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[instrumental music]

Oh, thank you.

Can you set that
on the living room table?

Neesee.

What is 50 Cent doin'
ridin' a chicken?

That is not 50 Cent,
that's Bobby.

And that's not a chicken,
that's an ostrich.

All good parties have themes.

What's the theme of this one?

"My mother done
lost her damn mind?"

Look, Bobby's in a new school
and I don't want him to feel

like he's not as good
as those rich Cresthaven kids.

Neesee, since when do we try
to keep up with the Joneses?

Whatever.

What's up,
birthday party people?

The Dirk‐Bot is here.

Unh‐unh, ah, did you see
Will Smith's last movie?

‐ Which one?
‐ Bye, Robot!

Hey, man, check this out,
Bobby's gonna go crazy

when he sees Dirk‐Bot 8.0.

[instrumental music]

‐ That's nice.
‐ Nice? That's all I get?

You have any idea where the
battery for these lights are?

Hey, look, Dirk,
I understand, man

but Neesee, she's trippin'
right now, alright?

Last week, we took Bobby
to one his classmates parties

he had it on a yacht, okay?

They were flying kids
back and forth the shore

on a helicopter.

What are you tryin' to say,
Dirk‐Bot's too ghetto?

Nah! No, um‐‐

I've been Dirk‐Bot
Bobby's whole life.

He's never had a birthday party
without the Dirk‐Bot.

Dirk‐Bot is part of this family,
damn it.

This is a tradition.

[instrumental music]

Hey, Dirk, I feel you, man.

But I guarantee you, next year,
you'll have your spot back.

You cut me deep on this one.

I know, man, but..
Come on, man.

Work with me.
Give me some love, man.

Give me some love.

[instrumental music]

Oh, yeah, what happened?
What happened? I can't stop.

I can't. Snap. Ooh!

That's that 8.0, huh? Unh!

Ooh! Oh! Ooh! I can't..

Yo, I'm gonna
talk to Neesee right now, Dirk.

'Cause that's hot.

Look, Neesee, I know you're
tryin' to impress people, but..

[camel grunts]

That better be a big‐ass dog.

[camel grunts]

♪ Often I wish that we ♪

♪ Could take the time to see ♪

♪ The need there is to be ♪

♪ A family yeah ♪

♪ 'Cause it's All Of Us ♪

♪ Sometimes it can be rough ♪

♪ Time and seasons change ♪

♪ But we will still remain ♪

♪ It's just All Of Us ♪

♪ It's just All Of Us ♪♪♪

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Hey, welcome to Bobby's, uh

Circus Deuce, LA

monkey paw...
party extravaganza..

Huh?

Just read the banner.

Okay, alright.
Hi. Welcome..

Welcome to "Bobby's Wonderful
Menagerie of Wonderment."

‐ Hey, hey, man.
‐ Hey, Randal?

Hey! Good to see you.
Thanks for comin'.

Well, you know, I hate
to pass up a good menagerie.

[laughs]

Oh, look at them.
That is just like kids.

All these amazing things
you put together

and they'd rather play cards.

[chuckles]
Yeah, that is so cute.

Excuse me.

Uh, Bobby, sweetie,
your cards are here every day

but the animals are not.

Why don't you, uh, ride
the camel and pet the llama?

How about the ostrich?

One minute, mom.
I'm about to win.

Um, no, you're not.
Got any 3's?

No. Go fish, nigger!

Uh, just.. You know..

[mumbles]

[grunts]
Robert Humphrey James Jr.

What?
I didn't have any 3's. Look.

That is not
what we're talking about.

Why would you say that word?

Did I say a bad word?

‐ Kinda.
‐ Absolutely.

‐ Maybe.
‐ Yes.

I..

Baby, go outside
and enjoy your birthday.

It's your birthday. Go, shorty.

[chuckling]
Yo! Yo!

Is it true Bobby just drop the
N‐bomb on a little white kid?

Wh..

Not now, Dirk.

Oh, man, I missed it.

Bobby Deuce getting gangster
on his birthday?

‐ Which little kid was it?
‐ Dirk, this is not funny.

[laughs]
Yes, it is.

This is karma.

A high‐class party like this,
busted‐up, nuked.

That's what you get
for dissin' the Dirk‐Bot.

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Robert, I have never used
that word around him.

Are you tryin' to
put this on me?

Yeah, I‐I got to blame it
on somebody.

I have never been so embarrassed
in all my life.

Look, Neesee,
stay with me, alright?

Just put your game face on.

