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Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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Anderson.
Say hello to our mayor, Mr. Tilman here.
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- How do you do, Anderson?
- Mr. Mayor. Mr. Barber.
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Well, this looks like the place to be.
Even for me.
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Yep. Nothin' like a barbershop
for jawin' your socks off.
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Where you from, Anderson?
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Thornton, Mississippi, sir.
Just a spit from Tennessee.
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Well, then you must know
how we all feel down here.
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We don't take to outsiders
tellin' us how to live our lives.
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And I'm here to tell ya,
our nigras were happy...
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...till those beatnik college kids
came down here stirrin' things up.
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Before that, there wasn't
anybody complainin'.
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Nobody dared.
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We got a real peaceful
community down here, Anderson.
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Course, they're just like any other folks,
I reckon, when you push 'em too far.
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The way I figure it,
it's like three sticks of old dynamite.
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You shake it up... and we're gonna
be scrapin' bodies off the street.
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I'm just here to investigate the missing
three kids, ask some questions.
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If this all boiled down to gravy...
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...there wouldn't be enough
to cover a chicken-fried steak.
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Them kids you're lookin' for? I'd bet you a
shiny new dime they're in Chicago now...
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...drinkin' a cold beer and havin' a laugh
about the commotion they stirred up here.
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Well, I sure hope so.
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You can tell your bosses people got
the wrong idea about the South.
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You know what I'm talkin' about.
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Everybody runnin' around ragged,
backwards and illiterate...
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...eatin' sowbelly and corn pone
three times a day.
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Simple fact is, Anderson,
we got two cultures down here.
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White culture and a colored culture.