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1 | DCB_int_01 | 0.2513 | And when is your birthday? | 1.4543 |
2 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2.5361 | Four two fifty-seven. | 3.8884 |
3 | DCB_int_01 | 5.8503 | And where were you born? | 6.6990 |
4 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 7.3285 | DC General Hospital, Washington DC, District of Columbia. | 11.8596 |
5 | DCB_int_01 | 11.9467 | And what neighborhood did you grow up in? | 13.5243 |
6 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 14.1584 | Well I grew up in | 15.7194 |
8 | | 15.9805 | a couple of neighborhoods. The first neighborhood that I | 18.8295 |
10 | | 19.5523 | um- | 19.9440 |
12 | | 20.9045 | w- w- | 21.1983 |
14 | | 21.9059 | Around um, | 23.0063 |
16 | | 23.7011 | Fifth and P. | 24.4518 |
18 | | 25.2725 | Um, | 25.8554 |
20 | | 26.1538 | Shaw area. | 27.0724 |
22 | | 27.3382 | Um, | 27.6739 |
24 | | 28.6566 | went to /RD-SCHOOL-5/ Elementary School, | 30.5358 |
26 | | 31.3658 | and then attend- | 32.1818 |
28 | | 32.4662 | I attended the original /RD-SCHOOL-1/ Junior High School | 35.0390 |
30 | | 35.4773 | on um, Seventh and /RD-ADDRESS-2/ Avenue, which is now | 38.4802 |
32 | | 38.9931 | um, a senior citizen home. And they | 41.0576 |
34 | | 41.3467 | built a new Shaw | 42.4285 |
36 | | 43.0160 | uh, further down. | 44.1211 |
37 | DCB_int_01 | 45.1097 | Okay, and so | 46.2055 |
39 | | 47.2068 | this was North | 48.1954 |
41 | | 48.6057 | West. | 49.3191 |
42 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 49.2725 | This is [Northwest.] | 50.5688 |
43 | DCB_int_01 | 50.1724 | [Okay.] | 50.5734 |
44 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 50.8019 | Mm-hm. | 51.2402 |
45 | DCB_int_01 | 51.2589 | Shaw is- I'm still tryna get that neighborhood cause I don't know that neighborhood [/very well/.] | 55.0487 |
46 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 54.4005 | [Shaw area is the] Howard U- [near] Howard University, um, | 57.6319 |
47 | DCB_int_01 | 55.7341 | [/?/] | 55.9906 |
48 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 58.3582 | LeDroit Park area. | 59.7897 |
50 | | 60.3259 | Yeah. | 60.6290 |
51 | DCB_int_01 | 61.1792 | And um, have you lived in other places outside of | 64.2836 |
53 | | 64.4794 | DC? | 64.8385 |
54 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 64.9131 | I have never lived in any place else | 67.6036 |
56 | | 67.7434 | other than the District of Columbia. | 69.1656 |
57 | DCB_int_01 | 69.4734 | Mm! | 69.9618 |
59 | | 70.0877 | That is great. We don't have- | 71.6918 |
60 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 72.1674 | A true Washingtonian? | 73.2127 |
61 | DCB_int_01 | 73.2025 | We have some, | 74.4382 |
62 | | 74.5595 | but usually like- The one I interviewed the other day, he had lived in | 78.2467 |
64 | | 78.8342 | um- | 79.2911 |
66 | | 79.4264 | He lived in DC all his life for- except like three years, he lived in Baltimore. | 82.5307 |
68 | | 82.9224 | Or you know, so most people- | 84.4658 |
70 | | 84.7596 | I had one lady, she lived all her life, and then she | 86.8299 |
72 | | 87.0118 | left to go to college and she- | 88.1717 |
74 | | 88.3628 | After six months, she came back and then she went to UDC. So | 90.9974 |
76 | | 91.8134 | e- It's- | 92.6107 |
78 | | 92.8859 | I've gotten some luck- I've gotten lucky with some, but sometimes you don't see a lot that | 96.7829 |
80 | | 96.9134 | done everything- | 97.9579 |
81 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 98.1818 | Right here. | 98.7273 |
82 | DCB_int_01 | 98.7879 | Mm-hm. | 99.1330 |
83 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 99.1050 | Yeah. | 99.5293 |
84 | | 99.7858 | Yeah, yeah. This is home. Um, | 102.1738 |
86 | | 103.3751 | my mom is not originally from DC, but my dad [is.] | 106.2480 |
87 | DCB_int_01 | 106.0271 | [Okay], where's- Okay, that's a good- Where's mom from? | 107.9156 |
88 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 108.1394 | My mother is from Augusta, Georgia. | 109.6595 |
89 | DCB_int_01 | 110.0139 | Oh! | 110.6714 |
91 | | 110.7786 | I lived there for a few months. | 112.1670 |
92 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 112.5167 | Uh-huh. | 113.0343 |
93 | DCB_int_01 | 113.5845 | And dad is from DC? | 114.7223 |
94 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 114.8622 | My father's from DC. My mother came to DC when she was thirteen and never went back. | 119.5099 |
95 | DCB_int_01 | 120.1487 | So she's kind of from DC. | 121.3797 |
96 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 121.5103 | No. She is not [kind of- That's not considered] [DC.] | 124.3873 |
97 | DCB_int_01 | 122.4056 | [She's not- <laugh> Do-] | 123.9210 |
99 | | 124.2183 | [That's] not from [DC?] | 125.1555 |
100 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 124.9783 | [No.] You're not- When you not- You [have got] to- | 126.9974 |
101 | DCB_int_01 | 126.2746 | [You didn't-] | 126.5591 |
102 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 127.3891 | Well at one time when I was coming up, m- | 129.4221 |
104 | | 129.5666 | around the time, they would say | 131.0156 |
106 | | 131.3420 | you would have to have been at least | 133.5010 |
108 | | 133.8787 | minimum the second generation, if not the third. | 136.4514 |
109 | DCB_int_01 | 137.0669 | Before you could say you were from [DC?] | 138.5684 |
110 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 138.3119 | [Mm-hm.] | 138.7642 |
111 | DCB_int_01 | 138.7736 | Wow. | 139.0766 |
113 | | 139.3424 | And what did your m- | 139.8134 |
115 | | 139.9113 | fath- father do? | 140.6807 |
116 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 141.1283 | My father | 142.3115 |
118 | | 142.4421 | uh, | 142.9177 |
120 | | 143.1835 | I think initially | 144.4845 |
122 | | 144.7223 | uh, what I recall most- I didn't | 146.4615 |
124 | | 146.7366 | live with my dad. | 147.5853 |
126 | | 147.7858 | My mom and dad were not married. | 149.3887 |
128 | | 149.8317 | Uh, my father remarried and left DC, | 151.9393 |
130 | | 152.3869 | but what I recall- What I think he did was | 155.3887 |
132 | | 157.0813 | nothing important, uh, um, that they would c- consider- It was an honest living. | 161.2161 |
134 | | 161.6925 | Um, I think he worked | 163.3152 |
136 | | 165.5009 | for a laundry | 166.3169 |
138 | | 166.7972 | [or something], driving a truck or something. | 168.7510 |
139 | DCB_int_01 | 166.8718 | [Hm.] | 167.1330 |
140 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 169.3432 | And I think um, he was fortunate enough to | 172.4242 |
142 | | 173.0117 | um, get a government job, | 174.6624 |
144 | | 175.3199 | and he lived in New York the rest of his life. | 177.9579 |
145 | DCB_int_01 | 178.3309 | Gotcha. And where- What about mom? | 179.7391 |
146 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 180.0422 | My mom stayed here in DC until, | 182.3224 |
148 | | 182.5287 | you know, /um, her demise/. | 183.9929 |
149 | DCB_int_01 | 183.9885 | And what did she do? | 184.6926 |
150 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 185.0097 | My mom did- | 185.8910 |
152 | | 186.7432 | She was The Help. | 187.7643 |
153 | DCB_int_01 | 188.0581 | She- | 188.3192 |
154 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 189.0979 | My mom was The Help. | 190.2263 |
156 | | 190.7346 | I hate that movie <laugh> cause that remind me so much of my mother | 194.1143 |
158 | | 194.4311 | and [so] much pain she endured. | 196.4641 |
159 | DCB_int_01 | 194.5477 | [/Mm/.] | 194.7762 |
160 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 196.8885 | Uh, she cleaned up the- Cleared people's homes. | 199.5918 |
161 | DCB_int_01 | 200.6689 | And how- | 201.0280 |
163 | | 201.3730 | Now because that was- So that was like the [forties and] fifti- [That was-] | 205.4006 |
164 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 204.0437 | [That was in-] | 204.5846 |
166 | | 205.0183 | [That was the] [fifties.] That was definitely the fifties. I was born in fifty seven. She did it up until- | 210.3153 |
167 | DCB_int_01 | 205.6105 | [fifties.] | 206.1467 |
168 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 210.6219 | I wanna say she did it up until | 212.4218 |
170 | | 212.7715 | early sixties, and then she did | 214.7253 |
172 | | 215.2522 | always sometime type of maintenance work. | 217.2887 |
174 | | 217.6757 | Um, she went from cleaning people's homes to | 220.7159 |
176 | | 221.1263 | cleaning um, buildings. | 223.1302 |
178 | | 223.2374 | You know, um, | 224.2073 |
180 | | 224.7109 | apartment buildings where people would leave out and- | 227.2195 |
182 | | 227.6019 | and so sh- | 228.1708 |
184 | | 228.3794 | a group of people would come in and clean it but it was owned by a company. | 231.5595 |
185 | DCB_int_01 | 232.0352 | So, | 232.4362 |
187 | | 233.0657 | do you- do you remember your mom either telling you a lot of stories? Or do you remember like, | 237.1352 |
189 | | 237.3544 | seeing your mom, especially because racial tensions in the city | 239.9691 |
190 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 240.0577 | [Mm-hm.] | 240.4447 |
191 | DCB_int_01 | 240.2722 | [at] that point- even now, | 241.3447 |
192 | | 241.6431 | but I think | 242.0348 |
194 | | 242.4125 | especially as we are getting to the Civil Rights era, | 245.0050 |
196 | | 245.6112 | how do you feel like, with her being | 247.7457 |
198 | | 247.9322 | The Help as you- | 248.6083 |
200 | | 248.7762 | as you said | 249.4710 |
202 | | 249.8626 | that- | 250.0771 |
203 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 250.1564 | I had a lot of resentment, | 251.4294 |
205 | | 251.6718 | a lot- Cause they didn't treat her right. | 253.3866 |
207 | | 253.5079 | They didn't treat her well. Um, | 255.2285 |
209 | | 255.3870 | you know, they would give her | 256.6973 |
211 | | 257.2662 | food that they, you know | 258.6732 |
213 | | 259.8856 | didn't wanna waste, what they called not wanting to waste, and would bring home. | 263.4900 |
215 | | 264.1241 | And um, | 265.5778 |
217 | | 267.1306 | you know, I grew up in the six- You know, I came up | 269.3874 |
219 | | 269.8910 | when um, the M- | 271.1255 |
221 | | 271.3120 | the March on Washington happened, and we lived at Fifth and P. | 274.3382 |
223 | | 275.0377 | And I can remember my mother- When Martin was killed, my mother was saying, | 278.5244 |
225 | | 279.3730 | I just got to be there. I just - | 281.0983 |
227 | | 281.6159 | /<clap>/ | 281.8770 |
229 | | 282.0122 | I don't think she had any political | 283.7317 |
231 | | 284.2213 | /<clap>/ | 284.4218 |
233 | | 285.5502 | you know um, | 286.3616 |
235 | | 286.9025 | s- stake in anything. I think she just felt she needed to be there. She took it very hard, | 291.2984 |
237 | | 291.7927 | I can remember. | 292.6134 |
239 | | 293.0843 | Um, | 293.6066 |
241 | | 294.1463 | we- She took her children down to the Martin uh- to the monument. | 297.8859 |
243 | | 298.4502 | We walked, | 299.1589 |
245 | | 299.6905 | you know. That's how close we were, really. | 301.4006 |
247 | | 301.7550 | Cause when you live on Fifth and P, | 303.1492 |
249 | | 303.5409 | it's nothing keeping you from anything but New York Avenue, so [we walked] a lot. | 307.5312 |
250 | DCB_int_01 | 306.5566 | [Mm-hm.] | 307.0929 |
251 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 307.9788 | So often as a child growing up, | 309.9186 |
253 | | 310.3942 | we played, | 311.1263 |
255 | | 311.2289 | walked downtown and | 312.7478 |
257 | | 313.0136 | walked up and down the monument steps | 314.8321 |
259 | | 315.1912 | on a number of occasions. Uh, that was what we did with our pass time. | 318.3573 |
261 | | 318.8457 | We would get up in the morning, do our chores, and | 321.0653 |
263 | | 322.0771 | <clap> she never said, where you going? Whatchu gonna do? Just stay out of trouble. | 325.2654 |
264 | DCB_int_01 | 325.7224 | And that was your neighborhood- | 327.0000 |
266 | | 327.4430 | Think about back then. Were you- | 329.3501 |
268 | | 329.8584 | First of all, are you a only child or do you have siblings? | 331.6804 |
269 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 331.6244 | I have a sibling. I have two s- | 333.1585 |
270 | | 333.2891 | ts- two deceased siblings. I have an older sister who's deceased, | 336.3561 |
272 | | 336.8691 | and I have a younger brother who's deceased. So I'm what they call the middle [child, the knee] baby. [But my mo-] | 341.9411 |
273 | DCB_int_01 | 340.6786 | [Mm.] | 341.0190 |
275 | | 341.5168 | [The knee] baby. | 342.3188 |
276 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 342.3002 | The knee baby, that's what they called you. The knee baby. So I was the one that kind of | 345.9979 |
277 | | 346.2916 | balanced everything out. Um, | 348.5718 |
279 | | 349.4146 | I was the one that- | 350.5057 |
281 | | 351.4849 | Not knowing then, | 352.7579 |
283 | | 352.9398 | um, | 353.3314 |
285 | | 354.3794 | my mother always said had the level head, | 356.2819 |
287 | | 356.5524 | you [know, more] or less, so. | 358.1098 |
288 | DCB_int_01 | 356.8135 | [Mm.] | 357.1865 |
289 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 358.5574 | Um, I wasn't shy | 359.8304 |
291 | | 360.1323 | um, or anything like that. I just did it. | 362.3519 |
292 | DCB_int_01 | 362.8042 | So in your neighborhood- Okay, so did y'all play together? | 364.8465 |
294 | | 364.9351 | Were [y'all close in age] enough that y'all played together, and [were there a lot of other kids?] | 368.8554 |
295 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 365.0517 | [Oh, y-] | 365.8490 |
297 | | 367.1675 | [Yeah, we played when we were younger.] We played together- younger. We played with the neighborhood kids til the street lights came [on.] | 373.2840 |
298 | DCB_int_01 | 373.0835 | [Mm.] | 373.2747 |
299 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 373.7643 | Um, [/unintelligible/-] | 374.9674 |
300 | DCB_int_01 | 374.2586 | [I hear that a lot.] | 374.9301 |
301 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 375.1539 | Right. | 375.4523 |
303 | | 375.6435 | Growing up on- going to /RD-NAME-5/ Elementary School for me, | 378.6965 |
305 | | 379.0416 | I only had to cross one street, | 380.3845 |
307 | | 380.7529 | so my mother never had to walk us to school. She'd just say, go to school. | 384.2221 |
309 | | 384.9064 | And so there was a corner store where we bought our penny candy. | 387.8999 |
311 | | 388.5434 | And we played in neighborhood | 389.8817 |
313 | | 390.0122 | from sun up to sun down, and | 391.4566 |
315 | | 391.5545 | you know, we went out of the neighborhood. | 393.0420 |
317 | | 393.4756 | We were never afraid. | 394.9211 |
319 | | 395.3408 | Uh, back then it was um- | 396.8038 |
321 | | 397.3633 | at um- | 398.0907 |
323 | | 398.6829 | Between O and P and Seventh Street, | 400.7672 |
325 | | 401.1123 | was the Kennedy Playground, | 402.6091 |
327 | | 403.2281 | and it was named after the Kennedys. And we played on that playground, | 406.7859 |
329 | | 407.0190 | and we- | 407.6812 |
331 | | 408.1836 | The um, | 408.7478 |
333 | | 409.5452 | <ts> | 409.6617 |
335 | | 409.7970 | fire department would come d- around, and cut the water on when it was real hot, | 413.2335 |
337 | | 413.6205 | so we played in the water. | 414.7570 |
338 | DCB_int_01 | 414.9483 | Mm. | 415.1815 |
340 | | 415.7833 | /I'm not sure what that is/ | 416.9767 |
341 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 416.9720 | Uh, we played in the water. Um, | 419.1403 |
342 | | 420.1008 | um, | 420.4878 |
344 | | 421.7550 | all the time. We just played outside all the time. | 424.0771 |
345 | DCB_int_01 | 424.3289 | Do you remember a time when | 425.9470 |
347 | | 426.1650 | you felt like the neighborhood shifted? | 427.9602 |
349 | | 428.2493 | Or had you moved out by then? | 429.8673 |
350 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 430.5705 | <ts> I didn't really start to really feel that until I was um, | 436.2870 |
352 | | 436.9817 | and adult. | 437.4702 |
354 | | 437.6054 | I never saw that. I mean, everybody had their own neighborhood. | 440.5710 |
356 | | 441.0093 | We didn't have- You know it was always a sprinkle | 443.3501 |
358 | | 444.0530 | of- of- of white people living in- somewhere, but they didn't | 447.5222 |
360 | | 448.0631 | mingle, | 448.5807 |
362 | | 448.7299 | intermingle with us. They didn't engage with us. Um, | 451.7177 |
364 | | 452.2166 | they weren't rude or anything. Um, it's just like, they said, you know, you didn't bother them. They didn't bother [us.] | 457.2607 |
365 | DCB_int_01 | 456.4896 | [Bother you. Mm-hm.] | 457.3866 |
366 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 457.8529 | Um, of course you had white teachers back then. | 460.3662 |
368 | | 460.9351 | Um, | 461.4573 |
370 | | 462.3142 | I didn't have white teachers in elementary school. I had white teachers in high school. I went to c- c- | 466.7253 |
372 | | 467.1776 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School. | 468.3200 |
373 | DCB_int_01 | 468.3515 | Mm-hm. | 468.7478 |
374 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 469.1255 | And um, | 470.4078 |
376 | | 470.9813 | as a matter of fact, | 471.9839 |
378 | | 472.1424 | one of the teachers who influenced me the most was white. Her name was Miss /RD-NAME-3/. | 475.7317 |
379 | DCB_int_01 | 476.0907 | And how did- What did- What did she do? | 477.4476 |
380 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 477.7740 | She was a hippie. | 478.5481 |
382 | | 479.0050 | She drove a- She /wolk/- She drove a Volkswagen bus, | 481.8529 |
384 | | 482.4964 | and see, by the time I got to high school, | 484.4129 |
386 | | 485.4154 | I was married | 486.1929 |
388 | | 487.0276 | with two children. | 487.8110 |
389 | DCB_int_01 | 488.6176 | Oh! | 488.7948 |
391 | | 489.0420 | Okay, we're gonna have to back up. [/inaudible/ That was a lot of] jump. | 492.6184 |
392 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 490.0678 | [I know. I know- I was getting ready to say, you might wanna back-] | 492.1894 |
393 | | 492.7059 | Right. | 493.1348 |
395 | | 493.3633 | But it's not really because it's- | 495.4243 |
397 | | 495.5549 | it's a jump, but listen. Okay. | 497.3734 |
399 | | 497.5040 | Let me tell you my story. My story consist of | 499.8669 |
401 | | 500.2353 | there were three children. My mother was a single mother. | 502.6973 |
403 | | 503.4667 | Um, all three of us had three different fathers. | 505.9928 |
405 | | 506.7715 | Um, | 507.4570 |
407 | | 508.5388 | we moved, | 509.3175 |
409 | | 509.6019 | you know, um- | 510.6639 |
411 | | 511.3913 | We never lived in public housing. | 513.1819 |
413 | | 513.7834 | Um, we always kind of | 515.3967 |
415 | | 516.0624 | were able to maintain. | 517.5452 |
417 | | 517.9648 | My stepfather worked for /RD-WORK-5/. | 520.5807 |
419 | | 520.9817 | We were the first kids in the neighborhood to have a television, | 523.5452 |
421 | | 523.9508 | walkie talkies and things like that. | 525.6481 |
423 | | 525.8906 | As a matter of fact, we was one of the first to have a telephone, | 528.0635 |
425 | | 529.4985 | you know. And | 530.7762 |
427 | | 531.0513 | so we lived /din/- lived downtown DC for a long time. | 534.9297 |
