WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.420 align:middle line:84% So when they had the opportunity, of course, 00:00:03.420 --> 00:00:04.510 align:middle line:90% they jumped in the water. 00:00:04.510 --> 00:00:05.490 align:middle line:90% Some could swim. 00:00:05.490 --> 00:00:07.380 align:middle line:84% Most got shot in the back, we know that. 00:00:07.380 --> 00:00:09.150 align:middle line:84% And we know that when they got shot in the back, 00:00:09.150 --> 00:00:10.260 align:middle line:84% and that blood went in the water, 00:00:10.260 --> 00:00:11.718 align:middle line:84% something else was going to happen. 00:00:11.718 --> 00:00:13.470 align:middle line:84% The sharks are going to come, and they're 00:00:13.470 --> 00:00:14.595 align:middle line:90% going to consume that body. 00:00:14.595 --> 00:00:16.440 align:middle line:84% But the sharks are now being taught 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.230 align:middle line:84% to follow the ships all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. 00:00:19.230 --> 00:00:20.880 align:middle line:90% And I am, I hope, a good person. 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:22.560 align:middle line:84% I try to be, to tell you the truth. 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:25.890 align:middle line:84% But every time I see a shark attack in the United States, 00:00:25.890 --> 00:00:27.660 align:middle line:90% it makes me happy. 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:28.170 align:middle line:90% It does. 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:30.197 align:middle line:84% Because if you had left me where I belong, 00:00:30.197 --> 00:00:32.280 align:middle line:84% the sharks would have stayed on the African coast, 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:33.630 align:middle line:84% and you could have swam in your waters. 00:00:33.630 --> 00:00:34.260 align:middle line:90% But now-- 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:34.950 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:34.950 --> 00:00:36.270 align:middle line:90% So it's good for the sharks. 00:00:36.270 --> 00:00:37.062 align:middle line:90% Let's go, you know. 00:00:37.062 --> 00:00:39.000 align:middle line:84% Every time I see an attack, go sharks! 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:39.890 align:middle line:90% These (LAUGHS)-- 00:00:39.890 --> 00:00:41.953 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:41.953 --> 00:00:42.870 align:middle line:90% It's what's happening. 00:00:42.870 --> 00:00:44.850 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:44.850 --> 00:00:45.990 align:middle line:90% Now we watched the trade. 00:00:45.990 --> 00:00:47.100 align:middle line:90% And so we watch it. 00:00:47.100 --> 00:00:48.888 align:middle line:84% We get to that third and fourth day. 00:00:48.888 --> 00:00:50.430 align:middle line:84% And they're bringing the Africans up, 00:00:50.430 --> 00:00:52.560 align:middle line:84% and they're throwing the salt water on them, right. 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.090 align:middle line:90% And they're jumping up and down. 00:00:54.090 --> 00:00:55.715 align:middle line:84% And the Africans are still looking out. 00:00:55.715 --> 00:00:58.650 align:middle line:84% They cannot see the land, but they can look back and they can 00:00:58.650 --> 00:01:00.218 align:middle line:84% see the heat coming off the land. 00:01:00.218 --> 00:01:02.010 align:middle line:84% And I always like to point out, if you only 00:01:02.010 --> 00:01:04.650 align:middle line:84% have one way to see Africa, you should see it by ship, 00:01:04.650 --> 00:01:06.898 align:middle line:84% because you'll see the heat before you see the land. 00:01:06.898 --> 00:01:08.190 align:middle line:90% There's a shimmer that goes on. 00:01:08.190 --> 00:01:09.107 align:middle line:90% It's really wonderful. 00:01:09.107 --> 00:01:11.040 align:middle line:84% So they still knew where home was. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.500 align:middle line:84% Because everybody keeps trying to say, oh they didn't know. 00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:14.610 align:middle line:90% They knew where home was. 00:01:14.610 --> 00:01:17.110 align:middle line:84% And as long as they knew where home was, they kept thinking, 00:01:17.110 --> 00:01:19.620 align:middle line:84% there's going to be a way to get back. 00:01:19.620 --> 00:01:22.290 align:middle line:84% When we get to that fifth day, that sixth day, 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:24.420 align:middle line:84% and they're brought up, and the water is thrown, 00:01:24.420 --> 00:01:26.920 align:middle line:84% and they're jumping up and down, and they're looking around. 