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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.13,0:00:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Testing 123 testing 123
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.99,0:00:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, this is Mollena Williams,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.83,0:00:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have a blog called The Perverted Negress,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.15,0:00:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's because I am kinky and perverted and as well a brown person, as you can see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.54,0:00:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now I have no particular outline for what I'm about to say,so I'm kinda wingin' it here,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.32,0:00:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so forgive me if it rambles.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.21,0:00:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yesterday, um, I uh logged onto facebook
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.35,0:00:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I had received an event invitation from another person of facebook.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.83,0:00:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I cannot tell you how many times I read the event invitation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.39,0:00:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was so stunned at what I was seeing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.62,0:00:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I will put a link so that you can take a look and see what I'm talking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.51,0:01:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, below the video or whatever, to the website and/or to the video of the comedian
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.08,0:01:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I use the word loosely and in quotes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.63,0:01:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was booked by a gay leather bar in Portland [Oregon], Portland Eagle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.99,0:01:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Eagle is a well known uh name for gay leather bars across the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.86,0:01:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been to many Eagles in america in my travels as a leather woman
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.46,0:01:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Portland Eagle, I do not believe I have visited myself personally,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.82,0:01:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when I saw the invitation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.76,0:01:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw that the Portland Eagle had booked an act
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.68,0:01:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was shockingly reprehensible, I was really taken aback,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.82,0:01:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first and foremost because I have this idea, um, I {\i1}had{\i0} this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.60,0:01:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gay leather folk would be aware of the flagrant bigotry and racism of booking an act
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.57,0:02:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is a white man in "drag" wearing blackface.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.01,0:02:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for those of you who might not be familiar with the term,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.91,0:02:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is an old old tradition, uh, whereby white people, or people who identify as white people of european descent
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.82,0:02:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don makeup to make them look like black people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.96,0:02:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then mock and parody black people.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.05,0:02:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a fashion in terms of entertainment that has been dead for awhile
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.12,0:02:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it is derogatory, racist, and insulting.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.10,0:02:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh, there is however someone who keeps this tradition alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.26,0:02:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they use the stage name Shirley Q Liquor,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.35,0:02:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the assumption is that this man has put on makeup of a skin tone not dissimilar to mine,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.45,0:02:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with big sloppy lipstick and big popping eyes with horrible eyeshadow and a big afro wig and a housedress.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.85,0:03:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And stands there, doing a whole diatribe in a "ghetto accent", for what that's worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.23,0:03:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're unclear on what I mean by this particular situation, go ahead and watch the video.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.94,0:03:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now some of you will say "oh my god it's too horrible, I can't watch it",
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.49,0:03:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know what? Sit and fuckin' watch it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.64,0:03:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've watched it, and I've watched a great deal of his other work over the years,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.11,0:03:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I have in my own way protested, uh, his performance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.44,0:03:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The link I'm going to put below the video is of a show that he did
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.72,0:03:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coincidentally on my birthday in 2009...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.21,0:03:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the uh year I was turning 41 I guess, no, 40, that would be my 40th birthday...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.51,0:03:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This person was in Guerneville, California, not far from where I was living at the time in SanFransisco,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.75,0:03:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in blackface, amusing a bunch of folks who, uh, themselves were marginalized in our society,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.82,0:04:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that being homosexuals, gay people, queers, however you want to identify, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.62,0:04:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}takes deep breath{\i0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.13,0:04:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.76,0:04:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I somewhat foolishly had this idea that being associated myself as a bisexual woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.30,0:04:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myself as a leather woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.25,0:04:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had found company and space where I would be respected,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.41,0:04:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people who understood what it means to be marginalized,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.37,0:04:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it is to be abused because of who you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.07,0:04:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to run the risk of being rejected by part of society,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.84,0:04:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would respect those differences
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.84,0:04:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and boy was I wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.52,0:04:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in the midst of of understanding the breadth of what was happening yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.12,0:04:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started writing to other people of colour and other black women specifically,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.35,0:04:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what was horrifying to me was how many of us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.42,0:04:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}voice breaking{\i0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.85,0:04:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just shrugged our shoulders and said "well that's how it is".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.77,0:04:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's horrifying that that's how it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.83,0:04:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's horrifying to me that I for a day tempered my rage
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.33,0:05:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was too worried about being accused, of being pointed at, as the angry black woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.16,0:05:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stereotype that somehow because of who we are, we are oversensitive, that we are over reacting,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.93,0:05:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we just need to, know the irony, lighten up
