I ain't your friend buddy chucky3/21/2024 ![]() Which I find curious in that reading many of the comments from yesterday's incident, some (not all) of the main folks talking the most harshly about Howard's “violent” response are among those who supported Kyle Rittenhouse's "self-defense" claim in Wisconsin, or those who call the violent January 6th MAGA Riots a "legitimate public discourse." While some others who are criticizing Howard may be more liberal in their politics, they, too, prefer docility and meekness from certain men (Coach Howard), while refusing to hold others to the same meekness (Coach Gard). Those lessons that my parents passed down from first hand Jim Crow experiences were not just facts for me to repeat on a test or at a quiz bowl tournament, but a blueprint for a lifetime of protecting myself, my family, or my friends from physical aggression from hostile males of any color, but especially racists. Now, could we have chosen passivity in the face of hostile aggression? Sure, we could have, but we didn't because at the end of the day, my dad grew up during the Jim Crow era when strong Black men like his own father, Robert Hobbs, and my sharecropping maternal grandfather and uncle, Charlie and Charlie Ed Williams, were forced by custom to be docile or meek even in the face of white male aggression. My Dad was 39 when his incident occurred I was 33. ![]() " Unhappy with dad's response, the white colonel then pushed dad off of the desk Dad got up off of the floor and in one swift swoop, executed a punch to the other colonel's face, breaking his nose and splitting his upper lip with a one hitter quitter-thus the ice on the hand.Īttorney Richard Alan (right), my father Charles (left), and me at my UF Law graduation in ‘98… While leaning on the edge of a desk in the secretarial area outside of the general's office, another LTC, who was white, walked by and said " you need to get off that damn desk and sit in a seat until you are summoned." Dad, a man who was far less talkative than I am, told his fellow colonel " and you need to mind your damned business. Colonel (LTC) at the time, had been waiting to brief a General at the MILPERSEN complex near Washington D.C. What I soon learned is that earlier that day, dad, an active duty Army Lt. My perspective on this goes way back to second grade when I got off the school bus one afternoon from Apple Grove Elementary School in Oxon Hill, Maryland and to my surprise, my father was already at home sitting in the kitchen next to my mother with his right hand in a big bowl of ice. Coach Howard looking stressed during yestedday’s post-game presser…
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