.667
DeAndre Barber

01:53:19.667 --> 01:53:22.629
Terence Crutcher

01:53:22.629 --> 01:53:23.755
Trayvon Martin

01:53:23.963 --> 01:53:25.590
[Woman]: You need
some water, Rev?

01:53:39.187 --> 01:53:41.105
[indistinct chatter]

01:53:41.105 --> 01:53:43.691
[Man]: Testing, one,
two, three, four.

01:53:46.569 --> 01:53:48.822
[distant cheers]

01:53:49.823 --> 01:53:51.699
-[Man]: Say his name!
-[Group]: George Floyd!

01:53:51.699 --> 01:53:53.701
-[Man]: Say his name!
-[Group]: George Floyd!

01:53:55.703 --> 01:53:56.955
[Sharpton]: This
is the first time

01:53:56.955 --> 01:53:58.581
in the history of this state

01:53:58.581 --> 01:54:02.669
that a white police officer
has been convicted of a murder.

01:54:04.045 --> 01:54:08.591
This is the first time
in a long ray of fights

01:54:08.591 --> 01:54:14.597
that we've seen three
counts guilty in all three.

01:54:14.597 --> 01:54:17.559
We don't find pleasure in this.

01:54:17.559 --> 01:54:20.061
The war and the
fight is not over.

01:54:20.061 --> 01:54:21.479
Just two days from now,

01:54:21.479 --> 01:54:24.148
we're going to have to
deal with the funeral of

01:54:24.148 --> 01:54:28.236
Daunte Wright in this same area.

01:54:28.236 --> 01:54:33.157
Before we do anything,
we first wanna pray.

01:54:33.157 --> 01:54:36.494
We believe in a God that can
even get through the cracks

01:54:36.494 --> 01:54:42.000
of the jury room and bring
conscious and bring truth.

01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:44.544
And that jury, we
wanna thank them

01:54:44.544 --> 01:54:47.547
for letting God
give them the strength.

01:54:47.547 --> 01:54:50.216
Wherever they are tonight,
we want them to know

01:54:50.216 --> 01:54:54.387
we broke down in tears
when we heard the verdict.

01:54:54.387 --> 01:54:57.432
We had to hold each
other and hug and tears,

01:54:57.432 --> 01:54:59.934
because too many
nights we've cried,

01:54:59.934 --> 01:55:03.563
many of us for decades,
spent nights in jail.

01:55:03.563 --> 01:55:06.441
But today we can
wipe our tears away

01:55:06.441 --> 01:55:08.026
and fight on for another day.

01:55:08.026 --> 01:55:09.986
There's sunlight.

01:55:09.986 --> 01:55:13.156
We're gonna keep going 'til we
bring it for the Eric Gardners

01:55:13.156 --> 01:55:15.533
and the Breonna Taylors, whose
boyfriend is here tonight.

01:55:15.533 --> 01:55:16.492
[Man]: Kenny Walker.

01:55:16.492 --> 01:55:17.619
Kenny Walker.

01:55:17.619 --> 01:55:18.912
[applause]

01:55:18.912 --> 01:55:22.916
Sean Bell, so many that
did not get this night,

01:55:22.916 --> 01:55:24.083
this night is for them.

01:55:24.083 --> 01:55:25.501
Let us pray.

01:55:27.170 --> 01:55:28.504
What about the meeting?

01:55:28.504 --> 01:55:30.048
Are you satisfied with
what went on in there?

01:55:30.048 --> 01:55:31.674
We asked the police
commissioner point blank

01:55:31.674 --> 01:55:34.636
to suspend--
emphatically suspend

01:55:34.636 --> 01:55:36.179
the officer in question.

01:55:36.179 --> 01:55:39.641
And we got a lot
of runaround about that.

01:55:40.266 --> 01:55:42.727
Dear God, we thank you

01:55:42.727 --> 01:55:46.022
for giving us the strength
to stand together.

01:55:46.022 --> 01:55:48.858
Sometimes we would
question each other.

01:55:48.858 --> 01:55:52.362
Sometimes we say this is just
gonna be a waste of time.

01:55:52.362 --> 01:55:55.448
A young man was shot and his
murderer has not been punished.

01:55:55.448 --> 01:55:58.159
And, I mean, you can talk
about long range, short range,

01:55:58.159 --> 01:56:00.119
any kind of
investigations you want.

