you? >> well, first of all, understand something, that the modern-day colonizer doesn't use whips and chains. they use imagery. they use schools. they use churches, and they use television and film. and so when you grow up as a kid of color and you see the easter bunny is white, all the presidents and vice presidents are white, the people in the movies are white, the beautiful people in vogue are white, you start to believe you can't do it. and the first step to freeing your mind is the first step to getting the chains off is freeing your mind and seeing the possibility that you can win. so when melvin van peebles said, we're tired of being the serving class, we want to whip some ass and he puts black revolution on the screen with sweet back, it changed the whole game. and kids like me, kids like spike, kids like julie, we saw that, and we said, we want to do that. and it was a game-changer. seeing us finally winning, the possibility of winning, being a