00:00Let's see this outfit.
00:02Ooh.
00:04I'm going to not put my arms through because that's how you feel.
00:06I like that.
00:06Nah, that's when you fancy.
00:07I like that.
00:08The yellow compliment and the pink with the accents.
00:11Hey, guys.
00:12It's your girl, Danielle Young, here on the red carpet for Netflix's High Flying Bird.
00:16This movie digs into the slave mentality that is apparent in sports.
00:20So we asked everybody on the carpet tonight to let's talk about it.
00:24What does it mean to have the slave mentality show up in real life and in the movie?
00:28Stay tuned for more.
00:30So many of these young men are, like, shuttled through school and pushed through to, like, perform and to be good sportsmen.
00:37But, you know, their lives after are completely disregarded.
00:42And these careers are, like, five, maybe ten years.
00:44And then what, right?
00:45Like, you were passed along in college or passed along in high school because you could, like, support the team and bring the school money.
00:52But were never given the opportunity or even thought you deserved something more than just being good on the field.
01:01The Harlem Globetrotters, when they started going global and making the money they made, that was seen.
01:08And so folks wanted control of that.
01:10And so we sold our rights, et cetera, for the money.
01:13But the NBA started off of that.
01:15What Stephen and the writers did was so insightful.
01:17It's like a four-year experience into the business of basketball.
01:21It's really fascinating.
01:22Throughout this process, one of the most profound experiences that I've had is getting to know Dr. Harry Edwards and his work, his book, The Revolt of the Black Athlete.
01:32I wasn't aware of the long history of resistance that that man has been doing for so long.
01:38I mean, he spent the last 50 years doing this work.
01:41A lot of the times when money comes into play, a lot of those things come back full circle.
01:47You know what I mean?
01:47It's the owners and then those are the people who, I guess you could say, earn.
01:52You know, back in the day with slavery, now it's sports, but it's the same mentality.
01:56Just paying money.
01:56But a lot of the times when you get paid, you leave powerless.
01:59Because now you have to listen to, you know, the higher-ups and the owners and whatnot.
02:03So you really can't move the way you would as if you were doing things off of free will.
02:07The way that society looks at you, they really don't respect.
02:11They don't respect you, I guess you would say, complaining.
02:14Because they're like, oh, you're getting paid $40 million.
02:16You have no room to complain.
02:17But at the end of the day, you know, they're still humans and they still have to deal with the same thing.
02:21Athletes who come into a field that are not just doing it for sport, but are actually doing it for expression.
02:29To really get out mourning for a person who isn't there anymore, playing to overcome poverty in a way.
02:37It's something else.
02:38And so then to commodify that, right?
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