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where he had been for pregnant

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tomorrow

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now if you see

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people are also

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there was much people do that

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or trying to break into college washington

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toes are cold

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it's like a here

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checking for me like this

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it has resume

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what we learned

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now that i usually

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yeah that's right never hide

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was the one

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what's the temperature of the rockets

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continuing professional while i'm company

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november so

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last year we want to show off

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sort of training

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everybody play champion

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network whatever

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for next

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making the modules

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other artists with no my head off

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to fix this character

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we are still here

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this right here thanks to little oil

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exporters

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i'm a first year

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finding other means without

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endless possibility which one is it allergies

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what a wonderful number

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anything either

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thank you so much

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what's the lifestyle

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watching there's also stuff

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about switching

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two possibilites

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but i would leave

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moaning for laughs

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so somebody who is necessary

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good evening everybody

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it is with such a great honor

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that i stand before you for this

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program the art of racial healing this

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program is a moment where we gather

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to reflect and to reimagine a renew

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our commitment to the enduring work of

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justice equity and belonging especially at a

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time like this so this

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and stands as a powerful intersection of

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doctor martin luther king's legacy in the

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spirit of racial healing day our chancellors

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twenty twenty five year of the arts

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initiative and together these masterful themes remind

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us that healing and progress required not

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only are into

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correct but also our creativity our courage

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and our collective imagination dr king's legacy

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often circles back to his iconic i

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have a dream speech and while those

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words have inspired generations his dream and

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his vision was never meant to remain

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static which is why we focus on

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king's legacy beyond the dream it was

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not a destination but it was a

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call to action a vision of what

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could be and today as we gather

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it's so very important to ask ourselves

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what does the dream mean for our

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present time

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how do we reimagine the dream in

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a world that still wrestles with inequality

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division and pain and to answer these

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questions we have the privilege to turn

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to the art says both a mirror

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and as a campus throughout the civil

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rights movement the arts were an incredibly

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a powerful accompaniment to the struggle between

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freedom and deliverance and offered a gift

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of fulfillment transformation and empowerment the arts

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was the very heartbeat of the struggle

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fueling the ability to transport us to

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a better place through the source

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in lyrics of freedom songs which you

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will hear this evening the bowl strokes

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of protest arts and the transformative power

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of performance artists gave voice to the

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voiceless and hope to the weary the

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arts inspired action bridge divides and stirred

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the collective soul toward

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words change they reminded us and still

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remind us that even in our darkest

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hour beauty aesthetics creativity and the likes

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illuminate our path forward dr king himself

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oversaw overstep the power of the arts

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he once said almost always

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the creative dedicated minority has made the

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world better the creative spirit he spoke

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of lives within each of us even

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if you feel like you are not

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creative and it is through our imagination

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and our courage that we bring the

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dream closer to a reality so tonight

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as we

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honor dr king's activision and the role

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of the arts in advancing social justice

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let us commit to using our creative

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gifts whatever they may be to heal

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the wounds of the past and the

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present to inspire the change we seek

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into envision a future where judge

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justice blows like a mighty river and

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righteousness like a never ending stream let

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us remember that the dream is not

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just an idea it is living breathing

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and a call to action that it

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bites each of us to reimagine to

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create and to heal with inter

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tension off intensity and audacity building bridges

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where divides exist and fostering hope where

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it is most needed so thank you

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to each of you for being a

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part of this program and whatever parts

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you play as a listener or a

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performer together we are called to make

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the world's a better place by healing

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it but i have a favor to

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ask of each of you tonight

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while i have a captive audience please

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take your phone now

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go to your calendar and mark february

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at five p m

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shameless plug for africana studies

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we will be hosting the ida b

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wells bar in that lecture in partnership

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with i with africana studies during that

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lecture we will listen to a powerful

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activist who will help to lead us

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towards a more inclusive and equitable opportunity

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to make the world a better place

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thank you

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so we are going to skip the

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formality just because the room is is

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empty and familiar with family we have

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four performers tonight who have prepared something

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that is close to their heart and

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reflection

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to racial healing that reflects the legacy

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of dr king of our first segment

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will take us through a storytelling journey

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with music so we want to welcome

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to the stage kevin horns

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or kevin woods

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hello everybody

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um the two songs that are selected

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to play do some research and arm

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the first one is sam cooke long

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time coming i know change is gonna

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come it's pretty cool to see that

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even though martin luther king was a

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civil rights leader he actually ruffled feathers

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with artists and musicians

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and sam cooke was actually one of

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his good friends and when the this

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one this is when it shows that

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he ached when he was going through

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what he was going through with all

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of his justice and trying to fight

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so it's the first one and then

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the second song is precious lord take

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my hand which is a him that

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his

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friend mahalia jackson actually sung during what

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he was doing some preaching and they

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would actually would actually call her to

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come think it as he preached so

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most people might not know but he

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was a preacher as well so those

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who saw are selected

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also you can you can see the

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words on a screen to submission

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ah

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ah ah

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nah

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huh

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a

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a

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a

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ah

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a

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ah ah

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ah nah nah

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ah

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ah

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ah

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ah

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ah

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baby

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ah

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ah

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baby

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ah

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a

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a

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a

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nah

331
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thank you

332
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mean

333
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everything

334
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speakers

335
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so

336
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three

337
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what

338
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so i'll put together

339
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those lists hope it just

340
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see jimmy carter

341
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and see

342
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promising next to donald trump

343
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i just remove it

344
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obama looked like a free man given

345
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his house to the bounty hunting effort

346
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dawson a former slave owner that put

347
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us all plantations is trying to convince

348
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us that this is as american as

349
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apple pie as if we didn't get

350
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a slice of it at the dinner

351
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table

352
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with jim crow uncle sam uncle tom

353
00:27:16.320 --> 00:27:18.047
given us the trade ball verdict we

354
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hurt we are scott in america was

355
00:27:20.452 --> 00:27:22.500
this a couple of oscars well also

356
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no makeup you know grin a bit

357
00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.300
maybe put up a fist the solace

358
00:27:27.750 --> 00:27:29.250
would have been so many vyas of

359
00:27:29.250 --> 00:27:31.080
the unheard we've been attend up the

360
00:27:31.110 --> 00:27:32.040
bottom of the speaker

361
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make a law noise brick la la

362
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la sillas stonewall la forth the grail

363
00:27:37.230 --> 00:27:39.600
break breaking because we've been kinda america

364
00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:41.640
una eagle is back for too long

365
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it's home what's more patriotic than debt

366
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to love a country that keeps on

367
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remind you did h

368
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i mean the electoral college looked like

369
00:27:52.260 --> 00:27:54.840
the red carpet for the kkk so

370
00:27:54.840 --> 00:27:56.340
we've been cut a rug do a

371
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one two step until we leave footprints

372
00:27:58.350 --> 00:27:59.670
of the giant because they try to

373
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burp in nature we all bought the

374
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english player pairs the rage children to

375
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the new data co

376
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i know

377
00:28:09.210 --> 00:28:11.400
it won't come from me ask me

378
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:13.560
to say sorry when i've been too

379
00:28:13.590 --> 00:28:15.900
unapologetic lately because i have too much

380
00:28:16.170 --> 00:28:17.880
for my culture too much faith from

381
00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:19.920
our people it's much faith in a

382
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.240
new day to come and i'll tell

383
00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:21.840
you something

384
00:28:22.890 --> 00:28:25.619
i have been working too hard on

385
00:28:25.619 --> 00:28:28.020
my name to let it be a

386
00:28:28.020 --> 00:28:29.400
hashtag in the morning

387
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:33.030
i'm grateful every morning i don't wake

388
00:28:33.030 --> 00:28:35.790
up a hashtag or tryna top of

389
00:28:35.790 --> 00:28:38.400
the tragedy a black and brown body

390
00:28:38.430 --> 00:28:41.370
outline and white rib low watering concrete

391
00:28:41.550 --> 00:28:43.920
because it's chaise the blue white labs

392
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:45.795
the final how black lives matter ma

393
00:28:45.795 --> 00:28:48.630
god there's a war on colors every

394
00:28:48.630 --> 00:28:50.580
since we've been coloring in coloring books

395
00:28:50.760 --> 00:28:52.560
they've been booking colors and books of

396
00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:54.330
a bitch ways you should be worried

397
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.050
because even those survives gears that they

398
00:28:58.050 --> 00:29:00.720
like the basic grey boxes with no

399
00:29:00.750 --> 00:29:03.120
windows when they come out you can

400
00:29:03.120 --> 00:29:04.980
be only see the soles of the

401
00:29:04.982 --> 00:29:07.170
windows they looked loss

402
00:29:08.430 --> 00:29:11.370
i have lost myself in tears fell

403
00:29:11.370 --> 00:29:14.220
myself here crying because i haven't yet

404
00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:17.670
greed the retriever he looks so much

405
00:29:17.670 --> 00:29:20.160
like me when i saw her i

406
00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:21.150
thought i died

407
00:29:22.560 --> 00:29:25.260
became a hashtag in the morning a

408
00:29:25.260 --> 00:29:27.660
tryna top of the tragedy of black

409
00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:30.270
and brown body outline and white red

410
00:29:30.270 --> 00:29:32.969
blood watering concrete because it shades of

411
00:29:32.969 --> 00:29:35.310
blue white laws of finance black lives

412
00:29:35.340 --> 00:29:38.280
matter my god let's raise sons like

413
00:29:38.280 --> 00:29:40.320
money too many sons and one too

414
00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:42.232
many races into some lesser reasons

