1:22:00
Neighbors walking by.
seeing me laying there.
1:22:03
My white neighbors
didn't wanna bother me.
1:22:05
"Isn't that Martin
laying on his lawn?
1:22:08
Why doesn't he
go in the house?"
1:22:11
"I don't know. But that's that
nigger's house. Let him lay there."
1:22:15
But my lady found me.
She called the ambulance.
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And I'm forever grateful
to her. My family. All of them.
1:22:23
They was instrumental
in being a part of saving my life.
1:22:27
But they didn't think
I was here. Y'all...
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'cause I was laying on the ground.
and that sun was frying my head...
1:22:33
in a skull cap.
in a fuckin' wool-ass hat.
1:22:38
It was fryin' my shit.
1:22:41
So they think. "Oh. Man!" They checked
my pulse. They couldn't find no pulse.
1:22:45
My temperature was 10 7.
1:22:47
So the ambulance drivers leaned over.
couldn't feel the pulse.
1:22:51
They said. "Fuck it.
This nigger gone.
1:22:53
You wanna stop
at the liquor store?"
1:22:56
"Yeah. Pick up some Courvoisier.
Fuck that."
1:22:59
But they get me
to the hospital on time.
1:23:01
I'm thankful to all of them...
the doctors and nurses. The ambulance.
1:23:06
But one thing they gonna do... I'm 10 7.
They needed to put me on ice.
1:23:09
They put me on nothing but ice.
They put ice all over my body.
1:23:13
Butt naked.
1:23:15
Damn it!
1:23:17
Now. I don't mind that.
1:23:19
I'm hot? Cool me off.
1:23:21
But I was butt-naked. And I didn't have
the weight in my meat I usually have.
1:23:26
So I'm out there like this on ice.
1:23:29
And they around me
taking pictures and shit...
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laughing at me!
1:23:34
I'm gonna fight that in court.
I'm gonna deal with that.
1:23:38
'Cause somebody could've put
an ice cube under my balls...
1:23:40
and swolled it up a little
or something.
1:23:43
Come on. Now.
I'm a black man. Y'all.
1:23:46
But they didn't do that.
1:23:49
My family was there.
1:23:51
The doctors tried to tell them
to go home. They said. You know...
1:23:55
And I love them and thank them so much
for never giving up on me...
1:23:58
because. Had they gone home. I probably
wouldn't even be here. You know.