1 00:03:50,898 --> 00:03:54,569 This was real special. I'm glad I could bring you for it. Okay? 2 00:04:06,147 --> 00:04:08,315 Say your name. 3 00:04:08,448 --> 00:04:11,384 And look at what is present here today. 4 00:04:34,108 --> 00:04:37,111 In this hallway, we sense temporal entanglement 5 00:04:37,245 --> 00:04:38,445 and recursion. 6 00:04:38,813 --> 00:04:40,515 Stop it! 7 00:04:40,848 --> 00:04:42,817 The overlapping and intimate lives 8 00:04:42,950 --> 00:04:45,119 of the residents of the tenement... 9 00:04:45,987 --> 00:04:49,322 ...and of all those who will reside in its future. 10 00:06:07,568 --> 00:06:09,770 In the 1960s and 1970s... 11 00:06:10,271 --> 00:06:12,540 ...there began a movement 12 00:06:12,673 --> 00:06:15,176 known as land art, 13 00:06:15,810 --> 00:06:18,579 where an artist would incorporate land and landscapes 14 00:06:18,713 --> 00:06:20,348 as part of their work of art. 15 00:06:21,048 --> 00:06:23,951 Rooted in a desire to make art, not commerce, 16 00:06:24,252 --> 00:06:27,221 land art was often colossal yet simple, 17 00:06:27,521 --> 00:06:29,123 also known as Earth Works. 18 00:06:29,257 --> 00:06:31,626 It expanded the boundaries of the form 19 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:33,227 by using commonplace materials 20 00:06:33,361 --> 00:06:37,131 such as soil, rocks, vegetation, and water. 21 00:06:37,464 --> 00:06:39,867 The sites are usually difficult to reach, 22 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:41,836 requiring commitment from visitors 23 00:06:41,969 --> 00:06:43,671 to experience their potency. 24 00:06:55,216 --> 00:06:57,084 There's a section in the middle of the Atlantic 25 00:06:57,218 --> 00:07:00,621 covering 300 square miles, dubbed the Resonance Field. 26 00:07:44,065 --> 00:07:47,034 ♪ I can't get enough Told you I just... ♪ 27 00:07:47,168 --> 00:07:49,403 Excuse me, can you turn up the radio, please? 28 00:07:49,737 --> 00:07:51,939 - No problem. - ♪ I can't get enough ♪ 29 00:07:52,073 --> 00:07:54,842 ♪ You ain't been Doin' enough ♪ 30 00:07:55,042 --> 00:07:56,744 ♪ Do you like The way it sounds? ♪ 31 00:07:56,877 --> 00:07:58,980 ♪ So cold ♪ 32 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,682 ♪ So cold ♪ 33 00:08:02,383 --> 00:08:06,887 ♪ It's so cold So cold, so cold ♪ 34 00:08:07,088 --> 00:08:09,290 ♪ You could see the future There's a sparkle in your eye ♪ 35 00:08:09,423 --> 00:08:12,293 ♪ Why you all up on my thigh? Can't let you ♪ 36 00:08:12,426 --> 00:08:15,262 ♪ Niggas plottin' my demise I got murder on my mind ♪ 37 00:08:15,396 --> 00:08:19,533 ♪ I got money on the line I can't lose if I tried ♪ 38 00:08:19,667 --> 00:08:23,804 ♪ Let no bitch break my stride Chosen, I'm gon' bet on me ♪ 39 00:08:23,938 --> 00:08:26,874 ♪ Chosen, all my shit antique Frozen, I can't feel no heat ♪ 40 00:08:27,008 --> 00:08:29,310 ♪ Diamonds dancing on me ♪ 41 00:08:29,443 --> 00:08:32,213 ♪ You're startin' fresh, man You fell out of pocket ♪ 42 00:08:32,346 --> 00:08:35,082 ♪ You fucked that girl That you met at the party ♪ 43 00:08:35,216 --> 00:08:38,019 ♪ I got some new niggas Down in the lobby ♪ 44 00:08:38,152 --> 00:08:40,788 ♪ How can I sleep when You're out catchin' bodies? ♪ 45 00:08:40,921 --> 00:08:42,356 ♪ I still wanna be with you ♪ 46 00:08:42,490 --> 00:08:44,492 ♪ Trust me I know that's insane ♪ 47 00:08:44,625 --> 00:08:47,328 ♪ I'd rather fuck on you Than fuck on lames ♪ 48 00:08:47,461 --> 00:08:49,363 ♪ I did some shit in Berlin My moldae ♪ 49 00:08:49,497 --> 00:08:51,232 Excuse me, can you actually turn it down now? 50 00:08:51,365 --> 00:08:52,500 I have a phone call. 51 00:08:54,301 --> 00:08:55,736 Hello? 52 00:08:55,870 --> 00:08:57,238 Hey, what's up? 53 00:08:58,305 --> 00:08:59,306 No shit. 54 00:08:59,508 --> 00:09:00,608 ♪ I can see the future ♪ 55 00:09:00,741 --> 00:09:01,876 ♪ I can see the future ♪ 56 00:09:02,009 --> 00:09:03,377 I just got back home. 57 00:09:03,512 --> 00:09:04,478 I was on the Nautica. 58 00:09:04,612 --> 00:09:05,713 I gotta write this article 59 00:09:05,846 --> 00:09:07,848 about the Trans Atlantic Biennale. 60 00:09:09,518 --> 00:09:11,152 I'll tell you all about it. 61 00:09:12,353 --> 00:09:15,823 But I'm tired as fuck, girl. Let me call you in the morning. 62 00:09:16,957 --> 00:09:18,192 I'm sorry. Can you turn it up again? 63 00:09:18,325 --> 00:09:19,927 This is the last time, I promise. 64 00:09:29,170 --> 00:09:30,204 Huh? 65 00:09:32,673 --> 00:09:34,675 - Set. - Oh. 66 00:09:34,809 --> 00:09:36,143 - You guys ready? - Yep. 67 00:09:36,277 --> 00:09:38,345 Okay. And whenever you guys are ready. 68 00:09:39,346 --> 00:09:42,249 This is BLK... Sorry. 69 00:09:43,851 --> 00:09:45,286 This is BLKNWS. I'm Alzo Slade. 70 00:09:45,419 --> 00:09:47,354 Tonight, I bring you... 71 00:09:48,289 --> 00:09:52,193 ...a man who all of us really want to know. 72 00:09:52,426 --> 00:09:54,361 It doesn't get bigger than this tonight. 73 00:09:54,495 --> 00:09:56,964 Yes, Anas. I've heard of Anas. 74 00:09:57,098 --> 00:09:58,567 He's one of the finest journalists 75 00:09:58,699 --> 00:10:00,301 we have in this country. 76 00:10:00,502 --> 00:10:02,169 He investigates. 77 00:10:02,303 --> 00:10:04,839 And he tries to bring out the truth. 78 00:10:04,972 --> 00:10:08,375 People of Ghana have worked hard, like Anas, 79 00:10:08,510 --> 00:10:10,644 who risked his life to report the truth. 80 00:10:10,978 --> 00:10:12,847 ...who disguised himself. 81 00:10:32,399 --> 00:10:34,635 It doesn't get bigger than this tonight. 82 00:10:34,768 --> 00:10:36,270 Welcome back to BLKNWS. 83 00:10:36,403 --> 00:10:38,806 My guest today is Africa's most famous 84 00:10:38,939 --> 00:10:40,641 investigative journalist. 85 00:10:40,774 --> 00:10:42,943 Anas Aremeyaw Anas' extraordinary, 86 00:10:43,077 --> 00:10:44,345 deep undercover work 87 00:10:44,478 --> 00:10:45,580 regularly exposes 88 00:10:45,713 --> 00:10:47,281 high-level corruption. 89 00:10:48,482 --> 00:10:50,552 Very few people know what you look like. 90 00:10:50,684 --> 00:10:53,522 Now, your disguise is often beads that cover your face. 91 00:10:53,754 --> 00:10:56,090 - Correct. -Even when you're reporting on camera, 92 00:10:56,223 --> 00:10:58,792 you always keep your face hidden. Why? 93 00:10:59,393 --> 00:11:02,830 The nature of the work and the security implications 94 00:11:02,963 --> 00:11:04,965 that come along with it 95 00:11:05,132 --> 00:11:06,967 so that I would have the capacity 96 00:11:07,101 --> 00:11:09,803 to tell another story tomorrow. 97 00:11:11,906 --> 00:11:14,408 My journalism is people-centered. 98 00:11:14,543 --> 00:11:15,577 And that's what I do. 99 00:11:16,210 --> 00:11:20,147 We've done prosthetics on a number of occasions 100 00:11:20,281 --> 00:11:23,184 where you would be an old man. 101 00:11:23,317 --> 00:11:24,985 There are investigations that I've done, 102 00:11:25,119 --> 00:11:26,787 that I'm a complete woman. 103 00:11:27,154 --> 00:11:30,391 I've made good use of makeup artists, 104 00:11:30,625 --> 00:11:34,495 and that enables us to change dramatically 105 00:11:34,629 --> 00:11:36,830 from one shape to the other. 106 00:11:38,165 --> 00:11:39,733 And recently, there's been word 107 00:11:39,867 --> 00:11:41,670 of your involvement in reacquiring 108 00:11:41,802 --> 00:11:43,771 a quite famous African artifact 109 00:11:43,904 --> 00:11:45,439 known as the Benin Mask. 110 00:11:45,574 --> 00:11:47,274 What can you tell us about this? 111 00:11:55,749 --> 00:11:59,987 Well, I cannot confirm any involvement at this time, 112 00:12:00,589 --> 00:12:02,423 but I can tell you a story. 113 00:12:03,123 --> 00:12:05,926 In 1977, the renowned poet Nobel Laureate, 114 00:12:06,060 --> 00:12:07,828 Wole Soyinka... 115 00:12:11,031 --> 00:12:13,535 He attempted to steal the original Benin Mask 116 00:12:13,668 --> 00:12:16,737 ahead of the Festac, Festival of Arts and Culture, 117 00:12:17,037 --> 00:12:19,406 which was using a replica of the mask 118 00:12:19,541 --> 00:12:20,874 as the official emblem. 119 00:12:21,475 --> 00:12:23,410 Wole managed to get a private escort 120 00:12:23,545 --> 00:12:26,146 to the secret room where the mask was being held, 121 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,683 and he managed to walk away with the mask 122 00:12:29,049 --> 00:12:30,685 hidden under his jacket. 123 00:12:31,352 --> 00:12:34,455 Only later to discover the mask was also a replica. 124 00:12:34,922 --> 00:12:37,157 Now, what I do know, 125 00:12:37,659 --> 00:12:41,630 what I can confirm from my sources, of course, 126 00:12:41,829 --> 00:12:43,732 is that this mask that has gone missing 127 00:12:43,864 --> 00:12:46,834 from the British Museum is no replica. 128 00:12:50,904 --> 00:12:53,240 My name is Omar. 129 00:12:55,442 --> 00:12:56,477 Ooh. 130 00:12:56,977 --> 00:12:58,513 Senegal, Dakar... 131 00:13:03,017 --> 00:13:04,818 Have you tried the rum? 132 00:13:07,254 --> 00:13:09,290 - Not bad. - Mmm. 133 00:13:09,790 --> 00:13:12,192 -I'm Shayla, by the way. -Omar. 134 00:13:13,695 --> 00:13:15,630 How long have you been working on Nautica? 135 00:13:16,130 --> 00:13:20,067 I've been working on the ship for two years now. 136 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,403 - Two years? - Yes, it's two years. 137 00:13:23,837 --> 00:13:25,005 Where are you from? 138 00:13:25,239 --> 00:13:28,242 Dakar. You ask a lot of questions. 139 00:13:28,375 --> 00:13:30,911 Sorry, sort of my job. 140 00:13:31,713 --> 00:13:33,147 I'm a journalist. 141 00:13:33,581 --> 00:13:35,449 What kind of reporting do you do? 142 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:38,185 Mostly arts and culture. 143 00:13:38,319 --> 00:13:41,088 But lately, I've been doing a lot of... profiles. 144 00:13:41,855 --> 00:13:46,093 I just covered the dethroning of the British Royal Family. 145 00:13:46,827 --> 00:13:49,564 This was the moment Britain had been waiting for, 146 00:13:49,764 --> 00:13:51,165 and they packed the pubs. 147 00:13:51,298 --> 00:13:53,500 Millions of televisions in millions of homes 148 00:13:53,635 --> 00:13:54,736 were tuned in. 149 00:13:59,708 --> 00:14:01,008 Wild. 150 00:14:06,781 --> 00:14:08,583 Back at it again at Krispy Kreme. 151 00:14:14,421 --> 00:14:15,989 - Sarah. - Who is Chaka Khan? 152 00:14:16,123 --> 00:14:17,324 No. 153 00:14:32,674 --> 00:14:35,109 -And that's on BLKNWS. -And that's on BLKNWS. 154 00:14:58,733 --> 00:15:00,702 Dive into this world of different colors. 155 00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:03,203 And I saw the world in a different way. 156 00:15:06,808 --> 00:15:09,076 And so I see things that other people do not. 157 00:15:12,346 --> 00:15:14,148 How do you get there? 