honea byrne

 So he gave in to the advice of his mother and father. 'When All Else Fails right? He sat at the table. Although it was only four square feet, his emotions made the table seem much longer. There always seems to be a lotta pain between where a person is and where he/she wants to be... ...and i really had no idea where i wanted to be. His father's top button of the shirt was unbuttoned, and the tie was removed, "I have been listening to you whine and complain for days now." He paused to let his mother take over, "Your father and I have reached out to your college professor Dr. Ore. Call her." "Yes son. It is time for you to get back on that horse. The ball is in your court." So a month later,  he found himself, "I found myself. Finding out who I really am." Then he was back remembering that day teaching: Hearing his student,  Jakel, do all that street talk in the hallway. Once he came inside of his classroom Jakel's tone changed, “How...

 He remembered being in a line to go into a room to take an aptitude test. He saw a teacher walk up to another teacher and pretend to whisper, "Not him." Therefor, he was taken out of the line. Then he heard his peers mocking him, "Sped kid. He's special."  Took him ten years to get his Bachelors degree in Special Education. He remembered, "So you were taught by Doctor Ore." "Yes Sir," he answered the principal. And that was enough to get him hired. One day he had kids copying multiplication tables on long papers. Just like he did in those sped classes.  "What are you doing? You should be reading them the school handbook!" His superviser seemingly ambushed him. HIs students began to laugh. His superviser told the students, "Shut UP!"  Then there was, "Okay so everybody," He had on his best thrift store bought suit. "Everybody stand up." And the two principals doing "their routine evaluation" l...

 "Look at Detroit . Look even in Jackson, Mississippi or the Mississippi Delta . Everything they touch turns bad. All across the Nation we moved on..." The boy continued, "Some of us were casts out of The White Land," he thought to himself. "You have to come to our side. There's a reason why 'white rhymes with right." He remembered the job interviews. He was a new college graduate . He remembered the repeated courses he had to take. Two of the instructors waited till after the second day of class, "We need to talk." He remembered how compassionate his teachers and job interview superiors tried to sound.  There must be some kind of book out there that had a step by step process of how to get rid of the "those who don't meet the standard." He remembered he argued with the instructor, "Who are you to say I can't," type of sentiment. The instructor then everso politely out other pre-test pretested papers from the ...

 Maybe he needed to be preached to, "They've ruined our economy..." He could imagine someone saying ,"Well you wanted to be black so much. Now you get your chance." In 1988, twenty years after The Civil Rights Movement, white upper middle, and upper white class neighborhoods around the US, parents were horrified that their children were listening to Gangsta Rap. Were the descendants, or the ancestors of the Watts California riots getting revenge?? Revenge demonstrated by white kids talking street talk to their parents after listening to Gangsta Rap?  He remembered an awkward ride to junior high school in his father's pristine black mercedes. His father had to think that he was going to save him, "Son, what is this cassette I found in your bedroom? Kool Moe Dee 'Rise and Shine'?"   He tried in vain for the next five minutes to explain to his father about Rap in two categories: positive rap and gangsta rap. And the destined to be prodigal son...

 He gets to the school parking lot about ten minutes before the bell rings.  "Something smells," Ms. Haggard says loudly as she raises her nose. That was her lead to a conversation with her click. He strolls passed the bathroom and saw her out of his peripheral pointing in his direction. Then he smells the weed. He sees the principal, a student, and one of the school's security guards come out of there. He turns around and quickly observes Haggard and her click. "Have a good day," Haggard says smiling. He turns back around and hears one of them say purposefully loud, "He always smells bad.  Once he is in the room he quickly places a worksheet on his student's desk. Then he stares at the finger by his middle finger salute, "my wedding finger." All along that while remembering that student who was cursing at him. He had the student go out of the room. Followed the student, then he slammed the door behind them so hard that it broke his finger. Ev...

 Anything and Any Measure to NOT be wrong:                                                                                               When he listened to his point of view, "They are taking over.." All along the while he thought about the room he taught in was being inside of a rectangle. Inside to escape the Outside-Is the purpose of Education. He had an argument with his girlfriend. Barely made his rent this month. She scorned, "You don't even do anything for me anymore." The day before that he was at the bus stop and telling at kids to get on the bus. They yelled back, "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" was the mild form of the expression. He returned home-and almost dosed off until he heard a gunshot fr...