Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: February for nineteen sixty five. It's the Black History Months
Speaker 2: Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
Speaker 4: My guest tonight, up and coming comedian Bill Cosby. This
Speaker 4: guy's jokes are gonna knock you out. But we begin
Speaker 4: in Selma, Alabama. If you aren't familiar with Selma, it's
Speaker 4: a small southern city located ten miles east of No
Speaker 4: Negroes Please and five miles north of say Boy. And
Speaker 4: it's also where today recent Nobel Peace Prize winner doctor
Speaker 4: Martin Luther King Junior, got into some legal trouble.
Speaker 5: Dateline. Selma civil rights leader the Reverend Martin Luther King
Speaker 5: Junior was arrested today while attempting to lead a mass
Speaker 5: march of three hundred Negroes on the Dallas Kelly Courthouse
Speaker 5: to protest voter registration procedures. The Negroes were taken into
Speaker 5: custody uncharged as of parading without a permit.
Speaker 4: For more, we go to our junior civil rights correspondent,
Speaker 4: Roy Woods Senior.
Speaker 3: Now, Roy, what did you see out there?
Speaker 6: I saw a bunch of bulls, Trevor Proud Negro men
Speaker 6: and women being arrested for no reason.
Speaker 4: Well, now, roy the police said there was a reason
Speaker 4: they were parading without a permit.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Did the Klan fill out their paperwork before marching in
Speaker 6: my neighborhood? What have you ever seen white people arrested
Speaker 6: for parading without a permit?
Speaker 3: Well, Royd, that's just the world we live in.
Speaker 4: Black people aren't ever gonna get the same treatment as
Speaker 4: white people, and that's never gonna change.
Speaker 6: Actually, Trevor, I don't agree. You have to look at
Speaker 6: the bright side of things. Yeah, maybe the cops arrested
Speaker 6: doctor King and a bunch of our brothers and sisters,
Speaker 6: but they did at this time without violence. That's progress.
Speaker 6: I mean, forty years ago, a white man would even
Speaker 6: give a black man a glass of water. Now, not
Speaker 6: only can we have water, we can get it whether.
Speaker 3: We want it or not.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you, I guess you could call that progress.
Speaker 6: Do call that progress? We've gone from lyncheons to beaten's
Speaker 6: now to peaceful arrests. In fact, I heard doctor King
Speaker 6: is coming back right here next month to Selma to
Speaker 6: march across that bridge. And that the rate of progress
Speaker 6: we make it I bitch it's gonna be a fun day,
Speaker 6: march in arm in arm with the police, and one
Speaker 6: day they'll make a movie about it and it'll be
Speaker 6: called Selma that day when nothing happened at all.
Speaker 4: Obama's main purpose in South Africa was to pay tributes
Speaker 4: to Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 8: Medieva's life shown so brightly even from that narrow Robin
Speaker 8: Island self that in the late seventies he could inspire
Speaker 8: a young college student on the.
Speaker 1: Other side of the world.
Speaker 9: Adella said, young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing
Speaker 9: down the towers of oppression and raising the banners the freedom.
Speaker 9: Now it's a good time to be aroused.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a.
Speaker 4: This is probably the only thing that Trump and Obama
Speaker 4: agree on.
Speaker 3: Trump's like, you're so.
Speaker 4: Right, Barack, there's never a bad time to be aroused.
Speaker 3: Was like, that's not what I meant. He's like, too late,
Speaker 3: then Junior's out already. Baby.
Speaker 4: We were catching up with President Obama, who's in South
Speaker 4: Africa to celebrate Nelson Mandela's one hundredth birthday.
Speaker 3: And let's just acknowledge how.
Speaker 4: Dope you have to be for people to keep throwing
Speaker 4: you birthdays after you're dead.
Speaker 3: Just think about how amazing you have to be.
Speaker 4: Like most of you can't even get your roommates to
Speaker 4: come to your party, and you're alive. Yeah, because like, dude,
Speaker 4: what do you mean you can't come over?
Speaker 3: We live in the same room.
Speaker 4: So who was Nelson Mandela to get Obama to take
Speaker 4: a break from kitesurfing and go all the way to
Speaker 4: Africa to give his first big speech since he left
Speaker 4: the White House? Well, really, there are two Nelson Mandelas.
