fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
The teenage girl body slammed by former Deputy Sheriff Ben Fields at Spring Valley High School in Richland County, South Carolina recently lost her mother and is in foster care. In other words, she’s already in one institutional system and now, thanks to her trumped up, over-the-top arrest, she’s in another. Her foster mother has said…
CES. The Center for Enriched Studies. Los Angeles’s first magnet school, founded in 1977. I was there. And so was John Otterness. On the first day, after everyone arrived by bus from various far corners of the Los Angeles metropolis, we all assembled in a large auditorium. Time to meet the faculty of our new,…
“No one knows the answer to that one?” I had my hand up, waving the little green flag we’re supposed to use whenever we wanted to be called on. “No one?” I started wiggling it a little bit more. “Going once, going twice. . .” No one else waved their flags. Maybe she couldn’t see…
