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- Morning.
- Good morning.
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- Hi, guys.
- Hi.
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[indistinct chatter]
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- Over here!
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- Okay, guys, I need all--
- Morning.
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- Good morning.
- How's it going?
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- Good.
- You guys all ready?
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both: Yeah.
- Okay.
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- Today is Tuesday,
January 8, 2018,
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and now it's time for
our two minutes of silence.
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[bell dings]
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[solemn music]
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♪ ♪
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Okay, make it a great day.
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♪ ♪
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- [speaking indistinctly]
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Hi.
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- Oh, hi.
- Aww.
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- Hi. Happy New Year.
- Happy New Year.
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- How are you?
- Good.
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- Hi, Reuben.
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- I woke him up
to come see you guys.
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- Oh, did you? Hi, sweetheart.
Oh, there's a smile.
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Do you remember me?
It's been a whole month.
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Hi. It's been a whole month.
A-boo.
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Thanks for letting him
be our little baby.
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He's so sweet.
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- Yeah.
- I guess you like him, huh?
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This is Reuben.
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- Oh, what a cutie.
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- So he comes to fourth grade
once a month.
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Are you ready to go to class?
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- Where's the baby?
- He's coming.
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He's downstairs in the office.
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I just have to put out
his blanket,
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and then I'll go get him.
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Have a good day.
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Okay.
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- Or anywhere?
I now have my secret...
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[indistinct chatter]
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all: ♪ Hello, baby Reuben ♪
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♪ And how are you? ♪
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[soft music]
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♪ ♪
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- Raise your hand
if you can tell me
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how you think baby Reuben is.
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We just sang him the question,
"How are you?"
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How do you think he is?
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- Happy.
- You think he's happy?
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What's he doing
to tell you that?
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- He wanted you
to touch his feet.
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- Did he move his feet
in front of you?
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So how does it make you feel
when you see Reuben happy?
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How do you feel?
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- Awesome.
- Happy?
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It's--you know that feelings
are contagious?
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You can catch a feeling.
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[Reuben coos]
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What do you think he's learning
when I play with him
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and I look at him like this
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and I'm looking at him
in the eye
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and I'm touching his head?
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What do you think he's
learning?
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- Like, kind of, like,
a new emotion,
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like, feeling, like,
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cool, like you're in a room
with nobody in it,
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nothing, like,
in a blank room, and--
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- And it's just me
caring for him.
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- Yeah.
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- He is learning to be
a more caring human being
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so he'll be able--
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you'll be able to show
that you care for people
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because I'm showing you.
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♪ ♪
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[uplifting music]
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♪ ♪
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[all speaking native language]
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- Phoibe is my grandma.
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She was sad when we left
the refugee camp.
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I remember her coming
when we were about to leave.
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She was so sad,
she didn't even say anything,
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and I know she was so sad
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because she knew we couldn't
make it in the United States.
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Now she's living
in Anchorage with us.
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We enjoy having
conversation with her.
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She's telling us what happened
before, a hundred years ago.
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I'm from Congo.
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When I was three years old,
we moved to Rwanda,
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and I lived in a refugee camp
before I came here.
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We didn't have electricity.
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We were treated as people
from other country.
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I used to miss my country,
like, a lot, a lot,
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that I can think
about it every night,
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but right now I feel like
the U.S. is my home.
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[phone rings]
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- The client is here.
- Okay.
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Is it Achmed
that's there with you?
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- He is, yep.
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- Okay, and it's his mom
that's there?
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- That's correct, yes, uh-huh.
- And refresh me.
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What country is she in?
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- She is right now in
Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa.
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- Okay.
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- Hi-ho. How are you?
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Oh, look at Rosie walking.
I have not seen Rosie walking.
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Usually she's in your arms.
Look at her.
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- Okay, you're gonna work on
when and where today.
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- Okay, we'll try
to find someone,
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Hope, that can maybe help you
with driving, like,
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'cause you live far away,
so it's hard, like,
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to get from a place
to the other.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- Your job is to just graduate
from high school.
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- So the bank
will lend you money.
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Lend--lend means
you can have it,
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but I get it back.
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- We have the Welcome Fund,
which is, like,
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unrestricted money that donors
from, like, around Anchorage
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donate to
to help us fill in
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all the voids that don't exist
through all the grants.
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If the client doesn't have
the means and he comes back in,
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talk to him because if this $55
is a big difference
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between his ability to, like,
get the housing that he needs,
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then tell him
not to worry about it.
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Tell him the Welcome Fund
covered it.
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- Yeah, okay.
- So...
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Horrific things
happen to refugees.
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You have met the
qualifications of a refugee
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'cause you have experienced
extreme trauma.
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- Hello?
- Hi, is this Ramiz?
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Most of our clients and the
people that we are resettling
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have fled violent outbursts of
civil war or ongoing conflict,
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militias coming through towns,
burning villages,
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attacking women
at very high rates,
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some of the highest rates of
sexual violence against women.
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- When people flee
from those places
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and they go
to neighboring countries
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or they leave those countries
and come here,
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some of those people
are traumatized, like,
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and how do you help
such people?
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- Every time I think,
"How is it gonna be for them?"
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Clients from, let's say,
a refugee camp from Somalia,
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they never saw a shower,
so we're teaching them,
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and then they learn
very quickly.
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My job is absolutely special.
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I see them at the airport,
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and a year later,
they are different people.
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- When I first came
to United States,
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it was completely
a new country.
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I didn't even know
how to get on the bus.
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Solange, she's my auntie,
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and we lived together when
we were in a refugee camp.
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- Once you dip it the first
time, you can swipe it there.
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- She doesn't speak or hear,
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and we enjoy seeing her
in Anchorage.
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Maombi, she's my cousin.
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She lives in Anchorage,
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and she came one day
before my grandma came.
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- Hey. How are you?
You look very pretty today.
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- Out of the atrocities
of World War II
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and out of the Holocaust,
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the globe said,
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"We need to ensure the safety
of every human being."
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[indistinct speech]
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- And then we see that
reflected
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all the way down
to small-town America,
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who is stepping up
to do their part to ensure
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that when that person
gets here,
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they're welcomed to a place,
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and they have all the resources
that they need.
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- All right, we will put food
in the refrigerator.
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- And that's the heart
of the Resettlement Program.
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That's the heart of why someone
who's 102 years old
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has the right to come to this
country and join her family,
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and as a globe, we have
decided that that is a fact.
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If we were having this
conversation a few years ago,
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I would tell you the
likelihood that you would
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end up in the United States
was very high.
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We used to welcome over
half of the world's refugees.
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That's not the case today.
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The value of a human life
is the value of a human life
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regardless of who you are.
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♪ ♪
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[indistinct chatter]
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- How did this all come
to happen?
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How did the universe start?
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Like, there has to be
a beginning and an end,
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and, like, it's completely
unexplainable without
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some sort of higher power
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starting the whole cycle
itself.
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- Yeah, when you really think
about it, like,
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there is a lot of things that
can't really be explained--
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miracles,
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something like--I've known
people who feel like
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they were reincarnated
from other--like,
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things that can't
exactly be explained.
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- Like, things--
- I have a strong faith,
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and I didn't want--and, like,
I would tell my mom
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about the class and everything,
and she was like,
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"Oh, don't forget
about your faith."
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- If you don't understand
something, you can be fearful.
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You can--can be angry at it.
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- I did not want to take
this class at all.
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You know, I tried so hard
to get out of the class.
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I talked to my counselors
and everything,
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and I was like,
"I don't wanna take this class.
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"I don't see the point.
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Like, I'm not in
any of those religions."
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Like, I have my own religion,
and that's it.
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If you wanna have a different
religion, that's cool,
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but I don't want--I don't wanna
learn about your religion.
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Like, it's a waste
of time, yeah.
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[dramatic music]
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♪ ♪
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all: ♪ All hail to thee ♪
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♪ Johansen High ♪
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[whistle blasts]
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- Here you go!
Yeah!
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[applause]
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[band playing upbeat music]
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♪ ♪
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- Morning.
Where is everybody?
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Whoa, boys.
Gentlemen.
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No, no, no.
Be nice. I know.
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[indistinct chatter]
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- When you were writing,
you were like...
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- All right, folks.
Religion, what the heck is it?
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One of the elements of religion
that is the most common
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is a belief
in an absolute power.
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Now, some religions
call this idea "God."
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Some religions call this idea
"Allah."
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Some call it the "Tao."
Some call it "Brahman."
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There are different ways
of seeing these ideas,
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different relationships that
people have with this idea.
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Not everybody has chosen
a religion for themselves.
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Some people believe
there is no spiritual world
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to connect with.
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That is called atheist.
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Agnostic is different.
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Agnostic is the idea
that you're just not sure.
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Religion is like--it's like
a vehicle that gets you
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from this human experience
that we all have,
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and it connects you
with a spiritual one.
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The First Amendment
to the Constitution says,
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"Congress shall make no law
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"respecting
an establishment of religion
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or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof."
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What is the topic
of the first right?
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- Religion.
- Religion.
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That's how important it is
in this country,
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this idea
of freedom of religion.
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- Well, if that came up,
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then the best thing
for that person to do is come
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and talk to me about it,
and we will figure out
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if we can't pursue
an--you know, a compromise.
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But in all of my years,
doesn't happen.
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Mm-hmm.
258
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Most people are like,
"Okay, teach me.
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Tell me what you got."
So.
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Imagine if we were sitting
in here
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and someone official walked
into our classroom and said,
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"You know, we're having trouble
with some kids,
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"and we need
to remove some people.
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"We are going to remove
all of the people
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who have on
yellow striped shirts."
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- Poor Tawny.
- Bye, Tawny.
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And we all look around,
and we're like,
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"Oh, thank God
it wasn't me," right?
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A few minutes pass,
and they come back,
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and they look around,
271
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and they go,
"Yup, you know what?
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I think everyone wearing black
needs to come with us too."
273
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- I'm running.
- Seriously.
274
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Should I have spoken up before,
275
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when they take poor little
Tawny away
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because she has on
yellow stripes?
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Maybe I made a mistake keeping
my mouth shut, thinking I
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was comfortable sitting here
in my black,
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because now it's my turn.
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We need to protect the rights
of the smallest minority
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because in doing that, we're
protecting our own rights.
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We can't get too comfortable.
283
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We have to stand up
for each other.
284
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That's what the Constitution
is reminding us,
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stand up for each other.
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[somber music]
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♪ ♪
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- This degree means
everything to me.
289
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I didn't wanna wake up
in five more years
290
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and still be a server.
291
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I didn't wanna wake up
in five more years
292
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and be a hairdresser
making $10 an hour.
293
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I couldn't do that.
294
00:20:02,679 --> 00:20:07,467
- It's, like, upside down.
- 4 times 10, which is 40.
295
00:20:07,554 --> 00:20:11,862
- You just draw what you saw.
- I'm a single mother,
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and all you know
that you need to do is wake up,
297
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go to school, you know,
go to work, see my son,
298
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do it again the next day,
and that's very hard.
299
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- Did you get it to focus?
- I think it's down too low.
300
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Going to school,
working full-time at night,
301
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I went months
without seeing my son.
302
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He didn't want me
when I was home.
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He wanted my mom.
304
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He was calling my mom "Mom,"
305
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and it sucked.
306
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So now we're moving
to the next magnification.
307
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- Just did.
308
00:20:53,774 --> 00:20:55,819
- I really thought I could
hold it down,
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but I was freaking out
about my bills.
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When I tell you I'm broke,
I am broke.
311
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Yeah, that one's kind of hard.
312
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I'm the one who stays up crying
in the middle of the night
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wondering, like,
how am I gonna pay this?
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How are we gonna make it?
315
00:21:25,196 --> 00:21:26,763
- I'm Russell.
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I work at the college.
- Okay.
317
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- I'll buy your coffee,
and I'll buy you lunch
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if I can talk to you
for ten minutes.
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Will that work?
- Yeah.
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- Right?
What's working for you here?
321
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What are we doing well,
and what do we need to know
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that's not going so well?
I'm Russell.
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- Nice to meet you, Millefer.
- I work here at the college.
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Tell me your name again.
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- Millefer.
- Millefer?
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- Yes.
- That's a beautiful name.
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Tell me about...
When I came here,
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I looked at our success rates,
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and more of our students
were failing out
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than they were graduating, and
I wanted to understand why.
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- You have to take care
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of your kid first
versus going to school.
333
00:22:00,493 --> 00:22:03,452
- I just started asking
students questions,
334
00:22:03,539 --> 00:22:06,977
and the responses that
our students told me
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that were keeping them
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from being successful
in the classroom
337
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changed who I am personally
and professionally
338
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because their biggest barriers
to classroom success
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had nothing to do
with the classroom.
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- Hello.
- Hello.
341
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- How are you?
- Good. How are you?
342
00:22:22,123 --> 00:22:23,733
- Come on in.
How can I help you today?
343
00:22:23,820 --> 00:22:26,214
- You can either get assistance
with tuition,
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with textbooks,
with transportation,
345
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or with childcare.
What questions do you have?
346
00:22:31,741 --> 00:22:33,264
- I just wanted to know about
the food pantry and--
347
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- The food pantry? Yeah.
348
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- 54% of our students
are food insecure,
349
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and 59% of our students
are housing insecure.
350
00:22:41,490 --> 00:22:42,839
- They're gonna repossess
my car,
351
00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:44,319
and I'm not gonna be able
to get to school.
352
00:22:44,406 --> 00:22:46,321
I'm gonna mess
everything all up again.
353
00:22:46,408 --> 00:22:48,541
- And then here's the number.
- For the utility bill?
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- Transportation, childcare,
healthcare, utility payments,
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legal services, housing,
things that I'd always assumed
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were someone else's
responsibility,
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I understood had to be Amarillo
College's responsibility.
358
00:23:04,861 --> 00:23:06,472
- I'm working really hard,
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00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:08,082
and I really want to stay
in school,
360
00:23:08,169 --> 00:23:12,608
and it's only--I just wanna be
able to pay--pay my car.
361
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I have military PTSD
from combat,
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and I'm still trying
to go to school.
363
00:23:16,699 --> 00:23:18,745
- Okay, so Angelique Martin,
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she was needing help
paying her car.
365
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So she's--has her car through
Auto Connection here in town.
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She pays a small amount
every two weeks,
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and she had used
the financial aid
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that she received
the first eight weeks
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to pay all up until this point,
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and so now she needs
help paying for this--
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- What's her GPA?
- It's low. Mm-hmm.
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- We can't help her.
We can't help her.
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- No?
Okay.
374
00:23:45,815 --> 00:23:47,556
- Maybe we could call the
car place and advocate for her.
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00:23:47,643 --> 00:23:49,863
- I don't mind doing that,
but I was also thinking of maybe
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asking if the church can help.
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[phone line beeping, dialing]
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- I was calling in regards
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to one of your customers,
Angelique Martin.
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- Okay.
- If we are gonna improve
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their education attainment,
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We had to connect them
to resources
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that our community had
to help them
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overcome the life barriers that
they experienced every day.
385
00:24:14,104 --> 00:24:17,543
That's where the magic
is for our community
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because that's how we're gonna
break the cycle of poverty
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that is not just crippling the
Amarillo or panhandle region.
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It's gonna cripple
our entire country.
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But the only way someone
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who's grown up
in generational poverty
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is gonna be able to get
a degree and move out of it
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is if they have support
and resources,
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and we're trying
to systemically do that here.
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00:24:41,871 --> 00:24:43,612
- Hi. I'm Jordan Herrera.
- Hi.
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- I'm here to pick up a check
from Mark. Is he here today?
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00:24:46,267 --> 00:24:48,965
- Yeah.
- I got a check here for you.
397
00:24:49,052 --> 00:24:50,532
All right.