429 | | 535.4799 | Um, | 536.0581 |
431 | | 536.8601 | as I got to junior high school, | 538.8698 |
433 | | 539.3641 | things started to change for me. | 540.9950 |
435 | | 541.7457 | Um, | 542.3239 |
437 | | 542.7062 | the family dynamic started to changed. | 544.8652 |
439 | | 545.5413 | And um, | 546.7991 |
441 | | 547.7084 | you tryna come into who you are. | 549.2471 |
443 | | 549.3637 | Who [are y- Who] am I? What am I? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna be? | 552.7245 |
444 | DCB_int_01 | 549.7134 | [Hm.] | 549.9186 |
445 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 553.3680 | But a lot of stuff was going on. The riots came and | 556.4082 |
447 | | 556.8745 | people were out of work and um, | 559.2607 |
449 | | 560.2026 | there was no vision. | 561.1306 |
451 | | 562.0212 | It was nobody telling you that you could go to college. There was nobody telling you | 566.0208 |
453 | | 566.5710 | um, that you could do more than what you were doing. | 568.7393 |
455 | | 569.4107 | There were a lot of people telling you, [you know-] | 571.8389 |
456 | DCB_int_01 | 571.1955 | [<fumbling with the mic> I'm just gonna unclip this.] I think it will be easier for you.] | 573.5641 |
457 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 573.5641 | Okay. | 574.1774 |
458 | DCB_int_01 | 574.5613 | That way you don't have to- | 575.4688 |
459 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 576.1370 | [I think there were a lot of] | 577.1162 |
461 | | 578.0348 | folks | 578.4638 |
463 | | 578.6410 | who | 579.1679 |
465 | | 580.3662 | were just making it. | 581.2009 |
467 | | 581.8619 | You know, um, a lot of people lost their jobs. | 584.6922 |
469 | | 585.4336 | The neighbors helped each other, | 586.9911 |
471 | | 587.1170 | you know. Nobody went hungry. | 588.6825 |
472 | DCB_int_01 | 588.8364 | Mm-hm. | 589.2654 |
473 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 589.3260 | Um, nobody | 590.5943 |
475 | | 591.0839 | f- furniture and stuff was set outdoors, you know, because people took it in. | 594.9203 |
477 | | 595.2234 | People cared about people then. | 596.5943 |
479 | | 597.1259 | You know, it wasn't a shame for that | 598.7486 |
481 | | 598.8745 | to happen. | 599.4900 |
482 | DCB_int_01 | 599.7779 | Right. | 600.1416 |
483 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 600.4074 | Um, | 601.0929 |
485 | | 602.2446 | and | 602.8881 |
487 | | 603.0886 | somehow, I became | 604.8791 |
489 | | 606.5240 | a major | 607.4566 |
491 | | 607.6711 | role in my family, somehow. | 609.6901 |
493 | | 610.2263 | My mom | 611.0517 |
495 | | 611.8537 | started drinking. She had a | 613.4752 |
497 | | 614.5337 | tumultuous relationship with my fath- stepfather. | 617.6532 |
499 | | 618.2162 | Um, as children, you know, you had a place. You didn't inter- You know, you didn't intervene. | 622.1284 |
501 | | 622.9164 | And so with that going on, you kind of get lost in the shuffle I think. | 626.3285 |
503 | | 626.9580 | And in | 627.5036 |
505 | | 627.8906 | getting lost, | 628.8978 |
507 | | 629.6625 | I found my | 630.4552 |
509 | | 631.5172 | partner, | 631.9788 |
511 | | 632.5477 | which was | 633.3497 |
513 | | 634.1750 | young man I married. | 635.2382 |
515 | | 635.4061 | He was my first love and only love. | 637.2747 |
517 | | 637.6151 | We were kids. | 638.4265 |
519 | | 638.7016 | I was thirteen when I met him. | 640.0585 |
521 | | 640.5900 | We were in junior high school, and | 642.0962 |
523 | | 642.4634 | we had moved from Fifth Street | 644.0954 |
525 | | 644.5617 | to Sixteenth Street. Oh, we were moving up [then.] | 647.0470 |
526 | DCB_int_01 | 646.6460 | [Mm.] | 647.3781 |
527 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 647.5040 | We lived at /RD-ADDRESS-8/, | 649.9742 |
529 | | 650.2399 | and at that point, | 651.2331 |
531 | | 651.5549 | they had built a brand new /RD-SCHOOL-2/ Junior High School. | 654.3480 |
533 | | 654.8038 | So I transferred from /RD-SCHOOL-1/ Junior High going to /RD-SCHOOL-2/. | 657.5829 |
535 | | 659.4014 | And | 660.0216 |
537 | | 660.2069 | going to /RD-SCHOOL-2/, I met my husband. He was a basketball player, | 663.6015 |
539 | | 663.8486 | you know, and | 664.7579 |
541 | | 665.2708 | other things were going on, and I realized I wanted to do other things, and | 668.7249 |
543 | | 669.3684 | um, | 669.8859 |
545 | | 670.1564 | my mother was kind of going through something at that time. | 672.9250 |
547 | | 673.6617 | Um, I'm not sure how much you wanna know. | 675.3171 |
548 | DCB_int_01 | 675.9186 | You tell- I'm- | 676.7159 |
550 | | 676.8931 | I'm [enjoying] it. | 677.7418 |
551 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 677.1822 | [Oh.] | 677.5972 |
552 | DCB_int_01 | 678.0868 | [So as much] as you wanna share. | 679.5498 |
553 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 678.0903 | [Oh.] | 678.5333 |
554 | | 679.6664 | Okay, so, | 680.6223 |
556 | | 681.1492 | um, | 681.6668 |
558 | | 682.7159 | we all th- | 683.1543 |
560 | | 683.3454 | all three of us kind of went our- We k- started | 685.4239 |
562 | | 685.6757 | kind of being on our own a lot | 687.1271 |
564 | | 687.2285 | when we became teenagers because | 689.3874 |
566 | | 689.9843 | my mother was in another world. She became an alcoholic. | 692.7622 |
567 | DCB_int_01 | 692.8321 | Mm-hm. | 693.1166 |
568 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 693.6342 | And so we were kind of raising ourselves to a- some degree- Not really, she paid o- | 697.9788 |
570 | | 698.1234 | She made- We always had food to eat. | 699.6715 |
572 | | 699.7834 | We never went without food. | 700.9444 |
574 | | 701.2429 | We never went without a roof over our head. | 702.9856 |
576 | | 703.5778 | Um, and we never went without clothes on our back. | 705.9093 |
578 | | 706.7393 | They may not have been the latest fashions, but we | 709.1255 |
580 | | 709.4473 | were never without food. | 710.8974 |
582 | | 711.3824 | Um, we always had a spiritual foundation. | 713.9703 |
584 | | 714.8597 | She wasn't the most religious person, but she certainly believed in Jesus Christ and believed in | 719.2941 |
586 | | 719.5506 | worshiping. | 720.3013 |
588 | | 721.6198 | And so | 722.6176 |
590 | | 723.0000 | from | 723.5968 |
592 | | 724.4968 | junior high school, my- that's when my life started. | 727.1721 |
594 | | 727.2701 | Um, | 727.7457 |
596 | | 727.9275 | by that time, | 728.6969 |
598 | | 729.0979 | my sister had already gotten pregnant. | 730.8605 |
599 | DCB_int_01 | 731.6765 | And how old is your older sister- How many years are y'all apart? | 733.9648 |
600 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 734.3658 | My sister got pregnant when she was twelve. She's two years older. | 737.0237 |
601 | DCB_int_01 | 737.4667 | Oh, gotcha. Okay. | 738.1614 |
602 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 738.6033 | So, back then, | 739.8156 |
604 | | 740.0115 | there was no abortions. | 741.3544 |
606 | | 741.4570 | [Back then], my mother came from the south, where | 744.3293 |
607 | DCB_int_01 | 741.5595 | [Mm.] | 741.9839 |
608 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 745.0509 | it wasn't frowned upon. It wasn't a- | 747.2611 |
610 | | 747.4430 | the best situation, | 748.6320 |
612 | | 749.1822 | but she didn't believe in the- giving a child up, and | 752.0197 |
614 | | 752.3985 | so my mother | 753.2285 |
616 | | 753.3824 | raised my | 754.0491 |
618 | | 754.5154 | niece | 755.1030 |
620 | | 755.2102 | almost like her own. | 756.3142 |
622 | | 756.8271 | You know, but for somehow, my sister just never got back on track. | 760.7253 |
624 | | 761.3314 | She never got back on track. She kind of just kind of floated through a little bit. | 765.3590 |
626 | | 766.0258 | Um, | 766.5900 |
628 | | 767.0703 | I- I guess I was the one who always | 769.2141 |
630 | | 769.8716 | wanted more than what we had, so consequently | 772.9724 |
632 | | 773.6485 | um, | 774.1941 |
634 | | 774.6173 | I was always looking for an out. | 775.9835 |
635 | DCB_int_01 | 776.2959 | Mm. | 776.5477 |
636 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 776.5384 | Always looking for an out. | 777.9745 |
637 | | 778.8045 | And so my stepfather and I did not get along | 781.2437 |
639 | | 781.4078 | at all. | 781.8928 |
641 | | 782.3311 | I think we re- resented each other. I resented him because | 784.9458 |
643 | | 785.6639 | he didn't treat my mother nicely, and he resented me cause I had a mouth. | 789.3849 |
645 | | 789.8360 | I was pretty [mouthy.] | 790.8254 |
646 | DCB_int_01 | 790.4142 | [So you] was- gonna say something. | 791.6872 |
647 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 791.7805 | I did, | 792.1721 |
649 | | 792.7923 | as a child. | 793.5943 |
651 | | 793.8182 | I always said something. And he told my mother I was the- | 796.2837 |
653 | | 796.6287 | I was the meanest little child he had ever seen. | 798.6151 |
655 | | 798.9136 | And | 799.4125 |
657 | | 800.0047 | I think | 800.6062 |
659 | | 800.7915 | then | 801.5096 |
661 | | 801.9666 | me speaking up gave my mother some support. Cause she never spoke up. | 805.2539 |
662 | DCB_int_01 | 805.2726 | Mm. | 805.5151 |
663 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 806.2145 | I spoke up. | 806.9967 |
665 | | 807.0900 | I'm like, | 807.6915 |
667 | | 808.1671 | really? | 808.5821 |
669 | | 809.2302 | You- You don't have to take that from him. He's not your- you know, | 811.6456 |
671 | | 811.9347 | he doesn't- | 812.4383 |
673 | | 812.6575 | shouldn't treat you like that, and he's certainly not my father. | 814.9831 |
675 | | 815.7245 | <laugh> Whatever that meant as a child, but | 818.2052 |
677 | | 819.0247 | somehow I took on- | 820.7453 |
679 | | 820.9924 | become an adult | 821.8597 |
681 | | 821.9996 | right then and there at thirteen. | 823.4218 |
683 | | 824.4243 | I became an adult. | 825.3149 |
685 | | 826.2790 | Um, I met my children's father at that time, and | 829.6876 |
687 | | 830.2658 | I was in eight grade, and | 832.3163 |
689 | | 832.6381 | he was in | 833.5613 |
691 | | 833.6965 | ninth grade. And | 835.0068 |
693 | | 835.5897 | he had a lot going on in his l- | 837.1890 |
695 | | 838.2837 | dish- | 838.8013 |
697 | | 840.1069 | ruptive life. His mother | 841.9907 |
699 | | 842.4197 | was ill. | 843.2065 |
701 | | 843.7801 | His father | 844.6893 |
703 | | 845.9856 | m- moved on with his life with another family, and | 848.9326 |
705 | | 849.4863 | it was h- | 849.8640 |
707 | | 850.0412 | he and his siblings tryna make it. | 851.9950 |
709 | | 853.6689 | And so we kind of l- | 854.5316 |
711 | | 855.0060 | latched [on to each other.] | 856.5634 |
712 | DCB_int_01 | 855.5236 | [On to each other.] | 856.4482 |
713 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 857.7665 | And um, became an item. | 859.6923 |
715 | | 860.0093 | And we had | 861.8594 |
717 | | 862.4422 | /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ and | 863.8737 |
719 | | 864.4799 | we were married. | 865.5617 |
721 | | 866.4663 | And we tried to make the best of it. | 868.3909 |
722 | DCB_int_01 | 868.4096 | So how old were you when you got married? | 870.0556 |
723 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 870.2188 | <laugh> | 870.9182 |
725 | | 871.1827 | <ts> | 871.3061 |
727 | | 871.7447 | /RD-NAME-3/ was born in seventy two- | 873.7241 |
729 | | 873.8687 | nineteen sev- August tenth, nineteen seventy two. /RD-NAME-2/ was born in nineteen- | 877.5430 |
731 | | 878.2611 | uh, August tenth, nineteen seventy three, and we got married August tenth, nineteen seventy four. | 882.7877 |
732 | DCB_int_01 | 883.3612 | August tenth is an important date for you. | 884.7787 |
733 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 885.0398 | Very [much so.] | 885.7428 |
734 | DCB_int_01 | 885.3185 | [<laugh>] | 886.0785 |
735 | | 886.4888 | And- But it's good. You can remember everything in one day. | 888.2654 |
736 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 888.2607 | Oh, we [always did. Yeah.] | 889.8228 |
737 | DCB_int_01 | 888.6478 | [You don't have to forget anything. It's all] one day. | 890.3590 |
738 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 890.5129 | So, at that- at thirteen, I became an adult. | 893.1209 |
740 | | 893.4960 | So I've been an adult since I was thirteen. | 895.4405 |
741 | DCB_int_01 | 895.8361 | So did you move out? | 896.7954 |
743 | | 896.9960 | Or you still at [home? How- How did] that- I don't- | 899.3601 |
744 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 897.5742 | Oh, no. Of- | 898.7866 |
745 | | 899.6352 | You would not believe this. Most people when I tell 'em, you know- | 902.6696 |
747 | | 903.2012 | very few people this story, | 904.7586 |
749 | | 904.8892 | I was able to get an apartment. | 906.9735 |
750 | DCB_int_01 | 907.7802 | At thirteen. | 908.3863 |
751 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 908.5670 | At thirteen. | 909.2851 |
753 | | 909.9193 | The people never asked me how old I was. | 912.6751 |
755 | | 913.4165 | All they cared about is that I had the money. I worked at McDonald's. | 916.6141 |
757 | | 917.9477 | I worked at McDonald's | 919.5284 |
759 | | 919.7475 | on Ninth | 920.3665 |
761 | | 920.5018 | Street, | 921.1126 |
763 | | 921.4297 | Ninth and E. | 922.2224 |
765 | | 923.1829 | That was my first job, | 924.6005 |
767 | | 924.7963 | McDonald's on Ninth and E. They were building a new F- | 927.3084 |
769 | | 927.5090 | They were building the FBI building | 929.1503 |
771 | | 929.5047 | before that building was ever there on Ninth- | 931.6500 |
773 | | 931.7802 | Ninth and E. | 932.3817 |
775 | | 933.3178 | And I remember working there, | 935.1596 |
777 | | 935.2809 | <clears throat> | 935.6399 |
779 | | 936.4046 | and | 936.8849 |
781 | | 937.0155 | <clears throat> | 937.2719 |
783 | | 937.9667 | my husband was still in- We both were still in s- | 940.2923 |
785 | | 940.3902 | tryna- I was tryna get- still piece my education together. | 943.2206 |
787 | | 943.5564 | He was | 944.0366 |
789 | | 944.5251 | getting through. He was in ba- athlete, so | 946.5161 |
791 | | 947.0524 | you know, provisions were being made for him. | 949.1180 |
793 | | 949.6123 | But um, | 950.7407 |
795 | | 951.8354 | we | 952.3436 |
797 | | 952.4648 | got married. My mother signed the papers for us to get married. | 955.2393 |
799 | | 956.5997 | And we got married, and | 958.7120 |
801 | | 959.9057 | I kind of led the family | 961.4165 |
803 | | 961.5983 | after that. | 962.1905 |
805 | | 962.7676 | I became kind of the | 964.0778 |
807 | | 964.4742 | leader | 964.9171 |
809 | | 965.1596 | of the family at such a very young age. | 967.3185 |
810 | DCB_int_01 | 968.0133 | And so while you were- I'm gonna /just put this back in front of you. Just-/ | 970.8342 |
811 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 970.2737 | [Mm-hm.] | 970.5441 |
812 | DCB_int_01 | 971.0114 | [/I think it's me/.] | 971.7108 |
813 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 972.3766 | [Mm-hm.] | 972.6486 |
814 | DCB_int_01 | 972.4746 | [But while] you were- | 973.2673 |
815 | | 973.4258 | Okay. So, | 974.0273 |
817 | | 974.6277 | you were thirte- so seventh, eighth grade. | 976.5628 |
819 | | 976.8892 | Then you went to- | 977.7425 |
821 | | 978.2880 | Did you go to high school then? | 979.9340 |
822 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 980.0320 | Well I had a child, so I was piecing my education back- But yes, I went to high- I was able to get into high school. | 986.6008 |
824 | | 987.3084 | And- | 988.1338 |
825 | DCB_int_01 | 988.1571 | And still work, and [still be] [a mom] | 990.0782 |
826 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 989.1083 | [Still-] | 989.4068 |
828 | | 989.4953 | [Mm-hm.] | 990.1202 |
829 | | 990.2787 | [Mm-hm. /I-/] | 990.7963 |
830 | DCB_int_01 | 990.5911 | [to two] [little] [ones.] | 991.9294 |
831 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 991.0015 | [Mm-] | 991.3139 |
833 | | 991.6904 | [Two] little ones. Two little ones. I was very- | 993.8540 |
834 | | 994.3902 | Two little ones. I think sometime when you're young, and don't know | 997.4398 |
836 | | 997.7895 | all the things that are- | 998.8841 |
838 | | 999.5229 | You don't- You don't have to make all of these- You just do it. | 1001.8544 |
839 | DCB_int_01 | 1002.0176 | [Mm-hm.] | 1002.4139 |
840 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1002.1715 | [You don't] have all of these um, contemplating and | 1005.1732 |
841 | | 1005.6302 | analyzing and all of that. | 1007.5513 |
843 | | 1007.8870 | You just did it. | 1008.5585 |
845 | | 1008.6564 | You did what you had to do. | 1009.7149 |
847 | | 1009.8874 | Um, one of the things my mother took pride in was never being on welfare. | 1013.1270 |
849 | | 1013.8357 | She said, oh we don't do welfare. So | 1016.2733 |
851 | | 1016.4225 | you make your bed, you got to lie in it. | 1018.0312 |
853 | | 1018.8192 | So we both worked | 1019.7798 |
855 | | 1020.6611 | We both worked, and we put our money together. | 1023.4623 |
857 | | 1023.8167 | My first apartment cost me | 1025.8544 |
859 | | 1027.3931 | eighty five dollars a month. | 1028.7163 |
861 | | 1029.3504 | My second apartment cost me a hundred and forty four dollars. | 1032.3067 |
863 | | 1032.9035 | I can remember just as clear as it was- /Making-/ | 1035.0007 |
865 | | 1035.3551 | We didn't have checking accounts, we used money orders. | 1037.7145 |
867 | | 1038.5818 | And um, | 1039.8967 |
869 | | 1041.5229 | I was- I've always wanted to go to school. | 1043.5140 |
871 | | 1043.8777 | I always had this dream of being something very very successful, | 1047.1826 |
873 | | 1047.9519 | so um, I went | 1049.5466 |
875 | | 1049.7378 | back to high school. | 1050.8196 |
877 | | 1051.9434 | And I r- my teacher was Miss [/RD-NAME-3/.] | 1054.3063 |
879 | | 1054.9078 | [/You want to cut it-/] | 1055.6259 |
881 | | 1056.9968 | [Cut that out (whispering).] | 1057.7522 |
883 | | 1057.9846 | [You can cut it out.] | 1058.7260 |
884 | DCB_int_01 | 1059.3928 | That should be alright. | 1060.4734 |
885 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1066.6180 | /Can you hear me?/ | 1067.0236 |
886 | DCB_int_01 | 1067.5272 | Go ahead. No- Oh, it's fine. | 1068.9914 |
887 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1069.2711 | Mkay (mouthful of food). | 1069.6349 |
889 | | 1069.9659 | So, | 1070.4136 |
891 | | 1072.1703 | I went back in school. | 1073.4060 |
893 | | 1075.1592 | Here I am, | 1075.8027 |
895 | | 1077.5000 | sixteen years old, in school, | 1079.0842 |
897 | | 1080.2873 | with a husband, | 1081.0846 |
898 | DCB_int_01 | 1081.8307 | Right. | 1082.1338 |
899 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1082.6234 | two children. | 1083.2762 |
900 | DCB_int_01 | 1083.4860 | Baby children. | 1084.1097 |
901 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1084.3941 | [Mm-hm.] | 1084.8698 |
902 | DCB_int_01 | 1084.6366 | [Not even] like, | 1085.3873 |
903 | | 1085.5599 | toddler toddlers. | 1086.6323 |
904 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1087.1732 | But I wanna be in school. | 1088.3576 |
906 | | 1089.0757 | Even though I did all the behaviors of an adult, | 1091.3081 |
