The Barber of Little Rock: One Man’s Fight to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
John Hoffman and Christine Turner’s short film follows Arlo Washington as he helps members of his community escape the hazards of banking while Black.
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00:00 [ Music ]
00:17 >> Economic justice is actually having the opportunity,
00:20 a real opportunity.
00:22 [ Music ]
00:27 How you create generational wealth, how you teach others
00:32 to create generational wealth.
00:33 [ Music ]
00:38 The racial wealth gap, it's not a million dollar problem,
00:41 it's not a billion dollar problem,
00:43 it's a trillion dollar problem.
00:44 It's been a never ending story.
00:49 [ Music ]
01:01 It is a challenge when you can't put gas in your car,
01:06 when you can't buy food, you can't pay your light bill,
01:09 you can't pay your rent.
01:10 Life is going on, life is happening, you know.
01:15 I ain't trying to put a bandaid and stop the bleeding on,
01:18 the effects of generational poverty.
01:20 Investments and resources that are meant to get
01:26 to these communities haven't gotten to them.
01:29 There has to be economic warriors in the community
01:35 to create economic justice.
01:37 Hey, what's going on, man?
01:39 Everybody good?
01:40 My name is Arlo Washington and my purpose in life is
01:45 to advance equity and create opportunities
01:49 and build the community.
01:51 [ Music ]
01:58 [ Background noise ]
02:03 Just for the sake of teaching you to pardon,
02:05 I want you to do this right here.
02:06 Now watch this, watch this right here.
02:08 We'll go a fourth of an inch in, a fourth of an inch
02:11 into the eyebrow, take the point of your comb,
02:14 you put it on the scalp, take the other hand right here
02:17 and we'll put it back here in the nape area.
02:19 And then we'll just take that point of that comb and just keep
02:21 it on the scalp all the way until you feel that point
02:24 with your index finger.
02:25 We feel that point with your index finger,
02:26 just slide your finger up the comb that way
02:28 and pull it out to the side.
02:29 That's one side, all right.
02:31 So, but you really want a good straight line.
02:33 So you can always go back and do it again.
02:34 Just need to put a little bit more pressure on the scalp
02:36 when you're going through.
02:37 So we'll take that and clamp that up.
02:38 Yeah, there we go.
02:39 Appreciate that.
02:40 So for the first couple of weeks, this is all y'all doing.
02:43 Six sections.
02:45 One, two, three, four, five, six.
02:47 How long did it take?
02:49 Five minutes?
02:50 Now you're ready to move on to something else.
02:52 But let me let you try it.
02:54 Good job.
02:59 Good job, Mr. LeBron.
03:02 Good job, Hughes.
03:03 You use some of the techniques?
03:04 Yeah.
03:05 You got that looking smooth.
03:07 What we going to talk about, JB?
03:09 Get our foot in the game.
03:10 How to get your foot in the game?
03:12 Build your clientele up, learn the business,
03:15 get a name for yourself out here,
03:17 and then open your barbershop up.
03:19 When I was 20, I opened my first barbershop.
03:22 I worked in my partner's shop for two years first
03:24 and built the clientele up, right?
03:26 So I had about maybe 80, 90, 100 people coming to me every week.
03:29 Then I opened up the barbershop.
03:32 But right now, while you're in school, be patient.
03:34 Practice.
03:35 Cut as many hairs as you can.
03:36 When you leave and go home, if you got little cousins,
03:39 you got people in the neighborhood, cut.
03:41 Cut as much as you can, because the more you cut,
03:44 the better you get.
03:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:48 Hey, what's up, Branson?
03:59 What's going on with you?
04:00 I just been busy.
04:01 You got a pretty good application?
04:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:06 [PHONE RINGING]
04:09 Good afternoon.
04:18 Thank you for calling People Trust.
04:19 How can I help you?
04:20 Yeah, is my credit score--
04:21 it's going to mess me up, ain't it?
04:23 No, ma'am, we don't base it off your credit score.
04:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:28 [PHONE RINGING]
04:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:35 [PHONE RINGING]
04:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:41 [PHONE RINGING]
04:44 Trucking Logistics LLC.
04:47 This your plan right here.
04:48 Have you got any business funding?
04:49 You've been doing this all out your pocket.
04:51 This all on my pocket so far.
04:53 As far as just driving, yeah, I've
04:54 been in the business for 10 years.
04:56 And my dad is a driver as well.
04:58 I've covered every corner of the transportation industry.
