H.A. Scott, Sr.: Pull you over because of your tag, and I guess it was because of race too, because I doubt that they pulled Whites over. But here, if you had an out-of-state tag and you were Black, you just had to be careful. 

Stacey Scales: From your experiences back then, what do you think that historians should put focus on as far as the Jim Crow times? What do you think has been neglected based on your experiences? 

H.A. Scott, Sr.: I think if I was going to be a historian, what I would try to emphasize is this. Black people, and I won't speak of other minorities, but the same thing I guess would go true for them, have had a most difficult time during and since the development of this country. They have been oppressed. I guess they have been the last ones to be hired and the first ones to be fired. They have been deliberately manipulated to be kept out of the mainstream. They have not been able to accumulate any wealth or any technology, any building capacities. 

H.A. Scott, Sr.: So far as communities are concerned, the majority have successfully maintained the second-class citizen status for minorities. It would appear that this would make minorities mad enough not to ever be complacent, but to want to change the system. That would want to make them want to look at what has happened, and to assure that it will never happen again. To look at the direction that we are going now. Look at the predictions—yes? Are we back on? It seems like Blacks could take a look at the predictions that have been made about us, which says that by the year 2000, the Black male will either be incarcerated, 70% of the Black male will either be incarcerated, on dope, or dead. 

H.A. Scott, Sr.: From the way things are going, it seems like we are headed there, and Blacks are just complacent to the extent that we won't try to make changes. We won't try to head that off. We won't try to better ourselves. We won't try to be productive instead of consumers. We are making no headway in that direction. And if I was a historian, I would try to emphasize what we've gone through, what others have sacrificed, and how little we are doing now to live up to what others have done before us. We're just turning our backs on it and letting the clock start to go backwards. 

Stacey Scales: I really appreciate talking to you. I enjoy it a whole lot. Thank you. 

H.A. Scott, Sr.: All right.