WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.535 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:00.535 --> 00:00:01.035 align:middle line:90% No. 00:00:01.035 --> 00:00:03.736 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.736 --> 00:00:04.236 align:middle line:90% No. 00:00:04.236 --> 00:00:09.110 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.110 --> 00:00:12.328 align:middle line:84% There've been a lot of things written about Mrs. Parks. 00:00:12.328 --> 00:00:14.120 align:middle line:84% But one of the things that I wanted to show 00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:15.620 align:middle line:90% was the woman I knew. 00:00:15.620 --> 00:00:19.880 align:middle line:84% So my book starts with, "Mrs. Parks was having a good day." 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:23.170 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:23.170 --> 00:00:23.958 align:middle line:90% 00:00:23.958 --> 00:00:26.000 align:middle line:84% Because everybody acts like Rosa had an attitude, 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:27.190 align:middle line:90% she's on the rag or something. 00:00:27.190 --> 00:00:28.023 align:middle line:90% See what I'm saying. 00:00:28.023 --> 00:00:30.230 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:30.230 --> 00:00:32.270 align:middle line:90% She was having a good day. 00:00:32.270 --> 00:00:34.460 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Parks lived with her husband, Raymond, 00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:35.510 align:middle line:90% and her mother. 00:00:35.510 --> 00:00:37.518 align:middle line:84% They did not have biological children. 00:00:37.518 --> 00:00:38.810 align:middle line:90% They live in a small apartment. 00:00:38.810 --> 00:00:40.640 align:middle line:84% Actually, they lived in the project. 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.950 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Parks, like any other woman, 00:00:42.950 --> 00:00:45.515 align:middle line:84% got up before her husband and made breakfast. 00:00:45.515 --> 00:00:48.440 align:middle line:84% Raymond got up, and sat down, and ate it. 00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:51.950 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:51.950 --> 00:00:55.160 align:middle line:84% But Mrs. Parks' mother was not feeling well. 00:00:55.160 --> 00:00:57.080 align:middle line:90% And I gave her the flu. 00:00:57.080 --> 00:00:59.300 align:middle line:84% Now, that is not an actual fact that I 00:00:59.300 --> 00:01:02.300 align:middle line:84% know to be a fact, that she was, on that day, 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:04.500 align:middle line:90% not feeling that way. 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:07.430 align:middle line:84% But nonetheless, I have to do something with it. 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:09.230 align:middle line:84% When you're writing a story, you have-- 00:01:09.230 --> 00:01:10.220 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:10.220 --> 00:01:10.880 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:12.380 align:middle line:84% Her mother's an old woman, so I have 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:15.350 align:middle line:84% to do something to bring her into the story, right? 00:01:15.350 --> 00:01:16.970 align:middle line:90% And so I gave her the flu. 00:01:16.970 --> 00:01:18.650 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:18.650 --> 00:01:20.780 align:middle line:84% I didn't want to give her a cold, because A cold is 00:01:20.780 --> 00:01:24.110 align:middle line:84% something you take aspirin for, and the flu is achy, right? 00:01:24.110 --> 00:01:26.450 align:middle line:90% So Mrs. Parks fixes breakfast. 00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:28.790 align:middle line:90% And mother came to the table. 00:01:28.790 --> 00:01:31.760 align:middle line:84% And in 24 years, when you hear older people talk, and I 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:33.830 align:middle line:84% hope some of you do as you become writers, 00:01:33.830 --> 00:01:35.630 align:middle line:90% you get a lot of-- 00:01:35.630 --> 00:01:37.940 align:middle line:90% things are not as exact, right? 