anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, what good is america? well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place one state mississippi. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno: right now we re in the middle of downtown jackson. farish street. anthony: it is a street with a lot of history. what did it used to be like back in the day? geno: the street was packed with folks. folks all over, they
since he was 14 years old. booker: thanks to y all. we don t have a real menu. i d be glad to tell you what we re gonna serve tonight. anthony: in 1965, nbc news came to town, making a documentary on race relations. booker s entertaining recitation of the menu at lusco s was famous around town, so they asked him to do his usual routine for the camera. booker: we have fresh shrimp cocktail, lusco s shrimp, fresh oysters on a half shell, baked oysters, oyster rockefeller, oyster almadine. anthony: but at the end of his usual litany is where he dropped the truth bomb that nobody was ready for, right here. booker: now as with my customers, i say my customers, be respecting of me. some people nice, some is not. some call me booker, some call me john, some call me jim. some call me nigga. oh that hurts, but you have to smile. if you don t, what s wrong with you? the meaner the man be, the more you smile. although you crying on the inside. i m not gonna tip that nigga. he don t l
and out of the blueal i don t know what gave me the courage to say it, but i looked at johnm and he said don t call me john, call me j.r. all my friends call me j.r. and i said, okay, j.r. i said, let me ask you something. i said i saw youin do somethings last night that was absolutely amazing. and i toldg.g. him the story of what i had seen about how all of these people had just known he was in the room. i said how do you do that ? and john was the kind of person if you embarrassed him or if he got he d get real humble on you, you know, sit down. you know, if there was a rock on the ground, he would kick that kind of thing. and i said, no, j.r., i m serious. when i said that his eyes came up and met mine and he said there is a little thing in our industry that has been forgotten. e. it s called mystique. he said don t ever wear outyo
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