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  • 7/4/2025
In her first feature-length documentary, director Mina Shum (Double Happiness) takes a penetrating look at the Sir Georg | dG1fZkQzOU5xQ2Q2UXc
Transcript
00:00Are you prepared to stand up for your rights?
00:06Yes!
00:07Are you prepared to stand for your rights?
00:10Yes!
00:11Let's go everybody, let's get upstairs!
00:13Let's take a stand now!
00:15Let's go, everybody that believes in justice, take a stand!
00:18Don't sit on your asses anymore, move up there and take a stand!
00:21If you whites can sit back and ask people like O'Brien,
00:25run you to hell crazy, that's your privilege!
00:30We, as students, feel that we have a right to be heard.
00:38As far back as ten months ago, the black students had laid some charges of racism
00:42against the Sir George Williams professor.
00:45I suppose in my heart I figured we'd occupy it and two days later it'd all be resolved
00:50and everybody would be happy and we'd be singing Kumbaya.
00:53Not exactly what happened.
00:56It was so fast.
00:58It was one of the very first times in my life that I was actually afraid for my life.
01:05We were tricked.
01:06It was not a victory.
01:07People were yelling burn nigger burn.
01:09This chanting of let the niggers burn, they wanted us to die.
01:13That shook me to my core, of course, because that means that there are people around who don't mind seeing other people perish.
01:20It's famous.
01:21Well seen there every time a piece of al56829 listening to another March,
01:29All in the Helper-Gurps are quite good.
01:30New Piccolo.
01:32I am sure there's no Fantasia.
01:33Can I fight a break.
01:35First, you'll be great.

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