415
00:29:42.330 --> 00:29:43.590
the one in twenty sends me more

416
00:29:43.590 --> 00:29:46.322
to my gut please let me be

417
00:29:46.322 --> 00:29:47.580
the astec in the morning

418
00:29:49.530 --> 00:29:54.960
america treats the negro as if they

419
00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:57.060
will be negoti in the heaven's gate

420
00:29:57.060 --> 00:29:58.020
for entrance

421
00:29:59.280 --> 00:30:01.740
as if we're not the blessing as

422
00:30:01.800 --> 00:30:04.050
if you could sneeze your whole life

423
00:30:04.260 --> 00:30:06.390
and wouldn't be as blessed as us

424
00:30:07.020 --> 00:30:07.470
shea

425
00:30:16.505 --> 00:30:18.259
yes so much of a theatre crap

426
00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:19.145
but yucky clap

427
00:30:26.008 --> 00:30:27.935
approach is heavy i get it

428
00:30:29.075 --> 00:30:29.705
stay

429
00:30:31.385 --> 00:30:34.175
up chai i'm trying is this the

430
00:30:34.175 --> 00:30:35.435
the air's thick

431
00:30:36.611 --> 00:30:37.415
choking

432
00:30:39.455 --> 00:30:40.625
i think about um

433
00:30:43.565 --> 00:30:45.185
i don't have a great relationship with

434
00:30:45.185 --> 00:30:47.855
new jersey i think about so many

435
00:30:47.885 --> 00:30:49.745
incidents that happen when i'm in new

436
00:30:49.745 --> 00:30:53.855
jersey so i invest so much time

437
00:30:53.855 --> 00:30:55.865
when i'm here to make good memories

438
00:30:56.075 --> 00:30:57.455
and be intentional about it

439
00:30:58.835 --> 00:31:00.695
the next poem i'm going to do

440
00:31:00.755 --> 00:31:04.325
is ah is ah talking about someone

441
00:31:04.325 --> 00:31:05.825
i dated from new jersey

442
00:31:07.295 --> 00:31:07.895
and um

443
00:31:12.665 --> 00:31:15.125
i really enjoyed everything about it set

444
00:31:15.125 --> 00:31:16.145
the fact that she was from new

445
00:31:16.145 --> 00:31:16.625
jersey

446
00:31:19.325 --> 00:31:20.105
i hope i don't

447
00:31:25.535 --> 00:31:26.045
wow

448
00:31:32.405 --> 00:31:34.025
she lived in south philly

449
00:31:35.765 --> 00:31:37.325
but she was from new jersey but

450
00:31:37.325 --> 00:31:39.335
she represented south philly like she was

451
00:31:39.335 --> 00:31:41.645
born and raised there and she looked

452
00:31:41.645 --> 00:31:45.275
like a collage of my favourite because

453
00:31:45.275 --> 00:31:46.955
she was everything i like to set

454
00:31:46.955 --> 00:31:48.545
the fact that she was from jersey

455
00:31:49.955 --> 00:31:53.255
i remember walking to her car we

456
00:31:53.255 --> 00:31:56.465
was walking together like we had nowhere

457
00:31:56.465 --> 00:31:58.985
to go and all the time we

458
00:31:58.985 --> 00:32:01.925
need it i mean we had dreams

459
00:32:01.955 --> 00:32:03.695
that money could brought by

460
00:32:05.105 --> 00:32:08.015
but we had aspirations that we can

461
00:32:08.075 --> 00:32:10.805
only imagine of a better world that

462
00:32:10.805 --> 00:32:12.605
we held in our hand as we

463
00:32:12.605 --> 00:32:14.135
held each other closer

464
00:32:15.395 --> 00:32:16.775
as we walk like we was going

465
00:32:16.805 --> 00:32:18.815
nowhere but how to get this so

466
00:32:19.025 --> 00:32:21.005
as we arrived to her car in

467
00:32:21.005 --> 00:32:22.805
the backseat of a car in the

468
00:32:22.827 --> 00:32:25.175
back seat of ohana core i wanted

469
00:32:25.175 --> 00:32:26.915
to place my head up against her

470
00:32:26.915 --> 00:32:29.165
heartbeat so i could say i was

471
00:32:29.165 --> 00:32:32.795
making poems to love love her until

472
00:32:32.795 --> 00:32:35.435
her in the morning come dinner

473
00:32:35.525 --> 00:32:36.185
morning came

474
00:32:39.695 --> 00:32:40.115
morning

475
00:32:41.495 --> 00:32:45.755
sovereigns outside of the car they told

476
00:32:45.755 --> 00:32:48.065
us to step outside of the car

477
00:32:48.425 --> 00:32:49.865
we were outside

478
00:32:52.325 --> 00:32:55.625
of the car handcuffed looking at each

479
00:32:55.625 --> 00:32:57.575
other from the top of her car

480
00:32:57.755 --> 00:33:01.145
ruta having member her suppressing reflecting the

