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1 | DCB_int_01 | 0.5018 | Mkay. And what's your birthday? | 2.3110 |
2 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2.7946 | Four three, seventy-two. | 4.7240 |
3 | DCB_int_01 | 6.7023 | And where were you born? | 7.8503 |
4 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 8.2177 | Washington DC. | 9.1829 |
5 | DCB_int_01 | 10.1890 | What neighborhood do you call like, your neighborhood? | 12.3619 |
6 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 13.7421 | I wanna say | 14.6280 |
8 | | 15.0699 | anywhere Uptown. | 15.9860 |
9 | DCB_int_01 | 16.1563 | Uptown? [So we'll just put] Uptown. | 17.7650 |
10 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 16.7299 | [Mm-hm.] | 17.1911 |
11 | | 17.7744 | Yup. | 18.0355 |
12 | DCB_int_01 | 19.1033 | Um, and you've lived here all your life? | 20.8099 |
14 | | 22.4687 | Have you lived anywhere else? | 23.6391 |
15 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 24.0401 | [Um, yeah.] | 24.5591 |
16 | DCB_int_01 | 24.0401 | [Even temporarily.] | 24.9207 |
17 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 24.8193 | [I've] lived in | 26.0172 |
18 | | 27.1791 | Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. | 29.0190 |
19 | DCB_int_01 | 29.6348 | How long? | 30.1241 |
20 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 30.9261 | <ts> | 30.9820 |
22 | | 31.4623 | Let's see, | 31.9426 |
24 | | 32.7202 | I wanna say maybe like three years. | 35.5132 |
25 | DCB_int_01 | 38.0638 | And where'd you go to school? | 38.9171 |
26 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 39.6108 | Uh, I graduated from /RD-SCHOOL-3/ | 41.8583 |
28 | | 45.1891 | High School in DC. | 46.6739 |
29 | DCB_int_01 | 49.2105 | And what do you do now? | 50.0032 |
30 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 50.5952 | Now | 51.3823 |
32 | | 51.5735 | I am | 52.4121 |
34 | | 52.6692 | <ts> | 52.7252 |
36 | | 53.0050 | an entrepreneur. | 53.9648 |
37 | DCB_int_01 | 54.1765 | Mm-hm. | 54.3951 |
38 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 55.0054 | I do fitness for | 56.8838 |
40 | | 58.0166 | children, | 58.7439 |
42 | | 60.6183 | and adults too, but mostly for children. | 62.2737 |
43 | DCB_int_01 | 68.6829 | And where were your parents born? | 70.4454 |
44 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 71.9282 | I think both of them were born in [Washington] DC, mm-hm. | 74.3996 |
45 | DCB_int_01 | 73.1630 | [DC?] | 73.3865 |
46 | | 75.5875 | You deep DC. | 76.6319 |
47 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 76.7578 | Yes. | 77.2645 |
48 | DCB_int_01 | 77.2445 | And what about your parents? What do they do? | 78.7489 |
49 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 79.4716 | My mom is deceased. | 80.8379 |
51 | | 82.0433 | And my dad, he works for a state senator in Florida. | 85.9846 |
52 | DCB_int_01 | 93.7697 | /Okay/ so that's that. | 94.7039 |
54 | | 94.9024 | Mkay. | 95.4573 |
56 | | 95.9552 | So tell me a little bit about, | 97.8354 |
58 | | 98.2970 | um, | 98.7679 |
60 | | 99.4895 | growing up in DC. So you're a | 100.8441 |
62 | | 101.0576 | Uptown girl? | 101.8584 |
63 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 102.1987 | [Yes.] | 102.5950 |
64 | DCB_int_01 | 102.3013 | [Um], | 102.8981 |
65 | | 103.2012 | do you remember like your first house as a little girl? | 105.4160 |
67 | | 106.5433 | Or [your first-] | 107.1644 |
68 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 106.8091 | [Mm.] | 107.6251 |
69 | | 107.9562 | <ts> | 108.0914 |
71 | | 108.4964 | Let's see, when I was young, | 110.7353 |
73 | | 111.5408 | I lived with my grandparents up until | 113.3479 |
75 | | 114.4831 | maybe five years old. | 116.7554 |
77 | | 116.9622 | Maybe up to about five years old. | 118.3149 |
79 | | 118.9723 | And then went to live with my dad in Maryland for a while. | 121.0706 |
81 | | 121.4343 | <ts> | 121.5276 |
83 | | 122.2410 | Then, | 122.7959 |
85 | | 123.4522 | went to live in Harrisburg with my mom for three years. And then we came back to DC. | 126.8328 |
87 | | 127.6209 | So, | 128.0079 |
89 | | 128.4264 | mostly Uptown. Everywhere Uptown, | 130.0398 |
90 | DCB_int_01 | 130.4344 | [Mm-hm.] | 130.7562 |
91 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 130.6040 | [DC.] Um, | 131.5599 |
92 | | 132.4458 | growing up here was fun, | 133.7654 |
94 | | 135.0512 | you know. | 135.6108 |
96 | | 136.3055 | <ts> | 136.3755 |
98 | | 136.5573 | It was safer, | 137.3920 |
100 | | 138.7955 | because | 139.7001 |
102 | | 140.3471 | we didn't have all this stuff going [on, you] know. | 142.9304 |
103 | DCB_int_01 | 141.9325 | [Mm-hm.] | 142.4170 |
104 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 143.3360 | And then, | 143.8396 |
106 | | 144.8468 | I like the, | 145.6628 |
108 | | 146.1105 | what is it? Take a village to raise a child, [so everybody] knew everybody's kid so. | 149.9811 |
109 | DCB_int_01 | 147.7964 | [Mm.] | 148.0351 |
110 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 150.3522 | You know, if you got in trouble by the time you got home, | 152.1478 |
112 | | 152.4342 | somebody know. | 153.1391 |
113 | DCB_int_01 | 153.2984 | Mm-hm. | 153.8159 |
114 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 154.1190 | You know, your parent, | 154.7031 |
116 | | 154.9250 | yeah, uh-huh, found out you did /such and such/, but. | 157.3784 |
118 | | 157.6955 | It was pretty much safe. Um, we could stay outside until the street lights came on and, | 161.9451 |
120 | | 162.6836 | you know, didn't have to worry about anything. | 164.2690 |
122 | | 164.7586 | But my- | 165.1689 |
124 | | 166.1563 | my years, growing up in DC was fun. | 168.4690 |
125 | DCB_int_01 | 169.1359 | So you grew up at a time- | 171.1724 |
127 | | 172.7672 | so, right after the riots? | 175.1029 |
128 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 175.1964 | Probably yeah. | 176.0359 |
129 | DCB_int_01 | 176.4777 | Um, | 176.8922 |
131 | | 177.0757 | but when you were small did that seem to affect- did you- | 179.2894 |
133 | | 179.5226 | did you [feel that?] | 180.4878 |
134 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 179.8676 | [I don't-] | 180.3214 |
135 | | 180.5997 | No. | 181.0333 |
137 | | 181.7502 | I don't remember nothing about the riots. [<laugh>] | 184.0933 |
138 | DCB_int_01 | 183.5454 | [Okay.] | 184.0241 |
139 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 184.5200 | No. | 184.8156 |
140 | DCB_int_01 | 185.3069 | So when you say it was safe, you felt like- | 187.2886 |
142 | | 187.7595 | like did you play game, did you stay [outside with your fr- Tell me about your friends, or] what y'all did in the neighborhood. | 192.3793 |
143 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 189.3126 | [Yeah, we stay outside.] | 191.0242 |
144 | | 192.6125 | We- Okay this was like | 194.2507 |
146 | | 194.9812 | maybe- especially like in the summer time so, | 196.7438 |
148 | | 198.4679 | our day would consist of, you get up in the morning, you eat your breakfast about nine, | 201.8731 |
150 | | 202.0583 | ten o'clock you outside, | 203.3112 |
152 | | 203.7731 | until about twelve, with your grandparents til you come back in and eat lunch. | 206.8413 |
154 | | 207.2492 | Then you go right back outside | 208.7718 |
156 | | 209.3581 | and you stay out there til about- I guess it g- got dark about eight, | 212.6128 |
158 | | 213.2050 | whenever the street lights came on. I mean, and we could be all over the neighborhood, | 216.5145 |
160 | | 216.9156 | you know, | 217.3259 |
162 | | 217.5311 | um, | 218.0766 |
164 | | 218.4870 | playing, | 218.9859 |
166 | | 219.5657 | jump rope, double-dutch whatever going to the rec. | 221.8384 |
168 | | 222.3840 | Um, | 222.8876 |
170 | | 223.7689 | it was just fun. | 224.6082 |
172 | | 225.3729 | You know once in a while, | 226.4780 |
174 | | 226.8546 | you know, you get that treat to McDonald's. | 228.6189 |
175 | DCB_int_01 | 228.6451 | Mm-hm. | 229.1697 |
176 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 229.8854 | Cause, you know, we always had home cooked meals. | 231.7063 |
177 | DCB_int_01 | 231.6853 | Right. | 231.9966 |
178 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 232.2935 | So you going to McDonald's, oh we going to McDonald's? Okay. | 235.1394 |
180 | | 235.6756 | Uh, | 236.4123 |
182 | | 237.5454 | yeah it was just- it was just fun. | 239.0943 |
183 | DCB_int_01 | 239.6239 | Who were your friends? | 240.7617 |
184 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 241.3999 | [Ah.] | 242.2649 |
185 | DCB_int_01 | 241.4005 | [Do you remember?] | 242.0486 |
186 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 242.7954 | Yeah. <laugh> | 243.5361 |
188 | | 244.0257 | I had- um, | 245.0282 |
190 | | 245.3908 | shoot, most of 'em was my cousins. | 246.8130 |
191 | DCB_int_01 | 247.0229 | Mm. | 247.2469 |
192 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 247.6435 | Cause we kind of all- almost all lived in the same building. | 250.0164 |
194 | | 251.0096 | <ts> We lived on, uh, /RD-ADDRESS-3/- | 252.5565 |
196 | | 252.9810 | was it- | 253.2559 |
198 | | 253.3679 | no, /RD-ADDRESS-6/. | 254.6211 |
200 | | 255.0957 | <ts> | 255.1958 |
202 | | 255.5221 | So, | 256.0600 |
204 | | 256.7345 | we had the neighborhood kids around there, then we had friends in the building. | 259.8670 |
206 | | 260.3098 | Uh, | 261.2517 |
208 | | 263.3348 | it was just- it was just fun. | 265.2606 |
210 | | 266.1326 | Um, | 266.7769 |
212 | | 269.0504 | yeah, some of my friends was mostly friends from school, from elementary school. When, you know, we used to be outside. | 274.2728 |
214 | | 274.8062 | <ts> | 274.9539 |
216 | | 275.1215 | Um, | 275.8523 |
218 | | 276.9109 | The boys used to like to tease us | 278.7341 |
220 | | 279.0791 | and everything. We'd play, you know, | 280.6505 |
222 | | 280.9764 | jump rope, or we doing cheers. | 282.7524 |
224 | | 283.0282 | And it so funny cause the boys knew all the cheers. So they [would do] the cheers with us, yeah. | 286.4594 |
225 | DCB_int_01 | 285.1365 | [Mm.] | 285.3869 |
226 | | 286.6459 | <laugh> | 287.3681 |
227 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 287.4869 | So funny. | 288.1415 |
229 | | 288.4726 | Um, | 288.9440 |
231 | | 289.6896 | it was just fun, you know. It wasn't- | 291.4662 |
233 | | 292.8959 | it- /?/ | 293.5301 |
235 | | 294.1118 | it was just fun times. | 295.3241 |
236 | DCB_int_01 | 295.3195 | Did you see any like- | 296.8302 |
237 | | 296.9422 | <clears throat> | 297.5437 |
239 | | 299.0766 | especially when you were a little bit older, this [might have] been like, late seventies early eighties, | 303.3851 |
240 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 300.9640 | [Mm.] | 301.2080 |
241 | DCB_int_01 | 303.7723 | did you see any of, | 304.8353 |
243 | | 305.4368 | um, | 305.7760 |
245 | | 306.0424 | when the drugs started to come in, or the neighborhood started to change a little bit? | 309.5297 |
246 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 309.6556 | Well when I was- um, I wanna say like maybe the early eighties, | 314.5831 |
248 | | 314.9655 | by that time, | 315.7442 |
250 | | 316.0195 | my mom was living in Southeast so, | 317.7585 |
252 | | 318.4920 | I lived with her | 319.9303 |
254 | | 320.7743 | out there for, | 321.8794 |
256 | | 322.7653 | most of my whole | 323.6337 |
258 | | 324.4009 | middle school | 325.0630 |
260 | | 325.7298 | term. So that- I guess that's like three years. | 327.9074 |
262 | | 328.5555 | And that's when you started seeing | 330.0010 |
264 | | 330.7646 | a lot of changes, as far as like, you know, the drugs and stuff like that. Um, | 334.7793 |
266 | | 336.2686 | <ts> | 336.3436 |
268 | | 336.8485 | I wanna say as far as like the killings, when I moved back with my grandparents, | 340.3503 |
270 | | 340.7516 | in the late eighties, that's when all the- I wanna say like around eighty | 344.2451 |
272 | | 344.6016 | seven, eighty-eight that's when | 346.0966 |
274 | | 346.4949 | a lot of murders started taking place. Um, cause I guess the drug game started getting real heavy and [stuff.] | 351.4970 |
275 | DCB_int_01 | 351.1520 | [Mm], mm-hm. | 351.9633 |
276 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 352.7280 | <ts> | 352.7887 |
278 | | 352.9006 | And | 353.4042 |
280 | | 353.9236 | started losing | 354.6900 |
282 | | 355.0699 | friends around that time, male friends anyway | 357.6369 |
284 | | 358.1359 | around ti- around that time. | 359.7073 |
286 | | 360.3915 | So, | 360.8812 |
288 | | 361.9816 | <exhale> I'm'a say it was dangerous, but it's not | 364.2539 |
290 | | 364.8213 | as da- it wasn't as dangerous as it is now. It's like | 367.7414 |
292 | | 369.1193 | the kids, | 369.8607 |
294 | | 370.1079 | they're just like, out of control. | 371.5627 |
296 | | 372.7739 | When we were coming up, we were taught to respect our elders, regardless. | 376.8493 |
298 | | 377.3135 | Even in high school, | 378.3891 |
300 | | 378.8765 | you never- | 379.5526 |
302 | | 379.8184 | Like, if I go to these high schools now, cause I do my fitness, | 382.6617 |
304 | | 383.2782 | <ts> | 383.3424 |
306 | | 383.6082 | and | 384.1901 |
308 | | 384.8485 | it's the way that the kids just talk to the- the faculty. | 387.6929 |
310 | | 388.2851 | Like, | 388.6970 |
312 | | 388.9892 | you know, they curse at 'em within their conversations, like they're cursing using curse words, but that's | 392.8955 |
314 | | 393.1846 | like a casual conversation. And I'm just looking at the teachers like, you really let them talk to y'all like | 397.1842 |
316 | | 397.6412 | that? And, | 398.2754 |
318 | | 398.8955 | I mean, it's just like | 400.0006 |
320 | | 400.7187 | crazy. | 401.3073 |
322 | | 402.0232 | And I just look back on my time when I was in high school, | 404.4501 |
324 | | 405.3945 | we ain't never do that. | 406.3457 |
326 | | 406.8260 | We were focused. | 407.8305 |
328 | | 408.0791 | I mean, we would come to school, we'd wanna dress up. | 410.2427 |
330 | | 411.0214 | You know, we had, | 412.0239 |
332 | | 412.4996 | our mind on what we gonna do, | 414.0989 |
334 | | 414.1966 | you know, when we get ready get out of high school. | 416.5245 |
336 | | 416.8862 | Um, | 417.5250 |
338 | | 417.9866 | I mean, we had fun, | 419.3482 |
340 | | 419.8367 | and it- | 420.2330 |
342 | | 420.4662 | we didn't have to use curse words, we didn't have- you know, disrespect our- | 423.1939 |
344 | | 423.4001 | our- our teachers, our adults like that. | 425.5067 |
346 | | 425.8600 | Even getting on the bus, | 426.9977 |
348 | | 427.6505 | you know, back then, | 428.5738 |
350 | | 428.9655 | you know, we'd be loud and stuff, but we would never be | 431.0405 |
352 | | 431.4131 | disrespectful. | 432.2015 |
354 | | 433.0070 | I'm scared to even catch | 434.0795 |
356 | | 434.5458 | the- the metro, | 435.6276 |
358 | | 436.0846 | the bus, | 436.7677 |
360 | | 436.9603 | or whatever. | 437.6140 |
362 | | 438.4475 | And I have a ten year old and I'm like, I'll be taking you to school all the way up into high school | 442.4856 |
364 | | 443.6595 | because it's- it's dangerous. | 445.4970 |
365 | DCB_int_01 | 445.4713 | It is. Especially recently. | 447.4411 |
366 | | 447.7370 | There's been s- I- and I don't watch the news for this reason, there's been so many things, | 451.5291 |
368 | | 451.6897 | and I don't take public transportation if I can help it. | 454.2384 |
369 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 454.6814 | [<sigh>] | 455.2550 |
370 | DCB_int_01 | 454.6861 | [So many] things. | 456.0896 |
371 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 456.2736 | I'm just like, oh my god you got females getting raped on the train. | 459.8374 |
373 | | 460.1638 | I'm like, where they do that? | 461.1016 |
375 | | 461.2686 | How does this stuff | 462.1869 |
377 | | 462.4534 | occurring? Like, | 463.6459 |
379 | | 464.5784 | it's just crazy. And a lot of /'em/ are these young | 467.5441 |
381 | | 468.8905 | black males doing this. | 470.6035 |
383 | | 470.7030 | Um, | 471.2266 |
385 | | 471.8095 | even some of the young girls are like, out of control. | 474.0943 |
386 | DCB_int_01 | 474.5314 | Mm-hm. | 475.0988 |
387 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 475.1050 | You know, I'm just like- | 476.3177 |
389 | | 477.4784 | You know, my friends and I often talk about trying to, you know, | 479.8984 |
391 | | 480.8438 | do like, you know, some kind of mentoring | 482.6484 |
393 | | 482.9515 | program or s- you know, something like that to try to reach these kids cause it is just- | 486.7273 |
395 | | 487.6738 | it's awful. | 488.1634 |
397 | | 489.0820 | It's [awful and scary] and I'm scared for my child. | 491.2969 |
398 | DCB_int_01 | 489.4672 | [Control.] | 489.8654 |
399 | | 492.2377 | So let's go back. Like, you talked about- | 494.3530 |
401 | | 494.5738 | <clears throat> Because I- as you're- | 496.0100 |
403 | | 496.1929 | now that you're in the schools, | 497.5287 |
404 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 497.6828 | [Mm-hm.] | 498.1580 |
405 | DCB_int_01 | 497.8466 | [let's talk] a little bit about | 499.1796 |
406 | | 500.4992 | going- | 501.0774 |
408 | | 501.6696 | comparing what you did, | 503.0405 |
410 | | 503.2923 | now and then. | 504.3636 |
