John Hoffman and Christine Turner’s short film follows Arlo Washington as he helps members of his community escape the hazards of banking while Black.
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00:00 [ Music ]
00:17 >> Economic justice is actually having the opportunity,
00:20 a real opportunity.
00:22 [ Music ]
00:27 How you create generational wealth, how you teach others
00:32 to create generational wealth.
00:33 [ Music ]
00:38 The racial wealth gap, it's not a million dollar problem,
00:41 it's not a billion dollar problem,
00:43 it's a trillion dollar problem.
00:44 It's been a never ending story.
00:49 [ Music ]
01:01 It is a challenge when you can't put gas in your car,
01:06 when you can't buy food, you can't pay your light bill,
01:09 you can't pay your rent.
01:10 Life is going on, life is happening, you know.
01:15 I ain't trying to put a bandaid and stop the bleeding on,
01:18 the effects of generational poverty.
01:20 Investments and resources that are meant to get
01:26 to these communities haven't gotten to them.
01:29 There has to be economic warriors in the community
01:35 to create economic justice.
01:37 Hey, what's going on, man?
01:39 Everybody good?
01:40 My name is Arlo Washington and my purpose in life is
01:45 to advance equity and create opportunities
01:49 and build the community.
01:51 [ Music ]
01:58 [ Background noise ]
02:03 Just for the sake of teaching you to pardon,
02:05 I want you to do this right here.
02:06 Now watch this, watch this right here.
02:08 We'll go a fourth of an inch in, a fourth of an inch
02:11 into the eyebrow, take the point of your comb,
02:14 you put it on the scalp, take the other hand right here
02:17 and we'll put it back here in the nape area.
02:19 And then we'll just take that point of that comb and just keep
02:21 it on the scalp all the way until you feel that point
02:24 with your index finger.
02:25 We feel that point with your index finger,
02:26 just slide your finger up the comb that way
02:28 and pull it out to the side.
02:29 That's one side, all right.
02:31 So, but you really want a good straight line.
02:33 So you can always go back and do it again.
02:34 Just need to put a little bit more pressure on the scalp
02:36 when you're going through.
02:37 So we'll take that and clamp that up.
02:38 Yeah, there we go.
02:39 Appreciate that.
02:40 So for the first couple of weeks, this is all y'all doing.
02:43 Six sections.
02:45 One, two, three, four, five, six.
02:47 How long did it take?
02:49 Five minutes?
02:50 Now you're ready to move on to something else.
02:52 But let me let you try it.
02:54 Good job.
02:59 Good job, Mr. LeBron.
03:02 Good job, Hughes.
03:03 You use some of the techniques?
03:04 Yeah.
03:05 You got that looking smooth.
03:07 What we going to talk about, JB?
03:09 Get our foot in the game.
03:10 How to get your foot in the game?
03:12 Build your clientele up, learn the business,
03:15 get a name for yourself out here,
03:17 and then open your barbershop up.
03:19 When I was 20, I opened my first barbershop.
03:22 I worked in my partner's shop for two years first
03:24 and built the clientele up, right?
03:26 So I had about maybe 80, 90, 100 people coming to me every week.
03:29 Then I opened up the barbershop.
03:32 But right now, while you're in school, be patient.
03:34 Practice.
03:35 Cut as many hairs as you can.
03:36 When you leave and go home, if you got little cousins,
03:39 you got people in the neighborhood, cut.
03:41 Cut as much as you can, because the more you cut,
03:44 the better you get.
03:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:48 Hey, what's up, Branson?
03:59 What's going on with you?
04:00 I just been busy.
04:01 You got a pretty good application?
04:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:06 [PHONE RINGING]
04:09 Good afternoon.
04:18 Thank you for calling People Trust.
04:19 How can I help you?
04:20 Yeah, is my credit score--
04:21 it's going to mess me up, ain't it?
04:23 No, ma'am, we don't base it off your credit score.
04:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:28 [PHONE RINGING]
04:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:35 [PHONE RINGING]
04:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:41 [PHONE RINGING]
04:44 Trucking Logistics LLC.
04:47 This your plan right here.
04:48 Have you got any business funding?
04:49 You've been doing this all out your pocket.
04:51 This all on my pocket so far.
04:53 As far as just driving, yeah, I've
04:54 been in the business for 10 years.
04:56 And my dad is a driver as well.
04:58 I've covered every corner of the transportation industry.
05:02 So I want to create those jobs for other people.