- Thank you so much, Mark.
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00:24:50,619 --> 00:24:51,838
- Have a nice day.
- We appreciate it.
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00:24:51,925 --> 00:24:53,753
- You betcha.
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00:24:59,933 --> 00:25:01,064
- Good morning.
401
00:25:01,151 --> 00:25:02,239
- Good morning.
- Are you Paul?
402
00:25:02,326 --> 00:25:03,545
- You must be Jordan.
- I'm Jordan.
403
00:25:03,632 --> 00:25:04,677
- How you doing, Jordan?
- Good, nice to meet you.
404
00:25:04,764 --> 00:25:06,374
- It's a pleasure
to meet you, Jordan.
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00:25:06,461 --> 00:25:09,638
- Hi. So here's the check
for $300 for Angelique.
406
00:25:09,725 --> 00:25:11,335
- Okay.
Oh.
407
00:25:11,422 --> 00:25:12,815
- Our gratitude for
helping her out and--
408
00:25:12,902 --> 00:25:14,600
- Oh, and here's
what I'm gonna do.
409
00:25:14,687 --> 00:25:16,515
We're gonna kick in
a little gift ourselves.
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00:25:16,602 --> 00:25:17,690
So the first--
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00:25:17,777 --> 00:25:19,605
- Oh, that's amazing.
412
00:25:19,692 --> 00:25:21,432
- Forgive charge, and we're
gonna forgive an extra $100.
413
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,478
- Well, thank you so much.
We appreciate it so much.
414
00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:25,480
- Well, you're
certainly welcome.
415
00:25:25,567 --> 00:25:28,091
We--we appreciate the efforts,
416
00:25:28,178 --> 00:25:30,137
the community effort
and the church.
417
00:25:30,224 --> 00:25:31,442
- Yeah.
- And our support of the--
418
00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:33,096
- It takes a village.
419
00:25:33,183 --> 00:25:34,010
- That's r--well,
that's what it does.
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00:25:34,097 --> 00:25:35,316
- It does.
421
00:25:35,403 --> 00:25:37,013
- And what I really like
about it is
422
00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:39,668
it's--so it's showing
local people
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doing--doing some local good
to help people...
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00:25:43,454 --> 00:25:45,587
- Absolutely.
- Make a step up,
425
00:25:45,674 --> 00:25:48,547
and that's--we need
more of that.
426
00:25:48,634 --> 00:25:49,809
- Hi, beautiful.
- How are you?
427
00:25:49,896 --> 00:25:52,289
- I like that.
- Oh, thank you.
428
00:25:52,376 --> 00:25:55,728
- The car situation
that you brought up to us,
429
00:25:55,815 --> 00:25:59,601
I was able to talk
to a church here in town,
430
00:25:59,688 --> 00:26:03,910
so we were able to go
pick up a check this morning
431
00:26:03,997 --> 00:26:07,000
from the church for $300
432
00:26:07,087 --> 00:26:09,350
to help pay
both of the car payments
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00:26:09,437 --> 00:26:11,091
that needed to be paid
for September.
434
00:26:11,178 --> 00:26:12,875
- Oh, thank you so much.
- You're welcome.
435
00:26:12,962 --> 00:26:17,663
- I've never been turned down.
You guys never turn me down.
436
00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:19,708
- We're--we're never gonna
turn you down.
437
00:26:19,795 --> 00:26:22,842
We won't. We won't,
and you know what, Angelique?
438
00:26:22,929 --> 00:26:27,063
All of the services that we
have here are for this reason.
439
00:26:27,150 --> 00:26:28,543
That's why they're here.
440
00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:32,721
They exist to help students
like you.
441
00:26:32,808 --> 00:26:35,724
You can provide
a service all day, every day.
442
00:26:35,811 --> 00:26:38,684
You can hand out
whatever you think people need,
443
00:26:38,771 --> 00:26:41,600
but until you can make somebody
feel like a human being
444
00:26:41,687 --> 00:26:45,386
and that they're worthy of your
time, it's not gonna matter.
445
00:26:47,997 --> 00:26:50,652
- Ultimately, what we all want
is to be loved,
446
00:26:50,739 --> 00:26:54,569
to have a family, to have a
job that pays us a living wage
447
00:26:54,656 --> 00:26:59,226
so that we can walk in hope
and provide for those
448
00:26:59,313 --> 00:27:02,621
that we love
and share a life with.
449
00:27:02,708 --> 00:27:04,361
The undercurrent of fear,
I think,
450
00:27:04,448 --> 00:27:07,538
is an undercurrent
of economic injustice.
451
00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:12,239
Opportunity for everyone
rather than just the few.
452
00:27:12,326 --> 00:27:14,676
- The globe is most unkind
453
00:27:14,763 --> 00:27:17,897
when we determine
that someone's life
454
00:27:17,984 --> 00:27:20,464
holds more value
than another person's life.
455
00:27:20,551 --> 00:27:23,467
That's the start of unkindness.
456
00:27:23,554 --> 00:27:27,907
- With a society that has
so much available to it
457
00:27:27,994 --> 00:27:32,781
in physical material,
things, our country is at risk
458
00:27:32,868 --> 00:27:37,743
because we've just forgotten
how to care for each other.
459
00:27:37,830 --> 00:27:39,832
- Hi, how are you?
- Somewhere along the way
460
00:27:39,919 --> 00:27:41,834
it became okay
461
00:27:41,921 --> 00:27:45,141
to just kinda walk over bodies
to get to where you're going.
462
00:27:45,228 --> 00:27:47,578
How disastrous
does it have to become
463
00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,930
before we bring out the better
angels of our inner souls?
464
00:27:51,017 --> 00:27:52,801
- Does that sound right?
- Yes.
465
00:27:52,888 --> 00:27:55,369
- But as a society,
where did we lose our way
466
00:27:55,456 --> 00:27:57,414
and say that this is okay
that a whole bunch of people
467
00:27:57,501 --> 00:28:00,243
who live in abject poverty
end up,
468
00:28:00,330 --> 00:28:01,984
years later, with somebody
living on the streets
469
00:28:02,071 --> 00:28:05,727
'cause they don't have the
skills to survive in our world?
470
00:28:13,561 --> 00:28:16,129
- Should we see who's
in the park first?
471
00:28:16,216 --> 00:28:18,087
See if there's anyone
in Kushner Park?
472
00:28:23,745 --> 00:28:25,051
- Might be too cold
to work, huh?
473
00:28:25,138 --> 00:28:26,748
- It's fucked up.
It's fucked up.
474
00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:28,794
I mean, I'm fucked up.
I--it's my problem.
475
00:28:28,881 --> 00:28:31,231
I have the problem.
476
00:28:31,318 --> 00:28:33,189
- Put your arm--pledge
allegiance for a minute.
477
00:28:33,276 --> 00:28:35,322
Put your arm there,
just like this.
478
00:28:35,409 --> 00:28:36,976
Just relax for a moment, okay?
479
00:28:42,459 --> 00:28:44,548
So he's gonna go over
to McInnis House.
480
00:28:44,635 --> 00:28:46,376
We've got one bed.
481
00:28:46,463 --> 00:28:48,596
We just wanna be sure his vital
signs are okay before we go.
482
00:28:48,683 --> 00:28:50,772
- Yeah.
483
00:28:50,859 --> 00:28:54,471
- And I think in the back
of my--did it stop?
484
00:28:54,558 --> 00:28:56,038
- "Error, error."
485
00:28:56,125 --> 00:28:57,648
- Oh, did it say
"error reading?"
486
00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:59,259
- Yeah, error.
- Okay.
487
00:28:59,346 --> 00:29:00,695
- I--I'm an idiot. I don't know
what the hell I'm doing.
488
00:29:00,782 --> 00:29:02,436
- No, I--
- Is this blood pressure?
489
00:29:02,523 --> 00:29:03,916
- It is blood pressure,
but don't worry, you know?
490
00:29:04,003 --> 00:29:05,569
We'll live with it
'cause your oxygen's okay.
491
00:29:05,656 --> 00:29:07,615
We can live with it.
Let me see this hand.
492
00:29:07,702 --> 00:29:09,138
Let me see.
493
00:29:09,225 --> 00:29:10,792
Oh, they're warm there.
You're warm. Okay.
494
00:29:10,879 --> 00:29:13,229
- Yeah, but I'm still
starting to get--
495
00:29:13,316 --> 00:29:14,622
- And is your feet--how bad
are your feet?
496
00:29:14,709 --> 00:29:16,406
Are they pretty bad?
497
00:29:16,493 --> 00:29:18,191
- Trench foot and frostbite
and everything else.
498
00:29:18,278 --> 00:29:20,149
- Kay, we won't take them off.
We'll look at them when--
499
00:29:20,236 --> 00:29:21,411
- I don't even know--
- No, we'll look at them
500
00:29:21,498 --> 00:29:23,196
when you get over
to McInnis House.
501
00:29:23,283 --> 00:29:24,719
You don't have to do that now.
502
00:29:24,806 --> 00:29:25,764
I'm kinda glad
you're coming in.
503
00:29:25,851 --> 00:29:26,895
I haven't seen you
in a long time.
504
00:29:26,982 --> 00:29:28,244
- Hey, love you, Jim.
505
00:29:28,331 --> 00:29:29,115
You are my favorite person
in the world.
506
00:29:29,202 --> 00:29:30,377
- Okay, let me get--oops.
507
00:29:30,464 --> 00:29:32,031
- He's a real human being.
508
00:29:32,118 --> 00:29:35,686
Yeah, he's always been
incredibly genuine,
509
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,340
very kind to me, you know?
510
00:29:37,427 --> 00:29:42,911
I mean, in ways
that you can't even express.
511
00:29:42,998 --> 00:29:45,392
I can't even say
how many things
512
00:29:45,479 --> 00:29:47,089
that these people
have done for me.
513
00:29:47,176 --> 00:29:49,831
They've done for me from--than
I could do for myself.
514
00:29:52,268 --> 00:29:54,096
- You look like you're stiff.
515
00:29:54,183 --> 00:29:56,098
When you go out to take care
of a group of homeless people,
516
00:29:56,185 --> 00:29:58,187
and I would say in particular
the street folks,
517
00:29:58,274 --> 00:29:59,885
they will show you
the weaknesses
518
00:29:59,972 --> 00:30:01,930
in the mainstream health care
system in a second...
519
00:30:02,017 --> 00:30:04,193
So it's coming in both hands?
All right.
520
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,631
- Things that we didn't
even realize.
521
00:30:07,718 --> 00:30:10,025
There is no doubt
that homelessness
522
00:30:10,112 --> 00:30:13,507
is a public health emergency
and tragedy,
523
00:30:13,594 --> 00:30:14,987
and it's deadly.
524
00:30:15,074 --> 00:30:16,945
My name is O'Connell.
I'm Dr. O'Connell.
525
00:30:17,032 --> 00:30:19,295
What do you need, anything?
526
00:30:19,382 --> 00:30:22,168
- I need mental health,
and I want--
527
00:30:22,255 --> 00:30:23,865
- Let me introduce...
Street medicine
528
00:30:23,952 --> 00:30:25,432
can actually be
just an extension
529
00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:27,086
of regular primary care,
530
00:30:27,173 --> 00:30:29,436
just--just trying to address
the particular obstacles
531
00:30:29,523 --> 00:30:31,655
that group of people
have to coming into care.
532
00:30:31,742 --> 00:30:33,005
Oh, okay.
533
00:30:33,092 --> 00:30:33,962
- I need your help.
- In private?
534
00:30:34,049 --> 00:30:34,963
- Yeah.
- Okay.
535
00:30:35,050 --> 00:30:36,530
We can do it in private.
536
00:30:36,617 --> 00:30:37,923
We learned that you can
manage heart failure.
537
00:30:38,010 --> 00:30:39,663
You can manage hypertension.
538
00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:42,841
You can manage a lot of chronic
diseases by bringing,
539
00:30:42,928 --> 00:30:45,974
you know, your blood pressure
cuffs and your things outside.
540
00:30:46,061 --> 00:30:49,586
- Do they still use those?
- I still think you had
541
00:30:49,673 --> 00:30:50,892
a little bit of a concussion
when you fell down,
542
00:30:50,979 --> 00:30:53,373
and I'd rather have you in,
Bobby, okay?
543
00:30:53,460 --> 00:30:55,114
- If you're trained
in medicine,
544
00:30:55,201 --> 00:30:56,985
there is no career path to
take care of homeless people.
545
00:30:57,072 --> 00:30:58,508
And you don't need detox,
right?
546
00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:00,032
- No, no.
547
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:01,947
- It was a nurse who said,
548
00:31:02,034 --> 00:31:04,558
"You've been trained
all wrong," and she took away
549
00:31:04,645 --> 00:31:07,126
all the tools of my trade,
and she said, "What we do
550
00:31:07,213 --> 00:31:09,432
is we tend to invite people
in to soak their feet,"
551
00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:11,782
and she said, "So I'm gonna
have you soak feet."
552
00:31:16,787 --> 00:31:22,054
- Remember, foot care clinic
is a gateway into primary care,
553
00:31:22,141 --> 00:31:25,057
not because we will just want
to disturb people
554
00:31:25,144 --> 00:31:27,189
and just bother
with vital signs,
555
00:31:27,276 --> 00:31:32,064
but it gives us an indication as
to somebody's health condition.
556
00:31:32,151 --> 00:31:33,369
Does it make sense?
557
00:31:33,456 --> 00:31:34,718
- Yeah.
- All right.
558
00:31:34,805 --> 00:31:37,373
- What's your name?
- Walter Bogar.
559
00:31:37,460 --> 00:31:41,900
- Any allergies?
What happened to this foot?
560
00:31:41,987 --> 00:31:45,294
- It's a long story.
It's a gangrene toe.
561
00:31:45,381 --> 00:31:48,341
It's a dry gangrene.
It'll fall off eventually.
562
00:31:48,428 --> 00:31:52,432
- My feet are soaking wet.
Oh, walking in the rain.
563
00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:56,436
- How are you today?
Do you have any allergies?
564
00:31:56,523 --> 00:31:58,481
Have you had any vaccine
this year?
565
00:31:58,568 --> 00:32:00,919
- [speaks indistinctly]
566
00:32:01,006 --> 00:32:03,008
- Let's see what's going
on here.
567
00:32:03,095 --> 00:32:07,186
Ooh. Did you see that this
is really rough, Eric?
568
00:32:07,273 --> 00:32:09,231
You feel my thumb there?
569
00:32:09,318 --> 00:32:10,711
- Yeah.
- How about here?
570
00:32:10,798 --> 00:32:12,408
- Yeah.
- Okay.
571
00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:13,932
- Let's take a look
at the rest.
572
00:32:14,019 --> 00:32:15,237
- Oh, I can do this.
573
00:32:15,324 --> 00:32:16,543
- Any pain down here?
- No.
574
00:32:20,416 --> 00:32:25,117
[indistinct chatter]
575
00:32:25,204 --> 00:32:28,598
- Yeah.
- Yeah, let me see. Okay.
576
00:32:28,685 --> 00:32:31,819
- Oh, this?
- I don't know why it's green.
577
00:32:31,906 --> 00:32:33,690
- My feet were wet all week.
578
00:32:33,777 --> 00:32:35,214
I walked around in wet sneakers
for a week.
579
00:32:35,301 --> 00:32:36,606
- Oh, no.
- Yeah.
580
00:32:36,693 --> 00:32:38,608
- That's bad news.
- Oh, thank you.
581
00:32:38,695 --> 00:32:41,829
- So tell me, how's that?
That help you?
582
00:32:41,916 --> 00:32:43,744
- Yeah.
- Okay, okay.
583
00:32:43,831 --> 00:32:46,094
- The hotter the better.
