Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2
Season 26 Episode 4 | 51m 41sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
A graduating high school student, superintendent, and county sheriff all strive for a better future.
Dreaming of a brighter future through the eyes of three people: a graduating high school student prepares to navigate the real world; Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa reflects on sacrifices he's made in his career for a failing system; and Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown looks for respect while questioning the future of law enforcement amidst a seemingly endless cycle of incarceration.
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Season 26 Episode 4 | 51m 41sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Dreaming of a brighter future through the eyes of three people: a graduating high school student prepares to navigate the real world; Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa reflects on sacrifices he's made in his career for a failing system; and Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown looks for respect while questioning the future of law enforcement amidst a seemingly endless cycle of incarceration.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSingers: ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ ♪ Man, voice-over: The last thing I dreamed about... ♪ it was weird.
♪ I just flew... ♪ all day... ♪ just literally in a circle... ♪ and didn't stop... ♪ ♪ In all of my dreams, I'm a superhero.
♪ I do whatever I want.
♪ Nobody stops me.
♪ ♪ [Indistinct conversation] Different man: What's up?
Man: What's up?
[Musicians warming up] ♪ Man: And there's no sound up there.
It's just-- just space, bro.
Harvey, voice-over: Everyone has a dream.
In your dream, you control what happens, whether you know it or not.
♪ Your dreams determine your goals.
If you can dream about it, then you can possibly do it one day.
♪ Woman: Are you a teacher?
Man: Yes.
All right.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
OK. Go ahead.
Here you go.
Thank you.
A raffle card for you.
Fill out the top here, and I'll give you the bottom.
Needn't bother... ♪ [Laughter] ♪ You're welcome.
Are you a teacher?
Different woman: Yes.
Yes.
Congratulations to you.
Here you go.
[Indistinct conversation] ♪ ♪ Man, voice-over: Ever since I was a little kid, this is what I would ask myself-- "Why me?
Why now?
Why here?"
[Distant siren] ♪ Like, last night, I had some dream of being in some meeting with some very prominent people, and they wanted me to do this and wanted me to do that... [Beeping] and I said, "Why am I here?"
and I woke up, and I said, "Oh, God, thank goodness that was a dream."
[Grunts] ♪ [Distant siren] ♪ I relentlessly focus.
Even when I'm working out, I'm thinking about solving problems.
When I'm in the shower, I'm focused on doing this work.
♪ I guess my mind never really shuts down.
[Panting] ♪ [Clears throat] ♪ Yeah.
What's the first school, Louie?
Louie: Ronald McNair.
McNair?
OK. ♪ Chief, we'll start with you.
What do you have?
We're getting down to our last couple of days of Citizens Academy; tomorrow night, Personnel Academy, Fugitive, and PIO; and then next Tuesday on the-- whatever the next one is-- is our graduation, so few more weeks.
Next, is that on my calendar?
Do you-- Yes, ma'am.
It is.
OK. Man: Today they have a demonstration of the jail management software at 1:30.
I think that some of the commissioners were invited to, you know, check out the software... Mm-hmm.
and if you get a chance, you can come look at it and see what you think.
From the last time I saw it, it worked well.
It'll do what, you know, we want it to do.
Certifications for the mental health classes that are mandated by the state, just want to make sure we get them completed, looks like we're there, but we just want to kind of go back and look and make sure.
Different man: There's been several protests around Downtown area.
As far as future protests, on November 26, there will be one here at Frank Crowley out front on-- Brown: What's that related to?
The Project Bail Reform, and also last week, one of our task force groups seized 27 kilos of methamphetamine... Wow.
6 guns, and $234,000 in drug money.
Brown, voice-over: I think I was what we call today an old soul, just watching and looking around me and absorbing what I would see.
Man: I've asked Chief Foster to take a look at the use of Tasers.
I believe while I was out, there was an issue in Arlington with some suspect or prisoner being Tased and caught on fire, so I've asked her to take a look at what we have and what we're doing, and if we needed to-- just what we needed to do at this point.
