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sh**t the People (2025)

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sh**t the People (2025)

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[tense music]

- There has been

another sh**ting,

this time in Las Vegas.

- You can see police here,

now firing tear gas

into the crowd.

-[g*nshots]

-[yelling]

- Migrants crossing

the Southern US border

are once again

reaching record levels.

- Europe's migrant crisis.

- Both sides.

- The deputy prime minister

describes it as an invasion.

- It's our country,

and we are getting pushed out.

I understand how the Native

Indians felt in America.

- Build that wall.

Build that wall.

- When I look around

what is happening today,

it's hard not to feel helpless.

- This is the darkest hour

for Europe since World w*r II.

- I've never known a time when

humans have been more divided.

It seems as though we're

heading towards something

truly catastrophic.

- Protests turning violent as

rioters set fire to a police car

and destroyed downtown streets.

- And chanting things

like, burn it down.

- Protesters

and counter-protesters

were attacking each other.

It was complete and utter chaos.

[tense music]

[camera shutter clicks]

[yelling]

- What am I to tell my son

when he grows up?

I don't have faith

in anything here anymore.

- If history

teaches us anything,

when humanity

has been confronted

by a big challenge

or a big injustice,

those struggles

only move forward

if large numbers of ordinary

people stand up and say,

enough is enough, and no more.

- We are sick and tired of this.

We are sick and tired

of being sick and tired.

- Protests are a

political statement.

Protests are a wake-up call.

[yelling]

- We shouldn't deny that

we're in a really dark moment

for humanity.

Treason! Treason! Treason!

- He wanted the w*r.

They were going to

give you the w*r.

- I think the revolution

should be televised.

I think the revolution

should always be documented

so that we know that the rights

and privileges we enjoy today

were not always present.

- The images

of people protesting

help people see

that they're not alone

in being frustrated

with the way things are.

Misan's work does

two ends of that,

demonstrating the injustice

and suggesting the possibility

of an alternative.

- Misan is able to capture

the complexity

of social protests of racism

in a way that's also beautiful.

That's the power of art

to expand our imagination,

to say another world is possible

and we have the power

to change things.

[tense music]

[birds chirping]

[camera shutter clicking]

- This is on 90, so it's kind

of-- almost up your nostrils.

- Your energy changes

when you're behind the camera.

- Oh, completely.

I get into a trance-like thing.

Completely.

You could travel

the world with this thing

and just bear witness.

[intriguing music]

I fell in love

with the camera late.

I do what I love, my work,

which is observing

the human condition,

and making art that has purpose

is also my passion.

[intriguing music]

I do portraiture in the

form of the protest images,

but then the kind

of celeb portraiture

that people also know me for.

The attention economics of

today's internet-connected world

is something I understand.

I would not be here today

if it wasn't for putting my

images online, on social media,

and it's changed

my life completely.

Hey, it's me. Hey. Hey. Hey.

I wanted to make a quick video.

When I take a picture, and

I put it out into the internet,

and I see millions of people be

deeply moved by it, that, to me,

is something I'm very proud of.

[intriguing music]

- When the

Black Lives Matter protests

began in London last summer,

one photographer,

with his intimate

black and white reportage style,

captured the mood of the

unfolding events like no other.

Born in Nigeria but raised

in the UK, where he developed

a lifelong love of the arts

from an early age,

Misan Harriman's work

behind the camera,

inspired by photographers

including Gordon Parks

and Eve Arnold,

is entirely self-taught.

Now, imagine going from being

an amateur photographer

to sh**ting the cover of Vogue

in just three years.

- Earlier this week, I spoke to

the editor of British Vogue.

The cover was shot

by Misan Harriman,

the first Black photographer

to sh**t the front

of the September issue.

- I remember all these moments

before taking these images

and how nervous I was

or excited I was.

All this is part of the journey.

- You're quite

an anomaly, sadly.

- Sadly, yeah.

I've somehow managed

to tiptoe around the minefield

of being a visible voice

and a Black voice

in a Britain that usually allows

a very specific type of noise

to come out of the mouths

of someone

that has the same hue as me.

And somehow,

I've been quite loud

and able to function

in a society

that doesn't usually

accept that.

There has been an evolution

to my whole being.

Every few months, I feel

like I'm a different person.

As an activist,

you start off very scared

because you don't realize there

are more than a few people

that feel the same way

as you do.

And now I know

there are millions of people,

so it gives me the confidence

to be better at what I do

and learn and learn and learn.

- Remember,

we're here with the turn.

- Free! Free!

- Palestine!

- Free! Free!

- Palestine!

- Free! Free!

- Palestine!

1, 2, 3, 4!

Occupation no more!

5, 6, 7, 8!

Israel is a t*rror1st state.

- Early doors at Bank Station

for the beginning of what

I think is going to be

the biggest protest ever

for ceasefire in London.

-Ceasefire!

- What do we want?

- Ceasefire!

- When do we want it?

- Now!

- What do we want?

- I believe

in the network effect

of solidarity, empathy.

I believe that it's infectious.

The osmosis of activism is real.

I'm not a world leader.

I'm not a politician,

but this is how I play my part.

And a lot of the times...

I'll say 10% of my time

is actual taking photographs.

The rest is just

being in it, you know?

[yelling]

- I follow you on Instagram.

You seem to use your voice

quite a lot on Instagram,

and I'm here for it.

I'm here for every second of it.

- Hey. Thank you.

- What do we want?

- Ceasefire!

- When do we want it?

- Now!

- What do we want?

- Ceasefire!

- When do we want it?

- Now!

- What do we want?

- Nice to meet you.

- Someone to follow

on Instagram.

- Okay. The chocolate bar or--

- Second time?

- [overlapping chatter]

- Everything, everything.

Can we get a picture?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Is that all right?

- Yeah.

[yelling]

- Excuse me.

Thank you. Oh, hold on.

Hold on. Hold on.

You're too fast.

You're too fast.

Can't keep up.

One more, one more.

[camera shutter clicks]

It feels like

a Michael Mann movie.

- Hey.

- Right.

- Yeah. You guys look good.

Looking Hollywood.

Oh, my lord.

Do you mind if I-- Is that okay?

Thank you.

For me, there's nothing more

important than the people,

so I'm just waiting for

them to walk past me

and seeing if any signs, faces,

feelings, emotions speak to me.

And-- Ooh.

Sorry.

