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00:00:00Living here in Tanzania you have to have a gun. We have spinning cobras, buffalo
00:00:13crash into our fences, there have been reports of lions roaming around. But
00:00:19anyone who is not a Tanzanian requesting to possess a firearm must first get
00:00:25permission from the embassy. Now this is a crazy scenario. Pete O'Neill, former Black
00:00:32Panther, in exile, has to go to the United States Embassy to request a
00:00:37license for a 12 gauge shotgun and it was a 12 gauge shotgun in 1970 that led to
00:00:46my spending 32 years in Africa.
00:00:55As a member of the Black Panther Party, I was arrested on the very bogus charge of
00:01:09transporting a gun across state lines. I had had some very serious run-ins with the
00:01:15police in Kansas City and with the FBI as well. Policemen had seriously indicated that I would
00:01:21die if I went to prison. So my wife Charlotte and I left the United States and
00:01:26chose to go into exile.
00:01:28After having spent two years in Algeria, we came here to Arusha, Tanzania, and we've been
00:01:39here ever since.
00:01:44This pipe goes to our village.
00:01:46So here's where the elephants have been stepping.
00:01:54So these are how the elephants take and grab out with their tusks and pull out the pipe and
00:02:11break them.
00:02:13I'm hoping and praying that this will perhaps alleviate some of our water problems. Doesn't
00:02:26look very promising right now, but fingers crossed.
00:02:30When I brought Charlotte out here, she was 19 years old. She'd never been away from home.
00:02:47And I was 30 then. I cannot imagine that I would have been able to succeed without her.
00:02:55I do not have the ability to deal with details. I can't. Charlotte coordinates everything.
00:03:04Hey. Hey. Sorry to be so rush, rush, but I got another meeting this afternoon. I need
00:03:10to know how we can do today. Because, you know, I got to go to Rotary. And then I got this.
00:03:15I know this is a running down. I'm just trying to work out how we can do transit.
00:03:22I can be a little impatient at times and have developed into a grumpy old man.
00:03:28Are you leaving now? And Charlotte is angelic by nature.
00:03:37I'm setting a new record for cholesterol. I'm going to be the first person to have a cholesterol level of 589 and survive.
00:03:44I'm telling you.
00:03:46I'm telling you.
00:03:47I'm telling you.
00:03:48I'm telling you.
00:03:49I'm telling you.
00:03:50I'm telling you.
00:03:51Yeah. To land and to salsa.
00:03:52Okay.
00:03:53Hidasa!
00:03:54Hidasa!
00:03:55Hurry up.
00:03:56Come on.
00:03:57Hidasa!
00:03:58Hurry up.
00:03:59Come on.
00:04:00Hidasa.
00:04:01Morning.
00:04:02Good morning.
00:04:03How y'all doing?
00:04:04Good morning.
00:04:05How y'all doing?
00:04:06How are you?
00:04:07Our differing personalities have combined to create a whole that has been extraordinarily productive.
00:04:20We'd like to welcome you all to the United African American Community Center.
00:04:26Myself, Charlotte O'Neal.
00:04:28My husband, Pete O'Neal, founded the United African American Community Center in 91.
00:04:3491.
00:04:35But we have been doing community work for years and years in Kansas City as members of the Black Panther Party,
00:04:42where we fed more than 750 children every day and had free medical clinics.
00:04:48When people think of the Black Panther Party, mostly due to the media,
00:04:52they think of young men with guns and berets and leather jackets, and that's true.
00:04:57But we were much more than that.
00:05:02The really good things about the Black Panther Party was the manner in which it served the community.
00:05:08How old is he?
00:05:09How old is he?
00:05:10How old is he?
00:05:11He is a deaf and deaf.
00:05:13If you look at what we're doing right now, you would find it difficult to distinguish the community work we were doing back in the day
00:05:20and the community work we're doing now.
00:05:22Do you know we're dealing with 90 students a day?
00:05:26How are you, Asha?
00:05:27I'm fine, all right?
00:05:28If we have someone who has ability to teach English, we teach English.
00:05:33If we find volunteers who have computer skills, they teach computers to our young people.
00:05:41Human.
00:05:46HIV is a human virus.
00:05:49What we're trying to do here is create a microcosm of what we feel the world should be.
00:05:54People of all races, all cultures, all traditions come together and live and work for common goals.
00:06:11In 1968, I started to read about the Black Panther Party.
00:06:18I went to Oakland, California.
00:06:20I talked with the people who were running the party there.
00:06:23And we established the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party.
00:06:28The Black Panther Party is officially in Kansas City.
00:06:32The Black Panther Party came into existence to try to control these mad dog policemen who were brutalizing people in the black community.
00:06:42We?
00:06:43About black community.
00:06:44About black community.
00:06:45Right on.
00:06:47Right on.
00:06:48Our breakfast for school children program, our counseling programs, our clothing programs, all evolved from that original foundation.
00:06:59Before the Black Panther Party, I did many things that by anyone's standards would be considered wrong.
00:07:08The Black Panther Party turned my life dramatically around.
00:07:12Oh, Sister Charlotte.
00:07:14I bet a lot of the, can you imagine how a lot of the elders in the village would view the, who is this?
00:07:21I said, oh, that's Mama Charlotte.
00:07:22They say, who?
00:07:23Yeah.
00:07:24What's she doing with the gun?
00:07:25Yeah, is she going hunting or what?
00:07:27Mm-hmm.
00:07:28Wow.
00:07:29Do you remember when we first came to Dorsalong, to Tanzania?
00:07:32Mm-hmm.
00:07:33And I remember when we walked out of that airport and how warm it was.
00:07:38Mm-hmm.
00:07:39And it was those, those coconut trees, you know.
00:07:42I said, Pete, I love this.
00:07:44This is like coming home.
00:07:46And it really was.
00:07:47And you had this puzzled expression on your face.
00:07:50I don't know what that meant.
00:07:52Do you know when I got off the plane here, and this is the truth, Charlotte.
00:07:56Now, all kidding aside now.
00:07:58I didn't have a good feeling.
00:08:00I just didn't, Sister.
00:08:02And we've talked about this a lot, and I generally make light of it.
00:08:05But it was, to me, it was just like I had gotten too far away from everything that I knew.
00:08:11And it amazes me how you didn't feel that way.
00:08:13Mm-mm.
00:08:14Huh?
00:08:15I guess you were just as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine, huh?
00:08:18For me, I was saying, oh, boy.
00:08:21I saw the tin roofs with the rusted iron, and I said, uh-oh.
00:08:27I said, we are in for some, for a different kind of life.
00:08:31Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:08:44wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:08:45How much is it even wheat water?
00:08:47Anyaハハ gets it out of the months ago.
00:08:51Hey, mom.
00:08:52We will talk about Ali.
00:08:54What is the fact that this is państwa from Newaveuma?
00:08:56I have an English name.
00:08:58Oh, my daughter.
00:08:59I live in for it, my husband.
00:09:00Mama and Diga.
00:09:20I spend most of my life shopping and buying supplies.
00:09:24We feed 20 to 30 people daily.
00:09:27We've got our programs, we have student groups coming through.
00:09:30We've got all these people visiting.
00:09:32We've got people on honeymoon, people just passing through.
00:09:37We are in constant motion.
00:09:48I have a peaceful kind of floating in the clouds nature.
00:09:53That's just me and it balances out the way Pete is
00:09:56because he's more hyper and he sweats things more than I do.
00:10:03But he's very different from the way I remember him back in the day.
00:10:08I've watched him grow to be very tolerant of all kinds of people's opinions.
00:10:15Where I think years ago, if you wasn't down with the program, you know, you couldn't hardly say anything to him.
00:10:24You know what I mean?
00:10:25But even, we don't see any racial problems in Birmingham.
