Ninth Floor | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In her first feature-length documentary, director Mina Shum (Double Happiness) takes a penetrating look at the Sir Georg | dG1fTnlldU1WTTZ2NWM

Transcript

00:00Are you prepared to stand up for your rights?

00:06Yes!

00:07Are you prepared to stand for your rights?

00:10Yes!

00:11Let's go everybody, let's get upstairs!

00:13Let's take a stand now!

00:15Let's go, everybody that believes in justice, take a stand!

00:18Don't sit on your asses anymore, move up there and take a stand!

00:21If you whites can sit back and ask people like O'Brien,

00:25run you to hell crazy, that's your privilege!

00:30We, as students, feel that we have a right to be heard.

00:38As far back as ten months ago, the black students had laid some charges of racism

00:42against the Sir George Williams professor.

00:45I suppose in my heart I figured we'd occupy it and two days later it'd all be resolved

00:50and everybody would be happy and we'd be singing Kumbaya.

00:53Not exactly what happened.

00:56It was so fast.

00:58It was one of the very first times in my life that I was actually afraid for my life.

01:05We were tricked.

01:06It was not a victory.

01:07People were yelling burn nigger burn.

01:09This chanting of let the niggers burn, they wanted us to die.

01:13That shook me to my core, of course, because that means that there are people around who don't mind seeing other people perish.

01:20But then I'll watch.

01:21Yeah.

01:23I'll watch.

01:24wash.

01:25I heard that man is a miracle.

01:27My job has been a good choice.

01:28I love cheating.

01:29I know man.

01:30I'm a good choice.

01:31My job is a good choice.

01:32I can't do my job.

01:33I'm a good choice.

01:34I'm a good choice.

01:35But I am going to go the wrong choice.

01:37I know if you're a good choice.

01:39I'm a good choice.

01:40I'm a good choice.

01:41I am.