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[00:00] | Previously on Genius. | |
[00:01] | I’m going to call it the Freedom March. | |
[00:03] | We going to make change happen because we going to demand it. | |
[00:06] | It’d be the biggest freedom march in history. | |
[00:08] | You know, a man like Dr. King really should have his own march. | |
[00:11] | I mean that would really get a turn out. | |
[00:14] | You’re a wonderkind, a wonder child. | |
[00:15] | We go back on the road I’m going to take you with me. | |
[00:17] | She ain’t old enough to travel on Gospel Circuit. | |
[00:19] | I’m here with my daughter, Aretha Louise. | |
[00:21] | She will come up on this stage and sing for the very | |
[00:24] | first time on this Gospel Circuit. | |
[00:28] | Try this, it’s sweet. | |
[00:30] | You want to dance? | |
[00:35] | My tummy’s been feeling sick and my monthly hasn’t come. | |
[00:38] | Well, how long has it been? | |
[00:40] | Four months. | |
[00:41] | The road is a wild place, Mom. | |
[00:44] | I wanted her to stay home. | |
[00:46] | This is not going to stop you from what you were meant to do. | |
[00:52] | You think you can manage her better than me? | |
[00:53] | We can both manage her, Ted. | |
[00:55] | She’s going places. | |
[00:56] | The people of Chicago, | |
[00:58] | people of the world hereby crown you… | |
[01:02] | the Queen of Soul. | |
[01:05] | ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ♪ _ | |
[01:07] | ♪ Show me the way to get to Soulville, baby. ♪ _ | |
[01:10] | ♪ Show me the way to go home ♪ _ | |
[01:14] | Aretha! | |
[01:15] | Ms. Franklin, Ms. Franklin. | |
[01:18] | Your music has saved my life. | |
[01:20] | Thank you so much for coming to my show. | |
[01:21] | Would you like me to sign anything for you? | |
[01:23] | Oh no, thank you. | |
[01:24] | It’s enough just to shake your hand. | |
[01:26] | You’re so sweet. Thank you so much. | |
[01:29] | Ms. Franklin, can you sign my album. | |
[01:32] | Ms. Franklin. | |
[01:34] | Back it up. Back up! | |
[01:36] | I didn’t do nothing. What are you doing, man? | |
[01:38] | That’s not necessary. That’s not necessary. That’s not necessary! | |
[01:43] | That isn’t necess… | |
[01:46] | What’s going to happen to him? | |
[02:34] | _ | |
[02:36] | Shh, I’m right here. I’m right here baby. | |
[02:39] | Settle down. | |
[02:41] | Hungry? | |
[02:42] | No? | |
[02:45] | Big Momma, he won’t stop fussing. | |
[02:47] | Well, did you check his diaper? | |
[02:50] | Um… | |
[02:55] | I’m not a good mother, am I? | |
[02:57] | Nah, you’re good. You’re beautiful, wonderful. | |
[03:02] | Look at mommy. | |
[03:03] | We’re here. | |
[03:05] | Could you guys please be quiet, I’m trying to read. | |
[03:06] | Is that who I think it is out there? | |
[03:10] | Powder blue! | |
[03:11] | Yes indeed, yes indeed. | |
[03:12] | Yes, sir. Brother Cleveland. | |
[03:14] | All the way from Chicago. | |
[03:16] | Oh, come on in here. | |
[03:18] | This is my mother here, Mrs. Rachel. | |
[03:20] | Mrs. Rachel. | |
[03:22] | Oh, Mrs. Rachel, afternoon, ma’am. | |
[03:23] | Such a pleasure to meet you. | |
[03:25] | Nice to meet you, too. | |
[03:26] | Yes, yes, yes, yes. | |
[03:27] | Oh, and this young lady must be little Re. | |
[03:32] | Uh-huh, yeah, I done heard a lot about you. | |
[03:38] | That’s my grand-baby, Clarence. | |
[03:39] | Oh, no, sweetheart. | |
[03:40] | I don’t have a knack for that. | |
[03:42] | Momma, Reverend James is gonna be our new choir director. | |
[03:45] | – Oh, nice. – Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. | |
[03:47] | And momma, I just found he ain’t got nowhere to stay. | |
[03:51] | He’s going to be staying with us for a while. | |
[03:53] | He going to be staying with us? | |
[03:54] | Until he find a place. | |
[03:56] | Ah, I hear there’s a little star in you. | |
[03:58] | I haven’t played too much since having the baby. | |
[04:02] | Well, it’s time to start playing again. | |
[04:05] | Brother, you must be hungry. So, Momma, come on. | |
[04:07] | We got to get him something to eat. | |
[04:09] | Hold on, hold on. | |
[04:10] | I sure can go for something myself. | |
[04:11] | What you got? | |
[04:12] | – I’m coming. – You know I got you. | |
[04:14] | Oh, nice and golden fried chicken. | |
[04:16] | You don’t know nothing about my chicken. | |
[04:17] | You gonna sock it to me? | |
[04:18] | No, don’t you cut my… | |
[04:23] | A 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM curfew will be enforced | |
[04:26] | in a third of the city as the rioting continues. | |
[04:31] | I’m worried, Daddy. | |
[04:32] | It’s calm right here in, in New York right now but it’s | |
[04:34] | only a matter of time before the madness comes here | |
[04:36] | and to Detroit too. | |
[04:37] | Some of the young people in the congregation are | |
[04:39] | especially agitated, you know, I preach peace. | |
[04:43] | But if the people want to riot, | |
[04:45] | they gonna riot. | |
[04:46] | And if things get out of hand, | |
[04:48] | I’ve got my gun. | |
[04:50] | Please don’t say that, especially around the kids. | |
[04:51] | I’ll keep everybody safe, Re. | |
[04:52] | You take care of yourself. | |
[04:54] | All right. Bye, Daddy. | |
[05:04] | Uh-uh. | |
[05:07] | They put a crown on my head, and you punched me in my face. | |
[05:10] | Things got out of hand for both of us. | |
[05:13] | I’m sorry. I’m cleaning up my act. | |
[05:15] | Well, until you can prove that you can keep sleeping on the couch. | |
[05:16] | – Come on now, baby. – Have you lost your mind? | |
[05:18] | Look, don’t let that “Queen” stuff get to your head. | |