Speaker 4: The first is played by every black actor in Hollywood.
Speaker 10: My name is Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 3: I'm the first accused.
Speaker 11: I have dedicated myself to this struggle of.
Speaker 6: The African Those in power deny your freedom. The only
Speaker 6: path to freedom is power.
Speaker 8: I will walk to the quarry, but I will.
Speaker 7: No longer run.
Speaker 3: It is not your place to tell me what is possible.
Speaker 3: This is the time to build our nation. Ignorance brings chaos,
Speaker 3: not knowledge.
Speaker 4: Now I know, I know a lot of people complain
Speaker 4: that she takes roles she shouldn't, But I think she
Speaker 4: nailed it there, she killed it.
Speaker 3: She's pretty good Scarlet nact.
Speaker 10: Yo.
Speaker 4: So there's movie Mandela and there's real Mandela. And because
Speaker 4: today marks one hundred years since his birth. I just
Speaker 4: wanted to spend a few minutes talking about the man
Speaker 4: because he spoke about me on my birthday.
Speaker 3: Now that's that's not true at all.
Speaker 4: Now, the first thing you need to know about Nelson
Speaker 4: Mandela is that his name was not Nelson.
Speaker 10: When I went to school, the lady teacher missed some
Speaker 10: ding anne as to what is your name? I told
Speaker 10: you my African name. He says, no, I don't want
Speaker 10: that one. You must have a Krishia name. So I said, no,
Speaker 10: I don't have one. She says, you are from today,
Speaker 10: You're going to be Nelson. That's how I ended the
Speaker 10: name Nelson, not given by my parents.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine how Mandela's parents must have felt their
Speaker 4: kid left the house as Relitiashah and comes back as.
Speaker 3: Nelson Like his dad must have been so mad.
Speaker 4: He'd be like, they called you what I'm calling your
Speaker 4: teacher right now?
Speaker 3: Hello, this is Godda Mandala.
Speaker 4: No, your name is Jeremy now ah, they got me too.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 4: Now, the reason Nelson Mandela had to have a Christian
Speaker 4: name is basically because back in the early twentieth century,
Speaker 4: white people ran South Africa. So you couldn't have a
Speaker 4: name that they couldn't pronounce, right, Even though they were
Speaker 4: only twenty percent of the population, they controlled the government,
Speaker 4: the land, the economy, everything. Yeah, it's kind of like
Speaker 4: how today all those no gluten people have.
Speaker 3: Control of all of our menus.
Speaker 4: Yes, except in South Africa, the intolerance was real.
Speaker 3: So it was this suppression.
Speaker 4: It was this suppression that pushed Nelson Mandela to join
Speaker 4: a revolutionary movement called the African National Congress.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: He joined politics when he was just twenty six years old,
Speaker 4: partly to fight racial inequality and also because he had
Speaker 4: just been kicked off his parents Obamacare.
Speaker 3: Now at first, at first, the ANC.
Speaker 4: Fought for racial equality peacefully, but the racist government only
Speaker 4: got more oppressive. In fact, in nineteen forty eight, South
Speaker 4: Africa's government set up a part type which made legal
Speaker 4: racism the foundation of the entire country. Black people couldn't vote,
Speaker 4: they had to live in certain areas, and they were
Speaker 4: banned from playing sports.
Speaker 3: With white people. And I'm gonna lie that last part
Speaker 3: I completely understand, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, if your system is based on white supremacy,
Speaker 4: you kind of black people dunking all over your shit.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't go with the narrative, you're.
Speaker 4: Like white people are superior white I wasn't ready.
Speaker 3: I wasn't ready.
Speaker 4: In fact, the government became so oppressive that Mandela and
Speaker 4: the ANC decided to resort to violence. They bombed power stations,
Speaker 4: post offices, and I mean they did it when people
Speaker 4: weren't in there, but still they blew shit up. And
Speaker 4: there were many people not just in South Africa but
Speaker 4: around the world who wanted him to respond to the
Speaker 4: brutality of the government with civility, to which Mandela replied,
Speaker 4: bore shit that.
Speaker 13: How many people who feel that it is useless and
Speaker 13: free future for us to continue talking piece and non
Speaker 13: violence against the government whose reply is only savage attacks
Speaker 13: on an unarmored, defenseless people.
