Nicole Hill

This cross-class kind of upstairs-downstairs romance is not something that the first families would have been cool with. They're very snobby. So just to put it in perspective, there's 230,000 people in D.C. at this time. 75,000, or 32% of them, are Black. And then 400 of the 75,000 are members of the first families. Wow.

This cross-class kind of upstairs-downstairs romance is not something that the first families would have been cool with. They're very snobby. So just to put it in perspective, there's 230,000 people in D.C. at this time. 75,000, or 32% of them, are Black. And then 400 of the 75,000 are members of the first families. Wow.

You took the words out of my mouth. That's what we're talking about here is the talented 10. So the talented fifth, really. So the first film is their exclusive. If you're wealthy and Black, but you're coming to D.C. from like Philly or New York or Detroit, they call you a foreigner or a stranger. And if you're poor or uneducated and Black...

You took the words out of my mouth. That's what we're talking about here is the talented 10. So the talented fifth, really. So the first film is their exclusive. If you're wealthy and Black, but you're coming to D.C. from like Philly or New York or Detroit, they call you a foreigner or a stranger. And if you're poor or uneducated and Black...

You took the words out of my mouth. That's what we're talking about here is the talented 10. So the talented fifth, really. So the first film is their exclusive. If you're wealthy and Black, but you're coming to D.C. from like Philly or New York or Detroit, they call you a foreigner or a stranger. And if you're poor or uneducated and Black...

They don't call you anything at all because they're living by this mandate of lift as we climb. The saying is everywhere. It's a huge part of the strategy that the race has come up with during a time when they literally had to move in next door to the people who used to enslave them. So it's like not a good time. So they think like, OK, how are we going to change this?

They don't call you anything at all because they're living by this mandate of lift as we climb. The saying is everywhere. It's a huge part of the strategy that the race has come up with during a time when they literally had to move in next door to the people who used to enslave them. So it's like not a good time. So they think like, OK, how are we going to change this?

They don't call you anything at all because they're living by this mandate of lift as we climb. The saying is everywhere. It's a huge part of the strategy that the race has come up with during a time when they literally had to move in next door to the people who used to enslave them. So it's like not a good time. So they think like, OK, how are we going to change this?

How are we going to make things better for ourselves? And W.E.B. Du Bois and a lot of people come up with this idea of the talented 10th. And they're like, all right, we need y'all to go in there, be as respectable and as elegant and educated as possible to put these white people at ease and show them that like, see, I'm a human just like you. See my hands. You can't really reason.

How are we going to make things better for ourselves? And W.E.B. Du Bois and a lot of people come up with this idea of the talented 10th. And they're like, all right, we need y'all to go in there, be as respectable and as elegant and educated as possible to put these white people at ease and show them that like, see, I'm a human just like you. See my hands. You can't really reason.

How are we going to make things better for ourselves? And W.E.B. Du Bois and a lot of people come up with this idea of the talented 10th. And they're like, all right, we need y'all to go in there, be as respectable and as elegant and educated as possible to put these white people at ease and show them that like, see, I'm a human just like you. See my hands. You can't really reason.

You have to be like, it's OK. It's OK. Or you have to just fight.

You have to be like, it's OK. It's OK. Or you have to just fight.

You have to be like, it's OK. It's OK. Or you have to just fight.

And this is like, they're the first generation of people. A lot of them were slaves and now they're free. White people are not okay with this. It's not like everybody's like, oh yeah, you earned it. Good for you. Like they're under duress at all times. So yes, you're having to like overcompensate, overprove, overdo all these things.

And this is like, they're the first generation of people. A lot of them were slaves and now they're free. White people are not okay with this. It's not like everybody's like, oh yeah, you earned it. Good for you. Like they're under duress at all times. So yes, you're having to like overcompensate, overprove, overdo all these things.

And this is like, they're the first generation of people. A lot of them were slaves and now they're free. White people are not okay with this. It's not like everybody's like, oh yeah, you earned it. Good for you. Like they're under duress at all times. So yes, you're having to like overcompensate, overprove, overdo all these things.

And the idea is if we send y'all in there to do that, then white people will be put at ease and then go around to the back of the club, open the door, and then you're going to let all the rest of us in. here's what the strategy didn't account for. It's hard to be in something, but not of it.

And the idea is if we send y'all in there to do that, then white people will be put at ease and then go around to the back of the club, open the door, and then you're going to let all the rest of us in. here's what the strategy didn't account for. It's hard to be in something, but not of it.

And the idea is if we send y'all in there to do that, then white people will be put at ease and then go around to the back of the club, open the door, and then you're going to let all the rest of us in. here's what the strategy didn't account for. It's hard to be in something, but not of it.