A young, African American detective named Jet Hardman witnesses the shooting while working undercover, disguised as a janitor. They know Deems’s reputation and think it likely that Deems’s associates will likely kill Sportcoat for his actions.
Seemingly, the act is unprovoked, and everyone in the Causeway (or “the Cause)” thinks Sportcoat-who is also an alcoholic-may have gone crazy. And it's just my nature to look to the good side of things.In the Causeway Projects, an impoverished section of late-1960s Brooklyn, Sportcoat, an elderly deacon, shoots Deems Clemens, a young man and vicious drug dealer. fortunate enough to walk away, not arrested. And it puts them as people and us as a public in a bad place.
I think the narrative that dehumanizes policemen is dangerous. On why he chose to depict the white police officer in Deacon King Kong as a good man When you do that, they become cell phone users and computer users their entire life without any bit of creativity. I mean, that's just like robbing children of their futures. I watch what happens in these schools, especially when they take the arts away, take music and art away. Many of the teachers I had, white teachers and black ones, were excellent teachers. I think public school teachers are excellent. I believe in public school and public school education. We had a piano and we various instruments, and so we play together, and music had a big influence in my family development. And so that factors into everything - food and clothing and who your allies are. You become self-sufficient very quickly and you learn how to be the center of attention if you need to be, because you know that if you're not, then someone else is. You learn to take care of the little bit that you have, your little shoes. So you better do good." She didn't want to hear that if you came home from school with bad grades, she did want to hear about the black or white thing. So there wasn't any time to discuss these. See, we were poor, and when you're poor, it's always about the next meal, the next pair of shoes.
Probably because it was uncomfortable and probably because she didn't feel it was necessary. It wasn't something that she liked to deal with. On being confused as a young child that his mother was white, and trying to ask about it Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Deacon King Kong Author James McBride
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