Speaker 4: Now, I know for a lot of people seeing a
Speaker 4: young radical Mandela, that's a bit of a shock. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like finding out one of the care bears mould
Speaker 4: a hiker to death.
Speaker 3: I mean, i'd expect that out.
Speaker 4: Of tender Heart, but you funshine, But you see, Nelson
Speaker 4: Mandela believed that violence was necessary to fight to violent governments,
Speaker 4: and he paid a price for it. In nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 4: when Mandela was forty four years old, the Apartheide government
Speaker 4: arrested him and sentenced him to life in prison.
Speaker 3: And what he said in the docks is legendary.
Speaker 4: He said, I've cherished the ideal of a democratic and
Speaker 4: free society.
Speaker 3: It is an ideal which I hope to live and
Speaker 3: to achieve.
Speaker 4: But if needs be, it is an ideal for which
Speaker 4: I am prepared to die. I mean, I'm prepared to die,
Speaker 4: but but.
Speaker 3: I don't want to die. I'm saying I'm prepared. Don't
Speaker 3: make me die.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, like, prepared to die, not diag Nessaly,
Speaker 4: let's edit that part out.
Speaker 10: Just live the.
Speaker 4: So Mandela went on to spend almost thirty years in prison. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and the longer he stayed in prison, the more Mandela
Speaker 4: became a legend around the world. By the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 4: you had concerts around the globe to free Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 4: And you gotta admit, you gotta admit, it's probably good
Speaker 4: that that teacher changed his name, because it would have
Speaker 4: been a lot harder for white people around the world
Speaker 4: to protest his freedom when they couldn't pronounce his name
Speaker 4: if they were like.
Speaker 3: Free, really miships free, free, you know, let's just go
Speaker 3: save the whales. Guys, let's just go save the whales. Now.
Speaker 4: Nelson Mandela's story up to that point was impressive, but
Speaker 4: it's what he did after he came out of prison
Speaker 4: that transformed him from a leader to a legend, right
Speaker 4: because when he became South Africa's first black president, he
Speaker 4: reconciled the country and he insisted that white people be
Speaker 4: a part of it. And you realize this is a
Speaker 4: black country and he's the first black person. He could
Speaker 4: have easily just said, I'll give you white people a
Speaker 4: ten minute had started, you guys put me in prison
Speaker 4: for that ass.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what a walkman is. I just
Speaker 3: hope I get to admit Alvis what five minutes had starts.
Speaker 4: So so you see, this is just part of why
Speaker 4: people like Barack Obama look up to Nelson Mandela. This
Speaker 4: was a man who grew up in a country steeped
Speaker 4: in racism, spent decades in prison fighting it, and then
Speaker 4: dedicated his life.
Speaker 3: To a world of racial progress.
Speaker 4: And most impressively, when he was asked why he's not bitter,
Speaker 4: he had this to say, you.
Speaker 6: End up coming out of prison and there is no
Speaker 6: bitterness how is there no bitterness?
Speaker 1: Well, I hated oppressure, and when I think about the past,
Speaker 1: the type of things they did, I feel angry.
Speaker 10: You have a limited time to stay on f you.
Speaker 1: Must try and use that period for their purpose.
Speaker 3: Of transformed in your country. And that's why he's eleven every.
Speaker 8: One hundred third.
Speaker 3: I did that.
Speaker 4: You must remember because of so many of the struggle
Speaker 4: leaders in South Africa were either imprisoned or exiled. The
Speaker 4: movement in South Africa was held together in large part
Speaker 4: by women in the country.
Speaker 3: And so it's weird for me because I understand.
Speaker 4: You travel the world, you understand that everywhere feminism is
Speaker 4: different and the idea of women is different. But I
Speaker 4: grew up in a world it was very matriarchal and
Speaker 4: where women were the most dangerous freedom fighters that existed.
Speaker 3: Is true.
Speaker 7: You read up on you read up.
Speaker 4: On Winni Mandela, like Nelson, Mandela was an icon. But
Speaker 4: the police in the country were afraid of Winni Mandela,
Speaker 4: you know they were. And we had a phrase in
Speaker 4: South Africa that was we still use it today, which
Speaker 4: was what tintabafazi, what tintimbo walko, which means you strike
Speaker 4: a woman, you strike a rock, and.