Sorry. That sign

is just extraordinary.

Do you mind if I-- Yeah.

Oh, wow. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

- Every time the government

is not listening,

your voice grows louder.

This is the power of the people.

[cheering]

- I show all of these movements,

and they have a way

of fizzling out.

This one isn't, at all.

And it's becoming harder

and harder to ignore,

and that is the whole

reason to protest.

If our leaders

won't do anything,

the people will hold them

to account on the streets.

It's a very powerful thing.

- Ceasefire now!

- Ceasefire now!

- Ceasefire now!

Ceasefire now!

Ceasefire now!

- Hey, so I've left them,

the protests.

I did some photography,

and what I saw

were families coming out,

people that worship

different gods,

that have different

lived experiences,

that are trying

to figure out a way

for this violence to deescalate.

[clicks tongue]

Let's hope it does.

[birds chirping]

[pensive music]

I'm not neurotypical at all

in how I process the world.

The way I would

describe myself is

that I have to work hard

just to be normal, to fit in,

and this has been my experience

since I was a little boy

sent from Nigeria

to boarding school in England.

[pensive music]

My father,

he didn't know his father

and was brilliant academically

and going to Cambridge

and becoming

the success he became.

But there was a whole missing

part of how to be a father.

I needed that closeness that

wasn't there, that I don't think

he was capable of giving,

even if he tried,

because he had never

received it himself.

It's not just my father.

There were plenty of adults

all around me

that could have been

a little bit more kind,

and could have been

a bit more tender.

It was tough for me.

All the traumatic experiences

that I had--

At the time,

I mean, cognitively,

I didn't even know

what the meaning of trauma was.

And I think most children don't,

so they manage themselves

and package it away.

When you're young,

you know, this--

I was in boarding school in the

'80s in the English countryside.

You just want to fit in.

You know, you just wanna fit in.

You don't want to be different.

So when people keep telling you

that your hair is different,

that your lips are big,

your country that you come from

is simple,

you feel lesser than.

I think my existence

was in the notes of songs

and in the pages of books,

in the scenes of films,

without question.

That was my family.

[intriguing music]

Nellie, what do you see?

What do you see?

Sit, sit.

Paw. Good boy.

Good boy.

- I don't know who's showing up,

darling, you or Nelson.

- I can't believe he did that.

[laughs] He never does that.

- He must be so hot.

- That's what I was thinking.

- Well, well done, both of you.

- Good boy.

- Well, you know,

you get to your 20s,

and you're a young man.

And what does

everyone want to do?

So many of my friends

went into banking,

and they were at Deutsche Bank,

Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs.

I got into recruitment

because there was a low bar,

frankly, of entry.

And when I started being

a success in that industry,

it was the same thing.

You were living in London.

You want to be members

of whatever members club

that it was at the time.

You're going clubbing

with your friends.

You're just spending money

or going to Ibiza

and all of these things.

But there was always a choice,

in my inner voice,

possibly my inner child,

that said, "Misan,

you're not comfortable

with all of this.

Beyond the accumulation

of wealth, who are you?"

[intriguing music]

I am a great example

of finding out

who you are supposed

to be in real time.

I mean, it wasn't long ago

that it was lockdown,

and I didn't know

who I was supposed to be.

Something about that moment

when we were all stuck at home

and having repeated moments

of deep self-reflection

meant that we couldn't

pretend we were okay,

and our traumas

started climbing out of us.

[tense music]

[camera shutter clicking]

And after the m*rder

of George Floyd--

And I remember watching

the livestream, and I was like,

"Oh, this is

a modern-day lynching."

- A group of Minneapolis Police

officers

have been placed on leave

after one of the officers

was caught on video

pressing his knee into the neck

of a Black man

who was handcuffed

and subdued on the ground,

pleading with officers

that he could not breathe.

- I can't breathe.

Please, anybody.

I can't breathe. sh*t.

- Bro, get up.

Get in the car, man.

- I will.

- Get up. Get in the car.

- I can't move.

- Get in the car.

- Mama.

- Get up

and get in the car, mate.

- Please. [sobs]

- America has reached

boiling point.

The fury and frustration has

seen another night of clashes

and looting across the country.

- So it was across America,

from Minneapolis to New York,

where police turned on crowds,

at times with what seemed like

little provocation.

This scene in Brooklyn

of a police car

ramming a baying crowd

went viral.

In New York, what

started out peacefully,

quickly became ugly, as police

suddenly turned on the crowd,

beating demonstrators

with batons.

- Good day. We're coming

on the air with breaking news.

An arrest has been made

in the death of George Floyd.

[tense music]

- With that level of honesty,

to walk the streets

and start sh**ting

your own trauma

was an extraordinary thing.

[intriguing music]

[camera shutter clicks]

I could feel everybody's rage.

Being there with my camera

gave me a sense of purpose

and belonging.

But I do wonder sometimes

about the difference

I'm actually making.

Self-doubt is never

far away from me.

When I think back

to the start of my journey,

the image

that resonated globally

was my shot of Darcy Bourne

asking the question

with that placard.

It was shared by Martin Luther

King III, and it went viral.

It left me

with a deeper question.

What do protest movements

truly achieve

if people are still demanding

the same basic human rights?

[pensive music]

- The reasons

for separation of the races

are very important in the South.

We want the Negroes

to have full opportunity

for self-advancement,

but see no reason

why this necessarily

entails their forced inclusion

into places

where they are not suited.

[tense music]

- You're not a Texan

unless you're for segregation.

You're not a Texan

if you're not for segregation.

- Well, I have a little girl

that went to Catholic school

for four years,

and this year,

since they integrated it,

I put her in the public school.

I don't want my children

to go with the Negroes.

- Can you imagine

the future of America,

with all the white children

being driven out of

our public schools

to a life of immorality

and indecency

with these filthy little Negroes

who don't know what legitimacy

means in the first place?

We are ready.

We're going to use

the force of the police

against these good people

when they come out to protest.

- Racial injustice

is a global issue,

but it remains a painful part

of America's dark history.

The images

from the Civil Rights era

still resonate

with me to this day.

More than 50 years have passed

between Martin Luther King's

assassination

and the m*rder of George Floyd,

but the fight for equality

remains.

[intriguing music]

Every day, I'm learning

more about activism.

So meeting the man who

helped give my images a voice

may bring a deeper meaning

to my journey.

