WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.570 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:00:00.570 --> 00:00:04.500 align:middle line:84% So this next poem is called "Afrofuturism," 00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:06.630 align:middle line:90% because popularity. 00:00:06.630 --> 00:00:09.455 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.455 --> 00:00:11.580 align:middle line:84% I was educated in the [? Pasadena ?] Unified School 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:14.760 align:middle line:84% District, so I had a lot of my education 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:16.710 align:middle line:90% from after school programming. 00:00:16.710 --> 00:00:18.720 align:middle line:84% There was the Hanna-Barbera curriculum, 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:21.750 align:middle line:84% which showed me through The Flintstones 00:00:21.750 --> 00:00:24.610 align:middle line:84% that Black people didn't exist in the past, 00:00:24.610 --> 00:00:26.610 align:middle line:84% and through The Jetsons that Black people didn't 00:00:26.610 --> 00:00:28.480 align:middle line:90% exist in the future. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.640 align:middle line:84% And so "Afrofuturism" is kind of radical dream thinking 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:33.900 align:middle line:90% a type of Black future. 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:36.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:36.830 --> 00:00:39.720 align:middle line:84% That might have been a little bit afropessimistic. 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:42.400 align:middle line:90% 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:44.854 align:middle line:90% All right, "Afrofuturism." 00:00:44.854 --> 00:00:48.790 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:00:48.790 --> 00:01:10.930 align:middle line:90% 00:01:10.930 --> 00:01:13.390 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:01:13.390 --> 00:01:14.374 align:middle line:90% Moonshots. 00:01:14.374 --> 00:01:16.900 align:middle line:90% 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:18.790 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:01:18.790 --> 00:01:19.638 align:middle line:90% Rocket. 00:01:19.638 --> 00:01:22.566 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:01:22.566 --> 00:01:25.500 align:middle line:90% Moonshots. 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:28.470 align:middle line:84% Won't you let me take you on a [STATIC NOISE] cruise. 00:01:28.470 --> 00:01:31.920 align:middle line:84% Won't you let me take you on a [STATIC NOISE] cruise. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:34.680 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.060 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:36.060 --> 00:01:37.470 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:37.470 --> 00:01:38.910 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:38.910 --> 00:01:40.350 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:40.350 --> 00:01:41.775 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:41.775 --> 00:01:42.900 align:middle line:90% Take you me to your leader. 00:01:42.900 --> 00:01:44.310 align:middle line:90% Take-- take me to. 00:01:44.310 --> 00:01:45.360 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:46.140 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:46.140 --> 00:01:47.190 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:47.190 --> 00:01:48.240 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:54.210 align:middle line:90% So far ahead it's behind. 00:01:54.210 --> 00:01:58.243 align:middle line:84% Moses tote her raygun, saying moonwalk or get disintegrated. 00:01:58.243 --> 00:02:01.484 align:middle line:90% 00:02:01.484 --> 00:02:03.800 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:06.878 align:middle line:90% Moonshots. 00:02:06.878 --> 00:02:09.270 align:middle line:90% Pharaohs go far away-o. 00:02:09.270 --> 00:02:12.690 align:middle line:90% No riding place down there. 00:02:12.690 --> 00:02:16.960 align:middle line:84% Thrones thrown up like they just don't care. 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.270 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:02:18.270 --> 00:02:19.830 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:21.270 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:02:21.270 --> 00:02:22.830 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:02:22.830 --> 00:02:23.820 align:middle line:90% Take me to. 00:02:23.820 --> 00:02:25.230 align:middle line:90% Who you calling Buck Rogers? 