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The Nod

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

The Nod

Gimlet

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Brittany talks to Jimmie Fails, star and co-creator of the award-winning film, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”, about about the meaning of home, starring in his first movie, and what it was like to grow up in “the Harlem of the West”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From Gimlet Media, this is The Not, a podcast about black culture from Blackness's biggest fans.

0:09.0

I'm Brittany Loose.

0:15.0

A couple weeks ago, I watched the most uniquely personal movie about gentrification that I've ever seen.

0:22.0

It's called The Last Black Man in San Francisco.

0:27.0

We built these ships,

0:31.0

through these canals.

0:34.0

In the San Francisco, they never knew existed.

0:39.0

This is our home.

0:48.0

It's the story of a 20-something black man named Jimmy.

0:51.0

Jimmy is a lifelong San Francisco,

0:53.0

and he's fed up with being pushed out of his city by a bunch of folks who don't even seem to know,

0:59.0

or care about San Francisco's history or its people.

1:03.0

When Jimmy was a kid, his family owned a beautiful old house,

1:06.0

and a predominantly black neighborhood.

1:09.0

And then they lost it.

1:11.0

And Jimmy never quite found home again.

1:14.0

For years, Jimmy would go by the house,

1:17.0

even after a wealthy white couple moved in.

1:20.0

Sometimes, he'd stand on the sidewalk and just look at it.

1:24.0

Other times, he made little repairs to keep it nice,

1:27.0

as his old neighborhood changed all around him.

1:31.0

And then one day, the white wealthy couple leaves,

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