The world will claim ownership

on Dr. Martin Luther King,

but he's just Dad to you.

- So I was 10 years old

when Dad was k*lled in Memphis.

His last book was entitled

Where Do We Go From Here:

Chaos or Community?

We are in chaos right now.

Dad used to say

we must learn nonviolence

or we may face non-existence.

While that does not sound like

something we want to embrace,

if we don't change our behavior,

that's a real possibility.

- Is there a weight

of responsibility

with this great

inheritance, really,

that you have

of your father's legacy?

- If I woke up every morning

trying to fill the shoes of Dad,

I would feel miserable.

But I also would say that to

him or her that much is given

is also much required.

- The imagery of your father and

the whole Civil Rights movement

is tattooed into

the consciousness

of generations of people.

And also, listen, the imagery

of George Floyd

still calling

the policeman "sir."

How important is us

bearing witness with photographs

and videos and showing truth

when sometimes truth

is a needle in a haystack?

- Well, thank goodness

that there is

documented evidence

to at least give one the

opportunity to be able to see--

George Floyd was showing respect

against someone who was not

showing him any respect.

I'm grateful to imagery

and those things

that you have

captured, personally,

to begin to create change

in our nation and world.

- So I wanted

to show you something

that I'm going to

bring it around to you.

The connection my story

has with your family.

- The global protests after

the death of George Floyd

is something none of us

would have expected,

and my lens was there.

Martin Luther King III

had somehow come across

one of my images

and posted it on his Twitter,

and then the world

discovered me.

[applause]

- Wow.

I have goosebumps.

Something just went through--

Like, wow.

You know what it says is

there are a lot of connections,

and nothing

is necessarily coincidental.

I wonder if you were

thinking about that

after you took the photograph.

That image is such

a powerful image, as you know.

What you're doing

is extraordinarily powerful

because the images

will be here forever.

Now, in 2020, George Floyd

was a catalyst

for a lot of positive activity

for a short period of time.

Now, what you would hope is

when change comes,

- it is sustained.

- Yep.

- But it is not today.

I wish that we as a nation

and world were further.

The work just is

nowhere near complete.

This is not going to come

from any one person.

The community has to say,

"This is what we want.

This is what we want to see."

And if people are not engaged

and talking and at the table,

we will not be successful.

At the end of the day, it's

about bringing people together

to do something bigger

than themselves.

- Could we take

one step back, sir?

- Now, I'm not one to lose hope.

I keep on hoping.

And I still have faith

in the future.

I've gone through a lot of soul

searching and agonizing moments,

and I've come to see

that we have

many more difficult days ahead.

And some of the old optimism

was a little superficial,

and now it must be tempered

with a solid realism.

I feel that there is a need

for a revolution of values

in America.

[tense music]

- This generation stood up

and said,

"We have had enough of seeing

our brothers and sisters

k*lled in the street."

And they're speaking to those

who are in positions of power

and saying, "Hear our voice.

We have had enough

of the senseless k*lling."

- USA! USA! USA!

- Protest, as we know it now,

arises in the last 150 years.

It was when it really starts to

become one of the central ways

that human beings

respond to injustice,

or the perceived

abuse of power by elites.

- We are going to

change history today.

- Game over.

- I think it is possible to tell

the story of the 21st century,

really, as the story

of unexpected

- mass protest explosions.

- Hands up!

- sh**t back!

- Hands up!

- sh**t back!

- Move! Move! Move! Move!

- You need

to stop throwing fireworks

and disperse immediately.

- It's an ongoing struggle,

but there is no doubt

that because of protest

and people's determination

to right the wrongs

in our society,

we do have a better society,

a more just

and more dignified society

than we otherwise would have.

[intriguing music]

This is all about

justice and equality.

We just have to look back

at history,

and sometimes there will be

an attempt to roll that back.

- Fires of frustration

and discord

are burning in every city,

North and South,

where legal remedies

are not at hand.

Redress is sought

in the streets.

- Fight what?

- Fight force.

- Fight what?

- Fight force.

- Fight what?

- Fight force.

- Fight what?

- Fight force.

- Fight what?

- Fight force.

- Fight what?

- Fight force.

- Dr. King teaches us that the

power of the masses of people

has to be centered in the work

to make radical

or real change in society.

[indistinct chatter]

[eerie music]

- As a young boy,

I came across the images

of apartheid South Africa.

These images shook me

to my core.

And then I went on a journey

of understanding

what it all actually meant.

[eerie music]

- Get away from him.

- South African people

are people of protest,

people of resistance.

It's-- It's in the soil.

It's in the ground now.

- There's Mr. Mandela.

Mr. Nelson Mandela,

a free man taking his first

steps into a new South Africa.

That is the man who the world

has been waiting to see.

[cheering]

- This is all

within my lifetime.

This isn't something

that's in the history books

from a long time ago.

[eerie music]

[camera shutter clicks]

Peter Magubane's

pictures changed my life.

They helped me understand

what inequality truly is.

[camera shutter clicks]

The visual poetry of his work

has shaped so much

of why I do what I do.

[camera shutter clicks]

[eerie music]

I'm so excited to go into

your world, Peter's world.

- Well, it's wonderful

to have you,

and you know, your work

that you've been doing

Peter would be so proud of.

- We lost Peter

January this year, 2024.

And now I'm meeting David,

the man who, for 30 years,

was the custodian of all of

the stories he had captured.

And they went through

everything together.

- So basically,

this was in June 1976...

Soweto uprising.

And this was in a place

called Alex that--

The police had asked him

to expose his film to light,

and he refused.

And...

they subsequently

broke his nose.

And obviously, he relented, and

the film was exposed to light.

He would shake his head,

and he'd go,

You know, "Dave, my nose healed,

but those images,

I lost them forever.

- That was our history."

- Mm.

- "Those fools

lost our history."

- Would you call Peter

an activist?

- Magubane, to me, when you

use a word like an activist,

you're belittling what he did.

He was a freedom fighter.

His camera was his g*n.

He was a messenger of the truth.

He exposed the injustice

of apartheid,

showed the world

how apartheid operates.

So this is one of his

most iconic images.

- Well, it's one of the

most important pictures

that's ever been taken.

- He took this in a very

affluent area in Sandton.

And if you look at this image,

this tells you exactly

what apartheid was all about.

- Everything, everything.

- And this is--

This is

a very interesting image.

This was June 16, 1976,

the beginning

of the Soweto uprising.