[05:20] | I’m going to let that “Queen” thing go wherever I want it to. | |
[05:25] | I’m tired of sleeping on this damn couch. | |
[05:27] | Shh, Dr. King is on. | |
[05:28] | A lot of us are looking at these images on TV | |
[05:31] | of people, Negros, fighting the police and wondering how is this | |
[05:35] | going to make things better? | |
[05:37] | Well, what we don’t see on our TVs is how the fighting started. | |
[05:42] | If a peaceful person has violence inflicted upon him, | |
[05:46] | unfortunately, violence is often the result. | |
[05:49] | I remember the first time he came and preached at my daddy’s church. | |
[05:51] | Do you believe in the power of nonviolence? | |
[05:53] | I believe that physical force is best | |
[05:55] | met with the power of the soul. | |
[05:57] | I would ask people of all races to ask themselves how can | |
[06:01] | I help and how can I be of service? | |
[06:05] | He’s right. I want to be of service. | |
[06:09] | You going to be an activist now? | |
[06:12] | How you going to fit that into your busy schedule? | |
[06:14] | How I fit it in my schedule ain’t your business. | |
[06:18] | But I’m going to find something to do. | |
[06:22] | ♪ I love you I love you ♪ | |
[06:27] | ♪ I love you too ♪ | |
[06:29] | ♪ Baby won’t you call me the moment ♪ | |
[06:34] | ♪ You get there ♪ | |
[06:41] | You liking it? | |
[06:43] | It’s too easy. | |
[06:46] | Uh, let me call you back. Okay, thank you, uh-huh. | |
[06:49] | There’s no longing and pain. | |
[06:50] | People are fighting and dying out there, | |
[06:52] | I don’t feel none of that in this. | |
[06:54] | Well, maybe that’s just cause you’re holding back. | |
[07:01] | Aretha, you’ve got to put some of you in there. | |
[07:04] | Come on. | |
[07:08] | I think I can help. | |
[07:11] | Listen to this. | |
[07:33] | Stop. | |
[07:47] | Thank you, fellas. Thank you. | |
[07:50] | Hey, hey, hey, what’s going on with you? | |
[07:53] | You watch the news? | |
[07:55] | Yeah, what’s on the news doesn’t stop me from doing my job. | |
[07:59] | You see Dr. King on The Bachman Show? | |
[08:01] | Yeah. | |
[08:02] | I want to go on there, sing something. | |
[08:07] | He’s going to want an interview. | |
[08:08] | I’ll do it. | |
[08:12] | Could be good to lend my voice, right? | |
[08:17] | Sure, right, yeah. | |
[08:18] | Put down whatever you’re drinking. | |
[08:20] | It is time for champagne. | |
[08:24] | What are we celebrating? | |
[08:25] | “Baby I Love You” just went number one on the R&B charts. | |
[08:29] | – Hey! – Congratulations. | |
[08:31] | Thank you. But I don’t feel very much like a party. | |
[08:33] | – What? – Aretha. | |
[08:39] | Ms. Franklin? | |
[08:49] | ♪ Bah-da bah-da-da-da ♪ | |
[08:52] | ♪ Bah-da bah-da-da-da ♪ | |
[08:55] | ♪ Monday, Monday ♪ | |
[08:57] | ♪ bah-da bah-da-da-da ♪ | |
[08:59] | ♪ So good to me ♪ | |
[09:01] | ♪ Bah-da bah-da-da-da ♪ | |
[09:04] | ♪ Monday mornin’, it was all I hoped it would be ♪ | |
[09:10] | Excuse me. | |
[09:11] | Now, what does a brother have to do to get a beautiful | |
[09:13] | woman like you to sign right here. | |
[09:15] | You need to tell me what I’m signing. | |
[09:17] | Can I at least tell you my name first? | |
[09:18] | – Mm-hmm. – I’m Nat. | |
[09:20] | Like the rebel? | |
[09:22] | You’re smart and beautiful. | |
[09:24] | Okay, I see. | |
[09:25] | What are you canvasing for? | |
[09:27] | Well, I’m working to establish a new chapter of | |
[09:29] | Dr. King’s Operation Breadbasket here in New York City. | |
[09:33] | He was a guest at my family’s house when I was younger. | |
[09:38] | Wait a minute. You’re Aretha Franklin. | |
[09:41] | Shh. Don’t tell everyone here. | |
[09:44] | What is “The Queen of Soul” doing out here? | |
[09:46] | A little breath of fresh air, | |
[09:50] | hoping to find a way to make a difference. | |
[09:53] | Maybe I can help you hand out some flyers. | |
[09:56] | Absolutely. Here you go. | |
[09:59] | – What should I say? – Just speak from the heart. | |
[10:02] | Here you go. | |
[10:03] | Oh, I’ll take one. | |
[10:05] | Oh, absolutely, sister. There you go. Come on, let’s make a change. | |
[10:06] | Here you go. | |
[10:09] | Here you go. | |
[10:11] | You’re getting the hang of it. There you go. | |
[10:13] | Thank you so much. | |
[10:14] | Everybody’s voice matters. | |
[10:17] | Would you like to take a flyer? | |
[10:18] | Yeah, thank you. | |
[10:20] | Thank you so much. Hey, we could use your vote. | |
[10:21] | ♪ Hold on, I’m coming ♪ | |
[10:24] | Any help you can give is appreciated, thank you. | |
[10:26] | ♪ Hold on, I’m coming ♪ | |
[10:29] | There you go. Look at you. | |
[10:31] | Sir, would you take a flyer? | |
[10:32] | Thank you so much. | |
[10:34] | Ms. Franklin. I thought I’d find you here. | |
[10:35] | We need to get going. | |
[10:36] | Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. | |
[10:38] | You know this guy? | |
[10:39] | Jerry Wexler, this is Nat. | |
[10:42] | Nat, this is… | |
[10:44] | This is the guy who’s got a studio full of musicians waiting on her. | |
[10:47] | It was very nice to meet you, would you excuse us please? | |
[10:50] | Would you excuse us? | |
[10:54] | I can’t wait to tell everyone I met the most beautiful woman | |
[10:57] | and it ended up being Aretha Franklin. | |
[11:01] | It was nice to meet you. | |
[11:04] | Stop the war in Vietnam. | |
[11:06] | Pleasure was mine. | |
[11:08] | The Vietnamese are people too! | |
[11:12] | We really do need to get going. | |
[11:14] | Stop the war in Vietnam! | |
[11:15] | Feels like the world is ending and I just can’t sit by and watch. | |
[11:18] | So, you hand out flyers? | |
