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- This is the first job I ever had.

- Mine, too.

[exhales]

Yeah, I can't believe this. - Shit, I can.

- One accusation. One.

And everything is done, just like that.

- It was more than just one accusation, Bryson.

- Yeah, but it was 20 years ago.

Why is it coming out now?

- Because they couldn't say anything back then.

- So what happens to everybody who works here?

What happens to us?

- We take our ass down to the unemployment office.

- I ain't never been on unemployment.

- Neither have I.

- [exhales]

- I feel like we grew up here. - That's because we did.

Now, we can never come back.

Have you heard from Simone?

- I called her this morning. She didn't pick up.

- Yeah, I've been texting her all morning.

She been hitting me with the one word responses.

- I'm going to go clean out my office.

- Right behind you.

[door opens, closes]

[sighs]

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Would you be prepared ♪

♪ Would you be surprised ♪

♪ Only then would you realize ♪

♪ Look out, look out, look out ♪

♪ The sky is falling ♪

♪ She's falling ♪

♪ For you ♪

♪ Look out, look out, look out ♪

♪ The sky is falling ♪

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Finally. - What y'all doing?

- What does it look like?

- Hey, babe. How you feeling?

- I'm fine. - Y'all hungry?

- I'm hungry as hell. - I'm good.

- Bitch, you ain't ate all day.

I can hear your stomach growling.

You need a meat patty and some plantains or something.

- I'm not hungry. - Simone.

Hey, look at me.

Listen, I'm here for you.

However you want me to be.

Hey, do you want me to kick everybody out

so you can be by yourself?

- Tia got half her hair in braids.

- So? I've done seen this girl walk

out of this house wearing a shower cap

and some hammer pants, all right?

She'll be fine. - No, I'm good.

I like having y'all around.

[phone buzzes and chimes]

- I think you should talk to him.

[phone buzzes]

- Y'all eating or no? This food is real good.

- You want me to fix you a plate?

- No. I'm not hungry.

- I'ma fix you one anyway.

[groovy music]

♪ ♪

- Simone.

No shade, but your daddy was acting

a whole fool back in the day.

Looking at girls coming in for auditions,

sleeping with your mama while he was living with your mama.

- All right, but it was the 90's.

Everybody was getting head from people

they wasn't supposed to be getting head from.

- And that makes it right? - I'm not saying it's right,

but it's in the past. Why can't we leave it there?

- Because that shit don't go away, Ari.

Let me put it to you like this, all right?

Has a dude ever been all up in your face

while you were trying to interview for a job?

- Yep. - And what'd you do?

- I told him I ain't date white dudes and kept it pushing.

- Good, I'm glad you had the confidence to say that

and the financial stability to walk away from a job.

But everybody ain't got it like that.

It's women out here that need that coin to feed they kids

and dudes out here taking advantage of the fact that

they got a little bit of power, and I ain't here for it.

I'm glad these women speaking up,

because if we keep being quiet, y'all going to keep treating us

like we only here to get y'all dick hard.

- Don't y'all think

it's a little coincidental that these allegations came out

right before the merger? - Exactly.

- If it had gone through, the Graham Agency

would've been the most profitable

black-owned advertising agency in the country.

- But all the women that came forward were black.

- I think we've forgotten that even though

we're all made in God's image,

we're not going to walk around acting godlike all the time.

- Can you please sit this one out, pastor?

- You going to let me finish?

Even Adam and Eve weren't perfect,

and God made them with his bare hands.

- How you know God ain't a woman?

- Okay, fine, she made them with her bare hands,

and still, Eve reached for that forbidden fruit.

It's not our place to judge anybody.

We're all going to fall down at some point in our lives.

How would you like folks to treat you when you lying down?

- What about my mother?

She didn't do anything,

and she's lying down there with him.

- [exhales]

God wouldn't put her through anything she can't handle.

- Ooh, okay.

All right, David, that's enough--

- No, no, keep talking.

Oh, now you ain't got nothing to say?

- Honestly...

I'm messed up about it.