158 00:15:22,857 --> 00:15:24,626 ...everybody is kicking up? 159 00:15:30,998 --> 00:15:32,966 The only way out is in. 160 00:15:41,975 --> 00:15:43,611 Breathe. 161 00:15:48,917 --> 00:15:50,652 You got your lunch in that box? 162 00:15:51,886 --> 00:15:54,421 Nope, not my lunch. 163 00:15:55,489 --> 00:15:57,892 I got my books. You wanna see? 164 00:15:58,392 --> 00:16:00,728 Books? Yeah. Okay. 165 00:16:05,432 --> 00:16:07,067 The Souls of Black Folk. 166 00:16:09,704 --> 00:16:12,674 I read that, too. Where'd you get that? 167 00:16:13,106 --> 00:16:15,175 From Miss Andrews, my teacher. 168 00:16:15,610 --> 00:16:18,713 I didn't read all of it yet, but I plan to. 169 00:16:19,848 --> 00:16:20,915 Got time. 170 00:18:25,305 --> 00:18:27,909 ♪ My love's so bold ♪ 171 00:18:28,042 --> 00:18:30,410 ♪ This ring that I hold ♪ 172 00:18:30,545 --> 00:18:34,314 -♪ I give to you ♪ -♪ To you ♪ 173 00:18:34,448 --> 00:18:37,150 ♪ With love ♪ 174 00:18:38,853 --> 00:18:42,255 ♪ I walk up To the preacher man ♪ 175 00:18:42,389 --> 00:18:45,359 ♪ Just to take Your lovely hand ♪ 176 00:18:45,492 --> 00:18:48,261 - ♪ And give to you ♪ Going into archives, 177 00:18:48,896 --> 00:18:50,163 what one finds 178 00:18:50,632 --> 00:18:53,200 is the incompleteness of the archive. 179 00:18:53,868 --> 00:18:55,435 -♪ That's what I ♪ -One continually 180 00:18:55,570 --> 00:18:57,304 confronts the necessity 181 00:18:57,572 --> 00:19:01,308 of-- of supplementing the historical record... 182 00:19:01,441 --> 00:19:03,111 ♪ That's what I learned ♪ 183 00:19:03,243 --> 00:19:05,178 ...which is often 184 00:19:05,513 --> 00:19:08,816 not just incomplete but-- but repressive. 185 00:19:09,483 --> 00:19:11,686 The record is replete with all these words 186 00:19:11,819 --> 00:19:14,522 that don't correspond to the situation. 187 00:19:29,403 --> 00:19:30,905 Go! 188 00:19:32,707 --> 00:19:34,374 The story of the Nautica begins 189 00:19:34,509 --> 00:19:35,777 with Jonah Wells, 190 00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:39,614 the best-kept secret in the Mississippi steamboat industry. 191 00:19:40,548 --> 00:19:42,750 He earned the name by designing an auger 192 00:19:42,884 --> 00:19:46,521 that halved the time it took to dig a well in 1792. 193 00:19:47,922 --> 00:19:51,125 Over the next several years, his master, John A. Quitman, 194 00:19:51,258 --> 00:19:54,394 maintained a healthy side business loaning Jonah out 195 00:19:54,529 --> 00:19:56,798 to his Natchez, Mississippi, neighbors. 196 00:19:59,332 --> 00:20:01,803 One day, Quitman received a visit from a boatman 197 00:20:01,936 --> 00:20:03,838 raving about how Wells' suggestions 198 00:20:03,971 --> 00:20:06,239 had significantly improved his steamboat's 199 00:20:06,373 --> 00:20:07,875 power-to-weight ratio. 200 00:20:12,747 --> 00:20:15,315 Though unlettered, Jonah's engineering genius 201 00:20:15,449 --> 00:20:17,785 extended far beyond well-digging. 202 00:20:19,419 --> 00:20:22,056 And on that night in 1809... 203 00:20:23,191 --> 00:20:26,160 ...the Mississippi River Boat Company was born. 204 00:20:31,599 --> 00:20:33,668 And for the next 100 years, 205 00:20:33,801 --> 00:20:36,504 the Wells family knack was at its heart. 206 00:20:38,139 --> 00:20:39,607 Ibrahim Chester Wells 207 00:20:40,141 --> 00:20:43,376 joined this proud, yet shrouded, legacy 208 00:20:43,511 --> 00:20:46,047 on April 25, 1895, 209 00:20:46,180 --> 00:20:48,850 from the shop floor of the MRC. 210 00:20:50,685 --> 00:20:53,154 Wells' world was disrupted in 1917 211 00:20:53,721 --> 00:20:56,323 when Woodrow Wilson declared the United States' entry 212 00:20:56,456 --> 00:20:57,825 into World War I. 213 00:20:58,826 --> 00:21:02,395 And Ibrahim, then 22, enlisted in the Navy. 214 00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:07,034 After the war, Ibrahim stayed in Washington, DC, 215 00:21:07,168 --> 00:21:08,936 and enrolled in Howard University 216 00:21:09,070 --> 00:21:10,805 as a mechanical engineering student 217 00:21:10,938 --> 00:21:13,406 for the spring semester of 1919. 218 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,048 The following summer, Ibrahim purchased 219 00:21:21,182 --> 00:21:23,251 a one-way ticket to Harlem, New York... 220 00:21:24,152 --> 00:21:26,187 ...to attend Marcus Garvey's convention 221 00:21:26,353 --> 00:21:29,524 of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. 222 00:21:34,294 --> 00:21:38,298 Garvey, the founder and first President-General of the UNIA, 223 00:21:38,866 --> 00:21:40,668 advocated for Black separation 224 00:21:41,269 --> 00:21:43,204 and pushed supporters to return to Africa 225 00:21:43,336 --> 00:21:46,306 in order to form self-governing Black nations 226 00:21:46,439 --> 00:21:47,742 on the continent. 227 00:21:48,543 --> 00:21:50,645 He'd even begun acquiring ships 228 00:21:50,878 --> 00:21:52,980 operated under the name Black Star Line 229 00:21:53,114 --> 00:21:54,949 with the intention of providing transport 230 00:21:55,082 --> 00:21:57,317 to those wishing to make the journey. 231 00:21:58,953 --> 00:22:02,523 Thousands lined the streets of Harlem to see Garvey speak. 232 00:22:06,326 --> 00:22:09,964 Lottie Selene Davis, a native of Biloxi, Mississippi, 233 00:22:10,097 --> 00:22:13,067 also traveled to New York to see the parade. 234 00:22:15,803 --> 00:22:18,438 Ibrahim and Lottie would be married six weeks later. 235 00:22:57,311 --> 00:22:59,347 Welcome onboard the Nautica, 236 00:22:59,479 --> 00:23:01,916 the only company in the world with direct routes 237 00:23:02,049 --> 00:23:05,052 from West Africa to the Caribbean and Brazil. 238 00:23:06,354 --> 00:23:09,389 Whether this is your first, 10th, or even 20th 239 00:23:09,523 --> 00:23:10,524 cruise with us, 240 00:23:10,658 --> 00:23:12,226 our friendly staff, crew, 241 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:14,028 and officers are here to help 242 00:23:14,161 --> 00:23:17,999 as you get to know Nautica, your home away from home. 243 00:23:20,067 --> 00:23:23,804 The sea made me immediately feel at home. 244 00:23:23,938 --> 00:23:27,308 I really didn't know what to expect. Eh-- 245 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,578 You know, I had these, like, crazy images, 246 00:23:30,711 --> 00:23:32,813 and then when I came, it was just-- 247 00:23:33,247 --> 00:23:37,752 it was like, "Wow, a whole new world." 248 00:23:38,219 --> 00:23:40,588 Once again, thank you for joining us. 249 00:23:40,721 --> 00:23:43,624 Have a wonderful journey. 250 00:23:43,758 --> 00:23:45,425 Please welcome on board 251 00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:47,061 those passengers that have 252 00:23:47,194 --> 00:23:48,229 just boarded 253 00:23:48,362 --> 00:23:49,964 here in Garveyville, Jamaica. 254 00:23:50,598 --> 00:23:52,700 As we finish up the boarding process, 255 00:23:52,833 --> 00:23:55,503 we will begin our preparations for our departures 256 00:23:55,636 --> 00:23:57,772 and our transatlantic journey. 257 00:23:59,774 --> 00:24:01,474 For all those 258 00:24:01,609 --> 00:24:03,110 on this ship, welcome. 259 00:24:03,411 --> 00:24:04,779 We will be departing for Accra 260 00:24:04,912 --> 00:24:07,114 in approximately one hour. 261 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,449 Hi. Um... 262 00:24:09,817 --> 00:24:13,187 can I speak to Funmilayo Akechukwu? 263 00:24:13,854 --> 00:24:16,123 Um, her office was supposed to contact me. 264 00:24:17,091 --> 00:24:18,292 I'm a journalist. 265 00:24:18,426 --> 00:24:20,561 I'm sorry. Funmilayo is 266 00:24:20,695 --> 00:24:22,462 unavailable for the time being. 267 00:24:23,030 --> 00:24:24,497 There's been an urgent matter. 268 00:24:25,099 --> 00:24:26,968 Is there anyone else I can talk to? 269 00:24:27,101 --> 00:24:29,103 Should I wait for her here, or...? 270 00:24:29,236 --> 00:24:31,806 Uh-- She's my only contact. 271 00:24:32,106 --> 00:24:34,308 I'm writing a story about the art exhibition. 272 00:24:34,809 --> 00:24:36,243 For the New York Times. 273 00:24:36,377 --> 00:24:38,813 - Let me see what I can do. - Thank you. 274 00:24:38,946 --> 00:24:40,214 Seating will be li-- 275 00:24:46,153 --> 00:24:47,254 Drink. 276 00:25:12,780 --> 00:25:16,650 There once was a woman, enslaved woman, 277 00:25:17,284 --> 00:25:19,787 born in what we now call Nigeria. 278 00:25:20,955 --> 00:25:23,758 She was stolen and taken to the Americas 279 00:25:23,891 --> 00:25:26,193 for a life of back-breaking labor, 280 00:25:26,327 --> 00:25:27,728 a life of enclosure. 281 00:25:28,295 --> 00:25:30,631 But she was one of the lucky ones. 282 00:25:31,132 --> 00:25:36,771 After some time, she managed to buy her way back to Africa. 283 00:25:37,972 --> 00:25:40,274 She crossed this ocean, 284 00:25:41,375 --> 00:25:42,877 first in chains 285 00:25:43,010 --> 00:25:45,579 and then with her freedom fully intact. 286 00:25:47,114 --> 00:25:49,984 Each time she took the voyage, she listened... 287 00:25:50,785 --> 00:25:52,521 ...and everything these waters taught her 288 00:25:52,653 --> 00:25:54,922 she passed down to her descendants, 289 00:25:55,056 --> 00:25:58,325 including her granddaughter, for whom I am named 290 00:25:58,659 --> 00:26:00,461 Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, 291 00:26:00,928 --> 00:26:02,997 a ferocious global organizer 292 00:26:03,130 --> 00:26:05,800 for equity and women's rights... 293 00:26:07,334 --> 00:26:09,603 ...mother of Fela Kuti... 294 00:26:11,572 --> 00:26:14,241 ...and aunt to Wole Soyinka. 295 00:26:16,710 --> 00:26:17,845 Have you heard of her? 296 00:26:17,978 --> 00:26:21,248 Um... No, I don't think so. 297 00:26:24,285 --> 00:26:26,521 A journalist who is asking to speak to you. 298 00:26:26,687 --> 00:26:28,189 Tell her I am unavailable. 299 00:26:28,322 --> 00:26:30,157 Of course... 300 00:26:30,291 --> 00:26:31,826 Thank you. 301 00:26:38,199 --> 00:26:40,134 Have you seen the art on the boat? 302 00:26:40,901 --> 00:26:42,169 Mm-hmm. 303 00:26:42,504 --> 00:26:44,271 It's my job to put it there. 304 00:26:46,807 --> 00:26:48,275 This exhibition... 305 00:26:49,677 --> 00:26:52,480 ...is a mix of contemporary art... 306 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,983 ...from all over the Trans Atlantic... 307 00:27:03,390 --> 00:27:07,027 ...and a collection of pieces that are very old. 308 00:27:13,634 --> 00:27:15,302 Artifacts that long ago 309 00:27:15,436 --> 00:27:17,705 were alienated from the communities 310 00:27:17,838 --> 00:27:19,340 they were intended to serve. 