00:10:32Oh really?
00:10:33No.
00:10:34Scott and I live there and we love it.
00:10:35We both live fairly Anglo lives in Alabama.
00:10:40We don't, I don't have that much interaction with, with inner city blacks or anything.
00:10:44But I don't feel threatened walking down the street and there's no chip on my shoulder.
00:10:48And as far as I can tell, no chip on any of their shoulders.
00:10:50Well that was going to be my next question.
00:10:52How, I was going to ask you, how did you think blacks felt there?
00:10:55You're talking about where, Birmingham?
00:10:57But now I'm growing him.
00:10:58Not, not four years ago.
00:10:59No, of course not.
00:11:00But I wanted to ask you, how do they feel?
00:11:01How would you do that?
00:11:02See, I don't agree with what Claire says, but I still notice that throughout the African-American
00:11:07community, I still think there are a lot of young people who still sense some resentment
00:11:11and get choked by the anger and the resentment and can't break out of that and, and almost wallow
00:11:18at times in the anger and the resentment.
00:11:20And instead of taking that energy moving forward, it serves as a, as a hindrance to their, to
00:11:28their moving forward.
00:11:29There may be some truth in that.
00:11:30But can you imagine how difficult it is to forge your head?
00:11:33I don't know how.
00:11:34No you don't, sir.
00:11:35And when you, when you have never had an opportunity educationally, when you-
00:11:39But you don't know what it's like to be a white male in, in the South either.
00:11:43It ain't all bread and roses.
00:11:44I mean, it's a-
00:11:45But whites, whites weren't slaves for centuries.
00:11:47But we don't live on the big rock candy mountain and the money doesn't grow on trees.
00:11:51And it's not even easy for a white person either.
00:11:54It's hard, Pete.
00:11:56It's not easy, it's not easy for whites.
00:11:58No, it's not.
00:11:59I agree with you.
00:12:00Right, right.
00:12:01It's not, but you certainly, in any kind of intellectual honesty, you can't compare that.
00:12:05No, I-
00:12:06With what blacks were.
00:12:07You, you were too intelligent a man-
00:12:08No, no, no.
00:12:09I definitely agree with that.
00:12:10To look at people-
00:12:11I will definitely agree with that.
00:12:12Cows and chickens-
00:12:13I definitely, 100%.
00:12:14Were denied bread was against the law to know how to read for centuries.
00:12:18Now, what's the solution?
00:12:19The, the first thing in all of these problems that we talked about, I can give you the solution.
00:12:24Okay.
00:12:25The first thing is to admit.
00:12:27And that's hard.
00:12:28That's the hardest thing.
00:12:29That's the hardest part.
00:12:30Sure.
00:12:31Particularly for whites.
00:12:32Not a white man, never will be.
00:12:34But I can imagine this is the most difficult thing whites will ever have to do.
00:12:38Is to admit categorically that we have had serious problems.
00:12:43We can't sugarcoat them.
00:12:45We can't cast blame on the victim.
00:12:48We have to say, hey, we screwed up.
00:12:50This was wrong.
00:12:51What can we do to make it right?
00:12:53Sister, sister, sister.
00:12:58If you could have heard some of the stuff that came out of their mouth.
00:13:03Lord.
00:13:04Part of the problem, no damn it, he said the problem, and I'm paraphrasing, was that young
00:13:12blacks have resentment in their heart.
00:13:15Well, what in the hell do you expect to have?
00:13:19So many people have a lack of knowledge about the 60s and the 70s and the whole, and the
00:13:24civil rights era and all of that, you know?
00:13:26Yeah.
00:13:27It's like they've been living in complete isolation.
00:13:30Isolation and have no idea.
00:13:31Or even about the rest of the world.
00:13:33Yeah.
00:13:34That's what blows my mind, too.
00:13:36We'll find people that'll come in our presence now, and they'll talk about social issues and
00:13:41racial issues and things like this, but these are things they don't think about when they're
00:13:45not, and they think they have to do this in our presence.
00:13:48Right.
00:13:49Well, that's the killer.
00:13:50Sure.
00:13:51This is the killer.
00:13:52This is the killer.
00:13:53Yeah.
00:13:54They're trying to find that they are being as progressive, and they're saying, look, look,
00:13:59it's really your fault.
00:14:01He said it's your fault.
00:14:02Or you're playing, you're a big part of the problem.
00:14:05Yeah.
00:14:06But he means well.
00:14:07Yeah.
00:14:08You don't like that, do you?
00:14:09I know that's a big part of what we talk about and what we try to do, but I don't like it,
00:14:13do you?
00:14:14Truthfully.
00:14:15You mean dealing with those issues?
00:14:16No.
00:14:17I'm talking about the whole cross-cultural thing.
00:14:19When it brings that uncomfortable feeling, you know, I'd really, I'm not going to do
00:14:25this, but I'd really just say, hey, take that shit out of here, you know?
00:14:29Has there been any cooling off between you and the police in Kansas City?
00:14:33None whatsoever.
00:14:34There can never be any cooling off between the Black Panther Party and the racist pigs,
00:14:38regardless of what level of pigs we're talking about, until all oppression has been ended,
00:14:43until we've seen them all sent to their graves.
00:14:45When I look at that footage, I'm a little impressed with myself that I had the fortitude
00:14:52to say this and to say it on national TV.
00:14:55I have no qualms about what we were struggling for in the Black Panther Party.
00:15:01I think they were right.
00:15:02That's ludicrous.
00:15:03But when I see myself adopting a totally unreasonable stance, it almost says to me,
00:15:10I could have dealt with that better.
00:15:12And Eldridge Cleaver made the statement that he would like to go into the Senate,
00:15:17to shoot his way into the Senate and take McCullen's head.
00:15:19But while Eldridge is doing that, I would like very much to shoot my way into the House of Representatives
00:15:24and get this racist, lying Icard's head.
00:15:26The interviewer, when I said that I wanted to take Congressman Icard's head, who headed the investigation against me,
00:15:33he said,
00:15:35Now when you say you want to take his head, you don't mean that literally.
00:15:41And I said,
00:15:43I mean it literally.
00:15:44I'd like to do that.
00:15:45And perhaps I did.
00:15:47Perhaps at that time I was thinking that going into the House of Representatives
00:15:53and taking the head of Icard would somehow further the revolution.
00:15:58Well, if that's how I thought then, it's not a reflection of how I feel now.
00:16:05What I need to do is just really practice the pronunciation.
00:16:10Yeah.
00:16:11To me pata,
00:16:12See, I'm getting struggling already.
00:16:14Try to use it.
00:16:15Okay.
00:16:16To me pata,
00:16:18ma fucka.
00:16:19First, tell me the meaning.
00:16:23What does it mean?
00:16:24The meaning is understanding.
00:16:26Understanding.
00:16:27Like between you and I.
00:16:28Yeah.
00:16:29Say we quarreled on certain matters.
00:16:31Yes.
00:16:32Then we said, okay, let's forget about our differences.
00:16:35Okay.
00:16:36Yes.
00:16:37So that understanding is called muwafaka.
00:16:40Good Lord in heaven.
00:16:45Muwafaka.
00:16:46Muwafaka.
00:16:47Okay.
00:16:49I understand why you try to avoid using that word.
00:16:53Yes, I am.
00:16:54Because there's a phrase in English that sounds very similar.
00:16:59And it means, certainly does not mean understanding.
00:17:02You know?
00:17:03Yes.
00:17:04When Peter came to Tanzania, he was young, provocative, very rough.
00:17:12I remember, you cannot talk to Peter three words without exchanging horrible words.
00:17:27One day in town, he had this panga, a big knife.
00:17:32And I don't know what happened, but he chased a man with his knife.
00:17:38So a lot of people came out and everybody was saying, wow, wow, what is this?