[11:20] | It’s something. | |
[11:21] | It is. It’s honorable work. | |
[11:23] | But right now, we need you in the studio focused. | |
[11:27] | – You’re right. – I am? | |
[11:30] | I need to go where I can reach most people. | |
[11:35] | Not people, war on poverty! | |
[11:37] | Not people, war on poverty! | |
[11:44] | ♪ I love you ♪ | |
[11:47] | ♪ And I love you ♪ | |
[11:50] | ♪ And I love you too ♪ | |
[11:53] | ♪ Baby will you call me the moment ♪ | |
[11:56] | ♪ You get there ♪ | |
[12:02] | ♪ Hey, baby ♪ | |
[12:05] | ♪ Mmm-hmm ♪ | |
[12:10] | ♪ I know, I know, I know I know ♪ | |
[12:17] | ♪ We’ve gone too far. ♪ | |
[12:23] | ♪ Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby ♪ | |
[12:29] | ♪ It really doesn’t hurt me that bad ♪ | |
[12:32] | ♪ Yeah ♪ | |
[12:36] | ♪ Because you’re taking me with you ♪ | |
[12:40] | ♪ I’m keeping you right a-here in my heart ♪ | |
[12:44] | ♪ It’s all because I love you ♪ | |
[12:49] | ♪ And I love you ♪ | |
[13:03] | Yeah, darling. | |
[13:04] | You see how I’m putting grease on them cords? | |
[13:06] | I see, I see. | |
[13:10] | You see, I take the sound in through | |
[13:11] | my ear and let it flow throughout my whole body. | |
[13:14] | Yeah. I let it work me, put my back into it. | |
[13:20] | Then I dig in. | |
[13:22] | Yes, yeah. | |
[13:25] | You got to go head-to-head with these keys, | |
[13:27] | you see me wrestling with it? | |
[13:28] | I see. | |
[13:29] | Uh-huh. | |
[13:30] | Here we go! | |
[13:31] | Yeah, now we feeling it. | |
[13:35] | Woo! | |
[13:39] | Thank you my darling. | |
[13:41] | Thank you, thank you, thank you. | |
[13:45] | Which music you like better, gospel or pop? | |
[13:48] | Do I gotta choose? | |
[13:50] | You know, gospel folks think that pop is sinful. | |
[13:52] | My daddy likes all types of music. | |
[13:54] | Yeah, there ain’t many preachers like your daddy. | |
[13:59] | I want you to come out on the road with us this summer. | |
[14:03] | On the Gospel Circuit? | |
[14:05] | We could be friends. | |
[14:08] | I didn’t have a friend last time. | |
[14:12] | Maybe. | |
[14:15] | Let’s see what you got on the keys. | |
[14:18] | Mm-hmm. | |
[14:22] | A round of applause for | |
[14:23] | Ms. Aretha Franklin, everybody. | |
[14:26] | After our break, | |
[14:27] | we’ll return with more of The Alan Bachman Show. | |
[14:29] | You’re doing great. Need me to go back out there with you? | |
[14:31] | – No. – You wanted to do this. | |
[14:32] | That doesn’t make it any easier. | |
[14:34] | Look, you’ll be fine. | |
[14:35] | He’ll want to hear about the new record and then he’ll ask | |
[14:37] | you some softball questions about the movement. | |
[14:38] | What was I thinking? | |
[14:40] | Just say whatever’s on your mind and then if that | |
[14:41] | doesn’t work, talk about the new record. | |
[14:44] | Need a little help? | |
[14:45] | No. I need to stay focused. | |
[14:48] | You got this. | |
[14:53] | Thank you, that was wonderful Aretha. | |
[14:57] | They named you “The Queen of Soul”. | |
[15:01] | Did they give you a crown? | |
[15:03] | They did, Allen, but I only wear it on official state business. | |
[15:06] | You’ve been performing a lot of sold out shows. | |
[15:09] | You must be making a lot of money. | |
[15:10] | Oh, a lady never tells. | |
[15:14] | Things are getting pretty hot in your hometown of Detroit, | |
[15:17] | and I’m not just talking about the weather. | |
[15:19] | There have been a lot of riots across the country this summer, | |
[15:23] | some people are saying that Detroit is next. | |
[15:25] | Well, I hope not. | |
[15:27] | Some people think that things are better for the negro | |
[15:31] | now then they’ve been, let’s say, a few years ago. | |
[15:35] | Can you explain the reason for the riots? | |
[15:37] | Well, what I wanted to say that I agree with Dr. King. | |
[15:41] | I think that now is the time for love and healing. | |
[15:43] | We’ve heard a lot from Dr. King these days. | |
[15:45] | And your music has certainly touched a lot of people. | |
[15:48] | You’ve sold millions of records; | |
[15:51] | do you feel pressure as a successful singer to do | |
[15:55] | something about what’s going on? | |
[16:00] | Not pressure, opportunity. | |
[16:05] | I could do more which is exactly what I’m planning to do. | |
[16:11] | We love you, Aretha. | |
[16:18] | Today marks the fourth day of escalating riots, | |
[16:21] | looting, and arson in Detroit. | |
[16:23] | Daddy, is everybody okay? | |
[16:24] | We okay. | |
[16:25] | How’s the church? | |
[16:27] | The worst is over but come home as soon as you can. | |
[16:28] | I’m flying in tonight. Bye, Daddy. | |
[16:31] | An entire neighborhood has been leveled by fire. | |
[16:33] | ♪ There’s a train a comin’ ♪ | |
[16:38] | ♪ You don’t need no baggage ♪ | |
[16:41] | ♪ You just get on board ♪ | |
[16:45] | ♪ All you need is faith ♪ | |
[16:47] | ♪ To hear the diesel’s hummin’ ♪ | |
[16:51] | ♪ You don’t need no ticket ♪ | |
[16:54] | ♪ You just thank the lord ♪ | |
[16:58] | Baby, it looks like Brother Wallace is going to pull through. | |
[17:01] | They done put him in a room where the family could visit. | |
[17:04] | – Was he shot? – By the police. | |
[17:06] | How’s Sister Boyd’s son? | |
[17:11] | He didn’t make it. Cecil talked to him. | |
[17:14] | How can I help? What do they need? | |
[17:16] | They need help paying they hospital bills, | |
[17:17] | funeral expenses. | |
[17:18] | We need to help people, | |
[17:20] | raise some money so they could rebuild. | |
[17:21] | You’ve got tour dates coming up. | |
[17:22] | I’ll cancel them. | |
