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
there you go. bob marley said it best. stolen from africa, gentrified in harlem. american black folks keep losing our connection to the places we come from. so i m headed to central appalachia, a place many folks don t realize black folks still live, to hunt, eat, farm, and harmonize on the harmonica with the folks that fight to keep this place known as one of the homes of black folks. this is black appalachia. again! yes! nice! when i say appalachia, you probably picture something like this, or this. harmful stereotypes of poor white folks. we ll have to take those on another day, because what you probably don t picture is this. but the history of black folks here runs as deep as any other nonindigenous people. they are a critical part of appalachia, and i m here to help tell their stories because it is in danger of disappearing forever. so i m actually walking the appalachian trail right now? you are. you are. those mountains there, those are some of the old
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anthony: state senator willie simmons has been an elected official of the mississippi delta for 20 years. and he s been running this place, senator s place, for 11. now what s the difference between soul food and southern, traditional southern food? willie simmons: it depends upon the culture. and what neighborhood you was in. if you were in the black neighborhood, then it became soul. we probably put a little bit more of the throwaway in our cooking the pig feet, the pigtail, the neck bones, and all that s fatty. anthony: now you re making me hungry. now you are definitely making me willie simmons: we got some neck bones over there, okay. anthony: oh, excellent. so greens willie simmons: turnip greens. anthony: i ll have some of that for sure. is that fried okra there? i ll have a little of that. i might need more than one plate at this rate. uh, let me get some mac n cheese. what s that, lima beans?
i mean, who qualifies as hawaiian in your view? to me a hawaiian is a kanaka maoli, is a native of the land. it s in your blood, your koko. you come from a lineage of native hawaiian people. what s your feeling here? i do feel like i m hawaiian in a sense, you know, because it s, like, my place, but culturally it s a different story. well, let me ask you this. you re saying you re not hawaiian? no. what s your feeling about spam? i love spam. so you re hawaiian. i m from hawaii. i m born and raised, gonna die 808. the owners of ethel s are a sort of typical hawaiian mix. okinawan ryoko ishii, aka mom, mainland japanese husband yoichi, daughter minaka, who i guess would be japanese, okinawan, american/hawaiian, and son-in-law robert, who is, of course, mexican. it s the pig feet. oh, nice, that s pretty. oh, wow, look at that. that s the tripe. that s the tripe, that s the