908 | | 1092.0868 | a part of me | 1092.8142 |
910 | | 1093.5463 | still tried to be | 1094.5488 |
912 | | 1094.8705 | in [school.] | 1095.3928 |
913 | DCB_int_01 | 1094.9831 | [A kid.] Mm-hm. | 1095.8766 |
914 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1096.6599 | I tried- I wanted to be- I wanted to be | 1098.3199 |
916 | | 1098.5204 | all the things that all the other little girls were. | 1100.6094 |
918 | | 1102.7485 | Somehow didn't- You know, I missed that- | 1104.4551 |
920 | | 1105.1592 | /point at/- You know- And I tried- | 1106.4555 |
922 | | 1107.6119 | You know, I- um, | 1108.5434 |
924 | | 1108.7019 | I stayed active. | 1109.7837 |
926 | | 1111.0333 | Um, | 1111.5789 |
928 | | 1112.3436 | tried to get into some activities, it just didn't work out, | 1115.0050 |
930 | | 1115.3594 | couldn't do it all. | 1116.0681 |
932 | | 1117.6955 | But Miss /RD-NAME-3/, | 1119.0664 |
934 | | 1121.6764 | um, was my Literature teacher. | 1123.4717 |
936 | | 1125.4301 | And she and I connected, | 1126.6180 |
938 | | 1128.4971 | and | 1128.8935 |
940 | | 1130.3623 | she was the first person I ever told | 1131.8905 |
942 | | 1132.3242 | other than my children's father what my dreams were. | 1134.2826 |
944 | | 1137.2809 | It wasn't a black woman that told me I could make it. | 1139.1029 |
946 | | 1141.0800 | It was a white woman. | 1141.8867 |
947 | DCB_int_01 | 1142.7260 | And this is in the early seventies. [In] [DC.] | 1145.1076 |
948 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1144.2403 | [Mm-hm.] | 1144.5760 |
950 | | 1145.0003 | [Mm-hm.] | 1145.3127 |
951 | DCB_int_01 | 1146.4458 | Soon after [Martin Luther King.] | 1148.0499 |
952 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1146.8935 | [Seventy two, seventy] three. [Mm-hm.] | 1148.7959 |
953 | DCB_int_01 | 1148.3576 | [Mm-hm.] | 1148.8192 |
954 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1149.6073 | Mm-hm. | 1149.9197 |
956 | | 1151.3640 | So, | 1151.7604 |
958 | | 1155.6259 | I | 1155.9663 |
960 | | 1156.3615 | got on the path of | 1157.7044 |
962 | | 1158.3339 | putting my life together to make it. | 1159.8493 |
964 | | 1161.6248 | You know, I wanted to go to school. | 1163.3500 |
966 | | 1164.1940 | I wanted to do all these things. Didn't know how I was gonna do it, didn't know where the money was gonna [come from.] | 1168.0409 |
967 | DCB_int_01 | 1167.6992 | [fro- Mm-Hm.] | 1168.0409 |
968 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1169.3314 | And tryna be somebody's wife. Can you imagine that? | 1171.6488 |
970 | | 1172.6700 | So, | 1173.0477 |
972 | | 1173.1689 | in order t- f- you- And tryna pay attention to what was going on around me, in terms of | 1177.2525 |
974 | | 1177.7841 | politics and democracy and all of that, | 1180.0129 |
976 | | 1180.3895 | I wasn't paying attention to none of that. | 1181.8676 |
978 | | 1183.3131 | I mean [you knew it exi-] | 1184.2224 |
979 | DCB_int_01 | 1183.6395 | [You had enough] going [on without] all- | 1186.0083 |
980 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1184.9078 | [Uh-huh.] | 1185.2948 |
981 | | 1186.6739 | You knew it existed. | 1187.6858 |
982 | DCB_int_01 | 1188.1008 | Right. | 1188.3199 |
983 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1188.2733 | You knew racism existed. You knew you weren't well liked. | 1191.1550 |
984 | | 1191.6632 | My neighborhoods were black. | 1192.8045 |
985 | DCB_int_01 | 1194.3153 | Hm. | 1194.5297 |
986 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1196.2364 | I grew up Northwest. | 1197.3928 |
988 | | 1198.4874 | Girard Street, Fourteenth Street. | 1200.3153 |
989 | DCB_int_01 | 1200.3153 | Mm-hm. | 1200.7769 |
990 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1201.4717 | You go there now, them peo- them- them- them- them not the people I grew up with. | 1204.6180 |
991 | DCB_int_01 | 1204.8651 | Mm-mm. | 1205.4573 |
992 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1205.7930 | At all. | 1206.2780 |
993 | DCB_int_01 | 1206.8935 | And that neighborhood has changed so much. Fourteenth, Girard, that's- | 1209.6073 |
994 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1209.7880 | [Ah! (frustrated)] | 1210.2169 |
995 | DCB_int_01 | 1209.9418 | [Columbia-] You in the heart of Columbia [Heights.] | 1211.8023 |
996 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1211.2987 | [Ah!] | 1211.8303 |
997 | | 1212.8328 | Oh, honey, yes. | 1214.0545 |
999 | | 1214.2643 | [So-] | 1214.7260 |
1000 | DCB_int_01 | 1214.2737 | [And so how] long- You- you stayed there for- | 1216.1668 |
1001 | | 1216.7532 | That was /RD-NAME-3/'s childhood home [cause I remember] her telling me about- | 1219.7188 |
1002 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1218.2453 | [Mm-hm.] | 1218.6790 |
1003 | | 1220.6281 | That was their childhood home because I lived on Girard Street, | 1223.2801 |
1005 | | 1224.5904 | then I always wanted more. | 1226.3529 |
1006 | DCB_int_01 | 1226.6234 | Mm. | 1227.0477 |
1007 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1227.6446 | So we moved to | 1228.7439 |
1009 | | 1230.5810 | Fourteenth and /Upshur/. | 1231.6955 |
1010 | DCB_int_01 | 1232.4928 | Mm-hm. | 1232.8472 |
1011 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1233.8637 | And- | 1234.2589 |
1013 | | 1235.3733 | with my husband and kids. | 1236.4924 |
1015 | | 1238.8845 | It was a nicer neighborhood and | 1240.3427 |
1017 | | 1241.1542 | nicer atmosphere. | 1242.2360 |
1018 | DCB_int_01 | 1242.8049 | It was ten blocks? | 1243.9240 |
1020 | | 1244.8146 | Fifteen bl- | 1245.4347 |
1021 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1245.7145 | [Maybe ten.] | 1246.2822 |
1022 | DCB_int_01 | 1245.8999 | [Not-] | 1246.0864 |
1023 | | 1246.3895 | Ten. | 1246.6319 |
1024 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1246.7858 | Wasn't that- [It wasn't all-] | 1247.6858 |
1025 | DCB_int_01 | 1247.1355 | [It wasn't that] [far.] | 1248.0495 |
1026 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1247.8117 | [It was] one bus ride. | 1248.8468 |
1027 | DCB_int_01 | 1248.9401 | Mm-hm. | 1249.4437 |
1028 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1250.8052 | Straight up [Fourteenth Street.] | 1251.9616 |
1029 | DCB_int_01 | 1251.4161 | [/Teenth/ Street. Mm-hm.] | 1252.2356 |
1030 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1253.7231 | But | 1254.0215 |
1032 | | 1255.5789 | as time went on, | 1256.6141 |
1034 | | 1257.1550 | we didn't have the /tools/ to be married, you know, to stay married. | 1260.1287 |
1036 | | 1261.7654 | We didn't have a skill set to kn- know how to | 1263.6212 |
1038 | | 1263.8637 | be husband and wife, neither one of us did. | 1265.5645 |
1040 | | 1267.2945 | So we didn't stay married long. | 1268.5301 |
1042 | | 1270.9164 | We didn't l- get a legal divorce, but we separated. /RD-NAME-3/ musta been about | 1274.9172 |
1044 | | 1276.8698 | I wanna say five. | 1277.9702 |
1046 | | 1278.9447 | /RD-NAME-2/ musta been about four. | 1280.2877 |
1048 | | 1282.2496 | I wasn't one of those women, like, lord, what am I gonna do? | 1284.8701 |
1050 | | 1285.5929 | You just did it. | 1286.2830 |
1051 | DCB_int_01 | 1286.5115 | You just made it work. | 1287.2436 |
1052 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1287.5420 | You just made it work. | 1288.3755 |
1053 | DCB_int_01 | 1289.0796 | So what did you do? | 1289.6578 |
1054 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1290.9541 | <laugh> | 1291.2945 |
1055 | DCB_int_01 | 1291.3178 | Wait, did you fini- Wait. Before that, did you finish high school? | 1293.6352 |
1056 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1294.8791 | I was still in high [school.] | 1295.9702 |
1057 | DCB_int_01 | 1295.7930 | [You] were still in high school at this point. Okay. | 1297.1639 |
1058 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1297.1546 | Mm-hm. | 1297.5229 |
1059 | | 1300.1796 | I got sick. | 1300.7252 |
1061 | | 1304.3436 | Had a little bout with cancer. | 1305.8999 |
1062 | DCB_int_01 | 1307.0003 | At this young age? | 1308.2826 |
1063 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1308.7536 | Hm. | 1308.9401 |
1065 | | 1310.3669 | I was eighteen, | 1311.1829 |
1067 | | 1311.6807 | turning nineteen. | 1312.5154 |
1069 | | 1315.2012 | Had my surgery | 1316.0918 |
1071 | | 1318.6786 | at Columbia Hospital for Women. | 1320.2127 |
1073 | | 1322.6514 | The n- | 1322.8472 |
1075 | | 1322.9451 | next day after surgery I went to work. | 1324.8791 |
1077 | | 1326.6603 | Somebody offered me a job at /RD-NAME-2/, | 1328.3463 |
1079 | | 1330.0817 | administration. | 1330.7345 |
1081 | | 1331.6951 | So! | 1332.0401 |
1083 | | 1332.8468 | I had time to recover. | 1334.0732 |
1085 | | 1334.3529 | <laugh> | 1334.6793 |
1086 | DCB_int_01 | 1336.0071 | Like you just walked out a hospital and went to work? | 1337.6438 |
1087 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1337.9842 | Next [day.] | 1338.7396 |
1088 | DCB_int_01 | 1338.2173 | [Pretty much?] | 1338.8608 |
1089 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1338.8655 | Mm-hm. | 1339.0846 |
1090 | DCB_int_01 | 1339.0567 | Wow. | 1339.5602 |
1091 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1342.5154 | They called me and said they had a job. | 1343.9655 |
1093 | | 1347.2948 | I needed a job. | 1348.2496 |
1095 | | 1352.0125 | And I'm like /floored/ after that. | 1353.3881 |
1097 | | 1354.2123 | /I don't have no regrets/. | 1355.2008 |
1099 | | 1355.7371 | /It's just sore/. | 1356.4458 |
1101 | | 1358.7260 | From there, | 1359.2389 |
1103 | | 1361.6858 | I found ways to put /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ in private school. | 1364.2457 |
1105 | | 1368.1660 | I kind of mimicked the women that were around me that were successful. | 1371.2984 |
1106 | DCB_int_01 | 1372.0089 | Mm. | 1372.4377 |
1107 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1372.8464 | I didn't have any strategic plan or analyzed- All I knew is I wanted more. | 1377.1177 |
1109 | | 1379.9189 | And so, | 1380.7489 |
1111 | | 1383.4068 | I didn't- I really didn't focus on | 1385.4293 |
1113 | | 1385.9749 | racism. I knew it exist. I knew it was there. | 1388.4882 |
1114 | DCB_int_01 | 1391.4382 | But that was- Your focus was surviving and- | 1393.1779 |
1115 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1393.1452 | [Mm.] | 1393.3504 |
1116 | DCB_int_01 | 1393.3131 | and making a life. | 1394.2690 |
1117 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1394.4649 | That's my journey. | 1395.2296 |
1119 | | 1395.4627 | I'm writing | 1396.1109 |
1121 | | 1397.1169 | a little book, | 1397.7091 |
1123 | | 1400.1198 | my journey of survival. | 1401.3042 |
1125 | | 1401.6014 | My life on survival. | 1402.5807 |
1127 | | 1403.9329 | I saw a therapist once, and she said, | 1405.7188 |
1129 | | 1406.2830 | you have been surviving all your life. | 1407.8905 |
1131 | | 1410.8795 | It's been on automatic. | 1411.9986 |
1132 | DCB_int_01 | 1413.1130 | And not even thinking about it. | 1414.2647 |
1134 | | 1414.8464 | Just doing what you got to do to make it. | 1416.3106 |
1135 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1420.3382 | There are people who I went to junior high school /with/ and everything who didn't make it out. | 1423.6815 |
1137 | | 1425.3695 | They got caught up in drugs. | 1426.8464 |
1139 | | 1427.8303 | You know, we had | 1428.3059 |
1141 | | 1428.9354 | the big drug w- | 1429.8633 |
1143 | | 1430.0732 | wave, and then people were selling drugs and doing drugs. | 1433.3267 |
1144 | DCB_int_01 | 1433.5039 | Especially in the neighborhood [in-] | 1434.8282 |
1145 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1434.6790 | [Mm-hm.] | 1435.0986 |
1146 | DCB_int_01 | 1435.1079 | Fourteenth Street- [/That became a big-/] | 1437.0990 |
1147 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1435.6768 | [Oh honey, that was a big] thing. | 1437.4907 |
1148 | DCB_int_01 | 1437.6154 | [Mm-hm.] | 1438.3382 |
1149 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1437.6212 | [That was big.] | 1438.3427 |
1150 | | 1438.4548 | You couldn't even come on the street, | 1439.6578 |
1152 | | 1440.0448 | the police were there. | 1440.9121 |
1154 | | 1441.3411 | You couldn't even come in the neighborhood. | 1442.5441 |
1156 | | 1443.8766 | They gotten so bad. | 1444.8045 |
1157 | DCB_int_01 | 1445.9236 | And when did you leave- | 1446.7303 |
1159 | | 1446.8328 | When did you leave there? | 1447.7701 |
1160 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1448.1431 | I worked at a hospital center for tw- | 1449.5933 |
1162 | | 1449.7553 | u- twenty year. | 1450.5760 |
1164 | | 1452.6183 | I left | 1453.3318 |
1166 | | 1453.7608 | the neighborhood in ninety six. | 1455.5280 |
1167 | DCB_int_01 | 1456.3428 | So you stayed- That was a- That was a long time. | 1458.6929 |
1168 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1458.7769 | No, it was before ninety six- It was ninety. | 1460.4882 |
1170 | | 1460.8565 | I left the neighborhood in ninety. | 1462.0362 |
1171 | DCB_int_01 | 1462.1517 | And then that's when you guys moved over to Southeast? | 1464.1147 |
1172 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1464.1427 | I bought a home. | 1464.7489 |
1173 | DCB_int_01 | 1466.5861 | And tell me what that experience was like. [Cause now], | 1468.9817 |
1174 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1468.0911 | [<laugh>] | 1468.5900 |
1175 | | 1468.9910 | Hm. | 1469.1822 |
1176 | DCB_int_01 | 1469.1495 | you're- you- | 1469.6904 |
1177 | | 1469.9282 | your kids are much older. | 1471.3364 |
1178 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1471.6535 | Well, so I done survived, and I got 'em through s- | 1473.7145 |
1180 | | 1473.8486 | to school, | 1474.4827 |
1182 | | 1476.0075 | never knowing from one month to the other how I was gonna pay for it. | 1478.8379 |
1183 | DCB_int_01 | 1480.4175 | But it somehow got paid. | 1481.5086 |
1184 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1481.5972 | Somehow got paid. | 1482.5717 |
1186 | | 1483.9892 | I volunteered at the school. | 1485.4534 |
1188 | | 1489.8400 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/. | 1490.5907 |
1190 | | 1492.2636 | Whenever | 1492.8698 |
1192 | | 1493.0003 | they needed me to do something, I always made myself available. | 1495.7701 |
1194 | | 1495.9053 | I always w- | 1496.5068 |
1196 | | 1497.3321 | worked my hours so I could always be available to- | 1499.7231 |
1198 | | 1499.9282 | to go to school for what my kids- Cause my mother | 1502.0685 |
1200 | | 1502.4369 | never did that for us. | 1503.3741 |
1201 | DCB_int_01 | 1505.4853 | And you wanted your kids to feel differently or have a different [experience.] | 1508.8892 |
1202 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1508.1897 | [Mm-hm.] | 1508.6327 |
1203 | | 1511.2148 | We didn't have a lot of love and affection. | 1512.6510 |
1205 | | 1514.8332 | When I first saw my mother giving some love and affection, | 1516.8837 |
1207 | | 1519.1079 | it was to her grandchildren. And I was like, wow. [<laugh>] | 1523.5599 |
1208 | DCB_int_01 | 1522.4827 | [Mm.] | 1523.3594 |
1209 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1526.1851 | So she did- | 1526.8752 |
1211 | | 1527.0897 | My mom really turned her life around. | 1528.9257 |
1212 | DCB_int_01 | 1530.9727 | Once you guys got older. | 1532.0172 |
1213 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1532.6747 | Mm- | 1532.8332 |
1215 | | 1534.1843 | I didn't think she was going to, but she did. | 1535.8630 |
1217 | | 1537.5136 | And so, /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/. | 1540.3708 |
1219 | | 1541.4060 | When /RD-SCHOOL-3/ shut down, /RD-NAME-2/ went to /RD-SCHOOL-8/. | 1544.5861 |
1220 | DCB_int_01 | 1544.8705 | Mm-hm. | 1545.3088 |
1221 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1548.5018 | People always said, | 1549.4110 |
1223 | | 1552.1330 | how'd you do that? | 1553.0376 |
1225 | | 1554.4038 | How'd you get them in the school? | 1555.5463 |
1227 | | 1557.0384 | And I would say, | 1557.7192 |
1229 | | 1558.4408 | I don't know. It's just about the grades. | 1559.6718 |
1231 | | 1561.7561 | Ain't just about the grades- I ain't had no plan! | 1563.4441 |
1232 | DCB_int_01 | 1563.8532 | Mm-hm. | 1564.2263 |
1233 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1564.3755 | I ain't had no | 1564.9910 |
1235 | | 1565.1402 | a- | 1565.3221 |
1237 | | 1565.8023 | sit down- no strategic plan like people do today. | 1568.1618 |
1239 | | 1568.7913 | From the time their children are born and, | 1570.5200 |
1241 | | 1571.0469 | they're gonna go to this school, and they gonna- | 1572.6836 |
1243 | | 1573.8307 | And I'm gonna put this kind of money away. | 1575.3368 |
1245 | | 1575.5793 | I ain't know what saving no- | 1576.4548 |
1247 | | 1576.8931 | I was always- | 1578.1614 |
1249 | | 1579.5323 | And then, to- tryna make them | 1580.8239 |
1251 | | 1580.9358 | well grounded, well rounded. | 1582.5713 |
1253 | | 1584.3432 | They were. | 1584.8328 |
1255 | | 1586.5534 | People didn't believe they were my children. | 1587.8637 |
1256 | DCB_int_01 | 1589.2987 | Why? | 1589.6158 |
1257 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1591.4530 | They was always well mannered. | 1592.7959 |
1259 | | 1594.0351 | Smart. | 1594.6133 |
1261 | | 1597.9146 | I had a lot of people who cared about me coming up | 1600.2694 |
1263 | | 1600.6086 | cause they just couldn't believe this young person | 1602.7256 |
1265 | | 1603.8027 | was doing a job of the average | 1605.4954 |
1267 | | 1607.1775 | older [woman.] | 1607.8256 |
1268 | DCB_int_01 | 1607.6298 | [Mm-] Mm-hm. | 1608.3106 |
1269 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1609.1639 | So, | 1609.6115 |
1271 | | 1611.0990 | I- | 1611.3834 |
1273 | | 1611.7880 | I surrounded myself around positive people, | 1613.9142 |
1275 | | 1615.5323 | positive women who were doing good things. | 1617.4068 |
1276 | DCB_int_01 | 1618.0631 | And that was kind of- | 1618.8371 |
1278 | | 1619.0889 | [You feel they filled] your- | 1620.4272 |
1279 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1619.0936 | [That was my /founda/-] | 1620.0448 |
1280 | DCB_int_01 | 1620.5671 | [the maternal] [role for] you? | 1622.0545 |
1281 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1620.5810 | [Oh!] | 1620.9494 |
1283 | | 1621.3877 | [Oh!] | 1621.8074 |
1284 | | 1622.2131 | Absolutely. | 1623.4347 |
1286 | | 1624.9817 | Absolutely. | 1626.0541 |
1288 | | 1626.2453 | I don't think I could have made it. | 1627.3784 |
1290 | | 1628.3296 | They were the ones who took the responsibility even when I became out of order | 1632.4505 |
1292 | | 1632.9587 | at any point. | 1633.7701 |
1294 | | 1634.0079 | To help- | 1634.3250 |
1296 | | 1634.6560 | To put- Be able to put- Cause you know, | 1635.8684 |
1298 | | 1636.4268 | when you're on /??/- <clears throat> | 1637.6438 |
1300 | | 1638.0961 | survival mode, | 1638.9028 |
1302 | | 1640.3529 | you don't think what you're doing- anything you could do or say is wrong. | 1643.1775 |
1303 | DCB_int_01 | 1643.8630 | Mm-hm. | 1644.3759 |
1304 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1644.4645 | You just do it. | 1645.1266 |