Brown: Mm-hmm, because it's not something that's new, but I think it's something that's happening more, and so we need to be looking at it to see what we can do to minimize those possibilities.
Brown, voice-over: A lot of times, we see things happen around us, and we don't give it a second thought, but my tendency was always to wonder, "OK. How does that apply to me?"
Man: This morning, I've had several interview requests for inmates over at the jail, two in particular.
One is a female who was prostituting her 11-year-old daughter, and the other one was aggravated sexual assault in which a male picked up a woman on the street and took her to a parking lot and ended up robbing her and raping her.
They both declined, so we don't have any interview requests at the jail today, so other than that, we're starting preparations for the Christmas event.
♪ Brown; voice-over: We're here to get a job done... ♪ but if you're not careful, you can become really cynical.
♪ My saying is, if I'm supposed to be here, I'm going to be here, and if I'm not, then I'm not.
♪ Hinojosa, voice-over: My dad said, "We're going to America.
All of you are going to get an education."
When he got that church, you know, we all came to Dallas.
♪ A lot of memories on this street when I was a kid.
See how it's gentrifying?
Louie: Mm-hmm.
♪ Man, this was rough back in the day.
A lot of people didn't want to come down here.
Now all the hipsters want to come down here.
[Chuckles] Looks like she's only been here... last year and this year.
That's a breakthrough school.
Are y'all having trouble with your clock?
Woman: Some people were this morning.
It's not letting me in.
They must have let me go.
They didn't tell me.
[Laughter] They didn't send you the memo?
No.
I didn't get the memo.
There you go.
See, your fingers are better than mine.
There she is.
Mm-hmm.
Since this is your first time, let me remind you, I don't want to go in any classrooms.
I want to walk the hallways.
I want to look in.
If the door is closed, I might open up and look at it... Mm-hmm.
but I also want to go to the cafeteria and say hello to the staff.
This is our third grade reading.
Mm-hmm.
So what's been your biggest surprises as a first-year principal and as your first year here at Soto?
My first year at Soto is that a lot of the systems, they were already in place here when I got here.
Normally as a new principal, you think, "OK.
I need to go set a structure, set this or that."
I didn't have to do that here.
It was already in place.
So you inherited a pretty good system.
I inherited a very good school.
This is fourth grade.
Hinojosa, voice-over: As a little kid, not knowing what I was getting into, I felt very comfortable in Oak Cliff.
I was around people like me.
It just became part of my DNA.
And then over here, back into Oak Cliff.
Ms. Garza... Hi, Mr. Hinojosa, pleasure to meet you.
and she's been here since the school opened.
No, the second year, but this is my 12th year here... Hinojosa, voice-over: I have institutional knowledge about this school district just like John Wiley Price has institutional knowledge about the county that nobody else has.
A lot of the people that I work with, I went to school with, they're all retired now, 63-year-old guy.
I used to come here for the Jefferson class to watch the movies.
Hinojosa, voice-over: I clown around all the time.
I said that I've ordered a pine box so when I get tired, I'm just going to jump in and close the lid, and they can haul me out.
♪ I saw so many people fail as the Superintendent of Dallas, as long as I'm being effective, I want to stick around.
I want to see this thing through for a while.
I had a bad day yesterday, and I had a bad attitude, and then I come in here, and it all changes.
That's why these Wednesdays are so powerful...
They are.
They are.
'cause it gets me out of my funk.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Keep up the good work, and we're looking for big things.
Yes, absolutely.
Thank you, Dr. Hinojosa.
All right.
Thank you.
♪ Good evening.
How's everybody?
How y'all doing?
How are you?
Hello?
You talk?
Do you speak?
Uh-uh.
Woman: [Laughs] OK. All right.
We'll visit later about it, huh?
Yes, ma'am.
OK, and I assure you, we will because this is not the way to do that... Mm-hmm.
OK?
Mm-hmm.
OK. ♪ Brown, voice-over: I recognized that there are people here with me as their sheriff who do not like me, do not respect me.
