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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.02,0:00:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I told you that time has a race,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.80,0:00:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a race in the contemporary way\Nthat we understand race
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.59,0:00:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.16,0:00:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Typically, we talk about race\Nin terms of black and white issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.55,0:00:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the African-American communities\Nfrom which I come,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.43,0:00:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a long-standing\Nmulti-generational joke
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.24,0:00:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what we call "CP time,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.80,0:00:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or "colored people's time."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.26,0:00:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we no longer refer\Nto African-Americans as "colored,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.56,0:00:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this long-standing joke
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.35,0:00:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about our perpetual lateness to church,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.75,0:00:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cookouts, to family events
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.45,0:00:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even to our own funerals, remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.12,0:00:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I personally am a stickler for time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.95,0:00:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's almost as if my mother,\Nwhen I was growing up, said,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.67,0:00:46.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We will not be those black people."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.62,0:00:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we typically arrive to events\N30 minutes early.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.20,0:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But today, I want to talk to you\Nmore about the political nature of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.10,0:00:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for if time had a race,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.04,0:00:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be white.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.06,0:01:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White people own time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.32,0:01:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know, I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.06,0:01:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making such "incendiary statements"\Nmakes us uncomfortable:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.61,0:01:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haven't we moved past the point\Nwhere race really matters?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.76,0:01:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't race a heavy-handed concept?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.97,0:01:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shouldn't we go ahead\Nwith our enlightened, progressive selves
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.04,0:01:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and relegate useless concepts like race\Nto the dustbins of history?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.13,0:01:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will we ever get over racism\Nif we keep on talking about race?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.78,0:01:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps we should lock up our concepts\Nof race in a time capsule,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.39,0:01:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bury them and dig them up\Nin a thousand years,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.33,0:01:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peer at them with the clearly\Nmore enlightened,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.72,0:01:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raceless versions of ourselves\Nthat belong to the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.50,0:01:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see there,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.82,0:01:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that desire to mitigate the impact\Nof race and racism shows up
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.43,0:01:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in how we attempt to manage time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.77,0:01:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the ways we narrate history,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.85,0:01:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the ways we attempt to shove\Nthe negative truths of the present
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.02,0:01:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.20,0:02:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the ways we attempt to argue\Nthat the future that we hope for
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.28,0:02:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the present in which\Nwe're currently living.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.39,0:02:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, when Barack Obama\Nbecame President of the US in 2008,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.56,0:02:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many Americans declared\Nthat we were post-racial.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.34,0:02:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm from the academy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.65,0:02:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we're enamored\Nwith being post-everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.48,0:02:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're postmodern, we're post-structural,\Nwe're post-feminist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.37,0:02:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Post" has become\Na simple academic appendage
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.83,0:02:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we apply to a range of terms
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.79,0:02:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mark the way we were.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.34,0:02:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But prefixes alone don't have the power\Nto make race and racism
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.51,0:02:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a thing of the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.30,0:02:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US was never "pre-race."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.94,0:02:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to claim that we're post-race when we\Nhave yet to grapple with the impact
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.85,0:02:41.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of race on black people,\NLatinos or the indigenous
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.78,0:02:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is disingenuous.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.08,0:02:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just about the moment\Nwe were preparing to celebrate
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.98,0:02:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our post-racial future,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.37,0:02:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our political conditions became\Nthe most racial they've been
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.35,0:02:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the last 50 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.43,0:02:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So today, I want to offer to you\Nthree observations,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.99,0:03:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the past, the present\Nand the future of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.40,0:03:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it relates to the combating\Nof racism and white dominance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.100,0:03:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First: the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.80,0:03:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time has a history,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.71,0:03:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so do black people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.70,0:03:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we treat time as though\Nit is timeless,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.39,0:03:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as though it has always been this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.82,0:03:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as though it doesn't have\Na political history
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.14,0:03:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bound up with the plunder\Nof indigenous lands,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.37,0:03:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the genocide of indigenous people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.34,0:03:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the stealing of Africans\Nfrom their homeland.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.98,0:03:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When white male European philosophers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.88,0:03:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first thought to conceptualize\Ntime and history, one famously declared,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.91,0:03:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"[Africa] is no historical\Npart of the World."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.47,0:03:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was essentially saying
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.07,0:03:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Africans were people\Noutside of history
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.46,0:03:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had had no impact on time
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.97,0:03:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the march of progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.10,0:03:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea, that black people\Nhave had no impact on history,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.57,0:03:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the foundational ideas\Nof white supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.07,0:03:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the reason that Carter G. Woodson\Ncreated "Negro History Week" in 1926.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.93,0:04:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the reason that we continue\Nto celebrate Black History Month