1305 | DCB_int_01 | 1645.1313 | You just do. | 1645.7188 |
1306 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1645.9986 | You know? | 1646.4136 |
1308 | | 1646.7959 | But I do know I resented white people at the time. | 1649.2428 |
1309 | DCB_int_01 | 1650.1474 | Why? | 1650.4551 |
1311 | | 1650.5344 | Because you felt- | 1651.2059 |
1313 | | 1651.4483 | Even with Miss /RD-NAME-3/? | 1652.6514 |
1315 | | 1653.2948 | Was it Miss /RD-NAME-3/? Was that her name? | 1654.7205 |
1316 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1655.1169 | That's her [name.] | 1655.7510 |
1317 | DCB_int_01 | 1655.5599 | [Mm.] | 1655.8163 |
1318 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1657.4064 | It just seemed like they had everything. | 1658.8286 |
1320 | | 1661.5878 | I remember taking my kids to school. They went to school | 1664.0452 |
1322 | | 1666.1703 | um, | 1666.5294 |
1324 | | 1667.4293 | Connecticut Avenue and | 1668.7074 |
1326 | | 1669.2525 | /Woodley/ Road- | 1669.9473 |
1328 | | 1671.6679 | Whenever I was there I was like, why do they have it all? | 1674.0541 |
1330 | | 1675.0914 | Cause I didn't know anybody who had a lot of money, | 1676.6068 |
1331 | DCB_int_01 | 1676.8808 | Mm-hm. | 1677.2305 |
1332 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1677.7760 | you know, coming up. | 1678.4988 |
1334 | | 1680.3406 | The well manicured lawns and- | 1682.4576 |
1336 | | 1685.4920 | Only time you saw us was | 1686.7463 |
1338 | | 1687.8514 | getting the trash or | 1689.1337 |
1340 | | 1690.3030 | [cleaning their house. Mm-hm.] | 1691.5853 |
1341 | DCB_int_01 | 1690.3169 | [/Doing the manicuring of] the lawn. | 1691.9536 |
1342 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1691.9023 | Mm-hm. | 1692.2894 |
1343 | | 1692.4805 | Mm-hm. | 1692.7743 |
1345 | | 1693.3385 | So | 1693.7675 |
1347 | | 1694.4529 | I had never understood that. | 1695.6641 |
1349 | | 1697.9117 | And you know, your family talk about | 1699.5390 |
1351 | | 1700.3550 | white people | 1701.0358 |
1353 | | 1701.1384 | in a negative way, so you d- adapt that. | 1703.2262 |
1354 | DCB_int_01 | 1703.7065 | Mm-hm. | 1704.1774 |
1355 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1706.1032 | But | 1706.4250 |
1357 | | 1706.9134 | it wasn't til high school | 1708.1258 |
1359 | | 1710.0655 | that my attitude about white people changed. | 1711.6369 |
1360 | DCB_int_01 | 1713.4730 | Miss /RD-NAME-3/. | 1714.1304 |
1361 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1714.1444 | Miss /RD-NAME-3/. | 1714.8625 |
1363 | | 1716.5971 | Mm-hm. | 1716.9561 |
1365 | | 1718.4156 | Because I worked at the /RD-WORK-2/, | 1719.6500 |
1367 | | 1721.2215 | it was an older lady there. | 1722.5878 |
1369 | | 1724.0799 | I was nineteen, | 1724.9006 |
1371 | | 1725.6781 | worked in the kitchen, | 1726.4382 |
1373 | | 1728.9888 | was proud to have a job (hard to understand because of chewing). | 1730.1032 |
1375 | | 1730.6348 | Eighteen. | 1731.1011 |
1377 | | 1731.3424 | I was eighteen. | 1731.9626 |
1379 | | 1734.7090 | And she- | 1735.3711 |
1381 | | 1736.6989 | I just think people were amazed by the things that | 1739.2868 |
1383 | | 1739.8744 | I was doing. | 1740.6064 |
1385 | | 1740.7137 | I think I amazed people. I don't know what it was. | 1742.7840 |
1386 | DCB_int_01 | 1743.6222 | I [mean that's] a lot going on. | 1745.0956 |
1387 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1743.7527 | [But I-] | 1744.0092 |
1388 | | 1746.0469 | And I had it- | 1746.5458 |
1390 | | 1746.6484 | they would say, and you have it together. | 1748.1685 |
1392 | | 1749.1850 | I didn't complain about anything. | 1750.5781 |
1394 | | 1754.2571 | Um, | 1754.6570 |
1396 | | 1756.4475 | Miss /RD-NAME-2/, | 1757.1376 |
1398 | | 1757.7485 | God rest her soul, | 1758.7230 |
1400 | | 1759.9680 | she um, | 1760.8027 |
1402 | | 1761.1978 | became my work mother | 1762.2843 |
1403 | DCB_int_01 | 1762.7926 | Mm. | 1763.0723 |
1404 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1763.9676 | at /RD-WORK-2/. | 1764.4992 |
1406 | | 1765.4318 | So of course, I would take lessons from her, | 1767.3715 |
1408 | | 1767.7714 | you know, notes out of her book. | 1769.0723 |
1410 | | 1770.7090 | And then, | 1771.3525 |
1412 | | 1773.7994 | right after that summer, | 1774.9558 |
1414 | | 1778.3224 | I went to work | 1779.0964 |
1416 | | 1781.9909 | at /RD-WORK-5/. | 1782.8489 |
1417 | DCB_int_01 | 1783.6556 | Mm-hm. | 1783.9866 |
1418 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1785.8646 | Cause she was the one /that said, well apply over there/. | 1787.6645 |
1420 | | 1790.0659 | I never even | 1790.5742 |
1422 | | 1790.7001 | thought I could. | 1791.4648 |
1424 | | 1793.5386 | And | 1794.0702 |
1426 | | 1794.4386 | they didn't have anything. | 1795.5110 |
1428 | | 1795.7908 | Then I found a contact, | 1797.0545 |
1430 | | 1798.4941 | Miss /RD-NAME-2/, | 1799.2682 |
1432 | | 1800.4619 | white lady. | 1800.9375 |
1434 | | 1801.1706 | <laugh> | 1802.1219 |
1436 | | 1803.5289 | She was in charge | 1804.4615 |
1438 | | 1805.4640 | of this program. | 1806.4199 |
1440 | | 1808.4529 | It was a surgical tech program, | 1810.0092 |
1442 | | 1811.6738 | and I wanted it. | 1812.3546 |
1444 | | 1816.2657 | I would call her every two weeks. | 1817.5200 |
1446 | | 1819.0820 | <laugh> | 1819.5204 |
1448 | | 1820.3690 | I must have called this lady- | 1821.7947 |
1450 | | 1824.3313 | She said, I'll let you know when the program starts up again. | 1826.4996 |
1452 | | 1829.0770 | But the program never started up again. | 1830.7277 |
1454 | | 1832.0333 | They had another program | 1833.1617 |
1456 | | 1837.5670 | for unit clerks. | 1838.4996 |
1458 | | 1840.0791 | And unit clerks | 1840.9371 |
1460 | | 1843.4318 | were the ones to transcribe doctor's orders and all of that. | 1846.6433 |
1461 | DCB_int_01 | 1846.6294 | Oh, okay, cause I was gonna ask you what was [that.] | 1848.4059 |
1462 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1848.2194 | [<laugh>] | 1848.7463 |
1463 | | 1849.3991 | They manage the units, | 1850.5928 |
1465 | | 1850.7420 | the hospital [units.] | 1851.8786 |
1466 | DCB_int_01 | 1851.5616 | [Gotcha.] Okay. | 1852.2377 |
1467 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1852.7926 | And that wa- that was a very nice job, very respectable job. | 1855.8607 |
1469 | | 1856.4623 | I got that job, | 1857.4088 |
1471 | | 1857.6641 | and in the mean time, me and /RD-NAME-3/'s father | 1859.5480 |
1473 | | 1860.1308 | and /RD-NAME-2/'s father were going through it. | 1861.6929 |
1475 | | 1863.7481 | So, | 1864.1258 |
1477 | | 1865.9256 | I was saving money, | 1866.9468 |
1479 | | 1868.7141 | and I left him | 1869.3249 |
1481 | | 1870.2050 | one day. | 1870.5687 |
1483 | | 1872.6624 | I left their father. | 1873.7349 |
1485 | | 1874.3877 | Cause I was moving- | 1875.4030 |
1487 | | 1875.7387 | I was growing, | 1876.5734 |
1489 | | 1877.3987 | not fast, but I was growing. | 1878.7790 |
1491 | | 1879.8188 | And he wasn't in the same direction- Excuse me for eating like [this.] | 1882.4428 |
1492 | DCB_int_01 | 1882.2377 | [No], | 1882.6107 |
1493 | | 1882.8951 | please. | 1883.4873 |
1494 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1884.1215 | But um, | 1884.9095 |
1496 | | 1886.1918 | we separated then. | 1887.1850 |
1498 | | 1889.4640 | And | 1889.8790 |
1500 | | 1892.9892 | we went our separate ways. | 1894.1724 |
1502 | | 1897.5483 | I got me an account, | 1898.5835 |
1504 | | 1898.7793 | saved me some money, | 1899.8600 |
1506 | | 1900.5081 | bought me a car. | 1901.2542 |
1508 | | 1902.4945 | My first car, | 1903.2686 |
1510 | | 1903.4877 | Dodge /Colt/, | 1904.1592 |
1512 | | 1904.9612 | <laugh> | 1905.4543 |
1514 | | 1905.8367 | brand new. | 1906.4988 |
1516 | | 1907.8417 | Two thousand, nine hundred, and ninety nine dollars it cost. | 1910.3457 |
1517 | DCB_int_01 | 1910.6814 | Mm. | 1910.9239 |
1518 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 1910.9472 | Boy was that a lot of money. | 1912.0885 |
1520 | | 1915.6229 | Bought a brand new car, | 1916.9332 |
1522 | | 1919.7065 | /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ was in private school. | 1921.3805 |
1524 | | 1922.2851 | I was doing it, | 1923.1104 |
1526 | | 1923.8040 | least I thought. | 1924.5314 |
1528 | | 1926.9888 | And then one day I woke up, and I wanted something else. | 1929.1197 |
1530 | | 1931.7764 | And at school, there was a gen- gentlemen that one of the parents that worked at a- | 1935.5522 |
1532 | | 1935.7248 | at a um, | 1936.3869 |
1534 | | 1937.0210 | mortgage company, | 1937.8883 |
1536 | | 1940.5509 | and he gave me some- he said, | 1941.6595 |
1538 | | 1942.0139 | why don't you- | 1942.6060 |
1540 | | 1942.7599 | why don't you try to by a house? | 1944.3500 |
1542 | | 1944.8302 | I said, me? | 1945.4084 |
1544 | | 1945.5530 | Is that possible? | 1946.4110 |
1546 | | 1947.5849 | He said, there's so many programs. | 1949.1283 |
1548 | | 1949.5433 | Yeah. | 1949.8790 |
1550 | | 1950.9095 | <laugh> | 1951.3851 |
1552 | | 1952.7595 | So I learned about the program. | 1954.2050 |
1554 | | 1956.4199 | My best friend | 1957.2033 |
1556 | | 1957.6602 | put ten thousand dollars in my account | 1959.3191 |
1558 | | 1959.4450 | t- so that I could show | 1960.4941 |
1560 | | 1961.0444 | you know, | 1961.3335 |
1562 | | 1961.6645 | that I could afford it. | 1962.5505 |
1564 | | 1964.1825 | Cause I was saving up the money. | 1965.3436 |
1566 | | 1967.8790 | And | 1968.3779 |
1568 | | 1970.8306 | nineteen ninety, | 1971.7807 |
1570 | | 1972.0605 | I bought my first house. | 1973.4174 |
1572 | | 1975.1706 | It was the last part of eighty nine, ninety, | 1977.0358 |
1574 | | 1977.5709 | bought my house. | 1978.1910 |
1576 | | 1978.7086 | By then, /RD-NAME-3/'s getting ready to go to school. | 1980.2427 |
1578 | | 1982.2804 | /RD-NAME-3/ was um, | 1983.3482 |
1580 | | 1983.8227 | smart little girl. | 1984.8392 |
1582 | | 1987.6090 | My son was kind of | 1988.9146 |
1584 | | 1989.7854 | <ts> | 1990.0372 |
1586 | | 1990.6014 | spoiled. | 1991.2495 |
1588 | | 1991.5713 | What we did back then was | 1993.5157 |
1590 | | 1994.3177 | we had the attitude make our girls stronger cause we didn't- I didn't want her- I know for me, I didn't want her to rely on anybody | 1999.7484 |
1592 | | 2000.3037 | to- | 2000.4343 |
1594 | | 2000.5217 | you know, on- | 2001.0720 |
1596 | | 2001.1559 | not a man. | 2002.1491 |
1597 | DCB_int_01 | 2002.5921 | Mm. | 2002.7926 |
1598 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2002.8019 | You know, after seeing what my mother went through, and | 2005.0354 |
1600 | | 2006.3923 | the fact that her father and I did not make it. Um, he was not v- | 2009.5992 |
1602 | | 2009.7251 | t- at the time a res- To me, | 2011.1940 |
1604 | | 2011.7628 | responsible enough to | 2013.0964 |
1606 | | 2013.4496 | take care of us, so | 2014.6387 |
1608 | | 2015.1703 | you need to be able to take care of yourself. | 2016.8769 |
1609 | DCB_int_01 | 2017.2452 | [Mm-hm.] | 2017.7248 |
1610 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2017.4178 | [And I] think | 2018.0659 |
1611 | | 2019.3657 | unfortunately- | 2020.4149 |
1613 | | 2020.6433 | Cause that's not always the best thing you wanna tell a girl. | 2022.6624 |
1615 | | 2024.1172 | It can be- | 2024.6488 |
1617 | | 2024.9472 | It can be | 2025.4077 |
1619 | | 2025.6921 | a bad- This- Not- N- It's not the greatest thing. | 2027.7391 |
1621 | | 2028.4292 | You got- You got to balance it. | 2029.6229 |
1622 | DCB_int_01 | 2029.7582 | /Oh. Uh- Yeah/. | 2030.2105 |
1623 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2030.5369 | So | 2030.9612 |
1625 | | 2031.3797 | my whole drive was to make her self sufficient and independent, and | 2034.7836 |
1627 | | 2035.2919 | she was in all sorts of programs, uh, /Upward Bound/- All kinds of programs, and | 2039.8790 |
1629 | | 2040.6437 | she went to um, | 2042.1219 |
1631 | | 2043.7854 | Georgetown Day um, | 2045.4733 |
1633 | | 2045.6878 | camp. | 2046.2381 |
1635 | | 2046.4852 | And that's when she took horseback riding and | 2049.0171 |
1637 | | 2049.8367 | became an equestrian and so | 2051.7811 |
1639 | | 2052.4526 | I started following the- | 2053.5064 |
1641 | | 2053.7722 | the path of the white folks. | 2055.3098 |
1643 | | 2056.8159 | Cause they had it all, | 2057.6459 |
1644 | DCB_int_01 | 2057.7671 | Mm-hm. | 2058.1122 |
1645 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2058.6158 | and I wanted it. | 2059.4318 |
1647 | | 2060.2011 | I wanted the same things they had for they children, I wanted for mine. | 2063.3894 |
1649 | | 2064.0702 | So I would | 2064.5598 |
1651 | | 2064.7044 | get in little nooks and cranny and | 2066.3224 |
1653 | | 2066.6861 | rub elbows and get in where I could, | 2069.0630 |
1655 | | 2069.5153 | where somebody would say, | 2070.5691 |
1657 | | 2070.8396 | I'm gonna help this little poor black woman. | 2072.8108 |
1659 | | 2073.2398 | I didn't care what they called me, | 2074.3962 |
1661 | | 2074.5501 | long as I got the help. | 2075.4920 |
1663 | | 2076.4292 | I didn't care. | 2077.0168 |
1665 | | 2077.9913 | Cause it wasn't about me at the time, it was about the [kids.] | 2080.0465 |
1666 | DCB_int_01 | 2079.7108 | [Kids. /Mm-hm/.] | 2080.8998 |
1667 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2080.2097 | [You know, I got to get] them what they need. | 2081.6878 |
1668 | | 2082.2474 | If they wanted- | 2082.9375 |
1670 | | 2083.0914 | If they wanted me to be their charity work, | 2085.1466 |
1672 | | 2085.5149 | so be it. | 2086.1631 |
1673 | DCB_int_01 | 2087.1003 | Do you feel like you had to | 2088.9888 |
1675 | | 2089.9493 | um- | 2090.3550 |
1677 | | 2091.3237 | But it was never- You were n- It was never a welfare program. This was always just other help- other people helping you. | 2096.0379 |
1678 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2096.4704 | It was just always | 2097.6175 |
1680 | | 2097.8880 | for some way- somebody would drop a m- a- a- an- a- | 2100.8909 |
1682 | | 2101.2546 | say something. And I would take what they said and run with [it.] | 2103.9113 |
1683 | DCB_int_01 | 2103.5273 | [With it. Mm-hm.] | 2104.1771 |
1684 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2104.7926 | Um, I do remember | 2106.0003 |
1686 | | 2106.2101 | coming up in- | 2106.8536 |
1688 | | 2107.0308 | when they were in private school, I was never well received. | 2110.2377 |
1690 | | 2112.1308 | I was a young mother. | 2113.1567 |
1692 | | 2113.5064 | I was a black mother, and a dark black mother. | 2115.9066 |
1694 | | 2117.1469 | You know, it was a school where | 2118.6344 |
1696 | | 2120.0193 | um, | 2120.5322 |
1698 | | 2121.5942 | it was very mixed, but the black children were treated differently. Even though it was a private school, and they weren't- | 2126.9472 |
1700 | | 2127.0918 | You know, they- they- | 2128.0092 |
1702 | | 2128.2284 | You know, they got m- | 2128.9744 |
1704 | | 2129.1609 | money, but it wasn't like somebody was- | 2131.0727 |
1706 | | 2131.6331 | There was um, | 2132.4669 |
1708 | | 2135.6459 | a foundation | 2136.6158 |
1710 | | 2137.2173 | for kids, you know, | 2138.3037 |
1712 | | 2138.5369 | then. | 2138.9519 |
1714 | | 2139.4263 | And I applied for it and got it, but | 2141.5386 |
1716 | | 2142.3080 | you know the rest, I had to pay out of pocket. But | 2144.3364 |
1718 | | 2144.5602 | I wasn't re- never well received by the kids- the- the mothers at the schools my children went to. | 2149.0774 |
1720 | | 2149.2686 | Never | 2149.8841 |
1722 | | 2150.5042 | ever | 2150.8726 |
1724 | | 2151.0533 | ever received. | 2151.9299 |
1725 | DCB_int_01 | 2152.3030 | Do you feel like there was ever a point- I guess, especially like, moving to Southeast because that's a different- | 2157.0778 |
1727 | | 2157.3424 | People have a lot of different perceptions about Southeast. | 2160.0515 |
1728 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2160.0422 | I did too. | 2160.7696 |
1729 | DCB_int_01 | 2160.9142 | [Okay.] | 2161.3199 |
1730 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2161.1473 | [I] didn't know when I come up- When I was coming up in DC, I knew nothing about the Southeast. That- just not to go there. | 2167.0261 |
1731 | DCB_int_01 | 2167.2126 | Mm-hm. | 2167.5297 |
1733 | | 2167.6602 | Cause Northwest is a long way from [Southeast.] | 2169.9113 |
1734 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2169.0440 | [Yeah.] | 2169.8926 |
1735 | | 2170.0325 | [We never rode no bus] over [there! We] were told never- | 2172.8489 |
1736 | DCB_int_01 | 2170.0372 | [Especially as a kid.] | 2171.3278 |
1738 | | 2171.5992 | [/Yeah/.] | 2172.0655 |
1739 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2173.0774 | you don't wanna get caught over there. | 2174.5602 |
1741 | | 2174.7047 | That's what we were told. | 2175.6500 |
1743 | | 2177.4360 | We were told that- And how I came to Southeast, how I came to purchase a house in Southeast- | 2181.6828 |
1745 | | 2182.2703 | When I was awarded um- | 2183.9723 |
1747 | | 2184.6297 | In this program to purchase a house, I only had a certain amount of time. | 2187.9346 |
1749 | | 2188.7413 | Every house that I looked at | 2190.1681 |
1751 | | 2190.7743 | in Northwest or off of Michigan Park, Northeast, where I really wanted to live over by /Catholic/- | 2196.0282 |
1753 | | 2196.8209 | The houses were anywhere from ten to twenty thousand dollars more, could be the same identical [house.] | 2201.3847 |
1754 | DCB_int_01 | 2201.2262 | [House.] Mm-hm. | 2202.0329 |
1755 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2202.0515 | It could be a semi detached row house, | 2204.0473 |
1757 | | 2204.5870 | three bedrooms w- you know, | 2205.9905 |
1759 | | 2206.2750 | one and a half baths, | 2207.6599 |
1761 | | 2207.9769 | nothing any more, no fix up. | 2209.7302 |
1763 | | 2210.6861 | I would look at that house over off of um, Sergeant Road. | 2214.1834 |
1765 | | 2214.4805 | Come over to Southeast, look at the same house, and it's much cheaper. | 2217.4730 |
1767 | | 2220.3826 | Much cheaper. | 2221.0541 |
1769 | | 2222.1732 | A friend- How I came to Southeast- A friend of mine who works for the Department of Public Works at the time- | 2226.6531 |
1771 | | 2226.8023 | He worked there- | 2227.4691 |
1773 | | 2228.0566 | I met him in the eighties, and he- | 2229.5709 |
1775 | | 2229.9299 | he said, why don't you take a look over Southeast? And I was- Everything I heard about Southeast was | 2234.0146 |
1777 | | 2234.2198 | negative. | 2234.9519 |
1778 | DCB_int_01 | 2235.0405 | Mm-hm. | 2235.4823 |
1779 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2235.7621 | So one day we drove over there, and I drove th- in this neighborhood, and I was like, | 2240.0333 |
1781 | | 2240.5555 | Oh! | 2240.8913 |
1783 | | 2242.6713 | Oh. | 2243.0817 |
1785 | | 2244.2241 | And I found a house. | 2245.2313 |
1787 | | 2245.6602 | And I bought the house. | 2246.7187 |
1789 | | 2247.1046 | And I moved in the neighborhood, they were all | 2249.1330 |
1791 | | 2249.6132 | teachers and everybody who had | 2250.8909 |
1793 | | 2251.4178 | been teachers were retired. | 2252.7234 |
1795 | | 2253.3704 | They all were professional black people. | 2255.2262 |
