You had more blacks out there. As we looked at it, you had the guys from
Lincoln that came, so we felt like then that, hey, we got our protection
out here. You know, you had the people like um, Thurman Couch, Rudolph
Farrell, Charles Farrington, Larry, it was Henry Campbell, Henry McCray,
you had all those guys and more that was coming out there. And these
were like the big, which there was only like a year apart in our age,
but we just felt like we, uh—
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Well some of that had kind of gone away, because my ninth grade year at
Phillips I played basketball. So since I played basketball I kind of you
know had more friends, um, but I do recall going back a little bit, one
day at basketball practice, myself and there was two other guys, Jesse
Chavis and [unclear] , was on the JV
basketball team out there, and some of the guys said let's go to the
store, you know, and we were going to walk from Phillips down to the
bottom of the hill, where the Texaco service station is now. There used
to be a little store there, Brady's. So on the way down the street,
these guys kept whispering at each other, and um, kept, you know, Bob
Andrews was, well Billy Andrews and a guy named Bobby who was Coach
Carleton's son, who was a high school coach, and Jimmy Vann and all
those guys, you know, they kept whispering to each other, and I'm trying
to figure out, what are they, what's going on, didn't know. We get to
the store, and one of the guys says well Nate, let me have your money.
And I should have known, but you know, I had, some time, you know back
then some of us kind of got in a position where we kind of forgot you
know where we had come from and everything, and I think that at one
point in time I'm out there playing basketball with them, I'm a
basketball star, and what they do I can do. And on this particular day
thought that I could walk with them to the store and go into the store,
you know. And I couldn't go in.