Y'all know I grew up with dudes coming in and out of my life.

Marcus Graham was the only man I ever looked up to.

I figured if I could be half the man he was,

I'd be all right.

I feel like I just found out Superman can't fly.

- No, he can fly.

He was just kissing too many bitches while he was doing it.

- I think all these dudes should go to Hell.

Shit, I used to look up to L'il Kim,

and look how I turned out.

All I'm saying is we can't keep giving these dudes a pass.

Women need to feel safe at work,

at home, on the bus, at the beauty supply store.

- What dudes you know be at the beauty supply?

- Dudes be in there buying wave caps,

and they be all up in my face talking about some

"Can I talk to you for a second?"

No, you cannot, I'm not interested in you whatsoever.

- I don't know what y'all want from us.

When we back up too hard, y'all get mad

because we not approaching.

When we try to talk to y'all, it's harassment.

- That ain't what I said. - Then what you say?

- I said what I said.

- I just hate to see a black man in power taken down.

- He took himself down.

- It's not like he raped anybody.

- That doesn't make everything else that he did okay.

A man calling a girl "cuteness"

that ain't his girlfriend ain't okay.

A man staring at a woman's titties

while she's there to audition

for a lotion commercial ain't okay.

A man that tilts his head

every time a cute bitch walks by ain't okay.

Just because he didn't rape anybody

doesn't make everything else that he did okay.

Shit, I think the Graham Agency need to shut down.

- So where do we draw the line? - I don't know.

But I feel like the line is in a different place for us.

- I agree with that. - Where should the line be?

- At the end of the day, we all need to get

on the same page as to where this damn line is.

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- It's simple, don't treat a woman in any way

you wouldn't want someone to treat your mother.

- Well, y'all can treat my mother however y'all want.

- Okay, that's harsh. - For real?

- Damn. - Really, that's messed up.

- I think my dad took advantage of my mom.

- I thought that shit was mutual.

- I don't know if he would've let her do the Strange ad

by herself if they weren't dating.

- Your mom didn't need your dad for the glow up, Simone.

- I know, but it definitely sped up the process.

- Okay, maybe, but what about women in positions of power?

I don't see too many people coming for them.

- Yeah, because women are less likely to abuse their power.

- No one is immune to using

what they got to get what they want.

- Especially pastors. - Easy.

- Martin Luther King used that one, bro.

- I am not doing this with y'all today.

- Why not? Y'all be the main ones.

- Look, I know the church ain't perfect.

We all need to do better. - Yeah, we do.

I could never be with a pastor.

- Why not?

- Because sex and the Holy Ghost don't go together.

- Says who?

[groovy music]

♪ ♪

- [exhales]

- Is it possible to love someone

and literally hate them at the same time?

- Oh, hell yeah.

That's how I feel about Kanye West.

[chuckles]

- I'm serious. - I know.

I was trying to make you smile.

- Thank you for being here. - Where else would I be, babe?

- Shit, if I were you, I'd be running as fast as I could.

My family's a mess. - Hey, we all messy sometimes.

I wish I had a father to disappoint me.

- You're making this about you, too, aren't you?

- No, it's about all of us.

I needed Marcus Graham to be perfect.

- Well, he's not.

- I know that now. - Yo, yo.

Man, it's cold out here. - Listen, girl,

you need to pay the cable bill. - Shut up, Tia.

- For real, though. Get more heaters.

Yeah, some type of bread, or something.

- Y'all good?

[groovy music]

♪ ♪

- I'm just saying, though.

You might as well get rid of all the R&B albums.

I mean, you got to get rid of R. Kelly.

- He definitely be doing the most.

- Okay, okay, okay, hold up, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

I'll cancel R. Kelly,

but I'm not about to stop listening to "12 Play."

- That's not cancelling him.

- Why I got to cancel him completely, though?

- Because he pees on little girls.

- Did you see the tape? - I don't need

to see the tape. - Then you don't know.

both: We know.

- Just like we know Bill Cosby was drugging them white women.