[17:23] | You going to tell Ruth that? | |
[17:24] | I’ll work around them, it’s not important. | |
[17:26] | This is important. | |
[17:27] | I couldn’t agree with you more. | |
[17:30] | You could preach, Daddy. | |
[17:31] | I could sing. | |
[17:32] | We could ask other people. | |
[17:34] | People would help Detroit because of you. | |
[17:37] | Then let’s do that. | |
[17:38] | But first, let’s get going on this. | |
[17:39] | We’ve got to help our people here. | |
[17:42] | Look, I’ll be with you in a minute. | |
[17:44] | All right. My ankle is starting to swell. | |
[17:49] | Much appreciated. | |
[17:56] | Y’all better listen to Dr. King, | |
[17:58] | now he’s got a lot to say. | |
[18:00] | Thank you, Mother Franklin. | |
[18:02] | Dr. King, it is a pleasure and an honor | |
[18:04] | to have you in our home. | |
[18:06] | Well, thank you. Pleasure’s all mine. | |
[18:09] | Momma, can I have a little more sugar? | |
[18:11] | Thank you. | |
[18:13] | – Reverend? – Yes, sir. | |
[18:14] | You truly resurrected the spirit of Detroit tonight. | |
[18:16] | Thank God, thank God. | |
[18:18] | And Ms. Franklin, I’m impressed to see you here. | |
[18:21] | I know you’re busy the way your career’s going. | |
[18:23] | Well, I live in New York, | |
[18:24] | but Detroit will always be my home. | |
[18:26] | I try to make sure she comes back to Detroit whenever she can. | |
[18:28] | And if you ever need something done in Detroit, | |
[18:30] | everyone knows to call on Reverend CL Franklin. | |
[18:32] | Come on now, come on now. | |
[18:34] | I wish I could have come earlier but the | |
[18:36] | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | |
[18:37] | has been struggling financially. | |
[18:39] | They’ve been telling me the best way to raise money | |
[18:41] | is to hold benefit concerts. | |
[18:43] | So, been hitting the road with the likes of Harry Belafonte | |
[18:47] | and Joan Baez just to name a few. | |
[18:49] | I’d like to join your tour, Dr. King. | |
[18:51] | We’d love to have you. | |
[18:53] | I’ll clear my schedule, too. | |
[18:54] | I don’t want to pull you away from Detroit, Reverend. | |
[18:55] | Oh, no, no, no, no. | |
[18:58] | I think what Dr. King is saying is that he only needs singers to help. | |
[19:01] | Well, Detroit needs its favorite daughter now more than ever. | |
[19:05] | But with Dr. King I could reach so many more people. | |
[19:07] | Your daughter would draw a crowd. | |
[19:09] | That would be quite a boon for us. | |
[19:11] | We actually would love to make this happen. | |
[19:12] | We just got to review the schedule. | |
[19:13] | The schedule’s grueling as it is. | |
[19:15] | You don’t want to spread yourself too thin, baby. | |
[19:17] | Normally, I’d agree. | |
[19:18] | But your daughter’s a star of international prominence and | |
[19:20] | that comes with a certain responsibility. | |
[19:22] | Come on, Daddy. | |
[19:24] | There’s enough of me to go around. | |
[19:27] | If Dr. King thinks it’s best then, well, of course. | |
[19:32] | And if you need me in Detroit, I’ll be here. | |
[19:35] | The SCLC is having our annual banquet soon. | |
[19:38] | Surely you can join us then. | |
[19:40] | Well, I’ll show up wherever I’m invited. | |
[19:42] | How about I join you all for the next couple of weeks? | |
[19:44] | Amen. That’d be beautiful. | |
[19:51] | ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ | |
[19:56] | ♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪ | |
[20:01] | ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ | |
[20:05] | ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ | |
[20:11] | Yeah, that’s my girl. | |
[20:13] | That’s right. | |
[20:15] | She’s singing a lot better than she did last year. | |
[20:16] | She’s more used to the environment now, | |
[20:18] | that’s what it is. | |
[20:19] | – Yeah. | – Yeah. |
[20:21] | Your daughter, I tell you she’s a, | |
[20:23] | she’s a baby singer if I ever heard one. | |
[20:25] | And you can really bring in the crowd, Rev. | |
[20:27] | I see you adding some extra chairs over here. | |
[20:32] | We just sold a few more tickets than I thought we would, so. | |
[20:37] | Pay me more, huh? | |
[20:40] | We already, already agreed on your fee. | |
[20:42] | The word of God has no price, | |
[20:45] | but I know you charging for them extra chairs. | |
[20:49] | You good? | |
[20:51] | Yeah. | |
[20:52] | ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ | |
[20:56] | ♪ Oh-oh ♪ | |
[20:57] | ♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪ | |
[20:59] | If I feel taken advantage of, | |
[21:00] | I might have to cancel the show right now. | |
[21:01] | I’ll tell you what, there ain’t no need for that. | |
[21:04] | I’ll just, I’ll tell you, I’ll just make the proper adjustments. | |
[21:06] | That’s what I want to hear. | |
[21:09] | Appreciate it. | |
[21:11] | ♪ Everywhere ♪ | |
[21:13] | ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ | |
[21:17] | ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ | |
[21:24] | Let your light shine, yes. | |
[21:27] | ♪ Jesus Christ is born ♪ | |
[21:30] | Yes, sir. Yes, sir. | |
[21:33] | Baby, baby. That’s right. | |
[21:35] | Come here, girl. There’s my girl. | |
[21:40] | You glad to be back on the tour? | |
[21:42] | Mm-hmm. | |
[21:43] | That’s right, come on. | |
[21:45] | That’s right, that’s right. | |
[21:47] | There they go. | |
[21:48] | Come on choir, come on choir. | |
[21:51] | Woo, that’s what I’m talking about. | |
[21:53] | Thank you, Jesus. | |
[21:56] | You just heard my daughter Aretha. | |
[21:59] | Now, we’ve been up waiting for this all week. | |
[22:02] | No, don’t take your seats. | |