311 00:27:22,109 --> 00:27:24,011 As they travel back to the continent 312 00:27:24,145 --> 00:27:26,515 for the first time since they were stolen, 313 00:27:26,814 --> 00:27:29,316 they are beginning to recalibrate. 314 00:27:31,085 --> 00:27:35,356 You see, some artworks need to be fed, 315 00:27:35,789 --> 00:27:37,658 each in their own way. 316 00:27:46,867 --> 00:27:50,304 All of those lessons that that woman 317 00:27:50,437 --> 00:27:54,942 passed down from the waters to her descendants... 318 00:27:56,310 --> 00:27:59,180 ...they suggest that there is a section in the ocean. 319 00:28:03,817 --> 00:28:05,587 A resonance field. 320 00:28:55,803 --> 00:28:57,104 I'm glad you're here. 321 00:29:02,243 --> 00:29:03,978 I believe you and your grandmother 322 00:29:04,111 --> 00:29:06,347 were meant to join us on this journey. 323 00:29:08,650 --> 00:29:10,351 I wish you both well... 324 00:29:11,785 --> 00:29:13,020 ...in this life... 325 00:29:14,989 --> 00:29:16,824 ...your past lives... 326 00:29:19,661 --> 00:29:20,995 ...and the next. 327 00:29:47,689 --> 00:29:51,191 Why do you love me? That's a simple question. 328 00:29:51,325 --> 00:29:54,028 It is a simple question, 329 00:29:54,161 --> 00:29:55,996 but it ain't a simple answer. 330 00:29:56,731 --> 00:29:57,965 Uh... 331 00:30:02,102 --> 00:30:04,338 ...because of how you love me. 332 00:30:04,905 --> 00:30:06,508 It's a very... 333 00:30:07,509 --> 00:30:08,543 ...uh... 334 00:30:11,646 --> 00:30:13,314 Don't cry. 335 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:16,250 It's a very spiritual love. 336 00:30:16,383 --> 00:30:17,619 Uh... 337 00:30:17,951 --> 00:30:21,088 I've been through a lot, and, uh, 338 00:30:21,221 --> 00:30:24,925 you never see me for what I've been through, you know? 339 00:30:25,059 --> 00:30:28,730 You see me for the best that I give to the world 340 00:30:28,862 --> 00:30:30,831 and I give to my family. 341 00:30:32,099 --> 00:30:33,568 And when, uh... 342 00:30:35,336 --> 00:30:37,739 ...everything starts to weigh on me, 343 00:30:38,105 --> 00:30:39,708 you kinda, y-- you know, 344 00:30:40,207 --> 00:30:42,544 you breathe life back into me, I don't know. 345 00:30:42,711 --> 00:30:44,044 That's why I love you. 346 00:30:44,445 --> 00:30:46,246 I love you because you're you. 347 00:30:47,114 --> 00:30:49,249 I love you because you're you... 348 00:30:50,652 --> 00:30:51,653 to me, you know? 349 00:30:51,786 --> 00:30:53,454 I ju-- I just love you because 350 00:30:53,588 --> 00:30:55,422 you're-- you're a gift... 351 00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:58,593 ...that I get to experience in this life... 352 00:31:00,127 --> 00:31:03,798 ...until I don't anymore, until I meet you again, 353 00:31:04,431 --> 00:31:06,601 and I'm the woman, and you're the man. 354 00:31:06,735 --> 00:31:09,203 - Don't do that. - You know? So... 355 00:31:10,037 --> 00:31:11,438 that's why I love you. 356 00:31:11,573 --> 00:31:13,040 It's-- it's-- 357 00:31:13,775 --> 00:31:15,342 This thing was, uh-- 358 00:31:15,777 --> 00:31:17,512 it's God-engineering, 359 00:31:18,045 --> 00:31:20,881 so... it's perfect. 360 00:31:21,549 --> 00:31:23,852 - Oh, babe. - Y'all gon' make me cry. 361 00:31:42,903 --> 00:31:45,005 Do you ever remember the future? 362 00:31:52,747 --> 00:31:55,683 A philosopher or a scientist? 363 00:31:55,817 --> 00:31:58,051 Wait, no. A mystic? 364 00:31:58,686 --> 00:32:02,724 -An oceanographer. -Oh, an oceanographer. 365 00:32:05,627 --> 00:32:08,696 You still haven't answered my question. 366 00:32:09,864 --> 00:32:12,332 Do I remember the future? 367 00:32:16,671 --> 00:32:18,439 I remember the past. 368 00:32:36,023 --> 00:32:37,525 It was 1892. 369 00:32:37,659 --> 00:32:40,093 I had just arrived in Philadelphia. 370 00:32:58,646 --> 00:33:00,214 I was eager to begin a life work 371 00:33:00,347 --> 00:33:01,716 leading to the emancipation 372 00:33:01,850 --> 00:33:03,484 of the American Negro. 373 00:33:13,595 --> 00:33:16,497 I believed the world was thinking wrong about race. 374 00:33:25,673 --> 00:33:28,208 And I was confident I would change their mind. 375 00:33:31,411 --> 00:33:33,146 I hardly knew what was important. 376 00:33:52,466 --> 00:33:55,970 Do you feel safe in your body and in the street? 377 00:33:56,203 --> 00:33:58,105 -Yes, I do. -So, for those of you 378 00:33:58,238 --> 00:34:00,909 who are uncomfortable, who don't want to hear 379 00:34:01,041 --> 00:34:02,644 a positive message... 380 00:34:14,421 --> 00:34:16,758 Motherfucker just took my money. 381 00:34:39,212 --> 00:34:42,115 The Boli function, not unlike nuclear reactors... 382 00:34:42,884 --> 00:34:46,320 ...when grounded, they gather and harness energy... 383 00:34:47,254 --> 00:34:49,857 ...then disperse it for the good of its people. 384 00:34:51,726 --> 00:34:54,729 Boli consumed and shared the abundant life force 385 00:34:54,862 --> 00:34:56,096 called nyama, 386 00:34:56,731 --> 00:35:00,367 found in sacrificial materials such as animal blood, 387 00:35:01,101 --> 00:35:05,138 wine, honey, kola nuts, 388 00:35:05,339 --> 00:35:06,941 grains and vegetables. 389 00:35:48,315 --> 00:35:50,217 And she was rude for the-- Watch it! 390 00:36:15,843 --> 00:36:17,444 ...morning process. 391 00:36:17,612 --> 00:36:19,047 We will begin our preparations 392 00:36:19,179 --> 00:36:20,313 for our departure 393 00:36:20,447 --> 00:36:22,215 And our transatlantic voyage, 394 00:36:22,349 --> 00:36:24,052 and to our final destination 395 00:36:24,184 --> 00:36:25,419 in Africa. 396 00:36:25,553 --> 00:36:27,689 For all those on the ship, welcome. 397 00:36:27,822 --> 00:36:31,826 We will be departing for Africa in approximately one hour. 398 00:36:48,142 --> 00:36:50,511 ...Atlantic voyage, and to our final... 399 00:36:50,645 --> 00:36:52,714 Think of it as a data set. 400 00:37:13,467 --> 00:37:17,538 ♪ Let's take a nice Deep breath ♪ 401 00:37:23,310 --> 00:37:25,245 ♪ Now, as you can exhale ♪ 402 00:37:29,617 --> 00:37:32,653 ♪ Respect yourself, relax ♪ 403 00:37:37,558 --> 00:37:41,796 ♪ Relax by yourself, relax ♪ 404 00:37:46,266 --> 00:37:50,470 ♪ Let's take a nice Deep breath ♪ 405 00:37:53,641 --> 00:37:56,409 - This is a very touching moment. Really touching. 406 00:37:56,944 --> 00:37:59,580 ♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪ 407 00:37:59,714 --> 00:38:01,348 She's blowing the hell out of this. 408 00:38:01,983 --> 00:38:04,484 ♪ And the rockets'... ♪ 409 00:38:04,619 --> 00:38:06,788 She just reached down there and got it. That's it-- 410 00:38:06,921 --> 00:38:09,123 -Sing it, baby. Whoo! -She can sing her ass off. 411 00:38:09,257 --> 00:38:11,424 I ain't bullshittin'. 412 00:38:13,661 --> 00:38:16,197 Sir, I'm conducting a survey 413 00:38:16,329 --> 00:38:17,632 on the Negro. 414 00:38:37,819 --> 00:38:40,988 Good evening, ma'am. I'm Dr. Du Bois, 415 00:38:41,222 --> 00:38:44,225 a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 416 00:38:44,357 --> 00:38:47,962 and I'm conducting a survey on Negro life in the city. 417 00:38:48,495 --> 00:38:50,631 Would you mind answering a few questions? 418 00:38:51,098 --> 00:38:53,366 I'm not certain what I could tell you. 419 00:38:53,534 --> 00:38:55,036 I just arrived not too long ago. 420 00:38:55,169 --> 00:38:56,904 Other folks could probably tell you better. 421 00:38:57,038 --> 00:39:00,241 My goal is to interview everyone in the ward. 422 00:39:00,508 --> 00:39:02,310 When all the stories are collected 423 00:39:02,442 --> 00:39:03,778 and all the facts are gathered 424 00:39:03,911 --> 00:39:06,647 I will have an accurate and complete picture 425 00:39:06,781 --> 00:39:09,817 of the circumstances of Negroes in the city. 426 00:39:10,251 --> 00:39:11,786 - You understand? - Yes. 427 00:39:11,919 --> 00:39:13,888 Will things get better after your study? 428 00:39:14,021 --> 00:39:15,623 I hope so. 429 00:39:18,759 --> 00:39:20,294 Please, have a seat. 430 00:39:20,828 --> 00:39:23,998 I am Sarah. This is Lady and Jacob. 431 00:39:24,131 --> 00:39:25,566 Lady, this is Dr. Du Boi-- 432 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,836 So... you're the siddity professor. 433 00:39:29,971 --> 00:39:32,874 Would you like a glass of water or tea or lemonade? 434 00:39:33,007 --> 00:39:35,243 A glass of water would be most welcome. 435 00:39:36,911 --> 00:39:38,813 The problem lay before me. 436 00:39:40,882 --> 00:39:44,986 I studied it personally and not by prox. 437 00:39:46,821 --> 00:39:48,990 How many people reside in the home? 438 00:39:50,758 --> 00:39:53,027 Three or four, sometimes five. 439 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,862 Friends stay here when they need a place, 440 00:39:54,996 --> 00:39:56,396 or when we need help with the rent-- 441 00:39:56,530 --> 00:39:57,531 You take in lodgers? 442 00:39:57,665 --> 00:39:59,967 No. Friends. 443 00:40:01,501 --> 00:40:02,536 What is your relation to 444 00:40:02,670 --> 00:40:03,671 the head of the household? 445 00:40:03,804 --> 00:40:06,274 Head of household? That's me. 446 00:40:06,741 --> 00:40:09,844 Lady is older, but I'm the one who found the place. 447 00:40:13,047 --> 00:40:15,917 Age at most recent birthday? 448 00:40:16,183 --> 00:40:18,519 -21. -I am 26. 449 00:40:18,886 --> 00:40:21,222 Don't you wanna know about my relation to the head of the household? 450 00:40:21,355 --> 00:40:22,657 He already knows. 451 00:40:22,790 --> 00:40:24,191 -You're my sister-- -Sibling. 452 00:40:26,493 --> 00:40:27,895 Sister. 453 00:40:31,032 --> 00:40:35,435 Married, widowed, divorced, separated, single? 454 00:40:36,537 --> 00:40:37,571 Separated. 455 00:40:37,939 --> 00:40:41,075 I'm drifting between categories. 456 00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:43,476 And do you know the whereabouts of your husband? 457 00:40:43,978 --> 00:40:45,913 He might be alive or dead. 458 00:40:54,956 --> 00:40:57,490 How long have you been at this residence? 459 00:40:57,792 --> 00:40:59,026 Three months. 460 00:40:59,527 --> 00:41:01,461 We've had to move around a lot. 461 00:41:01,796 --> 00:41:03,597 Once landlords rent to Negroes, 462 00:41:03,731 --> 00:41:05,266 they raise the rent and the place run down. 463 00:41:05,399 --> 00:41:08,669 We had a grand row house over there at Chestnut Street, 464 00:41:08,803 --> 00:41:11,605 but we grew lonely and decided to seek the company of other Negroes. 465 00:41:11,739 --> 00:41:14,442 - Isn't it obvious? - -I do realize that many think 466 00:41:14,575 --> 00:41:16,711 my gaze is directed at the wrong race, 467 00:41:16,844 --> 00:41:18,846 - Hm... - but I do sincerely believe 468 00:41:19,146 --> 00:41:22,817 that this is a chance to study Black folk. 469 00:41:23,551 --> 00:41:25,686 To create a portrait of the race 470 00:41:25,820 --> 00:41:27,288 that will show exactly 471 00:41:27,421 --> 00:41:29,323 what our place is in the community. 