Part 2: A Beautiful Day In The Projects

The Promise

Nashville Public Radio

Society & Culture

4.9 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

If you live in the Cayce Homes in Nashville, you know Dexter Turner. Not by Dexter, but by his nickname: Big Man. A husband, a father, a community leader, a showman — Big Man is a name everyone knows here. People love Big Man. And he loves his neighborhood just as much in return. But the chaos and the violence in Cayce make him irate. We follow Big Man one pivotal afternoon where his plans for a family barbecue are upended by a fatal shooting right in front of his apartment. More info and photos are at thepromise.wpln.org

Music Credits:
Our theme music is by The Insider, additional music by Fleslit, all found through the Free Music Archive.

Production Credits:
Writing and reporting: Meribah Knight
Editing: Blake Farmer, Anita Bugg. With additional help from Tony Gonzalez, Emily Siner, Chas Sisk and Julieta Martinelli
Sound Design: Tony Gonzalez

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just a note before we begin, this episode involves explicit language and descriptions of violence.
0:08.7	Today Friday.
0:12.3	Today a good day to barbecue.
0:15.1	A couple pieces of ribs and pork chops and some good old hamburgers.
0:19.9	But you can't say nothing't nothing going to happen.
0:21.6	I'm tired of looking at this. Out of my back window. Out of my back going. I'm tired of it.
0:26.0	People are literally scared to have their kids outside.
0:28.8	Oh, boom, boom, boom.
0:29.7	See anything what you saw? Yeah, somebody got killed. They were in the car.
0:33.2	I mean, I wasn't waking up thinking that this was going to happen.
0:39.4	I'm Maribon Knight, and you're listening to The Promise, a podcast from Nashville Public Radio,
0:45.5	a series of stories about life in public housing, smack in the middle of a city on the rise.
0:51.6	One neighborhood, two realities, and the city's bold promise to bring it all together.
0:57.0	Episode 2, A Beautiful Day in the Projects.
1:06.0	You might jump over here and see, ooh, barbecue chicken, but they get your old dry pole chop.
1:14.9	I mean, you got to understand. It's not always what you see is what you get.
1:19.3	If you live in Casey, you know Dexter Turner. Not by Dexter, but by his nickname, Big Man. On any given day, Big Man's usually holding court from his back stoop on South A. Street,
1:31.1	a pair of dingy cement steps surrounded by a couple of decrepit wire clotheslines.
1:36.5	When he's not telling jokes, waxing philosophical, or yelling at young men to pull their pants up,
1:42.0	he's selling single cigarettes for 50 cents of smoke.
1:45.3	Cigars go for a dollar.
1:46.8	So what I do is I test my level, so if you do you just want to introduce yourself?
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