Now He's Out in Public and Everyone Can See
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A riveting polyphonic documentary, NOW HE'S OUT IN PUBLIC AND EVERYONE CAN SEE presents a fractured narrative about an unnamed man whose racial identity is continually redrawn and contested by clusters of impassioned narrators. This intricately-edited and deeply political essay film by artist Natalie Bookchin is composed of fragments of found online video diaries made in the early days of the Obama era, a period many believed would be 'post-racial' but instead ushered in a new era of racial discord.
NOW HE'S OUT IN PUBLIC AND EVERYONE CAN SEE explores this new landscape, one where mass media is transformed into social media and where cascades of disinformation, rumors, and insinuations spread across global electronic networks. Newly adapted for the cinema by the artist based on her own multi-screen gallery installation that was exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and other museums, NOW HE'S OUT illustrates the way that, as truths and falsehoods become nearly impossible to distinguish, reality is splintered and recast through a myriad of interpretations and retellings.
'An absolutely staggering work of art. I watched it four times over... Then I went back the following week and watched it again. ...A stunning reflection of a society that is grappling with the notion of African American men as threats; that there might be places where they should and shouldn't be.' - Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times
'Ms. Bookchin's editing is inventive and revealing. Every time a word or phrase common to all the diaries occurs, all the heads say it in unison, interrupting film's otherwise random-seeming this-speaker-then-that-speaker flow. The overall effect is twofold: You get a sense of the existence of a digitally connected community of suffering, one with a shared vocabulary and set of emotions.' - Holland Cotter, The New York Times
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Main credits
Bookchin, Natalie (filmmaker)
Distributor subjects
African-American Studies; African-Americans; American Studies; Art; Black Studies; Civil Rights; Communications; Globalization; Media; Politics; Race and RacismKeywords
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I have the feeling that
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this could have
turned out differently
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had things not progressed
the way that they had,
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but before we jump
to conclusions, we need to--
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I\'m just gonna go
straight to the...
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-...facts.
-Regarding the situation.
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You know, here are the facts.
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It\'s April 27, 2011...
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And you can make
your own decision.
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...and this just happened.
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About to talk
about it right now.
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Let\'s just look at the facts.
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This dude...
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Who also happens
to be a black man.
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He\'s no blacker
than I am, really.
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I mean, if you
look past skin tone.
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I don\'t know
what race you are.
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No one knows the first
thing about him.
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Even his name is a mystery.
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That\'s insane!
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What a joke.
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It sounds fishy.
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Can you explain this?
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Anything nowadays
could be true.
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Please state your full name
and place of birth.
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-Why won\'t he produce...
-Why don\'t you produce...
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-...his actual...
-...the real...
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-Official.
-Long forms.
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-Authenticated.
-Authentic, original...
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...birth certificates.
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What is the problem with that?
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It\'s a fake.
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I don\'t know if
it\'s real or not.
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It\'s such an obvious fake.
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I don\'t think that
there is a record.
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If there is evidence...
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I haven\'t seen any evidence.
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...why not show the evidence?
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It is probably a forgery.
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He\'s lying about his name.
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No one knows the first
thing about him.
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Even his name is a mystery.
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Here\'s my birth certificate.
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Where is yours?
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He may or not be born...
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Was he born in America?
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He wasn\'t born in the U.S.
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Some people are
speculating that he was...
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...born in Kenya.
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I mean, I don\'t know.
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He might have been
born in Kenya.
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He might have been
born in Malaysia.
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He might have been born
on the planet Mars.
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What a joke.
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Think about it, people
think that he wanted
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to turn into
some white person.
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I mean, he went from
a black guy to a white guy.
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-He\'s not black.
-He doesn\'t know
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if he\'s black or white.
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He needs to be black.
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He\'s just as much white...
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He\'s more white than black.
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He is half-white.
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He needs to understand
the language of the street.
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He\'s denying his blackness.
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Having more white
pigmentation than black.
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-Like...
