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Cliff Notes: Larenz Tate on the Challenges of Being Black in Hollywood · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you this Black Hollywood, and We've
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  Speaker 3: been spending a lot of time in Black Hollywood, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm hearing a lot of the same stories told like
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  Speaker 3: it's very tough it's difficult. The budgets are not the same,
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  Speaker 3: and you know a lot of people saying the same
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  Speaker 3: thing for the outside people that's not in that cluster,
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  Speaker 3: and they don't understand, like, what are some of the
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  Speaker 3: challenges that people facing Black Hollywood as far as getting
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  Speaker 3: a movie produced or not getting the same budget for
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  Speaker 3: their white counterparts, because I don't think people have an
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  Speaker 3: appreciation of that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the very thing that those who are outside of
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  Speaker 4: the Hollywood industry that are in our community, that see
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  Speaker 4: the challenges that.
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  Speaker 5: We deal with every day as of people.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we work twice as hard to get you know,
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  Speaker 4: twice is less as our counterparts, right, and that being said,
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  Speaker 4: it is the same way we're not valued the way
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  Speaker 4: we I believe we supposed to be about. So those
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  Speaker 4: budgets are really important for us so that we can
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  Speaker 4: have the kind of quality that we can resent to
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  Speaker 4: the consumer. And the smaller the budget, the more creative
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  Speaker 4: you have to get. And we don't have resources off
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  Speaker 4: oftentimes as our white counterparts. The real deal is we
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  Speaker 4: don't own any platforms the way we should. There's a
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  Speaker 4: few black owned platforms, but we don't have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of outlets. We don't have as many, So we're not
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  Speaker 4: sort of governing over these entities or these corporations to say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you guys have a great story, y'all want to tell it,
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  Speaker 4: and there's money to be made, come here.
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  Speaker 5: It's not as many. So when we do find.
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  Speaker 4: That those places, everybody's trying to go through one keyhole.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's trying to go through one tunnel. And even when
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  Speaker 4: you go to non black owned places, they'll tell you
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  Speaker 4: to go over there because you know, they have to
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  Speaker 4: find value in what we do. And that's changing quite
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  Speaker 4: a bit as we're you know, making it very clear,
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  Speaker 4: and we're loud about it because we have to that.
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  Speaker 4: I always say, and I talk to execs in the
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  Speaker 4: industry in Hollywood that either look like us, and particularly
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  Speaker 4: the ones who are not from the black community. I
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  Speaker 4: tell people all the time, we're not looking for handouts.
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  Speaker 4: We're not asking for any favors. Black folks have earned
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  Speaker 4: the right to have the things that we believe right
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  Speaker 4: from what we've contributed in front of the camera, what
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  Speaker 4: we've done behind the camera, the things that we have
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  Speaker 4: done and changed the narratives, and we've taken the rain.
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  Speaker 4: We've been able to do so much, and we've made
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  Speaker 4: y'all a lot of money ten times, one hundred times
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  Speaker 4: over in a real way. But also the consumers, black communities,
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  Speaker 4: black people support all movies, right, so we have earned that.
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  Speaker 4: We have earned the right to be at the table.
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  Speaker 4: We earned the right to have the you know, decision
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  Speaker 4: making power. And oftentimes in Hollywood historically black folks don't
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  Speaker 4: govern over anything.
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  Speaker 5: We're in front of the camera and it looks good.
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  Speaker 4: Give black folks enough, you know, to keep them quiet,
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  Speaker 4: but not enough to make them a real difference or
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  Speaker 4: have a real impact on the other side of things.
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  Speaker 5: And we want to change that. You know, we don't want.
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  Speaker 4: To just have enough to keep us quiet but really
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  Speaker 4: not make a difference. We're trying to really do something
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  Speaker 4: here and we've earned it on both sides.
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  Speaker 5: So now we have black entrepreneurs and I mean that
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  Speaker 5: you are.
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  Speaker 4: Now we have black entrepreneurs or black you know, companies
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  Speaker 4: that recognize that, and they Hollywood has had to come
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  Speaker 4: together and be a part of sort of you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: the movement, and because they understand we bring a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money.
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  Speaker 5: So you look at this, it's like look at black Panther.
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  Speaker 6: That's that's where I was going, because what you're saying
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  Speaker 6: is it takes for a black panther and alright, Coogler
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  Speaker 6: to do that, a billion dollar movie, do it again,
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  Speaker 6: another billion dollar success on its way. And then you
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  Speaker 6: hear like what Disney has a divisional Onyx and that
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  Speaker 6: was focusing on black creators, and so I wonder if
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it seems like it's a timing thing, right
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  Speaker 6: even now, like you said, there's a cold time, but
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  Speaker 6: now it's hot. It's a hot thing, and it's a topic.
