Whose Streets? Page #10

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Before that, the city

fired its top clerk.

Today, the City Council

in Ferguson, Missouri

is expected to vote on a deal to reform

that city's criminal justice system.

If it says no, the federal

government has promised to sue.

Either choice could cost the city millions

of dollars it says it doesn't have.

...especially for black people.

This main argument

tonight has been the cost.

Southern plantation owners

did not want to free slaves

because the cost would be too high.

If the state can spend at least $11

million to teargas peaceful protesters,

you can surely spend a

fraction of that on equality.

Thank you.

I'm no longer a resident of Ferguson.

I live in St. Louis city

right now, on the north side.

And that wasn't by choice.

I was forced out of Canfield.

Okay.

So many of our residents in

the beginning just left because

they didn't feel safe with the

police how they been treating people.

So, I think honestly that

the Department of Justice

gave you guys a slap on the wrist

seeing as how they just

basically gave you guys

a failing record and they basically saying,

okay, this is going to be your punishment.

And then for you to have

the option to vote yay or nay

you should be happy.

Hey, man, everybody keep on fighting, man.

That's the only way we going

to get them to do something.

Thank you, Mr. Whitt.

You miss your daddy?

I did.

- You miss daddy?

- Yeah.

I miss you, Daddy, I miss you.

I miss you too.

Some people grow up in

what they think is like a...

what we would call like a real

war with, like, planes and bombs

and guns and stuff... but

this like a unseen war.

Where they wage war on the people

without anybody else knowing.

This era or generation

we are raising activists.

You know, we have to create

a generation of activists.

If there's going to be any change,

it starts with our children.

And all these people that

are about this are gonna start

raising their kids in another way.

And that's where the change gonna come.

Even these little kids that

are in elementary school now,

this is becoming a part of their life.

In a few years, its

gonna become a lifestyle,

not just what people may call a fad.

It's only been a year and so

that we've been doing this.

It's gonna become a lifestyle

where we're fighting for what we want.

Yeah, I saw this interview

with Malcolm X he was like,

if you stick a knife

nine inches into my back,

you pull it out six inches,

that's not progress.

You pull it all the way out,

that's still not progress.

The progress starts whenever you begin to

heal that wound that you, that you caused.

And what we're doing right

now we're laying the ground of

pulling that knife all the way out by

rebuilding our communities for our kids.

So that by the time they're of age

to lead this community

and make decisions,

they'll be able to start that healing

process that Malcolm was describing.

Hey!

What keeps me in the movement?

Um...

It's just this burning

desire and vision and feeling

and love and passion and

optimism about liberation.

Even though I might not ever live to see

what that really looks like,

I know what it feels like

and it's that feeling that keeps me going.

Has everybody got their candles lit?

Yes, sir.

Just like August 9th was the

birth of a movement for us,

this day last year was the rebirth.

And sometimes democracy requires

that we use a little extra force.

So, I'm not mad about what

happened on this day a year ago.

What started in the streets of Ferguson

has inspired those around the world.

So, I want to say to you, if I get

to say one thing it's to stay in this.

Because what we are doing is right.

We are winning.

The reality is these are our streets.

They were built on the

backs of our ancestors

so we are going to claim

them as long as we want to.

We will stay in the streets until

we are equal citizens period.

I really wanna thank y'all

for coming out. I love y'all.

This is... we don't do this

because we hate the police.

We do this because we love each other.

- Yeah!

- That's right.

This movement was born in

love and love always wins.

Alexis, come here.

Make some love for her y'all.

Yeah, yeah!

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to win.

It is our duty to win.

We must love and support each other.

We must love and support each other.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to win.

It is our duty to win.

We must love and support each other.

We must love and support each other.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to win.

It is our duty to win.

We must love and support each other.

We must love and support each other.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

- I said Mike Brown means?

- We got to fight back.

- I said Mike Brown means?

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- I said Mike Brown means?

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- I said Mike Brown means?

- We got to fight back.

- I said Mike Brown means?

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- I said Mike Brown means?

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- Who shut sh*t down?

- We shut sh*t down.

- Who shut sh*t down?

- We shut sh*t down.

- Who shut sh*t down?

- We shut sh*t down.

- Who shut sh*t down?

- We shut sh*t down.

- I said whose streets?

- Our streets.

- I said whose streets?

- Our streets.

- I said whose streets?

- Our streets.

- I said whose streets?

- Our streets.

- I said whose streets?

- Our streets.

- Whose streets?

- Our streets.

Whose streets?

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