- Okay.
584
00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:48,053
- The hotter the better.
585
00:32:48,140 --> 00:32:52,883
- I was given this opportunity
in America to go to school
586
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,886
and then get
my education in line,
587
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,976
so I knew deep inside me
588
00:32:58,063 --> 00:33:00,369
that I need to give back
to this community
589
00:33:00,456 --> 00:33:02,676
that have supported me.
590
00:33:02,763 --> 00:33:04,634
Where is my friend?
591
00:33:04,721 --> 00:33:07,768
- How are you, darling?
- Okay, let's do it.
592
00:33:07,855 --> 00:33:09,683
- Okay.
593
00:33:12,338 --> 00:33:14,166
- There.
- You do such a good job.
594
00:33:14,253 --> 00:33:16,777
You take good care of me.
You really do.
595
00:33:16,864 --> 00:33:23,349
- Thank you. The mayor is here.
The mayor is here.
596
00:33:23,436 --> 00:33:24,915
Good morning, Mayor.
597
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,439
- Most homeless people
598
00:33:26,526 --> 00:33:28,049
don't hear somebody
mention their name
599
00:33:28,136 --> 00:33:30,791
with dignity for weeks,
sometimes, if not months.
600
00:33:30,878 --> 00:33:32,923
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
601
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:34,577
- The nurses are brilliant
with this
602
00:33:34,664 --> 00:33:36,318
because it flips
the power structure,
603
00:33:36,405 --> 00:33:38,886
so you're at the feet of the
person you're trying to serve.
604
00:33:41,410 --> 00:33:44,587
- These people are human
beings like you and me,
605
00:33:44,674 --> 00:33:48,765
and they also have
fallen into bad times
606
00:33:48,852 --> 00:33:53,161
and ended up being homeless.
What can we do to help them?
607
00:33:53,248 --> 00:33:55,294
Can you please allow me to get
the blood pressure on your arm?
608
00:33:55,381 --> 00:33:56,860
- You can try.
- Oh, thank you so much.
609
00:33:56,947 --> 00:33:58,819
- Didn't work last time.
- Thank you.
610
00:33:58,906 --> 00:34:00,212
- It's gonna be through
the roof
611
00:34:00,299 --> 00:34:02,301
'cause I don't have
my medication.
612
00:34:02,388 --> 00:34:03,998
- Oh.
- Yeah, yeah.
613
00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:05,956
I'm done with this.
614
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,089
My blood pressure's high.
You can just tell every time.
615
00:34:08,176 --> 00:34:09,830
It's always high.
616
00:34:09,917 --> 00:34:11,440
I haven't had my meds
in a week.
617
00:34:11,527 --> 00:34:14,617
- All right. Okay.
This is--this is really high.
618
00:34:14,704 --> 00:34:16,097
- Yeah, it's nothing
to worry about.
619
00:34:16,184 --> 00:34:17,838
It's been like that forever.
620
00:34:17,925 --> 00:34:20,188
- What can I do? Just--
- Nothing.
621
00:34:20,275 --> 00:34:22,016
You--there's nothing you can
do. What are you gonna do?
622
00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:24,540
- I can call that doctor up
and--
623
00:34:24,627 --> 00:34:25,889
- Yeah, what's that gonna
do?
624
00:34:25,976 --> 00:34:29,110
- Make you an appointment
to see him
625
00:34:29,197 --> 00:34:31,069
ASAP, as soon as possible.
- Who, Rothford?
626
00:34:31,156 --> 00:34:32,461
- Yes.
627
00:34:32,548 --> 00:34:34,333
- And what is that gonna do?
628
00:34:34,420 --> 00:34:38,946
- He's gonna at least increase
your blood pressure medication.
629
00:34:39,033 --> 00:34:40,861
- Yeah, if you wanna try,
you can try calling him.
630
00:34:40,948 --> 00:34:43,994
- No, I will do it now.
631
00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:48,216
- God bless you guys.
Awesome.
632
00:34:48,303 --> 00:34:53,743
- Can you get him a appointment
with Dr. Rothford at Pine?
633
00:34:53,830 --> 00:34:56,137
- You--did you...
[indistinct]
634
00:34:56,224 --> 00:35:00,576
- Why?
Why, in America--
635
00:35:00,663 --> 00:35:03,884
why would people
be still sleeping on the street?
636
00:35:03,971 --> 00:35:07,540
What can we do to bring
all those people every night
637
00:35:07,627 --> 00:35:11,021
on the street into a house
638
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:15,330
so they wouldn't experience
snow on them, rain,
639
00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:17,550
even heat of the sun?
640
00:35:21,902 --> 00:35:25,210
Some will come in,
and they look exhausted,
641
00:35:25,297 --> 00:35:27,560
so I give them a glass
of water,
642
00:35:27,647 --> 00:35:29,388
check their vital signs.
643
00:35:29,475 --> 00:35:32,130
Some,
I will see medical issues.
644
00:35:32,217 --> 00:35:34,349
I have to send them out
to the hospital,
645
00:35:34,436 --> 00:35:38,397
so you treat people
with kindness.
646
00:35:38,484 --> 00:35:41,400
We make them to open up,
and you will see more.
647
00:35:41,487 --> 00:35:43,880
- Do you have gloves?
- No.
648
00:35:43,967 --> 00:35:46,666
- You can earn people's trust
but be present.
649
00:35:46,753 --> 00:35:48,450
Sometimes it happens
on the first day.
650
00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:50,583
Sometimes it happens
after six months,
651
00:35:50,670 --> 00:35:54,064
but the persistence and the
continuity is what really works,
652
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:55,544
and when you can do that,
653
00:35:55,631 --> 00:35:57,285
then you can start
to deliver health care.
654
00:35:57,372 --> 00:35:59,722
If you don't take the time
to do that, you can't.
655
00:35:59,809 --> 00:36:03,639
- Skin looks good.
This hurt?
656
00:36:03,726 --> 00:36:05,902
There's an aspect
of my comfort zone
657
00:36:05,989 --> 00:36:08,601
that I've completely
demolished and expanded
658
00:36:08,688 --> 00:36:10,080
just coming here,
659
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:11,952
working with feet.
660
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:13,258
At first, it was hard
to get used to,
661
00:36:13,345 --> 00:36:15,477
and--and now, you know,
662
00:36:15,564 --> 00:36:18,176
it's--it's just
an aspect of humans.
663
00:36:18,263 --> 00:36:20,221
- Do you mind
if I take your vitals?
664
00:36:20,308 --> 00:36:21,918
- Everyone in here who's
walking behind me,
665
00:36:22,005 --> 00:36:26,314
they--this is their job,
and they're everywhere.
666
00:36:26,401 --> 00:36:28,098
They are all over the country,
all over the world,
667
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,796
you know, helping people,
668
00:36:29,883 --> 00:36:33,278
taking some small effort
to--to provide and try to,
669
00:36:33,365 --> 00:36:37,064
you know, equal the playing
field in a unfair world.
670
00:36:37,151 --> 00:36:41,547
- In one year, I've come
from absolutely nothing,
671
00:36:41,634 --> 00:36:44,071
a stuttering mess downstairs--
672
00:36:44,158 --> 00:36:45,942
with the help of the staff
and everybody else,
673
00:36:46,029 --> 00:36:49,685
I've come out one complete year
to having my feet fixed,
674
00:36:49,772 --> 00:36:53,341
my hip reta--replaced.
I got a smile, you know?
675
00:36:53,428 --> 00:36:55,778
I got my headlights on now,
you know what I mean?
676
00:36:55,865 --> 00:36:59,129
So I'm a complete new vehicle
thanks to this place,
677
00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:01,219
and that's the reason
why I am where I am today.
678
00:37:01,306 --> 00:37:04,352
- And thanks to yourself.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
679
00:37:04,439 --> 00:37:05,614
- When I look at
the long vision,
680
00:37:05,701 --> 00:37:07,660
my guess is those two months
681
00:37:07,747 --> 00:37:09,444
invested in soaking
this man's feet,
682
00:37:09,531 --> 00:37:11,925
which--for which we could
get no income,
683
00:37:12,012 --> 00:37:14,057
probably saved the system
a few million dollars
684
00:37:14,144 --> 00:37:16,059
down the line.
685
00:37:16,146 --> 00:37:18,192
I have come to think
of homelessness--this is
686
00:37:18,279 --> 00:37:19,802
my own little version of it,
687
00:37:19,889 --> 00:37:22,979
is like if you held a prism
up to society, right,
688
00:37:23,066 --> 00:37:27,114
what gets refracted are
the weaknesses in every sector,
689
00:37:27,201 --> 00:37:30,248
in the education sector,
in the housing sector,
690
00:37:30,335 --> 00:37:34,426
the health sector,
corrections, and justice.
691
00:37:34,513 --> 00:37:36,732
We have to figure out
how to address the weaknesses
692
00:37:36,819 --> 00:37:39,126
in all of those
societal sectors
693
00:37:39,213 --> 00:37:41,128
if we're really gonna
address the problem.
694
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,480
- Go.
695
00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,661
- Guys!
- Whoo-hoo!
696
00:38:06,371 --> 00:38:09,112
- You don't have any air
in the tire.
697
00:38:09,199 --> 00:38:12,377
- Yeah, it's been hard
to ride lately.
698
00:38:12,464 --> 00:38:16,990
- Oh, my goodness. It's flat.
Look at that.
699
00:38:17,077 --> 00:38:19,645
When you get a flat tire,
you need to stop by,
700
00:38:19,732 --> 00:38:21,690
and--and
I'll pump it up for you.
701
00:38:21,777 --> 00:38:23,562
- Okay.
- Okay?
702
00:38:23,649 --> 00:38:26,391
- Thank you.
- Oh, of course.
703
00:38:26,478 --> 00:38:29,394
This is something
that I love to do.
704
00:38:29,481 --> 00:38:32,353
You wanna go--pump it up?
It's a little hard, isn't it?
705
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,834
- Mm-hmm, it's really hard.
[grunts]
706
00:38:39,882 --> 00:38:41,667
- It feels different.
- Doesn't it, different?
707
00:38:41,754 --> 00:38:44,496
Give it a shot. I'll bet
you're really gonna like it.
708
00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:50,502
- Oh, ahh!
- How's that?
709
00:38:50,589 --> 00:38:53,331
- Oh, my gosh,
look how easy it is!
710
00:38:53,418 --> 00:38:55,985
[laughs]
711
00:38:56,072 --> 00:39:00,555
Thank you, Steve.
- Oh, you're welcome.
712
00:39:00,642 --> 00:39:02,644
- When children end up
in foster care,
713
00:39:02,731 --> 00:39:06,431
they are often removed from
homes where there is neglect,
714
00:39:06,518 --> 00:39:11,436
and their family safety net
is ripped to shreds.
715
00:39:11,523 --> 00:39:15,440
Who is gonna be there
to catch you when you fall?
716
00:39:17,877 --> 00:39:20,009
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
717
00:39:20,096 --> 00:39:23,709
- Good morning.
718
00:39:23,796 --> 00:39:25,406
- Ah, you're doing our hair
this morning?
719
00:39:25,493 --> 00:39:27,669
- Good morning!
720
00:39:30,237 --> 00:39:32,239
- I guess I do need to
practice for this, okay.
721
00:39:32,326 --> 00:39:33,719
- Is this your presentation?
- Yes.
722
00:39:33,806 --> 00:39:36,417
- Try and do it a little bit
from memory maybe.
723
00:39:36,504 --> 00:39:39,725
- Okay. Jewelry played
a big part in Ancient Egypt.
724
00:39:39,812 --> 00:39:41,248
If you were poor,
725
00:39:41,335 --> 00:39:44,251
then you would wear beaded
necklaces and headbands.
726
00:39:44,338 --> 00:39:46,819
If you were wealthy,
then you were...
727
00:39:46,906 --> 00:39:50,823
- Kids need a rock.
They need that stability,
728
00:39:50,910 --> 00:39:52,999
that one person in their life
that's immobile,
729
00:39:53,086 --> 00:39:54,609
and that's me.
730
00:39:54,696 --> 00:39:57,656
I am their refuge.
I am, you know,
731
00:39:57,743 --> 00:40:01,921
all of those things that
give them a safe place to be.
732
00:40:03,879 --> 00:40:05,620
You know, I have grown
children, grandchildren,
733
00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:07,317
great-grandchildren.
734
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:09,929
To me, it was never
a matter of choice.
735
00:40:10,016 --> 00:40:12,148
It's just what you do.
You pick 'em up,
736
00:40:12,235 --> 00:40:15,717
and you go forward,
and you raise children.
737
00:40:15,804 --> 00:40:17,502
- Brody, is this one yours?
738
00:40:17,589 --> 00:40:18,938
'Cause I'll break the yolk
if it's yours.
739
00:40:19,025 --> 00:40:20,853
- Yes, it is.
- You know,
740
00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:24,465
I have a whole community
that loves my children,
741
00:40:24,552 --> 00:40:28,730
and all that can do
is create great humans.
742
00:40:28,817 --> 00:40:30,558
I love you.
Have a good day today.
743
00:40:33,213 --> 00:40:34,910
Okay, have fun.
744
00:40:34,997 --> 00:40:37,086
- Kay, who's gonna figure out
who sits in the front seat?
745
00:40:37,173 --> 00:40:39,437
- I will!
- I will!
746
00:40:39,524 --> 00:40:42,309
- I saw--I do that, Estelle.
- Okay.
747
00:40:42,396 --> 00:40:45,704
- Children need to know
that they are beloved,
748
00:40:45,791 --> 00:40:47,575
and elders need to know
749
00:40:47,662 --> 00:40:50,056
that their lives still
have meaning and purpose.
750
00:40:50,143 --> 00:40:51,666
- How about some water, guys?
751
00:40:51,753 --> 00:40:55,017
- It's a place for fostered
and adopted people,
752
00:40:55,104 --> 00:40:56,715
not just, like,
753
00:40:56,802 --> 00:41:00,675
regular people that would live
in a regular house.
754
00:41:00,762 --> 00:41:03,722
- We believe generations
coming together
755
00:41:03,809 --> 00:41:06,551
makes a powerful safety net.
756
00:41:06,638 --> 00:41:08,640
- As long as I feel like
I can help any of these children
757
00:41:08,727 --> 00:41:11,512
in any way,
I really feel privileged,
758
00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:14,384
and that's the main reason
I moved here.
759
00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:20,434
- It means so much to me
to have a child
760
00:41:20,521 --> 00:41:23,089
in my life who trusts me,
761
00:41:23,176 --> 00:41:25,874
and when you see the love
for some of the elders,
762
00:41:25,961 --> 00:41:27,310
it's very evident.
763
00:41:27,397 --> 00:41:29,225
There we go.
764
00:41:29,312 --> 00:41:32,968
- The children have always been
at ease here.
765
00:41:33,055 --> 00:41:36,015
They've come from abuse,
766
00:41:36,102 --> 00:41:39,061
and yet they came here
with open arms.
767
00:41:42,238 --> 00:41:43,718
- You ended here,
or did you end here?
768
00:41:43,805 --> 00:41:45,590
- Right here.
769
00:41:45,677 --> 00:41:48,636
Every kid here has an elder
that they hang out with.
770
00:41:48,723 --> 00:41:53,902
"Probably just a temper
tantrum," George says. "He re--"
771
00:41:53,989 --> 00:41:55,730
- What's a temper tantrum?
772
00:41:55,817 --> 00:41:59,429
- When someone gets mad
and is really upset.
773
00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:02,128
- Everybody's family.
774
00:42:02,215 --> 00:42:04,652
It's just the thing about
living here.
775
00:42:04,739 --> 00:42:06,567
You can't live here
without everybody being family.
776
00:42:06,654 --> 00:42:09,483
It's just how it goes.
