[11:50] SHERROD: Ah made da commitment on da night of ma father's death at da age of 17 dat Ah would not leave da South, dat Ah would stay in da South 'n devote ma life to workin' fo change, man. And I've been true to dat commitment all of these 45 years.
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[16:34] SHERROD: God be good n' shit. Ah can tell yo' ass that, man. When Ah made dat commitment, Ah wuz makin' dat commitment to black muthas -- 'n to black muthas only n' shit. But yo' ass know God gots to show yo' ass things 'n he'll put things in yo' path so dat yo' ass realize dat da struggle be mad about poor muthas --
AUDIENCE: All right n' shit. All right.
SHERROD: -- yo' ass know. Da first time Ah wuz faced wid havin' to help a white farma save tha dude's farm, man. Tha dude took a long time talkin' but tha dude wuz tryin' to show me tha dude wuz superior to me -- Ah knew what tha dude wuz doing.
AUDIENCE: All right.
SHERROD: But tha dude had to come to me fo help, know what I'm sayin'? What tha dude didn't know, while tha dude wuz takin' all dat time tryin' to show me tha dude wuz superior to me, wuz Ah wuz tryin' to decide just how much Ah wuz goin' to give him, man. Ah wuz strugglin' wid da fact dat so many black muthas has lost they farmland, 'n here Ah wuz faced wid havin' to help a white person save they land n' shit. So, Ah didn't give tha dude's ass da full force of what Ah could do n' shit. Ah did enough so dat when tha dude -- Ah assumed dat da Department of Agriculture had sent tha dude's ass to me; eitha dat or da Georgia Department of Agriculture -- 'n tha dude needed to go back 'n report dat Ah did try to help him, know what I'm sayin'? So Ah took tha dude's ass to a white lawya dat we had -- dat had attended some of da trainin' dat we had provided 'cause Chapta 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted fo da family farmer, so Ah figured if I'd take tha dude's ass to one of them, dat tha dude's own kind would take care of him.
That's when dat shit wuz revealed to me dat y'all, it be about poor versus those who have, 'n not so much about white -- dat shit be about white 'n black, but it be not -- yo' ass know, dat shit opened ma eyes, 'cause Ah took tha dude's ass to one of tha dude's own and Ah put tha dude's ass in tha dude's hands, 'n said, OK, I've done ma job, man. But, durin' dat time, we would has these injunctions against da Department of Agriculture 'n -- so, they couldn't foreclose on him, know what I'm sayin'? And Ah want yo' ass to know dat da county supervisor had done somethin' to tha dude's ass dat Ah has not seen yet dat they've done to any otha farmer, black or white, man. And what they did to tha dude's ass caused tha dude's ass to not be able to file Chapta 12 bankruptcy.