:23:05
It is pretty.
:23:06
If you want to help save it, we're
protesting at the groundbreaking.
:23:12
-I'm just visiting.
-They won't know the difference.
:23:16
So this is like an ecological thing?
:23:20
We're trying to save
an endangered species.
:23:25
Us.
:23:27
I heard about this place
when I was a kid.
:23:30
Forties, fifties...
:23:34
...Lincoln Beach was it.
:23:37
Only oceanfront in three counties
we were allowed to step onto.
:23:43
Black folks, I'm talking about
the pillars of the community...
:23:48
...got together and bought this land,
built the houses.
:23:52
You'd drive through a couple hundred
miles of redneck sheriffs...
:23:56
...park your ride on the boardwalk,
step out and just breathe.
:24:01
Over there was Henry's Lounge.
That place used to jump.
:24:06
-So, what happened?
-Civil rights happened. Progress.
:24:11
Used to be you were black,
you'd buy black.
:24:14
Jim Crow days, you needed a shoeshine,
wanted a taxi to the train station...
:24:21
...you wanted some ribs,
a fish sandwich...
:24:24
...chances are a black man
owned the place you got it in.
:24:28
Now, the drive-thrus serve anybody.
:24:32
But who owns them?
:24:34
Not us.
:24:38
All our people do is wear paper hats
and dip out them fries.
:24:42
Only thing we got left are
funeral parlours and barbershops.
:24:48
But now we can do anything.
:24:54
Them that can get over do fine.