412 | | 504.6573 | So you said you moved to Southeast for a while. So tell me a little bit- before we talk about school, tell me a little bit about the difference between | 510.1412 |
414 | | 510.6340 | living in Uptown and then living in [Southeast.] | 513.2965 |
415 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 512.8379 | [It was a] big [difference.] | 514.8126 |
416 | DCB_int_01 | 514.4688 | [<laugh>] | 515.7686 |
417 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 516.3822 | I so love Uptown. | 518.0842 |
419 | | 518.5939 | I don't know, Uptowns is like- | 520.1405 |
421 | | 520.9985 | I mean, I wanna say both | 522.1625 |
423 | | 522.3962 | sides had their, you know, similar issues, but Uptowns is more | 525.7305 |
425 | | 526.4436 | calmer. | 527.0778 |
427 | | 527.6362 | I don't wanna say uppity cause they would say Uptowns like uppity, or whatever. | 530.5784 |
429 | | 530.9150 | But, um, | 531.7434 |
431 | | 533.0719 | Southeast is just a little rough. And in the area I lived in, I lived- | 536.5971 |
433 | | 537.2359 | I- I lived on, uh, | 538.7793 |
435 | | 539.1710 | where was that? /RD-ADDRESS-5/. | 540.6247 |
437 | | 540.9479 | <ts> | 541.0475 |
439 | | 541.1374 | So I was in between- | 542.5007 |
441 | | 543.4224 | We were | 543.9232 |
443 | | 544.0837 | not | 544.5146 |
445 | | 544.9705 | too far from where like, all the | 546.6760 |
447 | | 547.2080 | drug stuff happens. I wanna say maybe a block away, | 550.3550 |
449 | | 550.6907 | you go up the hill, you make that left turn, | 552.7879 |
451 | | 553.2169 | bam, you right in it. | 554.2987 |
452 | DCB_int_01 | 554.3686 | Mm. | 554.6857 |
453 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 555.8328 | Um, | 556.4164 |
455 | | 557.7854 | yeah I've seen a lot of stuff living /over to/ Southeast (laughing). | 560.0189 |
457 | | 560.5132 | Just a lot of- | 561.2219 |
459 | | 561.5810 | Yeah, | 561.9866 |
461 | | 562.5602 | it was way different, | 563.5476 |
463 | | 564.1024 | way different. Um, | 565.4360 |
465 | | 567.7582 | yeah, I- Uptowns is l- a lot more calmer. | 569.9878 |
466 | DCB_int_01 | 570.7926 | Did you play outside and stuff like you did- Well, you were [older then.] | 573.4411 |
467 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 572.6420 | [Well-] | 573.3198 |
468 | | 573.6882 | yeah we were older, but | 574.8026 |
470 | | 575.4123 | we did. | 575.9493 |
472 | | 576.1066 | We'd stay out in our front- | 577.6412 |
474 | | 578.2287 | like in the front yard, | 579.1461 |
476 | | 579.4127 | um, in the building where we lived in. | 581.0591 |
478 | | 581.4928 | Um, | 582.0337 |
480 | | 582.7273 | and that was it, no further. But like, when I lived Uptown, we can go all over. | 586.1079 |
481 | DCB_int_01 | 586.5269 | Mm-hm. | 586.8522 |
482 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 587.7900 | And /we/ didn't have to worry about anything. You know, I'll tell, grandma we going such and such place. | 591.8141 |
484 | | 592.1545 | Alright, | 592.6778 |
486 | | 593.5067 | you know. | 594.2049 |
488 | | 594.9977 | And it was just a bunch of us, you know. | 596.5178 |
490 | | 597.0914 | But- | 597.5250 |
492 | | 597.8328 | And it wasn't that we're /not/ | 598.6954 |
494 | | 599.0731 | real far, but | 599.9206 |
496 | | 600.1351 | like I said, everybody knew, | 601.3521 |
497 | DCB_int_01 | 601.7123 | [/Everybody-/] | 602.0872 |
498 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 601.8650 | [everybody's], you know, child or whatever. | 603.4364 |
499 | | 603.8188 | Um, | 604.3643 |
501 | | 606.2283 | but yeah, Southeast it just w- <laugh> | 608.5318 |
503 | | 609.8980 | I was just glad those three years was up. | 611.3446 |
505 | | 611.8241 | <laugh> | 612.1387 |
506 | DCB_int_01 | 612.3635 | <laugh> | 613.3332 |
508 | | 613.6736 | And then you came back here, cause /RD-SCHOOL-3/'s here, [so you came] back [here.] | 616.4819 |
509 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 615.3805 | [Yeah.] | 615.7402 |
511 | | 616.0035 | [Uh-huh I came] back here, move with my grandparents. | 618.1099 |
512 | | 618.4791 | Um, | 619.0250 |
514 | | 619.6222 | at- by that time they had moved on, uh, | 621.7594 |
516 | | 622.3085 | /RD-ADDRESS-5/. | 623.2622 |
518 | | 623.9397 | <ts> | 624.0039 |
520 | | 624.2158 | And | 624.8227 |
522 | | 625.5997 | that's when, um, I moved back with them, | 627.3773 |
524 | | 627.8782 | got enrolled to, | 628.8961 |
526 | | 629.5929 | uh, /RD-SCHOOL-3/. | 630.6204 |
528 | | 631.6319 | And I had | 631.9465 |
530 | | 632.2580 | good time at /RD-SCHOOL-3/. | 633.1134 |
532 | | 633.8847 | Good years, good [years.] | 635.0342 |
533 | DCB_int_01 | 634.5525 | [S-] | 634.7131 |
535 | | 634.9571 | [so] now think about- And do you go into- I'm sorry, I'm'a move [this over] cause mine j- my sweater [is doing all] what it wants to do right now. | 640.3246 |
536 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 637.1117 | [Mm-hm.] | 637.4010 |
538 | | 638.6613 | [<laugh>] | 639.2232 |
539 | DCB_int_01 | 640.8480 | Do you feel like- | 641.9300 |
541 | | 642.1998 | So you go into the high schools now. | 643.7278 |
543 | | 644.2760 | How do you feel like your high school was- your high school experience was | 647.9622 |
545 | | 648.1163 | then versus kind of what you're seeing [these days?] | 650.6509 |
546 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 649.8952 | [Mm.] | 650.5885 |
547 | | 650.8604 | My high school experience I wanna say was the bomb. | 653.5640 |
549 | | 653.9333 | <ts> | 654.0200 |
551 | | 654.9800 | /But when/ I go in these schools, | 656.7557 |
553 | | 657.2200 | and it's like- and I guess, I don't know because of my height or whatever I still look young, cause I'm over forty. | 662.1873 |
555 | | 663.5539 | And it's like, the kids just look at you like, | 665.3232 |
557 | | 666.4566 | you know. | 667.0699 |
559 | | 668.4654 | I'm just like, okay. <laugh> | 670.3599 |
561 | | 672.1741 | It's just like no respect at all from s- from most of 'em. | 675.2781 |
562 | DCB_int_01 | 675.4062 | Mm-hm. | 675.7883 |
563 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 675.9136 | I mean, all you hear walking down the hall is, | 678.0745 |
565 | | 678.3828 | you know, F this, you know, | 679.9112 |
567 | | 680.2676 | you [know, just] a lot of [cursing.] And I'm just like- | 682.3911 |
568 | DCB_int_01 | 680.3691 | [Mm-hm.] | 680.8154 |
570 | | 681.3773 | [Cursing.] | 681.7851 |
571 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 682.7805 | and I'm like, even the principal letting them get away with this? I'm like, I don't understand. It- it has to be | 686.9792 |
573 | | 687.8718 | <sigh> | 688.4562 |
575 | | 689.4934 | like, | 689.8401 |
577 | | 690.2255 | I don't know, more discipline or something, [or] | 692.6668 |
578 | DCB_int_01 | 692.3575 | [Mm-hm.] | 693.0081 |
579 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 693.0723 | something because | 694.2411 |
581 | | 694.9507 | /it-/ | 695.1305 |
583 | | 695.8337 | these schools are off the [chain.] | 697.2851 |
584 | DCB_int_01 | 696.9319 | [They-] | 697.1759 |
585 | | 698.0557 | [Yes.] | 698.6176 |
586 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 698.3447 | [And], you know, | 699.1397 |
587 | | 699.3163 | I mean, the DC public schools, the charter schools, I've been | 702.4213 |
589 | | 702.8741 | you know, to a lot of 'em, and I'm like, | 704.1007 |
591 | | 704.9548 | y'all just talk like- I mean, y'all just | 706.4915 |
593 | | 706.7452 | /actually/ let them walking down the hall just talk like this. | 708.9640 |
594 | DCB_int_01 | 710.0300 | And not say anything. | 710.9965 |
595 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 710.9856 | Not say anything. They talk like that with each other, they talk like that with the | 713.7823 |
596 | | 714.2158 | staff. And I'm like, | 715.4328 |
598 | | 717.1012 | when I was in high school, | 718.3374 |
600 | | 719.0123 | w- uh, | 719.4185 |
602 | | 719.7984 | our teachers didn't tolerate that stuff. | 721.5940 |
603 | DCB_int_01 | 722.9984 | [So] | 723.1879 |
604 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 723.0145 | [I mean.] | 723.7932 |
605 | DCB_int_01 | 723.9810 | what made your high school experience so great? Like was it things you did or what kind of things you did? [Was it the people?] | 729.9020 |
606 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 728.9117 | [Um,] | 729.3784 |
607 | | 730.6681 | probably some of the friends I had. I was mostly quiet | 733.0695 |
609 | | 734.0429 | <ts> | 734.1039 |
611 | | 734.2869 | in school, | 734.9549 |
613 | | 735.4769 | laid back. | 736.1480 |
615 | | 737.1241 | <ts> Um, | 737.7117 |
617 | | 738.1291 | but I did try to get myself involved in, you know, certain things, you know, to | 741.2759 |
619 | | 741.7819 | make it fun for myself, make it interesting. And I had good friends and | 744.6943 |
621 | | 745.0057 | still good friends with a lot of 'em | 746.4430 |
623 | | 747.0896 | now. | 747.5190 |
625 | | 747.7530 | Um, | 748.3374 |
627 | | 749.6635 | yeah, and /it's like/ even, | 751.1053 |
629 | | 752.6016 | like when I got into the school, I had some friends I would call my cousins, you know, they would look out for me. | 756.7874 |
631 | | 757.1085 | You have any problems though, you know, come to me, or whatever. | 759.2149 |
633 | | 759.5668 | Um, | 760.1929 |
635 | | 761.9204 | it was- | 762.6750 |
637 | | 764.6645 | everybody was kind of, you know, friendly to each other. You know, you had your | 768.1323 |
639 | | 768.7456 | kids that had their beef with each other /whatever/ but | 770.7461 |
641 | | 770.9952 | it wasn't | 771.6085 |
643 | | 772.2475 | nothing where I feared | 773.4595 |
645 | | 774.3796 | coming to school. | 775.2433 |
646 | DCB_int_01 | 775.4713 | Mm. | 775.7378 |
647 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 775.7763 | Like I would walk to school every day. I would walk from /RD-ADDRESS-5/ all the way down | 779.1979 |
649 | | 779.5640 | to, which was that, /RD-ADDRESS-3/ | 781.4039 |
651 | | 782.4185 | every morning. Um, | 783.8429 |
653 | | 785.1112 | walk home every evening, you know, afternoon. | 787.7025 |
655 | | 789.0819 | Um, | 789.5957 |
657 | | 791.9461 | my- my whole high school experience was- | 793.7828 |
659 | | 794.5438 | was really awesome. | 795.4640 |
661 | | 797.0446 | <ts> It was awesome. Um, | 798.3603 |
662 | DCB_int_01 | 799.3814 | [How'd you meet-] | 800.0414 |
663 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 799.4071 | [teachers were bomb.] | 800.3864 |
664 | DCB_int_01 | 800.4956 | how'd you meet the friends who were your frie- like, some of the friends that still you close to today? | 804.6463 |
665 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 805.3043 | Most of 'em were in my home room. | 806.6850 |
666 | DCB_int_01 | 807.0980 | Mm. | 807.2874 |
667 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 807.6117 | Um, | 808.1512 |
669 | | 809.1947 | and then, you know, we had to switch classes so, you know, | 811.1053 |
671 | | 811.5644 | lot of us were in the same classes within, | 813.4448 |
673 | | 814.0709 | you know. | 814.3214 |
675 | | 814.7163 | That's mostly how I met | 815.4612 |
677 | | 816.1131 | my f- good friends. | 817.1534 |
679 | | 817.5098 | I had a f- | 818.1681 |
681 | | 818.5020 | maybe wa- I wanna say about | 821.2911 |
683 | | 822.2929 | maybe two- no, | 823.8309 |
685 | | 823.9658 | maybe about four good friends | 825.3208 |
687 | | 825.9489 | <ts> | 826.0163 |
689 | | 826.2989 | while in high school. | 827.5242 |
690 | DCB_int_01 | 827.6282 | Mm-hm. | 827.9855 |
691 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 828.0906 | Um, | 828.6204 |
693 | | 829.5869 | the funny thing is- | 830.6562 |
695 | | 830.8732 | Cause I used to teach preschool, | 832.2250 |
697 | | 832.5397 | I taught preschool for twenty years up until two thousand thirteen. | 835.3525 |
699 | | 835.6351 | <ts> | 835.7121 |
701 | | 836.0493 | And a lot of the children that I taught | 838.1383 |
703 | | 838.8640 | were from | 839.3168 |
705 | | 840.6268 | classmates. And they're like, oh, | 842.4988 |
707 | | 842.9053 | we went to school together, da da da da da. You know, then we started becoming close, you know, after that. | 847.3878 |
709 | | 847.9016 | Um, | 848.4635 |
711 | | 850.3117 | th- that- that's just- | 851.2943 |
713 | | 851.4227 | yeah, | 851.6539 |
715 | | 851.8433 | that was funny cause I'm like, wow I taught almost all my classmates' [kids.] (laughing) | 856.7902 |
716 | DCB_int_01 | 855.4640 | [<laugh>] | 856.0227 |
717 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 857.9814 | [Oh man.] | 859.0025 |
718 | DCB_int_01 | 858.3764 | [But you also had a] little boy at the same time, [so that probably] was- | 861.9232 |
719 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 860.3884 | [Mm-hm.] | 861.0370 |
720 | | 862.2636 | Yeah, so | 863.2622 |
722 | | 863.6924 | my son, | 864.5787 |
724 | | 864.9993 | I actually, um, | 866.2500 |
726 | | 867.4223 | <ts> | 867.5218 |
728 | | 868.1801 | adopted him when he was two. | 869.5654 |
730 | | 870.2897 | So I actually got him when he was | 871.9016 |
732 | | 872.0814 | two months old. | 873.0126 |
734 | | 873.5026 | His- um, | 874.3470 |
736 | | 874.8608 | his birth mother's cousin and I worked together. | 877.1342 |
738 | | 877.8823 | And | 878.5245 |
740 | | 879.2296 | so the birth m- um, | 880.4787 |
742 | | 880.7259 | <ts> | 880.8223 |
744 | | 881.3328 | the | 881.9525 |
746 | | 882.8548 | cousin, | 883.5095 |
748 | | 884.0300 | she asked me, | 884.7416 |
750 | | 884.8925 | you know, would I wanna get him, because she didn't have any more space in her house. | 888.0938 |
752 | | 888.8291 | Cause he also has a older brother from the birth mother, she had the older brother. | 891.6792 |
754 | | 892.4626 | And I was like, sure. You know, it's sposta been temporary. | 894.5979 |
756 | | 894.7264 | So I was like, yeah sure, | 895.8277 |
758 | | 896.2965 | I'll get him. | 896.8424 |
760 | | 897.6182 | <ts> | 897.6856 |
762 | | 897.9938 | And, um, so we worked everything out, and, you know, had to take the foster care classes and all this stuff. And I would go visit him cause at the time he was at St. Anne's Infant Home. | 905.0727 |
764 | | 905.9637 | <ts> /So/ I would go visit him and- | 907.4231 |
766 | | 908.2740 | So he was born December two thousand five, I got him that February. | 912.4288 |
768 | | 912.9640 | <ts> | 913.0571 |
770 | | 913.3011 | Um, | 913.8887 |
772 | | 914.4956 | And that was all she wrote. | 915.3227 |
774 | | 915.6792 | When he was like six months old, I decided to | 917.9268 |
776 | | 918.3539 | put in a petition | 919.3006 |
778 | | 919.7667 | to adopt him | 920.5630 |
780 | | 920.9021 | because, um, | 921.9938 |
782 | | 922.8544 | <ts> | 922.9314 |
784 | | 923.0374 | of the mother's and father's, you know, | 925.2467 |
786 | | 925.8887 | background, mental, | 926.7255 |
788 | | 926.8764 | you know, background or whatever. | 927.9392 |
790 | | 928.4337 | And, you know, I just want him to have a stable, | 930.6365 |
792 | | 931.5452 | you know, home. | 932.2078 |
793 | DCB_int_01 | 932.1989 | Mm-hm. | 932.6260 |
794 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 933.0755 | And, um, | 933.6888 |
796 | | 934.3599 | so we did that, you know, going back and forth to court for two years, and | 937.5355 |
797 | DCB_int_01 | 937.5394 | Mm. | 937.7173 |
798 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 938.6067 | finally <sigh> adopted him June nineteenth, two thousand eight. | 941.9846 |
800 | | 943.3589 | <ts> | 943.4649 |
802 | | 943.7860 | and that was the best day of my life. | 945.4865 |
804 | | 947.0149 | So, | 947.3906 |
806 | | 948.3732 | Yeah. | 948.7225 |
807 | DCB_int_01 | 948.8773 | And so what- | 949.5879 |
809 | | 950.3370 | being a mom [is] crazy. | 953.2911 |
810 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 951.8333 | [Mm-hm.] | 952.4133 |
811 | DCB_int_01 | 953.5576 | You get to do things, | 954.6718 |
813 | | 955.0988 | all the things you had to do but now you do them as- on the [other side as a parent.] So what has been some of their like, craziest things that you've had to do like | 961.8697 |
814 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 957.2328 | [Oh my god.] | 958.2700 |
815 | DCB_int_01 | 962.1617 | as- as momma? | 963.2887 |
816 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 964.3631 | Ooh, let's see, the craziest things? | 966.8227 |
818 | | 967.3172 | I feel like everything I do is crazy. | 968.8604 |
819 | DCB_int_01 | 968.8186 | <laugh> | 969.0851 |
820 | | 969.9425 | Taxi cab. | 970.9539 |
821 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 971.0342 | Oh man, | 972.2142 |
823 | | 973.3011 | taking him to- he- | 974.3980 |
825 | | 974.6131 | cause he's involved in a lot of sports. | 976.6424 |
827 | | 977.3232 | So, | 977.6796 |
829 | | 977.9525 | he became involved in sports when he was five years old. | 980.1645 |
830 | DCB_int_01 | 980.2824 | Mm. | 980.6356 |
831 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 980.7351 | So from then on that was just non-stop. | 982.4402 |
833 | | 983.2975 | Football, | 984.0713 |
835 | | 984.2094 | basketball, | 984.8921 |
837 | | 985.0603 | baseball, wrestling, | 986.5791 |
839 | | 987.0145 | what else he did? Uh, | 988.2507 |
841 | | 989.4934 | something else he did, I don't know. He did a- | 991.3589 |
843 | | 991.5773 | a lot of sports. | 992.2451 |
