Roy Wood Jr.

Just little stuff just to poke at you.

But it's a resilient place, man.

I think people come together.

That's why like even when you look at like when you look at the Carly Russell situation.

Back home with the young woman who faked her own kidnapping for God knows whatever reason.

I'm sure clearly some mental stress or whatever the hell.

She came out and said she lied.

Okay, fine.

But if you look back at those first two days of when it happened, that whole community came together and looked for her.

And I would pray that anybody is blessed enough to be from a city or a place as communal as Jefferson County, Alabama, where everybody came out, black, white, whatever, to literally just walk the way forest for a stranger.

Alabama is also that you make sure you say that when you start talking about all the policies and you start talking about all the laws and stuff that really we don't have that much control over because the way the districts are drawn.

So, you know, when you talk about the goodness of a place or whether or not a place is meaningful.

Well, we don't treat anybody from our community as if they're disposable, even if they might be lying.

And there's a nobility to that.

And I think that's something about Alabama that I think a lot of people get wrong because those are the stories that people don't see.

Those are the stories that don't get thrown up on the television, you know, as quickly.

Yeah.

I think that, you know, Birmingham has given me a lot of pride in my blackness.

It's given me a lot of pride in fighting for equality and what's right for me, what I've always tried to do with my comedy though, you know,

I'm not Dick Gregory.