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.21,0:05:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fucking relax because it's a joke.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.26,0:05:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Allow me to clarify this in case you missed it:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.60,0:05:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blackface is not fucking funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.31,0:05:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.43,0:05:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.86,0:05:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once something is racist
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.55,0:05:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you support it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.68,0:05:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are supporting racism.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.49,0:05:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was horrible about this situation is not just that the fucking Eagle booked it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.60,0:05:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that people supported it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.58,0:05:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then when those of us with a soul and a conscience and a goddamn brain in our head
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.68,0:05:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said "hey man, that shit is not ok",
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.40,0:05:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of people felt free to step up and say
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.73,0:05:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"what's the big deal? it's just a joke. you're too sensitive. why don't you relax? it's funny."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.85,0:06:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not fucking funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.53,0:06:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when people were called on their racism
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.66,0:06:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they said "well, that's your opinion".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.09,0:06:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look up the definition of racism, ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.94,0:06:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mocking someone because of their skin colour is part of what belittling someone because of their race means.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.16,0:06:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't get to pick and choose how racism is.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.40,0:06:22.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not my fucking opinion that that's racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.61,0:06:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.26,0:06:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Period.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.28,0:06:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For fuck sake.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.24,0:06:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why am I having to explain this in goddamn 2 thousand... 2013 whatever the fuck year it is?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.13,0:06:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.04,0:06:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why am I having this talk on the first day of goddamn Black History Month, will someone explain to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.54,0:06:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I am sitting in front of my computer because white people seem to think it was goddamn ok,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.64,0:06:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alright?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.27,0:06:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have a man, a white man, dress up and mock me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.17,0:06:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me, my sisters, my aunts, my grandmothers, my mom, all of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.89,0:07:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I step on someones foot
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.43,0:07:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they say "ow! you stepped on my foot!"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.26,0:07:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say "well fuck you, that wasn't that hard, why don't you just goddamn relax and get your foot from under my foot
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.98,0:07:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I'm conducting my business?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.90,0:07:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be seen as rude.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.01,0:07:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, people feel free to tell me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.73,0:07:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first of all, what is or is not racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.51,0:07:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is or is not acceptable and how I should react to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.15,0:07:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alright?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.72,0:07:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only do we have a situation that's racist,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.75,0:07:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's also incredibly sexist.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.12,0:07:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were certainly people who surprised and startled me by explaining to me online,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.70,0:07:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mean me as in the larger "we", as another black woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.96,0:07:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why we were wrong about our feelings, alright?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.06,0:07:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me be clear when I say that I'm not speaking for all black women,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.93,0:07:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can sign on or you cannot.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.73,0:07:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the fact of the matter is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.25,0:07:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough people who look like me, and enough people who don't look like me
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.03,0:07:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are aware that this is some crazy fucked up shit,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.54,0:07:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each and every one of you who supported this act
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.26,0:08:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then who puled and moaned about the "caving in to political correctness" when the act was canceled,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.42,0:08:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--and I'm guaranteeing not becuase they suddenly saw the light
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.86,0:08:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how incredibly rude, insensitive and racist they were for booking it in the first goddamn place,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.22,0:08:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because probably it was too much of a pain in the ass
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.38,0:08:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them to deal with the bitching and moaning from those of us with souls and brains.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.16,0:08:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.30,0:08:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So those of you who supported it?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.95,0:08:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are equally supporting racism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.50,0:08:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of you who passively sat by and said "well this is not my fight"?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.26,0:08:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is your fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.43,0:08:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come get your people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.24,0:08:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And come talk to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.97,0:08:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you really are an ally, you are in it to win it, and you are in it with us, alright?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.41,0:08:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of you who think that we are living in a post racial society, that race doesn't matter, etc, etc,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.76,0:08:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come and live in my body,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.54,0:08:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come and live in a world where I get followed around stores because of my skin colour.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.30,0:08:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come and live in a world where I was sexually assaulted by a police officer in Los Angeles county in 1992
