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A routine elevator ride becomes a battlefield when Maya Uche, a Black activist, and Brett Kiminski, a white conservative, are trapped together between floors. With nowhere to run, their assumptions, anger, and buried grief rise to the surface, forcing both strangers to face the truth behind their politics — and the pain that made them who they are.
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00:02I got called every name in the book, Uncle Tom, Coo, Race Trader, Sellout, so I adapted.
00:15They wanted black?
00:19Best believe I gave them black.
00:21Do you work in the building?
00:23Why do you care?
00:26Curious, and because I asked and it's a simple question.
00:29Would you be curious if I was a white woman?
00:31The hell is with you people.
00:33Say you people one more time and see if I don't take my shoe off and beat you down near
00:36half to death.
00:37I bet you live your entire life wondering if people are being unfair.
00:40Every look, every pause, every disagreement becomes evidence in an invisible trial.
00:47I don't owe you a conversation.
00:50Is this how you normally charm your way through life?
00:53Is this how you act when you realize that you're going to be locked in with someone like me?
00:59Or does murder only count when it's your kind?
01:01Every time white folks hear of black loss, they want to one-up it with their own grief.
01:07You're not the white savior.
01:08If you're going to sell out, you should have stayed with Jaiden.
01:14Do you often find yourself in uncomfortable situations with black people?
01:18If I was a white woman trapped in an elevator with a black man, there'd be SWAT, the National Guards,
01:23NATO, and a damn therapy dog waiting outside.
01:27You know what bothered me most about that night in the elevator?
01:30I've spent the past couple of years blaming other people, fighting other people.
01:42And what's with the white guy?
01:44What if we were like, hey Brett?
01:46Long time no see, Brett.
01:47How you been?
01:48The only problem is that what if...
01:51Well, that would imply that we're somehow friends.
01:53That's exactly what it would imply because we could be friends.
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