I get all of that.
Even if you don't respect me, I'm OK with that.
I'm really good with that.
Don't be disrespectful.
That's unacceptable.
♪ Deputy Love from Freeway Management to Internal Affairs, and mandatory honor guard training is on Friday, December the 6th, 7 A.M. to 3 P.M.
Sanitation--Gomez.
Gomez: Here.
Food court-- Schneider.
Schneider: Here.
Y'all have Crowley, don't forget.
Waxing is Martinez... Martinez: Here.
Rochestershire.
Brown, voice-over: There's a difference between the male and the female police in here.
South Tower.
Yeah.
Brown, voice-over: I think that women have a knack for just talking to people and saying, "Here's the deal," and you leave people with a little sense of dignity by allowing them to think that they had a say or that they have the option of not when you know they don't have that option.
Woman on intercom: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
[Men shouting] Brown, voice-over: I think I'm able to manage whatever comes toward me.
[Ping] [Gate slams] Anybody who knows me will tell you, I don't care about anything else except this over here, and that is my spirituality.
♪ That's my balance.
That's what holds me steady.
That's what keeps me aligned.
♪ Harvey, voice-over: If you speak out whatever comes in your mind, that'll help your confidence because if you think about it, your subconscious is going to hit you.
You're going to start having doubts.
Woman: The tides are affected by your... Students: Sun... sun... moon... the moon... and the Earth's... rotation.
or spinning.
For eclipses, you have two types of eclipses.
We have solar and lunar.
Under solar, you have your sun, the moon, and the Earth, and which one blocks your sunlight?
Students: The moon.
The moon, and that brings us to the end, right?
Any questions?
Harvey, voice-over: Once I know that you respect me, I'm not going to be afraid to tell you anything because the person that I'm talking to is a person just like me.
There's no way I should be afraid of you, and there's no way that person should be afraid of me.
Man on TV: Homeownership is the major way Americans create wealth, right?
Well, discrimination in housing is the major reason that Black families up and down the income scale have a tiny fraction of the family wealth that white families do, even white families with less education and lower incomes.
For almost 30 years, 98% of FHA loans were handed out to white borrowers.
The primary way that Americans pay for public schools is by paying property taxes.
People who live in more valuable homes have better-funded local schools, better-paid teachers, better school facilities, and more resources.
Here's the feedback loop.
The better the schools in a neighborhood, the more those homes in that neighborhood are worth, and the higher the property values of those homes, the more money there is for schools, and so on and so on.
Hinojosa, voice-over: I mean, I love the city, and I love this district, but we got to deliver.
Man on TV: They're more likely to live far away from grocery stores.
Hinojosa, voice-over: Education takes a long time.
You got to work hard, and you got to work smart.
I get along with some very prominent people because I've learned how to code switch.
I decided not to be a militant.
I decided to be at the table when decisions are made.
Man on TV: And that heavy, aggressive kind of policing that you see in Black neighborhoods in particular makes people feel like they can't trust the police, and when people don't trust the police, crimes go unsolved, and people have to find other ways to keep themselves safe.
Man: This is the 1940s red line map.
I'm sure that all of us have seen this before, so you can see in 1940, where it was deemed bad, that area still lingers today.
Next slide.
Our district has done a phenomenal job with academically raising the bar to where all of our children are doing very well and our district is a B. I think we have an opportunity to develop a lens that spends our bond dollars on rewriting some history.
Hinojosa, voice-over: I've been the reluctant leader all the time.
One of the worst things that happened to me was, in 2008, I had to lay off a thousand teachers, and this is my hometown.
I had to go out in the public and apologize to the city that I let them down.
I mean, I didn't eat for a week.
I was afraid to go out in public because of what I had just done to my community, so, yes, I had doubts.
Oh, I had fears.
Hinojosa: This all sounds good at first.
Then we have mixed metaphors.
When you were showing pictures of South Dallas, when you were showing pictures of West Dallas, you know, those are areas that were very obviously redlined.
