A woman faces the battle of her life when her estranged father's family tries to evict her and her grandmother from the | dG1fN0JNRVRDQVF1LXM
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00:00There's about an acre and a half of land that we're willing to purchase, and we're willing
00:29to purchase in exchange for you moving off this property.
00:34Granted, it's an eviction notice.
00:36What do you mean, eviction?
00:38That's family land, and I mean to take it back.
00:42Old Man Hurley gave the Reeds 1,000 acres.
00:46No deed.
00:47Damn.
00:48What?
00:49It's the heir's property.
00:50Some land is passed down to black families without the benefit of a deed.
00:51The man is your father.
00:52How?
00:53When he chose to be the stranger.
01:01You don't know what demons that man had to fight.
01:05The law is the law.
01:07Your daddy left me all the living rights I need.
01:10But you can't live here without legal documents, Granny.
01:13Court probate.
01:14Putney is now in session.
01:15How you doing, baby?
01:16It could help if you told the truth.
01:17To the white folk?
01:18Ain't they cold out?
01:19All they do is lie, especially them.
01:20The Civil War is over.
01:21We won.
01:22You are no one's mammy, so I instruct you to please speak up.
01:23Did you just call my Granny a mammy?
01:24How dare you waltz into here to make a mockery, a caricature of this court?
01:28God's got a way of putting people in their place.
01:32Squeaking about reparations.
01:33It's a different time.
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01:47Yeah, these white folk got a privilege that even the devil can't take away.
02:17You