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- Ouch.

- [laughter]

- Alright.

It actually felt kinda good.

- [laughter]

- ELLA: Floyd.

- That wasn't me. That's yo' son.

- Baby.

- Alright, who got you upset now?

Is it Laura or Miranda?

- What's wrong, Calvin?

- Well, he ain't saying nothing. It must be Miranda then.

- [laughter] - Calvin, you're scaring me.

Come on, sit down. Sit down.

And tell me what's wrong now.

- A damn Karen lied on me.

- This boy got three women chasing after him.

- [laughter]

- My man.

- Floyd.

- [laughter]

- Can't you see he's upset?

- Hey, don't get mad at me.

I can't help it that that boy

got that Curtis Payne sex appeal.

- [laughter]

- You know what they say.

The apple don't fall far from the tree.

- And it fell right on top of your head.

- [laughter]

- Calvin, who is this Karen?

- Wait a minute. Is it one of the Clark sisters?

- You know that woman too old for him, Floyd.

- [laughter]

- Ain't never stopped no church cougar before.

- [laughter] - Now on the other hand.

Kiki would make a great daughter-in-law for you.

- Floyd, please. - [laughter]

- Calvin.

- Is it that superwoman?

You know the one. I'm not your superwoman.

- [laughter]

- Like the kind of girl. Wait a minute, hold on.

That's what's wrong.

You shoulda never got involved with them.

That's why he's stressed out.

Don't get involved with that kind of Karen.

- Her name isn't Karen. She is a Karen.

- [laughter]

- She is a Karen.

We saw one of those on the news the other day.

- You know what?

You talking about the crazy woman

that go around and lying on black men all the time.

Why didn't you just say that?

- [laughter]

- He just did.

- [intro music]

- Here I am, hard working black man

and some police come knocking at my door

saying I been accused of stealing

some white woman's car tags.

- Well, what would make her think that you stole her tags?

- Because I'm black.

- I mean other than that.

- I can't believe this.

I can't believe this.

You have never been in trouble with the law.

I can't believe this is happening to you.

- They say, she said, she saw me jogging

in front of her car early this morning.

- Okay, well, since when did jogging become a crime.

- That's exactly what I said.

And to make matters worse, she posts it on social media.

- No.

- So, now you certified ignorant and gangsta.

- Look, this is serious, y'all.

I can't just erase something that's posted on social media.

This could ruin my career.

- Yeah, I know that's right.

And they will definitely put you in jail

if you don't pay your child support.

I mean, at least, that's what I've heard.

- Floyd, can you be more supportive?

- I'm just keeping it real for the boy.

- Okay, Calvin.

Baby, there has to be a sensible way to handle this.

- Sensible? - Yes.

- That went out the window when she posted it online.

Now, I gotta page full of racist comments.

- Another black man goes to jail.

I hope your father is happy to see you.

- Let, let me see that, Ella.

Let me see that. Let me see that.

- Floyd. - Let me see that.

- Hey look here. My boy ain't in jail, alright.

And look, he ain't never been to jail.

And he ain't never going to jail.

So, if you got something to say,

say it to my face. - Floyd.

Can't nobody hear you. Ain't nobody on this phone.

Calvin, who cares what she's saying.

- I do.

I don't want people thinking I'm some criminal.

She's gonna pay for this.

- Mm-hm.

See, that Karen done picked the wrong black man this time.

Right? You gonna make her feel that pain.

That was good wasn't it.

- [laughter]

- Calvin, it's gonna be alright baby.

- I just got suspended from my job

pending an investigation.

- [music]

- [laughter]

- I got great news.

- Yes! We're finally going on vacation.

Where we going? Europe? No, we should go to Paris.

What about Dubai? I heard it's really nice there.

No, no. - [laughter]

- Everybody going to Tulum. That's where we should go.

Tulum. - [laughter]

- Family vacation? - Ha, ha, no.

We're not going on vacation.

- Okay, well, what's the big news?

