4.9 • 777 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This is a story about the assumptions we all make. And the secrets we keep. With WPLN reporter Meribah Knight as the go-between, Big Man, a public housing resident from the Cayce Homes, walks across the street to meet the wealthy couple who live in the fancy new home on the hill.  In many ways, their lives couldn’t be more different, but in breaking the silence between the two sides of the gentrifying neighborhood, a friendship begins to form — only to be dashed in a way no one could have expected.
Production Credits:Â
Writing and reporting: Meribah Knight
Editing: Blake Farmer, Anita Bugg. With additional help from Tony Gonzalez, Emily Siner, Chas Sisk and Julieta Martinelli
Sound Design: Tony Gonzalez
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0:00.0 | Hey, just a note before we begin, this episode has explicit language and descriptions of violence. |
0:07.7 | They don't look at us as being peoples over here. They look at us as being a nuisance. |
0:13.6 | I mean, you can go out this door. I can walk out my door right now. And if I walk to anyone about my neighbor's house and say, |
0:22.5 | hey, can I have a cup of sugar? If they got it, they're going to get to you. But if you walk |
0:27.6 | up there and knock on one of them doors and say, can I have a cup of sugar, it's going to be right. |
0:32.0 | About eight police's SWAT team, and they're going to tell you who's doing a perjury. |
0:38.3 | That's Big Man, the guy from episode two. |
0:41.3 | He's talking about his wealthier neighbors up the hill. |
0:44.9 | The fact is, when you live in Casey, a simple exchange like this is complicated. |
0:50.6 | Here, two sides of a single block feel like two different cities. |
0:54.8 | Crossing the street means going from an income of $8,000 a year to 10 times that. |
1:00.6 | It means going from mostly black to mostly white, from public housing to private ownership. |
1:07.1 | It's a line that few or comfortable crossing, and even fewer want to talk about. |
1:12.6 | And today, that uncomfortable conversation that no one wants to have, we have it. |
1:20.7 | They stay up there and we stay down here, basically. |
1:24.5 | It shouldn't be that way, but it is. |
1:34.3 | I don't know, just the whole situation and everything, we just kind of let it be and kind of look the other way. It's like an us and them type of thing. That's what you see. That's how a lot of people interpret it. |
1:40.3 | I mean, you see like all the nice house, then you see the project. |
1:47.4 | Because, I mean, this part of the block is beautiful. |
1:49.6 | Like a lot of nice houses, everything like that. |
1:55.1 | Obviously, over there, less fortunate, but there's nothing we can do about it at this point. |
1:59.0 | So we just kind of live and just get around it as much as we can. |
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