05:06 Tell me what it is that you want to do.
05:08 Long term, I would ultimately like to have my home for loan
05:11 or become an instructor.
05:13 OK, OK, OK.
05:15 And you've been traveling to your customers?
05:16 - Yes. - Like their homes?
05:18 - Yes. - Their--
05:18 Yes.
05:19 OK, yeah, that ain't--
05:20 Yeah.
05:21 Do you have any operating capital right now?
05:24 Fortunately, I do not at this time.
05:25 OK, OK.
05:26 So you need gas money.
05:28 Correct.
05:29 You need food money.
05:31 Product.
05:32 Products and supplies.
05:34 And I have a business name.
05:35 I made my own logo.
05:37 I've been working.
05:38 So we spoke on the phone.
05:39 You were saying you were interested in a loan?
05:41 - Yes, ma'am. - OK.
05:42 I'm just going to get this out.
05:43 So tell me about what you're doing with your businesses.
05:46 I'm Barbara Salas.
05:48 I do credit restoration.
05:49 I also have a t-shirt and decal line.
05:52 OK.
05:53 Due to the things that I deal with in life,
05:56 such as sickle cell, having a pacemaker,
05:59 having 80% mass in my right breast,
06:01 going to treatment once a week.
06:03 And then you still run three businesses?
06:05 Yes, ma'am.
06:06 I heard that now.
06:07 You know, capital is a lifeblood of a community.
06:14 If the blood ain't circulating, then you're
06:18 going to have some issues.
06:20 So the blood has not been circulating for a long time.
06:24 Why is it that we overlook this economically
06:27 segregated community?
06:30 Why is the issue swept under the rug and not talked about?
06:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
06:38 What do you think and feel when you hear the word ownership?
07:02 For me, when I think about ownership,
07:04 it's owning my own home so that I'll have something
07:08 to pass down to my children.
07:10 Nobody in my family own anything.
07:12 So ownership is important to me because I
07:15 want to create jobs and opportunities for my boys
07:21 and my little cousins and my nephews.
07:23 My oldest is 27 and my youngest is 7.
07:26 And I think about it a lot.
07:27 Of course, nothing was passed down to me.
07:30 And I don't have anything to pass down to them.
07:33 It just feels good to know that you
07:34 have something that is yours that nobody can take away.
07:37 For so long, we haven't had anything that was ours.
07:41 Yeah, we're damn proud of when we do own something,
07:44 whether it's a Cadillac or a house or a boat.
07:49 It's the idea of it belonging to you
07:53 and that you can self-determine what
07:56 will happen to it without having to ask anyone.
07:59 You don't have to ask for permission.
08:01 Come on in.
08:02 All right.
08:03 Thank you.
08:04 How are you?
08:05 Nice to see you back again.
08:06 I've been making Philly cheesesteaks and hoagies
08:08 since I was 16 years old.
08:09 I've been in the restaurant business for 26 years.
08:12 You have a food truck?
08:13 I have a food truck.
08:14 I have a food truck, but my ambition within 12 months
08:17 is to have a brick and mortar.
08:18 So who do you bank with right now?
08:20 Well--
08:21 And did you consider them for getting the loan?
08:24 They gave me an understanding they wouldn't owe me any money.
08:26 Really?
08:27 They still want my business.
08:28 They still want me to process my credit card payment.
08:31 Your business is still making deposits in this bank--
08:34 Yes, yes.
08:35 --that in turn will not make you a loan.
08:37 Yes.
08:39 The wealth gap has grown tremendously.
08:42 CDFI is a community development financial institution.
08:46 All people matter, regardless of their credit history.
08:50 We are not restricted.
08:51 I was at a traditional bank for nine years.
08:54 Sadly, Banking While Black is a real thing.
08:59 They don't necessarily train you to know that.
09:02 But once you get in there, and you actually
09:05 see that the person coming in, if they're white,
09:09 they're going to offer them credit cards.
09:11 They're going to offer them loans, financing,
09:14 you know, all of those.
09:16 But you come in, you're black.
09:17 There's no services offered.
09:21 Sometimes the interaction with the teller is--
09:24 you know, you can see the difference in how they treat
09:26 you.
09:27 So I just don't-- I just don't use banks.
09:29 Banking While Black does exist.
09:32 Banking While Black, driving while black,
09:35 eating while black.
09:36 Your waiter or your waitress can treat you differently.
09:39 I mean, there is just so many things.
