Divine order
- This coming Sunday is Father’s day so I think it would be appropriate to introduce you to my father Mr. Willie McCullough. My dad was born Nov 22, 1922, in Birmingham Alabama. Yes, that’s my mother Mrs. Leola McCullough born Oct 23, 1923, Bessemer Alabama. Born 15 miles apart their paths never crossed until they met in New York. I am convinced I am convinced that it was a divine order so that I would be born in New York. I believed they loved each other in their own special way. My dad was a womanizer and my mom was all about going to church she didn’t drink he did, On some special occasion, mom and he would go out. A lot of times he went out. Mom stayed home. and dad would show up a week later. Usually early Sunday morning in enough time for church.
His name is “James”
It was at my grandmother’s house grandmother 2 ( My dad’s mom) the first time I say my dad get fighting man. My uncle Roy was drinking with a few of his buddies Roy was Gussie’s favorite she never said but even as a little child, I could sense the tension between my dad and his mother. ( I wasn’t in the top 50 of her Christmas card list either). My uncle Roy called he said ” Jimmy boy comes to see you uncle Roy” I was headed over to him when my dad put his arm out and looked at Uncle Roy and said ” His name is James, not Jimmy, Jim or boy I named him James” I didn’t move. Butch, Brenda, and I were told to go outside. Butch and Brenda are the children of the other women, and they were being raised by our “grandmother”. (It seemed like we were outside for hours but it was only like 10-15 minutes) my dad came outside and “Come on here boy we’re leaving” He gave Butch and Brenda a hug put money in their hands. I just waved good-bye was to keen on hugging them. When I got in the car my dad looked at me and don’t let any call you anything but “James, that is your name” I didn’t get why he was so adamant about me being called by my birth name. I was to find out years later. On the ride home I asked “Dad you called me boy and you told Uncle Roy not to do it. He looked at me and said, ” I am your father don’t ask my why”. Lesson: ‘Do as I say not as I do”
The “N” word
II had heard the “N” word before. I even used it, I knew it was a bad word and never heard it in the house. I had left my friend’s house. He lived in the back of Lawrence. Like 2 to 3 miles from home. I had taken this walk many times Upscale neighbor, every home had a housekeeper and a gardener. Picture Little Red Riding hood walking through the woods that was my walk home. A car was coming high speed I was going out of the way when I heard the ‘N” word. This time it was different it hit me in the gut. There was something about the way these men yelled the word I knew I had run and run fast. I made it home crying and out of breath. My mother asked “James what.s wrong, what happened” I told what happened. I can’t recall what she was doing, but what I do remember is being in her arms crying and she held me and let me cry. When I stopped crying she held my face in her hand and said ” I won’t take all the money in the world for my handsome James” I would hearsay that several more times. Then she goes ” your name is James if you answer to anything but James then that is who you are,I don’t want you going back over there, do I make myself clear,” I said yes, but I will still go and ask my friend’s dad for a ride home, or we counted up change to call a cab it only about $3.00. I learned not to give people permission to disrespect me.
Not in this house
My mother had a big heart and if she disliked a person she never let that person know, but she had a look that I knew. I brought a couple of “friends” home that one step in my house one time and one time only.. She would “James lye down with a dog you are going to wake up with fleas” I went to school with some wealthy kids some let you know that they had money and you didn’t. Well, this particular day I came home from school throw my books down (Mistake #1), and yelled ” I hate white people” .” What did you say” oh James thinking she would be on my side I said again up until that point my mom nor my dad had ever hit me. well, she did and it hurt “you will not bring that hatred in this house” “James all white people are not bad, and all Black people are not good, you can dislike a person, but you will not hate and live in this house” my thought was I can’t wait to get out of your house. No, I didn’t verbalize it at that time. I really thought that she would be on my side. She wasn’t ” James God made us all he knows what he is doing” ” Ma, they have everything all the money big houses” “No, James they don’t have everything They don’t have me as their mother”. Never understood how she would know what to say when to say, and how to say it. I would get one of her big hugs and for a moment I felt safe and secure
Take a moment experience a little Gospel House Music and Dance like David
I love this, the videos would not play would love to have heard them
Thank you I have to work on that but the name of the song is calling out you name. Listen to it and I guarantee you will be praising and dancing oh Tanaya the joy of dancing and praising God at the same time is a feeling you must experience.
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