So, thank you all for being here tonight.
I'm going to, I'm going to--
before we begin, I just want to say one thing.
I know it's late and, like, you might get tired and leave
in the middle, and that's fine.
So don't feel shy about that.
It would be better for you to come into this actual room
and get up in the middle because you're
tired then to sit out there and leave
because it doesn't sound good.
So please come inside, come inside.
Like, massa ain't looking, the colored section can be freed,
y'all hear.
Come to the front.
We have utterly, totally, voluntary Pullman porters.
None of them are here under duress, I promise,
so you can feel good about that.
Come on up, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
I'm actually-- thank you, Steve, for that wonderful intro.
And I'm really glad that he made Latasha Diggs--
Woo!
Indeed.
Because the reason why we have been working together
is because of a concert curated by Latasha Diggs.
So I want to thank her for being the wonderful poet, artist,
producer, curator, thinker that she is.
Thank you very much to Thinkings Its Presence
for bringing me here, Prageeta Sharma, the board,
as well as the Poetry Center.
I know they've been hearing thank you, thank you, thank you
and it's been lobbed at them so much.
But I just really want to extend that.
All right?
Maybe ready?
We're going to start off with a little piece called
"The Loud-Ass Colored Silence Booming System, AKA, Miranda
Rizzights."
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[IMMITATING POLICE SIREN]
Is there a problem?
Is there a problem.?
Is there a problem?
Officer, officer, is there a problem?
Is there a problem.?
Is there a problem?
Officer, is there a problem?
[IMMITATING POLICE SIREN]
Boom, clap, boom, boom, clap.
Boom, clap, boom, boom, boom, clap.
Boom, clap, boom, boom, clap.
[IMMITATING POLICE SIRENS]
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
Blat!
Shh.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
There's no problem.
No more problem.
There's no problem.
No more problem.
[MUSIC PLAYING]