Sundown

The speech played during the montage of Tick, Leti, and Uncle George driving toward Massachusetts is an excerpt of Black intellectual James Baldwin's famous debate with white conservative intellectual William F. Buckley at Cambridge University's student debating society, the Cambridge Union Society. Aired live on the BBC 12 June 1965, the motion put forward for debate regarded whether the American Dream had "Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro." Baldwin and Cambridge University student David Heycock argued in the affirmative (and ultimately prevailed by a vote of the students present, 540 to 160) against their opponents Buckley and student Jeremy Burford.

The book that Tic picks up and finds an old photo in is The Count of Monte Cristo with a slip cover on it. When he looks at the same book later, on the bed, it is a different copy, without a slip cover and has a more classic binding.

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