Acts 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? THE SHARK HUNTER Half a subway car ahead and a world between us, wearing the coolest shades I have seen this summer, he sat with shards of subway lights dancing across his chocolate, shiny, bald skull. He was a cool and slender charismatic man. We were about the same age. I jumped into his head to read his map and see the hardships of a black man’s journey in a white man’s universe. I felt my white sensitivity bloom and release a confusing virgin stink. I saw drugs and guns and prostitutes and death and cops and sirens and hunger and the KKK and the lead bullet screaming through the Memphis sky to find the head of MLK and the beating ballet of Rodney King and the reflection of his killer’s face in Trevon Martin’s lifeless eyes and welfare and projects and hooded teens on tv news and riots and fire and racial genocide — and the notorious, despicable, unspeakable N word. My great white guilt had breached the sea and spewed hypocrisy. For I saw my filth – my dirty white presumptions, my vile white superiority — this is not me! But somehow, it is indeed. I felt ill seeing these sharks swimming in my head. He could be a poet, a painter, a doctor, a teacher, a baker, a clerk, a nurse, a scholar. He could come from a middle class family. He could be a father just as I am. I saw his cool black shades pointed my way. Was he in my head reading my road maps, too? Does he see my ugly sharks? Later on, sitting by a window in the company of my shame I could see him standing in my head with a spear in hand slaying sharks to clear my ugly white roads. I knew that the man with the coolest shades I have seen all summer had liberated me from feeding sharks forever. Smiling, I knew that God puts these roads in our path, not always to find detours around them, but sometimes, to pose the question, “why?” And then to spear the answers dead. ~ Copyright is solely held by the author: © J. Alan Vokey, 2016.
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