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Clips from Atlanta - B.A.N. (S01E01)

"(jazzy lounge music)"
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"(music continues)"
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"(upbeat hip-hop instrumental music)"
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"*"
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"MAN: The Dodge Charger."
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"Make a statement without saying anything at all."
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"(theme music playing)"
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"Earlier in our show, we talked about"
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"transitions in sexuality."
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"Uh, but what about race?"
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"Our correspondent, Nathan Wielder,"
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"has the story."
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"Harrison looks from the outside"
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"to be your average teenager."
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"He goes to school, plays video games,"
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"even listens to music in his room."
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"But there's one difference."
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"I'm a 35-year-old white man."
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"NATHAN: Harrison, born Antwoine Smalls,"
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"has trans-racial identity,"
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"identifying as Harrison Booth,"
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"a 35-year-old white man from Colorado."
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"And when did you know that you were a"
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"35-year-old white man?"
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"Well, I've always felt different."
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"I go to the store, the movies,"
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"and just be thinking to myself, like,"
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""Why am I not getting the respect I deserve?""
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"And then, it just hit me."
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"I'm white..."
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"and 35."
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"I just miss Colorado sometimes, you know."
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"Here, I pretend the buildings are the old"
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"San Juan Mountain ranges but, you know, the jobs is here."
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"And where do you work?"
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"I'm a Systems Engineer for Coca-Cola."
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"Oh. Okay."
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"That boy don't work."
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"He go to school, and that's it."
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"-Mm-hmm. -One day, he said,"
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""Call me Harrison.""
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"I said, "Who's that?""
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"He said, "Me.""
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"Do you believe that he is a white man?"
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"I mean, he isn't."
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"(bleep), I'd love to wake up one day and say,"
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""Hey, everybody, I'm Rihanna.""
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"But I ain't."
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"It's been pretty hard."
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"My family just doesn't get it."
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"You know, I try to get them to go out with me,"
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"go on walks, go to the farmers market,"
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"chat with people, but...yeah."
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"So why don't you think that they get it?"
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"I don't think they get it because"
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"they don't realize that race is just a made-up thing."
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"Mm-hmm."
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"They grew up having labels, and me,"
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"I'm just--I'm just not like that."
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"I see."
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"So how do you embrace your identity?"
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"-I dress a certain way. -Ah."
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"Patagonia."
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"I wear a thick, brown leather belt."
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"I like to envision myself after the surgery."
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"(clears throat)"
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""Hey, excuse me, what IPA do you have on tap?""
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""Hey, did you see Game of Thrones last night?""
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"Yeah."
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"So your-- your surgery,"
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"that's later this year?"
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"Right. I started working"
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"at Stonecrest Mall, so hopefully"
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"by then I have enough money to take the next step."
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"Mm-hmm."
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"So you work at Coca-Cola and the mall?"
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"Right. Correct, I work at both."
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"NATHAN: Harrison has been planning"
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"a full racial transition with a Dr. Samuel Vergara"
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"who guarantees Harrison can visually transition"
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"through an experimental procedure"
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"that will allow Harrison not only to be a white man"
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"but whatever race he chooses."
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"The procedure's absolutely 100% possible."
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"He's gonna look weird though."
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"NATHAN: But before Harrison can fully realize"
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"his physical identity, he still has the day-to-day"
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"that's filled with discrimination and ridicule."
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"It--it's pretty awful, you know."
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"You--you walk in the streets,"
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"and black people, they see you, they nod to you like,"
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""Hey, good to see us.""
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"And it's to the point where I've just given up."
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"I've stopped trying to convince them"
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"-that I'm not "us." -Gotcha."
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"Hey, excuse me, this is definitely the guy."
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"He doesn't even live in the area."
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"I've never seen him before."
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"(police radio chatter)"
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"*"
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"HARRISON: I think we're taking slow strides,"
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"but you have to believe things are getting better,"
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"otherwise, you'll just die inside."
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"Is there anything you'd like to say to"
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"other black kids out there who may be going through"
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"the same thing?"
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"Just be you."
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"At all costs."
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"But also,"
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"stop dressing so crazy."
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"Hmm."
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"(gentle instrumental music)"
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"*"
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"(guitar music flourishes)"
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"Absolutely."
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"Hi."
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"I'm Devyonne Johnson, famous movie star."
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"When the director calls cut and I get a quick five,"
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