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If I had to describe OW in one word - a real diamond. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
Mind-blowing. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
Surprising. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:17 | |
Drama. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
Swag. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Over the top. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:22 | |
Just crazy. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:23 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
-Problems. -Discombobulated. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
This ain't no fairy tale high school. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
This ain't no fairy tale story. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
Everything is real here. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
2016! | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
OW receives black people 98% of the time. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
You share pain, you share tears, | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
we are lifelong friends forever. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
Teachers, please close all doors, we are in an active hall sweep. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
I'm a senior, and it's make or break time for me. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
I'm about to get ready to leave high school. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
Y'all going to jail, because y'all in a stolen car. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
Come on, Ry-Ry! | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Oh, I love you, man. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
I am so proud of you, | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
because I know that you have overcome obstacles | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
to make it to this day. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
CHEERING | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
It is going to be a wild ride. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
So tell me, MacKenzie, what do you want at your party? | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
Whoever took the phone, you're not a very good person. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
It's sad that her birthday party has to come to this. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
What if you had hit somebody? | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
I was being careful. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
No, you wasn't, because you ran a red light. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
She put me out, but I understood why she put me out. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
This shower is about Harmoni. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
I appreciate everybody for coming today and everything. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
I appreciate you supporting us and everything. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
Oh, look, my baby's going back to school. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
I'm scared. I don't want to be a failure. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
In God's hands. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
Morning, ladies. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
Welcome back. Welcome back. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
We're back from spring break, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
and I was hoping you would have your pants up by now. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
Prom is the 23rd. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
April 23rd, yeah. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
Yeah, they're ordering clothes and stuff. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
It's going to be a big night. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
Yeah, it's going to be a big night. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
So today we kick off that last leg in this race. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
I've... I've often seen it written that the race to excellence | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
has no finish line. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:22 | |
But we have to have a finish line here this year. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
And we're about to cross that line for seniors. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
Let's go. Let's go, y'all. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
Morning. How you doing? | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
How was your break? | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
Good. Let's go, y'all. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
Good morning, faculty, staff and students. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
Welcome back from what I assume was a wonderful spring break. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
Reminder - vintage Hollywood. April 23rd, 2016 | 0:03:45 | 0:03:50 | |
at the cinema room here in Orangeburg. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
This is a prom to remember. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
So, pretty much, we know we want flashing lights. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
You know, we want vintage Hollywood. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
How are you going to put it? | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Flashing lights and vintage Hollywood? | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
Should we order, question one, | 0:04:08 | 0:04:09 | |
should we order the whole kit on page two and three? | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
No. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
What's the price there? | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
A big deal? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Of course. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
Like, it's senior prom. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
Like, it's going to be lit. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
I cannot wait. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:27 | |
Vintage Hollywood - a glamorous affair? | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
Y'all not feeling that? No? | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
OK. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
I like the glamorous affair! Affair. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
No, I don't have a date, but that's fine. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
I'm still going to slay by myself. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:40 | |
Hollywood is really for those who know what prom would look like. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
-Yeah. -So you want the columns and...? | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
I like the gold on page... | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
I was mad at the fact that Breezy put me out. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
Because she knew that I didn't have nowhere else to go. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
And that's, like, hurting me a whole lot. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
That hurt me, and that's when I really knew, like, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
it was done. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