-This makes me ask.
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-He is a mask.
-What, uh...
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Is he a fraud?
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What type of black man...
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...says that he is
56 percent white,
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and he\'s supposed
to be a friend of his.
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Fifty percent of
your blood is black
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and fifty percent is white.
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So he\'s more
of a white guy.
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He even said so himself.
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(beeping)
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He never, ever intended
on embracing us.
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Uh, you don\'t consider
yourself one of us.
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He\'s not really one of us.
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Ah, this guy\'s one of us.
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This usurper
came from nowhere.
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What\'s he got to hide?
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There are a lot
of questions...
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It makes for
a lot of questions.
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...as to whether
he is or he isn\'t.
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That\'s a very, very
critical question.
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Don\'t you think the media
should be asking questions?
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The truth may never be known.
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Now, before I go on to that,
I gotta ask one question.
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How is it possible that once
he got inside his house...
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Police mistook him
for a burglar...
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...in his own house.
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Outside his own home.
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In his own home.
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Wow.
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Don\'t you know that that\'s
that man\'s damn house?
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♪
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\"Sir, I do have to ask
you for some ID.\"
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\"Excuse me, sir, can
you show me your ID?\"
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You gotta show your ID.
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So that he can
verify who you are.
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Nobody seems to even
know who he truly is.
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And we need to
talk about that.
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Even here in the Netherlands,
they\'re talking about it.
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Now here\'s the part
that\'s a little curious
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about the official story.
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The details are as ambiguous
as his racial background.
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That makes you
kind of go, \"Hmm.\"
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There\'s something
wrong with the story.
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The story keeps
actually changing
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about what happened.
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This is what happened, okay?
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The Negro was acting up.
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He was belligerent.
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He challenged the
white man\'s authority.
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You know, you can see
it in that guy\'s eye.
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Mmhmm, mmhmm, mmhmm, mmhmm.
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Do we know who this man is?
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I don\'t know who
that motherfucker is.
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-Nah.
-Do we know what he does?
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Yo, let me--may I?
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Break it down, brother.
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Don\'t lie to me, boy.
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(sighing)
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(sighing)
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I always thought
he was black.
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(chair squeaking)
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It was acknowledged that
he is half-African American...
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♪ He\'s a little
half and half ♪
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♪ But there\'s nothing
wrong with that ♪
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I\'m not trying to be racist.
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I\'m just stating a fact.
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The black \"part of him\"
carries more weight.
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But he really is Muslim,
let\'s get that straight.
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Then he had a
different daddy.
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Your mother is Asian.
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He bleached his skin white.
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Hmm.
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I\'m just saying.
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He\'s not all black.
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He\'s Caucoblasian.
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-Caublasian.
-Cablinasian.
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(indistinct chattering)
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Cabalabalasian, whatever.
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Whatever the hell he--
you know, whatever
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little fake word
he wanted to make up.
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Whatever the hell you said.
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He\'s just a nigga that\'s
got a damn identity crisis.
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♪
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Toe the line.
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-You have a line...
-There\'s a line.
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...that you can\'t cross.
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Or that line will tow you.
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The system is designed
to ensnare you...
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...when you decide you
want to step out of line.
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At what line does it cross...
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If you can see the line,
you\'ve gone too far.
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...when something\'s
considered not normal?
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-This man...
-It seems
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is walking that line,
he\'s stepped over it
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a couple times,
but that\'s okay.
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...stepped outside
of his door.
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Cardinal rule
broken right there.
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I really can\'t
think of too many
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of our black famous people
who have not gotten caught up
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in some type of a scandal
or conspiracy or...
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I would really hate to see
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any type of
assassination attempt.
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-Some type of...
-Any type of...
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-...violent act.
-...violence against this guy.
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Who\'s gonna kill
the black man?
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Show some respect to the man.
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Aside all the--all
the crazy media stuff,
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all the tabloids, I mean,
he has problems, yeah.
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It makes no sense, he\'s rich.