1797 | | 2256.6391 | You know, they were all professional black people, and | 2259.4881 |
1799 | | 2260.7180 | it was just wonderful. | 2261.6832 |
1801 | | 2263.2872 | It was just wonderful. | 2264.0799 |
1803 | | 2264.5602 | And so I left /RD-WORK-5/ in ninety six, and I went to work for | 2267.6132 |
1805 | | 2268.0888 | /RD-WORK-12/ in ninety seven, | 2270.7234 |
1807 | | 2271.1617 | which at the time was an HIV AIDS organization. | 2273.7997 |
1808 | DCB_int_01 | 2273.5596 | Hm-mm. | 2274.0189 |
1809 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2274.8862 | And | 2275.3199 |
1811 | | 2275.7395 | it really humbled me. | 2277.1291 |
1813 | | 2278.7879 | Cause I had gotten a little wha- I got like most black people, you get a little | 2281.6882 |
1815 | | 2282.1592 | educated. You know, cause I went in school between times, you know, whenever I could go to school. | 2286.4106 |
1817 | | 2287.2313 | Um- | 2287.7162 |
1818 | DCB_int_01 | 2288.6022 | Where'd you go? | 2289.0684 |
1819 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2289.4869 | My first school I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/. | 2290.9558 |
1820 | DCB_int_01 | 2291.4780 | Mm. | 2291.8371 |
1821 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2292.3313 | Didn't wanna go to a black school. | 2293.4924 |
1823 | | 2294.4331 | Don't- n- n- | 2295.1046 |
1825 | | 2295.9532 | I don't think any of us liked ourselves at the time. | 2298.0842 |
1827 | | 2299.1893 | We were saying it loud, black and I'm proud but you know, we had some issues with | 2302.3123 |
1829 | | 2303.2728 | you know, we were not | 2304.4199 |
1831 | | 2305.6509 | succeeding. All you heard was negative things. | 2307.8926 |
1832 | DCB_int_01 | 2308.3123 | Right. | 2308.5641 |
1833 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2308.9791 | You know, I went to the Howard Theater, to hear- see James Brown sing, say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud. | 2313.7621 |
1835 | | 2314.6573 | I enjoyed that | 2315.7298 |
1837 | | 2317.6229 | cause I could be proud to be black. | 2319.0638 |
1839 | | 2319.8227 | I musta been about- | 2320.6900 |
1841 | | 2322.0562 | I musta been about fourteen, fifteen when I went. | 2324.5835 |
1843 | | 2325.0673 | My first /sweatshirt/ but, | 2326.5687 |
1845 | | 2327.0770 | you still had some issues. We were tryna make it, and | 2329.8048 |
1847 | | 2330.8027 | you know, | 2331.5068 |
1849 | | 2332.1537 | it appeared that we were trying to separate ourselves from ourselves for [lack of a better word.] | 2336.5415 |
1850 | DCB_int_01 | 2335.5372 | [Mm. Mm.] | 2336.5444 |
1851 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2337.0358 | Black folks were getting /edumacated/, | 2338.8765 |
1853 | | 2339.5433 | you know, | 2340.0049 |
1855 | | 2340.2940 | and they were talking different, and | 2342.2711 |
1857 | | 2342.7840 | um, | 2343.0953 |
1859 | | 2343.4403 | they were | 2344.0139 |
1861 | | 2344.2097 | dressing different, and they were | 2345.9443 |
1863 | | 2346.2381 | living in different neighborhoods. So, | 2348.4063 |
1865 | | 2348.7595 | you wanted those things. | 2350.1440 |
1866 | | 2350.9698 | And | 2351.2775 |
1868 | | 2352.0049 | the only way you thought to have 'em was to separate | 2354.0286 |
1870 | | 2354.1965 | yourself from the folks who didn't have it, | 2355.8600 |
1872 | | 2356.1677 | not understanding that those are the same folks who | 2358.3686 |
1874 | | 2358.5971 | got it, | 2359.0261 |
1876 | | 2359.1473 | or the same folks who didn't [have it.] | 2360.5509 |
1877 | DCB_int_01 | 2360.2664 | [Have] it. Yeah. | 2360.9146 |
1878 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2361.8413 | So once you learned those things, | 2363.3474 |
1880 | | 2364.3313 | and I really have to say, coming to /RD-WORK-12/ ham- humbled me. | 2368.6154 |
1882 | | 2369.5619 | It really did because | 2371.1520 |
1884 | | 2371.5297 | when I'm- | 2371.9120 |
1886 | | 2372.0892 | w- was at /RD-SCHOOL-3/, | 2373.2783 |
1888 | | 2374.3216 | /RD-SCHOOL-4/ was an all girls school. | 2376.7510 |
1890 | | 2379.0346 | There was no support there, | 2380.2284 |
1892 | | 2380.6667 | uh, of any kind for me. | 2381.9676 |
1894 | | 2383.4271 | And then it was too expensive, | 2384.7514 |
1895 | DCB_int_01 | 2384.9927 | Mm. | 2385.2165 |
1896 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2385.1279 | so I wind up | 2385.9579 |
1897 | | 2386.3309 | you know, I went there for a whole- almost a year and a half. | 2389.0867 |
1899 | | 2389.6229 | and then I wind up going to | 2390.8493 |
1901 | | 2391.0813 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/, | 2391.7854 |
1903 | | 2393.3894 | where all the love and support | 2394.7323 |
1905 | | 2394.9701 | was there. | 2395.5763 |
1907 | | 2396.4016 | And my professor, | 2397.3715 |
1909 | | 2397.8646 | one of my professors in Sociology, | 2399.8044 |
1911 | | 2400.5272 | Doctor /RD-NAME-5/, | 2401.7302 |
1913 | | 2402.4343 | God rest his soul- | 2403.5849 |
1915 | | 2406.3593 | I was talking to him one day, and he said, oh, come work for me. | 2408.6721 |
1917 | | 2409.0638 | And that's how I came to /RD-NAME-5/ and | 2411.0910 |
1919 | | 2411.6412 | understood what they were doing. And the- they were doing community work and | 2414.9379 |
1921 | | 2415.3937 | social work and | 2416.3869 |
1923 | | 2416.8951 | caring about the people and, | 2418.4572 |
1925 | | 2419.1147 | we got to help our people cause if we don't help ['em ain't] nobody gonna help 'em. But | 2422.6713 |
1926 | DCB_int_01 | 2421.1792 | [Mm.] | 2421.4170 |
1927 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2423.2915 | I went through all the, you know- | 2424.6764 |
1929 | | 2424.9142 | I mean I'm a- I'm fifty seven, | 2426.3830 |
1931 | | 2426.5275 | so | 2426.9752 |
1933 | | 2427.6595 | I saw the riots, | 2428.7646 |
1935 | | 2428.9371 | and s- experienced and saw the impact of 'em, the neighborhoods tore up. | 2432.5602 |
1937 | | 2433.4543 | And then I saw the segregation even more, | 2435.6086 |
1939 | | 2436.4339 | but I always saw that | 2437.5530 |
1941 | | 2438.3970 | we got less. | 2439.2736 |
1943 | | 2439.8553 | We always got less. | 2440.8672 |
1944 | DCB_int_01 | 2440.9884 | Mm. | 2441.2682 |
1945 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2441.7858 | Because the few- the little bit of time that I had to /dab/ into, | 2445.1850 |
1947 | | 2445.4869 | how white people lived and what they were doing. | 2447.6738 |
1949 | | 2448.6204 | They did it off the backs of our- our people. | 2450.5928 |
1950 | DCB_int_01 | 2453.8231 | Do you feel like now that's even more so? | 2456.0286 |
1951 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2456.0379 | Oh, | 2456.6022 |
1953 | | 2456.7327 | God yes (whispering). | 2457.7947 |
1955 | | 2459.0350 | I think it's because we live in a reality world now, | 2462.0379 |
1957 | | 2462.6814 | so everybody's saying what they want and doing what they want. | 2465.1796 |
1959 | | 2465.7112 | So nobody's biting their tongue | 2466.8862 |
1961 | | 2467.7442 | cause they don't have to. People are starting up their own businesses. | 2470.2563 |
1963 | | 2470.4568 | They're not relying on the government money where they have to be cautious, | 2473.0121 |
1965 | | 2473.2219 | so they can say what they want and treat people the way they wanna treat 'em. | 2475.4088 |
1967 | | 2476.7739 | Or not. | 2477.4407 |
1968 | DCB_int_01 | 2477.7485 | Mm. | 2478.0189 |
1970 | | 2478.7370 | Do you feel like DC like- Cause of- You know, it's changed- | 2481.5860 |
1971 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2481.7061 | When I was coming up, it was called the Chocolate City. | 2483.8371 |
1972 | DCB_int_01 | 2484.2194 | And [when-] | 2484.6624 |
1973 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2484.3593 | [Something]- This regentrification really- has really angered me | 2488.1211 |
1974 | | 2488.5454 | because why couldn't we get | 2489.8371 |
1976 | | 2490.3127 | regentrification for people who work every day. | 2492.5462 |
1978 | | 2492.8400 | DC was built for people who | 2494.4848 |
1980 | | 2494.8625 | work for the government, who caught busses to work. | 2497.0261 |
1982 | | 2497.3572 | These people- | 2497.8887 |
1984 | | 2498.0146 | People worked. | 2498.8027 |
1986 | | 2500.0418 | They were working people. | 2501.1236 |
1988 | | 2501.7345 | You didn't need a car in DC! | 2503.0541 |
1990 | | 2503.7302 | I caught DC transit everywhere | 2505.6735 |
1992 | | 2505.8040 | before I got a car. | 2506.6294 |
1994 | | 2507.7951 | My children went to- w- caught the bus to school. | 2509.7675 |
1996 | | 2510.2478 | We didn't even think about a car. We never even thought about driving- using a car | 2513.2728 |
1998 | | 2514.2427 | til I got around some white folks. | 2515.4877 |
1999 | DCB_int_01 | 2517.2258 | And that changed /you/? | 2517.9486 |
2000 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2517.9486 | That ch- really did. It changed everything because | 2520.1355 |
2001 | | 2520.4013 | that's what you supposed to have. | 2521.8639 |
2002 | DCB_int_01 | 2522.7549 | Mm. | 2523.1279 |
2004 | | 2523.2025 | And that was -Especially in Northwest, right? Because that's- that's right away from | 2526.9282 |
2006 | | 2527.2499 | the Cap- I mean, it's cl- it's far enough away from the Capital so they could be away, but it's close enough they could /inaudible/. | 2532.2147 |
2007 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2531.4034 | [I was right at the Gold] [Coast.] | 2532.9981 |
2008 | DCB_int_01 | 2532.8582 | [Mm-hm.] | 2533.4271 |
2009 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2533.6929 | So, | 2534.3550 |
2011 | | 2534.8621 | you know, it was, | 2535.9206 |
2013 | | 2536.0418 | you know, | 2536.4615 |
2015 | | 2536.7133 | you were kind of in between, caught it- | 2538.5831 |
2017 | | 2538.8069 | you know, | 2539.1567 |
2019 | | 2539.8328 | in between. | 2540.5275 |
2021 | | 2541.6502 | But um, | 2542.4428 |
2023 | | 2543.5853 | it was clear, | 2544.3313 |
2025 | | 2544.5971 | you know, | 2545.1054 |
2027 | | 2546.2571 | that | 2546.7234 |
2029 | | 2549.3661 | they had it. | 2549.9676 |
2031 | | 2550.8769 | You know, Mr. /RD-NAME-2/, my history teacher used to try to teach it to us, black history, | 2555.3288 |
2033 | | 2556.1448 | and I took government, | 2557.5017 |
2035 | | 2557.7815 | loved government | 2558.6395 |
2037 | | 2558.8120 | cause that's when you learned about, | 2560.1444 |
2039 | | 2561.1656 | you know, how it works. | 2562.3733 |
2041 | | 2562.9188 | That made sense, and then you- | 2564.4156 |
2043 | | 2565.0300 | I was | 2565.5569 |
2045 | | 2566.3263 | treated in different cause of my complexion. | 2568.1028 |
2046 | DCB_int_01 | 2569.7628 | You feel like even within | 2570.9181 |
2048 | | 2571.1046 | [the black ra- mm.] | 2572.9091 |
2049 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2571.3098 | [My own community, I was] treated different i- because of my complexion. [Peo-] | 2575.3665 |
2050 | DCB_int_01 | 2574.9375 | [And why do you] say that? | 2575.9120 |
2051 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2576.4110 | Oh, I remember when my | 2578.0278 |
2053 | | 2579.3241 | grandfather died. /And then/ when my mother's brother died, and | 2582.5462 |
2055 | | 2582.6849 | people- family come around, and | 2584.4289 |
2057 | | 2585.1376 | I had real thick hair, | 2586.5831 |
2059 | | 2587.1380 | somewhat- a decent- you know, nice long /length/. | 2589.7994 |
2061 | | 2593.4084 | They would say, that's /RD-NAME-4/'s dau- daughter. | 2595.3575 |
2063 | | 2597.1423 | She's not bad looking for a dark skinned child. | 2599.5763 |
2065 | | 2601.5429 | You hear those things coming [up as a ch-] | 2603.2728 |
2066 | DCB_int_01 | 2602.6340 | [And you still hear] now. | 2603.7251 |
2067 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2604.0329 | [You know], | 2604.5458 |
2068 | DCB_int_01 | 2604.0376 | [That is] not- I'm not [surprised.] | 2606.0333 |
2069 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2605.3945 | [when I was coming] up, | 2606.4110 |
2070 | | 2607.6688 | even when I | 2608.3216 |
2072 | | 2608.4708 | separated, or even when I was interested in other people while I was married, cause I was in high school, | 2613.7621 |
2074 | | 2614.5408 | they weren't interested in me because um, | 2616.4992 |
2076 | | 2616.6297 | I was just a girl. They were probably interested in me more because | 2619.6688 |
2078 | | 2620.0978 | I was married. I was probably more- a- ap- i- I probably appeared | 2623.7302 |
2080 | | 2624.1498 | to them like I had more worldly sense than | 2626.6633 |
2082 | | 2627.0677 | the average girl. | 2628.0282 |
2083 | DCB_int_01 | 2628.0236 | Mm-hm. | 2628.5458 |
2084 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2629.1846 | But | 2629.4831 |
2086 | | 2631.3750 | I've always been- oh, she's so black. | 2632.9604 |
2088 | | 2633.9210 | She smart but she black. | 2635.2219 |
2089 | DCB_int_01 | 2637.5895 | [Do you think that made difference like-] | 2639.0397 |
2090 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2639.0164 | [Oh.] | 2639.7438 |
2091 | DCB_int_01 | 2639.1656 | [in your resour-] Like, the access you had to resources, and like, | 2642.5882 |
2092 | | 2642.7840 | your experience, | 2643.7714 |
2094 | | 2644.4708 | not even just within your own community, but I'm just saying navigating the city. | 2647.4691 |
2095 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2648.1452 | I would see people who were fair skinned and- that would be treated differently. | 2651.5573 |
2097 | | 2651.9956 | I was in sixth grade. This girl's name was /RD-NAME-4/. She was w- | 2655.2725 |
2099 | | 2655.4123 | She was very fair skinned with wavy hair, | 2657.6086 |
2101 | | 2657.9536 | pig tails. | 2658.5318 |
2103 | | 2658.8209 | My hair was pig tails and | 2660.9099 |
2105 | | 2661.3622 | um, happy to nappy. | 2662.6713 |
2106 | DCB_int_01 | 2662.8625 | Mm-hm. | 2663.1703 |
2107 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2663.7438 | That little girl got treated- | 2665.3105 |
2109 | | 2665.4597 | and this was sixth grade- | 2666.7420 |
2111 | | 2667.2736 | My teacher, Miss /RD-NAME-2/, | 2668.7040 |
2113 | | 2669.5806 | treated that little girl different than she treated everybody else. | 2672.4156 |
2115 | | 2672.8948 | /Hear what I tell you/. | 2673.7248 |
2116 | DCB_int_01 | 2674.6573 | And she was black? | 2675.3008 |
2117 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2675.6272 | She was black. Cause her mother was dark, real [dark.] | 2677.9979 |
2118 | DCB_int_01 | 2677.8188 | [I mean] no, the teacher was black? | 2679.0405 |
2119 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2679.0405 | Yeah the teacher was black, | 2679.9952 |
2120 | | 2680.5128 | but she treated her different- That's when I started learning about it in school. | 2683.4691 |
2122 | | 2684.2245 | But yeah, | 2684.7607 |
2124 | | 2684.9425 | I started really paying attention cause when I was in high school, wasn't no white kids in the | 2688.4199 |
2126 | | 2688.6018 | high school. | 2689.1800 |
2128 | | 2689.7675 | Um, | 2690.1125 |
2130 | | 2691.0673 | the teachers were teachers. You know, w- you didn't have many black- uh, white teachers, but there were a few. | 2695.5623 |
2132 | | 2696.0426 | I only had one. | 2696.8586 |
2134 | | 2697.4030 | Um, and then when I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/, um, | 2699.7485 |
2136 | | 2700.0096 | they were all white. | 2700.6391 |
2138 | | 2700.7743 | There weren't no black teachers there. | 2701.8981 |
2140 | | 2703.0859 | But um, | 2703.8087 |
2142 | | 2704.2377 | when I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/, | 2705.6552 |
2144 | | 2705.9536 | it was totally different. | 2706.9841 |
2145 | DCB_int_01 | 2707.2499 | Now did you go when it was separate campuses or when it was the | 2709.8973 |
2147 | | 2710.0885 | /RD-SCHOOL-2/ campus, or did you go when it was like, in different parts of the [city?] | 2713.7955 |
2148 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2713.7115 | [It was] just /RD-SCHOOL-2/ campus when I- Well, see it was /RD-SCHOOL-6/ [/down there/.] | 2717.6412 |
2149 | DCB_int_01 | 2717.0817 | [Mm, right, okay.] Mm-hm. | 2718.1401 |
2150 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2718.2800 | Okay, I only went to /RD-SCHOOL-2/ campus. [By the time] I went, | 2720.8166 |
2151 | DCB_int_01 | 2719.9260 | [Okay.] | 2720.2664 |
2152 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2721.2025 | a majority of the, you know, s- classes were- disciplines and things were | 2724.7417 |
2154 | | 2725.0867 | on campus. | 2725.9167 |
2156 | | 2727.0207 | And um, | 2727.8740 |
2158 | | 2730.3640 | it made a big difference. | 2731.5437 |
2159 | DCB_int_01 | 2733.0953 | [/Cause it felt like/] profess- It wasn't like, | 2734.8672 |
2160 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2733.1932 | [I felt like-] | 2733.7201 |
2161 | DCB_int_01 | 2734.9977 | people right out of high school. It [wasn't your traditional] [college] [student.] | 2737.8887 |
2162 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2736.1122 | [No.] | 2736.6344 |
2164 | | 2737.0447 | [Mm-mm.] | 2737.4737 |
2166 | | 2737.6602 | [It wasn't-] it- Right. There were older people there. There were teachers there. Um, | 2742.3873 |
2167 | | 2744.5555 | it was | 2744.8586 |
2169 | | 2745.3984 | diverse in terms of | 2746.4522 |
2171 | | 2746.9558 | edu- you know the, uh, educators. | 2748.9095 |
2173 | | 2749.4597 | You know, we had a lot of Indians. We had a lot of um- | 2752.1398 |
2175 | | 2754.3220 | lot of Indians, lot of Africans. | 2756.0519 |
2177 | | 2756.5602 | You know, | 2756.9973 |
2179 | | 2757.2025 | in terms of- | 2758.1025 |
2181 | | 2758.5361 | It seemed like a lot to us. If it was | 2760.2334 |
2183 | | 2760.6251 | probably more than three, it was a lot. | 2761.8468 |
2185 | | 2762.6581 | But- <laugh> | 2763.6500 |
2187 | | 2764.4615 | But that's where I c- | 2765.2868 |
2189 | | 2765.4873 | You know, those are the things that you start | 2767.2079 |
2191 | | 2767.3478 | learning about who you are. You start reading. You start | 2770.2750 |
2193 | | 2771.1236 | tryna understand, you know. | 2772.8862 |
2195 | | 2773.1054 | Um- | 2773.6323 |
2196 | DCB_int_01 | 2773.7861 | What do you think is your most influential or your favorite book? | 2776.6760 |
2198 | | 2777.8417 | And it could been that you read [during that time-] | 2779.8794 |
2199 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2778.9701 | [Race Matter.] | 2779.7675 |
2200 | DCB_int_01 | 2780.3597 | Which one? | 2780.7094 |
2201 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2780.7747 | Race Matters. | 2781.5394 |
2203 | | 2781.8880 | [Cornel W-] | 2782.4946 |
2204 | DCB_int_01 | 2782.1398 | [Cornel West?] | 2782.8392 |
2205 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2784.9142 | Mm-hm. | 2785.2872 |
2206 | DCB_int_01 | 2786.3877 | Did you see him just recently? He was at uh, | 2788.3030 |
2207 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2788.2890 | [Howard.] | 2788.7599 |
2208 | DCB_int_01 | 2788.5408 | [Howard?] | 2788.9278 |
2209 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2789.2309 | I usually see him every time he comes to Howard. | 2791.5577 |
