All language subtitles for Drunk History s06e04 Trailblazers.eng

Bessie Coleman,

the first African-American pilot.

[IMITATING PLANE VROOMING]

She's like, "I'm a bad bitch.
I'm a fucking pilot."

God help me. Okay.

- I am lit.
- [LAUGHS]

Little Rock Nine is like, "Oh, my gosh.

There is an ass-load of
angry white people."

And they are like, "Uh,
we don't like you.

You are poopy."

None of these words are
words that have ever

come out of my mouth.

Fuck.

[PATRIOTIC MUSIC]

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- Have you ever flown a plane?
- No.

- You want to try?
- Yes.

All right. Let's try it.
Let's do it for Bessie.

All engines are revvin'.

- And...
- Are you ready to go?

And we're ready to go!

[BOTH LAUGH]

Yeah!

- Oh.
- Fly it.

Ah.

Here we go.

[UPBEAT JAZZY MUSIC]

- [LAUGHS]
- Trying. It's trying.

Oh, there it goes!

She's going! Ah!

Holy shit.

[LAUGHS]

Excellent flight.

Hello, my name is Lyric
Lewis, and today,

we will be discussing the queen...

queen of queens, literally
flyer than most,

Bessie Coleman.

- Cheers.
- Cheers to Bessie.

Okay, so the story, we
start in 1915, yes?

In Chicago, right?

And Bessie Coleman, she's 23 years old.

She's a young thing.

She's a manicurist in Chicago,

and she is the best,
hands-down the best, so like,

she's doing the nails of the upper crust

elite black people in Chicago.

And all the black people
are like, "Hey, girl, hey.

Do my nails, girl," and she's like,

"Okay, girl, I got you,"
and they're like, "Girl."

While she's there, she's reading

the "Chicago Defender,"

which is a black-owned newspaper.

She's reading about World
War I and what's happening.

[POPS LIPS] So she's like, "Yo. One day,

I hope I get to be, like,
a motherfucking pilot."

People at the nail shop,
the people were like,

"Girl, you wiling out," and she's like,

"No, I'm gonna be a
fucking pilot. Relax."

And she says to herself,
like, she's like,

"Self, I'm not dumb.

"I know that I have to, like,

train and go to school
to become a pilot."

So she's applying to aviation schools,

and she's being rejected left and right

because of nothing beside the fact

that she's a black woman,
she's black and Cherokee.

If this was a drink of haterade,

their glass was full
and they were like...

[SIPPING DRINK]

"Hatin'."

That was them.

And she's like, "Yo, fuck
each and every one of you,"

and she's like, "Fine,
like, whatever, like,

you said no, but I'm gonna
keep saving my money."

And so then she meets Robert S. Abbott,

and he is the owner, it
turns out to be, of the...

dun-dun-duh! The "Chicago Defender."

And he's like, "Hey, girl."

And she's like, "I love your paper.

"Your paper inspired me to even want

"to be a fucking pilot, to
where I really want to fly.

"However, I'm having trouble

"getting into aviation
school in America.

"America is not having me,

because I'm black and I'm a woman."

[BURPS] Excuse me.

And so Robert's like,
"Yo, you're wiling out

"if you think you're gonna be
a pilot in America right now,

because it's not gonna
happen," and he was like,

"My advice to you would be to
go to Europe, go to France.

You have a better chance there."

And he was like, "If you go there,

"I'ma also sell some papers
talking about you in my paper.

"If you go and really do this,

"I will not only pay for
you to get to France...

"bitch, I will pay for
your entire schooling.

Boom."

So she was like, "Fantastical."

[POPS LIPS]

So... [POPS LIPS]

[LAUGHS]

So. [POPS LIPS]

She took him up on his
offer and she applied

and got accepted to the most elite

French school for aviation.

Bessie's like, "Holla at me, bitch.

I'm at Caudron du Crotoy."

Aviation was a scary
thing back in the day.

Planes were like, "Girl,
we don't have seatbelts.

"Girl, we don't have seats.

"Girl, we don't have leather,

- and we don't have cup holders."
- [DEREK CHORTLES]

So Bessie was learning
how to fly in France.

People were flying with the assumption

that they would be okay but no...

[MUMBLING] ... security
that they would be safe.

Oh, no what?

[CHUCKLES]

No security that they would be safe.

They were like, "My legs
is out of the bottom

Flintstones style."

They're like... [IMITATES
NOSEDIVE, EXPLOSION]

[IMITATING PLANE SOUNDS]

That's a lot of people died in France.