Then the metaphor got mixed when you said, "Well, we got police department at Carter."
Well, Carter was our middle-class African-American community.
It wasn't a red line, and, I mean, we had redlining at Carter, I'll be shocked, so the tighter we can get it, then the better off we'll have chance for success, and if it's not airtight, we'll pull it, but if it's airtight, let's go with it.
Let's never waste a good crisis.
Woman: I raise my hand.
Students: I raise my hand.
All: I raise my hand.
Books are fun to read.
Books are fun to read.
All: Books are fun to read.
I love to play.
I love to play.
All: I love to play.
Will you be my friend?
Will you be my friend?
All: Will you be my friend?
Woman: How many hours are in the day?
Student: Like, the whole entire day, including night?
Yeah, the whole-- 24.
24, right?
You know, there are some clocks or some ways to tell time that go all 24 hours?
Yeah?
Why?
That's how the military tells time.
Students: J--jjj, K--kkk, L--lll, M--mmm, N--nnn, O... Woman: Change hhh to jjj.
Students: Jug.
Mug.
Mug.
Change mmm to ttt.
Tug.
And it's just crazy to think why we're doing this to our own world.
Student: Exactly.
Different student: Why would we be-- Why would we hurt our own planet that we live in?
Look at this word.
What's the word?
Students: Do.
Does it follow the rules?
No.
Brown: What does that say?
Woman: "Me duele la garganta y estoy con--" "My throat is hurting, and I am congested."
"Tengo la dos."
"I have both."
OK. My daughter is talking Spanish to me, but I don't know Spanish, so I don't know what she's saying, so, you know, would you please-- ha ha ha!-- tell me what to say to her?
Harvey, voice-over: I fear disappointment.
I don't like to disappoint people.
That's why I try hard.
The feeling of disappointment, it's just, if someone tells you that they're disappointed in you, that lowers some standards.
I want to either major in music, possibly be a band director or something that involves music; special education, so, like, be a special ed.
teacher; and then, like, finance or financial advisor and criminal justice, be a police officer or a homicide detective.
Man: Lord, we thank you for this day, and we thank you for this time together this evening, and we ask now blessings on our meal, be cooked by clean hands, be good to us and for us.
We pray for our Bunny this evening, Lord, that she has had a good day and that her activities of the night are good and that she be safe.
Thank you for this time together in Lord Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen.
So did you get your story done today?
Yes, basically a shootout between many people in the parking lot at the 7-Eleven.
There were 26 shell casings recovered... Ohh... one man dead, another injured.
He survived.
The guy who died ultimately, after he was shot, some people drug him out of the parking lot, put him in a car, thought about, I guess, driving him to the hospital, then changed their mind... Oh, really?
opened the door, and pushed him out.
Brown, voice-over: When I told my family that I wanted to be a police officer, my sister made it clear that she was not pleased that I had chosen this career.
♪ "She did what?
She's doing what?
She's gonna be a cop?"
I said, "OK. All right.
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts..." ♪ "but this is what I'm going to do."
♪ There she is.
That's your child.
[Ringtone plays] Hey, Bunny.
Hi.
How are you?
Hi.
I have a quiz tomorrow, so-- You have a what tomorrow?
I have a quiz tomorrow.
In what?
Statistics.
Well, you are wearing statistics out, girl.
Yes.
Let's be clear.
Where are you, the library or at home?
Look at--She's at home.
Look at the background.
All right.
I see the-- Uh-huh.
You gonna eat?
Es posible que... Posible que-- OK, at-- She doesn't know what she's going to have.
Possibly, but she doesn't know what she's going to eat yet.
Yo no se, para siento.
Yo no se, and y'all know I don't know.
Yeah.
We know, Mama.
All right, little one.
Well, we'll talk with you soon, OK?
Love you.
OK. Love you.
Love you.
Love you.
Rabb: Bye.
Ha ha ha!
She looks a whole lot better.
Mm-hmm.
