1 - Young Black Male
You Didn't See Nothin
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When a 13-year-old Black boy is attacked in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, Yohance rallies his crew to avenge the beating.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: The Sebring Crew (Earl, Peewee, Willie, Ro, Jamaz) Kanesha Broadwater, Michael Clark
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Chicago. |
| 0:07.0 | The night Obama won I was in the county jail out in the bonies waiting to be sentenced. |
| 0:17.0 | They call me Shietown there. |
| 0:21.0 | If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, |
| 0:31.1 | who still wonders. So that night we were drinking hooch sitting at the tables and we're watching the |
| 0:37.8 | TV moving back and forth to the corner of the room where we got the hooch hidden, gathering around the TV, like it's a fire or something, |
| 0:47.0 | people betting macros and betting noodles on whether Obama would win or not. |
| 0:52.0 | Is he gonna win? No, he ain't gonna win. not. Is he gonna win? |
| 0:53.3 | No, he ain't gonna win. |
| 0:54.2 | I think he's gonna win back and forth. |
| 0:56.6 | Once we realize he was in there, |
| 1:00.6 | it was a party. |
| 1:03.0 | Getting drunk. |
| 1:05.0 | Talking shit. |
| 1:07.0 | Opportunity. |
| 1:08.0 | Partying. |
| 1:09.0 | And unyielding hope. |
| 1:10.0 | It was bittersweet. It was more better than sweet. It was more bitter than sweet. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, we can. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm seeing faces I know in that crowd. |
| 1:19.0 | And I'm feeling like that I'm supposed to be out there. |
| 1:22.0 | I mean the fact that I'm supposed to be out there I mean the fact that I'm facing |
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