Southside Tour. Saturday, June 13, 2009.
We had just eaten in happy oblivion at a Soul Food restaurant called B.J.’s Market when Arvis Averette arrived. The professor of economics at Columbia College was eager to go—ready to take us in the infamous Southside, a place we were all fascinated by and yet terrified of after years of hearing nothing more than stereotypes about it. After we had all piled in to the tan van, he lay out the rules. “I know you all think you all that and a bag of chips. Well, I don’t want no texting,” he said, looking back at us. “Otherwise, I put your lil’ happy ass out in the hood.”
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