Brown, voice-over: If you truly believe that everything works the way it's supposed to and how it's supposed to and for the reason that it's supposed to, then you just do you, and then let's see what happens.
All right, mister.
OK.
I'm Audi.
All right, sweetheart.
OK. Bye.
Love you.
Mwah.
Love you.
Hinojosa, voice-over: People had low expectations of me because I was from Oak Cliff.
I decided not to get bitter about it.
I decided to get better.
I tell people all the time, "You got to do you, but it's not about you."
My son got admitted to Harvard.
That was very emotional for me because all this hard work you put into it... ♪ and to see that your own kid is going to be able to live the dream, it was all real.
I said, "Man, all this stuff was worth it."
Reporter: It's taken two years, major renovations at South Oak Cliff High School nearly completed.
Workers are now putting the final touches on the $52 million renovation project as Dallas ISD prepares to welcome staff and 1,300 students back to this updated campus after winter break.
Hinojosa: This is not easy taking on buildings that have been neglected and making them first-class.
Man: No justice... No peace!
Reporter: Back in 2015, students walked out in protest over issues in the building like leaky ceilings, rodents, mold, and contaminated water.
Hinojosa: Many times, Southern Dallas does not get the appropriate treatment that they should, and people were upset, and they justly were upset.
Reporter: Some community critics still have concerns, pointing out issues not only here, but at other schools in Southern Dallas.
Why is it that a school district-- with already having high zip code incarceration, already having redlining involved in this community-- how is it that a district can be culpable in presenting these inequities and they only exist in certain parts of the county?
You hate to put a racial tone to it, but every time it comes back, it is a racial tone of inequity.
Hinojosa: Yeah.
Even in a week, there's a lot of progress.
This is going to be awesome, so this is the most ready we'll have, right... Man: Mm-hmm.
and about how far behind are the other floors from being... First floor is two weeks behind.
OK, behind this.
Yeah.
Thursday, the furniture is all coming in.
They're going to start putting it all through here.
Did we get permission from the city to start putting-- Uh-huh.
Yes, sir.
putting the furniture?
Yes, sir, fire marshal and everybody, so we're good to go.
Different man: Just can't have people in here until we get to see them.
Furniture is OK. People aren't.
This movement was started by passionate kids that wanted a better facility so they can get a education, and that's what's important, so when people say, "Do your kids really care about their academics?"
this is proof that they care about academics.
Man: Yeah, so the architect is here.
They're already walking the building, but they're going to come back and look at the punch list.
What's the timeline for that?
I mean, well, the goal is definitely going to be done before the students are in, so that won't even be an issue.
I think that this is a community victory for the South Oak Cliff community by the South Oak Cliff community, and we thank Dr. Johnson for making sure the district understands that that is the only way that this should be taken care of.
Johnson: We got to have a place to store our books.
Yeah.
Well, remember, we looked at-- There's another storage room behind the science lab.
We could walk over to it.
We talked about that... Is it equipped?
Because they're coming.
Yeah.
Not yet, but it will be.
It's the storage with shelving.
The contractor just has to finish out this area.
This area's got to be first because they said it'd be delivered.
Those books are coming any day now.
OK.
I got you.
Now, is this coming from Village Fair or just from a vendor?
They're coming.
Yeah.
You know how many books this school has?
Hinojosa: Oh, wow.
What a difference in just a few days.
Man: It looks like a college gym.
It does.
It does, and Willie's fine with the bleachers.
We got to just change the scoreboards.
Oh, no.
We'll do that, but, no, he said he was good with the gray.
He doesn't want to mess with it.
The principal, yeah, saw no problems and likes them.
I am going to do some graphics and... Yeah.
We can just do some graphics, but, man... but I got to get some acoustical-- but look at the gray with the gray pads.
But I think it worked out.
The design layout is real nice, worked out well.
That's nice.
Y'all did a great job on that, man.
So this is well laid out...
I know, man.
and then look.
This is his assistant's office, as well.
Isn't that nice?
Yeah.
Look, beautiful view.
