even when we moved into that neighborhood, as few black people that were in mequon, we all lived on that block. yeah. we all lived on that block. that block was the black section. and they called it you know, kids there, back in the day, they d call it inward row. yeah. you always had the sense that you were, you know, treated as not quite american, you know, not quite as american as everyone else. when you re a child, you begin to internalize that. and trust me, we had it good by comparison. yeah. our father was a practicing doctor here for a long time. our mother was a teacher. he is a serviceman. he volunteered, you know, and he was in the air force. and he just tells a story about coming up to milwaukee and stopping in a restaurant. and when he came back out of the car, it was with our mom. you were a baby and he had you in arms. and he was just accosted by this gang of young white kids. and he thought if he didn t have
far. now we can get back to why we came to this park in the first place. i came here to speak to reggie jackson. not that one or that one, this one, an historian who don t play games. it s sort of crazy we walked over here and walked right into that. man, it s amazing. we joke about it and we give it a hashtag, whatever. yeah. it s not funny, though. no, no, no. especially here in milwaukee, the relationship between the police department and black people in the city, it s always been a bad relationship. there s been a history of things, incidents of unarmed blacks being killed by the police. even this neighborhood, the sherman park neighborhood, one of the things that happened is seville smith was shot about two blocks away from the gas station. and then later that evening, basically it just got crazy. on august 13, 2016, the police shot and killed 23-year-old seville smith. that night, around 100 protesters came to sherman park to be near the site of seville smith s ki
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