05:02 So I want to create those jobs for other people.
05:06 Tell me what it is that you want to do.
05:08 Long term, I would ultimately like to have my home for loan
05:11 or become an instructor.
05:13 OK, OK, OK.
05:15 And you've been traveling to your customers?
05:16 - Yes. - Like their homes?
05:18 - Yes. - Their--
05:18 Yes.
05:19 OK, yeah, that ain't--
05:20 Yeah.
05:21 Do you have any operating capital right now?
05:24 Fortunately, I do not at this time.
05:25 OK, OK.
05:26 So you need gas money.
05:28 Correct.
05:29 You need food money.
05:31 Product.
05:32 Products and supplies.
05:34 And I have a business name.
05:35 I made my own logo.
05:37 I've been working.
05:38 So we spoke on the phone.
05:39 You were saying you were interested in a loan?
05:41 - Yes, ma'am. - OK.
05:42 I'm just going to get this out.
05:43 So tell me about what you're doing with your businesses.
05:46 I'm Barbara Salas.
05:48 I do credit restoration.
05:49 I also have a t-shirt and decal line.
05:52 OK.
05:53 Due to the things that I deal with in life,
05:56 such as sickle cell, having a pacemaker,
05:59 having 80% mass in my right breast,
06:01 going to treatment once a week.
06:03 And then you still run three businesses?
06:05 Yes, ma'am.
06:06 I heard that now.
06:07 You know, capital is a lifeblood of a community.
06:14 If the blood ain't circulating, then you're
06:18 going to have some issues.
06:20 So the blood has not been circulating for a long time.
06:24 Why is it that we overlook this economically
06:27 segregated community?
06:30 Why is the issue swept under the rug and not talked about?
06:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
06:38 What do you think and feel when you hear the word ownership?
07:02 For me, when I think about ownership,
07:04 it's owning my own home so that I'll have something
07:08 to pass down to my children.
07:10 Nobody in my family own anything.
07:12 So ownership is important to me because I
07:15 want to create jobs and opportunities for my boys
07:21 and my little cousins and my nephews.
07:23 My oldest is 27 and my youngest is 7.
07:26 And I think about it a lot.
07:27 Of course, nothing was passed down to me.
07:30 And I don't have anything to pass down to them.
07:33 It just feels good to know that you
07:34 have something that is yours that nobody can take away.
07:37 For so long, we haven't had anything that was ours.
07:41 Yeah, we're damn proud of when we do own something,
07:44 whether it's a Cadillac or a house or a boat.
07:49 It's the idea of it belonging to you
07:53 and that you can self-determine what
07:56 will happen to it without having to ask anyone.
07:59 You don't have to ask for permission.
08:01 Come on in.
08:02 All right.
08:03 Thank you.
08:04 How are you?
08:05 Nice to see you back again.
08:06 I've been making Philly cheesesteaks and hoagies
08:08 since I was 16 years old.
08:09 I've been in the restaurant business for 26 years.
08:12 You have a food truck?
08:13 I have a food truck.
08:14 I have a food truck, but my ambition within 12 months
08:17 is to have a brick and mortar.
08:18 So who do you bank with right now?
08:20 Well--
08:21 And did you consider them for getting the loan?
08:24 They gave me an understanding they wouldn't owe me any money.
08:26 Really?
08:27 They still want my business.
08:28 They still want me to process my credit card payment.
08:31 Your business is still making deposits in this bank--
08:34 Yes, yes.
08:35 --that in turn will not make you a loan.
08:37 Yes.
08:39 The wealth gap has grown tremendously.
08:42 CDFI is a community development financial institution.
08:46 All people matter, regardless of their credit history.
08:50 We are not restricted.
08:51 I was at a traditional bank for nine years.
08:54 Sadly, Banking While Black is a real thing.
08:59 They don't necessarily train you to know that.
09:02 But once you get in there, and you actually
09:05 see that the person coming in, if they're white,
09:09 they're going to offer them credit cards.
09:11 They're going to offer them loans, financing,
09:14 you know, all of those.
09:16 But you come in, you're black.
09:17 There's no services offered.
09:21 Sometimes the interaction with the teller is--
09:24 you know, you can see the difference in how they treat
09:26 you.
09:27 So I just don't-- I just don't use banks.
09:29 Banking While Black does exist.
09:32 Banking While Black, driving while black,
09:35 eating while black.
09:36 Your waiter or your waitress can treat you differently.
