00:00My ancestors were stolen from Mother Africa in the year 1619,
00:08the first slave ship, and brought to Jamestown, Virginia.
00:14The first person to die in the first American war,
00:20the American Revolutionary War, was a black man.
00:23His name is Crispus Attucks.
00:25A lot of people don't know that history.
00:27And it proves the point that black people have been dying for this country.
00:35And we still don't have our full rights.
00:39Every war, we fought for this country.
00:42Black G.I., is it fair to serve more than the white Americans that sent you here?
00:59This film addresses what's happening today in the streets.
01:12I've seen so many young kids with parents holding their hand.
01:28Parents are making a decision that their children need to see what is happening in the United States of America.
01:38And they want their children to be a witness.
01:41And they're explaining, they're not just putting out there at the same time,
01:45learning, education is happening.
01:47Because the kids are saying, Mommy, Daddy, what's happening?
01:50And these parents are explaining to their very young children what is happening,
01:57why they're out there, and why they brought them along too.
02:02It gives me more hope that the large amount of my young white brothers and sisters out there who are joining us,
02:11they're black and brown sisters.
02:14It's really a mosaic.
02:20It's not just black and brown people out there marching.
02:24And in many cities, the black and brown people are the minority.
02:32The fictional murder of Radar Heimbold was based upon the real murder of a graffiti artist, Michael Stewart.
02:47And then I wrote Do the Right Thing in 1989, 88.
02:51It came out in 89.
02:53And then many years later, I see Errol Gardner, and now, most recently, King Floyd.
02:59So, it's sad.
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