777
00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:12,138
I tell my friends I have,
like, 42 grandmas
778
00:42:12,225 --> 00:42:14,706
and, like, eight grandpas.
779
00:42:14,793 --> 00:42:17,056
- Just sit down here
and pretend to read.
780
00:42:17,143 --> 00:42:19,667
Oh, look at that beautiful
picture, yeah.
781
00:42:19,754 --> 00:42:21,539
All right, here's
a good place.
782
00:42:21,626 --> 00:42:24,454
- Stun-ing.
783
00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:26,065
- Yeah.
- Standing?
784
00:42:26,152 --> 00:42:27,893
- Stunning.
785
00:42:27,980 --> 00:42:30,765
Very good.
I am so proud of you.
786
00:42:30,852 --> 00:42:32,941
Okay, let's go eat.
787
00:42:34,943 --> 00:42:37,642
- Hi.
788
00:42:37,729 --> 00:42:39,861
- There you are, honey.
789
00:42:46,999 --> 00:42:50,176
- We're foster kids.
- Are you?
790
00:42:50,263 --> 00:42:52,047
Are they clowning around?
791
00:42:52,134 --> 00:42:56,182
- Yeah.
- We didn't have a book
792
00:42:56,269 --> 00:42:57,966
'cause it was kind of
a spur-of-the-moment thing,
793
00:42:58,053 --> 00:43:00,012
so we read a magazine
that was out there.
794
00:43:00,099 --> 00:43:01,404
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
795
00:43:01,491 --> 00:43:02,928
- Magazines now, huh?
- Yeah.
796
00:43:03,015 --> 00:43:04,625
- Wow.
797
00:43:04,712 --> 00:43:06,888
- You can read about anything
you wanna read now.
798
00:43:06,975 --> 00:43:09,456
You're doing so good.
799
00:43:09,543 --> 00:43:12,415
- The teacher actually pulled me
aside yesterday and s--
800
00:43:12,502 --> 00:43:13,634
- About him?
- Noticed improvements on both.
801
00:43:13,721 --> 00:43:15,331
- Good.
- Yeah.
802
00:43:15,418 --> 00:43:20,119
I'm a grandmother who adopted
four grandsons.
803
00:43:20,206 --> 00:43:23,862
It still is today too good
to be true.
804
00:43:23,949 --> 00:43:26,212
The connection, knowing,
that, you know,
805
00:43:26,299 --> 00:43:30,172
you're not in it alone;
you're in it together.
806
00:43:30,259 --> 00:43:33,088
- 2009--18.
- Yeah.
807
00:43:33,175 --> 00:43:35,177
You're supposed to get...
[indistinct]
808
00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:41,053
- You know, one thing
I did learn,
809
00:43:41,140 --> 00:43:45,405
you don't have to be
blood-related to be related.
810
00:43:49,148 --> 00:43:51,803
- Our purpose is to help
these children have abundant,
811
00:43:51,890 --> 00:43:53,543
beautiful lives,
812
00:43:53,631 --> 00:43:56,634
and thereby we will have
abundant, beautiful lives.
813
00:44:10,604 --> 00:44:12,084
- We all have goals.
814
00:44:12,171 --> 00:44:16,784
We all have places
that we wanna end up.
815
00:44:16,871 --> 00:44:20,483
Working and going to school
all the time,
816
00:44:20,570 --> 00:44:24,792
I was mentally
and physically exhausted.
817
00:44:28,056 --> 00:44:31,581
I'm a hard worker.
I love my son.
818
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,845
I want to be a good mom.
819
00:44:36,543 --> 00:44:38,937
It was Christmastime.
820
00:44:39,024 --> 00:44:41,766
I couldn't buy my son
Christmas gifts.
821
00:44:41,853 --> 00:44:44,769
I was working like crazy.
822
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,687
I go in to take
my biology final.
823
00:44:49,774 --> 00:44:51,689
Every question, I'm like,
"I don't know.
824
00:44:51,776 --> 00:44:53,429
I don't know.
I don't know."
825
00:44:56,563 --> 00:44:59,131
You know, all these thoughts are
running through my head that,
826
00:44:59,218 --> 00:45:00,741
"Oh, you're a failure,"
you know?
827
00:45:00,828 --> 00:45:02,569
"Everything that you've done,
you've failed,
828
00:45:02,656 --> 00:45:06,878
"and you failed with your--you
failed with your son.
829
00:45:06,965 --> 00:45:11,056
"You failed with hairdressing.
You failed with waiting tables.
830
00:45:11,143 --> 00:45:13,580
You failed at being
a provider for your son,"
831
00:45:13,667 --> 00:45:15,713
but I was giving my all.
832
00:45:17,976 --> 00:45:22,502
And so I really just wanted
to get in my car
833
00:45:22,589 --> 00:45:25,592
and drive it off a cliff,
834
00:45:25,679 --> 00:45:29,596
and that's exactly
what I wanted to do
835
00:45:29,683 --> 00:45:32,164
because in my head
I'm sitting there thinking,
836
00:45:32,251 --> 00:45:37,299
"You're--if this didn't work,
none of it's ever gonna work,
837
00:45:37,386 --> 00:45:40,694
"and Kingston's gonna be
happier with my parents,
838
00:45:40,781 --> 00:45:42,609
and he'll be taken care of,"
839
00:45:42,696 --> 00:45:47,614
and--and I left that place
840
00:45:47,701 --> 00:45:51,052
holding in as much as I could.
841
00:45:51,139 --> 00:45:54,229
I knew I needed
to reach out for help.
842
00:45:54,316 --> 00:45:56,928
I knew I needed to talk
to somebody
843
00:45:57,015 --> 00:45:59,844
because I was afraid of what
I was gonna do to myself.
844
00:46:09,549 --> 00:46:13,596
I had heard about the ARC
through a fellow student,
845
00:46:13,683 --> 00:46:15,642
and she was a single
mother as well.
846
00:46:15,729 --> 00:46:17,818
- Figure out a plan,
kinda talk about, like,
847
00:46:17,905 --> 00:46:19,646
where you're at,
where you wanna be.
848
00:46:19,733 --> 00:46:24,259
She came in, and she said,
"I need to talk to someone.
849
00:46:24,346 --> 00:46:26,218
I don't know what to do."
850
00:46:26,305 --> 00:46:31,092
- I poured my heart and soul
out in that--in that office.
851
00:46:31,179 --> 00:46:34,095
- And I just got to know her
for who she is,
852
00:46:34,182 --> 00:46:37,403
and she's amazing.
- Now we help...
853
00:46:37,490 --> 00:46:40,536
- At the most vulnerable time
in my life,
854
00:46:40,623 --> 00:46:43,452
when somebody could
have turned me away,
855
00:46:43,539 --> 00:46:47,935
somebody could have judged me,
they encouraged me.
856
00:46:48,022 --> 00:46:51,852
They hugged on me.
They loved on me.
857
00:46:51,939 --> 00:46:54,724
They listened to everything
I had to say.
858
00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:58,337
- I just explained to her
what we could provide in here.
859
00:46:58,424 --> 00:47:01,906
- I had no idea that they would
help me with my bills.
860
00:47:01,993 --> 00:47:05,344
- The services that we had,
the resources that we had...
861
00:47:05,431 --> 00:47:08,521
- They cared about me enough
to invest in me.
862
00:47:11,916 --> 00:47:14,527
And that's...
[sniffles]
863
00:47:17,138 --> 00:47:20,794
- The number of students
that utilize that service
864
00:47:20,881 --> 00:47:24,145
is overwhelming to me.
865
00:47:26,887 --> 00:47:28,584
We have all of these services,
866
00:47:28,671 --> 00:47:30,848
but none of those
services individually
867
00:47:30,935 --> 00:47:33,720
are designed
to eradicate poverty,
868
00:47:33,807 --> 00:47:37,158
but if we as a college
can glue them together
869
00:47:37,245 --> 00:47:41,162
in a way that allows Alicia
to stay in school and graduate
870
00:47:41,249 --> 00:47:44,818
with a degree and matriculate
into a living-wage job,
871
00:47:44,905 --> 00:47:48,126
then she doesn't need
those services anymore.
872
00:47:48,213 --> 00:47:50,519
We solved her problem
long-term
873
00:47:50,606 --> 00:47:54,436
by fixing the barriers
that she faces short-term,
874
00:47:54,523 --> 00:47:57,526
and it's taken every part
of the community
875
00:47:57,613 --> 00:47:59,224
to make that happen.
876
00:48:02,488 --> 00:48:06,448
- What we really need
is community,
877
00:48:06,535 --> 00:48:08,711
and that's wellbeing.
That's resilience.
878
00:48:08,798 --> 00:48:10,626
That's--that's the joy of it
all
879
00:48:10,713 --> 00:48:12,019
'cause if I can
dance with you,
880
00:48:12,106 --> 00:48:14,674
if I can laugh with you,
you trust me,
881
00:48:14,761 --> 00:48:16,284
and if you trust me,
882
00:48:16,371 --> 00:48:18,896
you're gonna come see me
when things are hard.
883
00:48:21,289 --> 00:48:24,162
- Community is where hope
is going to be found.
884
00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:32,648
- The biggest need for us
is we need each other,
885
00:48:32,735 --> 00:48:35,477
and when we say that, we're not
just talking about people
886
00:48:35,564 --> 00:48:37,827
within 3 feet around us,
but we start there.
887
00:48:41,744 --> 00:48:46,053
We have to take time
to have each other experience
888
00:48:46,140 --> 00:48:49,839
what it means to be a neighbor
to each other.
889
00:48:49,927 --> 00:48:52,755
[upbeat music]
890
00:48:52,842 --> 00:48:59,762
♪ ♪
891
00:49:08,989 --> 00:49:13,863
I'll see you later, babe.
Yep.
892
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:17,606
Geneva, you--you in charge
893
00:49:17,693 --> 00:49:19,652
of the big shop part,
the workshop part.
894
00:49:19,739 --> 00:49:23,221
- What about me?
- And sales, y'all too. Okay?
895
00:49:23,308 --> 00:49:26,876
But--but for you,
you gotta listen to her.
896
00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:28,530
What's going on, man?
897
00:49:30,793 --> 00:49:33,492
It's already--you tried
to beat that sun, didn't you?
898
00:49:33,579 --> 00:49:35,973
- Yeah, I did.
899
00:49:38,888 --> 00:49:40,673
- What's your mother
really good at?
900
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:46,070
- She takes care of us
and teaching us.
901
00:49:46,157 --> 00:49:48,855
- Teaching, that's right.
What type of things she teach?
902
00:49:48,942 --> 00:49:51,466
- She teach us, like,
903
00:49:51,553 --> 00:49:56,210
how to--how to be nice
to each other.
904
00:49:56,297 --> 00:49:59,866
- That's right.
What about you?
905
00:49:59,953 --> 00:50:04,653
- My mom, she good at cooking
for me,
906
00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:06,220
for my family,
907
00:50:06,307 --> 00:50:10,659
and I like how
she feed me--well--
908
00:50:10,746 --> 00:50:12,966
and--I like how she feed me
909
00:50:13,053 --> 00:50:15,969
and she give me clothes to wear
910
00:50:16,056 --> 00:50:19,494
and a shower and a roof.
911
00:50:19,581 --> 00:50:21,235
- And a roof.
- And that's all.
912
00:50:21,322 --> 00:50:24,673
And I like how my mom is good
at teaching me
913
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:29,417
how to be a better person,
you know, good.
914
00:50:29,504 --> 00:50:32,768
- Ready, set, go!
915
00:50:38,078 --> 00:50:42,909
Knock on the door.
Hello?
916
00:50:42,996 --> 00:50:46,434
Last year,
we started a bike shop...
917
00:50:46,521 --> 00:50:50,308
All right.
Biker Boyz and Girlz Club.
918
00:50:50,395 --> 00:50:52,353
No--yeah, you take that one
over there.
919
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,052
You take it.
Let me help you.
920
00:50:55,139 --> 00:50:57,315
Line 'em up straight,
in a straight line.
921
00:50:57,402 --> 00:51:00,187
We noticed how many people
running up
922
00:51:00,274 --> 00:51:02,320
and down Harding Street,
923
00:51:02,407 --> 00:51:04,583
and most of 'em
under the age of 15.
924
00:51:04,670 --> 00:51:07,542
- This one's big.
- That's how we started it.
925
00:51:07,629 --> 00:51:09,588
We asked them if they would be
our business partners.
926
00:51:11,242 --> 00:51:13,113
This gonna be the retail area.
927
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:14,810
Everything--where the thing
would be, the soft.
928
00:51:14,897 --> 00:51:16,856
I think my role is to
figure out
929
00:51:16,943 --> 00:51:18,292
how to discover
people's gifts and talents...
930
00:51:18,379 --> 00:51:20,164
- Well, I said, off of here
931
00:51:20,251 --> 00:51:21,382
so they can actually see
what's going on in here.
932
00:51:21,469 --> 00:51:22,992
- That's right.
Seeing and celebrating
933
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,690
what's in front of us.
934
00:51:24,777 --> 00:51:27,606
- Oh, I must ha--
- Why am I--
935
00:51:27,693 --> 00:51:30,348
- Nia, can you touch this?
Hey.
936
00:51:30,435 --> 00:51:32,437
- We got a hole in it,
so we need to patch it.
937
00:51:32,524 --> 00:51:33,960
- Who got the broom?
938
00:51:34,047 --> 00:51:35,440
Who gonna sweep?
Who wanna try that?
939
00:51:35,527 --> 00:51:36,615
- Me.
- Me.
940
00:51:36,702 --> 00:51:40,053
- All right.
941
00:51:40,140 --> 00:51:42,708
The chief of police came down
at one point and said, "Hey,
942
00:51:42,795 --> 00:51:45,406
I'd like to invest in this,
and I got some bikes."
943
00:51:47,234 --> 00:51:48,540
- Nice to meet you.
944
00:51:48,627 --> 00:51:51,108
- So rather
than selling them,
945
00:51:51,195 --> 00:51:53,197
we created an agreement.
with a nonprofit...
946
00:51:55,721 --> 00:51:58,637
- That is so wonderful.
947
00:51:58,724 --> 00:52:00,900
- We have to provide
opportunities
948
00:52:00,987 --> 00:52:04,121
and support those people
that--that are doing the work,
949
00:52:04,208 --> 00:52:05,861
quite frankly.
950
00:52:05,948 --> 00:52:08,081
- Flat tire, flat tire.
- Oh, we gotta get 'em off.
951
00:52:08,168 --> 00:52:09,909
- Yeah.
952
00:52:09,996 --> 00:52:11,606
- We've had people come up
and was like, you know,
953
00:52:11,693 --> 00:52:13,173
"I really need to get
a--borrow a bike
954
00:52:13,260 --> 00:52:14,696
to get to a job interview,"
955
00:52:14,783 --> 00:52:17,351
or something like that,
and a lot of times we'll--
956
00:52:17,438 --> 00:52:19,875
we'll go loan them a bike
so that they can go do that.
957
00:52:19,962 --> 00:52:21,790
- Historically, this has been--
this has been a rough area,
958
00:52:21,877 --> 00:52:24,445
both to grow up in
and to police,
959
00:52:24,532 --> 00:52:26,969
and it's--it's things like this
960
00:52:27,056 --> 00:52:29,363
that I think can help alter
that a little bit.
961
00:52:32,192 --> 00:52:33,672
- If you listen to the news,
962
00:52:33,759 --> 00:52:36,370
you'll hear
the 46208 neighborhood
963
00:52:36,457 --> 00:52:40,940
as a place for treacherous
things or things that are wrong,
964
00:52:41,027 --> 00:52:44,465
but to me it's a neighborhood
where people love each other.