The support that I had was lost. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
And I just felt like I got a little too comfortable. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
And I felt like that's what messed everything up, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
when I got too comfortable. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
My father's been locked up for six or seven years. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
But he's got one or two more years, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
we're not really worrying about how long he's been in jail. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
I'm just ready for him to get out. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
I wish I was at school. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
School, school, school. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
Dear Miss Rodriguez, a hearing was scheduled | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
on Thursday March 17th, 2016. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
As a result of the hearing, | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
Anthony will attend Brother's Keeper Alternative School on Monday. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
It encourages that Anthony enrols in an anger management programme. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Yeah. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
He will not be returning to OW. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
You can't go to college in these kind of programmes. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
A kid that's constantly in trouble. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
In away, I'm kind of upset by the decision, but I guess... | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
I guess they knows better. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
I guess they know better. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:15 | |
Only thing I'm scared of is being a failure. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
I do not want to be a failure. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
And that's probably it. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
That's my one thing - do not be a failure. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
All radio holders, 1083. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
All radio holders, 1083. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
All I did was defend myself. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
To the point where you're fighting, that's certainly not necessary. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
-I didn't want to fight her. -Then why'd you get up first? | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
I'm not a fighter. She stood up first, Miss Smalls. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
All I did was tell a boy not to let her get to him, | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
because I wouldn't let her get to me, | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
and she was standing targeting me too. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:24 | |
She stood up at her chair, then she was about to come and fight me, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
so I stood up out my chair, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:29 | |
because I didn't want to get beat in a chair. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
And everything happened so quick. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
What am I supposed to do? | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
You know what the punishment is for fighting, correct? | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
It was self-defence, though. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
Who hit who first? | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
She got me on the ground, was kicking me. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
There's video, probably, somewhere. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
You can see how everything happened. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
Your version, is that the same version | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
everyone else has in the room? | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
There's video... Ask the teacher, how about that? | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
-I did that. -What did he say? | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
That you were up first. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
That I stood up first? | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
Mm-hm. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
Well, if that's really how it is, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
then I guess that's how it's meant to be. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
I guess that's how the world turns. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
I shouldn't get in trouble for just trying to do the right thing, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
I'm telling you. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:14 | |
Dr Peters, you have a parent waiting for you at the front office. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
10-4. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:22 | |
Hey, Ms Williams. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
How are you? | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
Tell Miss Smalls that we'll be in my office, OK? | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
If Mykenzie stood up | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
because the girl is now in her personal space, and she's like, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
"I'm not going to sit here and get hit," that's one thing. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
But if she stands up to say, "You want to fight?" | 0:09:43 | 0:09:48 | |
that's a trigger. And for these children, | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
somebody standing up is a challenge. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
It says, "Come on, let's fight." | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
Why should she be the one to have to back down from what is right? | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
And allow what is wrong to continue? | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
She's saying to herself, probably - now I'm thinking in her head - | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
that, "I don't care if I'm a white girl in a black school. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
"I'm just going to be myself, and I should be allowed to be myself." | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
And she's right. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:15 | |
She's right. She should be allowed to be herself. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
-But there's rules. -But is it smart? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
We - you and I and everybody in this school, and you at home - | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
have to teach her how to read her environment. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
And to say that, "It's not going to be safe for me to jump into this." | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
She's got consequences to face when she gets home for this, obviously. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