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Who doesn\'t have problems?
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What would you do
if he was rich?
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It\'s just really
sad, you know.
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-If you were rich?
-Honestly...
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I guess when you\'ve
got that much money.
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Because the more
money you have...
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If you\'re making that
much fucking money.
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You just gotta go
and fuck shit up.
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...it seems like the
more problems you have.
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Um, I\'m sure if you were...
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He\'s always been
under the spotlight.
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...in the spotlight since
you were six years old...
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-He is in the limelight.
-...abusive parents.
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And he\'s got
paparazzi up his ass.
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Like all types of shit going
on, cameras in your face.
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All these people
that put him on a...
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...pedestal.
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On a big-ass pedestal.
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We put these
motherfuckers on a pedestal.
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And expect him to perform
at this high level
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and live at this high level.
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You have so many
different followers...
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Watching them and
looking up to them.
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...and wanting to
strive to become you,
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-you know what I mean?
-Holding them
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to a higher than
human standard.
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But we don\'t want to see
any impurity in this facade.
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You were, you know, a guy
that a lot of people
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looked up to, including kids.
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Young children of
all ethnicities.
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A lot of kids
looked up to you.
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Kids, minorities, or even
white kids or whatever.
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I\'m not gonna make
race an issue.
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You were accepted
by the white kids.
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He\'s gonna give us
all these stupid views,
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and he\'s gonna mold our minds
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so that we think
just like him.
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What do you think
eight-year-old boys
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and girls are, you know,
asking their parents
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when they\'re seeing you in
the supermarket tabloids?
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And then when we grow up,
we\'ll be like, \"Oh.\"
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-He\'s a pedophile.
-He\'s lying about his name.
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He\'s a kid at heart
and he loves children.
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He\'s a Socialist
and he\'s gonna be
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indoctrinating their
children--oh, no!
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-What a joke.
-That\'s insane!
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Yo, this guy is
like a fucking god.
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Like I was striving
to become just like him.
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This guy--chicks and guys
were fainting at his presence.
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He\'s--he\'s my idol.
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Oh, what an icon.
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-He\'s a hero.
-Superhuman, Mr. Perfection.
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Ah, the Savior is coming.
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The greatest thing
that has ever been.
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-He\'s going to save the world.
-He\'s the second coming.
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Oh, he\'s such
a wonderful guy.
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He can do no wrong.
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They bow down to him,
they worship--
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Oh, he\'s the Messiah,
he\'s gonna save us all.
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And it disturbs me.
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No, he\'s not.
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Not that--I didn\'t
vote for the man.
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I\'ve said this
from the beginning.
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But, uh...
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He is no god!
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Always looking for a messiah!
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He\'s not Jesus, not Buddha,
he\'s not Muhammad.
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He\'s nothing but a man.
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-He\'s a man.
-He\'s not the almighty.
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No, he\'s not the Messiah.
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He\'s a human being.
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Just like you and I.
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He is human.
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He didn\'t get
to have a childhood.
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-And humans make mistakes.
-He makes mistakes.
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They make mistakes.
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He\'s just a normal dude.
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-Not everyone...
-Nobody\'s perfect.
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...has to be perfect.
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They have sinned...
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Why in the heck
should we judge him?
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-...in their lives.
-You can\'t judge.
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I mean, he\'s a person
like everybody else.
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What makes him exempt
from being human?
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Then that brings me
to the other thing.
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Everybody\'s all upset.
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Because...
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Because he is...
00:11:06.040 --> 00:11:07.999
Because he\'s black!
00:11:10.520 --> 00:11:11.999
There, I said it.
00:11:11.999 --> 00:11:13.999
He was framed as a child
molester because...
00:11:13.999 --> 00:11:15.480
Because he\'s a black man.
00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.800
They set him up on that,
you know, molestation shit.
00:11:18.800 --> 00:11:20.720
It\'s not that they
don\'t like his policies
00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.880
or his ideas or
anything like that.