481
00:33:01.145 --> 00:33:04.805
same mines marrying that we wanted to

482
00:33:04.805 --> 00:33:05.615
do something

483
00:33:07.025 --> 00:33:08.315
the stop this moment

484
00:33:09.905 --> 00:33:12.455
because we recognize that black joy is

485
00:33:12.455 --> 00:33:14.495
a battle cry and they felt as

486
00:33:14.555 --> 00:33:16.355
though that was at war and this

487
00:33:16.355 --> 00:33:17.225
is how they fight

488
00:33:18.995 --> 00:33:20.375
both of us handcuff

489
00:33:22.415 --> 00:33:24.365
china get out of this moment

490
00:33:29.105 --> 00:33:30.935
the best part of the story

491
00:33:32.345 --> 00:33:33.365
it's no one died

492
00:33:35.465 --> 00:33:36.425
we went home

493
00:33:38.075 --> 00:33:40.715
unable to look at a sunrise again

494
00:33:40.715 --> 00:33:41.765
without mourning

495
00:33:43.115 --> 00:33:44.045
because of that night

496
00:33:45.365 --> 00:33:45.755
thank you

497
00:33:47.585 --> 00:33:51.455
ah

498
00:33:56.345 --> 00:33:57.755
i have one more poem for ya

499
00:33:59.705 --> 00:34:03.395
is ah invested in resiliency

500
00:34:05.975 --> 00:34:07.265
so much of um

501
00:34:10.205 --> 00:34:11.855
so much that come out of just

502
00:34:11.855 --> 00:34:13.025
like creativity

503
00:34:14.375 --> 00:34:16.805
is the imagination that we can act

504
00:34:16.805 --> 00:34:18.785
on something that we see better that

505
00:34:18.785 --> 00:34:20.705
we can receive better and we we

506
00:34:20.705 --> 00:34:21.575
can do better

507
00:34:22.835 --> 00:34:24.905
and in philly where i'm from i

508
00:34:24.905 --> 00:34:26.885
see that so much with the urban

509
00:34:26.885 --> 00:34:30.425
farmers that would take an empty building

510
00:34:30.545 --> 00:34:33.095
parking lot and make it full for

511
00:34:33.095 --> 00:34:36.365
the whole block and that resiliency the

512
00:34:36.365 --> 00:34:39.905
see nothing going on and make something

513
00:34:40.595 --> 00:34:42.425
is something that i'm so invested in

514
00:34:42.455 --> 00:34:42.935
moments

515
00:34:42.995 --> 00:34:45.005
like this with an airfield so thick

516
00:34:45.845 --> 00:34:47.195
and i'm trying to make light of

517
00:34:47.255 --> 00:34:48.425
everything else

518
00:34:50.195 --> 00:34:51.785
this poem was called flowers

519
00:35:03.245 --> 00:35:05.195
and flowers the blackest thing ever

520
00:35:06.575 --> 00:35:07.955
how they put dirt on us and

521
00:35:07.955 --> 00:35:10.565
we still grow droughts and water and

522
00:35:10.565 --> 00:35:12.785
we survive planet and everything that keeps

523
00:35:12.785 --> 00:35:14.885
his ground they'd be shooting solar rays

524
00:35:14.885 --> 00:35:17.195
at us hoping that we would not

525
00:35:17.195 --> 00:35:19.355
no one no melanin be photosynthesis the

526
00:35:19.355 --> 00:35:22.115
sub be our best friend and flowers

527
00:35:22.355 --> 00:35:23.945
the blackest thing ever

528
00:35:24.515 --> 00:35:26.615
how they put dirt illness and we

529
00:35:26.615 --> 00:35:29.465
still grow drowns and water and we

530
00:35:29.465 --> 00:35:32.015
survive planet and everything that keeps his

531
00:35:32.015 --> 00:35:34.295
grand baby shoe solar rays at us

532
00:35:34.535 --> 00:35:37.205
open that we would not no one

533
00:35:37.205 --> 00:35:39.725
no melanin be photosynthesis the sub be

534
00:35:39.755 --> 00:35:43.175
our best friend ain't flowers the blackest

535
00:35:43.175 --> 00:35:43.895
thing ever

536
00:35:44.495 --> 00:35:45.065
ah shea

537
00:35:46.475 --> 00:35:47.825
um that's my time

538
00:35:49.595 --> 00:35:57.125
ah um

539
00:35:58.355 --> 00:36:00.155
whistler has some better wears to say

540
00:36:00.515 --> 00:36:03.275
i just have my feelings i have

541
00:36:03.875 --> 00:36:09.995
hugs panels handshakes and reminder that in

542
00:36:09.995 --> 00:36:12.335
our history this is not a suppleness

543
00:36:13.295 --> 00:36:14.675
this is not the first time

544
00:36:16.865 --> 00:36:17.195
but

545
00:36:18.785 --> 00:36:19.595
doesn't mean that

546
00:36:22.685 --> 00:36:24.005
we have to fight through everything

547
00:36:27.275 --> 00:36:28.925
so if you need a cry in

548
00:36:28.925 --> 00:36:29.675
your laugh

549
00:36:30.785 --> 00:36:31.655
you need some joy

550
00:36:34.355 --> 00:36:35.795
guy is a riot and that's a

551
00:36:35.795 --> 00:36:38.075
protest right now thank you

552
00:36:39.515 --> 00:36:43.265
ah

553
00:36:45.215 --> 00:36:45.575
oh man

554
00:36:50.195 --> 00:36:50.735
clean up

555
00:36:53.138 --> 00:36:53.325
oh

556
00:36:55.625 --> 00:36:56.435
the room is for

557
00:37:05.765 --> 00:37:08.381
can we give nothing rather the classroom

558
00:37:08.381 --> 00:37:09.035
her brother

559
00:37:12.185 --> 00:37:13.085
poetry

560
00:37:15.065 --> 00:37:17.585
and i can definitely understand the

561
00:37:19.085 --> 00:37:21.965
atmosphere being thick is a lot gone

562
00:37:21.965 --> 00:37:25.805
on this week everybody has different emotions

563
00:37:25.805 --> 00:37:26.405
and

564
00:37:28.205 --> 00:37:30.335
it's an interesting time to be alive

565
00:37:30.665 --> 00:37:34.325
in the united states of american um

566
00:37:35.225 --> 00:37:37.055
ma'am glad to be here in my

567
00:37:37.055 --> 00:37:40.505
right mind and before you and my

568
00:37:40.505 --> 00:37:44.015
home record university which i am an

569
00:37:44.015 --> 00:37:45.995
alumni in so i'm really happy to

570
00:37:45.995 --> 00:37:47.705
be back i'm going to be able

571
00:37:47.705 --> 00:37:47.765
to

572
00:37:47.765 --> 00:37:51.905
share my gifts with you all and

573
00:37:51.905 --> 00:37:55.355
so really honored for the opportunity to

574
00:37:55.355 --> 00:38:00.635
be here um to honor the legacy

575
00:38:00.635 --> 00:38:04.265
of dr martin luther king and again

576
00:38:04.265 --> 00:38:05.495
my name is luann nichols i don't

577
00:38:05.495 --> 00:38:07.325
know if i said that i am

578
00:38:07.325 --> 00:38:07.925
an inspiration

579
00:38:07.925 --> 00:38:10.925
anal finger and so everything i sing

580
00:38:10.925 --> 00:38:14.465
about is about uplifting it's about dealing

581
00:38:14.465 --> 00:38:16.895
with um issues in knowing that you

582
00:38:16.895 --> 00:38:21.185
can overcome those issues those problems those

583
00:38:21.185 --> 00:38:24.545
situations and so again honored to be

584
00:38:24.545 --> 00:38:27.485
here and so when i saw that

585
00:38:27.485 --> 00:38:28.085
i would be

586
00:38:28.625 --> 00:38:34.325
singing on reflecting on the struggles of

587
00:38:34.355 --> 00:38:36.815
healing and unity a song that i

588
00:38:36.815 --> 00:38:38.975
wrote um came to mind and it's

589
00:38:38.975 --> 00:38:44.195
called uncaged um in it's talking about

590
00:38:46.055 --> 00:38:50.255
finally finding your voice finally understanding that

591
00:38:50.255 --> 00:38:52.355
you don't have to stay in the

592
00:38:52.355 --> 00:38:55.355
situation that you are you can be

593
00:38:55.355 --> 00:38:58.235
free you can fly you can sewer

594
00:38:58.535 --> 00:39:00.035
and so i thought this song was

595
00:39:00.035 --> 00:39:04.715
really um ah the good representation of

596
00:39:04.715 --> 00:39:05.525
resiliency

597
00:39:05.525 --> 00:39:08.885
e despite what we might see or

598
00:39:08.885 --> 00:39:12.515
feel we can live uncaged we can

599
00:39:12.515 --> 00:39:15.545
be free we can be resilient it

600
00:39:15.545 --> 00:39:18.785
is number one on that usb

601
00:39:24.365 --> 00:39:26.135
number one when that usb

602
00:39:29.195 --> 00:39:31.145
it should be right in that computer

603
00:39:44.585 --> 00:39:45.065
to me

604
00:40:03.995 --> 00:40:06.245
ah

605
00:40:06.245 --> 00:40:18.365
up in the depths of darkness i

606
00:40:18.365 --> 00:40:23.405
was residing trapped in a nerf so

607
00:40:23.435 --> 00:40:24.875
duh

608
00:40:26.685 --> 00:40:31.005
oh i raz with st ah found

609
00:40:31.245 --> 00:40:34.785
breaking free from the cage ah ha

610
00:40:34.785 --> 00:40:35.925
see

611
00:40:37.095 --> 00:40:42.105
no long simon i reclaim my voice

612
00:40:42.405 --> 00:40:43.935
through the paid-in

613
00:40:45.285 --> 00:40:49.845
i've made my choice to ride bobby

614
00:40:50.145 --> 00:40:54.615
ashes two and brace na k

615
00:40:58.185 --> 00:41:03.675
sha na the silent march rua da

616
00:41:05.055 --> 00:41:08.985
da da power

617
00:41:10.485 --> 00:41:11.295
cage

618
00:41:13.455 --> 00:41:17.715
oh

619
00:41:26.565 --> 00:41:32.025
my scars and wounds burn hotter you

620
00:41:32.265 --> 00:41:35.685
re bow my boys my

621
00:41:37.695 --> 00:41:42.795
each step i take i reclaim mastery

622
00:41:43.305 --> 00:41:50.205
with god i shy shy ah nah

623
00:41:50.295 --> 00:41:54.615
stop it i reclaim my pores through

624
00:41:54.615 --> 00:41:55.845
the paid-in

625
00:41:57.165 --> 00:42:01.845
i made my choice to raza bobby

626
00:42:01.845 --> 00:42:05.055
ashes two and grey sky

627
00:42:08.205 --> 00:42:16.245
ma se na sa ma tra da

628
00:42:16.455 --> 00:42:20.445
from da fuck power

629
00:42:22.005 --> 00:42:23.295
oh age

630
00:42:24.465 --> 00:42:33.495
a bow battles asphalt also removed with

631
00:42:33.555 --> 00:42:36.345
god or masada king

632
00:42:38.625 --> 00:42:39.558
wherever

633
00:42:40.065 --> 00:42:43.425
nah hard liquor

634
00:42:44.205 --> 00:42:46.725
i will never be silent

635
00:42:47.745 --> 00:42:50.625
a no

636
00:42:50.625 --> 00:42:54.855
i love science i reclaim my boys

637
00:42:55.215 --> 00:42:59.115
to the pain and struggles made a

638
00:42:59.115 --> 00:43:01.995
match always to lie

639
00:43:02.205 --> 00:43:07.423
bobby ashes two and boys ah

640
00:43:12.375 --> 00:43:16.575
se na the sky much

641
00:43:17.745 --> 00:43:20.565
a horrible da

642
00:43:22.215 --> 00:43:23.615
i found my power

643
00:43:26.145 --> 00:43:28.515
a duh

644
00:43:33.405 --> 00:43:35.265
i spread my bench

645
00:43:38.025 --> 00:43:45.165
much huh from da i found my

646
00:43:45.165 --> 00:43:45.945
paw

647
00:43:47.835 --> 00:43:54.345
ah

648
00:43:55.785 --> 00:44:01.065
ah whew we are free you are

649
00:44:01.065 --> 00:44:03.285
free

650
00:44:04.305 --> 00:44:04.935
whoa

651
00:44:12.975 --> 00:44:13.695
thank you

652
00:44:16.725 --> 00:44:19.605
and we are free we are free

653
00:44:19.635 --> 00:44:23.115
to be happy free to embrace the

654
00:44:23.115 --> 00:44:24.795
good things that are happening in our

655
00:44:24.795 --> 00:44:27.945
lives despite some of the doom and

656
00:44:27.945 --> 00:44:30.705
gloom and so this next song is

657
00:44:30.705 --> 00:44:33.405
one of my favorite songs to sing

658
00:44:33.435 --> 00:44:35.025
is an odi

659
00:44:35.175 --> 00:44:37.305
but a goodie and i thought that

660
00:44:37.395 --> 00:44:39.165
when i actually was looking up martin

661
00:44:39.165 --> 00:44:41.385
luther king and celebrations and songs the

662
00:44:41.385 --> 00:44:44.685
same this long kept popping up and

663
00:44:44.685 --> 00:44:48.465
so it's called optimistic it is a

664
00:44:48.465 --> 00:44:50.265
bop is the jam and so if

665
00:44:50.265 --> 00:44:52.575
you know it's you can't get on

666
00:44:52.575 --> 00:44:54.225
your feet you can clap you can

667
00:44:54.225 --> 00:44:55.155
sing if you know

668
00:44:55.226 --> 00:44:56.655
words you can sing it with me

669
00:44:56.715 --> 00:44:58.095
if not you could just you know

670
00:44:58.125 --> 00:45:00.075
just vibe about let's have a good

671
00:45:00.075 --> 00:45:02.265
time because there's something to be celebrated