I mean, I'm telling you, it's right on the money.
Oh, yeah.
It's real nice.
This is beautiful, man.
It's a beautiful weight room.
That's right.
This is beautiful.
Yep.
I love it.
When I was coaching here, man, we didn't have anything like this.
Oh, wow.
I think I want to coach again.
Man: This is parallel to the Children's March of 1963... Man: Wow... the Children's March of 1963. historian.
When the parents wouldn't come forth, it was those children that came forward and whatever, so SOC is a pacesetter, so the focus, I think, it's schools all around the country, if not around the world, can benefit from what these young people did, and they certainly lifted them.
Y'all heard it here first.
[Whirring] Man: Ready to make some music?
Students: Yeah.
Well, let's stand behind our rugs and get ready.
Oh, raise your right hand.
Repeat after me.
I will not pick up a mallet...
I will not pick up a mallet... until I am told... until I am told... or you know what will happen.
or you know what will happen.
Raise your other right hand.
I will not play until I am told...
I will not play until I'm told... or you know what'll happen.
All right.
Now, don't play yet.
Find your F, F as in "fun."
Everyone find an F?
Yes.
All right.
When I say, "Ready?
Go," we're going to play it two times.
Ready?
Go.
♪ Oh, two times, honey.
That's like 4, 5, 6.
Two times.
Ready?
Go.
One, two.
♪ Two times.
Count out loud, "One, two."
Ready?
Man: One, two, ready, and stop.
Again.
Knee bend, two.
Ready, and... [Snare drum playing cadence] [Indistinct] ♪ What I'm about to do in just a second, in just a moment, is going to affect where you are.
It's going to affect how far up or back we are in the spaceship, so pay attention.
Horns up.
♪ One and two and one, two, march on 8 ♪ [Snare drum playing cadence] And march.
♪ Harvey, voice-over: Music is a time to get away... to express your emotions, so if you're feeling some type of way, you can use the music to say how you feel.
♪ All of the thoughts that's in your head, your emotions, and your feelings and your mind, it goes away once you're pushing it through your instrument.
♪ It's just a energy transference.
♪ It's my safe haven.
♪ [Marching band playing] Man: ♪ 5, 6, 7 ♪ ♪ And 1, 2, 3, and 4 ♪ ♪ 5 and 6 and 7, 8 ♪ [Continues indistinctly] [Birds chirping] [Water running] [Door closes] Hinojosa, voice-over: I was a very serious kid.
I probably was overly serious.
I needed to enjoy life a little bit more.
♪ Bad things happen to good people, and a lot of good people let the bad things take them down.
♪ Something bad is going to happen to you, I promise you.
Your parents are going to split up, or you going to get in trouble that you didn't cause at school.
Everybody's going to notice what you did in response... ♪ and some people get a chip on their shoulder.
Some people get angry, and they lose the promise that they have.
♪ Harvey, voice-over: Your body is just there.
Your mind controls it all, so, like, if you say you're tired, all you have to do is just tell your mind you're not tired, and you're not tired anymore.
♪ [Whirring] ♪ Your body is basically a big mind game for you, and you just have to know how to use your mind to push yourself through it.
♪ You have to learn that at this point in time, at this very second, this is where your hand is, this is where your leg is, this is where your face is... ♪ and that is the biggest mind thing of all.
♪ [Beep beep beep beep] [Whirring] ♪ [Vehicles pass] At this point, I don't know where the world is going.
♪ It's just, if I'm out here all paranoid, I'm not out here really just to enjoy my youth.
♪ You have to worry about what's happening right now because if you're alive, what's better than being alive?
[Indistinct conversation] ♪ [Beep beep beep] Brown: Now, see, that was West Tower who had the issue this evening?
Man: Hey.
Ha ha!
[Gate slams] Brown: The secret is, you have to walk it and walk it and walk it.
[Indistinct conversation] Brown: The secret is, you have to walk it and walk it and walk it.
Brown, voice-over: You don't come to law enforcement with a mindset of, "I'm going to go out here and see whose life I can destroy."