845 | | 992.7030 | Um, now he's a author. | 994.0677 |
847 | | 994.8929 | He became a author, | 995.8883 |
849 | | 996.4952 | um, | 996.9800 |
851 | | 998.2002 | October two thousand fifteen. | 999.5636 |
853 | | 999.9778 | <ts> | 1000.0484 |
855 | | 1000.4145 | So his book is doing well. | 1001.6989 |
857 | | 1002.2383 | And his movie just came out today, | 1003.9915 |
859 | | 1004.3190 | He did a short movie for his book, | 1005.5922 |
861 | | 1005.7241 | just came out today on YouTube. | 1007.0695 |
862 | DCB_int_01 | 1007.5897 | [Aw.] | 1008.1687 |
863 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1007.6411 | <ts> | 1007.6956 |
865 | | 1007.8626 | [/RD-WORK-7/] | 1008.9800 |
866 | DCB_int_01 | 1009.9851 | [I'll have to go watch it.] | 1011.1269 |
867 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1010.0332 | [His second book] | 1010.9933 |
869 | | 1011.1269 | is coming out in July. | 1012.2218 |
870 | | 1014.1966 | <laugh> | 1014.5562 |
871 | DCB_int_01 | 1014.6300 | [Wow.] | 1015.7924 |
872 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1015.6800 | [Yeah], so. | 1016.4374 |
873 | | 1017.1397 | It was like, | 1017.6824 |
875 | | 1018.3856 | I had to kind of put myself on the back burner | 1020.8452 |
877 | | 1021.5002 | <ts> | 1021.5612 |
879 | | 1021.7282 | with my, you know, business, trying to build my business, and I just been promoting him, promoting him. | 1025.4131 |
881 | | 1026.0392 | Um, | 1026.4855 |
883 | | 1027.1053 | but in the process of that, he was like, mom you should, you know, | 1029.5186 |
885 | | 1030.1480 | do a book. Cause I had a book that I did when I was | 1032.4791 |
887 | | 1032.8002 | working- uh, finishing up my bachelor's degree. | 1034.6337 |
888 | DCB_int_01 | 1034.7448 | Mm-hm. | 1035.0594 |
889 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1036.0099 | And I was like, well, okay, I said, let me send it to the publisher see how she like it, whatever. | 1039.8823 |
891 | | 1040.7383 | So my book came out | 1041.9071 |
893 | | 1043.7888 | in April. | 1044.2594 |
895 | | 1045.3718 | Mm-hm, it's a little children's book. | 1046.9227 |
896 | DCB_int_01 | 1047.1237 | [Okay.] | 1048.0356 |
897 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1047.7241 | [Yeah], | 1048.0641 |
898 | | 1048.2218 | so, | 1048.6392 |
900 | | 1049.3135 | yeah. | 1049.7631 |
901 | DCB_int_01 | 1049.7502 | So what's his book about? | 1050.8036 |
902 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1051.0089 | His book is about | 1052.1689 |
904 | | 1052.8218 | <ts> | 1052.9053 |
906 | | 1053.8815 | a superhero, superheroes. Uh, it's called /RD-WORK-7/. | 1057.3236 |
908 | | 1057.8181 | So if you look at the book, you think, okay it's just a fireman. But it's not what you think. | 1061.5479 |
910 | | 1062.2094 | So, him and his best friend in the book, | 1065.0383 |
912 | | 1065.4082 | <ts> | 1065.4886 |
914 | | 1065.9232 | um, | 1066.3856 |
916 | | 1066.6746 | discover they had super powers | 1068.0879 |
918 | | 1069.3140 | when they were like nine or ten or something like that. So they decide to use their superpowers | 1073.0278 |
920 | | 1073.2461 | for good. | 1073.8626 |
922 | | 1074.5112 | So they have, uh, | 1075.4906 |
924 | | 1075.7153 | two arch enemies | 1076.7846 |
926 | | 1077.1911 | <ts> | 1077.2810 |
928 | | 1077.5636 | which are, | 1078.3856 |
930 | | 1078.6360 | what is it, the- uh, the Destroyer, | 1080.5819 |
932 | | 1080.9126 | and Bang. | 1081.5837 |
934 | | 1081.9208 | So, in the book, | 1082.7525 |
936 | | 1083.2264 | that's what they're doing, defeating their- um, | 1085.1315 |
938 | | 1086.1644 | <ts> | 1086.2383 |
940 | | 1086.6814 | their arch enemies. <laugh> | 1088.0750 |
941 | DCB_int_01 | 1088.4314 | Excellent. | 1089.6021 |
942 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1089.5925 | It's really cute, and he wrote it | 1090.9346 |
943 | | 1091.2461 | actually when he was eight years old. | 1092.6782 |
945 | | 1093.2786 | And | 1094.0107 |
947 | | 1094.8103 | I remember the day he wrote it, | 1095.9874 |
949 | | 1096.5172 | he was like, here Ma, I wrote a book. I said, okay, | 1098.4310 |
951 | | 1099.3846 | put it to the side. | 1100.1810 |
953 | | 1101.7305 | <ts> | 1101.8301 |
955 | | 1102.0773 | That was the worst thing I ever did, but. | 1103.5223 |
957 | | 1104.1998 | My girlfriend, she wrote a book, | 1105.6030 |
959 | | 1106.0364 | and she was like, my book is out, you know, | 1107.8750 |
961 | | 1108.3181 | da da da. I was like, okay. I said, well, you know what, I said, /RD-NAME-2/ wrote a book. | 1111.8115 |
963 | | 1112.2291 | I said, but you know what, I never read it. She said, what? Whatchu mean you ain't read it? I said, well let me get it right now, so. | 1117.3814 |
964 | DCB_int_01 | 1117.5580 | [<laugh>] | 1118.5406 |
965 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1118.4282 | [I] picked it up and I started reading, I said, | 1120.0259 |
966 | | 1120.4723 | well, dang. | 1121.0824 |
968 | | 1121.5704 | I said, | 1122.0103 |
970 | | 1122.3154 | this book is good. So I | 1123.4360 |
972 | | 1123.8727 | emailed her the book. | 1124.8199 |
974 | | 1125.6842 | <ts> | 1125.7760 |
976 | | 1126.1704 | And she said, girl you need to send this to my publisher. | 1128.3089 |
978 | | 1128.7071 | She gave me the publisher information, | 1130.2869 |
980 | | 1130.5695 | I emailed it to the publisher, the publisher got back with me just like that. | 1133.4709 |
982 | | 1133.9268 | She said, now how old is this boy? Cause at the time he was nine then. | 1136.8777 |
984 | | 1137.6759 | Uh, | 1138.4177 |
986 | | 1138.7548 | you sure he's nine years old | 1140.0392 |
988 | | 1140.3956 | for him to write this book? | 1141.3975 |
990 | | 1141.6640 | I was like, yeah. She said, you need to get his IQ checked, she was like, cause this is really good. | 1144.8447 |
992 | | 1145.1337 | She said, I wanna publish this book. | 1146.3378 |
994 | | 1146.7585 | <ts> | 1146.8580 |
996 | | 1146.9736 | So I was like, okay. So I had to find a illustrator, whatever. So we got his | 1150.5614 |
998 | | 1150.7002 | art teacher at his school | 1151.8522 |
1000 | | 1152.2190 | to [do the illustrations.] | 1153.4681 |
1001 | DCB_int_01 | 1152.3282 | [/Mm./] | 1152.7449 |
1002 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1154.1039 | Um, | 1154.7172 |
1004 | | 1156.1801 | and then, you know, the book came out in October, that was all she wrote. | 1159.1406 |
1006 | | 1159.2979 | And he [just been going-] | 1160.2805 |
1007 | DCB_int_01 | 1159.5291 | [Did they buy some books] for the club? | 1160.9184 |
1008 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1161.2553 | <ts> | 1161.3067 |
1010 | | 1161.6310 | Um, /?/ mm-hm, the club actually bought like- | 1164.0582 |
1012 | | 1165.0956 | I think they bought like, five books. | 1166.7750 |
1014 | | 1167.1847 | [Mm-hm, I think] one is, um, sitting out there. | 1169.1466 |
1015 | DCB_int_01 | 1167.2553 | [Awesome.] | 1167.8364 |
1016 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1169.7878 | <ts> | 1169.8509 |
1018 | | 1169.9365 | Um, | 1170.3860 |
1020 | | 1170.7938 | so, | 1171.2209 |
1022 | | 1171.5355 | the funny part was | 1172.7862 |
1024 | | 1174.1993 | January, before his book came out, | 1176.2094 |
1026 | | 1177.7635 | um, | 1178.3222 |
1028 | | 1179.2746 | was it January two thousand fifteen, | 1180.7837 |
1030 | | 1181.2879 | he met, uh, | 1182.0617 |
1032 | | 1182.6140 | President Obama here. | 1183.5901 |
1033 | DCB_int_01 | 1183.5997 | Mm-hm. | 1184.0357 |
1034 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1185.6695 | That was like the highlight | 1186.8208 |
1036 | | 1188.0906 | of his life. | 1188.8580 |
1038 | | 1189.4617 | And I didn't know | 1190.5438 |
1040 | | 1190.9374 | that he was gonna meet him. You know, they didn't tell the kids tell the parents, it was, you know, a surprise. | 1194.3250 |
1042 | | 1194.7135 | So when I came to pick 'em up, | 1195.7402 |
1044 | | 1196.0107 | <ts> | 1196.0718 |
1046 | | 1196.1520 | one of the police officers was like, are you /RD-NAME-2/'s mom? | 1198.4241 |
1048 | | 1198.7709 | And I was like, yeah. | 1199.6828 |
1050 | | 1200.1099 | He was like, | 1200.4419 |
1052 | | 1200.6654 | oh my god, your son got to meet the President. I was like, | 1203.1763 |
1054 | | 1203.5571 | the President who? | 1204.2475 |
1056 | | 1205.2911 | He's like, the President of the United States. I said, are you serious? | 1207.4809 |
1058 | | 1207.9401 | He was like, | 1208.4668 |
1060 | | 1209.1526 | I sat over there | 1210.1062 |
1062 | | 1210.6360 | and I listened to their whole conversation. He said, your son | 1212.9640 |
1064 | | 1213.7924 | is very gifted | 1214.6915 |
1066 | | 1215.2168 | and your son is very intelligent. He said, he even had | 1217.8562 |
1068 | | 1218.2094 | President Obama in awe like, | 1219.7314 |
1070 | | 1221.1365 | wow, wait a minute, how old is this kid? | 1222.8480 |
1072 | | 1223.4934 | I was like, really? He said, their conversations is just like- | 1226.0814 |
1074 | | 1226.9567 | He was like, yeah you got a special one [right there. I] was like, oh okay. | 1230.4502 |
1075 | DCB_int_01 | 1228.8897 | [/Yup/.] | 1229.4177 |
1076 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1231.9048 | So that been like, the highlight | 1233.3337 |
1078 | | 1233.9938 | of his life. Um, | 1235.3392 |
1079 | DCB_int_01 | 1235.4773 | <laugh> | 1236.1484 |
1080 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1236.5369 | so even on the- um, | 1237.8764 |
1082 | | 1238.1411 | <ts> | 1238.2053 |
1084 | | 1238.3254 | when we did the books, on the back of the book it has a picture of him | 1241.0470 |
1085 | DCB_int_01 | 1241.4516 | [Sitting next to- Mm-hm.] | 1242.7039 |
1086 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1241.5576 | [with Pres- mm-hm,] | 1242.7114 |
1087 | DCB_int_01 | 1242.8066 | I [use that picture.] | 1243.9680 |
1088 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1242.8259 | <ts> | 1242.8805 |
1090 | | 1243.0635 | [with President Obama], mm-hm, so. | 1245.1783 |
1091 | | 1245.8815 | Yeah, and then, um, | 1247.2365 |
1093 | | 1247.5190 | we sent- uh, | 1248.6140 |
1095 | | 1248.8805 | he sent some gifts to President Obama. I think we had a, uh- | 1251.4139 |
1097 | | 1251.8782 | It- | 1252.0099 |
1099 | | 1252.3535 | the kids went back to the White House for an event | 1254.2832 |
1101 | | 1254.9768 | and | 1255.5323 |
1103 | | 1255.7314 | he took one of his books, | 1256.8127 |
1105 | | 1257.3484 | um, and somebody, uh, | 1258.8512 |
1107 | | 1259.2108 | I think a representative said they'll make sure he get it or whatever. | 1261.7539 |
1109 | | 1261.9337 | <ts> | 1262.0204 |
1111 | | 1262.3177 | And he- he end up getting a personal letter from President Obama, | 1265.1401 |
1113 | | 1265.8177 | thanking him for the gifts and remember his time with him at the Boys and Girls Club and everything. | 1269.8044 |
1115 | | 1270.5204 | And he was like, Ma, | 1271.6378 |
1117 | | 1271.8851 | look, | 1272.4566 |
1119 | | 1272.6718 | he didn't sign | 1273.6415 |
1121 | | 1274.3158 | sincerely. | 1275.0575 |
1123 | | 1275.3195 | He said, | 1275.9039 |
1125 | | 1276.0966 | your friend, | 1276.9154 |
1127 | | 1278.2351 | President Barack Obama. I said, okay. | 1280.5277 |
1128 | DCB_int_01 | 1280.5553 | [<laugh>] | 1280.8700 |
1129 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1280.7929 | [He] said, so | 1281.5315 |
1130 | | 1281.7113 | you know what that mean. | 1282.5429 |
1132 | | 1283.0727 | That's like my best friend, w- he said, your friend. | 1284.9736 |
1134 | | 1285.3043 | I said, [okay, he said], so you know when he get out of office I'm'a have to go find out where he live at. I said, I know. (laughing) | 1289.9557 |
1135 | DCB_int_01 | 1285.9626 | [<laugh>] | 1286.2869 |
1136 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1292.9727 | [<sigh>] | 1293.6274 |
1137 | DCB_int_01 | 1293.5026 | [Hello,] | 1293.9521 |
1138 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1293.9489 | Right, [right.] | 1294.8993 |
1139 | DCB_int_01 | 1294.4048 | [your friend's] here, I'm here. | 1295.5640 |
1140 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1295.5736 | Right. | 1296.0392 |
1142 | | 1296.4502 | So- and it was so funny cause right after he got that letter- | 1298.9965 |
1144 | | 1300.0998 | So h- he got the letter like, on the weekend, that Saturday. Then Monday, | 1303.1470 |
1146 | | 1303.3108 | I'm sitting in here, I get a phone call, | 1304.9516 |
1148 | | 1306.1030 | <ts> | 1306.1769 |
1150 | | 1306.4498 | from the White House. | 1307.3378 |
1152 | | 1308.1580 | So, | 1308.5369 |
1154 | | 1308.9287 | I'm like, okay. They were like, yes, um, | 1311.2277 |
1156 | | 1311.4319 | <ts> | 1311.5058 |
1158 | | 1311.7305 | we wanna invite you and /RD-NAME-2/ to the White House, uh, | 1315.2465 |
1160 | | 1315.9208 | you know, uh, for a special event or whatever. | 1318.3599 |
1162 | | 1318.6553 | Um, | 1319.3649 |
1164 | | 1320.3218 | <ts> | 1320.3732 |
1166 | | 1320.5209 | you know, | 1320.9022 |
1168 | | 1321.0539 | President Obama appreciate the gifts and stuff that, you know, you gave and everything. /I/ was like- I was like, oh, okay. | 1326.0874 |
1170 | | 1326.6300 | So, | 1327.1020 |
1172 | | 1327.6897 | I think during- I think it was Christmas, right before Christmas, | 1330.3246 |
1174 | | 1330.9250 | a week before Christmas. So we got to get, um, | 1333.5837 |
1176 | | 1334.3055 | <ts> | 1334.3859 |
1178 | | 1334.4879 | the special tour of the White House with the, you know, Christmas decorations and everything. | 1338.6525 |
1180 | | 1339.3300 | So, it was like, unfortunately President Obama wasn't there. | 1342.0613 |
1182 | | 1342.3310 | But | 1342.6938 |
1184 | | 1343.0791 | it was still nice. | 1343.9565 |
1185 | DCB_int_01 | 1344.4021 | [Wow. Okay] /RD-NAME-2/. | 1346.3369 |
1186 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1344.8965 | [Yeah.] | 1345.4167 |
1187 | | 1346.4410 | Yeah. | 1346.8784 |
1188 | DCB_int_01 | 1347.1108 | Uh-oh, in twenty, thirty years we might see /RD-NAME-2/ in the White [House, President] /RD-NAME-2/. | 1351.0089 |
1189 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1349.6154 | [Yeah.] | 1350.2247 |
1190 | | 1351.0346 | So he's very into politics and stuff like that. More than I am, like, | 1354.6842 |
1192 | | 1355.4034 | but yeah. | 1355.8390 |
1193 | DCB_int_01 | 1356.2351 | I'm'a have to talk to /RD-NAME-2/, I need to interview /RD-NAME-2/ [now.] | 1358.5566 |
1194 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1358.2644 | [No, for] real, [cause] that- | 1359.3947 |
1195 | DCB_int_01 | 1358.9760 | [Cause] | 1359.1847 |
1196 | | 1360.1961 | I remember | 1361.0599 |
1198 | | 1361.4452 | when I first started coming here, it was like three- when I first started here. Because [remember everybody] left, | 1365.7530 |
1199 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1364.6305 | [Mm-hm. | 1365.0800 |
1200 | | 1365.9007 | [Exactly. | 1366.6039 |
1201 | DCB_int_01 | 1366.0227 | [So it was like it was] just three of us, so I was here [every day.] | 1368.3667 |
1202 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1367.8273 | [Yes.] | 1368.5465 |
1203 | DCB_int_01 | 1368.9929 | And I would just rem- He would always come to Miss /RD-NAME-2/'s desk, | 1371.4094 |
1204 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1371.2136 | [Mm-hm.] | 1372.0099 |
1205 | DCB_int_01 | 1371.5828 | [and make sure]. And she would ask him, do you have any homework, [and he'll say yes or no], and he'll do his little stuff. | 1375.7250 |
1206 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1373.7502 | [Mm-hm.] | 1374.5947 |
1207 | DCB_int_01 | 1375.9786 | Then he'll go play, he'll come back, or he'll get a book. | 1378.4466 |
1209 | | 1378.7580 | I mean, he was always- But you could tell he was very intelligent. Even like- [Cause it- he was about] six at that point, [six, seven.] | 1384.8030 |
1210 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1382.5373 | [Oh my god.] | 1383.2566 |
1212 | | 1384.1769 | [Yeah.] | 1384.6009 |
1213 | DCB_int_01 | 1385.4452 | And so, um, | 1386.6873 |
1215 | | 1386.8998 | that's great. I'm s- [congra- I'm-] I'm looking forward to reading it. | 1389.9103 |
1216 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1387.8052 | [Oh yeah.] | 1388.3383 |
1217 | | 1389.9360 | Yeah. | 1390.4145 |
1218 | DCB_int_01 | 1390.4498 | Um, [and I'll have] to talk to him, too. | 1392.6365 |
1219 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1391.0727 | [Yeah.] | 1391.4794 |
1220 | | 1392.7296 | Yeah [he's] | 1393.5227 |
1221 | DCB_int_01 | 1393.1438 | [Cause-] | 1393.4199 |
1222 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1393.9208 | very intelligent, he's been on the honor roll, | 1396.1576 |
1224 | | 1397.0663 | uh, this year, cause he set a goal for hisself this year. | 1399.7796 |
1226 | | 1400.0878 | <ts> | 1400.1488 |
1228 | | 1400.9824 | Before school started, he said Ma, | 1402.4851 |
1230 | | 1402.5975 | my goal | 1403.3424 |
1232 | | 1403.8112 | is to make honor roll | 1404.9543 |
1234 | | 1405.9016 | this year | 1406.4860 |
1236 | | 1407.5539 | for almost the whole school year. I said, okay, | 1409.2879 |
1238 | | 1410.4599 | <ts> | 1410.5176 |
1240 | | 1410.6525 | So he didn't- he almost made it the, um, first semester, | 1413.3934 |