These children didn't want him

to take pictures.

He calmed them down,

and he said to them,

"A struggle without

documentation is no struggle."

He's saying,

never forget your history.

Otherwise, we don't

know where we're going.

Well, it's published

all over the world.

And he always said

those children

brought South Africa's struggle

to the world.

- And he was doing

it at huge cost.

- At a great cost to his life.

He just-- I think from

years of it, since 1954,

seeing abuse of people,

seeing people k*lled

and in the most inhumane ways,

and also him being detained 586

days in solitary confinement--

He has a record in South Africa.

He was beaten up many times,

made to stand on bricks

for four days and four nights

until he passed out

and urinated blood.

But he was determined.

He wanted to show the world what

was going on in his country.

Well, I grew up

in a privileged South Africa.

I was white,

I grew up very privileged.

Everything was nice

for me, you know?

For him, it wasn't.

And for his children,

it wasn't either.

And him and his children,

you know, family to me.

I had a big resentment

for my own people,

- for white people.

- Really?

- For what had been done

and what I'd seen

to a man I dearly love.

You know, just seeing the way

he was treated by white people.

Still in a condescending way.

"We know better than you.

We know--"

Where he's the one

leading the way.

And he is the one

that told me not to hate,

have hatred towards

especially your own people.

- Yeah. Well, he had--

In many ways,

he had no good reason

to let you in the way he did.

- Yes, he did.

- He did.

That's a remarkable

human being, isn't it?

After seeing all he did,

after being through all that,

to take me under his wing

and go,

"Come here, young man.

I wanna show you my country.

Your country.

This is your country, too.

We can work together."

All those years ago.

I mean, it's been a blessing,

and it's hard for me

to talk about sometimes.

- Yeah.

- But he didn't have hatred.

He didn't have-- He always

said if-- And I asked him.

I said, "Baba,

you've been through so much.

Why you don't hate?"

It's-- He said hating would stop

him from doing his job properly.

[atmospheric music]

- In many ways,

he trained me, Peter,

- without ever meeting me.

- Yeah.

- You know, there are pieces

of how he sees the world

that I certainly feel

that have showed me

how to hold the camera.

And then give me your eyes.

Lovely.

Goodness.

Stay there.

In terms of my work,

I am but a young pup.

I hope I'm able to carve with

the pictures that I take.

But the stakes were much higher

for Peter than I will ever face.

He put his life at risk almost

every time he held the camera.

He was swimming

upstream all the time.

- I will never,

never forget 1976,

when the police

had left me for dead.

I am grateful to those people.

Had it not been for them,

I would not be alive

to show you the history.

[crying]

[intriguing music]

- It's easy to forget

how little equality

there was in South Africa,

especially for people

that looked just like me.

They had to fight

for the basic rights

that all human beings deserve.

[intriguing music]

- Well, after an overnight lull,

violence erupted once again,

with vehicles being stoned

and set alight

and roadblocks being set up,

which made crossroads

inaccessible

to all but police vehicles

and those of residents.

[g*nshots]

[yelling]

- Since June last year,

229 people have been k*lled,

2,599 injured in

Johannesburg's Black townships.

And these are the figures given

by the South African police.

United Nations estimates

are over 1,000 dead.

In Soweto,

their graves are unmarked.

[somber music]

- If you think of South Africa

from post-apartheid,

30 years is nothing.

It's always heartbreaking for me

because you can see

what was taken.

You can feel what was taken.

[somber music]

[indistinct chatter]

The ghosts of the past

are all still here.

[group chanting]

- No reparation?

- No vote.

- No reparation?

- No vote.

Down, our human dignity is down.

Down with inequality.

- Down!

- Down.

- Down with inequality.

- Down.

- Down.

- Down with injustice.

- We are with pensioners

that are all survivors

of apartheid,

survivors

of really unspeakable violence.

And what's tragic

is they haven't had the support

from the government

that they so richly deserve.

And they're living in squalor.

Two of them have

just passed away.

- Now!

- Redress us. Redress us now.

- Now!

- [non-English speech]

- We fought for years in order

to get rid of apartheid regime.

When we wanted to go

and get a vote in 1994,

people were k*lled. People died.

People were disappeared.

People were r*ped.

We are not happy because now

our government ignores us.

[group chanting]

- It's 178 days, now,

we are here.

And it's too much now.

It's seven months now.

We are catching

seven months now.

Our government

is doing nothing to us

because before,

we had people who are evil.

We get rid of them,

out of our country.

But now we still have another

evil people like before.

Why? God must help us.

[cheering]

[somber music]

[camera shutter clicks]

[group singing and clapping]

[pensive music]

[indistinct chatter]

- Stay there.

Stay there.

That's great. That's great.

[camera shutter clicks]

[group singing]

- Comrade, comrade.

[non-English]

- [crowd chanting]

- Wow.

It reminds me of how we changed

this place many years ago.

I want to tell you that history

has a way of repeating itself

for the worst, as we see what

Palestine is going through,

but also for the good.

You saw what those

universities in America did.

It was only a matter of time

that it was going to become

a global crusade against

oppression and genocide

in the 21st century.

You students are making history.

Stand up for the Palestinians

because the universities

in the 1980s, 1970s

stood up against apartheid

for our liberation.

And we saw the tide turning

in the '80s, and, voila,

we got our freedom.

It's a matter of time

that we're going to see

the tide turning there.

Let's be counted

as part of a global crusade.

You are brave. You are bold.

Do it in solidarity

for the absolute brutality

and slaughter of a people--

Of a government who do things

in the name of a people.

And many of the Jewish people

say, "Not in our name."

- Thank you.

- [cheering]

- Palestine will be free.

Free, free Palestine!

- So I'm here,

and I've been photographing

and spending time

with the students,

who are using art and their

voice in solidarity with--

For a free for Palestine.

And what's so powerful

about being here today

is that this university...

Yes, this university used to be

an all-white university.

It was only

for one type of person.

And now look at it.

And it's very emotional

knowing that there is hope.

During the time of apartheid,

everyone I'm looking at

would not be welcome

in this space

to educate themselves

and thrive.

All religions, all ethnicities.

And it just gives me hope.

It wasn't long ago when

only white people

were allowed

to even be educated here.

And it's a reminder of progress

and positive change

and the importance

of universities and protests

and student voices.

- Palestine will be free!