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.850 align:middle line:84% They can now no longer see-- because the Earth is round-- 00:01:29.850 --> 00:01:33.538 align:middle line:84% they can no longer see the land, and they cannot see the heat. 00:01:33.538 --> 00:01:35.830 align:middle line:84% But they can still look up and they can see the clouds. 00:01:35.830 --> 00:01:37.230 align:middle line:84% And as we all know, clouds over land 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:38.772 align:middle line:84% are different from clouds over water. 00:01:38.772 --> 00:01:40.892 align:middle line:84% So they still knew where home was. 00:01:40.892 --> 00:01:42.600 align:middle line:84% But we're going to get to that 10th day-- 00:01:42.600 --> 00:01:45.360 align:middle line:84% which we know from the study of the ship's captain's logs-- 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:47.430 align:middle line:84% when we get to that ninth and tenth day, 00:01:47.430 --> 00:01:49.690 align:middle line:84% and they're brought up, and they look around, 00:01:49.690 --> 00:01:51.690 align:middle line:84% there's nothing that they can see that indicates 00:01:51.690 --> 00:01:52.980 align:middle line:90% where they used to be. 00:01:52.980 --> 00:01:55.320 align:middle line:84% And this is going to be the point that it's 00:01:55.320 --> 00:01:57.390 align:middle line:84% going to be a very dangerous point for the ship, 00:01:57.390 --> 00:01:59.430 align:middle line:84% because the Africans are going to have to rebel. 00:01:59.430 --> 00:02:01.710 align:middle line:84% And they're going to have to try to find a way to contain them 00:02:01.710 --> 00:02:04.020 align:middle line:84% without killing them, because if you start to kill them, 00:02:04.020 --> 00:02:05.895 align:middle line:84% then the whole purpose of what you were doing 00:02:05.895 --> 00:02:06.730 align:middle line:90% is going to be lost. 00:02:06.730 --> 00:02:07.230 align:middle line:90% Right? 00:02:07.230 --> 00:02:10.380 align:middle line:84% And so we have them on that 10th day. 00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:12.280 align:middle line:84% And they have to make a decision. 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.400 align:middle line:84% And this is what bothers me very much. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:15.780 align:middle line:84% Nobody wants to give those people 00:02:15.780 --> 00:02:19.110 align:middle line:90% credit for making a decision. 00:02:19.110 --> 00:02:21.930 align:middle line:84% Didn't it ever occur to anybody how unusual 00:02:21.930 --> 00:02:24.540 align:middle line:84% it is that these people arrived on the shores, 00:02:24.540 --> 00:02:25.950 align:middle line:90% and they were still sane? 00:02:25.950 --> 00:02:28.020 align:middle line:84% That these people arrived on these shores, 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:30.390 align:middle line:84% and they had dignity, that they held their heads up. 00:02:30.390 --> 00:02:32.790 align:middle line:84% That somehow they went through all of that, 00:02:32.790 --> 00:02:34.650 align:middle line:84% and still managed to hold on to themselves, 00:02:34.650 --> 00:02:35.760 align:middle line:90% because they made a decision. 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:38.010 align:middle line:84% If they had been singing a song, they would have said, 00:02:38.010 --> 00:02:41.070 align:middle line:84% I made my vow to the Lord that I never will turn back. 00:02:41.070 --> 00:02:42.120 align:middle line:90% I will go. 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.970 align:middle line:84% I shall go to see what the end may be. 00:02:44.970 --> 00:02:46.140 align:middle line:90% These were great people. 00:02:46.140 --> 00:02:47.760 align:middle line:84% And we don't like to credit people 00:02:47.760 --> 00:02:49.560 align:middle line:84% with being a great people if they don't raise armies, 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:50.820 align:middle line:90% if they don't kill people. 00:02:50.820 --> 00:02:52.260 align:middle line:90% But these were great people. 00:02:52.260 --> 00:02:54.570 align:middle line:84% Because they have to come to these shores, where 00:02:54.570 --> 00:02:56.550 align:middle line:90% they stood on auction blocks. 00:02:56.550 --> 00:03:00.953 align:middle line:84% And I've always hated the way Hollywood shows slave auctions, 00:03:00.953 --> 00:03:02.370 align:middle line:84% because they always show the women 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:03.630 align:middle line:84% in their little colonial outfits, 00:03:03.630 --> 00:03:04.950 align:middle line:84% and that's not what was happening. 