FREELANCE Full Movie (2023) John Cena, Alison Brie

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FREELANCE Full Movie (2023) John Cena, Alison Brie
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00:00:00 [ Silence ]
00:00:03 [ Birds Chirping ]
00:00:06 >> Living here in Tanzania, you have to have a gun.
00:00:10 We have spinning cobras, buffalo crashing to our fences.
00:00:15 There have been reports of lions roaming around.
00:00:18 But anyone who is not a Tanzanian requesting
00:00:22 to possess a firearm must first get permission from the embassy.
00:00:27 Now this is a crazy scenario.
00:00:30 Pete O'Neill, former Black Panther in exile,
00:00:33 has to go to the United States Embassy to request a license
00:00:38 for a 12-gauge shotgun.
00:00:40 And it was a 12-gauge shotgun in 1970 that led
00:00:46 to my spending 32 years in Africa.
00:00:49 [ Gunshot ]
00:00:54 [ Background Sounds ]
00:01:04 >> As a member of the Black Panther Party, I was arrested
00:01:07 on the very bogus charge
00:01:09 of transporting a gun across state lines.
00:01:11 I had had some very serious run-ins with the police
00:01:15 in Kansas City and with the FBI as well.
00:01:18 Policemen had seriously indicated that I would die
00:01:21 if I went to prison.
00:01:23 So my wife Charlotte and I left the United States
00:01:26 and chose to go into exile.
00:01:27 [ Background Sounds ]
00:01:32 After having spent two years in Algeria,
00:01:35 we came here to Arusha, Tanzania.
00:01:38 And we've been here ever since.
00:01:40 [ Background Sounds ]
00:01:44 >> This pipe goes to our village.
00:01:48 [ Foreign Language ]
00:01:54 >> So here's where the elephants have been stepping.
00:01:56 [ Foreign Language ]
00:02:05 >> So these are how the elephants take and grab
00:02:08 out with their tusks and pull out the pipe and break them.
00:02:11 Oh, that's kind of scary.
00:02:15 [ Foreign Language ]
00:02:21 >> I'm hoping and praying that this will perhaps alleviate some
00:02:25 of our water problems.
00:02:26 Doesn't look very promising right now, but fingers crossed.
00:02:29 [ Foreign Language ]
00:02:35 [ Music ]
00:02:42 >> When I brought Charlotte out here, she was 19 years old.
00:02:45 She'd never been away from home.
00:02:47 And I was 30 then.
00:02:49 I cannot imagine that I would have been able
00:02:53 to succeed without her.
00:02:54 I do not have the ability to deal with details.
00:03:00 I can't. Charlotte coordinates everything.
00:03:04 >> Hey, hey.
00:03:06 Sorry to be so rush, rush, but I got another meeting this
00:03:10 afternoon, I need to know how we can do today.
00:03:12 Because, you know, I got to go to Rotary.
00:03:14 And then I got this.
00:03:16 >> I'm trying to run.
00:03:17 >> I know this is a run and die.
00:03:19 >> They got to be going.
00:03:20 >> I'm just trying to work out how we can do transfer.
00:03:23 >> I can be a little impatient at times.
00:03:25 >> Right across the board.
00:03:26 >> And have developed into a grumpy old man.
00:03:29 >> Are you leaving now?
00:03:29 >> And Charlotte is angelic by nature.
00:03:38 >> I'm setting a new record for cholesterol.
00:03:40 I'm going to be the first person to have a cholesterol level
00:03:43 of 589 and survive.
00:03:45 >> Oh, really?
00:03:46 >> I'm telling you.
00:03:47 [ Speaking in Foreign Language ]
00:03:49 >> Yeah, two names, Sasa.
00:03:53 >> Okay.
00:03:53 >> Hey, Sasa.
00:03:54 Hey, Sasa. Hurry up.
00:03:58 Come on. [ Speaking in Foreign Language ]
00:04:01 >> Morning.
00:04:01 >> Good morning.
00:04:02 >> How you all doing?
00:04:04 >> How are you?
00:04:04 >> I'm different.
00:04:05 I'm different.
00:04:06 >> Our differing personalities have combined to create a whole
00:04:13 that has been extraordinarily productive.
00:04:15 >> We'd like to welcome you all
00:04:23 to the United African American Community Center.
00:04:26 Myself, Charlotte O'Neill.
00:04:28 My husband, Pete O'Neill,
00:04:30 founded the United African American Community Center in '91.
00:04:34 >> '91.
00:04:35 >> But we had been doing community work for years
00:04:38 and years in Kansas City as members
00:04:41 of the Black Panther Party, where we fed more
00:04:43 than 750 children every day and had free medical clinics.
00:04:48 >> When people think of the Black Panther Party,
00:04:50 mostly due to the media, they think of young men with guns
00:04:54 and berets and leather jackets, and that's true.
00:04:57 But we were much more than that.
00:05:02 >> The really good things
00:05:03 about the Black Panther Party was the manner
00:05:06 in which it served the community.
00:05:08 >> How old is he?
00:05:09 >> How old is he?
00:05:11 >> He is a deaf man.
00:05:13 >> If you look at what we're doing right now,
00:05:15 you would find it difficult
00:05:17 to distinguish the community work we were doing back
00:05:20 in the day and the community work we're doing now.
00:05:22 >> Do you know we're dealing with 90 students a day?
00:05:26 >> How are you, Asha?
00:05:27 >> I'm fine.
00:05:29 >> If we have someone who has ability to teach English,
00:05:32 we teach English.
00:05:33 If we find volunteers who have computer skills,
00:05:38 they teach computers to our young people.
00:05:43 >> Human. HIV is a human virus.
00:05:49 >> What we're trying to do here is create a microcosm
00:05:52 of what we feel the world should be.
00:05:54 People of all races, all cultures,
00:05:57 all traditions come together and live
00:05:59 and work for common goals.
00:06:02 [ Music ]
00:06:14 >> In 1968, I started to read about the Black Panther Party.
00:06:18 I went to Oakland, California.
00:06:20 I talked with the people who were running the party there,
00:06:23 and we established the Kansas City chapter
00:06:27 of the Black Panther Party.
00:06:28 >> The Black Panther Party is officially in Kansas City.
00:06:32 >> The Black Panther Party came into existence to try
00:06:37 to control these mad dog policemen
00:06:40 who were brutalizing people in the black community.
00:06:42 >> About black community.
00:06:45 >> About black community.
00:06:47 >> Right on.
00:06:48 >> Our breakfast for school children program,
00:06:51 our counseling programs, our clothing programs,
00:06:55 all evolved from that original foundation.
00:06:59 Before the Black Panther Party, I did many things
00:07:03 that by anyone's standards would be considered wrong.
00:07:07 The Black Panther Party turned my life dramatically around.
00:07:12 >> Sister Charlotte.
00:07:14 >> I bet a lot of the, can you imagine how a lot of the elders
00:07:18 in the village would view, who is this?
00:07:21 I said, oh, that's Mama Charlotte.
00:07:22 They say, who?
00:07:24 >> Yeah.
00:07:24 >> What's she doing with a gun?
00:07:25 >> Yeah, is she going hunting or what?
00:07:27 Mm-hmm.
00:07:27 >> Wow.
00:07:28 >> Do you remember when we first came to Darcella, to Tanzania?
00:07:33 And I remember when we walked out of that airport
00:07:36 and how warm it was, and it was those coconut trees, you know.
00:07:42 I said, Pete, I love this.
00:07:45 This is like coming home.
00:07:46 And it really was.
00:07:48 And you had this puzzled expression on your face.
00:07:51 I don't know what that meant.
00:07:53 Do you know when I got off the plane here,
00:07:55 and this is the truth, Charlotte, all kidding aside,
00:07:58 now, I didn't have a good feeling.
00:08:00 I just didn't, Sister.
