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Clips from The Boondocks - Freedom Ride or Die (S04E04)

"- Aah. Oh. - What?"
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"Free at last. Free at last."
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"Whew!"
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"At that point, as Robert tried to get away from the bus-station employee,"
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"he accidentally got on the bus occupied by the freedom riders."
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"Take that, you cracker-ass cracker!"
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"when he got on the bus."
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"Now, I remember seeing him for the first time and thinking,"
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""ooh, he's really frail.""
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"a book I had meant to read many times."
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"I'm sorry about my language."
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"I just... I get so upset at the injustice of segregation."
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"It's okay. What happened back there?"
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"stand against segregation."
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"And they said, "nigga, don't you dare go into that bathroom.""
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"And I said, "you don't scare me, white man."
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""And my name ain't 'nigga.'"
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"you will address me as 'Mr. Freeman.'""
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"Amazing."
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"- Sturdy, did you hear this? - Yes, I did."
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"Your courage is an inspiration, brother."
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"Now, leading this particular bus was the reverend Sturdy Harris,"
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"who was an up-and-coming force on the civil rights scene."
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"Sturdy was a very physically imposing man,"
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"a grad student at Fisk University,"
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"captain of the football team, totally fearless."
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"completely dedicated to the cause of justice."
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"Sturdy. Boy, I hated that nigga."
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"Ow!"
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"So, where you from? You in school?"
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"So, where is Mr. Freeman traveling to?"
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"Oh, heading back to Chicago."
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"Um, Robert, this bus is going south."
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"Huh? No, that's not right."
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"It's supposed to be going north."
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"Oh, no. You must have gotten on the wrong bus."
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"Let me off!"
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"This is all that white man's fault. Ow!"
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"That God had a plan for you on this bus?"
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"God loves me in Chicago."
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"Robert, have you heard of the freedom riders?"
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"Wait, you guys aren't..."
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"oh, man, not you guys! I was leaving town early to avoid y'all!"
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"Yes, y'all is we."
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"♪ Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around ♪"
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"♪ Turn me around, turn me around ♪"
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"♪ Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around ♪"
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"♪ Turn me around, turn me around ♪"
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"I'm going back north."
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"We're just like you, Robert."
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"We felt like it was time to take a stand."
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"This bus is going to freedom."
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"Then we got to turn this bus around."
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"♪ Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around ♪"
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"- You with them? - No."
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"No, sir."
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"Look, Robert. I know this may sound crazy to you,"
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"but we do have a strategy."
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"- Strategy? - That's right."
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"A brilliant strategy. loy."
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"Thank God. You should have said that before."
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"I'm up for strategy. Lay it on me."
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"You confront the oppressor and his unjust system."
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"Incite him to violence without resorting to violence yourself."
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"- Why would we do that? - To prove our moral superiority."
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"- And then we let them? - Exactly."
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"The only self-defense allowed is singing and a special kind of nonviolent martial art"
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"which protects your attacker at all times..."
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"Do you even hear yourselves?"
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"We are ready for anything, Robert."
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"- They can arrest us, beat us. - Beat us?"
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"I think, as a people, we've taken enough beatings. Don't you think?"
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"Light us on fire?!"
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"Not that we're expecting that."
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"But we are prepared for that to happen."
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"You can't get prepared to get lit on fire!"
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"In defense of Robert, the strategy of nonviolent direct action,"
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"when you actually think about it, is completely insane."
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"You have to trust us, Robert. God is on our side."
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"There's nothing to be afraid of."
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"No [beep] way."
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"There's no [beep] way you gonna get me out there."
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"This is the dumbest [beep] I've ever heard. I mean it."
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"You're out of your [beep] minds!"
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"We're gonna end Jim Crow, Robert."
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"You want to know how to end Jim Crow?"
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"Which is exactly what I'm gonna do at the next station."
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"Now, the riders were unaware at that point"
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"that they were heading toward serious danger."
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"Birmingham was the most racist city in the whole country,"
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"run by a maniac named Bull Connor."
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"I hate niggers! I hate 'em! I hate 'em!"
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"And right next to Bull Connor, helping him organize this violence against the riders,"
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"was an equally despicable man."
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"was the happiest day of my life."
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"Wait. You mean Ruckus was at the Birmingham Station?"
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"All this time, I didn't know that."
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"That black sumbitch!"
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"Boy, I'ma have to kick his ass when I see him."
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"Robert Freeman was there?"
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"Small world."
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"Their mobs would be allowed 15 minutes"
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"to do anything to the riders without fear of arrest."
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"But next they will want to integrate schools and restaurants,"
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"and before you know, some nigga will want to integrate"
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"the sweet pink nether regions of your white wife"
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"or your white daughter or your dear, sweet, white grandmother."
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"Do any of y'all know what a BBC is?"
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"No!"
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"It does much damage."
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"You have 15 minutes, 900 seconds,"
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"before the law shows up."
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"So, I am begging you, white men."
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"Do not hold back on these niggas."
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"Let the full strength of your caucasianism rain down upon them!"
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"but a nigga can take an ass-whupping, I promise!"
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"They were headed into a trap."
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"When we pulled into the Birmingham station,"
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"there was a mob of at least 200 people there."
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"The bus was surrounded,"
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