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-Come see me play sometime.
-Guaranteed.
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"Young people are always more given
to admiring what is wild...
:10:12
"...than what is reasonable."
That is a quote from Delacroix.
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I want to examine today, with you,
the question of identity.
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Is culture involved
and is race a factor? Charlie?
:10:22
I wanna be black.
I wanna get into the hip-hop thing.
:10:25
Times are definitely different now
and things are different.
:10:28
Obviously now you see
a lot of white kids...
:10:35
...that admire and look up
to the black community...
:10:38
...and hip-hop and rappers.
:10:41
I think that people are struggling
with who they are.
:10:44
That's a big thing.
And being a teenager is a transition...
:10:47
...from being a kid to being an adult.
:10:49
When you're an adult,
you have to know who you are.
:10:52
What's not healthy about choosing a style?
:10:55
You're saying I should treasure
my Russian heritage...
:10:58
...and then get all caught up
in what's going on in Russia now?
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I don't give a fuck! It'll never affect me!
:11:04
You don't wanna be
what people expect of your race.
:11:08
People say you're white,
you have to be this way.
:11:11
You can't walk around and talk...
:11:16
...Ebonics, you know...
:11:18
...and they're saying....
:11:21
Sometimes you just don't wanna be
what your race is supposed to be.
:11:26
I'm like a little kid.
Little kids go through phases.
:11:29
I like it now. I'll stand up for it
and say, "l'm into hip-hop."
:11:34
But when it comes down to it,
I'll be over it soon.
:11:36
But right now while I'm in school
and I've got comfort...
:11:39
...and I'm okay and my friends are into it...
:11:41
...l can go hang out with them
and I can be a part of that.
:11:45
I can do whatever I want.
I'm a kid, in America.
:11:48
First of all, not everybody in here is white.
:11:51
I'm from the hood, and I don't live there
anymore. I don't wanna go back.
:11:55
I go there to visit some friends
and they're trying to get out.
:11:58
They wanna go on to a college education.