A Black Man’s Burden

This narrative speaks of a young lady named Vicky, she complains about her idealistic brother Allen who teaches her the essentials of surviving in a bad neighborhood, as he advises “…When negotiations don’t work; learn to Box’ This dramatic message came into play many times during Vicky’s young life. Another wise idiom of relevancy was to… “Learn the Difference between a Wide Receiver and a Quarterback.” Her brother Allen believed such an analogy was also appropriate for survival as well. The other siblings were a part of this assimilated scenario in her brother’s imaginary army. He expected them to comply by obeying orders, cleaning, saluting, and addressing him with the proper military protocol. This epic later reveals interesting episodes in her life, Vicky meets and falls in love with an anatomical artist named Paul. The saga revolves around his traumatic experiences of being falsely accused of rape, then suffering the inevitable consequential imprisonment Observing a brief glimpse of past encounters of Paul’s life, which principally was the highlight of his happiness… However, after imprisonment he writes emotional, riveting, bold controversial letters which convey sentiments of struggle, love, and hate; what seemed at first, an attack on women, men, and society was his desire to expose man’s inhumanity to man…