Memphis is such a unique and beautiful and horrific city all in one. Socially and politically it has an apartheid South Africa feel - majority black, policies decided by whites. A place where the site of the coldblooded assassination of the most visible American Civil Rights activist has been turned into a tourist industry. The Stax studio was forced into bankruptcy and bought for $1 by some local CACs, then turned into a museum that whitewashes so much of its history. And it's def true that Memphis is super duper gully and the day to day dangers are everpresent - like
@The_Sheff said, the hood is somehow always just a block or two away.
That said, the white people don't like going to Grizz games (and man, those are some black ass games culturally and attendance wise, I was hyped when I went), and there has been a movement to get the team to Nashville for a minute. Especially as Nashville increasingly becomes Atlanta for CACs. Very little doubt in my mind Steppin A. Fetch is doing some cracker's dirty work here... it's long overdue for someone to punch this roach-cricket in his cartoon c00n face.