672
00:45:02.715 --> 00:45:05.565
we have a lot to celebrate and

673
00:45:05.835 --> 00:45:08.355
we want to remind ourselves to always

674
00:45:08.355 --> 00:45:11.175
be looking up always be moving forward

675
00:45:11.175 --> 00:45:13.245
no matter what we see no matter

676
00:45:13.245 --> 00:45:15.315
what is going on number two

677
00:45:26.385 --> 00:45:27.645
yay

678
00:45:30.885 --> 00:45:32.175
if that can go up anymore

679
00:45:44.625 --> 00:45:48.345
when in the midst of so ho

680
00:45:49.245 --> 00:45:52.305
you can't look good we move okay

681
00:45:52.365 --> 00:45:52.820
dad

682
00:45:54.285 --> 00:46:00.645
radha day to marble whoopi ah

683
00:46:03.075 --> 00:46:06.645
yeah boys oh riza

684
00:46:07.695 --> 00:46:10.665
tillman yeah yeah okay grew

685
00:46:12.315 --> 00:46:17.505
no matter how hobby lady she adjusts

686
00:46:18.225 --> 00:46:22.575
to your tree yay

687
00:46:27.765 --> 00:46:32.235
gee ya head to the sky yeah

688
00:46:32.955 --> 00:46:33.651
you could

689
00:46:34.875 --> 00:46:39.015
ah natsuki

690
00:46:41.655 --> 00:46:43.095
bafta mystic

691
00:46:44.145 --> 00:46:45.855
a

692
00:46:47.025 --> 00:46:50.005
a to the sky

693
00:46:54.050 --> 00:46:56.415
things around you cool huh

694
00:46:56.895 --> 00:47:01.005
oh see you don't have to stumble

695
00:47:01.005 --> 00:47:05.325
that foe keep pushing on it don't

696
00:47:05.325 --> 00:47:05.475
you

697
00:47:06.735 --> 00:47:10.035
ah

698
00:47:11.985 --> 00:47:15.542
i know the stones in straw haha

699
00:47:15.555 --> 00:47:19.335
use cloud up yeah oh look over

700
00:47:21.315 --> 00:47:22.185
k pishin

701
00:47:23.355 --> 00:47:27.975
you can spy to reach high and

702
00:47:28.815 --> 00:47:33.075
ah

703
00:47:35.865 --> 00:47:38.055
that's some fish sticks

704
00:47:39.105 --> 00:47:39.525
huh

705
00:47:44.835 --> 00:47:49.425
miss educa your hair to the sky

706
00:47:49.425 --> 00:47:50.505
huh

707
00:47:51.165 --> 00:47:51.945
you can

708
00:47:53.156 --> 00:47:58.365
yeah this mob educate me

709
00:47:59.895 --> 00:48:02.655
ah you can away

710
00:48:05.055 --> 00:48:09.105
just can't go to the sky and

711
00:48:09.105 --> 00:48:10.665
be optimistic

712
00:48:11.865 --> 00:48:14.235
some times it can't

713
00:48:15.345 --> 00:48:15.825
huh

714
00:48:17.265 --> 00:48:17.805
okay

715
00:48:19.725 --> 00:48:22.215
sqa

716
00:48:23.715 --> 00:48:27.345
as u k e let me hear

717
00:48:27.345 --> 00:48:27.975
your singing

718
00:48:29.055 --> 00:48:29.715
you can

719
00:48:30.975 --> 00:48:35.265
as educate your hair to the sky

720
00:48:35.265 --> 00:48:36.525
huh

721
00:48:37.215 --> 00:48:38.385
you can win

722
00:48:40.095 --> 00:48:40.485
nah

723
00:48:43.845 --> 00:48:48.855
hey be optimistic that's where the summer

724
00:48:48.855 --> 00:48:51.465
bow ahead up

725
00:48:52.545 --> 00:48:56.325
tap your head huh hey you can't

726
00:48:56.325 --> 00:48:57.075
win

727
00:48:58.425 --> 00:49:02.175
as ramesh k your head to the

728
00:49:02.175 --> 00:49:05.265
sky high

729
00:49:07.305 --> 00:49:08.565
thank you thank you

730
00:49:53.475 --> 00:49:57.465
i am a professional photographer educator item

731
00:49:57.465 --> 00:50:00.765
just i've been connected here with what

732
00:50:00.765 --> 00:50:02.985
cause university over the past fifteen years

733
00:50:03.345 --> 00:50:05.905
speaking of which shout out to tease

734
00:50:05.905 --> 00:50:08.377
some old old dice department everybody he

735
00:50:08.377 --> 00:50:09.165
had writers

736
00:50:12.315 --> 00:50:13.725
all of you guys do an amazing

737
00:50:13.725 --> 00:50:14.955
job really

738
00:50:15.555 --> 00:50:17.685
um i'm honored to be here before

739
00:50:17.685 --> 00:50:19.425
you can see us with my photography

740
00:50:19.875 --> 00:50:22.005
despite thirty fifth year as a professional

741
00:50:22.005 --> 00:50:24.705
photographer and educator that would shift some

742
00:50:24.705 --> 00:50:25.965
of the images that i've made over

743
00:50:25.965 --> 00:50:27.105
the years to give you a little

744
00:50:27.135 --> 00:50:30.165
back story on those images of if

745
00:50:30.165 --> 00:50:32.175
i had to boil down my subject

746
00:50:32.175 --> 00:50:34.995
matter of my photography into three different

747
00:50:34.995 --> 00:50:35.265
ta

748
00:50:35.995 --> 00:50:38.485
it would be race racism and racial

749
00:50:38.485 --> 00:50:41.125
reconciliation i dealt with race as a

750
00:50:41.125 --> 00:50:43.525
people is a construct but it's something

751
00:50:43.525 --> 00:50:45.055
that we deal with right so it's

752
00:50:45.085 --> 00:50:46.495
obvious that we have to deal with

753
00:50:46.495 --> 00:50:49.105
it as people of color racism is

754
00:50:49.105 --> 00:50:50.755
what i dealt with whether it's with

755
00:50:50.755 --> 00:50:54.535
education on my anti-racism educator are going

756
00:50:54.535 --> 00:50:56.035
to schools that i help teacher

757
00:50:56.035 --> 00:50:58.495
his teach in a more responsive way

758
00:50:58.675 --> 00:51:01.645
that's more reflective today's students and also

759
00:51:01.675 --> 00:51:03.415
bring that into my artwork as well

760
00:51:03.775 --> 00:51:06.925
and then reconciliation as a christian beer

761
00:51:06.985 --> 00:51:10.195
lead to be to bring reconciliation to

762
00:51:10.195 --> 00:51:12.475
all people and i try to do

763
00:51:12.475 --> 00:51:14.695
that to my photography as well so

764
00:51:14.695 --> 00:51:16.195
i'm gonna share some of my images

765
00:51:17.875 --> 00:51:19.705
um can we turn the lights down

766
00:51:19.705 --> 00:51:21.775
just a little bit thank you

767
00:51:25.375 --> 00:51:27.685
or even the front lights towards yeah

768
00:51:28.045 --> 00:51:30.715
whatever it's more convenient so this image

769
00:51:30.715 --> 00:51:32.695
is called living nightmare and created this

770
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:35.394
last year it's a self-portrait and it

771
00:51:35.394 --> 00:51:39.445
was inspired by a book entitled post-traumatic

772
00:51:39.505 --> 00:51:40.405
slave

773
00:51:43.675 --> 00:51:46.585
post-traumatic um safe slave disorder story about

774
00:51:46.585 --> 00:51:48.955
that and in that in that book

775
00:51:48.985 --> 00:51:52.195
it talks about the ramifications of slavery

776
00:51:52.675 --> 00:51:53.665
and a lot of times what we

777
00:51:53.665 --> 00:51:55.675
think about the ramifications of slavery we

778
00:51:55.675 --> 00:51:58.825
think about it only from a violent

779
00:51:58.885 --> 00:52:00.985
more physical point of view but it's

780
00:52:00.985 --> 00:52:01.705
a lot

781
00:52:01.825 --> 00:52:04.945
that deals with the psychological parts and

782
00:52:04.975 --> 00:52:06.715
in that what you see is a

783
00:52:06.715 --> 00:52:08.365
gentleman reaching out to a piece of

784
00:52:08.365 --> 00:52:11.455
kind but in that is the anger

785
00:52:11.485 --> 00:52:13.075
and anguish that you see in his

786
00:52:13.075 --> 00:52:15.925
face and we see that whether it's

787
00:52:15.925 --> 00:52:19.871
in many inner cities whether it's in

788
00:52:19.893 --> 00:52:21.595
many schools that we deal with

789
00:52:22.225 --> 00:52:24.775
workplace violence like there's a lot of

790
00:52:24.775 --> 00:52:26.485
things that like people deal with that

791
00:52:26.485 --> 00:52:28.915
stems back four hundred and nine years

792
00:52:28.945 --> 00:52:30.565
with the invent of slavery here in

793
00:52:30.565 --> 00:52:33.115
america so what that image is called

794
00:52:33.175 --> 00:52:34.555
living nightmare

795
00:52:37.015 --> 00:52:38.875
a few years ago i was commissioned

796
00:52:38.875 --> 00:52:42.145
by the camden county historical society to

797
00:52:42.145 --> 00:52:45.175
take the seventeen names of the enslaved

798
00:52:45.175 --> 00:52:47.845
africans that the cooper family owned and

799
00:52:47.845 --> 00:52:50.515
create images of those people a lot

800
00:52:50.515 --> 00:52:52.765
of times what we think about slavery

801
00:52:52.765 --> 00:52:54.655
we think about the deep south and

802
00:52:54.655 --> 00:52:55.735
not right here in camp

803
00:52:55.826 --> 00:52:59.004
new jersey so the cooper family cuba

804
00:52:59.004 --> 00:53:01.795
hospital cooper river that same family don't

805
00:53:01.795 --> 00:53:06.055
many indentured slaves and enslaved africans and