00:17:43What is this?
00:17:44Then we saw it was Peter.
00:17:47In Tanzania, we don't do that.
00:17:50If you hate somebody, there is a way of giving the message that, Bwana, I don't like you.
00:17:57But not chasing him in front of people with a panga, with a knife, it doesn't happen.
00:18:10When Peter came here, he had some problems in his mind.
00:18:16I think he has some frustrations from America.
00:18:20I love the Tanzanian people.
00:18:45I think they are gentle, considerate, loving people.
00:18:50And things are so much more mellow here.
00:18:52So much more polite.
00:18:54But it's hard for me.
00:18:56Who you need to do me?
00:18:57Oftentimes, the elders will stop me and want to talk about some issue.
00:19:01I'm still with that little bit of Americanism in me, want to rush and do what I have to do.
00:19:07I am required to visit regularly, to bring gifts when I do so.
00:19:14And I must express the highest form of respect.
00:19:18I have to struggle with it.
00:19:21Don't do it this way.
00:19:22Don't say it that way.
00:19:23Be polite.
00:19:24Be polite.
00:19:25This is a daily struggle for me.
00:19:31Yesterday, I received an email about my legal case.
00:19:38My lawyer has done so much for me, and he has done it pro bono.
00:19:43I haven't had a cent to give him.
00:19:47This is going to be the year that something dramatic will take place with our efforts to have my conviction thrown out and my legal situation.
00:19:57I really believe that.
00:19:58Now, what was that woman that was the Attorney General under Clinton?
00:20:07Janet Reno, that's it.
00:20:08This case even reached her desk.
00:20:11And she was, in a sense, sympathetic.
00:20:14She said, yes, I couldn't agree more that his conviction was probably politically motivated.
00:20:21She said, but it's going to have to be resolved in the courts or either a presidential pardon.
00:20:26Anyway, we'll see what happens.
00:20:28I'm confident, however, that eventually I will prevail.
00:20:32Somebody else give me a question.
00:20:34Okay.
00:20:35There's a tattoo over there.
00:20:36Oh, Lord, I knew someone would see that.
00:20:38You're the first one.
00:20:39Yeah.
00:20:40These were put on me when I was in the Navy.
00:20:42This faded, said Pete.
00:20:45This one says, Mom, I've never in my life called my mother Mom.
00:20:49Never in my entire life.
00:20:51Now, the creme de la creme.
00:20:54Ready?
00:20:55Are we prepared for this?
00:20:56Yes.
00:20:57Is this one, which is a...
00:20:59What could I have been thinking?
00:21:01A turtle?
00:21:02Man, I've got stuff on me that I said, Lord, please, let no one see it before I die, you know?
00:21:09And you want to know what I got in Hong Kong?
00:21:11Let me show you.
00:21:12You want to see it?
00:21:13Yes, sure.
00:21:14You want to be salacious or anything?
00:21:15Don't get upset or worried.
00:21:17This is a Black Panther that I had put on in Hong Kong in 1958, long before a Black Panther
00:21:24party was ever thought about.
00:21:26Isn't that a little odd coincidence?
00:21:28Isn't that something?
00:21:29Yeah.
00:21:30We work with a lot of organizations, universities, and study abroad programs.
00:21:36Tourists come out here and they give us donations for staying here with us.
00:21:40So this is how we survive financially.
00:21:43We operate and we function on a wing and a prayer.
00:21:47We're talking about water situations, sister, it's bad.
00:22:00This could get disastrous, you know?
00:22:02Let me tell you, everybody, may I make a suggestion?
00:22:05Please forgive the indelicate subject at the dinner table.
00:22:09Yeah.
00:22:10But when you pee, don't flush the toilet.
00:22:12Do not flush the toilet when you pee.
00:22:14And when you take showers, please be brief.
00:22:27One of our major difficulties in living here in this village is our lack of water.
00:22:32And the fact that our water supply is so uncertain.
00:22:39When there's no rain, everybody's battling trying to get a little bit more water.
00:22:43I don't know what this can't be.
00:22:46This is a holy mess.
00:22:49There's a trickle of water coming in from the park.
00:22:53The water is the absolute last of our reserves.
00:22:57We have nothing else.
00:22:58I had a real bad stomachache.
00:23:00I started getting fever.
00:23:01And now I'm coughing a lot.
00:23:02I think it's bronchitis.
00:23:03I've had it before.
00:23:04And now I'm throwing up.
00:23:05I can't eat anything.
00:23:06I've been wearing a temperature between 100 and 101 for three days.
00:23:07Do you have headache?
00:23:08Yes.
00:23:09It's not real bad.
00:23:10But I do have headache.
00:23:11At first I thought maybe it was malaria then.
00:23:13Let's see what you're doing.
00:23:14Yeah.
00:23:15Yeah.
00:23:16Yeah.
00:23:17Yeah.
00:23:18There's scant malaria.
00:23:19So you would need some antibiotics also.
00:23:21Yeah.
00:23:22Yeah.
00:23:23Yeah.
00:23:24There's scant malaria.
00:23:25So you would need some antibiotics also.
00:23:26I get malaria.
00:23:27Well, I do have headache. At first I thought maybe it was malaria then secure.
00:23:41Yeah. There is scant malaria. So you would need some antibiotics also and get malaria.
00:23:57So it's a trouble win. So you got bronchitis, you got malaria.
00:24:06That's right. You know that was afraid of typhoid.
00:24:12I'm not hearing it. I bet your head was hurting though.
00:24:18Yeah. Oh, Nia. Yeah, come on. Here we go.
00:24:28You got to worry about things like malaria parasites.
00:24:32There's other parasites that you got to always be aware of.
00:24:35There's all kinds of problems that would be different in the states and non-existent in the states.
00:24:40But then when I look around and see all these trees and all this beauty and the birds singing,
00:24:46I know I can go around the compound and go into the classroom and see all those students, you know, working and thriving.
00:24:55Any kind of inconvenience that we experience is nothing compared to that.
00:25:00Because I know we wouldn't be able to live a life like this in the states. No way.
00:25:06Charlotte is probably one of the most positive human beings that I've ever met in my life and she can deal with anything.
00:25:13But we get malaria far too much. We actually are getting malaria three and four times a year.
00:25:20It's the most horrendous disease. I think malaria kills more people in the suburbs, Saharan Africa, than anything else, including AIDS.
00:25:35The parasites hide in the liver, and at times of stress, they come out.
00:25:40Okay, you take all these medicines and things like that, but it doesn't completely rid them out of your body.
00:25:47You can't think, you can't breathe, you can't eat.
00:25:50Aching and chills and sweating and fever. It's horrible.
00:25:58This is just taking too great a toll on our bodies, you know.
00:26:01That's so nice we got a show like this we can enjoy.
00:26:08It is. Isn't it nice?
00:26:10As Albert Einstein said, the world is a dangerous place to live in.
00:26:14Not because people do evil, but because people sit by and let them.
00:26:20Good point, brother.
00:26:22Congratulations, you qualified for the state firm.
00:26:24I know this was why I'm watching.
00:26:27He, he's upset about something.
00:26:30Yeah, you can see it right there.
00:26:33Look at that all tight face.
00:26:37Oh, now that's, that's smart.
00:26:40Is that a teacher?
00:26:42Yeah, I think she's flipped out or something.
00:26:44Look at her.
00:26:49Everything okay?
00:26:50We're going to have another student-teacher affair developing there.
00:26:56See, I see through all that squish.
00:27:00He's, he's, he's running that squish for getting closer to it, you see.
00:27:04White middle-class kids.
00:27:06In case you hadn't noticed, I'm leaving.
00:27:08Not everything is black and white, Mr. Jackson.
00:27:10Standardized tests are...
00:27:12I'm speaking now, sir.
00:27:14Uh-oh.