[crowd chanting]

- Well, I will not

stand aside and watch.

I will not be silent

while the world is on fire.

Will you?

[cheering]

- I believe student activism,

historically and in the present,

has shown to be one

of the most powerful elements

of resistance to injustice.

[crowd chanting]

- The country shouldn't function

while this w*r is going on,

and we hope that people

all over the country

will take actions like this,

will close down their factories,

will close down their offices,

as long as the w*r goes on.

[crowd chanting]

- To those militant radicals

who would disrupt and destroy

and burn the colleges

of the United States,

demonstrations in the streets

of this country

are not the way of this country.

- To every college president,

I say, vanquish the radicals

and take back our campuses

for all of the normal students--

- [chanting]

[non-English]

- Shame, shame. Shame on you.

Shame, shame, shame on you.

- Young people

at university campuses

are standing up for justice

on a scale never before seen

in the United States.

They have something that

older activists don't have,

and that is they can

bring new perspectives

on old, intractable problems.

- Get out of the way.

- The disruption of the

status quo is always important.

What protests do

is they expand our imagination.

They get us to think

about what is possible.

[crowd chanting]

And without protests,

things would stay the same.

In fact, things

would actually regress.

So even when protests,

perhaps, are violent

or they're disruptive

to the social order,

they're actually necessary

for how societies

improve and move forward.

- I think

it's quite disappointing

that the powers that be have

not found a more effective way

of responding to protests.

Their first response is always

to respond with brutal force,

to respond with the

militarization of our campuses.

- USA! USA! USA! USA!

- I don't think

it has ever been fair.

- Peaceful.

- Peaceful.

- Oh, my God.

- Those who are in power,

those who are governing,

have a responsibility

to govern those

that have placed them

in their positions of power

and influence.

- ...will be arrested

and charged with trespassing.

- This is the--

- [crowd chanting]

- I think

it's a beautiful awakening

to see students, in some ways,

just put at risk their careers,

their college degrees.

The fact that students

had this kind of uprising

speaks to the power of protest

and to the power of organizing.

[cheering]

[birds chirping]

- Many people don't know

where to look anymore.

They feel that the internet

has become too toxic for them.

News media is controlled

by three or four men.

And then they see this dad

that takes nice pictures,

is doing his best.

And it travels further than

even I ever thought it would.

Hello. Like many of you,

I'm just so concerned

about the escalation

of military hostility

between Israel and Iran.

WCNSF. This is an acronym

unique to Gaza.

"Wounded child,

no surviving family."

I mean, in March and April,

some 860,000 people

did not receive humanitarian aid

in Kordofan, Darfur,

and Khartoum due to violence.

So when I see the hostages being

taken in the way that they were,

when I see how young--

Some of them were babies

under the age of one.

That's unacceptable to me.

It's unacceptable,

and is not how

a future of some

kind of shared humanity can be.

[eerie music]

My first film as a director has

been nominated for an Oscar.

And that will put

a lot more eyeballs,

millions more eyeballs on me.

Naturally,

this leaves me exposed

for the best and the worst

of what this type of visibility

will bring.

[eerie music]

I tried to drown out

the vitriol, the abuse,

the hate that I receive

on a daily basis online

from a mixture of real people

and an army of trolls.

But it is a choice, and I will

take what fate throws at me.

Hey, just finished

sh**ting something.

My phone was blowing up,

and I saw the videos

coming out of Gaza...

Well, coming out

of Rafah in particular.

And you know, I'm not even

recommending you watch it.

If you trust me,

I can say that, by some margin,

these are the worst videos

I've ever seen since October 7.

Keep asking. Keep emailing.

Keep WhatsApping.

Keep posting

and sharing on social media.

It's a very least you can do

because what I've just seen...

No, no. It's unacceptable.

You ready?

Time for a walk, buddy.

[somber music]

Go on. Good boy.

It's quite hard right now

to not be worried about this--

This world.

But worry mustn't turn into

the type of fear

that makes you retrench,

which can lead

to so much damage.

- How are you emotionally?

- Up and down, up and down.

But, you know, the good thing

about understanding

my emotional engine

is that even at the depths

of my lowest points,

I feel I can carve out

the purpose

that I feel I'm here for.

You know, the trees don't give

a damn about the Academy Awards.

Neither does my dog.

They do care about

what sort of human being I am,

what sort of friend,

father I am.

[somber music]

- Welcome back, everyone.

We are counting down

to the Academy Awards

next month.

Among the films nominated for

the coveted Oscars, The After,

which is up for Best Live Action

Short Film and the movie,

starring David Oyelowo,

is directed by Misan Harriman.

[somber music]

[siren wailing]

[somber music continues]

- How are you finding

the whole thing?

Because it's unlike most events

that happen in the world,

the Oscars.

- It's up there on its own.

- It's completely unique.

And it's-- To be recognized

in this way by the Academy--

We've all-- I was in my PJs,

as a little boy,

watching the Oscars.

It's something that is globally

sort of tattooed

into the consciousness

of anyone that likes the movies.

And that's pretty much everyone.

- Do you feel that this film,

in a sense,

is one part

of your activist mind?

- Absolutely, absolutely.

Activism, to me, isn't just

marching the streets with signs.

It's recognizing the journey

that you need to go on.

And sometimes we need

to just take a step back

and make sure that empathy and

humanity doesn't leave the room.

- Having made this film,

how are you doing?

- I'm okay. I'm okay.

I'm simmering.

I've been a little anxious,

but I'm simmering

and trying

to live in the present.

[horn honking]

[crowd chanting]

- Well, back here at home,

Hollywood is getting ready

for the 96th Academy Awards.

- And that means rolling out

the red carpet

and getting Oscar ready

for his close-up.

Road closures are in effect on

and around Hollywood Boulevard,

and security is ramping up,

as the LAPD says they are

preparing for protesters

who are aiming to take

the spotlight away

from the glitz and glamour

of Hollywood's biggest night.

While you're watching,

bombs are dropping.

- This system

wants us to be divided,

and tries to convince us that

our issues are somehow separate

and detached

from what's happening

thousands of miles away in Gaza.

But we know the truth.

We know that we are not free

until we put an end

to the capitalist system and

imperialism worldwide.

[horns honking]

Because when you wage a genocide

against the people of Palestine,

you're waging a w*r against

women all over the world.

[horns honking]

- Hey, hey! h*, h*!