1242 | | 1413.7081 | first report card session. | 1414.7773 |
1244 | | 1415.5512 | But the last two, | 1416.3699 |
1245 | DCB_int_01 | 1416.9351 | He made it. | 1417.4969 |
1246 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1417.5259 | Yeah. | 1418.0268 |
1248 | | 1418.5084 | Like, his second- his third report card is like, almost | 1421.1016 |
1250 | | 1421.8851 | all A's. | 1422.6172 |
1252 | | 1423.5034 | I'm like, oh my god, you better work, /RD-NAME-2/. | 1425.5250 |
1253 | DCB_int_01 | 1425.6214 | [Mm-hm.] | 1426.6135 |
1254 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1426.4369 | [I said], see? | 1427.1305 |
1255 | | 1427.6475 | Cause you know how boys are sometimes, you know, they get in their, | 1429.8791 |
1257 | | 1430.2599 | I don't wanna do that /?/. | 1431.0530 |
1259 | | 1431.2425 | I said, you see why Mommy push you? | 1432.6842 |
1261 | | 1432.8865 | He was like, yeah. I said, but this is a goal that you set for [yourself.] | 1435.7667 |
1262 | DCB_int_01 | 1435.5130 | [Self], right. | 1436.2516 |
1263 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1436.7589 | I said, and you- | 1437.4897 |
1265 | | 1437.6567 | you know, you completed that goal. | 1439.0470 |
1267 | | 1440.6268 | So he was so proud of [himself.] | 1442.0140 |
1268 | DCB_int_01 | 1441.6961 | [/Himself./] | 1442.0075 |
1269 | | 1442.7846 | Ex- So now he's going into fourth grade? | 1445.0438 |
1271 | | 1445.1883 | [Fifth] grade. | 1445.6283 |
1272 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1445.2622 | [/?/] | 1445.3750 |
1274 | | 1445.5993 | F- yeah, he'll be in fifth grade next year. | 1447.4520 |
1275 | | 1447.8791 | It'll be his last year of elementary. | 1449.2598 |
1277 | | 1449.6727 | <cries> | 1450.2250 |
1278 | DCB_int_01 | 1450.5076 | Ooh, you gonna have a middle [schooler. Are you] ready for that? | 1452.8862 |
1279 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1451.4420 | [<sigh>] | 1452.2660 |
1281 | | 1452.8612 | Girl I'm not. | 1453.7571 |
1282 | DCB_int_01 | 1453.9818 | Is he your only [son? Only child? Only child.] | 1456.4032 |
1283 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1454.7030 | [He's my only son, my only child,] | 1456.6585 |
1284 | | 1456.8094 | yeah. | 1457.2044 |
1286 | | 1458.0360 | I never had /any-/ And, you know, he's going through the puberty [thing now.] | 1461.8975 |
1287 | DCB_int_01 | 1461.0723 | [Mm-hm.] | 1461.8975 |
1288 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1462.3342 | So, you know, we- | 1463.1819 |
1290 | | 1463.8144 | I'm like, oh I can't, I don't know. [<laugh>] | 1467.3016 |
1291 | DCB_int_01 | 1465.7614 | [<laugh>] | 1466.9320 |
1293 | | 1467.0498 | [I love] you but I wanna hit you right [now cause you're getting on my nerves.] | 1469.8484 |
1294 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1468.4337 | [Yes.] | 1469.1787 |
1296 | | 1469.6571 | [Yes.] | 1470.4117 |
1297 | DCB_int_01 | 1469.9686 | [Mm-hm.] | 1470.3764 |
1298 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1470.9447 | Just this morning. I'm just like, | 1472.7159 |
1299 | DCB_int_01 | 1473.2553 | [<laugh>] | 1475.1080 |
1300 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1473.4255 | [<sigh>] | 1473.9778 |
1302 | | 1475.0117 | [But he's-] he's a very sweet child. | 1476.5915 |
1303 | | 1477.0539 | He's very sweet, he's very caring. | 1478.9072 |
1305 | | 1479.8943 | That's one thing I love about him. | 1481.0470 |
1307 | | 1482.0713 | <ts> | 1482.1677 |
1309 | | 1482.3089 | And | 1482.6172 |
1311 | | 1482.8098 | just like me, cause I always teach him to give back, so he always love, | 1485.4319 |
1313 | | 1486.0195 | you know, giving back. So even with his book, um, sales, | 1488.8452 |
1315 | | 1489.2337 | he gives- um, | 1490.1745 |
1317 | | 1490.3896 | he's gonna give, uh, some of his proceeds to | 1492.7356 |
1319 | | 1493.1177 | St. Anne's Infant Home. | 1494.1420 |
1320 | DCB_int_01 | 1494.7842 | <ts> | 1494.8612 |
1322 | | 1495.2497 | I love that. | 1496.0507 |
1324 | | 1496.3126 | I love that. | 1497.3252 |
1325 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1497.3324 | [Mm-hm.] | 1498.1244 |
1326 | DCB_int_01 | 1497.7081 | [That is] wonderful. | 1498.7998 |
1327 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1498.7773 | <ts> | 1498.8287 |
1328 | | 1499.0438 | We had a- um, | 1499.9557 |
1330 | | 1500.3699 | he had to do something for his school, we had, uh, lemonade day. | 1503.0029 |
1331 | DCB_int_01 | 1503.2360 | Mm-hm. | 1503.6053 |
1332 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1503.7659 | So, they had to pick, um, | 1505.4645 |
1334 | | 1506.3956 | <ts> | 1506.4502 |
1336 | | 1506.6108 | somewhere they wanna donate their money to, you know, some of or all of it. | 1509.6952 |
1338 | | 1510.0966 | So we made like, | 1510.6553 |
1340 | | 1512.0264 | about forty-five dollars, so he donated | 1513.7603 |
1342 | | 1514.4346 | all the forty-five dollars to | 1515.7145 |
1344 | | 1516.1512 | The Boys and Girls Club. | 1517.0470 |
1345 | DCB_int_01 | 1517.9718 | But, see, you're teaching him young, [the importance] of- Because somebody gave so that he could have different [experiences.] | 1523.7948 |
1346 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1519.3236 | [Mm-hm.] | 1519.8369 |
1348 | | 1523.2879 | [And that's what I] told him. | 1524.3154 |
1349 | DCB_int_01 | 1524.5144 | And [now he's making-] | 1525.7638 |
1350 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1524.7264 | [I said, did you every no-] yeah, I said, you ever notice every time you give, | 1528.1191 |
1351 | | 1528.7998 | I said, you- you get | 1529.9493 |
1353 | | 1530.3956 | something even more spectacular | 1532.2130 |
1355 | | 1532.8681 | back? | 1533.4054 |
1357 | | 1534.7291 | I said, but you're not doing it for that reason, you just, you know, [giving because] you want to, but, | 1538.3761 |
1358 | DCB_int_01 | 1537.1952 | [/Giving./] | 1537.4978 |
1359 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1538.6850 | did you ever no- He was like, you know what, Ma? He was like, you right. | 1540.9314 |
1361 | | 1542.2736 | He said, I never really did notice that, he said, but, | 1544.1841 |
1363 | | 1544.6176 | he said, you know, I like giving. | 1545.8237 |
1365 | | 1547.0567 | I was like, that's so good. He's [so funny.] | 1548.9094 |
1366 | DCB_int_01 | 1548.4149 | [/That's-/] | 1548.7351 |
1367 | | 1549.7410 | Do you have any family traditions? So | 1551.5860 |
1369 | | 1551.7337 | do you have a big family that's still in the area? | 1553.9911 |
1370 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1554.2126 | Yeah, | 1554.4727 |
1372 | | 1554.7135 | a lot of my family here. | 1555.5922 |
1373 | DCB_int_01 | 1555.7378 | Oh okay, do [y'all have like] family traditions, or? | 1558.3053 |
1374 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1556.1668 | [Mm-hm.] | 1556.6121 |
1375 | | 1558.4177 | <exhale> Now, before | 1560.0777 |
1377 | | 1561.4938 | all the- the fun relatives passed like my aunts and my- my mom, my un- | 1565.5558 |
1379 | | 1565.9686 | We used to have like, | 1566.9415 |
1381 | | 1567.4681 | big cookout | 1568.2130 |
1383 | | 1568.5617 | like every year, you know, get | 1570.1287 |
1385 | | 1570.3470 | the family together during Christmas and | 1571.9461 |
1387 | | 1572.7135 | stuff like that. So, | 1573.8052 |
1389 | | 1574.0300 | it's really been hard, | 1575.2116 |
1391 | | 1575.9489 | <ts> | 1576.0035 |
1393 | | 1576.4980 | so. | 1577.1145 |
1395 | | 1577.7149 | Usually everybody try to depend on me and I'm like, I can't do everything cause I'm tired. | 1580.9811 |
1397 | | 1581.1205 | You know, do everything. | 1582.0677 |
1399 | | 1582.5140 | But like with my siblings now, um, since my mom passed, it's been about seven years, | 1586.7396 |
1401 | | 1587.7177 | <ts> I'll try to do, | 1588.6778 |
1403 | | 1589.2140 | um, | 1589.7213 |
1405 | | 1589.8369 | like either something for Christmas or | 1591.4103 |
1407 | | 1591.8117 | for Thanksgiving. | 1592.7397 |
1408 | DCB_int_01 | 1592.9599 | [Mm.] | 1593.2553 |
1409 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1593.1461 | [So] either me or one of my other sis- uh, one of my other sisters. | 1596.5080 |
1410 | | 1596.9094 | So, and | 1597.7218 |
1412 | | 1597.9176 | we had, uh, was it Christmas at my house? | 1600.1480 |
1414 | | 1600.8415 | We had Christmas at my house, I was not expecting them to stay all day. | 1603.4922 |
1415 | DCB_int_01 | 1604.5232 | <laugh> | 1604.6003 |
1416 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1605.0787 | I said we gonna have Christmas breakfast. | 1606.5879 |
1418 | | 1607.5608 | They ain't leave my house until like, one o'clock in the morning. I said, wait a minute didn't I say we just gonna have breakfast? I end up | 1612.7869 |
1420 | | 1613.2879 | making breakfast, making [dinner.] | 1615.1566 |
1421 | DCB_int_01 | 1614.4952 | [<laugh>] | 1615.1598 |
1422 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1615.6222 | But we had such a good time. | 1617.2855 |
1424 | | 1618.0195 | <ts> | 1618.1030 |
1426 | | 1618.3406 | I loved it, we had a good time. /RD-NAME-2/ was just like, | 1620.2993 |
1428 | | 1620.7103 | we need to do this a lot, Ma. | 1622.1231 |
1430 | | 1622.3755 | He said, I love having my aunts and uncles and cousins over. I was like, yeah it was fun. | 1625.9878 |
1431 | DCB_int_01 | 1626.0392 | How many of them are y- how many brothers and sisters do you have? | 1628.8199 |
1432 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1628.8764 | It's- uh, | 1629.7577 |
1434 | | 1630.1512 | I'm the eldest of seven. | 1631.4843 |
1435 | DCB_int_01 | 1632.2222 | Oh okay. And how many kids? So I know he had a lot of kids to play with. | 1635.7607 |
1436 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1635.9136 | Actually, | 1636.6135 |
1438 | | 1637.4580 | it's just he- it's him, | 1638.9511 |
1440 | | 1640.0910 | uh, | 1640.6401 |
1442 | | 1640.7910 | my nephew, well, now I have two nephews. | 1642.6577 |
1444 | | 1643.0759 | Um, | 1643.6057 |
1446 | | 1644.9415 | so my two nephews and my niece. My niece wasn't- | 1647.3131 |
1448 | | 1647.5347 | /??/ she wasn't able to make it cause she was still with her dad. | 1650.1484 |
1450 | | 1650.6846 | But | 1650.9993 |
1451 | DCB_int_01 | 1651.4039 | Oh. | 1651.6672 |
1452 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1652.1103 | yeah, it was- | 1653.3156 |
1454 | | 1653.5957 | it was /fine./ | 1654.1191 |
1455 | DCB_int_01 | 1654.1319 | It was fun? | 1654.6328 |
1456 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1654.9025 | It was fun. | 1655.4356 |
1457 | DCB_int_01 | 1656.0745 | So, | 1656.5241 |
1459 | | 1657.9337 | tell me a little bit about | 1659.3324 |
1461 | | 1659.5732 | your business. Cause I've- | 1660.9154 |
1463 | | 1661.0920 | well, [just] tell- I'll let you tell me [about it.] | 1663.0988 |
1464 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1661.2557 | [Okay.] | 1661.5445 |
1466 | | 1662.7906 | [Okay.] | 1663.1020 |
1467 | | 1663.4970 | Well, my business is called /RD-WORK-9/ | 1666.7773 |
1469 | | 1667.2236 | and | 1667.9300 |
1471 | | 1668.7970 | I started it in | 1670.7075 |
1473 | | 1671.0016 | two thousand thirteen. | 1672.3576 |
1475 | | 1672.4883 | <ts> | 1672.5975 |
1477 | | 1672.8030 | Um, | 1673.3521 |
1479 | | 1674.1484 | two thousand eleven | 1675.8470 |
1481 | | 1676.8617 | I started on my mission to lose weight. | 1678.7516 |
1483 | | 1679.1690 | Um, | 1679.7544 |
1485 | | 1679.8562 | I was having some issues. | 1681.1117 |
1487 | | 1681.5933 | Uh, | 1682.0589 |
1489 | | 1682.2355 | so let me back track a little bit. | 1683.3035 |
1491 | | 1683.6021 | I couldn't- | 1684.0484 |
1493 | | 1685.8433 | before I got /RD-NAME-2/ | 1686.9254 |
1495 | | 1687.2594 | I found out I couldn't have children. | 1688.5373 |
1497 | | 1689.3292 | <ts | 1689.3870 |
1499 | | 1689.6631 | So I had to, uh, end up getting a hysterectomy cause I had, uh, reoccurrences with fibroids and stuff like that. | 1694.7236 |
1500 | DCB_int_01 | 1694.7043 | Mm-hm. | 1694.9805 |
1501 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1695.6374 | <ts> | 1695.7016 |
1503 | | 1696.1769 | So, um, | 1697.3521 |
1505 | | 1698.5787 | two thousand eleven- | 1700.4571 |
1507 | | 1701.7466 | no, two thousand seven I had my hysterectomy. | 1704.6332 |
1509 | | 1704.8837 | <ts> | 1704.9415 |
1511 | | 1705.5323 | So, | 1705.9256 |
1513 | | 1706.2387 | after that I still had like all this weight on me or whatever, | 1708.9411 |
1515 | | 1709.5190 | and just having problems like, | 1710.7328 |
1517 | | 1710.9254 | you know, losing weight. | 1711.7041 |
1519 | | 1712.3800 | Um, | 1712.8777 |
1521 | | 1713.4512 | went to a doctor, found out I had a fatty liver. | 1715.4163 |
1523 | | 1716.1099 | Put me on a diet, uh, | 1717.6575 |
1525 | | 1718.2182 | /told me/, you know, things I c- | 1719.2585 |
1527 | | 1719.4897 | shouldn't eat or whatever. | 1720.3342 |
1529 | | 1720.8512 | So I started with that, I started going to a weight loss clinic, um, | 1724.1071 |
1531 | | 1725.2521 | called Decalo | 1726.0227 |
1533 | | 1726.4723 | and | 1727.0984 |
1535 | | 1727.4869 | you know, started on my journey. | 1728.5723 |
1537 | | 1729.1020 | <ts> | 1729.1695 |
1539 | | 1729.5837 | Then I was trying to find the right, uh, | 1731.7530 |
1541 | | 1732.7356 | exercise for me, | 1733.7856 |
1542 | DCB_int_01 | 1734.1998 | Mm-hm. | 1734.5947 |
1543 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1735.2626 | uh, as far as, you know, working out. | 1737.0279 |
1545 | | 1737.2714 | Cause a lot of things I was doing just wasn't working. | 1738.9282 |
1547 | | 1739.6860 | So two of my girlfriends, | 1741.1695 |
1549 | | 1742.0878 | <ts> | 1742.1456 |
1551 | | 1742.2227 | uh, started up this, | 1743.6663 |
1553 | | 1743.7723 | uh, | 1744.2475 |
1555 | | 1744.5911 | exercise called go go fitness. | 1746.2383 |
1557 | | 1747.4071 | So I started going to the classes on Saturdays, cause at the time it was just on Saturdays and | 1751.5062 |
1559 | | 1752.2865 | I was just going like every Saturday, I just found myself just going, just going. | 1755.3016 |
1561 | | 1755.6535 | And then eventually, | 1756.6007 |
1563 | | 1757.5287 | um, I made up a routine | 1759.2562 |
1565 | | 1759.7860 | and eventually they made me a part of | 1761.5900 |
1567 | | 1761.9874 | <ts> | 1762.0420 |
1569 | | 1762.1159 | their, um, | 1762.8030 |
1571 | | 1763.6250 | fitness group. | 1764.2255 |
1572 | DCB_int_01 | 1764.3475 | Mm. | 1764.5690 |
1573 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1765.1309 | So that's how I started out with fitness. | 1766.5443 |
1575 | | 1766.9182 | So then I end up going to get my Zumba, um, | 1769.2365 |
1577 | | 1769.6282 | license. | 1770.3314 |
1579 | | 1771.3782 | And | 1772.0525 |
1581 | | 1773.2264 | I started teaching, uh, | 1774.3310 |
1583 | | 1774.7227 | go go fitness class down here. | 1776.3410 |
1585 | | 1776.5048 | I taught, uh, | 1777.3172 |
1587 | | 1777.4007 | h- | 1777.5452 |
1589 | | 1777.6511 | here for | 1778.3929 |
1591 | | 1779.1571 | almost three years. | 1779.9649 |
1592 | DCB_int_01 | 1780.5108 | Mm-hm. | 1780.9379 |
1593 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1781.0246 | Yeah, about three years. | 1782.2319 |
1595 | | 1782.5658 | Um, it was just adults at the time, then I started doing it for the kids, too. | 1786.0902 |
1597 | | 1786.7677 | Um, | 1787.3649 |
1599 | | 1788.7617 | so my business | 1789.8084 |
1601 | | 1790.2259 | the reason I started my business, because I was on the mission to lose weight, | 1793.4805 |
1603 | | 1793.8530 | my mom, | 1794.5883 |
1605 | | 1794.7456 | she had diabetes. Um, | 1796.5662 |
1607 | | 1797.6214 | she didn't pass exactly of the diabetes, but, | 1800.3892 |
1609 | | 1800.9736 | you know, that's part [of,] | 1802.0846 |
1610 | DCB_int_01 | 1801.9144 | [Of] it. | 1802.2671 |
1611 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1802.4635 | you know, her illness. | 1803.3272 |
1613 | | 1803.6824 | And | 1804.2507 |
1615 | | 1804.6103 | before she died, a year before she died, she was like, baby | 1807.4809 |
1617 | | 1807.7121 | <ts> | 1807.7988 |
1619 | | 1808.2644 | I want you to get yourself together, | 1809.6246 |
1621 | | 1810.3631 | she said, cause I don't want you to be like me. | 1811.9622 |
1623 | | 1812.7970 | She said, you know, I know it's /???/ thing is going on with me that I don't know, | 1816.0420 |
1625 | | 1816.4177 | but the issue is- she said, but | 1817.6667 |
1627 | | 1818.1644 | I just want you | 1819.1020 |
1629 | | 1819.4970 | to be healthy and be around, | 1821.1153 |
1631 | | 1821.5571 | you know, for | 1822.3611 |
1633 | | 1822.7002 | your son. | 1823.2012 |
1635 | | 1823.9622 | I was like, okay. And I never forgot about that. | 1826.1199 |
1637 | | 1826.2406 | So, | 1826.6902 |
1639 | | 1827.4608 | I was like, you know what, | 1828.3085 |
1641 | | 1828.6264 | I said, I'm gon- I'm gonna start my business. | 1830.7232 |
1643 | | 1831.9144 | It- | 1832.0685 |
1645 | | 1832.1925 | the funny part is my business became | 1834.0773 |
1647 | | 1834.3342 | final on my birthday | 1835.6475 |
1649 | | 1836.8869 | in two thousand [thirteen. I was like, yes], I got everything in the mail. | 1840.2250 |
1650 | DCB_int_01 | 1837.6543 | [<laugh>] | 1838.6369 |
1651 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1840.7741 | Like, I was like, oh my god I can't believe this. But my business is because my mom. | 1844.5406 |