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.06,0:04:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the US every February.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.78,0:04:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we also see this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.15,0:04:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that black people are people either\Nalternately outside of the bounds of time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.70,0:04:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or stuck in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.23,0:04:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a scenario where,\Nmuch as I'm doing right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.13,0:04:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a black person stands up and insists\Nthat racism still matters,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.28,0:04:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a person, usually white,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.63,0:04:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.82,0:04:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why are you stuck in the past?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.78,0:04:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why can't you move on?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.09,0:04:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a black president.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.02,0:04:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're past all that."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.75,0:04:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,William Faulkner famously said,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.98,0:04:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The past is never dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.10,0:04:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not even past."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.100,0:04:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my good friend\NProfessor Kristie Dotson says,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.11,0:04:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Our memory is longer than our lifespan."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.20,0:04:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We carry, all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.53,0:04:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,family and communal\Nhopes and dreams with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.08,0:05:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have the luxury\Nof letting go of the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.99,0:05:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But sometimes,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.93,0:05:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our political conditions are so troubling
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.94,0:05:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't know\Nif we're living in the past
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.15,0:05:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we're living in the present.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.27,0:05:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take, for instance,\Nwhen Black Lives Matter protesters
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.97,0:05:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go out to protest unjust killings\Nof black citizens by police,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.01,0:05:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the pictures that emerge\Nfrom the protest
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.14,0:05:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look like they could have been\Ntaken 50 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.80,0:05:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The past won't let us go.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.70,0:05:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But still, let us press our way\Ninto the present.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.54,0:05:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At present, I would argue
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.99,0:05:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the racial struggles\Nwe are experiencing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.35,0:05:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are clashes over time and space.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.18,0:05:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.30,0:05:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I've already told you\Nthat white people own time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.84,0:05:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those in power dictate\Nthe pace of the workday.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.59,0:05:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They dictate how much money\Nour time is actually worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.97,0:05:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Professor George Lipsitz argues
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.14,0:06:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that white people even dictate\Nthe pace of social inclusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.07,0:06:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They dictate how long\Nit will actually take
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.85,0:06:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for minority groups to receive the rights\Nthat they have been fighting for.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.32,0:06:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me loop back to the past quickly\Nto give you an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.10,0:06:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think about\Nthe Civil Rights Movement
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.27,0:06:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the cries of its leaders\Nfor "Freedom Now,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.22,0:06:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were challenging the slow pace\Nof white social inclusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.32,0:06:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1965, the year\Nthe Voting Rights Act was passed,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.37,0:06:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there had been a full 100 years
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.02,0:06:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the end of the Civil War
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.89,0:06:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the conferral of voting rights\Non African-American communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.06,0:06:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite the urgency of a war,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.30,0:06:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it still took a full 100 years\Nfor actual social inclusion to occur.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.50,0:06:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since 2012,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.46,0:06:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conservative state legislatures\Nacross the US have ramped up attempts
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.16,0:06:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to roll back African-American\Nvoting rights
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.37,0:06:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by passing restrictive voter ID laws
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.87,0:06:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and curtailing early voting opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.85,0:06:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This past July, a federal court\Nstruck down North Carolina's voter ID law
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.83,0:07:00.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying it "... targeted African-Americans\Nwith surgical precision."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.60,0:07:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Restricting African-American inclusion\Nin the body politic
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.04,0:07:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a primary way that we attempt\Nto manage and control people
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.06,0:07:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by managing and controlling time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.19,0:07:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But another place that we see\Nthese time-space clashes
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.78,0:07:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in gentrifying cities\Nlike Atlanta, Brooklyn,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.27,0:07:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Philadelphia, New Orleans\Nand Washington, DC --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.76,0:07:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places that have had\Nblack populations for generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.41,0:07:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now, in the name\Nof urban renewal and progress,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.73,0:07:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these communities are pushed out,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.74,0:07:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in service of bringing them\Ninto the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.90,0:07:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Professor Sharon Holland asked:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.18,0:07:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens when a person\Nwho exists in time
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.87,0:07:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meets someone who only occupies space?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.90,0:07:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These racial struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.52,0:07:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are battles over those\Nwho are perceived to be space-takers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.12,0:07:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those who are perceived\Nto be world-makers.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.04,0:08:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who control the flow\Nand thrust of history
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.05,0:08:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are considered world-makers\Nwho own and master time.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.20,0:08:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words: white people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.27,0:08:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when Hegel famously said that Africa\Nwas no historical part of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.40,0:08:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he implied that it was merely\Na voluminous land mass
