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I am not answering any *** harrassment questions today!
Excuse me! Excuse me!
And I will take a question as long as it's not about...
---Libya, 999 or any of that other nonsense.
Journalist: Mr. Cain! Mr. Cain! Herman Cain: Go ahead.
Weren't you raised in Atlanta, Georgia?
Martin Luther King's hometown?
Question:
How can two people who lived within miles of each other...
...be so different?
In the summer of 1963 at the very heart of the Civil Rights Movement...
...Dr. Martin Luther King's Freedom Speech...
...was to be broadcasted live all throughout Atlanta.
Herman decided that he did not want to watch the live broadcast.
He wanted a date with Doris.
And although she had a boyfriend at the time...
...he had a plan.
Herman, I really just wanted to watch the speech with everybody else in the church social hall...
...but I can't let you go by yourself.
Doris: If my momma ever foundout I was downtown...
Herman: She won't. Besides, you're with me.
Doris, one day I'm going to comeback to Atlanta...
...I'm gonna' have a thousand people out here cheering for me...
...and I'm going to me in there on that stage singing.
Doris: That's beautiful Herman.
You see Doris I don't need no Martin Luther King.
I'm going to famous one day. I'm going to be important.
Doris: You're going to make it Herman. You're going to win.
Herman: If that don't work I'll do whatever makes a buck.
Why are those people stopping, Herman?
I don't know.
People are angry about the movement.
I knew we shouldn't have come down here Herman.
Look he's coming right this way.
We should run.
And I'm not running.
We ain't protesting.
Herman are you alright.
Herman groans: He had a nice car.
Come on. Here comes the bus. Let's go home.
Herman, I'm so sorry about what happened back there.
That just wasn't right and it's going to change.
Martin Luther King said...
Herman: I don't give a damn about no Martin Luther King!
He's a loser. He's gonna' lose.
Yeah, you heard me right!
If he wasn't he'd be a president or something...
...not getting eggs and bottles and stones thrown at him...
...like a shiftless ***!
Doris: I really feel sorry for you Herman.
There is no real way of knowing...
...what made the difference between the two.
But history shows...
...when it comes down to self and selflessness
One will always show love
...and empathy for humanity.
While the other...
...turns his back.