[IMITATING PLANE SOUNDS, EXPLOSIONS]

[DEREK LAUGHING]

And then they was dead.

But so she's watching people
die, and she's stressed out,

but she gets her international
piloting license

in seven months, which, by the way,

I will say for her, she was the first

female American to get this,
and it's extra explosive

because she was black.

Boom.

So she's, like, feeling herself, right?

So she gets back to New
York and there's, like,

every black publication
there waiting for her.

It's like a media frenzy for
her, like, they're like,

"Bessie, come on, we love you."

And she's like, "Oh, fuck, I'm famous.

I'm famous. I'm famous."

And so all the reporters
are like, "Hey, bitch.

"Hey, bitch. Click, click, click.

Click, click, click."

She goes, "Well, I'ma live
my life as a famous person.

Famous person." She's
living... [MUMBLES]

So Bessie's in New York,
and she's not being able

to come... become a commercial pilot,

because New York is like,
"Hey, dawg, we see you,

"Bessie, we see that
you're dope as fuck.

"We're still a little racist as fuck,

so we won't let you pilot."

So then she decides that she's like,

"I'm gonna move from New York
to, of all places, Florida."

She was like, "Hey, Florida.

"They wouldn't let me pilot in New York.

I'm down with the get-down.
What's popping?"

And Florida's like, "It's
a no from me, dawg."

And she's like, "Really? Y'all on that?"

And they're like, "No, we're
real racist down here."

They have, like, a gas
canteen gallon of haterade,

and they're, like,
drinking it out of straws.

They're like, "No, boo.
It's a no-fly zone."

[POPS LIPS] If New York was wiling out,

the south is gonna give you a run

for your motherfucking money.

Bessie said to herself, she said,

"You know what, self? Fuck this.

"I'm gonna become a trick pilot

"because there's more money

"in doing tricks than,
like, fucking trying to be

a regular-degular-smegular pilot."

[DEREK LAUGHS]

[POPS LIPS] But give it
some, like, attitude.

You gotta be like...
bitch, who you talking to?

- That is not my car.
- Bitch.

That is my man. You was not there.

He said what-a-who?

[LAUGHS]

What are you doing with your shoes?

Are you trying to get out of here?

No, I'm just like, my foot
just fell into the Nike.

So Bessie, you know, goes back to Europe

to become a trick pilot.

She's doing tricks in a
Benz LFG Roland plane,

which no other woman had
piloted at that time.

And she was the first woman to do it.

And she was great at it.

She was great at private performances

and, like, all this amazing shit.

So she comes back to America.

Air shows at the time
are all segregated,

because it's America, and she said,

"My air shows need to be
segregated... integrated."

Oh, excuse me, I'm so
sorry. I keep burping. Ew.

I am lit.

God help me.

Okay, so... [POPS LIPS]

So she had integrated air shows

where she was doing figure eights.

She did wing dives. She did lunges.

And she also did, like, parachute jumps

and, like, wing sails
and like... [POPS LIPS]

Like she was in loop-de-loop

after loop-de-motherfucking-loop.

Like, she was in loops
that she was like, "Whoo!"

Loop-de-loop-loop-loop.

She was like, "Yes, loop!"

[IMITATES PLANE SOUNDS]

The audience stands up to
give her a standing ovation,

and they're like, "Let's give
it up for this motherfucker."

And the audience claps
at her and they're like,

"Yes, you are young, you are black,

"like, people didn't want to let you

"live your life and you lived
your life. Yes, bitch."

She looks at the audience,
and she's like,

"Wow, like, I did that shit.

"Like, I fuck flew that damn plane.

"I'm a bad bitch. I'm a fucking pilot.

"I went to Europe and
learned a foreign languages

"and trained and I did everything

despite the haters who
are drinking what?"

This isn't a glass of haterade,

but their cup would've
runneth over of haterade.

Because she was the
first woman to do it,

she gave herself the moniker after that,

like, she was like, "Call
me Queen Bess, bitch."

But then in 1926, she
got offered a flight

for the Negro Welfare League

to do their Mayday festival
in Jacksonville, Florida.

She was like, "I got this.
I can't let them down."

But while trying to do
a training exercise...

show she was going to do,

a wrench comes loose in her plane

and it crashes the plane,

and she's thrown 500 feet out
of the plane in the air...

and she dies at the age of 34.

But that's not where her story ends,

- because she was a trailblazer.
- Mm.