- My high school buddy, Lafayette Banks,

is running for City Council and he wants us

to do a TV ad to endorse him.

- I get to be on TV?

- [laughter]

- No. No, no, no.

We get to be on TV as a family.

- You hear that Malik? This could be my big break.

- [laughter]

- I'm not about to endorse him.

I don't even know this man.

- Look, Malik.

An endorsement from one of the city's most prominent

first responders and his family could be really great

for his campaign.

Don't you trust my judgement?

- Is this a trick question? - [laughter]

- This could be really good for us as a family.

And I could finally get the respect I deserve

as fire commissioner.

- See, that's exactly why I hate politics.

It's always about some kickbacks or perks.

Or having to choose between a lesser of two evils.

- But you don't even know anything about Lafayette.

Look, just take some time and check out his platform.

- Have you read his platform? - Of course.

That's why I'm endorsing it.

- Well, look, y'all can endorse

whoever you want to but I'm not gonna do it.

I mean, why would I even endorse him?

I don't even vote.

- What you mean you don't vote?

I made sure to take you down and get you registered

as soon as you turned 18.

- Yeah, I know.

But being registered and voting are two different things.

- I'm not even registered.

- [laughter]

- You two should be ashamed of yourself.

- Why? We live in a democratic society

and we choose not to vote.

- But I still want to be on TV.

- [laughter]

- I figured that.

- [laughter]

- I don't see how Alexander Graham Bell did it.

Oh, that's right. He had an intern.

- [laughter]

- You're not finished with that yet?

- It's gonna be awhile.

- Calvin, have you heard back from your job yet?

- Not since I submitted my sworn statement.

No.

- Well, I hope they suspended you with pay.

'Cause, um, I'm gonna need to hold something until my payday.

- [laughter]

- Calvin, don't worry about anything.

You know we will support you anyway we can.

- Yes, she will support you.

- [laughter]

- Hey, Auntie. - Hey, baby.

- What's up cuz? - Hey, hey.

- [unintelligible] - [laughter]

- Man, I can't believe you got suspended.

- I can. - [laughter]

- Malik, we're supposed to be here for moral support.

- I am. But I mean come on.

Social media's a worldwide cesspool

where facts just don't exist.

- Especially when it comes to a white woman

accusing a black man.

- Well, you know what?

We have had to deal with this crap

ever since they brought us over here to America.

Now, see slavery and segregation maybe illegal

but racism is real.

This country has had his knee on our necks.

You understand me?

- Well, I'm about to take their knee off mine.

Check this out.

This guy saw that she posted me

and he sent me that cellphone video.

She falsely accused him too.

- So, she's a serial Karen offender.

- [laughter]

- He didn't post it because he was afraid

of getting in trouble on his job.

- Smart man.

- But he said if I posted it then well, it is what it is.

Hell, I'm already suspended from my job.

- Uh, yeah, see, Calvin I don't think this is a good idea, man.

Because that looks like it's the front of her house.

- Don't put her address on that internet, Calvin.

- You can't see her address, Ma.

Now, if people recognize her house

then well, they need to know she's a racist.

- Yeah, see, right now,

I don't think that's a good idea, Calvin.

Because right now, you just suspended.

That is gonna cause you to lose your job.

- ELLA: Right. - CJ is right, Calvin.

I think you should wait until they finish the investigation.

- Oh, excuse me.

Did you just say I was right?

- [laughter]

- Yes I did. But don't get used to it.

'Cause I'm sure I'm going to say something ignorant

very soon. - [laughter]

- Calvin, baby, I know this is not easy for you.

But you are gonna have to turn the other cheek.

God does not like evil for evil.

- Right, right.

- Okay, well, if God doesn't like evil

then why is this happening to me?

- I think he got you on that one Auntie Ella.

- [laughter]

- I don't know why he let this happen, Calvin.

But I do know that you are going to have to have faith

that this will work out for your good.

- I do have faith, Ma.

But right is right.

You also taught me faith without work is dead, right?

