After reading the story “Where is the Voice Coming From”, would you
say that history has been distorted by the Whites?
The story “Where is the
Voice Coming From”,. Isays to my woman, “ You can reach and turn it off. You do
n’t have to set and look at a black nigger face no longer than you want to, or
hear to what you do n’t want to hear. It’s still a free country.” The story
“Where is the Voice Coming From”,.
I reckon that’s how I give myself the idea. I
says, I could find right exactly where in Thermopylae that nigger’s living
that’s asking for equal time. And without a bit of trouble to me. The story
“Where is the Voice Coming From”,.
And I ai n’t saying it might not be because
that’s enough near to where I live. The story “Where is the Voice Coming From”,.
The other hand, there could be reasons
you might have yourself for knowing how to get there in the dark. It’s where
you all go for the thing you want when you want it the most. Ai n’t that right?
The story “Where is the Voice Coming From”,.
The Branch Bank sign tells you in lights, all
night long indeed, what time it's and how hot. When it was quarter to four, and
92, that was me going by in my family-in- law’s truck. He do n’t deliver
nothing at that hour of the morning.
So you leave Four Corners and head west on
NathanB. Forrest Road, past the Supernumerary & Salvage, not much beyond
the Kum Back Drive-In and Trailer Camp, not as far as where the signs starts
saying “ Live Bait,” “ Used Corridor,” “ Fireworks,” “ Peaches,” and “ Sister
Peebles Reader and Adviser.” Turn before you hit the megacity limits and duck
back towards theI.C. tracks. And his road’s been paved.
The story “Where is the
Voice Coming From”,. And there was his
light on, staying for me. In his garage, if you please. His auto’s gone. He’s
out planning still some other ways to do what we tell ’em they ca n’t. I
allowed I ’d beat him home. All I had to do was pick my tree and walk in close
behind it.
I did n’t come awaiting not to stay. But it
was so hot, all I did was stopgap and supplicate one or the other of us would
n’t melt before it was over.
I ’ve heard what you ’ve heard about Goat
Dykeman, in Mississippi. Sure, everybody knows about Goat Dykeman. Goat he got
word to the Governor’s Mansion he ’d go up yonder and shoot that nigger
Meredith clean out of academy, if he’s let out of the pen to do it. Old Ross
turned that over in his mind before saying him indeed, it stands to reason.
I ai n’t no Goat Dykeman, I ai n’t in no pen, and I ai n’t ask no Governor Barnett to give me one thing. Unless he wants to give me a stroke on the reverse for the trouble I took this morning. But he do n’t have to if he do n’t want to. I done what I done for my own pure-D satisfaction.
As soon as I heard bus, I knowed who was
coming. That was him and bound to be him. It was the right nigger heading in a
new white auto up his driveway towards his garage with the light shining, but
stopping before he got there, perhaps not to wake ’em. That was him. I knowed
it when he cut off the auto lights and put his bottom out and I knowed him
standing dark against the light. I knowed him also like I know me now. I knowed
him indeed by his still, harkening back.
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Noway seen him ahead, noway seen him since,
noway seen anything of his black face but his picture, noway seen his face
alive, any time at each, or anywheres, and did n’t want to, need to, noway hope
to see that face and noway will. As long as there was no question in my mind.
He'd to be the one. He stood right still and
awaited against the light, his reverse was fixed, fixed on me like a dominie’s
eyeballs when he’s yelling “ Are you saved?” He’s the bone.
I ’d formerly brought up my
rifle, I ’d formerly taken my sights. And I ’d formerly got him, because it was
too late also for him or me to turn by one hair.
Commodity darker than him, like the bodies of
a raspberry, spread on his reverse and pulled him down. He climbed over
formerly, like a man under bad claws, and like just blood could weigh a ton he
walked with it on his reverse to better light. Did n’t get no further than his
door. And fell to stay.
And it was n’t till the nanosecond before,
that the mockingbird had quit singing. He ’d been singing up my sassafras tree.
Either he was over beforehand, or he had n’t noway gone to bed, he was like me.
And the heckler he ’d stayed right with me, filling the air till come the
crack, till I turned loose of my cargo. I was like him. I was on top of the
world myself. For formerly.
The story “Where is the Voice Coming From”,.
I stood a nanosecond — just to see would
notoriety outside come out long enough to pick him up. And there she comes, the
woman. I misdoubt she ’d been to sleep. Because it sounded to me she ’d been in
The story “Where is the Voice Coming From”,. there keeping awake each on.
It was potent green where I
skint over the yard getting back. That nigger woman of his, she wanted nice
lawn! I go my woman would detest to pay her water bill. And for burning her
electricity. And there’s my family-in- law’s truck, still staying with the door
open.
“ Well, hear another good joke on you,” my
woman says next. “ Did n’t you hear the news? TheN. doubleA.C.P. is fixing to
shoot notoriety to Thermopylae. Why could n’t you awaited? You might could have
got you notoriety better. Hear and hear ’em say so.” The story “Where is the
Voice Coming From”,.
I says, “ It was scorching! It was scorching!”
I told her, “ It’s laying out on the ground in rank weeds, trying to cool off,
that’s what it’s doing now.”
And I told her, “ Because I ’m so tired of
ever’ thing in the world being just that hot to the touch! The keys to the truck,
the doorknob, the bedsheet, ever’ thing, it’s all like a cookstove lid. There
just ai n’t important going that’s worth holding onto it no more,” I says, “
when it’s a hundred and two in the shade by day and by night not too important
difference. I wish you ’d laid your cutlet to that gun.” The story “Where is
the Voice Coming From”,.