00:01:37.940 --> 00:01:39.500 align:middle line:84% And so you put the story together 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:41.370 align:middle line:90% that's going to make sense. 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:42.920 align:middle line:90% So she came to the table. 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:44.850 align:middle line:84% And she, of course, fed her family. 00:01:44.850 --> 00:01:45.620 align:middle line:90% She ate with them. 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:48.530 align:middle line:84% And then she is going to wash the dishes. 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:50.750 align:middle line:84% Now, normally, mother-- and that we do know-- 00:01:50.750 --> 00:01:52.007 align:middle line:90% mother's home all day. 00:01:52.007 --> 00:01:53.840 align:middle line:84% Normally, mother would have done the dishes. 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:55.640 align:middle line:84% But Mrs. Parks is going to do the dishes 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.830 align:middle line:84% on this day, because mother is not feeling well, 00:01:57.830 --> 00:01:59.900 align:middle line:84% and she wants her to be able to go into the living room, 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.983 align:middle line:84% and turn on her soaps, or whatever it is she does, 00:02:01.983 --> 00:02:02.810 align:middle line:90% and relax. 00:02:02.810 --> 00:02:04.547 align:middle line:90% She wants her to take it easy. 00:02:04.547 --> 00:02:05.630 align:middle line:90% Mother's not feeling well. 00:02:05.630 --> 00:02:08.090 align:middle line:84% So Mrs. Parks washes and dries her dishes-- 00:02:08.090 --> 00:02:10.820 align:middle line:84% this is before the era of dishwasher-- dresses 00:02:10.820 --> 00:02:12.627 align:middle line:90% herself, and goes to work. 00:02:12.627 --> 00:02:14.960 align:middle line:84% Now, you have to recall, of course, that they had a car. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.010 align:middle line:90% People forget that. 00:02:16.010 --> 00:02:17.390 align:middle line:90% Because everybody had one car. 00:02:17.390 --> 00:02:19.820 align:middle line:84% It's not like today, where everybody has-- every family 00:02:19.820 --> 00:02:20.795 align:middle line:90% of four has five cars. 00:02:20.795 --> 00:02:21.295 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:21.295 --> 00:02:23.345 align:middle line:84% But they did-- but they did have the car. 00:02:23.345 --> 00:02:25.220 align:middle line:84% But Raymond worked at Maxwell Air Force base. 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:27.630 align:middle line:84% So he needed the car to go to work, 00:02:27.630 --> 00:02:30.810 align:middle line:84% which is going to leave Mrs. Parks on the Cleveland Avenue 00:02:30.810 --> 00:02:31.310 align:middle line:90% bus. 00:02:31.310 --> 00:02:35.030 align:middle line:84% She gets dressed and she goes to work. 00:02:35.030 --> 00:02:37.340 align:middle line:84% Now Bryan Collier, who's winning-- 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:37.965 align:middle line:90% we won. 00:02:37.965 --> 00:02:40.340 align:middle line:84% We took Caldecott on this year and we took Coretta Scott. 00:02:40.340 --> 00:02:42.650 align:middle line:84% So Brian is doing a really good job, here. 00:02:42.650 --> 00:02:44.390 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Parks was always buttoned down. 00:02:44.390 --> 00:02:45.482 align:middle line:90% She was always very neat. 00:02:45.482 --> 00:02:47.690 align:middle line:84% And you think of any picture you ever saw Rosa Parks, 00:02:47.690 --> 00:02:49.370 align:middle line:84% you just never saw her anything other 00:02:49.370 --> 00:02:50.780 align:middle line:90% than buttoned down and neat. 00:02:50.780 --> 00:02:53.910 align:middle line:84% But I also wanted to show that she was a nicer person, 00:02:53.910 --> 00:02:55.590 align:middle line:90% that she was a human being. 00:02:55.590 --> 00:02:58.070 align:middle line:84% So I have her colleagues are teasing her. 00:02:58.070 --> 00:02:59.060 align:middle line:90% She's a seamstress. 