472 00:41:30,624 --> 00:41:31,625 The bottom. 473 00:41:31,759 --> 00:41:33,327 That much is obvious. 474 00:41:33,461 --> 00:41:35,495 Why? But how? 475 00:41:36,097 --> 00:41:38,366 What are the plexus of social problems, 476 00:41:38,498 --> 00:41:43,471 some new, some old, some simple, some complex, 477 00:41:43,604 --> 00:41:45,106 that engulf Negro life. 478 00:41:47,274 --> 00:41:49,143 A whole group of problems 479 00:41:49,276 --> 00:41:52,480 amass around us and what do they have in common? 480 00:41:52,613 --> 00:41:55,316 Where to next? The object... 481 00:41:56,183 --> 00:41:59,787 So that's it? That's your grand theory, 482 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,857 that Negroes are plagued with problems? 483 00:42:03,624 --> 00:42:06,961 Well, shit. Call me Dr. Lady. 484 00:42:07,595 --> 00:42:10,297 Well... what do you propose? 485 00:42:11,766 --> 00:42:13,701 We've only had a problem. 486 00:42:13,834 --> 00:42:16,070 - Evil-eyed folks. - Color prejudiced? 487 00:42:16,203 --> 00:42:19,206 No. Something stronger. 488 00:42:19,974 --> 00:42:22,943 Hatred, it makes your skin crawl. 489 00:42:23,244 --> 00:42:26,113 Makes you wonder how anyone could treat a person like that. 490 00:42:27,448 --> 00:42:30,151 It touches every aspect of life, and death. 491 00:42:30,519 --> 00:42:36,057 It threatens our homes, our children... our hopes. 492 00:42:39,093 --> 00:42:41,162 All I needed were the facts. 493 00:42:43,397 --> 00:42:44,565 I thought the scientific method 494 00:42:44,698 --> 00:42:45,766 might prove robust enough 495 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:47,601 to solve the problem. 496 00:42:49,603 --> 00:42:51,105 I was a fool then. 497 00:42:53,374 --> 00:42:56,110 I had not read enough Marx and Freud to know better. 498 00:42:58,479 --> 00:43:01,649 I visited and talked with 5000 persons. 499 00:43:03,184 --> 00:43:07,188 835 hours of Negroes reflecting on their conditions. 500 00:43:09,290 --> 00:43:11,859 This is the moment when the ghetto emerges. 501 00:43:14,095 --> 00:43:16,565 This racialized enclosure will define Black life 502 00:43:16,697 --> 00:43:17,998 for the next century. 503 00:43:53,667 --> 00:43:57,638 Oh, got him! Whoo-hoo! 504 00:44:01,610 --> 00:44:04,145 There's a whole fleet of 'em. Look on the ASA. 505 00:44:05,146 --> 00:44:06,380 My gosh. 506 00:44:07,715 --> 00:44:11,252 They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots to the west. 507 00:44:11,685 --> 00:44:13,287 Look at that thing, dude. 508 00:44:20,060 --> 00:44:21,295 You know, art... 509 00:44:21,428 --> 00:44:23,164 And I don't want to sort of, you know, 510 00:44:23,297 --> 00:44:26,967 fetishize, you know, art and become patronizing 511 00:44:27,101 --> 00:44:28,903 the way we become patronizing 512 00:44:29,036 --> 00:44:30,371 you know, towards art and artists, 513 00:44:30,505 --> 00:44:31,772 or-- it's-- it's-- 514 00:44:31,906 --> 00:44:34,041 It's so lovely. It's so amazing. 515 00:44:34,175 --> 00:44:36,010 You know, it moves you, 516 00:44:36,143 --> 00:44:37,512 changes your entire perspective, 517 00:44:37,646 --> 00:44:39,013 which it does. I mean, it can, 518 00:44:39,146 --> 00:44:40,748 you know? But I think it's really 519 00:44:40,881 --> 00:44:42,716 to bring it down to the every day. 520 00:44:42,850 --> 00:44:46,353 This space between the spectator 521 00:44:46,487 --> 00:44:49,624 and the work of art is a very important one. 522 00:44:49,790 --> 00:44:53,127 And I think we neglect and ignore this all the time. 523 00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:55,262 It is not just simply a frontal relationship 524 00:44:55,396 --> 00:44:57,431 standing between-- you know, before a picture. 525 00:44:57,566 --> 00:45:01,802 You know, it's that, you know, space in between. 526 00:45:04,673 --> 00:45:06,774 Oh, oh! 527 00:45:11,513 --> 00:45:14,882 This art hurt me! This art sucks! 528 00:45:15,015 --> 00:45:17,686 You're living a lie! This art is terrible! 529 00:45:22,489 --> 00:45:26,327 BLKNWS would like to take this moment to remember the inimitable 530 00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:29,664 Okwui Enwezor. Okwui is credited 531 00:45:29,797 --> 00:45:30,831 with pushing the art world 532 00:45:30,965 --> 00:45:32,099 to embrace an international, 533 00:45:32,233 --> 00:45:33,901 and specifically African, 534 00:45:34,034 --> 00:45:36,403 perspective of art and art history. 535 00:45:36,837 --> 00:45:39,340 The Nigerian-born curator is known for being 536 00:45:39,473 --> 00:45:41,509 the first person of African descent 537 00:45:41,643 --> 00:45:43,210 to curate the Venice Biennale 538 00:45:43,444 --> 00:45:46,380 and the first non-European to curate "Documenta," 539 00:45:46,514 --> 00:45:49,984 widely considered the most important art exhibition. 540 00:45:50,951 --> 00:45:53,153 The Biennale, the exhibition 541 00:45:53,287 --> 00:45:56,757 was also part of a process of thinking. 542 00:45:57,191 --> 00:46:00,160 And this process of thinking had to do 543 00:46:00,494 --> 00:46:04,265 with what one could call "the state of things." 544 00:46:04,498 --> 00:46:06,834 The state of things around the world 545 00:46:07,234 --> 00:46:11,305 that demanded, not only just, you know, response 546 00:46:11,438 --> 00:46:15,543 but also demanded an analytical lens 547 00:46:15,677 --> 00:46:18,279 through which the exhibition 548 00:46:18,412 --> 00:46:21,815 can become a kind of thinking machine. 549 00:46:35,963 --> 00:46:38,399 Welcome to the Shirley Du Bois suite. 550 00:46:38,533 --> 00:46:41,703 Your journey to Ghana is two nights and three days. 551 00:46:42,504 --> 00:46:44,639 There is one stop on your second day 552 00:46:44,773 --> 00:46:46,508 in Garveyville, New Jamaica, 553 00:46:46,641 --> 00:46:50,177 before heading to your final destination in West Africa. 554 00:46:50,679 --> 00:46:52,547 For maximum comfort and safety, 555 00:46:52,681 --> 00:46:55,416 this vessel will travel using graphene velocity 556 00:46:55,617 --> 00:46:58,419 guaranteeing the safest and smoothest ride. 557 00:47:02,791 --> 00:47:04,325 For travel onboard the vessel, 558 00:47:04,458 --> 00:47:06,327 the extremely efficient Hyperloop tubes 559 00:47:06,460 --> 00:47:09,163 are located at the end of every corridor. 560 00:47:18,372 --> 00:47:21,909 A reading docent will stop by your room before departure 561 00:47:22,076 --> 00:47:23,645 with a collection of the latest books, 562 00:47:23,778 --> 00:47:25,179 magazines, and newspapers, 563 00:47:25,312 --> 00:47:27,615 free for all passengers during the journey. 564 00:47:31,352 --> 00:47:32,853 The Biennale exhibitions 565 00:47:32,986 --> 00:47:34,121 are open 24 hours 566 00:47:34,254 --> 00:47:36,524 and free for all passengers. 567 00:47:39,293 --> 00:47:40,762 Okay, okay. 568 00:48:32,946 --> 00:48:34,948 Along the coastline of the British Isles, 569 00:48:35,149 --> 00:48:38,919 Lloyd's Signal Stations watch the ships of the world go by. 570 00:48:39,286 --> 00:48:41,388 Big ships and little ships alike, 571 00:48:41,523 --> 00:48:43,157 their movements all recorded 572 00:48:43,290 --> 00:48:44,826 by the men of the signal station. 573 00:48:53,467 --> 00:48:55,603 Lloyd's, of course, occupies a very important place 574 00:48:55,737 --> 00:48:57,204 in the shipping world. 575 00:48:58,439 --> 00:49:00,207 Important and unique. 576 00:49:01,776 --> 00:49:04,077 But the members of Lloyd's don't build ships. 577 00:49:05,145 --> 00:49:06,581 They don't sail ships. 578 00:49:07,247 --> 00:49:09,416 They don't, as a rule, own any ships. 579 00:49:12,419 --> 00:49:14,823 Lloyd's itself, as a body, does not insure, 580 00:49:14,955 --> 00:49:16,457 but its members do. 581 00:49:17,224 --> 00:49:19,493 A broker, also a subscriber to Lloyd's, 582 00:49:19,828 --> 00:49:21,763 has been instructed, on behalf of the owners, 583 00:49:21,896 --> 00:49:23,531 to insure a ship's cargo. 584 00:49:25,232 --> 00:49:26,634 Before the underwriter will issue 585 00:49:26,768 --> 00:49:28,202 an insurance policy on the cargo, 586 00:49:28,335 --> 00:49:29,336 he must know something about 587 00:49:29,470 --> 00:49:30,971 the ship carrying the cargo. 588 00:49:31,438 --> 00:49:32,874 He'll look it up in the register book of 589 00:49:33,006 --> 00:49:35,275 Lloyd's Register of Shipping, which classifies 590 00:49:35,409 --> 00:49:36,611 all the ships of the world. 591 00:49:37,010 --> 00:49:38,847 They've approved the workmanship at every stage 592 00:49:38,979 --> 00:49:41,014 in the ship's construction down to the marking 593 00:49:41,148 --> 00:49:42,316 of the pencil line. 594 00:49:42,584 --> 00:49:44,084 Proof that when the vessel is ready 595 00:49:44,218 --> 00:49:46,119 for sea, she is thoroughly reliable 596 00:49:46,253 --> 00:49:47,488 and seaworthy. 597 00:49:48,322 --> 00:49:50,123 Worthy of the classification given her 598 00:49:50,257 --> 00:49:51,458 in Lloyd's Register... 599 00:49:54,896 --> 00:49:57,699 The classification of the ship allows for a more accurate 600 00:49:57,832 --> 00:49:59,534 assessment of its risk. 601 00:50:02,804 --> 00:50:05,607 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I'm actually shocked 638 00:51:50,645 --> 00:51:52,981 'cause it ain't even near Thanksgiving. 639 00:51:53,180 --> 00:51:55,516 And, uh... 640 00:51:59,954 --> 00:52:03,758 Or Earth Day, that's another time they call me. Yeah... 641 00:52:04,993 --> 00:52:07,595 I grew up in Oneida, Wisconsin. 642 00:52:07,729 --> 00:52:11,633 You know, I could make a good living going, uh, "B27..." 643 00:52:33,755 --> 00:52:35,990 For some of us, from our society, 644 00:52:36,124 --> 00:52:38,458 where Christianity has intruded, 645 00:52:38,660 --> 00:52:43,230 not al-- always in very positive, uh, ethical ways, 646 00:52:43,363 --> 00:52:46,968 intruded for the sole purpose, very often 647 00:52:47,101 --> 00:52:48,703 of preparing the way, 648 00:52:48,836 --> 00:52:53,541 a kind of, eh, avant-garde for the real stormtroopers 649 00:52:53,808 --> 00:52:56,077 of commerce, imperialism, colonialism, 650 00:52:56,209 --> 00:52:58,713 exploitation, etc., etc. 651 00:52:58,913 --> 00:53:01,115 And the history of Christianity in our society, 652 00:53:01,248 --> 00:53:02,917 as you know, uh, yeah, 653 00:53:03,051 --> 00:53:05,553 that's not been of the best, even till today. 