01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.247
And Lord, let George know

01:56:03.247 --> 01:56:05.959
that his name is
going down in history.

01:56:05.959 --> 01:56:07.752
And we give you the praise.

01:56:07.752 --> 01:56:11.547
Thank you, and God,
we give you the glory.

01:56:11.547 --> 01:56:14.550
These blessings we ask
in your name, amen.

01:56:14.550 --> 01:56:16.094
[All]: Amen!

01:56:16.094 --> 01:56:17.428
Amen!

01:56:17.428 --> 01:56:18.846
[applause]

01:56:18.846 --> 01:56:20.306
[Sharpton]: You
have white policemen

01:56:20.306 --> 01:56:22.016
policing the community that
have the same mentality

01:56:22.016 --> 01:56:23.476
that this man has.

01:56:23.476 --> 01:56:25.061
So, I mean, you're talking
about the grand jury

01:56:25.061 --> 01:56:27.313
and an investigation, a
DA, means nothing to us.

01:56:27.313 --> 01:56:28.564
The only thing that
means something to us

01:56:28.564 --> 01:56:30.149
is direct action--

01:56:30.149 --> 01:56:33.361
pull the white policeman out
and deal with that situation.

01:56:35.071 --> 01:56:36.280
Reverend Alfred Sharpton,

01:56:36.280 --> 01:56:38.241
chairman of the
National Youth Movement.

01:56:38.241 --> 01:56:40.201
[Terrence Floyd]: Reverend
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,

01:56:40.201 --> 01:56:41.703
they lived to see this.

01:56:44.330 --> 01:56:46.040
Their fight wasn't in vain.

01:56:47.333 --> 01:56:49.544
It just didn't happen
when they did it.

01:56:49.544 --> 01:56:50.837
But it happened now.

01:56:50.837 --> 01:56:54.048
Let's make sure,
Reverend Al, that this moment

01:56:54.048 --> 01:56:58.928
will be documented for
our children yet unborn

01:57:00.471 --> 01:57:05.518
as they continue on
the journey to justice.

01:57:05.518 --> 01:57:07.729
[Sharpton]: I never
thought I would see

01:57:07.729 --> 01:57:10.481
a policeman convicted
on all three charges.

01:57:10.481 --> 01:57:12.025
Movements need victories.

01:57:12.025 --> 01:57:14.402
The George Floyd verdict
gave us that victory.

01:57:14.402 --> 01:57:15.445
[Female reporter]:
Congratulations.

01:57:15.445 --> 01:57:16.738
Thank you so much.

01:57:16.738 --> 01:57:18.781
[Sharpton]: When I
started at 18 years old

01:57:18.781 --> 01:57:20.033
as a youth director for

01:57:20.033 --> 01:57:22.994
Shirley Chisolm for President
in '72,

01:57:22.994 --> 01:57:26.122
we never dreamed of a Black
woman being vice president.

01:57:27.832 --> 01:57:30.418
When we would boycott and picket

01:57:30.418 --> 01:57:32.795
supermarkets and
stores in my teen years

01:57:32.795 --> 01:57:34.630
in Operation Breadbasket,

01:57:34.630 --> 01:57:39.302
it was not even in
the realm of fantasy

01:57:39.302 --> 01:57:43.973
that we'd see Black CEOs
of Fortune 500 companies.

01:57:43.973 --> 01:57:46.476
Don't tell me
things won't change.

01:57:46.476 --> 01:57:49.979
I kept telling family
after family that we keep going,

01:57:49.979 --> 01:57:53.149
at some point,
we'll break through.

01:57:53.149 --> 01:57:57.779
I sat on the stage when a Black
man named Barack Hussein Obama

01:57:57.779 --> 01:58:01.991
put his hand on Abraham Lincoln
and Martin Luther King's bible

01:58:01.991 --> 01:58:04.660
and was sworn in president
of the United States.

01:58:04.660 --> 01:58:09.123
I've seen too much change to
feel that nothing will change.

01:58:12.418 --> 01:58:15.713
I've seen a lot of
things go backwards,

01:58:15.713 --> 01:58:19.926
but I keep the change in my head
because the change I've seen

01:58:19.926 --> 01:58:24.764
makes me know that if we keep
going, we can break through.

01:58:24.764 --> 01:58:29.685
I want to use for a subject,
"No Justice, No Peace."

