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From YouTube: 2019 Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King held at Bellevue City Hall on January 17, 2019. The event featured Dr. John Carlos.
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B
A
B
Think
you're
asking
these:
can
we
turn
this
one
on
good
afternoon?
Everybody
let's
go
ahead
and
get
started.
It's
really
amazing
to
see
so
many
people
come
out
for
this
event.
I
see
many
residents
I
see
staff
community
stakeholders,
students
here.
Thank
you
all
for
coming
out.
My
name
is
Elena
caste
and
I'm
the
diversity
and
inclusion
administrator
for
the
City
of
Bellevue.
At
this
time,
I'd
like
to
recognize
our
elected
officials
who
are
attending
in
attendance
today,
we've
got
deputy
mayor,
Lynne
Robinson.
B
The
Martin
Luther
King
jr.
keynote
has
been
a
signature
event
for
the
city
of
Bellevue
through
the
diversity
advantage
initiative,
and
we've
been
doing
this
now
for
the
past
many
years.
It's
special
to
Bellevue,
because
we
get
this
unique
opportunity
with
a
captive
audience
to
learn,
to
think
and
to
challenge
our
collective
history
or
maybe
the
history
as
we
thought
we
knew
it,
and
hopefully,
after
a
talk
or
an
experience
and
continued
conversations,
we
may
arrive
with
a
shared
purpose.
B
We've
been
blessed
to
bring
in
speakers
to
this
event
in
the
likes
of
dr.
Terrence
Roberts,
a
member
of
the
Little
Rock
Nine,
who
was
a
group
of
African
American
students
who
does
desegregated
a
formally
all-white
school
dr.,
Robyn
D'angelo
was
the
renowned
author
and
trainer
on
race
and
why
white
fragility
often
shows
up
in
conversations
about
race
and
racism
was
also
past
speaker
and
last
year
we
had
a
panel
of
african-american
community
leaders
who
spoke
about
their
experiences
in
the
past
and
present
both
outside
of
Bellevue
and
here
in
the
city
of
Bellevue.
B
The
arc
of
these
keynotes
is
embodied
in
dr.
King's
vision
of
a
Beloved
Community.
That
is
rooted
in
justice.
Dr.
King
said
true.
Peace
is
not
merely
an
absence
of
tension,
it
is
the
presence
of
justice.
He
also
said
that
those
who
love
peace
must
learn
to
organize
as
effectively
as
those
who
live
war
to
dr.
King,
peacemaking
and
non-violence
were
not
aimless
and
they
were
not
for
making
feel-good
quotes.
They
were
deliberate,
relevant
and
focused.
B
Today's
keynote
was
chosen
because
before
and
after
that
iconic
moment
in
the
Olympic
Stadium,
he
was
a
seeker
and
doer
of
justice
and
not
just
on
a
national
level,
but
also
that
in
a
global
scale,
I'd
like
to
give
the
floor
to
Holiness
Stevens
our
initiatives,
manager
from
parks
and
community
service.
At
this
time,.
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About
three
years
ago,
I
first
met
our
opening
speaker
when
I
saw
a
small
hand
reaching
over
the
walls
of
my
cubicle
in
search
of
my
candy
bowl.
At
the
time
she
was
having
a
hard
time
reaching
the
top
shelf.
So
I
decided
to
help
her
out.
After
that
we
had
regular
after-school
candy
breaks
where
we
talked
about
sports
and
candy
and
her
life
and
now
what
a
life
she
has
already
led.
D
Today
we
are
honored
to
hear
her
latest
work,
which
inspired
by
dr.
King
and
the
graphic
book
novels
March
written
by
Congressman
John
Lewis,
who
she
has
already
happened
to
have
met
besides
being
brilliant
and
a
sports
lover.
Porsche
has
a
sly,
wicked
sense
of
humor
and
she
has
a
determination
in
her
eyes
that
says
life
is
mine
and
I
am
fearless.
D
I
am
blown
away
by
the
magnitude
of
Porsches
work,
which
is
why
I
love
hearing
her
poems,
but
then
I'm
bias,
because
I
love
Porsche
when
Porsche
is
not
writing
publishing
an
opening
for
dignitaries,
she's
an
athlete
and
is
an
intense
shooting
guard
on
her
basketball
team
averaging
10
points
and
6
steals
a
game
which
makes
it
only
appropriate
that
she
is
opening
for
one
of
our
greatest
athletes
of
all
time.
Just
like
our
key
speaker
today,
Porsche
at
12
understands
the
power
of
civil
rights.
D
E
I'm
the
dream
of
my
forefathers
I
am
the
dream
of
my
forefathers.
My
home
was
taken
from
me.
My
words
were
used
against
me.
My
freedom
was
buried
beneath
me.
I
am
the
dream
of
my
forefathers.
Their
hopes,
tears
and
blood
were
not
shed
in
vain.
Quite
the
opposite.
The
blood
continues
to
run
through
me.
I
am
the
dream
of
my
forefathers
I
hold
hands
with
their
spirits
through
marches.
They
sit
with
me
through
sit-ins,
and
civil
disobedience
for
equality.
I
am
the
dream
of
my
forefathers.
E
The
bombings
of
churches
and
the
burning
of
homes
will
never
be
forgotten.
Even
through
riots
and
angry
mobs.
I
will
stand
with
my
ancestors.
I
am
the
dream
of
my
forefathers
me
eXistenZ
yeah,
s-matrix,
Estancia,
no
longer
Maya
hope
for
the
future.
I
am
the
present.
This
is
my
home.
My
words
and
my
voice
are
powerful.
Freedom
will
stand
with
me
all
because
I
was
a
dream
of
my
forefathers.
B
Additionally,
I'd
like
to
recognize
the
city's
diversity
team,
uddiyana
garcia
diaz,
who
is
our
new
diversity,
outreach
and
engagement
administrator,
is
somewhere
running
around
make
sure
you
get
a
chance
to
say
hello
to
her,
and
then
we
I
also
do
not
see
him
so
I.
My
team
is
not
here:
Blaine
damson,
oh
there's,
Blaine.
Sorry
about
that.
Blaine
Anson
is
our
title:
6,
a
DEA
administrator
and
for
the
city.
B
If
you
are
here
and
you've
got
friends
who
were
unable
to
attend,
we
are
also
live
streaming.
This
event
on
Bellevue
TVs
YouTube
channel
I'd
also
like
to
draw
your
attention.
Actually
I,
don't
know
if
we
pass
this
around
during
dr.
Carlos's
speech
today.
If
you
have
any
questions
we'll
have
floaters
on
the
sides,
there's
mica
modeling
will
have
floaters
on
the
sides
with
comment
cards
and
question
cards.
B
If
we
will
be
able
to
time
permitting
we
able
to
field
a
couple
of
questions
after
his
keynote
and
and
then,
if
we
don't
have
that
opportunity,
we'll
collect
the
questions
and
make
sure
that
we
will
get.
We
get
those
answered
at
this
time,
I'd
like
to
call
up
deputy
mayor
Lynne
Robinson
to
share
a
few
remarks
and
also
to
introduce
our
keynote.
F
Wow
so
nice
to
see
everybody
here
today.
Thank
you
for
coming
I'm
a
little
far
from
the
microphone
so
I'm
gonna.
Take
my
shoes
off
and
get
shorter.
I
am
so
grateful
for
this
opportunity
to
participate
in
the
annual
Martin
Luther
King
jr.
celebration
here
at
City
Hall.
Some
of
you
may
be
familiar
with
our
city
council
vision
statement,
which
we
wrote
in
2014,
where
we
say
Bellevue
welcomes
the
world.
Our
diversity
is
our
strengths.
We
embrace
the
future
while
respecting
our
past.
F
In
Bellevue,
we
are
committed
to
the
idea
of
a
beloved
community
based
on
justice,
equal
opportunity,
embracing
differences
in
seeking
areas
of
commonality.
Dr.
King's
vision
of
a
blue
Beloved
Community
was
aspirational,
but
not
impossible.
He
believed
barriers
could
be
overcome
with
hard
work,
open
minds
and
open
hearts,
and
we
at
the
City
of
Bellevue
are
committed
to
serving
everyone
in
our
community.
Our
staff
works
hard
every
day
to
deliver
on
this
vision.
F
Bellevue's,
diversity
and
rich
culture
are
some
of
the
reasons
this
community
continues
to
be
ranked
one
of
the
top
places
to
live
in
the
entire
country.
Together
we
could
work
together
and
celebrate
access.
Equity
inclusion
and
opportunity
for
all
when
I
was
8
years
old
growing
up
in
the
Bay
Area
I
sat
on
the
sofa
with
my
family
to
watch
the
1968
Summer
Olympics
I
saw
3
athletes
on
the
podium
being
honored
for
their
amazing
performance
in
the
3
200
meter
and
then
with
heads
down
to
them
raised
their
fists
into
the
air.
F
I
asked
my
mom
what
that
meant,
and
it
started
a
conversation.
When
did
these
athletes
was
John
Carlos
and
he
had
the
courage
to
making
a
statement
on
an
international
stage.
The
spark
conversations
around
the
world
in
people's
living
rooms,
a
conversation
that
had
begun
years
before
but
was
cut
short
earlier
by
the
tragic
assassination
of
dr.
Martin
Luther
King
junior
John,
Carlson
reignited
that
conversation
and
it's
a
conversation
that
continues
today
now.
F
You
may
think
that
it
was
enough
to
win
an
Olympic
gold
medal
and
have
the
courage
to
make
an
indelible
statement
internationally,
but
John
Carlos
ran
even
faster
in
the
following
years.
He
became
an
organizer
of
the
1984
Olympics.
He
played
professional
football,
he
coached
highschool
track.
He
was
inducted
into
the
United
States
track
field.
Hall
of
Fame-
and
he
also
wrote
a
book
dr.
John
Carlos-
is
with
us
here
today.
He
is
smart.
He
is
athletic
and
he's
a
catalyst
whose
moment
at
the
Olympics
forever
changed.
G
Thank
you
so
much
I
mean
start
by
saying
it's
an
honor
and
a
pleasure
for
me
to
be
back
here
in
Seattle
and
most
of
all
to
be
here
in
Bellevue
I
spoke
here,
the
college
Bellevue
a
couple
of
times
and
it's
always
a
pleasure
to
come
back
now.
Let
me
give
a
warning
from
this
point
on.
If
anyone
applause,
if
you
noticed
we
have
security
in
the
building,
we
will
usher
you
up,
I'm,
not
really
here,
for
applause
I'm,
not
a
dancer,
no
I'm
a
singer.
So
that's
true!
G
You
applauded
for
I'm
here
to
make
a
connection
to
try
and
reach.
Maybe
one
person
in
the
audience
right
now
we
have
dead.
