The Passion of Remembrance
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THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE (dir. Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien, 1986), the Sankofa collective's greatly influential first film and a landmark work in British avant-garde film and video, ambitiously explores themes of racism, homophobia, sexism, and generational tensions as embodied in the reality known by a Black British family over the years. Interweaves two narrative threads—one in which a man and a woman discourse on their own experiences living in the UK, another in which events from three decades in the lives of the Baptiste family are staged—Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien tease the accumulated fragments into a spellbinding, heterogeneous mosaic that powerfully evokes the multiplicity of Black experience and identity and critiques the British state’s treatment of its marginalized residents.
This 4K remaster by the BFI National Archive, undertaken in collaboration with the directors and cinematographer Nina Kellgren, is based on the original 16mm negative and magnetic soundtrack final mix.
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Main credits
Blackwood, Maureen (screenwriter)
Blackwood, Maureen (film director)
Attille, Martina (film producer)
Julien, Isaac (screenwriter)
Julien, Isaac (film director)
Domingo, Anni (actor)
Charles, Joseph (actor)
Thomas, Antonia (actor)
Chance, Carlton (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Steven Bernstein, Nina Kellgren; music, Tony Remy; editor, Nadine Marsh-Edwards.
Distributor subjects
Black Diaspora; Cinema Studies; Post-Colonialism; RacismKeywords
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(Atmospheric music playing)
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(Woman) She believed in doing
what she could on her own home front.
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Yet secretly she felt the action,
the real struggle,
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was over on the other side
of the Atlantic
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with Malcolm, George,
Sonia, Bobby, Leroy.
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Yet she knew the site of any struggle
was real, was legitimate.
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Dealing with local,
national issues here,
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which were no less important.
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Staking a claim for the future.
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Feeling good about being active.
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Getting a little arrogant, really.
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Relating to our men, the brothers.
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Hearing and reading so much
about the state of their masculinity,
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their oppression,
the high mortality rate,
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the prison system.
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Crying for George and Bobby.
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Listening to the brothers,
to their needs, wants.
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All the time listening
as they spoke, talked,
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demanded their right to be men.
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Then, concentrating
on how to rebuild them
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into men fashioned into an image
of their own choosing.
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Helping them,
supporting them by always being there.
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Making the tea, coffee,
curry, patties.
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Organising the benefits,
licking the stamps.
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Trying never to refuse.
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Later on, having babies,
running the home,
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whilst taking care of everything.
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Feeling tired
at the beginning of the day.
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Hanging out.
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It was always important
to be on the scene.
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Never refusing him.
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His way of saying, "I love you".
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Being an active, conscious sister,
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fashioned in an image
designed for but not by her.
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(Atmospheric music playing)
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(Applause)
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Of course, I remember
my neighbourhood bobby.
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I remember seeing the same policeman
outside my school most every day.
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I never spoke to him.
He never spoke to me.
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Cool, you might say,
peaceful coexistence.
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But everything was not cool,
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because I couldn't,
didn't have the means
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to go check up on his background
and ask questions about him,
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or go talk to his teacher about him,
as he did about me,
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and have her come back
and ask me what the problem was
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between me, all of 12 years old,
and Sergeant Kendall,
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who, as it turns out,
didn't like my attitude.
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What I realise now
is that Sergeant Kendall's problem
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was not with attitude
but with me, with my image.
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(Applause and cheering)
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(Man) Because, to me,
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this is the most important thing
you need to know.
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I already know it.
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To get freedom,
you have to struggle.
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You have to fight
whoever gets in our way.
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Our way.
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You have to want freedom
by any means necessary,
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as the brothers told you
time and again.
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- (Applause on TV)
- Hi, everyone. Hi, Tonia.
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- Good evening, Mr and Mrs Baptiste.
- Evenin'. Evenin'.
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- (Lively music on TV)
- Good session, eh?
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(Music continues on TV)
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I had a woman ring up and ask me
the cheapest fare to Miami.
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I told her it was standby and she said,
"Do I have to stand all the way?"
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(Laughter)
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(Music on TV)
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Tonia, go turn off the telly.
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Shame. They weren't really prepared.
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That's no excuse.
They knew they were going up there.
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They didn't do too badly.
They're the first to get this far.
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Wicked, and that man was
practically giving them the answer
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to that question
about the capital of Mexico.
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(All laugh)
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You can tell the only thing
he looked for on a map
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is to find the quickest route
from the West Indies to England.
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But the young girl
wasn't much better.
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She didn't know who
the Secretary of State for the Environment is.
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Come on. It's not like
you see these people every day.
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Anyway, so what?
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Every time a Black face appears,
we think it has to represent the whole race.
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We haven't got the space to get it wrong,
that's the problem.
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Oh, Maggie, you know
that woman's son died?
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- Who?
- Mrs Campbell. You know the one.
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Two weeks she hadn't seen him...
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(Man) Who will punish?
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(Woman) Who is to be punished?
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(Man) A nation of violence
and private property
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has every reason to dread,
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to dread the violated and deprived.
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(Woman) Will you punish me?
Our lives are not debatable.
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(Man) We can be killed.
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(Woman) Our paths are.
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(Man) We cannot strike
the first blow.
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(Woman) Who will hear me now,
as I remember and talk of remembering?
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(Man)
But we can prepare for the last.
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Let me show you
where police brutality comes in.
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It comes in under the law.
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The law we call the no-knock law.
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The stop-and-frisk law.
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The law that gives them the power
to invite themselves into your house
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and mash up your place
and your head if you're not careful.
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The law that gives them the power
to frame you up
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under the disguise
that they suspect you of...something.
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What puzzled her more than anything
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was the fact that she'd known
for some time he was lost,
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yet she had followed him.
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She never had enough courage
in that time
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to save herself
in the act of saving him.
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But the fact that she had beaten him
at his own game
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and found a shortcut to this place
amused her for a while
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as she waited for him to arrive.
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In that time of waiting
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she'd come to know the area
quite well,
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or so she thought.
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Because sometimes she'd look out
over the landscape
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from the highest point
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and see new landmarks,
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areas which were alien to her
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and at once made the area
alien territory.
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But in that time of waiting
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she'd come to terms
with some of the different visions
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the landscape threw up
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and thought
she now felt more at peace
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with the suggestion of newness.
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You certainly took your time
getting here.
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- Do I know you?
- (Laughs)
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What do you mean,
I took my time getting here?
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Where's here?
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Just here.
It's unimportant exactly where.
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What do you mean? Look, I'm a man
who likes to know where he's going.
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And you should care too.
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Care about where you're going
or just care?
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And if you're so sussed out
about where you're heading,
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how come you don't know
where we are?
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Look, I'm not into games, sister.
Do I know you? Have we met before?
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Sort of. On quite a few occasions,
actually, brother.
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No, no, I don't think we have. I'm quite good
at faces, but I don't remember yours.
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Correction. You're quite good
with certain faces.
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Like, certain faces
on certain types of bodies.
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What do you mean?
Look, I don't know who you are and--
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"What I now realise
is that Sergeant Kendall's problem
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was not with attitude
but with me, with my image."
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You... You were there?
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- I was there.
- I... I really don't remember your--
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Don't make me laugh.
Of course you don't remember.
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Funny, though,
how you're quite good with faces.
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Don't remember mine
but remember the sound of your own voice.
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What are you trying to tell me?
You don't remember yours?
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I haven't heard it often enough to.
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Well, excuse me. I thought
we were talking on a basic level.
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But I can see
you're an educated lady.
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Ladies are made, women are born.
Get your head round that one.
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Oh, for fuck's sake!
Not a feminist now!
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That cap fits,
but so do many others.
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Forget it. Forget everything. Just--
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No. You forget it.
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Forget trying to pigeonhole me.
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Forget ending the conversation
because you've decided I'm a feminist
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and not worth talking to.
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Forget trying to shut me up.
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- Don't get hysterical, sister.
- Forget that line too.
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Right now, all I want to do
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is forget you and me here,
engaged in this stupid conversation.
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- Which is the way home?
- (Laughs)
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Sure you can trust me
with such a... a dangerous mission?
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And it looks like even that simple request
is too much for you.
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You're wondering why all the brothers thought
you were good for is licking the stamps.