1653 | | 1845.2457 | <ts> | 1845.3035 |
1655 | | 1845.5282 | So- and, | 1846.5301 |
1657 | | 1846.8672 | I wanted to help, | 1847.5255 |
1659 | | 1849.1695 | um, | 1849.7314 |
1661 | | 1850.0910 | families learn how to | 1851.5539 |
1663 | | 1851.9103 | eat healthy together, work out together. | 1854.0970 |
1665 | | 1854.5787 | Um, | 1855.1727 |
1667 | | 1855.9176 | and let them know that | 1856.6003 |
1669 | | 1856.7544 | you know, fitness is not, uh, | 1858.5911 |
1671 | | 1859.4067 | nothing to be scared of or strenuous. | 1861.7218 |
1673 | | 1861.9337 | You know, | 1862.3768 |
1675 | | 1863.6471 | just have fun with it, we just dancing. | 1865.1851 |
1677 | | 1865.4002 | Dancing, | 1866.0521 |
1679 | | 1866.1966 | you know, | 1866.5792 |
1681 | | 1868.3158 | stre- you know, | 1869.1269 |
1683 | | 1869.2457 | gives you- | 1869.6599 |
1685 | | 1869.9521 | makes you stress free, and, | 1871.4645 |
1687 | | 1872.4759 | you know, just have fun with your family. It's things that you could do. | 1874.7685 |
1689 | | 1875.3838 | So that's my whole | 1876.5558 |
1691 | | 1877.3585 | vision for- um, and mission for | 1880.0878 |
1693 | | 1880.5534 | my business is to | 1881.7177 |
1695 | | 1882.5558 | reach a lot of families, um, | 1884.4920 |
1697 | | 1885.2883 | show 'em that you can do this together | 1886.7332 |
1698 | DCB_int_01 | 1887.2735 | [Mm-hm.] | 1887.6178 |
1699 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1887.4319 | [as a] family. | 1888.1833 |
1700 | | 1888.7837 | But my main focus | 1889.9686 |
1702 | | 1890.3892 | is really on children because it's so many- | 1892.7204 |
1704 | | 1893.6888 | so many obese kids, and I mean | 1896.7938 |
1706 | | 1897.6800 | like from | 1898.4988 |
1708 | | 1899.0209 | three and up. | 1899.6311 |
1710 | | 1900.4915 | Cause I've had some in my class | 1902.0039 |
1712 | | 1902.3218 | when I used to teach. | 1903.1342 |
1714 | | 1903.9690 | So I would start doing the dance with 'em and they g- and they love it. | 1906.5044 |
1716 | | 1907.1690 | So now I go to daycares, | 1909.0025 |
1718 | | 1909.1598 | um, you know, I do clubs and the YMCA's or whatever, I go to different places, they'll call me | 1913.6057 |
1720 | | 1914.0360 | to come, I do summer camps. | 1915.3429 |
1722 | | 1916.1328 | <ts> | 1916.2002 |
1724 | | 1916.6626 | And I have two daycares that I do. | 1918.5622 |
1726 | | 1918.7805 | Oh my god, I love those kids. | 1920.0777 |
1728 | | 1920.5241 | I love 'em, I have one I do on Wednesday and one on Friday. | 1922.6626 |
1730 | | 1923.0916 | And when I come in there, they just can't wait for me. I can't even get through the door good. | 1926.2440 |
1731 | DCB_int_01 | 1926.6493 | <laugh> | 1927.5323 |
1732 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1927.6319 | They like, we gonna dance, we gonna dance. | 1929.3613 |
1734 | | 1929.9360 | And | 1930.4787 |
1736 | | 1930.6039 | they just have fun. | 1931.6122 |
1738 | | 1932.1709 | But they don't know that they're being healthy, you know, at the same [time.] | 1934.8649 |
1739 | DCB_int_01 | 1934.5625 | [Mm-hm.] | 1934.9325 |
1740 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1935.6599 | And I love it. | 1936.9828 |
1742 | | 1937.2622 | Um, | 1937.8262 |
1744 | | 1939.2915 | I- I love it, I just love to see the smiles on the kids face and, | 1942.2989 |
1746 | | 1943.4002 | you know, I'm not a drill sergeant, | 1944.7392 |
1748 | | 1944.9543 | you know what I'm saying. | 1945.7924 |
1750 | | 1946.1263 | You know, | 1946.6208 |
1752 | | 1946.9439 | I say follow this routine, but kids gonna do what they wanna [do anyway], so I follow their lead. | 1951.0923 |
1753 | DCB_int_01 | 1949.1466 | [Do, mm-hm.] | 1949.7374 |
1754 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1951.9851 | And that's what a lot of | 1952.7223 |
1756 | | 1952.8443 | adults don't understand sometimes, when you | 1954.8415 |
1758 | | 1955.1755 | working with children, | 1956.0200 |
1760 | | 1956.4823 | it's not all about what you | 1957.6704 |
1762 | | 1957.8213 | trying to do. | 1958.3961 |
1764 | | 1958.7030 | Sometimes you gotta follow those kids' lead in order to reach them. | 1961.3745 |
1765 | DCB_int_01 | 1961.8979 | Mm-hm. | 1962.3378 |
1766 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1962.3282 | And then y'all come together with a happy medium. | 1964.3895 |
1767 | | 1966.2058 | So. | 1966.5943 |
1768 | DCB_int_01 | 1966.7227 | Do you use go go music in most of your- | 1968.4759 |
1769 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1968.4277 | I do, uh, all types of music, | 1970.1970 |
1770 | | 1970.5791 | everything. | 1971.1311 |
1772 | | 1971.7113 | Go go, R&B, whatever | 1974.6910 |
1774 | | 1975.1309 | is popular, you know, I try to find out what the kids | 1977.4268 |
1776 | | 1977.8590 | like. | 1978.3663 |
1777 | DCB_int_01 | 1978.7869 | Mm. | 1979.0085 |
1778 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1979.0149 | And I'm like, oh okay. So | 1980.6140 |
1780 | | 1980.8002 | I was like, /RD-NAME-2/ you gotta teach me how to do this dance cause I don't know. | 1983.2341 |
1781 | DCB_int_01 | 1983.6374 | Mm-hm. | 1984.0484 |
1782 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1984.2186 | So I could, you know. | 1985.1787 |
1784 | | 1985.7663 | And most of the time I just had the kids teach me, but, you know, | 1987.9144 |
1786 | | 1988.3929 | I try to do everything | 1989.5411 |
1788 | | 1989.8750 | to their liking because they're not gonna do it. | 1991.3842 |
1789 | DCB_int_01 | 1991.6314 | If it- they don't like it. | 1992.5465 |
1790 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 1992.5112 | Yeah. | 1992.9096 |
1791 | | 1993.2947 | And even with adults, | 1994.2837 |
1793 | | 1994.9073 | <ts> | 1994.9589 |
1795 | | 1995.0338 | it depend on, um, | 1996.4113 |
1797 | | 1996.5172 | you know, the type of group | 1997.4099 |
1799 | | 1997.5640 | I have, so, | 1998.4149 |
1801 | | 1998.8227 | I have | 1999.1823 |
1803 | | 1999.3493 | music for everybody. | 2000.3190 |
1805 | | 2000.4654 | I did a all, uh, | 2001.7723 |
1807 | | 2002.2925 | gospel, um, | 2003.5190 |
1809 | | 2004.2351 | <ts> | 2004.3378 |
1811 | | 2004.4888 | event one time, | 2005.2786 |
1813 | | 2005.4906 | all my music was just gospel music. | 2007.2919 |
1815 | | 2008.3246 | And it was fun, that was something different, that was a challenge for me. | 2010.6566 |
1817 | | 2011.0764 | And it turned out real nice. | 2012.2066 |
1818 | DCB_int_01 | 2013.1044 | So I wanna go to go go for a minute [because] I remember | 2016.2644 |
1819 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2014.7002 | Mm-hm. | 2015.2493 |
1820 | DCB_int_01 | 2016.6589 | I think I came to your class once, but I was- well, I was watching your class [because I was-] | 2020.7015 |
1821 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2020.2507 | [Uh-huh.] | 2020.6617 |
1822 | DCB_int_01 | 2020.9571 | so Miss /RD-NAME-2/ I think could come to your class [cause there was] nobody at the front [desk.] | 2023.8939 |
1823 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2022.6108 | [Yeah.] | 2022.9121 |
1825 | | 2023.6672 | [Mm-hm.] | 2024.1378 |
1826 | DCB_int_01 | 2024.5117 | Um, and I was just like- | 2025.9746 |
1828 | | 2026.1961 | and I didn't really know about go go cause I had just moved here. | 2029.2308 |
1830 | | 2029.6158 | So tell me a little bit about go go, like what is that- | 2032.3695 |
1832 | | 2033.2268 | tell me a little bit about the music and like, why | 2035.4071 |
1834 | | 2035.8085 | people in DC- | 2036.6176 |
1835 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2037.0241 | Oh man, well, you know, | 2038.7516 |
1837 | | 2039.4934 | Chuck Brown he's the godfather of go go. | 2042.0167 |
1839 | | 2042.6741 | <ts> | 2042.7287 |
1841 | | 2043.2425 | Um, | 2043.9970 |
1843 | | 2044.5654 | so it all started with him. | 2045.8401 |
1845 | | 2046.2447 | But, you know, that's what I grew up on, | 2047.9962 |
1847 | | 2048.2984 | you know, the go go music. And | 2050.4915 |
1849 | | 2051.1401 | I don't know, I think it's just like | 2052.0874 |
1851 | | 2052.2383 | the- | 2052.4534 |
1853 | | 2052.6750 | the- | 2052.9443 |
1855 | | 2053.7057 | the sound of it, the beat of it. And it's just like when- | 2056.0195 |
1857 | | 2056.4851 | when you're together | 2057.4934 |
1859 | | 2057.8626 | with other people and | 2059.3043 |
1861 | | 2059.5323 | it's just- You know, depending on what the song, cause most of go go's like, call and response and stuff like that, so it's just like- | 2064.8163 |
1863 | | 2065.5355 | I don't know and it's just the- the- the music just put you like in a little groove, | 2069.2044 |
1865 | | 2069.6282 | you know, everybody chill, laid back or whatever. | 2072.7910 |
1867 | | 2073.5893 | I don't know, j- | 2074.0709 |
1869 | | 2074.3246 | go go is- /I don't-/ it's just DC's music. | 2076.2126 |
1871 | | 2076.5080 | It's always been DC's music. | 2077.9112 |
1872 | DCB_int_01 | 2078.1732 | Do [you have a favorite] band? | 2079.4191 |
1873 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2078.2965 | [/Forev-/] | 2078.9259 |
1874 | | 2079.9103 | <ts> | 2079.9714 |
1876 | | 2080.2989 | My favorite band, | 2081.5800 |
1878 | | 2081.8819 | I think I have two. | 2082.6332 |
1879 | DCB_int_01 | 2082.9030 | Okay. | 2083.1923 |
1880 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2083.5195 | My two favorite bands right now is Subtle Thoughts, | 2087.1947 |
1882 | | 2087.7374 | um, | 2088.3410 |
1884 | | 2088.8933 | <ts> | 2088.9961 |
1886 | | 2089.8855 | ooh lord, what is the daggone name of the other group? Um, | 2092.9433 |
1888 | | 2094.8131 | It was right on tip of my tongue. | 2096.0011 |
1890 | | 2098.2314 | Let it Flow. | 2098.9186 |
1892 | | 2101.0410 | I wanna say I had one more. | 2102.3458 |
1894 | | 2104.3117 | Of course the Chuck Brown Band. | 2105.7011 |
1896 | | 2107.0025 | So those about my | 2108.2638 |
1898 | | 2108.9342 | three favorites right now. | 2110.4498 |
1899 | DCB_int_01 | 2111.4099 | And tell me a little bit about | 2113.0739 |
1901 | | 2113.7474 | are they | 2114.1649 |
1903 | | 2114.4506 | different, are they similar? | 2115.9071 |
1904 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2116.1351 | <ts> | 2116.2058 |
1906 | | 2116.9122 | They play the same music but their sound is different, | 2119.3882 |
1907 | DCB_int_01 | 2120.0461 | Give [me- like, whatchu- mm-mm], tell- explain it to me. | 2122.2507 |
1908 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2120.1636 | [you know what I'm saying.] | 2121.0755 |
1909 | | 2122.4626 | So it's like, | 2123.4520 |
1911 | | 2124.7777 | every go go, | 2125.4938 |
1913 | | 2125.9369 | uh, band have- | 2127.2502 |
1915 | | 2128.0934 | You know, they might do like the same similar songs but its- it's- it's the sound so it comes- | 2132.2115 |
1917 | | 2133.0145 | Meaning the sound is, they develop their own like, go go sound, and then the singers | 2137.9690 |
1919 | | 2138.1424 | really make it come to life. | 2139.3613 |
1921 | | 2139.7241 | So, | 2140.2058 |
1923 | | 2140.8672 | each singer will sing the song | 2142.8612 |
1925 | | 2143.2786 | differently. | 2143.8887 |
1927 | | 2144.6240 | So that's what make | 2145.3497 |
1929 | | 2145.7370 | the sound different, | 2146.6328 |
1931 | | 2147.8562 | so. | 2148.2322 |
1932 | DCB_int_01 | 2148.8163 | Is there something different between like kind of new go go versus old go go? Someone was telling me like, the older stuff is different from kind of what they [do now.] | 2156.2869 |
1933 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2155.8245 | [The older] stuff- | 2157.1538 |
1934 | | 2158.0163 | the older stuff was more- uh, | 2160.2319 |
1936 | | 2162.3434 | more faster I think, | 2163.7048 |
1938 | | 2163.9489 | I think the beat was more faster, | 2165.5715 |
1939 | DCB_int_01 | 2165.8009 | Mm-hm. | 2166.0534 |
1940 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2166.0360 | but you could still dance to it. | 2167.3747 |
1941 | | 2167.6094 | Like I don't know if you ever heard of, what is it? Uh, Chuck Brown's Bustin Loose? | 2171.2975 |
1942 | DCB_int_01 | 2171.8305 | Mm-hm. | 2172.1638 |
1943 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2172.4021 | Cause I think, uh, that might've been the first go go song he did. | 2174.8488 |
1945 | | 2176.1062 | So, that sound was like a little fast or whatever. | 2178.5498 |
1947 | | 2178.9961 | But now, | 2179.6897 |
1949 | | 2180.2291 | the sound as we- you know, the years started going, | 2183.5158 |
1951 | | 2184.0296 | the sound- the beat started getting, um, | 2186.6594 |
1953 | | 2188.0356 | <ts> | 2188.0837 |
1955 | | 2188.2828 | I wanna say more | 2189.0888 |
1957 | | 2189.8947 | not slower, but it slowed down a little bit. | 2192.2580 |
1958 | DCB_int_01 | 2192.2567 | Mm-hm. | 2192.6127 |
1959 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2192.7255 | But then, | 2193.5058 |
1961 | | 2194.7613 | when Backyard Band came in, they had like this bounce beat. So you had like this- | 2198.6284 |
1963 | | 2199.6535 | this, | 2199.9489 |
1965 | | 2200.2186 | you know, ongoing bounce beat or whatever going on. | 2202.8420 |
1967 | | 2203.1149 | I didn't care too | 2203.8406 |
1969 | | 2204.1167 | much <laugh> for a [bounce beat.] (laughing) | 2206.2443 |
1970 | DCB_int_01 | 2205.4415 | [<laugh>] | 2206.3214 |
1971 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2206.8929 | But that was just, you know, the youngins. Um, | 2208.8869 |
1973 | | 2209.6575 | and then it's- | 2210.0364 |
1975 | | 2210.4397 | it's kind of going back | 2211.5860 |
1977 | | 2211.8301 | to, | 2212.3503 |
1979 | | 2213.9878 | you know, the slower beat, | 2215.1213 |
1981 | | 2215.2819 | but then you still got the- uh, | 2216.6658 |
1983 | | 2217.1301 | the fast, the percuss- So it's like kind of mixed now. | 2219.3456 |
1984 | DCB_int_01 | 2219.5544 | Mm. | 2219.8722 |
1985 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2220.3186 | So, | 2220.8002 |
1987 | | 2221.8887 | cause you still had the old school bands out there like Sugar Bear, | 2224.7067 |
1989 | | 2225.3007 | uh, | 2225.9718 |
1991 | | 2226.9543 | what's the other one? Um, | 2228.2237 |
1993 | | 2229.1429 | it's so many of 'em. | 2230.0484 |
1995 | | 2231.9846 | I can't, it's so- it's so many go go bands I can't even- | 2234.1360 |
1997 | | 2234.7095 | Yeah. | 2235.0370 |
1998 | DCB_int_01 | 2235.2778 | I got to see Sugar Bear, uh, he did halftime I think at one of the Wizards games. | 2239.8887 |
1999 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2239.9016 | Mm-hm. | 2240.4363 |
2000 | DCB_int_01 | 2240.6131 | And I was like, oh okay. | 2241.9746 |
2001 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2241.9200 | I think I saw that, uh, on YouTube. | 2243.7920 |
2002 | | 2244.1516 | But I used to go see him. When I used to come and teach class, | 2246.7280 |
2004 | | 2247.8397 | uh, on Wednesdays, I would leave here | 2250.0039 |
2006 | | 2250.3764 | on Wednesdays and go right down to the meeting place- I mean, not the meeting place, um, | 2254.0003 |
2008 | | 2254.4562 | <ts> | 2254.5590 |
2010 | | 2254.8126 | what was it called? Martin's on, uh, Ninth and U. | 2257.1117 |
2012 | | 2257.5227 | And would go see him | 2258.2708 |
2014 | | 2259.0383 | every Wednesday. | 2259.7594 |
2015 | DCB_int_01 | 2260.7002 | So you sti- Okay, so | 2261.8305 |
2017 | | 2262.0264 | tell me about your f- | 2263.1406 |
2019 | | 2263.3172 | first go go that you can remember going to, like | 2265.4022 |
2021 | | 2265.6856 | your first go [go.] | 2266.9090 |
2022 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2266.7131 | [I] was | 2267.7952 |
2023 | | 2269.0571 | in high school, | 2270.1131 |
2025 | | 2271.2938 | and the first go- I think it was at Wilmer's Park. | 2273.9243 |
2027 | | 2274.9897 | And I wanna say that's /only/ either way out in Maryland or Virginia, I don't know. | 2278.0902 |
2029 | | 2278.7420 | And it was, uh, | 2280.1773 |
2031 | | 2281.4809 | Junk Yard Band, | 2283.1442 |
2033 | | 2285.0149 | I think | 2285.3681 |
2035 | | 2285.5190 | Rare Essence, | 2286.9511 |
2037 | | 2288.8122 | and another band, I can't remember what other band it was. | 2291.4934 |
2039 | | 2292.0232 | <ts> | 2292.0777 |
2041 | | 2292.4245 | But my um- my aunt took me, my sister, and my cousin, | 2295.9296 |
2043 | | 2297.2590 | dropped us off, we had a good time. | 2299.0186 |
2045 | | 2300.3286 | That was like our first go- And it was outside, that was | 2302.3017 |
2047 | | 2302.7324 | my first go go, so I had to be | 2304.3475 |
2049 | | 2305.0764 | around sixteen. | 2306.1777 |
2051 | | 2307.0916 | Yup, I was around sixteen. | 2308.4048 |
2053 | | 2309.8177 | That was the first [go go I went to.] | 2311.0731 |
2054 | DCB_int_01 | 2310.2351 | [So what happens] at a go go? Like, kind of if you [can] tell me like- | 2313.4737 |
2055 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2312.4828 | [You just-] | 2312.8006 |
2056 | | 2314.1383 | Just dancing. | 2314.8983 |
2058 | | 2315.6378 | Cause once the music start, | 2316.8548 |
2060 | | 2317.6062 | you just automatically start dancing. | 2319.0511 |
2062 | | 2319.6888 | And that's basically what- <laugh> | 2320.7163 |
2063 | DCB_int_01 | 2320.7288 | <laugh> | 2321.4346 |