654 00:53:05,887 --> 00:53:07,922 The stories of survivors and the details 655 00:53:08,056 --> 00:53:12,492 of the 884-page grand jury report are difficult to hear. 656 00:53:13,193 --> 00:53:16,296 The two-year investigation lays out in graphic detail 657 00:53:16,430 --> 00:53:18,465 allegations against... 658 00:53:21,368 --> 00:53:24,872 One very important, eh, example, culturally 659 00:53:25,006 --> 00:53:26,708 when the Christians came, 660 00:53:27,141 --> 00:53:29,177 determined to spread the Gospel, 661 00:53:29,944 --> 00:53:31,913 and they looked around, they couldn't find-- 662 00:53:32,046 --> 00:53:33,346 they needed the devil. 663 00:53:33,581 --> 00:53:35,817 And so they took one of the deities-- 664 00:53:35,950 --> 00:53:40,888 Yoruba deities, Eshu, who happens to be a trickster. 665 00:53:41,022 --> 00:53:42,222 You know, very complex, 666 00:53:42,355 --> 00:53:44,592 but I call Eshu the master dialectician. 667 00:53:44,726 --> 00:53:48,361 And he-- he can upset the best-laid plans 668 00:53:48,495 --> 00:53:50,732 you know, of mice and men, and they took Eshu 669 00:53:50,865 --> 00:53:52,967 and decided, "That is the devil." 670 00:53:53,101 --> 00:53:56,704 And they distorted the entire ethical structure 671 00:53:56,838 --> 00:53:59,707 that was based on the Yoruba pantheon, 672 00:53:59,841 --> 00:54:02,275 the various deities of various departments 673 00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:05,980 or existence, phenomena, conduct, relationship 674 00:54:06,114 --> 00:54:09,584 on which a whole ethical structure had been built. 675 00:56:11,772 --> 00:56:13,774 Soul rebel don't really mean 676 00:56:13,908 --> 00:56:16,443 he gonna war with you physically. 677 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,448 He's warring with the other spirit. 678 00:56:36,097 --> 00:56:38,332 What are the two things you would do today? 679 00:56:48,776 --> 00:56:51,444 - In fact I will get-- - Then it wouldn't be money. 680 00:56:51,946 --> 00:56:54,649 -What is money? -Weighed against what? Because money-- 681 00:56:54,782 --> 00:56:56,350 American money is weighed against what? 682 00:56:56,483 --> 00:56:57,718 Gold. 683 00:56:59,020 --> 00:57:01,088 You search on your internet. Check. 684 00:57:01,222 --> 00:57:02,290 They don't have any. 685 00:57:02,723 --> 00:57:04,759 It is just paper. It's backed up by tanks 686 00:57:04,892 --> 00:57:07,028 and F-- F-15 fighters. 687 00:57:07,795 --> 00:57:09,496 They have no gold. 688 00:57:09,830 --> 00:57:11,498 Ain't nobody got this. 689 00:57:11,632 --> 00:57:14,068 Ain't nobody got it. You ain't got it. 690 00:57:14,335 --> 00:57:16,604 Yeah. I mean, you know, style. 691 00:57:16,737 --> 00:57:19,840 You know... 692 00:57:21,008 --> 00:57:26,147 What a prosaic term, but also a very elusive term. 693 00:57:26,647 --> 00:57:31,585 Um... I do believe that style, you know, 694 00:57:32,853 --> 00:57:36,958 is the resistance to confine oneself 695 00:57:37,525 --> 00:57:38,859 to where... 696 00:57:39,660 --> 00:57:42,630 circumstances say that you belong. 697 00:57:42,763 --> 00:57:44,665 It's to go beyond that, 698 00:57:44,799 --> 00:57:50,504 to live with a sense of constant affirmation of... 699 00:57:57,311 --> 00:57:58,746 ...with incredible... 700 00:58:01,082 --> 00:58:06,253 It's-- it's in a-- is a style that really is inherent in-- 701 00:58:07,388 --> 00:58:09,023 in going beyond. 702 00:58:10,224 --> 00:58:14,128 Here's the Rich family. What'd you think about that? 703 00:58:43,024 --> 00:58:45,192 You know, style in-- in an African context 704 00:58:45,326 --> 00:58:47,061 is really not homogenized. 705 00:58:47,194 --> 00:58:48,963 It's so individual 706 00:58:49,363 --> 00:58:52,333 in-- in the kind of conventional way in which we think about style. 707 00:58:52,466 --> 00:58:55,469 It's so individual, because if you are going to-- 708 00:58:55,603 --> 00:58:58,906 so talk about the way you greet people to go to Bamako, 709 00:58:59,140 --> 00:59:02,676 and you run into somebody on the street and, you know-- 710 00:59:02,810 --> 00:59:05,713 and of course, the exchange, you say hello, 711 00:59:05,846 --> 00:59:07,848 and the person say hello back to you. 712 00:59:07,982 --> 00:59:12,553 And they will spend the next two minutes saying hello, 713 00:59:12,686 --> 00:59:15,723 asking you about each member. 714 00:59:15,856 --> 00:59:18,659 Then at the end, you return the favor. 715 00:59:18,793 --> 00:59:20,594 What for me is very fascinating 716 00:59:20,728 --> 00:59:24,999 about that type of greeting is the-- in-- the time invested, 717 00:59:25,132 --> 00:59:28,169 is the-- the-- the dimension of slowness to it. 718 00:59:28,502 --> 00:59:32,206 It's not-- it's not high. You know, the dimension of slowness 719 00:59:32,339 --> 00:59:36,677 and that sense, that space, between greeting 720 00:59:36,944 --> 00:59:41,516 and slowing down is really incredibly attractive 721 00:59:41,782 --> 00:59:43,684 in-- in a moment where, you know, 722 00:59:43,818 --> 00:59:48,155 quote, unquote "time," you know, uh, is money. 723 01:00:55,856 --> 01:00:58,325 There have always been... 724 01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,929 you know, an endless number 725 01:01:02,062 --> 01:01:03,397 of beautiful models 726 01:01:03,532 --> 01:01:05,534 of living otherwise, right, 727 01:01:05,666 --> 01:01:08,435 um... that... 728 01:01:10,237 --> 01:01:13,575 ...encounter defeat and then m-- must re-emerge, 729 01:01:13,707 --> 01:01:16,343 you know, again, so it's not, 730 01:01:16,477 --> 01:01:20,381 um, that you're, like, you know, insufficient... 731 01:01:20,915 --> 01:01:23,017 What if it turns out that-- 732 01:01:23,150 --> 01:01:24,885 that the particular kind of history 733 01:01:25,019 --> 01:01:28,989 that-- that we're tryna work through or talk about, 734 01:01:29,123 --> 01:01:31,425 you know, you as a historical thinker 735 01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:34,795 and me as a profoundly ahistorical kind of thinker, 736 01:01:34,929 --> 01:01:36,565 you know, is-- but the particular history 737 01:01:36,697 --> 01:01:39,233 that we're working through in these different ways... 738 01:01:40,267 --> 01:01:42,036 ...it's not even really something 739 01:01:42,169 --> 01:01:43,737 that you can talk about within, again, 740 01:01:43,871 --> 01:01:46,874 within a calculus of victory and defeat. 741 01:02:01,455 --> 01:02:04,693 The concepts that we have been given... 742 01:02:05,459 --> 01:02:07,728 ...to you to talk-- you know, in order to try 743 01:02:07,861 --> 01:02:09,230 to think about and talk about the stuff 744 01:02:09,363 --> 01:02:11,999 we try and talk about just don't work. 745 01:02:12,166 --> 01:02:13,734 You know, they're-- they're inadequate. 746 01:02:13,867 --> 01:02:15,769 They're-- they're-- they're inoperative. 747 01:02:15,903 --> 01:02:17,004 I mean, it might even be the case 748 01:02:17,137 --> 01:02:18,405 that the concept itself 749 01:02:18,540 --> 01:02:19,940 is an inadequate, 750 01:02:20,074 --> 01:02:21,909 sort of mental construct, 751 01:02:22,042 --> 01:02:25,446 or-- or conceptualism itself is an inadequate sort of 752 01:02:25,580 --> 01:02:27,881 intellectual disposition with regard-- I mean-- 753 01:03:23,437 --> 01:03:25,039 What is the social poiesis 754 01:03:25,172 --> 01:03:26,874 of the dispossessed? 755 01:03:29,343 --> 01:03:31,845 How is it that we live these lives... 756 01:03:32,747 --> 01:03:35,617 ...in the context of this racialized enclosure? 757 01:03:36,116 --> 01:03:37,951 It seems that we're always involved 758 01:03:38,085 --> 01:03:40,988 in this incredible making of a way 759 01:03:41,121 --> 01:03:42,724 where there is no way, 760 01:03:42,923 --> 01:03:45,025 and rather than that be celebrated, 761 01:03:45,159 --> 01:03:47,161 it's often disparaged. 762 01:03:47,928 --> 01:03:49,229 Black folks... 763 01:03:50,864 --> 01:03:52,466 Even just that language they... 764 01:03:53,367 --> 01:03:55,502 And I was like, "Wow, what does it mean to be 765 01:03:55,637 --> 01:03:59,607 so transported by the idea of freedom that 766 01:03:59,741 --> 01:04:03,043 you're kind of having this ecstatic experience, right? 767 01:04:13,555 --> 01:04:15,923 It's not just a past history of displacement. 768 01:04:16,056 --> 01:04:18,258 It's a present history of displacement. 769 01:04:19,126 --> 01:04:21,428 How do these social bonds form? 770 01:04:22,797 --> 01:04:24,264 We tend to want to imagine 771 01:04:24,398 --> 01:04:26,867 that these social bonds form somehow 772 01:04:27,167 --> 01:04:29,436 against the grain of displacement. 773 01:04:29,571 --> 01:04:32,574 What if, in fact, displacement is the condition 774 01:04:32,707 --> 01:04:34,208 of these social bonds? 775 01:04:34,341 --> 01:04:35,844 What if it's displacement 776 01:04:36,076 --> 01:04:38,045 that makes these bonds possible? 777 01:04:49,591 --> 01:04:52,159 This is the fucked up dialectic that we have to be 778 01:04:52,292 --> 01:04:54,529 theorizing and experimenting about. 779 01:05:15,149 --> 01:05:18,051 What if there's something about the way we dance 780 01:05:18,952 --> 01:05:21,556 that bears within it a secret 781 01:05:22,389 --> 01:05:26,226 about how we should live and take up space? 782 01:05:31,866 --> 01:05:35,402 Or that, better put, how we should not take up space... 783 01:05:36,704 --> 01:05:41,208 ...but be embedded in the places that we are a part of? 784 01:05:53,420 --> 01:05:55,757 With regard-- I mean, it's just like, we working on 785 01:05:55,890 --> 01:05:57,491 some other kind of stuff. 786 01:06:11,104 --> 01:06:13,040 You know, I have such a complex relationship 787 01:06:13,173 --> 01:06:14,709 to Du Bois, you know? I mean, 788 01:06:14,843 --> 01:06:16,977 uh, he's a father figure 789 01:06:17,110 --> 01:06:18,378 with all the ambivalence 790 01:06:18,513 --> 01:06:20,314 that the father figure, you know, 791 01:06:20,447 --> 01:06:22,884 or is it-- it's both, you know, um-- 792 01:06:23,283 --> 01:06:26,086 you know, love and disagreement. 