[22:04] | Get up on your feets. | |
[22:05] | Don’t take your seats, get up on your feets. | |
[22:10] | Because what you’ve been waiting for, | |
[22:15] | all the way from Greenwood, Mississippi. | |
[22:21] | The one, the only Mrs. Sammie Bryant. | |
[22:39] | ♪ I got a robe ♪ | |
[22:40] | ♪ You got a robe ♪ | |
[22:42] | ♪ All of God’s children got a robe ♪ | |
[22:45] | ♪ When I get to heaven ♪ | |
[22:46] | ♪ I’m gonna put on my robe ♪ | |
[22:47] | ♪ I’m shout all over God’s Heaven ♪ | |
[22:50] | ♪ Heaven, Heaven ♪ | |
[22:53] | What you mean you left your baby at home? | |
[22:55] | He’s just so precious. Aw! | |
[22:59] | He look just like you, Re, especially around the eyes. | |
[23:01] | He sure does. | |
[23:05] | ♪ I got a wings ♪ | |
[23:06] | ♪ You got a wings ♪ | |
[23:07] | ♪ All of God’s children got wings ♪ | |
[23:12] | ♪ I’m gonna put on my wings ♪ | |
[23:13] | ♪ I’m gonna fly all over God’s Heaven ♪ | |
[23:15] | Now, who you say his daddy was again? | |
[23:18] | Yeah, who is the daddy? | |
[23:19] | ♪ Everybody talkin’ ’bout Heaven ♪ | |
[23:21] | ♪ Aint’ going there ♪ | |
[23:22] | ♪ Heaven, Heaven ♪ | |
[23:25] | ♪ I’m gonna fly all over God’s Heaven ♪ | |
[23:33] | I better put the picture away. | |
[23:35] | Give it back, Darlene. | |
[23:36] | Let me see. | |
[23:39] | Ya’ll keep your hands off of other people’s’ precious things. | |
[23:41] | Come on, Re. | |
[23:43] | Let’s go. | |
[23:49] | Girl, let’s get away from them. | |
[23:54] | Re, honey, you don’t need to pay them gals no mind. | |
[23:57] | I know you was raised to respect your elders, | |
[24:00] | but you don’t need to give them mean gals the time of day. | |
[24:03] | I’ll remember that. | |
[24:04] | Next time they come for you, look for me. | |
[24:07] | Cause I’m going to look out for you. | |
[24:10] | I knew your mother; | |
[24:12] | she had that same shine you got. | |
[24:15] | She’d be proud of you. | |
[24:16] | I don’t think Momma would be proud of me having a baby. | |
[24:19] | If your momma was around that baby wouldn’t have happened. | |
[24:28] | Is the father helping? | |
[24:30] | You ain’t got to tell me who he is, all I want to know is, | |
[24:33] | is he helping? | |
[24:35] | It’s all right, Sammie. | |
[24:36] | You don’t have to worry about me. | |
[24:45] | What do you like to do for fun when you | |
[24:47] | not on the road? | |
[24:49] | Roller skate, listen to the radio. | |
[24:52] | Have you heard that song Loveable by Dale Cooke? | |
[24:54] | You don’t know? | |
[24:56] | There’s no such thing as Dale Cooke. | |
[24:58] | It’s Sam Cooke using a pretend name. | |
[25:01] | So, he can get away with singing pop music? | |
[25:03] | No! | |
[25:04] | Sam Cooke is a gospel singer. | |
[25:07] | Ain’t no way he going to be going around singing no pop music. | |
[25:09] | I’d know his voice anywhere. | |
[25:11] | He used to sing at Daddy’s church. | |
[25:12] | Oh, if folks found out they would pitch a fit. | |
[25:15] | Folks like Darlene and her friends? | |
[25:17] | They would say he’s singing that devil’s music | |
[25:20] | and run him out of town on the rail. | |
[25:22] | Would you? | |
[25:23] | If Sam Cooke was singing, ooh, | |
[25:26] | the minute he start to sweat, I start fanning myself. | |
[25:31] | Stick with me and I’ll show you a good time. | |
[25:34] | He’s something else. | |
[25:45] | Hey! Get down on the ground. | |
[25:47] | Get back on that bus, you coon. | |
[25:49] | No one wants you here. | |
[25:51] | Get out of here you dirty monkeys. | |
[25:52] | This is America not Africa. | |
[25:55] | We love you, Aretha. | |
[25:57] | Brownie, get the hell out of here. | |
[26:04] | Niggers. | |
[26:07] | Aretha, we love you! | |
[26:09] | Take your devil music somewhere else. | |
[26:11] | Stay strong, sister. | |
[26:12] | Y’all better watch it there’s some niggers comin’. | |
[26:15] | Go to hell you chocolate baby. | |
[26:18] | Ya’ll a bunch of monkeys. | |
[26:24] | You’re a dead man, King. | |
[26:28] | Dr. King, you all right? | |
[26:30] | Fine, fine. | |
[26:32] | You know, when my son was a baby, | |
[26:35] | I carried him on my back in the fields while I was working. | |
[26:38] | We were sharecroppers. | |
[26:40] | So, I want to thank you because I never thought I’d see this day. | |
[26:46] | Thank you, Mother Franklin. | |
[26:48] | I needed to hear that. | |
[26:53] | ♪ There’s an old friend that ♪ | |
[26:57] | ♪ I once heard say ♪ | |
[27:02] | ♪ Something that touched my heart ♪ | |
[27:06] | Sing your song! | |
[27:08] | ♪ And it began this way ♪ | |
[27:15] | Come on! Come on Aretha! | |
[27:18] | ♪ I was born by the river ♪ | |
[27:23] | Yes sir! | |
[27:27] | ♪ In a little tent ♪ | |
[27:29] | That’s it, sing! | |
[27:33] | ♪ And just like the river ♪ | |
[27:38] | ♪ I’ve been runnin ever since ♪ | |
[27:40] | C’mon girl! | |
[27:43] | ♪ He said it’s been a long time comin’ ♪ | |
[27:52] | ♪ But I know my change is gonna come ♪ | |
[27:57] | ♪ Oh yeah ♪ | |
[28:06] | ♪ He said it’s been too hard livin’ ♪ | |
[28:10] | ♪ But I’m afraid to die ♪ | |
[28:15] | Take your time! | |
[28:17] | ♪ I might not be if I knew ♪ | |
[28:19] | ♪ What was up there ♪ | |
[28:22] | ♪ Beyond the sky ♪ | |
[28:26] | C’mon! | |
[28:28] | ♪ It’s been a long, a long time comin’ ♪ | |
[28:37] | ♪ But I know my change is gonna come ♪ | |
[28:39] | Yes, it will. Yes, it will. | |
[28:41] | ♪ Oh yeah ♪ | |
[28:51] | ♪ I went, ♪ | |
[28:55] | ♪ I went to my brother ♪ | |
[29:01] | ♪ And I asked him, brother ♪ | |
[29:05] | ♪ Could you help me, please? ♪ | |
[29:07] | Yeah yeah. | |
[29:09] | What’d he say, what’d he say Aretha? | |
