(Chapters coming soon)
-Synopsis- “It’s been said that the love of money is strong; but the strength of love itself is stronger.”- Savon Davis Caught between the allure of fast money and an undeniable urge to do the right thing, when Savon meets Lynn, he immediately gets attached to her and her two and four-year-old daughters; while his best friend Mike is offering him an easy way to make thousands of dollars in the streets. Despite her own past and life issues Lynn has, Savon is unable to deny what he is feeling… As his Uncle Pook repeatedly hits the nail on the head, highlighting his “maturity” while assuring Savon that its ok to embrace his feelings for Lynn, while encouraging him to leave the street life. But as life often holds the unforeseen, a blown job opportunity leads Savon on a road trip to Atlanta, where things go from bad to worse. Despite narrowly escaping one situation; Mike’s love for money and merciless greed of a friend cause a series of unfortunate circumstances ensue. Where Savon and Pook both jeopardize and lose the people they love and inherit more than they ever could have wanted.
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Free Savon Davis IUPG Innocent Until Proven Guilty
I was just kidnapped, beaten and thrown onto a ship with maybe a hundred other men, women and children from different tribes. Almost no one knows any other kidnapped victims. For about a week I've seen white men rape and murder random people before tossing them over the side of this ship before we arrived at this strange land. Immediately upon arrival, all of us are stripped naked and lined up with chains around our necks before a bunch of other white men who are screaming and pointing. After about five minutes or so, they begin grabbing certain people dragging them off to who k owns where. Then I see a man pointing at me. My heart drops. Whats going on I think. But all of this has been happening too fast and even the people who look like me don't speak as I do so no one knows anything. Out of nowhere, two men approach. My neck chain is pulled on and I'm being led away. When we get to where a row of horses and buggies are, the man from the ship accepts papers (money) from the other man and I'm told to climb into another cramped box with many other kidnapped victims. This time we're being pulled by horses. Hours later we arrive at a house on a large plot of land and led to these small huts full of more kidnapped people and thrown inside. After while I'm approached by a man who speaks my language and he explains that he's been here for a long time. The next morning I'm awakened to the sound of screaming, and find the white man mercilessly beating a slave with a rubber hose of some kind. I'm then told the slave wasn't working hard enough. For what seemed like months after that, I saw slaves being raped, beaten and even killed for little things. Everyday, master would tell us what would happen if we ever tried to escape and sometimes he would show us in case we didn't believe him. One time he picked my friend who'd worked hard everyday and never had to be told what to do. Master made all of us slaves watch as he tied up my friend and chopped him up with an ax. Turns out my friend was getting older and master had enough younger slaves to replace him. Ever so often other masters would come to the property and trade their slaves with our masters and always told us to never run away because we'd be killed. One day one o my other friends tried. He was gone for about a day until somebody seen him. When they brought him back it must've been near a hundred white people there to watch. After more than 10 men beat him they hung him in front of all of us. We were scared to even breathe wrong. It seemed like I stayed scared for the next year. Imagine if this was YOUR experience. I've heard many people say what they WOULD'VE done to master, WOULD'VE done to escape. Nonsense. We don't even see people being proactive TODAY. But imagine the horror these kidnap victims went through. In the south, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama etc... Not only did slaves truly fear master but this is not YOUR neighborhood. You don't know where the heck you are. You don't have cousins living a few miles away. You've been told EVERYONE not living on the plantation knows who you belong to so don't try anything. Not to mention the landscape is way different than what you're used to. Swamps are all over and Gators most likely had to be chased off of peoples property. Again, people not in a situation love saying what they'd do but even today, I'm not walking alone through some of those woods and swamps in Florida. Or no place for that matter. Now add in dogs searching, having no CLUE where you're going and probably not wearing shoes. We went through way more than people care to actually pay attention to. Today, its common to hear blacks dismiss slavery saying, "it ain't got nothing to do with me. Its over. We shouldn't worry about it no more". STUPID. Kanye West just said that blacks who were enslaved for 4 hundred years "was a CHOICE". WHAT?!?!?! Really? A choice is what he said. He's one of those ignorant ass dudes who ignored Roots and Amistad. Been rich and hanging w/rich people for so long he can't see/never saw the long term psychological effects of slavery. The guy who began his career on a conscious platform obviously doesn't know jack about Jim Crow/new Jim crow laws. But Kanye isn't alone. There are many Kanye's out there who don't care what we went through or continue to suffer because its not happening to them. So smart yet dumb as a rock. This is actually most rappers today. Some have the audacity to front like all is well because they have money, all while playing the role of a real life elmer fudd (an idiot w/a gun). We've never had equal employment of education opportunities. Yes, we've made progress, but women of color still are on average the lowest paid in all fields including Hollywood. As far as education all we hear about is lack of funding and budget cuts for inner city urban public schools. This is by design. Who cares who you vote for if they're not from our struggle. Power corrupts and money blinds people. Even if they began w/good intentions. So Kanye says slavery was a choice, huh? So is buying his shoes and music. #Boycottkanye |