00:00Atlanta was always blacker than, you know, most people thought in terms of what it was.
00:08It wasn't run by black people at that particular time, because after Lester Maddox, you know,
00:13Atlanta did start to grow when Maynard Jackson became the first black mayor, and things started
00:18to change, and the growth that Frank saw in his mind, or the growth that Chicken Man was seeing,
00:26there are a lot of people there in that particular film that are trying to get to a particular place,
00:32striving through it. Don's character, the cop, I had a cousin, my wife's cousin, he became my cousin,
00:39my wife's cousin was one of those first 23 policemen in Atlanta, and he actually became
00:46the chief of police at a certain point, named Elgin Bell. So, a lot of those things I know about
00:53because I was there and I was part of them. I was around certain people that did it. I was around
00:57people who got robbed in the robbery. I know some of those people. My wife's house that she grew up in
01:05is a block and a half away from the place where it happened. So, Collier Heights was where, you know,
01:11rich, rich, and well-to-do black people lived, and that's where the, you know, robbery was.
01:15So, I have a lot of, I came to this with a lot of information or a lot of knowledge about what was
01:24going on in the reality of it and in the mythology of what that whole thing was when it happened.
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