Sunshine State Page #4

-This won't take but an hour or so.

-You hope.

Terrell just needs to talk

with somebody.

We'll call you back home

when it's over.

Prettiest beach on the Atlantic coast.

It is pretty.

If you want to help save it, we're

protesting at the groundbreaking.

-I'm just visiting.

-They won't know the difference.

So this is like an ecological thing?

We're trying to save

an endangered species.

Us.

I heard about this place

when I was a kid.

Forties, fifties...

...Lincoln Beach was it.

Only oceanfront in three counties

we were allowed to step onto.

Black folks, I'm talking about

the pillars of the community...

...got together and bought this land,

built the houses.

You'd drive through a couple hundred

miles of redneck sheriffs...

...park your ride on the boardwalk,

step out and just breathe.

Over there was Henry's Lounge.

That place used to jump.

-So, what happened?

-Civil rights happened. Progress.

Used to be you were black,

you'd buy black.

Jim Crow days, you needed a shoeshine,

wanted a taxi to the train station...

...you wanted some ribs,

a fish sandwich...

...chances are a black man

owned the place you got it in.

Now, the drive-thrus serve anybody.

But who owns them?

Not us.

All our people do is wear paper hats

and dip out them fries.

Only thing we got left are

funeral parlours and barbershops.

But now we can do anything.

Them that can get over do fine.

Them that can't are

in a world of trouble.

Tell the judge what you told me.

I said I'm sorry for what I did.

I wasn't thinking right.

You know that sorry won't cut it

in this case, don't you?

Yes, ma'am.

You're still on probation

for a previous offence...

...yet you deliberately

committed this act of vandalism.

Do you have any explanation

for your actions?

No, ma'am.

When somebody destroys something

that stands as a symbol for people...

-...that's desecration.

- It's a wooden pirate.

An icon in this community, nonetheless.

You're almost old enough, given

your record, to be tried as an adult.

You have two strikes against you.

A third, and there will be--

Mrs. Stokes has assured us she'll

maintain control of the situation.

We'd be satisfied,

barring further incidents...

...with an order for counselling,

or possibly community service.

That's very generous of you.

So, young man,

what's it gonna be?

Loretta.

Well....

Look at you.

-Mama said you were still in Delrona.

-Haven't moved an inch.

I saw you on a TV commercial.

I told my kids I went to school with you,

but they didn't believe me.

-You got kids?

-Three of them.

They're getting big.

-It's the first you've been back since--

-I came back for the service...

...when my father passed.

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