
Wattstax
- R
- Year:
- 1973
- 103 min
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All of us have something to say...
but some are never heard.
the people of Watts stood together...
and demanded to be heard.
On a Sunday this past August
in the Los Angeles Coliseum...
over 100,000 black people came together...
to commemorate that moment
in American history.
For over six hours,
the audience heard, felt, sang...
danced, and shouted the living word...
in a soulful expression
of the black experience.
This is a film of that experience...
and what some of the people have to say.
That's what we did in 1965,
We all got crazy and went out...
our own neighborhood and shit.
That brought the man
on their own land, man.
The thing about it was it did something
constructive for the whole community.
That's the only beautiful thing
that went off.
Thank you, whitey.
That's the only way we communicate
with whitey, man.
You've never seen in a community
as many markets.
They've opened up
a Dr. Martin Luther King Hospital.
There's more black people in Watts...
that were formerly on county and state aid
Like your mama.
Your mama got a job
for the first time in 10 years.
- Dumb-ass motherfucker.
- I'm talking about black people...
- like you, n*gger.
- You know he's been drinking.
You lived on 103rd.
- He's not responsible.
- Shit. You know what?
Once half a whitey, n*gger...
It wouldn't do no good
to burn over in Inglewood.
Them motherfuckers ain't buying
second-grade meat.
Shit ain't getting better.
off into the area, man, shit.
- They're making money off it.
- But look, brother...
You'd be surprised...
how much that building,
that particular building...
will satisfy so many niggers.
- Pacify them a little.
- Make them think...
make them think it's progress.
Up until the point that we had a riot...
everybody said, "Those niggers
are all right, they're doing fine."
Then when we had a riot,
then the white man said:
"Something's wrong, 'cause these suckers
are burning down my store.
"Now I got to give these niggers
something because...
- "I thought they was happy."
- But what did he give them?
They've changed some for the best...
in an awful lot of cases for the worst...
and some they have not changed at all.
There's no difference in Watts now
than Watts '65.
California's a weird state because
they have laws for pedestrians.
Like, you cross the street,
they have laws for pedestrians...
but they don't have laws for people
at night...
when cops accidentally shoot people.
They accidentally shoot more niggers
out here than any place in the world.
Every time you pick up a paper,
"N*gger accidentally shot in the ass."
How do you accidentally shoot a n*gger
six times in the chest?
"Well, my gun fell and just went crazy."
It's going to be the best sound,
though, that's ever been.
- I can dig it.
- So we're sure of that.
That's beautiful. I work in sound, also.
I'm hip to it.
This is the biggest and the best
sound equipment around, in our opinion.
- How many people do you have there?
- Four, Mr. Van Peebles.
Okay, there'll be one more,
which will be five.
Now, of those five people
down at that end of the tunnel...
there will be three and two...
three on the gate
and two in the dressing rooms.
When the gate slows down
after the festival gets underway...
we may then put three
in the dressing room, and two.
Now, the rest of you gentlemen...
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