[29:11] | ♪ He said, “My sister ♪ | |
[29:16] | ♪ I’d like to, but I’m not able” ♪ | |
[29:19] | ♪ And when I ♪ | |
[29:21] | ♪ When I looked around ♪ | |
[29:23] | ♪ I was right back down ♪ | |
[29:25] | ♪ Down on my bended knees ♪ | |
[29:27] | ♪ Yes I was, oh ♪ | |
[29:33] | ♪ There’ve been times that I thought ♪ | |
[29:38] | ♪ I thought that I wouldn’t last for long ♪ | |
[29:41] | Sing girl! | |
[29:44] | ♪ But somehow right now I believe that I’m able ♪ | |
[29:50] | ♪ I’m able to carry on ♪ | |
[29:54] | ♪ I tell you that it’s been a long ♪ | |
[29:57] | ♪ And oh ♪ | |
[29:59] | ♪ I’s been an uphill journey all the way ♪ | |
[30:03] | ♪ But I know ♪ | |
[30:04] | ♪ I know, I know ♪ | |
[30:07] | I know. I know. | |
[30:09] | ♪ I know my change is gonna come ♪ | |
[30:12] | ♪ Yeah I tell you that ♪ | |
[30:14] | ♪ My change is come ♪ | |
[30:30] | Change is coming. | |
[30:33] | We need a change; we need a change. | |
[30:35] | Thank you. | |
[30:40] | Hallelujah | |
[31:12] | Having trouble sleeping? | |
[31:14] | A little. | |
[31:16] | Ted snores and I’ve got to be on the road first thing in the morning, | |
[31:19] | so I figured I’d just stay up. | |
[31:21] | I know that trick. | |
[31:23] | You sang really beautifully tonight. | |
[31:26] | Sam Cooke song was a good choice. | |
[31:29] | I appreciate you coming on the road, | |
[31:30] | traveling, and performing, | |
[31:32] | and taking care of some of our transportation costs. | |
[31:35] | You’re quite generous. | |
[31:36] | It’s the least I can do. | |
[31:37] | Turns out, Daddy doesn’t want to be on the road with us. | |
[31:39] | It’s because he has his own flock to attend to. | |
[31:42] | And he wants me to come home. | |
[31:44] | He and the mayor are organizing an event that he wants me to attend. | |
[31:48] | Having a preacher for a father is a blessing. | |
[31:51] | But it comes with its challenges. | |
[31:54] | He took you out of the Gospel Circuit when you were quite young. | |
[31:57] | Yes, he did. I learned a lot. | |
[32:04] | Those gals teach you how to wear the fur coat? | |
[32:06] | Well, these hotels like to keep the air way up and | |
[32:08] | I don’t like to be cold. | |
[32:10] | Well, I’m going to Chicago tomorrow. | |
[32:12] | How about you? | |
[32:14] | Columbus. | |
[32:15] | You know, you’re about the only person that I know that | |
[32:17] | is busier than I am. | |
[32:20] | Coretta and the children must miss you. | |
[32:28] | I miss them too. | |
[32:32] | Is your husband, Ted, a good man? | |
[32:38] | I used to lean on him a lot more than I do now. | |
[32:41] | It’s easier for a woman to be the helpmate of a king than | |
[32:44] | it is for a man to be the helpmate of a queen. | |
[32:46] | I don’t think it is easy at all. | |
[32:49] | Shall we have a toast to that? | |
[32:51] | Yes, please. | |
[32:56] | Once you get to Columbus you have a radio promo | |
[32:58] | at 7:00 AM and then you have press interviews until noon. | |
[33:01] | Then you have a store appearance until 2:00 PM. | |
[33:03] | After that, we go straight to sound check. | |
[33:05] | There’s no time for the hotel, you okay with that? | |
[33:07] | We’ll make it work. | |
[33:08] | You get enough sleep last night? | |
[33:10] | I’ll get some sleep in the car on the way there. | |
[33:11] | In the car, good luck. | |
[33:13] | I’ll get a couple drinks to help. | |
[33:14] | Can I see the set list? | |
[33:15] | Here you go, sweetie. | |
[33:17] | Martin, I think you should take it easy on that Vietnam issue. | |
[33:18] | I’ll say what I have to say. | |
[33:19] | But where we’re going isn’t Riverside Church. | |
[33:21] | These folks are more conservative. | |
[33:22] | If I don’t talk about it, who will? | |
[33:26] | Also, I hate to bring this up, | |
[33:29] | but Jerry called again about the studio. | |
[33:31] | We got to get back to him. | |
[33:32] | I’m going to be on tour for six months. | |
[33:34] | But aren’t you going to Philadelphia? | |
[33:35] | I’ll do that, too. I’ll do it all. | |
[33:36] | I’ll see you in Philadelphia. | |
[33:38] | I’ll be there. | |
[33:42] | ♪ Little Mama I took your lovin’ ♪ | |
[33:46] | ♪ But I wasn’t true to you ♪ | |
[33:49] | ♪ Little mama ♪ | |
[33:50] | We’ve been to Louisville, Bowling Green, | |
[33:51] | Shelbyville, and Jackson to name a few. | |
[33:53] | Bet you glad you left that baby home. | |
[33:56] | Having fun now. | |
[33:58] | Girl, you can sing and dance. | |
[34:02] | Look at you shimmy, go ahead and sing it, girl. | |
[34:06] | Little Re, little Re. | |
[34:09] | Girl, you was right. | |
[34:11] | Sam Cooke is singing pop music and he’s performing in town | |
[34:15] | tonight at a local juke joint. | |
[34:17] | We going. | |
[34:19] | I’m only 13. | |
[34:20] | I can’t get into that place. | |
[34:21] | Girl, let me worry about that. | |
[34:23] | Let’s go. | |
[34:28] | Come on, we going to do it all. | |
[34:31] | We going to get you all dolled up. | |
[34:37] | To top it off. | |
[34:39] | All right, oh, shoot. | |
[34:40] | I didn’t know you was all that, | |
[34:42] | a hard partying girl. | |
[34:44] | I didn’t know you was like that, | |
[34:45] | I thought you was a good church girl. | |
[34:48] | Come on, let’s get in here. | |
[34:49] | Hold up, we gotta go to bed it’s. | |
[34:51] | Where you all going? | |
[34:54] | It’s late. | |
[34:58] | Only place you all should be going is to bed. | |
[35:01] | We going to bed. | |
[35:10] | Girl, let’s go. | |
[35:11] | We get to see Sam Cooke tonight! | |
[35:13] | I’m so excited. | |
[35:15] | Ladies and gentlemen, | |
[35:17] | let’s take your seats for the Queen of Soul. | |