I gotta fight this. I'm posting it.

- Cal... - Don't po...

- It's posted. - Man, come on, man.

There's gonna be reprecussions for that, man.

- ♪

- What you smiling at?

- Found an article about your boy online.

- Really? - Mm-hm.

- I'm so proud of Lafayette.

He gonna do a lot for our community.

What they say about him?

Local candidate pleads no contest.

I knew that smile was too good to be true.

- Oh, no, it's true. It's just not good.

- [laughter]

- I asked you to look at the man's platform

not do a background check on him.

- Well, this is more like a why I don't vote check.

- Malik, this is 15 years old.

And he didn't even get convicted.

- Come on, Dad.

Everybody knows that no contest

basically means that he's guilty.

- You are just as bad as that woman

that falsely accused Calvin.

- Now, hold on now.

It's a difference between lies on social media

and facts from a reputable news site.

- So what? People make mistakes.

- Wait a minute. You still gonna endorse him?

- Yes, I am. - Now, come on, Dad.

You know they shoulda cancelled this brotha

a long time ago.

- You millenials and this cancel culture.

We all have skeletons in our closet.

- Yeah, but your boy got more Benjamins in the closet

than the Federal Reserve. - [laughter]

- I really don't understand you. - Now, come on, Dad.

It's not my fault that all politicians are shady.

- Is that how you really feel? - Yes, well, except for Obama.

He too cool to be corrupt. - [laughter]

- You know Malik, this is sad.

That you gonna use this article to justify why you don't vote.

Black lives are never gonna matter

if black people don't vote.

Y'all out here marching to defund the police.

Do you even know who is in control of their budget?

- Yes, the City Council. - Exactly.

That's why I'm going to vote for Lafayette Banks.

- ♪

- Hey, hey man, your Karen post is blowing up.

You got over a million likes. - Stop lying.

- Yeah.

- Whoa.

I didn't know it would be this big.

- Yeah man, black socials better start checking for you.

- [laughter]

- Hey man, forget that suspension.

I'm a bonafide influencer now.

I might start my own social media company.

- Hey, now, that's a good idea.

What's you gonna call it?

- Chocolate Thunder Media.

- [laughter]

- Hey, hey, look, look. They talking about your post.

- Yo' turn that up.

- TV REPORTER: Last night, a group of black teenagers

vandalized a white woman's home after a post on social media

labelled her a Karen.

- Damn, they turned her place into a haunted house.

- Wow, I didn't know they'd get this mad.

- Are you serious?

Black folk was fighting over chicken sandwiches.

- [laughter]

- TV REPORTER: Since the post went viral,

the owner has been receiving death threats

and she's too afraid to speak with us on camera.

- Hmm, now she knows how it feels when the police

knock at your door.

- TV REPORTER: But Lafayette Barnes,

a local candidate for City Council

believes this woman should be held accountable.

- That's the crook my dad's endorsing.

- LAFAYETTE: Let me be clear.

Violence or vandalism is never the answer to our problems.

But white people have to stop making

"living while black" a crime.

That's why when I'm elected to City Council

I'll fight for the Karen Act.

These women should be held accountable

for these racist acts of crime.

- MALIK: Damn. - Hmm.

- You fallin' for it, too.

- What is this? - We want to be on TV with you.

- [laughter]

- What made you change your mind?

- Well, I saw your boy, Lafayette on the news last night

and you know he actually seems like he's really down

for the community. - I tried to tell you.

- You did. And his opponent doesn't

even support Black Lives Matter.

- Look at you. An informed voter.

- And he found out that article was fake news.

- Really? - Well, that's not totally true.

- What do you mean it's not totally true?

If it's not true, then it's false.

You're the one that said it came from a reputable website.

- It did come from a reputable website.

A reputable sattire website.

- [laughter]

- Sattire? As in made up stories?

- Not made up.

They're more like a exaggeration of the truth.

- Oh, you mean stories based on lies.

Uh, boy, that's fake news.

Now, let's get out of here before we miss the shoot.