00:08:02 And we've talked about this a lot,
00:08:04 and I generally make light of it.
00:08:05 But to me, it was just like I had gotten too far away
00:08:09 from everything that I knew.
00:08:11 And it amazes me how you didn't feel that way.
00:08:14 I guess you were just as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.
00:08:17 For me, I was saying, oh, boy.
00:08:21 I saw the tin roofs with the rusted iron,
00:08:25 and I said, uh-oh.
00:08:27 I said, we are in for a different kind of life.
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00:08:43 Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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00:09:18 I spend most of my life shopping and buying supplies.
00:09:22 We feed 20 to 30 people daily.
00:09:25 We've got our programs, we have student groups coming through.
00:09:28 We've got all these people visiting.
00:09:30 We've got people on honeymoon, people just passing through.
00:09:34 [waves crashing]
00:09:36 We are in constant motion.
00:09:39 [waves crashing]
00:09:42 I have a peaceful kind of floating in the clouds nature.
00:09:52 That's just me, and it balances out the way Pete is
00:09:56 because he's more hyper and he sweats things more than I do.
00:10:01 But he's very different from the way I remember him back in the day.
00:10:07 I've watched him grow to be very tolerant of all kinds of people's opinions.
00:10:14 Where I think years ago, if you wasn't down with the program,
00:10:19 you know, you couldn't know all these same things to him.
00:10:23 You know what I mean?
00:10:25 We don't see any racial problems in Birmingham.
00:10:32 No, Scott and I live there and we love it.
00:10:35 We both live fairly Anglo lives in Alabama.
00:10:40 I don't have that much interaction with inner city blacks or anything,
00:10:44 but I don't feel threatened walking down the street.
00:10:47 There's no chip on my shoulder and as far as I can tell,
00:10:49 no chip on any of their shoulders.
00:10:50 Well, that was going to be my next question.
00:10:52 I was going to ask you, how did you think blacks felt there?
00:10:55 You're talking about where, Birmingham?
00:10:57 But now in Birmingham, not four years ago.
00:10:59 No, of course not, but I wanted to ask you, how do they feel?
00:11:01 I don't agree with what they're saying,
00:11:03 but I still notice that throughout the African-American community,
00:11:07 I still think there are a lot of young people who still sense some resentment
00:11:10 and get choked by the anger and the resentment and can't break out of that
00:11:14 and almost wallow at times in the anger and the resentment.
00:11:19 And instead of taking that energy and moving forward,
00:11:22 it serves as a hindrance to them moving forward.
00:11:28 There may be some truth in that,
00:11:30 but can you imagine how difficult it is to forge ahead--
00:11:33 I don't know how.
00:11:34 No, you don't, sir.
00:11:35 And when you have never had an opportunity educationally--
00:11:39 But you don't know what it's like to be a white male in the South either.
00:11:43 It ain't all bread and roses.
00:11:44 But whites weren't slaves for centuries.
00:11:47 But we don't live on the big rock candy mountain
00:11:49 and the money doesn't grow on trees,
00:11:51 and it's not even easy for a white person either.
00:11:55 It's hard, Peter.
00:11:56 It's not easy for whites.
00:11:58 No, it's not. I agree with you.
00:12:00 It's not, but you certainly, in any kind of intellectual honesty,
00:12:04 you can't compare that with what blacks went through.
00:12:06 You're too intelligent a man to look at people
00:12:10 that were treated like cows and chickens
00:12:13 were denied--was against the law to know how to read for centuries.
00:12:18 Now, what's the solution?
00:12:20 The first thing in all of these problems that we've talked about,
00:12:23 I can give you the solution.
00:12:24 The first thing is to admit--and that's hard.
00:12:27 That's the hardest thing.
00:12:29 That's the hardest part, and particularly for whites.
00:12:31 Not a white man never will be.
00:12:33 But I can imagine this is the most difficult thing
00:12:36 whites will ever have to do,
00:12:37 is to admit categorically that we have had serious problems.
00:12:42 We can't sugarcoat them.
00:12:44 We can't cast blame on the victim.
00:12:47 We have to say, "Hey, we screwed up.
00:12:49 This was wrong.
00:12:51 What can we do to make it right?"
00:12:56 Sister, sister, sister,
00:12:58 if you could have heard some of the stuff
00:13:00 that came out of their mouth.
00:13:02 Part of the problem--no, damn it, he said the problem,
00:13:06 and I'm paraphrasing--
00:13:08 was that young blacks have resentment in their heart.
00:13:14 Well, what in the hell do you expect to happen?
00:13:18 So many people have a lack of knowledge
00:13:20 about the '60s and '70s and the Civil Rights era
00:13:24 and all of that, you know?
00:13:26 It's like they've been living in complete isolation.
00:13:29 Isolation and have no idea--
00:13:30 Or even about the rest of the world.
00:13:32 Yeah.
00:13:33 That's what blows my mind, too.
00:13:35 We'll find people that'll come in our presence now,
00:13:38 and they'll talk about social issues
00:13:40 and racial issues and things like this,
00:13:42 but these are things they don't think about
00:13:44 when they're not--they think they have to do this
00:13:47 in our presence.
00:13:48 And they may--
00:13:49 No, that's the killer.
00:13:50 This is the killer.
00:13:51 This is the killer.
00:13:52 They think in their mind
00:13:54 that they are being as progressive,
00:13:57 and they're saying, "Look, look, it's really your fault."
00:14:00 He said, "It's your fault," or, "You're playing--
00:14:02 "You're a big part of the problem,"
00:14:04 but he means well.
00:14:06 I don't like that, do you?
00:14:08 I know that's a big part of what we talk about
00:14:10 and what we try to do, but I don't like it, do you?
00:14:13 You mean dealing with those issues?
00:14:15 No.
00:14:16 I'm talking about the whole cross-cultural thing,
00:14:18 when it brings that uncomfortable feeling.
00:14:22 You know, I'd really--I'm not going to do this,
00:14:25 but I'd really just say, "Hey, take that shit out of here."
00:14:28 Has there been any cooling off
00:14:30 between you and the police in Kansas City?
00:14:32 None whatsoever.
00:14:33 There can never be any cooling off
00:14:35 between the Black Panther Party and the racist pigs,
00:14:38 regardless of what level of pigs we're talking about,
00:14:40 until all oppression has been ended,
00:14:42 until we see them all sent to their graves.
00:14:45 When I look at that footage,
00:14:47 I'm a little impressed with myself
00:14:50 that I had the fortitude to say this
00:14:53 and to say it on national TV.
00:14:55 [laughter]
00:14:56 I have no qualms about what we were struggling for
00:14:59 in the Black Panther Party.
00:15:01 I think they were right.
00:15:03 But when I see myself adopting a totally unreasonable stance,
00:15:08 it almost says to me, "I could have dealt with that better."
00:15:12 And Eldridge Cleaver made the statement
00:15:14 that he would like to go into the Senate,
00:15:17 to shoot his way into the Senate and take McClellan's head.
00:15:20 While Eldridge is doing that, I would like very much
00:15:22 to shoot my way into the House of Representatives
00:15:24 and get this racist, lying Icard's head.
00:15:27 The interviewer, when I said that I wanted to take
00:15:30 Congressman Icard's head,
00:15:32 who headed the investigation against me,
00:15:34 he said, "Now, when you say you want to take his head,
00:15:39 "you don't mean that literally."
00:15:42 And I said, "I mean it literally. I'd like to do that."
00:15:45 And perhaps I did.
00:15:47 Perhaps at that time I was thinking that going into
00:15:51 the House of Representatives and taking the head of Icard
00:15:55 would somehow further the revolution.
00:15:58 Well, if that's how I thought then,
00:16:01 it's not a reflection of how I feel now.
00:16:04 What I need to do is just really practice the pronunciation.
00:16:10 Tu me pata...