09:41 It's crazy the things that black people have to deal with.
09:44 It becomes an experience that you just--
09:47 you try to avoid the disappointment of it.
09:51 And rather than go through the frustration,
09:56 you work around it.
09:58 It's a work around.
09:59 Big banks, they don't know the community.
10:06 They don't know them.
10:07 They don't have a relationship.
10:09 And you want to be able to be sustainable,
10:11 and you want to be profitable, and you want to be scalable.
10:13 But we just want you to think about every aspect of it
10:17 and best position yourself.
10:19 This helps you to really build your credit profile
10:22 so we can provide you with some ongoing technical assistance
10:24 to kind of help you along the way.
10:27 We got the name People Trust because trust
10:29 in the financial system is just not there.
10:32 My goal is to restore the trust in a system that may have not
10:37 been built for you.
10:40 So we try to see what's the problem, how can we help?
10:44 We find a way.
10:45 I've always wanted to own my own business.
10:48 I hear so much, if you could just give me a chance,
10:51 just give me a chance to prove that I'm trustworthy,
10:58 that I'm credit worthy, that I can run this business
11:03 successfully.
11:07 Y'all ready?
11:09 All right, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
11:21 four, five, six, seven.
11:32 Uh-huh, that should be a fat hand.
11:34 She knew, she knew.
11:36 Come on, let's go to one.
11:37 Historically, barbers have been the go-to in the community.
11:43 One of the oldest and most prestigious professions.
11:46 They were the doctors.
11:47 They did the bloodletting, they did the tooth pulling,
11:49 they were the priest.
11:52 One customer lost his job.
11:55 And he had been a faithful customer coming all the time,
11:58 I mean, bringing his family, his kids, everybody, you know.
12:01 He said, Mr. Washington, he said, I'm down really bad
12:05 and I need to borrow $150.
12:09 I've been a barber in the community for over 20 years.
12:12 So when the community start hurting,
12:13 what do you think they're going to come to?
12:14 They came to the people that they can come to for help.
12:16 He said, I'm getting a job and I can pay you back
12:19 in 30 days.
12:21 So I made him a loan.
12:23 You know, I didn't think he was going to pay it back when I
12:25 gave him the loan at the time.
12:27 But he came back and he paid it back.
12:29 And a couple of weeks later, he came back again.
12:33 Guess what he did?
12:34 He paid me back.
12:35 So I made him another loan.
12:37 And he paid that loan back.
12:39 So then we started thinking about, well,
12:40 how can these small loans at that size really have an impact?
12:45 If they don't have credit, then they
12:47 can't get a loan from a bank.
12:49 That means they have to go to a loan shark
12:51 or they have to go to some payday lender that's going
12:54 to never let them pay them off.
12:57 And I thought about it and I said, wait a minute.
12:59 This is what's affecting my community.
13:01 So you see how it built up.
13:07 Narrow Man, we didn't serve as like 20, 20.
13:09 We served 900 folks.
13:11 And so what we did was we applied
13:14 to become a community development
13:15 financial institution, which was put in place
13:20 to be able to help low and moderate income
13:23 communities that wouldn't otherwise
13:25 receive the opportunity.
13:29 Let him down and let him go.
13:30 Come on in.
13:40 In April of this year, my house caught a fire.
13:43 So, you know, I was pushed out.
13:46 Mm-hmm.
13:48 I was calling to inquire about your rental assistance.
13:52 You're behind on rent now?
13:54 I forgot your name.
13:55 Give me your name again.
13:56 Cancer.
13:57 OK.
13:58 Cancer survivor.
13:59 Yeah.
14:00 Unfortunately, it's just a one-time deal.
14:03 I believe we're the only rapid rehousing
14:05 that is in central Arkansas.
14:07 How much does it cost you to live every month?
14:11 I don't know because I ain't never been on my own.
14:12 OK.
14:13 Have you been looking around?
14:15 Yeah.
14:15 I had a landlord in today, and I asked
14:17 and he doesn't have anything.
14:19 When you move, we'll pay the security deposit
14:22 and your first three months' rent.
14:23 Let's talk about a budget.
14:36 How's the job looking, Nanny?
14:38 Well, it's really--
14:41 it's hard because I don't have nowhere to shower and stuff.
14:44 Right.
14:45 That is one thing about Little Rock.
14:47 There's just really not a lot of affordable housing.
14:51 There's a huge housing need.
14:53 Correct.
