Hoop Dreams
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1:56:04
This is what I brought to their attention.
1:56:06
he's still a full-time student.
he hasn't graduated yet.

1:56:09
So why would you-all cut him off?
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- I'll bite you!
- I'll bite you back.

1:56:14
They feel like when they get 18...
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most the black kids
they drop out.

1:56:20
So that means that the child
is just thrown out there.

1:56:26
I was gettin' 368.
Now I get 268.

1:56:34
And that's it.
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And that's to take care of me
from one month to the next.

1:56:43
Now, can you imagine
a person living on that?

1:56:46
Do you-all wonder sometime,
how am I livin'?

1:56:52
Or how do my children survive,
or how they livin'?

1:56:58
It's enough to make people really wanna go
out there and lash out and hurt somebody.

1:57:06
A message to the Oreo cookie.
1:57:09
No matter how much you wanna switch,
here's what they think about you:

1:57:14
Fried chicken
and biscuit-eatin'monkey, ape, baboon...

1:57:19
big-thighed, fast-runnin;
high-jumpin; spear-chuckin;..

1:57:23
360-degree basketball-dunkin;..
1:57:28
pit-swingin'spade moulanyan.
1:57:30
Go the fuck back to Africa.
Go the fuck back to Africa.

1:57:35
Go the fuck back to Africa.
1:57:37
Think about it. Fuckin'sellout.
1:57:42
Play the music, motherfucker!
Put the music on!

1:57:57
Shoot it.
1:57:59
Rebound.! Go, go, go.!

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