Social Seminar - Guy (1971)

[Music] Automatically when a kid walks into a probation officer, he automatically assumes the kid takes narcotics, the kid's got BD, the kid's no good, he's dirty, he's lazy, he don't want to work, he's a criminal. Automatically just because he's a cho. A policeman sees him and say gets the same impression. They stop him, they rouse him. They don't do that to Anglo kids, but they do that to cho kids because they're bad. They're bad. Amy, chos. The white man ain't going to change it for us, and the black man ain't going to change it for us. We had to do it. We started out to make a film about a young Chico living in an urban ghetto. Before we had finished, we had generated discussion in the community that went far beyond the film itself. You do not have to do something now. Anything is better than just sitting back and saying, "Well, don't do this. Don't do that." because the police is going to get you. And all that time the police is getting you. You know, I had I had your brown beret on. I went down there. He started talking about the brown beret as soon as I got in there. So, that's one thing I can't get out of you guys. You won't tell me what you guys do. Cool. I don't want to tell you nothing. Then he kept he kept jumping on my case and then after that he got right into a into why the guy was one of the first kids to came to the center. He got mad. And it's it was to the point he got so involved with the center that he didn't want to go to school. Don't bother. I told him that he must have got his cookies. And like with with Guy's case, it was a thing where we were more friends than we were anything else. As a counselor, I think this is very important. It was an open thing where you could come in. You wanted to sit down and rap. Whoever you wanted to rap to, fine. What? What? That book they gave you? They gave you a book to read, didn't they? You did read it. What did they tell you? They give you a book, sat you down, and said go to work. Huh? They told Danny to Here's a book. Fingers. That was it. Finger tray. Feel stuck cliff. Late stuck. Bonk. That's it. Bonky. Abused. Red. No. Abuse. Yes. No. Take time. Abuse. I don't know that word. Okay, try the next one. I don't know that word. What that means is that uh you can read, but you don't do a lot of reading. Scrambled. Okay. Well, up until he got into the seventh grade, everything was okay. He had no problem. But after seventh grade, he started having a problem. You go. [Music] Father always admitted from time he was a little small that he just couldn't talk to him. And uh everything the guy did made him angry. When he was small, if he'd fall down, he'd pick him up and spank him, you know, and that's the way it started. And as he grew older and he started getting into little things at school, he would uh of course always punish him and he would be real severe in his punishment. So anyways, man, I got her and I kissed her and I played the part, you know. I took her back when right when we got in front of all the people. Then she made her she threw her tantrum, man. started screaming and wanted to throw you chak. You know she get in front of all the people for you would have hit her. [Music] Get out of there, guy. Mom, look at guy. He took two strips of my bacon. You want some more? I can get in too bad. Give me back my bacon and I'll give you sl throw it on your head. Oh, guy. Well, he couldn't take anybody telling him what to do. And he especially couldn't take a man telling him what to do. I think that it has to do with the fact that his dad and I are divorced. Mom last time he was wearing it. That's what he did to him for another shoe. You liar. You did that to him? Cuz when I got him back, I I thought it was D. I was trying to take it off and see what he did to buy. Liar. I didn't do nothing. Look like those old shoes were the black and white. It was great. You're a liar, guy. Well, he he went to a couple of other schools and they would kick him out cuz he cuz he was like real rowdy with everybody, you know, he didn't get along with anybody. And then two years ago, he went to Montabella and he started blasting weed and dropping reds and whites. How long has been since you've been out of school? 2 and 1/2 months. And then you were and you've been out for 2 and 1/2 months and they just now put you back into continuation. That ought to tell you something. That ought to tell you how the system is. Number one, now that he's back in that school, he thought I'd be in jail within a couple weeks. Exactly. There's there's more narcotics at that school than there is anywhere else. We don't want anybody loaded on campus. You know, that just, you know, that just destroys it all. So, okay. So you come, you know, you come someday and you know you you happen to be a little late. So what happens? Probably the best thing to do is come over to me. What did you bust? And so that I don't have to bust you. If the principal or, you know, one of the teachers sees somebody loaded on campus, um, principal is probably going to call a man. We talked about, you know, over there just kind of touched on it that they don't want you at the other schools, right? Yeah. Well, Mr. Wise, I saw you at KE yesterday, I guess. Yeah. I I was there and somebody threw a cherry bomb at me, so I threw a trash can at the car. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. He uh I didn't talk to him, but I guess he was kind of uh we started writing. Yeah. They don't want you. The system rejected him. He couldn't really go to school because he didn't feel confident to go to school. So instead of just saying, "Okay, well, you know, I'm I'm going to be a loner and do my thing the best way I can," he looked for that that lean, that help. You going to be with any Lucas tonight? Somebody named Lorraine. Hey, you're Michelle. She liv up in Garbage Hill. Want some name? Ah, that's my girl. Is that yours? My girl. It is, man. I ain't seen you had your hands on her yet. Well, you haven't seen in the dark. Because I'm with her in the dark. What about that girl Martha you went to see? Martha? That's his Oh, that's right. Excuse me for the the switch off. You know, you take turns, man. I mean, uh, you know, we all dig on Chicago. We don't like to [ __ ] over our own ransa and all that, but it's all got to be a mutual understanding, man. You know, get like if they come down the corner right now and a couple caros and