2064 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2321.7888 | That's basically what it is. [I mean, and you would dan- it- it's] v- it's really good [exercise.] | 2325.8782 |
2065 | DCB_int_01 | 2322.7424 | [That's a good exercise session.] | 2324.1585 |
2067 | | 2325.3452 | [<laugh>] | 2326.1126 |
2068 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2326.6617 | I mean, that's all you doing is just- | 2328.1153 |
2070 | | 2328.3089 | you just dancing. Like Soul Train. | 2330.0974 |
2071 | DCB_int_01 | 2330.2451 | Mm-hm. | 2330.6690 |
2072 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2330.8873 | Yeah, | 2331.3273 |
2074 | | 2332.0163 | you just dancing. | 2332.9090 |
2076 | | 2333.8755 | And | 2334.4181 |
2078 | | 2335.0603 | it's something about the- the congos, I think the- | 2337.3195 |
2080 | | 2337.6663 | the beat for the congos, | 2339.0984 |
2082 | | 2339.4869 | it's like really get your adrenaline flowing, it's like- | 2342.2195 |
2084 | | 2342.6273 | /I don't know/. | 2343.1795 |
2086 | | 2344.7291 | /I don't know/. | 2345.3331 |
2088 | | 2345.5704 | [<laugh>] | 2345.9011 |
2089 | DCB_int_01 | 2345.5704 | [When you talk] about- you said the call and response, like how did- how does that work? Like what did- what happens like, | 2350.2892 |
2090 | | 2350.5397 | what do they say that makes you respond back? | 2352.5498 |
2091 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2352.7232 | So, | 2353.4103 |
2093 | | 2353.5323 | okay so for example, | 2355.0383 |
2095 | | 2356.0581 | Chuck Brown, he'll say- um, | 2357.6250 |
2097 | | 2358.0071 | every time he come on, | 2359.0603 |
2099 | | 2359.4841 | wind me up, Chuck, | 2360.9901 |
2101 | | 2362.1319 | wind me up, Chuck. | 2363.4998 |
2103 | | 2363.9172 | Um, and then he- he used to do a lot of songs where it's like call and response. | 2367.2170 |
2105 | | 2367.6278 | So he'll say something, if I say such and such then you say such and such. | 2371.0988 |
2107 | | 2371.2305 | So it's like stuff like that. | 2372.5727 |
2109 | | 2373.0916 | Um, | 2373.7723 |
2111 | | 2374.5429 | what's another? | 2375.0576 |
2113 | | 2377.7089 | Junk Yard Band they had Sardines and Pork and [Beans.] | 2380.1961 |
2114 | DCB_int_01 | 2380.0131 | [Mm.] | 2380.2443 |
2115 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2381.2525 | <laugh> | 2381.6732 |
2117 | | 2382.2415 | Uh, | 2383.1053 |
2119 | | 2384.1873 | Sugar Bear had something. | 2385.4300 |
2120 | DCB_int_01 | 2387.5158 | He did one this- the last when I saw him. | 2389.7860 |
2122 | | 2389.8883 | I can't [remember what it was.] | 2391.3140 |
2123 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2390.4278 | [I can't remember what song] it was. | 2392.0451 |
2124 | | 2392.5361 | He had a- he had a lot of call and response songs. | 2394.8512 |
2126 | | 2395.3264 | Um, | 2395.9943 |
2128 | | 2398.3210 | <ts> | 2398.3755 |
2130 | | 2398.6613 | yeah that's | 2398.9696 |
2132 | | 2399.2618 | basically it, um. | 2400.6751 |
2133 | DCB_int_01 | 2401.2365 | And what about when they do like the neighborhood | 2403.2923 |
2135 | | 2403.5163 | type thing? | 2404.2323 |
2136 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2404.3242 | <ts> Oh when they shout out- (laughing) the shout outs? | 2406.0195 |
2138 | | 2406.4659 | <laugh> | 2406.7773 |
2140 | | 2407.6539 | So they might say, uptown, uptown. | 2410.0686 |
2142 | | 2410.5393 | Uh, | 2411.2072 |
2144 | | 2411.4223 | what's the other one? | 2412.1156 |
2146 | | 2413.0567 | Uh, | 2413.5940 |
2148 | | 2416.2696 | what- oh, how would it go? | 2417.4829 |
2150 | | 2418.0709 | So if they singing a song, | 2419.4131 |
2152 | | 2419.6186 | we like, Northwest in the house, hear me now. | 2422.9098 |
2154 | | 2423.3035 | Or Southeast, so they'll go through all the- | 2425.1594 |
2156 | | 2425.7952 | And then | 2426.3218 |
2158 | | 2426.7938 | they also do like the, uh, | 2428.2484 |
2160 | | 2428.6742 | <ts> | 2428.7609 |
2162 | | 2428.9342 | what we used to call it? The, um, display, where they put the people on display. | 2431.9558 |
2163 | DCB_int_01 | 2431.8980 | Mm-hm. | 2432.2597 |
2164 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2433.1984 | /unintelligible/ so like, Sugar Bear, he g- if he see me and my girlfriend, he be like, | 2436.6971 |
2166 | | 2437.0149 | /RD-NAME-2/ and /RD-NAME-2/, /RD-NAME-2/ and /RD-NAME-2/ cause we used to come see him all the time. | 2440.5695 |
2168 | | 2440.9246 | So, you know, if you get your name called you like, oh he call my name, I'm on display. | 2445.0057 |
2170 | | 2445.4039 | You be press to get on display. | 2446.9837 |
2172 | | 2447.6246 | So, um, | 2448.6168 |
2174 | | 2448.8961 | yeah that's the fun part too about the go go. Cause you trying to get your name on display, you trying to get your- | 2453.4994 |
2176 | | 2453.8590 | your hood | 2454.7260 |
2178 | | 2455.0406 | on display, or whatever little gang whatever you was in (laughing) | 2459.1108 |
2180 | | 2459.3645 | on display, but yup. | 2460.5108 |
2182 | | 2460.9315 | So [that was like the main-] | 2461.9782 |
2183 | DCB_int_01 | 2461.0503 | [And so that mean you knew] the band, people like- you kn- you [were in.] | 2464.0621 |
2184 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2463.5323 | [Yeah], yeah you were here, or, you know, | 2465.9650 |
2185 | | 2466.3053 | yeah, he know me, he know me, so. | 2468.4502 |
2187 | | 2468.6236 | Mm-hm. | 2469.3878 |
2188 | DCB_int_01 | 2469.6993 | It's so funny, my boyfriend was showing me a YouTube clip, | 2472.1833 |
2190 | | 2472.7516 | um, of | 2474.1600 |
2192 | | 2475.6993 | ah, I can't remem- maybe it's Backyard, | 2477.4159 |
2193 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2477.6503 | Mm-hm. | 2478.0388 |
2194 | DCB_int_01 | 2478.0934 | but, | 2478.4851 |
2196 | | 2478.8737 | um, | 2479.3168 |
2198 | | 2479.6379 | they- they put him on display. He was so excited, like he's like, now listen, you gotta listen, cause this is my- [watch, watch], just listen. | 2484.9058 |
2199 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2483.7595 | [<laugh>] | 2484.4562 |
2200 | DCB_int_01 | 2485.2204 | And he's like, yeah, yeah. | 2486.3989 |
2201 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2486.5755 | [Yup.] | 2487.0122 |
2202 | DCB_int_01 | 2486.6172 | [And I was like], okay, [okay.] (laughing) | 2488.2965 |
2203 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2487.6190 | [Yup, yup.] | 2488.3137 |
2204 | DCB_int_01 | 2488.8315 | But he was very ex- And then like when they do the different, | 2491.3425 |
2206 | | 2491.6122 | um, | 2492.0335 |
2208 | | 2492.2223 | I g- what is it? Repping your n- repping? | 2494.3103 |
2209 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2494.5907 | [Yeah, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh.] | 2496.8640 |
2210 | DCB_int_01 | 2494.6677 | [Like when they doing your neighborhood?] | 2496.4466 |
2211 | | 2496.8865 | And so for /here/ they would just- | 2498.3379 |
2213 | | 2498.6397 | it- separate neighborhoods? Or is it just Uptown? Like I know like, [some s-] | 2501.8173 |
2214 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2501.3324 | [Someti-] they'll say Uptown but then they'll start saying like the separate neighborhoods in Uptown. | 2505.3589 |
2215 | DCB_int_01 | 2505.4167 | Mm-hm. | 2505.7247 |
2216 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2505.7025 | Just like, all parts of the, um, | 2507.0921 |
2217 | | 2507.1847 | DC area, | 2507.8494 |
2219 | | 2508.2379 | so yeah. | 2508.9283 |
2221 | | 2509.2686 | So like, they | 2509.8466 |
2223 | | 2510.1356 | might say Northeast, they might say Trinidad, | 2512.3254 |
2225 | | 2512.6709 | Southeast, they might say, uh, | 2514.4306 |
2227 | | 2514.9700 | <ts> | 2515.0599 |
2229 | | 2515.6700 | Mississippi Avenue or something like that. | 2517.2112 |
2230 | DCB_int_01 | 2517.3204 | [Mm-hm.] | 2517.6383 |
2231 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2517.4489 | [Yeah], stuff like that, mm-hm. | 2519.0864 |
2232 | DCB_int_01 | 2519.2264 | Okay, [alright], alright. | 2521.3489 |
2233 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2520.0549 | [Mm-hm.] | 2520.7677 |
2234 | DCB_int_01 | 2521.7470 | So, | 2522.1981 |
2236 | | 2522.4374 | let me ask you this, /what/? | 2523.6736 |
2238 | | 2524.8797 | like, | 2525.2618 |
2240 | | 2525.4801 | <clears throat> recently I was hearing some- | 2527.2140 |
2242 | | 2527.6892 | some of the like, | 2528.5626 |
2244 | | 2529.3204 | maybe around your age | 2531.0402 |
2245 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2530.9824 | Mm-hm. | 2531.3451 |
2246 | DCB_int_01 | 2531.5026 | and a little older saying they don't really go to go gos anymore cause they've gotten a little more dangerous. | 2536.6664 |
2247 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2536.7063 | Mm-hm. | 2537.0852 |
2248 | DCB_int_01 | 2537.0916 | Do you feel like that? | 2537.9168 |
2249 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2538.1448 | It depends on where you going to. | 2539.3425 |
2251 | | 2539.6411 | See, I go to | 2540.5209 |
2253 | | 2540.7103 | the grown and sexy go gos. I don't do all the crazy little Backyard and | 2545.1691 |
2255 | | 2545.5415 | all that stuff cause you tend to have a lot of youngins, you know, | 2548.5502 |
2257 | | 2549.3003 | for that | 2549.7563 |
2259 | | 2549.8526 | bounce beat stuff, I can't do that. | 2551.3232 |
2261 | | 2551.6379 | <ts> | 2551.7181 |
2263 | | 2552.0039 | Um, | 2552.5305 |
2265 | | 2553.0218 | but I have noticed that Backyard is | 2554.5213 |
2267 | | 2554.8283 | calm- trying to calm down a little bit off the bounce beat. | 2557.3682 |
2269 | | 2557.8113 | Cause they did the uh, Hello remix. | 2560.2869 |
2270 | DCB_int_01 | 2560.4976 | [Mm-hm.] | 2561.0403 |
2271 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2560.5843 | [I really like] that. | 2561.3122 |
2272 | | 2562.0420 | But yeah, I go to | 2563.5062 |
2274 | | 2564.1741 | like I said, the grown and sexy ones, honey. I can't do- (laughing) | 2566.5727 |
2276 | | 2567.6053 | Like, Subtle Thoughts, um, | 2569.5854 |
2278 | | 2570.0425 | what's the other one I said? Um, | 2571.6704 |
2279 | DCB_int_01 | 2572.4892 | Was it Let it Flow? | 2573.3519 |
2280 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2573.3324 | Let it Flow. | 2574.3278 |
2281 | | 2574.7420 | So, you know, and they do like a lot of, um, grown and sexy R and B, | 2578.5759 |
2283 | | 2579.0916 | you know, stuff, and | 2580.3984 |
2285 | | 2581.1113 | yeah I just stick with those types. | 2583.0828 |
2287 | | 2583.2787 | Mm-hm. | 2583.7693 |
2288 | DCB_int_01 | 2583.8823 | Mm, d- are- w- uh, jazz? | 2585.8269 |
2290 | | 2585.9939 | [Do they infuse jazz in-] | 2587.3099 |
2291 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2586.0292 | [They do, uh-huh, they do all-] they do all of that. | 2588.2704 |
2292 | | 2588.5819 | Mm-hm, they infuse all the jazz, | 2590.0300 |
2294 | | 2590.5021 | R and B, um, | 2592.2283 |
2296 | | 2592.5975 | they might even do some of the little, uh, | 2594.3892 |
2298 | | 2594.9929 | Caucasian music that be on the radios, yeah, they- yeah. | 2598.1673 |
2299 | DCB_int_01 | 2598.4627 | And add a [twist to it?] | 2599.8081 |
2300 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2599.0085 | [And a- oh my] god, yes. | 2600.5723 |
2301 | | 2600.7264 | They will hook it up. | 2601.3846 |
2302 | DCB_int_01 | 2601.4874 | Who was it? Marlee? Marlee in the Mixx? Or Marlee in the Mixx? Or something like that. | 2606.0188 |
2303 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2605.9847 | Mm-hm. | 2606.4438 |
2304 | DCB_int_01 | 2606.8420 | Um, | 2607.3012 |
2306 | | 2607.8791 | <ts> | 2607.9562 |
2308 | | 2608.0801 | I heard them, they were- we went to a | 2609.8108 |
2310 | | 2610.1640 | like a little spot on U Street | 2611.6547 |
2311 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2611.6668 | [Mm-hm.] | 2612.1401 |
2312 | DCB_int_01 | 2611.8819 | [and] they were performing. And we went back, just to see- | 2614.4507 |
2313 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2614.6549 | [Mm-hm.] | 2615.3228 |
2314 | DCB_int_01 | 2614.7127 | [Like I really] like- Cause it- | 2615.9714 |
2315 | | 2616.1416 | I think it's more like kind of the grown and [sexy like you called it.] | 2619.0796 |
2316 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2618.0039 | [Mm-hm, mm-hm.] | 2619.2048 |
2317 | DCB_int_01 | 2619.4970 | Because it was- | 2620.1770 |
2319 | | 2620.5875 | it was an older crowd, probably like, you know, | 2622.9884 |
2321 | | 2623.4613 | thirties, forties, [fifties, like that age] group, it wasn't like no [teenagers and stuff.] | 2627.7948 |
2322 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2624.3603 | [Yeah.] | 2624.7521 |
2324 | | 2624.9672 | [Mm-hm.] | 2625.5227 |
2326 | | 2626.9086 | [Mm-hm, exactly.] | 2628.2566 |
2327 | DCB_int_01 | 2628.3567 | And just | 2628.8833 |
2329 | | 2629.1434 | drinks and food [and they were performing, it was] | 2632.0236 |
2330 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2630.5369 | [Exactly, and just chilling.] | 2631.9956 |
2331 | DCB_int_01 | 2632.2214 | wonderful. | 2632.8054 |
2332 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2632.8732 | Yeah, | 2633.2842 |
2334 | | 2633.5829 | another band | 2634.3952 |
2336 | | 2634.6328 | I do like is- um, | 2635.9742 |
2338 | | 2636.5177 | and I think they do a little bit of both, they do a little bit of everything, it's called Black Alley. | 2639.9842 |
2340 | | 2640.7163 | And Black Alley is managed by, um, a friend of mine | 2643.7314 |
2342 | | 2644.1681 | <ts> | 2644.2259 |
2344 | | 2644.4346 | that I was in this program with named /RD-NAME-2/. | 2646.6393 |
2346 | | 2647.2140 | And | 2647.8530 |
2348 | | 2648.0874 | I started going to see | 2648.9897 |
2350 | | 2649.3044 | them, uh, I wanna say about four years ago | 2654.1131 |
2352 | | 2654.9512 | down at U Street | 2655.9112 |
2354 | | 2656.2580 | at Indulge. | 2657.1475 |
2355 | DCB_int_01 | 2657.7113 | <ts> | 2657.8173 |
2357 | | 2658.4017 | That's where I was. | 2659.2782 |
2358 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2659.7663 | And when I first saw the- and the- and the female singer, she is the bomb. | 2663.4223 |
2360 | | 2664.0356 | I'm a singer myself. | 2664.9379 |
2362 | | 2665.2911 | But she is the bomb. | 2666.0983 |
2364 | | 2667.1534 | <ts> | 2667.2048 |
2366 | | 2667.4842 | The whole band is just like the bomb, but she just- | 2670.4434 |
2368 | | 2671.3617 | I don't know it- | 2671.8370 |
2370 | | 2672.2255 | it's just her. | 2673.0443 |
2371 | DCB_int_01 | 2673.2530 | Mm-hm. | 2673.6690 |
2372 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2674.0654 | Their band- | 2674.6934 |
2374 | | 2674.8893 | and they've been doing a lot- they've been doing really great. | 2677.5053 |
2376 | | 2677.9429 | Like, they've got to play with some famous- um, | 2680.9246 |
2378 | | 2682.1030 | <ts> | 2682.1576 |
2380 | | 2682.3278 | some famous celebrities and stuff like that | 2684.5545 |
2382 | | 2684.7746 | like | 2685.1727 |
2384 | | 2685.8920 | on the big stage and [everything.] | 2687.6021 |
2385 | DCB_int_01 | 2687.0113 | [Mm-hm.] | 2687.2650 |
2386 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2688.0773 | They're doing really good, I- I like Black Alley. | 2690.2736 |
2387 | DCB_int_01 | 2690.7296 | So talking about U Street, | 2691.8643 |
2389 | | 2692.6613 | cause- | 2692.9953 |
2391 | | 2693.8462 | So you remember when U Street- Kind of talk about | 2696.5132 |
2393 | | 2697.7186 | if you remember it changing, right? So like when it was live, then it went down, now it's- | 2702.5048 |
2394 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2703.2337 | Yeah I don't know what is going with- | 2704.5361 |
2395 | DCB_int_01 | 2705.2104 | [<laugh>] | 2706.6682 |
2396 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2706.1416 | [I don't know what's] going on with U Street now. It's like | 2708.4599 |
2397 | | 2709.2305 | I guess because the change of dynamics | 2712.9379 |
2399 | | 2714.0489 | <ts> | 2714.1452 |
2401 | | 2714.4856 | I wanna say gentrification going on. | 2716.3447 |
2403 | | 2718.4402 | Yeah, [so.] | 2719.4260 |
2404 | DCB_int_01 | 2719.0085 | [Tell me some] earlier memories of it. | 2720.7579 |
2405 | | 2721.1663 | Like, | 2721.4476 |
2406 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2721.5195 | Um, | 2722.0878 |
2407 | DCB_int_01 | 2722.0397 | when you were younger. | 2722.9227 |
2408 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2724.1384 | I don't remember too much about U Street when I was younger cause I don't think- | 2727.4264 |
2410 | | 2727.8406 | Only thing I remember about U Street is when my grandfather used to take us down to Ben's Chili Bowl. | 2731.8686 |
2412 | | 2733.6608 | Cause he liked to go down there and get his half smokes or whatever. | 2736.2379 |
2414 | | 2736.6457 | <laugh> | 2737.4677 |
2416 | | 2738.0553 | That's probably the only thing I remember about U Street. | 2740.4892 |
2418 | | 2741.1815 | <ts> | 2741.2329 |
2420 | | 2741.3324 | Um, | 2741.9084 |
2422 | | 2743.8562 | but as I got older, | 2745.2947 |
2424 | | 2746.1842 | you know, started going down there to, you know, little functions and stuff like that. | 2749.1948 |
2426 | | 2749.6604 | Um, | 2750.2961 |
2428 | | 2750.7970 | but I say over the past | 2751.7443 |