00:27:15Testing board is comprised of a broad spectrum of...
00:27:17Spectrum is funny how 53% of white kids answered that same question correctly when only 22% of black kids did.
00:27:23How do you know this?
00:27:24I know it, because I read about it.
00:27:25Well, run it then.
00:27:27Education ceases to be learning when the three R's are read, remember, and regurgitate.
00:27:32Uh-oh.
00:27:34So what, you gonna suspend me now?
00:27:38What, that team, man?
00:27:40Oh, that was a good one, wasn't it?
00:27:41Hmm.
00:27:50The whole idea behind the Heal the Community program is that we want to take young African Americans, preferably those from a challenged background, and expose them to the traditional African life, with the hope that this will inspire them to go back to their communities, and create them.
00:27:59What class you have to try?
00:28:00What class you have to try?
00:28:02And I think about these young people, Morty and Derek, I think about myself, and all the mistakes I made, all the misguided goals that I've had in my life.
00:28:10If I can play a part in steering some other young African American away from the pitfalls that I jumped willingly into, that is extremely important to me.
00:28:24Come on, Derek.
00:28:39I just didn't think I would've been picked to go to Tanzania for the simple fact I didn't feel that I was doing that good in school.
00:28:43I didn't feel that I was doing that good in school.
00:28:46As a young person, I was just bad, you know what I'm saying,
00:28:47stealing it, breaking in people's houses,
00:28:49and went to jail a couple times for stuff like that.
00:28:52I wasn't trying to do right at the time, you know what I mean?
00:28:55Yeah.
00:28:57I don't know how to change.
00:28:57That's why I'm here today.
00:28:59I've done bad things.
00:29:01I smoked weed.
00:29:03I stopped going to school.
00:29:07I've done a lot of bad things.
00:29:10So I'm looking for this trip to benefit me,
00:29:13to help me.
00:29:14I don't know no one ever been to Africa
00:29:17out of, like, the black community.
00:29:19I'm glad I'm one of them first ones to go.
00:29:23I saw these, like, IDs or something.
00:29:25Yes, sir.
00:29:25Federal government ID.
00:29:27That's better than a driver's license, actually.
00:29:28Man, I'm excited, man, but I'm trying to chill.
00:29:33I'm like, man, I'm happy.
00:29:35I don't know what to do, man.
00:29:36I'm kind of nervous.
00:29:37How you feeling, Mark?
00:29:39Trip of a lifetime.
00:29:43Let me give these brothers a proper...
00:29:51Hello, how you doing?
00:29:52What's your name, Naga?
00:29:53Marty.
00:29:53This is Marty.
00:29:54How you doing, home?
00:29:55I'm all right.
00:29:55Karibu Sana.
00:29:56Good, ma'am.
00:29:57Didn't that make you dead, right?
00:29:58How you doing, brother?
00:29:59You all right?
00:30:00We all right.
00:30:00Karibu Sana.
00:30:01That means you well.
00:30:02Huh?
00:30:02Come on.
00:30:02Come on, my man.
00:30:07I ain't got him.
00:30:08Long flight.
00:30:09Long flight.
00:30:09So, brother, this is your first time out of the country?
00:30:13Uh, yeah.
00:30:14It is?
00:30:14Oh, yeah.
00:30:15You as well?
00:30:16Yeah.
00:30:16Okay, all right, okay.
00:30:18Have you done much traveling?
00:30:20No, I want to.
00:30:21Were you ready for some unique adventures?
00:30:24Yes.
00:30:25We're going to give them to you.
00:30:26We're going to give them to you.
00:30:27Yeah.
00:30:30This is it.
00:30:31This is it.
00:30:31We're getting ready to get serious with this thing.
00:30:33This ain't all American.
00:30:34We ain't an American no more.
00:30:35You know what I'm saying?
00:30:36No, no.
00:30:36No, no.
00:30:37And let the ancestors know that you all have returned.
00:30:53And we want to welcome you as children of Africa who have come home.
00:31:02You're right back here where you started, brother.
00:31:05The ancestors know y'all in the house.
00:31:15Woo!
00:31:23Any of you all know anything about 12th Street?
00:31:25Is 12th Street still there?
00:31:26Yeah, 12th Street's still there.
00:31:27That was my spot, brother.
00:31:29Uh-huh.
00:31:29Right by the island.
00:31:30That was my...
00:31:31You know the little...
00:31:31The bowl?
00:31:32Uh-huh.
00:31:33Do they still have that cannon?
00:31:34Yeah, right there.
00:31:35That little cannon there?
00:31:36Yeah, that was it.
00:31:37Some of the fondest memories I have of Kansas City is on a weekend in Purcell Park.
00:31:43Is Purcell swimming pool still there?
00:31:46No.
00:31:46It's gone?
00:31:47Yeah, oh, that's gone.
00:31:48Oh, no.
00:31:49Purcell Park's still there.
00:31:50Tell me if that's still there.
00:31:52Yeah.
00:31:52And brothers and still...
00:31:53Yeah.
00:31:53There you go.
00:31:54And brothers and sisters still gather there on the weekend and things, huh?
00:31:58No, no.
00:31:59It ain't like that.
00:32:00It ain't like that.
00:32:00Yeah, I was doing it.
00:32:01Yeah.
00:32:02Do you remember that, Charlotte?
00:32:03Yeah.
00:32:03Do you remember Purcell Park?
00:32:04How we'd go down there and just take a blanket and put a blanket?
00:32:07We would.
00:32:09Well, I guess that lends truth to the notion that the Kansas City I knew really no longer exists,
00:32:15you know?
00:32:15Brothers, do you all realize that we're going off deep in the bush to a remote Maasai village?
00:32:26People that come out here as tourists never experience it.
00:32:31He said that we are completely welcome here and that anything that you want to do here,
00:32:38you're more than welcome to do it because you're not visitors.
00:32:42You have arrived.
00:32:43Put your head back.
00:32:44The Maasai have to struggle to do everything.
00:32:53They have to rope sticks together and use leaves just to make a fight.
00:32:58They walk miles for water.
00:33:01Now, by American standards, these people have nothing.
00:33:04But they have held on to their traditional ways with honor.
00:33:08And I think we can all learn something from that example.
00:33:11This is the center where you swim for perfume.
00:33:20You're not going to get deodorant out.
00:33:21Mm-hmm.
00:33:22After maybe five minutes, my gloss will be a good smell.
00:33:27My armpits ain't foul, but let me get some of that now.
00:33:32Just do it like this.
00:33:34Let me get some of that.
00:33:35Yeah.
00:33:36Yeah.
00:33:37Yeah.
00:33:38Yeah.
00:33:39Yeah.
00:33:40Yeah.
00:33:41Yeah.
00:33:42Yeah.
00:33:43Yeah.
00:33:44Yeah.
00:33:45Yeah.
00:33:46Yeah.
00:33:47Yeah.
00:33:48Yeah.
00:33:49Yeah.
00:33:50Yeah.
00:33:51Yeah.
00:33:52Yeah.
00:33:53Yeah.
00:33:54It's toothbrush for us.
00:33:56They're going to brush your teeth?
00:33:57Yeah.
00:33:58Yeah.
00:33:59It's toothbrush for us.
00:34:01You have to brush your teeth?
00:34:03Yeah.
00:34:05So now you can clean your teeth if you want.
00:34:09Yeah.
00:34:11You got people with no lights,
00:34:13don't have water,
00:34:15toothbrushes, deodorant.
00:34:17I mean, sometimes, man,
00:34:19you be like, dang, this is different, man.
00:34:21It ain't going to be the way we want it to be.
00:34:23It ain't going to be what we're fussing to,
00:34:25I'm going to say it like that. Like now,
00:34:27we just got to keep going through it, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:29It's hard. Yeah.