965
00:52:44,552 --> 00:52:47,729
It's a place where people
share,
966
00:52:47,816 --> 00:52:50,341
and most of that
is about community.
967
00:52:50,428 --> 00:52:52,908
- Ahh!
968
00:52:52,995 --> 00:52:56,129
- Yeah, y'all probably gonna
have a lot of people here today.
969
00:52:56,216 --> 00:52:57,696
- Yeah, we let you all through
and have a seat.
970
00:52:57,783 --> 00:52:59,088
- Yeah, y'all... [indistinct]
- Go ahead and have a seat.
971
00:52:59,176 --> 00:53:00,394
Y'all good.
972
00:53:00,481 --> 00:53:02,396
- Stories and people
973
00:53:02,483 --> 00:53:03,876
sharing their stories
974
00:53:03,963 --> 00:53:07,532
is a philanthropic act.
Y'all have any questions?
975
00:53:07,619 --> 00:53:10,491
When you sit on the porch and
someone becomes vulnerable...
976
00:53:10,578 --> 00:53:12,189
- I don't have
a driver's license.
977
00:53:12,276 --> 00:53:14,016
I'm 27, and I've never had one.
978
00:53:14,103 --> 00:53:15,975
- My permit was suspended
when I was 16,
979
00:53:16,062 --> 00:53:17,759
so I ain't never had a license.
980
00:53:17,846 --> 00:53:20,109
- I brought some folks from
the Indiana Legal Service
981
00:53:20,197 --> 00:53:22,416
for my friend
IU law school.
982
00:53:22,503 --> 00:53:24,026
I'm trying to make
this as less hoops as possible.
983
00:53:24,113 --> 00:53:26,768
What I'm committing is trying
to get 60 people
984
00:53:26,855 --> 00:53:29,902
they driver's license back from
and around this neighborhood
985
00:53:29,989 --> 00:53:32,296
or at large
that are people of color.
986
00:53:32,383 --> 00:53:37,257
Let us not forget that being
African American in this country
987
00:53:37,344 --> 00:53:41,305
meant you were treated
cruel at some point,
988
00:53:41,392 --> 00:53:46,658
and a couple of things.
We can live in sorrow of that
989
00:53:46,745 --> 00:53:51,358
because those scars of my
grandparents have affected me,
990
00:53:51,445 --> 00:53:55,144
and they affect people
in my neighborhood.
991
00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:57,886
But for me, what I'm looking for
is healing.
992
00:53:57,973 --> 00:54:00,324
And how to utilize his gifts
and his power.
993
00:54:00,411 --> 00:54:03,327
- [indistinct] says it best.
There are assets.
994
00:54:03,414 --> 00:54:05,677
We just gotta tap
into the assets and understand
995
00:54:05,764 --> 00:54:09,246
that they don't look like me.
They don't look like you,
996
00:54:09,333 --> 00:54:11,291
and we just need
to be able to embrace them
997
00:54:11,378 --> 00:54:13,989
because once you do that,
there's hope and healing
998
00:54:14,076 --> 00:54:16,296
within the body
of the community.
999
00:54:16,383 --> 00:54:20,344
- What listening does, it builds
the first piece of capital
1000
00:54:20,431 --> 00:54:24,565
that we all need as humans.
It's trust.
1001
00:54:24,652 --> 00:54:26,915
But to have they power
shined on, right?
1002
00:54:27,002 --> 00:54:28,743
In honor, right?
1003
00:54:28,830 --> 00:54:31,355
These people have power.
These are my neighbors.
1004
00:54:31,442 --> 00:54:33,705
[applause]
1005
00:54:33,792 --> 00:54:35,228
And I learned
a couple of lessons,
1006
00:54:35,315 --> 00:54:37,230
the power of being a neighbor
1007
00:54:37,317 --> 00:54:39,972
and the power of shutting up
and listening.
1008
00:54:40,059 --> 00:54:44,368
[laughter]
1009
00:54:44,455 --> 00:54:47,327
On these little journeys,
the young people learn
1010
00:54:47,414 --> 00:54:50,025
also the practice of stopping
1011
00:54:50,112 --> 00:54:53,812
and treating your neighbors
with dignity.
1012
00:54:53,899 --> 00:54:56,249
They know what it means
to be treated
1013
00:54:56,336 --> 00:54:59,426
in a way that is not dignified,
1014
00:54:59,513 --> 00:55:02,995
but they also understand how
to treat people with dignity.
1015
00:55:03,082 --> 00:55:07,347
- Welcome to McDonald's.
How can I take your order?
1016
00:55:07,434 --> 00:55:09,871
- We don't sell hot sauce
here, ma'am.
1017
00:55:09,958 --> 00:55:12,352
- I want to continue
discovering the gifts
1018
00:55:12,439 --> 00:55:15,442
and talents of everybody
in the life of our community,
1019
00:55:15,529 --> 00:55:17,357
find a place for they gift,
1020
00:55:17,444 --> 00:55:18,967
and celebrate their gifts
1021
00:55:19,054 --> 00:55:20,447
in ways that build community,
economy,
1022
00:55:20,534 --> 00:55:21,883
and mutual delight.
1023
00:55:21,970 --> 00:55:24,016
Five and five.
1024
00:55:24,103 --> 00:55:25,974
We just want you
to pay attention.
1025
00:55:27,933 --> 00:55:31,110
You keep this in your pocket.
You understand?
1026
00:55:31,197 --> 00:55:35,419
They know that little corner
house on Harding and Edgemont,
1027
00:55:35,506 --> 00:55:38,900
where that bike shop is,
is more than a bike shop.
1028
00:55:48,214 --> 00:55:49,607
Do you think I'm professional?
1029
00:55:49,694 --> 00:55:53,001
both: Yeah.
- [laughs]
1030
00:55:53,088 --> 00:55:55,569
I la--that's funny.
Thank you.
1031
00:55:55,656 --> 00:55:57,484
That's a compliment.
1032
00:55:57,571 --> 00:55:59,225
That's the most
honorable compliment
1033
00:55:59,312 --> 00:56:01,923
I'll probably get today.
1034
00:56:02,010 --> 00:56:06,145
I want to be a witness,
not just in my zip code,
1035
00:56:06,232 --> 00:56:08,234
but I want me and my neighbors
all over the world
1036
00:56:08,321 --> 00:56:12,107
to be a witness
to the power of love.
1037
00:56:12,194 --> 00:56:13,413
Y'all wanna make
the bike shop here?
1038
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:15,067
- I don't know about that.
1039
00:56:15,154 --> 00:56:16,373
- I've been thinking about
buying this
1040
00:56:16,460 --> 00:56:17,461
for the bike shop
and fixing it up.
1041
00:56:17,548 --> 00:56:19,071
- I don't even know her name.
1042
00:56:19,158 --> 00:56:21,508
- Do you know her name?
If we can fix this up,
1043
00:56:21,595 --> 00:56:24,163
we can have an office and then
where you fix the bikes.
1044
00:56:24,250 --> 00:56:27,122
- [speaks indistinctly]
1045
00:56:27,209 --> 00:56:30,691
- Putting time and practice
into family,
1046
00:56:30,778 --> 00:56:34,042
love,
being a good neighbor,
1047
00:56:34,129 --> 00:56:36,610
that's really what counts
for all of us.
1048
00:56:36,697 --> 00:56:40,397
[poignant music]
1049
00:56:40,484 --> 00:56:46,968
♪ ♪
1050
00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:56,543
[bird chirps]
1051
00:57:49,901 --> 00:57:52,077
- Food order, first thing
in the morning.
1052
00:57:52,164 --> 00:57:54,209
Yay!
Thank you.
1053
00:58:43,302 --> 00:58:44,695
- I thought we transported it
home.
1054
00:58:50,570 --> 00:58:52,224
- Yep.
1055
00:59:19,686 --> 00:59:21,340
- Why you hiding that one?
1056
00:59:21,427 --> 00:59:22,602
You didn't want nobody
to see it?
1057
00:59:22,689 --> 00:59:23,821
You messed up?
You messed that one up?
1058
00:59:23,908 --> 00:59:24,996
- That's just--
- You tried to hide it?
1059
00:59:25,083 --> 00:59:26,345
Don't hide your mistakes.
1060
00:59:26,432 --> 00:59:27,694
- No.
- It's okay.
1061
01:00:08,648 --> 01:00:10,737
- Hey, Melissa.
- Yeah.
1062
01:00:10,824 --> 01:00:13,305
June is usually
summertime, right?
1063
01:00:13,392 --> 01:00:14,611
- Yes, it is.
1064
01:00:14,698 --> 01:00:17,222
- Let's cut around here.
- Yeah.
1065
01:00:17,309 --> 01:00:18,963
- About that size, about a foot,
1066
01:00:19,050 --> 01:00:20,617
and then we're gonna
strip this.
1067
01:00:20,704 --> 01:00:23,271
- You're ready for
the Tour de Hurleyville.
1068
01:00:23,358 --> 01:00:25,360
- I'm joining the crew here.
1069
01:00:25,447 --> 01:00:28,407
- Okay, follow me. This way.
- Come on, Johnny boy!
1070
01:00:28,494 --> 01:00:30,670
- Here I come!
- I know it.
1071
01:00:30,757 --> 01:00:33,194
You're hot
on my tail there, buddy.
1072
01:00:33,281 --> 01:00:35,066
Ah, feel the breeze.
1073
01:00:38,330 --> 01:00:42,464
- In the past, when a child
with a significant disability
1074
01:00:42,551 --> 01:00:47,034
was born, neurologists
and physicians
1075
01:00:47,121 --> 01:00:48,993
would be the first to say
1076
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,822
that your family
would be better off,
1077
01:00:51,909 --> 01:00:54,520
place the person
in an institution,
1078
01:00:54,607 --> 01:00:58,089
basically, warehouse folks
with disabilities.
1079
01:00:58,176 --> 01:00:59,786
And they were pretty
rough places.
1080
01:00:59,873 --> 01:01:02,441
Oh, my God,
look at that tree, John.
1081
01:01:02,528 --> 01:01:04,617
- It is magical, yes.
1082
01:01:04,704 --> 01:01:07,489
It's like
going back through time.
1083
01:01:07,576 --> 01:01:10,405
- In 1980 it was the time
in New York state
1084
01:01:10,492 --> 01:01:13,191
where we were under sanction
by the federal government
1085
01:01:13,278 --> 01:01:18,239
to close major institutions,
and this movement started.
1086
01:01:18,326 --> 01:01:20,502
- Good morning.
1087
01:01:22,548 --> 01:01:25,377
- Good morning.
How are you?
1088
01:01:25,464 --> 01:01:28,206
- Good.
- Good. Welcome back to school.
1089
01:01:28,293 --> 01:01:30,208
- The spirit here
is revolutionary.
1090
01:01:30,295 --> 01:01:32,297
We'll take the most
complicated people,
1091
01:01:32,384 --> 01:01:35,387
and we'll figure out
how to care for them.
1092
01:01:35,474 --> 01:01:37,737
- Even if you have
multiple disabilities
1093
01:01:37,824 --> 01:01:40,174
and you have struggles,
you can still learn.
1094
01:01:40,261 --> 01:01:43,525
There are different ways
to adapt the environment,
1095
01:01:43,612 --> 01:01:46,441
adapt lessons,
adapt everything, really,
1096
01:01:46,528 --> 01:01:49,401
to help somebody
be more successful.
1097
01:01:49,488 --> 01:01:52,230
- Gotta get samples.
- You have to remember
1098
01:01:52,317 --> 01:01:54,623
that these folks
were placed in the '40s,
1099
01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:59,280
'50s, and '60s
and functionally abandoned.
1100
01:01:59,367 --> 01:02:03,067
They still hold on to decades
and centuries of judgment,
1101
01:02:05,504 --> 01:02:09,029
Older gents and women
who lived there for 55 years
1102
01:02:09,116 --> 01:02:12,119
and who were probably
typically normal intelligence
1103
01:02:12,206 --> 01:02:14,382
but had a physical disability,
1104
01:02:14,469 --> 01:02:17,690
They were in a terribly ugly
environment for the most part.
1105
01:02:17,777 --> 01:02:20,606
- We're evolving as a
community, as a country.
1106
01:02:20,693 --> 01:02:23,565
The inclusiveness
of this population,
1107
01:02:23,652 --> 01:02:25,698
years ago, you didn't know
that they existed.
1108
01:02:31,965 --> 01:02:34,359
- Hi.
- Good morning.
1109
01:02:34,446 --> 01:02:36,491
The residents are essential
in helping us pack out
1110
01:02:36,578 --> 01:02:38,102
for things like that,
1111
01:02:38,189 --> 01:02:40,147
and it's really like
a team effort.
1112
01:02:40,234 --> 01:02:41,801
- We're outside of a clinic.
1113
01:02:41,888 --> 01:02:45,283
We're outside
of a four-wall normal situation.
1114
01:02:45,370 --> 01:02:48,416
- So what are we doing today?
- Washing lettuce.
1115
01:02:48,503 --> 01:02:50,375
- You got it.
You got it. Okay.
1116
01:02:50,462 --> 01:02:54,379
- The perfect day on the farm
is all of the staff
1117
01:02:54,466 --> 01:02:58,600
standing back and watching
while the residents do the job.
1118
01:02:58,687 --> 01:03:00,298
Now, we like to work
together too,
1119
01:03:00,385 --> 01:03:03,083
but that ability to do that,
like, that's something
1120
01:03:03,170 --> 01:03:05,259
that they taught me,
is that is possible.
1121
01:03:05,346 --> 01:03:08,175
- This is called
Maximilian sunflower.
1122
01:03:08,262 --> 01:03:10,221
- Maximilian sunflower?
1123
01:03:10,308 --> 01:03:12,179
- You got it, girl.
- Yeah.
1124
01:03:12,266 --> 01:03:15,269
- What can you do
with these raw materials?
1125
01:03:15,356 --> 01:03:16,270
What's your favorite color?
1126
01:03:16,357 --> 01:03:17,837
- Red.
1127
01:03:17,924 --> 01:03:19,491
- You get a bunch of
skilled people together
1128
01:03:19,578 --> 01:03:23,103
who can make magic out of
things in all capacities,
1129
01:03:23,190 --> 01:03:26,803
infrastructure,
education, therapy,
1130
01:03:26,890 --> 01:03:30,328
all these things coming
together in a real symphony
1131
01:03:30,415 --> 01:03:33,461
looks pretty good.
It's working.
1132
01:03:33,548 --> 01:03:36,813
- You want the longer one?
- Yeah.
1133
01:03:36,900 --> 01:03:39,424
- The fire company is a hub
of the community.
1134
01:03:39,511 --> 01:03:42,688
It's the brotherhood
and sisterhood of the town,
1135
01:03:42,775 --> 01:03:45,256
and it brings everybody together
in a time of need
1136
01:03:45,343 --> 01:03:47,127
and a time of joy as well.
1137
01:03:51,001 --> 01:03:52,741
- Good job, Tommy.
1138
01:03:55,657 --> 01:03:57,746
- I thought it was really funny
1139
01:03:57,834 --> 01:03:59,923
how I was making
the water dance.
1140
01:04:00,010 --> 01:04:04,014
That's what I did to myself.
I got myself wet.
1141
01:04:05,972 --> 01:04:09,236
- Thank you, my dear.
This is cool.
1142
01:04:09,323 --> 01:04:10,934
They're compostable.
1143
01:04:11,021 --> 01:04:13,240
[laughter]
1144
01:04:40,006 --> 01:04:42,226
- You know my board president,
you know, Ed Sweeney?
1145
01:04:42,313 --> 01:04:44,358
- I think so.
1146
01:04:44,445 --> 01:04:47,927
- He may approach you to join
the agency board of directors.