00:03:04.950 --> 00:03:07.367 align:middle line:84% What was happening is that all the raw parts of your body, 00:03:07.367 --> 00:03:09.630 align:middle line:84% they put tar on it, so that it didn't look like you 00:03:09.630 --> 00:03:10.830 align:middle line:90% were as sick as you were. 00:03:10.830 --> 00:03:13.890 align:middle line:84% And they also, just for the women, you were naked. 00:03:13.890 --> 00:03:16.290 align:middle line:84% They rubbed you with oil and shined you up. 00:03:16.290 --> 00:03:18.060 align:middle line:84% And men came, and put their hands 00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:20.760 align:middle line:84% in your mouth, or any other orifice that they felt like. 00:03:20.760 --> 00:03:22.560 align:middle line:84% And everybody kept saying, oh, they 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.830 align:middle line:84% didn't know what was going on, but they understood sold. 00:03:25.830 --> 00:03:28.170 align:middle line:84% And they understood the tattoos that they were having. 00:03:28.170 --> 00:03:30.378 align:middle line:84% They understood being chained, marked to a plantation 00:03:30.378 --> 00:03:32.700 align:middle line:84% with some other fool that they didn't know. 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:36.150 align:middle line:84% They understood that all of a sudden, whatever it was, 00:03:36.150 --> 00:03:38.670 align:middle line:84% they were going to have to deposit their dreams 00:03:38.670 --> 00:03:40.650 align:middle line:90% on this very hostile soil. 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:42.390 align:middle line:84% And they were going to have to find a way 00:03:42.390 --> 00:03:44.892 align:middle line:84% to believe that there is going to be a better day. 00:03:44.892 --> 00:03:47.100 align:middle line:84% And it's going to be 300 years before that day comes. 00:03:47.100 --> 00:03:48.390 align:middle line:90% But these were a great people. 00:03:48.390 --> 00:03:49.967 align:middle line:84% They found a way to love, knowing 00:03:49.967 --> 00:03:52.050 align:middle line:84% that when they had their children, as soon as they 00:03:52.050 --> 00:03:53.715 align:middle line:84% were able to toddle, somebody was going 00:03:53.715 --> 00:03:54.840 align:middle line:90% to take them and sell them. 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:56.730 align:middle line:84% And they had to find a way to say to the child, 00:03:56.730 --> 00:03:58.950 align:middle line:84% that they would never see again, that they love them. 00:03:58.950 --> 00:04:01.325 align:middle line:84% So they used to sing a song to the children, didn't they? 00:04:01.325 --> 00:04:04.090 align:middle line:84% And they said if anybody asks you who you are, 00:04:04.090 --> 00:04:06.270 align:middle line:84% tell them you're a child of God, that there 00:04:06.270 --> 00:04:08.193 align:middle line:84% is no person-- no enslaved person-- that 00:04:08.193 --> 00:04:10.110 align:middle line:84% ever told their child that they were enslaved. 00:04:10.110 --> 00:04:13.050 align:middle line:84% They told their child, you're as good as anybody else. 00:04:13.050 --> 00:04:14.310 align:middle line:90% We heard it all the way. 00:04:14.310 --> 00:04:16.050 align:middle line:90% For 300 years they did that. 00:04:16.050 --> 00:04:17.365 align:middle line:90% This was a great people. 00:04:17.365 --> 00:04:18.990 align:middle line:84% When we look at America, where would we 00:04:18.990 --> 00:04:21.870 align:middle line:84% be without the belief in the American dream 00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:23.435 align:middle line:90% that Black Americans have shown? 00:04:23.435 --> 00:04:25.560 align:middle line:84% And nobody wants to give us credit for what we did, 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:27.010 align:middle line:90% but they are a great people. 00:04:27.010 --> 00:04:29.340 align:middle line:84% And a part of what made the American dream work 00:04:29.340 --> 00:04:31.570 align:middle line:84% is that these people worked very hard. 00:04:31.570 --> 00:04:34.410 align:middle line:84% They did the labor, but they also did the belief. 00:04:34.410 --> 00:04:35.700 align:middle line:90% They did the promise. 00:04:35.700 --> 00:04:37.982 align:middle line:84% They deposited those dreams, and they continue. 00:04:37.982 --> 00:04:39.690 align:middle line:84% We watch it now with those young rappers. 00:04:39.690 --> 00:04:41.520 align:middle line:90% They continue to watch it grow. 00:04:41.520 --> 00:04:43.940 align:middle line:90% And this is a wonderful thing.