Rubin Hurricane Carter Interview | SVT/NRK/Skavlan

I'm so glad now that this is not a boxing ring you know because I would really lose this fight what do you think when you hear about her doing three matches there you did more didn't do three matches yeah you see fighters nowadays only need one or two bouts in order to make millions of dollars when I was fighting 4050 years ago I had to fight 18 times in a year just to pay my bills so you know it was a different game then than it is now you know but a [ __ ] I congratulate you and I saw you with your uppercut dr. Carter please please take us back to 1966 you were actually at the high point in your career then oh yeah oh yeah in one night in June you were you were arrested well it did it really didn't happen in one night in June you know I grew up in a segregated society where people would with my skin color wasn't allowed to eat in restaurants wasn't allowed to go to school I wasn't allowed to drink out of water fountains and all that all that kind of stuff so so I didn't grow up passive I was very aggressive you know when I grew up and and press the fact that for the first 18 years of my life on this earth I couldn't talk I stuttered badly very very badly and people laughed at me because of it you know I didn't know you know that it was hereditary my father studied you know his father studied I didn't know that nobody ever told me that so when people laughed at me people made fun of me the only sound that they hear in reply would be the sound of my fists whistling through the air you see so I was very aggressive based upon that but I was living in Paterson New Jersey at the time I was perhaps the most celebrated person in that city at that time and I was driving my car on the street Oh to 3 o'clock in the morning and I was stopped by the police at a red light waiting for the red light to change and the police surrounding my car and told us to follow the car to them and we were in a caravan five police cars in my little white car sandwiched in between them and they took us to this barn grill Lafayette Bar and Grill where there was 75 to 100 people out in the street this is where we came we became aware that something terrible had taken place here and then they took us to the hospital where one of the surviving victims still survived and they asked us just as you saw it in a movie and the answer is are these the people who did this and the man looked at us and said no these are not two people badly wounded big boy the man was badly wounded oh he's shot in the head and a bullet come out of his eye that's badly wounded and in the priests and are you sure this was not to God because I've always had a very bad relationship with the Patterson Police Department anyway you know so they were wanting to get me out of the way because like as I said I talked you know what I mean I was not passive how did you react when you when you were put away like that I was furious how would anybody react I was absolutely furious I could not believe this but you know what this may seem ironic but going to prison under the circumstances in which I went to prison as a wrongly convicted person was the best thing that ever happened to me the best of very best thing because without that I would have never stopped long enough on my journey to know to find out who I really am what I really you were kind of different prisoner oh I wasn't live I was never a prisoner that was it he's in what sense because how were locked away it made no difference that they had me chained in shackled and putting into a prison in a five by seven foot cell just because a misinformed jury fed on lies / you mean by jailhouse snitches just because this misinformed jury found me guilty did not make me guilty you understand and when I went into the prison I refused to act the part of a guilty person I refused to wear their clothes I refused to eat their food I refused to work their job I want to refuse to breathe the prison's air if I could have done so and yet remained a lot the one thing that I had that could never be compromised was my innocence you understand so solitary confinement what was that like I spent close to 10 of the 20 years that I spent in prison in solitary confinement and solitary confinement there was literally six feet under the ground and total darkness no sanitary conditions no running water no lights five slices of stale bread to eat and a cup of warm water to drink but you were your own cult I wore much I was sitting in solitary confinement for a certain time I was free I was free I was not gonna be a prison you don't say myself until this suit became shredded rags you know what I mean but I was during all those years I mean you spent 2222 years for this yes right did you ever sort of give up listen I wanted to lay down a whole lot of time but I couldn't I couldn't compromise my innocence you know everybody said whooping be like other prisoners be ordinary so we can come down here and visit you for 90 minutes once a month you know you know it obey the rules and it won't put you in solitary confinement so even my family wanted me to give up my protestations of innocence you know so my family had to go to they had to get away from you when I said that that was the best experience that I ever had in my life I simply mean that in prison I learned the solution to dreaming the solution to prayer and this is what young people need to understand this planet Earth is a paradise a fantasy island whatever you can conceive in your mind and believe whatever it is can be achieved whatever it is there are no limitations we live in a universe of unlimited possibilities and whatever you can conceive in your mind and believe you can do it I mean my sitting here and Stockholm Sweden with you today is absolute proof of that please welcome Holly Hunter

Channel: Skavlan

Views: 47,154

Rating: 4.9128857 out of 5

Keywords: Skavlan, interview, talk show, Fredrik skavlan, Rubin Carter (Boxer), Boxing (Sport), hurricane

Id: 5XEIFqOgURM

Length: 8min 45sec (525 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 08 2014