they jump one of our homies, of course, we got to go jump for him, man. See, but if they wouldn't do that, man, and we get together, man, and go down there and dust some pigs, man. Be different things. See, like we've been doing a dollar. Would you give me a wine, too? I came here. I come home and I I see him kind of like passed out, you know, and uh I tried to talk to him and he wouldn't make any sense. He his speech would be all slurred. I started asking around and they told me that uh he was taking drugs. Mama, [Music] you guys working all the street. Most the guys are dealing with here like in any other community. The fact that uh they've been lied to so many years behind the use of marijuana. They've been lied to and lied to so that when they do try it and they find out that it's not as harmful to them as if they've been all this brainwashing and conditioning then when somebody brings along and introduces red then they say well I'm going to try it marijuana they said it was bad it wasn't they try red [Music] doesn't Hey, want get some? Hey, what you enter the door, bro? Hey, what's going on? Got loaded. Defense or offense? All right. The one where you pass the pass. All right. Well, I can have you as a wide receiver. All right. [Music] Yeah. [Music] That's good because you start crunching out over there was there. But you know I feel high a little bit like that you know but I need a couple more rest make me feel better. Yeah cuz you know once you get a little teaser man you know just like some [ __ ] man. You can make it with the Brad, but you want a jugger after you. But in guys cases especially, man, like many times when he was loaded on reds, I'd say to him, I'm like, "Are you sure I love it?" And he'd say to me, "No, I'm not." And I think that in his mind, he really believed that. And his his mind psychologically, he really believed that he wasn't. His mind was functioning to the point that he could control his the function of his mind, but he couldn't control the functioning of his body. [ __ ] right there dropped the kids. No wonder the kids were here. So the kids were here. He goes to see the other day and tells him, "Well, I think we're going to have to prosecute you on this. I guess you know you're going to end up in camp." So now he's got the attitude that well, you know, the hell with it. Why should I do anything? I'm going to camp anyway. See, and that's what they want him to think. That's what they that's what they want. I kept telling him that over and over again. You want to get sent away unconsciously. You know, with with Cho, you know, it's a thing that if you haven't been to Ku, if you haven't been in a locked up situation, you're not what's happening. You don't belong. It's like a a status symbolism, right? It's it's like an image, man. I went to camp and look at me, man. I'm big and bad. Don't mess with me. And I think that this is one of the trips that he was going on. Your big brother goes, your cousin goes, everybody goes, everybody goes to jail. And, you know, I think that has a lot to do with why they have such a bad bad stereotype of the man, you know, the police. They've seen them in action, you know, at their best. if it wasn't beating their uncle or their father, they'd better be beaten somebody across the street. So then we came out to the same way we came in, but then we seen a cop car out there and he was stopping somebody. So, you know, out of curiosity, he wanted to go see. We stopped in front of here. It was raining and we were looking at him and it got him salty and he said that we were pinning him down or racking suspicious, you know, sneaking around buildings, you know, he was sniveling, you know, talking about how how how cold we were. So, uh, he came and brought his squad with him, you know, detectives and all that, made a big scene, and he's talking about he's new in the neighborhood. I told him, "You shouldn't say nothing because you don't know how we walk, so you might as well learn before you doing it." He goes, "Don't worry. I'm going to get you sooner or later. You need a spray." No, I don't want You need a spray. Shut up. acrylic. You could spray it onto a rag and then like inhale it from your mouth. Then don't put you really on the same trip as the rest. It has something in it to make you see things that you don't originally see. What is in my bag? My my bag. Huh? [Music] You put you put in your sister's bedroom, I think. My sister's bedroom. No. He said to me once, you know, you're really my friend. And I said to him, I said, "Don't bend on it." But I didn't really hear him. I merely heard some words, man, that meant nothing. But when I thought about it later, he was trying to tell me something. He was really trying to reach out. Something that he'd never done before. He's trying to reach out and say, "Hey, you know, somebody help me. Just help me. Guide me. Somebody do something now to show me the way." Because, you know, I'm tired of looking. I'm tired of really searching because everybody tells me I'm wrong. Can't I be right? You know sometimes our shooting kind of ended abruptly as of last Saturday. And could you tell us what happened? Well, a guy was uh picked up and uh taken to juvenile hall. Um, well, I don't know if I should uh should I say charge? That's up to you. Well, he was picked up on a charge of kidnap and rape, but it isn't true. He was home and in bed when this was supposed to have happened. and uh they're detaining him because of the fact that the uh probation officer feels that he's been too much of a problem. And if if they send him to count for that cuz it's going to be wrong and he he'll he'll have like it's not going to be right to him. So he'll try something like to probably escape or something cuz it's not that right to him cuz he didn't do nothing else. I believe in these people. I believe in those little chitoas that are coming up. I'm not concerned with myself. It involves all of us, man. It's deeper than what it it appears to be. You think I like it when I see these kids coming in here loaded on their heads on reds. You think I like it when they fall over and bump their head and it might accidentally kill one? You think I like it when they trip down the street because there's nothing for them to do because this society has made us be this way. They start at 12. By the time they're 17 years old, man, it's become a way of life. [Music] Go back. Go back. [Music] down.