Now
we
can
go
if
I'll
get
beat
up
with
my
wife
here
did
I
tell
people
that,
but
I'll
tell
I
said:
maybe
I
could
only
figure
out
on
my
plane.
I
can
do
what
you
want.
I
got
to
do
it
I
need
to
do
so.
Let
me
start
by
saying.
First
of
all,
you
know
this
job.
As
a
civil
activist,
I
might
say,
I
was
born
into
this
job.
G
I
didn't
go
out
seeking
anything
and
the
reason
I
say
I
feel
like
I
was
born
into
it,
because
before
I
was
born,
my
mother
had
problems
with
me
and
I
will
carry
me.
She
had
to
go
to
the
doctor
three
different
times,
because
the
doctor
said
this
baby
is
so
active.
We
have
to
do
this
procedure
because
the
baby
is
moving
around.
They
had
to
take
my
mother
and
move
me
around
in
my
mother's
womb.
G
By
the
time
my
mother
would
hit
the
train
I'm
back
on
the
move
again,
so
she
went
through
this
process
two
times
in
the
third
time
when
it
happened.
The
doctor
told
my
mother's.
It
looked
like
this
baby
has
a
mind
of
his
own
and
we
better
just
leave
it
alone,
but
when
I
came
into
the
world,
I
came
in
with
a
telltale
sign
like
it
should
have
been
a
wake-up
call
for
my
mom,
my
dad,
my
brothers
I
came
in
feet.
G
First,
big
13s
came
that
should
have
been
an
indication
that
I'm
gonna
probably
be
using
these
feet
for
something
as
I
begin
to
use
my
feet
and
run
through
Harlem
I
was
born
and
raised
in
the
heart
of
New
York
June,
5th,
1945
and
I
was
wide-eyed.
You
should
look
around
as
I
see
this
audience
here.
This
multicultural.
Well,
that's
the
way
Harlem
was
for
me
as
a
youngster.
G
When
I
came
up,
we
had
everyone
there
Irish
for
Ricans
Jews
Jamaicans,
everybody
was
on
the
Block
and
then
one
day
I
went
to
sleep
woke
up
and
I
saw
people
on
the
other
side
of
Lenox
Avenue
loading
up
trucks
and
Panos
station
wagons.
They
was
just
packing
up
and
I
couldn't
understand.
Well,
what
are
they
packing
for
and
I
said
father
say
Papa?
Why
are
they
packing
where
they
going?
G
G
Why
would
you
want
to
get
away
because
I'm,
your
next-door
neighbor
it
started
to
make
me
start
to
look
around
and
see
various
things
and
and
see
where
I
was
included
and
then
see
where
I
was
excluded,
like,
for
instance,
as
a
young
star
came
through
and
I
had
a
situation?
One
time
when
I
came
home
for
lunch
me
and
my
buddy,
who
is
gonna,
come
on
back
after
lunch,
my
father
pulled
me
in
the
sand.
He
said
Johnny
you're
not
going
back,
you
know
we
don't
have
to
do
something
else.
G
I
told
my
buddy
I
said
we're
going
back.
Man
I'm
not
going
back
this
afternoon
and
he
took
off
about
30
minutes
later
it
was
a
fire
smoke
building
another
window,
my
father
said
son,
go
call
her
fire
department,
I'm
waiting
up
all
the
fire
alarm,
firemen
came,
it
was
up
in
there
and
they
chopped
all
the
friends
you
up.
Do
all
the
furniture
out
on
Lennox
Avenue
and
back
there
like
five
apartments
in
the
back.
G
They
do
it
all
out
in
the
alley
and
I'm
watching
and
I
said
to
my
father,
say
problem:
why
did
they
do
what
they
did
because
they
chopped
everything
I'm
doing
away?
So
my
father
looked
at
me
like
son,
that's
what
the
firemen
do.
I
said.
No
daddy
come
on
side.
I
want
to
show
you.
Somebody
said
I'm
busy,
I'm
working
I
said
no
daddy.
You
need
to
come
with
me
now.
I
went
outside
and
I
looked
at
my
father,
I
said
daddy.
G
Show
me
something
burnt,
they
said
we'd
meet,
I
said,
look
I,
don't
see
any
friendship,
all
right,
I,
don't
see
anything
burnt.
He
said
wait
a
minute.
He
went
in
the
backyard
an
alley
he
looked,
he
didn't
see
anything
burnt
and
when
he
looked
at
that,
I
was
looking
around
at
the
fire
department
and
guess
what
was
missing
me.
I
didn't
see
any
representation
of
me
and
then
at
my
young
age
it
started
making
me
understand
that
the
fact
that
we
didn't
have
a
black
fireman.
No
one
was
there
to
tell
them
say
man.
G
This
is
not
burnt
up,
and
this
is
all
these
people
had.
There's.
No
need
and
chopping
it
up,
throw
it
out
the
window
if
you're
not
in
the
room.
There's
no
concern
about
you,
so
that
was
one
little
nugget
I
put
in
my
box
and
I'm
moving
on
I
looked
at
it
see
too
many
black
police.
You
know
and
then
I
remember
as
a
youngster
I
said.
Well,
let
me
look
at
what
talents
God
gave
me
you
make
me.
The
ugliest
guy
in
the
block
may
be
fairly
nice-looking.
G
Girls
like
me,
but
I
need
to
find
out
what
my
niche
was
opposed
to
them.
Giving
me
something:
I
want
to
see
what
I
can
get
back
so
I
start
looking
at
what
talents
did.
I
have
I
realized
that
I
was
a
good
swimmer.
I
was
the
best
Harlem
bathtub
swimmer.
There
was
so
I
heard
on
the
radio
and
mind
you,
those
for
you,
youngsters
back
at
that
time.
The
radio
was
my
television
and
I
heard
them
talking
the
radio
about
this
woman
going
to
swim.
The
English
Channel,
hey
pop.
G
What's
the
English
Channel
I
didn't
know
what
the
English
Channel
world's
aware
was,
but
I
knew
what
swimming
was,
but
daddy.
There's
you
get
a
trophy,
she
get
a
war
record.
Did
they
give
all
I
ought
to
go
in
the
paper?
She
hid
money.
He
said,
son
she's
swimming
name
is
Challenger.
You
probably
get
a
little
bit
of
everything
he
said
well,
I'm
gonna
go
back
and
I'm
gonna
do
some
research
and
he
looked
back
at
me.
He
said
son.
Remember,
I
swim,
just
like
a
rock
straight
to
the
bottom.
G
I,
don't
know
too
much
about
swimming,
but
I'm
gonna
find
out.
That's
well
hold
on
daddy
I
got
a
couple
more
questions.
First
question
was
daddy.
Does
she
swim
with
a
knife
in
her
mouth?
Why?
Why
would
you
ask
that,
but
that
isn't
it
sharks
in
the
water
and
what
happens
daddy
when
she
has
to
go
to
the
bathroom?
What
does
she
do
then
I'm
seriously
gonna
swim,
the
English
Channel
in
my
mind.
So
as
he
goes
away
to
find
these
things
out,
look
up.
They
talk
about
the
Olympic
Games
daddy.
G
G
A
black
swimming
represent
America,
no
well
great,
daddy,
cuz,
I'm
gonna
be
the
first
black
to
represent
America
okay
son,
but
he
didn't
know
at
that
particular
time
how
determined
I
was
once
I
made
up
my
mind
and
I'm
gonna
do
something
I'm
training
every
day
in
my
bathtub
or
year
and
a
half
one
day,
my
father
called
me
to
the
side.
He
said
son.
G
We
need
to
talk
and
then,
when
your
dad
call
you
until
you
need
to
talk-
and
he
had
a
certain
look
in
his
eye
and
he'd
know,
it's
hurting
him
to
talk
to
you
about
this
and
he's
back
there.
My
dad
was
a
shoemaker.
So
he's
back
behind
the
petition,
he's
working
on
the
shoes
and
he's
talking
to
me.
He
said
son
I
know
you
want
to
go
to
the
delivery.
Silence,
woman,
there's
never
going
to
happen.
G
I'll
push
back
from
the
petition.
Are
you
talking
about
daddy
I'm,
the
best
women
in
New
York?
He
said
son,
it's
not
about
you
being
the
best
woman
in
New,
York
I
said
well.
Would
it
was
what's
the
problem
and
then
he
said
to
me:
he
said
son
when
you
went
up
to
High
Bridge
pool,
and
that
was
the
white
area.
When
you
went
up
to
High,
Bridge,
poor,
you
and
your
buddies
and
you
jumped
in
the
water.
G
What
happened
was
just
a
matter
of
seconds
before
see
flashes
of
white
parents
calling
the
sons,
Bobby
Billy
Judy
hurry
up,
get
out
the
water.
We
saw
him
doing
it
every
time
we
went
up
to
the
pool,
but
we
didn't
mind
because
we
figure
they
did
not
as
more
room
for
us
to
play.
Then
I
said
to
my
father:
I
said:
well,
that's
in
the
pool
daddy.
He
said
me
he
said.
Well
what
would
you
train?
He
said
you
can't
go
to
the
Holland
River
because
you
lose
your
friends
there.
G
Every
summer
you
can't
go
to
the
ocean.
It's
too
rough.
You
can't
go
to
the
public
pool
because
everybody's
trying
to
cool
off
right,
then
I'm
thinking
we're
gonna
join
the
club.
He
said
you
can't
join
the
club
either,
my
daddy,
why
can't
we
join
the
club?
We
can't
afford
it.
Oh
no
son,
we
can
afford
it
or
daddy.
Why
can't
we
go?
Why
can't
I
join
and
he
put
his
hand
out,
and
he
did
like
that.
The
first
time
I
saw
that
I
thought
he
was
rubbing
a
log
by
yourself.
G
G
It's
only
two
black
police
in
Holland,
one,
a
police
department,
and
now
you
tell
me
that
I'm,
black
and
I
can't
swim
in
the
Olympic
Games,
something
that's
wrong
daddy.
He
looked
at
me.
He
said
to
me
say:
Sonny
you're,
gonna,
quit
it's
a
nod,
daddy
I'll
find
another
way.
I
went
I
started
boxing
got
to
be
a
good
boxer,
Golden
Gloves
Tim.
Tell
me:
I
could
turn
pro
I
had
to
go
til
my
mother
said
mom.
G
The
man
set
our
box
I
got
powered
both
hands
and
they
want
me
to
turn
pro
and
my
mother
said
boy
I
didn't
know.
You
was
boxing.
What
you
mean
you
a
boxer,
you
my
baby
boy
and
you
ain't
gonna,
never
box,
I'm,
saying
mama!
All
I
want
is
the
million
dollars
I'll
make
a
million
dollars.
I
could
make
the
money
you
would
never
have
to
work
again.
She
said
you've,
my
baby
boy,
I'm,
not
gonna.