14:54 There's just too many people waiting for help.
14:58 You're four months behind, but did she tell you the balance?
15:01 This is a grant, just an emergency grant.
15:04 As I heard you say, you didn't have any clothes,
15:05 you didn't have any transportation,
15:06 you know, everything burnt up.
15:09 But for 17 days in a hotel?
15:12 Man.
15:14 There you go.
15:16 How much is the weekly rent?
15:18 The weekly rent?
15:19 Uh-huh.
15:20 It's not weekly.
15:20 She's just going to charge me like $525 a month.
15:24 My mother, she passed away with cancer.
15:26 And so I'm just thinking if, since you, you know,
15:29 in that situation, maybe if we was able to do, you know,
15:32 maybe a grant for a month, that'd give you
15:35 time to find a place.
15:37 How do you think that works?
15:38 I think that'll help.
15:41 What you think?
15:42 It'll help me a lot.
15:43 Most of the time, it's a state of emergency.
15:50 I needed help, like, yesterday.
15:52 We never got the 40 acres and a mule that was promised.
15:58 That's like the big elephant in the room.
16:01 This was promised to you.
16:04 You never got it.
16:05 Nobody never talked about it.
16:08 It didn't come up in any type of other political discussions.
16:13 And the fallout is what we see, a huge racial wealth gap,
16:19 economic injustices, and no, not really an end to it in sight.
16:27 Here in Little Rock, there is a physical divide.
16:37 Have on one side, have not on the other.
16:42 It's not a wealth gap.
16:43 It's a wealth chasm.
16:44 I-630, the great divide.
16:51 How's it going, man?
17:00 You ready to ride?
17:03 You know, when we cross I-630, you
17:06 can tell a big difference.
17:09 This neighborhood is the heart of the black community.
17:13 There are no banks over here.
17:14 And you got about 30,000 community members over here.
17:17 You'd be hard pressed to find an ATM.
17:21 That community has been economically segregated.
17:27 Look at this, we got four, five boarded up houses
17:31 on this little half a block.
17:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:37 So we cross I-630, and now we're going into the Heights.
17:42 And in the Heights, there are maybe 8,000 in population,
17:50 but you got 14 banks.
17:54 And you don't see a boarded up house, not one.
17:59 Well, you have commerce here.
18:00 You have places where business can't exist.
18:03 You don't see that on the other side of town.
18:07 Then, of course, you have redlining,
18:09 where banks would not make money accessible to people
18:12 who live in certain areas.
18:14 And oftentimes, those certain areas
18:16 were areas where black folks lived.
18:18 It's a phenomenon of building interstates
18:23 through black communities.
18:26 And they bring about destruction.
18:30 I'm going to take you and show you our new location where
18:36 we're opening up.
18:37 That's Redline.
18:38 This is the first financial institution
18:44 ever in this community.
18:46 And so--
18:47 It looks good, too.
18:48 Thank you.
18:49 We've been working hard.
18:50 Do you believe in the American dream?
18:56 What is the American dream?
18:57 You tell me, and we'll both know.
19:01 I was told this growing up.
19:03 You work hard.
19:03 You do what you're supposed to do,
19:05 and you'll achieve your goal, right?
19:08 And in essence, that's supposed to be true.
19:12 But I have to say that I've sat at the table in front
19:19 of my children and said, as much as this is supposed to be true,
19:23 it is still possible that that may not happen for you.
19:29 Nice house, cars, family taken care of, or be it free.
19:37 I don't know.
19:38 Just out here surviving, just trying to make a way.
19:41 So I couldn't just elaborate what the American dream is.
19:46 I wouldn't know.
19:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:50 There was a time in my life early on
19:59 when I wanted to fix what my mother was going through,
20:04 trying to take care of me.
20:07 She had me when she was 16 years old.
20:09 I had to drop out of school, get a GED.
20:14 So when I was born, I was brought home to this house.
20:19 And my grandmother was a single parent
20:22 with 16 kids in the house.
20:24 And now my mother, at 16, was bringing home
20:28 another addition to the family.
20:30 Watching my mother early in my life
20:37 and watching the sacrifices that she made for folks
20:41 in the neighborhood, she wanted to be an inspiration
20:43 to the folks that lived in the housing projects,
20:46 to let them know that they didn't have to stay there.
20:48 This is where my mother was eulogized.
20:55 She had cervical cancer.
20:57 Two weeks before I graduated high school,
20:59 my mother passed away.
