I'm going to tell you a story about a good friend and his stories about the west/south sides of the city of Chicago. And it ain't pretty. This is part 1.
You've met my friend "LARRY" in previous posts with his quotes and insights but let me re-introduce him because he has a lot to say and I'm sure some of it has also been on your mind. Larry is not his real name and you'll realize why we use the alias as this column goes on.
Larry is black and has been my friend for over thirty years. He was born and raised in the slums of Chicago and fought his way to school every day and then again when he tried to make his way home. His mom ran a tight ship and Larry excelled academically before completing law school near the top of his class.
He worked for a short time as a state's attorney before going into private practice where he defended...... (his quote) "The dregs of Chicago ghettos. Every dead-ass nigger who would never think of working a straight job walked in my office on monday morning with pockets full of hundred dollar bills to hire me to defend their drug dealing, attempted murders, rapes and all sorts of theft charges. My name got around quickly because I was black and fought hard for my clients. I charged $500 to retain my services which was a lot of money in those days but they never blinked as they dropped the cash on my desk."
Larry worked as a defense attorney and "most of these ghetto rat niggers made me sick with their attitudes toward human life. Every sexual assault victim was a 'whore who was lookin' for it' every assault with a deadly weapon was 'he had it coming' and anything involving firearms was always 'he started it. it was just self-defense.' AND THEY NEVER TOLD ME THE TRUTH. NEVER. Even when I explained that what they tell me stays confidential, all they would do is deny, deny, deny."
Larry was sick of the clientele after just a year and over the Christmas holidays, thought he'd figured out a way to rid himself of the scum.....by raising his retainer to $3000.00 from the paltry sum of $500. "The first Monday of January I changed the fee, I told the first drug dealer about the change and he just shrugged his shoulders and reached into his other pocket and paid the fee. I met with 14 clients the first day and only one didn't have enough to hire me......but he showed up bright and early the next day with his three thousand.
"I made FORTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ONE DAY! I had never seen that much money in my life and by the end of the week, I had taken in $126,000 dollars in retainers. IN ONE WEEK. And the money just kept on coming week after week, month after month and I was lost in the vortex of buckets of cash and had to hire a full time accountant to keep track of everything. I grossed almost two million dollars the first year of new fees and I had conveniently forgotten my plan to get out but after five years of nothing but money, suddenly my world changed when a baggy assed gang banging nigger whom I had successfully defended against a rape charge threw the victim of that rape off a 5th story roof. "She had it coming."
Larry had a breakdown and left the law business, traveling for a year with his mom and visiting relatives living in other states and as his mind cleared, decided that he needed a place in government services to make the most of his background. He applied for and got a job working in and out of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago but this time, he was working for peanuts but he had a definite goal in mind. MORE LATER.
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