00:16:12 See, I'm getting...struggling already.
00:16:14 Try to use it.
00:16:16 Tu me pata, mafaka.
00:16:19 (laughter)
00:16:22 First, tell me the meaning. What does it mean?
00:16:24 The meaning is understanding.
00:16:26 Understanding, like between you and I.
00:16:28 Say we borrowed on certain matters,
00:16:31 and then we said, "Okay, let's forget about our differences."
00:16:35 So that understanding is called muafaka.
00:16:39 Muafaka.
00:16:41 Good Lord in heaven.
00:16:43 Muafaka.
00:16:47 Muafaka.
00:16:49 Okay.
00:16:51 I understand why you try to avoid using that phrase.
00:16:54 Yes, I am, because there's a phrase in English
00:16:57 that sounds very similar,
00:16:59 and it means...
00:17:01 certainly does not mean understanding, you know.
00:17:04 (laughter)
00:17:06 When I first came to Tanzania,
00:17:09 it was young, provocative, very rough.
00:17:13 I remember...
00:17:15 you cannot talk to Peter
00:17:20 three words without exchanging horrible words.
00:17:27 One day in town, he had this panga, a big knife,
00:17:32 and I don't know what happened,
00:17:35 but he was chasing a man with his knife.
00:17:39 So a lot of people came out, and everybody was saying,
00:17:42 "Wow, wow, what is this? What is this?"
00:17:45 Then we saw it was Peter.
00:17:48 In Tanzania, we don't do that.
00:17:51 If you hate somebody, there is a way of giving the message
00:17:56 that, "Well, I don't like you."
00:17:58 But not chasing him in front of people
00:18:01 with a panga, with a knife,
00:18:04 it doesn't happen.
00:18:06 When Peter came here, he had some problems in his mind.
00:18:15 I think he has some frustrations from America.
00:18:19 (speaking in foreign language)
00:18:22 Shoot, that's the way, you know, baby.
00:18:28 (speaking in foreign language)
00:18:31 (speaking in foreign language)
00:18:34 (speaking in foreign language)
00:18:37 (speaking in foreign language)
00:18:40 (speaking in foreign language)
00:18:43 I love the Tanzanian people.
00:18:45 I think they are gentle, considerate, loving people,
00:18:49 and things are so much more mellow here,
00:18:52 so much more polite, but it's hard for me.
00:18:55 Who you need do me?
00:18:57 Oftentimes, the elders will stop me
00:18:59 and want to talk about some issue.
00:19:01 I'm still with that little bit of Americanism in me,
00:19:04 want to rush and do what I have to do.
00:19:07 I am required to visit regularly,
00:19:11 to bring gifts when I do so,
00:19:13 and I must express the highest form of respect.
00:19:18 I have to struggle with it, don't do it this way,
00:19:21 don't say it that way, be polite.
00:19:24 This is a daily struggle for me.
00:19:28 (typing)
00:19:31 Yesterday, I received an email about my legal case.
00:19:37 My lawyer has done so much for me,
00:19:40 and he has done it pro bono.
00:19:42 I haven't had a cent to give him.
00:19:45 This is going to be the year that something dramatic
00:19:49 will take place with our efforts to have my conviction
00:19:53 thrown out and my legal situation.
00:19:55 I really believe that.
00:19:57 Now, what was that woman that was the attorney general
00:20:05 under Clinton?
00:20:06 Janet Reno, that's it.
00:20:08 This case even reached her desk,
00:20:10 and she was, in a sense, sympathetic.
00:20:13 She said, "Yes, I couldn't agree more
00:20:15 "that his conviction was probably politically motivated."
00:20:19 She said, "But it's going to have to be resolved in the courts
00:20:23 "or either our presidential pardon."
00:20:25 Anyway, we'll see what happens.
00:20:27 I'm confident, however, that eventually I will prevail.
00:20:31 Somebody else give me a question.
00:20:33 What's that tattoo over there?
00:20:35 Oh, Lord, I knew someone would see that.
00:20:37 You're the first one.
00:20:38 Yeah, these were put on me when I was in the Navy.
00:20:41 This faded, said Pete.
00:20:44 This one says, "Mom, I've never in my life called my mother Mom.
00:20:48 "Never in my entire life."
00:20:50 Now, the creme de la creme, ready?
00:20:53 Are we prepared for this?
00:20:55 Here's this one, which is a...
00:20:58 What could I have been thinking?
00:21:00 A turtle?
00:21:02 Man, I've got stuff on me that I said,
00:21:04 "Lord, please, let no-one see it before I die."
00:21:07 You want to know what I got in Hong Kong?
00:21:10 Let me show you.
00:21:11 You want to see it?
00:21:12 This is not going to be salacious or anything.
00:21:15 Don't get upset or worried.
00:21:17 This is a Black Panther that I had put on in Hong Kong in 1958,
00:21:23 long before a Black Panther party was ever thought about.
00:21:26 Isn't that a little odd coincidence?
00:21:28 Isn't that something?
00:21:30 We work with a lot of organizations, universities,
00:21:34 and study abroad programs.
00:21:36 Tourists come out here and they give us donations
00:21:39 for staying here with us.
00:21:40 So this is how we survive financially.
00:21:43 We operate and we function on a wing and a prayer.
00:21:47 See, we're talking about water situation, sister, it's bad.
00:22:00 This could get disastrous, you know?
00:22:02 Let me tell you, everybody, may I make a suggestion?
00:22:05 Please forgive the indelicate subject at the dinner table,
00:22:09 but when you pee, don't flush the toilet.
00:22:11 Do not flush the toilet when you pee.
00:22:14 And when you take showers, please be brief.
00:22:18 One of our major difficulties in living here in this village
00:22:30 is our lack of water,
00:22:32 and the fact that our water supply is so uncertain.
00:22:39 When there's no rain, everybody's battling,
00:22:42 trying to get a little bit more water.
00:22:44 Oh, this can't be.
00:22:46 This is a holy mess.
00:22:50 There's a trickle of water coming in from the park.
00:22:54 The water is the absolute last of our reserves.
00:22:57 We have nothing else.
00:23:00 I had a real bad stomach ache.
00:23:08 I started getting fever, and now I'm coughing a lot.
00:23:11 I think it's bronchitis. I've had it before.
00:23:13 And now I'm throwing up. I can't eat anything.
00:23:16 I've been on a temperature between 100 and 101 for 3 days.
00:23:23 Do you have a headache?
00:23:25 Yes. It's not real bad, but I do have a headache.
00:23:28 At first I thought maybe it was malaria, then...
00:23:31 Sit your way.
00:23:33 [Sitting down]
00:23:35 There's scant malaria, so you will need some antibiotics also.
00:23:47 And yet malaria.
00:24:01 So it's a double win.
00:24:03 So you've got bronchitis, you've got malaria.
00:24:06 That's right.
00:24:08 You know what I was afraid of? Typhoid.
00:24:11 Hmm?
00:24:13 I'm not hearing it.
00:24:15 But your head was hurting, though.
00:24:17 Yeah.
00:24:19 Oh, yeah.
00:24:24 Yeah, come on. Here we go.
00:24:28 You've got to worry about things like malaria parasites.
00:24:31 There's other parasites that you've got to always be aware of.
00:24:35 There's all kinds of problems that will be different in the states and non-existent in states.
00:24:40 But then when I look around and see all these trees and all this beauty and the birds singing...
00:24:46 I know I can go around the compound and go into the classroom...
00:24:50 and see all those students, you know, working and thriving.
00:24:55 Any kind of inconvenience that we experience is nothing compared to that.
00:25:00 Because I know we wouldn't be able to live a life like this in the states. No way.
00:25:05 Charlotte is probably one of the most positive human beings that I've ever met in my life.
00:25:11 And she can deal with anything.
00:25:13 But we get malaria far too much.