00:34:31Ain't like the city life, boy.
00:34:33No cars, no buildings.
00:34:35It's just land.
00:34:37Yeah. I miss, like, the traffic.
00:34:39Like the noise,
00:34:41horn, sirens.
00:34:43There ain't no McDonald's.
00:34:45Well, yeah.
00:34:47I was born in
00:34:49the United States of America. I'm not a
00:34:51Maasai. No, I don't
00:34:53feel like I'm part of the tribe. I mean,
00:34:55I'm African-American. I wasn't
00:34:57born here in Africa. My ancestors
00:34:59came from here, but I'm African-American.
00:35:01See what I'm saying?
00:35:03I just feel like, dang, man, you just can't
00:35:05talk to nobody, really. You know what I'm saying?
00:35:07I mean, I know they want to talk to us, and we want to
00:35:09both talk, but I don't feel like
00:35:11I had that bondage with them still.
00:35:13It's just me and this dude here.
00:35:15I mean, I asked them.
00:35:17Yeah. I asked them, you want to play some
00:35:19Bob, no?
00:35:21Hey, come on. Come on, fellas.
00:35:23Where the other boys at, man?
00:35:25They was running with me out of here.
00:35:27And it makes it
00:35:29boring, man.
00:35:31Like, when we here chilling, we may
00:35:33want to come up there and hoop, but
00:35:35I mean, one-on-one, it's cool, too.
00:35:37We get a sweat or something. But you get tired
00:35:39of that, man. Just...
00:35:41We know we only here for 20 days, and we can
00:35:43go back. We got an open door to go back.
00:35:45And to think of this man to be here
00:35:47for 30 years, it's like, man,
00:35:49it ain't even... I can't even think about
00:35:51it, man. I don't even want to, because
00:35:53I know I wouldn't want to do it.
00:35:55You know what I'm saying?
00:35:57A little experience I had here.
00:35:59Man, it's hard. I know you miss home.
00:36:01Well, yeah. I miss home.
00:36:03Yeah, and I can understand that.
00:36:05But in terms of missing home,
00:36:07that's kind of a weird thing,
00:36:09man. I miss some parts
00:36:11of it. You know, I
00:36:13miss my mama. I miss my brother.
00:36:15I've got children I haven't seen. I miss them.
00:36:17But I have become
00:36:19so immersed in this
00:36:21society
00:36:23that I'm almost kind of lost between
00:36:25two worlds. Does that make any sense?
00:36:27Like you ain't an African American now?
00:36:29No, no, no, no. Not that I'm not home.
00:36:31No, not that. Not that.
00:36:33But that I just
00:36:35can't grasp
00:36:37what it,
00:36:39what the values and the mindsets
00:36:41of African Americans
00:36:43are
00:36:45as much and as easily as I did
00:36:47in the past. And you know,
00:36:49that scares the hell out. I mean, that scares me worse
00:36:51than anything. I don't want that to happen.
00:36:53You know, I don't want to lose that.
00:36:55And here's the kicker, man.
00:36:57Say I win my case tomorrow.
00:36:59I get an email. Pete, we won.
00:37:01You know, it's all over.
00:37:03I'm not sure I would get on the plane
00:37:05and go back. I know I would not
00:37:07go back to Liz. You adapted.
00:37:09Yeah, that's it. You adapted to here.
00:37:11I have, man.
00:37:13And at the same time, I'm not
00:37:15completely adapted. That's what I'm trying
00:37:17to say. Yeah.
00:37:25For the entire 32 years
00:37:27that I've been in exile,
00:37:29I have clung tightly
00:37:31to my African American-ness.
00:37:33These are the people that
00:37:35made me who and what I am.
00:37:37There's millions of them.
00:37:39I'm telling you. I have to hold
00:37:41on to every possible thread
00:37:43I can to maintain a connection.
00:37:45And I'm finding
00:37:47that there's a gulf
00:37:49developing.
00:37:51Whoa!
00:37:53Gotcha!
00:37:57That's an elephant for you.
00:37:59Wow!
00:38:01African Americans come out here.
00:38:03I love them. I embrace them.
00:38:05I enjoy their company.
00:38:07I ain't never seen nothing like this.
00:38:09Never.
00:38:11But at the same time, I'm realizing
00:38:13they are so different
00:38:15from what I know.
00:38:17Oh, look at them!
00:38:19Look at them!
00:38:21The boxes kicking each up!
00:38:23That box is wild, man!
00:38:25Look at this one here!
00:38:27I'm losing that connection
00:38:29with African Americans.
00:38:31I'm kind of lost in a new man's land.
00:38:35Africa!
00:38:37I'm kind of lost in a new man's land.
00:38:43Africa!
00:38:45Africa!
00:38:47Africa!
00:38:49Africa!
00:38:51Africa!
00:38:53Africa!
00:38:55Africa!
00:38:57Africa!
00:38:59Africa!
00:39:01Africa!
00:39:03Africa!
00:39:05Africa!
00:39:07Africa!
00:39:08Africa!
00:39:09Africa!
00:39:10Africa!
00:39:11Africa!
00:39:12Africa!
00:39:13Africa!
00:39:14Africa!
00:39:15Africa!
00:39:16Africa!
00:39:17Africa!
00:39:18Africa!
00:39:19Africa!
00:39:20Africa!
00:39:21Africa!
00:39:22Africa!
00:39:23Africa!
00:39:24Africa!
00:39:25Africa!
00:39:26Africa!
00:39:27Africa!
00:39:28We are very pleased to have each and every one of you here.
00:39:31We're so proud and happy to see this gathering of youths
00:39:36who have come together to share their culture
00:39:38and to learn about other cultures.
00:39:42I was just going to rap from, like, my background, how I was raised.
00:40:00African-American. I'm African-American.
00:40:05All right, let me get the claps.
00:40:08It's like... Nah, not like that. Like a beat, like a...
00:40:12Come on. Come on.
00:40:16I take my time to rewind and try to think, go back
00:40:18on all the things I used to do and all the knowledge I lacked.
00:40:21I didn't listen, make it with me, but they didn't come through.
00:40:23All the things I heard of God didn't seem to come true,
00:40:26so I did what I wanted to do.
00:40:27Then I ended up in jail, but I could tell that God was there for me,
00:40:30shedding his mercy. It kind of hurt me, but I started seeing the light.
00:40:33I know another gang. It's like this.
00:40:36Layup. That's called a layup.
00:40:39You got to practice that. Michael Jordan do that.
00:40:43It's free throw.
00:40:45Say free throw.
00:40:46Free throw.
00:40:47Yeah, free throw.
00:40:48Free throw.
00:40:51That's how you do that.
00:40:54From here.
00:41:00Focus on this.
00:41:03Let it go.
00:41:04Let it go.
00:41:06Yes.
00:41:11Yeah.
00:41:11That's how you do it.
00:41:14Yeah.
00:41:22Yeah.
00:41:27Yeah.
00:41:28Yeah.
00:41:28Yeah.
00:41:30Yeah.
00:41:30Yeah.
00:41:31Oh, wow.
00:41:31That was crazy.
00:41:32Yeah.
00:41:32Yeah.
00:41:33That was crazy.
00:41:34Yeah.
00:41:35Give it up now.
00:41:46Take care of yourself.
00:41:47Do what I told you and remember.
00:41:49Do you hear me?
00:41:50Yeah.
00:41:51Remember, all right?
00:41:52That's all you got to do.
00:41:53It's been good.
00:41:54It's been good.
00:41:55It's been good, brother.
00:41:56Thanks for everything.
00:41:57All right.
00:41:58You take care of yourself.
00:41:59Much love, brother.
00:42:00All right.
00:42:05I got you, brother.
00:42:18Growing up as a child in Kansas City, I got into a lot of trouble, and the pull of the streets
00:42:25kind of got me.
