God Save Texas Trailer
God Save Texas Trailer - official trailer HD
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 What is it about hometowns and the American consciousness?
00:05 Stories of people coming to grips with hidden truths about the town they grew up in?
00:10 [MUSIC]
00:12 Well, this is one of those stories.
00:15 [MUSIC]
00:17 I want to be a change agent. I want to document the history.
00:21 [MUSIC]
00:24 Coming home now, I want to understand it better.
00:27 Hey Rick, what are you doing in town, brother?
00:29 [MUSIC]
00:30 I often marvel at the heart of Texas, and this is what it looks like.
00:35 [MUSIC]
00:38 When I was a kid here in Huntsville, there were like 11 prisons. Now there's 100 and something.
00:42 What's going on?
00:43 It's about money. It's industry.
00:45 It seemed like the prison just had this gravitational inevitability to it.
00:49 Texas is about to kill an innocent man.
00:51 What I saw as an unfolding tragedy created a kind of panic in me.
00:56 [MUSIC]
00:59 Growing up in Houston, oil has always been synonymous with what it means to be a true Texan.
01:04 We have all of this money flowing into the area.
01:07 How has the black community been impacted living in the energy capital of the world?
01:11 There's been so many chemical fires.
01:13 It has not brought prosperity for all.
01:15 Killing communities.
01:17 Industry changes everything.
01:20 [MUSIC]
01:22 Growing up in El Paso, I felt like I lived between two worlds.
01:26 But now, they're trying to stop a natural flow of this place.
01:30 You close the border, it really strangles our ability to live with one another.
01:35 Both of our countries have really failed to put people at the center.
01:40 It's hard to be a Texan right now.
01:42 [MUSIC]
01:44 The more we talk about Texas, the more complicated it seems.
01:47 But there are things that are great.
01:50 That's one reason people come here.
01:53 You cannot write out our story.
01:56 We exist.
01:58 We are here.
02:00 [MUSIC]
02:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]