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Clips from Atlanta - Three Slaps (S03E03)

"(crickets chirping)"
Atlanta
"(Porter Wagoner's "Midnight" plays faintly on a radio)"
Atlanta
"* I'm so lonely *"
Atlanta
"* So lonely at midnight for you *"
Atlanta
"* Midnight, oh, what a lonely time to weep... *"
Atlanta
"Hey, man, I think it's about time we haul it up out of here."
Atlanta
"Yeah, might be."
Atlanta
"Let me finish this first."
Atlanta
"* I should have been fast asleep... *"
Atlanta
"It's a nice night, though."
Atlanta
"It's quiet."
Atlanta
"A little too quiet."
Atlanta
"This place always gave me the heebie-jeebies, man."
Atlanta
"This water's so murky."
Atlanta
"It's shit water."
Atlanta
"I almost drowned in it once when I was like eight."
Atlanta
"Actually, right over there by the beach."
Atlanta
"My cousin had to drag me out."
Atlanta
"I don't know what it was, man."
Atlanta
"I just felt like I was being pulled."
Atlanta
"You probably was."
Atlanta
"By what?"
Atlanta
"There's a whole town underneath us."
Atlanta
"The hell out of here, man."
Atlanta
"That's what I'm saying."
Atlanta
"Shit water."
Atlanta
"This whole lake used to be a town."
Atlanta
"Houses, barns, roads."
Atlanta
"There's a whole raceway down there."
Atlanta
"State government built a dam and flooded the place."
Atlanta
"Anyone who didn't leave drowned."
Atlanta
"Town was Black, too."
Atlanta
"What?"
Atlanta
"Self-governed Black town."
Atlanta
"* Tomorrow is on its way... *"
Atlanta
"So, there are Black people under us right now?"
Atlanta
"Yeah. Why you think so many people die"
Atlanta
"around here every year?"
Atlanta
"(scoffs)"
Atlanta
"'Cause of drunk rednecks trying to fish at night."
Atlanta
"Like you."
Atlanta
"(both laugh)"
Atlanta
"* Midnight... *"
Atlanta
"No."
Atlanta
"(whispers): It's 'cause it's haunted."
Atlanta
"* I ought to know... *"
Atlanta
"You-you really think it's haunted?"
Atlanta
"Oh, yeah."
Atlanta
"Lot of souls down there."
Atlanta
"That's what pulled you under."
Atlanta
"Town full of Black folk."
Atlanta
"They were almost white."
Atlanta
"Get the hell out of here, man. What are you talking about?"
Atlanta
"They were almost white?"
Atlanta
"White's not a real thing, right?"
Atlanta
"There's no scientific basis for it."
Atlanta
"People just... become white."
Atlanta
"It's social."
Atlanta
"White is where you are."
Atlanta
"It's when you are."
Atlanta
"Armenians are white as hell till they ain't."
Atlanta
"Armenians?"
Atlanta
"When they dammed the Chattahoochee,"
Atlanta
"some refused to leave."
Atlanta
"They thought they were safe."
Atlanta
"They'd paid to be white."
Atlanta
"With enough blood and money, anyone can be white."
Atlanta
"It's always been that way."
Atlanta
"But the thing about being white is"
Atlanta
"it blinds you."
Atlanta
"It's easy to see the Black man as cursed"
Atlanta
"because you've separated yourself from him."
Atlanta
"But you don't know..."
Atlanta
"you're enslaved just like him."
Atlanta
"Cold whiteness."
Atlanta
"You're hypothermic."
Atlanta
"You lose logic."
Atlanta
"You see the blood..."
Atlanta
"...and you think someone else is bleeding."
Atlanta
"Everyone is screaming at you to turn the machine off,"
Atlanta
"but you can't hear them. (chuckles)"
Atlanta
"You can't even hear yourself saying,"
Atlanta
"- "We're cursed, too." - (music fades)"
Atlanta
"(hissing): We're cursed, too!"
Atlanta
"Oh, shit!"
Atlanta
"(gasps)"
Atlanta
"(quiet chatter)"
Atlanta
"MRS. CONNOR: I don't want to keep reminding you about this."
Atlanta
"- Oh, and one more thing before we go. - (boy laughs)"
Atlanta
"- (phone dings) - Listen up, everyone."
Atlanta
"I have a special announcement to make."
Atlanta
"In an effort to promote more Black history"
Atlanta
"in the curriculum, our school has partnered up"
Atlanta
"with the Atlanta Falcons and Domino's Pizza"
Atlanta
"for the Change Atlanta Initiative."
Atlanta
"So, next Thursday, we're all going on a field trip."
Atlanta
"We're all going to go watch a movie."
Atlanta
"The new Black Panther 2."
Atlanta
"- Let's go! - (excited chatter) - MRS. CONNOR: I know. Okay."
Atlanta
"I know. It's exciting..."
Atlanta
"- Oh. - MRS. CONNOR: Loquareeous."
Atlanta
"STUDENTS (chanting): Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Atlanta
"- Loquareeous, sit down! - Hey! Hey!"
Atlanta
"- Loquareeous! - (chanting continues)"
Atlanta
"Loquareeous, sit down right now!"
Atlanta
"(students chanting and pounding rhythmically)"
Atlanta
"Hey! Hey!"
Atlanta
"Loquareeous, sit down right now, young man!"
Atlanta
"PRINCIPAL MILLER: Hi, Mom."
Atlanta
"Please. Come in and have a seat."
Atlanta
"MOM: Mm-hmm."
Atlanta
"How's everyone doing today?"
Atlanta
"First of all,"
Atlanta
"I done already told y'all to stop calling me down here."
Atlanta
"Well, I really appreciate you coming down, Ms. Reid."
Atlanta
"And you're Loquareeous's grandfather, right?"
Atlanta
"Thank you both for coming."
Atlanta
"As you know, there was a disruption"
Atlanta
"- with Loquareeous... - Uh, let me jump in here."
Atlanta
"Sorry. Uh, I'm the guidance counselor, Mrs. Grier."
Atlanta
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