09:39 I mean, there is just so many things.
09:41 It's crazy the things that black people have to deal with.
09:44 It becomes an experience that you just--
09:47 you try to avoid the disappointment of it.
09:51 And rather than go through the frustration,
09:56 you work around it.
09:58 It's a work around.
09:59 Big banks, they don't know the community.
10:06 They don't know them.
10:07 They don't have a relationship.
10:09 And you want to be able to be sustainable,
10:11 and you want to be profitable, and you want to be scalable.
10:13 But we just want you to think about every aspect of it
10:17 and best position yourself.
10:19 This helps you to really build your credit profile
10:22 so we can provide you with some ongoing technical assistance
10:24 to kind of help you along the way.
10:27 We got the name People Trust because trust
10:29 in the financial system is just not there.
10:32 My goal is to restore the trust in a system that may have not
10:37 been built for you.
10:40 So we try to see what's the problem, how can we help?
10:44 We find a way.
10:45 I've always wanted to own my own business.
10:48 I hear so much, if you could just give me a chance,
10:51 just give me a chance to prove that I'm trustworthy,
10:58 that I'm credit worthy, that I can run this business
11:03 successfully.
11:07 Y'all ready?
11:09 All right, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
11:21 four, five, six, seven.
11:32 Uh-huh, that should be a fat hand.
11:34 She knew, she knew.
11:36 Come on, let's go to one.
11:37 Historically, barbers have been the go-to in the community.
11:43 One of the oldest and most prestigious professions.
11:46 They were the doctors.
11:47 They did the bloodletting, they did the tooth pulling,
11:49 they were the priest.
11:52 One customer lost his job.
11:55 And he had been a faithful customer coming all the time,
11:58 I mean, bringing his family, his kids, everybody, you know.
12:01 He said, Mr. Washington, he said, I'm down really bad
12:05 and I need to borrow $150.
12:09 I've been a barber in the community for over 20 years.
12:12 So when the community start hurting,
12:13 what do you think they're going to come to?
12:14 They came to the people that they can come to for help.
12:16 He said, I'm getting a job and I can pay you back
12:19 in 30 days.
12:21 So I made him a loan.
12:23 You know, I didn't think he was going to pay it back when I
12:25 gave him the loan at the time.
12:27 But he came back and he paid it back.
12:29 And a couple of weeks later, he came back again.
12:33 Guess what he did?
12:34 He paid me back.
12:35 So I made him another loan.
12:37 And he paid that loan back.
12:39 So then we started thinking about, well,
12:40 how can these small loans at that size really have an impact?
12:45 If they don't have credit, then they
12:47 can't get a loan from a bank.
12:49 That means they have to go to a loan shark
12:51 or they have to go to some payday lender that's going
12:54 to never let them pay them off.
12:57 And I thought about it and I said, wait a minute.
12:59 This is what's affecting my community.
13:01 So you see how it built up.
13:07 Narrow Man, we didn't serve as like 20, 20.
13:09 We served 900 folks.
13:11 And so what we did was we applied
13:14 to become a community development
13:15 financial institution, which was put in place
13:20 to be able to help low and moderate income
13:23 communities that wouldn't otherwise
13:25 receive the opportunity.
13:29 Let him down and let him go.
13:30 Come on in.
13:40 In April of this year, my house caught a fire.
13:43 So, you know, I was pushed out.
13:46 Mm-hmm.
13:48 I was calling to inquire about your rental assistance.
13:52 You're behind on rent now?
13:54 I forgot your name.
13:55 Give me your name again.
13:56 Cancer.
13:57 OK.
13:58 Cancer survivor.
13:59 Yeah.
14:00 Unfortunately, it's just a one-time deal.
14:03 I believe we're the only rapid rehousing
14:05 that is in central Arkansas.
14:07 How much does it cost you to live every month?
14:11 I don't know because I ain't never been on my own.
14:12 OK.
14:13 Have you been looking around?
14:15 Yeah.
14:15 I had a landlord in today, and I asked
14:17 and he doesn't have anything.
14:19 When you move, we'll pay the security deposit
14:22 and your first three months' rent.
14:23 Let's talk about a budget.
14:36 How's the job looking, Nanny?
14:38 Well, it's really--
14:41 it's hard because I don't have nowhere to shower and stuff.
14:44 Right.
14:45 That is one thing about Little Rock.
14:47 There's just really not a lot of affordable housing.
14:51 There's a huge housing need.