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I ask you a simple question.
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Instead of coming forward with an answer,
you regress into sour grapes!
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Sour, sweet, or tasteless,
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you're going to have to take it
and learn to like it.
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But let me finish the task
you've assigned me.
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You're looking for the way home.
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Look. No need
to walk or crawl anyplace else.
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Just look.
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(Scoffs)
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The way home,
as if only you were looking,
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or it's your divine right
to reach there first.
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Another one of your problems.
Too cocksure, even for a brother.
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Even for a brother?
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Just where do you get off
being so fucking lippy?
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The more you rant,
the more I remember your face.
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Even for a brother?
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Sisters! Huh!
Sisters like you used to make me sick.
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Lime green when you went to college.
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Educated all the Black out of you.
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They sent you back out on the street
with all your white politics.
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You probably haven't spoken
to more than one Black man.
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The word stinks when you say it!
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It may smell strange,
but it tastes strange too.
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You see, I have chewed
the word around long enough
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to get past the sugar coating
to the sourness.
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I tried to spit it out,
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but it stuck in my throat
like a fish bone.
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Something stuck in your throat.
Pity it's not lodged tight enough to shut you up!
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Why don't you just silence me, then?
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I wouldn't give you the satisfaction.
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You never bothered
about my satisfaction before.
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Just think back.
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Even as you asked me,
you answered as well.
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You were only interested
in confirming your own satisfaction.
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Well, now, I am here and so are you.
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And I'm going to claim
my satisfaction.
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(People chattering and shouting)
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Hey. All right?
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All right?
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- Hope it's not too cold.
- Nah.
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- Look. There's Michael.
- Yeah, I know.
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Oi, Michael!
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Michael!
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Oi, Michael!
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- Gary!
- All right?
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- How are you?
- Not too bad.
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I thought someone was calling me.
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- All right, Maggie?
- All right?
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Hey, you both coming in?
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- (Gary) We just come here to catch fish.
- Yeah, we're coming in. Is it cold?
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No, it's warm, man.
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- Come on, get in.
- (Gary) Yeah.
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Oh, yes, by the way, Gary, what happened
to the telephone call yesterday?
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Engaged all day, was you?
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No, I lost your number.
On that bit of paper you gave me.
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- I'm sorry.
- Ah, it's all right.
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- Come on, get in.
- OK.
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(Laughing)
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- Ooh!
- It's cold!
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- It isn't now to me.
- Look. There's Lou.
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It was cold at first.
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(Maggie) Swim backwards. Go on.
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- I can't do it.
- Go on!
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- What do you want me to do?
- Swim backwards. You know.
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No, I'll show you.
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(Maggie) Show-off.
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- Now you try it.
- No.
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Go on. No, you do it.
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(Laughing)
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Oh, my God.
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(Laughing)
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(Squealing)
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(Whooping)
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(Maggie) Come on, Lou!
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(Laughing)
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(Yells)
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You...!
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(Laughing)
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I'll race ya.
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(Panting)
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(Grunting)
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- So, how was your day at college today?
- Oh, fine.
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But I'm not concentrating much
on studying, you know.
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- I'm more into my own work.
- Yeah? What's that?
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- Writing.
- Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm writing a poem
about Sheila's son.
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You know, the one
that they found dead by the canal.
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Poems about death?
Morbid, man.
00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:35.917
What's wrong with that?
00:19:36.042 --> 00:19:39.167
- I'm gonna write a play soon.
- That'd be a good idea.
00:19:39.292 --> 00:19:41.375
You write it and I'll act in it.
00:19:41.500 --> 00:19:44.917
- To be or not to be.
- Get out of here!
00:19:45.042 --> 00:19:47.125
Star part, right?
00:19:47.250 --> 00:19:49.375
Entertainment, sports.
00:19:49.500 --> 00:19:51.417
Well, that's all
we're good for, innit?
00:19:54.333 --> 00:19:55.833
No, look, all I'm saying is
00:19:55.958 --> 00:19:58.542
I think we've got the potential
to do more than that.
00:19:58.667 --> 00:20:00.500
Yeah, well, I'd go along with that.
00:20:00.625 --> 00:20:02.583
But I do sports and this
for pleasure.
00:20:02.708 --> 00:20:05.417
What else are you supposed to do,
being on the dole?
00:20:05.542 --> 00:20:09.083
No, look, man,
I wasn't getting at you, Michael.
00:20:09.208 --> 00:20:10.333
Well...
00:20:12.458 --> 00:20:13.917
No, I'm sorry.
00:20:16.250 --> 00:20:18.667
Look, why don't you
come round to my place after?
00:20:18.792 --> 00:20:20.667
No, I'm...
00:20:20.792 --> 00:20:23.500
- What about Maggie?
- What about us?
00:20:23.625 --> 00:20:26.167
Look, don't be silly.
They know about us.
00:20:26.292 --> 00:20:28.792
She's my best friend. And besides...
00:20:28.917 --> 00:20:31.958
(Maggie) See you later.
(Lou) See you later, guys.
00:20:32.083 --> 00:20:34.250
- Yeah, see ya. Take care.
- See you, yeah?
00:20:35.333 --> 00:20:36.917
- Ready?
- What?
00:20:37.042 --> 00:20:40.458
(Michael) On your marks, get set, go!
00:20:50.542 --> 00:20:52.542
(Instrumental music playing)
00:23:14.708 --> 00:23:16.625
(Maggie) Man, you're just ignorant.
00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:18.833
(Voice echoes)
00:23:21.250 --> 00:23:24.250
(Overlapping voices and laughter)
00:24:00.083 --> 00:24:01.917
(Man) Good session, eh?
00:24:18.875 --> 00:24:20.750
(Video recorder clunks)
00:24:20.875 --> 00:24:22.875
(Indistinct chatter)
00:24:26.250 --> 00:24:28.917
(Maggie) Everybody shut up!
The film's about to begin.
00:24:29.042 --> 00:24:31.708
What you're going to be witnessing
is archive footage
00:24:31.833 --> 00:24:34.458
on demonstrations, festivals,
things like that.
00:24:34.583 --> 00:24:38.625
I've edited them all together
to form a montage of images...
00:24:38.750 --> 00:24:39.792
(Man laughs)
00:24:40.417 --> 00:24:43.375
...of protests
and celebration of solidarity.
00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:46.375
After that, maybe we can
have a discussion.
00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:49.500
(Men laugh)
00:24:50.917 --> 00:24:54.458
(Instrumental music playing)
00:25:07.250 --> 00:25:10.042
- What do we want?
- Justice!
00:25:10.167 --> 00:25:13.458
- What do we want?
- Justice!
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:31.542
People stood on picket lines,
marching...
00:25:31.667 --> 00:25:35.542
(Man over loudspeaker) The National Association
for Freedom picked on the wrong people.
00:25:35.667 --> 00:25:38.292
They not only picked upon
one of the bravest...
00:25:38.417 --> 00:25:43.542
(Marchers chanting) We say murder!
Police say suicide! We say murder!
00:25:43.667 --> 00:25:47.250
Police say suicide! We say murder!
00:25:48.542 --> 00:25:51.750
Police say suicide! We say murder!
00:25:51.875 --> 00:25:57.167
Police say suicide! We say murder!
Police say suicide!
00:26:11.375 --> 00:26:16.583
We say murder!
Police say suicide! We say murder!
00:26:16.708 --> 00:26:20.333
Police say suicide! We say murder!
00:26:21.958 --> 00:26:25.833
(Protesters whooping)
00:27:29.917 --> 00:27:32.375
(Whistles blowing)
00:27:32.500 --> 00:27:35.583
(Protesters whooping)
00:28:28.708 --> 00:28:30.375
(Music continues)
00:28:45.208 --> 00:28:46.375
(Muted)
00:29:01.667 --> 00:29:04.667
(Yelling)
00:29:22.583 --> 00:29:24.958
(Woman) Leave him alone!
00:29:31.042 --> 00:29:34.708
(Yelling)
00:29:51.708 --> 00:29:55.208
(Protesters whooping)
00:30:03.250 --> 00:30:05.208
(Whooping continues on TV)
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.333
Yeah, man, police are well slack.
