Good White People

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In the Spring of 2001, the African-American community of Over-the-Rhine in downtown Cincinnati arose in protest after unarmed 19-year-old, Timothy Thomas, was killed by a white officer named Steven Roach. In the years following, in order to allure prospective residents, Over-the-Rhine was swept into a new narrative of safety and whiteness by the creation of an arts and brewery district for the creative class.

While it’s "dangerous and inconvenient" Black history is revitalized from existence, property values rise with presence of police, tax abatements, and zoning amendments to serve and protect those properties.

Filmed during the peak of Over-the-Rhine’s urban renewal, Good White People is a short film that follows the story of Reginald Stroud who runs a karate school and candy store in the storefronts beneath the apartment he and his family have called home for over 10 years.

When a developer purchases the building they rent, Reginald and his family are told they must vacate the building and are given only 45 days to find a new home and relocate their businesses while their neighborhood makes way for start-up incubators, yoga studios, and luxury condominiums.

Formerly a target of the policies created by the War On Drugs, Cincinnati’s inner-city is now the target of urban development corporations as its black population declines.

Good White People hopes to start a conversation about the use of coded terminology like urban renewal, revitalization, and urban renaissance, and explore how these words help to trivialize and disguise the commercial practice of white supremacy, neocolonialism, and the economic othering of low-income residents.

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documentary; doc; Means TV; social issues; sociss; Over-the-Rhine; Cincinnati; Timothy Thomas; Steven Roach; race; racism; urban renewal; gentrification; Timothy Thomas; Steve Roach; African-American; short; shod; short film; Reginald Stroud; neighborhood; urban development; racial inequality; community displacement; black history; "Good White People";

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Oh I got you now...

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You don\'t want it... You don\'t want it!

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A new development what is that?

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Oh they put something up their since then? I haven\'t seen any stores on that side yet.

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- They got a whole \'nother section now
- Oh wow, I remember when they were buidling it...

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- You sell two cent candy?

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- Two cent candy, I have that sir.
- What is that?

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- That is two cent candy... literally that\'s what it says \"two cent candy\".

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That\'s this here, the fruties, and down there by your knees

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are the chews and I have cherries and...
- All for two cents?

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Those are, yes.

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Thank you sir

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The ones to your left are $1.99, the
Rip it is 99.

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-I think I\'ll take one of these, I need some energy

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And I\'ll get me a beer tonight when I get off.

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-You\'ll wait til the evening hours?
-Yeah

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-Good seeing you today, thank you.
-I\'ll see you tomorrow.

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Thank you I appreciate it.

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Hello, my youngest daughter.

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How are you? I\'m good, how\'s my baby?

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Tell your sister if you talk to her before I do, and hopefully I talk to her today...

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...that we\'re moving next week

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No, I haven\'t found a store location yet, I\'m looking

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I don\'t want to go too many months without a store.

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Just like that learning how to be soft
too, everything is not always rigid.

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In... and out.

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Do not anticipate my command.

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Okay stop, if someone was trying to hurt
you in the streets you gonna say \"kiai\" like that...

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...like it doesn\'t really matter?
Hit it hard and kiai loud as well

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Thank you that\'s better... Get up here sir
like you have a purpose in life...

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Thank you! I like that kiai, that was better,
you could do a little bit better

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Thank you put your eyes on it, focus

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Give me your money! Oh see it\'s
supposed to work just like that.

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You know what it is! See just like that, that\'s
exactly how it works on the street

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Uh-huh... Pop! Like that, the whole thing

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Oh my goodness! No, that was it! That was it!

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-Again?
-You did great, no mam.

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Just want to inform you, those who have not been privy to this information already...

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...this is our last month at the school... our last month here.

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It\'s a part of that change, I call it the gentrification of downtown

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Buying up buildings and properties, turning them into condominiums

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I\'ve been here over 10 years and I don\'t have any control
because I don\'t own this property

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that doesn\'t mean that our training is going
to stop but since the school is here and

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the store is here and I live here I have
to move all three of those items in question.

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Alright, that was it.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah... Him.

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By powers vested in me sir, you have proven
yourself to be a very loyal student with

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all of the chicanery and that stuff... and
great performance in the tournament

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this past week I\'m proud to say you are now
third level.

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- Awh, yay!

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- You can cry, it\'s okay.
- Look at his face!

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Okay guys...

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- Miranda - Yes?
- Amanda said... Daddy\'s talking!

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Amanda said that after 9 tomorrow she can help you take some of the small stuff over

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With just you and her, any of the small boxes you can...

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What is that I see? Don\'t get him wet Larissa!

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(VO) I had a working relationship with the previous owner

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About a month and a half ago he walked in
this door and he reached over shook my

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hand and said we\'ve sold the property

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You come home one day and you open the
envelope up and it just says you have 45

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days, we\'re sorry, you know they started
out that way, we\'re sorry for the

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inconvenience and all this other stuff
and that\'s it.

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They want something different they want a certain look,
they don\'t want a mom-and-pop store

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they want to gut the building out and
they\'ve already started doing that and

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they have another plan and we\'re not in
that plan

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Come on out! You scared to come?

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-Are you recording?
-Yep!

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It\'s actually way lighter than I thought.

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Thank you dear, take care, kiss mama
for me.

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-I will, this is your last day tho?
-No, tomorrow\'s the last day.

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-Where you moving to though?

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-We\'re moving the home to Northside... yeah I used to live there on Fergus ten years ago.

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The house has been torn down since we moved.

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Handle that for me.

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-Why do you call him fat man?
-It\'s an old family nickname

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-Oh okay, cuz he sure ain\'t fat.

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-That\'s it for the first trip? You don\'t wanna get nothing else?

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-No cuz we\'re being too risky. That bag sitting on top needs to sit down behind that mattress.

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-How you doing?
-Sorry kung fu, how you doing?

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-I\'m alright, kung fu

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