Brown: Looks like they've already done their count and they're ready to lay down.
Brown, voice-over: I think I can make the world better.
I think I can do this.
I can help people.
I think I can make the world better.
I think I can do this.
I can help people.
Brown: The secret is, you have to walk it and walk it and walk it.
This side is a little more subdued.
Looks like they've already done their counting.
They're ready to lay down.
I think I can make the world better.
I think I can do this.
I can help people.
[Indistinct conversation] Brown: The secret is, you have to walk it and walk it and walk it.
Brown, voice-over: I think I can make the world better.
I think I can do this.
I can help people.
[Gate slams] ♪ Brown, voice-over: In high school, I decided I wanted to be a journalist and I was going to be a journalist... ♪ and somewhere along the way, I started getting sidetracked.
♪ Life happens.
Things happen, and then, before you know it, we have this officer here.
♪ [Radio chatter] ♪ Brown, voice-over: There are things that just kind of break your heart, and you wish you could fix it.
♪ When I walk the jails... ♪ I see, and I think how many lives are impacted... ♪ how we got here... ♪ how it happened.
♪ I just wish that I had a fix for it.
♪ ♪ Man: Now, the object lesson of this entire Sunday school is celebrating.
How you celebrate is entirely up to you.
We're here for one purpose today.
That purpose is to celebrate God, and we're going to celebrate.
We're going to celebrate how He brought us through this week.
We're going to celebrate all the challenges that we look back on.
We're going to celebrate our life.
We're going to celebrate our salvation.
We're going to celebrate.
Woman: Amen.
Anybody get any bad news this week?
No, because it's all good.
All things work together for good.
Thank you, Lord, for another day that was not promised.
God, let us be glad and rejoice in the Father.
Father, we thank you right now.
Please forgive us for our sins, Lord.
We ask you right now, God, to just rest upon this place today, God.
God, we ask you right now, Lord Jesus, to move us...
Yes, sir.
God, we love you.
We thank you.
Lord, we just ask that the Word come forth, Lord.
Be a blessing to our hearts.
Yes, sir.
In your darling Son Jesus' name, we pray.
Amen.
Congregation: Amen.
♪ I come today to ask you to come back to the Lord.
To repent is what I'm asking.
The Lord has been commanding in each one of these letters for the church to repent.
Why the church?
Because the church is comprised of people... Woman: Yes.
Yes.
not the walls and the pews, not the carpet, not the instruments.
The church are the people who got up this morning and walked through the doors and said, "I am part of a unique local family"... Man: Yes.
Yes.
so here's what I'm asking you today because the Lord said it.
It's not my word.
Don't get mad at me.
It's His Word.
He says repent.
He says return.
He says restore the relationship.
He says rekindle the fire, and so here's what.
Come to the altar right now.
Don't think about it.
Don't let the devil talk you out of it.
Come now in the name of Jesus.
[Organ playing] ♪ Woman: ♪ O Lord ♪ ♪ Have mercy ♪ ♪ On me ♪ ♪ ♪ O Lord ♪ ♪ Have mercy ♪ ♪ On me ♪ ♪ ♪ O Lord ♪ ♪ Have mercy ♪ ♪ On me ♪ ♪ ♪ O Lord ♪ ♪ Have mercy ♪ ♪ On me ♪ ♪ Woman: Hallelujah, Lord.
Yes.
♪ Rabb: The public ministry of Jesus was drawing to a close.
His hour was fast approaching, coming to fulfill his destiny to save the souls of all mankind for all time.
He was in the upper room with his disciples.
It was after the Passover meal.
He had given them instructions on how to carry on without Him, how to wait for their help, the Holy Spirit, the comforter, the spirit of truth that is to come, and then the Bible says that He took bread and broke it and blessed it, and said, "Take, eat.
This is my body broken for you."
♪ In the same manner also, he took the cup and said, "This is the New Covenant, or New Testament, of my blood shed for the remission of sin.