I am one of the only white people here at the school. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
And Mom knew that was going to be the case | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
and I knew that was going to be the case. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
We chose to go to OW, because a lot of white parents | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
are sending their kids off to private school | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
and schools like that, | 0:11:00 | 0:11:01 | |
so their kids don't have to be in an environment like this. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
When I first came here, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
I had positive energy and everybody was afraid. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
Now, it's like I don't trust anybody, | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
you can't get to these kids, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
keep your mouth shut and stay as visible as possible. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
You still appear to be going right at her. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
Adrenaline. Adrenaline, was right there. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
You didn't see where she hit me first, Momma. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
See, she's hitting me. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
And I'm just trying to block my face. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
When somebody hits you, | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
it's human nature. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
Had you ignored her, we wouldn't be having this situation. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
But, Momma, you gotta put yourself in my shoes | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
as a student in that school. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
You said for me to put myself in your shoes as a parent, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
and I did that. And I can see where you're coming from. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
If my child got suspended for ten days at school, | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
I'd automatically want to punish them too. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
But put yourself in my shoes as your daughter in a school like that. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
I'm not... That's not fair. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
OK, no, just listen to me, it is fair, Mommma, get out the gutter. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
It's fair. From your perspective, I see how it could be unfair. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
But from my perspective, being the person in the school, it's fair. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
Because you've got to put up with it, you can't speak up for yourself, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
you can't defend yourself all the time, | 0:12:32 | 0:12:33 | |
or it's going to start something with somebody. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
You gotta just take it, every day. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:37 | |
You gotta take it as it comes to you, and say, | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
"I'm better than that." | 0:12:40 | 0:12:41 | |
It's not a race thing, no, but it's a culture thing. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
It's a way of who you are, in that school. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
If you don't follow up with what they're doing | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
and how they act and all that... Momma, you are singled out. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
Dr Peters was kind of saying the same thing. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
He was saying that, somehow or another, you are in a culture, | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
and a world now that you don't understand. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
He says that we need to keep you safe | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
and that you understand that people in this culture | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
take things differently. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
And I really have to say, I thought that, on the way here, | 0:13:10 | 0:13:16 | |
I thought I was going to say something totally different, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
and I'm going to tell you this, and I hope that, one day... | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
..that I won't regret saying this. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
But I'm saying the opposite - be you. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:33 | |
Take that for who you are. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
-Take that, and see the good in people. -Thank you, Momma. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
You stick up for what you think is right, | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
and the good Lord will protect you, and good will come out of it. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
That's right. You always try to help people. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
And if bad things happen because of it, like a ten-day suspension, | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
just compose yourself the best you can and... | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
Know in myself I did the right thing. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
-That you... -Tried. -That you tried to do the right thing. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
Here we go. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
My father is in one of the best prisons in South Carolina. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
The other prisons in South Carolina, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:30 | |
I heard that they have most African-Americans in there, | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
and they have dangerous African-Americans. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
They be killing each other just to kill each other for fun. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
I'm glad that my father's in one of the jails | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
with the old people and stuff. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:42 | |
I'm nervous about telling my father I got kicked out of school. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
But if he in jail and I hide something behind his back, | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
that'd be messed up. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
Look who come up. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:02 | |
-Little dude from across the street! -I love you. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
I love you more. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
How's school coming on? | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
Good. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:12 | |
-Good. -What about them grades? | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
-They was good. -What you call good? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
As and Bs. And some Cs. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
What about that attitude I was telling you about? | 0:15:21 | 0:15:23 | |