00:42:28Prior to becoming involved in the Black Panther Party, I wanted to be a pimp.
00:42:34I had a new Lincoln in 1965.
00:42:37I used to wear expensive suits and expensive shoes.
00:42:42My hands were soft, and I had manicured fingernails, and I liked that.
00:42:47I did.
00:42:48But in this idea of being known as a street hustler, I wanted that.
00:42:53I wanted to be known as a player, as a this.
00:42:56I did some stupid shit.
00:42:58I did.
00:42:59You know, I'm talking little vulnerable girls into doing things that they didn't want to
00:43:07do, and that they had no business doing, and destroying people's lives in the process.
00:43:12You asked me, do I regret things?
00:43:15You don't have the slightest idea what you're asking me, and I'm not joking now.
00:43:19You say, this causes me extreme pain, because you don't know what we're talking about.
00:43:25I feel it's something that I know I cannot undo, and I cannot undo at once.
00:43:37And when I think about the people, when a picture comes into my mind of the people that were
00:43:42involved, when I think of the young girls, and I'm a father, then I have my daughter,
00:43:47and I said, Lord, don't ever let anything like this happen to my children.
00:43:52And to think that I did this to someone's daughter, to people's daughters, that I would
00:43:57pray on them, and try to take advantage of them, and maneuver and manipulate for something
00:44:04just so horrendous, that is painful, and that stabs me in my heart when I think about that.
00:44:13When I involve myself in community work, the primary reason I do it is because it's helping
00:44:20me. This is for my salvation. This keeps me on the straight and narrow. This helps me redefine my life.
00:44:50Hello. How are you? This is Mr. Alex here. Okay. Thank you.
00:44:58You know, there's an old saying about, beware of black men coming bearing big ideas. So here I am with the...
00:45:04That's new, so tell me.
00:45:07I made that up on this further note. All right.
00:45:09What I wanted to ask you, Alex, my idea is, I want to run it by you and get your input.
00:45:14I want to do some computer classes where we can take small children, nothing complicated,
00:45:19and give them an introductory kind of thing. And I don't know, what is your thinking?
00:45:24Do you know of any software? I think you mentioned something.
00:45:26There's software, yeah. I see software for toddlers. I think they're three years old, four years old,
00:45:31they've got software. Okay. I'm looking for old stuff. I'm not looking for anything new or anything.
00:45:37I'm looking for old stuff. Yeah, I know what you're saying because you're limited as far as funds are concerned.
00:45:43Yeah. For these kids, you need good computers. That software demands something Pentium.
00:45:49You cannot work with three, four-year-old computers. The good news is that even good computers,
00:45:56even new computers are getting cheaper. I hear exactly what you're saying. I appreciate it,
00:46:00and I understand the correctness of what you're saying. But, Alex, we're always in a money crunch.
00:46:06So, I know it is, and I know it's Tanzania, I know it's Poli Poli, and I know we've got to get there slowly,
00:46:12but I just want you to think about this if you can. Keep your eyes open.
00:46:18All my efforts to secure a new computer were in vain. You know, the economy is very tight in Tanzania at the moment,
00:46:28so I noticed from the outstart that he was reluctant to commit himself to anything.
00:46:48You know, a few months ago, I had feelings that something would take place with my legal situation.
00:46:57But now I'm beginning to doubt it. In the post-9-11 world, overturning of a conviction of an old Panther,
00:47:06I doubt that that's going to happen anytime soon.
00:47:12Okay.
00:47:18136 over 91.
00:47:37You see, that should be lower from just having got out of bed.
00:47:43136 over 90, which indicates that if I had been moving around,
00:47:52the diastolic probably would have been close to 100,
00:47:58and the systolic would have been probably around 150.
00:48:04And that's just not good enough.
00:48:08I work my ass off out here.
00:48:17And then things somehow never get done?
00:48:20I don't know.
00:48:22I'm in a bit of a funk this morning.
00:48:31I don't know.
00:48:32I'm in a bit of a funk this morning.
00:48:33I don't know.
00:48:34Not in very good mood.
00:48:38So, as you know, here's the well.
00:48:53And this is between 160 and 170 feet down.
00:48:58And it's steady pumping up.
00:48:59It's pumping.
00:49:00Pure, clean, clean water, brother.
00:49:03Imagine.
00:49:04I'll walk you up here and show your detention.
00:49:06Okay.
00:49:07Geronimo G. Jaga, the former Geronimo Pratt, came to visit me.
00:49:11Man, you talk about a reunion.
00:49:13I had not seen him in over 32 years.
00:49:17Geronimo was the field marshal of the Black Panther Party.
00:49:21In 1970, he was arrested on some trumped-up murder charge.
00:49:27He was convicted and spent 27 years in prison for crimes he did not commit.
00:49:35This is the first tank that we built.
00:49:38Well, this is some job you and Charlotte have put together over these 30 years.
00:49:44We've been hitting at it, brother.
00:49:46Haven't stopped.
00:49:47Still going strong.
00:49:48In 1997, he was released, and the government, in admitting that he was unjustly imprisoned,
00:49:56made a financial settlement with him.
00:49:59When he came out, he asked me,
00:50:01Pete, what can I do to be of assistance?
00:50:03I said, our primary major problem is water.
00:50:07He said, well, give me your phone.
00:50:09I gave it to him.
00:50:10He called his associates in the United States,
00:50:12and he had them transfer $10,000 so that we could dig this well.
00:50:18It had that good spring taste to it, you know?
00:50:23Oh, yeah.
00:50:24That's a lot of water.
00:50:25Good, clean water.
00:50:27So, brother, I would say between 300 and 500 individuals are benefiting from the water project.
00:50:33Right on.
00:50:35When you see the smile, the joy on their faces, the realization that they don't have to walk today five miles to get a bucket of water,
00:50:46that kind of makes it all worthwhile.
00:50:48When Geronimo came out, we renewed our relationship.
00:50:58So it's a table and this, huh?
00:51:00I've helped him when he was looking for a house.
00:51:02I've helped him when he wanted to buy certain items to furnish his home.
00:51:08I've tried to help Geronimo acclimate to life here in Tanzania,
00:51:13so I get the opportunity to see him on a regular basis now.
00:51:20Ooh, boy, that was a good one, that.
00:51:25Here we go.
00:51:27That all right?
00:51:29We cut him off.
00:51:31All right, man.
00:51:33Geronimo is married to a lovely young woman, Joju Cleaver.
00:51:37This is Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver's daughter.
00:51:41When we had the international section of the Black Panther Party in Algeria,
00:51:45we had a nursery.
00:51:47And I can remember Joju Cleaver being a pretty little baby with big heads.
00:51:51Okay, y'all, let me go on and do some work.
00:51:53Y'all come out tonight if you want.
00:51:55I'm going to be out there soon.
00:51:57Okay.
00:51:59All right, you ready, doctor?
00:52:01How many are we going to do?
00:52:03Hey, get the oxygen ready in there.
00:52:05Y'all get to call 911.
00:52:07Here we go.
00:52:08Look at him.
00:52:09That's too much to warm up with.
00:52:11No, it's all I can.
00:52:12It's all you got.
00:52:13And this is what I do.
00:52:14I said it's too much to warm up with, ain't it?
00:52:16How many are you doing?
00:52:17They're doing them all.
00:52:19See, I tried to teach him penitentiary.
00:52:23He didn't stay in the pen long enough to learn how to drive iron.
00:52:26You always warm up.
00:52:28If you don't warm up.
00:52:29Is that what's wrong with me starting early?
00:52:31Seriously.
00:52:32Yeah, you have iron shoulders.
00:52:33Oh, really?
00:52:34If you start lifting on stuff without warming it.
00:52:36Okay.