806
00:53:06.085 --> 00:53:08.785
i created these images mainly for people

807
00:53:08.815 --> 00:53:11.545
in camden and we photographed right here

808
00:53:11.575 --> 00:53:15.175
on the cooper plantation also known as

809
00:53:15.175 --> 00:53:15.955
pomona hall

810
00:53:20.185 --> 00:53:21.655
for a few years i grew up

811
00:53:21.715 --> 00:53:26.215
and those in alabama and my grandmother

812
00:53:26.245 --> 00:53:30.025
and my aunt were both domestic workers

813
00:53:30.235 --> 00:53:32.365
maids and

814
00:53:33.685 --> 00:53:35.485
at the age of five and six

815
00:53:35.515 --> 00:53:37.285
i knew there was something wrong with

816
00:53:37.285 --> 00:53:38.845
the way that they were being treated

817
00:53:39.445 --> 00:53:45.205
one time the doctor who hired my

818
00:53:45.235 --> 00:53:47.395
grandmother to work for home for

819
00:53:48.625 --> 00:53:51.985
it's interesting she made dinner and at

820
00:53:51.985 --> 00:53:53.545
the end of the mill she was

821
00:53:53.545 --> 00:53:56.515
cleaning off the tables and he told

822
00:53:56.515 --> 00:53:57.845
her i was sitting in the living

823
00:53:57.845 --> 00:53:59.725
room he told her to take all

824
00:53:59.725 --> 00:54:01.795
the scraps home and feed her family

825
00:54:01.795 --> 00:54:03.745
with it she wanted to keep a

826
00:54:03.745 --> 00:54:05.725
job and she was of a different

827
00:54:05.725 --> 00:54:08.755
generation so she packed ev

828
00:54:08.755 --> 00:54:10.855
everything up in a tupperware we went

829
00:54:10.855 --> 00:54:13.255
home and she walked me right into

830
00:54:13.255 --> 00:54:15.625
the kitchen she dumped all the food

831
00:54:15.625 --> 00:54:17.125
out into the garbage and she made

832
00:54:17.125 --> 00:54:19.075
me a home cooked meal so she

833
00:54:19.075 --> 00:54:21.175
taught me has different levels of protesting

834
00:54:22.045 --> 00:54:24.625
my generation we have more outwardly that

835
00:54:24.625 --> 00:54:28.825
generation they were more slow key

836
00:54:28.915 --> 00:54:31.645
they were more sophisticated with their protesting

837
00:54:31.945 --> 00:54:34.045
but in this image i created that

838
00:54:34.075 --> 00:54:39.115
and reminiscing of those experiences and in

839
00:54:39.115 --> 00:54:40.975
this image on the right-hand side you

840
00:54:40.975 --> 00:54:44.065
see a maid and a idee cleaning

841
00:54:44.065 --> 00:54:46.075
up the mess that i made man

842
00:54:46.075 --> 00:54:48.865
is making by tracking the dirt on

843
00:54:48.895 --> 00:54:49.075
amoy

844
00:54:49.075 --> 00:54:50.005
american flag

845
00:54:51.445 --> 00:54:52.915
both of these people doing what they

846
00:54:52.915 --> 00:54:54.805
think is best at the same time

847
00:54:55.045 --> 00:54:58.225
not acknowledging each other but still doing

848
00:54:58.225 --> 00:54:59.695
what they think is best to make

849
00:54:59.695 --> 00:55:02.575
this world better this country better the

850
00:55:02.575 --> 00:55:05.034
long shadow that you see represents the

851
00:55:05.034 --> 00:55:07.615
injustices that we've endured over the past

852
00:55:07.615 --> 00:55:08.785
four hundred years

853
00:55:11.845 --> 00:55:14.935
this image was inspired by linkedin hughes

854
00:55:14.935 --> 00:55:17.245
poem it's called i too cry for

855
00:55:17.245 --> 00:55:19.915
america the poem is called i to

856
00:55:19.915 --> 00:55:21.595
end the darker brother if you haven't

857
00:55:21.595 --> 00:55:23.995
read that it's a powerful poem in

858
00:55:24.009 --> 00:55:26.035
that we see a triptych three pitchers

859
00:55:26.035 --> 00:55:27.925
to tell one story where you see

860
00:55:27.955 --> 00:55:30.115
three people crying for 'em

861
00:55:30.115 --> 00:55:32.815
america they're being implied foldit which is

862
00:55:32.875 --> 00:55:35.965
now to justice be inclined to those

863
00:55:35.965 --> 00:55:40.045
people actually work for rutgers university here

864
00:55:40.465 --> 00:55:42.025
and that piece is actually in the

865
00:55:42.025 --> 00:55:43.975
chance of this office which i'm really

866
00:55:44.005 --> 00:55:47.335
honored because people going into his office

867
00:55:47.335 --> 00:55:49.075
and now this is a conversation piece

868
00:55:49.315 --> 00:55:50.275
but it also states

869
00:55:50.305 --> 00:55:53.275
his stance about racism and injustices

870
00:55:57.265 --> 00:56:00.145
these two photos i've never paired together

871
00:56:00.175 --> 00:56:02.843
over the past three decades that i've

872
00:56:02.843 --> 00:56:06.325
been exhibiting my work until today and

873
00:56:06.535 --> 00:56:08.815
you see these two photos on my

874
00:56:08.965 --> 00:56:11.635
book ends but the interesting thing about

875
00:56:11.635 --> 00:56:14.515
these two photos is they create now

876
00:56:14.515 --> 00:56:15.985
narratives that if you don't know the

877
00:56:16.015 --> 00:56:19.135
back story you could just think that

878
00:56:19.135 --> 00:56:20.815
you see a bunch of fists coming

879
00:56:20.815 --> 00:56:23.125
together or a bunch of people being

880
00:56:23.155 --> 00:56:25.165
arrested so with the image on the

881
00:56:25.195 --> 00:56:28.045
left is called african unity and for

882
00:56:28.045 --> 00:56:30.655
a while i taught african american history

883
00:56:30.655 --> 00:56:33.535
to a group of teenagers up in

884
00:56:33.535 --> 00:56:34.525
orange new jersey

885
00:56:34.675 --> 00:56:36.475
those teenagers went to an alternative high

886
00:56:36.475 --> 00:56:39.655
school they were people who were fighting

887
00:56:39.655 --> 00:56:41.815
principles and getting kicked out of every

888
00:56:41.815 --> 00:56:43.315
school in the district and things of

889
00:56:43.315 --> 00:56:43.975
that nature

890
00:56:45.205 --> 00:56:48.385
and teaching them that their african-american history

891
00:56:48.445 --> 00:56:50.005
i came up with the idea of

892
00:56:50.005 --> 00:56:53.305
being far above them together all supporting

893
00:56:53.305 --> 00:56:56.665
one common idea not competing against each

894
00:56:56.665 --> 00:56:59.245
other but really supporting each other the

895
00:56:59.245 --> 00:57:02.035
gentleman with his fist up high he

896
00:57:02.035 --> 00:57:04.885
was about six seven and his fifth

897
00:57:04.885 --> 00:57:05.155
was

898
00:57:05.155 --> 00:57:08.365
is about this big huge fist i

899
00:57:08.365 --> 00:57:09.925
told them his fist was the same

900
00:57:09.925 --> 00:57:12.269
size of his heart so i encouraged

901
00:57:12.269 --> 00:57:14.753
them as opposed to fighting uses heart

902
00:57:14.753 --> 00:57:18.295
to hill to bring together people and

903
00:57:18.355 --> 00:57:20.245
i've not talked to any of them

904
00:57:20.245 --> 00:57:22.555
since the past three decades but i

905
00:57:22.555 --> 00:57:24.655
really hope those words are still resonating

906
00:57:24.925 --> 00:57:25.285
in there

907
00:57:25.315 --> 00:57:29.725
hearts today compare contrast that to justice

908
00:57:29.965 --> 00:57:31.285
or just us

909
00:57:32.785 --> 00:57:36.685
we see three people who are handcuffed

910
00:57:36.985 --> 00:57:40.465
invaded by blue handcuffs to black people

911
00:57:40.495 --> 00:57:42.865
and one white person this pixel on

912
00:57:42.865 --> 00:57:46.855
the injustices of black people getting twice

913
00:57:46.975 --> 00:57:49.255
as much sentencing for many of the

914
00:57:49.255 --> 00:57:52.675
crimes compared to their white counterparts all

915
00:57:52.675 --> 00:57:54.865
all three of those students are rutgers

916
00:57:54.925 --> 00:57:56.605
where they were bucket students but very

917
00:57:56.605 --> 00:57:59.845
workers graduates right here in camden so

918
00:57:59.875 --> 00:58:02.545
if i didn't tell you the back

919
00:58:02.545 --> 00:58:05.575
stories you might think that the people

920
00:58:05.575 --> 00:58:07.435
on the left were more quote unquote

921
00:58:07.465 --> 00:58:10.135
positive that people are invites more negative

922
00:58:10.315 --> 00:58:12.475
was actually the opposite so what am

923
00:58:12.475 --> 00:58:12.835
i saying

924
00:58:12.835 --> 00:58:14.395
saying but my thing is never tell

925
00:58:14.395 --> 00:58:17.545
a book by it's cover always try

926
00:58:17.545 --> 00:58:20.005
not to judge people but learn their

927
00:58:20.005 --> 00:58:23.905
stories before you even think about casting

928
00:58:23.905 --> 00:58:27.475
judgment going forward and i know i've

929
00:58:27.475 --> 00:58:29.305
talked to king back in two thousand

930
00:58:29.305 --> 00:58:30.895
and six i created i am a

931
00:58:30.895 --> 00:58:32.995
man as most of us

932
00:58:32.995 --> 00:58:34.645
us should know by before he was

933
00:58:34.645 --> 00:58:38.005
assassinated he was supporting the sanitation workers