I don't know. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
-That flew out the window. -The attitude? | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
Nah, it ain't gone. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:28 | |
What do you mean by that? | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
You got in some trouble? | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
-Not some trouble. -What happened? | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
-A lot of trouble. -What happened? | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
I got kicked out of school. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
-Really? -I got kicked out of school. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:41 | |
-For what? -Punching someone in the nose. -What happened? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:46 | |
He said my momma was going to die. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
-Huh? -He said my momma was going to die. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
I'll always be proud of you. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:29 | |
My father being locked up... | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
For one, they were saying, | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
for two hours I was mad. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
I'll tell you why I was mad. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
Because that day before, I said, "Dad, don't do nothing stupid, | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
"just stay home." | 0:17:04 | 0:17:05 | |
Wake up in the newspaper, | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
everybody crying. So I go get the newspaper, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
and I spaz out, punch a wall. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
That's when it started. I just realised something - | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
that's where it started. That's where my anger started. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
That day I punched a wall. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:21 | |
And ever since then, I started punching walls. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:23 | |
I never started punching stuff. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
So that mean, with your father being in jail, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
you shouldn't use that as an excuse, just like I did. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
When your father be in jail, that should be, like, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
a motivation to you to, like, | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
inspire you to be stronger and better than your father. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
Getting asked to leave OW wasn't a good thing. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:49 | |
But I took advantage of it, I'm glad it happened. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
So I won't end up in jail or six feet down, like others. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
The majority of my friends, their fathers are | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
either out of their lives or, you know, | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
somehow in their lives, but not in the same household as them. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
Oh, my daddy! | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
Daddy, daddy, daddy. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
Well... | 0:18:33 | 0:18:34 | |
I really... | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
He's just my daddy. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:38 | |
Well, I consider him a sperm donor. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
It affects the school, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:45 | |
because you can see the ones that don't have a father figure to go by. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:51 | |
And there's the ones, you know, that are misbehaving, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
and really not doing what they're supposed to do. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
Who is this dude? | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
Nobody don't know really who he is. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
Everybody know who Kordel Johnson is. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
And if you don't know, then you ain't somebody, | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
that's all I gotta say. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
Like, if I call him asking for something, | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
I know I can't depend on him, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
because my mother, | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
she was basically my father and mother. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
The OW prom is not like what you see on TV. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
You don't have fairy-tale endings. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
You don't make up with the dude that was being a butthole | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
the entire time you were preparing for prom. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
Prom is a very big deal for me. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
This is the mark. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:20 | |
This is just one more step to... | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
I'm out of there. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
You see Vernon? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
I saw him yesterday. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
No, I didn't speak. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
-You didn't? -No. -Why? | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
-Erm... -It's a long story? | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
Yeah. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
He used to live with me. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
He used to be, like, my kid. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
A couple of occurrences happened, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
stuff I don't put up with with my kids, | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
so I just had to let him go. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
She put me out. I'm now currently at my Aunt Rosa's house. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
It's a little hectic there, because of all the kids. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
This is, like, their fourth time doing that. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
But I'm sticking it out until graduation. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
It's my aunt's three kids, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
and then my Aunt Rosa has my other aunt's two kids. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
And she have me. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
And then there's my Aunt Rosa | 0:21:46 | 0:21:50 | |
and her boyfriend. So there's eight people in the house. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
SCREAMING | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
You crazy! | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
Hey! | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
The situation with me and Breezy... | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
