How long does it take to change a person's destiny?
Sometimes, a moment is enough.
At least, that's how it was for Frank Lucas.
Frank Lucas was born in a small town in the southern United States in 1930. According to the normal trajectory, he should have gone to school in a black school like most black Americans, and if he did well in school, he would go to college. If he did not study well, he would find a manual job or join the army . In short, that would be his life.
However, everything changed when he was 6 years old.
That year, Lucas's cousin ran for mayor. He was not in an advantageous position at first, but unexpectedly he was elected.
For 6-year-old Lucas, this was a huge happy event. There was nothing more impressive than shouting in front of other children, "My brother is the mayor."
However, at that time, the United States had not yet experienced the "I Have a Dream" movement, racial discrimination was very serious, and the KKK was rampant. When Lucas' family was celebrating his cousin's success in the exam, a group of KKK members broke in, poured gasoline on his body in front of the whole family, and then set him on fire, burning him to death.
Afterwards, no one was held accountable and no one was punished.
This incident had a huge impact on little Lucas. He was originally a kind and honest child, but he turned into an avenger full of hatred and violence towards white people.
In the next ten years, Lucas Jr. either burned white people's mailboxes, stabbed white people's cars, and even set fire to police cars, so by the time he was 16, he had already become a well-known villain.
He was then spotted by Ellsworth Raymond Johnson, a gangster who also hated white people.
Johnson is no ordinary person. He was the ruler of New York's underworld from the 1930s to the 1960s. The American TV series "Godfather of Harlem" tells his story.
With Johnson's support, Lucas worked his way up from a driver to a middle-level manager.