[crowd chanting]

[horns honking]

- Hey, hey! h*, h*!

- It's funny because Misan--

Whatever he sees

goes on in the world--

and, you know, even

being here, you can see the--

There was a protest

going on yesterday.

He went to one when

he first arrived a week ago.

Also, you know,

you travel around LA,

and you see a lot of injustice.

You see a lot of people

having a tough time.

All of these things

always affect him a lot.

- And that's the thing

about this conflict now.

Because when I see people

post "I stand with Israel,"

or "I stand with Palestine,"

for me, it isn't that binary.

You know, that this is just

a tragic, tragic, human story.

And you-- You need, first,

to stand for humanity.

And if humanity means that you

recognize what's been going on

happened a long time

before October 7, that's fine.

If your humanity means that you

recognize that it is horrific

for Hamas to take hostages,

particularly 9-month-old Kfir,

who I post every week--

- A nine-month-old?

- Mm.

- It's mad.

- Well, it's not

about taking sides.

- It's about--

- It's about humanity.

Like, we cognitively

disassociate ourselves

from what we are willfully able

to look away from.

It's tragic. It really is.

- Yeah.

Hi, Sule. Oh, look at you.

- How are you doing?

- You look amazing.

- Mwah.

- Exactly.

I have to get used to that one.

No, no. No, no, no, no.

- It's Nigerian colors now.

- Oh, yeah. It's great.

- Just push me a bit. Yeah.

- When else are you going

to wear them, you know?

- Exactly.

- Today's the day.

- Today's the day.

- You're so chill.

- Mm. Well, there's a w*r

going on inside.

- So internalizes things.

- There's turmoil.

- I've practiced my speech

to 36 seconds.

- Okay.

- Do you want some toast?

- Yes, thank you.

- Or should I turn

into a Niger uncle?

- [laughs]

I was just going to say--

- Hello.

- Niger. [non-English]

- We will finish this in--

Whenever I bloody like.

- Yeah.

- [laughs]

- I have a wife here, but if--

- Don't make me laugh right now.

- Maybe I'm looking for others.

Okay, very good.

First of all,

I have seven degrees--

- [laughs]

- And I want to do Star Wars.

- I mean, let's play it safe.

- [laughs]

- Let's play it safe.

- [laughs]

- Ooh!

Damn.

- Oh, my God.

- You like?

- Damn.

- Wow.

- It's gorgeous.

- Oh, thank you.

- Finish up.

I'm going to get changed.

But I will need you at some

point. Where are my braces?

- Oh, yes.

Let me just get those.

One second.

You were so relaxed before,

and now suddenly

it feels last minute.

What do you say?

- You look good.

- And the Oscar

for Best Ironing goes to Misan.

- Oh.

- That will do.

- Are you feeling

like an Oscar winner?

- I'm feeling like a man...

- You certainly look like one.

- He certainly looks like one.

- ...who has a point of view.

- [laughs] I can feel--

- Blue steel.

- No, but I can feel

the nerves in this car.

We suddenly went really quiet.

[laughs]

- It's game time.

- Oh, look--

- What time is it?

- Game time.

- You all right, darling?

Are you feeling it?

- I'm feeling okay.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- Hello.

Yes. Just don't leave me.

I'm here.

- Yeah.

- [laughs]

- Yes.

I'm claiming you.

- Hey, can you do me a favor

and tell Robert De Niro

he's a little b*tch?

[laughter]

Let him know I'm out here, okay?

[laughter]

- Oh, my God.

[horns honking]

- Driver, window down, please.

The protest is here.

Can we slow down?

Can we slow down?

Sir.

- Oscars, Oscars, shame on you.

- Oscars, Oscars, shame on you.

- Your hands are bloody, too.

- Your hands are bloody, too.

- Oscars, Oscars, shame on you.

- Oscars, Oscars, shame on you.

- Your hands are bloody, too.

- Your hands are bloody too.

- Oscars, Oscars, choose a side.

- Oscars, Oscars--

- With an hour to go

before the Oscars,

police have created a buffer

between the protesters

and the auditorium,

keeping them

from the red carpet.

We cover the Oscars every year.

I've covered

the Oscars since 1985.

I've covered at least 35.

This is the biggest

police presence I've seen.

- Your hands are bloody, too!

- Oscars, Oscars, choose a side.

- Wow, there's more here--

There's more here

by the red carpet. Look.

Can you slow down? Sir?

Can you come around here?

Look at this.

- Oh, my God,

this is looking kind of wild.

[crowd chanting]

- Never again for anyone.

Never again, is now.

Never again, for anyone.

Never again, is now.

Never again, for anyone.

Never again--

[crowd chanting]

[atmospheric music]

- Ready?

- Do what I say.

- Ready?

- [non-English]

[background chatter]

- Even those

who don't take home statues

won't go home empty handed.

This year's Oscar gift bag

is worth over $170,000.

[blasting]

[horns honking]

[blasting]

[background chatter]

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

[background chatter]

[horns honking]

[dramatic music]

- Last night was intense.

I was disappointed for me.

Yes, of course.

It's only human.

But for me, it's about

keeping the intentionality,

the humility, you know.

Well, when we were

in the car yesterday,

it took everything in me

to just not take...

Because I had the big camera

in the bag.

...not take that and go,

you know,

from the entrance

of the red carpet

and try and join the protesters

and at least sh**t them.

But I think I would have

been arrested

and maybe not allowed

into the Oscars.

But that itch was there.

Jonathan Glazer's speech

almost broke me

because here is a Jewish man

that has made a film, you know.

Zone of Interest

is an observation

of the horrors of the Holocaust.

In fact, let me read it

because it's a remarkable

statement.

"We stand as men

who refute their Jewishness

and the Holocaust being hijacked

by an occupation that has led

to conflict for so many people,

whether the victims

of October 7 in Israel

or the ongoing attack on Gaza."

And when filmmakers

like Jonathan Glazer

get on stage at the Oscars,

it becomes a gigantic act

of activism in itself.

- Would you have done

something similar?

- Yeah. You know, it's funny

because that gave me courage

because there's a tightrope

that you walk.

- Are you ever worried about the

repercussions of your actions?

- Well, I think as an artist,

you put it out into the ether

knowing that many

will love what you do,

and many will hate what you do.

So I'm ready to bear those scars

and sacrifice

whatever fate throws at me.

