Why me? (with Shamrace Mims)
Closer Than They Appear
Al Jazeera
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace goes to his hometown of McKeesport, PA and it's like visiting a small town... but it's also like visiting the remaining survivors of an apocalypse. Carvell talks with his childhood friend, Shamrace Mims. Decades ago, they rode bikes and played Atari. They sat on porches in the late afternoon, throwing rocks and talking rap crews and Transformers. That was of course until Carvell moved. The town changed. And Carvell's path and Shamrace's path... they diverged.
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| 0:34.0 | Boom, boom, boom, babum, boom, boom, boom, ba boom, ba boom, ba boom, boom, boom. |
| 0:40.3 | I feel definitely kind of nervous, like I sort of want to pull out of the whole thing. |
| 0:59.5 | The last time I visited the town where I grew up, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the year was 1999. Bill Clinton was president. People were still printing out directions on MapQuest. |
| 1:06.4 | I thought regular folks talking on cell phones was like the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen. |
| 1:11.6 | I myself had just bought a fax machine. |
| 1:14.6 | It was also the last time I heard anything about my childhood best friend, Shamrace Mims. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, that's his name. |
| 1:23.6 | Shamrace Mims. |
| 1:26.6 | It's not a name you forget |
| 1:28.9 | but it is a name you can love |
| 1:31.8 | I mean I don't know |
| 1:37.8 | I guess maybe I wonder |
| 1:38.6 | what sham race is going to think of me |
| 1:40.0 | like if he's going to think that I'm |
| 1:41.5 | I don't know |
| 1:43.0 | I'm no longer a kid from a key sport I guess I'm, I don't know. |
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