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Glenn and me go back a long way and he was a farmhand when I was coming up. We are probably 20yrs difference in age(back then records for negros werent usually kept). He was born at home and still lives in the same house. Yes he has a house. While 90% of my help resides in the trailerpark I manage on the west side of the property toward Common Creek, Glenn stays in a freestanding cabin built before the Late Great Unpleasantness. It was his great grandfathers place and has been lived in by his kinfolk since 1876. His is the only half acre on the Wiseman land that is not deeded to me. He owns it outright and for good reason.
Glenn saved my fathers life in 1952. They served together in the Marine Corps during Korea(my father had him enlisted). Being a field ready farmboy, Glenn excelled at the Marine lifestyle and killed many yellow heathens for Jesus including the one that bayoneted my father during a skirmish. During the scuffle as Glenn fought off the Korean Satanist and somehow my father Ka-Barred Glenn on accident leaving the facial scar you can still see to this day. My fathers fifth Purple Heart and the first of many for Glenn as the two of them cut a swath of yellow blood through Korea wide enough to drive though.
From that day forward my father always saw to it that Glenn never wanted for much. It was his way of honoring a blood debt and thats admirable enough. However this debt is not mine to pay. Granted the old guy is a first rate driver and foreman, and since hes been on this property his whole life, except when he went to Korea to kill slants and one visit to the capital, Glenn is the perfect boy for the job of lead foreman. Even over less qualified white men. I am growing uneasy with his placated lifestyle. I am wondering if he feels that he has some sort of privileged agreement with my deceased father that somehow grants him immunity from responsibility when he is off the clock. I loaned the man $50 about a week ago and he has yet to pay me back.
His yard is immaculate. Like a church foyer on Easter. No trash, no junk. He has a small garden that he keeps up and seems fruitful. His house is decorated modestly and he doesn't own a lot of things plus it doesnt smell like black people live in it which is nice when visiting. He always shows up on Sunday to wave at me as I go to Church, then he heads to his peoples church up the road. I would trust him in my home alone. I dont know what to do. Just forgive his debt even as he hold me to my fathers?
Glenn saved my fathers life in 1952. They served together in the Marine Corps during Korea(my father had him enlisted). Being a field ready farmboy, Glenn excelled at the Marine lifestyle and killed many yellow heathens for Jesus including the one that bayoneted my father during a skirmish. During the scuffle as Glenn fought off the Korean Satanist and somehow my father Ka-Barred Glenn on accident leaving the facial scar you can still see to this day. My fathers fifth Purple Heart and the first of many for Glenn as the two of them cut a swath of yellow blood through Korea wide enough to drive though.
From that day forward my father always saw to it that Glenn never wanted for much. It was his way of honoring a blood debt and thats admirable enough. However this debt is not mine to pay. Granted the old guy is a first rate driver and foreman, and since hes been on this property his whole life, except when he went to Korea to kill slants and one visit to the capital, Glenn is the perfect boy for the job of lead foreman. Even over less qualified white men. I am growing uneasy with his placated lifestyle. I am wondering if he feels that he has some sort of privileged agreement with my deceased father that somehow grants him immunity from responsibility when he is off the clock. I loaned the man $50 about a week ago and he has yet to pay me back.
His yard is immaculate. Like a church foyer on Easter. No trash, no junk. He has a small garden that he keeps up and seems fruitful. His house is decorated modestly and he doesn't own a lot of things plus it doesnt smell like black people live in it which is nice when visiting. He always shows up on Sunday to wave at me as I go to Church, then he heads to his peoples church up the road. I would trust him in my home alone. I dont know what to do. Just forgive his debt even as he hold me to my fathers?
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