2211 | | 2791.7768 | He does something to me that- | 2793.6500 |
2213 | | 2798.4551 | I think black people are scared of him | 2800.0592 |
2215 | | 2800.1664 | so much. You know, people treat [him-] | 2801.8669 |
2216 | DCB_int_01 | 2801.5874 | [He's insightful.] He makes [you-] | 2802.8954 |
2217 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2802.7392 | [He] just [makes you think. Right.] | 2804.6649 |
2218 | DCB_int_01 | 2803.3966 | [He incites] | 2804.5111 |
2219 | | 2805.2478 | emotion. | 2806.0265 |
2220 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2806.1804 | Right. | 2806.4555 |
2222 | | 2807.2610 | Him. | 2807.6620 |
2224 | | 2808.3615 | Him. | 2808.7252 |
2225 | DCB_int_01 | 2810.0121 | Have you read most of his stuff? | 2811.5988 |
2226 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2811.9939 | Most of it. I have- /Well/- | 2812.8787 |
2228 | | 2813.0792 | That one he signed for me, and so that's very n- dear to me. | 2816.2733 |
2230 | | 2816.8328 | Um, | 2817.3038 |
2232 | | 2818.9113 | one of the things I think h- | 2820.4361 |
2234 | | 2820.8278 | we missed the boat on is learning about finances | 2823.6395 |
2236 | | 2823.7747 | at a very y- young age. | 2824.9766 |
2238 | | 2825.9978 | I think we missed that boat, but we were too /bigsy/ tryna survive. So we- | 2829.1918 |
2239 | DCB_int_01 | 2829.3038 | [It wasn't about the checking] and savings [account. It was] just [tryna /get to the next day/.] | 2832.8977 |
2240 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2829.4157 | [What was finance?] | 2830.5021 |
2242 | | 2831.1211 | [Wasn't no-] | 2831.4009 |
2244 | | 2831.5408 | [Wasn't about finance when th- n-] | 2833.0562 |
2245 | | 2833.1821 | It was about making it. | 2833.9981 |
2246 | DCB_int_01 | 2834.3199 | [Mm-hm.] | 2834.8188 |
2247 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2834.5577 | [So] | 2834.9820 |
2248 | | 2835.1033 | you know, um, | 2835.9193 |
2250 | | 2836.4777 | even though there were black people who were, | 2838.0351 |
2252 | | 2838.4780 | I think for poor black people, | 2840.1287 |
2254 | | 2840.5297 | you know, you were just trying to | 2841.7887 |
2256 | | 2842.0906 | make ends meet. | 2842.8647 |
2258 | | 2843.6014 | But um, | 2844.3755 |
2260 | | 2845.3267 | you didn't feel poor. | 2846.4085 |
2261 | DCB_int_01 | 2847.5229 | Mm-hm. | 2847.9332 |
2262 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2848.0860 | Your table was clean. It wasn't like you ate on no crate or nothing- | 2851.1355 |
2264 | | 2851.4339 | My mother had table cloths and | 2853.2292 |
2266 | | 2853.8260 | f- plates [and-] | 2854.9673 |
2267 | DCB_int_01 | 2854.6921 | [And you] cared about | 2855.7133 |
2268 | | 2856.0584 | what things looked [like. It wasn't just any kind of way.] | 2858.4424 |
2269 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2856.0630 | [Yeah.] | 2856.7532 |
2271 | | 2856.9863 | [My mother cared about- It was] about- Yeah. Appearance was [everything.] | 2860.1233 |
2272 | DCB_int_01 | 2859.8808 | [Thing.] Mm-hm. | 2860.6269 |
2273 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2860.9906 | Appearance was | 2861.8905 |
2275 | | 2862.1889 | everything. | 2863.1635 |
2277 | | 2864.2546 | You didn't go out the house with your hair not combed. Your clothes had to be ironed. | 2868.0817 |
2279 | | 2868.5014 | And I think I in- I instilled that with my children. | 2871.0659 |
2281 | | 2871.6768 | They- | 2872.0032 |
2283 | | 2872.3564 | They couldn't go out the house until | 2874.5713 |
2285 | | 2875.5878 | they were well groomed, and I would change their clothes twice a day. Appearance was a big deal. | 2880.0957 |
2286 | DCB_int_01 | 2880.5107 | Mm. | 2880.9303 |
2287 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2881.0096 | Appearance was a big deal. | 2881.9795 |
2288 | DCB_int_01 | 2882.2546 | Cause that's what the first thing people see. They judge you before you can open your [mouth.] | 2885.5128 |
2289 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2885.0559 | [Honey], | 2885.4615 |
2290 | | 2885.5968 | appearance- | 2886.3335 |
2292 | | 2886.8138 | When my ch- We would get on the bus, they were well- w- | 2889.1266 |
2294 | | 2889.2665 | well groomed, well cleaned, everything. Whenever they went anywhere- | 2892.9785 |
2296 | | 2893.4619 | Um, | 2893.8722 |
2298 | | 2894.2639 | my mother even taught us that. | 2895.4670 |
2300 | | 2895.6535 | You know, um, | 2896.5254 |
2302 | | 2896.9673 | children will be seen and not [heard], so that mean that | 2899.5831 |
2303 | DCB_int_01 | 2898.3242 | [Heard.] | 2898.6552 |
2304 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2899.6997 | appearance was everything, | 2900.7908 |
2306 | | 2900.9494 | you know, and | 2901.8073 |
2308 | | 2902.3937 | we caught the b- I remember | 2903.5874 |
2310 | | 2903.7460 | my mother | 2904.3288 |
2312 | | 2906.3245 | talking about Garfinckel's- You don't know nothing about Garfinckel's and | 2909.3916 |
2314 | | 2909.8159 | Woodies and | 2910.8184 |
2316 | | 2911.4992 | Julius Lansburgh's. Those were the stores black people couldn't go into | 2915.4755 |
2318 | | 2915.9278 | for a long time. | 2916.9303 |
2320 | | 2918.6789 | They couldn't go in those stores until | 2920.2317 |
2322 | | 2921.1071 | the seventies. | 2921.9045 |
2324 | | 2924.3059 | Garfinckel's was a high end store | 2926.0964 |
2326 | | 2926.9999 | that was on Fourteenth Street. Actually, on Fourteenth and um, | 2930.1520 |
2328 | | 2931.0286 | G Street. | 2931.8073 |
2330 | | 2932.8880 | On- Um- Then there was Julius Lansburgh's that was on Seventh Street. And then there was um, Woodies. | 2939.1491 |
2332 | | 2940.6506 | And then there was Hecht's. | 2941.7697 |
2333 | DCB_int_01 | 2942.7768 | I know Hecht's. | 2943.5882 |
2334 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2943.7281 | Mm-hm. | 2944.2363 |
2336 | | 2944.7807 | The original Hecht's | 2945.8392 |
2338 | | 2947.3966 | before it became Macy's and all of that. | 2949.2126 |
2340 | | 2949.4903 | But | 2949.7794 |
2342 | | 2950.6968 | Hecht's. | 2951.2191 |
2344 | | 2951.8252 | And | 2952.3381 |
2346 | | 2953.4199 | you know, but we didn't shop at no- no- none of those stores. We shopped at | 2956.7761 |
2348 | | 2957.3962 | Morton's, MacBride's, | 2959.4619 |
2350 | | 2960.7768 | um, | 2961.3877 |
2352 | | 2962.8367 | /Sears and ??/, | 2963.8066 |
2353 | DCB_int_01 | 2964.0630 | Mm. | 2964.2635 |
2354 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2964.2822 | maybe. | 2964.7112 |
2355 | DCB_int_01 | 2966.3758 | When do you feel like, | 2967.6675 |
2357 | | 2969.1631 | you | 2969.4382 |
2359 | | 2969.8579 | no longer just had to survive, but you kind of- Not- | 2972.1800 |
2361 | | 2972.4598 | That you arrived. That you were at just a good | 2974.6408 |
2363 | | 2975.0792 | place. | 2975.6667 |
2364 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2975.6667 | I haven't gotten there yet. | 2976.5760 |
2365 | DCB_int_01 | 2977.5925 | Still on that journey. | 2978.4738 |
2366 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 2979.0100 | I haven't gotten there yet. | 2979.9612 |
2368 | | 2980.2398 | As a matter of act, it's ironic you should say that. It was just the other day- | 2983.6577 |
2370 | | 2984.4924 | I have a very dear friend who's a therapist and | 2986.7947 |
2372 | | 2987.3449 | sometimes when I'm talking to her, she's being a therapist I can tell. And sometimes she's being a friend. | 2992.1244 |
2374 | | 2993.1118 | And she said, you've been in survival mode all your life. | 2995.6065 |
2376 | | 2995.7557 | You don't know what it's like not to be. | 2997.6441 |
2378 | | 2998.0918 | Because I'm always tryna make sure things are in place. | 3001.0984 |
2380 | | 3002.0261 | I'm always afraid of not having enough food, not having enough money. | 3005.3216 |
2382 | | 3006.0584 | Those are issues for me. | 3007.1495 |
2384 | | 3007.7417 | And I don't mean I have to be rich or anything, | 3009.4623 |
2386 | | 3009.8855 | but making sure everything is covered. | 3011.5175 |
2387 | DCB_int_01 | 3012.4594 | And so what do- You still work with | 3014.1567 |
2389 | | 3014.4504 | family services. | 3015.9659 |
2390 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3015.9845 | /RD-WORK-12/. I've been there for seventeen years. | 3019.5232 |
2391 | DCB_int_01 | 3020.4178 | And do you still do HIV counseling? | 3022.2410 |
2392 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3022.5243 | No, I do not. I- I have | 3024.2449 |
2394 | | 3024.4687 | become a manager | 3025.7277 |
2396 | | 3026.0354 | there. M- | 3026.7862 |
2398 | | 3027.2944 | project director, project manager. | 3029.5641 |
2400 | | 3030.1983 | Um, | 3030.8837 |
2402 | | 3031.0609 | I don't do direct client service | 3032.8608 |
2404 | | 3033.4576 | um, | 3033.9985 |
2406 | | 3034.3564 | directly, but you know, if clients come to me who were my clients years ago, | 3038.5484 |
2408 | | 3038.9494 | I'm always gonna make time for 'em. | 3040.2725 |
2410 | | 3040.7248 | I can remember a time I wouldn't even hug my client. | 3042.7951 |
2412 | | 3043.0609 | I hug 'em to death. | 3044.1380 |
2413 | DCB_int_01 | 3045.4530 | Was that before- that- Was that because you were f- like, | 3047.8112 |
2415 | | 3047.9977 | that was the big [fear? /inaudible/] | 3049.5925 |
2416 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3048.5666 | [I thought I was too cute.] | 3049.8582 |
2417 | | 3050.0308 | Come on now! | 3050.7722 |
2418 | DCB_int_01 | 3050.6090 | [Oh, okay. I thought it was like], I was gonna get AIDS [or something. Cause that was a big thing, that-] | 3054.7485 |
2419 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3051.2711 | [I thought I was-] | 3052.0824 |
2421 | | 3053.0931 | [Uh- No, I thought I had arrived.] I was a s- Well, it was a control piece for me, | 3058.0405 |
2422 | | 3058.3797 | you know. | 3058.7528 |
2424 | | 3059.0931 | [That-] | 3059.3543 |
2425 | DCB_int_01 | 3059.1957 | [To] keep [it separate-] | 3059.9045 |
2426 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3059.5501 | [maintains] | 3060.6086 |
2427 | DCB_int_01 | 3060.1050 | [Mm.] | 3060.5899 |
2428 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3060.7531 | image | 3061.3220 |
2430 | | 3061.7137 | separate. | 3062.2593 |
2432 | | 3062.7209 | But doing all that, it doesn't mean you can't care about people. | 3065.1304 |
2433 | DCB_int_01 | 3065.8532 | Mm. | 3066.2169 |
2434 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3067.2800 | So /RD-WORK-5/ really helped restore my caring about | 3070.3389 |
2436 | | 3070.6735 | human beings. | 3071.5688 |
2437 | DCB_int_01 | 3072.0677 | And do you still live in the house- your first house that you purchased or have you since [moved?] | 3075.6208 |
2438 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3075.3317 | [No], I just sold that house that I first purchased um, | 3078.7112 |
2439 | | 3080.0587 | April. | 3080.4877 |
2440 | DCB_int_01 | 3081.1825 | Oh. | 3081.4716 |
2442 | | 3081.7514 | Like, | 3082.0172 |
2444 | | 3083.0279 | couple months ago. | 3083.7879 |
2445 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3083.9418 | Mm-hm. | 3084.4640 |
2446 | DCB_int_01 | 3084.9956 | And you bought a new house? | 3086.1893 |
2447 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3086.2872 | Well I've been in the- The house that I've been in now, I've been in for over ten years. | 3089.7459 |
2449 | | 3091.4386 | Struggling. | 3091.9422 |
2450 | DCB_int_01 | 3093.2991 | And where is that? | 3093.9939 |
2452 | | 3094.1932 | Is that- | 3094.4776 |
2454 | | 3094.6222 | that's the- that's still in [Southeast?] | 3096.2356 |
2455 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3094.7528 | [And-] | 3095.0092 |
2457 | | 3096.0071 | [It's in] the Southeast Gold Coast they call it. | 3097.9935 |
2458 | DCB_int_01 | 3098.6789 | I don't know Southeast Gold- I've never heard that term. | 3100.9859 |
2459 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3101.2517 | It's Hillcrest. | 3102.1796 |
2460 | DCB_int_01 | 3103.4992 | Mm-hm. | 3104.1846 |
2462 | | 3104.3852 | Okay, now that you put it that way, I did just interview someone who [grew up in that area.] | 3108.3708 |
2463 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3107.2284 | [<laugh>] | 3108.8324 |
2464 | | 3109.5437 | It's Hillcrest. That's the area that | 3112.7086 |
2466 | | 3112.9464 | th- th- | 3113.3754 |
2468 | | 3113.8091 | the elitist | 3114.7790 |
2470 | | 3114.9375 | black people would move to, and | 3117.1897 |
2472 | | 3117.4916 | now they're | 3118.1025 |
2474 | | 3119.5806 | tryna move us out, but. | 3121.0681 |
2475 | DCB_int_01 | 3123.0171 | So now you have- That's- | 3124.0605 |
2477 | | 3124.6900 | Hill- That's- You have arrived. | 3126.3406 |
2478 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3126.9561 | Well, <sigh> | 3127.6929 |
2480 | | 3127.8468 | y- I- To me, arriving meaning [when you-] | 3129.9859 |
2482 | | 3130.5035 | [you don't worry about] anything. | 3132.0795 |
2484 | | 3132.4013 | [You know, it's not] | 3133.6463 |
2486 | | 3133.8001 | um- | 3134.2944 |
2488 | | 3136.4751 | You know, you're [managing everything.] | 3138.1401 |
2489 | DCB_int_01 | 3138.3220 | [Mm-hm.] | 3138.7696 |
2490 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3139.0308 | You know, [I'm still-] | 3139.6574 |
2491 | DCB_int_01 | 3139.2219 | [And you don't] [feel like you're at that place?] | 3140.9332 |
2492 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3141.1372 | I'm still struggling to hold [/onk/.] | 3142.5687 |
2494 | | 3143.8837 | At [fifty sev-] | 3144.6764 |
2495 | DCB_int_01 | 3144.0935 | [Is that more] [mental?] | 3145.2033 |
2496 | | 3145.3711 | [Or do you feel like] that's your [physical, financial, social]- | 3148.7599 |
2498 | | 3148.9837 | [or is that] [mental because, I still haven't reached a] place I wanna be, | 3152.0613 |
2499 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3148.9931 | All of that. | 3149.4827 |
2500 | DCB_int_01 | 3152.2571 | [even though I'm in a good place.] | 3153.6500 |
2501 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3152.5742 | [I don't even think- I- I've] gotten to the point where I'm tryna find some peace, | 3156.1495 |
2502 | | 3156.2800 | tryna balance it, so | 3157.7209 |
2504 | | 3158.9519 | where I wanna be is with peace. And [I don't think]- | 3161.1003 |
2505 | DCB_int_01 | 3160.6900 | [Mm.] | 3161.1003 |
2506 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3161.5246 | You know, and I got to | 3162.2940 |
2508 | | 3162.6437 | balance it because | 3163.7628 |
2510 | | 3164.2944 | to me, peace come when everything is in order. | 3166.4755 |
2512 | | 3168.6064 | You know, so I'm learning to get some peace w- even though it's- | 3170.9332 |
2514 | | 3171.5895 | All that's not [in or-] | 3172.6014 |
2515 | DCB_int_01 | 3172.2190 | [Chaos] is everywhere. | 3173.2029 |
2516 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3173.2029 | [Mm-hm.] | 3173.7158 |
2517 | DCB_int_01 | 3173.3428 | [Yeah.] | 3173.7391 |
2518 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3174.3873 | So um, | 3175.4038 |
2520 | | 3177.9159 | yeah. | 3178.2517 |
2522 | | 3178.6200 | I'm struggling to hold on. | 3180.3080 |
2523 | DCB_int_01 | 3180.3033 | What do you do for fun? | 3181.2313 |
2524 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3182.0659 | I hand dance. | 3182.9985 |
2525 | DCB_int_01 | 3183.6268 | Can you tell- You are the first person | 3185.5480 |
2527 | | 3185.9256 | that I have asked about hand dancing. | 3187.9307 |
2528 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3187.9167 | [Mm-hm.] | 3188.4156 |
2529 | DCB_int_01 | 3188.2979 | [Someone] told me about it [before but-] | 3190.0885 |
2530 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3189.4636 | [That's a DC-] | 3190.2796 |
2531 | | 3190.4009 | That's a DC culture. | 3191.5853 |
2533 | | 3191.7811 | Every- | 3192.2660 |
2535 | | 3192.4292 | Every | 3192.9561 |
2537 | | 3193.3898 | African American city has it. | 3195.0311 |
2539 | | 3195.1885 | Um, Chicago has swing, | 3196.9511 |
2541 | | 3197.5806 | everybody has some form of it, but | 3199.7069 |
2543 | | 3200.1825 | they have um, done- They've done a documentary on hand dancing in DC and the cultural of it. | 3205.4504 |
2545 | | 3205.9773 | Really it's before my time. It was the people who were in high school in the sixties. | 3209.9593 |
2546 | DCB_int_01 | 3210.9049 | [So what is] it? | 3211.6789 |
2547 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3210.9142 | [Okay?] | 3211.4644 |
2548 | | 3212.3830 | It's a f- | 3212.7747 |
2550 | | 3213.1524 | uh- | 3213.6500 |
2552 | | 3213.9439 | It's a- a dance where man and a woman | 3215.9536 |
2554 | | 3216.0609 | are dancing, and a man leads the woman | 3218.5136 |
2556 | | 3219.5149 | all the time. | 3220.2517 |
2558 | | 3220.8019 | She's never in charge. | 3222.0749 |
2560 | | 3222.4852 | That is the one time she in not in charge. | 3224.4716 |
2562 | | 3225.4636 | He | 3225.7714 |
2564 | | 3225.9113 | leads her the whole dance. | 3227.6412 |
2566 | | 3228.2567 | Um, | 3228.6297 |
2568 | | 3229.4224 | and dances- You dance to the- | 3231.4869 |
2570 | | 3231.6455 | the music of the sixties even though now you can dance to | 3234.5785 |
2572 | | 3235.2639 | a lot of R&B. | 3236.3690 |
2574 | | 3237.0346 | But most of it was music from- all the music from the sixties and | 3240.4199 |
2576 | | 3240.6064 | some of the fifties. | 3241.6556 |
2578 | | 3242.2338 | Um, and /bobbing/. You know, it was | 3244.1864 |
2580 | | 3244.5594 | /music/ | 3244.9837 |
2582 | | 3245.9210 | for The Temptations, some, | 3247.5670 |
2584 | | 3248.0519 | um, | 3248.4949 |
2586 | | 3249.5522 | The Miracles, | 3250.5874 |
2588 | | 3251.1050 | you know, The Supremes. | 3252.4386 |
2590 | | 3253.0308 | All of Motown. | 3254.0659 |
2592 | | 3254.3550 | All of Motown, Sam Cooke. | 3256.5268 |
2594 | | 3256.9884 | You know, [all of those] people. | 3258.5411 |
2595 | DCB_int_01 | 3257.5246 | [Mm-hm.] | 3258.1028 |
2596 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3258.8769 | Otis Redding. | 3259.8654 |
2598 | | 3260.5555 | Brook Benton. | 3261.4182 |
2600 | | 3261.7201 | You know, all of those people. | 3262.9324 |
2602 | | 3263.4500 | So it's a dance that two people do, | 3265.8188 |
2604 | | 3266.1498 | man and woman do together, | 3267.5755 |
2606 | | 3267.9626 | and it's very nice. | 3268.7832 |
2607 | DCB_int_01 | 3269.4081 | Is there anything that's iconic about hand dancing that you don't see in other dances? Like is there a reason it's called hand dancing [verse-] | 3275.3197 |
2608 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3275.1236 | [Because] you're touching. | 3276.0982 |
2609 | | 3276.4712 | Which you don't [d- d-] | 3277.3525 |
2610 | DCB_int_01 | 3277.0681 | [And you] touch the whole time. | 3278.4856 |
2611 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3278.6208 | You h- | 3279.1011 |
2613 | | 3279.5009 | You gracefully touch. | 3280.8625 |
2614 | DCB_int_01 | 3281.0024 | Mm-hm. | 3281.5386 |
2615 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3281.7065 | So, | 3282.1914 |
