Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

He said, no, no, these children are ours.

We produced them.

So what does it mean to do that in this moment?

It's so I'm sorry, I'm getting so emotional, I guess, passionate about it because we're constantly faced with taking the bribe.

Jimmy, he could have taken the bribe.

And what is the bribe?

The bribe is your silence.

The bribe is, you know, just pursue your craft and make your money.

The bribe is to adjust yourself to injustice.

And then in the context of the world in which we inhabit, that bribe involves the deformation of attention.

So we start producing work that doesn't capture folks' attention.

It actually becomes a part of this white noise that leaves folks' eyes blank.

It doesn't force them to do much.

You know, in an interview in 1968 in Esquire, the reporter is asking him, how do we get Black people to cool it?

He says, it's not for us to cool.

He said, but aren't you dying?

You know, but aren't you the ones dying?

And he responds, no, we're just the ones dying the fastest.

And the reporter didn't quite get what he was saying.

we tend to think of the Black Power Movement and the Civil Rights Movement as if they were wholly separate, as if the people who inhabited Black Power, who advocated for Black Power, weren't at some point risking their lives just a few years earlier engaged in nonviolent protest in Selma.