14:53 Correct.
14:54 There's just too many people waiting for help.
14:58 You're four months behind, but did she tell you the balance?
15:01 This is a grant, just an emergency grant.
15:04 As I heard you say, you didn't have any clothes,
15:05 you didn't have any transportation,
15:06 you know, everything burnt up.
15:09 But for 17 days in a hotel?
15:12 Man.
15:14 There you go.
15:16 How much is the weekly rent?
15:18 The weekly rent?
15:19 Uh-huh.
15:20 It's not weekly.
15:20 She's just going to charge me like $525 a month.
15:24 My mother, she passed away with cancer.
15:26 And so I'm just thinking if, since you, you know,
15:29 in that situation, maybe if we was able to do, you know,
15:32 maybe a grant for a month, that'd give you
15:35 time to find a place.
15:37 How do you think that works?
15:38 I think that'll help.
15:41 What you think?
15:42 It'll help me a lot.
15:43 Most of the time, it's a state of emergency.
15:50 I needed help, like, yesterday.
15:52 We never got the 40 acres and a mule that was promised.
15:58 That's like the big elephant in the room.
16:01 This was promised to you.
16:04 You never got it.
16:05 Nobody never talked about it.
16:08 It didn't come up in any type of other political discussions.
16:13 And the fallout is what we see, a huge racial wealth gap,
16:19 economic injustices, and no, not really an end to it in sight.
16:27 Here in Little Rock, there is a physical divide.
16:37 Have on one side, have not on the other.
16:42 It's not a wealth gap.
16:43 It's a wealth chasm.
16:44 I-630, the great divide.
16:51 How's it going, man?
17:00 You ready to ride?
17:03 You know, when we cross I-630, you
17:06 can tell a big difference.
17:09 This neighborhood is the heart of the black community.
17:13 There are no banks over here.
17:14 And you got about 30,000 community members over here.
17:17 You'd be hard pressed to find an ATM.
17:21 That community has been economically segregated.
17:27 Look at this, we got four, five boarded up houses
17:31 on this little half a block.
17:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
17:37 So we cross I-630, and now we're going into the Heights.
17:42 And in the Heights, there are maybe 8,000 in population,
17:50 but you got 14 banks.
17:54 And you don't see a boarded up house, not one.
17:59 Well, you have commerce here.
18:00 You have places where business can't exist.
18:03 You don't see that on the other side of town.
18:07 Then, of course, you have redlining,
18:09 where banks would not make money accessible to people
18:12 who live in certain areas.
18:14 And oftentimes, those certain areas
18:16 were areas where black folks lived.
18:18 It's a phenomenon of building interstates
18:23 through black communities.
18:26 And they bring about destruction.
18:30 I'm going to take you and show you our new location where
18:36 we're opening up.
18:37 That's Redline.
18:38 This is the first financial institution
18:44 ever in this community.
18:46 And so--
18:47 It looks good, too.
18:48 Thank you.
18:49 We've been working hard.
18:50 Do you believe in the American dream?
18:56 What is the American dream?
18:57 You tell me, and we'll both know.
19:01 I was told this growing up.
19:03 You work hard.
19:03 You do what you're supposed to do,
19:05 and you'll achieve your goal, right?
19:08 And in essence, that's supposed to be true.
19:12 But I have to say that I've sat at the table in front
19:19 of my children and said, as much as this is supposed to be true,
19:23 it is still possible that that may not happen for you.
19:29 Nice house, cars, family taken care of, or be it free.
19:37 I don't know.
19:38 Just out here surviving, just trying to make a way.
19:41 So I couldn't just elaborate what the American dream is.
19:46 I wouldn't know.
19:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:50 There was a time in my life early on
19:59 when I wanted to fix what my mother was going through,
20:04 trying to take care of me.
20:07 She had me when she was 16 years old.
20:09 I had to drop out of school, get a GED.
20:14 So when I was born, I was brought home to this house.
20:19 And my grandmother was a single parent
20:22 with 16 kids in the house.
20:24 And now my mother, at 16, was bringing home
20:28 another addition to the family.
20:30 Watching my mother early in my life
20:37 and watching the sacrifices that she made for folks
20:41 in the neighborhood, she wanted to be an inspiration
20:43 to the folks that lived in the housing projects,
20:46 to let them know that they didn't have to stay there.
20:48 This is where my mother was eulogized.
20:55 She had cervical cancer.
20:57 Two weeks before I graduated high school,
20:59 my mother passed away.