If she tell me to run around the school naked | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
and she'll be friends with me, I would get butt-bone naked. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:15 | |
She's Breanna, and she got a whole lot of pride in her. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
Yeah. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:24 | |
I just want my friend back. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
That's all. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
SCHOOL BELL RINGS | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
-Hello. -Hello, how are you? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
-Good, how are you? -I'm fabulous. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Through this little adventure I've been through with Mykenzie, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
as you know, and moving into Orangeburg, | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
how do we get away from something's that's always been of... | 0:22:57 | 0:23:04 | |
almost segregation, still, in our county? | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
Right. How do we create the conditions for students | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
to be able to get to know each other? | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
And to walk away with a perception, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
whether it's positive or negative, at least we'll know. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
If we can somehow combine the schools together, | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
try to get the community more... | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
..united. But how do we do that? | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
So we put together a breakfast... | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
Oh, good. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:35 | |
-Where is it? -It's going to be at OP, at the cafeteria. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
At OP, I'll be there. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
In 2016, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
we still have a white school and a black school in Orangeburg. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:53 | |
One is public and one is private. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
We have an opportunity to go to OP. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
What I want to do is facilitate conversation, right? | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
We probably have six white students, right? | 0:24:03 | 0:24:08 | |
Five or six. Give or take. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
I could be on OP's Campus - Orangeburg Prep's campus - | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
probably within eight minutes. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
I mean, we're that close. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
But then, your perception of Orangeburg Prep is what? | 0:24:18 | 0:24:23 | |
-White... -All right, all right. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
-Orangeburg Prep? -Uppity. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
-Orangeburg Prep? -White. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
-Orangeburg Prep? -High-class. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
-Orangeburg Prep? -Rich. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
All right. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
Why is OW a school that has 98.6% of our children African-American? | 0:24:40 | 0:24:47 | |
Don't we live under a rule of desegregation? | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
What's up, man? What's up? How you feeling? | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
Good. Yeah? You feeling some pressure? | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
Yeah, a little bit. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
Wouldn't be normal if you weren't feeling that. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
I'm almost relieved to hear you say you're feeling some pressure. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
When is the baby due? | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
27th of April. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
Of April. All right. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:17 | |
So, basically, | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
I want you to get to a point where you don't make decisions | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
that are detrimental to you, your family, your girlfriend, | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
and, now, your baby. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
Because they're going to need you more than ever right now. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
And a lot of times, you know, your girlfriend, | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
she's going to need your support and your presence. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
You need to be there for her, | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
cos she's gotta be scared, she's young, man, you know? | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
It has become an accepted part of our culture | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
that black fathers not being in the homes, | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
that it's become normalcy. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
I'm here to tell you, that's not normal. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
And I don't want you to be a part of something that's not normal, | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
or an accepted practice. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
I want you to be the exception, not the rule. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:02 | |
I know how important that is to see. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:07 | |
I see my sisters, and how they're close to my dad. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
I want that to be your daughter with you. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
All right? And I wanted to look back 20 years from now and remember | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
this conversation. Because you're going to make it. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
I know you'll make it. As hard as it is. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
All right? All right, brother. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:23 | |
I don't want to disappoint my family. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
I still want to do this, I still want to play ball. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
But I'm trying to face reality at the same time. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
And I got a daughter over here, on the other side of my life, | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
I've got a daughter. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
But I still want to go to school, so that's going to be out of state. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
You feel me? So it's like... | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
I got a lot going on right now. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
Straight to the point, we need a plan. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
Yeah. Parents need to be a part of what we do in here, | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
