:29:01
People in the office asked me about...
:29:03
...Malcolm X, Martin Luther King.
:29:05
I said I didn't even
know them cats.
:29:09
The truth of the matter is,
I didn't believe in...
:29:13
...troublemakers and rabble-rousers.
No, sir.
:29:16
White man had me
in his hip pocket 100%.
:29:19
And that was all right with me.
:29:22
Soon I was getting a raise every year,
just like everybody else.
:29:26
And got my little office
down in personnel.
:29:29
My own office. Yep.
:29:32
Bought this great big house
out in the suburbs.
:29:36
Cars for me and my wife, college
for the kids, the whole thing.
:29:40
Paid down on this expensive boat.
:29:43
When I was at the company...
:29:44
...I trained a lot of people,
mostly white, some women.
:29:49
Every one of them
got promoted over me.
:29:52
That should've told me something.
But it didn't.
:29:56
Not me. I had it made. Oh, man.
:30:00
Everybody from the president on down,
the whole company...
:30:03
...Ioved good, old, faithful...
:30:05
...quick-with-the-jokes-and-smiles
Jeremiah. Oh, man...
:30:09
...they integrated me
lock, stock and barrel.
:30:13
And I loved it.
:30:14
Thirty-three years...
:30:16
...with the company.
:30:18
I never missed a day.
:30:21
And then...
:30:23
...they had a big merger.
:30:24
Instead of giving me the watch
I'd been waiting for...
:30:27
...they gave old Jeremiah
the pink slip.
:30:30
"We regret to inform you...
:30:31
...that your services
will no longer be required."
:30:35
Now, I didn't see
how they could just...
:30:38
...throw a man away.
:30:40
I couldn't accept it.
:30:41
So I went to the new management...
:30:43
...and put on a show
that you wouldn't believe.
:30:46
I talked more trash...
:30:48
...showed more teeth...
:30:51
...kissed white ass...
:30:52
I begged that man...
:30:55
...for my job.
:30:57
And I got it.
:30:58
30% reduction in pay...