00:00Frank represents so many of us today that are living in a time and era where we don't feel free, where it's so hard to remind ourselves to activate, you know, freedom really is existing as you are, even in the space that tells you that you're not allowed to be.
00:16And that's hard when you keep getting so many subliminal messages that you can't exist as you are, where you need to assimilate, where you can't, you know, where you got, I mean, the concept of code switching, the concept of not being able to rock your natural hair in the workplace, the concept of, oh, you can go to jail at any moment.
00:35All of those things are what reminds the Black people definitely in America that I'm not allowed to exist in a happy space. I'm not allowed to truly be at peace.
00:44And so Alice, who actually experienced actual slavery, her, once she's heard the words that she's free and she's got the knowledge, homegirl said, I'm out.
00:56And she's like, Frank, you know what I mean? Like, don't you get it? But Frank is representative of, I think, so many of us today.
01:02And so I love the way that she used the time period and the storyline metaphorically to say something to the audience, which is, if your ancestors could do that, you can do this.
01:12And I know they're going to say time, but I want to tell you one other thing, because, you know, what Kiki said is really important because the Black American experience is a whole different experience, right?
01:26It's a different experience. I'm in London right now, and it's a certain freedom that I see Black people walk around with because they haven't dealt with like, and I'm not saying that, look, I mean, you could ask some people in London, they'd be like, listen, we're dealing with some of the stuff, you know, some of the racism.
01:42But it's not to the level of where you feel like your body can be removed from the planet because you are Black.
01:50You know, it's not to the level of where, like, they are just, like, killing, taking you off the planet and, like, just all type of strategies against holding you down.
02:01Yes, classism and those things, but we're talking about straight, like, hatred and racism that the Black American has experienced is so different.
02:09Yeah, the country being built on that.
02:13On that.
02:14The country being put on that.
02:16Systemically, yes.
02:17On that. So to find freedom from that, it's like, man, it takes a whole lot, but that's the strength that we do have.
02:25And Alice displayed that strength as a Black woman.
02:28So this is something to celebrate, like, this film is something to celebrate, like, as a woman, Black women, and just, you know, just finding your own freedom.
02:36I really am inspired by it.
02:39Thank you both so much.
02:40You know they're coming.
02:41Thank you both.
02:42Yeah, sorry.
02:43We were inspired by questions.
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