WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.050 --> 00:00:04.320 align:middle line:84% So, thank you all for being here tonight. 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:05.730 align:middle line:90% I'm going to, I'm going to-- 00:00:05.730 --> 00:00:08.620 align:middle line:84% before we begin, I just want to say one thing. 00:00:08.620 --> 00:00:11.880 align:middle line:84% I know it's late and, like, you might get tired and leave 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:14.370 align:middle line:90% in the middle, and that's fine. 00:00:14.370 --> 00:00:16.290 align:middle line:90% So don't feel shy about that. 00:00:16.290 --> 00:00:20.400 align:middle line:84% It would be better for you to come into this actual room 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:22.560 align:middle line:84% and get up in the middle because you're 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:25.130 align:middle line:84% tired then to sit out there and leave 00:00:25.130 --> 00:00:26.380 align:middle line:90% because it doesn't sound good. 00:00:26.380 --> 00:00:31.080 align:middle line:84% So please come inside, come inside. 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:35.130 align:middle line:84% Like, massa ain't looking, the colored section can be freed, 00:00:35.130 --> 00:00:36.760 align:middle line:90% y'all hear. 00:00:36.760 --> 00:00:40.570 align:middle line:90% Come to the front. 00:00:40.570 --> 00:00:47.370 align:middle line:84% We have utterly, totally, voluntary Pullman porters. 00:00:47.370 --> 00:00:50.627 align:middle line:84% None of them are here under duress, I promise, 00:00:50.627 --> 00:00:51.960 align:middle line:90% so you can feel good about that. 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.410 align:middle line:84% Come on up, thank you, thank you, thank you. 00:00:54.410 --> 00:00:56.810 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:59.900 align:middle line:84% I'm actually-- thank you, Steve, for that wonderful intro. 00:00:59.900 --> 00:01:03.300 align:middle line:84% And I'm really glad that he made Latasha Diggs-- 00:01:03.300 --> 00:01:04.280 align:middle line:90% Woo! 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:04.819 align:middle line:90% Indeed. 00:01:04.819 --> 00:01:08.540 align:middle line:84% Because the reason why we have been working together 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:12.530 align:middle line:84% is because of a concert curated by Latasha Diggs. 00:01:12.530 --> 00:01:17.810 align:middle line:84% So I want to thank her for being the wonderful poet, artist, 00:01:17.810 --> 00:01:21.620 align:middle line:84% producer, curator, thinker that she is. 00:01:21.620 --> 00:01:24.200 align:middle line:84% Thank you very much to Thinkings Its Presence 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.552 align:middle line:84% for bringing me here, Prageeta Sharma, the board, 00:01:27.552 --> 00:01:28.760 align:middle line:90% as well as the Poetry Center. 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.750 align:middle line:84% I know they've been hearing thank you, thank you, thank you 00:01:30.750 --> 00:01:32.720 align:middle line:84% and it's been lobbed at them so much. 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:35.180 align:middle line:84% But I just really want to extend that. 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:35.997 align:middle line:90% All right? 00:01:35.997 --> 00:01:36.971 align:middle line:90% Maybe ready? 00:01:36.971 --> 00:01:40.265 align:middle line:90% 00:01:40.265 --> 00:01:42.390 align:middle line:84% We're going to start off with a little piece called 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:47.400 align:middle line:84% "The Loud-Ass Colored Silence Booming System, AKA, Miranda 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:49.088 align:middle line:90% Rizzights." 00:01:49.088 --> 00:01:51.583 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:01:51.583 --> 00:02:13.040 align:middle line:90% 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:15.535 align:middle line:90% [IMMITATING POLICE SIREN] 00:02:15.535 --> 00:03:01.443 align:middle line:90% 00:03:01.443 --> 00:03:04.550 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:04.550 --> 00:03:05.930 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:05.930 --> 00:03:07.010 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:07.010 --> 00:03:09.510 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:09.510 --> 00:03:10.650 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:10.650 --> 00:03:12.350 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem.? 00:03:12.350 --> 00:03:13.960 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:18.870 align:middle line:84% Officer, officer, is there a problem? 00:03:18.870 --> 00:03:20.510 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem.? 00:03:20.510 --> 00:03:21.790 align:middle line:90% Is there a problem? 00:03:21.790 --> 00:03:27.000 align:middle line:90% Officer, is there a problem? 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.450 align:middle line:90% [IMMITATING POLICE SIREN] 00:03:29.450 --> 00:03:32.390 align:middle line:90% 00:03:32.390 --> 00:03:35.330 align:middle line:90% Boom, clap, boom, boom, clap. 00:03:35.330 --> 00:03:38.590 align:middle line:84% Boom, clap, boom, boom, boom, clap. 00:03:38.590 --> 00:03:41.640 align:middle line:90% Boom, clap, boom, boom, clap. 00:03:41.640 --> 00:03:44.749 align:middle line:90% Boom, clap, boom, boom, clap. 00:03:44.749 --> 00:03:46.705 align:middle line:90% [IMMITATING POLICE SIRENS] 00:03:46.705 --> 00:03:59.419 align:middle line:90% 00:03:59.419 --> 00:04:01.930 align:middle line:84% Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. 00:04:01.930 --> 00:04:02.430 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:02.430 --> 00:04:02.930 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:02.930 --> 00:04:03.430 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:03.430 --> 00:04:03.930 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:03.930 --> 00:04:04.430 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:04.930 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:04.930 --> 00:04:05.407 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:05.407 --> 00:04:05.884 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:05.884 --> 00:04:06.361 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:06.361 --> 00:04:06.838 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:06.838 --> 00:04:07.315 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:07.315 --> 00:04:07.792 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:07.792 --> 00:04:08.269 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:08.269 --> 00:04:08.750 align:middle line:90% Blat! 00:04:08.750 --> 00:04:09.250 align:middle line:90% Shh. 00:04:09.250 --> 00:04:16.445 align:middle line:90% 00:04:16.445 --> 00:04:19.403 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:04:19.403 --> 00:04:35.200 align:middle line:90% 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:37.633 align:middle line:90% There's no problem. 00:04:37.633 --> 00:04:41.330 align:middle line:90% No more problem. 00:04:41.330 --> 00:04:44.460 align:middle line:90% There's no problem. 00:04:44.460 --> 00:04:45.960 align:middle line:90% No more problem. 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:48.710 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:04:48.710 --> 00:05:10.491 align:middle line:90%