793 01:06:26,286 --> 01:06:29,691 And I think of, you know, him in the midst 794 01:06:29,824 --> 01:06:32,025 of the Seventh Ward, 795 01:06:32,159 --> 01:06:38,332 um, you know, trying to describe the historical forces 796 01:06:38,465 --> 01:06:40,535 that have produced his now. 797 01:06:40,668 --> 01:06:43,805 Um... 798 01:06:53,982 --> 01:06:57,317 One of the things that I was trying to do in the book 799 01:06:57,451 --> 01:07:01,255 is that, I mean, basically, the discourse of pathology 800 01:07:01,388 --> 01:07:03,190 is a way of naming 801 01:07:03,457 --> 01:07:06,460 ways in which people are toppling hierarchy 802 01:07:06,594 --> 01:07:08,696 and practicing otherwise in the here and now. 803 01:07:08,830 --> 01:07:13,968 I mean, the-- the deviation of Black, 804 01:07:14,101 --> 01:07:16,004 you know, intimate and familial life 805 01:07:16,136 --> 01:07:18,305 from heteronormative family forms, 806 01:07:18,438 --> 01:07:22,442 I mean, people... you know, have been doing that. 807 01:07:22,577 --> 01:07:24,579 I mean, I think that that was part of the-- 808 01:07:24,712 --> 01:07:27,015 the concern of the Philadelphia Negro, 809 01:07:27,147 --> 01:07:32,185 uh, is that, you know, after slavery, um, you know, Du Bois says that-- 810 01:07:32,319 --> 01:07:35,990 that the-- that the Black church is actually older 811 01:07:36,123 --> 01:07:37,959 than the Black family form, 812 01:07:38,158 --> 01:07:43,497 and then, what is going to be the shape that it acquires? 813 01:07:43,631 --> 01:07:46,634 Is it gonna be, you know, a patriarchal family? 814 01:07:46,901 --> 01:07:50,838 And what happens if it's not? And I think that what we see 815 01:07:50,972 --> 01:07:53,106 is that people creating, you know, 816 01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,075 structures of love and support 817 01:07:55,208 --> 01:07:57,244 that bear no resemblance to that, 818 01:07:57,377 --> 01:08:00,748 but usually that's only described as, you know, 819 01:08:00,882 --> 01:08:03,985 the failure to achieve a norm... 820 01:08:04,652 --> 01:08:06,486 ...as opposed to being described 821 01:08:06,621 --> 01:08:09,323 in the terms of what it in-- what it is. 822 01:08:09,456 --> 01:08:14,629 So, I think that partly, um, attending to these lives 823 01:08:14,796 --> 01:08:16,831 should make, you know, I mean, I-- 824 01:08:16,965 --> 01:08:19,701 I guess one of the grand ambitions, you know, 825 01:08:19,834 --> 01:08:23,136 would be that, you know, people who then would suture 826 01:08:23,270 --> 01:08:25,138 some notion of Black, you know, 827 01:08:25,272 --> 01:08:27,508 advancement or progress or futures 828 01:08:27,642 --> 01:08:30,210 to the achievement of those norms 829 01:08:30,344 --> 01:08:31,646 or the actualization of that 830 01:08:31,779 --> 01:08:33,982 would abandon those kinds of projects, 831 01:08:34,114 --> 01:08:36,818 you know? So, it's not about... 832 01:08:37,885 --> 01:08:40,487 ...us kind of replicating the structures 833 01:08:40,788 --> 01:08:43,256 that are, you know, harming us, right? 834 01:08:43,390 --> 01:08:45,927 Um, so I think that 835 01:08:46,393 --> 01:08:48,062 for me that's about thinking about that 836 01:08:48,195 --> 01:08:52,366 the everyday anarchy of, you know, 837 01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,369 Black life that people are living in ways 838 01:08:55,502 --> 01:08:58,271 that are utterly recalcitrant to capitalism. 839 01:08:58,405 --> 01:09:01,174 They're not thinking about well-being in these ways 840 01:09:01,308 --> 01:09:03,578 that kind of, like, fetishize, you know, 841 01:09:03,711 --> 01:09:06,213 private property and ownership. 842 01:09:06,346 --> 01:09:09,784 And so, that's, you know, food for thought for us. 843 01:09:09,917 --> 01:09:12,452 That's an example of living otherwise. 844 01:09:12,587 --> 01:09:15,422 It's not about-- it's not unfolding in the future. 845 01:09:15,556 --> 01:09:19,594 It's happening now, and it's how we've survived. 846 01:09:28,368 --> 01:09:30,270 I have a cousin that's very sensitive 847 01:09:30,404 --> 01:09:32,172 when it comes to racism. 848 01:09:33,074 --> 01:09:36,276 He called me one day 'cause he was quite upset... 849 01:09:36,778 --> 01:09:39,413 ...that he went to a tuba recital 850 01:09:39,814 --> 01:09:44,351 where he was one of only three Black tuba players. 851 01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:48,690 And he thought that was racist. 852 01:09:51,626 --> 01:09:54,829 And I wanted to agree. 853 01:09:55,129 --> 01:09:57,098 But then, I realized... 854 01:09:57,598 --> 01:09:59,901 three Black tuba players 855 01:10:00,333 --> 01:10:04,237 is a lot of fucking Black tuba players. 856 01:10:44,979 --> 01:10:47,949 I heard Fannie Lou Hamer on the radio... 857 01:11:06,534 --> 01:11:07,802 Are you good? 858 01:11:08,770 --> 01:11:12,006 Mm-hmm. What do I do? 859 01:11:12,339 --> 01:11:13,641 Are you in pain? 860 01:11:14,842 --> 01:11:17,310 I'll be all right. 861 01:11:21,716 --> 01:11:24,185 I'll be okay. I just need to relax. 862 01:11:24,317 --> 01:11:25,787 Okay. 863 01:12:51,105 --> 01:12:54,976 Okay. Can you help me? 864 01:13:16,063 --> 01:13:17,698 I would say to the-- 865 01:13:17,832 --> 01:13:19,300 the beautiful audience out here 866 01:13:19,432 --> 01:13:20,735 to me this afternoon, 867 01:13:20,868 --> 01:13:24,471 because I always liked people. 868 01:13:24,972 --> 01:13:27,942 A couple of weeks ago, I was doing a show 869 01:13:28,276 --> 01:13:31,779 in New York City, for NBC Studios on the role of a Black woman, 870 01:13:32,313 --> 01:13:34,181 and somebody asked a question... 871 01:13:36,751 --> 01:13:39,220 How did I feel talking to a lot of people? 872 01:13:39,353 --> 01:13:40,988 I said... 873 01:13:42,590 --> 01:13:43,824 Hello? 874 01:13:44,392 --> 01:13:45,760 Yes. 875 01:13:46,594 --> 01:13:47,795 Hi. 876 01:13:48,763 --> 01:13:51,165 No, he's not. 877 01:13:52,366 --> 01:13:56,871 No, he's-- he's-- he's determined to finish it. 878 01:13:57,004 --> 01:13:59,173 That's what he's determined to do. 879 01:14:00,574 --> 01:14:02,143 Well, you know he's stubborn. 880 01:14:04,111 --> 01:14:05,546 Yeah. 881 01:14:07,682 --> 01:14:09,482 I think that would be good. 882 01:14:10,985 --> 01:14:13,921 But let me ask you, what, uh, was the doctor saying 883 01:14:14,055 --> 01:14:17,091 about his chances, uh, you know, his age, and...? 884 01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,775 No, I understand. 885 01:14:38,612 --> 01:14:40,815 Well, that's pretty obvious, but-- 886 01:14:42,016 --> 01:14:43,551 but, you know, he's strong as an ox. 887 01:14:43,684 --> 01:14:46,153 In that regard, he has a will. 888 01:14:50,424 --> 01:14:52,059 Then let's do it. 889 01:14:53,961 --> 01:14:55,596 This might be the answer, yeah. 890 01:14:59,100 --> 01:15:00,167 Well, thank you. 891 01:15:03,437 --> 01:15:05,673 Thank you so much. Bye-bye. 892 01:15:10,344 --> 01:15:12,046 Thank you for staying with us. Now, 893 01:15:12,179 --> 01:15:13,147 over the weekend, 894 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:14,615 hundreds of demonstrators 895 01:15:14,749 --> 01:15:17,018 gathered in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, 896 01:15:17,151 --> 01:15:19,787 for a third day of anti-government protests 897 01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:21,522 linked to economic hardship. 898 01:15:21,655 --> 01:15:22,790 Protestors are speaking out 899 01:15:22,923 --> 01:15:24,358 against the high taxes 900 01:15:24,492 --> 01:15:25,626 and cost of living. 901 01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:27,294 Here to discuss some similarities 902 01:15:27,428 --> 01:15:29,563 and differences found throughout the history 903 01:15:29,697 --> 01:15:31,098 of strikes in Ghana 904 01:15:31,232 --> 01:15:34,468 is investigator journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. 905 01:15:34,702 --> 01:15:37,171 - Great to be here. - -So, Anas, this is not 906 01:15:37,304 --> 01:15:38,439 the first time 907 01:15:38,572 --> 01:15:40,374 Ghanaians would be protesting 908 01:15:40,509 --> 01:15:41,976 high cost of living. 909 01:15:42,109 --> 01:15:43,811 We've seen that Ghana has been battling 910 01:15:43,944 --> 01:15:46,247 a series of economic crises dating back 911 01:15:46,380 --> 01:15:49,116 since the very birth of independent Ghana. 912 01:15:49,250 --> 01:15:51,352 What can you tell me about what's at stake? 913 01:15:52,019 --> 01:15:54,288 Our very livelihood is at stake. 914 01:15:54,422 --> 01:15:59,260 Our well-being, our ability to survive in such circumstances... 915 01:16:07,835 --> 01:16:09,203 Who is it? 916 01:16:10,037 --> 01:16:11,305 It's Funmi. 917 01:16:48,242 --> 01:16:52,246 More strikes. Who is it now? 918 01:16:52,379 --> 01:16:54,248 The transportation workers. 919 01:16:55,015 --> 01:16:56,551 striking. 920 01:16:57,586 --> 01:17:01,288 Cousins, uncles, most of my family are involved. 921 01:17:02,223 --> 01:17:04,358 We don't have enough money to buy basic goods because 922 01:17:04,492 --> 01:17:07,294 of the new taxes on flour, sugar. 923 01:17:07,661 --> 01:17:09,130 Even salt is sky high. 924 01:17:12,867 --> 01:17:15,169 What scares me the most are the arrests. 925 01:17:22,042 --> 01:17:23,744 Can I ask you a question? 926 01:17:25,980 --> 01:17:27,982 What made you want to come here today? 927 01:17:28,816 --> 01:17:30,784 To the Marcus Garvey Memorial. 928 01:17:33,654 --> 01:17:36,123 That's Garvey's Pan-African flag there, is it? 929 01:17:36,357 --> 01:17:38,459 -No, that's Ghana's flag. -No, I mean, 930 01:17:38,593 --> 01:17:39,727 the one next to your photograph. 931 01:17:39,860 --> 01:17:41,228 Ah, yes. 932 01:17:41,896 --> 01:17:43,998 I never realized they were so similar. 933 01:17:44,932 --> 01:17:46,767 Essentially, the same flag. 934 01:17:48,369 --> 01:17:50,938 Garvey's Memorial is my favorite site in the city. 935 01:17:53,174 --> 01:17:55,376 His vision of Africa was tremendous. 936 01:17:56,243 --> 01:17:59,246 One million people worldwide. It's unbelievable. 937 01:18:01,115 --> 01:18:03,751 The largest Black movement in world history. 938 01:18:06,787 --> 01:18:07,988 He had his eye on something 939 01:18:08,122 --> 01:18:09,990 they never thought to look at. 940 01:18:14,295 --> 01:18:16,130 He knew the freedom America had to offer 941 01:18:16,263 --> 01:18:17,932 was a freedom he didn't want. 942 01:18:19,601 --> 01:18:25,172 He simply wanted a place where his body drew no questions. 943 01:18:26,407 --> 01:18:27,808 A home for all Africans. 944 01:18:28,409 --> 01:18:30,978 Garvey's beliefs were powerful enough 945 01:18:31,111 --> 01:18:33,180 to bring him to a new home... 946 01:18:34,081 --> 01:18:36,183 ...even if he never set foot here. 947 01:18:41,690 --> 01:18:44,825 But I have never felt so lost. 948 01:18:51,666 --> 01:18:55,402 Did you know that America has refused to renew my passport? 949 01:18:55,704 --> 01:18:57,271 They call me un-American. 950 01:19:03,244 --> 01:19:06,981 I always imagined I'd be buried in Massachusetts. 951 01:19:08,650 --> 01:19:09,883 Next to him. 952 01:19:15,956 --> 01:19:18,092 I did not know you lost a son. 953 01:19:20,562 --> 01:19:23,297 To lose a child is its own kind of death. 954 01:19:26,867 --> 01:19:28,269 If he had lived... 955 01:19:29,837 --> 01:19:31,539 ...he might have looked like yours. 