Starting in 1931,

black pilots and black aviators

fly their planes over
Bessie Coleman's grave

every year to commemorate her

for being a pioneer for
people of color and women

to get into aviation and flight.

In 1992, Mae Jemison,
which was the first

African-American woman in space...

and the one thing she
took into space with her

was a picture of her idol,
which was the first

black woman to aviate, ever,

who was the Queen Bess, Bessie Coleman.

And she looks at the
picture of Bessie Coleman,

and Bessie's like,
"Bitch, you got this,"

like, she's like, "I did
all of this for you.

"You better eat this shit up
alive because I lived and died

"by the, what, the
propeller and the plane

for you to be in a fucking spaceship,"

and that's exactly what
the fuck she said to her.

[LAUGHS]

I think she died doing what she loved.

She died doing what she believed in.

That's li'l Bessie.

I think you should fly.

[BURPS] Oh, excuse me, I burped.

So what are you making?

What is your drink of
choice this evening?

The drink of choice

for Amber Ruffin this
evening is a margarita,

but not just a margarita,
a spicy margarita.

Now, why you go spicy
on your margaritas?

Thank you for asking.

'Cause I felt like it.

[LAUGHS]

[BURPS]

Hey, everybody, I'm Amber Ruffin,

and I'm here to talk about
the Little Rock Nine.

I can't reach you.

- I got to you.
- Oh, you got up.

-
One more night

Our story starts in Arkansas.

Little Rock, to be specific.

It's 1957.

The Supreme Court has just ruled

in the case of Brown versus
the Board of Education

that separate is not equal.

So their local NAACP went
out to the black community

and found nine kids to go
to Central High School,

the premier high school
in Little Rock, Arkansas.

So these kids are like, "We
are the Little Rock Nine.

We are fucking nine visions
of black excellence."

"We will go to school,

and we'll change the
world. It'll be great."

So then the governor of
Arkansas, Orval Faubus,

finds out that these kids
are planning to integrate,

and this bitch, Orval Fartbus...

[LAUGHS]

You can fart all you
want on the Fartbus.

Anyway, Orval Fartbus was like,

"Hey, if these kids integrate,

the streets will run red with blood."

Orval Fartbus is a bitch.

Um... [LAUGHING]

No, he's a bitch.

So, then,

the kids show up to school
on September 4th, 1957.

The first day of school,
the senior in the group

of the Little Rock Nine is Ernest Green,

and he is like, "Oh, my gosh.

There is an ass-load of
angry white people."

This angry white mob was
like, "We don't like you.

"You need to go away. We
are going to beat you up...

and hang you from a tree."

That's not funny.

Meanwhile, on the other side of school,

Elizabeth Eckford, the ninth
of the Little Rock Nine,

is like, "Oh, fuck, I'm
here all by myself.

"Oh, my God, there's a
huge mob of white people.

This is terrifying."

They're yelling,

and they have signs, and
they're shouting shit.

And they are like, "Hey. You're white.

"I mean, I'm white, and you're black,

so that means I don't like you."

So she gathers herself
and this girl is G'd up,

fucking face stone-cold,
and walking through

these people who want to pick her up

and break her in two, just
walking through like a G,

and she sees the
Arkansas National Guard.

"They must be here to
help me," she thinks.

She quickens her pace, and she goes,

"Hey, these white people
are trying to kill me.

Please save me."

And they, like, block her entrance.

They are letting other
white students in.

And she's like, "What is the deal?

"You are the National Fucking Guard.

If anybody needs to be
guarded, it's me, here, now."

So she leaves school.

She sits down at the bus stop,

and the white people
are surrounding her,

and they're like, "Uh,
we don't like you.

You are poopy."

She waits several minutes for the bus.

The bus pulls up, and
she's like, "Thank God,

"I can finally get out of here.

"This isn't the last I will see of you,

"but also, fucking fuck,

can I just get a fucking education?"

So... [BURPS]

That was the first
attempt, and they lost.

So attempt number two.

They regroup. They go
at it again in a week.

They all got together this time,

and they all entered school

at the same place at the same time.

The Little Rock police force

escorts the children into school,

and they say, "Hey, look.

"Let me catch you out on the street

"any other day, and then who knows what,

but today, we'll take care of you."

They escort the children into school,

and they hold the line so that the crazy

angry white mob does not act a fool.

But the angry mob,

they break through the police line

and goes into the school,
and they're like,

"Ah! We hate black people so much!

We're coming in this
school to snatch you out."

So the cops are like, "fuck."

So they get away in the nick of time

because these people are so angry

that they, like, beat up cops
and push them out of the way

so they can get to these children.

