Get on the Bus
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:28:01
Why planes?
:28:03
You know, planes kill people.
:28:05
People get killed in grocery stores,
but you don't stop eating.

:28:08
No, you don't.
:28:10
You're just like your mama, I swear.
:28:13
You most definitely
got that mouth of hers.

:28:16
Want to hear something funny?
:28:18
What's that?
:28:20
She told me I was just like you.
:28:23
Can't wait to tell her she was wrong.
:28:31
No way, Jeremiah.
:28:33
You're not off the hook.
:28:34
Why are you going to the march?
:28:37
Why am I going?
:28:38
Yes, that's the question.
:28:41
Well...
:28:43
...I missed the March on Washington
in '63.

:28:48
Missed it? You didn't go?
:28:50
I wanted to go. I intended to.
:28:52
But I'd just got a
good-paying job with a company...

:28:55
...and I didn't want to lose it.
:28:57
You know, go along to get along,
play it safe, make no waves.

:29:01
People in the office asked me about...
:29:03
...Malcolm X, Martin Luther King.
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I said I didn't even
know them cats.

:29:09
The truth of the matter is,
I didn't believe in...

:29:13
...troublemakers and rabble-rousers.
No, sir.

:29:16
White man had me
in his hip pocket 100%.

:29:19
And that was all right with me.
:29:22
Soon I was getting a raise every year,
just like everybody else.

:29:26
And got my little office
down in personnel.

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My own office. Yep.
:29:32
Bought this great big house
out in the suburbs.

:29:36
Cars for me and my wife, college
for the kids, the whole thing.

:29:40
Paid down on this expensive boat.
:29:43
When I was at the company...
:29:44
...I trained a lot of people,
mostly white, some women.

:29:49
Every one of them
got promoted over me.

:29:52
That should've told me something.
But it didn't.

:29:56
Not me. I had it made. Oh, man.

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