2025-11-23
50 分钟It isn't easy to be an idealist.
It isn't easy either, being the child of an idealist.
In 1941, a white preacher bought an abandoned farm in Georgia.
He founded a community where black people and white people could live,
work and worship together, including his own young family.
But this was the South, and those were the years of the Klan.
Sometimes they came for the black families.
They would hold meetings and burn across and then decide where they were going to go.
And sometimes to the preacher's own home.
And then they burned them here in front of our houses.
Lenny, the preacher's son, remembers it as a time of violence, isolation and uncertainty.
Decades on, he holds true to his father's vision of a better world,
even as he still nurses the scars.
I'm Rosie Bloor and today on The Weeknd Intelligence,
Rebecca Jackson tells the story of a father who refused to give in and his son who lived with the consequences.
It's a tale both sad and inspiring of what it takes to believe and what happens when those in a position of power stand up for those who have none.
This is Lenny's story, but it tells a far bigger tale.
I've followed Lenny Jordan, my neighbor,
to the place where he grew up in southern Georgia, about three hours from Atlanta.
In fact, where that building was used to be the KFC.