White people.

So they go to their houses.

These kids are now like, "Oh, man.

"There's nothing we can do.
I feel very discouraged.

"All of these white
people are extra crazy.

They are very mad."

Ernest Green turns to
the group and he says,

"You know what, we need to
continue through to school

"because all of these white people

"are going to think we
are to be fuck with.

We absolutely can't give up."

So... ba-ba-da-doo...

the story of the crazy white
people of Little Rock,

Arkansas, finds its way to Eisenhower,

and he is like, "This shit
is fucking embarrassing.

"These white people are
fucking my shit up.

"How dare these people
think that they can use

mob mentali... ty to over... rule?"

[LAUGHS]

None of these words are words

that have ever come out of my mouth.

Fuck.

So President Eisenhower
says, "I'm gonna send in

1,000 troops from the 101st Airborne."

Not a hundred of them. A
hundred would have done it.

Not 200, not 300, but
1,000 of these people.

The Little Rock Nine
arrive at school together,

and the 101st Airborne is there.

And they say, "Hey, look,

we are going to take care of you today."

[CAR HORN HONKS]

"We're gonna take care of you today."

- [HORN HONKS]
- "We are gonna take"...

[LAUGHING]

Beep. Where were we?

Oh, okay, so they were like,

"We're gonna take care of you today."

They escort the children into school.

They're holding back the
crazy white people.

So the Little Rock Nine is like,

"This is the shit. We did it.

We win everything. Hooray for us."

So they go into school,

but once they get in the
school, they realize,

"Oh, shit. Now we have to
deal with these children."

These white children are like, "Aha!

"You finally made it into school.

"Now you belong to us.

We're gonna beat you up
every chance we get."

She's like, "Why?" and they're like,

"We don't know exactly why we hate you.

"We just know that it's something

"our parents have handed down to us,

"and so we're just acting
in what we believe

are their best interests."

And Elizabeth is like,
"Well, I don't know

"that that is their best interest.

Maybe if you just get along with me... "

- And they're like, "No!"
- [DEREK CHUCKLES]

These children give the
Little Rock Nine hell

for a whole year, and
these little babies

are being the blacketiest black
black that ever blacked,

and it is blackening up my soul.

Mmm.

BOTH: Stay tuned for
more "Drunk History."

Why'd you make me drink that?

I'm making this drink. Are you mad?

- Not at all.
- What are you gonna drink?

You've had too many drinks.

I really feel fine,

- but also, like, I've said that before.
- Oh, yeah, you really feel fine.

[LAUGHS]

Okay, so,

Ernest Green graduated, and he was like,

"Oh, thank God, these
people almost killed me."

So Ernest Green walks across the stage,

grabs his diploma, looks
out in the audience,

and sees Dr. Martin Luther King!

Ernest was like, "Oh, my God!

That is Dr. Martin Luther the King!"

He's like, "These people
almost killed me,

but I did it, isn't this crazy?"

And then Dr. Martin
Luther King was like,

"Well, there's nothing
else you have to do

"'cause you've already gone through it.

Good job."

Oh, look at my nails.

They're so beautiful. Hi.

Hi, you're so pretty.

Um...

What was I talking about?

Oh, okay, then the 40-year
anniversary was in 1997.

Oprah Winfrey had them on her show,

and Oprah Winfrey was like,
"Hey, Little Rock Nine,

"guess who I have on the show?

The children that tormented you."

And the bullies were like,
"Look, back in 1957,

"we were little punks,
but now we're cool dudes

"who love you, and we're sorry

"because we were mean to you

"and being mean to black
people is not cool anymore,

so we just wanted to absolve
ourselves of that."

Their apologies were not
up to 2019 standards.

Their apologies were frankly bullshit.

[DEREK LAUGHS]

But the Little Rock Nine forgave them

for all of the terrible things they did,

and, uh, that is more than
fucking I ever would've done.

Okay, so, in 1999,
President Bill Clinton

gave each of the Little Rock Nine

the Congressional Gold Medal

because what they went
through was fucking amazing.

It's shocking that
anyone went through it,

much less children.

Cannot point out enough
that they were children.

- Mm.
- So.

The Little Rock Nine wins.

Everyone else is a piece of shit.

The end.

Racism is fixed, and everything's fine.

Oh, cool. Happy 2019.

- [LAUGHS]
- Are you cool?

- Happy 2019.
- [LAUGHS]

Um, I don't know what I was saying,

but I love margaritas.

And black people! [GASPS]

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