[35:20] | Ms. Aretha Franklin. | |
[35:34] | Now, you was up way too late last night, you know that, right? | |
[35:59] | Hello, Columbus. | |
[36:00] | I’m feeling so good tonight. How y’all feeling? | |
[36:18] | Broken in three places? | |
[36:19] | How long that thing going to be on her arm? | |
[36:21] | It’s on track to heal in four weeks, maybe six. | |
[36:23] | You’re burning the candle at both ends. | |
[36:25] | My advice is for you to slow down. | |
[36:28] | This could have been a lot worse. | |
[36:29] | You should have been keeping your eye on her. | |
[36:31] | I was, all right. | |
[36:32] | Now’s not the time, Daddy. | |
[36:33] | I need to go back on tour. | |
[36:34] | You need to stay home in Detroit. | |
[36:36] | He right. | |
[36:37] | I’m going to tell Ruth to cancel the dates. | |
[36:38] | I can still sing; I just can’t play piano. | |
[36:40] | You need to stay home, get some rest. | |
[36:42] | I’m cooking up a big event for you with the mayor’s office. | |
[36:44] | If I do anything, I’m going to honor my promise with Dr. King. | |
[36:47] | You can’t risk your health for him, baby. | |
[36:50] | I’m fine. | |
[36:51] | I just can’t play, right, Doctor? | |
[36:52] | No. | |
[36:54] | Whatever you do, my advice is to slow down. | |
[36:56] | You hear? | |
[36:58] | I don’t use my arm to sing. | |
[37:01] | I understand that, | |
[37:02] | but you need to minimize movements. | |
[37:04] | You got lucky this time. | |
[37:05] | One more fall or injury to that arm and | |
[37:07] | you may never play piano again. | |
[37:18] | No, no, come on. Stupid, I’ll be right back. | |
[37:22] | Like a rockstar. | |
[37:27] | Oh, oh, okay guys. | |
[37:28] | Quit messing around, let’s get ready. | |
[37:29] | I can’t get it. | |
[37:31] | Come on here, let me show you something. | |
[37:33] | Come here, you dig? | |
[37:37] | Your arm still hurting? | |
[37:38] | Only when it’s cold out. | |
[37:41] | They getting someone to play the piano at the event? | |
[37:42] | They got someone to accompany me tonight. | |
[37:44] | Good. | |
[37:48] | Boy, I thought I taught you how to tie a tie. | |
[37:50] | Come here. | |
[37:52] | I forgot. | |
[37:55] | Okay, now. | |
[37:57] | You’re going to wrap this big part around here, | |
[38:01] | you’re going to tuck it in and under, | |
[38:04] | and then tighten the knot. | |
[38:07] | Got that? | |
[38:08] | – Clarence. – Here I come. | |
[38:11] | Put this on, keep it clean. | |
[38:12] | Thank you, Momma. | |
[38:14] | All right, I better not hear y’all yelling and squirming. | |
[38:16] | None of that in the theater, okay, this your momma big day. | |
[38:18] | You hear me? | |
[38:19] | – Yes, Daddy. – All right. | |
[38:21] | Baby, what you going to wear? | |
[38:22] | Still thinking about it. Y’all gotta vote. | |
[38:24] | Yeah, girl, we’ll help you pick out the outfit. | |
[38:26] | Let’s see what we got. | |
[38:27] | Unless you want to be up on stage in front of all | |
[38:29] | those people in just your slip. | |
[38:31] | Now, I always been partial to the lime green. | |
[38:37] | I like the feathers. Wear the feathers, Momma. | |
[38:39] | You look good in green. | |
[38:42] | Feathers, feathers, | feathers, feathers, feathers, feathers! |
[38:49] | ♪ It aint no fooling around with this ♪ | |
[38:52] | ♪ Aint no fooling around ♪ | |
[38:54] | As Mayor of Detroit, | |
[38:55] | I hereby proclaim February 16th as “Aretha Franklin Day”. | |
[39:01] | ♪ Some people call me selfish cause I want ya to myself ♪ | |
[39:09] | Look at us both sneaking out. | |
[39:11] | Maybe they won’t miss us. | |
[39:14] | They’re going to wonder where we went. | |
[39:17] | I appreciate you coming to celebrate my special day. | |
[39:19] | Wouldn’t have missed it for the world. | |
[39:29] | I’m going back into the studio in a few months. | |
[39:31] | I’d love it if you’d come record some of your sermons on my album. | |
[39:34] | – Really? – Mm-hmm. | |
[39:36] | I’m flattered. | |
[39:38] | Dr. King and the Queen of Soul. | |
[39:40] | But I wouldn’t want to cause any problems between you | |
[39:42] | and your father. | |
[39:44] | Don’t you worry about that. | |
[39:46] | Oh, I see what you do. | |
[39:48] | Between your father and your husband, you make it all work. | |
[39:55] | Do I? | |
[39:58] | I know you’ve heard me speak probably more times than | |
[40:00] | you care to over the past many months. | |
[40:03] | But every time I talk about freedom for our people, | |
[40:06] | I’m also talking about freedom of the mind, | |
[40:09] | psychological freedom. | |
[40:11] | To achieve what we want to as a people, | |
[40:13] | we need to start with personal freedom. | |
[40:20] | Where did the bone break? | |
[40:22] | Uh, here was the worst of it. | |
[40:27] | I felt like a bird with a broken wing. | |
[40:37] | There you are. | |
[40:42] | Ya’ll done snuck out the party. | |
[40:44] | Come on, let’s go back in. | |
[40:45] | Do you want folks to think you chose Dr. King over your own father? | |
[40:49] | Come on. | |
[40:51] | I’ll be in, in a minute. | |
[40:52] | All right, thank you, Doc. | |
[40:53] | Get well now, cause we need you. | |
[41:00] | And he gave you his jacket! | |
[41:02] | Only because he knows me from when he used to | |
[41:04] | come sing at Daddy’s church. | |
[41:05] | But the way he was singing tonight, | |
[41:07] | he never sang like that before. | |
[41:09] | You think I could be a pop singer? | |
[41:11] | Sam Cooke sure think you can be. | |
[41:13] | And then I’ll throw my coat on the ground, | |
[41:15] | just like he does. | |
[41:17] | Oh, you better pick that up or I’m going to take it. | |