00:11:22.880 --> 00:11:24.999
Same corrupt,
racist legal system
00:11:24.999 --> 00:11:26.999
that tried to frame
O.J. Simpson.
00:11:26.999 --> 00:11:28.840
It\'s the same thing with O.J.
00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.999
He killed his wife,
yeah, that nigga did,
00:11:31.999 --> 00:11:33.400
or Michael Jackson.
00:11:33.400 --> 00:11:35.120
Now, uh, and we all know.
00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:36.999
Let\'s take a
little trip back.
00:11:36.999 --> 00:11:38.520
If we just look at history.
00:11:38.520 --> 00:11:39.280
Time for a history lesson.
00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:42.800
We know that America
has had a lot of trouble...
00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:44.360
...in its past with, you know,
00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.999
things like slavery,
segregation.
00:11:46.999 --> 00:11:48.520
I think it\'s
some racial shit.
00:11:48.520 --> 00:11:49.999
I think it\'s some racial shit.
00:11:49.999 --> 00:11:51.240
There seems to be some...
00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.999
All of this is
killing these people.
00:11:52.999 --> 00:11:56.120
...problem with the fact
that this man was successful.
00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.160
What are you afraid of?
00:11:57.160 --> 00:12:00.200
And because
he was successful...
00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.840
And he excels in a sport
00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.560
dominated by Caucasians.
00:12:05.560 --> 00:12:06.480
He deserves...
00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.240
They ain\'t gonna
leave you alone.
00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.800
...all that is
happening to him.
00:12:11.880 --> 00:12:13.999
There are some people
who cannot stand...
00:12:13.999 --> 00:12:14.880
They can\'t handle it.
00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:16.680
...that he\'s good and better.
00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:18.080
They\'re just jealous of him.
00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.360
They\'ll do anything
to make sure he fail.
00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:21.720
To watch the guy
stumble and fail.
00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.080
People are just watching and
waiting for you to fuck up.
00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:25.999
They are waiting
for you fuck up.
00:12:25.999 --> 00:12:28.120
People were waiting
on a slip-up.
00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.800
They\'re just waiting for
you to do something wrong,
00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:32.520
throw you under the bus.
00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.999
They already took
Chris Brown from us.
00:12:36.999 --> 00:12:38.720
Much like Kobe Bryant.
00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.680
Was in a similar situation
a couple of years ago.
00:12:41.680 --> 00:12:42.560
Like Michael Vick.
00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:43.880
They\'re about to take Wayne,
00:12:43.880 --> 00:12:45.360
they took T.I.,
they took Gucci.
00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:46.560
Michael, O.J., and Kobe.
00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:47.800
We have Shaq, we have Kobe.
00:12:47.800 --> 00:12:49.040
-Wesley Snipes.
-We have Jordan.
00:12:49.040 --> 00:12:50.840
Magic Johnson,
Michael Jordan.
00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:51.999
Why, the first thing
they want to do
00:12:51.999 --> 00:12:53.440
is try to tear my man down.
00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:54.280
They\'re gonna build you up,
00:12:54.280 --> 00:12:56.040
and they\'re gonna
break you down.
00:12:56.040 --> 00:12:57.280
Ah, that hurt.
00:12:57.280 --> 00:12:58.520
What else is to be concluded
00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:01.320
that, first,
you make them monsters...
00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:03.240
You\'re the ones
who raised him up.
00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.240
It\'s your own fault.
00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.480
...then you punish them.
00:13:13.400 --> 00:13:18.480
♪
00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:20.999
This dude was coming home.
00:13:20.999 --> 00:13:21.999
He came home.
00:13:21.999 --> 00:13:22.960
In his Escalade.
00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.480
Precious, little
2009 Cadillac SUV.
00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.240
$80,000 SUV.
00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.280
He was driving a
2009 Cadillac SUV.
00:13:31.280 --> 00:13:32.360
Driving his Escalade
00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.999
on his
million-dollar-plus compound.