00:25:16 We actually are getting malaria three and four times a year.
00:25:20 Hello?
00:25:22 [speaking in foreign language]
00:25:26 It's the most horrendous disease.
00:25:28 I think malaria kills more people in sub-Saharan Africa than anything else, including AIDS.
00:25:35 The parasites hide in the liver, and at times of stress, they come out.
00:25:40 Okay, you take all these medicines and things like that, but it doesn't completely rid them out of your body.
00:25:47 You can't think, you can't breathe, you can't eat.
00:25:50 Aching and chills and sweating and fever.
00:25:55 It's horrible.
00:25:58 This is just taking too great a toll on our bodies, you know.
00:26:02 It's so nice we got a show like this, isn't it, Joe?
00:26:08 It is. Isn't it nice?
00:26:10 As Albert Einstein said, "The world is a dangerous place to live in."
00:26:14 Not because people do evil, but because people sit by and let them.
00:26:19 Got it?
00:26:20 Good point, Paul.
00:26:22 Congratulations, you've qualified for the state fair.
00:26:25 I know this was going to happen. Watch this.
00:26:27 He's upset about something.
00:26:30 Yeah, you can see it right there.
00:26:32 Look at that old tight face.
00:26:34 Oh, now that's smart.
00:26:40 Was that a teacher?
00:26:41 Yeah, I think she flipped out or something.
00:26:44 Look at her.
00:26:45 We're going to have another student teacher affair developing here.
00:26:57 See, I see through all that squish.
00:27:00 He's running that squish for getting closer to her, you see.
00:27:04 White middle class kids, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm leaving.
00:27:07 Not everything is black and white, Mr. Jackson.
00:27:09 Standardized tests are--
00:27:11 I'm speaking now, sir.
00:27:13 Uh-oh.
00:27:14 Testing board is comprised of a broad spectrum of--
00:27:17 It's funny, 53% of white kids answered that same question correctly when only 22% of black kids did.
00:27:22 How do you know this?
00:27:23 I know it because I read about it.
00:27:25 Well, run it then.
00:27:26 Education ceases to be learned when the three R's are read, remember, and regurgitate.
00:27:31 Uh-oh.
00:27:32 That sucks.
00:27:33 So what, you going to suspend me now?
00:27:35 Yeah.
00:27:37 What a tune, isn't it?
00:27:39 Oh, that was a good one, wasn't it?
00:27:41 The whole idea behind the Heal the Community program is that we want to take young African Americans,
00:27:57 preferably those from a challenged background,
00:28:01 and expose them to traditional African life with the hope that this will inspire them to go back to their communities and create a better way.
00:28:12 What class you have to turn?
00:28:13 And I think about these young people, Morty and Derek, I think about myself and all the mistakes I made,
00:28:20 all the misguided goals that I've had in my life.
00:28:24 If I can play a part in steering some other young African American away from the pitfalls that I jumped willingly into,
00:28:34 that is extremely important to me.
00:28:37 Come on, Derek.
00:28:38 I just didn't think I would have been picked to go to Tanzania for the simple fact I didn't feel that I was doing that good in school.
00:28:44 As a young person, I was just bad, you know what I'm saying, stealing and breaking into people's houses and went to jail a couple times for stuff like that.
00:28:50 I wasn't trying to do right at the time, you know what I mean?
00:28:53 I don't know, I changed, that's why I'm here today.
00:28:57 I've done bad things.
00:28:59 I smoked weed, I stopped going to school, I've done a lot of bad things.
00:29:08 So I'm looking for this trip to benefit me, to help me.
00:29:13 I don't know no one who's ever been to Africa, out of like the black community.
00:29:17 I'm glad I'm one of them first ones to go.
00:29:20 Really informed right here.
00:29:23 So these are like IDs or something?
00:29:24 Yes, sir. Federal government ID. That's better than a driver's license, actually.
00:29:27 Bam!
00:29:28 I'm excited, man, but I'm trying to chill.
00:29:32 I'm like, man, I'm happy. I don't know what to do, man.
00:29:35 I'm kind of nervous. How are you feeling, Mark?
00:29:37 Trip of a lifetime.
00:29:48 Let me give these brothers a proper--
00:29:50 What's your name, Noggin?
00:29:51 This is Marty.
00:29:52 How you doing, ho?
00:29:53 How you doing, brother?
00:29:55 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:29:58 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:29:59 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:00 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:01 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:02 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:03 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:04 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:05 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:06 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:07 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:08 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:09 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:10 How you doing, brother? You all right?
00:30:11 This is your first time out of the country?
00:30:12 Yeah.
00:30:13 It is?
00:30:14 Yeah.
00:30:15 You as well?
00:30:16 Yeah.
00:30:17 Okay. All right. Okay.
00:30:18 Have you done much traveling?
00:30:19 No, one time.
00:30:20 Were you ready for some unique adventures?
00:30:23 Yeah.
00:30:24 We're going to give them to you.
00:30:25 We're going to give them to you.
00:30:26 We're going to give them to you.
00:30:27 Yeah.
00:30:28 Oh, boy.
00:30:29 This is it.
00:30:30 This is it.
00:30:31 We're getting ready to get serious with this thing.
00:30:32 It is the same.
00:30:33 We're American.
00:30:34 We ain't in America no more.
00:30:35 No, no.
00:30:36 No, no.
00:30:37 [bell ringing]
00:30:38 And let the ancestors know that you all have returned.
00:30:54 And we want to welcome you as children of Africa who have come home.
00:31:02 You right back here where you started, brother.
00:31:13 The ancestors know you all in the house.
00:31:23 Any of you all know anything about 12th Street?
00:31:24 Is 12th Street still there?
00:31:26 Yeah, 12th Street's still there.
00:31:27 That was my spot, brother.
00:31:29 Uh-huh. Right by the island.
00:31:30 That was my-- you know the little-- the bowl?
00:31:32 Uh-huh.
00:31:33 Do they still have that cannon?
00:31:34 Yeah, right there.
00:31:35 That little cannon there?
00:31:36 That was it.
00:31:37 Some of the fondest memories I have of Kansas City is on a weekend in Purcell Park.
00:31:43 Is Purcell Swimming Pool still there?
00:31:45 No.
00:31:46 It's gone?
00:31:47 Yeah, that's gone.
00:31:48 Purcell Park's still there.
00:31:49 Tell me that's still there.
00:31:50 Yeah.
00:31:51 And Brothers and Sisters-- yeah, there you go.
00:31:52 And Brothers and Sisters still gather there on the weekend and things, huh?
00:31:53 No, no.
00:31:54 Nah, it ain't like that.
00:31:55 It ain't like that.
00:31:56 It ain't like that.
00:31:57 I was doing it.
00:31:58 Yeah.
00:31:59 Do you remember that show?
00:32:00 Yeah.
00:32:01 Do you remember that, Charlotte?
00:32:02 Yeah.
00:32:03 Do you remember Purcell Park, how we'd go down there and just take a blanket and put
00:32:07 a blanket?
00:32:08 We would.
00:32:09 Well, I guess that lends truth to the notion that the Kansas City I knew really no longer
00:32:14 exists, you know?
00:32:17 Brothers, do you all realize that we're going off deep in the bush to a remote Messiah village?
00:32:26 People that come out here as tourists never experience it.
00:32:30 He said that we are completely welcome here and that anything that you want to do here,
00:32:38 you're more than welcome to do it because you're not visitors.
00:32:42 You have arrived.
00:32:43 Y'all, go put your head back.
00:32:51 The Messiah have to struggle to do everything.
00:32:53 They have to rub sticks together and use leaves just to make a fire.
00:32:58 They walk miles for water.
00:33:00 Now, by American standards, these people have nothing, but they have held on to their traditional
00:33:06 ways with honor, and I think we can all learn something from that example.
00:33:11 What have you put here?