- They weren't all white. - But they were women.

- Were they, though? - Does it really matter

if they were white? - I ain't say all that.

- Wait, hold on, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.

Heathcliff Huxtable was the only father in my house, okay?

- Mine too.

- "The Cosby Show" was the only thing

that brought my family together growing up.

And I know that shit wasn't a direct reflection of us,

but we saw ourselves in them.

The way we respected our grandparents.

The way we tried our mother, but never tried her too hard.

The way we loved each other.

I ain't just see myself. I saw who I wanted to be.

Now that's gone.

- Just 'cause you ain't have no daddy

don't mean he should get away with raping people.

- That's not what I'm saying. - Then what you saying?

- Just because he did something bad

don't mean you get to take away my childhood.

- I understand, but at the same time,

he took something away from those women

that they can never get back.

If you want to watch "The Cosby Show,"

you can go pull that shit up on YouTube.

Where are they supposed to find they peace of mind at?

Right. That's gone forever.

[groovy music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ I've learned my lessons ♪

♪ Count on all your blessing ♪

♪ Make a good impression always ♪

♪ Baby, you're impressing always ♪

♪ Say no to the yes men ♪

♪ Because they're the ones that throw in question ♪

♪ How you're feeling week to week ♪

- Look, your dad ain't no Harvey Weinstein, okay?

Black Twitter ain't even that mad, bitch.

I get what he did was messed up, Simone,

but when you think about it, it wasn't really that bad.

- Just 'cause it happened 20 years ago

doesn't mean it's less wrong.

- Well, at some point, you got to let shit go.

- Like you let your shit go?

What that dude did to you was wrong.

But you didn't want to say anything because he was black.

- No, I didn't say anything

because I took responsibility for my actions.

- You said no.

What other actions were you supposed to take?

Crystal, you can pretend like everything is okay,

but I know you never got over that shit,

and that's why you sitting here making excuses for my dad.

- I'ma let you have that,

because you going through it right now, clearly.

[door closes]

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ In a perfect world ♪

♪ You're understanding ♪

♪ I'm not a perfect girl ♪

♪ I would drop my fears at the door ♪

♪ I would only bring myself and nothing more ♪

♪ Can you let me be ♪

♪ A woman ♪

- I get it.

Your dad was an asshole.

But now, he's married to an incredible woman,

and he has a beautiful daughter,

and he's not that dude anymore. Let's move on.

- We can't move on until the victims can.

- That's a lot. - No, it ain't.

- I've worked at The Graham Agency for the last four years,

and never once have I felt unsafe or powerless.

And your dad has been like a second father to me.

So if it feels like I'm taking this personally,

it's because I am.

- I know my dad is like a father to y'all,

but I'm the one with his blood running through my veins.

- Then why does it feel like

we're more bothered by this than you?

- Because this shit ain't black and white.

I love my father, but I'm still a feminist.

I can't only sympathize with women

who haven't been harassed by him.

That's not fair. - Exactly.

- So what you going to do?

- I don't know.

I'm still processing.

[laughter]

["Tomorrow" by Jorja Smith]

♪ ♪

- ♪ The hardest thing I have learned ♪

♪ Is I can't help myself ♪

♪ I can't trust my worth ♪

♪ Then I can't trust my words ♪

♪ Accepting it's not my fault, but I'm the one to blame ♪

♪ And I know I've got to change ♪

♪ No, I'm not ashamed ♪

♪ So don't you wonder why ♪

♪ I won't say good-bye ♪

♪ I won't even cry ♪

♪ So don't you wonder why ♪

♪ I won't say good-bye ♪

♪ I won't even cry ♪

♪ It will all make sense tomorrow ♪

♪ Why I can't sleep at night ♪

♪ I won't even cry ♪

♪ It will all make sense tomorrow ♪

♪ Why ♪

♪ Bye ♪

♪ Cry ♪

♪ It will all make sense tomorrow ♪

♪ Why ♪

♪ Bye ♪

♪ Cry ♪

♪ It will all make sense tomorrow ♪