[chuckling]

Hey, everybody. We're back.

Yeah and, uh, we'll be having
cake in five minutes.

Oh, so, it's like that, huh?

I mean,
your boy shouts out

the most consequential
social insult

in American history
and we eat cake?

Yeah, well, you know,
it's, it's my son's birthday

and I'd like for all of us
to have cake.

So could we do that, please?

Come on, man, the boy's eight.
Just keep it real.

Only thing he didn't know
was he wasn't supposed to say it

in front of mixed company.

I hate that word.
I just hate it.

As far as I'm concerned,
it's never okay to say it.

Uh, Penelope,
uh, not right now.

I‐I never use it.

Uh, my uncle dated
a black woman for a long time.

It was great.

We all loved her.

Shondrella.

I also cried at the end
of "Boyz n the Hood."

Look,
w‐what I don't understand is

why you would ever want
to use that word at all?

Penelope, uh, maybe someone else
should be asking that question.

I'll ask it for Penelope then.

'Cause I think
it's a good question, Robert.

Why are African‐Americans
the only people to embrace

the oppressors words
of hate and degradation?

I mean, you don't hear
our Latino brothers

going, "Yo, what up, my spic?"

Or our Asian brother saying,
"Oh, chink, please."

It's 'cause they both
sound stupid?

Hey, look, I don't think
y'all are gonna

answer all of that today,
trust me

I've danced this dance before,
and toes get stepped on

so could we get back
to my son's party?

Who needs a drink?

I know I do.

What does that word mean anyway?

I don't know, I thought it meant
like friend or homie.

No, it must be something bad.

Like broccoli.

Nuh‐uh, it means criminal.

I know, 'cause my aunty said
that's who broke in her car.

‐ It's the context, man.
‐ Dirk!

Hold up, the context
determines the meaning, right?

If you say it with an "ER"
on the end

you're gonna end up in the ER.

But you say it with an "A,"
then it's like, "Hey, man.

It's all good."

Now, Dirk,
that's just ignorant.

We're supposed to be tryin'
to do better.

That's what I'm sayin',
with the "A," it's better.

Is that what you really think,
that we're reclaiming it?

Stripping it of all its negative
historical connotations?

I mean, that's great!

Until somebody calls you that
for real, then what?

Mike, Mike,
call him that for real.

With an "A."

You know, I'm good.

I don't care how you use it,
it's offensive no matter what.

Does it offend you?

Are you embarrassed
by the history of the word?

Why is it so difficult
for you to believe

that she could be offended
by it?

Are you saying
just because I'm white

I can only relate
to the oppressor?

I don't have to lose my sight
to empathize with the blind.

[party horn blows]

Hey, y'all figured it out yet?

Oh, no? Damn, man.

With all this brain power
in this room

you guys couldn't sit through
500 years of racial oppression?

Damn, because I was hopin'
y'all could wrap this up

and we can move on
to the Middle East

before the pizza got here.

Now, Robert, you know this ain't
no pizza kinda party.

Yeah, and this is not a debating
kind of party either, Neesee.

Right, because a debate would
require you to have an opinion.

Oh, wait, hold on now here.
Hold on.

Hey, partner,
you in our house

and this is our son's birthday
party‐‐

Neesee, I got this.
You, you know what bothers me?

When people think
they have all the answers

to everything
and they really don't.

'Cause first of all

Black Americans
are not the only people

that tried to take a slur
and flip it, okay?

The gay community
took the word "queer"

and threw it in the faces
of the people that hated them.

Exactly.

And, Dirk, come on, man.

This "ER," "A" thing
is ridiculous, man.

We know what we're sayin',
"er," "aa," "a," "let."

Now, look, the bottom line is

there will always be
a part of this word

that is the most hateful,
ugly thing

that you can ever think about
black people.

Exactly!

But if we do
what you're sayin'

we're just preservin' the word.

We're puttin' it on a pedestal,
we're makin' it sacred.

But I got it. I got it, y'all.

Why don't we just make it
a symbol like Prince, huh?

Hold on, hold on. Okay.
Oh. Okay.

Here it is, right here.

This is the symbol.

The word formerly known
as "Nigga."

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Look at him, all nervous.

It's not worse to be in trouble
on your birthday.

He's not in trouble, Dirk.

He doesn't know that.

Only thing worse than being
in trouble on your birthday

thinking you're in trouble
on your birthday.

We just got to figure out
how to say it to him.

[sighs]
I don't know,
he's just too young.

How do we explain that?