Speaker 3: That's what I grew up learning.
Speaker 4: That's it was kudos matter, it was fire, it was fire,
Speaker 4: and a lot of the time my mum would strike
Speaker 4: me with a rock.
Speaker 6: And Welcome to c PE time, the only show that's
Speaker 6: for the culture. Today, we will be discussing the history
Speaker 6: of civil rights marches. They were how black people fought
Speaker 6: the system may change. It's also how your granddaddy got
Speaker 6: his steps in. Now, there are the famous marches that
Speaker 6: we all know about, the March on Washington, Birmingham, and
Speaker 6: the march in Selma, which I was getting ready to
Speaker 6: attend until I found out that march was on a bridge.
Speaker 6: I don't do bridge as well. I told doctor King,
Speaker 6: if God wanted the black men across rivers, we would
Speaker 6: have been born with those little floating things on our
Speaker 6: arm like white people. But there are many other marches
Speaker 6: and black history worth noting, such as the nineteen ninety
Speaker 6: five million man March in Washington, d C. Now, some
Speaker 6: people say the crowd size didn't actually reach a million men,
Speaker 6: But if that's true, it's only because it was the
Speaker 6: nineties and all those parachute pants took up too much space.
Speaker 6: But at least hundreds of thousands of men attended this march.
Speaker 6: They gathered to call attention to black issues like structural racism, unemployment,
Speaker 6: and most importantly, an end to the Jerry curl, or
Speaker 6: as I call it, the black mullet. That hairstyle is
Speaker 6: held more black men backed than bad credit. The Jerry
Speaker 6: curl is the only hairstyle that made black men look
Speaker 6: like Jewish mothers. Sadly, I did not attend the million
Speaker 6: Man March. I tried to, but I misheard the location.
Speaker 6: You see, they said it was at the National Mall,
Speaker 6: but what I thought they said was the Nashville Mall.
Speaker 6: And let's just say all those white people in Tennessee
Speaker 6: were as confused as I was when I was protesting
Speaker 6: in front of an orange Julius. Now you can't speak
Speaker 6: about marches without speaking about the big, bad, sexy, afro
Speaker 6: repping Black panthers. Look at them. Anyone wearing leather in
Speaker 6: the summertime means business. In nineteen sixty seven, the Black
Speaker 6: Panthers protested against California gun control by marching to the
Speaker 6: capitol with their grievances and some ak forty sevens. That's right,
Speaker 6: white people, I know you like to think that being
Speaker 6: out in public with the big gun was your idea,
Speaker 6: but that was some black ship first. And while bringing
Speaker 6: guns to a debate about gun control, it is not
Speaker 6: very logical, it is very effective. In fact, it gives
Speaker 6: you the upper hand in most situations. My uncle Biebo
Speaker 6: once walked into a chipope land forgot he had a
Speaker 6: loaded pistol in his hand. He got free guacamole for life.
Speaker 6: Bill done, Uncle Bevo. But before you criticize armed protests,
Speaker 6: remember it was a different time and you had to
Speaker 6: be there, which I was not. I wanted to join
Speaker 6: the Black Panthers, but the day before the protest, my
Speaker 6: barber cut my afro too low and I ended up
Speaker 6: with a buzz fade. I couldn't join the Black Panthers.
Speaker 6: Looking at Square, I looked like a Wesley Snipes who
Speaker 6: does pay his taxes. And finally, I would be remiss
Speaker 6: if I did not mention the powerful black women who
Speaker 6: fought to unshackle the chains of oppression. One of those
Speaker 6: icons is Ida b Wells, who famously took over a
Speaker 6: nineteen thirteen march for women's suffrage. The white women said
Speaker 6: that she had to march the back but I'd refuse
Speaker 6: telling those white ladies either I go with you or
Speaker 6: not at all, which is basically a turn of the
Speaker 6: century way of saying I'm about to take my ear
Speaker 6: rings off. Hefer Now, I didn't attend this marchieza because
Speaker 6: I was not yet born. But my grandmother, Regina Wood Junior,
Speaker 6: was able to go. But she didn't go. She said
Speaker 6: she was going with her best friend, Susan, but the
Speaker 6: two got lost on the way and somehow they ended
Speaker 6: up in the Caribbean, where they've been living as roommates
Speaker 6: ever since. What that's all the time we have for today.