Let
them
break
yo
face
up
with
no
boxing
promise
me.
You
won't
boxing
your
weight
as
a
young
kid.
G
You
know
when
you
want
to
do
something
so
bad
and
your
parents,
good
clamps
on
it,
your
Adam's
apple
sticking
out
so
far.
You
bought
the
bus.
You
can't
breathe,
but
I
had
to
suck
it
up,
because
my
mom
didn't
want
me
to
do
it
and
then
I
had
a
little
fishbowl.
Tv
and
I
turned
it
on
one
day,
and
just
so
have
him
God
showed
me
this
guy
with
a
funny-looking
outfit
on
a
funny-looking
head
with
a
feather
sticking
out.
It
looked
like
he
was
wearing
my
mother's
stocking
us.
G
His
methodology
was
to
teach
me
on
this
TV.
That
is
two
laws
of
the
land.
There's
man's
law
and
there's
God's
law,
but
always
interpreted
God's
law
was
the
first
law,
but
some
for
some
reason
in
this
movie
on
TV
they
tend
to
God's
law
and
kicked
it
up
under
the
bus.
So
I
watch,
Robin,
Hood
very
seriously
and
I
realized
that
this
man
had
a
forest
called
Nottingham
Forest.
He
wasn't
concerned
about
the
king,
not
he
wasn't
concerned
about
the
Sheriff
of
Nottingham.
G
What
he
was
concerned
about
was
the
people
who
was
being
pillaged,
something
like
God
walking
through
the
marketplace
kicking
over
to
all
the
baskets.
It
said:
shame
on
you
for
pushing
the
people.
So
when
I
saw
Robin
Hood
take
the
people
and
tell
the
sheriff
of
nodding,
heard
you
and
your
merry.
Men
definitely
had
to
pay
a
tariff
to
come
through
this
fog.
G
So
why?
Oh,
that's,
that's
big.
He
ain't
concerned
about
the
fact
that
the
King
is
after
him
and
want
to
put
him
down
he's
more
concerned
about
the
little
guy.
He
became
my
hero
immediately
and
then
and
the
same
mix.
All
of
this,
too
had
a
thing
in
Harlem.
At
that
time
called
King
Kong
King
Kong
was
like
a
modern-day
PCP.
The
only
difference
is
it
was
a
bootleg
liquor
and
most
people
that
drink
it,
they
hallucinate
and
think
they
can
fly
and
they
would
fly
off
the
roof
every
weekend
today.
G
Definitely
and
then
one
day
just
like
when
the
white
folks,
the
next
day,
I
woke
up
and
they
decided
to
move
I
woke
up
another
day
and
King
Kong
was
gone
disappeared,
but
in
the
place
that
King
come
came,
something
was
so
drastic.
It's
still
here
today
thing
called
hair
on
a
mud,
a
dirt
and
then
I
began
to
look
at
them
and
I
began
to
look
at
black
families.
All
of
us
didn't
have
no
money,
but
we
did
had
a
local
family.
G
So
then
I
began
to
go
upstairs
on
the
roof
when
they
started
putting
this
hair
on
in
Harlem
and
I.
Looked
at
guys
up
there,
bending
the
spoon
and
cooking
this
stuff
and
shooting
it
up
in
their
arms
and
I
was
going
to
actually
say
man.
Why
are
you
shooting
this
stuff?
Don't
you
see
what
happened
and
so
on?
So
why
are
you
doing
this
and
I
asked
him
so
long
until
I
annoyed
them?
One
guy
says
to
me
he
said
John,
so
you
keep
asking
me
that
Johnny
said
you
really
want
an
Aussie
me.
G
That's
why
I
keep
accent?
Yes,
I
want
to
know,
and
he
said
to
me
something
that
stayed
with
me
all
these
years.
He
said
he
said
Johnny,
do
you
have
a
girlfriend
I
see
I
got
a
couple
of
girlfriends,
he
said:
well,
you
have
one
that
you
like
the
best
I
said
yeah.
He
said
I
had
a
girlfriend
just
like
that
too
he
said
was
so
pretty.
It
took
me
six
months
to
get
the
courage
to
just
go
over,
say
hello.
G
He
said,
but
when
I
passed,
that
barrier
I
found
out
that
she
wasn't
looking
at
me
as
much
as
I
was
looking
at
up.
So
I
asked
you
to
be
my
girlfriend
he's
in
then
time
went
on
and
I
got
courage
enough
to
actually
to
marry
me.
He
said
when
she
said
yes
automatically
in
my
brain
I'm,
saying
I'm
gonna
be
the
best
father,
I'm
gonna
be
the
best
husband,
I'm
gonna,
be
the
best
breadwinner
ever
I
said
to
him.
I
said
yeah
man.
Why
are
you
using
these
drugs
see
I'm
getting
to
that?
G
He
said
you
know
in
one
day,
I
got
up
and
I
thought
about
what
it
happened
to
me
the
day
before
I
said
what
happened
the
day
before
he
said
you
know,
I
got
up
one
day
and
I
was
feeling
pretty
good,
and
my
daughter
came
to
me
and
my
daughter
said
daddy.
You
know
my
birthday
is
next
week.
You
promised
me
last
one
that
she
was
gonna.
Buy
me
that
dress
for
my
birthday
for
a
girl
to
have
a
dress
back
in
the
50s
big
deal.
G
Yes,
baby,
I'm
gonna
buy
you
that
dress,
oh
I'm,
so
happy
daddy
and
he
walks
down
the
hall
and
he
puts
his
hand
in
his
pocket.
He
don't
have
nothing
but
holes
in
his
pocket
before
he
could
digest
that
his
son
coming
from
school
and
tell
say
daddy.
My
PE
teacher
told
me
if
I
don't
get
some
tennis
shoes.
G
If
I
don't
get
some
converse,
sneakers
I'm
a
fail,
P,
not
some
friends
and
upon
his
kids,
education
and
then
the
wife
comes
in
town,
say:
hey
baby,
you
know
tomorrow's
our
anniversary,
15
years
we've
been
married,
we
gonna
do
and
he
can't
buy
our
rose
so
now
reflected
back
on
the
guy
in
the
mirror.
He
looks
up
in
the
mirror
for
the
first
time
and
he
sees
himself
and
he
says
I,
don't
like
that.
Guy
and
I
said
to
him.
I
said
man.
How
could
you
not
like
yourself?
G
She?
Well,
let
me
tell
you
he
said
you
know
it's
kind
of
hard
to
live
with
yourself
when
you're
being
held
back
from
being
a
father
to
your
kids.
When
they
tell
you
they
need
something.
You
go
in
your
pocket
and
you
can't
present
what
they
need.
He
said
it's
rough.
When
your
wife
tell
you,
we've
been
married
for
15
years
and
my
anniversary
is
coming
up
and
you
can't
give
her
a
rose
for
our
anniversary.
G
He
said
it's
rough
with
your
kid
come
home
and
every
kid
in
the
block
got
some
conference
Snickers,
but
your
kid.
He
said
it's
rough
when
you
get
up
and
you
go
out
and
you
try
and
find
a
job
and
you
can't
find
a
job
and
then,
when
you
do
find
something
so
demeaning
that
you
wouldn't
accept
that
job
and
then,
when
you
go
back
and
try
and
make
your
wife
understand
it's
difficult
for
her
to
understand
because
they're
making
her
the
breadwinner
they're,
giving
her
the
past
away
in
the
family.
G
They
escaped
man
for
70
years
80
years,
they've
been
missing
in
action
from
the
time
they
took
that
drug
and
then
you
sit
back,
and
you
say
well,
if
her
daddy's
not
home
what
happens
in
the
family
I'm
just
telling
you
these
stairs
to
lead
you
up
to
why
I
am
Who,
I
am
and
why
I
went
to
Mexico
City.
Now
some
good
question
guy
came
up
and
he
said
you
know
something
we
had
to
pay
penance
for
everything
we
did
from
slavery
on
up
to
the
day
say
about
how
are
we
gonna
pray,
penton's?
G
G
G
She
came
in,
she
went
to
school,
she's
got
a
degree
to
be
a
doctor,
not
doctor,
but
a
nurse
songs,
I'm
secure,
but
my
buddies
when
I
would
go
to
the
house,
no
daddy
in
the
house,
no
food
in
the
cabinets,
no
clothes
in
the
closet
and
one
day
I'm
there
and
I
had
somebody
knock
on
the
door.
Woman,
open
the
door
and
I
see
my
boys
mother
say
what
good
morning
miss
so-and-so.
I,
miss
so-and-so,
didn't
even
have
the
courtesy
to
acknowledge
her.
She
just
brushed
on
by
her
and
I'm
standing
and
I'm.
G
Watching
this
and
I've
seen
the
woman
come
in
and
the
first
thing
she
did
was
go
to
the
closet,
she's.
Looking
in
the
closet,
I'm
saying
to
myself,
what
is
she
looking
at
people
calling
for?
Then
she
goes
and
she
looks
up
under
the
bed
but
she's
looking
under
the
bed.
For
then
she
leaves
then
she
goes
to
the
ashtrays.
He
looks
in
the
ashtray
and
then
I
asked
my
man.
I
said
man.
What
is
this
woman?
Don't
walk
it
out
why'd.
She
do
that.
G
He
said
man
she's
looking
to
see
if
she
see
my
father's
pants,
because
when
they
gave
you
this
welfare,
the
first
rule
of
welfare
was
no
male.
Figure
can
be
in
the
house
that
kind
of
reminded
me
of
slavery
when
they
put
him
on
the
auction
block.
They
took
the
family,
they
said
head
with
mother's
clothes
off.
This
is
what
she
has
to
offer.
They
sent
her
to
the
north
and
sent
a
father
to
the
south,
the
brother
to
the
west
and
the
daughter
to
the
east,
never
to
hook
up
again
I'm.
G
Looking
at
all
that
hissing
I'm,
saying
man
something
seriously
broke
so
now,
I
can
break
back
to
Robin
Hood
again
about
him
pay
a
tariff.
So
our
new
freight
trains
came
in
my
neighborhood
and
my
father,
all-american
first
world
war,
veteran
good,
daddy,
Stern,
daddy,
don't
believe
in
breaking
the
law
and
I
know.
I
was
getting
ready
to
break
man's
law,
but
I
was
more
concerned
about
God's
law.
So
I
got
him
out
too
buddy
that
I
went
down.
G
G
One
day
detectives
mr.
Lester,
mr.
Brian,
god
bless
him.
The
222
black
cops
in
Harlem.
They
went
to
my
father,
they
said
Earl
there's
been
some
break-ins
at
the
freight
yards.
You
need
to
tell
Johnny
and
my
father
start
to
eat
some
oak.
That's
your
job.