You know what this is?
A good old‐fashioned dilemma.

You have the mother

that doesn't want her son
to lose his innocence

by telling the truth
behind such a hateful word.

Then you got the father,
captain of the steamboat

tryin' to navigate his son
to the muddy waters of racism.

"What? Oh, oh,
they're throwin' rocks, dad."

Always the option
of not sayin' nothin'.

Lettin' some redneck down on
Cracker Street teach him.

Dicey Game,
this game called "Life."

I would not want to be y'all
right now.

Whoo!
What to do? What to do?

This is why I wear condoms.

[oven beeping]

My popcorn.

I'mma go hang with Bobby.
Y'all want me to tell him?

‐ Hell, no!
‐ No!

I got to see
how y'all gonna handle this.

Damn, this is hard.

I mean, I was all ready
for the sex talk

didn't even need my notes.

You may have needed your notes.

I.. No, I don't.

I mean, we did the God thing
not too bad

we got through that, right?

But this one, shh.

Yeah, well, he just ambushed us
with this one.

And you know what's messed up?

If you buy a new TV

they'll send you home
with a thousand page manual

in four different languages.

You have a baby, they just
send you home with...stitches..

...and a six‐week wait.

Yeah, well,
we better figure out somethin'.

We need to brainstorm on this,
alright?

You write down
what you want to say

I'll write down
what I want to say.

Alright?

[exhales sharply]

Mm‐hmm.

Mm!

Mm‐hmm.

Mm‐hmm.

You ain't sayin' nothin'.

I got the same thing.

What you got?

"You know, we love you."

Well, I got, "You know,
we love you very much."

I got two more words.

You didn't see this.

"Bobby, your father
has somethin' to say."

What you gonna say, Robert?

[Bobby snoring]

Bobby, your father and I
wanna talk to you.

We know you're not sleepin'.

Told you it wouldn't work.

First of all, you need to know
that we love you very much.

Very, very much.

And if you have any questions
about today

this is a good time to ask.

Am I in trouble?

No, baby, you're not in trouble.

Okay, but what did I do?

Whoa, okay, here we go!

Remember, I told you
that there were some words

that if you use them one way

that some people would think
it's okay

but if you use it another way,
some people may get mad.

Like, ass?

Yeah, baby, and that's why
we told you to say donkey.

And it's the same with the word
that you used today.

We think it's probably best
that you don't use that word

because some people
use that word

in a really, really bad way.

Oh, I only used it
in a good way.

That's great. Well, let's wait
until you're older, okay?

Okay.

But what's the really,
really bad way?

That's a good question, Bobby.

Robert, what's the really,
really bad way?

Um, Neesee?

Um, your father
has somethin' to say.

Yeah, but I think
your mother can say it

in a more sensitive way.

But your father has a, uh, um..

(Robert)
'Um..'

Bill Cosby would not approve
with this parenting.

I got it.

[instrumental music]

This is Africa!

Africa. Africa.

‐ We used to live there.
‐ We did?

Oh, no, not "we," our family,
"we," our people.

We used to live there
a long time ago.

Then, white people came
from Europe..

And took us on their boat.

Oh, like Timmy's party!

No, no, more like a.. Pssh!

"Get your African behind
on that boat."

So how many of us got to come?

‐ Well, we don't know exactly.
‐ No.

B‐but that's not the point there
we're tryin' to make‐‐

Ten million!

That must've been a big boat.

What kind of food
did they give us?

Um, um, well‐‐

Nothin'..

...with a side of nothin'.

Dirk..

Then why didn't we leave?

Oh.

That's a very good question,
Bobby.

[instrumental music]

(man on TV)
'You have just been watching
a special video presentation'

'of Alex Haley's "Roots."'

[TV switched off]

You okay, Dirk?

[sniffles]

Don't call me Dirk.

That's my slave name.

Yeah, why don't to try
to cut off my foot, huh?

‐ Try to cut off my foot!
‐ Dirk.

So that word

was that the slavery way
of calling black people?

Yes.

And didn't that hurt
their feelings?

Yes, it did.

Was Kunta Kinte on "Star Trek?"

Uh, he's not really Kunta Kinte

he's LeVar Burton,
he's an actor.

And he was also on
"Reading Rainbow."

Oh, yeah! I like him.

Do all my white people
hate all black people?

No. No.

Just a few narrow‐minded
individuals.

Does anybody hate me?

No, baby.

No.

How could anybody hate you?

[woman vocalizing]

[vocalizing continues]

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