00:02:59.060 --> 00:03:01.310 align:middle line:84% And they're teasing her that she's Rumpelstiltskin, 00:03:01.310 --> 00:03:04.577 align:middle line:84% and that her sewing is magic, because she was always 00:03:04.577 --> 00:03:05.160 align:middle line:90% a hard worker. 00:03:05.160 --> 00:03:07.020 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Parks had worked all of her life. 00:03:07.020 --> 00:03:08.480 align:middle line:90% She was always a hard worker. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:11.000 align:middle line:84% And so she's laughing back and said, it's not magic. 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:11.990 align:middle line:90% I'm just doing my job. 00:03:11.990 --> 00:03:13.220 align:middle line:90% I concentrate. 00:03:13.220 --> 00:03:16.010 align:middle line:84% I also wanted to show that she had good relationships 00:03:16.010 --> 00:03:17.360 align:middle line:90% with her supervisor. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.630 align:middle line:84% We know, in 1955, her supervisor is white. 00:03:20.630 --> 00:03:22.280 align:middle line:84% There's just no question about that. 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:23.840 align:middle line:84% She's working at Montgomery Fair. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.150 align:middle line:84% So I wanted to show that she wasn't having any problem 00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:27.680 align:middle line:90% dealing with white people. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:29.690 align:middle line:84% I show that, because the supervisor is 00:03:29.690 --> 00:03:31.910 align:middle line:84% going to say to her, Rosa, I know 00:03:31.910 --> 00:03:33.540 align:middle line:90% your mother's not feeling well. 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:36.165 align:middle line:84% Now whatever it is that you know about Mrs. Parks, 00:03:36.165 --> 00:03:37.790 align:middle line:84% you know that she was a private person. 00:03:37.790 --> 00:03:41.810 align:middle line:84% Because for 50 years, Mrs. Parks kept her own counsel. 00:03:41.810 --> 00:03:44.030 align:middle line:84% We never had any scandal coming from her. 00:03:44.030 --> 00:03:46.280 align:middle line:84% We had some people around her that had some, but never 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:46.910 align:middle line:90% from her. 00:03:46.910 --> 00:03:48.980 align:middle line:84% So she obviously knew how to conduct herself. 00:03:48.980 --> 00:03:52.130 align:middle line:84% If this woman knew that Mrs. Parks' mother was sick, 00:03:52.130 --> 00:03:54.387 align:middle line:84% it's because Mrs. Parks didn't mind to let her know. 00:03:54.387 --> 00:03:55.970 align:middle line:84% Otherwise, that woman would have never 00:03:55.970 --> 00:03:58.430 align:middle line:90% known she had a mother, right? 00:03:58.430 --> 00:03:59.720 align:middle line:90% No she's close, now. 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:02.320 align:middle line:84% I mean, this is a woman who has to conduct herself. 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:05.700 align:middle line:84% And she's always been under some kind of microscope. 00:04:05.700 --> 00:04:08.270 align:middle line:84% And so her supervisor says to her, why don't you 00:04:08.270 --> 00:04:10.310 align:middle line:84% go on home, because it's the 1st of December. 00:04:10.310 --> 00:04:12.428 align:middle line:84% You got 23 shopping days until Christmas. 00:04:12.428 --> 00:04:13.970 align:middle line:84% You know that the women in Montgomery 00:04:13.970 --> 00:04:15.470 align:middle line:84% are going to do what women do every place. 00:04:15.470 --> 00:04:17.660 align:middle line:84% They're going to wait until the 16th or 17th to come 00:04:17.660 --> 00:04:20.420 align:middle line:84% in and need their dress fixed, so that they can be someplace 00:04:20.420 --> 00:04:22.040 align:middle line:84% on New Year's-- on Christmas Eve. 