2617 | | 3282.8163 | what's iconic about it- that it's not a loose dance where someone is touching you in a provocative way. | 3288.6260 |
2619 | | 3289.1007 | Um, that they dance now, more | 3291.0032 |
2621 | | 3291.2212 | free. | 3291.5476 |
2623 | | 3292.7506 | Free styling, people are touching and they | 3294.5785 |
2625 | | 3295.1846 | close. | 3295.6276 |
2627 | | 3296.3410 | You get close, but it's su- It's done in such a way that it's very | 3300.4712 |
2629 | | 3300.7650 | elegant. | 3301.2266 |
2630 | DCB_int_01 | 3302.7980 | What about go go music? | 3303.8180 |
2631 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3304.3263 | Love it | 3305.2169 |
2633 | | 3305.7298 | to death. | 3306.3127 |
2635 | | 3306.4386 | My children, | 3307.0867 |
2637 | | 3307.5530 | um, | 3307.8234 |
2639 | | 3307.9596 | were young when go go music was up, so I didn't get a chance to go out as much and do any of those things, | 3312.9338 |
2641 | | 3313.2182 | but I love go go. | 3314.2208 |
2642 | DCB_int_01 | 3315.2932 | [/Inaudible/] | 3316.0766 |
2643 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3315.2979 | [Love] /it/. | 3316.4869 |
2644 | | 3316.9952 | Well, my- I would have to say my favorite | 3319.1250 |
2646 | | 3319.2322 | is- | 3320.0529 |
2648 | | 3322.0719 | What's the group that sing- | 3323.0372 |
2650 | | 3324.2344 | I like EU. | 3325.1157 |
2652 | | 3326.0762 | I like Trouble Funk. See when I came up, it was EU, Trouble Funk, | 3329.0045 |
2654 | | 3329.3391 | Chuck Brown. | 3330.1831 |
2656 | | 3330.5188 | Because you know, Chuck is | 3331.4374 |
2658 | | 3331.6799 | deeper than go go music. [You do know] that. | 3333.7828 |
2659 | DCB_int_01 | 3333.0927 | [Mm-hm.] | 3333.5683 |
2660 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3334.2911 | You know, | 3334.6408 |
2662 | | 3334.9940 | he was with the soul searchers and all of them. | 3337.0550 |
2664 | | 3337.6239 | But um, | 3338.4399 |
2666 | | 3338.6358 | when my kids were | 3339.7689 |
2668 | | 3340.2212 | in junior high school, | 3341.2983 |
2670 | | 3341.7215 | so I stayed abreast at it, | 3343.5260 |
2672 | | 3343.7778 | you know. | 3344.2721 |
2674 | | 3344.9389 | Um, | 3345.4378 |
2676 | | 3345.6430 | love it. | 3345.9787 |
2678 | | 3347.3531 | Love it. | 3347.8240 |
2679 | DCB_int_01 | 3347.9779 | Do you have a favorite song? | 3348.9338 |
2680 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3349.6985 | <laugh> <ts> | 3350.2627 |
2682 | | 3351.1627 | <sigh> Um, | 3352.7108 |
2684 | | 3353.0931 | I like all of Chuck. I like his old music. I like um, | 3356.2114 |
2686 | | 3356.5565 | The Policeman is on the Premises | 3358.5476 |
2688 | | 3359.5909 | and um, | 3360.7053 |
2690 | | 3362.1322 | Five in the Morn- I mean, uh, | 3363.4844 |
2692 | | 3363.6569 | Three in the Morning. | 3364.5522 |
2694 | | 3364.6723 | I- I can't- I- Don't ask me the name of it, but I do know it. | 3367.2136 |
2696 | | 3367.4094 | Uh, | 3367.8244 |
2698 | | 3367.9596 | The Pancake House with you know- | 3369.3539 |
2700 | | 3370.0160 | That's when they used to wear Adidas sweats suits and | 3372.4768 |
2702 | | 3372.7846 | [Kangol hats.] | 3374.0109 |
2703 | DCB_int_01 | 3372.8079 | [Mm-hm. Mm-hm.] | 3374.5099 |
2704 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3374.2114 | [<laugh>] | 3374.4912 |
2705 | | 3374.8269 | My | 3375.2233 |
2707 | | 3375.3352 | children | 3376.0160 |
2709 | | 3376.1046 | had to have Adidas sweat suits and Adidas tennis shoes. | 3379.0364 |
2710 | DCB_int_01 | 3379.7358 | W- Did they do the hat? | 3380.7197 |
2712 | | 3381.3445 | [/?/] | 3381.6663 |
2713 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3381.8108 | No, they really didn't do the hat- well /RD-NAME-3/ did because she did a play | 3386.7057 |
2715 | | 3387.6476 | in school. | 3388.3657 |
2717 | | 3388.9801 | Now, see, now when you talk about | 3390.5328 |
2719 | | 3390.7566 | racial issues, | 3391.7405 |
2721 | | 3392.1695 | I had more racial issues with /RD-NAME-3/ in high school | 3394.6548 |
2723 | | 3395.0920 | because her school was lily white. | 3397.3068 |
2725 | | 3397.9177 | And they | 3399.2653 |
2727 | | 3399.5310 | were not integrating any | 3401.4009 |
2729 | | 3402.2344 | black history, any black anything really. | 3404.7710 |
2731 | | 3405.7689 | And sh- she was really into Nikki Giovanni at the time. | 3409.1112 |
2732 | DCB_int_01 | 3409.1576 | Mm-hm. | 3409.7172 |
2733 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3410.1228 | And she wanted to do | 3411.9600 |
2735 | | 3412.6035 | her speech on, I was born in the congo. | 3415.2229 |
2736 | DCB_int_01 | 3415.2416 | Mm-hm. | 3415.8384 |
2737 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3416.6544 | Okay? | 3417.1673 |
2739 | | 3417.9460 | And they didn't want her to do it, and so I had to go up there. | 3420.4629 |
2741 | | 3420.9758 | You know, and she did Martin Luther's- | 3422.5472 |
2743 | | 3423.1813 | Um, | 3423.5171 |
2745 | | 3423.9833 | King, | 3424.4636 |
2747 | | 3424.6175 | uh, | 3424.9392 |
2749 | | 3425.3624 | Mountaintop. So she | 3426.2857 |
2751 | | 3426.5841 | w- won very- on several oratorical contests. | 3429.5357 |
2753 | | 3429.9740 | But | 3430.2398 |
2755 | | 3430.4730 | I would- | 3430.7189 |
2757 | | 3430.8402 | sh- sh- she always was encouraged to do | 3433.3302 |
2759 | | 3434.3886 | black | 3434.7430 |
2761 | | 3434.9901 | literature because she went to a lily white school. | 3436.9999 |
2762 | DCB_int_01 | 3437.9686 | She was the exposure. | 3439.1739 |
2763 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3439.1670 | Mm-hm. | 3439.7079 |
2764 | DCB_int_01 | 3439.8804 | Mm-hm. | 3440.1975 |
2765 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3440.3980 | But for me, I was ha- was very blessed to have a lot of positive | 3443.2598 |
2767 | | 3443.5862 | educated black women. | 3444.7613 |
2769 | | 3445.1763 | I worked- when I worked at /RD-WORK-4/ for twenty years, | 3447.4658 |
2771 | | 3447.8341 | /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ grew up | 3448.9952 |
2773 | | 3450.0992 | in the hospital | 3450.8685 |
2775 | | 3450.9618 | because- | 3451.3861 |
2777 | | 3451.7778 | You know, they were always there. | 3452.8503 |
2779 | | 3454.3937 | So people- When it was time for them to go to school, | 3456.4862 |
2781 | | 3456.7846 | people were very generous to me. | 3458.3000 |
2782 | DCB_int_01 | 3460.3890 | Are you a Delta? | 3460.9859 |
2783 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3461.7308 | N- Unfortunately, I'm not. | 3463.1436 |
2784 | DCB_int_01 | 3463.5493 | Oh, okay. | 3463.9736 |
2785 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3464.1089 | [No, that was-] | 3464.6591 |
2786 | DCB_int_01 | 3464.1508 | [/Alright/, I didn't] know if I had seen you [wearing-] | 3466.3144 |
2787 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3465.9833 | [I w-] I wanted to be one. | 3467.4428 |
2788 | | 3467.9826 | I mean when I tell you I wanted to be one- Like, I could taste it. | 3470.6404 |
2790 | | 3472.1885 | I wanted to be one. | 3473.1724 |
2792 | | 3473.6608 | But | 3473.9126 |
2794 | | 3474.0199 | I wanted her to be one. I can remember very much so, when she was like, | 3477.6196 |
2796 | | 3478.1885 | I'm not pledging anything. | 3479.9639 |
2798 | | 3480.7566 | I don't need to be defined by | 3482.9855 |
2800 | | 3483.5730 | an organization. | 3484.5942 |
2802 | | 3486.0618 | And I said, oh. | 3486.9012 |
2804 | | 3487.1763 | Af- | 3487.4327 |
2806 | | 3487.6146 | af- after first year, she called home. She said, I have something to tell you. | 3491.3169 |
2808 | | 3492.6074 | And I said, what? And she said, I wanna pledge Delta, and it's gonna cost this much. | 3497.3169 |
2810 | | 3497.8334 | And at the time, I was working at the /RD-WORK-5/, Doctor /RD-NAME-5/- | 3500.8782 |
2812 | | 3501.1627 | who's recently just died | 3502.7294 |
2814 | | 3503.7121 | last week- | 3504.2763 |
2816 | | 3505.6845 | was a Delta. | 3506.4119 |
2818 | | 3507.3072 | And she gave me her registration fee money. | 3509.3111 |
2820 | | 3509.5443 | She said, of course she can be a Delta. | 3511.5260 |
2822 | | 3513.3445 | Yeah. | 3513.6150 |
2823 | DCB_int_01 | 3515.3484 | [/Aw/.] | 3515.7308 |
2824 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3515.4137 | [S-] | 3515.6468 |
2825 | DCB_int_01 | 3516.2111 | That's just cra- It's so funny, like listening | 3518.9948 |
2827 | | 3520.1978 | because I- | 3520.6781 |
2829 | | 3520.8553 | I think about my experiences. I don't think I've had as m- | 3524.3840 |
2831 | | 3524.5332 | Race has been- | 3525.5264 |
2833 | | 3525.8435 | I grew up in the South, and race was- | 3527.4522 |
2835 | | 3527.7774 | it's an [issue], | 3528.8787 |
2836 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3528.3090 | [Prevalent.] Mm-hm. | 3529.2276 |
2837 | DCB_int_01 | 3530.1881 | but I think my mom sheltered me from it | 3532.2072 |
2839 | | 3532.4217 | a lot. | 3532.9486 |
2840 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3533.2144 | Mm-hm. | 3533.6294 |
2841 | DCB_int_01 | 3533.7961 | Um, and my grandma, and then when I got | 3535.8850 |
2843 | | 3536.0855 | you know, when I came here- | 3537.8341 |
2845 | | 3538.0766 | I go to- I went to Geo- It was very diverse. | 3540.1691 |
2847 | | 3540.9525 | But I- | 3541.3488 |
2849 | | 3541.7218 | coming outside and living outside of that bubble, | 3543.7362 |
2850 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3543.9740 | [Mm-hm.] | 3544.3844 |
2851 | DCB_int_01 | 3544.1465 | [you know, I didn't] do that as a student. So [now like], hearing these stories and how much | 3547.8697 |
2852 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3545.6888 | [Mm-hm.] | 3546.0665 |
2853 | DCB_int_01 | 3548.2348 | race like, played a [part] in like, [this city] | 3551.1537 |
2854 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3549.5637 | [<ts>] | 3549.7036 |
2856 | | 3550.0113 | [<sigh>] | 3551.1211 |
2857 | DCB_int_01 | 3551.6422 | from going from Chocolate City- one girl calls it the swirl that's losing the chocolate. | 3555.2699 |
2858 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3556.1932 | Uh, | 3556.7854 |
2859 | DCB_int_01 | 3556.9101 | [<laugh>] | 3557.8147 |
2860 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3557.2890 | [exactly.] Uh, when you look at- | 3559.4700 |
2861 | | 3560.3793 | When I look at | 3561.1580 |
2863 | | 3561.8901 | being a young woman going out entertainment, | 3564.3743 |
2865 | | 3564.5654 | it was black. It was just- We- We were everywhere. | 3567.1300 |
2867 | | 3568.5382 | The only time I really saw a lot of people were tourists. | 3571.0271 |
2868 | DCB_int_01 | 3571.9550 | Mm-hm. | 3572.5052 |
2870 | | 3573.0508 | Do you- Have you done the- Have you been a tourist? Or have you- | 3575.7634 |
2871 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3575.7354 | Mm-hm. | 3576.1271 |
2872 | DCB_int_01 | 3576.0945 | Since you've always just lived [here /inaudible/.] | 3577.9783 |
2873 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3577.2742 | [No, one time-] Nope. | 3578.6917 |
2874 | | 3578.9249 | One time, I r- | 3579.9554 |
2876 | | 3580.1139 | I learned a lot | 3581.1024 |
2878 | | 3581.2971 | becoming a tourist one time (laughing). And it wasn't until I w- | 3584.0669 |
2880 | | 3584.4866 | got married again. | 3585.2373 |
2882 | | 3586.1092 | We took the bus- | 3587.2283 |
2884 | | 3587.4976 | tour bus, | 3588.2064 |
2886 | | 3588.9804 | and I learned about the /archiatect/. | 3591.4844 |
2888 | | 3591.6010 | I learned to appreciate the /archiatect/ more in DC. | 3594.1504 |
2889 | DCB_int_01 | 3597.6663 | So do you still like- | 3598.7294 |
2891 | | 3599.1479 | Do you go with your grandkids to like, the [monuments and-] | 3603.2466 |
2892 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3602.4213 | [No.] | 3603.2653 |
2893 | | 3603.5217 | They don't- I try to. They always go, | 3605.4615 |
2895 | | 3605.7308 | no, I don't wanna do that Nana. | 3607.0877 |
2897 | | 3607.3861 | These children today- | 3608.6358 |
2899 | | 3609.4844 | See when you w- We were- When I was coming up, that's all you had. You didn't have a whole bunch of a- | 3613.3628 |
2901 | | 3613.9317 | you know, distractions and [gadgets.] | 3615.7362 |
2902 | DCB_int_01 | 3615.2886 | [Video games] and- | 3616.2491 |
2903 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3616.3377 | Gadgets and stuff. We had to make do. We- | 3618.7566 |
2905 | | 3619.2695 | If we didn't have real jacks, we played with | 3621.4051 |
2907 | | 3621.5637 | rocks | 3622.2258 |
2909 | | 3622.4310 | and a ball. | 3623.1024 |
2910 | DCB_int_01 | 3623.8847 | Mm-hm. | 3624.2810 |
2911 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3624.2017 | If we didn't have a baseball, we played- You know, we- we- If we had a bat and a ball, we was doing good. | 3629.3857 |
2912 | | 3629.6235 | We m- We may not even had a glove. | 3631.4188 |
2914 | | 3633.4704 | If one person had a bike in the neighborhood, everybody rode it, | 3635.9826 |
2915 | DCB_int_01 | 3636.3136 | Mm-hm. | 3636.7893 |
2916 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3637.6006 | You know, so, it wasn't like, | 3639.1767 |
2918 | | 3639.5823 | you know, anybody was more pri- There was always a few people who had a li- two dollars more than you did. | 3644.5699 |
2920 | | 3644.7010 | You know, it's always gonna be that. | 3645.9134 |
2922 | | 3646.4496 | But | 3646.8460 |
2924 | | 3648.8825 | we- we didn't- we- You know, it was just a s- way it was. I mean, you- | 3652.4683 |
2926 | | 3652.5849 | people worked every day, and | 3654.1598 |
2928 | | 3654.8359 | um, | 3655.5260 |
2930 | | 3656.7990 | you had re- chores and responsibilities and, | 3659.3169 |
2932 | | 3659.9546 | you we- we were latchkey kids, for lack of a better word. We didn't look at it that way. Our parents worked. You went home. You | 3665.3449 |
2934 | | 3665.7588 | took off you- | 3666.3883 |
2936 | | 3666.8312 | your school clothes. You cleaned up. You got caught playing | 3669.3958 |
2938 | | 3669.7549 | outside in 'em, you got a whooping. | 3671.1864 |
2939 | DCB_int_01 | 3671.4090 | Mm-hm. | 3671.9033 |
2940 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3672.0292 | You can't even whoop a child now. | 3673.2835 |
2941 | DCB_int_01 | 3673.4421 | Mm. | 3673.6985 |
2943 | | 3673.8897 | Without somebody calling somebody or saying [something.] Mm-hm. | 3676.7667 |
2944 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3675.7176 | [Mm-hm.] | 3676.2212 |
2945 | | 3676.8973 | Right. | 3677.2610 |
2947 | | 3677.3577 | But I think- I don't think | 3678.7240 |
2949 | | 3679.1903 | abuse or beating a child | 3681.1767 |
2951 | | 3681.6663 | is accepted, but I do think some children, if you had whooped their hind butts a little bit, | 3685.7498 |
2953 | | 3686.0576 | they may not be out here doing some of the things they're doing. | 3688.6222 |
2954 | DCB_int_01 | 3688.8833 | If you could leave a piece of advice to- | 3690.9338 |
2956 | | 3691.6799 | Not even just young people, but like, | 3693.1114 |
2958 | | 3694.1465 | anybody. Like, especially in this time, in this space. | 3697.7172 |
2960 | | 3698.0622 | Kind of thinking about you being in survivor mode, what would that piece of advice be? | 3701.8099 |
2961 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3705.4564 | Learn about who you are. | 3706.5557 |
2963 | | 3708.6960 | And- and- and- and- and- and- | 3710.7337 |
2965 | | 3711.2932 | don't- | 3712.0160 |
2967 | | 3714.4908 | I think black | 3715.1949 |
2969 | | 3715.4887 | kids have a little bit more pride about who they are now | 3718.0673 |
2971 | | 3719.0278 | than when I came up. So, | 3720.2997 |
2973 | | 3720.7240 | I think | 3721.4141 |
2975 | | 3722.1788 | one of the things that is missing for young people- | 3724.6735 |
2977 | | 3725.5489 | When we were coming up, there was always somebody striving | 3728.4399 |
2979 | | 3728.7757 | to get better for us. | 3730.0788 |
2981 | | 3730.9859 | You know, the | 3731.6620 |
2983 | | 3731.9173 | um- | 3732.4476 |
2985 | | 3733.9317 | the Martins, | 3734.8549 |
2987 | | 3735.5124 | the /Eggers/. | 3736.3844 |
2989 | | 3737.0407 | Somebody was there | 3738.3403 |
2991 | | 3738.7613 | telling us, | 3739.5167 |
2993 | | 3740.2814 | we need somebody like that. | 3741.8062 |
2995 | | 3742.7621 | Obama can't do it by hisself. | 3744.3370 |
2996 | DCB_int_01 | 3745.8897 | Do you feel like that changed the city? Do you feel like that changed the feel of [the city?] | 3749.5454 |
2997 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3748.9113 | [Obama ain't had] nothing to do with the change of the feel of the city. | 3751.4794 |
2998 | | 3751.7218 | That was happening under the tables. They sold us out. | 3754.5056 |
3000 | | 3755.9453 | The council people, | 3757.2462 |
3002 | | 3758.3047 | all of the people who are /tryna- making/ money | 3761.2656 |
3004 | | 3761.5816 | sold the people out. | 3762.7426 |
3006 | | 3763.7825 | Okay? | 3764.0995 |
3008 | | 3764.3280 | This is the District of Columbia. We're not that big. | 3766.5522 |
3010 | | 3766.7807 | How in the hell you gonna let them come in here and overbuild like that? | 3770.0343 |
3012 | | 3770.4259 | We didn't agree to that. | 3771.4145 |
3013 | DCB_int_01 | 3771.8714 | Mm. | 3772.1465 |
3014 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3772.2351 | So it's about money. It's not about people. | 3774.3929 |
3016 | | 3774.6540 | It's never been about [people.] | 3775.9690 |
3017 | DCB_int_01 | 3775.5186 | [Peop-] Mm. | 3776.3373 |
3018 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3776.9622 | We live in a capitalist society. | 3778.5709 |
3020 | | 3779.3531 | They don't care about people | 3780.4629 |
3022 | | 3780.8499 | catching the bus to work, an- | 3782.1602 |
3024 | | 3782.3653 | They care about it now | 3783.5077 |
3026 | | 3785.0453 | that you done moved everybody [out.] | 3786.4768 |
3027 | DCB_int_01 | 3786.2670 | [Out.] [Mm-hm.] | 3787.2276 |
3028 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3786.7986 | [And you done put] bikes on every corner and all of that, and | 3789.3445 |
3029 | | 3789.6383 | you done put these- ap- overgrown these streets with apartment buildings and condos and | 3794.3280 |
3031 | | 3794.5705 | all of that. | 3795.1907 |
3033 | | 3795.2792 | Where the parks? Where? | 3796.6455 |
3035 | | 3796.8122 | What? | 3797.1386 |
3036 | DCB_int_01 | 3798.8312 | Yeah, | 3799.1390 |
3038 | | 3799.3348 | I can [only imagine] what it was like to watch over the last [/twenty/ years.] | 3803.5772 |
3039 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3799.5120 | [Where is the vision?] | 3800.4819 |
3041 | | 3802.3797 | [You have so much open] space- The city was so pretty. The- | 3805.5866 |
3042 | | 3805.8524 | the monuments, and | 3806.9808 |
3044 | | 3807.3678 | you didn't have this abundance of traffic and | 3809.9779 |
3046 | | 3810.9385 | all this overgrowth, everybody tryna make a dollar. | 3813.1300 |
3048 | | 3814.1279 | All of those condos ain't filled up! | 3816.1598 |
3050 | | 3816.6680 | They get | 3817.0504 |
3052 | | 3817.2089 | kickbacks when those condo- | 3818.5752 |
3054 | | 3818.8269 | w- | 3818.9575 |
3056 | | 3819.1860 | Okay. So we didn't fill our condos, so they get the tax breaks? | 3822.1365 |