1147
01:04:48,014 --> 01:04:50,625
You'll have to decide
if you want to do it or not.
1148
01:04:50,712 --> 01:04:52,889
It's a lot of work.
1149
01:05:13,692 --> 01:05:17,217
- Have you had practice
for about eight weeks?
1150
01:05:17,304 --> 01:05:18,871
Holy cow.
1151
01:05:18,958 --> 01:05:21,004
Is there a certain dance
you like better than others?
1152
01:05:21,091 --> 01:05:22,266
- The tango.
- The tango?
1153
01:05:22,353 --> 01:05:24,137
You like the tango?
1154
01:05:24,224 --> 01:05:27,097
[soft string music]
1155
01:05:27,184 --> 01:05:33,930
♪ ♪
1156
01:05:53,645 --> 01:05:55,603
- I love this town.
1157
01:05:57,736 --> 01:06:00,695
I love seeing Jeffrey
in his wheelchair
1158
01:06:00,782 --> 01:06:04,569
coming down the street.
I love going to the market
1159
01:06:04,656 --> 01:06:05,962
and seeing Brian
working at the market.
1160
01:06:06,049 --> 01:06:09,617
I love seeing them
going to the barbershop.
1161
01:06:09,704 --> 01:06:14,579
If everywhere were to feel how
we feel in this little town
1162
01:06:14,666 --> 01:06:18,539
that we're in, it'd be great.
1163
01:06:18,626 --> 01:06:20,628
- Ah, ah.
Ah.
1164
01:06:20,715 --> 01:06:22,369
- Ah.
1165
01:06:22,456 --> 01:06:23,849
- It's only been 40 years
1166
01:06:23,936 --> 01:06:24,850
that they've come
from the dark ages,
1167
01:06:24,937 --> 01:06:27,505
and I fear they could go back
1168
01:06:27,592 --> 01:06:31,683
if we don't get a handle
on some of this stuff.
1169
01:06:31,770 --> 01:06:35,121
The single most important
thing to do for us
1170
01:06:35,208 --> 01:06:37,297
all living on this planet,
1171
01:06:37,384 --> 01:06:41,780
it's being empathetic,
caring for your fellow man.
1172
01:06:41,867 --> 01:06:44,043
If you have that
in your arsenal,
1173
01:06:44,130 --> 01:06:46,045
you can do
just about everything.
1174
01:06:56,012 --> 01:06:58,318
- Come on in, boys.
1175
01:07:01,539 --> 01:07:03,367
Good morning, ladies.
1176
01:07:07,153 --> 01:07:11,940
Come on.
Come on.
1177
01:07:12,028 --> 01:07:13,681
- Sorry.
- Okay. It's okay.
1178
01:07:18,425 --> 01:07:21,037
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1179
01:07:21,124 --> 01:07:24,257
this first quote
comes from the religion
1180
01:07:24,344 --> 01:07:29,306
Judaism, the Talmud,
Shabbat 31a, and the quote says,
1181
01:07:29,393 --> 01:07:33,397
"What is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow men."
1182
01:07:33,484 --> 01:07:36,095
If you find it hateful,
whether it's the way
1183
01:07:36,182 --> 01:07:39,446
someone talks to you,
looks at you,
1184
01:07:39,533 --> 01:07:43,102
treats you differently,
whatever it is,
1185
01:07:43,189 --> 01:07:45,496
if you find it hateful--so
you can make,
1186
01:07:45,583 --> 01:07:49,804
in your own head silently,
a list of all the hateful things
1187
01:07:49,891 --> 01:07:51,850
that people could--the way
they could treat you.
1188
01:07:51,937 --> 01:07:55,636
Now take that list, and don't
treat other people that way.
1189
01:07:55,723 --> 01:07:58,683
It's pretty simple.
1190
01:07:58,770 --> 01:08:01,294
Most world religions have
some version of the Golden Rule,
1191
01:08:01,381 --> 01:08:03,166
and they all basically
are saying the same thing.
1192
01:08:03,253 --> 01:08:05,255
It's all about
how we treat each other.
1193
01:08:05,342 --> 01:08:07,692
All right,
so underneath the quote,
1194
01:08:07,779 --> 01:08:09,868
what you're going to do--and
this is part of the warm-up.
1195
01:08:09,955 --> 01:08:13,132
I want you to tell me
about a time
1196
01:08:13,219 --> 01:08:15,134
where somebody treated you
in a hateful way
1197
01:08:15,221 --> 01:08:17,745
or--you treated them
or they treated you,
1198
01:08:17,832 --> 01:08:20,357
so you can be on either side
of this hateful treatment.
1199
01:08:20,444 --> 01:08:23,534
After that,
how did that make you feel?
1200
01:08:23,621 --> 01:08:26,145
- There had been an incident
at Downey High School
1201
01:08:26,232 --> 01:08:29,105
where a student
had been bullied,
1202
01:08:29,192 --> 01:08:34,632
and we really felt that if all
students had this information,
1203
01:08:34,719 --> 01:08:39,027
that it just might influence
their attitudes
1204
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,944
about someone who was different
from them within our community.
1205
01:08:43,031 --> 01:08:46,905
- Having the world religions
class is a natural extension
1206
01:08:46,992 --> 01:08:49,386
of talking about the diversity
of our nation.
1207
01:08:49,473 --> 01:08:51,475
In the United States,
1208
01:08:51,562 --> 01:08:53,216
our differences
are not a weakness.
1209
01:08:53,303 --> 01:08:56,175
They're a strength,
1210
01:08:56,262 --> 01:08:58,612
but how can
we teach about religion
1211
01:08:58,699 --> 01:09:00,397
in a public school setting?
1212
01:09:00,484 --> 01:09:03,748
We brought in
the First Amendment Center
1213
01:09:03,835 --> 01:09:06,533
to do a lot of training
with our teachers.
1214
01:09:06,620 --> 01:09:09,057
We had representatives
from all of our different
1215
01:09:09,145 --> 01:09:11,495
religious traditions
in the community to come in
1216
01:09:11,582 --> 01:09:13,366
and take a look
at the course outline
1217
01:09:13,453 --> 01:09:15,673
and then come back to us
to give us feedback.
1218
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:18,023
- Every day, we treat people
in a way
1219
01:09:18,110 --> 01:09:20,547
that we would not ourselves
wanna be treated.
1220
01:09:20,634 --> 01:09:22,680
- One of our major concerns
1221
01:09:22,767 --> 01:09:24,029
when we developed
the world religions
1222
01:09:24,116 --> 01:09:25,639
course was the controversy
1223
01:09:25,726 --> 01:09:27,467
that--making
a graduation requirement
1224
01:09:27,554 --> 01:09:29,861
that all students would be
required to take the class.
1225
01:09:29,948 --> 01:09:31,471
- That we felt that it was
important enough
1226
01:09:31,558 --> 01:09:33,430
that every student in Modesto
1227
01:09:33,517 --> 01:09:35,693
have an understanding
of the different traditions
1228
01:09:35,780 --> 01:09:38,652
that make up our community.
1229
01:09:38,739 --> 01:09:41,394
- We hope to reach
enough students
1230
01:09:41,481 --> 01:09:43,614
that they're going to have
a second thought
1231
01:09:43,701 --> 01:09:46,399
about saying something
that's inappropriate
1232
01:09:46,486 --> 01:09:49,054
about someone else
based on their faith,
1233
01:09:49,141 --> 01:09:51,883
based on their race,
based on their gender.
1234
01:09:51,970 --> 01:09:54,451
- Today, in their lives
right now,
1235
01:09:54,538 --> 01:09:56,192
they will come across people
1236
01:09:56,279 --> 01:09:58,846
of other faiths, at the mall,
in their classroom,
1237
01:09:58,933 --> 01:10:00,718
or the parents
of fellow students
1238
01:10:00,805 --> 01:10:02,763
who practice all of these
different faiths,
1239
01:10:02,850 --> 01:10:04,461
and the more they know
about each other,
1240
01:10:04,548 --> 01:10:06,506
the easier it's gonna be
to get along
1241
01:10:06,593 --> 01:10:08,987
and be compassionate
with each other.
1242
01:10:11,468 --> 01:10:13,034
Underneath the word "respect,"
1243
01:10:13,121 --> 01:10:15,559
you're going to copy
the definition,
1244
01:10:15,646 --> 01:10:18,649
"honoring the worth and value
of individuals and institutions
1245
01:10:18,736 --> 01:10:21,391
and treating them accordingly."
1246
01:10:21,478 --> 01:10:22,696
Does it say you have
to agree with them?
1247
01:10:22,783 --> 01:10:24,089
- No.
1248
01:10:24,176 --> 01:10:25,438
- Does it say you have
to like them?
1249
01:10:25,525 --> 01:10:29,137
Nope. Treat other people
with respect regardless
1250
01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:31,444
of how they treat you.
1251
01:10:31,531 --> 01:10:35,274
Maybe they will pull
themselves up to your level
1252
01:10:35,361 --> 01:10:37,058
rather than you
going down to theirs.
1253
01:10:42,629 --> 01:10:46,938
- Treat people with dignity.
Believe what they say.
1254
01:10:47,025 --> 01:10:50,768
Every single person
deserves to be celebrated,
1255
01:10:50,855 --> 01:10:53,901
every single person.
1256
01:10:53,988 --> 01:10:57,253
- We all have fear of things
we do not understand,
1257
01:10:57,340 --> 01:11:00,256
and I think sometimes what
we perceive in a community
1258
01:11:00,343 --> 01:11:02,693
to be unwelcoming
is really fear,
1259
01:11:02,780 --> 01:11:05,391
fear of "Is this gonna change
who we are?
1260
01:11:05,478 --> 01:11:07,350
Is this gonna change our
values?"
1261
01:11:07,437 --> 01:11:10,353
That's where that comes from.
1262
01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:13,181
- The hate that exists
in this country
1263
01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:18,099
could be our destruction,
or it could be our clarion call.
1264
01:11:18,186 --> 01:11:21,015
- But I think it does take
1265
01:11:21,102 --> 01:11:24,323
someone in leadership to say,
1266
01:11:24,410 --> 01:11:27,674
"We are going to build bridges."
1267
01:11:27,761 --> 01:11:30,198
- I wanna live in a country
1268
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:34,942
that is a genuinely
egalitarian democracy.
1269
01:11:35,029 --> 01:11:40,426
Who is it who is willing to risk
something on behalf of people
1270
01:11:40,513 --> 01:11:42,950
who others hate?
1271
01:11:43,037 --> 01:11:47,303
How do you develop more
solidarity with the oppressed?
1272
01:11:52,133 --> 01:11:56,050
- Galatians 1,
starting with verse 15,
1273
01:11:56,137 --> 01:11:58,618
"He is the image
of the invisible God,
1274
01:11:58,705 --> 01:12:01,795
"the firstborn of all creation,
1275
01:12:01,882 --> 01:12:05,973
"for in him all things in heaven
1276
01:12:06,060 --> 01:12:08,106
and on earth were created."
1277
01:12:08,193 --> 01:12:09,586
This is the word of the Lord.
1278
01:12:09,673 --> 01:12:11,544
all: Thanks be to God.
1279
01:12:13,241 --> 01:12:16,157
[birds chirping]
1280
01:12:25,079 --> 01:12:27,255
- I remember
some of my critics said,
1281
01:12:27,343 --> 01:12:32,783
"Wow, who are you to set aside
2,000 years of tradition?"
1282
01:12:32,870 --> 01:12:35,960
The only possible answer
I could give was,
1283
01:12:36,047 --> 01:12:37,353
"I am attempting to exercise
1284
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:41,748
my vocation
as a Christian ethicist."
1285
01:12:41,835 --> 01:12:45,404
What happened was vicious
attacks on social media
1286
01:12:45,491 --> 01:12:48,842
and in reviews,
lost friendships.
1287
01:12:48,929 --> 01:12:50,017
"You're no longer
a good Christian.
1288
01:12:50,104 --> 01:12:52,193
I can't be your friend
anymore."
1289
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:55,806
It helps to remember
that by 2014 when I wrote
1290
01:12:55,893 --> 01:12:57,721
"Changing Our Mind,"
1291
01:12:57,808 --> 01:12:59,200
I was the coauthor
of the leading textbook
1292
01:12:59,287 --> 01:13:01,725
in Christian ethics
in the evangelical world.
1293
01:13:01,812 --> 01:13:04,292
I had taught thousands
of students,
1294
01:13:04,380 --> 01:13:06,947
but I had been blinded
1295
01:13:07,034 --> 01:13:10,037
to the harm
that traditional teaching does.
1296
01:13:10,124 --> 01:13:13,301
I had repeated
the Christian party line
1297
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,783
that God made human beings,
male and female,
1298
01:13:16,870 --> 01:13:20,657
for heterosexual
relationships only,
1299
01:13:20,744 --> 01:13:23,660
and everything else is sin.
1300
01:13:30,536 --> 01:13:35,149
My mother-in-law, Lynnie,
is a Baptist of long standing,
1301
01:13:35,236 --> 01:13:39,980
and so I--I get her
to church on Sunday morning,
1302
01:13:40,067 --> 01:13:42,418
and she's in the class.
1303
01:13:42,505 --> 01:13:44,811
She's the oldest in the class,
but she's not
1304
01:13:44,898 --> 01:13:47,684
the only 80-something person
in the class.
1305
01:13:47,771 --> 01:13:50,774
- Morning.
- Morning.
1306
01:13:50,861 --> 01:13:52,471
Have you ever been
in a Sunday school class
1307
01:13:52,558 --> 01:13:55,431
that has this kind
of diversity in it, Mom?
1308
01:13:55,518 --> 01:13:57,389
- No.
[laughs]
1309
01:13:57,476 --> 01:14:01,088
The class that I belong to,
we're all elderly white women.
1310
01:14:01,175 --> 01:14:03,569
- Mm-hmm.
1311
01:14:03,656 --> 01:14:06,224
- So a breath of fresh air.
1312
01:14:06,311 --> 01:14:08,661
A new day has dawned
in the world
1313
01:14:08,748 --> 01:14:13,927
if this class can exist
and do what it's doing.
1314
01:14:16,713 --> 01:14:22,196
- I have an incredible amount
of respect for David Gushee.
1315
01:14:22,283 --> 01:14:25,330
He was the champion
1316
01:14:25,417 --> 01:14:29,116
of the Southern Baptist
evangelicals.
1317
01:14:29,203 --> 01:14:31,684
- How are you?
- I'm good. I'm good.
1318
01:14:31,771 --> 01:14:35,209
- If you've been to a Baptist
seminary in the last 25,
1319
01:14:35,296 --> 01:14:37,255
30 years,
you've read his books.
1320
01:14:40,127 --> 01:14:43,000
This world-renowned theologian
and ethicist,
1321
01:14:43,087 --> 01:14:45,263
he's now an outcast.
1322
01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:51,399
- We're in Job 9 today.
1323
01:14:51,487 --> 01:14:53,184
Job, at this point,
by chapter nine,
1324
01:14:53,271 --> 01:14:55,447
feels like God has put him
on trial, you might say,
1325
01:14:55,534 --> 01:15:00,191
but God is both the adversary,
and God is also the judge,
1326
01:15:00,278 --> 01:15:03,107
and so Job feels overwhelmed by
the unfairness of the situation.
1327
01:15:03,194 --> 01:15:05,370
- And powerless.
- He's totally powerless.
1328
01:15:05,457 --> 01:15:08,416
Verse four through ten.
1329
01:15:08,504 --> 01:15:10,854
- "He is wise in heart
and mighty in strength.
1330
01:15:10,941 --> 01:15:13,160
Who alone stretched out
the heavens and..."