00:30:09.458 --> 00:30:11.708
Mags, that was really good.
00:30:11.833 --> 00:30:14.000
Yeah, there was a lot of Black people.
00:30:14.125 --> 00:30:15.917
(Man) Yeah, that was hard, though.
00:30:16.042 --> 00:30:18.542
You could see
they were really out of order.
00:30:18.667 --> 00:30:21.250
Maggie, is it true
that you're a lesbian?
00:30:25.917 --> 00:30:28.208
(Maggie) Why are you asking me
that question?
00:30:28.333 --> 00:30:32.875
Well, you had images of batty man
and lesbians in your footage,
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:35.333
so you must be one, ain't it?
00:30:35.458 --> 00:30:38.292
(Maggie) There were images
from lots of different occasions,
00:30:38.417 --> 00:30:42.500
places where Black people,
gay Black people, white gay people,
00:30:42.625 --> 00:30:45.083
old people and young people
all marched.
00:30:45.208 --> 00:30:48.125
So, what's your problem?
Why weren't you on some of them?
00:30:48.250 --> 00:30:51.250
I haven't got a problem. You have.
00:30:51.375 --> 00:30:54.542
You don't see you check
for white people tings too much,
00:30:54.667 --> 00:30:57.750
and you get confused.
00:30:59.792 --> 00:31:03.417
Homo what? Don't involve me
in any of them tings.
00:31:03.542 --> 00:31:07.125
- My heart and soul is clean.
- (Michael) Well, so is mine, brother.
00:31:07.250 --> 00:31:10.000
Less of that.
You and me ain't related.
00:31:10.125 --> 00:31:13.083
The next thing I know, you'll want
to hold my hand and ting on ting.
00:31:13.208 --> 00:31:16.625
What ting on ting you talkin' about?
I don't fancy you.
00:31:16.750 --> 00:31:19.583
You don't confess
to bein' a batty man?
00:31:19.708 --> 00:31:22.583
You bare want to root out my seed.
00:31:22.708 --> 00:31:25.292
(Michael) Definitely
I didn't confess to anything.
00:31:25.417 --> 00:31:26.667
I said I'm gay.
00:31:26.792 --> 00:31:30.042
The only thing I wanna root out of you
is your cocksure ignorance.
00:31:30.167 --> 00:31:31.750
Leave that to the daughters.
00:31:31.875 --> 00:31:36.292
Look, why is it that people like you
are always jumping on the defensive, eh?
00:31:36.417 --> 00:31:39.625
Putting people down
for what they feel is natural for them.
00:31:39.750 --> 00:31:44.000
Why is it that we as Black people can't talk
about sexuality without talking about sex?
00:31:45.625 --> 00:31:48.042
- (Maggie) You're just ignorant.
- It's true, man.
00:31:48.167 --> 00:31:51.083
- One of you guys could well be gay.
- Rationalise, man.
00:31:51.208 --> 00:31:53.583
(Gary) Yeah, you wanna chant,
chant Babylon down,
00:31:53.708 --> 00:31:56.208
but when it comes
to getting your own house in order,
00:31:56.333 --> 00:31:59.500
you're well content to keep
slapping women down and calling me batty.
00:31:59.625 --> 00:32:01.958
All right, Gary.
I think there's some confusion here.
00:32:02.083 --> 00:32:06.792
Yeah, boys will be boys, who in turn
grow up and learn to oppress others.
00:32:06.917 --> 00:32:09.417
Well, I'm glad I was barred
from the straight grade,
00:32:09.542 --> 00:32:13.125
cos, to be frank, your grade
wasn't good enough, wasn't honest enough.
00:32:13.250 --> 00:32:16.083
Yes, all right, Gary.
There really is some confusion here.
00:32:16.208 --> 00:32:19.000
Look, you want to address
these other perspectives, right?
00:32:19.125 --> 00:32:20.125
Yeah, that's right.
00:32:20.250 --> 00:32:23.500
And that we have to take on these questions
of gay homosexuality,
00:32:23.625 --> 00:32:25.417
sexuality and women's issues?
00:32:25.542 --> 00:32:26.375
Yeah, right.
00:32:26.500 --> 00:32:29.708
But don't you think these perspectives
are rather white-informed?
00:32:29.833 --> 00:32:32.250
(Lou) Oh, what do you mean,
white-informed?
00:32:32.375 --> 00:32:36.417
It's not white-informed,
it's Black-informed about whiteness.
00:32:36.542 --> 00:32:37.833
Just check it.
00:32:37.958 --> 00:32:40.708
I mean, do you think
we're living in some kind of vacuum
00:32:40.833 --> 00:32:44.792
where we don't need to think about
how white people think of us or see us?
00:32:44.917 --> 00:32:48.417
Listen, Lou, we don't have to address them
and how they see us. Period.
00:32:48.542 --> 00:32:52.333
I mean, we know what they think of us.
We live it 24 hours a day, don't we?
00:32:52.458 --> 00:32:54.000
(Maggie) If that's how you feel,
00:32:54.125 --> 00:32:58.167
why haven't you been trying to talk
about the ways we live, how they see us?
00:32:58.292 --> 00:33:00.125
Talk about things like skin colour,
00:33:00.250 --> 00:33:02.917
how they can use
our different shades to divide us.
00:33:03.042 --> 00:33:05.167
Talk about your own homophobia.
00:33:05.292 --> 00:33:06.958
Talk about Black women's issues.
00:33:07.083 --> 00:33:09.208
But, no, the brothers
can't deal with that.
00:33:09.333 --> 00:33:11.458
It's the women
who usually take the initiative,
00:33:11.583 --> 00:33:13.833
and when we do,
you comrades are quick to turn round
00:33:13.958 --> 00:33:17.417
and label us as uppity and feisty
and white-informed,
00:33:17.542 --> 00:33:19.667
as if you haven't got
as much white in you.
00:33:19.792 --> 00:33:23.375
All I'm saying is those white directions
can't add anything to our struggles
00:33:23.500 --> 00:33:24.583
except hindrance.
00:33:24.708 --> 00:33:26.875
Nothing I've said
is about white directions.
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.250
What white directions
are you talking about?
00:33:29.375 --> 00:33:33.000
You just use the term when it's something
you can't deal with. That's shit.
00:33:33.125 --> 00:33:34.125
It's not shit, Mags.
00:33:34.250 --> 00:33:37.667
It's recognising that you and I should be
defining our own perspectives.
00:33:37.792 --> 00:33:40.833
Things should be informed
by us, for us.
00:33:40.958 --> 00:33:42.917
By us, for us,
yeah, that's the ideal,
00:33:43.042 --> 00:33:45.208
but the ideal's not
what's happening, is it?
00:33:45.333 --> 00:33:47.167
What's happening
is you informing us.
00:33:47.292 --> 00:33:50.000
It's your perspective
that you want to inform us about.
00:33:50.125 --> 00:33:52.000
You're not really hearing anyone else.
00:33:52.125 --> 00:33:55.708
The Black community.
You can't even talk about communities.
00:33:55.833 --> 00:33:57.583
It's always homogeneous.
00:33:57.708 --> 00:34:00.917
At the end of the day,
it's about how you define things.
00:34:03.042 --> 00:34:05.542
Cos you've got the power.
00:34:49.458 --> 00:34:52.458
(Chatter and laughter)
00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:58.500
(Lively music playing on radio)
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.958
(Radio DJ) What about that one
for anybody who's bought a new car lately?
00:35:04.083 --> 00:35:05.333
New Machine for you.
00:35:05.458 --> 00:35:07.833
A reminder that we've got
our recipe shortly.
00:35:07.958 --> 00:35:12.208
Yes, it's apparently quite a good meal
to end the day with, so look forward to that.
00:35:12.333 --> 00:35:14.875
In the meantime,
here's somebody who's got a birthday.
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:18.167
Yes, it's John Reed of Carshalton.
Happy birthday to you, John.
00:35:18.292 --> 00:35:22.583
John is 18 years old today,
and lots of love from your girlfriend, Tracy.
00:35:22.708 --> 00:35:25.792
And she sends you this record.
It's called Constantly In Love.