I
was
over
where
they
built
the
new
Yankee
Stadium
right
across
street,
from
the
old
Yankee
Stadium
and
they've
blocked
the
whole
park
off
with
police
cars
and
they
came
in
they
found
me
and
my
boys
I
told
my
boys
to
sit
up
against
the
fence.
G
They
told
me
he
said
you
you
come
on
with
me
and
they
wore
me
crusted
on
the
turn
walk
across
the
track
and
we
standing
on
the
infield.
Now
mr.
Lester
was
about
511.
Mr.
Brown
was
about
six
six
or
six
seven
big
red
bone
hands
like
that,
and
he
says
to
me
mr.
Fenster
Bryan
says
mr.
Leslie
said
gum
and
said
that's
to
tell
him
so
miss.
Unless
it
looks
at
me-
and
he
said
to
me,
said
my
son:
it's
been
some
break-ins
and
a
freight
train,
the
freight
yards.
G
We
think
we
know
who
was
doing
it.
We
can't
do
anything
to
him
until
we
catch
him
and
then
being
close
to
my
size.
He
took
his
nose
and
you've
messed
his
nose
up
against
my
nose
and
said,
and
we
gonna
catch
him.
In
other
words,
you
better
slow.
Your
roll
before
I
could
digest
that
Mr
Bryan
says,
go,
tell
another
thing:
I'm
listening,
he
said
yeah
and
you
have
a
talent,
but
talent.
Do
I
have
I
knew.
I
was
a
good
swimmer
and
I
was
a
good
boxer.
Couldn't
play
basketball?
G
C
G
G
Lester,
everybody
was
a
runner,
but
when
I
said
everybody
was
running
out
and
thinking
about
my
mother,
because
my
mother
had
a
job
at
Bellevue
Hospital
as
a
nurse
at
night
and
my
mother
used
to
get
up
between
10:30
and
11:00
like
to
go
to
work
every
night
and
one
night
she
came
back
home
about
20
minutes
later
with
her
legs,
bleeding
scars
all
over
leg,
stockings
torn
up.
So
quite
naturally
my
father,
my
brothers
and
everybody,
was
upset.
What
happened?
Well,
some
kid
grabbed
my
purse,
and
that
was
a
fan
at
that
time.
G
Kids
didn't
have
no
job
that
goes
snatch
a
woman's
purse
and
run
well.
We
gonna
find
this
guy.
My
mother
said
no,
everything
is
good.
All
I
needs
a
little
material
corn
I'll
be
all
right.
My
father
said
now
we're
going
to
get
your
purse
back
and
my
mother
said
no
I
need
to
get
my
purse
back.
I
got
my
purse.
My
father
looked
at
my
mother
say
about
how
you
get
your
purse
she's,
not.
G
Got
my
purse
so
when
mr.
luster
was
telling
me
this
I'm
telling
them
and
say
man,
everybody
runs
I'm
thinking
about
my
mother
and
that's
how
my
tracker
we
got
started
now
when
God
put
two
and
two
of
my
brain
to
show
me:
the
hey
man,
you're
gifted
you
have
ability
athletically
far
beyond
most
individuals
now
have
a
gift
is
one
thing
but
to
know
what
to
do
with
the
gift
is
altogether
different
game
I
had
this
gift,
but
why
do
I
have
it
and
what
am
I
gonna
do
with
it?
G
I
didn't
like
track
and
field
buddy
of
mine
came
to
me
told
me,
said
man.
We
need
somebody
for
the
relay
and
he
came
here
to
cast
on
his
own
I
said:
what's
the
matter?
Hey
man,
somebody's
heard
I
said
I
can
see
I
said
well,
you
could
run
with
the
cast
when
he
said
you
done
right.
I
could
run
and
I'm
running,
but
Victor
got
a
broken
leg
in
the
cast.
G
Would
you
come
and
join
the
track?
Team
lot
ran
on
the
track
team.
I
thought
it
was
just
something
to
do.
I
didn't
particularly
like
track
and
field,
but
the
first
time
I
got
a
pair
switched
and
I'm
getting
ready
to
go
to
the
major
track
me.
My
first
made
to
track
me:
I
took
the
sweatpants
that
I
had
and
I
turned
it
on
the
backside
and
I
got
a
magic
marker
and
I
wrote
on
one
cheek,
a
big
J.
When
the
other
cheek
I
wrote
a
big
see.
G
I'm
a
man
said
man
why
you
put
JC
on
your
pants,
like
that
I
said
what
get
used
to
seeing
my
butt.
So
this
is
JC
JC
JC
JC!
No
to
get
him
ready.
So
now,
I
started
having
competition
with
these
guys,
but
I
wasn't
concerned
about
my
competitors
as
much
as
I
was
concerned
about
those
that
was
in
the
stands,
because
I
look
in
people's
eyes
and
I
can
tell
when
they're
hurting
about
something.
There
was
a
lot
of
people
that
used
to
come
to
them
track
beats
that
was
hurt.
G
This
guy's
name
was
Fred
Astaire.
You
should
come
and
flip
a
silver
dollar
to
me
every
time
he
was
coming
to
Savoy,
because
we
would
beat
on
the
little
Tim
Bobby's
singing
my
Bonnie
lies
over
the
ocean
opening
the
cab,
the
white
folks
out,
make
that
money,
but
he
would
always
give
a
silver
dollar
one
day.
He
said
to
me,
say
yeah.
You
know
why
I
get
that.
So,
with
all
of
you
guys,
I
said
no
he's
not
give
it
to
you,
because
you
give
a
good
show
for
the
money.
G
That's
something
stuck
with
me
all
my
life.
So
when
I
started
running
track,
my
idea
was
to
give
a
good
show
anybody
picking
them
up
and
putting
them
down
it's
about
the
antics
leading
up
and
do
it
so
then
I
started
giving
people
a
good
show
for
their
money,
but
I
never
forgot
about
the
dope.
I,
never
forgot
about
the
lack
of
food
or
clothes
in
individuals.
House
I
never
got
forgot
about
the
fact
that
myself,
as
well
as
so
many
other
students
they
wasn't
going
to
school,
that
was
going
through
school.
G
So
now,
I
have
all
this.
Oh,
my
back
so
now,
I'm
starting
to
think
I
got
to
do
what
I
got
to
do.
I
start
hitting
the
freight
trains
I
started,
giving
the
clothes
away
I
start
giving
the
food
away
the
police
come
to
me
and
they
send
me
into
this
track
thing.
I
started,
winning
I
went
to
Trinidad
I,
didn't
know
where
Trinidad
was
I
had
a
great
time
and
Trinidad
for
his
country.
G
I
ever
went
to,
it
was
all
black,
so
I
must
have
died
and
went
to
heaven,
and
then
they
told
me
said:
nah
man
this
year,
you're
not
going
to
tread
that
you're
going
to
Europe
I,
don't
want
to
go
to
Europe,
send
me
back
to
the
dead,
no
you're
going
to
Europe,
but
a
funny
thing
happened
when
I
went
to
Europe,
because
when
I
was
going
to
school,
I
told
you
I
was
one
of
those
kids
that
went
through
school.
I
didn't
go
to
school
and
I
used
to
have
this
teacher.
God
bless
him.
G
It
cynically
used
to
have
this
pointed
she
would
say:
John
come
up
here.
She
give
me
the
point
of
show
me
Asia.
Show
me
Africa,
show
me
England
I
understand
this.
She
go
sit
down
next
day.
Front-And-Center
Johnny
come
up
here
now
come
up
there.
She
give
me
the
point
again.
Well,
one
day
she
called
me
up
there
and
I
said
to
us
in
the
city
girl.
Why
do
you
keep
calling
here
to
embarrass
me?
Because
you
know
when
teacher
call
you
up
and
you
don't
know
it,
then
you
remember
the
kids.
G
You
little
laughing
bite.
You
pointed
you
I
used
to
tell
them.
I
see
you
later,
but
one
day
when
they
made
me
go
to
Europe.
I
just
happened
to
go
to
Rome
and
I'm,
looking
at
it
Rome
and
I'm,
reflecting
back
in
my
mind
about
the
Mona
Lisa,
when
the
Mona
Lisa
came
to
New
York
they'd
sent
it
in
a
crate
big
as
this
room,
so
I
thought.
The
Mona
Lisa
was
an
enormous
picture.
G
Now
here,
I'm
in
room
and
I'm
standing,
maybe
ten
feet
from
the
Mona
Lisa,
leaning
up
against
the
wall.
Looking
at
it,
my
god,
I
ain't,
no
witness
it
made
me
understand
how
valuable
it
was
to
put
it
in
a
crate
like
that,
but
instantaneously.
That
floated
away
from
my
mind
and
full
of
what
floated
in
my
mind,
was
this
all
of
those
kids
used
to
laugh
at
me
because
I
didn't
know
anything
about
geography.
G
My
thought
was
how
many
of
them
who
ever
get
a
chance
to
see
this
Mona
Lisa
in
person
much
more
10
feet
away
from
it.
That's
another
gift
that
God
gave
me
to
realize
where
I
was
in
the
moment.
So
now
I
like
Europe,
let
me
run
through
Europe,
but
I
never
ever
forgot
what
happened
when
I
came
home
every
time,
I
came
home,
I
saw
the
same
thing:
nothing
changed,
I,
didn't
see,
people
getting
jobs,
I
just
see
people
having
medical
coverage,
I
didn't
see
kids
going
to
school
to
get
education.
G
There's
a
lot
of
things
that
was
so
complex.
That
turned
me
off
as
an
individual
and
I.
Didn't
wait
for
clergy.
I
didn't
wait
for
big
business.
I
didn't
wait
for
the
president
and
then
wait
for
my
brothers
or
my
sister.
Do
anything
I
got
up
and
I
did
it
and
as
I
got
it,
I
began
to
get
two
names.
That
I
would
call
me
all
the
time.
G
One
side
of
the
road
would
call
me
a
troublemaker.
The
other
side
of
the
road
would
called
me
crazy.
All
the
way
I
accepted
both
of
them,
because
you
had
to
be
crazy
to
do
certain
things
and
when
I
say
crazy,
meaning
that
everybody
swimming
downstream
and
you
swimming
upstream
and
they're
telling
you
you
gone
the
wrong
way
and
all
I
could
do
is
jump
said
we
got
to
get
to
the
finish
line.
We
assumed
went
wrong
now.
G
Here's
the
kick
when
you
get
to
a
point
in
life
when
you
feel
that
I've
risen
enough,
where
I'll
make
a
difference,
it's
your
opportunity
to
step
up
to
the
plate
and
say
man:
I
want
to
be
the
voice
for
the
voiceless.
That's
what
dr.
King
was
that's.
What
Marcus
gobby
was
that's
what
little
Rosa
Parks
was
when
you
sit
back
and
think
about
that,
calling
me
a
troublemaker.