00:52:37You lift real light first.
00:52:38Okay.
00:52:39And then you start lifting heavier.
00:52:40Okay.
00:52:41You going to change the doohickey back there?
00:52:43You going to change it?
00:52:44Yeah, you got to start light.
00:52:45I see.
00:52:46Lift that and see.
00:52:47All right.
00:52:49Like that?
00:52:50Very light.
00:52:51Okay, that's what you want.
00:52:52That's what I want.
00:52:53Yeah.
00:52:54Back then, in prison, you know, Pete was more of a scholar.
00:52:57He was passing through, solid there, and it wasn't, it was a different setting, you know?
00:53:02I wish it would have remained like that by the time I got in.
00:53:05Pete went to the Galva Club, Toastmasters, and they were taught diction, and oration, and
00:53:12pronunciation, and speechifying, and all that.
00:53:17And iron will make you eat.
00:53:19If you're trying to lose weight, it cannot drive no iron, because iron gives you hunger
00:53:25plans that you can't imagine.
00:53:28Your shot, partner.
00:53:31Will you tie my hair for me, Chuck?
00:53:32I like to go behind, but...
00:53:35He's getting his hair all done.
00:53:37That's what he says.
00:53:40JoJo, this is a mental activity.
00:53:42Don't be messing with this.
00:53:44I hear all these wrappers coming in there.
00:53:46I'll be right there.
00:53:47Oh!
00:53:48That's your kind of workout.
00:53:52He said it makes you hungry.
00:53:54Now, he's got a witness.
00:53:57Mm-hmm.
00:53:58But I don't have this.
00:54:01You cut the flag, because I do that up.
00:54:03Mm-hmm.
00:54:07Wait a minute.
00:54:08Now, wait just a minute.
00:54:09You sat there and told me, if you're going to do this, you've got to eat.
00:54:11That's what you said.
00:54:12No, I understand.
00:54:13You did say that.
00:54:14I said you were making me.
00:54:15Well, I'm going along with your flow.
00:54:17I'm going to be there.
00:54:18I'm coming tomorrow.
00:54:19I'm going to set up our little...
00:54:20Yeah.
00:54:21Look where I'm recording for you.
00:54:22Hello, everybody.
00:54:23Hello, everybody.
00:54:24I'm going to be there.
00:54:25I'm coming tomorrow.
00:54:26I'm going to set up our little...
00:54:27Look where I'm recording for you.
00:54:30Hello, everybody.
00:54:32That song there.
00:54:33Yeah.
00:54:34That song there, Bunchy Carter and Blue Lures, running up down Central Avenue, Black Panther
00:54:43thing and all the women chasing them, that was right before Bunchy got killed, that song
00:54:49came out.
00:54:51Bring back memories, don't you?
00:54:52Yeah.
00:54:54It's interesting that I last saw Geronimo in 1970, less than a month before I left the
00:55:00United States, and I think it was a couple of months after that that he was arrested.
00:55:06And while my exile could in no sense compare to the suffering that he endured being in a
00:55:14horrendous prison situation, the fact that I have been in exile constitutes a sort of
00:55:22cultural and emotional prison.
00:55:25That you can have male friends of your tribe, people with similar cultural interests, similar
00:55:34political interests, and develop close bonded relationships with other men like this, this
00:55:42is something that's been missing in my life.
00:55:44He left all of that and said, Pete's sitting at the corner of his bed, staring at the warm
00:55:48man, with a key through and watching.
00:55:51I'm going to finish this chair, then I'm going to have to go on and finish the curtains
00:56:08when I come back.
00:56:09Yeah, let's just do this.
00:56:11It's getting to be a big project, man.
00:56:16I'm going to glue them darn curtains up here and be done.
00:56:18She's not going to know the difference.
00:56:21We just put glue up there.
00:56:25Now tell her, this is a new style, straight out of Paris.
00:56:33Okay.
00:56:36How's that?
00:56:38Mm-hmm.
00:56:39It opens fine.
00:56:40Okay.
00:56:42Okay, I'm there.
00:56:44Looking good myself.
00:56:44It's right at 10 years since my mother was last here, and I'm a little nervous about it.
00:56:52I know it's probably going to be a little bit of awkwardness there initially, because
00:56:58we haven't seen each other in such a long time.
00:57:01And I can hear it in her voice when I'm talking to her on the phone.
00:57:04And I said, she's nervous, too.
00:57:08Mm-hmm.
00:57:13She said they lost the baggage, and she's got to fill out her form.
00:57:18Old woman got to fill out her form.
00:57:19Here, you take this.
00:57:25Take this.
00:57:25Here's the keys you take.
00:57:27Here.
00:57:28Take that.
00:57:29You want to hold the money?
00:57:30Hold the money.
00:57:31Here.
00:57:33Can I go help my mama?
00:57:34Yeah.
00:57:34Yeah.
00:57:35Yeah.
00:57:35Help me.
00:57:37Huh?
00:57:39Hey, lady.
00:57:40What you doing down here?
00:57:42Look at you.
00:57:43How you doing?
00:57:45All right, don't worry about it.
00:57:47How you feel?
00:57:48I've been out there raising holy hell.
00:57:50Yeah.
00:57:51Let me put you on out of here.
00:58:01Good Lord Almighty.
00:58:07You going to leave these with me?
00:58:10I saw that you got one of these monster fros on your head.
00:58:14You got one of them big military afros on.
00:58:18Oh, huh.
00:58:19Now, look at who.
00:58:20Oh, Lord.
00:58:22I just grabbed them up, and I said, let them look at this.
00:58:25Might be something in here they might know.
00:58:28But what were you talking about you was going to throw them pictures?
00:58:29I was going to throw them away 10 years ago.
00:58:32Because they were collecting and powering up.
00:58:34I got a bunch of pictures of you, too, though.
00:58:40I'm going to throw them away today.
00:58:42I think I'm going to burn them today.
00:58:44You're going to burn them today.
00:58:45I'm going to burn them today.
00:58:46I'm going to burn them today.
00:58:47And I went to sleep and then woke up in a dream.
00:58:51I didn't know what I was doing this morning.
00:58:53And I said, where am I?
00:58:54I said, oh, I guess that must have all been a dream.
00:58:57Me being in a wheelchair and me coming over here.
00:59:00Because I didn't think I'd come back over here again.
00:59:02And had that mosquito net over you, I guess.
00:59:06And I reached out, and it touched that, and I said, oh, what is it?
00:59:09They got me tied up.
00:59:12They didn't tie her up.
00:59:14Trying to see if she was going to get in the pearly gates tonight.
00:59:17You know, they have health tips on TV.
00:59:33I don't know about your cholesterol, but basically, that's bad for the cholesterol.
00:59:37These here?
00:59:37Yeah, I know.
00:59:38I shouldn't eat these.
00:59:40All right, really, this is the last time I'm going to ever buy them.
00:59:43Want something?
00:59:44No.
00:59:45You want to care for a little bit?
00:59:46No, I know.
00:59:47Okay.
00:59:54Oh, Lord.
00:59:56Please don't eat that whole bag.
00:59:58I'm not going to eat it.
00:59:59I'm not, I'm poop.
01:00:00I'm poop.
01:00:16Can I introduce you to my mother?
01:00:25Please, sir.
01:00:26Oh, this is my mother.
01:00:27This is my mother.
01:00:27And then I'm going to ask you if I can get a blood test, would you let me do something?
01:00:33Yes, I'll let you do it.
01:00:35This is my mother.
01:00:36This is Dr. Rasa.
01:00:40Good morning, Mr. Rasa.
01:00:42You're fine, thank you.
01:00:43Yeah, Pete is a great friend of mine.
01:00:45Yeah, well, that's good.
01:00:46And this man has pulled Charlotte and I, too, for these 30 years.
