The Ride - Paul Revere short educational film piece
Never choose to be a Hero,
’cause Heroes die uncomfortable deaths.
All I wanted to be was Paul Revere.
I just needed one heroic moment, you understand?
“Paul Revere’s Ride” was only one night.
And then 40 years of him being like,
“Hey, y’all, remember that time
everybody was asleep, and I was up,
and the British was coming?
Boy, it’s a good thing I was awake,
n i g g a, everybody be dead. Psh.” [laughing]
Every fucking person that takes a stand for somebody else always gets beat down. And we watch. Over and over and over again, we watch it. We should pay those motherfuckers for blowing the whistle, because they make our lives better, and we could change the narrative. We could make one motherfucker have a good outcome for doing the right thing and that would make another motherfucker brave enough to do the right thing. And if you did that, the n i g g a s like Harvey Weinstein wouldn’t rape for 40 years because a bitch want a stupid ass part.
We should take care of each other. Wouldn’t it be nice to be like, “Remember that time he was gonna kill Jesus but then he got all that money?” [laughing] Real talk, man. It’s not a racial thing. It’s about us making our society better. It’s about like even these women that are coming forward, and everyone says they’re brave, and many of them are. And a few of them – a few of them sucked the dick and got buyer’s remorse. [laughing]
You know, that’s a huge omission from this narrative. This wouldn’t have gone this far if some women weren’t willing to do it. You can’t ask every woman to hold the line. Some women can carry things heavier than others. So we should fight for one another. We should forgive the ones of us that are weaker and support the ones of us that are stronger. And then we can beat the thing. If you guys keep going after individuals, The System is going to stay intact. You have to have men on your side. And I’m telling you right now, you’re gonna have a lot of imperfect allies.
I’ll tell you what happened, but I can’t say it directly. There’s a book to me that encapsulates my entire experience Before I left the show. And the book is called Pimp.
It’s written by a guy named Iceberg Slim. Yeah, bring it up here. This is Matthew. Matthew’s from France. He’s white. And yet, he has an original copy of this book written by a black American who was a pimp in the ’40s. Iceberg Slim. His real name was Robert Beck. He got the name Iceberg because he was in a bar in Chicago, and there was a shootout in the bar, and a bullet went through this n i g g a’s hat, and he still finished his drink. Pimps love shit like that. They said, “Man, you’re ice cold.” And he said, “I like that.” And it stuck.
We should take care of each other. Wouldn’t it be nice to be like, “Remember that time he was gonna kill Jesus but then he got all that money?” [laughing] Real talk, man. It’s not a racial thing. It’s about us making our society better. It’s about like even these women that are coming forward, and everyone says they’re brave, and many of them are. And a few of them – a few of them sucked the dick and got buyer’s remorse. [laughing]
You know, that’s a huge omission from this narrative. This wouldn’t have gone this far if some women weren’t willing to do it. You can’t ask every woman to hold the line. Some women can carry things heavier than others. So we should fight for one another. We should forgive the ones of us that are weaker and support the ones of us that are stronger. And then we can beat the thing. If you guys keep going after individuals, The System is going to stay intact. You have to have men on your side. And I’m telling you right now, you’re gonna have a lot of imperfect allies.
I’ll tell you what happened, but I can’t say it directly. There’s a book to me that encapsulates my entire experience Before I left the show. And the book is called Pimp.
It’s written by a guy named Iceberg Slim. Yeah, bring it up here. This is Matthew. Matthew’s from France. He’s white. And yet, he has an original copy of this book written by a black American who was a pimp in the ’40s. Iceberg Slim. His real name was Robert Beck. He got the name Iceberg because he was in a bar in Chicago, and there was a shootout in the bar, and a bullet went through this n i g g a’s hat, and he still finished his drink. Pimps love shit like that. They said, “Man, you’re ice cold.” And he said, “I like that.” And it stuck.
This book is so heavy in the front and has a glossary of pimp terms, because the ideas are so foreign to The American ears.
For instance, do you know what the phrase “mileage on a ho” means? [laughing] Of course you don’t.
'Mileage on a ho' is a very wild concept.
It means that pimps understand there’s a finite amount of bad shit a person can do before they lose their fucking mind.
And a good pimp can look at a woman that he’s never seen before and call it -- "She’s good for 500 fucks."
That’s her mileage. Anything over that,
that bitch is gonna spill.
that bitch is gonna spill.
They do it to you --
Why the fuck you think most of us
work from nine to five?
‘Cause nine to six might kill a bitch. [laughing]
Iceberg Slim was the one that
broke down what A Bottom-bitch was.
Does anyone know what a bottom bitch is?
Anyone? What’s a bottom bitch, sir?
"It’s your, uh– it’s your prostitute
that’s the best out of all of ’em,
that bring in the most money."
That’s right.
That’s exactly right. Are you black?
[laughing] That’s right.
A bottom bitch is a pimp’s number one ho. She’s even a bitch that helps him keep the other bitches in line.
I will repeat.
She’s even the bitch
that helps him keep the other bitches in line.
If the pimp was McDonald’s, then the bottom bitch is his French fries. [laughing] The rest of them bitches like fish sandwiches and cherry pies and shit like that. [laughing]
