Romeo & Julian - A Story of Love & Hate

by Aswad *

Overview

What would happen if you were a Black boy, bussed to a white school because of Brown V. Board of Ed, and you fell in love with a white boy? This is that story. Romeo & Julian - A Story of Love & Hate tells the story of Romeo Jennings. Blond, green eyed, most popular guy in school. And Julian Long, an innocent and loving artistic basketball player who just wants to be loved. Will their love triumph over all the hate that surrounds them? Or will it all go up in flames? Romeo & Juliet like you've never seen it before!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940033010608
Publisher:	Aswad *
Publication date:	01/20/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	100 KB

About the Author

I've seen a lot. Too much.
How we treat each other as human beings seems to have fallen by the wayside as we gaze into our individual screens as we walk down the street.

It seems more important to film somebody bleeding on the ground, than to help somebody bleeding on the ground.

We are a society that puts locks on trash cans filled with food, and fines the unemployed and homeless for being unemployed and homeless.

We attack and legislate against people who don't love, eat, dress or even sleep the same as we do.

These are the types of stories I like to tell. These are the stories I think need to be told.

I was gainfully employed until March 2009. I was the hardest working Temp in Portland, Or. from 2005 to 2009.

Then I got "the call". Don't come back. No longer needed. Not going permanent.

I spent all of the rest of the year and most of the next sending out resumes and going to the three interviews I got from them. No job.

Then I go "the call" from the Unemployment Office. We can' renew you, you've been unemployed more than 99 weeks.

After loosing my apartment, 95 % of everything I owned, 100% of my savings and my cat of 13 years (the only thing that mattered) I entered into a miasma of couch surfing and demeaning welfare appointments in Los Angeles.

I asked myself; "Is this it? Is this what I worked all this time for?" I came in early, stayed late, wore a shirt and tie and my pants were pulled up! Why don't I have a job?

I decided I wasn't taking this lying down. I'd written three ebooks, I could write more. I started an Internet Radio Show for the Unemployed; The New 99er on Blog Talk Radio.

I will have a home again. I will have what I've always wanted. And what I've always wanted can't be outsourced. I don't do lazy.