:55:09
How come everybody
doesn't know this?
:55:12
It's ancient history.
:55:13
Same reason nobody knows about
this Lionel Belasco record.
:55:16
I was more interested in
the whole Cook's phenomenon...
:55:20
when I was about your age.
:55:22
Sort of lost interest
when I started working for them.
:55:25
You work for Cook's Chicken?
:55:29
For nineteen years.
:55:30
Were you a fry cook
or something?
:55:33
Nothing so glamorous, actually.
:55:36
I'm an assistant manager
at their corporate headquarters.
:55:39
Jesus. I'd go nuts if I had
to work in an office all day.
:55:46
So I don't really get it.
:55:47
Are you saying that things
were better back then...
:55:49
even though
there was stuff like this?
:55:50
I suppose
things are better now, but...
:55:54
I don't know, it's complicated.
:55:55
People still hate each other...
:55:56
but they just know
how to hide it better.
:56:00
Can I borrow this?
:56:03
For what?
:56:05
I promise
I'll take good care of it.
:56:06
They're very sensitive about
that kind of stuff at work.
:56:10
Don't you trust me, Seymour?
:56:13
Let's address discussion
to this piece.
:56:19
I don't like it.
:56:20
Can you tell us why?
:56:22
I don't know.
:56:25
I think it's totally weird.
:56:27
It's totally offensive.
:56:29
Yeah. I agree.
:56:30
It's not right.
:56:31
Well, these are
all valid comments, but...
:56:34
I think we should see
if the artist...
:56:36
has anything to bring to this.
:56:39
Well, I found this when
I was doing some research...
:56:42
and I discovered
that Cook's Chicken...
:56:45
used to be called Coon Chicken.
:56:48
So I decided to do my project
based on this discovery...
:56:51
as kind of a comment
on racism...
:56:55
and how it's whitewashed over
in our culture.
:56:57
Did you actually
do this painting?