21:00 She didn't see me walk.
21:01 That was tough.
21:07 I felt lost.
21:08 That left me lost, feeling lost.
21:11 OK, what do I do now?
21:13 I have two younger sisters.
21:16 Where do I go from here?
21:17 Hello.
21:22 Hello.
21:22 How are you?
21:23 I'm good, how are you?
21:24 I have an eighth month old.
21:25 Like, we can't be without no lights.
21:27 I think the first thing is to get you off the streets.
21:30 We're going to do you an emergency grant.
21:32 Let's do a $1,500 grant.
21:34 This is a new beginning.
21:36 You know what I'm saying?
21:37 I kind of adopted some of the mission
21:39 that she had that she didn't get a chance to live out.
21:43 Thank you.
21:43 Yeah, absolutely.
21:44 Thank you very much.
21:45 I appreciate you.
21:47 It fell on me to carry the torch.
21:49 My mother provided such a great example of humanity
22:01 and having compassion and understanding
22:05 that life circumstances happen.
22:07 And when they happen, that people need compassion,
22:11 people need restoration, people need rehabilitation,
22:15 people need love.
22:16 I want you and I want you to stand up for a second.
22:31 I'm going to show you something right now that we don't hardly
22:34 ever do, but I want you to--
22:36 for two minutes, I want you to look at him in his eyes
22:41 and I want you to be with him and I want you
22:43 to be with him for two minutes.
22:46 All right, come close, right here.
22:48 Now, don't look off.
22:49 When you look in those eyes, think about your kids.
22:59 Think about your loved ones.
23:05 Think about the setbacks and the wins,
23:11 all the hard lessons.
23:13 And just see all the hurt, see all the pain.
23:18 Be with him right now.
23:19 Time.
23:27 It's all right, it's all right.
23:29 It's all right, it's all right.
23:38 It's all right.
23:39 I say a lot.
23:50 Tell a whole story.
23:52 And that was uncomfortable for them.
23:54 I know it was because I've done it before.
23:56 But that's an exercise that will help you
23:58 if you're somebody that's introverted
24:00 and you're somebody that's kind of in a shell
24:02 and help you be more assertive and help you to be more
24:05 understanding to what other people are going through.
24:08 You went to prison.
24:13 And when you went to prison, what did that mean?
24:17 Ten years of my life.
24:18 I mean--
24:19 And where did that leave you?
24:22 Lost.
24:23 So, you know, when you're secluded
24:29 from the world for that amount of time,
24:32 man, you become behind.
24:35 OK, you 28, 27 now.
24:38 What are you going to do?
24:39 As a Black man, we're not offered opportunities,
24:45 especially after times that we made a mess up
24:48 or made a mistake in our life.
24:52 So it's like, now, OK, I got to do something.
24:56 I always could cut hair, but I just never thought, man,
24:59 maybe I should go to school.
25:01 I went and enrolled at Washington Bible College.
25:04 I learned so much, just things that you
25:09 need to know to sharpen yourself up to be successful.
25:14 I did seven years in prison, seven years, five months,
25:17 six days to be exact, on a 30-year sentence.
25:20 And I sit before you right now 16 years later,
25:23 and I'm still not free.
25:26 I was homeless three times from when I got out of prison.
25:30 I was homeless three times.
25:31 I went on to the shelters.
25:33 Yeah.
25:34 Did what I needed to do, saved my money up, got out.
25:37 But my crime does not make me an eternal criminal.
25:43 Right.
25:44 Three of our barbers that were formerly incarcerated,
25:48 they were just sharing the trauma
25:50 that they experienced while being there and how to be out,
25:55 it's a huge adjustment.
25:56 So on day one, if you have nothing,
25:58 you ain't got a toothbrush or a toothpaste,
26:01 all of those essential things.
26:03 Right back at stress one, right after they get out,
26:06 they call me within 72 hours.
26:09 I'm able to send their name, their release dates,
26:14 and how much time they did.
26:16 And then I just email everything over,
26:18 and people's trust contacts them,
26:20 and they go pick up a $325 grant, which
26:24 I think is so great because coming out of any system,
26:28 especially the jail system, you don't come out with any money.
26:31 You, Ilo, have made it possible.
26:34 You are looking at everything from the perspective
26:37 of inclusion.
26:39 Absolutely.
26:40 Absolutely.
26:41 See, where for so many years, I and so many
26:46 have saw only exclusion.
26:50 It's truly community development.
