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Before there was Tropicana Field and its surrounding acres of asphalt, there was the Gas Plant Neighborhood. A primarily Black neighborhood, the Gas Plant was home to families, businesses, churches, and a deep sense of community and place. The people were displaced and the neighborhood was leveled—all to make way for baseball. The story of the Gas Plant Neighborhood follows a narrative of community displacement that has been repeated throughout our country for the sake of “progress.” At the core of this film are the first-hand stories and memories from a community cut short, presented in a historical context that’s rarely accessible to the masses. As we look to the next few decades of development in St. Pete, Razed cautions us to consider the true cost, and encourages us to imagine a better way forward.
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00:05People think that the gas plant was this whole bunch of pro-black folk, pro-negros, and it wasn't.
00:14The education was there, the recreation was there, and the freedom was there. Everything was there.
00:20That was our community, and it was basically just taken away from us.
00:25They were lies. I mean, what else can you call them? They built a stadium.
00:29What was important was the money.
00:32Old habits die hard. When money and power are involved, it's doubly hard.
00:40The stadium issue continues to divide city council.
00:43For the sake of progress, for whom? For them or for us?
00:46African-American community got the bad end of the stick.
00:49It's my story. It's my memory. It's me.
00:59suits, my two promises, and thesten it's the breeding of vehicles,
00:59the gigabytes are 찢ches, Uh-F predatory and the living of Novae and pious things.
00:59I was so excited.
01:00We're so excited.
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