% WEEK THE VOICE OF A TEENAGER IS
% BEING HEARD.
% NOAH ANDERSON IS A RECENT
% MADISON WEST HIGH SCHOOL
% GRADUATE.
% ACTIVE IN ISSUES OF RACE AND
% EQUALITY AFTER HIS FATHER MADE
% NATIONAL HEADLINES.
% MARION ANDERSON WAS A SECURITY
% GUARD, NO TOLERANCE AND USED THE
% N-WORD, HE TOLD KIDS TO STOP
% USING IT AND HE REPEATED IT AND
% WAS FIRED.
% HE EVENTUALLY GOT HIS JOB BACK.
% AND NOAH JOINS US FROM MADISON
% WHERE WE TALKED WITH HIM
% EARLIER.
% NOAH, THANKS VERY MUCH FOR BEING
% HERE.
% >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
% >> SO, AS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK
% STUDENT UNION YOU HELPED
% ORGANIZE A SCHOOL WALKOUT IN ARE
% SUPPORT OF YOUR FATHER AND
% AGAINST THE POLICY THAT DID NOT
% ALLOW FOR THE NUANCE OF THE
% CIRCUMSTANCE.
% THAT WALKOUT PROTEST DREW SOME
% 1500 PARTICIPANTS.
% HOW DID THAT EXPERIENCE HELP
% SHAPE WHO YOU ARE TODAY?
% >> YEAH, NO, YEAH, YOU WERE
% ABOUT 1500 PEOPLE HAD WALKED
% OUT.
% MY EXPERIENCE IN THE SCHOOL WAS
% PRETTY IFFY.
% THAT REALLY SHOWED ME THAT, YOU
% KNOW, I HAD PEOPLE THAT STAND IN
% MY LINE, STANDING WITH ME IN
% SOLIDARITY.
% BUT IT WAS ABOUT, I BELIEVE,
% 80%, 85% OF THE SCHOOL THAT HAD
% WALKED OUT THAT DAY.
% REALLY WHAT THAT DAY AND WHAT
% THAT EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME WAS
% THIS IS MY CALLING IN LIFE, YOU
% KNOW, THIS IS WHAT GOD SET ME ON
% THE EARTH FOR BECAUSE OF HOW
% EVERYTHING PLAYED OUT.
% NO WAY IN THE WORLD WOULD THAT
% HAVE, THAT CASE GET THE AMOUNT
% OF ATTENTION THAT IT DID.
% YOU KNOW, CHER REACTED TO IT,
% THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND REACTED TO
% IT, THE WHOLE WORLD REACTED TO
% IT AND YOU SEE RIGHT NOW WHAT'S
% GOING ON WITH BLACK LIVES
% MATTER, IT'S LIKE, IT'S LIKE I
% HAD AN EXTREME LIKE YOU KNOW,
% NOT MARTIN LUTHER KING BUT I HAD
% A DREAM, I'M A RELIGIOUS PERSON
% AND GOD SHOWED ME THAT THIS IS
% THE FINAL WALK TO THE PROMISED
% LAND FOR MY PEOPLE.
% SO THAT EXPERIENCE REALLY SHAPED
% ME AND GOD WAS JUST SHOWING ME
% THROUGH THAT LITTLE EXPERIENCE
% THAT THIS IS, THIS IS THE
% BEGINNING OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S
% SOON TO COME.
% MY DAD LOST HIS JOB AND THAT IS
% SAD BUT WITHOUT HIM LOSING HIS
% JOB IT WOULD NOT HAVE BROUGHT
% LIGHT TO THE PROBLEM IN THE
% SCHOOL.
% SO, HIM LOSING HIS JOB, HE GOT
% HIS JOB BACK WITH EXTRA
% BENEFITS.
% SO YOU KNOW, HE WAS TAKEN AWAY
% FOR A LITTLE BIT BUT THEN IT WAS
% GIVEN BACK TO HIM.
% PRETTY MUCH A LOT LIKE THE STORY
% OF JOB, IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING
% ABOUT THAT.