26:52 And that's developing.
26:53 You can't develop a community if you don't develop the people.
26:55 Exactly.
26:57 The reason I do what I do, and what
27:00 gives me energy to keep going, is equity, equity, equity,
27:04 equity.
27:04 So that means if the way it is over on this side of town,
27:09 on this side of the freeway, it's this way over here as well.
27:12 The resources that's over here, the resources over there.
27:16 The banks that's over here, banks over here.
27:18 Money over here, money over there.
27:20 Credit over here, credit over there.
27:22 How you doing?
27:27 All right.
27:30 You don't do any body work, do you?
27:32 A little bit.
27:32 A little bit, not a whole bunch.
27:35 How long you been want to do this?
27:37 Been in the automotive business for 20, 25 years.
27:41 Running the Jiffalo for the last five.
27:43 But the owner came and told me he was selling the business.
27:51 When they let you go, you know, you
27:54 had to think quick on your feet.
27:56 What am I going to do now?
27:57 Yeah.
27:58 And I needed to open up new avenues.
28:01 The biggest one, being able to get this loan to get started.
28:05 Y'all give it up for Lynn Cola Franklin.
28:07 [CHEERING]
28:11 While you were in the program, you accessed
28:14 3,500 small business loans.
28:16 So maybe if we could extend that.
28:19 So if we extend the 3,500 that we already gave you
28:21 to up to 10,000, and we do it for two years,
28:24 your payments would be like $452 a month.
28:27 How soon would you need before you start making payments?
28:30 I would say a couple months, just to get me going.
28:33 So maybe we deferred your payments for 90 days.
28:35 That'll help you to--
28:37 Definitely.
28:37 I appreciate that.
28:38 All right, cool.
28:40 My clientele is building Mr. Washington.
28:44 He's seeing what my future may look like.
28:46 And I'm forever grateful for him believing in me.
28:50 As of today, you doing business as Incredible Auto,
28:54 borrowing $50,000.
28:58 So you got a lease going already?
29:00 Yes, ma'am.
29:01 This is the outside.
29:03 How many square foot is that?
29:04 5,000.
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29:06 It's nice.
29:09 It's like my dream of finally becoming a business owner
29:12 and not having to work for anybody else again.
29:16 I work for myself now.
29:20 Thank y'all.
29:21 I really want to shed some tears.
29:22 And I don't have to worry about somebody selling a business
29:25 and somebody coming in and telling me, hey,
29:28 we don't want to continue with you anymore.
29:31 Here I am, three months later.
29:35 When you're investing in something that you love to do,
29:38 it makes everything a lot easier.
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29:46 We felt like that if we could redevelop and change
30:02 this corner, that it would help turn the neighborhood.
30:07 Once they can put funds here and deposits,
30:12 then we're not going to allow the money to go
30:15 outside of this community.
30:17 We're going to put the money back into the community.
30:21 And it's going to scare some people.
30:23 It's going to scare the hell out of them.
30:26 Because now you can see that it can be done.
30:31 So you have no more excuses.
30:34 Those institutions that are in place right now
30:38 are not going to idly sit back.
30:40 You don't think?
30:41 They don't care about this.
30:42 Yes, they do.
30:44 Because if this catches on, it becomes a threat.
30:50 You really believe that?
30:51 Mark my word.
30:52 Because it can inspire others to think that they can be free.
31:00 This is about being free.
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31:08 Economic justice is righting wrongs, fixing the system,
31:15 some type of repayment for injustice.
31:17 A tree is known by the fruit that it bears.
31:24 So if I don't see any fruit, then I don't see any impact.
31:29 So if you have money and you have wealth
31:31 and you can't create impact, what's the point?
31:36 What is justice?
31:39 What does it mean for me?
31:40 What does it mean for people of color?
31:43 Justice is just not quite yet available for everybody.
31:47 Justice.
31:50 Justice.
31:51 It's just being a Black man in this world.
31:55 I ain't got luck.
31:57 Justice is something that we need,
31:59 but that's what we're fighting for.
32:01 Right now, today, I can look at justice as empowerment.
32:06 Just doing what's right and being fair.
32:09 You ever heard that phrase, get your money right?
32:16 I got to help the community get their money right.
32:19 The community has to get their money right,
32:21 and this is an opportunity to get the money right.
32:25 So I'm on a mission, and it ain't over.
32:28 It's just begun.
32:31 It's just begun.
32:33 It's just begun.
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