[atmospheric music]

[whispering]

I think we live in

an age now where

it's all too easy to have

all this power and influence,

but literally

stand from nothing.

The veneer of what I thought

the world was supposed to be

has clearly come off,

and I'm seeing

how much needs to be changed.

[somber music]

I realized that

I've lived a privileged life,

and that often collides

with my activism,

and often wonder whether

it's possible to inhabit

both of these worlds.

I could be jumping from one film

and fashion party to the other.

I have plenty of, I guess,

celebrity friends

that I could be

hanging around with

and just turn my head

away from the pain

and inequality of the world.

- But when people

strip that away,

why should they see you

as any different

from that group of people

that uphold a certain system?

- If you are telling me

that you can't be kind

because you were born into

wealth, I would disagree.

I think because

you're born into privilege,

it actually gives you the tools

to rewrite the rule book

for others

because you understand

how the deck is so stacked

against the many

if you're part of the few.

[tense music]

[crowd praying]

[tense music]

[camera shutter clicking]

[PA announcement]

[tense music]

What I've learned is that

human beings can be monsters,

much scarier than the monsters

that were supposed to be

under your bed.

We are capable of, I think,

even frightening the devil.

I've learned that. I've seen it.

[tense music]

- Riots involving hundreds

of far-right

anti-immigration protesters

have erupted

in several towns and cities.

- But those monsters are still

and always have been

in the minority.

In general, people have

a goodness in them,

and sometimes that needs

to be fed almost like a plant

so it can grow.

The images we have all seen

of horrific r*cist attacks...

- Save the children.

Call for a ceasefire

in Gaza and Israel.

- Apathy is lethal.

I'm politely begging all of us,

whether we have

50 or 50 million followers,

we can carve out a future that

our children deserve to inherit.

- We're here to stop genocide,

and that's why Aaron Bushnell

self-immolated.

- Aaron understood that through

this one act of self-sacrifice,

he could stun the world

into action.

- We stand with them.

- We have to stand up

for generations

of young Black people.

They don't have to suffer the

racism that we've had to suffer.

[cheering]

- Politicians need to say,

it is the racists...

This is London at its best.

This is a London

that I know and love.

That's my job, really,

to amplify important moments

like this.

Look, I was in the Oscars

four days ago,

and I can tell you that this

is more important than anything

that I was attending

in California.

This is the work.

This is the bearing witness.

[pensive music]

[sirens wailing]

- Four years ago today,

George Floyd was m*rder*d

in Minneapolis

by then Minneapolis

police officer Derek Chauvin.

Chauvin knelt

on Floyd's back and neck

for more than nine minutes.

The chilling video

of George Floyd's final moments

triggered protests across the

country and around the world,

and escalated demands

on addressing

deadly police encounters.

In the four years since Floyd's

m*rder, reform has been slow.

According to the ACLU,

at least 1,247 people

were k*lled by police in 2023,

more than any previous year

on record.

[camera shutter clicks]

[dramatic music]

- This is perfect.

So facing me straight on.

It's good.

[camera clicking]

- When George Floyd was m*rder*d

in front of the world's eyes,

it, for us, unearthed

a lot of trauma.

It reaffirmed what many of us

have been talking about

in regards to the police

brutality and mistreatment

that our communities

were experiencing for decades.

I think there was

a missed opportunity,

as many of us look back

on making a real progress,

but it has not brought

about the kind of change

that we desperately

wanted to see.

When you think

about these things

and you have a community

that also experiences--

[thunder rumbling]

[laughs] It is responding

to our trauma.

- That's what it's doing.

- Gosh.

- Ah, I can hear God's wrath.

- Yeah.

- He's definitely Black.

- [laughs]

- [laughs]

- So when you think about

these things and you--

You add the systematic ways

in which we have

a boot on our neck,

you have to ask the question,

why is it that people

do not want

to share the prosperity with us?

Why is it that we do not create

the kind of policies

that allow for all of us

to thrive?

Why is there a sense of pushback

when we're always only asking

for the bare minimal?

And the question is,

we've never been seen as equal

in the eyes of the law,

and we've never been seen

as equal

in the eyes of our counterparts

in the society that we live in.

The idea that you only expect

people who are oppressed--

Who are experiencing

oppression directly

to be the ones that stand up

says something about

how deprived you are of humanity

and the ability to see

others' liberation

as part of your liberation.

There's always a connection

to another human being,

and I think

the biggest connection

is that we all bleed the same.

[laughs]

We all breathe the same.

And we all dream the same.

And we shouldn't be so tribal

in the way in which we see

each other's humanity.

We should think

of each other as one.

- You stand

on the shoulders of giants.

You knew John Lewis himself.

And of course, you know the

legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King

and Nelson Mandela,

to name a few.

How do you carry that baton

in order to pass it on

to your children's generation?

- I think my generation

is passing on...

Is what the past generation

of movement creators and

change makers have passed on,

which is to stay focused

and to march on.

And that's what

I tell young people.

- Well, you're not afraid to

cause good trouble yourself.

- No, and it's always fun

to cause good trouble.

[atmospheric music]

- Love has never been

a popular movement,

and no one's ever wanted,

really, to be free.

The world is held together...

Really, it is held together

by the love and the passion

of very few people.

Otherwise, of course,

you can despair.

Walk down the street of any city

any afternoon,

and look around you.

[somber music]

What you got to remember is what

you're looking at is also you.

Everyone you're looking at

is also you.

[somber music continues]

You could be that person.

You could be that monster.

You could be that cop.

And you need to decide

in yourself not to be.

[somber music continues]

[camera shutter clicks]

[yelling]

[horns honking]

- George Floyd's death

sparked a racial reckoning

across the country

and around the world,

and the organizers of his day of

remembrance say it's important

we never forget

what happened here,

at 38th and Chicago

on that fateful day.

[somber music]

[horns honking]

- This is the only way we're

gonna get heard, is in numbers.

We need to be seen.

You know, enough of us--

If we're able...

If we're healthy and able,

we need to be out here on

the streets doing the work.

- Hands up! Hands up!

- Don't sh**t! Don't sh**t!

- Hands up! Hands up!

- Don't sh**t! Don't sh**t!

- Hands up! Hands up!

- Don't sh**t! Don't sh**t!

- Hands up!

- Don't sh**t!

- Don't sh**t!

- Hands up!

- Hands up!

- Don't sh**t!

- Hands up!

