2 - Holler If Ya Hear Me
You Didn't See Nothin
USG Audio
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Yohance begins to investigate the beating for a neighborhood newspaper, when his reporting gets some unwanted attention.
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: Stacy Nzingha Hill
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on you didn't see nothing. In 1997 I was a college student with one foot in the streets. |
| 0:09.0 | That spring a 13 year old named Lennard Clark rode his bike into a white neighborhood. |
| 0:14.7 | In Chicago tonight, a group of teenagers is charged with beating a black boy to a |
| 0:19.1 | pulp and then boasting that they kept their neighborhood white. |
| 0:22.0 | Leonard Clark is still in a coma. |
| 0:24.0 | Me and my friends didn't know Lennard personally, |
| 0:28.0 | but we felt connected to him. |
| 0:30.0 | He could have been our little brother. |
| 0:31.0 | It's not sweet like that in Chicago to beat |
| 0:35.8 | the shit out of little black boys simply because they're black. We weren't |
| 0:40.6 | looking for revenge. To be honest, it was a total bus, |
| 0:44.0 | but I knew I couldn't let the story go. |
| 0:47.0 | I needed to do something. In 1997, there was nobody bigger than Michael Jordan. |
| 1:07.0 | That's Michael Jordan. |
| 1:10.0 | And here comes Jordan. |
| 1:12.0 | Jordan was everything in Chicago. |
| 1:14.0 | Michael Jordan overcomes the acceleration. |
| 1:16.0 | The Bulls will win and there be like an unofficial truth. |
| 1:20.0 | Everybody would just let go or any beat for that day. |
| 1:25.0 | I can only imagine how excited Lenard would have been, |
| 1:31.0 | had he been conscious. |
| 1:33.0 | My girl! |
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