seven, eight, nine hours a day. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
What parents have done is they've done drive-bys on us. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
They've driven by and dropped their kids off on us. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
And all of the problems that their children have, we now have. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
But this is the diagram. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
This night, Thursday night, | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
I'm going to challenge them to become partners with schools | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
instead of consumers. And it's going to require all hands on deck. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
SCHOOL BELL RINGS | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
All right, be safe, man. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
All right, brother, you too now. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
The parents of our successful students are engaged, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:08 | |
and the parents of our students who are not engaged are not active. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:14 | |
You want us to educate and help train your children, | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
then you best come up here and be involved in the process. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 | |
OW has taught me this year there's only one me, and I can't do it all. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:27 | |
-What's wrong? -No, no - thank you for my change. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
OK. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:31 | |
I care about you, bro. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
All right. What you doing, | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
getting ready to fight this morning? | 0:28:36 | 0:28:37 | |
I feel like opportunity depends on your circumstance. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:10 | |
You probably have more opportunities if you go to the private school | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
than you do if you go to OW. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:17 | |
The town is split in half. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
Where Walgreens at, if you live on the left side, that's the hood. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:27 | |
That's like, the dark side of town. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
But if you live on the right side, | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
that's where a bunch of businesses are. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:36 | |
They come pick your trash up there. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
There's a lot of stuff. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
I feel like it's crazy how we are separate, but that's just how it is. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:56 | |
So, listen, we are excited this morning to be a part of, | 0:30:07 | 0:30:10 | |
I think, history, in Orangeburg County. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:13 | |
Where we come together, transcending race, | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
thinking and discussing the things that you should be leading | 0:30:16 | 0:30:21 | |
the conversation on. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:22 | |
In certain areas of America, yes, I fear for black men. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:26 | |
I might walk into somewhere right now, | 0:30:26 | 0:30:28 | |
and they see all these tattoos on me, and they're like, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
"Oh, yes, he an inmate, he a failure." | 0:30:30 | 0:30:33 | |
Anything, you never know, anything. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:35 | |
OW has a reputation. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
That reputation has been what, about OW? | 0:30:38 | 0:30:41 | |
Just, it...seems ghetto... | 0:30:41 | 0:30:45 | |
Right. So, as a ghetto school... | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
We just, like, hear stuff, like, through talk of other people. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:52 | |
Doesn't always mean it's true, | 0:30:52 | 0:30:54 | |
but it's what you think of when people tell you all that stuff. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
We don't mingle. I wouldn't see none of y'all on a regular basis, | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
on the weekends. No times. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:04 | |
The only people I really know that's Caucasian... | 0:31:04 | 0:31:09 | |
..I can count how many people. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
My orthodontist. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:14 | |
You know? | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
We went on a tour, for a college tour, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:21 | |
I was shellshocked. There was white people everywhere. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:25 | |
I didn't know what to say to them, I didn't know what to do. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
I was just, like, you know? | 0:31:28 | 0:31:29 | |
I don't know how to talk to them, I didn't know how to approach them. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
It was like a glass of milk, and I was like a pepper. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:35 | |
That's how I felt, that's how I felt! | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
Nobody in my family is racist, | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
but I don't know what they would say if I brought a white girl home, | 0:31:42 | 0:31:46 | |
you know what I'm saying? | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
Yeah, they'd probably, like, "Hold on now..." | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
you know what're saying? | 0:31:51 | 0:31:52 | |
It's not the fact that my family's racist, | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
it would just be weird. I would feel weird bringing... | 0:31:55 | 0:31:59 | |
You know what I'm saying? | 0:31:59 | 0:32:00 | |
I don't think my parents would like it, | 0:32:00 | 0:32:02 | |
because they're born in a different time, or whatever? | 0:32:02 | 0:32:05 | |
But I don't think it should be that way. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:08 | |
What's next? Do you walk away and say, | 0:32:08 | 0:32:10 | |
"OK, we had a good experience with those black kids from OW? | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
"They're not that bad!" | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
You know, you go home and say, "Mom, guess what? | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
"I met this guy, Kordel, he was cool!" | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
You know? I mean, "He didn't try to beat me up! | 0:32:22 | 0:32:26 | |
"Or take my pocketbook!" | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
You might find something like, "Hey, let's go meet up somewhere." | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
-You know? -Honestly, like, we're not going to see each other, | 0:32:32 | 0:32:38 | |
and that's the truth. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
Orangeburg is segregated. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:43 | |
I think that breakfast allowed OP and OW students | 0:32:43 | 0:32:48 | |