00:02:25.230 --> 00:02:28.880 align:middle line:90% 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:30.080 align:middle line:90% Well you calling Starbuck? 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.646 align:middle line:90% 00:02:35.646 --> 00:02:37.590 align:middle line:90% Astrosheen. 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:39.245 align:middle line:90% Bling. 00:02:39.245 --> 00:02:40.372 align:middle line:90% Remy Martian. 00:02:40.372 --> 00:02:41.910 align:middle line:90% Bling. 00:02:41.910 --> 00:02:42.410 align:middle line:90% Cadillite. 00:02:42.410 --> 00:02:44.520 align:middle line:90% Eh. 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:45.020 align:middle line:90% Cadillactic. 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:47.780 align:middle line:90% Eh. 00:02:47.780 --> 00:02:49.776 align:middle line:90% Spacey Adams. 00:02:49.776 --> 00:02:51.760 align:middle line:90% Bling. 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:53.120 align:middle line:90% Who you calling Starbuck? 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.690 align:middle line:90% 00:02:56.690 --> 00:02:58.510 align:middle line:84% What our antenna said, we was bugged, 00:02:58.510 --> 00:03:01.850 align:middle line:84% so us eyed the light up to light out 00:03:01.850 --> 00:03:04.880 align:middle line:84% whole of "the place" blacked up, so blacks out this terra. 00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:07.530 align:middle line:90% O, great gettin' up launchin'. 00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:10.940 align:middle line:84% Space suited Q.U.E.E.N.S. in foil to fly, 00:03:10.940 --> 00:03:13.990 align:middle line:84% flightsuited kings sky around shinin'. 00:03:13.990 --> 00:03:16.550 align:middle line:84% Zip, zip, zip off the plantation, 00:03:16.550 --> 00:03:20.630 align:middle line:84% beyond the stairs to nigga heaven. 00:03:20.630 --> 00:03:22.120 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:27.390 align:middle line:84% It's an escape craft from now and then by way of then 00:03:27.390 --> 00:03:27.930 align:middle line:90% and soon. 00:03:27.930 --> 00:03:28.920 align:middle line:90% Yeahyeahyeahyeah. 00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:33.870 align:middle line:90% 00:03:33.870 --> 00:03:38.690 align:middle line:84% It's the where, the when we go, when the call gets no response. 00:03:38.690 --> 00:03:39.440 align:middle line:90% [STATIC NOISE] 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:40.550 align:middle line:90% Over. 00:03:40.550 --> 00:03:41.896 align:middle line:90% Do you read? 00:03:41.896 --> 00:03:43.620 align:middle line:90% [STATIC NOISE] Over. 00:03:43.620 --> 00:03:44.590 align:middle line:90% Do you read? 00:03:44.590 --> 00:03:46.506 align:middle line:90% [STATIC NOISE] Over. 00:03:46.506 --> 00:03:48.941 align:middle line:90% Are we there yet? 00:03:48.941 --> 00:03:51.270 align:middle line:90% Are we we yet? 00:03:51.270 --> 00:03:55.220 align:middle line:90% Are we we there? 00:03:55.220 --> 00:03:58.200 align:middle line:90% Are they we there yet. 00:03:58.200 --> 00:04:01.230 align:middle line:90% Are we here yet there? 00:04:01.230 --> 00:04:03.770 align:middle line:90% There, there. 00:04:03.770 --> 00:04:06.326 align:middle line:90% NASA been good to us. 00:04:06.326 --> 00:04:09.640 align:middle line:90% Dogonnit, I'm serious. 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:12.250 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:04:12.250 --> 00:04:15.120 align:middle line:90% Moonshots. 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.988 align:middle line:90% Rockets. 00:04:17.988 --> 00:04:21.339 align:middle line:90% Moonshots. 00:04:21.339 --> 00:04:25.170 align:middle line:84% We're getting a message from Admiral Hayden. 00:04:25.170 --> 00:04:29.880 align:middle line:90% [STATIC NOISE] Pilot. 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:30.380 align:middle line:90% Pilot. 00:04:30.380 --> 00:04:32.890 align:middle line:90% 00:04:32.890 --> 00:04:35.760 align:middle line:90% Pilot. 00:04:35.760 --> 00:04:38.670 align:middle line:90% Pilot. 00:04:38.670 --> 00:04:40.220 align:middle line:90% Pilot. 00:04:40.220 --> 00:04:45.000 align:middle line:90%