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And for about ten seconds, that old woman snapped out of her dementia and looked right into the camera that the neighbor had there and said, You think you own something, you don't own nothing. | |
Just like that. | |
It's powerful. | |
That encapsulated the entire situation to me. | |
It was like this. | |
For a hundred some odd years, the families worked the same old fields, raised their kids and grandkids right there on that land. | |
saw the storms flood their ground, watched the crops die and the drown, stared the Great Depression down and never ran. | |
There's the evidence right there, on top of the first hand accounts I'm getting from all these people. | |
I decided I've got an iPhone and a selfie stick. | |
So I started interviewing people, kind of like what you would do, almost investigative journalist style, and started posting them on my ex account at John Rich. | |
You don't own anything when the government man comes around, puts his dirty old boots on the ground, laughs at your protest with a gun and a bulletproof vest. |