to say their views, | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
but I knew for sure we weren't going to change the world | 0:32:51 | 0:32:54 | |
with that conversation. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:55 | |
We wasn't going to change Orangeburg with that conversation. | 0:32:55 | 0:32:58 | |
All right, my brother, what we got going? | 0:33:26 | 0:33:28 | |
OK, I don't know if I should... OK... | 0:33:28 | 0:33:31 | |
Me and Breanna, like, I feel like it's not going to happen. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:41 | |
Like, we're not going to be friends. | 0:33:41 | 0:33:43 | |
Vernon came up with this? | 0:33:50 | 0:33:52 | |
-Mm-hm. -Wow! | 0:33:52 | 0:33:53 | |
I'm impressed. | 0:33:53 | 0:33:55 | |
We did have a friendship. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:57 | |
I'm not really... | 0:33:57 | 0:33:58 | |
ready to talk to him. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
Or be buddy-buddy, like we once were. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
I honestly don't think that it'll ever get like that again. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:07 | |
Like, once you make her mad, it's... | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
It's not over with. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:12 | |
Pretty much. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
Hi, this is my baby. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:23 | |
-Look at my baby. -Cheeks, squeeze. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
Don't mess up the make-up! | 0:34:28 | 0:34:29 | |
Whoo! | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
Gotta go get it. Ain't nobody going to give you nothing. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:44 | |
You weren't born into money, the money ain't going to come to you. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
So you gotta go get it. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
# So long, so long | 0:34:51 | 0:34:54 | |
# Jesus walk with me | 0:34:54 | 0:34:57 | |
# To the hustlers, killers murderers, drug dealers | 0:34:58 | 0:35:02 | |
-# Even the scrippers -Jesus walks for them | 0:35:02 | 0:35:04 | |
# To the victims of welfare for we livin' in Hell here, | 0:35:04 | 0:35:07 | |
-# Hell, yeah -Jesus walks for them | 0:35:07 | 0:35:09 | |
# Now, hear ye, hear ye Want to see Thee more clearly | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
# I know He hear me when my feet get weary | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
# Cos we're the almost nearly extinct | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
# We rappers is role models We rap, we don't think | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
# I ain't here to argue about his facial features | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
# Or here to convert atheists into believers | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
# I'm just tryna say the way school need teachers | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
# The way Kathie Lee needed Regis That's the way I need Jesus... # | 0:35:29 | 0:35:33 | |
Where's Breanna? | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
I don't know where our relationship stands exactly. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:44 | |
But I don't know... | 0:35:44 | 0:35:46 | |
No, I haven't spoken to Vernon. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
We'll start off with our welcome to prom. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
What's up, OW? CHEERING | 0:36:00 | 0:36:03 | |
MUSIC STARTS | 0:36:03 | 0:36:05 | |
So, all of the candidates for prom king need to come towards the front. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:14 | |
Prom kings have been chosen. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:17 | |
Vernon. CHEERING | 0:36:17 | 0:36:20 | |
Rendull Middleton. CHEERING | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT | 0:36:23 | 0:36:25 | |
We're going to announce the winner. And our prom king is... | 0:36:30 | 0:36:34 | |
Rendull Middleton. CHEERING | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
MUSIC: Can't Do Without You by Caribou | 0:36:37 | 0:36:39 | |
I feel I was already prom king. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
I'm the prince of the city. This is how I imagined it. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
Seeing here, prom king... OK! | 0:37:05 | 0:37:10 | |
What's the plan? That's just the only question right now. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:20 | |
What has God got planned? | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
He done got you through elementary, middle and high school, | 0:37:22 | 0:37:25 | |
so what's the plan? | 0:37:25 | 0:37:27 | |
# I can't do without you | 0:37:27 | 0:37:28 | |
# I can't do without you | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
# I can't do without you | 0:37:34 | 0:37:35 | |
# I can't do without you... # | 0:37:38 | 0:37:39 | |
College... College is not for everybody. You know? | 0:37:41 | 0:37:44 | |
Not for everybody. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
# Can't do without, can't do without | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
# Can't do without, can't do without, can't do without... # | 0:37:49 | 0:37:54 | |
I feel excited, you know? | 0:37:54 | 0:37:55 | |
I know where I'm going to college, I know I'm going to State | 0:37:55 | 0:37:59 | |
and I know I'm going to play football. | 0:37:59 | 0:38:01 | |
Everything is basically laid out. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
It's like a brick road. All I have to do is follow the brick road. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:08 | |
# I can't do without you... # | 0:38:08 | 0:38:10 | |
I have sort of a naive approach. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:16 | |
I honestly do not know that much about the world. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:19 | |
And I'm about to step into it. | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
It's best to keep your hope alive | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
and never to give up and to stay positive. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:30 | |
# I can't do without you... # | 0:38:30 | 0:38:32 | |
I just can't wait to get out of this high school, | 0:38:32 | 0:38:34 | |
get out of this home city that I'm in right now. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:37 | |
Like, there's more than Orangeburg out here in this world, | 0:38:37 | 0:38:42 | |
and I'm trying to go see the world. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:44 | |
# Can't do without, can't do without, can't do without | 0:38:44 | 0:38:49 | |
# Can't do without, can't do without, can't do without... # | 0:38:49 | 0:38:52 | |
You know what I mean? Just...Hollywood. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
Vintage Hollywood. It's unfortunate, | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
it's so much like a Cinderella story that, for a night, | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
they get to really come out and... | 0:39:05 | 0:39:07 | |
..and lose the cares and troubles that they have in their real world. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:14 | |
I just wish it could be like that for them every day. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:16 | |
# Can't do without you | 0:39:16 | 0:39:18 | |
# And you're the only thing I think about | 0:39:18 | 0:39:22 | |
# It's all that I can stand Can't do without you | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
# And you know you're the one I dream about | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
# I couldn't do without you. # | 0:39:29 | 0:39:32 | |
She should probably be kicking me that I never got that interview. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:05 | |
