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• W4254713771 abstract "The Gatekeeper Theodore R. Johnson (bio) Judge Roberts peered over his careworn reading glasses and decided that the gangly black man standing in his courtroom didn’t deserve to be an American anymore. The Fourteenth Amendment be damned, Roberts was resolute to get this habitual criminal and blight on society out of the country. Of course, he recognized that Mr. Washington’s birth in a dilapidated shotgun house on the outskirts of a North Carolina mill town complicated things, but he was confident the good Lord had prepared him for this moment. The courtroom was completely silent, save for the sound of Roberts flipping the pages of Washington’s record and the disgust that his eyes gave voice to. The checkered tile floors were puddled with the cloudy water brought in underfoot from the spring rain falling lightly outside. The bright fluorescent lighting gave the court a clinical aura that belied the emotion that typically filled the room. There was a cool humidity that hung in the air and carried a slight hint of mildew. Judge Roberts arrived at this position from a relatively comfortable childhood on the other side of the tracks from where Washington grew up. His life was regimented and subject to his parents’ abiding belief in discipline and personal initiative. His father, a war veteran who worked in the only department store in the area, raised him with the same military ethic that changed his life. So no one in school had pants and shirts as starched and crisp as the junior Roberts, or hair as perfectly coiffed. And there was no such thing as a fellow student outworking him. As for his mother, she was the town’s foremost busybody as well as the church pianist. Her love for him was as deep as a saint’s, and her castigation as corporal as a nun’s. For as long as he could remember, he would see those black children from the opposite side of town with tattered clothes and foul mouths in school and wonder what sort of parents they must have. He pitied them for not having the benefit of structure. He despised them for being bereft of ambition. His father often remarked how much better their little town would be if those lazy colored folks just up and left. Roberts can’t remember ever not feeling the same. He always believed they could be saved, but if their parents didn’t care, he wasn’t sure why he should. Moreover, there was nothing he could do about it. That is, until now. Standing with a slight lean in sagging jeans, a bright purple shirt and matching purple tie, Mr. Washington stood in the courtroom irreverently and glared at the smug judge. He resented that a man who probably had every advantage growing up got to decide his fate. He gave a knowing smirk that the judge could’ve never survived a day in his life. He’d been through this drill before. These judges and their black robes, wood-paneled courtrooms, and self-satisfaction from behind the bench didn’t scare him anymore. He was just ready for this charade of justice to be over. Washington grew up the only child of a promiscuous mother who spent her days cleaning house for one of the town’s august residents and her nights providing fodder for the town’s gossip mill. He had no idea who his father was, though it was rumored that the most likely candidate was a convict who’d long been imprisoned for killing a man during a drunken brawl. He didn’t have much and was often on his own as a child. So he learned survival skills early on that served him well in taking advantage of citizens who adhered to the law. He was naturally smart, pensive, and a problem-solver of the highest order. He’d poke holes in the lessons from his teachers as an act of defiance. He’d embarrass [End Page 577] and intimidate the privileged kids with his fast-talking and gregarious personality. They may have better grades, but he had a better mind. But when he began using that mind to..." @default.
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