2430 | | 2752.0705 | two years since a lot of- | 2755.0149 |
2432 | | 2755.9044 | you know, they've been doing a lot of construction and | 2758.3383 |
2434 | | 2758.8424 | a lot of, | 2759.3292 |
2436 | | 2759.6278 | you know, | 2759.9385 |
2438 | | 2760.1737 | changes been happening, | 2761.5094 |
2440 | | 2763.1631 | <ts> | 2763.2080 |
2442 | | 2763.5259 | um, | 2764.1299 |
2444 | | 2765.9553 | it's been a little different. | 2766.9315 |
2446 | | 2768.1805 | But it seems like- I don't know, it's like, | 2770.0245 |
2448 | | 2771.4480 | you know, both races are trying to get along together, so it's like | 2774.7874 |
2450 | | 2774.9672 | you kind of can party in the same | 2776.4635 |
2452 | | 2776.9856 | vicinity sometimes. | 2778.7195 |
2454 | | 2779.3649 | So I could see- | 2780.2287 |
2456 | | 2781.9305 | you know, I could see that now, | 2783.7819 |
2458 | | 2784.2925 | but | 2784.5494 |
2460 | | 2785.3682 | I don't know. | 2785.7348 |
2462 | | 2787.4521 | It's just- it's- | 2788.0011 |
2464 | | 2788.5265 | it's still a little | 2789.2842 |
2466 | | 2789.5957 | different. | 2790.0477 |
2467 | DCB_int_01 | 2790.3952 | Is Indulge open or is it closed? | 2792.5273 |
2468 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2792.5241 | That's a good question. | 2793.4617 |
2469 | DCB_int_01 | 2793.9433 | Cause when I was on U Street, uh, a few weeks ago- | 2796.7516 |
2470 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2796.8801 | I don't know if they still- are they still Indulge, did they change their name? | 2799.9241 |
2471 | DCB_int_01 | 2799.9177 | Maybe, cause they're right across- they're not too far from Ben's, right? They're- [it's right across and] then go like, [down a] door or something like that? | 2805.4906 |
2472 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2802.4306 | [I think they're right across the s-] | 2803.5833 |
2474 | | 2804.2640 | [Yeah.] | 2804.6140 |
2475 | | 2806.0011 | I'm'a have to ride past there today and find out. | 2807.9810 |
2476 | DCB_int_01 | 2808.5269 | I- | 2808.7645 |
2478 | | 2809.0374 | I'm- cause I'm'a go back that way cause I'm'a go over [to,] | 2811.1530 |
2479 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2810.7681 | [Mm-hm.] | 2811.3589 |
2480 | DCB_int_01 | 2811.3493 | uh, Benning Road, so I'm'a- I'm'a [ride back. Cause] last time I was there we were at, um, Alero. | 2816.4535 |
2481 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2812.7930 | [Mm-hm.] | 2813.4095 |
2482 | | 2816.8227 | Okay. | 2817.2497 |
2483 | DCB_int_01 | 2817.3301 | And- but I rode that way to get to Alero. | 2819.7884 |
2484 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2819.8173 | [Mm-hm.] | 2820.3246 |
2485 | DCB_int_01 | 2819.9104 | [<clears throat>] | 2820.4241 |
2486 | | 2821.3296 | And I didn't- | 2822.1356 |
2488 | | 2822.7071 | Cause it- there's some construction going [on] | 2824.3499 |
2489 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2824.0416 | [Mm, yeah.] | 2824.9214 |
2490 | DCB_int_01 | 2824.6453 | [next to it.] | 2825.4737 |
2491 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2825.4897 | [Okay.] | 2825.9874 |
2492 | DCB_int_01 | 2825.6503 | [I don't know if] it's condos or if they're building [a new-] | 2827.7727 |
2493 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2827.4099 | [Oh god.] (whispered) | 2828.1992 |
2494 | DCB_int_01 | 2829.4328 | Why you [say-] | 2829.8448 |
2495 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2829.7089 | [It's] like every- /I was tell- s-/ | 2830.9066 |
2496 | | 2831.5893 | Every time I turn around it's like they building up condos | 2834.6397 |
2498 | | 2835.9883 | everywhere. | 2836.7589 |
2500 | | 2837.5315 | And it's so much construction in DC, it's driving me crazy. It's like every time I turn around, | 2840.9993 |
2502 | | 2841.6833 | <sigh> I gotta do a detour here or I got- I- I can't take it no more. | 2844.7484 |
2504 | | 2845.5448 | And now, | 2846.1677 |
2506 | | 2846.9608 | I live over off of /RD-ADDRESS-3/ | 2848.3543 |
2508 | | 2849.1173 | by the other Boys and Girls Club, I live a half block up. | 2851.1338 |
2509 | DCB_int_01 | 2851.4741 | Oh, that's where I'm going now. | 2852.5341 |
2510 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2852.6525 | Mm-hm, I live a half a block up. | 2854.1167 |
2512 | | 2855.4030 | And when I say I miss living Uptown so bad (laughing) | 2857.5191 |
2514 | | 2858.6429 | it's just like, | 2859.1984 |
2516 | | 2859.3943 | over there it's just like so much going on, like I don't even let my son go outside over there. | 2863.1466 |
2518 | | 2863.4260 | That's why we up here all the time. | 2864.8516 |
2520 | | 2866.5329 | It's just so | 2867.4416 |
2522 | | 2868.9443 | different. | 2870.0039 |
2524 | | 2870.7328 | Like, | 2871.3493 |
2526 | | 2871.8053 | it's just too many things going on over there. It's- it's- it's | 2874.5879 |
2528 | | 2874.7998 | dangerous. | 2875.6026 |
2530 | | 2877.4938 | Like, too many things and I'm just like, | 2879.6083 |
2532 | | 2880.4498 | ooh. Cause I bought a condo over there. | 2882.4438 |
2534 | | 2883.8984 | I just go in my little condo, | 2885.4544 |
2536 | | 2886.1319 | shut my door. (laughing) | 2887.2204 |
2538 | | 2888.6814 | But it's just | 2889.7314 |
2540 | | 2889.8277 | like, | 2890.3736 |
2542 | | 2890.7255 | if I wanted my child to go outside and play, I would not let him | 2893.7567 |
2544 | | 2894.4535 | out | 2894.6622 |
2546 | | 2894.8934 | over there. | 2895.3236 |
2548 | | 2896.0108 | We'll go up here, go to the | 2897.3131 |
2550 | | 2897.6535 | parks or the playgrounds up this way, | 2899.5319 |
2552 | | 2900.1580 | cause it's safer | 2900.9194 |
2554 | | 2901.1213 | to me. | 2901.4707 |
2555 | DCB_int_01 | 2902.3852 | Mm. | 2902.6838 |
2556 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2903.4319 | But, | 2903.6650 |
2558 | | 2904.1018 | /it just/ | 2904.3984 |
2560 | | 2904.5429 | too many things going on over on that side of town. | 2907.1245 |
2561 | DCB_int_01 | 2908.1938 | Why do you think that's so? Like why is it [such a big difference?] | 2910.7645 |
2562 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2909.6952 | [I don't know.] | 2910.6906 |
2563 | | 2910.8833 | I don't know. | 2911.4516 |
2565 | | 2911.7888 | And the crazy part is | 2913.0885 |
2567 | | 2914.6883 | a lot of, um, | 2915.6696 |
2569 | | 2915.8173 | my friends or | 2916.9860 |
2571 | | 2917.2815 | people I went to school with | 2918.3892 |
2573 | | 2919.8245 | that lived up here, | 2920.8296 |
2575 | | 2921.5443 | they live on that side, | 2922.8994 |
2577 | | 2923.0182 | because the cost of living Uptown is so, | 2925.7989 |
2579 | | 2926.5310 | so | 2927.1622 |
2581 | | 2927.3356 | expensive. | 2928.1263 |
2583 | | 2928.7420 | Even with these new condos they building up, | 2930.7681 |
2585 | | 2931.6447 | you gonna have to have at least three jobs | 2933.3292 |
2587 | | 2934.5654 | just to pay the- | 2935.1948 |
2589 | | 2935.3938 | pay the rent. | 2935.8434 |
2591 | | 2936.2158 | My mortgage is less than what the- | 2937.7378 |
2593 | | 2938.1007 | what the rent is up here. | 2939.1634 |
2594 | DCB_int_01 | 2939.1751 | Mm-hm. | 2939.6696 |
2595 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2942.0874 | I was like, shoot I can't move back up here cause I ain't gonna be able to afford that. | 2944.8116 |
2597 | | 2945.9746 | Two thousand dollars, almost two thousand dollars for a one [bedroom.] | 2949.1604 |
2598 | DCB_int_01 | 2948.6269 | [Bedroom], right. | 2949.5773 |
2599 | | 2949.7924 | Right right right. Don't [go for-] | 2950.8925 |
2600 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2950.5810 | [For-] | 2950.8957 |
2601 | | 2951.0787 | f- | 2951.1751 |
2603 | | 2951.2810 | yeah, | 2951.6824 |
2605 | | 2951.9585 | for an efficiency it's like fifteen hundred do- | 2953.9493 |
2607 | | 2954.3689 | I was like, are you serious? | 2955.5954 |
2609 | | 2957.1526 | That's crazy. | 2957.9746 |
2611 | | 2958.2507 | So, | 2958.6867 |
2613 | | 2960.1420 | I feel like that's justification right there cause you pushing all the African Americans | 2964.5526 |
2615 | | 2966.2929 | out on to this side or into Maryland or whatever, | 2969.4255 |
2617 | | 2969.9040 | where it's cheaper for them to live, | 2971.0149 |
2619 | | 2971.5126 | but then you got all this stuff | 2972.8356 |
2621 | | 2973.0250 | going on | 2973.8984 |
2623 | | 2974.1039 | on this | 2974.5181 |
2625 | | 2974.7287 | side of town, not just Northeast but Southeast. | 2977.2237 |
2627 | | 2977.3553 | You know, it's just- | 2978.4181 |
2629 | | 2979.3654 | it's crazy. | 2980.0814 |
2630 | DCB_int_01 | 2981.3645 | It's a lot. | 2981.9139 |
2632 | | 2982.3182 | [/It's-/] | 2982.7484 |
2633 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2982.3310 | [It is-] | 2982.7484 |
2634 | | 2983.3007 | it is- it's just too much going on. They not making it affordable | 2986.4539 |
2636 | | 2987.3035 | for | 2987.9361 |
2638 | | 2988.5558 | African Americans up here. | 2989.7470 |
2639 | DCB_int_01 | 2990.9865 | Mm-hm. | 2991.4360 |
2640 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2991.9099 | But even so on the Benning Road side I see a lot of them. | 2994.8737 |
2641 | DCB_int_01 | 2996.4406 | On [Minnesota Avenue.] | 2997.6287 |
2642 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 2996.7874 | [It's a lot] of 'em. | 2998.1315 |
2643 | | 2998.8347 | Even in the worst pla- | 2999.6856 |
2645 | | 2999.9168 | Twenty-first Street, and, you know, Twenty-first Street used to be off the chain. | 3002.4888 |
2647 | | 3003.5002 | And I see a lot of them | 3004.8199 |
2649 | | 3004.9856 | over there. I said, wait a minute, | 3006.3374 |
2651 | | 3006.8191 | my girlfriend used to live on Tenth and G, | 3008.7553 |
2653 | | 3009.6255 | uh, Northeast. | 3011.0383 |
2655 | | 3011.6567 | She said she was last person- before she bought her house, | 3013.8691 |
2657 | | 3014.1259 | she was the last | 3014.9929 |
2659 | | 3015.1695 | black person in the building. | 3016.2452 |
2661 | | 3017.7691 | And she lived over there since she was young, since she was little. | 3020.0842 |
2663 | | 3020.5145 | Her mom passed and everything, | 3021.8438 |
2665 | | 3022.2291 | and she was still there. | 3023.0651 |
2667 | | 3024.6585 | She said she was the last African American | 3027.3333 |
2669 | | 3027.9273 | in her building. | 3028.9310 |
2671 | | 3029.2618 | And them people- When I say my girlfriend lived there for a long time, | 3031.9943 |
2673 | | 3032.3507 | everybody in the building was African American. | 3034.1026 |
2675 | | 3034.4751 | And they lived there for a long time, they got pushed out. | 3036.4755 |
2677 | | 3038.1837 | So you don't see nothing around there but the Caucasians. | 3040.9645 |
2678 | DCB_int_01 | 3041.7145 | Mm. | 3041.9489 |
2680 | | 3043.1209 | So no longer Chocolate City? | 3044.4278 |
2681 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3044.5787 | No. | 3045.0040 |
2683 | | 3046.5843 | I see a lot of vanilla. | 3047.4705 |
2684 | DCB_int_01 | 3048.6232 | Mm. | 3048.8899 |
2685 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3049.3938 | No longer Chocolate City. | 3050.5525 |
2687 | | 3052.4494 | <ts> | 3052.5265 |
2689 | | 3053.0402 | [And not-] | 3053.4589 |
2690 | DCB_int_01 | 3053.0980 | [Do you feel] like that makes it safer? | 3054.7420 |
2691 | | 3054.9154 | Or [do you feel] like it- | 3055.9461 |
2692 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3055.0535 | [No.] | 3055.4548 |
2693 | | 3057.0539 | I don't think so. I think it just- | 3058.7589 |
2695 | | 3060.5108 | to me, | 3060.9988 |
2697 | | 3061.5319 | I think it make it racist. | 3062.9559 |
2698 | DCB_int_01 | 3063.7122 | [Mm.] | 3064.1777 |
2699 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3063.8342 | [<laugh>] | 3064.1152 |
2700 | | 3064.6401 | I do. | 3065.0948 |
2702 | | 3066.1191 | I do. | 3066.5012 |
2703 | DCB_int_01 | 3067.0727 | Because of everybody getting pushed out? | 3068.5337 |
2704 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3068.5691 | Yup. | 3068.8709 |
2706 | | 3069.7025 | And they- and I- and I think they | 3071.3067 |
2708 | | 3072.5461 | <ts> | 3072.6296 |
2710 | | 3072.8127 | make it unaffordable | 3074.0746 |
2712 | | 3074.7135 | on purpose, | 3075.4553 |
2714 | | 3077.4833 | <ts> | 3077.5411 |
2716 | | 3077.6888 | for the people to live, especially Uptown. | 3079.5191 |
2718 | | 3080.6204 | For African Americans. | 3081.9337 |
2720 | | 3083.4831 | <ts> | 3083.5864 |
2722 | | 3083.7370 | They have a- you know, they have to have a certain amount where they- | 3085.9172 |
2724 | | 3086.6461 | that has to be affordable, uh, | 3088.7429 |
2726 | | 3089.2971 | rent. | 3089.6985 |
2728 | | 3091.4356 | Um, | 3091.9236 |
2730 | | 3092.0681 | a- you know, a small portion. | 3093.3943 |
2731 | DCB_int_01 | 3093.4232 | Like section [eight-ish stuff like that.] | 3095.4833 |
2732 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3094.6067 | [Yeah, something like that], yeah. | 3096.0388 |
2733 | | 3096.6168 | But | 3096.9539 |
2735 | | 3098.2672 | even if somebody that has a good job, | 3099.8712 |
2737 | | 3101.6599 | you know what I'm saying. | 3102.5686 |
2739 | | 3103.0342 | And they might wanna purchase one of these, | 3104.7296 |
2741 | | 3104.9062 | you know, luxury con- | 3105.6736 |
2743 | | 3105.9979 | They can't afford it. | 3106.8135 |
2744 | DCB_int_01 | 3107.8044 | Several hundred thousands. | 3109.2493 |
2746 | | 3109.6443 | If not close to [a million.] | 3111.5516 |
2747 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3110.7296 | [You know,] | 3111.5269 |
2748 | | 3112.6742 | it's ridiculous. I'm like, wait a minute. | 3114.7452 |
2749 | DCB_int_01 | 3115.9172 | Mm-hm. | 3116.4888 |
2750 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3117.2080 | Cause even the one that, um- | 3118.6465 |
2752 | | 3120.1865 | What's that new- uh, | 3121.2140 |
2754 | | 3121.7984 | I think those little apartments right there on Minnesota. | 3124.1585 |
2755 | DCB_int_01 | 3125.2586 | [Um, three] tree or something like that. | 3127.1113 |
2756 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3125.4448 | [Right before you get-] | 3126.0934 |
2757 | | 3127.1145 | Yeah. | 3127.5118 |
2759 | | 3128.0103 | Cause I looked into the, uh, | 3129.4810 |
2761 | | 3129.8566 | rent for those, I was like, goodness gracious. | 3132.0806 |
2762 | DCB_int_01 | 3132.9283 | [Mm-hm.] | 3133.3007 |
2763 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3133.1466 | [How] they expect for people to live? | 3134.7360 |
2764 | DCB_int_01 | 3134.8709 | I looked into the rent for those, too. | 3136.4346 |
2766 | | 3137.0113 | Yup. | 3137.2714 |
2768 | | 3137.5507 | Like, thirteen hundred for like a | 3139.5576 |
2770 | | 3140.1163 | studio [maybe.] | 3141.9819 |
2771 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3141.2626 | [Yeah.] | 3142.3017 |
2772 | DCB_int_01 | 3142.6388 | Um, fifteen hundred or something like that for a two bedroom. | 3145.4581 |
2774 | | 3145.6764 | Which is better than other places in- [but still.] | 3148.2567 |
2775 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3147.2883 | [Yeah.] | 3147.9376 |
2776 | | 3148.5136 | I'm like, you could buy a house and pay less than that. | 3150.4081 |
2777 | DCB_int_01 | 3151.3104 | I was reading- a friend of mine posted an article on Facebook saying you have to make at least thirty dollars an hour to have a one bedroom | 3157.2012 |
2779 | | 3157.5287 | in DC. | 3158.1805 |
2780 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3158.3732 | That is so true. /RD-NAME-2/ was talking about that, uh, on Friday. | 3161.0852 |
2782 | | 3162.5590 | I was like, that is so true. | 3163.6315 |
2783 | DCB_int_01 | 3163.9012 | Mm-hm. | 3164.2640 |
2785 | | 3164.4920 | And so that's- you know, that's someone forty-five, fifty thousand dollars a year, | 3168.4819 |
2787 | | 3168.8480 | and not everybody's making forty-five, fifty thousand dollars a year to- | 3172.7782 |
2788 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3173.1141 | Yeah, minimum wage ain't even that. | 3174.5269 |
2789 | DCB_int_01 | 3175.3168 | Mm-mm, what, twenty-five, thirty thousand? | 3177.5420 |
2790 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3177.5837 | Yeah. | 3178.0410 |
2791 | DCB_int_01 | 3178.1456 | And you barely like- | 3179.5957 |
2793 | | 3179.8237 | It's- it's tough, [it's tough.] | 3181.4450 |
2794 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3180.6778 | [It's really diff-] Because I remember when I first | 3183.1378 |
2795 | | 3183.4970 | started when- my very first apartment, | 3185.8723 |
2797 | | 3186.4145 | I was nineteen. | 3187.5640 |
2799 | | 3188.8709 | As a matter of fact, my very first apartment was over on Fiftieth and J, Northeast. | 3191.9650 |
2801 | | 3192.2315 | I paid four hundred dollars for rent | 3193.6122 |
2802 | DCB_int_01 | 3196.1553 | You might get [a room.] | 3197.0884 |
2803 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3196.4815 | [for my one] bedroom. | 3197.6122 |
2804 | | 3198.2154 | And I had a nice size apartment. | 3199.4131 |
2806 | | 3200.1292 | My second apartment | 3201.2369 |
2808 | | 3202.1989 | <ts> | 3202.2471 |
2810 | | 3202.4879 | I think my cousin and I had together, | 3203.9393 |
2812 | | 3204.8255 | over in Maryland by PG Plaza. | 3206.6782 |
2814 | | 3207.0892 | Our rent /still was-/ We had a two bedroom, | 3208.7878 |
