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
[ cheering ] robie: this place was a boomin . you couldn t get through this town down there. but it s dead now. about eight or ten coal mines shut down at one time. coach: let s go! it s the same halftime speech every single week. quentin: there is so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. daniel whitt: overdose capital of the east coast. quentin: but there s more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there s a lot of good people here. coach: when you walk on this field, you better have tunnel vision. don t look left, don t look right. you look at that scoreboard, and that should burn in your heart. do you understand me? we got some ground to make up. and once we make that ground up, we ll take off. let s go. 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 cold
Pre-disco soul. the attitude loose. just familiarize yourself with those rules and there won t be a problem. in the cities of the north where i come from, in some ways, we ve been able to buy ourselves free from our past. new arrivals pour in with no memory of the ugly parts of our history. we can afford the luxury of the new. we can live in comfortable bubbles or apartments high in the sky. in many ways more separate than at any time in history. but for mississippi, the past is right there to see. still present. and coming to terms with it is not an abstract discussion, but the daily business of life.
Right here. anthony: thursday night is family night at po monkeys, mostly locals, a mixed bag. the music is classic r&b and pre-disco soul. the attitude loose. just familiarize yourself with those rules and there won t be a problem. in the cities of the north where i come from, in some ways, we ve been able to buy ourselves free from our past. new arrivals pour in with no memory of the ugly parts of our history. we can afford the luxury of the new. we can live in comfortable bubbles or apartments high in the sky. in many ways more separate than at any time in history. but for mississippi, the past is right there to see. still present. and coming to terms with it is not an abstract discussion, but
Seaberry: okay, dj, you can kick it back off. dj: a bad girl. don t forget about it, come right here. anthony: thursday night is family night at po monkeys, mostly locals, a mixed bag. the music is classic r&b and pre-disco soul. the attitude loose. just familiarize yourself with those rules and there won t be a problem. in the cities of the north where i come from, in some ways, we ve been able to buy ourselves free from our past. new arrivals pour in with no memory of the ugly parts of our history. we can afford the luxury of the new. we can live in comfortable bubbles or apartments high in the sky. in my ways more separate than at any time in history