% IN THAT EXPERIENCE, GOD SHOWED
% ME THIS IS MY CALLING AND IT'S
% WHAT HE PUT ME ON THIS EARTH TO
% DO.
% SO -- YEAH, I MEAN, I'M REALLY
% EXCITED FOR WHAT'S COMING UP
% NEXT.
% >> SO ALL OF THAT SAID, WHAT WAS
% IT LIKE FOR YOU TO SEE THE DEATH
% OF GEORGE FLOYD AND NOW TO SEE
% THE GLOBAL PROTESTS OVER HIS
% KILLING?
% >> SO I ACTUALLY, I CHOSE NOT TO
% WATCH THAT VIDEO.
% I KNOW ABOUT IT, I KNOW ABOUT
% EVERYTHING.
% I COULDN'T SEE A MAN LOSE HIS
% LIFE THROUGH A TEN-MINUTE VIDEO.
% REALLY LIKE MY MIND, YOU KNOW,
% LIBERATION OF MY PEOPLE, THAT'S
% BEEN SET IN MY HEART FOR, SINCE
% I WOULD SAY SOPHOMORE YEAR.
% I WAS NOT ALWAYS, YOU KNOW,
% CONSCIOUS IN MY BLACK HISTORY
% AND CONSCIOUS OF WHO I WAS, BUT
% ACTUALLY AHMAUD ARBERY STRUCK
% ME, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM,
% AHMAUD WAS KILLED BY CIVILIANS
% AND GEORGE FLOYD WAS KILLED BY A
% COP.
% AND WE KNOW POLICE BRUTALITY HAS
% BEEN GOING ON FAR BEFORE I WAS
% BORN, FAR BEFORE ANY OF US WAS
% BORN THAT'S LIVING TODAY, BUT
% AHMAUD ARBERY WAS KILLED BY A
% CIVILIAN, LATER FOUND OUT WAS AN
% ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE K.K.K.
% THAT IS WHAT REALLY SCARED ME.
% BECAUSE YOU KNOW, FOR THEM TO
% GET AWAY WITH THAT FOR THREE
% MONTHS UNTIL A VIDEO HAD CAME
% OUT, THAT SCARED ME AND MADE ME
% THINK HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT LOOK
% LIKE ME ARE DYING AND I CAN'T
% SEE IT.
% YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T SEE JUST
% BECAUSE THERE'S NO MEDIA
% ATTENTION.
% >> WHAT WAS THAT MOMENT THAT YOU
% REALIZED THAT YOU COULD MAKE
% CHANGE THROUGH ACTIVISM?
% >> THE MOMENT I REALIZED I COULD
% MAKE CHANGE THROUGH ACTIVISM WAS
% DEFINITELY WHAT HAPPENED WITH MY
% DAD.
% AND NOT TO BE MISTAKEN, THAT WAS
% NOT JUST ME, THAT WAS EVERYBODY,
% YOU KNOW.
% MY ENTIRE B.S.U. AND THE SCHOOL
% COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT
% EVERYBODY BECAUSE CHANGE COMES
% WITH NUMBERS.
% BUT THAT WAS A TIME SHOWING ME
% HOW MUCH CHANGE MADE, HOW MUCH
% MEDIA ATTENTION IT GOT WITHIN,
% LEGIT, A COUPLE OF DAYS.
% THAT SHOWED ME THAT THIS COULD
% ACTUALLY, WE COULD ACTUALLY
% CHANGE, ESPECIALLY THAT IT WAS A
% BIG CASE, YOU KNOW, MY FATHER
% LOSING HIS JOB OVER SOMETHING
% LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
% SAYING, BUT REALLY FOR IT TO GET
% THAT MUCH ATTENTION SHOWED ME
% THAT I COULD MAKE CHANGE, OR WE
% CAN MAKE CHANGE THROUGH
% ACTIVISM.
% >> NOAH, WE LEAVE IT THERE.
% WE WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR FUTURE
% ENDEAVORS.
% THANKS VERY MUCH.
% >> OH, NO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
% HAVING ME.
% >> THAT'S