Good Trouble
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on FreeformGood Trouble Season 1 Episode 11: "Less Than" Quotes
Lena: I'm really sorry. I didn't realize you felt so cut off from the campaign.
Stef: It's not the campaign I feel cut off from, Lena, it's you.
Callie: How are you feeling about Jamal?
Malika: Well, what Jamal said isn't anything new. It isn't anything I didn't think about myself when I was a kid. You don't know what it's like to be a kid and not see yourself on TV or in books. And the little I did see, it took me a long time to see myself as worthy or valuable. Jamal never got there. He hated black women because he hated himself.
Callie: Aren't you mad?
Malika: Yeah, I'm always mad. And I'm always disappointed, and tired, and frustrated, and I wish that I didn't have to organize a protest for someone who couldn't see the beauty in his own people. I have to. I have to be there for everyone because we all should be there for each other.
Callie: Who's there for you?
Sandra: You're here. Thought maybe I scared you off the other day.
Malika: I'm really sorry for how I reacted. What Jamal said was not your fault. We all have our moments, right? I mean last night I broke up wi--
Sandra: We can't afford to have our moments. We have an uphill battle to fight, not just for Jamal, but for all of us. Let's go to court.
Mariana: We need to address the racial pay gap.
Coworker: I thought we decided one issue at a time?
Mariana: They're not separate issues; they're intersectional. We can't say that we're fighting for women when we're leaving those among us who are struggling the most behind, which is women of color.
You know we're the only women of color engineers, right? So if we check that race box, there goes our anonymity.
Casey
Wilson: You crossed the line
Callie: Maybe lines need to be crossed if justice is going to be served equally. If your son was black and tried to punch a cop, do you think that he would be alive today? Would his charges have been dropped?
Wilson: You need to get back to work doing the job that you have been honored with doing.
Evan: Good job. Mariana, can you stay? Angela, Josh you too. I'm confused about something. Mariana, you appear to be very motivated, so when I agreed to hear your new app pitch, why didn't you follow up?
Mariana: Well, um, Angela was correct to point out that I should be more respectful of your time.
Evan: Who told you to point that out?
Angela: I, uh, was told to give Mariana a heads up to protocol by Josh.
Evan: I see.
Josh: OK, look, if every employee wanted to pitch an app got a meeting that's all you'd do.
Evan: That's my call! This is my company. Mariana, my assistant will set up an appointment with you next week I will hear your pitch.
Mariana: OK, thank you.
Evan: Angela, do not admonish employees who want access to me, and Josh, I've decided to pitch the app myself.
You're off the Jamal Thompson case. You've lost your sense of objectivity. Keeping you in would be reckless.
Wilson