21:00 She didn't see me walk.
21:01 That was tough.
21:07 I felt lost.
21:08 That left me lost, feeling lost.
21:11 OK, what do I do now?
21:13 I have two younger sisters.
21:16 Where do I go from here?
21:17 Hello.
21:22 Hello.
21:22 How are you?
21:23 I'm good, how are you?
21:24 I have an eighth month old.
21:25 Like, we can't be without no lights.
21:27 I think the first thing is to get you off the streets.
21:30 We're going to do you an emergency grant.
21:32 Let's do a $1,500 grant.
21:34 This is a new beginning.
21:36 You know what I'm saying?
21:37 I kind of adopted some of the mission
21:39 that she had that she didn't get a chance to live out.
21:43 Thank you.
21:43 Yeah, absolutely.
21:44 Thank you very much.
21:45 I appreciate you.
21:47 It fell on me to carry the torch.
21:49 My mother provided such a great example of humanity
22:01 and having compassion and understanding
22:05 that life circumstances happen.
22:07 And when they happen, that people need compassion,
22:11 people need restoration, people need rehabilitation,
22:15 people need love.
22:16 I want you and I want you to stand up for a second.
22:31 I'm going to show you something right now that we don't hardly
22:34 ever do, but I want you to--
22:36 for two minutes, I want you to look at him in his eyes
22:41 and I want you to be with him and I want you
22:43 to be with him for two minutes.
22:46 All right, come close, right here.
22:48 Now, don't look off.
22:49 When you look in those eyes, think about your kids.
22:59 Think about your loved ones.
23:05 Think about the setbacks and the wins,
23:11 all the hard lessons.
23:13 And just see all the hurt, see all the pain.
23:18 Be with him right now.
23:19 Time.
23:27 It's all right, it's all right.
23:29 It's all right, it's all right.
23:38 It's all right.
23:39 I say a lot.
23:50 Tell a whole story.
23:52 And that was uncomfortable for them.
23:54 I know it was because I've done it before.
23:56 But that's an exercise that will help you
23:58 if you're somebody that's introverted
24:00 and you're somebody that's kind of in a shell
24:02 and help you be more assertive and help you to be more
24:05 understanding to what other people are going through.
24:08 You went to prison.
24:13 And when you went to prison, what did that mean?
24:17 Ten years of my life.
24:18 I mean--
24:19 And where did that leave you?
24:22 Lost.
24:23 So, you know, when you're secluded
24:29 from the world for that amount of time,
24:32 man, you become behind.
24:35 OK, you 28, 27 now.
24:38 What are you going to do?
24:39 As a Black man, we're not offered opportunities,
24:45 especially after times that we made a mess up
24:48 or made a mistake in our life.
24:52 So it's like, now, OK, I got to do something.
24:56 I always could cut hair, but I just never thought, man,
24:59 maybe I should go to school.
25:01 I went and enrolled at Washington Bible College.
25:04 I learned so much, just things that you
25:09 need to know to sharpen yourself up to be successful.
25:14 I did seven years in prison, seven years, five months,
25:17 six days to be exact, on a 30-year sentence.
25:20 And I sit before you right now 16 years later,
25:23 and I'm still not free.
25:26 I was homeless three times from when I got out of prison.
25:30 I was homeless three times.
25:31 I went on to the shelters.
25:33 Yeah.
25:34 Did what I needed to do, saved my money up, got out.
25:37 But my crime does not make me an eternal criminal.
25:43 Right.
25:44 Three of our barbers that were formerly incarcerated,
25:48 they were just sharing the trauma
25:50 that they experienced while being there and how to be out,
25:55 it's a huge adjustment.
25:56 So on day one, if you have nothing,
25:58 you ain't got a toothbrush or a toothpaste,
26:01 all of those essential things.
26:03 Right back at stress one, right after they get out,
26:06 they call me within 72 hours.
26:09 I'm able to send their name, their release dates,
26:14 and how much time they did.
26:16 And then I just email everything over,
26:18 and people's trust contacts them,
26:20 and they go pick up a $325 grant, which
26:24 I think is so great because coming out of any system,
26:28 especially the jail system, you don't come out with any money.
26:31 You, Ilo, have made it possible.
26:34 You are looking at everything from the perspective
26:37 of inclusion.
26:39 Absolutely.
26:40 Absolutely.
26:41 See, where for so many years, I and so many
26:46 have saw only exclusion.
26:50 It's truly community development.