G
You
hear
the
word
troublemaker
so
much
until
you
send
me.
Look
at
this
word.
We
look
at
it
every
angle
and
after
you
look
at
it
for
so
long,
you
began
to
see
images
and
the
first
image
I
saw
was
a
little
skinny
guy
with
a
sheet
wrapped
around
his
body.
Wire-Rimmed
glasses
ball
head
and
when
all
the
dust
settled
now
look
down
enough,
so
his
name
and
it
said
Gandhi
troublemaker,
they
all
thought
whoa.
G
This
guy
looks
familiar
too
and
it
was
come
over
to
Selma
bridge
when
the
dust
settled
and
said:
Martin,
Luther,
King,
junior
troublemaker,
little
Rosa
Parks,
you
think
miss
parks,
didn't
have
a
concern
about
what
they
might
do
to
her.
If
she
went
to
jail
for
moving
herself
to
the
front
of
the
bus
and
not
giving
up
that
seat,
she
said:
I
have
to
go
and
bow
on
my
way
through
that
I
have
no
fear,
but
when
the
dust
settled
they
had
her
name
on
the
ground,
subscribe,
Rosa,
Parks
troublemaker.
G
But
then,
when
you
look
down
a
little
father
and
you
find
Christianity-
and
you
say,
God
man
I
see
this
dude
his
name
and
I,
heard
about
him
so
long
and
said:
Jesus
Christ
troublemaker.
So
after
a
while
it
begins
to
make
you
feel
like
mom
and
damn
good
company
to
be
called
a
troublemaker,
and
that
taught
me
to
realize
that
you
can't
have
fear
for
what's
right.
All
you
can
do
is
step
up
and
seize
the
moment.
G
People
tell
me
said
when,
when
you
concerned
about
dying
yes,
a
man
we
all
gonna
die,
you're
gonna
die.
Are
you
concerned
about
9:00
I
said
what
the
difference
with
me,
and
you
is
this
when
you
die?
The
book
is
closed.
They
never
mention
you
again,
yeah
think
about
you
outside
your
mom
or
your
wife,
or
maybe
your
kids,
but
everybody
else.
They
don't
know
about.
You
even
think
about
you,
I
said,
but
when
I
die,
they're
gonna
think
about
me
for
eons.
G
Why?
Because
I
chose
to
do
something
between
my
dad
I
was
born
into
this
world
and
the
day
I
died
and
everybody
near
that's
what
you
should
concern
yourself
with
it
about
the
day
that
you
came.
You
know
cute
little
Johnny
he's
such
a
pretty
little
baby,
Oh
Johnny
dies,
terrible
death
and
about
all
the
one
of
those
days.
What's
important
is
what
did
you
do
between
those
days?
G
Somebody
told
me
said
well:
John,
aren't
you
concern
about
what
people
think
man
I'm
on
the
concern,
whoever
the
Creator
is
I,
don't
know
who
he
is,
but
I
know
he
is
I'm
concerned
about
what
he
think
about
me,
I'm
concerned
about
with
my
mother
when
she
was
dying
last
year.
What
she
thought
about
me
and
people
gonna,
look
at
you
the
same
way
because
remember
what
I
did?
What
no
big
deal
that
demonstration
I
did
what
no
big
deal.
G
What
it
was
was
a
choice
and
everybody
in
here
has
choices.
When
I
said
I
was
going
to
boycott
the
Olympic
Games,
oh,
you
can't
boycott
the
games.
So
what
are
you
telling
me?
You
turn
trying
to
take
my
choice
away
now.
I
have
a
choice:
I
choose
maybe
not
to
go
to
the
games,
not
because
I,
don't
like
America
I
love
America,
but
it
appears
America.
Don't
love
me!
G
G
If
they
chose
to
boycott
the
First
World
War,
you
think
America
would
be
as
great
as
we
are,
or
the
Korean
War,
the
Second
World
War,
the
Vietnam
War
I,
don't
think
so,
and
then
they
have
to
go
through
the
First
World
War
and
have
discussing
with
my
father
bout
hide
was
Dan
at
high.
It
was
such
a
segregated
war
and
you
only
had
two
white
officers
that
was
there
to
lead
the
black
troops.
I
said
what
daddy
y'all
couldn't
lead
yourselves.
He
said.
G
Apparently
they
didn't
think
we
were
smart
enough
and
I
used
to
always
things.
My
father
said
Papa
how
you
get
that
bullet
hole
in
your
jaw.
When
I
was
a
little
kid.
Let's
go.
Take
my
finger
put
my
finger
in
it.
Just
always
tell
me
he
said:
son
I'll
tell
you
about
that
one
day.
Well,
he
didn't
tell
me
until
I
come
back
from
the
Olympic
Games
and
he
in
the
hospital
in
New
York,
the
veteran's
house.
We
get
ready
to
die
and
I
said
to
him.
I
said
Papa.
G
You
tell
me
about
that
hole
in
your
jaw.
He
said
well,
I,
guess
now
it's
better
than
any
time.
He
said
help
me
up
he's
laying
in
the
bed.
I
said
that
help
you
up
for
what
just
tell
me
now.
I'll
help
me
up.
I
had
to
help
him
out
the
bed
and
he
had
a
gurney
on
he
reaching
for
the
gurney
to
pull
back.
Show
me
his
butt
and
I'm.
What
are
you
doing
daddy?
What
you're
doing
he
said?
Son
I
can't
tell
you
about
this
hole
until
I
would
tell
you
about
this
hole.
G
You
had
a
bullet
hole
in
his
butt.
I,
never
knew
that.
I
said
to
myself
what
happened
daddy.
He
said
to
me,
say:
son
I've
been
telling
you
all
the
time
that
the
war
was
segregated.
He
said
to
me.
He
said
we
used
to
go.
Take
Bridges.
We
should
take
Hills
Bob,
while
plenty
snow
crazy.
With
times
he
said.
The
white
officer
would
always
tell
us,
take
this
bridge
or
take
this
hill
and
we
would
go.
G
So
all
the
guys
in
between
Thompson
just
come
on.
Let's
just
go
through
the
job
and
he
said:
ok
and
they
crawling
through
the
mud,
the
enemies
coming
at
him.
They
shoot,
though
his
head
the
whole
nine
yards.
He
said,
but
he
gets
a
bullet
from
behind
that
white
officer
shot
him
in
the
button
and
when
he
turned
around
just
as
he
recognized
there
was
that
I
white
officer
that
shot
him,
then
the
enemy
shoots
them
in
the
jaw.
Boom
bullet
lands
on
his
tongue.
He
said
that
was
a
hard
pill
to
swallow.
G
People
gonna
always
have
disagreements
when
you
want
to
stand
up
for
what's
right,
the
only
time
we
don't
have
a
disagreement
amongst
the
racism
when
God
send
you
something
to
shock
you
like
the
guy
in
the
White
House,
and
see
I,
look
at
him
like
a
hurricane
or
fire
flood
where
everybody
put
all
their
gum
non-partisan.
Now,
let's
come
together.
Let's
be
one
help
me
save
my
house
from
this
flood
help
me
get
these
sandbags
help
me
get
the
water
to
stop
this
fire
help
me
after
this
tornado.
G
Let's
come
together,
let's
be
unified,
let's
be
one
and
the
crisis
of
God,
but
once
everything
is
resolved
the
issues
of
straight,
then
we
go
back
to
our
bias
and
our
prejudices
know
that
standoff
and
I
want
to
tell
you
about
they.
Wouldn't
let
me
in
the
pool
when
we
got
in
the
pool
they
would
get
out
black
people
right
now.
I
can
go
to
the
airport,
it's
it
is
Airport
an
airport
to
be
jam-packed.
I
can
be
sitting
here
and
over
here.
G
This
see
this
vacant
I
seen
it
happen
a
thousand
times
and
don't
matter
whether
I
got
a
suit
on
or
whether
I
got
my
jeans
off,
but
they
were
coming
in.
They
be
tired.
I
could
see
in
their
eyes
they
tired
and
you
don't
see
there,
but
that
sitting
next
to
me
and
when
I
said
next
to
me,
I'm
talking
about
meeting
terms
of
color
cuz,
it
happened
to
a
lot
of
black
people.
G
They
would
prefer
to
stand
up
and
stay
at
that
seat,
but
didn't
they
walk
around
see
if
they
can
find
no
seat
somewhere,
they'll
come
back
when
it
ain't
no
seat
and
then
stared
it
again,
and
then
they
go
stand
up
against
a
beam
for
fear
that
I
might
rub
off
on
them
or
I
might
pull
up
a
little
Oh.
Is
he
robbed
and
right
there
why
they
sit?
Next
to
me,
you
know
what
that
is.
G
It's
ignorance,
that's
what
racism
is
about,
ignorance
until
we
wake
up
as
a
society
and
realize,
and
we
have
to
start
teaching
one
another
we'd
like
that
dog
chasing
his
tail.
We
waste
a
lot
of
energy,
but
we
ain't
cover.
No
ground
so
I
said
what
can
I
do
to
make
sense
to
this
world
to
make
people
think
and
I
got
blessed
by
God
and
was
calling
to
a
meeting
and
God
knows
I
didn't
know
where
I
was
going.
G
I
got
a
call,
say,
John
said
meeting
taking
place,
we'd
like
you
to
come,
while
this
meeting
was
by
dr.
Martin,
Luther
King,
but
I
had
no
idea.
All
I
knew
was
of
SCLC
and
at
that
time
I
didn't
even
know
what
SCLC
meant,
but
they
tell
me
to
come
down
to
the
America
in
the
hotel
in
New,
York
and
I.
Go
to
the
hotel
and
I
go
up
to
this
room.
First
I
go
to
the
distances,
I'm
looking
for
SCLC
I'll
go
to
suite
so
and
so
I
go
up.
G
There
knock
on
the
door
and
little
guy
comes
to
the
door
and
he
looks
so
familiar
to
me.
I
just
knew
I
know
this
guy,
but
it
can't
be
the
one
that
I
know,
but
it
is
him.
No,
it
ain't
him,
but
I
know
it's
him,
but
it
can't
be
him.
That's
what's
going
through
my
brain,
because
this
guy
that
I
saw
I
thought
he
was
about
64
and
I,
find
out
that
he
was
4
feet.
G
6
kind
of
made
me
think
that
there
was
shooting
him
laying
on
their
back,
and
this
guy
was
a
good
doctor
and
really
young
very
cause.
You
very
nice
invited
me
in
off
me:
soda
juice,
water,
milk,
pies
sandwich
whatever
and
I'm
sitting
and
watching
luminaries
walk
by
that
I
saw
on
TV
with
my
parents
and
I'm
saying
man
I
don't
belong
here,
and
you
know
you
can
get
to
the
point
where
you
so
worried
about
being
there,
that
you
start
showing
little
shakiness
20
minutes
later
25
minutes
later
outside
door,
open
up
and
dr.