956 01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:36,243 Oh, that's not my son. 957 01:19:37,011 --> 01:19:38,613 That's my daughter. Yaya. 958 01:19:38,747 --> 01:19:40,447 Yaya. 959 01:19:42,783 --> 01:19:43,817 Yaya... 960 01:19:45,386 --> 01:19:48,723 If you're just joining us, I've been speaking with Ernie Abara, 961 01:19:48,856 --> 01:19:51,058 - Hello. -otherwise known as the Rum Tycoon. 962 01:19:51,191 --> 01:19:53,060 - Thank you for having me. - - We were just 963 01:19:53,193 --> 01:19:55,530 speaking about his grandmother, Yaya, and her connection 964 01:19:55,664 --> 01:19:57,197 - with the Nautica, - Mm-hmm. 965 01:19:57,331 --> 01:19:59,066 the famous ocean liner which houses 966 01:19:59,199 --> 01:20:01,235 the Trans Atlantic Biennale. 967 01:20:01,402 --> 01:20:03,137 Now, earlier, you mentioned 968 01:20:03,270 --> 01:20:04,872 your father's Nigerian roots, 969 01:20:05,005 --> 01:20:06,708 and I wanted to dig a little deeper. 970 01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,544 As I understand it, your great-great-grandfather 971 01:20:09,678 --> 01:20:11,979 amassed extraordinary wealth and power 972 01:20:12,112 --> 01:20:14,014 - by being a slave trader. - Yes. 973 01:20:14,148 --> 01:20:16,685 He captured and sold enslaved Africans 974 01:20:16,817 --> 01:20:18,520 across the Atlantic, 975 01:20:18,653 --> 01:20:19,853 first to the Portuguese 976 01:20:19,987 --> 01:20:21,155 and then to the American traders, 977 01:20:21,288 --> 01:20:22,524 with the most ending up 978 01:20:22,657 --> 01:20:23,591 in Brazil. 979 01:20:23,725 --> 01:20:24,693 How have you been able 980 01:20:24,825 --> 01:20:25,993 to reconcile the fact that 981 01:20:26,126 --> 01:20:27,094 that is how your family 982 01:20:27,227 --> 01:20:28,429 made their fortune? 983 01:20:28,697 --> 01:20:30,097 Or is it something that even needs 984 01:20:30,230 --> 01:20:31,566 to be reconciled? 985 01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,569 Hmm. Tsk. 986 01:20:35,603 --> 01:20:36,671 You know... 987 01:20:37,504 --> 01:20:40,575 ...I remember asking my father one time 988 01:20:40,874 --> 01:20:43,310 if he was ashamed of-- 989 01:20:44,345 --> 01:20:46,213 of what his grandfather had done. 990 01:20:46,715 --> 01:20:49,416 Now, the fact that I even asked him 991 01:20:49,784 --> 01:20:50,918 irritated my father. 992 01:20:51,151 --> 01:20:52,186 He said, "I can never 993 01:20:52,319 --> 01:20:53,688 be ashamed of him. 994 01:20:53,822 --> 01:20:55,657 W-- Why should I be? 995 01:20:56,023 --> 01:20:58,058 His business was legitimate at the time." 996 01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:00,894 I mean, he was respected by everyone. 997 01:21:02,363 --> 01:21:04,164 I'm just coming from an event. 998 01:21:04,298 --> 01:21:05,966 Now, keep in mind that my father is a lawyer 999 01:21:06,100 --> 01:21:08,636 and a human rights activist who spent much of his life 1000 01:21:08,770 --> 01:21:10,170 challenging government abuses in Nigeria... 1001 01:21:10,304 --> 01:21:11,773 Did you hear Dad on the podcast? 1002 01:21:11,905 --> 01:21:13,407 He talked about great Granddad 1003 01:21:13,541 --> 01:21:15,275 and the slave trading and all that. 1004 01:21:15,409 --> 01:21:17,211 And you? What do you think about 1005 01:21:17,344 --> 01:21:19,179 how your grandfather earned your family's fortune? 1006 01:21:19,480 --> 01:21:22,149 - Why do you ask that? - During my school days, 1007 01:21:22,282 --> 01:21:24,218 if a friend asked the meaning of my surname, 1008 01:21:24,351 --> 01:21:27,555 I would give them a-- a narrative instead of a translation. 1009 01:21:27,689 --> 01:21:29,089 He's selfish. I don't know. 1010 01:21:29,223 --> 01:21:30,525 I mean, he's not wrong. 1011 01:21:30,859 --> 01:21:33,728 But in the past decade, I felt this 1012 01:21:33,862 --> 01:21:36,397 growing sense of unease. 1013 01:21:36,531 --> 01:21:38,600 African intellectuals tend to blame the West 1014 01:21:38,733 --> 01:21:40,568 for the slave trade, but I knew 1015 01:21:40,702 --> 01:21:43,203 that white traders couldn't have loaded their ships 1016 01:21:43,337 --> 01:21:45,673 without the help from Africans... 1017 01:21:47,174 --> 01:21:48,676 ...like my grandfather. 1018 01:21:49,544 --> 01:21:53,213 So, I-- I read arguments for paying reparations 1019 01:21:53,347 --> 01:21:56,383 to the descendants of, uh, American slaves. 1020 01:21:56,518 --> 01:22:00,354 And I wondered if... 1021 01:26:09,403 --> 01:26:11,973 Art will not outlive us. 1022 01:26:12,106 --> 01:26:15,977 This time, there will be no remains. 1023 01:26:17,078 --> 01:26:19,881 All that we can see from the world now... 1024 01:26:20,682 --> 01:26:23,283 ...is the disappearance of evenings. 1025 01:26:24,384 --> 01:26:26,486 And in this disappearance... 1026 01:26:27,622 --> 01:26:29,757 ...this long gray, blue light... 1027 01:26:32,426 --> 01:26:34,662 ...this poet's recommendation... 1028 01:26:35,462 --> 01:26:37,832 ...is to each night dwell on this... 1029 01:26:39,466 --> 01:26:42,570 ...and dwell on each "not whereness," 1030 01:26:43,236 --> 01:26:44,906 "not thereness." 1031 01:26:46,007 --> 01:26:49,844 And I can only recommend the interstices... 1032 01:27:33,453 --> 01:27:36,758 Waves that occur in the wake of the ship 1033 01:27:36,891 --> 01:27:39,660 move at the same speed of the ship. 1034 01:27:40,628 --> 01:27:43,330 From at least the 16th century onward, 1035 01:27:43,463 --> 01:27:46,234 a major part of the ocean engineering of ships 1036 01:27:46,366 --> 01:27:49,170 has been to minimize the bow wave... 1037 01:27:49,904 --> 01:27:52,039 ...and therefore to minimize the wake. 1038 01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:55,510 But the effect of trauma is the opposite. 1039 01:27:56,244 --> 01:27:59,747 It is to make maximal the wake. 1040 01:28:01,149 --> 01:28:04,685 It's likely, then, that those Africans thrown overboard 1041 01:28:04,952 --> 01:28:07,420 would have floated just a short while 1042 01:28:07,622 --> 01:28:10,091 and only because of the shapes of their bodies. 1043 01:28:10,457 --> 01:28:11,592 It's likely, too, 1044 01:28:11,726 --> 01:28:13,094 that they would have sunk 1045 01:28:13,261 --> 01:28:14,427 relatively quickly... 1046 01:28:15,096 --> 01:28:18,132 ...and drowned relatively quickly as well. 1047 01:28:19,100 --> 01:28:22,670 And then there were the sharks that always traveled 1048 01:28:22,804 --> 01:28:24,605 in the wake of slave ships. 1049 01:28:26,373 --> 01:28:27,708 The amount of time 1050 01:28:27,842 --> 01:28:29,977 it takes for a substance to enter the ocean 1051 01:28:30,111 --> 01:28:33,648 and then leave the ocean is called residence time. 1052 01:28:34,282 --> 01:28:35,550 Human blood is salty, 1053 01:28:35,917 --> 01:28:37,985 and sodium has a residence time 1054 01:28:38,119 --> 01:28:40,387 of 260 million years. 1055 01:28:41,789 --> 01:28:45,259 There've been studies done on whales that have died 1056 01:28:45,392 --> 01:28:46,727 and sunk to the sea floor. 1057 01:28:47,195 --> 01:28:50,031 These studies show that within a few days, 1058 01:28:50,164 --> 01:28:53,301 these whales' bodies are picked almost clean 1059 01:28:53,433 --> 01:28:55,069 by benthic organisms. 1060 01:28:58,338 --> 01:29:00,373 It's likely, then, that a human body 1061 01:29:00,508 --> 01:29:02,743 would not make it to the sea floor intact. 1062 01:29:05,179 --> 01:29:08,015 The atoms of those people who were thrown overboard 1063 01:29:08,149 --> 01:29:10,918 are out there in the ocean, even today. 1064 01:29:11,752 --> 01:29:14,689 They were eaten, organisms processed them, 1065 01:29:14,822 --> 01:29:18,860 and those organisms were, in turn, eaten and processed. 1066 01:29:26,033 --> 01:29:28,569 Nobody dies of old age in the ocean. 1067 01:29:30,370 --> 01:29:34,407 And what happens to the energy that's produced in the waters? 1068 01:29:40,413 --> 01:29:43,383 - Holy... - Oh! Oh! 1069 01:29:45,052 --> 01:29:47,188 Please tell me you got that, Julie. 1070 01:29:47,321 --> 01:29:48,656 Aah! 1071 01:29:57,397 --> 01:30:00,568 It is late night on the deck of the Nautica. 1072 01:30:02,370 --> 01:30:05,139 The full moon illuminates the passage... 1073 01:30:06,007 --> 01:30:09,911 ...as a turbulent storm rages in the Atlantic Ocean below. 1074 01:30:12,580 --> 01:30:14,749 There is the hum of the ship's motor... 1075 01:30:15,349 --> 01:30:19,220 ...and the distinct soft sounds of a jazz trio 1076 01:30:19,587 --> 01:30:21,188 playing in the background. 1077 01:30:31,365 --> 01:30:33,601 Lady leans slightly over the ship's railing 1078 01:30:33,734 --> 01:30:35,603 looking pensively at the ocean. 1079 01:30:36,070 --> 01:30:40,174 She is wearing a shimmering dress, sequins, 1080 01:30:40,708 --> 01:30:43,277 or perhaps something blue and luminescent. 1081 01:30:43,778 --> 01:30:46,814 There should be a strong visual connection 1082 01:30:46,948 --> 01:30:49,183 between her body and the sea. 1083 01:30:51,886 --> 01:30:55,488 Du Bois/Funmi steps onto the deck 1084 01:30:55,623 --> 01:30:57,591 a few feet from Lady. 1085 01:31:00,328 --> 01:31:04,966 After a minute, Du Bois turns toward Lady. 1086 01:31:08,002 --> 01:31:10,871 "Ruby, My Dear" concludes in the background, 1087 01:31:11,005 --> 01:31:12,540 and we hear faint clapping. 1088 01:31:15,376 --> 01:31:17,011 It's sublime. 1089 01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:21,749 That's one word for it. 1090 01:31:22,683 --> 01:31:24,518 It is so vast. 1091 01:31:25,353 --> 01:31:28,422 It's hard to look at this ocean without thinking about... 1092 01:31:28,556 --> 01:31:30,524 About crossing. 1093 01:31:31,192 --> 01:31:32,226 Yes. 1094 01:31:32,793 --> 01:31:34,428 Thankfully, it isn't exhausted 1095 01:31:34,595 --> 01:31:35,896 by our human history. 1096 01:31:37,431 --> 01:31:39,100 It's just a small part of it. 1097 01:31:43,137 --> 01:31:44,271 True. 1098 01:31:52,346 --> 01:31:54,015 So it doesn't haunt you? 1099 01:31:54,382 --> 01:31:56,250 No past in the present? 1100 01:31:57,018 --> 01:32:01,188 So, are you a historian or a sociologist? 1101 01:32:01,422 --> 01:32:03,224 Am I so easy to figure out? 1102 01:32:04,425 --> 01:32:10,031 An historical sociologist, a curator, and archivist. 1103 01:32:16,103 --> 01:32:18,507 History isn't the measure. 1104 01:32:18,839 --> 01:32:21,142 There are other calibrations... 1105 01:32:23,811 --> 01:32:27,548 No tidy sequence of past, present, and future. 1106 01:32:31,419 --> 01:32:33,621 My time scale is different. 1107 01:32:36,657 --> 01:32:39,493 Forget the past. Live in the now. 1108 01:32:39,794 --> 01:32:41,595 Celebrate the death of man. 1109 01:32:43,597 --> 01:32:45,433 So, am I a cliché? 