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You Didn't See Nothin

7 - Staring Through My Rearview

You Didn't See Nothin

USG Audio

#Mob, #Memoir, #Truecrime, #Crime, Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, #Documentary, #Mobster, History, #Chicago

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nearly 50-years-old now, Yohance tries to make sense of what forgiveness means in the face of endless racial violence.


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: Lenard Clark and Wanda McMurray

 

Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): WTTW, CBS Chicago, Dateline, and MSNBC.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods and this is a hell of a neighborhood.

0:07.0

So the past couple of years on the anniversary of the beating, me and my producer Bill we walked the same route Leonard at Clevan took, right past White Sox Park.

0:20.0

I remember this place, we used to come up here to buy hats and starter jackets and shit

0:24.6

because this was one of the last places in the city where you could get like a starter

0:30.7

jacket. We grew up on starter jacket.

0:33.0

Fringeboard has definitely changed since 97. It ain't the same.

0:37.0

But every time I'm near, I still feel like I don't want to be here when the sun go down.

0:43.0

I got my head on swivel, you know, I'm just, you know, looking, checking out the surroundings.

0:48.0

I feel like that element, that threat is still here.

0:53.0

One time walking down the street, we saw a Black Lives Matter flag out front of a white dude's house.

1:00.0

Hello.

1:02.0

Hey, how's it going? My name is your house. We talked to him for a minute and he was cool.

1:05.0

Stay safe man, appreciate you.

1:08.0

You know that says something.

1:11.0

And I guess it speaks to the strides we have made.

1:15.0

Remember once we was walking up the street and we seen the storefront

1:21.0

and it was a bunch of black folks inside like having a meet.

1:24.0

What's y'all got going on here?

1:25.0

And there was this young cat who was teaching people about Bitcoin.

1:28.0

It was pretty much showing people how I made $16,000 from Bitcoin last week from my phone.

1:32.0

I mean anybody can do it.

1:32.9

Don't need, don't take a lot of money to start investing,

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