00:35:27.750 --> 00:35:32.500
♪ I heard something
that didn't sound quite right
00:35:33.375 --> 00:35:34.833
♪ To me
00:35:35.708 --> 00:35:39.583
♪ I heard that someone else was stayin'
00:35:39.708 --> 00:35:42.375
♪ You'd given her the key
00:35:43.667 --> 00:35:46.583
♪ Touched the rumours round my head
00:35:46.708 --> 00:35:50.792
♪ But none of them rang true... ♪
00:35:50.917 --> 00:35:52.875
Have you heard
about Neighbourhood Watch?
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.750
What a load of rubbish.
Neighbourhood Watch.
00:35:55.875 --> 00:35:58.042
Who's got time to sit and watch
their neighbour's house
00:35:58.167 --> 00:36:00.083
when people have got
work to do indoors?
00:36:00.208 --> 00:36:03.417
I'm sure if they're gonna burgle our house,
they ain't gonna do nothing about it.
00:36:03.542 --> 00:36:05.292
What's that, Mags?
What are you saying?
00:36:05.417 --> 00:36:07.125
The only time
when people watch things
00:36:07.250 --> 00:36:09.958
is when they wanna grass you up
to the social, things like that.
00:36:10.083 --> 00:36:12.167
That's the only thing
they're really looking out for.
00:36:12.292 --> 00:36:15.208
Then they try and put it out,
"Look out for your neighbours."
00:36:15.333 --> 00:36:17.417
"Is there anyone suspicious coming?"
00:36:17.542 --> 00:36:20.250
That's the only time people wanna
get in contact with the social.
00:36:20.375 --> 00:36:22.667
And say you have a man,
like they did our Aunt Debbie.
00:36:22.792 --> 00:36:26.333
Or if it's not that, it's,
"Get in touch with the social security."
00:36:26.458 --> 00:36:30.125
"She's not looking after the kids.
She's gone out and bleedin' left 'em!"
00:36:31.708 --> 00:36:36.042
When I go to the shops and the launderette
and leave you lot watchin' TV,
00:36:36.167 --> 00:36:37.458
they notice all that.
00:36:37.583 --> 00:36:40.375
I never saw anyone
come out of the gas cooker.
00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:42.250
You're making me laugh too much.
00:36:42.375 --> 00:36:45.208
Mrs Baptiste, she should definitely
have been an actress.
00:36:45.333 --> 00:36:47.708
What? And play
a big, old mama every day?
00:36:47.833 --> 00:36:50.583
- Leave it out, Lou.
- (Chuckles)
00:36:50.708 --> 00:36:53.625
God, Mum,
it's Dad's birthday tomorrow, isn't it?
00:36:54.333 --> 00:36:57.792
- What do you get for the man with everything?
- Everything?
00:36:57.917 --> 00:37:00.208
And poor Benjy haven't even got a job.
00:37:01.458 --> 00:37:03.458
(Instrumental music playing)
00:38:05.292 --> 00:38:09.250
(Benjy) I went down to the job centre
to see if there was any work for me.
00:38:11.208 --> 00:38:14.667
It's hard times for everybody, man,
young and old.
00:38:17.375 --> 00:38:20.125
When I came here,
I already had skills.
00:38:20.250 --> 00:38:24.208
I could paint, decorate,
really do it properly.
00:38:24.333 --> 00:38:26.333
Welding, a little carpentry.
00:38:26.458 --> 00:38:29.375
I could turn me hand
to a few things, you see.
00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:30.833
I know, man.
00:38:33.750 --> 00:38:35.750
(Instrumental music playing)
00:40:09.917 --> 00:40:14.042
Today, the youngsters, them,
they don't have nothin' to fall back on.
00:40:14.167 --> 00:40:16.417
They've practically
grown up with this.
00:40:16.542 --> 00:40:19.542
It's much more
a part of their lives than yours.
00:40:19.667 --> 00:40:23.292
Sometimes when I go into work
I really wonder what I'm supposed to do.
00:40:24.792 --> 00:40:27.958
Trying to keep some hope alive
in these youth's not easy.
00:40:28.083 --> 00:40:30.708
And you can't blame them, you know.
00:40:30.833 --> 00:40:33.125
You can't blame them at all.
00:40:34.917 --> 00:40:37.500
Listen, man, enough of this. Let's go.
00:40:37.625 --> 00:40:39.583
We'll get some drink to take home.
00:40:41.625 --> 00:40:43.250
(Instrumental music playing)
00:41:18.083 --> 00:41:20.250
- (Lou) Mags, we need some music.
- Yeah, come on.
00:41:20.375 --> 00:41:23.042
(Lou) Uh... What's on this one?
00:41:26.042 --> 00:41:27.667
(♪ ALEEM: "Get Loose")
00:41:27.792 --> 00:41:29.500
♪ Get loose
00:41:29.625 --> 00:41:32.042
♪ You just have to get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo
00:41:32.167 --> 00:41:34.417
♪ Get loose
00:41:34.542 --> 00:41:36.375
♪ Got you
Whoo, whoo, whoo
00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:38.542
♪ Got you
00:41:38.667 --> 00:41:41.167
♪ Get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:41:41.292 --> 00:41:42.917
♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:41:43.042 --> 00:41:44.708
♪ Get loose
00:41:46.833 --> 00:41:48.958
♪ Yeah
00:41:51.208 --> 00:41:53.500
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:41:54.833 --> 00:41:58.250
♪ Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa
00:41:58.958 --> 00:42:00.375
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:01.500
♪ Get loose
00:42:01.625 --> 00:42:04.833
♪ Get loose
Get, get, get, get, get, get
00:42:04.958 --> 00:42:09.042
♪ Get loose, get loose
Get, get, get, get, get, get
00:42:09.167 --> 00:42:13.333
♪ Got you, got you
Get, get, get, get, get, get
00:42:13.458 --> 00:42:18.000
♪ Get loose, get loose
Get, get, get, get, get, get
00:42:18.125 --> 00:42:19.833
♪ There you go again
00:42:19.958 --> 00:42:23.833
♪ Keeping all of that good feeling
locked within
00:42:23.958 --> 00:42:26.042
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:42:26.792 --> 00:42:28.542
♪ Let me be your friend
00:42:28.667 --> 00:42:31.875
♪ Baby, I could take you
where you never been
00:42:32.417 --> 00:42:34.292
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:42:35.708 --> 00:42:39.000
♪ Just let me show you what to do
00:42:40.208 --> 00:42:44.083
♪ I'll put my body, body
right next to you
00:42:44.208 --> 00:42:46.000
♪ Give you so much love
00:42:46.125 --> 00:42:50.875
♪ You will say
that you can never get enough
00:42:52.583 --> 00:42:54.458
♪ Get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo
00:42:54.583 --> 00:42:56.000
♪ Get loose
00:42:57.042 --> 00:42:58.792
♪ Get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo
00:42:58.917 --> 00:43:00.333
♪ Get loose
00:43:01.333 --> 00:43:03.167
♪ Got you
Whoo, whoo, whoo
00:43:03.292 --> 00:43:04.583
♪ Got you
00:43:05.708 --> 00:43:07.917
♪ Get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo... ♪
00:43:08.042 --> 00:43:10.208
(Music continues upstairs)
00:43:10.333 --> 00:43:12.833
All you can hear is
thump, thump, thump.
00:43:12.958 --> 00:43:15.542
- Thump, thump, thump.
- (Chuckles)
00:43:15.667 --> 00:43:19.833
- That could never be music.
- And it's an old tune at that.
00:43:19.958 --> 00:43:22.708
It's too much bass
and not enough rhythm.
00:43:22.833 --> 00:43:27.292
Calypso is the only music you can
listen to and feel sweet, you know.
00:43:27.417 --> 00:43:34.833
Yeah, man. When calypso playing, boy,
you have to shine your waist.
00:43:34.958 --> 00:43:36.833
- Listen to this.