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  Speaker 6: It's a topic, right, and so now it brings more creatives.
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  Speaker 6: But having just honest isn't enough, right, No, I was going.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to. The next point was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: take entertainment.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like exactly this Now this develops and it's like
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  Speaker 6: you've been working for But now the timing of it
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  Speaker 6: makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: I mean yeah, because now we have executives who are
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  Speaker 4: in these places now that are you know, the heads
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  Speaker 4: of production in their heads of these companies and entertainment
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  Speaker 4: companies that when I walk into a room, they understand
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  Speaker 4: and it's not something that I have to you know,
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  Speaker 4: beat them over the head about like Okay, they get it,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not going to bring anything that's mediocre. I'm
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  Speaker 4: really believe I'll bring something that's quality or I won't
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  Speaker 4: bring it at all. Right, but you mentioned Tapment Entertainment,
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  Speaker 4: We my brothers and I actually are working on a
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  Speaker 4: docu series about social injustice, about the marginalization of specifically
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  Speaker 4: black people, and we are filmed it in Chicago, right
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  Speaker 4: We've been working on the West Side, in the South
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  Speaker 4: Side Chicago, really just showing, you know, why some of
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  Speaker 4: the things are happening, but beyond why are the things
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  Speaker 4: happening in terms of the marginalization of us and our community,
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  Speaker 4: what are the solutions? And we are trying to create
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  Speaker 4: something that allows the people who are going through what
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  Speaker 4: they're going through to come up with the solutions. Oftentimes
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  Speaker 4: it's people who are behind the scenes or off to
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  Speaker 4: the side who is not even we're not even from
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  Speaker 4: the community deciding what is best for those who are
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  Speaker 4: dealing with the deal with it. But guess who knows
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  Speaker 4: the people who have been able to survive, the people
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  Speaker 4: who have been able to overcome those hurdles and those
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  Speaker 4: something that allows the voices of those who are dealing
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 5: To tell us what the solution is and let's figure
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  Speaker 5: that out.
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  Speaker 4: So we're also involved with some redevelopment, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: have to call it redevelopment, but basically it's.
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  Speaker 5: Gentrification in the hood.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, yo, hold up, how can we be
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  Speaker 4: a part of that, you know, redevelopment because it's really
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  Speaker 4: important and as you know with gentrification, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: valuable land, it's valuable you know, communities, but they displace
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  Speaker 4: those who inhabit it, and it's particularly black folks, black
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  Speaker 4: and brown people, right, And so we're like, how can
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  Speaker 4: we find this social equity?
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  Speaker 5: How can we find opportunities to keep.
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  Speaker 4: You know, to redevelop it, get all the amenities, housing,
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  Speaker 4: affordable housing, you know, businesses that the people who live
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  Speaker 4: there could take part, and they're not displaced, right, And
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  Speaker 4: we can create businesses and we can create you know,
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  Speaker 4: schools and museums. And this is not like sort of
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  Speaker 4: like a pipe stream. It's like it is attainable.
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  Speaker 5: It happens.
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  Speaker 4: It just doesn't happen with us often. So we're doing
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  Speaker 4: all the things that we can to be a part
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  Speaker 4: of that. We're dealing with developers and architects and lawyers
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  Speaker 4: and you know, financial people that you know, look like
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  Speaker 4: us that we could be a part of the narrative
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  Speaker 4: to redevelop and help buy back the block you had.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so Bronsville represents that and that's at that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so we have more of that.
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  Speaker 5: You know. Bronsville is sort of a road map, if
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  Speaker 5: you will.
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  Speaker 4: The actual story is like a story of the mind
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  Speaker 4: where you can like hear like this podcast, right, but
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  Speaker 4: we scripted it.
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  Speaker 5: There's characters in it.
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  Speaker 4: And it takes place in an nineteen thirties nineteen forties
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  Speaker 4: on the South side of Chicago in a community called Bronzeville,
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  Speaker 4: where black folks were self sufficient and the way that
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  Speaker 4: they became self sufficient financially was running numbers. Other communities
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  Speaker 4: were you know, bootlegging, when doing liquor and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: During Prohibition, black folks we were running numbers. And what
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  Speaker 4: happened was as a result of creating this economic infrastructure,
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  Speaker 4: they began to invest in the community. So these people
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  Speaker 4: will call policy kings, decided to invest into like the
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  Speaker 4: first black owned bank, the first department store in Chicago
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  Speaker 4: that was black on the grocery stores, and we had
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  Speaker 4: this metropolis of a community where we had our own
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  Speaker 4: police departments when we policed ourselves, and we had our
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  Speaker 4: own grocery stores and butcher shops where people would look
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  Speaker 4: out for each other. And I felt like we got
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  Speaker 4: away from that, and we wanted to tell the story
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  Speaker 4: of how we can get back to that because it
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