G
King
walked
out.
Man
I
was
about
to
turn
the
picture
firewood.
Why?
Because
that
was
my
mother's
hero?
My
mother
think
that
God's
in
my
liver,
King
here
that's
his
first
lieutenant
to
this
surface,
and
here
her
baby
boy
is
in
the
room
with
him
all
I'm
thinking
mom.
You
need
to
be
a
bug
on
my
lapel
I'll
rock
in
my
pocket.
You
need
to
be
there
and
my
mother
said
to
me
sister
son:
I:
was
there
don't
you
hug
I
was
there
to
you,
but
dr.
King
said
some
things
to
me.
G
First
of
all,
the
gist
of
the
meeting
was
that
he
was
going
to
come
out
and
support
the
Olympic
boycott.
He
expressed
why
he
wanted
to
support
the
boycott.
He
expressed
the
fact
that
we
was
going
to
make
a
statement
that
would
be
so
resounding
and
it
wouldn't
affect
anyone
on
a
physical
side.
No
one's
gonna
die,
no
one's
gonna
get
maimed.
G
Actually
I
said
to
him.
I
said
dr.
King,
you're
playing
sports
said:
I,
can't
shoot,
pool
gotta
talk
for
a
second,
it's
pool
of
sport.
I
even
asked
that
question
today,
but
he
said
no
I
can't
even
shoot
pool.
I
said
what
doctor
came.
Why
would
you
get
involved
in
the
Olympic
boycott?
He
said
to
me
he
said
John,
that's
a
very
good
question.
He
said
just
imagine
you
being
an
enormous
lake.
He
said
you
take
the
oars
and
you
roll
your
way
out
to
the
center
of
the
lake.
G
G
He
said,
then
you
take
that
rock
and
you
throw
it
overboard.
What
happens?
I
say
it
creates
vibrations.
He
said
absolutely
it
creates
waves.
He
said
that
rock
is
not
an
Olympic
boycott.
He
said
when
it
hit
the
water
everything
that
was
in
that
leg,
no
something's
amiss
everything
on
the
shores
of
that
Lake
know
something's
amiss.
He
said
you
got
the
world
attention
and
you
didn't
have
the
man
kill
and
injure
anyone.
I
said:
well,
that's
powerful
I
took
that
nugget
put
it
in
whoa.
This
is
God's
gift
and
I
actually
forgot.
G
That
I
had
another
question
here
to
remind
you
yet
another
question
John,
so
Oh
doc,
you
just
you
just
blew
me
away
with
that
and
he
says
to
me.
He
said.
What's
your
second
question,
I
said
dr.
King,
you
made
a
statement
that
they
sent
you
a
letter
and
they
said
in
this
letter
that
they
had
a
bullet
with
your
name
on
it.
Now
you
said
we're
horn-rimmed
glasses,
just
like
these
black
and
there
is
shades
and
they
didn't
dilate.
G
They
just
stayed
shades
when
I
asked
him
that
question
I,
remember
taking
these
glasses
and
bringing
it
down
on
my
nose,
because
I
didn't
want
anything
between
his
eyeballs
and
my
eyeballs
I'm
looking
at
his
eyes,
and
you
could
pretty
much
demise.
What
I'm
looking
at
his
eyes
for
would
you
think
I
was
looking
for.
G
No
I
said:
what
do
you
think
he
was
looking
for
from
him?
I
was
looking
for
fear
if
a
man
tells
you
that
they
sent
a
letter
and
tell
you
that
you
have
a
bullet
with
your
name
when
and
you
won't
have
to
wait
long
for
it.
A
usable
me,
oh
my
god,
fear,
but
when
I
looked
at
his
eyes,
all
I
saw
was
unadulterated,
love,
love
for
Humanity
and
when
you
sit
back
today
and
modern
day
and
you
sit
back-
and
you
say
that
is
the
forgotten
word
in
society.
G
G
Five
minutes.
Okay,
she's
got
me
trained,
so
I
said
to
him.
I
said
dr.
King.
If
they
threatened
your
life,
why
would
you
go
back
to
Memphis
and
he
told
me
he
said
to
me
say:
John,
he
said
listen.
You
know
they
got
multicultural
people
work
for
the
Sanitation,
Department
and
Memphis.
He
said,
but
those
people
who
had
no
voice.
No
one
steps
up.
No
one
speaks
up
for
C.
I.
G
G
Help
doors
that
can't
help
themselves
I
understand
for
those
that
can't
stand
for
themselves,
but
won't
stand
for
themselves.
I
have
to
stand
for
those
that
care
for
them
stand
for
themselves.
I
have
to
stand
for
them.
I
said
that's
deep.
You
think
dr.
King
didn't
want
to
live
to
see
his
kids
grow
yeah.
He
want
to
live,
but
the
mission
that
he
came
here
for
was
far
greater
than
him
waiting
around
to
see
his
kids
grow.
G
You
think
I
want
to
put
my
kids
to
it
agony
and
tyranny
that
they
had
to
go
through
after
I
put
my
fist
to
the
sky,
I
didn't
put
the
finger
up,
I'll
put
the
fists
up,
and
you
know
the
essence
of
defense.
If
you
look
at
a
fish
before
there's
a
fish,
there's
five
fingers,
all
of
them
can
be
every
ethnic
group
and
one
of
them
saying
you
know
if
I
can
move
a
pebble
from
this
side
of
the
road
to
the
other
side
of
the
road.
G
We
can
make
a
significant
difference
for
the
better
in
society
and
when
I'm
jumped
down
out
of
the
five
and
he
tries
and
moved
that
pebble
and
he's
dead,
half
the
day,
trying
to
move
it
and
in
war
itself,
I
ain't
moving,
nothing
and
the
other
one
jumped
down
and
tell
him
say:
man
I
saw
what
you
did
wrong.
You
didn't
put
your
hips
into
it.
You
gotta
put
your
hips
into
it.
He
spends
the
other
half
of
the
day
and
he
couldn't
move
nothing.
G
But
the
great
thing
is
why
the
two
of
them
was
trying
to
do
it.
All
five
of
them
realized
that
if
we
come
together,
then
we
become
a
very
powerful
force.
That
was
the
essence
of
the
fist
unification
unity
to
be
won
on
a
mission
to
make
something
better.
That's
your
call!
That's
your
mission!
You
have
to
go
to
the
Olympic
Games
to
stand
up
for.
What's
right,
you
can
do
it
from
right
here
and
Bellevue
right
here
in
the
capacity
in
which
you
work
working
for
the
city.
G
If
someone
is
going
off
the
rail
doing
something
wrong,
that
you
know
is
hurting
people.
It's
your
responsibility
to
get
a
hold
of
that
person.
You
have
to
throw
rocks
at
them.
You
don't
have
to
beat
them
up
with
no
stick,
but
all
you
can
do
is
sit
him
down
and
put
your
mind
on
his
mind
to
make
him
feel
what
he's
doing
and
make
him
feel
the
pain
for
those
individuals.
That's
receiving
what
he's
doing
you
can't
turn
your
head
to
it
and
say
it's
not
my
job.
G
It's
not
my
responsibility,
it's
all
of
our
responsibilities
because,
as
I
stated
when
your
first
child
is
born
into
this
world,
your
life
is
secondary,
you're
in
living.
For
you
no
more.
You
live
for
your
kid
to
make
sure
that
your
kid
gonna
have
a
better
opportunity
in
your
parents
head
and
a
better
opportunity
than
you
had.
G
If
you
think
it's
not
that
way,
look
outside
and
see
how
many
parents
right
now,
then
you
think
about
that.
Just
look
and
see
where
the
kids
are
today
and
that's
cross
the
board.
That's
black!
Kids!
That's
white!
Kids!
That's
all
kids
is
out
there
running
like
that.
Pack
of
dogs
after
earthquake
all
different
breeds
of
dogs,
but
they
don't
care
what
kind
of
dog
y'all
long
is
just
a
dog
come
on,
hang
out,
we
protecting
one
another.
G
We
run
a
wild
through
the
streets
well
when
they
use
drugs
to
this
matter
of
the
families
when
they
used
like
education
to
this
matter.
The
families
when
they'll
use
lack
of
employment,
the
dismantle
the
family.
This
is
the
end
result.
It's
what
we
see
in
society,
don't
try
and
be
your
kids
friend,
but
your
kids,
parent
and
let
them
grow
into
be
your
friend
as
they
become
young
adults.
G
G
That's
your
jobs!
It's
all
a
part
of
one's
trying
to
turn
this
world
around
and
make
it
cohesive
for
all
of
us.
That's
why
I
went
on
the
victory
stand
and
said.
Let
me
be
the
spectacle
me
raised.
My
fist
to
the
sky.
I
knew
they
was
gonna,
come
after
me,
because
I
see
Marcus
Garvey
I'm,
seeing
Paul
Robeson
I've,
seen
all
of
those
nat
turner.
I
seen.
H
G
Of
them,
the
Harriet
Tubman
I
see
them
all
make
the
same
statements
that
I'm
making
and
the
boogie
man
came
after
every
one
of
us,
but
it
didn't
deter
us
and
the
difference
is
more.
People
are
starting
to
get
more
clear
minded
about
what
the
issues
are
and
have
to
realize
at
one
point
before
God
call
them
I
have
to
stand
up
for
something
before
I
leave
here.
Why?
Because
I
want
to
be
remembered
so
I'm
gonna
leave
you
with
that
guy's
for
you
to
ponder
for
yourself.
G
That's
the
which
side
of
history
you
gonna
be
on.
You
know:
I
made
my
side
long
after
I'm
dead
and
gone
they
be
talking
about.
While
we
thought
for
50
years
that
he
wasn't
worth
2
cent,
but
for
the
next
fit
that
we
realized
that
he
was
far
more
powerful
than
we
could
ever
imagine,
I
don't
have
no
monopoly
on
that
I.
Don't
have
no
exclusive
right
to
leave
being
a
part
of
history.
History
is
for
everyone,
and
everyone
is
making
history.
G
B
I
G
You
know,
maybe
in
the
in
the
base
of
it,
man
is
good
versus
evil.
That's
yeah
I
can
say
that
this
is
simple.
Anyone
that
stood
up
for
equality
and
justice,
those
individuals,
the
boogeyman,
came
to
shut
them
down,
so
it
didn't
start
in
1968.
It
didn't
start
when
Martin
Luther
King
started
his
move
in
1963
and
started
a
long
time
ago
with
Ned
Turner
started
a
long
time
ago,
when
Harriet
Tubman
had
to
sit
down
and
think
how
can
I
save
my
people
and
then
she
had
to
realize
to
herself.