- (Laughs)
00:43:40.333 --> 00:43:42.750
♪ Get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:43:42.875 --> 00:43:44.500
♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:43:44.625 --> 00:43:46.042
♪ Get loose
00:43:52.500 --> 00:43:54.792
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:43:56.417 --> 00:43:58.875
♪ Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.250
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:44:01.375 --> 00:44:03.125
♪ You got to get loose... ♪
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.000
(Music continues upstairs)
00:44:16.833 --> 00:44:18.833
(♪ ROY ALTON: "Leggo Leggo")
00:44:22.708 --> 00:44:24.542
(Chuckles)
00:44:36.042 --> 00:44:40.208
♪ You want to get loose
Get loose, get loose
00:44:40.333 --> 00:44:42.375
♪ You want to get loose ♪
00:44:42.500 --> 00:44:45.167
(Calypso music continues)
00:44:45.292 --> 00:44:46.667
Come on.
00:44:49.250 --> 00:44:50.875
♪ You want to get loose
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.917
♪ Get, get loose ♪
00:44:54.042 --> 00:44:57.042
(Calypso music continues)
00:45:10.625 --> 00:45:12.333
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa
Get loose ♪
00:45:12.458 --> 00:45:14.458
(Calypso music continues)
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.083
♪ Get loose
00:45:47.750 --> 00:45:49.917
♪ You just have to get loose ♪
00:45:51.292 --> 00:45:52.583
- (Music stops)
- You ready?
00:45:52.708 --> 00:45:55.333
- Yeah.
- Is there anything else that we need?
00:45:55.458 --> 00:45:58.333
- Your bedroom's in a mess.
- Oh, sod it.
00:45:58.458 --> 00:46:01.292
- What's your mum gonna say?
- Oh, don't worry about her.
00:46:01.417 --> 00:46:03.542
Do you think
she heard the music downstairs?
00:46:03.667 --> 00:46:06.083
- She doesn't mind.
- Shall I definitely wear this?
00:46:06.208 --> 00:46:08.167
Yeah, come on, Lou.
We're gonna be late.
00:46:08.292 --> 00:46:09.958
I'm coming, I'm coming.
00:46:14.042 --> 00:46:15.417
(Calypso music continues)
00:46:15.542 --> 00:46:17.167
(Laughter)
00:46:22.083 --> 00:46:23.542
You tired, Benjy?
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:26.417
What's this?
00:46:28.083 --> 00:46:31.917
"Paradise Garage is a club
for gays and straights
00:46:32.042 --> 00:46:36.583
only if you are strictly
with the funk."
00:46:36.708 --> 00:46:39.833
Boy, is this a club where you go?
00:46:39.958 --> 00:46:41.542
No, I'm too old for that.
00:46:41.667 --> 00:46:44.750
Sounds more like
Gary and Maggie's kind of thing.
00:46:44.875 --> 00:46:47.375
I bet it's Gary that's taking Maggie
to that place,
00:46:47.500 --> 00:46:50.208
full of those perverted,
decadent youth.
00:46:51.042 --> 00:46:55.000
- See you later, everyone.
- So, Maggie, is this the place you're going to?
00:46:55.125 --> 00:47:00.083
This Paradise Garage? Don't tell me
you're into all of that nastiness.
00:47:00.208 --> 00:47:04.708
- What nastiness is that?
- This gayness thing!
00:47:04.833 --> 00:47:07.500
Who's introducing you
to those places?
00:47:07.625 --> 00:47:09.958
It's a club Gary, Louise and I go to.
00:47:10.083 --> 00:47:12.042
I bet Comrade Tony said something.
00:47:12.167 --> 00:47:14.500
I can just imagine
what you've been saying about Gary.
00:47:14.625 --> 00:47:17.792
And when he comes, it's,
"What happened? All right?" You hypocrite.
00:47:17.917 --> 00:47:21.083
- (Tony) Dad just asked me--
- Don't bother to tell me. I can guess.
00:47:21.208 --> 00:47:24.208
Anyway, I haven't got time
to listen to this. Come on, Lou.
00:47:26.625 --> 00:47:27.708
Well...
00:47:29.292 --> 00:47:31.958
- Glory?
- (Tuts)
00:47:32.083 --> 00:47:34.750
Benjy, you gone stupid now?
00:47:34.875 --> 00:47:38.333
The trip from St Lucia
must have affect your memory.
00:47:38.458 --> 00:47:41.333
Your cousin Jasper was the same.
You know that.
00:47:42.958 --> 00:47:45.333
If Gary's one of them, so what?
00:47:45.458 --> 00:47:47.750
What's the matter with you, man?
00:47:49.750 --> 00:47:52.542
♪ Get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:47:53.250 --> 00:47:57.333
♪ You just have to get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:47:57.458 --> 00:47:59.083
♪ Yeah, yeah
Get loose
00:47:59.208 --> 00:48:00.875
♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo
Get loose
00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:03.583
♪ You gotta get with it
Got you
00:48:03.708 --> 00:48:05.458
♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo
Got you
00:48:06.042 --> 00:48:08.625
♪ Well, get loose
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:48:09.125 --> 00:48:12.583
♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
Get loose
00:48:14.333 --> 00:48:15.958
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:48:18.542 --> 00:48:20.792
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:48:22.458 --> 00:48:24.500
♪ Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa
00:48:24.625 --> 00:48:27.083
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:48:27.208 --> 00:48:29.000
♪ You got to get loose
00:48:42.792 --> 00:48:45.833
♪ Mm, mm, oh, oh
00:48:45.958 --> 00:48:48.500
♪ Yeah
00:48:48.625 --> 00:48:50.833
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:48:52.375 --> 00:48:55.208
♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo
00:48:55.333 --> 00:48:56.375
♪ Yeah
00:48:56.500 --> 00:48:58.250
♪ Mm-mm
00:49:01.083 --> 00:49:02.875
♪ You want to get loose
00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.208
♪ You love to get loose
00:49:05.333 --> 00:49:06.958
♪ You want to get loose
00:49:07.083 --> 00:49:09.167
♪ Get, get loose
00:49:09.292 --> 00:49:11.208
♪ You got to get loose
00:49:11.333 --> 00:49:13.667
♪ Yeah, yeah
00:49:13.792 --> 00:49:15.250
♪ You want to get loose
00:49:15.375 --> 00:49:19.958
♪ Get, get loose
Get loose
00:49:20.083 --> 00:49:22.417
♪ Yeah
00:49:22.542 --> 00:49:24.292
♪ Mm-mm
00:49:24.417 --> 00:49:26.292
♪ Get loose
00:49:26.417 --> 00:49:28.083
♪ Yeah, get loose... ♪
00:49:28.208 --> 00:49:30.375
(Laughter and chatter)
00:49:30.500 --> 00:49:34.167
- Bit of a shame, though.
- (Laughter)
00:49:34.292 --> 00:49:38.417
- All right, I'll see you, right, yeah?
- All right, then. Take care. Bye.
00:49:38.542 --> 00:49:40.333
- See you later, Mag.
- See ya.
00:49:41.333 --> 00:49:44.167
(Michael) Why are they going
to the youth club at this time of night?
00:49:44.292 --> 00:49:47.125
(Gary) They're just gonna go
and see Maggie's videos...
00:50:08.875 --> 00:50:10.708
(Instrumental music playing)
00:50:14.417 --> 00:50:16.583
(Man over loudspeaker)
...our basic trade union rights,
00:50:16.708 --> 00:50:18.417
and lined up against us.
00:50:18.542 --> 00:50:21.875
This fight is without doubt
the most important dispute
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:27.125
that our trade union movement has faced
since the miners' strike in 1974.
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.375
They've now picked upon
our entire trade union movement.
00:50:46.583 --> 00:50:49.875
- (Indistinct shouting)
- (Cheering)
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:53.000
(Cheering and whistling)
00:51:07.083 --> 00:51:10.083
(Indistinct)
00:51:23.375 --> 00:51:26.375
(Cheering)
00:51:38.542 --> 00:51:41.083
(Instrumental music continues)
00:52:54.333 --> 00:52:55.667
(Muted)
00:52:57.042 --> 00:52:59.292
(Muted)
00:53:02.167 --> 00:53:05.167
(Protesters shouting)
00:54:51.500 --> 00:54:53.583
(Crowd chatter)
00:55:20.708 --> 00:55:22.708
(Instrumental music continues)
00:55:59.917 --> 00:56:02.417
(Lou) God, Mags,
some of those people.
00:56:02.542 --> 00:56:06.167
You can just see
the shocks in their eyes.