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:24.660 align:middle line:84% So she knows that Rosa Parks will stay to do that. 00:04:24.660 --> 00:04:25.760 align:middle line:90% So it's a good deal. 00:04:25.760 --> 00:04:28.550 align:middle line:90% Let her go on home. 00:04:28.550 --> 00:04:31.400 align:middle line:84% So Mrs. Parks, of course, accepts the offer 00:04:31.400 --> 00:04:32.300 align:middle line:90% and goes home. 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:35.090 align:middle line:84% Now this is where she's getting ready to get on the bus. 00:04:35.090 --> 00:04:36.830 align:middle line:84% And we have a problem here, because 00:04:36.830 --> 00:04:38.810 align:middle line:84% under segregationist laws of Alabama, 00:04:38.810 --> 00:04:41.720 align:middle line:84% what she has to do is get on the bus, at first, 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.050 align:middle line:84% drop her dime in, get back off, walk around to the back, 00:04:45.050 --> 00:04:46.370 align:middle line:90% and get on at the back, right? 00:04:46.370 --> 00:04:49.880 align:middle line:84% Now I have her-- we should share this, if you don't mind. 00:04:49.880 --> 00:04:53.785 align:middle line:84% In illustrated children's books, it goes a couple of ways. 00:04:53.785 --> 00:04:55.910 align:middle line:84% I don't have anything to do with the illustrations. 00:04:55.910 --> 00:04:57.940 align:middle line:84% I don't believe that the writer should. 00:04:57.940 --> 00:04:59.690 align:middle line:84% I know that there are some writers who do, 00:04:59.690 --> 00:05:01.490 align:middle line:84% but I think it's stupid of them to do that. 00:05:01.490 --> 00:05:04.130 align:middle line:84% I write the story, and I send it in to the editor. 00:05:04.130 --> 00:05:06.042 align:middle line:84% The editor sends it to the illustrator. 00:05:06.042 --> 00:05:07.750 align:middle line:84% The first thing that happens is something 00:05:07.750 --> 00:05:09.280 align:middle line:90% called thumbnail sketches. 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:12.792 align:middle line:84% So the illustrator does a-- sort of an idea of what he thinks. 00:05:12.792 --> 00:05:14.500 align:middle line:84% And that usually goes back to the editor. 00:05:14.500 --> 00:05:16.960 align:middle line:84% But it didn't come back to me, because Bryan Collier 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:17.900 align:middle line:90% is a genius. 00:05:17.900 --> 00:05:19.030 align:middle line:90% I knew him to be a genius. 00:05:19.030 --> 00:05:20.630 align:middle line:84% And since he didn't look over my shoulder, 00:05:20.630 --> 00:05:21.700 align:middle line:90% I was going to look over his. 00:05:21.700 --> 00:05:22.690 align:middle line:90% So we didn't have that. 00:05:22.690 --> 00:05:24.880 align:middle line:84% But the second stage, with the illustrators, 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:27.580 align:middle line:84% is called F and Gs, Fold and Gathers. 00:05:27.580 --> 00:05:30.310 align:middle line:84% And we pull that when they've decided we-- 00:05:30.310 --> 00:05:31.450 align:middle line:90% he does the drawings. 00:05:31.450 --> 00:05:33.400 align:middle line:90% They do the separations. 00:05:33.400 --> 00:05:35.560 align:middle line:84% And we pull it to check the cover-- the color, 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:37.480 align:middle line:90% how things are going to work. 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.750 align:middle line:84% And so, for reasons totally, actually, unknown to anybody, 00:05:40.750 --> 00:05:42.370 align:middle line:90% we all sort of together-- 00:05:42.370 --> 00:05:45.310 align:middle line:84% Brian didn't know Mrs. Parks-- but we all said, 00:05:45.310 --> 00:05:47.350 align:middle line:84% you know, why don't we send her the F and Gs, 00:05:47.350 --> 00:05:50.170 align:middle line:90% and see what she thinks. 00:05:50.170 --> 00:05:52.420 align:middle line:84% And I'm so glad we did, because if we had waited, 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:53.950 align:middle line:84% she would not have seen the book, 00:05:53.950 --> 00:05:56.325 align:middle line:84% because we had said we were going to send her bound book, 00:05:56.325 --> 00:05:58.420 align:middle line:84% but somebody decided to send her the F and Gs. 00:05:58.420 --> 00:06:01.520 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Parks had, like, a distinct-- 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:02.258 align:middle line:90% I mean her voice. 