19405, theatre in the 1950s, the late 1940s, we forget that i have this incredible black man in their midst was really ground—breaking because he was able to move along the same kind of trajectory that they were allowed to move upon that. the generation before was a lot the trajectory, so sydney was able to be in the trajectory that they were in. that tony curtis was in. so, when he did when his oscar, it kind of made sense to us in a way because he was a part of that arc and of course, when so many of us were in the streets as kids, marching against the war, marching against racism, she came along in the heat of the night and when he made that immortal line, call me mr tibbs, that was the