00:00In your preparation, was there anything you were particularly surprised to learn about the real Bill Pickett or any of the other characters, you know, Black people in the West at the time?
00:12One of the things that shocked me was the way in which Bill Pickett died in real life.
00:17He died in real life because he was kicked in the head by a horse, which just reminds you of how powerful these animals are.
00:27And it makes you think about how hard it must have been to break horses back in the day, which is a job that a lot of Black ex-slaves had.
00:36They came from toiling in the fields and creating American agriculture.
00:39And now they're tasked with the hard job of breaking horses to do those cattle drives up through Texas into Missouri.
00:47And, you know, and that was incredibly, incredibly difficult.
00:51But we did it because that was the hard job.
00:55So they gave it to us.
00:56We did it, became so good at it, that stories of our exploits started to travel and become popular and famous.
01:04Then you have white writers hear about those stories, write about those characters, but make them white.
01:13Right.
01:14And they created literature with white heroes, white cowboy heroes, started making films with characters, white cowboy heroes.
01:22And that was the beginning of the erasure.
01:26And the genre was created erasing us.
01:29Yeah.
01:30You know, we were there, you know, one in three cowboys, one in four cowboys.
01:33It's different accounts to it.
01:34I say one in four because I'm conservative.
01:36I don't want people coming for me with affection.
01:39Gotcha.
01:39You know, I say one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys, one in four cowboys,
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