of resistance. this after all, is where the black panthers were born. bobby seale was a founder of the black panthers, a critical figure in oakland history. and here at miss ollie s we get a taste of the shiny, new oakland. bobby: the black panther s a type of animal. if you push it into a corner it s going to try to move out your way. you keep pushing it, sooner or later it s going to come out of that corner. so i said that s like black people. we just pushed in the corner. we came up with the black panther party. i said we re going to take a position on self-defense. anthony: the panthers were viewed by j. edgar hoover s fbi anyway, as pretty much public enemy number one. anthony: they sold the panthers as the enemy using well, essentially your own imagery of strong black men holding weapons. but internally what the fbi and nixon saw as the real threat from the panthers was the children. bobby: the popularity.
examples of racial profiling juxtaposed against barriers still being broken? well, you know, when a train is moving, all the cars aren t in the same place and i think we may be seeing real progress and real breakthroughs in some places, certainly in the arts and communication and in entertainment, you re seeing breakthrough after breakthrough. ryan coogler with the black panther and that can precede a lot of changes. but when you get away from hollywood and deal with just folks on the ground, you know, there is some malware glitching. the exact same thing but if one has darker skin, you think that person is doing something wrong, one has lighter skin, you think that person is doing something perfectly fine. at that starbucks, these two
gentlemen handled it in a really inspiring way. while it was a heartbreaking thing, you know, to say, and you know, one of the gentlemen saying this is a people thing. and now starbucks teaching classes in a month. so is this a starting point or is this a false start that it s a pomonth from now? it takes a while to pull the curriculum together and that kind of stuff and frankly, if you re going to take a whole day as starbucks is doing, close all your stores, that s a huge statement, and then try to retrain everybody all at once. you better do it right. if you rush and do it day after tomorrow and it s a disaster and it doesn t work and makes no difference, that s not good. i think the fact that they said they re going to do it and are planning to do it, and have brought in some very, very serious people to do it sends a very important signal all the way down the chain that this is not going to be tolerated. so these incredible high points you alluded to, black panther still dom
cast. it s 2018, this is still considered revolutionary. yeah, it is. setting a precedent that i think is going to be difficult to go back on, which is what s exciting. reporter: we sat down with the cast of the film. chadwick boseman, who plays t challa, the black panther, lupita nyong o and danai gurira. you want to have a good time making a movie, and if a movie can change something in the world, then, you know, you want that, too. reporter: what kind of movie is black panther? is it a black movie? is it a super hero movie? i think reporter: you gave me the side eye just then. i did, because i think maybe some of these terms are, you know, they re limiting. you know, the black movie term. like, let s crack that open. reporter: black panther, the latest heart-pounding movie by marvel. it s already breaking records. even film star nyong o couldn t get tickets. 15 minutes later, i was trying to purchase tickets, and they are sold out. sold out.
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