00:13:34.999 --> 00:13:35.999
At 2:30 in the morning.
00:13:35.999 --> 00:13:39.960
Early morning, it\'s
Friday, November 27.
00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.000
Where in the hell
was you going?
00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:43.680
I wonder what he was
running away from.
00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:47.400
At two in the morning
without no shoes on.
00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:49.240
Hmm.
00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.160
He comes home, he\'s trying
to get in his house
00:13:53.160 --> 00:13:55.400
-with his hired driver.
-He has a driver.
00:13:55.400 --> 00:13:56.760
Out with his chauffeur.
00:13:56.760 --> 00:13:57.840
His \"chauffeur.\"
00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.840
Who also happens
to be a black man.
00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.080
So you know he\'s got
some cake, right?
00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.320
♪
00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.560
♪ Mm, don\'t go changing ♪
00:14:07.560 --> 00:14:09.000
♪ To try to make headlines ♪
00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:13.160
♪ \'Cause we know you\'ve
got a driver of your car ♪
00:14:13.999 --> 00:14:15.440
Anyway.
00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.999
This guy didn\'t have
it hard at all.
00:14:18.999 --> 00:14:19.999
The guy had a better life
00:14:19.999 --> 00:14:22.000
than either you or
I will ever have.
00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.760
I call him the
\"black Prince Charles.\"
00:14:23.760 --> 00:14:28.560
He makes more money than Shaq
or Kobe could ever dream of.
00:14:28.560 --> 00:14:32.560
Snoop Dogg doesn\'t have
that kind of sponsorship.
00:14:32.560 --> 00:14:34.120
The motherfucker gets paid.
00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:35.760
He\'s a fucking billionaire.
00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:39.400
I wish a billionaire
for doing bullshit.
00:14:40.400 --> 00:14:41.880
(sighing)
00:14:42.640 --> 00:14:50.120
♪
00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:51.240
They had the money.
00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:52.440
A lot of money.
00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:53.400
All the money.
00:14:53.400 --> 00:14:54.800
Stealing your money.
00:14:54.800 --> 00:14:55.720
The money I earned.
00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.840
(repeating \"money\")
00:14:58.840 --> 00:14:59.800
Money, money, money.
00:14:59.800 --> 00:15:02.800
I don\'t want you
taking money from me.
00:15:07.920 --> 00:15:10.999
Now, um, he lives in...
00:15:10.999 --> 00:15:12.999
Well, let\'s pick
a place like...
00:15:12.999 --> 00:15:13.760
Florida.
00:15:13.760 --> 00:15:14.480
Bensonhurst.
00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:15.920
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
00:15:15.920 --> 00:15:19.000
Which is in, like, you know,
a suburb area up there.
00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.000
You\'ve seen it so many times,
the brother with the suitcase
00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:22.999
who moves to the suburbs,
don\'t want to give back
00:15:22.999 --> 00:15:26.080
to his people in the hood,
he just abandoned them.
00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:30.280
♪
00:15:30.280 --> 00:15:33.760
You know, this is a
very upscale, very--
00:15:33.760 --> 00:15:35.840
It\'s a nice
neighborhood, very nice.
00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:37.400
-Predominantly...
-A pretty much...
00:15:37.400 --> 00:15:38.680
lily-white neighborhood,
if you will.
00:15:38.680 --> 00:15:43.960
Suburban, affluential,
lot of coin, lot of stow.
00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.040
In a gated community.
00:15:47.040 --> 00:15:47.999
In this Harvard house.
00:15:47.999 --> 00:15:50.840
He\'s got an amusement park
in front of his house.
00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:53.040
On his
million-dollar-plus compound.
00:15:53.040 --> 00:15:55.160
What\'s he think, he\'s
better than me or you?
00:15:55.160 --> 00:15:57.160
Act like he\'s just better.
00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.960
You know, we all
know the type.
00:15:59.960 --> 00:16:00.999
He\'s my type.
