-You give me a uniform.
Give me a number on my back.
And I'll give you the guts.
-What "42" is -- it kind of deals
with the very taxing and psychological toll
it took on Jackie Robinson to complete the task of being
the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball.
His athletic prowess --
there was absolutely no doubt about it.
But there were actually a couple of guys in the Negro leagues
at the time that were probably a little better than him.
But Branch Rickey, who is greatly played by Harrison Ford,
needed someone who didn't just have the athletic talent.
He needed someone that could handle what he knew
was going to be a very difficult road.
-Everybody needs you! You're medicine, Jack!
-One thing that really captured my attention
is the charisma of Chadwick Boseman.
Jackie Robinson is a larger-than-life figure,
and you can't just go out and get anyone to play him.
Back in 2013, when I was watching "42,"
you know, you look at it from the historical context
of Jackie Robinson coming up in the Major League in the '50s,
and you're saying to yourself, "Oh, we as a country --
we've moved past that level of hatred."
It's a very different feeling watching that movie in 2020
because we're, once again, as a country,
dealing with racial unrest.
It's definitely -- There's an eerie feeling about it.
-Don't get caught up thinking about winning
or losing this game.
If you put your effort and concentration
into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be,
I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game.
In my book, we're gonna be winners!
-I chose "Hoosiers" because while the score is gorgeous,
the cinematography is chef's kiss,
the story itself is wonderful,
it doesn't portray the reality of 1950s Indiana.
The moviemakers went out of their way to be very realistic,
from having the referees' outfits down to a "T,"
the painting on the court, the free-throw line.
The problem with the story at the end --
the first time that you see a mass of Black people
is as the opposition.
In real life, in the '50s, Indiana was in its infancy stage
of being forced to integrate their schools.
I would want people to watch "Hoosiers" to --
if they're inspired by the little-guy story,
you can do a Google search on what are the Hickory Hoosiers --
Huskers -- based on?
Well, they're based on Milan.
Milan -- in 1954, they defeated an all-Black school,
Crispus Attucks,
which had one of the greatest basketball players of all time,
Oscar Robertson, a young Oscar Robertson,
on their way to this state championship,
and in the state championship,
they actually played a team called Muncie Central,
and they had three African-American players.
In the final seconds of the real,
actual game of the Milan Miracle,
two of those players were on the court.
So there was some integration, but I think, you know,
as they were trying to stay true
to what the period of the time was,
take two minutes to just explain what really was happening.
The next year, Crispus Attucks actually won
the state championship,
becoming the first team in the nation --
the first all-Black high school in the nation
to win a state championship, which was huge,
which could have been a movie by itself.
I am not canceling "Hoosiers."
I know it means a lot to a lot of people,
especially in the state that I used to live in, Indiana.
Understand what the time period was.
Understand that there were systems in place,
and those systems weren't always fair to the other people
that we choose not to tell stories about,
about the little guy conquering and overcoming odds.
-This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg.
50,000 men died right here on this field,
fighting the same fight
that we're still fighting amongst ourselves.
-"Remember the Titans" is about a high school named TC Williams,
which is in Alexandria, Virginia,
and they are kind of melding together
or, I guess, combining three different schools in the area,
so, initially, Coach Boone is hired
as an assistant coach to work under,
like, this legendary high-school coach, Coach Yoast.
-Coach Boone, the school board made the decision
to put you on my staff.
I did not hire you.
-Well, I came up here to coach at GW.
I didn't ask the schools to redistrict.
-A Black man gets shot, and there's, like,
a lot of riots and protests,
and to kind of smooth that over, the school district
decides to just elevate Coach Boone as a Black coach
to run the program instead of Coach Yoast,
and this obviously doesn't go over well
with the White community because Coach Boone is Black,
and as the movie kind of goes on,
his job, Coach Boone's job,
is to kind of really just meld those two together.
He takes his whole team.
They go to camp at Gettysburg College,
and they have this kumbaya moment where they realize that,
together, they're stronger than apart.
It's about equality, and that's something that this movie
really explores, I think, really well.
When you look at coaching, that's a perfect example of it.
Black coaches -- they get one chance.
They'll get the worst job in the league.
They're supposed to pull off a miracle,
and if they don't do it,
then that's kind of the end of their career for them,
but, you know, the other -- there's been a lot of
White coaches where they'll struggle,
they'll go 3-13 as an NFL coach, and then, next year,
they're getting another job with a better team,
and it just doesn't add up, doesn't make sense.
That's where you kind see, like, the inequality.
We just want a fair chance
to do the same thing as our counterparts.
It's not a thing about elevating ourself above them.
It's just we want to be on the same playing field.