1331
01:15:13,247 --> 01:15:16,250
- The question of which Bible
passages are most relevant
1332
01:15:16,337 --> 01:15:17,730
to whatever it is
you're thinking about
1333
01:15:17,817 --> 01:15:19,558
is itself
a matter of interpretation.
1334
01:15:19,645 --> 01:15:21,908
- "Who will say to him..."
- I have met people
1335
01:15:21,995 --> 01:15:24,781
whose children are dead
1336
01:15:24,868 --> 01:15:28,132
because they committed suicide
because somebody told them
1337
01:15:28,219 --> 01:15:31,396
that they were wretched sinners
going to hell,
1338
01:15:31,483 --> 01:15:32,963
and they got that
from bible passages.
1339
01:15:33,050 --> 01:15:34,660
And this line, where it ends,
1340
01:15:34,747 --> 01:15:38,316
"I know that I am not
what I am thought to be."
1341
01:15:38,403 --> 01:15:41,928
There are people who have been
told
1342
01:15:42,015 --> 01:15:45,715
that God condemns you,
1343
01:15:45,802 --> 01:15:50,633
that you are not okay,
that you are guilty before God.
1344
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:52,286
- Well, I resonate
with the story,
1345
01:15:52,373 --> 01:15:54,288
but I was thinking about
my own personal journey.
1346
01:15:54,375 --> 01:15:56,464
Job did this all by himself,
I feel like,
1347
01:15:56,552 --> 01:15:58,379
and once I, like, came out,
1348
01:15:58,466 --> 01:15:59,990
that kinda changed
everything for me,
1349
01:16:00,077 --> 01:16:01,644
and it gave me a support system
1350
01:16:01,731 --> 01:16:04,168
and more people to walk with me
on the journey.
1351
01:16:04,255 --> 01:16:05,865
And I feel like
he was very isolated still,
1352
01:16:05,952 --> 01:16:09,695
and so for him to be that brave
is real inspiring.
1353
01:16:09,782 --> 01:16:13,786
- So I think of suicidality
of LGBTQ young people, right?
1354
01:16:13,873 --> 01:16:15,701
There's nowhere to go.
1355
01:16:15,788 --> 01:16:20,140
"I'm boxed in,
condemned for being who I am,
1356
01:16:20,227 --> 01:16:25,102
"no escape from who I am,
but you made me how I am,
1357
01:16:25,189 --> 01:16:27,757
and now you judge me
for how you made me."
1358
01:16:27,844 --> 01:16:30,803
How is that fair?
1359
01:16:30,890 --> 01:16:34,546
Can we stand up and hold hands
and have a prayer?
1360
01:16:34,633 --> 01:16:38,115
There are maybe six
to eight passages in the Bible
1361
01:16:38,202 --> 01:16:41,727
that appear to address
same-sex sex,
1362
01:16:41,814 --> 01:16:44,121
and they're all negative.
1363
01:16:44,208 --> 01:16:46,950
Dear Lord...
1364
01:16:47,037 --> 01:16:49,605
you are healing us
through this direct
1365
01:16:49,692 --> 01:16:52,085
and honest encounter
with scripture,
1366
01:16:52,172 --> 01:16:55,654
with church at its best
but also church at its worst.
1367
01:16:55,741 --> 01:16:58,831
I realized that
the traditional rendering
1368
01:16:58,918 --> 01:17:02,269
of the traditional verses
that were cited was actually
1369
01:17:02,356 --> 01:17:05,446
like a weapon
of spiritual destruction.
1370
01:17:10,451 --> 01:17:12,149
- There have been times
in our lives
1371
01:17:12,236 --> 01:17:15,195
when we didn't feel safe,
1372
01:17:15,282 --> 01:17:17,763
rejected by family,
1373
01:17:17,850 --> 01:17:20,505
being dis--literally disowned
by family.
1374
01:17:26,206 --> 01:17:31,298
When I came out, my father,
Baptist minister,
1375
01:17:31,385 --> 01:17:36,564
on his deathbed, his words were,
"I have no son named Theron."
1376
01:17:36,652 --> 01:17:39,872
- Which commandment says
to hate people, you know?
1377
01:17:39,959 --> 01:17:42,875
Which one says to shut them out
for being themselves
1378
01:17:42,962 --> 01:17:44,964
and not hurting anyone?
1379
01:17:45,051 --> 01:17:47,750
- Oh, yeah.
- Here it is.
1380
01:17:47,837 --> 01:17:51,405
- That was--okay, for context--
"So I am a boy."
1381
01:17:51,492 --> 01:17:53,103
- "A super-duper-duper--"
- A super-duper.
1382
01:17:53,190 --> 01:17:54,626
"For sure cool."
1383
01:17:54,713 --> 01:17:56,193
- My handwriting's
never been good.
1384
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,152
I was hospitalized
in September of 2016
1385
01:17:59,239 --> 01:18:02,634
over my gap year
for a suicide attempt,
1386
01:18:02,721 --> 01:18:03,983
and I was in the hospital
for a while,
1387
01:18:04,070 --> 01:18:08,422
and my church was so good to me.
1388
01:18:08,509 --> 01:18:09,946
- To go into
to Sunday school and go,
1389
01:18:10,033 --> 01:18:12,470
"Oh, gosh, you know,
Jamie's a guy,
1390
01:18:12,557 --> 01:18:15,429
and what do we do with that,
and how do we support that?"
1391
01:18:15,516 --> 01:18:20,217
- For us to have a safe place
as parents to say,
1392
01:18:20,304 --> 01:18:21,914
"Of course we wanna
be supportive.
1393
01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:23,960
"Of course we believe in
our kid,
1394
01:18:24,047 --> 01:18:26,571
but holy cow,
this is hard stuff."
1395
01:18:29,792 --> 01:18:32,882
- I was raised in the mountains
of North Georgia,
1396
01:18:32,969 --> 01:18:36,886
and I had never heard
the word gay or lesbian.
1397
01:18:36,973 --> 01:18:38,757
The people that are in
this church
1398
01:18:38,844 --> 01:18:41,499
have helped me
to be a better person.
1399
01:18:41,586 --> 01:18:44,763
- I grew up in South Georgia,
a small town.
1400
01:18:44,850 --> 01:18:46,896
I had never seen a gay
in my life.
1401
01:18:46,983 --> 01:18:49,202
- Mm-hmm.
- There's been a lot of change,
1402
01:18:49,289 --> 01:18:50,638
and I've had to
wrestle with that.
1403
01:18:50,726 --> 01:18:52,902
- Mm-hmm.
- When I was a little girl,
1404
01:18:52,989 --> 01:18:56,993
there were no women ministers,
no women deacons,
1405
01:18:57,080 --> 01:18:58,951
nobody of a different race
1406
01:18:59,038 --> 01:19:03,086
or a different cultural
background in this church.
1407
01:19:03,173 --> 01:19:05,653
- Moving through
the Old Testament,
1408
01:19:05,741 --> 01:19:09,527
there is this ongoing,
resonating sense
1409
01:19:09,614 --> 01:19:14,401
that there's something hopeful
about what lies ahead.
1410
01:19:14,488 --> 01:19:18,841
We are learners
on this journey together.
1411
01:19:18,928 --> 01:19:19,972
- If the way you're
reading the Bible
1412
01:19:20,059 --> 01:19:21,757
brings hate of neighbor,
1413
01:19:21,844 --> 01:19:25,586
it negates the central
command of Jesus.
1414
01:19:25,673 --> 01:19:27,588
The role of the Christian
community and its leaders
1415
01:19:27,675 --> 01:19:30,983
especially is to help
the people interpret the Bible
1416
01:19:31,070 --> 01:19:34,813
in a way that gives life
rather than takes it.
1417
01:19:34,900 --> 01:19:39,296
- People are now feeling
what they felt as a child
1418
01:19:39,383 --> 01:19:41,080
and that they do have
a place of belonging.
1419
01:19:43,996 --> 01:19:45,868
When I walked through
the doors of this church
1420
01:19:45,955 --> 01:19:47,739
the first time,
1421
01:19:47,826 --> 01:19:50,698
and we were holding hands,
the minister said,
1422
01:19:50,786 --> 01:19:54,006
"Welcome, friends."
1423
01:19:54,093 --> 01:19:57,880
It had been a long time
since church felt like home.
1424
01:19:59,795 --> 01:20:01,318
- If you would all stand.
1425
01:20:01,405 --> 01:20:04,060
If you agree to support
this couple,
1426
01:20:04,147 --> 01:20:07,237
say "we do" when I tell you
it's time to say "we do."
1427
01:20:07,324 --> 01:20:11,284
Do you promise not to leave them
alone to struggle on their own
1428
01:20:11,371 --> 01:20:14,635
but instead to undertake
life's journey alongside them?
1429
01:20:14,722 --> 01:20:16,376
all: We do.
1430
01:20:21,599 --> 01:20:23,644
[cheers and applause]
1431
01:20:23,731 --> 01:20:26,996
- In practice, this church
has become fully inclusive
1432
01:20:27,083 --> 01:20:31,000
in every way that mattered.
1433
01:20:31,087 --> 01:20:34,699
Openness in Baptist churches
is often measured
1434
01:20:34,786 --> 01:20:37,833
by when those barriers
begin to drop.
1435
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:41,053
- He didn't even know about
Thursday night.
1436
01:20:41,140 --> 01:20:44,013
- My kids saw people
who loved each other,
1437
01:20:44,100 --> 01:20:48,234
and I think because
of that love and support,
1438
01:20:48,321 --> 01:20:50,889
Jamie was able
to find his voice.
1439
01:20:50,976 --> 01:20:53,196
- God love you.
1440
01:20:55,763 --> 01:20:58,854
- If you think about it from,
1441
01:20:58,941 --> 01:21:00,943
"I have no son named Theron,"
1442
01:21:01,030 --> 01:21:03,119
symbolizing the most hateful
of rejections
1443
01:21:03,206 --> 01:21:08,472
and the most--the most vicious
because it's parent-child
1444
01:21:08,559 --> 01:21:13,085
to "I have a son named Jamie,"
that's quite a journey.
1445
01:21:13,172 --> 01:21:14,521
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
1446
01:21:14,608 --> 01:21:17,698
[uplifting music]
1447
01:21:17,785 --> 01:21:24,618
♪ ♪
1448
01:21:27,056 --> 01:21:32,017
- There is no higher purpose
than being kind.
1449
01:21:32,104 --> 01:21:36,892
It's just that middle path
that we have to follow.
1450
01:21:39,198 --> 01:21:40,939
- You see somebody in need.
1451
01:21:41,026 --> 01:21:44,421
Do your very best to help them
as much as you can.
1452
01:21:58,348 --> 01:22:00,176
[school bell rings]
1453
01:22:00,263 --> 01:22:03,048
- We're gonna be studying.
We're going to be reviewing.
1454
01:22:03,135 --> 01:22:06,704
We're gonna be preparing
for the big test
1455
01:22:06,791 --> 01:22:09,402
in three days, all right?
Here we go.
1456
01:22:09,489 --> 01:22:11,230
Which clause
in the First Amendment
1457
01:22:11,317 --> 01:22:14,668
guarantees each person's right
to practice their religion?
1458
01:22:14,755 --> 01:22:16,235
First one standing,
second one standing.
1459
01:22:16,322 --> 01:22:18,237
Okay, Diego's
first one standing.
1460
01:22:18,324 --> 01:22:20,065
Diego gets two.
He's group five.
1461
01:22:20,152 --> 01:22:22,328
- Okay.
- What is the Torah?
1462
01:22:22,415 --> 01:22:24,200
- It's like,
a--multiple stories,
1463
01:22:24,287 --> 01:22:27,768
like, almost like a Bible,
but it's, like, in--in Judaism.
1464
01:22:27,855 --> 01:22:30,684
- What city is considered to be
the holy city of Judaism?
1465
01:22:30,771 --> 01:22:34,601
Is it Mecca, Paris, Jerusalem,
or Cairo? Diego?
1466
01:22:34,688 --> 01:22:37,517
- Jerusalem's considered
the holy land of Judaism
1467
01:22:37,604 --> 01:22:38,954
because it was the land
1468
01:22:39,041 --> 01:22:41,478
gifted to Abraham
and his people by God.
1469
01:22:41,565 --> 01:22:42,827
- Excellent.
Thank you very much.
1470
01:22:42,914 --> 01:22:45,003
Have a seat.
The many thousands of gods
1471
01:22:45,090 --> 01:22:48,267
in Hinduism
are simply reflections of whom?
1472
01:22:48,354 --> 01:22:50,095
Tell me a little bit
more about Brahman.
1473
01:22:50,182 --> 01:22:54,882
- Brahman is viewed
as many different things,
1474
01:22:54,970 --> 01:22:58,147
but in Hinduism it literally
is only one thing.
1475
01:22:58,234 --> 01:22:59,670
- What is the goal
of the Eightfold Path?
1476
01:22:59,757 --> 01:23:01,672
- To reach nirvana.
1477
01:23:01,759 --> 01:23:03,848
- Exactly.
- Samsari is the circle of life.
1478
01:23:03,935 --> 01:23:06,024
- The most sacred of the Vedas
is, like, the Rigveda.
1479
01:23:06,111 --> 01:23:07,286
- Anything about Martin Luther.
1480
01:23:07,373 --> 01:23:08,940
- He put the notes
on the church door.
1481
01:23:09,027 --> 01:23:11,116
- Diwali is the festival
of light.
1482
01:23:11,203 --> 01:23:14,641
- Yes. Guru Nanak was
the founder of what religion?
1483
01:23:14,728 --> 01:23:18,384
Sikhism, Islam--
he's trying to write--
1484
01:23:18,471 --> 01:23:22,475
- Guru Nanak went into
the forest for a few days,
1485
01:23:22,562 --> 01:23:26,827
and when he came out, he said,
"God does not care what religion
1486
01:23:26,914 --> 01:23:29,004
you choose as long
as you're kind to others."
1487
01:23:29,091 --> 01:23:33,660
- Diego, I'm telling you,
what did you eat for breakfast?
1488
01:23:33,747 --> 01:23:36,098
Okay, have a seat.
1489
01:23:36,185 --> 01:23:39,144
What I'd like to know
is what's the essence
1490
01:23:39,231 --> 01:23:40,885
of what you're learning here
that you will really,
1491
01:23:40,972 --> 01:23:44,497
really remember
and use--hold on--and use
1492
01:23:44,584 --> 01:23:46,804
as you go out there
into the world?
1493
01:23:46,891 --> 01:23:48,197
- Everything we did learn
just came up to one idea,
1494
01:23:48,284 --> 01:23:49,720
which is respect.
1495
01:23:49,807 --> 01:23:52,201
You need to respect everyone
even if you don't understand
1496
01:23:52,288 --> 01:23:55,291
what they--what
their religion is.
1497
01:23:55,378 --> 01:23:58,076
You still have to respect them
because they are human.
1498
01:23:58,163 --> 01:24:00,905
- Despite our races,
our religions,
1499
01:24:00,992 --> 01:24:03,429
we are all human beings,
aren't we?
1500
01:24:03,516 --> 01:24:05,257
- And all the religions really
lead up to,
1501
01:24:05,344 --> 01:24:07,694
like,
the main point is kindness.
1502
01:24:07,781 --> 01:24:09,740
- It doesn't matter
who the person is.
1503
01:24:09,827 --> 01:24:12,047
It's to treat them
with kindness.
1504
01:24:22,274 --> 01:24:24,537
- I want people to look
past their religions.
1505
01:24:24,624 --> 01:24:27,845
I want people to look past
their differences.
1506
01:24:27,932 --> 01:24:29,368
I wanna make a change,
1507
01:24:29,455 --> 01:24:31,457
and I want our
generation of teenagers
1508
01:24:31,544 --> 01:24:34,939
to be at least
a good aspect of that change.