[41:20] | He never sang like that in church. | |
[41:22] | And he never looked that way in church. | |
[41:24] | If I married him it’d be Sam and Sammie. | |
[41:28] | Ooh. | |
[41:30] | Where the hell you been? | |
[41:32] | Oh, you grown now, huh, you grown. | |
[41:34] | It’s my fault, Reverend Franklin. | |
[41:36] | Re didn’t even want to go out but I talked her into it. | |
[41:41] | Did I ask you for your explanation? | |
[41:45] | Go on back in your room and let me have a conversation with my daughter. | |
[41:51] | Go on now. | |
[41:52] | I’m sorry. | |
[41:55] | I’m sorry, Daddy. | |
[41:58] | Went to a juke joint, huh? | |
[42:01] | You’re 13. | |
[42:02] | I wanted to see Sam Cooke perform. | |
[42:04] | I asked you to stay inside. | |
[42:07] | I was just listening to music. | |
[42:08] | Oh, you fixing to get in trouble, | |
[42:09] | that’s what you doing now. | |
[42:11] | Now, I’m going to send you back home. | |
[42:12] | No! | |
[42:14] | You need to be with the baby you have rather than | |
[42:15] | be out here trying to have another one. | |
[42:19] | Now, take that jacket off. | |
[42:23] | Give me that jacket. | |
[42:27] | And what, what you got on your lips? | |
[42:30] | Come here. | |
[42:35] | Go on and get inside now, go on. | |
[42:43] | Hey, little Re. I heard you had a late night. | |
[42:46] | I hope you don’t mess up your song. | |
[42:48] | Mrs. Johnson. | |
[42:50] | Evening, Reverend Franklin. | |
[42:52] | – Mm-hmm. – Reverend. | |
[42:58] | Please don’t make me go home. | |
[43:02] | – Well, why you want to stay? – I want to keep singing. | |
[43:06] | Hmm. | |
[43:13] | Would Sam’s jacket help? | |
[43:16] | Yes. | |
[43:18] | I bet it would. | |
[43:19] | Come on. | |
[43:21] | You better put this thing on. | |
[43:24] | Turn around, let me see you. | |
[43:30] | All right. | |
[43:33] | You better sang, baby singer. | |
[43:42] | Oh, this going to be good. | |
[43:44] | All right. | |
[43:45] | Ya’ll about to hear the | |
[43:46] | little girl who is starting to be the baby singer of our tour. | |
[43:49] | Yeah! Oh, yeah! | |
[43:51] | You ready? You ready? | |
[43:52] | Put your hands together and welcome Little Miss Aretha Franklin. | |
[44:00] | That girl can sing. | |
[44:09] | Take your time, take your time. | |
[44:14] | ♪ Just ♪ | |
[44:20] | ♪ Just a closer walk with Thee ♪ | |
[44:24] | Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir. | |
[44:33] | ♪ Grant it, Jesus, ♪ | |
[44:41] | ♪ Is my plea ♪ | |
[44:43] | Oh yes, oh Lord. Jesus. | |
[44:48] | Call his name. | |
[44:51] | ♪ Daily walking ♪ | |
[44:59] | ♪ Close to Thee ♪ | |
[45:09] | ♪ Let it be ♪ | |
[45:13] | ♪ Dear Lord ♪ | |
[45:18] | ♪ Let it be ♪ | |
[45:21] | Come on, come on. Come on. | |
[45:24] | ♪ Let it be ♪ | |
[45:30] | ♪ I am weak but Thou art strong ♪ | |
[45:34] | That’s right. | |
[45:35] | ♪ Jesus keep me from all wrong ♪ | |
[45:40] | ♪ I’ll be satisfied as long ♪ | |
[45:45] | ♪ As I walk ♪ | |
[45:47] | ♪ Let me walk ♪ | |
[45:48] | ♪ Close to Thee ♪ | |
[45:51] | ♪ When my feeble life is o’er ♪ | |
[45:56] | Sing it, girl. | |
[45:57] | ♪ Time for me will be no more ♪ | |
[46:01] | ♪ Guide me gently ♪ | |
[46:04] | ♪ Safely o’er ♪ | |
[46:07] | ♪ To Thy kingdom’s shore ♪ | |
[46:09] | ♪ To Thy shore ♪ | |
[46:13] | ♪ Just a closer walk with Thee | |
[46:18] | ♪ Grant it ♪ | |
[46:19] | ♪ Jesus, is my plea ♪ | |
[46:22] | Yes, sir. | |
[46:23] | ♪ Daily walking close with Thee ♪ | |
[46:28] | ♪ Let it be ♪ | |
[46:31] | ♪ Dear Lord ♪ | |
[46:36] | ♪ Let it be ♪ | |
[46:45] | Yes, sir! That’s right! | |
[46:55] | Martin Luther King was shot | |
[46:57] | and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee. | |
[47:05] | In this difficult day, | |
[47:08] | in this difficult time for the United States, | |
[47:11] | it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation | |
[47:14] | we are and what direction we want to move in. | |
[47:19] | For those of you who are black considering the evidence | |
[47:24] | there evidently is that there were white people | |
[47:27] | who were responsible, you can be filled with bitterness, | |
[47:33] | and with hatred, and a desire for revenge. | |
[47:39] | We can move in that direction as a country, | |
[47:42] | and greater polarization, | |
[47:46] | or we can make an effort as Martin Luther King did, | |
[47:50] | to understand and to comprehend, | |
[47:54] | and replace that violence, | |
[47:57] | that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land | |
[48:04] | with an effort to understand compassion and love. | |
[48:12] | I had a member of my family killed but he was killed by a white man. | |
[48:18] | But we have to make an effort in the United States. | |
[48:22] | We have to make an effort to understand, | |
[48:26] | to get beyond or go beyond these rather difficult times. | |
[48:30] | My favorite poem, my favorite poet was Aeschylus. | |
[48:35] | He once wrote | |
[48:39] | “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget, | |
[48:44] | falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair | |
[48:51] | against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. | |
[48:57] | What we need in the United States is not division. | |
[49:02] | What we need in the United States is not hatred. | |
[49:05] | What we need in the United States is not violence | |
[49:07] | and lawlessness. | |
[49:09] | But love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, | |
[49:15] | and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer | |
[49:18] | within our country, | |
[49:21] | whether they be white or whether they be black. |