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.93,0:08:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking up space\Nat the bottom of the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.52,0:08:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Africans were space-takers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.53,0:08:24.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So today, white people continue to control\Nthe flow and thrust of history,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.84,0:08:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while too often treating black people\Nas though we are merely taking up space
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.40,0:08:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to which we are not entitled.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.71,0:08:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time and the march of progress\Nis used to justify
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.68,0:08:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a stunning degree of violence\Ntowards our most vulnerable populations,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.12,0:08:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, being perceived as space-takers\Nrather than world-makers,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.22,0:08:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are moved out of the places\Nwhere they live,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.56,0:08:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in service of bringing them\Ninto the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.87,0:08:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortened life span according to zip code\Nis just one example of the ways
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.02,0:08:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that time and space cohere\Nin an unjust manner
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.77,0:09:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the lives of black people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.97,0:09:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children who are born\Nin New Orleans zip code 70124,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.52,0:09:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is 93 percent white,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.47,0:09:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can expect to live a full 25 years longer
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.72,0:09:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than children born\Nin New Orleans zip code 70112,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.00,0:09:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is 60 percent black.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.04,0:09:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children born in Washington, DC's\Nwealthy Maryland suburbs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.18,0:09:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can expect to live a full 20 years longer
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.31,0:09:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than children born\Nin its downtown neighborhoods.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.67,0:09:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ta-Nehisi Coates argues
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.38,0:09:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, "The defining feature\Nof being drafted into the Black race
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.04,0:09:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the inescapable robbery of time."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.70,0:09:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We experience time discrimination,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.51,0:09:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he tells us,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.76,0:09:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just as structural,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.27,0:09:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as personal:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.74,0:09:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in lost moments of joy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.59,0:09:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lost moments of connection,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.83,0:09:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lost quality of time with loved ones
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.35,0:09:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lost years of healthy quality of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.01,0:10:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the future, do you see black people?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.52,0:10:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do black people have a future?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.39,0:10:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if you belong\Nto the very race of people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.64,0:10:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have always been pitted against time?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.32,0:10:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if your group is the group\Nfor whom a future was never imagined?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.09,0:10:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These time-space clashes --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.81,0:10:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between protesters and police,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.38,0:10:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between gentrifiers and residents --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.77,0:10:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't paint a very pretty picture
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.79,0:10:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what America hopes\Nfor black people's future.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.39,0:10:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the present is any indicator,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.13,0:10:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our children will be under-educated,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.20,0:10:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,health maladies will take their toll
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.58,0:10:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and housing will continue\Nto be unaffordable.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.09,0:10:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if we're really ready\Nto talk about the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.14,0:10:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps we should begin\Nby admitting that we're out of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.99,0:10:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We black people\Nhave always been out of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.26,0:10:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time does not belong to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.41,0:10:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our lives are lives of perpetual urgency.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.63,0:11:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time is used to displace us,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.19,0:11:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or conversely, we are urged\Ninto complacency
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.22,0:11:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through endless calls to just be patient.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.98,0:11:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if past is prologue,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.46,0:11:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let us seize upon the ways in which\Nwe're always out of time anyway
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.74,0:11:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to demand with urgency
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.41,0:11:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freedom now.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.77,0:11:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe the future is what we make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.65,0:11:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But first, we have to decide\Nthat time belongs to all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.82,0:11:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, we don't all get equal time,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.54,0:11:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we can decide that the time\Nwe do get is just and free.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.59,0:11:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can stop making your zip code\Nthe primary determinant
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.26,0:11:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of your lifespan.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.02,0:11:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can stop stealing learning time\Nfrom black children
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.77,0:11:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through excessive use\Nof suspensions and expulsions.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.85,0:11:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can stop stealing time\Nfrom black people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.94,0:11:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through long periods\Nof incarceration for nonviolent crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.95,0:11:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police can stop\Nstealing time and black lives
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.97,0:11:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through use of excessive force.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.18,0:11:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe the future is what we make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.42,0:12:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can't get there\Non colored people's time
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.46,0:12:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or white time
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.42,0:12:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your time
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.25,0:12:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even my time.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.98,0:12:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's our time.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.06,0:12:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ours.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.36,0:12:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.54,0:12:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)