934
00:58:38.125 --> 00:58:42.085
in memphis tennessee they had huge placards

935
00:58:42.145 --> 00:58:44.725
just saying what should be obvious to

936
00:58:44.725 --> 00:58:46.315
everybody i am a man

937
00:58:47.605 --> 00:58:49.945
few days later he was assassinated his

938
00:58:49.945 --> 00:58:51.805
wife went on to carry on the

939
00:58:51.805 --> 00:58:54.895
march they got their rights life goes

940
00:58:54.895 --> 00:58:59.665
on but then last year two different

941
00:58:59.665 --> 00:59:02.335
females came to me as two separate

942
00:59:02.395 --> 00:59:05.485
occasions saying hey have you ever thought

943
00:59:05.485 --> 00:59:07.045
about doing i am a woman

944
00:59:07.555 --> 00:59:09.265
huh i never thought about it right

945
00:59:09.535 --> 00:59:12.925
so this young lady just graduated from

946
00:59:12.925 --> 00:59:16.105
workers with a master's degree in criminology

947
00:59:16.435 --> 00:59:19.345
and she was the model for i

948
00:59:19.345 --> 00:59:20.995
am a woman is really hard to

949
00:59:20.995 --> 00:59:22.585
tell from your distance but if you

950
00:59:22.585 --> 00:59:25.015
look at our hands there's dope and

951
00:59:25.015 --> 00:59:27.325
that signifies that women aren't scared to

952
00:59:27.325 --> 00:59:27.715
get there huh

953
00:59:27.715 --> 00:59:29.605
hand study for the justice of our

954
00:59:29.605 --> 00:59:30.115
people

955
00:59:33.865 --> 00:59:36.595
in reference to direct racial reconciliation i

956
00:59:36.595 --> 00:59:39.205
created this image quality reaching out it's

957
00:59:39.205 --> 00:59:41.095
a triptych a trip tickets three photos

958
00:59:41.095 --> 00:59:44.125
stitched together and you see on the

959
00:59:44.305 --> 00:59:46.945
left-hand side a white hand on a

960
00:59:46.945 --> 00:59:49.015
right-hand side a black can reaching out

961
00:59:49.015 --> 00:59:51.475
to each other it's very hard to

962
00:59:51.505 --> 00:59:54.144
to try to reach out sometimes to

963
00:59:54.144 --> 00:59:55.885
somebody if you ever tried to high

964
00:59:55.885 --> 00:59:57.535
five but give spidey a pound and

965
00:59:57.535 --> 01:00:00.025
it wasn't reciprocated you could feel small

966
01:00:00.055 --> 01:00:01.705
you could feel at this county so

967
01:00:01.705 --> 01:00:03.535
imagine how much more when you're trying

968
01:00:03.535 --> 01:00:06.055
to deal with racial issues but that

969
01:00:06.055 --> 01:00:08.815
feeling is not reciprocated in this image

970
01:00:08.845 --> 01:00:11.245
i want to show that it's a

971
01:00:11.275 --> 01:00:11.635
prop

972
01:00:11.635 --> 01:00:13.705
asus but also if you look at

973
01:00:13.705 --> 01:00:16.345
the black arm on his forearm as

974
01:00:16.345 --> 01:00:19.135
a long scar and scar just represents

975
01:00:19.165 --> 01:00:21.235
of the pain and suffering that black

976
01:00:21.235 --> 01:00:23.335
people been through but you could still

977
01:00:23.365 --> 01:00:25.375
walk out of our comfort zone to

978
01:00:25.375 --> 01:00:27.085
try to bring in reconciliation

979
01:00:31.405 --> 01:00:34.885
talking about black and black joy and

980
01:00:34.945 --> 01:00:38.065
and and brown joy especially here in

981
01:00:38.065 --> 01:00:41.875
camden five years ago we were on

982
01:00:41.875 --> 01:00:45.415
the brink of the covert epidemic and

983
01:00:45.415 --> 01:00:46.405
it's so hard to think that it

984
01:00:46.405 --> 01:00:47.755
was only five years ago

985
01:00:49.030 --> 01:00:51.910
for the pandemic i was commissioned to

986
01:00:51.940 --> 01:00:54.940
create this series of images called campus

987
01:00:54.970 --> 01:00:57.762
bright not plate we are photographed over

988
01:00:57.762 --> 01:01:00.610
a hundred people who live vient campaign

989
01:01:00.640 --> 01:01:04.420
and a completed the um prompt cut

990
01:01:04.420 --> 01:01:07.540
camden is this somebody said beautiful

991
01:01:08.860 --> 01:01:11.170
many other people say camden is my

992
01:01:11.170 --> 01:01:13.990
name his name is actually camden

993
01:01:15.190 --> 01:01:18.130
canvas loved her name is pam she

994
01:01:18.130 --> 01:01:19.600
works with a lot of sex workers

995
01:01:19.600 --> 01:01:22.450
down and what a fun south i

996
01:01:22.450 --> 01:01:23.950
could tell you some horror stories that

997
01:01:23.950 --> 01:01:26.320
hurt a family been through just trying

998
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:28.450
to do god's work here in camden

999
01:01:29.500 --> 01:01:31.570
and on a rate a poet my

1000
01:01:31.570 --> 01:01:34.240
name is amira and she said camden

1001
01:01:34.240 --> 01:01:34.960
is a vibe

1002
01:01:35.950 --> 01:01:37.630
i printed those out to thirty by

1003
01:01:37.630 --> 01:01:39.970
forty inches and stored them on many

1004
01:01:39.970 --> 01:01:43.570
abandoned buildings throughout the city literally bringing

1005
01:01:44.290 --> 01:01:46.480
beauty and sought out the lightness of

1006
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:49.240
our city what was interesting was when

1007
01:01:49.240 --> 01:01:50.260
i was doing a lot of these

1008
01:01:50.260 --> 01:01:52.630
installations about the younger people would ask

1009
01:01:52.630 --> 01:01:55.090
me hey are those people dead

1010
01:01:55.660 --> 01:01:57.640
because a lot of times we people

1011
01:01:57.640 --> 01:02:01.060
of color celebrate people after they die

1012
01:02:01.750 --> 01:02:03.310
so we use that as a teachable

1013
01:02:03.310 --> 01:02:05.500
moment to say no basic grading people

1014
01:02:05.500 --> 01:02:08.440
while still living giving flowers while still

1015
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:09.070
here

1016
01:02:11.350 --> 01:02:14.320
another mural that we created was camden's

1017
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:18.220
kings and queens um according to jeremiah

1018
01:02:18.220 --> 01:02:20.890
twenty nine god has a plan for

1019
01:02:20.890 --> 01:02:22.870
each and every person and i want

1020
01:02:22.870 --> 01:02:24.970
children to know that they are royalty

1021
01:02:24.970 --> 01:02:27.190
from the beginning and they have to

1022
01:02:27.190 --> 01:02:30.280
see that so vital causes tree

1023
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:34.270
from camden east high school they just

1024
01:02:34.270 --> 01:02:36.070
changed the name so sorrowfully to a

1025
01:02:36.070 --> 01:02:39.010
member um by the dudley grange park

1026
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:41.161
you will see this mural and there's

1027
01:02:41.161 --> 01:02:43.360
several young students all with king and

1028
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:47.020
queen crowns on but interestingly behind them

1029
01:02:47.200 --> 01:02:49.420
is every national flag around the world

1030
01:02:49.690 --> 01:02:50.440
i'm saying today

1031
01:02:50.444 --> 01:02:51.610
know that no matter where we go

1032
01:02:51.610 --> 01:02:54.850
around the world they are royalty sometimes

1033
01:02:54.850 --> 01:02:57.010
you have to see where you're going

1034
01:02:57.010 --> 01:02:58.510
to be and that's about trying to

1035
01:02:58.510 --> 01:02:59.950
do a lot of my artwork

1036
01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:06.670
lastly this image is called embrace i

1037
01:03:06.700 --> 01:03:07.780
do a lot of what they call

1038
01:03:07.780 --> 01:03:10.300
street photography where i will drive around

1039
01:03:10.300 --> 01:03:12.580
the city looking for images that really

1040
01:03:12.610 --> 01:03:14.920
resonate with me and i saw this

1041
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:18.310
couple not too far from antioch baptist

1042
01:03:18.310 --> 01:03:21.160
church sitting under the underpass

1043
01:03:21.160 --> 01:03:22.660
it's just like you see them now

1044
01:03:22.900 --> 01:03:25.180
this is not posed at an ask

1045
01:03:25.180 --> 01:03:26.920
them to sit the arrow to anything

1046
01:03:26.950 --> 01:03:29.800
that you see here i introduced myself

1047
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:30.940
and ask if i could take the

1048
01:03:30.970 --> 01:03:33.400
picture they obliged and this is what

1049
01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:35.980
we see here to me this the

1050
01:03:35.980 --> 01:03:41.080
epitome of black joy you think that

1051
01:03:41.080 --> 01:03:41.290
a lot

1052
01:03:41.320 --> 01:03:42.760
of times it takes a lot of

1053
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.550
money to embrace joy you have to

1054
01:03:45.550 --> 01:03:48.550
go to the bahamas or someplace beautiful

1055
01:03:48.850 --> 01:03:52.390
but this couple didn't have much but

1056
01:03:52.390 --> 01:03:54.880
they had each other study had everything

1057
01:03:55.510 --> 01:03:56.920
and i wanted to show that in

1058
01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:57.940
this photograph