1110 01:32:50,438 --> 01:32:54,108 An elder died on the boat in her sleep 1111 01:32:54,308 --> 01:32:56,777 just after we left port in Los Angeles. 1112 01:32:57,678 --> 01:33:01,682 Her granddaughter flew in from Ohio to identify the body. 1113 01:33:08,122 --> 01:33:10,257 After we spoke on the phone, 1114 01:33:10,391 --> 01:33:13,528 I tried to learn as much about your grandmother as I could. 1115 01:33:13,794 --> 01:33:15,930 She was a volunteer. 1116 01:33:17,331 --> 01:33:21,702 She worked in the library as an afternoon reading docent. 1117 01:33:28,242 --> 01:33:31,345 International protocol would have her return 1118 01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:32,913 with the body to California. 1119 01:33:33,582 --> 01:33:37,351 But the granddaughter wants her grandmother's body 1120 01:33:37,485 --> 01:33:39,220 to finish its voyage. 1121 01:33:40,354 --> 01:33:42,890 She's asleep right now in the bed 1122 01:33:43,023 --> 01:33:46,160 where her grandmother died fewer than two days ago. 1123 01:33:54,468 --> 01:33:55,870 Doctor? 1124 01:33:56,704 --> 01:33:57,705 Doctor. 1125 01:34:05,846 --> 01:34:07,348 Can I ask you a question? 1126 01:34:09,884 --> 01:34:11,819 What made you want to come here today? 1127 01:34:57,331 --> 01:35:00,034 Do you ever remember the future? 1128 01:35:11,078 --> 01:35:13,914 A philosopher or a scientist? 1129 01:35:14,048 --> 01:35:16,750 Wait, no. A mystic? 1130 01:35:17,751 --> 01:35:19,220 An oceanographer. 1131 01:35:19,453 --> 01:35:21,789 Ah! An oceanographer. 1132 01:35:23,891 --> 01:35:26,894 You still haven't answered my question. 1133 01:35:28,062 --> 01:35:30,331 Do I remember the future? 1134 01:35:35,035 --> 01:35:36,904 I remember the past. 1135 01:35:39,206 --> 01:35:41,842 That small room in Philadelphia, 1136 01:35:43,010 --> 01:35:45,179 the lace curtains in the window. 1137 01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:50,017 A porcelain cup of tea spiked with whiskey. 1138 01:35:52,152 --> 01:35:54,656 The long lines of your neck. 1139 01:35:55,590 --> 01:35:59,360 You were merciless with me. You called me a snob. 1140 01:36:02,697 --> 01:36:05,899 I believe the word I used was "siddity." 1141 01:36:06,735 --> 01:36:08,035 You remember that? 1142 01:36:09,303 --> 01:36:10,170 Perhaps. 1143 01:36:10,404 --> 01:36:13,240 She won't even give me that. 1144 01:36:14,241 --> 01:36:15,309 Okay. 1145 01:36:16,377 --> 01:36:19,146 So what do you remember about the future? 1146 01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:20,948 Hmm. 1147 01:36:24,918 --> 01:36:27,589 If you... try to hear me explain it-- 1148 01:36:27,722 --> 01:36:28,723 You're just gonna laugh. 1149 01:36:28,856 --> 01:36:30,424 -Try me. -No. 1150 01:36:31,626 --> 01:36:33,427 Do I have to beg? 1151 01:36:37,699 --> 01:36:39,534 Your hand in mine. 1152 01:36:41,770 --> 01:36:47,509 Your white suit was almost incandescent in the sun. 1153 01:36:49,877 --> 01:36:52,946 You looked both young and old 1154 01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:54,982 at the same time. 1155 01:36:56,483 --> 01:36:58,385 And... 1156 01:36:59,721 --> 01:37:04,091 ...it was almost as if the sun was arrested in the horizon... 1157 01:37:07,027 --> 01:37:08,362 ...trapped there. 1158 01:37:10,464 --> 01:37:13,934 Feels like a beautiful day that would never end, 1159 01:37:14,068 --> 01:37:17,304 and, oh, what a beautiful day it was. 1160 01:37:22,376 --> 01:37:23,877 Who are you? 1161 01:37:27,314 --> 01:37:30,384 I'm drifting between categories. 1162 01:37:48,469 --> 01:37:50,471 Everybody was asleep. And now what? 1163 01:37:50,605 --> 01:37:51,639 Nobody was watching. 1164 01:37:52,139 --> 01:37:53,675 I'm talking of sleep. 1165 01:37:53,808 --> 01:37:56,877 Look at this beautiful woman, Sleeping Beauty. 1166 01:37:58,345 --> 01:38:00,815 You're sitting at the perfect table. 1167 01:38:01,048 --> 01:38:03,585 And just like my rum. Taste it. Taste it. 1168 01:38:04,151 --> 01:38:05,587 - For me? - Correct, girl. 1169 01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:08,021 It will clear your eye. Your eye will shine now. 1170 01:38:08,155 --> 01:38:11,392 You understand me? 1171 01:38:11,526 --> 01:38:16,798 - Mr. Abara, what you doing bothering this fine journalist? - Hey! What's the matter? 1172 01:38:16,930 --> 01:38:19,199 -Are you up to your old tricks again? -Tricks? Me? Hey! 1173 01:38:19,333 --> 01:38:20,835 Shayla, you must be starving. 1174 01:38:20,968 --> 01:38:22,570 Let's leave Mr. Abara to his peace. 1175 01:38:22,704 --> 01:38:24,204 Oh, please, my friend. You're always throwing 1176 01:38:24,338 --> 01:38:25,272 salt in someone's game. 1177 01:38:25,406 --> 01:38:26,940 I beg. You're a hostile man. 1178 01:38:27,174 --> 01:38:28,275 Shayla, come, dear. 1179 01:38:28,676 --> 01:38:30,411 ...see me. They didn't want to see me. 1180 01:38:30,545 --> 01:38:32,514 Did you see what they were doing? 1181 01:38:32,647 --> 01:38:33,947 Take a seat. 1182 01:38:37,017 --> 01:38:38,252 Ooh. 1183 01:38:39,052 --> 01:38:42,857 I met chefs, poets, DJs, 1184 01:38:43,190 --> 01:38:45,894 artists, fighters, nurses, 1185 01:38:46,026 --> 01:38:50,164 hair braiders, beauticians, and college students. 1186 01:38:51,398 --> 01:38:54,201 That night, I met a man named Omar from Dakar, 1187 01:38:54,903 --> 01:38:57,906 a refugee who was rescued by the Nautica safeguard 1188 01:38:58,038 --> 01:38:59,808 off the coast of Senegal. 1189 01:39:00,441 --> 01:39:02,209 The Nautica has a program 1190 01:39:02,342 --> 01:39:06,013 giving refugees rescued at sea automatic asylum. 1191 01:39:07,381 --> 01:39:09,149 During this grace period, 1192 01:39:09,450 --> 01:39:11,920 which can last as long as six months, 1193 01:39:12,186 --> 01:39:13,954 provisional health care and education 1194 01:39:14,087 --> 01:39:15,857 are provided for all children. 1195 01:39:16,558 --> 01:39:18,959 Temporary paid work and training 1196 01:39:19,460 --> 01:39:21,629 are provided to all adult men and women 1197 01:39:21,763 --> 01:39:23,631 aboard various Nautica vessels. 1198 01:39:25,032 --> 01:39:28,135 That is how Omar found himself on the Nautica. 1199 01:39:31,573 --> 01:39:33,440 It was this encounter that would lead me down 1200 01:39:33,575 --> 01:39:35,710 an unexpected rabbit hole... 1201 01:39:39,179 --> 01:39:41,381 That is where my story begins. 1202 01:39:56,129 --> 01:39:57,331 One minute. 1203 01:40:07,876 --> 01:40:10,143 Ah-- Desmond. 1204 01:40:10,277 --> 01:40:12,881 - Hey, girl. - It's late. 1205 01:40:13,080 --> 01:40:15,015 It's the right time for this, though. 1206 01:42:05,660 --> 01:42:07,461 -The second? -The second one... 1207 01:42:11,699 --> 01:42:13,266 When the Secretary to the Treasury 1208 01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:15,469 in America wants money, he asks them, 1209 01:42:15,603 --> 01:42:18,106 "How long will it take you to print this?" 1210 01:42:22,142 --> 01:42:24,211 Why do you think they are having trouble with, uh-- 1211 01:42:24,344 --> 01:42:25,913 with, uh-- with Russia? 1212 01:42:26,146 --> 01:42:27,815 Because Russia is buying gold, 1213 01:42:27,949 --> 01:42:31,085 and it is moving away from the dollar. 1214 01:42:31,351 --> 01:42:33,621 And China is the same. China is moving gold. 1215 01:42:33,755 --> 01:42:35,123 Look at the countries that have now 1216 01:42:35,255 --> 01:42:36,591 the largest collection of gold. 1217 01:42:36,724 --> 01:42:39,426 They want a currency that is backed by gold, 1218 01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:41,029 and Uganda has gold. 1219 01:42:41,328 --> 01:42:42,295 What they would do 1220 01:42:42,429 --> 01:42:43,731 is they would make our 1221 01:42:43,865 --> 01:42:45,165 currency gold. 1222 01:42:45,298 --> 01:42:46,701 And we have gold. 1223 01:42:47,535 --> 01:42:49,671 So, instead of letting this gold hemorrhage 1224 01:42:49,804 --> 01:42:51,973 out of the country, would get this money 1225 01:42:52,106 --> 01:42:53,675 and turn it into gold. 1226 01:42:55,208 --> 01:42:56,176 The Gold Stan-- 1227 01:43:05,285 --> 01:43:08,022 Peking, a world-famous city, 1228 01:43:08,156 --> 01:43:09,724 ancient yet young, 1229 01:43:10,058 --> 01:43:13,094 the capital of the People's Republic of China. 1230 01:43:13,861 --> 01:43:15,429 This spring, we have the honor 1231 01:43:15,563 --> 01:43:17,197 to extend our hospitality 1232 01:43:17,330 --> 01:43:19,867 to Dr. William E.B. Du Bois, 1233 01:43:20,068 --> 01:43:22,837 eminent Negro scholar of the United States 1234 01:43:22,970 --> 01:43:25,305 and member of the World Peace Council, 1235 01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:28,976 together with his wife, the writer Shirley Graham. 1236 01:43:32,513 --> 01:43:35,149 It's Dr. Du Bois' 91st birthday. 1237 01:43:35,616 --> 01:43:37,451 A birthday celebration is held for him 1238 01:43:37,585 --> 01:43:39,987 by more than 1000 professors and students 1239 01:43:40,121 --> 01:43:41,923 of Peking University. 1240 01:43:46,127 --> 01:43:48,495 At Wuhan on March 13th, 1241 01:43:48,930 --> 01:43:51,032 Chairman Mao Zedong has dinner with the guests. 1242 01:43:51,431 --> 01:43:54,569 I think the problem with your generation is that you guys... 1243 01:43:54,902 --> 01:43:57,605 -You-- you're waiting for us. -Waiting for you to do what? 1244 01:43:57,739 --> 01:43:59,406 You're waiting for the young people to do things-- 1245 01:43:59,540 --> 01:44:01,374 You should carry your leg and do things. 1246 01:44:01,509 --> 01:44:03,010 The young people are standing-- 1247 01:44:03,144 --> 01:44:05,179 No, no, no, no, no. Do y-- young people are standing 1248 01:44:05,312 --> 01:44:07,048 -on who's shoulders? -Whose shoulders should I be standing on? 1249 01:44:07,181 --> 01:44:09,249 should be the people before us. 1250 01:44:09,382 --> 01:44:10,852 - You can't say that. - You can't say that. 1251 01:44:10,985 --> 01:44:12,820 Okay, let me do one for you. The young people 1252 01:44:12,954 --> 01:44:14,222 are standing on the shoulders of somebody. 1253 01:44:14,354 --> 01:44:15,322 The people that-- the shoulders 1254 01:44:15,455 --> 01:44:16,389 you're standing on, I have to 1255 01:44:16,524 --> 01:44:17,592 look in the history book and 1256 01:44:17,725 --> 01:44:18,726 -find them. -Hey, look now. 1257 01:44:18,860 --> 01:44:20,061 Awolowa is there. Kwame Nkrumah 1258 01:44:20,194 --> 01:44:21,562 is there. 1259 01:44:21,696 --> 01:44:22,930 Nnamdi Azikiwe is there. 1260 01:44:23,064 --> 01:44:24,297 They're all there. 1261 01:44:26,834 --> 01:44:28,502 Ah, this thing is not spitting any...