Was the victim deliberately trying to sabotage his release, or was Green Eyes’ sabotaging himself?
I wouldn’t call Green Eyes my friend – and I think understanding that is the beginning of understanding his attacking the other guy. Prison is a world ruled by violence and impulse. Some things are calculated, but some things just happen. I doubt the guy consciously thought, “I’m going to sabotage Green Eyes’ release.” He likely thought that Green Eyes wouldn’t do anything because he was so near release – the issue though, is that Green Eyes was in a world where it was possible to settle a dispute with the sharpened end of an icepick and nothing but tragedy can follow that. You were in prison and wrote much of this memoir before Barack Obama became President of the United States. How, if at all, do you think his election will affect the lives of young black men in this country? This past presidential election was historic – and I recognize that for the first time in history black fathers like myself can tell their sons that they can be president of the United States and believe it. Yet