00:16:00.999 --> 00:16:02.000
Middle class.
00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.680
He was the trendsetter, man.
00:16:03.680 --> 00:16:05.999
Nice suits, nice cars.
00:16:05.999 --> 00:16:07.600
Hey, in past years,
00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.240
this guy would\'ve
been serving me coffee.
00:16:14.520 --> 00:16:17.999
You draw attention
to yourself, black man,
00:16:17.999 --> 00:16:18.720
when you go live in
00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.600
an all-white neighborhood,
black man!
00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.560
Yeah, contradiction in turns.
00:16:22.560 --> 00:16:23.320
Is he eligible?
00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.720
Black man in a white house.
00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:27.999
My White House!
00:16:27.999 --> 00:16:29.840
The police gonna watch you!
00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.800
\'Cause they ain\'t forgetting
about the hood in you.
00:16:32.800 --> 00:16:34.760
And people gonna
watch you too!
00:16:34.760 --> 00:16:36.280
\'Cause your scheme
is way too dark
00:16:36.280 --> 00:16:38.999
to be living in
a place this good.
00:16:38.999 --> 00:16:40.999
And all these bloggers...
00:16:40.999 --> 00:16:42.800
We are looking.
00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:45.680
...typing until their
fingers get sore.
00:16:45.680 --> 00:16:47.800
I\'m watching you!
00:16:47.800 --> 00:16:50.040
So this is what he was
probably thinking.
00:16:50.040 --> 00:16:50.720
All right, so.
00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.999
You know, what
basically happened...
00:16:53.999 --> 00:16:55.040
What happened is...
00:16:55.040 --> 00:16:57.800
This is what happened, okay?
00:16:57.800 --> 00:16:58.999
What happened
was he came home.
00:16:58.999 --> 00:17:00.240
He was trying to get
into his house,
00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:01.440
the front-door key
wouldn\'t work.
00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.240
He lost his keys
or something.
00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:03.960
Fumbling with his keys, and
couldn\'t get in the door.
00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.080
He went to the back door and
tried to get in the back door
00:17:06.080 --> 00:17:07.400
or tried to get
in the window.
00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:08.120
He\'s coming back home...
00:17:08.120 --> 00:17:08.999
From a trip overseas...
00:17:08.999 --> 00:17:10.880
He was returning
from China, I believe.
00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:12.760
...and he--his front
door doesn\'t work.
00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:14.200
\'Cause the lock is
jammed, something.
00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.800
-A door was jammed.
-Can\'t get in his house.
00:17:16.800 --> 00:17:18.840
All right,
can\'t get in there.
00:17:18.840 --> 00:17:20.560
Oh, apparently, one of
his neighbors saw it.
00:17:20.560 --> 00:17:24.120
Uh, from what we understand,
a white woman, and...
00:17:24.120 --> 00:17:27.960
Used force on his front
door and back door
00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.360
to gain entry to his house.
00:17:30.360 --> 00:17:31.600
♪ Why are you
00:17:31.600 --> 00:17:37.720
so mad ♪
00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:44.920
♪ There are more
important things ♪
00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.800
Let me reenact what
the fuck happened.
00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:50.600
\"I left my keys.\"
00:17:50.600 --> 00:17:51.320
\"I left my keys out.
00:17:51.320 --> 00:17:53.400
Yeah, I just lost \'em
and I\'m trying to get in.\"
00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.240
\"Found out that my keys
weren\'t working.\"
00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:57.999
\"It\'s been a long trip,
yeah, it\'s just been crazy.\"
00:17:57.999 --> 00:17:59.680
-\"I couldn\'t get in.\"
-\"Yeah, yeah.
00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:00.999
Yeah, I\'m happy
to be home, but...\"
00:18:00.999 --> 00:18:03.999
\"And had to break
into my own house.\"
00:18:05.760 --> 00:18:08.999
He tried to kind of...
00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:13.920
...jimmy his way into his
own house with the help of...