00:33:16 This is socento.
00:33:17 We are using for perfume.
00:33:18 You got to get the odor out.
00:33:22 After maybe five minutes, my clothes will be a good smell.
00:33:28 My armpits ain't foul, but it doesn't get smelly now.
00:33:33 Just do it like this.
00:33:38 That's more.
00:33:39 More smell.
00:33:40 Somebody who wanted to use two branches of his teeth.
00:33:46 This is good for your teeth.
00:33:47 Yeah.
00:33:48 Teeth.
00:33:52 Teeth.
00:33:53 Toothbrush.
00:33:54 Yeah.
00:33:55 Yeah.
00:33:56 Yeah.
00:33:57 Yeah.
00:33:58 It's toothbrush for us.
00:34:01 Yeah, and to brush your teeth.
00:34:04 Yeah.
00:34:05 So now you can clean your teeth.
00:34:09 You got people with no lights, don't have water, toothbrushes, deodorant.
00:34:17 I mean, dang, sometimes, man, you be like, dang, this is different.
00:34:21 It ain't going to be the way we want it to be.
00:34:24 It ain't going to be what we're accustomed to, I'm going to say it like that.
00:34:26 Like now, we just got to keep going through it, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:29 And it's hard.
00:34:30 Yeah.
00:34:31 Ain't like the city life, boy.
00:34:33 No cars, no buildings.
00:34:35 It's just land.
00:34:37 Yeah.
00:34:38 I miss the traffic, the noise, horn, sirens.
00:34:43 There ain't no McDonald's around here.
00:34:46 I was born in the United States of America.
00:34:50 I'm not a Masonic.
00:34:52 I don't feel like I'm part of the tribe.
00:34:55 I mean, I'm African-American.
00:34:57 I wasn't born here in Africa.
00:34:59 My ancestors came from here, but I'm African-American.
00:35:02 See what I'm saying?
00:35:04 I just feel like, dang, man, you just can't talk to nobody, really, you know what I'm saying?
00:35:07 I mean, I know they want to talk to us and we want to both talk, but I don't feel like I have that bondage with them still.
00:35:14 It's just me and this dude here.
00:35:16 I mean, I--
00:35:17 I asked you.
00:35:18 Yeah, I asked them, "You want to play some ball?" "No."
00:35:20 [basketball dribbling]
00:35:21 Hey, come on.
00:35:22 Come on, follow.
00:35:24 Where the other boys at, man?
00:35:26 They was running with me.
00:35:28 And it makes it boring, man.
00:35:31 Like, when we here chilling, we may want to go up there and hoop, but, I mean, one-on-one is cool, too.
00:35:37 We get a--you know, get a sweat or something.
00:35:39 You get tired of that, man.
00:35:40 We know we only here for 20 days and we can go back.
00:35:43 We got an open door to go back.
00:35:45 And to think of this man to be here for 30 years, it's like, man, it ain't even--I can't even think about it, man.
00:35:51 I don't even want to because I know I wouldn't want to do it, you know what I'm saying?
00:35:56 The little experience I had here, man, it's hard.
00:35:59 I know you miss home.
00:36:01 Well, yeah.
00:36:02 I miss home.
00:36:03 Yeah, and I can understand that.
00:36:05 But in terms of missing home, that's kind of a weird thing, man.
00:36:10 I miss some parts of it.
00:36:12 You know, I miss my mama.
00:36:14 I miss my brother.
00:36:15 I got children I haven't seen.
00:36:16 I miss them.
00:36:18 But I have become so immersed in this society that I'm almost kind of lost between two worlds.
00:36:26 Does that make any sense?
00:36:27 Like you ain't an African-American?
00:36:29 No, no, no, no, no.
00:36:30 Not that I'm not home, no.
00:36:31 Not that.
00:36:32 Not that.
00:36:33 But that I just can't grasp what the values and the mindsets of African-Americans are as much and as easily as I did in the past.
00:36:48 And you know that scares the hell out--I mean, that scares me worse than anything.
00:36:52 I don't want that to happen.
00:36:54 You know, I don't want to lose that.
00:36:56 And here's the kicker, man.
00:36:58 Say I win my case tomorrow.
00:36:59 I get an email, "Pete, we won."
00:37:01 You know, it's all over.
00:37:03 I'm not sure I would get on a plane and go back.
00:37:06 I know I would not go back to live.
00:37:08 You adapted.
00:37:09 Yeah, that's it.
00:37:10 You adapted to here.
00:37:11 I have, man.
00:37:13 And at the same time, I'm not completely adapted.
00:37:16 That's what I'm trying to say.
00:37:18 Yeah.
00:37:19 [music]
00:37:25 For the entire 32 years that I've been in exile, I have clung tightly to my African-American-ness.
00:37:34 These are the people that made me who and what I am.
00:37:38 There's millions of you.
00:37:40 I have to hold on to every possible thread I can to maintain a connection.
00:37:46 And I'm finding that there's a gulf developing.
00:37:51 Whoa!
00:37:52 [music]
00:37:54 Gotcha!
00:37:55 [roaring]
00:37:57 That's an elephant for you.
00:37:59 Wow!
00:38:01 African-Americans come out here.
00:38:03 I love them.
00:38:04 I embrace them.
00:38:05 I enjoy their company.
00:38:07 I ain't never seen nothing like this.
00:38:09 Never.
00:38:11 But at the same time, I'm realizing they are so different from what I know.
00:38:17 [music]
00:38:19 Oh, look at them.
00:38:20 Look at them.
00:38:21 The monks is kicking each other.
00:38:23 That monk is wild, man.
00:38:26 Look at this one here.
00:38:28 I'm losing that connection with African-Americans.
00:38:33 [music]
00:38:36 I'm kind of lost in a no-man's land.
00:38:39 [music]
00:38:47 [shouting]
00:38:58 [singing]
00:39:01 [music]
00:39:13 [shouting]
00:39:28 We are very pleased to have each and every one of you here.
00:39:31 We're so proud and happy to see this gathering of youths who have come together
00:39:37 to share their culture and to learn about other cultures.
00:39:42 [singing]
00:39:52 [applause]
00:39:55 I was just going to rap from my background, how I was raised.
00:40:00 African-American.
00:40:01 I'm African-American.
00:40:03 [applause]
00:40:06 Let me get the claps.
00:40:09 [applause]
00:40:11 Like a beat.
00:40:16 [rapping]
00:40:34 I know another game.
00:40:35 It's like this.
00:40:37 That's called a layup.
00:40:39 You got to practice that.
00:40:40 Michael Jordan did that.
00:40:43 It's free throw.
00:40:45 Say free throw.
00:40:46 Free throw.
00:40:47 Yeah, free throw.
00:40:48 Free throw.
00:40:51 That's how you do that.
00:40:54 [shouting]
00:40:56 From here.
00:41:00 Focus on this.
00:41:03 Let it go.
00:41:04 Let it go.
00:41:07 [applause]
00:41:10 Yeah.
00:41:12 That's how you do it.
00:41:15 [drumming]
00:41:41 Give it up now.
00:41:46 Take care of yourself.
00:41:47 Do what I told you and remember.
00:41:49 Do you hear me?
00:41:50 Remember.
00:41:51 That's all you got to do.
00:41:52 It's been good.
00:41:54 It's been good.
00:41:55 Thanks for everything.
00:41:57 You take care of yourself.
00:41:58 Much love, brother.
00:42:00 [chatter]
00:42:18 Growing up as a child in Kansas City,
00:42:20 I got into a lot of trouble
00:42:22 and the pull of streets kind of got me.
00:42:28 Prior to becoming involved in the Black Panther Party,
00:42:31 I wanted to be a pimp.
00:42:34 I had a new Lincoln in 1965.
00:42:38 I used to wear expensive suits and expensive shoes.