For real. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
QUIET CONVERSATION | 0:40:08 | 0:40:11 | |
She going to be... She going to be... | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
That's crazy, though, boy. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:25 | |
Just put it on her head. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
You better rub the head. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:39 | |
I'm brown-skinned. She dark brown. I'm dark brown. You brown-skinned. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:49 | |
I'm black! | 0:40:49 | 0:40:51 | |
That's all there is to it. | 0:40:55 | 0:40:57 | |
He gotta do stuff for his daughter, that's all. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:01 | |
He gotta do stuff for his daughter. There's certain things he can't do | 0:41:01 | 0:41:04 | |
no more, like go out, things like that. | 0:41:04 | 0:41:06 | |
And think about what you gotta do now, that's all. | 0:41:08 | 0:41:11 | |
I'd say you gotta step up, be a man. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
We ain't young no more. I've been telling him now that... | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
Although he have a child, he still is going to go to college. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:26 | |
And I don't want him or they to feel like, just because they got a baby, | 0:41:26 | 0:41:29 | |
they can't accomplish what they want to accomplish. | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
I don't mean to cry, y'all, but I'm sorry... | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:41:35 | 0:41:37 | |
I don't mean to cry, for real, but that mean everything to me. | 0:41:40 | 0:41:45 | |
That mean everything to me, I swear. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:48 | |
I know, I have friends who have lost two kids, like, back-to-back. | 0:41:48 | 0:41:52 | |
You know? | 0:41:52 | 0:41:54 | |
I don't understand. Like, it's hard out here. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:57 | |
It's hard out here for our kids. | 0:41:57 | 0:41:59 | |
And just to see your kid walk on the stage and graduate, | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
that's everything to me. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:03 | |
That's everything to me, just waking up, | 0:42:03 | 0:42:05 | |
knowing that my child is still in the house with me. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:09 | |
He has no time to lose. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:11 | |
Even with Harmoni, he's gotta be the best daddy, | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
he's gotta be the best father for her. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:16 | |
He gotta show Harmoni, "Daddy got you." | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
Little Harmoni. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:25 | |
You gotta do right by your kids, be a good father, I know that much. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:31 | |
Seeing what the next step is in life. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:41 | |
For the better of her life. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:44 | |
That's the next step for me. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
Contemplate my next move. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
We are having a Parent-Teacher-Student Association | 0:43:11 | 0:43:14 | |
spaghetti dinner, | 0:43:14 | 0:43:15 | |
feeling like if, we feed our parents and community, they'll come out. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:20 | |
And while they're here, we have a theme for the night - | 0:43:20 | 0:43:23 | |
All Hands On Deck. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:24 | |
Ending a school year, we want our parents | 0:43:24 | 0:43:27 | |
to really understand the need for parental involvement | 0:43:27 | 0:43:31 | |
and support. | 0:43:31 | 0:43:32 | |
HE HUMS A TUNE | 0:43:32 | 0:43:34 | |
'So we're expecting a good turnout.' | 0:43:34 | 0:43:37 | |
Ready? | 0:43:37 | 0:43:38 | |
I've been sitting here thinking that the majority of people that are | 0:43:44 | 0:43:48 | |
here tonight are our staff. | 0:43:48 | 0:43:50 | |
We certainly should have more parents here, | 0:43:50 | 0:43:53 | |
because it's their children that we're educating. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:55 | |
So my comments tonight are really not reflected to you, | 0:43:55 | 0:44:00 | |
because you are the ones who get it. | 0:44:00 | 0:44:02 | |
Looking at our children, coming into the prom, | 0:44:02 | 0:44:05 | |
which had to be the best prom ever in the history of high schools, | 0:44:05 | 0:44:09 | |
they looked like millions of dollars. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
You see, for our children, looking good is a priority. | 0:44:13 | 0:44:15 | |
Whether they had food Sunday... | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
..is a different story. | 0:44:21 | 0:44:23 | |
But they looked good Saturday night. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
We've got to get to a point where we align our schools to the harsh | 0:44:26 | 0:44:30 | |
realities our children and families face. | 0:44:30 | 0:44:34 | |
But first, they must trust. And I think that is a word | 0:44:34 | 0:44:37 | |
that is missing from our children's vocabulary - | 0:44:37 | 0:44:41 | |
trust - because adults in their lives have let them down so many times | 0:44:41 | 0:44:47 | |
in their young lives. | 0:44:47 | 0:44:49 | |
Somebody has to stand up in Orangeburg... | 0:44:49 | 0:44:53 | |
..and say... | 0:44:54 | 0:44:56 | |
.."This is not right." | 0:44:58 | 0:45:00 | |
Somebody. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:03 | |
I end tonight disappointed, as you might see on my face, | 0:45:05 | 0:45:10 | |
by the empty seats in our auditorium. | 0:45:10 | 0:45:13 | |
And I'm looking at the same people I've been looking at since August. | 0:45:13 | 0:45:17 | |
The same people. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:18 | |
1,200 students, and we had six parents attend. | 0:45:24 | 0:45:28 | |
It made me sick to my stomach. | 0:45:28 | 0:45:32 | |
We are asked, as educators, to not only teach their children, | 0:45:33 | 0:45:37 | |
but we are asked to help raise their children. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:39 | |
And so it's frustrating. It makes me angry. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:44 | |
Very few things make me angry. | 0:45:44 | 0:45:46 | |
That's one thing that makes me angry. | 0:45:46 | 0:45:48 | |
And I can't do it all. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:51 | |
The best I can do for y'all today is to keep y'all from going to jail. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:19 | |
I have to do four to six weeks' worth of work in two hours. | 0:46:19 | 0:46:24 | |
If he fails that class, he doesn't graduate. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:26 | |
-Correct. -Wow! -This our graduation, too. | 0:46:26 | 0:46:28 | |
Y'all chose to make a dumb decision, so y'all need to make it right. | 0:46:28 | 0:46:32 | |
I've never written a speech before. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:34 | |
I want to write something inspirational. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:37 | |
This is a picture of my mother. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:38 |