00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:15.040
...his wife!
00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:16.440
What\'s her name?
00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:18.360
Um, okay, so here\'s the deal.
00:18:18.360 --> 00:18:21.920
There was a white lady, like,
15 years younger than him.
00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.920
(indistinct chattering)
00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.520
It\'s one of his golf clubs.
00:18:26.520 --> 00:18:27.320
Attempting to enter his home.
00:18:27.320 --> 00:18:29.120
Attempting to save
her husband.
00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:31.040
She went nuts
with a nine-iron.
00:18:31.040 --> 00:18:32.200
With a four-iron!
00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:34.440
Swinging like Babe Ruth.
00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:35.999
Let me take this golf club.
00:18:35.999 --> 00:18:38.720
Boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom!
00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:39.160
Boom!
00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:41.960
Trying to gain entry
into his own home.
00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:43.999
Trying to enter his home.
00:18:43.999 --> 00:18:46.080
With the golf club.
00:18:46.080 --> 00:18:47.640
His wife went ghetto on him.
00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:48.880
That woman turned Negro...
00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.640
She went black on his ass.
00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:52.400
She acted worse
than the system.
00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:53.600
Trying to get in.
00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:54.840
Um, not the traditional way,
00:18:54.840 --> 00:18:56.760
but nonetheless,
trying to get in.
00:18:56.760 --> 00:18:59.840
She channeled her
inner black woman.
00:19:00.760 --> 00:19:02.999
Ooh!
00:19:04.999 --> 00:19:06.120
There was, what I would say,
00:19:06.120 --> 00:19:09.520
was his Michael Jackson/O.J.
moment, right,
00:19:09.520 --> 00:19:12.040
where he just
jumped the shark...
00:19:12.040 --> 00:19:12.999
Released an animal.
00:19:12.999 --> 00:19:14.999
...in terms of some
of this racial stuff.
00:19:14.999 --> 00:19:17.000
Released the inner
animal in him.
00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:18.560
We\'ve already seen him,
00:19:18.560 --> 00:19:20.360
you know, with
Reverend Wright
00:19:20.360 --> 00:19:22.999
and dissing his
white grandmother.
00:19:22.999 --> 00:19:24.240
They have a completely different
00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:25.800
psychological
makeup than we do.
00:19:25.800 --> 00:19:29.480
-Men of power...
-Kobe Bryant, Bill Clinton.
00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:30.640
...are biologically driven.
00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.640
Over history,
um, famous people,
00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:37.000
-especially men.
-Especially kings.
00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:37.999
Like King David and Solomon.
00:19:37.999 --> 00:19:40.080
You even hear back in
the Biblical times,
00:19:40.080 --> 00:19:41.800
King Solomon or King David.
00:19:41.800 --> 00:19:42.999
They\'re physically wired
00:19:42.999 --> 00:19:44.800
in a totally different
way than we are.
00:19:44.800 --> 00:19:48.440
There is no way that
he\'s gonna be faithful.
00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:49.160
This is his nature.
00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:51.999
When your testosterone
level runs high.
00:19:51.999 --> 00:19:53.480
So they\'re actually
a lot more sexual.
00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:56.440
You know, you\'ve probably
seen this in science class,
00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:58.160
but they are very different,
00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.600
and so they think
very different.
00:19:59.600 --> 00:20:00.800
He\'s the most desirable guy
00:20:00.800 --> 00:20:02.080
as far as females are
concerned in the world.
00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:04.640
I mean, crap, if I was
a girl, I would like him.
00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.040
He can get anybody
he wants at any time.
00:20:06.040 --> 00:20:09.480
And he\'s had sex with,
like, all the white women
00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:10.600
in the whole world.
00:20:10.600 --> 00:20:15.999
He probably has women all over
sucked into the dojo.
00:20:18.840 --> 00:20:20.640
What\'s wrong with you, buddy?
00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:24.520
Can\'t keep the black
dragon in the pants?
