As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower the music so you can hear the dialogue. We just couldn't do that for that song.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn in the film is that there were major consequences for even trying to vote. You could be killed for trying to vote. You could definitely be fired from your job and many were, which is why so few black Mississippians even attempted to register early on. They put your name in the newspaper if you tried to register to vote.

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled with people who believe the same thing I believe and the power of song is raising what we're trying to do, raising it up to the rafters.