26:52 And that's developing.
26:53 You can't develop a community if you don't develop the people.
26:55 Exactly.
26:57 The reason I do what I do, and what
27:00 gives me energy to keep going, is equity, equity, equity,
27:04 equity.
27:04 So that means if the way it is over on this side of town,
27:09 on this side of the freeway, it's this way over here as well.
27:12 The resources that's over here, the resources over there.
27:16 The banks that's over here, banks over here.
27:18 Money over here, money over there.
27:20 Credit over here, credit over there.
27:22 How you doing?
27:27 All right.
27:30 You don't do any body work, do you?
27:32 A little bit.
27:32 A little bit, not a whole bunch.
27:35 How long you been want to do this?
27:37 Been in the automotive business for 20, 25 years.
27:41 Running the Jiffalo for the last five.
27:43 But the owner came and told me he was selling the business.
27:51 When they let you go, you know, you
27:54 had to think quick on your feet.
27:56 What am I going to do now?
27:57 Yeah.
27:58 And I needed to open up new avenues.
28:01 The biggest one, being able to get this loan to get started.
28:05 Y'all give it up for Lynn Cola Franklin.
28:07 [CHEERING]
28:11 While you were in the program, you accessed
28:14 3,500 small business loans.
28:16 So maybe if we could extend that.
28:19 So if we extend the 3,500 that we already gave you
28:21 to up to 10,000, and we do it for two years,
28:24 your payments would be like $452 a month.
28:27 How soon would you need before you start making payments?
28:30 I would say a couple months, just to get me going.
28:33 So maybe we deferred your payments for 90 days.
28:35 That'll help you to--
28:37 Definitely.
28:37 I appreciate that.
28:38 All right, cool.
28:40 My clientele is building Mr. Washington.
28:44 He's seeing what my future may look like.
28:46 And I'm forever grateful for him believing in me.
28:50 As of today, you doing business as Incredible Auto,
28:54 borrowing $50,000.
28:58 So you got a lease going already?
29:00 Yes, ma'am.
29:01 This is the outside.
29:03 How many square foot is that?
29:04 5,000.
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29:06 It's nice.
29:09 It's like my dream of finally becoming a business owner
29:12 and not having to work for anybody else again.
29:16 I work for myself now.
29:20 Thank y'all.
29:21 I really want to shed some tears.
29:22 And I don't have to worry about somebody selling a business
29:25 and somebody coming in and telling me, hey,
29:28 we don't want to continue with you anymore.
29:31 Here I am, three months later.
29:35 When you're investing in something that you love to do,
29:38 it makes everything a lot easier.
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29:46 We felt like that if we could redevelop and change
30:02 this corner, that it would help turn the neighborhood.
30:07 Once they can put funds here and deposits,
30:12 then we're not going to allow the money to go
30:15 outside of this community.
30:17 We're going to put the money back into the community.
30:21 And it's going to scare some people.
30:23 It's going to scare the hell out of them.
30:26 Because now you can see that it can be done.
30:31 So you have no more excuses.
30:34 Those institutions that are in place right now
30:38 are not going to idly sit back.
30:40 You don't think?
30:41 They don't care about this.
30:42 Yes, they do.
30:44 Because if this catches on, it becomes a threat.
30:50 You really believe that?
30:51 Mark my word.
30:52 Because it can inspire others to think that they can be free.
31:00 This is about being free.
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31:08 Economic justice is righting wrongs, fixing the system,
31:15 some type of repayment for injustice.
31:17 A tree is known by the fruit that it bears.
31:24 So if I don't see any fruit, then I don't see any impact.
31:29 So if you have money and you have wealth
31:31 and you can't create impact, what's the point?
31:36 What is justice?
31:39 What does it mean for me?
31:40 What does it mean for people of color?
31:43 Justice is just not quite yet available for everybody.
31:47 Justice.
31:50 Justice.
31:51 It's just being a Black man in this world.
31:55 I ain't got luck.
31:57 Justice is something that we need,
31:59 but that's what we're fighting for.
32:01 Right now, today, I can look at justice as empowerment.
32:06 Just doing what's right and being fair.
32:09 You ever heard that phrase, get your money right?
32:16 I got to help the community get their money right.
32:19 The community has to get their money right,
32:21 and this is an opportunity to get the money right.
32:25 So I'm on a mission, and it ain't over.
32:28 It's just begun.
32:31 It's just begun.
32:33 It's just begun.
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