00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:31.960
Let me pause here
for a second and say...
00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:33.480
...I\'m not racist.
00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:35.480
Whatsoever, I am not.
00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:37.920
I have nothing against
black people whatsoever.
00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.920
I am not meaning
to be racist at all.
00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:42.640
I am not being
racist or anything,
00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:43.760
but I\'m just saying.
00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:44.960
I\'m totally not racist.
00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.080
I value my friends
of all races.
00:20:48.080 --> 00:20:51.320
I have many Hispanic friends,
I have many white friends,
00:20:51.320 --> 00:20:53.840
I have many Jewish friends...
I think.
00:20:53.840 --> 00:20:55.999
And I don\'t think
I\'m a racist at all.
00:20:55.999 --> 00:21:00.640
Uh, I grew up and had many
good friends that were black.
00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:01.999
I have lots of black
friends I grew up with.
00:21:01.999 --> 00:21:04.360
I mean, I grew up
surrounded by black people.
00:21:04.360 --> 00:21:05.999
I knew lots of black people.
00:21:05.999 --> 00:21:08.760
I have no problem that
he\'s African American.
00:21:08.760 --> 00:21:10.999
I could care less about
the color of his skin.
00:21:10.999 --> 00:21:14.280
I don\'t mind the fact
that he\'s black at all.
00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:15.120
I love black people.
00:21:15.120 --> 00:21:16.999
I think they\'re really cool.
00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:22.320
-But...
-But...
00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:30.360
Imagine this.
00:21:30.360 --> 00:21:32.080
It\'s late at night.
00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:36.999
You look at your window
and you see a black male.
00:21:36.999 --> 00:21:38.999
\"The neighbor saw me!\"
00:21:38.999 --> 00:21:39.999
She saw her neighbor.
00:21:39.999 --> 00:21:43.960
You know, you see a
black guy and you think...
00:21:45.600 --> 00:21:47.999
2:20, on a holiday?
00:21:47.999 --> 00:21:50.440
Outside of his
home in Florida.
00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:56.480
There are a lot
of racial things
00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:57.120
in this whole situation.
00:21:57.120 --> 00:21:59.560
-It\'s about race.
-It\'s about money.
00:21:59.560 --> 00:22:01.240
It\'s about capital.
00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:02.640
Forget the racial stuff.
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.999
It\'s, uh, 2009 and a half,
00:22:04.999 --> 00:22:07.560
and we do have a
black president.
00:22:07.560 --> 00:22:10.120
Let me tell you something,
when black people heard
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\"broken window,\"
\"3:00 in the morning,\"
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and \"golf club,\"
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we knew right then and there,
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that\'s some nigga
shit right there.
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See, this is where nigganometry,
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your nigga senses,
they did not kick in.
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Got his nigga wake-up call.
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There\'s a time and a place
to show your blackness.
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♪
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Now what a person does in
their own personal life,
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that\'s their business.
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♪
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But...
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He messed up when he
walked out that door.
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Now...
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The metamorphosis started
happening, all right?
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If he was never
black before...
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He\'s--he\'s changing colors.
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...the motherfucker is
black as hell right now.
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The blackness is
coming out of him now.
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You found out
your ass was black.
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You didn\'t quite know where
you--what you was before.
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You\'re just black,
you\'re not mixed.
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You are black when
it comes to them.
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You\'re black now, honey,
you got beat down.
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He\'s black now, goddamnit.
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No longer in the four
walls of his home.
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-Behind closed doors.
-Behind closed doors.
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But out in public view.
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Outside of your home.
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In a public space.
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Now, he\'s out in public.
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-For everyone to see.
-And everybody knows.
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I don\'t care if you\'re
on your front lawn.
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Every intelligent
black man knows
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when in the mainstream.
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Out in public view.
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He was sporting jail jewelry.
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I don\'t care who you are
or how much you make.
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That\'s the bottom line.
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Anyway, get back at me.
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Let me know what you think.