00:06:02.258 --> 00:06:04.300 align:middle line:84% And I can think of the people who have called me. 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:06.175 align:middle line:84% Nina Simone has a distinct voice. 00:06:06.175 --> 00:06:07.300 align:middle line:90% Lena Horne has a distinct-- 00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:07.480 align:middle line:90% [SINGLE DRUM BEAT] 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:09.147 align:middle line:84% There's just things that you don't miss. 00:06:09.147 --> 00:06:13.958 align:middle line:84% And so the phone rings, and it's always, baby. 00:06:13.958 --> 00:06:15.500 align:middle line:84% She said, "Baby, this is Rosa Parks." 00:06:15.500 --> 00:06:16.840 align:middle line:84% Well, I knew who it was right away. 00:06:16.840 --> 00:06:18.507 align:middle line:84% That's like-- I said, how are you doing? 00:06:18.507 --> 00:06:21.070 align:middle line:84% She said, "Oh, baby, I got that lovely book." 00:06:21.070 --> 00:06:22.420 align:middle line:90% But I heard the but. 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:25.190 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:06:25.190 --> 00:06:25.690 align:middle line:90% I heard. 00:06:25.690 --> 00:06:29.440 align:middle line:90% I said, well, did you like it? 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:31.000 align:middle line:84% She said, "It's beautiful, baby." 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:32.290 align:middle line:90% She said, "I like it." 00:06:32.290 --> 00:06:35.110 align:middle line:90% I said, but? 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:39.727 align:middle line:84% She said, "but, baby, you had me fiddling for the dime 00:06:39.727 --> 00:06:41.560 align:middle line:84% to get on the bus," because I used the line, 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.240 align:middle line:90% "she fiddled for the dime." 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:45.580 align:middle line:90% And I said, yes, I did. 00:06:45.580 --> 00:06:49.240 align:middle line:84% She said, "Baby, I've never fiddled in my life." 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:50.210 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:06:50.210 --> 00:06:55.070 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:06:55.070 --> 00:06:57.854 align:middle line:84% I said, well, Mrs. Parks, you're fiddling in my book. 00:06:57.854 --> 00:07:00.520 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:00.520 --> 00:07:04.180 align:middle line:84% And I have her fiddling, because I wanted the children who 00:07:04.180 --> 00:07:06.850 align:middle line:84% read this to know that it was important for her 00:07:06.850 --> 00:07:10.900 align:middle line:84% to get the dime, and not have to ask the bus driver for change. 00:07:10.900 --> 00:07:12.430 align:middle line:90% So I have her fiddling. 00:07:12.430 --> 00:07:14.295 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:14.295 --> 00:07:15.670 align:middle line:84% She got onto the back of the bus. 00:07:15.670 --> 00:07:17.050 align:middle line:84% And the back of the bus was full. 00:07:17.050 --> 00:07:20.350 align:middle line:84% And so she's coming, now, into the neutral section. 00:07:20.350 --> 00:07:21.460 align:middle line:90% She sat down to a man. 00:07:21.460 --> 00:07:23.620 align:middle line:84% And she does not remember-- did not remember-- 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:25.270 align:middle line:90% who she sat down next to. 00:07:25.270 --> 00:07:27.748 align:middle line:84% So I got to identify him, to suit myself. 00:07:27.748 --> 00:07:29.290 align:middle line:84% And I just called him Jimmy's father, 00:07:29.290 --> 00:07:32.230 align:middle line:84% because Mrs. Parks did the youth-- 00:07:32.230 --> 00:07:34.930 align:middle line:84% the NAACP youth conferences and things. 