1509
01:24:37,202 --> 01:24:38,464
- I know that other people
1510
01:24:38,551 --> 01:24:39,422
don't believe
what I believe in,
1511
01:24:39,509 --> 01:24:41,424
and there's other beliefs.
1512
01:24:41,511 --> 01:24:44,470
I have no right to judge or
shame others for their beliefs.
1513
01:24:44,557 --> 01:24:45,819
- This was
some interesting stuff.
1514
01:24:45,906 --> 01:24:47,256
Like, I never knew
1515
01:24:47,343 --> 01:24:49,388
what Buddhists
and Hindus had in common.
1516
01:24:49,475 --> 01:24:51,042
- The more I learned about
different religions,
1517
01:24:51,129 --> 01:24:53,436
the more I realized, like,
1518
01:24:53,523 --> 01:24:57,483
how they're
just--they're all connected.
1519
01:24:57,570 --> 01:25:00,921
- The values that the different
people in the religions have,
1520
01:25:01,008 --> 01:25:03,837
they all--they teach really,
like--like,
1521
01:25:03,924 --> 01:25:07,276
it increases integrity within
a person as an individual.
1522
01:25:07,363 --> 01:25:11,410
- This type of class required
would probably
1523
01:25:11,497 --> 01:25:13,978
be an amazing thing
when you think about it.
1524
01:25:14,065 --> 01:25:15,675
Like, it might not even
just stop in America.
1525
01:25:15,762 --> 01:25:17,286
It might even go all around,
1526
01:25:17,373 --> 01:25:20,593
and that could really help
some really bad situations
1527
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:21,986
in a lot of places,
when you really think about it.
1528
01:25:22,073 --> 01:25:24,380
- Yeah.
- I grew up being a Christian,
1529
01:25:24,467 --> 01:25:28,949
and when I seen, like, Muslims
or Jews, like, walking around,
1530
01:25:29,036 --> 01:25:31,822
I would just--they
dress different.
1531
01:25:31,909 --> 01:25:33,563
Sometimes you look at them,
and you think,
1532
01:25:33,650 --> 01:25:35,260
like, "They're so weird,"
1533
01:25:35,347 --> 01:25:38,698
and I would kinda just make
fun of them with my friends,
1534
01:25:38,785 --> 01:25:42,354
and now I--I can't
imagine myself doing that
1535
01:25:42,441 --> 01:25:44,443
because, like,
that is their religion,
1536
01:25:44,530 --> 01:25:47,098
and that's just horrible.
1537
01:25:47,185 --> 01:25:50,232
Like, I just can't believe
I would make fun of, like,
1538
01:25:50,319 --> 01:25:51,885
people for their religion.
1539
01:25:51,972 --> 01:25:53,539
It's just horrible.
1540
01:25:53,626 --> 01:25:56,455
[instrumental music playing]
1541
01:25:56,542 --> 01:26:03,375
♪ ♪
1542
01:26:18,434 --> 01:26:19,826
- You've got this.
1543
01:26:19,913 --> 01:26:21,828
- You got it, girl.
You got it.
1544
01:26:21,915 --> 01:26:24,831
♪ ♪
1545
01:26:24,918 --> 01:26:27,704
[cheers and applause]
1546
01:26:29,836 --> 01:26:31,447
- Good evening.
1547
01:26:31,534 --> 01:26:33,405
On behalf
of the board of regents,
1548
01:26:33,492 --> 01:26:36,103
the faculty, staff, and students
of Amarillo College,
1549
01:26:36,191 --> 01:26:38,715
it is my sincere pleasure
to welcome you
1550
01:26:38,802 --> 01:26:40,717
to this fall's
commencement ceremony.
1551
01:26:40,804 --> 01:26:43,633
[cheers and applause]
1552
01:26:45,417 --> 01:26:48,942
Tonight's speaker
is quite special.
1553
01:26:49,029 --> 01:26:52,555
I think I saw her potential
even before she did,
1554
01:26:52,642 --> 01:26:56,689
and it's my privilege
to ask Alicia to come forward.
1555
01:26:56,776 --> 01:26:58,648
[cheers and applause]
- Congratulations.
1556
01:26:58,735 --> 01:27:01,912
- Thank you.
Thank you, Russell.
1557
01:27:01,999 --> 01:27:03,479
- Enjoy this, okay?
1558
01:27:03,566 --> 01:27:05,655
- Okay.
Thank you.
1559
01:27:05,742 --> 01:27:08,527
Well, hello. We made it.
1560
01:27:08,614 --> 01:27:11,226
Good job, guys.
Awesome.
1561
01:27:15,795 --> 01:27:17,667
I could have never
made it this far
1562
01:27:17,754 --> 01:27:20,626
without the help of other people
1563
01:27:20,713 --> 01:27:23,716
and without the help
of all of you guys.
1564
01:27:23,803 --> 01:27:25,501
Three years ago,
1565
01:27:25,588 --> 01:27:28,895
I had no idea what I wanted
to do with my life.
1566
01:27:28,982 --> 01:27:31,550
All I knew is that
I did not wanna be
1567
01:27:31,637 --> 01:27:34,901
in the financial struggle
that I was constantly in.
1568
01:27:34,988 --> 01:27:37,991
I wanted to provide
a better life for my son,
1569
01:27:38,078 --> 01:27:42,126
and I knew that I was gonna
have to fight...
1570
01:27:42,213 --> 01:27:44,520
- Whoo!
1571
01:27:44,607 --> 01:27:49,089
- And fight harder
than I've ever fought before.
1572
01:27:49,176 --> 01:27:53,180
It's a unique thing
to be human,
1573
01:27:53,268 --> 01:27:55,487
to form compassion
1574
01:27:55,574 --> 01:27:58,577
and understanding
the needs of others,
1575
01:27:58,664 --> 01:28:03,147
but it's a even extraordinary
thing that we understand it
1576
01:28:03,234 --> 01:28:07,107
enough to know
what we help one another,
1577
01:28:07,194 --> 01:28:10,197
and we give it
without even knowing.
1578
01:28:14,376 --> 01:28:15,812
- Looks good.
1579
01:28:18,641 --> 01:28:22,471
There you go.
There you go.
1580
01:28:22,558 --> 01:28:24,821
Good job.
You did it.
1581
01:28:27,693 --> 01:28:29,521
- I get the--let me
get the door.
1582
01:28:36,180 --> 01:28:37,877
- I have a present for you.
1583
01:28:37,964 --> 01:28:42,273
[vacuum whirring]
- Oh.
1584
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:45,145
- Refugees are in every town,
in every community,
1585
01:28:45,232 --> 01:28:47,278
in every state.
1586
01:28:47,365 --> 01:28:48,975
They're part of who we are.
1587
01:28:49,062 --> 01:28:51,717
- It's harder.
- Okay, yeah.
1588
01:28:51,804 --> 01:28:53,502
- Good.
- Good.
1589
01:28:53,589 --> 01:28:57,680
Good.
1590
01:28:57,767 --> 01:28:59,551
- They need Anchorage
to show up.
1591
01:28:59,638 --> 01:29:01,858
They need Alaska to show up.
1592
01:29:01,945 --> 01:29:04,382
They need the citizens
of the United States of America
1593
01:29:04,469 --> 01:29:06,558
to show up.
1594
01:29:06,645 --> 01:29:10,301
- Thank you.
- When I came to Alaska,
1595
01:29:10,388 --> 01:29:12,259
I didn't have any rights.
1596
01:29:12,347 --> 01:29:17,656
People were genuinely kind,
and it's not like Russia
1597
01:29:17,743 --> 01:29:21,007
was the best friend
of the United States.
1598
01:29:21,094 --> 01:29:24,097
- [indistinct]
1599
01:29:24,184 --> 01:29:27,057
Kindness comes from heart,
1600
01:29:27,144 --> 01:29:29,625
so as I met different people
1601
01:29:29,712 --> 01:29:33,455
that did something good to me,
1602
01:29:33,542 --> 01:29:37,807
it's just because they are kind
from the heart,
1603
01:29:37,894 --> 01:29:41,550
not from what they have,
not from where they're from.
1604
01:29:41,637 --> 01:29:44,335
I can say kindness
1605
01:29:44,422 --> 01:29:47,556
is just from heart.
1606
01:29:47,643 --> 01:29:50,385
- Hi.
- Hi.
1607
01:29:50,472 --> 01:29:52,082
- Hi.
1608
01:29:52,169 --> 01:29:55,433
[laughter]
1609
01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:57,740
- We have a choice.
1610
01:29:57,827 --> 01:30:00,917
Am I an individual
solely choosing
1611
01:30:01,004 --> 01:30:05,269
what I as an individual need,
want, and can excel from?
1612
01:30:05,356 --> 01:30:07,445
Or am I looking at
my community and saying,
1613
01:30:07,532 --> 01:30:10,274
"What do I think
my community needs?"
1614
01:30:10,361 --> 01:30:13,059
Okay!
If I can get your attention.
1615
01:30:13,146 --> 01:30:14,844
Sorry.
1616
01:30:14,931 --> 01:30:16,933
I will let the clients
introduce themselves,
1617
01:30:17,020 --> 01:30:19,109
their names,
where they're from,
1618
01:30:19,196 --> 01:30:21,459
and how long
they've been here in Alaska.
1619
01:30:21,546 --> 01:30:23,418
Rahaba, you wanna start?
1620
01:30:23,505 --> 01:30:27,683
- My name is Rahaba Masita.
I'm from Congo.
1621
01:30:27,770 --> 01:30:31,643
I've been here,
Anchorage, Alaska two years.
1622
01:30:31,730 --> 01:30:34,298
- My name is Faraha.
1623
01:30:34,385 --> 01:30:37,780
I'm from Congo;
Alaska two minutes.
1624
01:30:37,867 --> 01:30:40,696
[laughter, applause]
1625
01:30:46,658 --> 01:30:49,922
- Hi. My name is Hope Gisanna,
1626
01:30:50,009 --> 01:30:52,577
born from Congo,
1627
01:30:52,664 --> 01:30:56,102
so I'm here almost six months.
1628
01:30:56,189 --> 01:30:59,279
First of all, I want
to appreciate
1629
01:30:59,366 --> 01:31:01,760
to come to work together.
1630
01:31:01,847 --> 01:31:05,329
You guys, you know,
our country, how it is,
1631
01:31:05,416 --> 01:31:10,203
every time there is war,
people die in time.
1632
01:31:10,290 --> 01:31:15,426
Thank you so much to say
that you are supporting us.
1633
01:31:15,513 --> 01:31:18,298
Some, we don't have parents.
1634
01:31:18,385 --> 01:31:23,565
There is a problem of raping,
1635
01:31:23,652 --> 01:31:28,265
guards raping women,
killing people everywhere,
1636
01:31:28,352 --> 01:31:33,879
so please keep working
with our organization.
1637
01:31:33,966 --> 01:31:37,187
Keep working with everyone
to see
1638
01:31:37,274 --> 01:31:41,147
that we can have a peace
in this world.
1639
01:31:41,234 --> 01:31:42,975
Yeah, thank you so much.
1640
01:31:43,062 --> 01:31:46,544
[applause]
1641
01:31:46,631 --> 01:31:50,722
- Hello.
My name is Ndayikunda Hambifura.
1642
01:31:50,809 --> 01:31:55,553
As I said, I'm from Congo.
This is my brother Isaac
1643
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:59,775
and my sister Florence
and my sister Denise,
1644
01:31:59,862 --> 01:32:04,214
and she's my mom.
We are going to sing a song.
1645
01:32:04,301 --> 01:32:07,043
[soft guitar music plays]
1646
01:32:07,130 --> 01:32:14,050
♪ ♪
1647
01:32:17,053 --> 01:32:19,795
[all singing in native language]
1648
01:33:07,712 --> 01:33:10,759
[warm music]
1649
01:33:10,846 --> 01:33:17,722
♪ ♪
1650
01:33:20,725 --> 01:33:22,161
- Oh!
- Oh.
1651
01:33:22,248 --> 01:33:24,599
[all speaking native language]
1652
01:34:27,444 --> 01:34:29,707
- Nobody made it here alone.
1653
01:34:29,794 --> 01:34:32,144
We have all extended
that helping hand
1654
01:34:32,231 --> 01:34:35,147
because we knew
exactly how hard it was.
1655
01:34:38,977 --> 01:34:42,546
Stand if you have ever gone
to a study session
1656
01:34:42,633 --> 01:34:44,983
and you or someone brought food.
1657
01:34:45,070 --> 01:34:49,727
Stand if you have ever lent
or borrowed a textbook.
1658
01:34:49,814 --> 01:34:52,338
Stand if you have ever
helped tutor a student
1659
01:34:52,425 --> 01:34:55,602
that needed help with a class,
1660
01:34:55,690 --> 01:34:59,302
and lastly, stand if you helped
a fellow student out
1661
01:34:59,389 --> 01:35:03,785
with encouragement, direction,
accountability, or even love.
1662
01:35:10,574 --> 01:35:13,490
You see?
1663
01:35:13,577 --> 01:35:18,060
I'm standing up here today
because of you.
1664
01:35:18,147 --> 01:35:23,021
We all are here today because
we all helped each other.
1665
01:35:27,112 --> 01:35:30,986
- I'm convinced it's that
kindness that we all share
1666
01:35:31,073 --> 01:35:32,857
that brings out the best
in all of us,
1667
01:35:32,944 --> 01:35:36,034
and that's when we feel best
about who we are.
1668
01:35:36,121 --> 01:35:39,603
- We are all humans kind of
stumbling through life,
1669
01:35:39,690 --> 01:35:41,953
trying to figure out our place,
1670
01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:43,476
so I think treating people
with kindness
1671
01:35:43,563 --> 01:35:45,609
means understanding that,
1672
01:35:45,696 --> 01:35:49,134
expressed through patience
and caring.
1673
01:35:49,221 --> 01:35:53,225
- If every one of us chip in
in our own different ways
1674
01:35:53,312 --> 01:35:55,793
to do something,
no matter how small,
1675
01:35:55,880 --> 01:35:58,361
I think we will have
a better community
1676
01:35:58,448 --> 01:36:00,189
and a better country.
1677
01:36:00,276 --> 01:36:03,061
- What can you share with
the rest of the world?
1678
01:36:03,148 --> 01:36:07,196
We need to value what's present
and what's good in people.
1679
01:36:07,283 --> 01:36:10,416
- We must agree there are
certain basic human rights
1680
01:36:10,503 --> 01:36:12,679
that we must all protect
no matter what.
1681
01:36:12,767 --> 01:36:15,030
- We need to be kind,
respectful,
1682
01:36:15,117 --> 01:36:19,904
and responsible within society
to live in a civil democracy.
1683
01:36:19,991 --> 01:36:22,994
- We all are immigrants
and refugees from other places
1684
01:36:23,081 --> 01:36:25,518
creating a country
that has a vision.
1685
01:36:25,605 --> 01:36:27,999
- There is love
across this country
1686
01:36:28,086 --> 01:36:30,001
that happens every day.
1687
01:36:30,088 --> 01:36:31,698
It's not about ignoring
1688
01:36:31,786 --> 01:36:35,093
those destructive elements
of our society.
1689
01:36:35,180 --> 01:36:38,053
It's deciding that my attention
is gonna go to the good.
1690
01:36:47,149 --> 01:36:49,804
- I think it's the glue
that holds us together,
1691
01:36:49,891 --> 01:36:51,588
I guess you could say,
1692
01:36:51,675 --> 01:36:53,851
and I think it's just
really important
1693
01:36:53,938 --> 01:36:57,246
because without kindness,
we'd all be maniacs.
1694
01:37:08,300 --> 01:37:11,477
[gentle piano music]
1695
01:37:11,564 --> 01:37:18,441
♪ ♪
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