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Above is the cover of my autobiography, 🙂

This is a review of this book by a customer on Amazon UK:

“I thought this was a very good book. It is about a Jamaican who went to the USA, when he was 12 years old.

The books is about his experience of low-self esteem, and feelings of inferiority; from being in a country where the majority of people were Caucasians.

It tells about him joining the Nation of Islam, under the leadership of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad, 5 years after leaving Jamaica. Then how he came to realise that what he was taught in the Nation of Islam; was not true Islam.

My wife also though it was a good book. However she said that the author should not have gone into so much intimate details, about his sexual encounters.”

Working for the Cleveland Press as a paperboy. My first paying job when I was 12 years old.

Big Mike Frato

When I was 13 yrs old, I worked one day for Mr Frato. I cleaned up the garage, emptied the garbage, mopped the floor etc. I even went out on one of the garbage collection trucks. Mr Frato came into the garage, and saw me working. He asked me how old I was. I told him that I was 13. Later he told the man who had hoped that I would get hired for that position; that I was too young to work there. I was not even paid for the day’s work. Years later, I was saddened when I heard that Danny Greene had killed him. I have never believed the story that Mr Frato tried to shoot Greene first.

Mr Clarence “Chico” Kilburn. Taught me how to be a house painter. My second paying job.

Mayor Carl Stokes the first African American mayor of a major American city

The relaxer I started putting in my hair when I was 13 years old. This stuff burns like hell.

Houlihan and Big Chuck

Big Chuck, Houlihan and Little John.

WIXY the AM radio station I listened to as a teenager. I later graduated to the FM station WMMS :).

The kind of phone I used to call WIXY, what seemed like a hundred times to enter the Psychedelic Painted, VolksWagen Beetle car contest. Which I miraculously won, at the final drawing. Although I didn’t know how to drive. It was my first of the four cars that I owned before I learned how to drive, ten years later.

Shaw High School, East Cleveland

Addison Junior High, Cleveland

Hodge Elementary School, Cleveland

Crispus Attucks Elementary School, Cleveland

Their poetry jolted my heart and mind to the core, when I was 15 years old.

Around the same time I started listening to The Stooges.

My love for the Stooges made me want to visit Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Picture of Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Part of the University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Digging simulated bomb crater in Ann Arbor. When this was tried on the main campus of the University of Michigan the riot police arrested the diggers.

One of the free rock concerts during the 1970s at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The White Panther Party Building and some of the members in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Elijah Muhammad , the man responsible for the most important change in my life, when I was a teenager.