00:56:06.292 --> 00:56:10.667
You can hear them thinking,
"This can't be my England."
00:56:10.792 --> 00:56:14.875
"Not the England
my grandfather's father fought for."
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:17.625
They must well be wondering
which side the law's on.
00:56:17.750 --> 00:56:19.917
Well, some of them knew
before this happened
00:56:20.042 --> 00:56:22.750
that not all's well in the garden.
00:56:22.875 --> 00:56:26.417
Yeah, but I bet they can't believe
that they're being treated just like...
00:56:26.542 --> 00:56:32.667
Blacks? Maybe not. But now they know
how it feels to be on the receiving end.
00:56:32.792 --> 00:56:37.167
Well, all I know is
that a lot of people's eyes must be open now.
00:56:37.292 --> 00:56:40.417
Yeah, well, some eyes are opening
and others are slamming shut.
00:56:40.542 --> 00:56:42.583
But let 'em carry on.
00:56:45.292 --> 00:56:48.917
England, oh, my England,
00:56:49.042 --> 00:56:53.917
this nation that is my lifeblood,
what is to be done?
00:56:54.042 --> 00:56:56.000
(Clatter)
00:56:56.125 --> 00:56:57.833
Shit. What's that?
00:57:01.542 --> 00:57:04.583
Oh, I knew you'd be here.
Mind if I join you?
00:57:08.917 --> 00:57:10.917
(Yelling on video footage)
00:57:15.833 --> 00:57:17.625
(Indistinct chatter)
00:57:21.500 --> 00:57:25.250
(Michael) You see the hungry look
on that guy's face when he looked at you?
00:57:25.375 --> 00:57:27.958
(Gary) Yeah, well, you know.
No one looks at me.
00:57:31.875 --> 00:57:33.292
Slow down.
00:57:35.458 --> 00:57:37.958
I mean, what's the rush?
00:57:53.667 --> 00:57:56.417
It's starting to rain again.
Come on, man. Let's go.
00:58:10.750 --> 00:58:12.750
(Man) Take a left, start from there.
00:58:12.875 --> 00:58:16.083
If they're a bit stroppy,
we can always call for backup.
00:58:16.208 --> 00:58:20.042
OK, let's go for it, then.
Liven the night up a little.
00:58:20.167 --> 00:58:23.083
- Bit of action. Know what I mean, son?
- (Man 2) Yeah.
00:58:23.208 --> 00:58:24.375
(Man 1) Roger.
00:58:27.875 --> 00:58:29.375
They're around here somewhere.
00:58:30.417 --> 00:58:32.292
(Glass smashes)
00:58:34.625 --> 00:58:36.042
(Thud)
00:58:42.500 --> 00:58:45.458
(Man) Oi! Come out here!
Oi! Come out here now!
00:58:45.583 --> 00:58:48.333
(Man 2) Bastards!
(Man) Come out here now! Come on!
00:58:48.458 --> 00:58:51.000
- Come on, then, Black cunt! Get out here!
- Come on!
00:58:51.125 --> 00:58:52.167
We're waitin' for ya!
00:58:52.292 --> 00:58:56.083
Oi! You dirty little bastards!
Get out here now!
00:58:56.208 --> 00:58:58.375
- (Baby cries)
- Fucking get out of here, you bastards!
00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:01.667
- Bloody shitheads! Come here!
- Why don't you just piss off out of it?
00:59:01.792 --> 00:59:04.792
- Get out of our country!
- Oi! Do you hear me?
00:59:04.917 --> 00:59:07.917
- You little shitheads!
- Get out of our fucking country!
00:59:08.417 --> 00:59:10.083
Bollocks!
00:59:10.208 --> 00:59:13.250
- Here, what's all this?
- Piss off.
00:59:13.375 --> 00:59:16.208
So, trying to disturb the neighbours,
are we, sonny?
00:59:16.333 --> 00:59:18.417
We're only havin' a laugh
playing knock down ginger.
00:59:18.542 --> 00:59:20.625
Just having a laugh
with the Blacks next door, sarge.
00:59:20.750 --> 00:59:22.208
- Yeah?
- Just having a laugh, sarge.
00:59:22.333 --> 00:59:25.333
Would you like somebody knocking on your flat,
on your mother's front door?
00:59:25.458 --> 00:59:27.500
Yeah, well, they just fucking smell,
don't they?
00:59:27.625 --> 00:59:29.000
We'll have none of that.
00:59:29.125 --> 00:59:31.542
It's not their fucking country.
I mean, they're not like us.
00:59:31.667 --> 00:59:33.833
Do you wanna be fucking booked
for breach of the peace?
00:59:33.958 --> 00:59:35.542
- No, no, no need for that.
- Sarge.
00:59:35.667 --> 00:59:39.083
No. OK, you lot, fuck off.
00:59:39.208 --> 00:59:41.625
Catch you again, all right, or else.
Go on.
00:59:41.750 --> 00:59:43.208
- Thank you, sarge.
- Thanks a lot.
00:59:43.333 --> 00:59:47.125
- Thanks, sarge.
- What did you let 'em off like that for?
00:59:47.250 --> 00:59:49.750
You know there's been reports
of racial attacks on this estate.
00:59:49.875 --> 00:59:51.125
Leave it out, Tony.
00:59:51.250 --> 00:59:53.958
But we're supposed
to be doing our community beat.
00:59:54.083 --> 00:59:58.042
Look, they're just kids
having a bit of a laugh, all right?
00:59:58.167 --> 01:00:01.583
Anyway, we don't have to do
everything the governor tells us.
01:00:01.708 --> 01:00:04.000
- Christ, I wish I was back on wheels.
- Yeah.
01:00:04.125 --> 01:00:07.792
Freezing me balls off here.
I hate these new initiatives.
01:00:22.042 --> 01:00:23.333
(Sighs)
01:00:31.708 --> 01:00:34.417
(Instrumental music playing)
01:01:25.958 --> 01:01:27.792
(Muted)
01:02:19.958 --> 01:02:21.875
(Instrumental music continues)
01:03:20.917 --> 01:03:23.583
(Triumphant music playing)
01:03:25.417 --> 01:03:27.458
(Commentator)
To win gold medals for one's country
01:03:27.583 --> 01:03:29.958
and still feel a second-class citizen
01:03:30.083 --> 01:03:33.250
is the bitter paradox
facing many coloured Americans.
01:03:33.375 --> 01:03:36.125
Tommie Smith sets a new world record
in the 200 metres,
01:03:36.250 --> 01:03:38.500
with John Carlos taking the bronze.
01:03:43.083 --> 01:03:46.708
The triumphant prelude to that gesture
of defiance at the medal ceremony,
01:03:46.833 --> 01:03:49.500
a gloved-fist protest for Black power.
01:03:54.583 --> 01:03:56.792
For many other coloured athletes,
Black power has...
01:03:56.917 --> 01:03:59.792
The struggle had to take all forms
in those days.
01:04:01.417 --> 01:04:04.583
I mean, look at how powerful
that image still is today.
01:04:05.917 --> 01:04:09.667
Those brothers dared to go there,
win and salute their people.
01:04:11.167 --> 01:04:13.750
Those clenched fists
were for every Black person.
01:04:13.875 --> 01:04:17.167
For George, McGee,
Bobby, Huey, Bunchy,
01:04:17.292 --> 01:04:18.958
and all them guys, man.
01:04:19.083 --> 01:04:21.792
Sisters Angela, Bettina,
01:04:21.917 --> 01:04:24.375
and all the other sisters, man.
01:04:25.292 --> 01:04:27.875
- Yeah.
- Of course.
01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:29.625
(Both) Of course.
01:04:31.042 --> 01:04:32.750
Listen, Mags, about what happened...
01:04:32.875 --> 01:04:36.125
What were you doing in '68?
Here, I mean.
01:04:36.250 --> 01:04:38.583
This is struggle, US style.
01:04:38.708 --> 01:04:40.917
Tell me about yourself, brother.
01:04:43.042 --> 01:04:48.167
Yeah. We had to make the people aware
that they had options,
01:04:48.292 --> 01:04:51.167
that they could do something
about their situation,
01:04:52.250 --> 01:04:57.083
that they didn't just have to eat shit
and tell the foreman or the staff nurse thank you.