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.06,0:09:02.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had no recource because as a black woman in Los Angeles what the fuck was I going to do about it?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.73,0:09:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come and live in a world where I am profiled and pulled over again and again and again
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.52,0:09:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for being a sex worker, even though I am wearing a 3-piece suit and standing at a bus stop
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.81,0:09:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a metropolitan area,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.90,0:09:17.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the only people in the neighbourhood are prostitutes,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.23,0:09:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore, because I look like them, I must be one.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.07,0:09:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come and live in a world where someone on the street calls me a nigger and other people turn away.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.29,0:09:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the fucking reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.22,0:09:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come and live in a world where people feel free to joke about how funny it is
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.43,0:09:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that black people are on welfare and have 42 children,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.24,0:09:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my! what silly wacky names they give them!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.56,0:09:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and oh! we just mean it as a joke!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.21,0:09:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not a joke.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.75,0:09:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I will go so far as to say that not only are the people who are supporting this supporting a racist act,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.63,0:09:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their hearts, they are well aware that it's not ok,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.98,0:09:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they just don't give a fuck.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.63,0:10:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So all the screenshots that people took of this discussion
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.45,0:10:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with all the names of the people who were flagrantly racist?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.57,0:10:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope will live on somewhere in the unconscious,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.17,0:10:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope those words will come back to haunt them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.82,0:10:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that people are aware of what sick, and terrible terrible hearts they hold inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.12,0:10:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what else to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.16,0:10:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}sigh{\i0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.75,0:10:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I still felt safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.09,0:10:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tend to live sometimes with my head in the sand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.74,0:10:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because otherwise I can't fucking deal with life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.70,0:10:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't fucking deal with the reality of racism,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.16,0:10:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sexism, and sizeism, and bigotry, and all of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.80,0:10:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I smile and I create my bubble of people who treat me well, and with respect,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.45,0:10:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I try to ignore this bullshit.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.30,0:10:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it's at the heart of one of the communities that I call home.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.05,0:10:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sure, I've read that some people said "well it's not {\i1}really{\i0} an Eagle, they only have a leather night twice a week"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.53,0:10:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then why the fuck does it have the name "Eagle"?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.69,0:10:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the hell are you doing, leather folks, for letting that name remain on the bar?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.53,0:11:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it's not a leather bar, petition to have them change the goddamn name.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.82,0:11:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because to me, what Leather is about is about honesty and integrity and respect.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.08,0:11:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no integrity and zero respect is demonstrated in this situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.46,0:11:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to do better.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.09,0:11:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to fucking do better.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.16,0:11:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There needs to be a world in which children, little girls, are not mocked by other people,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.64,0:11:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}voice breaking{\i0}] and then told that they need to laugh at it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.49,0:11:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not fucking funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.78,0:11:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wonder why we don't live as long as white people [{\i1}laughing{\i0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.92,0:11:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's probably because our blood pressure is spiking every other day because of shit like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.43,0:11:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know why I'm laughing?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.87,0:11:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because its funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.30,0:11:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But because it hurts so badly
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.89,0:11:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I don't know what else to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.27,0:11:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}sigh{\i0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.30,0:11:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first day of Black History Month,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.87,0:12:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if anyone has any doubt or question as to why we need to talk about this forever and ever and ever amen,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.18,0:12:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let that be answered now.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.95,0:12:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of you who wish to erase,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.57,0:12:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those of you who say "we can't move on from history until you let go and forget it",
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.80,0:12:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot let go and forget it when it echos every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.64,0:12:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.06,0:12:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I slept for about 2 hours last night because of this shit.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.88,0:12:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm fuckin' tired.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.18,0:12:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably not making much sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.50,0:12:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But please, think about, think about racism, think about sexism, think about hatred and ignorance,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.72,0:12:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about the fact that people you call friends very well may think that its hilarious to put on blackface.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.07,0:12:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's just a joke.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.45,0:12:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That joke actually causes physical pain to people who see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.90,0:12:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.52,0:12:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.45,0:12:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you think it's funny,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.34,0:13:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're being racist.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.88,0:13:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you think racism is cool,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.06,0:13:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll pray for you.