00:42:42 My hands were soft and I had manicured fingernails
00:42:45 and I didn't like that.
00:42:47 I did.
00:42:48 But in this idea of being known as a street hustler,
00:42:52 I wanted that.
00:42:53 I wanted to be known as a player, as a this.
00:42:56 I did some stupid shit.
00:42:59 I did.
00:43:00 You know, I'm talking little vulnerable girls
00:43:05 into doing things that they didn't want to do
00:43:08 and that they had no business doing
00:43:10 and destroying people's lives in the process.
00:43:13 You ask me do I regret things,
00:43:15 you don't have the slightest idea what you're asking me.
00:43:18 And I'm not joking now.
00:43:20 You say does this--this causes me extreme pain
00:43:23 because you don't know what we're talking about.
00:43:25 I feel--
00:43:28 It's something that I know I cannot undo.
00:43:35 I cannot undo it once.
00:43:37 And when I think about the people,
00:43:39 when a picture comes into my mind
00:43:41 of the people that were involved,
00:43:43 when I think of the young girls,
00:43:45 and I'm a father, then I have my daughter,
00:43:47 and I said, "Lord, don't ever let anything like this
00:43:51 "happen to my children."
00:43:53 I did this to someone's daughter,
00:43:55 to people's daughters, that I would pray on them
00:43:58 and try to take advantage of them
00:44:00 and maneuver and manipulate
00:44:03 for something just so horrendous.
00:44:05 That is painful, and that stabs me in my heart
00:44:09 when I think about that.
00:44:11 When I involve myself in community work,
00:44:16 the primary reason I do it is because it's helping me.
00:44:20 This is for my salvation.
00:44:23 This keeps me on the straight and narrow.
00:44:26 This helps me redefine my life.
00:44:30 [birds chirping]
00:44:32 [truck rumbling]
00:44:35 Hello.
00:44:52 How are you?
00:44:54 This is Mr. Alex here.
00:44:56 Okay, thank you.
00:44:58 You know there's an old saying about
00:45:00 beware of black men coming bearing big ideas.
00:45:03 So here I am with a...
00:45:05 That's new, so tell me.
00:45:07 I made that up on the spur of the moment.
00:45:09 All right.
00:45:10 What I wanted to ask you, Alex,
00:45:12 my idea is I want to run it by you and get your input.
00:45:15 I want to do some computer classes
00:45:17 where we can take small children,
00:45:19 nothing complicated,
00:45:20 and give them an introductory kind of thing.
00:45:22 And I don't know, what is your thinking?
00:45:24 Do you know of any software?
00:45:26 I think you mentioned--
00:45:27 There's software, yeah.
00:45:28 I've seen software for toddlers.
00:45:30 I think, sorry, is it 3 years old, 4 years old?
00:45:32 They've got software.
00:45:33 Okay.
00:45:34 I'm looking for old stuff.
00:45:36 I'm not looking for anything new or anything.
00:45:38 I'm looking for old stuff.
00:45:40 Yeah, I know what you're saying
00:45:41 because you're limited as far as funds are concerned.
00:45:44 Yeah.
00:45:45 For these kids, you need good computers.
00:45:48 That software demands something pentium.
00:45:50 You cannot work with 3-, 4-year-old computers.
00:45:54 The good news is that even good computers,
00:45:56 even new computers are getting 2-pentium.
00:45:58 I hear exactly what you're saying.
00:46:00 I appreciate it,
00:46:01 and I understand the correctness of what you're saying.
00:46:04 But Alex, we're always in a money crunch.
00:46:06 So I know it is, and I know it's tens,
00:46:09 and I know it's poorly, poorly,
00:46:10 and I know we've got to get there slowly,
00:46:12 but I just want you to think about this if you can.
00:46:16 Keep your eyes open.
00:46:18 All my efforts to secure a new computer were in vain.
00:46:23 You know, the economy is very tight in Tanzania at the moment,
00:46:28 so I noticed from the outstart
00:46:30 that he was reluctant to commit himself to anything.
00:46:50 You know, a few months ago, I had feelings
00:46:53 that something would take place with my legal situation,
00:46:57 but now I'm beginning to doubt it.
00:46:59 In the post-9/11 world,
00:47:02 overturning of a conviction of an old Panther,
00:47:05 I doubt that that's going to happen anytime soon.
00:47:09 Okay.
00:47:15 [sighs]
00:47:17 136 over 91.
00:47:37 You see, that should be lower from just having got out of bed.
00:47:44 [inhales]
00:47:46 Which indicates that had I been moving around,
00:47:52 the diastolic probably would have been close to 100,
00:47:59 and the systolic would have been probably around 150.
00:48:04 And that's just not good enough.
00:48:09 [clanking]
00:48:11 I work my ass off out here.
00:48:16 And then things somehow never get done?
00:48:20 I don't know.
00:48:22 I'm in a bit of a funk this morning,
00:48:31 and, uh...
00:48:35 I'm in a very good mood.
00:48:38 So as you know, here's the well,
00:48:53 and this is 100, between 160 and 170 feet down.
00:48:57 It's steady pumping, pure, clean, clean water, brother.
00:49:02 I'll walk you up here and show you the tanks.
00:49:05 Geronimo G. Jagger, the former Geronimo Pratt,
00:49:08 came to visit me.
00:49:10 Man, you talk about a reunion.
00:49:12 I had not seen him in over 32 years.
00:49:16 Geronimo was the field marshal of the Black Panther Party.
00:49:21 In 1970, he was arrested on some trumped-up murder charge.
00:49:26 He was convicted and spent 27 years in jail.
00:49:31 He spent 7 years in prison for crimes he did not commit.
00:49:36 This is the first tank that we built.
00:49:40 Well, it's a solemn job you and Charlotte
00:49:43 have put together over these 30 years.
00:49:46 We've been hitting at it, brother.
00:49:48 It's still going strong.
00:49:50 In 1997, he was released,
00:49:53 and the government, in admitting that he was unjustly in prison,
00:49:57 made a financial settlement with him.
00:50:00 He asked me, "Pete, what can I do to be of assistance?"
00:50:03 I said, "Our primary, major problem is water."
00:50:07 He said, "Well, give me your phone."
00:50:09 I gave it to him.
00:50:11 He called his associates in the United States,
00:50:14 and he had them transfer $10,000 so that we could dig this well.
00:50:18 Mm-hmm.
00:50:20 Definitely has that good spring taste to it, you know.
00:50:24 That's a lot of water.
00:50:26 Good, clean water.
00:50:28 I would say between 300 and 500 individuals
00:50:31 are benefiting from the water project.
00:50:34 Right on.
00:50:36 When you see the smile, the joy on their faces,
00:50:40 the realization that they don't have to walk today
00:50:44 5 miles to get a bucket of water,
00:50:47 that kind of makes it all worthwhile.
00:50:54 When Geronimo came out, we renewed our relationship.
00:50:58 So it's a table and this, huh?
00:51:00 I've helped him when he was looking for a house.
00:51:03 I've helped him when he wanted to buy certain items to furnish his home.
00:51:08 I've tried to help Geronimo acclimate to life here in Tanzania,
00:51:13 so I get the opportunity to see him on a regular basis now.
00:51:17 Hey.
00:51:21 Ooh, boy, that was a good one, that.
00:51:24 Wow.
00:51:26 Here we go. That all right?
00:51:29 We'll cut him off.
00:51:31 Right there.
00:51:33 Geronimo is married to a lovely young woman, Joju Cleaver.
00:51:38 This is Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver's daughter.
00:51:42 When we had the international section of the Black Panther Party in Algeria,
00:51:46 we had a nursery, and I can remember Joju Cleaver
00:51:50 and his little baby with big heads.
00:51:52 OK, y'all, let me go on and do some work.
00:51:54 Y'all come out tonight if you want.