G
Man
is
not
that
I'm
trying
to
save
my
people
if
I
could
wake
them
up
and
make
them
realize.
I
could
have
saved
thousands
more
it's
about
what
you
consider
yourself
to
be
other
people
who
else
can't
consider
themselves
based
on
what
they
see
come
from
you
and
I've
not
made
that
demonstration.
People
on
the
other
side
of
the
globe
would
never
know
how
to
deal
with
the
tyranny
they
had
to
deal
with
all
these
years,
so
I
became
a
symbol
of
beacon
for
them.
G
I'm
not
worried
about
the
fact
that
the
so-called
guy
on
the
other
side
of
the
chessboard
is
upset
because
I
put
a
good
move
on
him,
because
I
reflect
back
in
my
mind,
remember
when
he
put
some
moves
on
me
made
me
bend
over
because
this
life
that
we
live
is
a
game.
This
game
as
much
as
football,
a
basketball,
a
baseball
or
checkers.
G
The
object
of
the
game
is
to
win
on
both
sides
of
the
equation,
but
when
you
sit
back
and
you
think
about
it-
those
that
went
for
football
and
basketball,
they
chose
to
try
and
make
the
team
they
try
and
get
in
the
game.
But
everybody
is
born
into
the
game,
but
remember
what
I
said.
The
essence
of
the
game
stands
true
on
both
sides
of
the
aisle.
The
essence
is
to
win.
G
So
if
I
got
the
gold
deal
with
the
boogeyman
to
try
maintains
right,
it's
only
because
I'm
going
to
be
a
winner,
I'm,
not
gonna.
Let
nobody
get
in
the
way
to
tell
me
that
I
don't
have
the
opportunity
to
use
education
to
make
me
a
better
person
to
go
where
I'm
trying
to
go
in
life.
I.
Don't
have
nobody
to
step
in
my
way
to
tell
me
that
I
don't
belong
in
this
neighborhood.
G
If
I
see
somebody
come
in
the
neighborhood
where
I
live
right
now
and
I
cut
my
grass
a
week
and
they
ain't
cutting
their
grass.
Is
my
responsibility
not
to
go
over
there
and
cut
them
out
or
knocking
my
out
or
talk
about
it?
But
it's
my
responsibility
to
go
over
there
and
knock
on
his
door.
Hey
buddy!
We
got
to
have
some
dialogue
now.
What's
the
problem?
Man,
you
don't
have
a
lawnmower,
you
don't
have
a
job
and
you
just
don't
give
a.
Let
me
understand.
G
Oh
man,
you
know
I
want
to
cut
my
grass
I
feel
bad.
That
I
can't
get.
My
grass
cut
everybody
crashing
around.
So
nice!
Well,
man!
Oh,
you
just
come
knock
on
my
door.
You
can
use
my
lawnmower,
but
the
name
of
the
game
is
to
jump
in
the
phone
and
understand
that
hey
man,
we
respect
our
property
as
much
as
we
respect
yours,
but
when
you
don't
cut
your
grass
for
whatever
reason
you're
showing
disrespect
to
the
community,
all
right
go,
put
no
hate
signs
up.
G
I
need
to
go,
try
and
burn
his
house
down.
All
I
had
to
do
was
go
put
some
dialog
in
his
head
and
make
him
feel
comfortable
enough
to
say
thanks
John,
for
let
me
use
your
lawn
mower.
It
might
be
something
he
could
do
to
help
my
kid
down.
The
road
and
he'll
remember
what
I
did
by
letting
him
cut
his
grass
with
my
lawnmower.
He
said
man,
you
know
I
work
out
it
University
of
Bellevue
your
kid
trying
to
get
into
school.
G
G
I
talk
more
about
racism.
Being
ignorance
are
they
means
they
start
by
saying
this?
No
child
is
born
a
racist,
no
child
is
born
a
racist,
okay,
you're
eating
the
truth
of
fact.
You
know
when
I'm
a
little
kid
I'm
out
there
playing
I,
don't
give
a
what
color
you
are
I,
don't
care
if
you
fat
well,
you're
skinny,
whether
you
tall
is
short
good-looking
ugly.
G
All
I
want
to
play
is
play
with
you
and
tell
somebody
come
and
tell
me
say:
Johnny
that
kid
is
Jewish,
don't
play
with
him,
Oh
Johnny,
that
that
girl
is
Asian,
don't
play
with
her.
Why
not
daddy?
They
take
nice
people.
We
have
fun
together.
If
you
play
with
him
son
with
your
button,
that's
an
aid
to
a
dad
right
there.
That's
telling
this
kid
that,
but
he
didn't
intimidate
the
kids.
G
So
it's
about
educating
oneself
to
make
them
understand.
Man,
I
shouldn't,
have
fear
of
his
culture.
What
I
should
have
is
understanding
of
his
culture
because
most
of
us
don't
know
about
someone
else's
culture,
make
you
feel
it.
For
example,
I
was
a
youngster
and
I
go
into
Europe
now,
I
know
about
hygiene.
In
the
whole
nine
yards
and
and
I
heard
about
a
woman,
you're
gonna
clean
the
insides,
they
say
they're
taking
a
douche
and
I
went
to
Europe
and
I've.
G
Had
this
girl,
I
was
talking
to
her
and
she
said
well,
I'll
talk
to
you
later,
I
got
to
go,
take
a
dish
and
I
thought
whoa
baby,
that's
a
little
forward.
Who
are
you
talking
about?
You
got
to
go,
take
a
dish,
but
an
S
is
what
the
girl
was
telling
me
she's,
going
to
take
a
shower
thanks
turtle,
but
I
don't
know
about
our
culture,
so
I
don't
know.
G
I'll
just
think
she's
a
firewoman
is
that
so
it's
a
matter
of
having
knowledge
and
brained
ignorance
and
bury
it
because
I'll
do
a
certain
thing,
don't
mean
someone
to
another
side
of
town
gonna.
Do
the
same
thing!
I
do!
If
you
don't
understand
something
about
me,
is
your
responsibility
to
come
and
say
man
you
do
that.
Why
do
you
do
that?
How
can
I
do
that?
G
But
if
you
don't
you
just
walling
and
ignorance,
remember
what
I
said:
ain't
no
child
bond
with
hating
them?
Someone
implies
that
hate
I,
remember
a
little
girl
when
I
was
teaching
in
Palm
Springs
and
little
girl
came
to
my
class
and
she
told
me
said
mister
cause.
You
don't
need
teaching
in
here
that
I
understand
and
understand
me
and
I
love.
G
How
father's
in
particular
about
how
racist
our
father
was
and
the
things
that
he
said
about
black
people
and
the
things
he
said
about
his
spending
people
and
all
that
blacks
and
Hispanics
were
little
friends
and
she
tried
to
make
sense
to
our
Father
and
I
Father
smack
that
down
and
I
said
I
said
well.
Did
you
think
when
your
father
smacked
you
down
that
he
just
respects
you
I
had
hatin
animosity
and
his
heart
towards
you
as
he
did
towards
the
people
he
was
trying
to
defend.
G
She
said
I,
never
thought
about
that
Mister
college,
but
I
was
shocked
when
he
smacked
me
and
I
said
taught
so
listen.
I
said
all
you
can
do
is
be
concerned
about
the
square
that
God
gave
you
to
live
in.
I
said
you
young,
you
see
what
they
are
doing
and
you
disagree
what
they're
doing
so.
That
should
give
you
strong
diligence
and
say
imma,
be
the
opposite
of
what
they
are.
Just
like
a
guy
said
man,
my
father
was
an
abuser.
G
So
it's
a
matter
of
you
saying.
Let
me
take
care
the
issues
at
hand.
Why
I
am
so
I
told
a
little
girl
say
all
you
can
do
is
stay
in
your
box
until
you
get
18,
then
you
have
a
choice.
Just
stay
there
and
accept
that
not
to
move
you
18
I'll
say,
but
at
the
same
time,
if
you
love
your
parents,
you
never
give
up
on
them.
You
try
and
educate
them
because,
obviously
their
brains
there's
nowhere
near
the
size
of
your
brain
they're
missing
something
and
right
now
is
you
being
a
youngster?
G
They
look
at
you
as
a
youngster
and
they're,
not
gonna.
Listen
to
anything.
You
say
they
can
pop
you
upside
your
head
when
they
think
you
saying
something
against
what
they
stand
for,
but
you
never
give
up
on
them.
I
see
a
lot
of
times.
You
can
show
it
to
example.
You
don't
even
have
to
make
a
word
just
do
what
you
do
and
let
them
see
and
then
eventually,
what's
going
to
happen,
they're
gonna
start
turning
inward
and
start
to
question
themselves.
G
I
G
G
It's
a
release!
You
go
home
and
you
say
man
I,
don't
like
what's
happening
in
my
household
and
I,
go
to
my
room
and
I'm
crying
I'm
trying
to
have
a
release
I'm
trying
to
let
this
frustration
out,
because
I
can't
control
what
my
mother
and
father
is
doing
outside
that
door,
but
I
have
to
get
away
and
let
it
out
of
me
so
I
can
figure
out
how
I
deal
with
them
to
bring
them
together.
G
1968
I
said
man
I'm,
not
kicking
the
can
down
the
road
I'm
not
sweeping
up
on
the
carpet.
I'm
gonna
deal
with
your
hair
and
I'm
gonna
deal
with
it.
Now
you
think
I
went
to
the
game
for
medals,
the
average
guy
they
were
little
man
I
want
my
life.
I
want
to
be
an
Olympian
and
the
mind
you.
Let
me
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
Olympics.
G
Okay,
just
little
when
we
talked
about
the
boycott,
it
was
just
a
nucleus
of
maybe
five
six
guys
and
we
said
man.
We
want
to
do
something
because
we
saw
certain
instances
that
was
taking
place
and
San
Jose
itself,
and
then
we
looked
up
at
what
was
happening.
We
realized
when
the
San
Jose
was
global.
G
G
Imagine
everybody
in
this
auditorium
right
here
for
a
time
you
was
ten
years
old
and
you
heard
about
the
Olympic
Games
and
you
said
man
for
the
next
25
years.
All
I
wanted
to
do
was
be
an
Olympian.
You
got
it
in
your
mind
when
you
go
out
your
training,
it's
in
the
back
of
your
mind.
I'm
gonna,
be
this
Olympian
and
then
here
comes
John,
Carlos,
step
up
and
say:
HUP
stop.
G
We
want
you
to
boycott
with
the
lipid
project
for
Human
Rights.
That's
a
heavy
decision
for
anybody,
especially
when
you've
been
training.
All
your
life
to
say:
I
want
to
go
to
the
Olympic
Games
and
hear
this
character
come
up.