01:04:57.208 --> 01:04:59.625
Make them aware
that they had some power.
01:04:59.750 --> 01:05:02.542
The power of response.
01:05:02.667 --> 01:05:06.667
- We had to organise them.
- "We" who?
01:05:06.792 --> 01:05:09.750
Just a few brothers and sisters
who knew what was going on
01:05:09.875 --> 01:05:14.333
and wanted to organise,
saw the need to organise.
01:05:14.458 --> 01:05:17.125
But I'm sure the majority
of Black people here at the time
01:05:17.250 --> 01:05:19.625
must have known
they were being exploited.
01:05:19.750 --> 01:05:22.833
Well, of course they knew.
Knew it in their hearts.
01:05:23.833 --> 01:05:26.542
But it's the same old story.
01:05:26.667 --> 01:05:30.500
Who feels it knows it
but doesn't know what to do about it.
01:05:31.750 --> 01:05:34.250
You can't imagine
the hopelessness, Mags.
01:05:34.375 --> 01:05:36.125
People had enough trouble
just surviving,
01:05:36.250 --> 01:05:39.333
just making sure there was food
on the table every evening.
01:05:41.125 --> 01:05:43.333
We were asking people
to take a quantum leap
01:05:43.458 --> 01:05:47.375
from just surviving here
to organising for a future here.
01:05:49.125 --> 01:05:52.708
It was a rough time. It's still rough.
01:05:53.500 --> 01:05:55.708
So what did you all organise into?
01:05:56.958 --> 01:06:00.667
We tried to mobilise the people
around issues.
01:06:00.792 --> 01:06:03.792
Like that thievin' landlord who was
cutting up a room half the size of this
01:06:03.917 --> 01:06:06.833
and renting it out to two families,
things like that.
01:06:08.208 --> 01:06:11.500
And just trying to give the people
a positive sense of Blackness.
01:06:13.833 --> 01:06:16.333
I had a friend
who lived next to somebody,
01:06:16.458 --> 01:06:19.458
and this family was Black
to everybody but themselves.
01:06:19.583 --> 01:06:24.375
But they used to swear blind they was...
What was it again? Spanish.
01:06:24.500 --> 01:06:25.500
(Sighs)
01:06:25.625 --> 01:06:29.000
We just tried to show the people
a light at the end of the tunnel.
01:06:29.125 --> 01:06:34.167
You make it sound so good,
so romantic.
01:06:34.292 --> 01:06:37.375
- Now tell me the bad bits.
- What do you mean?
01:06:37.958 --> 01:06:43.125
As I recall it, we could
only be trusted with the leafleting,
01:06:43.250 --> 01:06:46.667
the patties, booking the halls,
knocking on doors,
01:06:46.792 --> 01:06:49.792
and the sleeping arrangements.
01:06:49.917 --> 01:06:52.083
Of course, we weren't bright enough
01:06:52.208 --> 01:06:56.208
to actually formulate the leaflets
in those days.
01:06:56.333 --> 01:06:58.583
Not because we told you we weren't.
01:06:58.708 --> 01:07:01.667
I mean, like, how it was men
that controlled everything.
01:07:01.792 --> 01:07:05.542
Like, you all got your rocks off
on power. Things like that.
01:07:05.667 --> 01:07:08.250
You've been reading
too many of them feminist histories.
01:07:08.375 --> 01:07:11.833
Or what's the new word? "Herstories"?
01:07:11.958 --> 01:07:14.083
It would seem like a new word to you.
01:07:15.250 --> 01:07:19.667
We laid the foundations for you and your friends
to come here and ask what did we do?
01:07:21.708 --> 01:07:24.250
We laid the foundations
for you all to build on.
01:07:27.333 --> 01:07:32.458
All we tried to do was raise
the people's level of consciousness.
01:07:32.583 --> 01:07:34.500
Consciousness.
01:07:35.625 --> 01:07:37.333
Mine had to grow.
01:07:38.417 --> 01:07:41.667
I had enough to know I needed more.
01:07:42.875 --> 01:07:46.875
I didn't have it bottled
and at the ready,
01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:50.125
and I wasn't the only one.
01:07:50.250 --> 01:07:53.708
I'm still learning, expanding.
01:07:53.833 --> 01:07:58.667
That's what survival tactics
are all about.
01:07:58.792 --> 01:08:02.750
You can't hide behind
your little black fist forever.
01:08:03.625 --> 01:08:07.625
It's not a cure-all.
It was never meant to be.
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:13.125
It was never meant to be a cure-all.
01:08:13.250 --> 01:08:17.167
But it let the people know
that they could be doing something.
01:08:17.292 --> 01:08:20.292
It was never a question of hiding.
01:08:21.542 --> 01:08:24.042
This fist meant visibility,
01:08:24.167 --> 01:08:28.667
coming out of the long tunnel
of civility and patience
01:08:28.792 --> 01:08:33.583
and having faith in God
or anything other than yourself.
01:08:35.542 --> 01:08:37.875
It was a coming-out.
01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:42.417
Out? Out of one tunnel into another.
01:08:43.333 --> 01:08:48.625
We were being spat on
in that first phase, if you like.
01:08:48.750 --> 01:08:52.542
And we came out of it
determined to fight back.
01:08:52.667 --> 01:08:55.167
And we did. We are.
01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:03.000
We never had time to think about
what that fight-back would be about,
01:09:03.792 --> 01:09:08.125
who would be involved,
or what they hoped to gain.
01:09:09.208 --> 01:09:13.167
Liberation.
You didn't have to ask the people.
01:09:13.292 --> 01:09:16.417
You could see it in their eyes.
They needed it.
01:09:18.542 --> 01:09:20.750
Liberation.
01:09:20.875 --> 01:09:23.625
Yes, but from what?
01:09:24.958 --> 01:09:28.583
You talk about liberation
for the people.
01:09:29.333 --> 01:09:31.208
You made up the rules
01:09:31.333 --> 01:09:35.333
in closed sessions
with your comrades.
01:09:35.458 --> 01:09:37.958
The rules, concerns,
01:09:38.083 --> 01:09:40.625
reflected what you are.
01:09:41.583 --> 01:09:44.708
But the bottom line,
the aim all along,
01:09:44.833 --> 01:09:48.292
was to inform our own,
and you know it.
01:09:48.417 --> 01:09:52.125
It was always about that,
then and now.
01:09:53.333 --> 01:09:58.250
The difference is
what you inform people about.
01:09:59.458 --> 01:10:03.833
When you spoke out first,
it was about racism.
01:10:05.042 --> 01:10:08.167
And you could feel it,
01:10:08.292 --> 01:10:13.958
because you, me,
we were the objects of hate.
01:10:15.458 --> 01:10:18.125
Then it was about class.
01:10:18.250 --> 01:10:22.083
You had Mao and Marx under your arm,
01:10:22.208 --> 01:10:24.208
cutting up your tongue,
01:10:24.333 --> 01:10:26.708
and it was all about that.
01:10:28.083 --> 01:10:31.625
But it was also about me and you.
01:10:31.750 --> 01:10:34.167
Black woman, Black man.
01:10:35.167 --> 01:10:40.875
What do we desire, want, need
from each other?
01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:46.625
At first, you seem
to be asking the people
01:10:46.750 --> 01:10:51.000
to imprison themselves
in a maze of words
01:10:51.125 --> 01:10:54.417
that have no bearing
on the grassroots experience.
01:10:54.542 --> 01:10:57.292
I mean, you seem to know as much,
01:10:57.417 --> 01:11:01.333
yet you've given me
nothing solid, worthwhile, real,
01:11:01.458 --> 01:11:03.792
that I can offer the community.
01:11:04.625 --> 01:11:07.917
I'm not here so that you can
consume my knowledge,
01:11:08.042 --> 01:11:11.458
wrap it up and put it in your pocket
or something.
01:11:11.583 --> 01:11:14.667
It's not a question
of you opening your mouth wide
01:11:14.792 --> 01:11:16.458
and me spoon-feeding you,
01:11:16.583 --> 01:11:19.500
even if I had the answers
to feed you with, which I don't.