Let us drink.
♪ Woman: Amen.
Hallelujah.
♪ As often as we do this, we show or we honor or we remember what He did for us until he returns.
After they had their bread and wine, they sang a hymn, and they went out into the Mount of Olives.
We've sang our hymns in this place today.
Time now for us to go out into this Mount of Olives.
Do the work of Him that's called us while it is yet day, for night soon cometh when no man can work.
The Lord bless you.
The Lord keep you.
The Lord lift up His face upon you.
The Lord put His countenance on you and give you His peace.
God bless you.
Amen.
♪ Woman: You're not here because you're a slougher or a bottom dweller or, you know, some lax person.
You're here because you're a driver, because you want results.
I mean, this is very heavy.
You're not going to solve all of the issues that are there, but at least gives you an opportunity to have some discussions.
Different woman: I can tell you what I did with my teachers.
My teachers, some of them were entitled, OK?
When you first came to town from working with 10 kids... Man: A lot of good people, lot of support, and we have money there for teachers that we... Woman: And you can't tell me when I have these...
Different woman: Sorry.
Ha ha ha!
Man: All the acronyms, how many look?
Woman: For instance, we didn't keep this [indistinct].
This year, we had-- We knew what it looked like as...
Different woman: OK.
If we can come back as a as a group... [Indistinct conversation] y'all are good listeners.
If you can hear me, clap once.
[Clap] If you can hear me, clap twice.
[Clap clap] If you can hear me, clap 3 times.
[Clap clap clap] Man: Consider taking possible action to authorize the purchase of goods and services.
Hinojosa, voice-over: Is my time on this earth, was it valuable?
Man: But that's certainly one age effective immediately due to the need to replace... Hinojosa, voice-over: Did I help people?
Did I leave things better than I found them?
Man: ...and it had worked for some of our purchases, declarations, trustees... Hinojosa, voice-over: You never really know... Man: Second is that second trustee... Hinjosa, voice-over: but I do think about it.
Man: OK. Trustees, please cast your votes by a show of hands, and please keep your hands up long enough for an accurate count.
Please raise your hands if you're voting in favor.
Hinojosa, voice-over: What are they going to say after I'm gone, you know, when all of this is over?
Man: The time is now 6:20.
This meeting is adjourned.
Students: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[Stomping] Ready.
Left.
Color guard, halt.
Present arms.
March.
[Stomping] Right face.
Forward march.
[Snare drums playing cadence] Woman: Good evening, [indistinct].
I'd like to take a few minutes to recognize the teachers... [Continues indistinctly] [Drums continue] ♪ ♪ Harvey, voice-over: I thought that after getting a Black president that the world would be coming up to a better place.
♪ It wouldn't happen quickly.
It would take its time, but it would eventually hit something where we wouldn't really have worries... ♪ but now as the way thing's going, that's on a decline where everybody's worried about everything.
♪ You never know what's going to happen at any point in time... ♪ and then being young... ♪ it's just the thought of going out there every day.
♪ The way things are going, my generation... ♪ it's not really for the better.
♪ You'll just be thinking, "Oh, I'm fine."
The next minute, something happens... ♪ and you'll just be like, "OK. Well, that's over there, and I'm over here"... ♪ and the next thing you know, it's just getting closer and closer and closer to where you are.
♪ It's closing in slowly, and people are seeing that, but the thing is, no one actually wants to try to help stop it.
♪ [Snare drums playing cadence] ♪ ♪ [Brass playing] Band: ♪ Skyline ♪ ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ Go, whoa ♪ ♪ That's right ♪ ♪ ♪ Let's go, Skyline ♪ ♪ ♪ That's right ♪ ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ Go, whoa ♪ ♪ That's right ♪ ♪ ♪ Let's go, Skyline ♪ ♪ ♪ That's right ♪ [Whistle blows] ♪ We stand ready, and 1, 2, 3 ♪ Man: Hey!
Band: Hey!
Man: Hey!
Band: Hey!
♪ ♪ ♪