00:51:56 I'm going to be out there soon enough.
00:51:58 OK.
00:52:00 All right, you ready, doctor?
00:52:02 Hey, get the oxygen ready in there.
00:52:05 Call 911. Here we go.
00:52:08 Look at him. That's too much for him to warm up with.
00:52:11 No, it's all I can. This is all you got, and this is what I do.
00:52:14 I said it's too much to warm up with, man.
00:52:17 You're doing them all.
00:52:20 See, I try to teach him penitentiary.
00:52:23 He didn't stay in the pen long enough to learn how to drive.
00:52:26 You always warm up. If you don't warm up...
00:52:29 Is that what's wrong with me, Sergeant? Seriously?
00:52:31 Yeah, you have iron shoulders. Oh, really?
00:52:33 Yeah, if you start lifting on stuff without warming it.
00:52:35 You lift real light first. OK.
00:52:37 And then you start lifting heavier. OK.
00:52:40 You going to change the doohickey back there? You want to change it?
00:52:43 No, you got to start light. I see.
00:52:45 Lift that and see.
00:52:48 Like that. It's very light now. OK, that's what you want.
00:52:51 That's what I want. Yeah.
00:52:53 Back then, in prison, you know, Pete was more of a scholar.
00:52:57 He was passing through, solidary, and it was a different setting, you know?
00:53:01 I wish it would have remained like that by the time I got in.
00:53:04 Pete went to the gala club, Toastmasters,
00:53:07 and they would talk diction and oration and pronunciation
00:53:12 and speechifying and all that.
00:53:16 And iron will make you eat.
00:53:18 If you're trying to lose weight, you cannot drive no iron
00:53:22 because iron gives you hunger pains that you can't imagine.
00:53:26 Your shot, partner.
00:53:29 Will you tie my hair for me, sir?
00:53:32 I'd like to do my hair, but...
00:53:34 He's in his hair all the time.
00:53:37 [laughter]
00:53:39 JoJo, this is a mental activity.
00:53:42 Don't be messing with this.
00:53:44 [laughter]
00:53:46 I'll be right there.
00:53:48 [laughter]
00:53:51 That's your kind of workout.
00:53:53 He said it makes you hungry.
00:53:55 [laughter]
00:53:56 He got a winner.
00:53:58 [laughter]
00:54:00 But I don't have the butterfly, because I do that all the time.
00:54:04 [laughter]
00:54:07 Now wait a minute.
00:54:09 You sat there and told me if you're going to do this, you've got to eat.
00:54:12 That's what you said.
00:54:13 You did say that.
00:54:15 Well, I'm going along with the flow.
00:54:18 [laughter]
00:54:23 I'm going to be there.
00:54:26 I'm coming tomorrow.
00:54:27 I'm going to set up our little--
00:54:29 Look what I'm recording for you.
00:54:32 [music playing]
00:54:35 That song now, "Punchy Carter and Blue Louis,"
00:54:40 running up and down Central Avenue,
00:54:43 Black Panther thing and all the women changing.
00:54:46 That was right before a bunch of guys got killed.
00:54:49 That song came out.
00:54:51 Brings back memories, doesn't it?
00:54:54 It's interesting that I last saw Geronimo in 1970,
00:54:58 less than a month before I left the United States.
00:55:01 And I think it was a couple of months after that that he was arrested.
00:55:06 And while my exile could in no sense compare to the suffering that he endured
00:55:13 being in a horrendous prison situation,
00:55:16 the fact that I have been in exile constitutes a sort of cultural and emotional prison.
00:55:26 That you can have male friends of your tribe,
00:55:31 people with similar cultural interests, similar political interests,
00:55:36 and develop close, bonded relationships with other men like this,
00:55:42 this is something that's been missing in my life.
00:55:44 You left all of that and said, "Peace, Dr. Cordell's dead."
00:55:47 [laughter]
00:55:50 [chainsaw]
00:56:03 I'm going to finish this chair, then I'm going to have to go on and finish the curtains when I come back.
00:56:09 Yeah, let's just do this. It's getting to be a big project, man.
00:56:15 I better glue them darn curtains up here and be done.
00:56:20 She's not going to know the difference. We just put glue up there.
00:56:25 Now tell her this is a new style, straight out of Paris.
00:56:33 Okay.
00:56:37 How's that?
00:56:39 It opens fine.
00:56:43 Looking good, Masha.
00:56:45 It's right at ten years since my mother was last here, and I'm a little nervous about it.
00:56:51 I know it's probably going to be a little bit of awkwardness there initially,
00:56:57 because we haven't seen each other in such a long time.
00:57:01 And I can hear it in her voice when I'm talking to her on the phone.
00:57:04 I say, "She's nervous too."
00:57:06 [speaking in foreign language]
00:57:12 She said they lost the baggage, and she's got to fill out a form.
00:57:17 Old woman got to fill out a form.
00:57:23 Here, you take this. Take this.
00:57:26 Here's the keys to the case. Here, take that.
00:57:29 You want to hold the mic? Hold the mic.
00:57:33 Can I go help my mama? Yeah.
00:57:39 Hey, lady, what you doing down here?
00:57:42 Look at you. How you doing?
00:57:46 Don't worry about it. How you feel?
00:57:48 I've been out there raising holy hell.
00:57:52 Let me put you on out of here.
00:58:01 Good Lord almighty.
00:58:07 You going to leave these with me?
00:58:10 Charlotte, you got one of these monster fro's on your head.
00:58:14 You got one of them big military-ass fro's on.
00:58:20 Oh, Lord.
00:58:22 I just grabbed them up, and I said, "Let them look at this.
00:58:25 There might be something in here they might know."
00:58:27 What were you talking about? You was going to throw them pictures away?
00:58:29 I was going to throw them away 10 years ago,
00:58:32 because they were collecting and piling up.
00:58:37 I got a bunch of pictures of you, too, Leslie.
00:58:40 I'm going to throw them away today.
00:58:42 I think I'm going to burn them today.
00:58:44 You're going to burn them today? I'm going to burn them today.
00:58:47 I went to sleep and then woke up in a dream.
00:58:50 I didn't know what I was doing this morning.
00:58:52 And I said, "Where am I?"
00:58:54 I said, "Oh, I guess that must have all been a dream,
00:58:56 me being in a wheelchair and me coming over here,
00:58:59 because I didn't think I'd come back over here again."
00:59:03 It had that mosquito net over you.
00:59:05 Yeah, and I reached out and it touched that, and I said, "Oh, what is it?"
00:59:09 It got me tied up.
00:59:12 Tied up?
00:59:14 Trying to see if she's going to get in the pearly gates tonight.
00:59:17 [laughter]
00:59:20 You know they have health tips on TV.
00:59:33 I don't know about your cholesterol, but they say that's bad for cholesterol.
00:59:37 Yeah, I know. I shouldn't eat these.
00:59:40 I really shouldn't. This is the last time I'm going to ever buy them.
00:59:43 Want some?
00:59:45 You don't care for a little bit?
00:59:47 No, I don't.
00:59:49 Okay.
00:59:51 Oh, Lord.
00:59:57 I'm not going to eat it. I'm pooped.
01:00:02 [truck engine]
01:00:05 Hello, doctor. How are you, sir?
01:00:21 Fine, thank you very much.
01:00:23 Can I introduce you to my mother, please, sir?
01:00:26 Oh, this is your mother?
01:00:28 And then I want to ask you if I can get a blood test.
01:00:31 Would you let me do something?
01:00:33 Yes, I'll let you do that.
01:00:35 This is my mother.
01:00:37 [truck engine]
01:00:39 This is Dr. Rasa.
01:00:41 Good morning, Mr. Tornel.
01:00:43 Yeah, fine, thank you.
01:00:44 This is a great friend of mine.
01:00:46 Yeah, well, that's good.