2816 | | 3209.1108 | and that was like, five sixty. | 3211.0214 |
2818 | | 3213.0346 | Then when I moved from there, | 3214.0686 |
2820 | | 3214.2375 | my other apartment I paid, | 3215.8975 |
2822 | | 3217.1177 | I had a one bedroom, four fifty. | 3218.5691 |
2824 | | 3220.3351 | And before when I | 3221.4737 |
2826 | | 3221.7049 | moved out that apartment | 3222.8351 |
2828 | | 3223.4260 | and I moved on, uh, Georgia and Dahlia, | 3225.5034 |
2830 | | 3225.7860 | before I bought my condo, I lived over | 3227.1558 |
2832 | | 3227.3774 | Georgia and Dahlia for maybe like, four or five ye- | 3229.0053 |
2834 | | 3229.4388 | I was only paying | 3230.3475 |
2836 | | 3231.0507 | like five, | 3231.7700 |
2838 | | 3232.0910 | five hundred. | 3232.6722 |
2839 | DCB_int_01 | 3234.5783 | Mm. | 3234.7982 |
2840 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3236.5177 | So I'm like, | 3237.3557 |
2842 | | 3237.8663 | what is the reason for these | 3239.4159 |
2844 | | 3240.3695 | rents being so | 3241.5608 |
2846 | | 3242.1131 | [high?] | 3242.9211 |
2847 | DCB_int_01 | 3242.2735 | [High.] | 3242.5833 |
2848 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3243.4392 | Can't nobody afford that. | 3244.6228 |
2850 | | 3245.0466 | I remember back in the day, you could get a three bedroom for like eight hundred dollars. | 3248.6397 |
2851 | DCB_int_01 | 3250.2632 | Mm-mm. | 3250.7127 |
2853 | | 3252.4209 | [Now that's what?] | 3253.1516 |
2854 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3252.4884 | [I'm like, it's almost] like two thousand dollars. | 3254.6782 |
2855 | DCB_int_01 | 3257.2361 | Mm-hm. | 3257.5861 |
2856 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3257.6310 | And then you wonder why you got so many homeless people. | 3259.8948 |
2858 | | 3260.5980 | N- everybody should be able to live in a home, | 3262.9773 |
2860 | | 3263.2168 | no one should be homeless. | 3264.4819 |
2862 | | 3265.8530 | That's how I feel. | 3266.5819 |
2864 | | 3267.0154 | No one should be homeless | 3268.3447 |
2866 | | 3268.9535 | in the United States of America, period. | 3270.8429 |
2868 | | 3273.7025 | And with DC, all this money you generating from all these ticket sales, I mean, ticket, um, | 3279.2819 |
2870 | | 3280.0686 | that you giving people and whatever else you getting money, | 3282.5526 |
2872 | | 3283.6282 | you got millions of dollars. | 3284.7617 |
2874 | | 3285.5741 | You can build | 3286.6626 |
2876 | | 3287.3099 | at least three or four places | 3288.9347 |
2878 | | 3289.2782 | for people to be able to | 3290.6814 |
2880 | | 3291.0828 | live affordably. | 3292.1456 |
2882 | | 3293.6631 | And not charge no fifteen hundred, | 3295.7149 |
2884 | | 3296.3090 | two thousand, three thou- | 3297.5323 |
2886 | | 3297.8181 | Uh-uh. | 3298.2928 |
2888 | | 3300.7870 | Cause it should be no reason that these families | 3303.2626 |
2890 | | 3303.5356 | should be living in shelters, living in hotels. | 3305.7884 |
2892 | | 3307.7888 | You know, it's- it's crazy, and that's- I had to tell my son that | 3310.3479 |
2894 | | 3310.7801 | please be grateful | 3311.6631 |
2896 | | 3312.6521 | about what you have cause it's kids out here who don't have | 3314.8452 |
2898 | | 3315.3140 | any | 3315.7346 |
2900 | | 3315.9883 | thing. | 3316.4443 |
2902 | | 3316.8488 | When I say anything, they living on the street, not even in a building. | 3319.3971 |
2904 | | 3319.7342 | On the street. | 3320.7746 |
2905 | DCB_int_01 | 3321.3301 | [Mm-hm.] | 3321.8746 |
2906 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3321.6576 | [Don't have] no food, | 3322.8745 |
2907 | | 3324.0420 | don't have none of the luxuries that you have. | 3325.9879 |
2908 | DCB_int_01 | 3327.4962 | Yup. | 3327.7314 |
2909 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3327.7346 | So please be grateful and thankful. | 3329.3902 |
2911 | | 3330.2796 | I said, because me, I'm not gonna see | 3332.2383 |
2913 | | 3332.6879 | us on the street. | 3333.4328 |
2914 | DCB_int_01 | 3333.8888 | Mm-hm. | 3334.2847 |
2915 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3335.3324 | I said I will have to do what I have to do by any means necessary | 3338.3700 |
2917 | | 3338.8613 | to make sure we have a roof over our head | 3340.5843 |
2919 | | 3340.8700 | and foods in- food in our belly and clothes on your back. | 3343.1916 |
2921 | | 3344.3250 | So please be grateful. | 3345.3975 |
2922 | DCB_int_01 | 3345.8374 | Mm-hm. | 3346.5406 |
2924 | | 3347.3292 | It's- it's- it's a lot. | 3348.7326 |
2926 | | 3348.9218 | [Do you feel-] | 3349.6571 |
2927 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3348.9925 | [It's- it's sad.] | 3349.9012 |
2928 | DCB_int_01 | 3350.3411 | do you feel like | 3351.3397 |
2930 | | 3353.0819 | you are at a point where | 3355.1273 |
2932 | | 3356.1998 | you feel like it's- for you it's stable and you don't have to- you know, you're not trying to say, okay well, we gonna- | 3362.6750 |
2934 | | 3362.9030 | we can't stay here, or we gotta be moved out | 3365.0209 |
2936 | | 3365.4319 | cause you in a good place? | 3366.7195 |
2937 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3366.7805 | <ts> | 3366.8255 |
2939 | | 3367.3553 | Um, I'm not gonna say necessarily that | 3370.0333 |
2941 | | 3370.6645 | my income is stable. | 3371.9618 |
2943 | | 3372.8672 | Cause I'm still, you know, working on building my [business.] | 3375.2379 |
2944 | DCB_int_01 | 3374.8002 | [Business], right | 3375.4906 |
2945 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3375.6800 | But I still have- | 3376.7525 |
2947 | | 3377.2521 | Because my mom taught me how to be a good hustler, | 3379.3296 |
2949 | | 3379.7406 | <laugh> | 3380.4759 |
2950 | DCB_int_01 | 3380.6590 | Have that side hustle. | 3381.5784 |
2951 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3381.5901 | you know what I'm saying, she taught me how to survive. | 3383.6342 |
2953 | | 3385.4163 | I'm'a make sure that we stable, | 3386.8805 |
2954 | DCB_int_01 | 3387.0411 | [Mm-hm.] | 3387.5420 |
2955 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3387.1823 | [you know what I'm] saying, so. | 3388.4490 |
2956 | | 3388.9728 | You know, I be struggling, | 3390.1448 |
2958 | | 3390.4627 | I said, but I- I- what I do, I just keep my faith in God, | 3393.1541 |
2960 | | 3393.9645 | I pray every day, | 3395.1592 |
2962 | | 3395.3324 | you know, Lord, | 3396.1705 |
2964 | | 3396.9315 | please, you know, bless my finances so I'll be able to do X, Y, Z for my son or whatever. | 3401.7787 |
2966 | | 3402.5558 | I- I just keep the faith. | 3403.9411 |
2967 | DCB_int_01 | 3404.3571 | Mm-hm. | 3404.7838 |
2968 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3404.8324 | That's all I can do. I don't complain, | 3406.9057 |
2970 | | 3407.1686 | I ain't cussing nobody out. | 3408.5269 |
2972 | | 3409.6507 | I just stay humble | 3410.6269 |
2974 | | 3410.7489 | with everything, because I know | 3412.5759 |
2976 | | 3413.0916 | something gonna happen. | 3413.9040 |
2977 | DCB_int_01 | 3414.0260 | Mm, | 3414.2793 |
2979 | | 3414.5397 | always, [always.] | 3415.7984 |
2980 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3415.6026 | [And I'm] very good with, you know, trying to- you know, with marketing myself, um, but like I said had to put my | 3420.0773 |
2981 | | 3420.5879 | business a little bit on the back burner cause I was promoting him, | 3423.0282 |
2982 | DCB_int_01 | 3423.1952 | [Mm-hm.] | 3423.5067 |
2983 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3423.2658 | [So I'm] trying to find | 3424.2388 |
2984 | | 3424.5310 | a healthy balance | 3425.6342 |
2985 | DCB_int_01 | 3425.8205 | [Between] the two, [mm-hm.] | 3426.9765 |
2986 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3425.9682 | [/?/] | 3426.0966 |
2988 | | 3426.4627 | [with-] | 3426.6264 |
2990 | | 3426.8062 | [between] the two. | 3427.5672 |
2991 | | 3428.1388 | But, you know, as a mother, you gon- you gonna | 3430.3672 |
2992 | DCB_int_01 | 3430.9792 | Push your kid. | 3431.6920 |
2993 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3431.7049 | Yeah, | 3432.2475 |
2995 | | 3432.4498 | you know what I'm saying, [that's what we do.] | 3434.0200 |
2996 | DCB_int_01 | 3433.1980 | [Exactly, that's] what you- | 3434.2755 |
2997 | | 3434.8291 | that's | 3435.1558 |
2998 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3435.5709 | But [one thing I love] about him, because he promotes me and I be promoting him. | 3438.8127 |
2999 | DCB_int_01 | 3435.7186 | [always.] | 3436.3812 |
3001 | | 3438.8094 | [<laugh>] | 3441.7250 |
3002 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3439.1594 | [It is so funny, I'm like, oh my gosh.] | 3441.4888 |
3003 | DCB_int_01 | 3442.1745 | Y'all promoting each [other and] | 3443.5283 |
3004 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3443.0242 | [Yeah.] | 3443.5161 |
3005 | DCB_int_01 | 3443.6888 | You trying to do it for him, and [he trying to do it for] you and it's just all working out. | 3447.0860 |
3006 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3444.9539 | [Yeah.] | 3445.5126 |
3007 | | 3447.1021 | [Yes.] | 3447.6961 |
3008 | DCB_int_01 | 3447.5131 | [So have] you seen- | 3448.4411 |
3009 | | 3448.8167 | What do you- what's your goal? Like what ultimately- like what d- when you say, I've arrived, this is- | 3453.4392 |
3011 | | 3453.6736 | this is what I | 3454.5521 |
3013 | | 3454.8026 | consider success, what is that for you? | 3456.5943 |
3014 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3456.7709 | For me, with my business, I would say that | 3460.0140 |
3016 | | 3460.7544 | I have arrived when | 3462.1544 |
3018 | | 3463.0021 | I have | 3463.7310 |
3020 | | 3464.2480 | X amount of contracts under my belt. | 3466.1617 |
3021 | DCB_int_01 | 3466.3916 | Mm-hm. | 3466.7833 |
3022 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3466.8893 | And also that I have reached, | 3468.6746 |
3024 | | 3469.4484 | um, | 3469.9590 |
3026 | | 3471.0732 | families and- and- and- and children | 3473.8140 |
3028 | | 3474.2957 | with their weight loss goals, or their- you know, their healthy | 3477.0314 |
3030 | | 3477.4521 | goals. That's, | 3478.4346 |
3032 | | 3478.5457 | you know. | 3478.8475 |
3034 | | 3479.5219 | I'm just one of those people, | 3480.7741 |
3036 | | 3481.9365 | yes I wanna make money, | 3483.0025 |
3037 | DCB_int_01 | 3483.5773 | Right. | 3483.8186 |
3038 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3483.9112 | but | 3484.3704 |
3039 | DCB_int_01 | 3484.6067 | But the mission. | 3485.4521 |
3040 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3485.7787 | the mission, | 3486.5140 |
3042 | | 3486.6906 | you know what I'm saying, is- is more important. | 3488.6626 |
3043 | DCB_int_01 | 3489.7378 | [Mm-hm.] | 3490.2420 |
3044 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3489.9003 | [Because], you know, I still have a mission for myself, I'm still working on myself, | 3493.1016 |
3045 | | 3493.5159 | you know what I'm saying. So, | 3494.4952 |
3047 | | 3494.8452 | I always tell 'em, I'm like, I'm not where I wanna be, but we have a goal. | 3497.9778 |
3049 | | 3498.4306 | You know what I'm saying, we do this together, | 3500.0688 |
3051 | | 3501.2337 | you [know.] | 3501.6961 |
3052 | DCB_int_01 | 3501.4039 | [Mm-hm.] | 3501.9399 |
3053 | | 3502.3723 | I saw the- um, the board in the back | 3504.7260 |
3054 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3504.7131 | Mm-hm. | 3505.4545 |
3055 | DCB_int_01 | 3505.5576 | with the /?/ I was like, I love this, [I love-] | 3508.1938 |
3056 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3507.4810 | [Mm-hm.] | 3507.9996 |
3057 | DCB_int_01 | 3508.3319 | cause it- it really- | 3509.4769 |
3059 | | 3509.7787 | Just like I was- you know, | 3510.9272 |
3061 | | 3511.0760 | we talk to the staff, | 3511.9975 |
3063 | | 3512.4278 | what we do here is great, but if- if- if the same kinds of lessons and things like that aren't happening once they leave here, | 3518.0392 |
3065 | | 3518.5113 | it's all for naught. [Like,] | 3519.9080 |
3066 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3519.5034 | [Mm-hm.] | 3520.0750 |
3067 | DCB_int_01 | 3520.8219 | because they're here for two hours, they're at home for ten [hours.] | 3524.1271 |
3068 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3523.8755 | [Exactly.] | 3524.6101 |
3069 | DCB_int_01 | 3524.9094 | That's five times more at home, so if you not- you know, if you not saying, let's drink water [or let's go for a] walk or, | 3530.9608 |
3070 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3529.2237 | [Mm-hm.] | 3529.9236 |
3071 | DCB_int_01 | 3531.2145 | you know, let's make sure that we, | 3532.9021 |
3073 | | 3533.2714 | um, are good citizens, [or we study] and we | 3536.0136 |
3074 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3534.9058 | [Mm-hm.] | 3535.5672 |
3075 | DCB_int_01 | 3536.1869 | do the thing, | 3536.7264 |
3077 | | 3537.0892 | it doesn't matter. | 3537.8085 |
3078 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3537.7700 | Exactly. | 3538.4846 |
3079 | DCB_int_01 | 3538.6228 | And so that's gr- I love the fact that it's- it's not simply like, okay that's what you did here, or [did-] | 3543.3473 |
3080 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3543.1149 | [Right.] | 3543.4482 |
3081 | DCB_int_01 | 3543.5034 | No, but we're doing- we're embracing these things, [I love that.] | 3546.2403 |
3082 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3545.5475 | [Yeah.] | 3546.0657 |
3083 | DCB_int_01 | 3546.5558 | [I love it, I love-] | 3547.9975 |
3084 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3546.6585 | [I do too, I do too.] | 3547.9532 |
3085 | DCB_int_01 | 3548.6012 | So I'm'a ask you a unhealthy [question] | 3550.2305 |
3086 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3550.0204 | [Okay.] | 3550.4244 |
3087 | DCB_int_01 | 3550.6099 | cause- cause we talking about- | 3551.8099 |
3089 | | 3552.1191 | So, | 3552.4498 |
3091 | | 3552.6136 | <clears throat> | 3553.0599 |
3093 | | 3553.8466 | [one of] the things [that DC] is known for is mumbo sauce. | 3557.6503 |
3094 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3553.9782 | <laugh> | 3554.1613 |
3096 | | 3554.6204 | [<laugh>] | 3555.2755 |
3097 | | 3557.7691 | Yes. | 3558.5205 |
3098 | DCB_int_01 | 3558.4819 | So tell me a little bit about- | 3559.6764 |
3099 | | 3559.8081 | Do you like mumbo sauce? | 3560.7938 |
3100 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3560.7906 | I don't like mumbo [sauce.] | 3562.2227 |
3101 | DCB_int_01 | 3562.0512 | [Okay], tell me why. | 3563.0948 |
3102 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3563.0434 | I- | 3563.3131 |
3103 | | 3563.8879 | I don't know, I just never been- | 3565.5512 |
3105 | | 3565.7888 | I mean, I tasted it before, it's okay, but I'm just like | 3567.7667 |
3107 | | 3567.9787 | not a big mumbo sauce | 3569.6599 |
3109 | | 3570.4916 | eater | 3570.8676 |
3111 | | 3571.5576 | on my chicken and stuff. | 3572.5749 |
3113 | | 3573.3622 | But a lot of people like it, I don't know what the | 3575.5861 |
3115 | | 3576.3567 | craze is about it, but. | 3577.8081 |
3117 | | 3578.9865 | [Yeah, that's a big thing.] | 3580.0493 |
3118 | DCB_int_01 | 3579.1021 | [Now where- where do you] get it from? | 3580.5927 |
3119 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3581.3163 | W- | 3581.4384 |
3121 | | 3581.7113 | the mumbo [sauce?] | 3582.5269 |
3122 | DCB_int_01 | 3582.3952 | [Mm-hm.] | 3582.7356 |
3123 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3583.2493 | I don't know, I thought it was something that the Chinese people made up. | 3586.1135 |
3125 | | 3587.3388 | The Asian people made up. | 3588.2796 |
3127 | | 3588.7613 | But, | 3589.1594 |
3129 | | 3590.7713 | I don't know, apparently | 3591.9016 |
3131 | | 3593.3613 | that's supposed to be a black thing I guess. | 3595.2526 |
3133 | | 3595.8980 | I don't know. | 3596.4888 |
3135 | | 3596.7424 | I'll have to do some research. | 3597.9016 |
3136 | DCB_int_01 | 3598.1874 | Me t- | 3598.4499 |
3138 | | 3598.5971 | I'm still learning. I ask people about it, but it's- | 3601.1434 |
3139 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3601.7021 | Yeah. | 3602.0994 |
3140 | DCB_int_01 | 3603.0057 | Like you can't buy it in stores. [You just have to] go- | 3605.4994 |
3141 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3604.4044 | [<laugh> Right.] | 3605.0755 |
3142 | | 3605.5989 | It's something that- | 3606.4081 |
3144 | | 3607.4131 | I don't even know what it's m- what the ingredients are of the mumbo sauce, to tell you the truth. | 3611.1346 |
3145 | DCB_int_01 | 3611.2939 | Me neither. | 3611.6979 |
3147 | | 3612.1030 | [Nobody does.] | 3613.0760 |
3148 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3612.2893 | [Mm-mm.] | 3612.9700 |
3149 | DCB_int_01 | 3613.2718 | It's kind of a mystery, [cause if you go to] one place it's- | 3615.8245 |
3150 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3614.3700 | [Yeah.] | 3614.9393 |
3151 | DCB_int_01 | 3616.5200 | thick, if you go to [another place it's-] | 3618.8608 |
3152 | DCB_se1_ag3_f_03 | 3617.4962 | [Right, and it's just l- yeah], so I don't know. | 3620.7039 |
3153 | | 3621.1856 | But I never- yeah, I wasn't a big mumbo sauce. | 3623.4865 |