01:58:29.685 --> 01:58:32.188
[applause]

01:58:32.188 --> 01:58:35.983
I want 50, 100 years from
now for somebody to say,

01:58:35.983 --> 01:58:40.947
there was a time police used
to get way with brutality.

01:58:40.947 --> 01:58:43.825
There was a time that they
gave a Voting Rights Act,

01:58:43.825 --> 01:58:45.243
and it lasted 50 years,

01:58:45.243 --> 01:58:48.204
and the Supreme Court
took the gut out of it.

01:58:48.204 --> 01:58:50.832
And oh, there was a little
fat guy from Brooklyn

01:58:50.832 --> 01:58:52.458
who dropped out of college.

01:58:52.458 --> 01:58:54.544
When he got older,
he lost the weight.

01:58:54.544 --> 01:58:57.588
He was on the front line
to help in all of that.

01:58:57.588 --> 01:58:59.298
Nobody will care
what kind of apartment I have.

01:58:59.298 --> 01:59:01.551
Nobody will care
how much money I made.

01:59:01.551 --> 01:59:03.928
They'll care that
I was one of them.

01:59:03.928 --> 01:59:06.889
Did those two or three
things in history.

01:59:06.889 --> 01:59:10.226
That's all. That's all.

01:59:10.226 --> 01:59:14.230
And when I see my mentors
in heaven, I can tell them...

01:59:14.230 --> 01:59:15.648
I got some stuff done.

01:59:18.276 --> 01:59:19.986
[Female reporter]: I wonder
if this moment feels different

01:59:19.986 --> 01:59:22.321
on a legislative
and policy front.

01:59:22.321 --> 01:59:23.739
[Sharpton]: I do.

01:59:23.739 --> 01:59:26.659
We're dealing with a police
case in Columbus, Ohio.

01:59:26.659 --> 01:59:29.162
Dealing with a shooting
in North Carolina.

01:59:29.162 --> 01:59:31.664
We're dealing with the
killing here, Daunte.

01:59:31.664 --> 01:59:33.457
If now is not the time,

01:59:33.457 --> 01:59:36.627
I don't know when it
ever will be the time.

01:59:36.627 --> 01:59:38.671
[Female reporter]: Reverend Al
Sharpton, thank you so much,

01:59:38.671 --> 01:59:41.299
on a day like today, for
making some time to talk to us.

01:59:41.299 --> 01:59:46.846
[string music]

02:00:05.448 --> 02:00:11.829
[music]

02:00:11.829 --> 02:00:13.956
♪ Well, it's 'cause I
lounge with my troops ♪

02:00:13.956 --> 02:00:16.083
♪ Us drinking 40's and
sitting on the stoop ♪

02:00:16.083 --> 02:00:18.544
♪ You say I'm loitering,
I say I'm maxing ♪

02:00:18.544 --> 02:00:21.547
♪ But is this a cause
for affirmative action ♪

02:00:21.547 --> 02:00:24.175
♪ I'm chilling, money grip,
and chilling ain't a crime ♪

02:00:24.175 --> 02:00:26.677
♪ I haven't seen nothin'
and I don't drop dimes ♪

02:00:26.677 --> 02:00:29.180
♪ I keep to myself,
I live life legit ♪

02:00:29.180 --> 02:00:31.974
♪ And even if I knew, I
wouldn't tell a cop sh-- ♪

02:00:31.974 --> 02:00:33.976
♪ No justice, no peace ♪

02:00:33.976 --> 02:00:36.312
♪ Just us criminals
and you police ♪

02:00:36.312 --> 02:00:38.814
♪ No justice, no peace ♪

02:00:38.814 --> 02:00:41.651
♪ Just us criminals
and you police ♪

02:00:41.651 --> 02:00:43.778
♪ No justice, no peace ♪

02:00:43.778 --> 02:00:46.697
♪ Just us criminals
and you police ♪

02:00:46.697 --> 02:00:48.950
♪ No justice, no peace ♪

02:00:48.950 --> 02:00:51.827
♪ Everyone's a criminal
when you police ♪

02:00:51.827 --> 02:00:53.204
♪ I'm Black, so I lose ♪

02:00:53.204 --> 02:00:54.914
♪ Accused and abused ♪

02:00:54.914 --> 02:00:56.958
♪ Escorted out my building
wearing cuffs on the news ♪

Main content

Loudmouth

Docuseek subjects

Distributor subjects

Keywords