01:11:19.625 --> 01:11:20.958
(Man laughs)
01:11:21.083 --> 01:11:23.917
At least we agree on something.
01:11:25.083 --> 01:11:26.792
And I wouldn't give them to you.
01:11:26.917 --> 01:11:30.250
If I did,
you wouldn't understand a word.
01:11:30.375 --> 01:11:35.417
You're here thinking
it's about picking my brains.
01:11:35.542 --> 01:11:39.292
It's about starting
to unpick yours, comrade.
01:11:40.292 --> 01:11:45.417
You've imprisoned yourself,
deprived yourself of possibilities.
01:11:46.250 --> 01:11:49.708
It's not words
that imprison you or me.
01:11:49.833 --> 01:11:51.792
It's the definitions.
01:11:52.833 --> 01:11:55.792
Like the brothers said,
01:11:55.917 --> 01:12:00.500
"Free your mind
and your ass will follow."
01:12:04.125 --> 01:12:05.917
(Gentle music playing)
01:12:09.625 --> 01:12:12.708
(Gary) The good die young,
or so they say.
01:12:13.625 --> 01:12:17.708
But this wasn't just
a natural passing away.
01:12:17.833 --> 01:12:20.167
Departed from time.
01:12:20.292 --> 01:12:25.417
Still, captured in moment,
fossilised in air.
01:12:25.542 --> 01:12:28.375
Devoid of life, wrongly stolen.
01:12:58.458 --> 01:13:02.625
His skin deep brown,
like a part of the earth.
01:13:03.708 --> 01:13:07.667
Cracked, dry lips,
separated in blue.
01:13:08.833 --> 01:13:11.000
Pain engraved along the body.
01:13:11.125 --> 01:13:12.917
Becoming a statue.
01:13:13.917 --> 01:13:16.542
Cold, but not bare.
01:13:18.833 --> 01:13:21.750
The echoing hurt
deep within our broken emotions
01:13:21.875 --> 01:13:26.000
bellows with you,
creaking with anger that we share.
01:13:27.917 --> 01:13:32.667
The media may choose to forget
while we do not.
01:13:46.042 --> 01:13:48.125
(Man) Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,
01:13:48.250 --> 01:13:50.708
we are holding an inquest
into a death.
01:13:50.833 --> 01:13:53.917
The body was that
of a curly black-haired Negroid male.
01:13:54.042 --> 01:13:56.458
(Protesters) We say murder!
01:13:56.583 --> 01:14:00.750
Police say suicide!
We say murder! Police say...
01:14:00.875 --> 01:14:02.458
(Glory) Two weeks
she hadn't seen him.
01:14:02.583 --> 01:14:04.708
The next thing, the police come
knocking down the door
01:14:04.833 --> 01:14:07.167
to tell her
that he's dead in hospital.
01:14:19.333 --> 01:14:21.542
(Gary) And so we look behind the law.
01:14:21.667 --> 01:14:24.833
What we find
is a language without reason.
01:14:24.958 --> 01:14:28.583
Words made up to sound good,
dressed up in dramas,
01:14:28.708 --> 01:14:32.875
guilty of brutalising
and criminalising the people.
01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:35.292
Sometimes guilty of murder.
01:14:38.625 --> 01:14:40.958
(Benjy) The only police duty
is to themselves
01:14:41.083 --> 01:14:44.583
and this false system of justice
they're propping up.
01:14:44.708 --> 01:14:46.917
They don't want to tell the woman
the plain truth
01:14:47.042 --> 01:14:49.458
as to how she one son dead.
01:14:49.583 --> 01:14:52.000
And you can't take the law to the law
01:14:52.125 --> 01:14:54.792
because it's them
that controlling everything.
01:14:57.125 --> 01:15:00.708
(Gary) Here yesterday, gone today.
01:15:02.083 --> 01:15:03.333
He's dead.
01:15:05.042 --> 01:15:09.458
But his memory lives with us.
We feel him around.
01:15:09.583 --> 01:15:12.750
He's here and lives with us forever.
01:15:14.417 --> 01:15:17.333
We're in a war
that's bleeding liberation.
01:15:17.458 --> 01:15:21.625
Ghosts of people who come back
again and again, questioning.
01:15:21.750 --> 01:15:24.625
Questioning the mockery and fictions.
01:15:25.958 --> 01:15:28.417
Held by centuries of traditions
01:15:28.542 --> 01:15:32.125
based upon bankruptcy and lies.
01:15:32.250 --> 01:15:36.125
Infested in Englishness at its worst.
01:15:44.667 --> 01:15:48.500
(Man) It was a long road
from slavery to emancipation.
01:15:48.625 --> 01:15:50.750
It was a long road from emancipation
01:15:50.875 --> 01:15:55.333
to the discovery that freeing your hands
from chains didn't free your mind.
01:15:56.625 --> 01:15:59.667
That discovery was like a bad dream.
01:15:59.792 --> 01:16:03.542
We didn't want to face it,
to close our eyes.
01:16:03.667 --> 01:16:07.417
So we developed a way of sleeping
with our eyes open.
01:16:08.542 --> 01:16:12.042
The sleep was a long one,
and a deep one.
01:16:12.167 --> 01:16:16.833
We've woken up to a situation,
a country, a time,
01:16:16.958 --> 01:16:20.500
a system that is so frightening,
so all-embracing
01:16:20.625 --> 01:16:24.083
in the way
that it lives our lives for us
01:16:24.208 --> 01:16:26.000
or changes them
01:16:26.125 --> 01:16:30.083
or obliterates them
that now we don't believe this is reality.
01:16:30.208 --> 01:16:32.917
We think this is the dream.
01:16:33.042 --> 01:16:36.000
Well, maybe it is.
01:16:36.125 --> 01:16:39.583
But if it is,
then it's the third stage of the dream.
01:16:39.708 --> 01:16:43.417
It's the part where we've fallen
off the edge of the cliff.
01:16:43.542 --> 01:16:46.083
Falling in slow motion.
01:16:46.917 --> 01:16:50.750
We either wake up
or we hit the bottom.
01:16:50.875 --> 01:16:54.292
(Echoing) Hit the bottom.
Hit the bottom. Hit the bottom...
01:17:00.583 --> 01:17:03.833
They both knew
it was time to leave.
01:17:03.958 --> 01:17:05.625
But when she turned round,
01:17:05.750 --> 01:17:08.667
she realised that he was
on a piece of land
01:17:08.792 --> 01:17:13.083
which neither could cross easily
to get to the other.
01:17:13.208 --> 01:17:17.917
The question became
who should cross to who?
01:17:18.042 --> 01:17:21.625
He suggested a word game to decide.
01:17:21.750 --> 01:17:24.125
A choice between two words,
01:17:24.250 --> 01:17:26.792
"confusion" and "complex",
01:17:26.917 --> 01:17:29.750
saying they should toss a coin.
01:17:29.875 --> 01:17:34.458
Heads would be "confusion"
and she would cross.
01:17:34.583 --> 01:17:40.542
Tails would be "complex"
and he would come to her.
01:17:40.667 --> 01:17:42.375
He wasn't smiling.
01:17:43.917 --> 01:17:46.042
How should she play it?
01:17:46.167 --> 01:17:49.083
She had never been
very good at games
01:17:49.208 --> 01:17:53.000
and began to wish
that she had learnt more.
01:17:53.125 --> 01:17:58.667
But she realised that games
of this type depended on luck
01:17:58.792 --> 01:18:03.750
and perhaps
this wasn't the best thing to do.
01:18:03.875 --> 01:18:08.250
She suggested they find
another way of deciding.
01:18:08.375 --> 01:18:13.042
When he asked what,
she said she would have to think,
01:18:13.167 --> 01:18:15.208
and so should he.
01:18:15.333 --> 01:18:19.208
But he shouted across
that he had wasted enough time
01:18:19.333 --> 01:18:22.208
and that he would find
his own way home.
01:18:23.792 --> 01:18:27.333
He turned back to look at her once.
01:18:27.458 --> 01:18:29.375
But once was enough.
01:19:01.167 --> 01:19:03.167
(Atmospheric music playing)
01:19:45.792 --> 01:19:47.792
(Instrumental
music playing)
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