Boots Riley

And it started to me talking, started the conversation about what power actually is under this system.

So I went in that one trip from wanting to get with these girls to wanting to be them.

But the thing is, is that you don't.

One thing that I think was good is.

My parents didn't like say here you have to learn this and blah, blah, blah, because I probably would have later thought of it as their stuff and not mine.

I don't know if they did that intentionally or that's just how it was.

But, yeah, they'd have when I was when we lived in Detroit, we lived there till I was six.

They'd have meetings, but the meetings would always, and I didn't know they were meetings because they would always end in like bidwist parties or like, you know, playing records and dancing.

So I just knew people were around sitting on couches talking to each other and they end up having fun.

So I just thought they were having parties, but it did shape what I thought community was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, okay.

So after the Watsonville Cannery workers strike, then I was helping to organize something called the Anti-Racist Farm Workers Union.

And we did all this stuff and

At that point, I'm 15.

And they're giving us assignments like, you guys got to run off the flyers while we're in the fields.

You got to make signs.

You got to make a skit.

You know, all these things.