ALPHA INTRODUCTION
It was a hot and miserable day on May 16, 1974. You could say a star was born. My mom was rushed to the hospital to deliver her last and final child. I was the smallest of the seven kids my mom had, and also one of the stubernest to come out. I could hear her coaching me to come out as she pushed with the encouragement of my father and the doctors. “This big headed as boy is gone kill me Richard,” she yelled in an angry but nice way. “He betta bring his ass out. I have to go to work!” my father shouted. My father was a hard working man he had to be, supporting seven kids, four of em that wasn’t his, but he was strong and plus he loved the shit out of my mother.
I grew up in down town Cincinnati one of the roughest parts of town and the most popular. As long as I could remember my mom was on welfare and she supported us the best way she could. She reminded me of a female lion the way she protected us and cared for us and she had different ways to get money too. I remember she used to have parties and fish fries just to raise money to take care of us.
My mother told me of a time it was just me and her in the house and everybody else was at school and she was cleaning up, and I was just running around getting into shit as she later told me. I was about 5 years old when I opened the door for some uninvited guests. All I could recall was a man yelling, “everybody get the fuck down, this is a robbery!” The other two men rushed pass me in attempt to get what ever they came for. “Who the fuck is that kickin my dam doe?” my mother yelled but met in the hallway by a masked man, she panicked. Knowing that our lives was on the line, she pushed the man to the floor and raced toward me and cradled me in her arms. “What ever you want take it and get the fuck out, and leave me and my baby alone!” she cried out in demand. “Shut the fuck up bitch you know what it is, where the fuck is the weed at?” he yelled in a way that only meant business. My mother motioned to the closet, and he began to search, and recovered an abundance of marijuana wrapped in a plastic beg. The man smiled in greed when he retrieved the rather large duffle bag out of the closet. He motioned to the rebels that had the fort under surveillance to head out. And just as he left he turned around with