Talking
about
man
forget
that
boycott
I
didn't
have
the
right,
nor
that
Harry
Edwards
at
Thomas
Mann
for
Lee
Evans
or
anyone
had
the
right
to
tell
those
individuals
that
hey
man,
you
must
boycott,
but
what
it
did
make
us
do.
It
made
us
go
back
and
research
everything
why?
G
Because
we
had
to
learn
ourselves
in
order
to
teach
them
so
when
they
decide
to
make
a
decision,
they
will
know
for
a
fact
both
sides
of
the
issue
we're
trying
to
educate
the
public
as
much
as
we
could,
but
the
media
came
in
and
they
changed
this
and
changed
that
and
had
the
people
thing
that
we
were
talking
about
burning
the
market
down
which
which
was
so
far
from
the
truth.
But
when
it
came
time
for
the
boycott,
they
had
reservations.
G
I
heard
people
say
man,
I
promised
my
church
I
was
gonna,
bring
a
metal
home
man.
My
kids
is
counting
on
me,
my
mother
and
father.
Man
is
so
proud
that
I'm
gonna
make
the
Olympic
team
and
other
guys
just
said
all
right.
Man
are
you
crazy?
I
got
to
go
to
the
Olympic
Games.
So
when
add
all
the
dust
settle,
we
didn't
have
the
right
to
say
man,
you
guys
are
crazy
and
we
gonna
boycott
anyway.
So
let's
take
a
vote,
they
voted
and
they
voted
to
go
to
the
games.
G
We
was
happy,
that's
what
you
want
to
do.
Fine,
my
brain
said:
I'm
gonna
stay
home,
but
great
Kahuna
up
there.
He
says
Amen
think
about
this
and
he
read
it
through
my
brain.
He
said
Johnny,
you
can
stay
home,
but
America
is
the
best
country
in
the
world
and
track-and-field
someone
from
America
is
going
to
qualify
for
that
team
and
get
in
your
spot.
The
question
is:
when
they
get
in
the
victory
stand.
G
Well,
it
represents
you
the
way
you
feel
you
need
to
be
represented
from
that
point
on
and
then
I
said:
okay
Johnny
now
you
know
your
mission
get
busy
and
I
started
training
to
the
max
wooden
blue.
The
world
record
out
the
water
and
when
I
blew
the
world
record
out
the
water.
You
think
I
had
that
world
record.
You
think
I
ever
got
credit
for
the
world
record.
No,
they
penalize
me
not
because
my
running
abilities
or
my
athletic
abilities
it
penalized
me
based
on
my
political
views.
God
broke
the
world
record.
G
Warwick
was
20.3,
I
were
in
nineteen
seven
Oh
fifty
years
ago,
but
they
told
me
the
shoes
did
the
run
and
what
you
know
saying
man
I
just
want
you
to
understand.
Mr.
America
any
record
that
I
set
is
for
you.
I
can't
take
that
record
and
hang
around
my
neck
and
go
to
the
grocery
store.
I
need
a
bad
girl
to
feed
my
kid.
I
just
broke
the
record
for
America.
It
don't
work
like
that.
G
So
I
said
guys.
All
we
wanted
you
guys
to
do
is
make
a
decision.
Y'all
want
to
go,
you
can
go
and
when
I
got
to
the
games,
I
was
still
disenchanted
and
I
knew
that
I
was
gonna,
make
some
statement
and
then
I
went
to
mrs.
Smith
and
said
Tommy
and
cementum
disenchanted
about
the
fact
that
games
well,
the
boycott
was
called
off
and
I
want
to
make
a
statement.
What's
your
take
on
that,
he
said
he
was
with
me
when
he
said
he
was
with
me.
The
first
thing
ran
through
my
mind.
G
Was
he
had
a
gold
medal
because
I
didn't
go
for
Meadows
long
as
I
run
medals
in
the
high
schools
giving
to
the
girls?
You
can't
treat
me
with
no
medal,
so
I
said
to
him
all
right
cool.
Now
what
we
gonna
bring
to
the
table,
he
said
I
got
gloves,
I
had
beads,
you
see,
I
got
a
black
scarf
I
had
a
black
shirt,
we
were
all
wearing
black
socks.
We
took
the
Pullman
shoe
out
there
because
Pullman
shoe
and
feed
poor
people.
G
They
didn't
have
to
go
up
to
the
to
the
Pullman
people
said
well,
I'm
gonna
be
a
star
next
year,
I'll
come
back.
When
you
be
a
star,
we
don't
get
nothing,
that's
where
the
deeds
were
telling
us.
So
I
went
to
work
for
Pullman
when
I
was
a
high
school
kid,
when
my
wife
was
getting
ready
to
have
a
baby,
my
senior
year,
I
lost
my
job
and
I
thought,
my
god,
how
am
I
gonna
feed
my
kid
I
don't
have
a
job.
G
G
So
now,
50
years
later,
those
individuals
that
had
that
decision
to
make
when
is
at
the
crossroads
as
to
whether
we
should
go
to
the
games
of
all
that
we
should
boycott
the
games.
I
would
say
right
now
in
50
years
time
they
have
come
to
me
and
I'd,
say
the
numbers
or
the
percentages.
Ninety-Nine
point
nine
nine
99%
of
those
individuals
that
was
in
those
games
come
back
to
me
and
told
me,
say
man.
If
I
had
to
do
it
today,
I
would
be
in
your
pocket.
G
I
was
standing
with
you
and
but
some
of
them
right
now,
because
things
had
turned
around
where
I
was
the
villain
now
I'm
the
hero.
So
where
people
were
running
and
say
if
someone
broke
out
a
camera
said
College,
let
me
take
a
picture.
You
is
10
people
standing
on
their
break
to
get
away
from
me.
I
won't
be
in
the
picture,
but
the
day
of
somebody
to
take
out
a
picture,
camera
wanna
take
a
picture.
They
almost
knocked
me
down
because
they
want
to
get
in
the
picture
with
me
and
I.
G
Tell
them
I
said
man.
Let
me
just
say
something
to
you:
man
I,
can't
change
history
as
much
as
I
love.
You
I
could
never
say
that
you
was
there
in
1968
because
he
wasn't
there
I'm
happy
that
you
learned
I'm
happy
that
you
grown
I
can't
change
the
course
of
history,
because
he
was
late.
Waking
up
when
it's
time
to
make
a
decision
in
your
life
guys
you
can't
make
it
fit
the
ears
away.
G
B
J
Well,
it's
a
huge
honor
to
be
here
and
obviously
actually
kind
of
breaks,
my
heart
that
story
about
the
firefighters,
because
obviously
it's
near
and
dear
to
my
heart,
being
a
firefighter
and
caring
for
this
community
and
to
think
that
that's
how
it
used
to
be
is
obviously
pretty
disheartening.
But
but
I
can't
say
that
to
be
is
extremely
special:
have
a
granny
who's
96.
J
Think
there's
a
certain
cadence
to
the
way
you
speak,
sir,
that
has
a
very
like
I.
Looked
at
this
I
watched.
This
I
saw
this
just
this
sense
of
wakefulness.
This
idea
that
we
pay
attention
to
the
life
we're
leading
to
the
lives
we've
watched
and
witnessed
to
the
people
that
are
near
to
us
and
the
burdens
that
we're
all
bearing
in
different
ways.
Some
of
us,
as
you
said,
had
friends
with
troubles
at
home.
J
Some
of
us
troubles
economically,
some
of
us
with
addictions
or
facing
you,
know,
disabilities
or
lack
of
resources,
and
that
it's
not
only
just
the
wakefulness
of
it,
but
it's
the
deep
and
sincere
empathy
and
compassion
for
those
disadvantages
and
for
those
individuals
without
those
resources
and
how
we
seek
to
ultimately
provide
them
and
to
communicate
a
sense
of
value
to
those
individuals.
That
I
think
is
something
that
you
speak
with.
Such
grace
and
I.
J
Think
the
second
thing,
and
probably
far
more
difficult,
is
I
think
the
same
thing
that
King
understood
and
Gandhi
and
Jesus
now
Nazareth,
as
you
said,
which
is
this
ability
to
transcend
the
sense
of
one's
own
wellness.
This
idea
that
our
life
and
my
life
and
my
well-being
is
pet-
is
the
you
know,
paramount
aim
and
the
second
that
you
realize
that
in
fact,
my
life
exists
in
some
sincere
measure
and
obviously
the
highest
form
is
of
sacrifice
of
your
own
life,
for
the
betterment
and
for
the
well-being
of
your
fellow
mankind.
J
Think
we
think
it's
well.
I'm
gonna
tell
you
my
opinion.
Everybody
thinks
I
have
a
dreams,
the
best
speech
and
it's
good.
It's
really
good,
but
I
actually
think
the
mountaintop
I've
been
to
the
mountaintops.
The
best
speech
and,
tragically
he's
assassinated
a
day
later,
but
he
says
something
in
it,
which
is
stuck
with
me
for
the
duration
of
my
life,
and
he
says
what
you
said
that
he
would
have
loved
to
have
seen
his
kids.
J
He
said,
I
would
love
to
have
lived
a
long
life
and
longevity
has
its
place,
but
it
doesn't
really
matter
now
because
I've
been
to
the
mountaintop
and
I.
Think
in
that.
You
feel
this
forecasting.
This
idea
that
there
is
a
time
coming
and
a
wave
coming
or,
like
you
said,
there's
a
side
of
history
that
is
slowly
rolling
over
these
decaying
and
old,
and
archaic
views
and
hardened
hearts,
and
it's
moving
to
a
world
of
love
and
compassion
and
understanding
and
brotherhood
and
I
think
if
we
can
take
a
moment
to
look
at
King.
J
Not
only
is
somebody
who
is
this
great
revolutionary
and
as
this
great
thinker
and
speaker,
but
also
as
someone
who
quite
simply
I
think,
was
sit
in
a
room
and
look
at
a
person
and
see
deep
and
overwhelming
value,
regardless
of
who
you
were
and
regardless
of
where
you
from
and
want
for
you
what
I
think
we
would
all
want
at
our
most
sincere
level
for
the
people
we
love
and
I.
Don't
think
that's
a
super
complex
thing
to
embody.
J
I
just
think
it's
a
hard
thing
to
embody
regularly
and
especially
when
it's
inconvenient,
and
especially
when
it
costs
you
something
and
so
I.
Think
as
we
listen
to
the
life
of
dr.
Carl's,
we
find
that
not
only
is
it
a
work
of
great
effort
and
great
will,
but
it
has
always
been
a
work
of
sacrifice
and
a
slow
and
a
diligent
trudge
toward
justice
and
toward
truth
and
toward
love
and
I.
Thank
you
for
your
time
and
I,
especially
thank
you,
dr.
Carlos
and
those
who
gave
me
an
opportunity
to
speak.