01:00:50They talk about you all the time, like you're friend and family.
01:00:53Yes.
01:00:53Uh-huh.
01:00:54How are you getting on?
01:00:55I'm doing very well, thank you.
01:00:57You know I had knee surgery.
01:00:59Now, I'm not coming for consultation or anything.
01:01:02No, no, no.
01:01:02But I just want to tell you, I had knee replacement.
01:01:05Yes.
01:01:05And I walked with a cane.
01:01:07That's right.
01:01:07So what can I do for you, sir?
01:01:08And you need to get on him about his high blood pressure medicine, too.
01:01:11I take mine every day.
01:01:13He needs to take it.
01:01:14Yeah, he should take it every day.
01:01:15Every day, every day.
01:01:16That's right.
01:01:17Yes, that's right.
01:01:18Mama and doctor talking to me.
01:01:19That's right.
01:01:20I'm going to start taking it every day.
01:01:22Yeah.
01:01:22Yeah, not just a promise.
01:01:24No.
01:01:24Do it for real.
01:01:25I will not smoke in front of my mother.
01:01:33My father passed away from lung cancer.
01:01:37And to her, smoking is an instant death sentence.
01:01:41So I hide it.
01:01:44He can't fool me.
01:01:46Not at all.
01:01:47I've known him all his life, so you know I know him.
01:01:50And I can tell when he's not telling me the truth.
01:01:53I know it.
01:01:56He's always doing something.
01:01:59When he was doing the Black Panther thing, I worked for the U.S. Treasury Department.
01:02:04And he come in front of my building and did a demonstration.
01:02:08I wanted to hit him so bad, you know, and tell him to go away.
01:02:12And I said, why did you come in front of my building?
01:02:15Here I am, the FBI calling me in and questioning me.
01:02:19And he said, no, that's where I needed to be.
01:02:21That's where I wanted to be.
01:02:22It got me in hot water, yes.
01:02:24He said, no, it's not going to get you in trouble.
01:02:26I know what I'm doing.
01:02:27I know what I'm doing.
01:02:30Mm-mm.
01:02:31It was all white and pretty and fresh.
01:02:34And the day before you came, then the rain started.
01:02:37This is probably the last chance I'm going to have to be with my mother.
01:02:41Yes.
01:02:41I know this.
01:02:44I'm not going to say it to her, you know, of course.
01:02:47She struggled to make this trip.
01:02:50I am about to be 63 years old.
01:02:53I think she's 83 years old.
01:02:56This is the last one.
01:03:02Him, I know I can't think of his name.
01:03:05This is Joe, isn't it?
01:03:06Joe Brown?
01:03:07No, that's Uncle Willie.
01:03:08That's Uncle Willie.
01:03:09Oh, is it?
01:03:10Yeah.
01:03:10Charlie.
01:03:11Yeah, with his peanut head.
01:03:14Here's a question I want to ask you.
01:03:16Why didn't you tell him?
01:03:19There's that picture.
01:03:20That deformed baby.
01:03:22You know what?
01:03:23This looked like a baby that came out before the time was up.
01:03:27You know what?
01:03:27And they put it out in the sun and all.
01:03:29You know what they told me?
01:03:30And they what?
01:03:30They said, Grandma told me, said, I'm going to give you some money.
01:03:33Can you take him to a place and have his picture taken?
01:03:37And I said, yeah, I will.
01:03:39I wrapped you all up.
01:03:41This looks like a baby that's drunk.
01:03:42And the man said, I never.
01:03:46Oh, Lord have mercy.
01:03:49Where did you get this thing from?
01:03:51I looked for all those.
01:03:52She had them all.
01:03:53Are you sure that's me?
01:03:54I'm sure that she did.
01:03:55What was wrong with it?
01:03:57I brought you up there to that place.
01:03:59And the man said, I ain't got no chair to feed him.
01:04:01He said, yeah.
01:04:06So he said, oh, I got something.
01:04:07I'll take his wicker chair and put him in it.
01:04:11You know, what gets me as a baby looks confused.
01:04:20I want to be a teacher.
01:04:24I want to be a teacher.
01:04:27Good.
01:04:28Please listen to me.
01:04:29My father's name.
01:04:31My father's name.
01:04:32My mother's name.
01:04:34My mother's name.
01:04:36OK, go on.
01:04:36We have changed the name of our organization
01:04:54from the United African American Community Center
01:04:58to the United African Alliance Community Center.
01:05:06We feel that the word alliance better describes
01:05:16the relationship of Africans from the continent
01:05:19and the diaspora working together.
01:05:22Come on.
01:05:22Go.
01:05:23Mass.
01:05:24Mass.
01:05:25Now, my mother and I are ready.
01:05:26You're not secure like any.
01:05:27OK.
01:05:28OK.
01:05:28I am happier here.
01:05:38I feel that I'm more productive here
01:05:41than I have ever been in my entire life,
01:05:44particularly now that I've seen my mama
01:05:47and I've had the chance to interact with her.
01:05:50Even the desire to visit briefly the United States
01:05:55is beginning to wane.
01:06:05I don't miss this new year.
01:06:07This is a special new year.
01:06:09And one thing that makes it extra special
01:06:12is that Mama Clorene O'Neill is in the house tonight.
01:06:16Give her a hand, y'all.
01:06:20Mama Clorene, you got to say something.
01:06:23I'm sorry.
01:06:24I'm sorry to interrupt your dinner.
01:06:26OK.
01:06:26But you got to say something.
01:06:29Oh.
01:06:30I'm going to say something.
01:06:31Oh, wait.
01:06:32Wait a minute now.
01:06:33I got to stop in.
01:06:34I don't need any music with my introduction.
01:06:37Oh, cut it out.
01:06:39No.
01:06:47Oh, shut up.
01:06:49We're so very pleased to have all of you here with us.
01:06:52And as we prepare to welcome the year 2003,
01:06:56be aware that in true Kansas City style,
01:07:02we're going to bring it in with a bandit.
01:07:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:07:26Whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:07:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:07:30Whoa, whoa.
01:07:32OK, now, here's what I'm doing.
01:07:39I got one in the round, but I got safety on, OK?
01:07:48OK, recruit.
01:07:49We'll wait until it's ready.
01:07:5420 seconds.
01:07:5520 seconds!
01:07:55I'm off.
01:07:5819.
01:07:5918.
01:08:0115.
01:08:0110.
01:08:0310.
01:08:049.
01:08:058.
01:08:067.
01:08:087.
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01:08:171.
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01:08:29I have never in my life lived in any community
01:08:49as long as I have lived in Arusha, Tanzania.
01:08:56I'm trying to make sure I'm saying the right thing here now.
01:08:59I'm not going to return to the United States ever again.
01:09:08They can have my piece of Kansas City.
01:09:11I give it back to them with a free heart and a clear conscience.
01:09:15To take it further, I am at the point now, and I've given this a lot of thought,
01:09:21this is not a frivolous decision that I've made.
01:09:26I'm going to apply to become a citizen of the Republic of Tanzania.
01:09:35High-pitched clap and a clear conscience.
01:09:36I can't believe it!
01:09:40Oh, my God, I can't believe it!
01:09:45I can't believe it!
01:09:48Happy New Year!
01:09:50Happy New Year!
01:09:52Happy New Year!
01:09:54Happy New Year!
01:10:18Two young men who had been out here with some program or another
01:10:22were receiving their Eagle Scout badges or something,
01:10:26and they wanted a letter of recommendation from me.
01:10:30They had used me as their reference,
01:10:33and the Scoutmaster was asking me,
01:10:35Mr. O'Neill, would you please send the letter of recommendation,
01:10:39and we will act upon it immediately.
01:10:42I thought that was ironic as hell.
01:10:46Black Panther recommending Eagle Scouts.
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