- And thank you, Dad, for helping me see

the importance of why I should vote.

- Son, I'm always gonna make sure

that you do the right thing for yourself and your family.

You not just voting for yourselves.

So, do we get to be on TV everytime we vote?

- [laughter]

- Yes, and that's why you should do it every election.

- [laughter]

- Come on.

- ♪

- [laughter]

- Are you sure Curtis doesn't have another record player

he could buy?

- [laughter]

- Am I sure that Curtis does not have a another record player

that he can buy?

- 'Cause he must have had this when he was two.

- [laughter]

- Put it up. You can't fix it. I told you that, day one.

- I can fix anything.

- [laughter]

- Just a few more soldering irons.

Maybe I can get some of those pistachios or something

'cause they been out there so long they hard enough.

I could solder them to that.

- [laughter]

- Mmm, Curtis if you don't hurry up

and come on back to this house.

- [laughter]

- Hello. - What's up, Floyd?

- Hey. - Hey, Ma.

- Hi, Calvin. - You straight, nephew?

- Yeah, I think.

- Hmm, good.

Here.

- What's this?

- That's my hitlist.

- [laughter]

- Sodapop, Boxhead, Moon, Scrappy, Cornbread.

- I want you to dig up something on them

and put it all over the internet.

- Floyd. It's not funny, Floyd.

- Those aren't even real names.

- They're nicknames.

- [laughter]

- Calvin, I am really, so disappointed in you.

I don't know what to do.

Posting that video was just wrong, Baby.

I don't care how you look at it.

It was just wrong, Calvin.

- Mom, why are you mad at me when she made my skin a sin?

- I don't know about you but my black is beautiful.

- [laughter]

- I don't care about her.

I care about you.

You are my child, Calvin.

Two wrongs does not make a right.

You have sown discord in our own community.

So, that does not make you any better than her.

- When they go low, you supposed to get high.

- [laughter]

- It's go high, Floyd.

When they go low, you go high.

- Dually, noted. - [laughter]

- Calvin, the measure of a man, is not where he stands

in moments of comfort.

It's where he stands at the time of challenge

and controversy.

And you are a man.

- Lawd, she done pulled out Dr. King.

- [laughter]

- You know you're in trouble now.

- [laughter]

- Honestly Mom, I didn't know it was gonna go this far.

- Well, it did.

It did.

- Let me ask you something.

How many people actually saw this post?

What? - I don't know.

- I was just wondering.

- Well, I wonder how many people are gonna see this.

What's up everybody? I'm Calvin Payne.

A hard working, successful black man.

A couple of days ago, I was falsely accused

by a white woman of stealing her car tags.

And it made me mad as hell.

So, I posted a picture of her in front of her house,

along with a list of black men she had also falsely accused.

Now, today, the police found her tags on a car

stolen by her own damn nephew.

Now, honestly speaking, I don't feel good about all this.

If we don't stop judging each other

by the color of our skin, racism will never end.

It's time that we start seeing each other as one race

and that's the human race.

Y'all be breezy.

- That's the Calvin I know.

I'm so proud of you.

- I'm proud of you too, man.

I was worried about you for awhile when you were younger.

- [laughter]

- But you finally grew into that forehead.

- [laughter]

- And a lot of brains came with it.

- [laughter]

- Just one. - Sorry.

- [laughter]

- Social distancing. - [laughter]

- Man, I didn't know we'd look so good on TV.

- I did. - [laughter]

- Y'all almost missed out.

- You know it actually feels really good

to be on the right side of history.

- I mean, look at that.

You just decided to vote and already making history.

- Hey, what can I say?

I am an overachiever.

- [laughter]

- You think they'll give us a copy

of that, um, video, for our new Quickgram page?

- Oh, when did you two get a Quickgram page?

- Well, since we became the voice of undecided voters.

- Well, who decided that? - We did.

Somebody's gotta talk to these misguided millenials.

- Well, I ain't gonna argue with you about that.

- ♪