3058 | | 3822.9804 | Cause can't nobody afford 'em. | 3824.1135 |
3059 | DCB_int_01 | 3825.4378 | Yup. | 3825.7316 |
3061 | | 3826.7154 | That's true. | 3827.2796 |
3063 | | 3827.7215 | That's why everybody's on the | 3828.9152 |
3065 | | 3829.1809 | [outskirts.] | 3829.8617 |
3066 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3829.7545 | [Okay], I'm'a build this building so it- but if I don't get it filled up, it's okay cause I'm'a get | 3833.5268 |
3067 | | 3833.7028 | a tax break cause I didn't make my- | 3835.4048 |
3069 | | 3837.0927 | There no jobs. | 3838.2538 |
3071 | | 3841.9923 | In years to come, everything'll be contract. People ain't gonna have no place to work. | 3845.2470 |
3073 | | 3845.8101 | If you don't have your own entrepreneurship, | 3847.7172 |
3075 | | 3847.9783 | you gonna be out of luck. | 3848.7850 |
3076 | DCB_int_01 | 3849.6989 | So you feel like the city's on a downward spiral? | 3851.6060 |
3077 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3851.7994 | <ts> | 3851.9533 |
3079 | | 3852.8592 | For working people. | 3854.3373 |
3081 | | 3856.7014 | The working people. | 3857.6329 |
3083 | | 3857.8101 | The working poor | 3858.7100 |
3085 | | 3859.4887 | who catch the bus in the morning, who catch the bus in the evening. | 3862.2724 |
3087 | | 3863.8007 | I would not be able to retire in this city and live here comfortably. | 3866.7803 |
3089 | | 3868.7656 | At the salary I make now, when it's time for me to retire, I can't live here. | 3872.6358 |
3090 | DCB_int_01 | 3877.2695 | Wow. | 3877.5820 |
3091 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3879.5077 | You work in a community where the Safeway is /eplorable/. | 3883.4234 |
3093 | | 3884.8876 | And we have council people, and all these people- | 3887.2237 |
3095 | | 3887.4324 | supposed to care about the people. | 3888.8592 |
3097 | | 3889.4794 | You go to that Safeway, it look like a prison. | 3891.4658 |
3098 | DCB_int_01 | 3891.8761 | Mm-hm. | 3892.2818 |
3099 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3893.2505 | You won't find that in a white neighborhood. | 3895.2929 |
3101 | | 3896.9901 | They're not having it. | 3898.1092 |
3103 | | 3900.8334 | /Marion Barry/ said what he- w- what was really happening. They don't wanna hear that. | 3904.6990 |
3104 | DCB_int_01 | 3905.0114 | Mm. | 3905.4590 |
3105 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3906.5688 | But he says it. They don't care about these people. | 3908.7032 |
3107 | | 3910.4145 | Uh-uh. | 3910.9741 |
3109 | | 3911.4870 | Fenty didn't care. Williams didn't care. | 3913.1983 |
3111 | | 3914.2183 | And I don't think Bow- | 3914.9644 |
3113 | | 3915.1742 | m- Bowser care either. | 3916.5031 |
3115 | | 3918.1445 | I didn't even know who she really was. | 3919.5200 |
3116 | DCB_int_01 | 3920.4701 | Yeah, she didn't- It wasn't a lot of people that voted. | 3922.4635 |
3118 | | 3922.5917 | I mean it was a [very] | 3923.4404 |
3119 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3923.2958 | [I] did not [vote for- I don't know her.] | 3925.4967 |
3120 | DCB_int_01 | 3923.8694 | [small percentage of- Mm-hm.] | 3926.2789 |
3121 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3925.7847 | [You know-] | 3926.2136 |
3122 | | 3926.4141 | You know, people go with what they know. Even when I was tryna read about her | 3929.6036 |
3124 | | 3929.8647 | and get a feel for who she was, I couldn't do it. | 3932.8058 |
3126 | | 3934.9275 | I pay taxes in here. | 3936.2704 |
3128 | | 3937.7007 | In this city. | 3938.3862 |
3130 | | 3940.2840 | But I don't get to- I don't get to reap the benefits. | 3942.5035 |
3131 | DCB_int_01 | 3942.6341 | /Somebody- Yeah/. | 3943.2857 |
3132 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3944.2090 | Mm-mm. | 3944.6053 |
3134 | | 3945.0903 | At all., | 3945.5939 |
3135 | DCB_int_01 | 3948.6527 | /It's cause/ you live on the other side of the river. | 3950.1912 |
3136 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3950.7685 | Y- Well, you know, | 3951.6218 |
3138 | | 3952.2187 | they expanded Capitol Hill. When I was coming up, Capitol Hill may have been four or /flive/ blocks long. | 3956.6473 |
3140 | | 3957.2721 | Now it's all the way back to Seventeenth Street almost. | 3959.6689 |
3142 | | 3960.7693 | What the heck? | 3961.5433 |
3143 | DCB_int_01 | 3962.3162 | It's getting to be a big hill. /It's a little/ [mountain. Capitol Mountain.] | 3965.4404 |
3144 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3963.9855 | [Right. Right. Right. Right.] Right. | 3965.7574 |
3145 | | 3965.9859 | It's all of that. | 3966.7553 |
3147 | | 3966.9092 | It's [all of that.] | 3967.5387 |
3148 | DCB_int_01 | 3967.1190 | [Mm-hm.] | 3967.6179 |
3149 | | 3968.0038 | Just all of that going on. | 3969.0763 |
3150 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3969.1089 | I w- And- and it's not that I don't, you know- I don't- I resent | 3971.6362 |
3152 | | 3971.8600 | white folks coming here, | 3973.1890 |
3153 | DCB_int_01 | 3973.2962 | Right. | 3973.6319 |
3154 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3973.7380 | I don't resent that, but I just resent the fact that | 3976.3166 |
3156 | | 3976.7596 | other people can't afford to be here. | 3978.3123 |
3157 | DCB_int_01 | 3979.4256 | [Mm.] | 3979.8126 |
3158 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 3979.4349 | [And that's] where the anger comes in at | 3981.0157 |
3159 | | 3981.5472 | because | 3981.9389 |
3161 | | 3982.1721 | somehow | 3983.0300 |
3163 | | 3984.8206 | Seven Elevens are coming back. | 3986.5540 |
3165 | | 3987.5705 | They took all the Seven Elevens out. | 3989.3051 |
3167 | | 3990.1351 | But we don't /know/. | 3990.8206 |
3169 | | 3993.6032 | All the taxi cab- These were jobs that | 3995.7901 |
3171 | | 3996.2191 | people's parents had even after they did they work. | 3998.9737 |
3173 | | 3999.4120 | They worked at the post office. | 4000.7782 |
3175 | | 4001.1233 | Then, they w- drove the cab at night. | 4003.2029 |
3176 | DCB_int_01 | 4003.8919 | Mm. | 4004.3582 |
3177 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4005.4120 | That's what they did. | 4006.1254 |
3179 | | 4008.8066 | That's what they did /about home/. | 4010.1437 |
3181 | | 4010.5447 | They cost maybe seventeen /dollars/ an hour. | 4012.5311 |
3182 | DCB_int_01 | 4014.8801 | And [both] parents were doing- | 4015.9992 |
3183 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4014.9978 | /The h-/ | 4015.2682 |
3184 | | 4016.1157 | And both parents were working. The neighborhood that I moved in on T Place, the house that I sold in April, | 4020.3450 |
3186 | | 4020.8754 | the- my neighbors said when they bought their house they paid seventeen thousand dollars for it. I think the o- | 4024.8482 |
3188 | | 4025.0720 | the- | 4025.2818 |
3190 | | 4025.4077 | the highest one who paid for one, paid twenty seven thousand | 4028.5400 |
3192 | | 4029.1742 | for it. | 4029.4260 |
3193 | DCB_int_01 | 4032.2509 | You can barely rent an apartment for a- | 4034.1997 |
3194 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4034.4841 | [Exactly.] | 4035.2721 |
3195 | DCB_int_01 | 4034.5354 | [a- a year] or two for that [much.] | 4036.5544 |
3196 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4036.1161 | [Exactly.] | 4036.9368 |
3197 | | 4037.4031 | Exactly. | 4038.0839 |
3199 | | 4040.0085 | Exactly. | 4040.6473 |
3200 | DCB_int_01 | 4042.2047 | So what do you think is gonna be- | 4043.5989 |
3202 | | 4043.9253 | How do you think this is gonna look in ten years? | 4045.8546 |
3203 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4046.1017 | It won't. | 4046.4002 |
3205 | | 4046.6939 | We- They gonna have it so you have to pay a tax- You gonna have to pay a toll to get here- | 4050.3077 |
3207 | | 4050.4895 | in here. | 4050.9185 |
3209 | | 4051.5842 | <laugh> | 4051.9479 |
3211 | | 4052.8012 | You gonna pay a toll to get in. | 4054.1581 |
3213 | | 4055.8694 | And then they gonna- | 4056.6014 |
3215 | | 4056.8579 | It's no longer- It's- You- You gonna have- be able- It won't be taxation without representation | 4061.0001 |
3217 | | 4061.4870 | because see, then, it's gonna impact them. | 4063.0537 |
3218 | DCB_int_01 | 4064.3349 | Mm. | 4064.7779 |
3219 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4065.0716 | And they make the changes. | 4066.2840 |
3221 | | 4068.5921 | Eleanor Holmes Norton been fighting about it for twent- two decades, and we ain't got | 4072.0089 |
3222 | DCB_int_01 | 4072.0042 | Nothing yet. | 4072.6710 |
3223 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4072.6990 | nothing yet. | 4073.4031 |
3225 | | 4076.7685 | It's sad but it's true. | 4077.7477 |
3226 | DCB_int_01 | 4077.7337 | It's true. | 4078.2280 |
3227 | | 4078.9787 | And I think you can see that. Like, I just [remember coming here seventeen years ago-] | 4082.4608 |
3228 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4080.4895 | [I don't like the school system. I don't like] all these chartered schools. | 4084.0928 |
3229 | | 4084.3866 | I don't like that kids can't walk to school. | 4086.5315 |
3231 | | 4086.8719 | I don't like the- | 4087.6366 |
3233 | | 4088.0131 | the fact that the crime is so high. | 4089.8876 |
3235 | | 4090.1581 | I don't like that the drugs are still coming. | 4092.3590 |
3237 | | 4092.9278 | We don't have no- | 4093.5853 |
3239 | | 4093.7240 | no airplanes and no boats, | 4095.4633 |
3241 | | 4095.6498 | ships. | 4096.0741 |
3243 | | 4096.2886 | How do drugs get here? | 4097.2865 |
3245 | | 4099.4862 | These- Our black children are starting to be missing every day. | 4102.4938 |
3247 | | 4102.8202 | Something's wrong. | 4103.8600 |
3248 | DCB_int_01 | 4103.9719 | Yeah. | 4104.3543 |
3249 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4105.2811 | People- Our black kids are getting killed | 4107.1742 |
3251 | | 4107.9343 | by police officers. | 4109.3238 |
3253 | | 4110.4569 | Something [wrong.] | 4111.4641 |
3254 | DCB_int_01 | 4111.1097 | [Way too] frequently. | 4112.1903 |
3255 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4112.4561 | Too frequent. | 4113.0203 |
3256 | DCB_int_01 | 4113.2022 | Way too frequently. | 4114.4239 |
3258 | | 4116.6994 | /Yeah/. | 4116.9838 |
3259 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4116.9698 | And then they wanna know why we angry. | 4118.2276 |
3260 | | 4119.0483 | W- w- They didn't give us our forty acres and a mule. | 4121.3005 |
3262 | | 4122.5455 | And then, | 4123.1283 |
3264 | | 4123.7940 | they pushed slavery aside, but we got to keep on the /Holocaust/. Keep it right in our forefront. | 4128.2704 |
3266 | | 4128.8579 | But that's okay. | 4129.5294 |
3267 | DCB_int_01 | 4129.7408 | [/Oof/.] | 4130.0065 |
3268 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4129.8779 | [But if] we talk about slavery | 4131.2908 |
3269 | | 4131.8550 | and the pain | 4132.6850 |
3271 | | 4133.1606 | that our forefather- our fathers went through? | 4135.0584 |
3273 | | 4135.6168 | We're not supposed to. Get over it. | 4137.1229 |
3274 | DCB_int_01 | 4137.1136 | Mm. | 4137.6032 |
3275 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4137.8223 | But they can talk about the Holocaust whenever they feel like. | 4140.0326 |
3277 | | 4141.7287 | Whenever they wanna make a movie about it, | 4143.4913 |
3279 | | 4143.8830 | whenever they wanna have a museum about it, | 4145.9160 |
3281 | | 4146.3310 | whenever they wanna do whatever. | 4147.6086 |
3283 | | 4148.6659 | Hm. | 4148.9923 |
3285 | | 4150.8109 | Hm. | 4151.0673 |
3287 | | 4154.6240 | Hm. | 4154.8431 |
3289 | | 4155.2535 | Yeah. | 4155.5239 |
3290 | DCB_int_01 | 4156.5125 | But this will always be your city. | 4157.8274 |
3291 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4158.2237 | It will always be my city (whispering). | 4159.4128 |
3292 | DCB_int_01 | 4160.8991 | It'll always- | 4161.6032 |
3293 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4161.6032 | The fact that I think about leaving DC really scares me. | 4165.2717 |
3294 | | 4166.4515 | Every time- when I first thought I had, you know, I said, I'm not gonna be able to afford to live here. | 4170.0885 |
3296 | | 4170.9418 | It just scares me. Because see, DC was built for you to be able to use public transportation. | 4175.0627 |
3298 | | 4175.5523 | There was places for seniors- people to liv- You know, they could get around. | 4178.9177 |
3300 | | 4179.9482 | That's not the same out in Maryland. | 4181.5150 |
3301 | DCB_int_01 | 4182.3683 | Mm-mm. | 4182.8719 |
3302 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4183.4489 | [Mm-mm.] | 4183.9432 |
3303 | DCB_int_01 | 4183.4489 | [Mm-mm.] | 4183.9432 |
3304 | | 4184.6473 | [/It's not/.] | 4185.1089 |
3305 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4184.6520 | [The services.] You know we had good social services and stuff for people to use, | 4188.9791 |
3306 | | 4189.2717 | to access and everything like that. That's- | 4191.2954 |
3308 | | 4192.6803 | Mm-mm. | 4193.1000 |
3309 | DCB_int_01 | 4193.6362 | That's what someone else telling me about, her experience when she was really trying to get | 4197.2581 |
3311 | | 4197.3747 | back on her feet. I think she had to leave home or something and | 4199.6782 |
3313 | | 4200.1165 | her mom | 4201.0024 |
3315 | | 4201.2636 | um, | 4201.6867 |
3317 | | 4202.0644 | wanted to move to Maryland. She said she had to get back to DC cause they had so many more | 4205.5803 |
3318 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4205.9393 | It [does.] | 4206.4429 |
3319 | DCB_int_01 | 4206.1911 | [services] [that she] could use. | 4208.2323 |
3320 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4206.9127 | [It does.] | 4207.3650 |
3321 | | 4208.4515 | [Mm-hm.] | 4208.9131 |
3322 | DCB_int_01 | 4208.5354 | [And she was] just [across the] | 4209.5892 |
3323 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4209.0949 | [And peop-] | 4209.5239 |
3324 | | 4209.6964 | [Mm-hm.] | 4210.1254 |
3325 | DCB_int_01 | 4209.6964 | [border.] | 4210.1394 |
3326 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4211.0300 | Mm-hm. | 4211.3704 |
3328 | | 4211.7341 | Mm-hm. | 4212.0839 |
3330 | | 4212.6108 | That's why they call the border | 4213.6926 |
3332 | | 4213.9059 | Ward Nine. | 4214.6613 |
3333 | DCB_int_01 | 4215.0483 | Mm-hm. | 4215.5426 |
3334 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4215.7058 | DC has eight wards, | 4217.0394 |
3336 | | 4217.6595 | four quadrants, | 4218.6667 |
3338 | | 4219.1971 | and on the outskirts of s- | 4220.9784 |
3340 | | 4221.2908 | uh- o- of- the- | 4222.0835 |
3342 | | 4222.2653 | East of the river is Ward Nine. | 4223.8507 |
3343 | DCB_int_01 | 4225.1412 | Mm-hm. | 4225.9992 |
3345 | | 4226.8431 | Cause that's where a [lot of-] | 4227.9436 |
3346 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4227.4400 | [You know one time] they tried to make um, | 4230.7879 |
3347 | | 4231.8126 | Georgetown | 4232.7032 |
3349 | | 4234.1534 | part of Montgomery County. | 4235.2259 |
3351 | | 4235.4031 | Did you know that? | 4236.0186 |
3352 | DCB_int_01 | 4236.1491 | I didn't. | 4236.6900 |
3353 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4237.3463 | Oh. | 4237.6075 |
3355 | | 4237.8266 | There was a time that ha- | 4238.7685 |
3357 | | 4239.2954 | That was there. | 4239.8596 |
3359 | | 4240.1068 | Mm-hm. | 4240.4798 |
3361 | | 4240.9508 | And Marion Barry was like, wow. | 4242.3730 |
3363 | | 4244.4141 | They wanted to make that | 4245.1089 |
3365 | | 4245.4726 | part of Montgomery County. | 4246.5591 |
3366 | DCB_int_01 | 4246.5125 | So come in on [the other side, as you come off of- Mm-hm.] | 4249.4547 |
3367 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4247.2399 | [Like /Unintelligible/ Boulevard] and over [that way. /Unintelligible/. Oh yeah yeah] yeah yeah yeah. | 4252.5984 |
3368 | DCB_int_01 | 4250.0571 | [Reservoir, so as you come /unintelligible/, um, <ts>] | 4252.0482 |
3370 | | 4252.5331 | Clara Barton Parkway? | 4253.7268 |
3371 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4253.7828 | Mm-hm. | 4254.2537 |
3372 | DCB_int_01 | 4255.8939 | I'm not surprised by that though. | 4257.3114 |
3373 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4257.4513 | Mm-hm. And w- And | 4258.4725 |
3375 | | 4258.8035 | how did they consume all of Georgia up? That's where the slaves came in- They lived over there. | 4262.9197 |
3377 | | 4264.5331 | That ch- | 4264.7756 |
3379 | | 4264.9528 | That black church over there on P Street | 4266.8645 |
3381 | | 4267.3763 | corner, | 4267.8006 |
3382 | DCB_int_01 | 4268.8545 | Mm-hm. | 4269.3814 |
3383 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4269.4466 | they [wanna-] | 4269.8243 |
3384 | DCB_int_01 | 4269.7124 | [I can't] think of the intersection [but I know where you're] talking [about.] | 4271.8760 |
3385 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4270.9761 | [Mm-hm.] | 4271.4330 |
3387 | | 4271.7734 | [They] wanted that church gone. | 4273.1350 |
3388 | | 4275.0736 | They wanted it gone. | 4275.9829 |
3389 | DCB_int_01 | 4278.3843 | Mm. | 4278.7713 |
3390 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4279.5582 | They have still- /sprinkle/- a few black people who still live over there. | 4282.2160 |
3391 | DCB_int_01 | 4282.5844 | It's /sprinkley/. It's very- | 4284.0812 |
3392 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4284.1371 | [/Sprinkling/. They don't-] Move- Bought 'em out. | 4286.0944 |
3393 | DCB_int_01 | 4284.5661 | [It's ch-] | 4285.0359 |
3395 | | 4285.3064 | [It ain't much.] [Yeah. Mm-mm.] | 4287.1482 |
3396 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4286.2716 | [Yeah.] | 4286.6726 |
3397 | | 4287.3814 | Mm-hm. | 4287.8103 |
3399 | | 4288.8129 | Metropolitan AME Baptist Church downtown, they try to | 4292.1457 |
3401 | | 4292.4115 | get 'em out. | 4292.8824 |
3402 | DCB_int_01 | 4294.6730 | But didn't they just- | 4295.3678 |
3404 | | 4296.0206 | rebuild- | 4296.7153 |
3406 | | 4296.8459 | Aren't [they] [rebuilding?] | 4297.7913 |
3407 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4296.9893 | [Not-] | 4297.2084 |
3409 | | 4297.5349 | [Not-] | 4297.8193 |
3410 | | 4298.1737 | Me- Metropolitan /Beechum Hicks/ on Fifteenth and | 4300.8082 |
3412 | | 4300.9901 | um, Vermont, not that one. | 4302.4495 |
3414 | | 4302.9158 | Metropolitan AME downtown- | 4304.7845 |
3416 | | 4304.9011 | All the way downtown. | 4306.3000 |
3417 | DCB_int_01 | 4307.1952 | Okay, further in. Like, deep deep in. | 4309.2096 |
3418 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4309.2283 | Off of- Off- Down there, off of um- | 4311.4886 |
3420 | | 4313.7175 | It's not far from Brooks Brothers. | 4316.2996 |
3422 | | 4316.8778 | It's over [that /way/.] | 4317.7078 |
3423 | DCB_int_01 | 4317.1389 | [Oh, oh], oh, oh, oh [okay.] | 4318.5284 |
3424 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4318.2953 | [It sits] in the middle of the street. | 4319.5403 |
3425 | DCB_int_01 | 4319.9739 | Okay. | 4320.4169 |
3427 | | 4320.5102 | [Okay. Okay. I was-] I was up. I was [too far up.] | 4323.0456 |
3428 | DCB_se2_ag4_f_01 | 4320.7748 | [It's a black church.] | 4321.4742 |
3430 | | 4322.3835 | [Yeah, it's a black] church. | 4323.4093 |
3431 | | 4324.3186 | Mm-hm. | 4324.8455 |