Speaker 6: I'm Royd Wood Junior. This has been ce feet time.
Speaker 6: And remember before.
Speaker 7: The culture must have been lord of friends.
Speaker 6: I guess they ain't got but one bed in their house.
Speaker 11: It's the very first day of Black History, so I
Speaker 11: thought I hit the streets to as black and white
Speaker 11: people how they were celebrated.
Speaker 7: As we enter yet another Black History Month.
Speaker 11: We thought it was important to connect with people and
Speaker 11: to find out what their idea of black history was.
Speaker 11: And nothing says black history like Hollywood Boulevard.
Speaker 7: Actually, it's the closest that the crew would come to.
Speaker 7: Martin Luther King Boulevard. So how are you.
Speaker 10: I'm doing good.
Speaker 7: It's Black History Month? Absolutely? What excites you the most
Speaker 7: about it?
Speaker 6: I think it's an opportunity we can celebrate ourselves, our
Speaker 6: contributions as a people like it makes me feel good.
Speaker 3: I love Black History Mond.
Speaker 7: What do you love about it?
Speaker 6: Our kids are getting more educated.
Speaker 7: Not in Florida though, well, I don't know about Florida.
Speaker 7: Nobody does. What do you know about black history?
Speaker 3: I'm turst soul. I don't know much about I respect everyone.
Speaker 11: I like black bro everyone I know, but they already
Speaker 11: had their turn. It's our turnout. What is Black History Month?
Speaker 7: Mean me? Celebration? Celebration?
Speaker 11: Are there any black people you like to celebrate?
Speaker 7: Martin Lawrence out of all the black people? I mean,
Speaker 7: I love the Black History Month?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: You excited?
Speaker 3: It'll be my first?
Speaker 7: Is your first Black History Month?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: How long have you been black?
Speaker 3: Home? But we don't do it.
Speaker 7: It's South Africa. Oh you don't do it in South Africa.
Speaker 7: What's the blakest thing you've ever done?
Speaker 1: I think when we have guests over, I don't want
Speaker 1: to share our food, so we just all go hungry
Speaker 1: until they leave.
Speaker 7: That's the blackest thing you've ever done? Beat Chitling's.
Speaker 11: Oh man, I put a cereal in the glad bad
Speaker 11: so I'm keeping for the roaches because if the roach
Speaker 11: ate it first, I'm damn sure I ain't gonna eat it.
Speaker 7: That's so black. I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 4: Every time I go to a new city, I like
Speaker 4: to go to the grocery store.
Speaker 12: Right, I'll stop, I'll get some watermelon and some chicken,
Speaker 12: and I'll see if they'll say something to.
Speaker 3: Me at the register.
Speaker 7: Has anybody ever don't go to Mississippi?
Speaker 11: Have you ever been denied alone?
Speaker 6: Know what happened?
Speaker 11: That's that's probably the whitest thing you've ever done. What
Speaker 11: is the whitest thing you ever done?
Speaker 12: With Surphy?
Speaker 7: You didn't set up? And how did that work out?
Speaker 3: Not very good?
Speaker 7: But it's the whitest thing you've ever done.
Speaker 2: Improv Uh pay my taxi?
Speaker 7: Can you name any of the members of the Wu
Speaker 7: Tang clan?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 7: I can't you know any of.
Speaker 11: The words to the Black National Anthem.
Speaker 4: That's messed up.
Speaker 11: But I don't know you know any of the words
Speaker 11: of the Black National Anthem.
Speaker 3: I'm going to stand up.
Speaker 11: You know if you don't know the word be respectful,
Speaker 11: and you name any members of the Wu Tang clan.
Speaker 7: No, have you ever been late somewhere?
Speaker 3: Hack? No, I'm very punctual.
Speaker 7: That's pretty well, I know.
Speaker 11: Do you know any of the members of the Wu
Speaker 11: Tang clan that you're gonna take my car for me?
Speaker 8: Right now?
Speaker 7: Give it here?
Speaker 10: Give it here?
Speaker 11: You know any of the words to the Black National Anthem? No,
Speaker 11: you know any of the members of the Wu Tang clan.
Speaker 11: I do ghost face killer, ray Kwan, got.