1059
01:03:59.470 --> 01:04:02.230
in closing i hope that these images

1060
01:04:02.230 --> 01:04:04.840
will speak to you and if you

1061
01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:06.670
have any questions about any of them

1062
01:04:06.670 --> 01:04:09.400
i'd be here afterwards but i want

1063
01:04:09.400 --> 01:04:11.320
you all to think about how we

1064
01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:13.030
present ourselves to the world

1065
01:04:14.230 --> 01:04:15.880
also to think about how you could

1066
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:18.940
support other artists who were trying to

1067
01:04:19.330 --> 01:04:23.350
promote black joy and racial reconciliation not

1068
01:04:23.350 --> 01:04:25.270
only here in the city but throughout

1069
01:04:25.270 --> 01:04:27.670
the world that way we make king's

1070
01:04:27.670 --> 01:04:29.650
dream a reality and that a nightmare

1071
01:04:29.950 --> 01:04:30.670
thank you all

1072
01:04:47.050 --> 01:04:50.590
so our artists understood the assignment what

1073
01:04:50.620 --> 01:04:53.800
a wonderful tribute to dr king but

1074
01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:55.390
most of all you could feel the

1075
01:04:55.390 --> 01:04:57.970
passion in each of the artists tonight

1076
01:04:58.450 --> 01:05:01.060
and as we depart and reflect and

1077
01:05:01.060 --> 01:05:04.240
spend some time together breaking bread what's

1078
01:05:04.240 --> 01:05:06.250
going to be most important as we

1079
01:05:06.250 --> 01:05:06.970
move forward

1080
01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:09.250
in the days ahead not to to

1081
01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:12.550
crush or quell our passion but to

1082
01:05:12.550 --> 01:05:14.740
allow it to grow into a merge

1083
01:05:14.770 --> 01:05:16.870
in a form of activism that feels

1084
01:05:16.870 --> 01:05:19.900
most comfortable for you and so tonight

1085
01:05:19.930 --> 01:05:22.390
i also want to bring you greetings

1086
01:05:22.420 --> 01:05:24.550
on behalf of our esteemed leader of

1087
01:05:24.550 --> 01:05:27.160
dice who is in washington

1088
01:05:27.160 --> 01:05:28.960
in d c right now fighting for

1089
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:31.660
the cause dr nyima watson senior vice

1090
01:05:31.660 --> 01:05:35.710
chancellor for strategy diversity inclusion and community

1091
01:05:35.710 --> 01:05:37.812
engagement can we clap to give her

1092
01:05:37.812 --> 01:05:38.380
a cheer

1093
01:05:40.600 --> 01:05:42.550
we want to send her some encouragement

1094
01:05:42.550 --> 01:05:44.320
and she is speaking on behalf of

1095
01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:46.780
such such a word because and i

1096
01:05:46.780 --> 01:05:50.410
want to thank individually every artist tonight

1097
01:05:50.740 --> 01:05:52.690
ah to kevin woods i don't know

1098
01:05:52.690 --> 01:05:54.310
if he's still here thank you so

1099
01:05:54.310 --> 01:05:57.790
much to live though yes thank you

1100
01:05:57.790 --> 01:05:59.560
so much tabasco

1101
01:05:59.560 --> 01:06:02.320
mr lavonne nichols thank you so much

1102
01:06:02.590 --> 01:06:04.360
and last but not least my brother

1103
01:06:04.390 --> 01:06:07.660
eric j montgomery let's give them another

1104
01:06:07.660 --> 01:06:08.890
round of applause

1105
01:06:10.420 --> 01:06:12.160
so for those of you who came

1106
01:06:12.160 --> 01:06:14.380
to the room after i did the

1107
01:06:14.410 --> 01:06:16.990
introduction and you didn't get to hear

1108
01:06:16.990 --> 01:06:18.640
me i want you to do something

1109
01:06:18.640 --> 01:06:20.860
for me pull out your phone if

1110
01:06:20.860 --> 01:06:22.570
you were not in the room at

1111
01:06:22.570 --> 01:06:24.850
the start of the program and holds

1112
01:06:24.850 --> 01:06:25.930
it in the air want to see

1113
01:06:25.930 --> 01:06:26.650
you with it

1114
01:06:28.330 --> 01:06:29.860
both to your calendar

1115
01:06:33.550 --> 01:06:35.860
an open up february fourth

1116
01:06:41.890 --> 01:06:45.640
at five pm on february fourth africana

1117
01:06:45.640 --> 01:06:48.610
studies in partnership with dice will be

1118
01:06:48.610 --> 01:06:51.280
hosting the kick off for black history

1119
01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:54.010
month it's our annual ida b wells

1120
01:06:54.010 --> 01:06:57.160
barnet lecture series that evening we

1121
01:06:57.190 --> 01:07:00.490
we'll have a performance of some more

1122
01:07:00.490 --> 01:07:02.800
artists and creatives and we'll have a

1123
01:07:02.830 --> 01:07:07.510
camden city activists reverend eric dobson so

1124
01:07:07.510 --> 01:07:09.340
we hope you all can make it

1125
01:07:09.370 --> 01:07:11.110
share it with your friends we'll be

1126
01:07:11.110 --> 01:07:14.110
sending some advertisement out and as we

1127
01:07:14.110 --> 01:07:15.700
close out i'm going to ask all

1128
01:07:15.700 --> 01:07:17.320
of the artists and ah

1129
01:07:17.500 --> 01:07:19.120
dice members who are in the room

1130
01:07:19.120 --> 01:07:21.250
to come forward to take a photograph

1131
01:07:21.730 --> 01:07:23.830
um for everyone else you are welcome

1132
01:07:23.830 --> 01:07:25.090
to shift to the back of the

1133
01:07:25.120 --> 01:07:28.330
roman stay for a period of networking

1134
01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:30.460
and reflection thank you so much for

1135
01:07:30.460 --> 01:07:30.910
coming

1136
01:09:49.270 --> 01:09:59.650
ah

1137
01:10:24.580 --> 01:10:25.060
huey

1138
01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:31.720
wow super easy oh ma

