Wayne Swanson

And he's, if you ever heard of the Fort Pillow Massacre, he's responsible for that.

So I get appointed and I don't have a lease for this particular property.

And we then realized that they had been basically grifting, just getting money off of this place.

No occupational tax, a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And so I go in to negotiate with them and we're having conversations and things were going very smooth.

And then a politician went and told them to take some flags down that set them off.

And they realized that this was like, you know, like something's dying.

This is our last gasp.

So they went out and it got to a point that it was a lot of guns involved and other conversations.

And they threatened to kill the commissioner.

They threatened to kill me.

We had cops at our house for a little while, but it sent me into both to study them.

I'm a bit of a.

a civil war historian now because I need the way my mind works.

I need to know who you are.

Right.

And why you think that the way you think and why you think is OK to just take.

So I studied that and it was it was bad for a while.

My business pretty much at that time, my business was 80, 90 percent white folks and they stopped dealing with us.

And I'm not saying they stopped dealing with us because they're white and I'm black.