01:00:47 And this man has pulled Charlotte and I through for these 30 years.
01:00:50 They talk about you all the time, like you're friends and family.
01:00:53 Yes.
01:00:54 How are you getting on?
01:00:56 Very well, thank you.
01:00:58 You know I had knee surgery.
01:01:00 Now, I'm not coming for consultation or anything.
01:01:02 No, no.
01:01:03 But I just want to tell you I had knee replacement.
01:01:05 Yes, yes.
01:01:06 And I walked with a cane. That's right.
01:01:08 So what can I do for you, Mrs. O'Neal?
01:01:10 And you need to get on him about his high blood pressure medicine, too.
01:01:12 I take mine every day. He needs to take his.
01:01:14 Yeah, he should take his every day.
01:01:16 Every day. That's right.
01:01:18 Yes, yes, yes.
01:01:19 Mama and Dr. Tornel.
01:01:20 That's right. I'm going to start taking it every day.
01:01:22 Yeah, yeah. Not just a promise.
01:01:24 No, no.
01:01:26 I will not smoke in front of my mother.
01:01:33 My father passed away from lung cancer,
01:01:37 and to her, smoking is an instant death sentence.
01:01:41 So I hide it.
01:01:43 He can't fool me. Not at all.
01:01:47 I've known him all his life, so you know I know him.
01:01:50 And I can tell when he's not telling me the truth.
01:01:54 I know it.
01:01:56 He's always doing something.
01:02:00 When he was doing the Black Panther thing,
01:02:02 I worked for the U.S. Treasury Department,
01:02:05 and he come in front of my building and did a demonstration.
01:02:09 I wanted to hit him so bad, you know, and tell him to go away.
01:02:13 And I said, "Why did you come in front of my building?
01:02:16 Here I am, the FBI calling me in and questioning me."
01:02:19 He said, "No, that's where I needed to be.
01:02:21 That's where I wanted to be. It got me in hot water, yes."
01:02:24 He said, "No, it's not going to get you in trouble.
01:02:26 I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing."
01:02:29 It's all white and pretty and fresh.
01:02:34 And the day before you came, then the rain started.
01:02:37 This is probably the last chance I'm going to have to be with my mother.
01:02:41 I know this. I'm not going to say it to her, you know, of course.
01:02:47 But I'm going to struggle to make this trip.
01:02:50 I am about to be 63 years old.
01:02:53 I think she's 83 years old.
01:02:56 This is the last one.
01:02:58 Him, I know, I can't think of his name.
01:03:05 This is Joe, isn't it, Joe Brenner?
01:03:07 No, that's Uncle Willie.
01:03:09 That's Uncle Willie.
01:03:11 Oh, is it?
01:03:13 Yeah, with his peanut head.
01:03:15 I want to ask you, why didn't you tell Terrence that?
01:03:18 There's that picture!
01:03:20 That deformed baby.
01:03:22 This looked like a baby that came out before time was up.
01:03:26 And they put it out in the sun and all.
01:03:29 You know what they told me?
01:03:31 They said, "Grandma told me, I'm going to give you some money.
01:03:33 Can you take him to a place and have his picture taken?"
01:03:37 I said, "Yeah, I will."
01:03:39 I wrapped you all up.
01:03:41 This looked like a baby that's drunk.
01:03:43 [laughter]
01:03:46 Oh, Lord have mercy.
01:03:49 Where did you get this thing from, Brunette?
01:03:51 I looked for a little--
01:03:53 Are you sure that's me?
01:03:54 I'm sure that's you.
01:03:56 I packed you up there to that place.
01:03:59 And the man said, "I ain't got no chair to fit him."
01:04:01 [laughter]
01:04:04 Yeah, so he said, "Oh, I got something.
01:04:07 I'll take this ricker chair and put him in it."
01:04:11 You know, what gets me is the baby looks confused.
01:04:14 [laughter]
01:04:16 My teacher.
01:04:23 I want to be a teacher.
01:04:25 I want to be a teacher.
01:04:27 Good.
01:04:28 Please listen to me.
01:04:30 My father's name.
01:04:31 My father's name.
01:04:32 My mother's name.
01:04:34 My mother's name.
01:04:36 Okay, go on.
01:04:37 My father's name was Faye.
01:04:40 My mother's name is Laura.
01:04:43 My travel is Gao.
01:04:45 Oh, Gao.
01:04:51 We have changed the name of our organization
01:04:55 from the United African American Community Center
01:04:59 to the United African Alliance Community Center.
01:05:09 [speaking in foreign language]
01:05:11 We feel that the word "alliance" better describes
01:05:15 the relationship of Africans from the continent
01:05:19 and the diaspora working together.
01:05:22 Go.
01:05:23 Class, class.
01:05:24 [speaking in foreign language]
01:05:27 I am happier here.
01:05:38 I feel that I'm more productive here
01:05:40 than I have ever been in my entire life,
01:05:44 particularly now that I've seen my mama
01:05:47 and I've had the chance to interact with her.
01:05:50 Even the desire to visit briefly the United States
01:05:55 is beginning to wane.
01:05:57 I'm going to miss this little year.
01:06:07 This is a special new year,
01:06:09 and one thing that makes it extra special
01:06:12 is that Mama Chlorine O'Neal is in the house tonight.
01:06:16 Give her a hand, y'all.
01:06:18 [applause]
01:06:20 Mama Chlorine, you got to say something.
01:06:22 I'm sorry.
01:06:23 I'm sorry to interrupt your dinner,
01:06:26 but you got to say something.
01:06:28 Oh, wait a minute now.
01:06:33 I got to stop him.
01:06:34 I don't need any music with my introduction.
01:06:37 Oh, cut it out.
01:06:39 No.
01:06:40 [applause]
01:06:42 [singing]
01:06:44 [speaking in foreign language]
01:06:48 We're so very pleased to have all of you here with us,
01:06:52 and as we prepare to welcome the year 2003,
01:06:56 be aware that in true Kansas City style,
01:07:02 we're going to bring it in with a bang.
01:07:05 [music]
01:07:08 Higher, higher, higher, higher.
01:07:11 Hey, hey!
01:07:13 [singing]
01:07:15 [music]
01:07:24 [singing]
01:07:35 Okay, now, here's what I'm doing.
01:07:39 I got one in the round, but I got safety on, okay?
01:07:42 [music]
01:07:48 Okay, we're cool.
01:07:50 We'll wait until it's ready.
01:07:53 20 seconds.
01:07:54 20 seconds.
01:07:55 I'm off.
01:07:57 19, 18, 15, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
01:08:14 [cheering]
01:08:43 I have never in my life lived in any community
01:08:49 as long as I have lived in Arusha, Tanzania.
01:08:56 I'm trying to make sure I'm saying the right thing here now.
01:09:02 I'm not going to return to the United States ever again.
01:09:08 They can have my piece of Kansas City.
01:09:11 I give it back to them with a free heart and a clear conscience.
01:09:15 To take it further, I am at the point now--
01:09:20 and I have given this a lot of thought.
01:09:22 This is not a frivolous decision that I've made.
01:09:27 I'm going to apply to become a citizen of the Republic of Tanzania.
01:09:35 [music]
01:09:49 Happy New Year.
01:09:51 Happy New Year.
01:09:53 [cheering]
01:10:04 [music]
01:10:18 Two young men who had been out here with some program or another
01:10:22 were receiving their Eagle Scout badges or something,
01:10:26 and they wanted a letter of recommendation from me.
01:10:31 They had used me as their reference,
01:10:34 and the Scoutmaster was asking me,
01:10:36 "Mr. O'Neill, would you please send the letter of recommendation,
01:10:40 and we will act upon it immediately."
01:10:43 I thought that was ironic as hell--
01:10:46 Black Panther recommending Eagle Scouts.
01:10:51 [music]
01:10:53 [BLANK_AUDIO]