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...ahead of you. You're developing a new consciousness.

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You're just starting to see how we as people of colour feel,

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getting to find out a little bit of our reality.

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It's gonna be a long process to really really fully understand it.

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[Roberto] Stretch out your arms

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and take hold of the cloth that covers you

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with both hands

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the cure for the pain

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is in the pain

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good and bad are mixed

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if you do not have both

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you don't belong with us

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I really worked to keep my expectations out comin' up here.

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And one I couldn't keep out was, um, fear.

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Because I represent, uh, the oppressor.

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I am the oppressor.

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But I really see my responsibility

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and the Euro-American responsibility

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to get together with our brothers, and talk.

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Come clean on what we've done, and what we've participated in,

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and what our ancestors have participated in.

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Put a stop to it.

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And one of the things that I really appreciate from all of you is tolerance

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[voice cracking]

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because we haven't given you much.

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And it really felt good that uh I wasn't treated by you the way we have treated you.

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And I thank you.

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As I look around the room, I have a lot of beautiful memories of each one of you.

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Particularly what sticks out at this moment for me

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is Yutaka and I being belly to belly last night,

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and talking, we sort of had a little world just within the two of us.

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[Yutaka] I saw the genetic link that we had between each other that was just so amazing.

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And as I was looking into him, you were talking about seeing me, but I was seeing you,

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I was seeing a version of myself.

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[Roberto] And I could see myself inside him.

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That was a younger me standing in front of me.

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[Loren] I know when I got here Friday,

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I found myself, would people would arrive, I was sizing them up,

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y'know, I was already trying to decide who was my friend, who was my enemy.

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I found out that you can really express your opinions with people who are different than you,

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without it leading to any kind of violence.

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Over this weekend, it was really important for me to see people express their anger against racism,

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because it's something that is very hard for me to do.

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I was raised, acculturated, to not express that kind of anger when I'm mistreated,

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and to take it silently.

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And I have always wanted to express it because when I keep it inside, I feel that it's killing me,

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as it has, I believe, killed my father.

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Hearing something, and being the nice Japanese man, and just sort of bowing my head,

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and not wanting to create any waves or not wanting to uh, disturb people,

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or not wanting to offend people,

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and, as I get older I'm not longer willing to do that anymore,

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it's just not acceptable.

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Y'know, a lot of these guys I may never see again,

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but um, they got a good, they got a special place inside here, everybody.

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And if they ever need an ally, they got one.

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If somebody makes a remark about a Latino,

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Roberto's face will be there.

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Hughs face will be there.

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And I won't be able to put up with it.

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If I were facing a white audience, and they were asking me what I wanted from them,

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I would say justice.

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Because I cannot love you until you give me justice.

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First.

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I think I will see change in individuals,

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I saw that here with the white men, that there was change for them.

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I don't think I'm gonna see much change on a societal level or institutional level in my lifetime.

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And that makes me very sad to think that.

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What I can hold onto are the individuals that I know are changing.

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And I know David will go away and he will educate his daughters.

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I know he'll do that, and the people around him.

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And that's what I have to hold onto.

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I really am appreciative that I was here [voice cracking] um...

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You will have an impact on me

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throughout the remainder of my life.

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And I will be your ally

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and do all I can

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to stop racism wherever I encounter it.

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He'll fight, and he'll struggle, and he'll intervene on my behalf, um,

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and I think that it'll wear off.

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That his ability to struggle against racism will wear off

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unless he has other white men with him.

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Unless he has other white people with him

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sayin' "keep going".

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If David or people like David are going to depend on people of colour

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to keep him goin' against racism, it won't change.

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Racism won't change.

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I think we have a beautiful world that is in great danger,

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I know we have a beautiful world,

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and I know that it's in great danger.

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And I can't think of aything I'd rather do with my life

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than to see this great, um, project of human life and of life in general on this planet,

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persist and go on and I'd like to leave a healthy and beautiful world for my son and any generations that come after him.

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Well, if I could talk to my father,

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I'd say, "be brave, be proud, and do what you believe is right, and study,

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always study, never stop studying."

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I think what one of the first thoughts for me

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was that I think I really wanted something for my father to see,

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because he thought that white people wouldn't listen,

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or come to see or get really angry if they saw a film on racism.

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Besides that, I think he also

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has indoctrinated me for years that people of colour and whites can't get along,

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there's no way that's going to happen on this earth,

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it's gonna keep going on and on and on.

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David, I liked it perfectly when you said, you know, about you like the anger,

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I mean, it was needed, and it was honest, and it was appropriate, the word you used,

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but that we do need to get that anger out,

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because underneath all that anger is all that hurt

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that has never been allowed to come out for us,

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and then on the other end

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is I think what we all saw with David and Gordon also saw was the end of it, was the possibility

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to get along,

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if we could just be heard and acknowledged.

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I remember on Saturday evening I just broke down and I cried on Hughs shoulder,

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because I told him that I think that I could rest now after this film.

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That I could say that I left something for my son.

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And I know that he's gonna go out into the world,

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to see what I had to see,

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I wanted to know, to let him know that I, that I was with him in some way,

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but I wanted the world to be different for him.

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I wanted him to know that he wasn't crazy.

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And then I shared with you, David,

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that I wanted my child to meet your children someday,

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on an equal basis.

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And I want that.

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I will remember every one of you for the rest of my life.

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I mean, I, some of you I've known,

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but never quite in this way,

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and for the rest of your lives, you too have this film

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for your children and your partners.

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And Victor, you did your people proud.

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Each of you did that.

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Your fathers, your grandfathers, grandmothers.

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You did it for them,

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and for that, from the deepest part of my heart, I want to thank each of you.

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[all singing] may the work that I done speak for me

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may the work that I done speak for me

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and if I fall short of my goal

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someone else come take a hold

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may the work that I done speak for me.

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may the truth that I told speak for me

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may the work that I done speak for me

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and if I fall short of my goal,

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someone else come take a hold

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may the work that I done speak for me.

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may the truth that I told speak for me

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may the truth that I told speak for me

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and if I fall short of my goal,

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someone else come take a hold

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may the truth that I told speak for me

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may the love that I shared speak for me...[br]