Speaker 7: Money, that's it.
Speaker 11: What is the blackest thing you've ever done?
Speaker 7: I went to Roscoe's Chicken and waffle.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: What is the blackest thing you've ever done?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: Damn h, that's pretty black right there. Do you follow
Speaker 11: anybody on black Twitter?
Speaker 3: I don't have a black Twitter.
Speaker 7: Smoke weed.
Speaker 3: I was in a hip hop group in high school.
Speaker 7: You know you weren't. I was what was your name
Speaker 7: in the group?
Speaker 4: Big and Tasty?
Speaker 7: Big and Tasty. Give me some Look at me, Look
Speaker 7: at me, Look at me.
Speaker 4: Bread chasing like a bakery like, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 11: What is the blackest thing you've ever done? Let's racist question,
Speaker 11: of course, What is the blackest thing you've ever done
Speaker 11: talking to you.
Speaker 4: This week mark a milestone in civil rights history, the
Speaker 4: fiftieth anniversary of Franklin's first appearance in the comics Peanuts.
Speaker 3: Now, now it seems like a joke.
Speaker 4: But the reason this was a landmark is that before
Speaker 4: Franklin appeared, newspaper comic strips were segregated, right, Black comic
Speaker 4: strips royce separate, separate from white comic strips. In fact,
Speaker 4: if you even tried to put the pages of the
Speaker 4: newspapers together, the policeman just break down your door. They'd
Speaker 4: be like wa, and they'd be like, well, well, well
Speaker 4: we got a troublemaker over here. So the character of
Speaker 4: Franklin was a pretty big deal. And what's really fascinating
Speaker 4: is his origin story.
Speaker 12: April nineteen sixty eight, Martin Luther King had been shot
Speaker 12: and killed. American cities burned in rage in California. A
Speaker 12: forty two year old teacher and mother of three felt helpless.
Speaker 1: And I remember sitting in suburbia saying, is there anything
Speaker 1: I can do?
Speaker 12: Harriet Glickman wanted to reach someone with influence. She wrote
Speaker 12: to Charles Schultz. His Peanuts comic strip was read by
Speaker 12: nearly one hundred million people each week. Charlie Brown, Lucy Linus,
Speaker 12: they were all white. Glickman told Schultz he should integrate.
Speaker 3: Okay, I was pretty dope of that, lady, but uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, also kind of a weird
Speaker 4: reaction to a tragedy. I mean, Martin Luther King is dead,
Speaker 4: there's chaos in the streets, and her first reaction is
Speaker 4: maybe Charlie Brown can help.
Speaker 3: For mom. The civil rights trailblazer. We turned out to
Speaker 3: a very own right would you?
Speaker 7: Everybody?
Speaker 4: Boy, no matter who you are, you gotta love Franklin?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 7: Love him?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 6: Kidd?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 6: Franklin was a straight up g integrated the shit out
Speaker 6: of Peanuts and it must.
Speaker 4: Have been a pretty big moment for you as a
Speaker 4: kid when he first appeared in the.
Speaker 6: Strip first appeared. That was in nineteen sixty eight. How
Speaker 6: old do you think? I am.
Speaker 4: Fifty forty sixteen.
Speaker 6: I'm thirty nine, Trevor, thirty nine. Here's the thing. Newspaper
Speaker 6: Franklin was great. Newspaper Franklin was great. You can't argue that.
Speaker 6: But when they put them on TV, it was a
Speaker 6: different story. All of a sudden, they made them a stereotype.
Speaker 14: You hear a hoky, you turn yourself around. That's my
Speaker 14: all about this boat, cause we're not gonna lose.
Speaker 6: Why why couldn't Franklin just do the hoky poky trailer?
Speaker 6: You're telling me black kids can't put they left foot
Speaker 6: in and take they.
Speaker 7: Left foot out.
Speaker 6: It looked like Franklin was auditioning for house party too.
Speaker 3: It's too cool to have him in there. Even if
Speaker 3: he had one dance break.
Speaker 6: It was every time with this kid. Anytime you walk
Speaker 6: down the street in Peanutsville, you might run into Franklin.
Speaker 6: And when this homeboy pop walking, and even when he's
Speaker 6: hanging out with his friends, everyone else gets a normal
Speaker 6: handshake with No.
