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  • - HELLO, EVERYONE.

  • I'M JOSEPH CARMICHAEL.

  • OTIS IS--WAS MY FATHER.

  • BUT WE ARE NOT HERE TODAY TO MOURN HIS DEATH,

  • BUT TO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE.

  • WE KNEW OTIS AS A TEACHER, A COMMUNITY LEADER,

  • A ROLE MODEL, A HUSBAND, AND A FATHER.

  • NOW, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NICE

  • TO SHARE SOMETHING ABOUT HIM Y'ALL MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN.

  • WHEN MY FATHER WAS YOUNGER,

  • HE WAS AN ACTOR IN HOLLYWOOD.

  • GOING THROUGH MY DAD'S THINGS,

  • I FOUND THIS REEL OF HIS WORK AS AN ACTOR.

  • I HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET,

  • BUT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO WATCH,

  • HERE WITH ALL OF YOU TODAY.

  • THANK YOU.

  • - [gasps] WHERE ARE MY PIES?

  • RIBBLES, WHERE ARE THE PIES I PUT ON MY WINDOWSILL?

  • - WHY, I DON'T KNOW, MRS. CARUTHERS.

  • WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO STEAL

  • ONE OF YOUR DELICIOUS BLUEBERRY PIES?

  • - [snaps] HEY.

  • SEE TO IT YOU SHINE THOSE SHOES UP NICE, BOY.

  • - YES, SIR, YOU BEST BE BELIEVING I WILL!

  • I'LL SHINE YOUR SHOES BLACKER THAN MY MAMA'S BOOTY.

  • [all gasp]

  • [laughs]

  • [yelling]

  • OOGA-BOOGA!

  • OOGA-BOOGA SHOO! OOGA-BOOGA SHOO!

  • OOGA-BOOGA! - OH, HELL NO!

  • - OOGA-BOOGA SHOO! [yelling]

  • - IN 1964, MY FATHER MARCHED

  • WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND HARRY BELAFONTE

  • ALONG WITH OTHER RENOWNED CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS.

- HELLO, EVERYONE.

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