East Atlanta

That was my clientele.

And in 1990, I had tragedy strike and I ended up going back to East Atlanta to help my community that permanently stayed there.

And after writing six books, I realized that there were limited beliefs.

So I would see a couple that would come in, husband and wife, Latinos.

But this was probably 2018.

And that, that particular part of Atlanta was called East Atlanta.

Super hot.

And we bought a rehab that was somebody started it, they didn't wanna finish it for whatever reason.

So it had this huge backyard, but it wasn't fenced.

But nobody ever told us that.

S- so and after three or four months of not selling, and so, and, and I would liter- I used to run meetups at the time, and I would be like, "Yeah, I'm the guy that owns the only house in East Atlanta that won't sell in a hot market." [laughs] Like, I'm, like, making fun of myself, um, because in the ba- in the back of my mind we're like, "WTF," right? "What is going on?" As soon as we put up w- then we finally real- we had somebody, uh, give us feedback.

"Well, you know, I'd like, you know, I'd love it if you had a fence so I could keep the dog back there." And then it just hit us.

"Lynched by some goddamn drunken crackers.

The Negroes out in East Atlanta are getting together, and we're going to get together too.

We're not going to take this lying down.

Those crackers might come out here any time." I could not follow his thinking, even after he reminded me that a relative, either an uncle or a cousin of the murdered boy, was on the college faculty.

Are you from Georgia? I'm from Georgia.

I grew up in East Atlanta, actually.

I grew up inside the perimeter, we like to say.

So the city of Atlanta is a little unique where only about half a million people live within the city limits, and then another five and a half million live outside the city limits.

So I grew up in a small neighborhood in East Atlanta called Candler Park, which actually had a huge influence

on my political career.

Well, tell me first about your family.

So, yeah, it was just an absolute great learning experience that did play in a few of my strengths.

I'm still kind of out on this.

And I would quote loosely an East Atlanta prophet named Raydrick Gucci Mane Davis, who said trades are like buses if you miss one the next 15 you can catch another one i feel like this is going to be a situation in which you maybe set out this potential deal and that we think is going to be a fire sale with the clippers but i do think that somebody that fits even better and i kind of align with andy and that he does make this team better i don't disagree but i think that there's somebody out there that can make this team Sorry, Max, more better.

Moving forward.

I think there's a team, there's a guy out there and he just hasn't become available yet.