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Now, here's episode 24.

Peerless. Follow Charles Wakefield Jr. into a room filled with his family.

People he didn't see for 35 years while each of them lived a full life and he looked for any sign of it through his prison cell window.

When you get there just sit down and listen.

And don't be embarrassed if you have no idea what they're talking about.

Just let them tell you about their lives.

In West Greenwich, it was a known fact that if something went down it was the

comrades who took care of it. The police didn't come to do anything in West

Greenville until it was daylight. If somebody was laying on the street dead, police

were not coming until the next morning. They was coming 12 cars deep. If anything

went on in the neighborhood, the The comrades were handling the business.

When you say the comrades, I have no idea what you were.

That was the game.

Conrats and the dukes.

To a guy like me who didn't grow up black or grow up in West Greenville.

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