00:07:34.930 --> 00:07:36.730 align:middle line:84% So she knew the man, didn't know his name. 00:07:36.730 --> 00:07:39.105 align:middle line:84% But he's reading-- for those in the back, who cannot see, 00:07:39.105 --> 00:07:40.300 align:middle line:90% he's reading a newspaper. 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:43.012 align:middle line:84% And the headline says, Emmett Till. 00:07:43.012 --> 00:07:45.220 align:middle line:84% Now we're going to have a problem with my editor, who 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:46.570 align:middle line:90% is a very nice woman. 00:07:46.570 --> 00:07:48.580 align:middle line:84% And my editor said to me, when I wrote it, 00:07:48.580 --> 00:07:50.080 align:middle line:84% do you think Emmett is important? 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:52.180 align:middle line:84% I said, Laura, yes, Emmett's important. 00:07:52.180 --> 00:07:53.810 align:middle line:90% She said, well, I'm not so sure. 00:07:53.810 --> 00:07:54.640 align:middle line:90% And I said, Laura-- 00:07:54.640 --> 00:07:56.830 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:56.830 --> 00:07:59.230 align:middle line:84% --it says, by Nikki Giovanni, you know-- 00:07:59.230 --> 00:08:01.980 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:03.300 align:middle line:90% Emmett's important. 00:08:03.300 --> 00:08:05.860 align:middle line:84% So she googled Emmett, and she said, well, 00:08:05.860 --> 00:08:07.860 align:middle line:84% I can see why you might think, so but aren't you 00:08:07.860 --> 00:08:08.735 align:middle line:90% giving him too much-- 00:08:08.735 --> 00:08:09.270 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] 00:08:09.270 --> 00:08:09.830 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:08:09.830 --> 00:08:13.020 align:middle line:84% I said, Laura, this is a deal breaker. 00:08:13.020 --> 00:08:14.840 align:middle line:90% Emmett stays in the book. 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:16.590 align:middle line:84% And the reason that we're going to do this 00:08:16.590 --> 00:08:21.690 align:middle line:84% is, the Supreme Court, May 17, 1954, ruled in a 9-0 decision 00:08:21.690 --> 00:08:23.490 align:middle line:84% that separate is inherently unequal. 00:08:23.490 --> 00:08:25.740 align:middle line:84% And we're always grateful that it was a 9-0 decision 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:27.510 align:middle line:84% because, because had been an 8-1 or 7-2, 00:08:27.510 --> 00:08:29.760 align:middle line:84% it would have been overthrown by now. 00:08:29.760 --> 00:08:31.680 align:middle line:84% We know that the South's response to that 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.360 align:middle line:90% was massive resistance. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.970 align:middle line:84% All over the South, they just closed everything they could. 00:08:35.970 --> 00:08:39.030 align:middle line:84% We also know that Mississippi's response was even crazier, 00:08:39.030 --> 00:08:42.929 align:middle line:84% because what we have in August, is a little 14-year-old boy-- 00:08:42.929 --> 00:08:44.668 align:middle line:90% just turned 14 in July-- 00:08:44.668 --> 00:08:46.710 align:middle line:84% to get on the train, go down to visit his mother. 00:08:46.710 --> 00:08:47.710 align:middle line:90% I have a son. 00:08:47.710 --> 00:08:49.680 align:middle line:90% 14-year-olds are very volatile. 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:52.770 align:middle line:84% You don't want to leave your 14-year-old home alone, right? 00:08:52.770 --> 00:08:54.190 align:middle line:84% And his mother felt the same way, 00:08:54.190 --> 00:08:56.760 align:middle line:84% not because he'll be trying to prove that he's all right, 00:08:56.760 --> 00:08:59.010 align:middle line:84% but he's a chubby little 14-year-old. 00:08:59.010 --> 00:09:00.198 align:middle line:90% And he'd had polio. 00:09:00.198 --> 00:09:02.490 align:middle line:84% So he had to walk that-- we in the Black community call 00:09:02.490 --> 00:09:03.150 align:middle line:90% doo-wop walk. 00:09:03.150 --> 00:09:03.990 align:middle line:90% It's one of those-- 00:09:03.990 --> 00:09:04.650 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:09:04.650 --> 00:09:06.680 align:middle line:90% You know how they--