It is the predominantly black Morehouse College. After hearing Chalky’s son, Lester, give a wonderful piano recital of Clair de Lune, we learn that he’ll be attending college.
It is notable for its confused pervasiveness. Racial segregation is a necessary feature of any honest portrayal of the 1920s, and with the absence of any chance of resolution, it looks set to be a key theme of this season. The question though, is how good? Atlantic City isn’t that big, surely even he cannot sustain his all-things-to-all-men act forever, especially with tensions rocketing skywards. We already know how good he is at this sort of thing. As a means of showing us Nucky’s playing of every side, it feels a little heavy handed. We see him giving two speeches, one to a black congregation, the other to the KKK, to each vowing his support against the other.
He does, however, get to work immediately. “You know I’ll take care of it” he assures Chalky, but when even his brother Eli cannot help but pour disdain on the ‘uppity shine’, it may be beyond even his grasp to achieve it. Chalky means war, as do the KKK, and it will take all of Nucky’s skills at politicking to keep them from it. It seems they’re after a certain person who may have cut off the finger of one of their number.Ĭhalky manages to despatch them but only narrowly, and not without significant losses on his side. Within minutes, we’re in the middle of what passes for a drive-by shooting in the twenties, a flatbed truck with a crew of KKK and a machine gun.
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