A Movie That Could Unite America
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Summary
In this episode, President Obama talks about the movie Remember the Titans, Denzel Washington's role in the movie and why he should have been the head coach at the University of Tennessee. He also talks about why he chose Denzel as his head coach even though he is a white man.
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Since 2005, every year in the month of December, I would gather my executives and rent a house
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and take everybody there, and we'd spend two and a half days there, and we'd be talking about what we've done right the year prior,
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what we've done wrong, and what we can do to improve, and we would watch a movie together.
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And the movie at the end, I would narrate the movie, and I would intentionally pick a movie that we would watch
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that had to do with where we were at that point of the game.
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Today, if I was the president of the United States of America, and I could pick one movie for everybody to sit at their home,
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with their family, with their friends, with their kids, with everybody to watch, would be Remember the Titans.
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And let me explain to you why Remember the Titans.
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Just this past weekend, I brought my kids up, because I've been going through all these other things,
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and they're asking all these questions that they're going to school, because everybody's asking about,
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Daddy, what's Black Lives Matter? Daddy, what's this going on in America?
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Daddy, what's protesting? What's right? They're six and eight years old, but they're talking about in school.
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I said, let's watch a movie together here. This movie's going to explain everything that's going on in America today.
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We turn on Remember the Titans with Denzel Washington.
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It's a story of a coach, Coach Boone, who goes and takes over another coach's job,
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that's a legendary coach, at the time Coach Yost, and they come in, and they say,
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listen, we need to get a black coach, and they bring in Denzel.
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And there's this scene that they're going back and forth, and they say, I'm hired as the head coach now.
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Coach Boone, which is Denzel, says, I would like you to be my assistant coach.
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He says, let me get this straight. I'm the last head coach.
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I've done a lot of great things here. You want me to be your assistant coach?
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He leaves. He says, there's no way in the world I'm going to coach for you.
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The Whites, who were following his lead, said, there's no way we're going to play for him.
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And they all say, if you leave, we're leaving, we're not playing, okay?
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And he says, no, I'm not going to coach you. I'm going to go to a different place.
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I'm about to accept the job, and they have a town hall meeting with the parents and all this other stuff.
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And he says, you cannot leave, and all the players, we're going to sit it out this year.
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And the parents say, my son's going to sit out.
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And then he realizes, if he leaves, these kids are going to step down and not play.
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And if they step down, many of those seniors are not going to get a scholarship to go play.
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So he could potentially ruin these kids' lives.
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So he sucks up his ego, goes to his daughter, decides, you know what?
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So then there's a scene where Denzel shows up with his assistant coach,
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and he's talking to all the players, and the guy's bragging, I'm the running back.
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And then all of a sudden, Coach Yost comes in, interrupts.
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Whites on one side, blacks on the other side.
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He pulls him aside, said, don't you ever embarrass me again in front of my players,
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and come interrupt my entire meeting that I'm having.
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And then they're going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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And he says, listen, you can be my assistant coach.
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You run defense through me because I am still the head coach.
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He wanted to let him know that even though you were the coach before, I'm the head coach now.
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Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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The whites, the blacks, everybody shows up, and they're lined up to go on the bus to go
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And the coach, Denzel, shows up with his briefcase, and everybody's there.
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While he's about to get on the bus, this player shows up to him.
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And he says, hey, I just want to make a couple things straight with you.
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He says, I'm going to make a couple things straight with you.
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I'm the only All-American you got on this team.
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I want to pick the players on defense, and you do what you need to do and get out of our
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Jerry Lewis, folks, I have Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin here, the two comedians.
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He says, for the next two weeks, when you go on this camp, guess who's your daddy?
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If you want to play on my team, I'm your daddy.
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And the other guy, Ray, didn't have his tie fixed.
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He says, fix your tie before you get on the bus.
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He sees white guy sitting on one side, black guy sitting on another bus.
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One of the players that always wants to break the ice, he starts singing, right?
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And the other guy says, this is not the time to sing.
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The All-American guy says, yeah, I don't want to hear your guys sing.
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The two main alpha guys on the team that are playing defense, right?
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Obviously, it's crazy stuff that happens at the camp.
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They're going back in for a lot of beautiful scenes.
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Here, I ain't going to look at that poster for two weeks.
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He says, I'm telling you, boy, take that poster down.
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Now, this is a time when, when he moved in the community and he's going into his house,
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the neighbors are looking over saying, are those the movers?
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They're apparently moving to that house right across.
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No, babe, they cannot be moving because they're black.
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Whites, blacks, everybody that's played an important role.
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Everybody's having fun until they look at their parents.
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And then immediately, to please their parents, they went back to realize, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know how I'm talking about this whole media detox thing?
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This is why I'm talking about this media detox thing.
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There's a couple events that took place with the whole NASCAR issue that came out with a guy talking about the noose and all these other things.
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And the FBI does the investigation saying that's in every single NASCAR.
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That's in every single, what do you call it, garages that's in place.
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Do you know the whole story with Jussie Smollett when Dave Chappelle came out and said, I didn't talk about it because let me get this straight.
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You're in the middle of the night, 2 o'clock in the morning.
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Two African guys with a MAGA hat are going to come and hit you.
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The exact opposite thing of what Coach Herman was trying to do in the movie of Remember the Titans.
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When we ran a company, I had a couple rules in my sales office.
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If you flirted with one of our guys' wife, you had a meeting with me, and it was not a nice meeting.
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And I did it a couple times where everybody under someone that came to my office, they said, oh, shit, that guy's going to have a meeting with Pat.
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If you flirted with someone's wife, if you flirted with someone's daughter, without talking to the person, asking permission, you disrespected this man's daughter.
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If you did anything in our office disrespectful like that that had to do with family, you had a problem with me.
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If you disrespected those protocols that we had in place.
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What is happening right now in America is the exact opposite of what happened to Remember the Titans.
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This is why everybody needs to turn off everything they have and watch Remember the Titans and see what happens when two groups of people that whites don't like blacks and blacks don't like whites.
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Because what their parents and family and history has told them, that they must hate each other.
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And then they meet a head coach who is black and an assistant coach who is white.
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Then eventually the assistant coach is white, gets upset that the African-American head coach is being too tough on his black players.
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The white assistant coach starts defending the black players and the black coach starts defending the white players.
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Exactly what America needs today that we're not having.
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Let's create camps like everybody as if we need to do that today in America.
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I'm just a content creator that decided to create a channel that's grown into what it is today.
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But if this message resonates with you, this is what I'd love to see happen.
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I don't make money if millions of people watch this movie.
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But if you agree with me, either share this video with other people or two, go on your own Facebook post.
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Go upload the picture of the movie, Remember the Titans.
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Put it on Instagram saying this is what all of us need to watch today.
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Encourage thousands and thousands, hopefully millions, to watch this movie, to sit there and say,
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And then hopefully, Denzel, who did an incredible job playing that role of coach,
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Hopefully, that story can inspire, even if it's an additional 3% of people will say,
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I don't have any problems against whites or blacks.
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Then, maybe our spirit will get a little bit calmer and calmer and calmer.
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And hopefully, just like those guys got off the bus,
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when they had zero issues with white and white, they forgot about skin color.
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However, hopefully, if your parents or family members or co-workers or relatives
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try to inject any spirit of division with you to hate any other skin color,
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hopefully, you're going to call them out and say,
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And when they cry at the end, you'll get the point.
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And you, you, yourself, you could be an 18-year-old person, 42-year-old person here.
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You can help unify this nation instead of divide.
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