1139
01:10:33.280 --> 01:10:33.670
listen

1140
01:10:37.750 --> 01:10:38.350
woo

1141
01:10:41.564 --> 01:10:43.510
you just can't

1142
01:10:45.310 --> 01:10:46.510
yeah woo

1143
01:10:59.915 --> 01:11:00.935
oh

1144
01:11:03.875 --> 01:11:11.585
ah

1145
01:11:19.685 --> 01:11:23.255
ah

1146
01:11:48.455 --> 01:11:53.615
uh

1147
01:12:07.205 --> 01:12:09.815
ah

1148
01:12:11.915 --> 01:12:16.625
ah

1149
01:12:27.815 --> 01:12:29.795
uh

1150
01:12:46.265 --> 01:12:46.625
whatever

1151
01:12:55.295 --> 01:12:57.605
ah

1152
01:13:42.125 --> 01:13:43.895
ah

1153
01:13:50.465 --> 01:13:53.975
ah

1154
01:13:53.975 --> 01:13:56.915
uh

1155
01:14:04.055 --> 01:14:09.815
uh

1156
01:14:16.055 --> 01:14:30.845
uh

1157
01:14:31.895 --> 01:14:35.765
uh

1158
01:14:43.895 --> 01:14:54.575
uh

1159
01:15:00.695 --> 01:15:20.855
um

1160
01:15:25.895 --> 01:15:46.055
uh

1161
01:15:46.055 --> 01:16:06.215
uh

1162
01:16:06.215 --> 01:16:14.705
uh

1163
01:16:30.935 --> 01:16:34.775
uh

1164
01:16:46.055 --> 01:16:54.365
uh

1165
01:16:55.415 --> 01:16:58.475
uh

1166
01:16:59.495 --> 01:17:05.196
uh

1167
01:17:11.255 --> 01:17:18.181
uh

1168
01:17:19.415 --> 01:17:25.475
uh

1169
01:17:26.615 --> 01:17:34.415
uh

1170
01:17:35.495 --> 01:17:43.415
uh

1171
01:17:58.955 --> 01:18:01.959
patina they didn't the third letter dated

1172
01:18:01.959 --> 01:18:04.265
it and the duty to did they

1173
01:18:04.265 --> 01:18:06.386
did it and did do didn't didn't

1174
01:18:06.386 --> 01:18:08.615
they do it in the daybook denuding

1175
01:18:08.885 --> 01:18:09.688
but they didn't

1176
01:18:10.745 --> 01:18:13.715
updated did it and the shooting did

1177
01:18:13.865 --> 01:18:16.358
indeed entered any dude i'm ready didn't

1178
01:18:16.358 --> 01:18:18.455
dinner did it and deleted the video

1179
01:18:18.455 --> 01:18:22.505
today thanks ditto ditto day today thursday

1180
01:18:22.535 --> 01:18:24.065
due to the table

1181
01:18:25.535 --> 01:18:27.905
the new day the day-to-day been leading

1182
01:18:27.905 --> 01:18:31.152
the kingdom did anything didn't invade and

1183
01:18:31.152 --> 01:18:33.337
day they didn't do duty from day

1184
01:18:33.605 --> 01:18:36.035
date and the dude and forbidden didn't

1185
01:18:36.185 --> 01:18:37.595
know the date and the date and

1186
01:18:37.595 --> 01:18:39.202
didn't didn't de de de de de

1187
01:18:39.264 --> 01:18:43.055
de de de de do to do

1188
01:18:43.085 --> 01:18:45.245
that the booty

1189
01:18:45.575 --> 01:18:47.015
they will be weird will do it

1190
01:18:47.405 --> 01:18:48.755
but wouldn't have a day

1191
01:18:51.026 --> 01:18:53.285
the booed a day to remember

1192
01:18:55.175 --> 01:18:59.435
didn't the day-to-day need for the buddha

1193
01:18:59.855 --> 01:19:02.495
but knew that the later than the

1194
01:19:02.495 --> 01:19:06.035
due to return through google data data

1195
01:19:06.905 --> 01:19:09.905
data fainting any other fainted and i

1196
01:19:09.905 --> 01:19:12.125
do do the text a little text

1197
01:19:12.185 --> 01:19:13.235
to better depth

1198
01:19:14.375 --> 01:19:14.915
energy

1199
01:19:16.115 --> 01:19:19.505
gordon did i will google that movie

1200
01:19:19.565 --> 01:19:20.285
the dandy

1201
01:19:25.745 --> 01:19:28.505
don't date and be led to the

1202
01:19:28.505 --> 01:19:29.915
daily d

1203
01:19:35.225 --> 01:19:37.494
they do to you but thirty eight

1204
01:19:39.275 --> 01:19:40.775
later they do the data and the

1205
01:19:40.775 --> 01:19:43.805
data the day nader the day laden

1206
01:19:43.925 --> 01:19:47.105
rubido and fade and didn't date the

1207
01:19:47.105 --> 01:19:50.075
day day from bleeding during the day-to-day

1208
01:19:51.125 --> 01:19:53.435
to invade in it and the duty

1209
01:19:53.615 --> 01:19:56.675
from the data entered and didn't didn't

1210
01:19:56.675 --> 01:19:59.555
didn't didn't didn't didn't didn't the day

1211
01:19:59.555 --> 01:20:01.535
date where the boy will do the

1212
01:20:01.685 --> 01:20:02.795
beard later

1213
01:20:06.905 --> 01:20:12.365
moving the photo burning movie who

1214
01:25:36.615 --> 01:25:43.305
uh

1215
01:25:54.375 --> 01:25:57.735
um

1216
01:26:28.245 --> 01:26:34.815
ah

1217
01:26:35.895 --> 01:26:48.345
uh

1218
01:26:56.295 --> 01:27:02.685
uh

1219
01:27:14.055 --> 01:27:17.535
uh

1220
01:27:23.655 --> 01:27:40.845
uh

1221
01:27:41.895 --> 01:28:02.055
uh

1222
01:28:02.055 --> 01:28:13.905
uh

1223
01:28:56.535 --> 01:29:16.695
uh

1224
01:29:54.975 --> 01:30:00.165
ah

1225
01:30:03.465 --> 01:30:07.275
ah

1226
01:30:10.575 --> 01:30:14.775
ah

1227
01:30:18.705 --> 01:30:22.665
ah

1228
01:30:25.245 --> 01:30:37.335
ah

1229
01:30:40.305 --> 01:30:40.845
huh

1230
01:30:48.645 --> 01:30:52.425
ah

1231
01:30:56.595 --> 01:30:57.045
hey

1232
01:31:57.825 --> 01:32:00.345
ah

1233
01:32:21.195 --> 01:32:24.735
a

1234
01:32:33.975 --> 01:32:36.075
ah

1235
01:32:41.385 --> 01:32:56.595
ah

1236
01:33:08.235 --> 01:33:16.215
uh

1237
01:33:17.835 --> 01:33:30.735
uh

1238
01:33:32.955 --> 01:33:53.115
uh

1239
01:33:53.115 --> 01:33:57.465
um

1240
01:34:02.625 --> 01:34:05.835
ah

1241
01:34:09.405 --> 01:34:13.575
ah

1242
01:34:17.235 --> 01:34:21.075
ah wow

1243
01:34:23.955 --> 01:34:24.555
huh

1244
01:34:25.935 --> 01:34:30.915
ah

1245
01:34:32.025 --> 01:34:35.925
ah

1246
01:34:38.925 --> 01:34:40.605
ah

1247
01:34:42.705 --> 01:34:45.945
ah

1248
01:34:47.835 --> 01:34:50.985
ah

1249
01:34:58.545 --> 01:35:04.635
ah

1250
01:35:14.715 --> 01:35:17.715
uh

1251
01:35:23.865 --> 01:35:30.555
ah

1252
01:36:07.365 --> 01:36:27.435
ah

1253
01:36:27.705 --> 01:36:42.075
ah

1254
01:36:44.235 --> 01:36:55.725
uh

1255
01:36:56.715 --> 01:37:04.395
up

1256
01:37:05.595 --> 01:37:19.425
uh

1257
01:37:42.435 --> 01:37:51.615
ah

1258
01:38:12.795 --> 01:38:22.305
a

1259
01:38:23.355 --> 01:38:32.865
uh

1260
01:38:34.755 --> 01:38:41.385
ah

1261
01:38:42.555 --> 01:38:54.850
uh

1262
01:38:56.235 --> 01:39:08.595
uh oh

1263
01:39:10.395 --> 01:39:19.695
uh

1264
01:39:23.595 --> 01:39:30.435
a

1265
01:39:31.515 --> 01:39:44.943
uh

1266
01:39:46.155 --> 01:39:53.235
uh

1267
01:39:54.555 --> 01:40:08.205
uh

1268
01:40:15.255 --> 01:40:18.915
ah

1269
01:40:28.905 --> 01:40:31.755
oh

1270
01:40:32.955 --> 01:40:43.185
uh

1271
01:42:18.645 --> 01:42:18.795
oh

1272
01:46:34.515 --> 01:46:39.135
us

1273
01:48:10.995 --> 01:48:13.035
uh

1274
01:48:19.155 --> 01:48:20.895
uh

1275
01:52:07.805 --> 01:52:08.135
hi

1276
01:52:19.565 --> 01:52:21.545
with you pretty baby

1277
01:52:23.795 --> 01:52:25.955
the ma real love

1278
01:52:31.205 --> 01:52:34.805
i'm building my dreams around you

1279
01:52:37.385 --> 01:52:42.095
i haven't this will never see

1280
01:52:43.925 --> 01:52:44.915
he's been enough

1281
01:52:46.115 --> 01:52:48.215
love isn't a good sound

1282
01:52:51.425 --> 01:52:53.615
baby yeah my santa

1283
01:52:59.255 --> 01:53:02.075
we'll buy a house and garden so

1284
01:53:06.875 --> 01:53:08.555
nah country

1285
01:53:09.725 --> 01:53:17.525
a little cottage on the outskirts

1286
01:53:18.815 --> 01:53:19.625
well we can

1287
01:53:21.575 --> 01:53:22.805
yes really

1288
01:53:23.165 --> 01:53:27.575
a na

1289
01:53:31.265 --> 01:53:31.535
and

1290
01:53:33.725 --> 01:53:34.565
hey

1291
01:53:35.645 --> 01:53:41.045
a

1292
01:53:44.735 --> 01:53:45.155
hi

1293
01:53:58.775 --> 01:54:01.235
ah and

1294
01:54:02.345 --> 01:54:05.405
and ah

1295
01:54:06.605 --> 01:54:09.365
a

1296
01:54:16.295 --> 01:54:16.595
better

1297
01:55:00.845 --> 01:55:14.135
ugh

1298
01:55:15.245 --> 01:55:17.165
uh

1299
01:55:19.715 --> 01:55:24.605
ah

1300
01:55:25.805 --> 01:55:42.395
uh

1301
01:55:46.715 --> 01:55:53.825
ah i'm with you granted bay

1302
01:55:55.745 --> 01:55:59.015
the ma feel my love inquiry

1303
01:56:02.195 --> 01:56:05.195
amba baby build an arma trains around

1304
01:56:05.195 --> 01:56:05.465
you

1305
01:56:07.295 --> 01:56:09.785
ah happened

1306
01:56:11.015 --> 01:56:15.275
we'll never see and never know

1307
01:56:17.225 --> 01:56:18.155
without you

1308
01:56:20.945 --> 01:56:21.545
kobe

1309
01:56:23.555 --> 01:56:25.115
yo ma well

1310
01:56:26.285 --> 01:56:33.755
uh know how to get exactly what

1311
01:56:33.755 --> 01:56:34.475
today

1312
01:56:36.845 --> 01:56:41.015
nah yo said saxon gavin tay

1313
01:56:42.125 --> 01:56:43.145
a

1314
01:56:44.525 --> 01:56:46.745
hug your baby

1315
01:56:49.835 --> 01:56:53.495
jamais cause knee to bed

1316
01:56:54.245 --> 01:56:57.935
nah yeah nah

1317
01:56:59.765 --> 01:57:00.125
when

1318
01:57:06.395 --> 01:57:06.965
october

1319
01:57:08.855 --> 01:57:11.156
nah nah

1320
01:57:12.665 --> 01:57:13.715
oh wow

1321
01:57:19.715 --> 01:57:20.105
d

1322
01:57:24.575 --> 01:57:24.875
now

1323
01:57:29.585 --> 01:57:30.875
well lee can't

1324
01:57:32.045 --> 01:57:32.255
yeah

1325
01:57:37.895 --> 01:57:38.915
nah

1326
01:57:39.965 --> 01:57:44.225
wow two and baby mash

1327
01:57:44.765 --> 01:57:58.775
uh

1328
01:58:02.945 --> 01:58:05.585
hey

1329
01:58:10.295 --> 01:58:13.055
hey

1330
01:58:14.285 --> 01:58:23.705
uh

1331
01:58:24.845 --> 01:58:28.625
a

1332
01:59:25.085 --> 01:59:38.615
uh

1333
01:59:49.805 --> 01:59:55.