Speaker 3: Not Franklin.
Speaker 7: He got a slap skin. See what I mean.
Speaker 6: All the other peanuts are just kids, But Franklin's running
Speaker 6: around Peanutville like a damn baby shaft. He's a tiny
Speaker 6: bad mother.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about Franklin.
Speaker 6: Look, I just don't want him to be the other
Speaker 6: kid all the time. Even at Thanksgiving. Yeah they invited him,
Speaker 6: but look where they didn't put him. He's find himself.
Speaker 6: Even the dog gets to sit with the kids.
Speaker 3: Wash the dog.
Speaker 7: Even at the damn table. It's cool though, Franklin.
Speaker 6: Franklin. Look, man, Franklin, they did you a favor. You
Speaker 6: don't want none of that bland ass white people turkey anyway.
Speaker 4: I'm like, today was a day when we got some
Speaker 4: really sad news that Aretha Franklin passed away. That was, yeah,
Speaker 4: that was It was rough for a lot of people,
Speaker 4: and not just because of the music, because of who
Speaker 4: she was. I remember I used to like, I used
Speaker 4: to sing the songs with my mom. So I grew up,
Speaker 4: you know, it was most of the time it was
Speaker 4: just me and my mom, and so I used to
Speaker 4: sing all the songs, not really knowing what they meant
Speaker 4: per se.
Speaker 3: So as a little kid, I was like confident.
Speaker 4: Like you make me feel like natural well Walmart. And
Speaker 4: then like I got I got older, and I was
Speaker 4: just like, whoa wait, what was I doing?
Speaker 3: What was I was like, Mom, why didn't you stop me?
Speaker 3: And She's like, because you look like a natural woman.
Speaker 3: You were doing so well.
Speaker 4: But what I loved is like, like Aretha Franklin, you know,
Speaker 4: you see everybody talking about this is it. It's one
Speaker 4: of those examples where you see an artist who uses
Speaker 4: their platform to go beyond just making money and doing
Speaker 4: what they do. Like you read these beautiful stories about
Speaker 4: how Aretha Franklin had in a contract that she wouldn't
Speaker 4: perform for segregated audiences, right, so you know, if audiences
Speaker 4: were segregated by ratio, was like, no, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to perform.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: She was one of the first people who supported Angela Davis,
Speaker 4: you know, from the Black Panthers.
Speaker 3: She fought for.
Speaker 4: Martin Luther King. Like this is at a time when
Speaker 4: it wasn't cool to do that. It was risky to
Speaker 4: you and your livelihood. I mean, you saw what happened
Speaker 4: with Nina Simone, you know, and she was out there
Speaker 4: and she was doing it, and she was making songs
Speaker 4: that at the time were crazy when you think of
Speaker 4: how women were situated in society. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: the metwo movement had shown that we still have a
Speaker 4: long way to go, but at that time, it was
Speaker 4: pretty much like women just keep quiet, and she was
Speaker 4: out there rispct.
Speaker 3: Was I mean I remember that as well. Like my
Speaker 3: mom used to say that to me, as like like
Speaker 3: if I'd ever.
Speaker 4: Like say something back chat or whatever in the moment,
Speaker 4: would be like ARISPCT and like play the song and
Speaker 4: I'll be like, yeah, our PSP s p T find
Speaker 4: out what and she was. You know what I loved
Speaker 4: about Aretha as well, like the stories that she was
Speaker 4: gangster like she hold on. She only performed when she
Speaker 4: had her money in cash before the gig. Always like
Speaker 4: that her whole life till like now, till she was
Speaker 4: like where's the money, like she was the original bitch,
Speaker 4: better have my money.
Speaker 3: Money before the gig. Then I sing.
Speaker 10: I think.
Speaker 4: I sometimes think to myself, like the guy's back today,
Speaker 4: he's counting it and she's like doing it word by
Speaker 4: word and uh nonhi and.
Speaker 12: Home.
Speaker 4: Oh so yeah, man, she will she'll be missed. She
Speaker 4: will be everything we see today in so many ways
Speaker 4: in the music in like you know, music male and female.
Speaker 4: It is because of her, so Weatha Franklin Rest in peace, man,
Speaker 4: it's a beautiful, beautiful story.
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