- Don't sh**t!

- Hands up!

- Don't sh**t!

- Hands up!

- Don't sh**t!

- Hands up!

- Don't sh**t!

[birds chirping]

[somber music]

- So I'm here at

38th and Chicago,

four years after the loss

of George Floyd.

And I'm literally here

where we lost him,

learning about progress

in solidarity with the community

here on the ground.

So I'm very happy to be here.

[somber music]

Leslie, a real pleasure.

It's a huge deal for me

to be here with you.

So tell me what has happened

in the last four years

and what's happening now.

- We've come too far

to turn back now.

When you have so many people

and entities

that are attacking

affirmative action,

that are still attacking

people's everyday humanity,

we have to keep the fight

for justice going.

We're here in

George Floyd Square.

There's George Floyd's face

right there. And it's like--

I was telling somebody,

he wasn't just a figure.

He was a family member

to people.

He was a human being.

- What will

real progress look like?

- You see George Floyd?

We won't be sitting

at another memorial,

because I always say,

the only real form of justice is

if George Floyd

was still alive today.

And so, for me,

real change and transformation

mean that Black lives matter.

Amen.

It's not an org--

It's not just an organization.

It really is, like,

a declaration

that has not been true

in America

since they've been

bringing us here like cargo.

It just hasn't been true.

And, at this point,

I would just even settle for,

stop murdering us, amen?

Baby steps,

because there's

so many levels and layers to it.

- Look over there.

Chin slightly up.

Beautiful.

[somber music]

- The summer of 2020, I painted

169 names on the street

here at George Floyd Square.

It's called the Morning Passage.

And every spring, we do

a repaint with communities,

so we repainted 169 names today.

It's a way to take the streets.

It is a way to show, also,

the grand, unending nature

of police crimes and police

violence in the United States.

It's never going

to be a finished list.

I could paint all

the way to downtown,

and this list

would never be finished.

[chanting and drumming]

- 3, 2.

Derek, many people

I've spoken to today

say they felt heavy

when they woke up this morning,

knowing what happened on this

corner of 38th and Chicago

on that fateful day.

In the same breath,

they say they feel like

they're in community

every time they come

to George Floyd Square.

That's exactly what organizers

wanted this space to be,

a space for people to come

and feel all the emotions

and know it is okay

and come to be together.

[drumming]

- Say his name.

- George Floyd!

- Say his name.

- George Floyd.

- George! George!

- Floyd! Floyd!

- George! George!

- Floyd! Floyd!

- Fist in the air, one time.

Fist in the air, one time.

That's the first level of fight.

You got to put your hand up.

217 people get k*lled every day.

- Keep your hands up.

- That is 170,000 people a year.

When I say, George,

you say Floyd.

- George.

- Floyd!

- George!

- Floyd!

- George!

- Floyd!

- If George had a choice

and he knew,

he would still choose to go

the way he went

for the cause that he went for,

but he was a gentle giant,

wouldn't really to hurt nobody.

- It's beautiful that they

keep his memory alive,

that they just didn't let it go

after the first year,

the second year, the third

year, the fourth year.

You know what I mean?

To know that they support him,

that's like supporting us,

supporting

our whole neighborhood,

supporting where we come from.

- And it's good that we're here,

and we're going to fight the

fight, but let's keep it going.

Let's keep it going.

- Yeah, if you look

at the state now

and state four years ago,

ain't much changed.

Police brutality still here.

Unnecessary killings still here.

Racial profiling still existing.

Like, America got to get

honest with itself first.

You got to tell the truth.

- And even though

we might not be around

to see the change

that's going to come--

But the change

is going to come, though.

It was just the seed

had been planted.

- Yeah. You just got to keep

watering it, keep grooming it,

you know what I'm saying?

Keep harvesting it.

And we're going to get

what we put in.

- When I say,

power to the people,

you say, power to the people.

Power to the people!

- Power to the people!

- Power to the people!

- Power to the people!

- Power to the people!

- Power to the people!

- Let's go y'all. Clap it up.

Clap it up.

[clapping]

- Say his name.

- George Floyd.

- Who can defeat us?

- Nobody!

- Who can defeat us?

- Nobody!

- We are one.

- We are--

- One!

- We are--

- One!

- What I've learned

from sh**ting protests

on three continents now

is that we're better together.

It's the global village

of well-intentioned,

well-meaning people

that are open

to learning about

our collective past

and our present in order

to shape a better future.

I've always questioned things,

but it takes time

to get to a level

of emotional security

to say that this is ridiculous,

and it took a while for me

to get there.

My worldview

has completely changed,

and it will continue

to keep changing.

[hopeful music]

[cheering]

- Say his name!

- George Floyd!

- Say his name!

- George Floyd!

- Say his name!

- George Floyd!

[band playing]

- Here we are--

[muffled speech]

--in 2024.

Thank you.

[muffled speech]

And we have a few

names of people.

[band playing upbeat song]

- No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace!

[cheering]

[Nicholas Britell's "Agape"

playing]

[camera shutter clicking]

[emotional music]

Inside the frame

There's a picture in view

Got me questioning life

And searching for truth

It's easy to turn a blind eye

And forget about the news

Who are you to me?

Who am I to you?

Does someone have to win

And everybody lose?

This is not a game

We shouldn't have to choose

Are we still standing

Waiting for help to come?

Will we face our fears

In the lens of a setting sun?

sh**t the people

That's something

That I heard them say

sh**t the people

Just don't let them

Get away

sh**t the people

'Cause we're running

Out of time

sh**t the people

'Cause everything

Is on the line, line, line

We can't stay silent

History's the proof

Lies are getting louder

And fear's on the loose

Let us do our very best

To keep humanity in the room

Are we still standing

Waiting for a change

To come?

Or will we face our fear

In the lens of a setting sun?

[camera shutter clicking]

sh**t the people

It's something

That I heard them say

sh**t the people

Just don't let them

Get away

sh**t the people

'Cause we're running

Out of time

Hey

sh**t the people

'Cause everything

Is on the line

Let me see your hands up

Face down

Ten toes on the ground

Let me see your hands up

Face down

Ten toes on the ground

sh**t the people

Hey

sh**t the people

Everyone

Should have freedom

We all deserve

The right to liberty

And live a peaceful life

Remember

That we are all human

And we live in a world

Where everyone is equal

If we take the time

We can be kind

And hate will go away