Beyond the Block Ep.1 - 6200 Bexar St.

00:00 Hold up. I'm gonna let y'all know where I'm from. Begin here in a part of South Dallas that unfortunately is no stranger to shootings. Police say the victims of mass shooting at a weekend party in South Dallas were not the intended targets. Ten people were shot in what police say was a shootout. The youngest victim, 15 years old. Another victim, an 18 year old, is in critical condition. Police say there were.

00:32 What can you tell the people about this neighborhood? I mean, shit, you get some good.

00:37 Size out this neighborhood, you can get some bad sides up out this neighborhood. It all depends on you, you know what I'm saying?

00:41 But the neighborhood ain't nothing, you know what I'm saying?

00:42 It's a bad neighborhood. Get out there and do what you gotta do to get what you gotta get. Welcome to my neighborhood number. Crackhead dope dealer. Prostitutes and pimps. Still gotta get the people to understand we is not violent, though.

01:02 Yeah, man, we not know.

01:03 If you would describe to someone who had never been to Dallas before, what would you say?

01:07 I put it to you like this.

01:09 It's the closest thing you can get.

01:10 To heaven without dying.

01:13 We're talking about Malcolm X Boulevard in Hatcher street and a convenience store called Little World where last night a woman was shot in the head. A man also shot in the side.

01:22 I'm playing the game on my phone. I just feel the walls.

01:28 He could hear the gunfire from his home blocks away. I was like, God, Lee, like, it's not even so much a frustration. It's just like sort of getting to.

01:36 The point of being overwhelmed.

01:37 It's just like, damn, man.

01:39 Another one. Hello is being recorded. Okay. How you doing, brother Nick?

01:59 I'm good. How are you?

02:01 I'm good. Okay, before we start the interview, you can describe Buntan to someone. How would you describe it to them?

02:12 I would describe Buntan as. It's a hood that's in South Dallas, is very family oriented. It's like. I would say it's like any other hood that's in America. It's like, you know, drugs, sex, violence and anything like that. But for me, I would say it's. It's home. It's a place of comfort. It's a place of. When I go there, I feel secure and I feel safe. It's always a fun time. So, yeah, that's what I would say.

02:44 Okay, so to start the interview, if you can state your name, your age, and what part of Dallas are you from and how long you've been there?

02:55 I am Broderinique knox. I am 23 years old. And I am from Dallas, Texas. I'm from the hood of Bunton, and I've been. I've never actually resided in Bunton, but I would say I'm over here almost 24 7.

03:14 Okay, what lessons have you learned living in South Dallas?

03:20 I would say the biggest lesson that I learned being from living in South Ellis is always be true to who you are. Like, anybody that has a name instead of this or like that's big or famous for something, it's always because of who they were. Like, they're doing what they always been doing or who they always destined to be. Like, everybody in South Ellis is themselves. It's like nobody that's from here, like, that's really from here is gonna remind you of somebody else. Because everybody is their own individual person. So that was the biggest lesson that I learned. Just be true to you. Be. Worry about yourself and just make sure you, like, don't lose focus of who you are, who you was.

04:04 Okay, if someone wanted to come and live in South Dallas, what advice would you give them?

04:13 Best advice I could give this, I would say just my. Mind your own business. Don't be trying to like, get into what everybody else doing or like, just try to like, get caught up in any like, hood beats or anything. You know, if you just. It's. It's not like it's. It's like any typical hood in America. Yes. But it's just not like overly crimed. Like, they happen every day. It's not like that. So if you was to move here and you just mind your business, do what you need to do, I feel like you will be okay. You will make new friends. You can make new friends minding your business. Just like, stay true to. Not stay true, but like, stay to yourself, stay to your family, do what you need to do, and stay out the way.

05:03 Okay. It's. Being in the area shaped your mindset? If so, how? I don't.

05:14 I really don't think it has for the simple. Well, it's like a yes and a no to that question. Yes, it has shaped my mindset because of everything that I have saw, like growing up. Like, the bad stuff I saw, the good stuff, stuff I saw that shaped my mindset to. For me to be like, okay, the stuff that I'm seeing people doing and the stuff that I'm seeing people saying, I don't want to do art. I don't want to say, change my mindset, like, oh, how to be better? But it has bettered me. So, like, no, it hasn't corrupt. Like it has changed my mindset, like in a bad way, but like in a good way, if that makes sense.

05:54 What is the most memorable moment you have being in South Dallas?

06:00 My most memorable moments will be going to school. I've met every school that I've been to has been in South Dallas. I was HSM Sister Elementary. I went to St. Anthony Academy for middle school and then I went to Lincoln for high school. So my best memories came from being in school. So it's so many. Any school memories like any school childhood memories, those are like my golden memories from being in South Dallas.

06:29 Okay, do you have a memorable moment in Bontan? Like is that a moment you carry with yourself every time you come home?

06:42 I say my most rememberable moment will probably would be with. It's real small, but it means so much to me. It's like I used to walk to school because I never walked to school before. So like when my Amy, when I used to go over my auntie house, I used to have to walk to school and walk home from school. And then it was just like, I don't know, it just made me feel good. Like I'm walking to school, I'm in my own hood. I'm walking to the school that's in my hood, from the hood. Like it's just that, that atmosphere and that feeling of me like being in my hood like that that's one of the one a big core memory that I always think about. They're like made me feel like that. It just made me feel good from being from state Ellis being able to walk from the house and then go to school.

07:30 Okay. Do you think South Dallas is dangerous?

07:39 Yes, I think it could be dangerous.

07:45 Okay, what do you love about South Dallas?

07:51 I would say I just. I love the people here. Like no matter who it is, it's somebody from saddest. They can put a smile on your face, they can make you laugh, they can just change the whole day. Whether it can be an educated student or one if it could be a baby kid, if it could be like a grandmother, somebody in the store one. I mean crackheads, it's just anybody. Like I just love being from somewhere like where you know that somebody can put a smile on your face, change your whole attitude.

08:23 Okay, so to close the interview, I wanted to just do a checkup on how are you doing in life or where you are in life today?

08:38 Okay. Right now I am a recent graduate of Alcorn State University. I have a degree in agriculture science with a concentration in pre veterinary science. So right now I'm working in an animal hospital in the emergency room, getting my hands on training, further my education by going to Dallas College and awaiting for my acceptance letter into vet school. Okay. Okay.

09:14 All right. Thank you for doing the interview. I'm gonna hang up and call you back on your regular phone, okay?

09:21 Okay.

09:22 All right.