and now do you feel welcome? do you feel the community is happier here? gertrude: wonderful. constant: the first challenge was the language. gertrude: it wasn t easy. even now, it s not easy. anthony: but you already speak how many languages? gertrude: in congo, principal, we have three languages. anthony: of course. gertrude: we have french, lingala, and munukutuba. anthony: so don t feel too bad. most americans struggle with one. it s okay. i m a refugee from drc. anthony: what did you do in kinshasa? i did electrician and construction too. anthony: and here? i was machine operator. after that, i decide to be farmer. it was my dream that god help me to be farmer here. my dream was to get my own garden.
anthony: you re not eating pizza hut in the back of that car either, are you? bone: really, you re barely see people in the backseats of somebody s car out here. anthony: he s shaking his head, he s like, nobody s getting in the backseat. bone: cause you got the lean. so you got the lean thing. so that means, whoever back here can t be long. anthony: i m thinking about my lincoln now. you know? maybe, i m thinking, like, crocodile skin on the outside. would that be alright? bone: i m thinking about pony. anthony: pony! bone: form a cross, or cows. anthony: like palomino kind of a thing going on? bone: yes, sir. yes, sir, that d be fresh. that d be evil. slim thug: pay him no mind. anthony: acres homes is a predominately black community where many of the original slab pioneers come from. it s also where you can find the legendary family-run burns barbecue, a place not unfamiliar to me. i first came here 15 years ago on some long lost travel program
malabar spinach over fufu. then texas beef brochettes marinated in chilies and cilantro and maggi bouillon with a ratatouille made from produce grown right here. what did you all think when, when you heard that you were going to be resettled in texas? constant: in, in in my country when people are talking about texas, they know that is where many farmer is. anthony: really? and now do you feel welcome? do you feel the community is happier here? gertrude: wonderful. constant: the first challenge was, eh, the language. gertrude: it wasn t easy. even now, it s not easy. anthony: but you already speak how many languages? gertrude: in congo, principal, we have three languages. anthony: of course. gertrude: we have french, lingala, and munukutuba. anthony: so don t feel too bad. most americans struggle with one. it s okay.
standing up. it s a bunch of everything. slim thug: you know, take the old and mix it with the new, you know what i m saying. bone: these two pink cadillacs are awesome. that s a married couple. a man and woman, and they have their kids with them. these trunks, if they something, that s your autograph. you see it coming, and you see the car and the grill, and you see the two-two prongs, it s like, oh my god, here come, whoever the guard is of your neighborhood. anthony: right. slim thug: they re basically like legends in the streets. anthony: are all of these, like, are they works in progress or are people constantly slim thug: i think it s gonna forever be a work in progress. i think that slab, you know, they have to be doing something david: they re always changing them. slim thug: they get expensive, real talk, like, all these cars out here, they probably spent the bankroll on all of them. anthony: you re not eating pizza hut in the back of that car either,
anthony: but you already speak how many languages? gertrude: in congo, principal, we have three languages. anthony: of course. gertrude: we have french, lingala, and munukutuba. anthony: so don t feel too bad. most americans struggle with one. it s okay. i m a refugee from drc. anthony: what did you do in kinshasa? i did electrician and construction too. anthony: and here? i was machine operator. after that, i decide to be farmer. it was my dream. my dream it was to get my own garden, and what i harvest, i need to cook. anthony: where are you cooking now? i work at the four seasons hotel. anthony: oh that s not a bad gig. yeah, yeah. anthony: how african will houston be in twenty years? a lot, right? gertrude: i want, all my