Oh my goodness...wow...I am just blown away. What an idiot that uncle/rather/rapist is. My goodness to threaten his nephew/son with first calling in the loan that he made to his brother in law and then threaten the life of his sister. He has to be one of the most conniving dirty bastard that I have read about in awhile. I hope that he gets his comeuppance the idiot. Brenda1257 you did it again, another great read. Thanks
Reviewer: Divsionred Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 04:09 am
My God, how do you come up with these story lines.????? Amazing writing...horrible, horrible topic..I want this guy to finally pay for his abuse..
Reviewer: LadyeT Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 03:47 am
please put up photos!! I really ant to see Benjamin!!
Reviewer: Sabalimori Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 03:29 am
oh man. DAMN. I want Bennie to take that bastid down.
Reviewer: BellaChica Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 03:12 am
Damn. All I can say is damn. So sick and twisted
Reviewer: PeppermintChocoSwirl Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 02:53 am
I dont even know what to say. This mess just got real! I'm curious where this is going.
Reviewer: PetitteBelle Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 02:50 am
Poor Bennie...
Good story Brenda
Date: May 17 2013 02:41 am
I only got one thing to say MORE! Omg his uncle/ father is the devil. How is he going to reconcile this. I mean that's too much of a burden for a young man to take.
Reviewer: Acdromance Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 02:26 am
And the plot thickens! This chapter was so good.
Reviewer: Fantasque Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 02:18 am
Damn, I didn't see that coming. Raymond is a sick puppy and needs to be put under the jail where he should sodomized on a daily basis. That's what you karmic justice. Benjamin is strong and I hope that he tells his parents about his father/uncle. Brenda1257, you are the sugady!!! I can't to read how Bennie handles this situation. More please!!!
Reviewer: pmgayles Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 01:57 am
What omg so his uncle is really his father didnt' see that coming. No wonder why he was angry wow talk about family drama. Thank for the update.
Reviewer: wwefanforlife Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 01:55 am
Wow i don't know what to say but I think Benjamin needs to talked to her to get the answer he needs. Why wasn't his father thrown in jail?
Author's Response:
Being a drug addict who had made many mistakes, Bennie's grandmother chose to run instead.
Thanks for the review.
Reviewer: wwefanforlife Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 01:27 am
Wow Brenda1257, great start to the story. Jhad a feeling that Benjamin was black. I didn't see that he was conceived because his 12 year old mother was taped. How awful for her. I bet that pedophile is still molesting children because he is rich he has gotten away with it. Dick dog. I am looking forward to reading what happens next. How will his adoptive family feel about a biracial son? Thanks for a great story.
Reviewer: Divsionred Signed [Report This]Date: May 17 2013 12:07 am
Wow...please continue
Reviewer: Huavai Anonymous [Report This]Date: May 16 2013 11:44 am
I'm back just to say that Toii is a fabulous writer. I'm concerned that my too brief line re own experience w/skin color lowered the gravitas of her story and life experiences. There's a lot to learn from her. When I lived in DC back in the day, my roommates and I had a book club & we were honored to host her for one of our meetings. Way before she published The Black Notebook.
Reviewer: willieriley Signed [Report This]Date: May 16 2013 08:36 am
OMG! This is extraordinary! Racism in the states is based on skin color. Conclusions about whatever can only be made when you open up the box and learn about who you are. Ethnicity has little to do w/skin color. Toi Derricotte is a professor and sister who has written poetry and essays on this issue. Notably her collection titled "The Black Notebook" has a glossy white cover and the title is embossed on the paper. It doesn't appear in ink. She's a sister who looks white and was forced to pass as a child by her grandmother during her soujourns thru "white people only" dept stores.
Anyway I can't wait until the next chapter and see how he faces his fears and assumptions. & yes people still pass today.
My most fave episode of Law & Order details the case of a "white" man whose white wife (2nd marriage) gives birth to a black baby girl. The white wife from his 1st marriage kills white wife #2 b/c her decision to keep the black baby will out the real race of the 2 firstborn kids to their private school friends. It also comes out that wife #1 was so racist that he (dad) had to pay her to prevent her abandoning her ownkids.
So glad that I stopped to read chapter one.
Author's Response:
I missed that epi of Law and Order and I'm a fan. You'll have to tell me what season.
Bennie was just taken totally off guard. He doesn't know what to think and how to feel. Now he thinks that talking to his parents will help, alas it will only cause more confusion....
Reviewer: willieriley Signed [Report This]
Date: May 16 2013 08:31 am
Wow such a great start! Instantly hooked. I don't think I've ever heard a story like this before... very unique. What a great twist. That part that said he tanned well, I thought, how cool would it be if he were mixed?! Lol and sure enough.
There are so many angles you can take this story. He's journey into self-acceptance and forgiveness. Confronting his bio-father, that he looks just like.
A white guy that's actually black. Wow, imagine him being introduced to this whole other world. And is there is a romance I'm sure you'll make an awesome heroine of color that will give him a run for his money. He seems like a sweet sheltered guy who just got smacked with some cold hard truths of this world. I wonder how his perfect parents will react to this whole thing. Are they being truthful when they say they don't know anything? Things that make you go Hmm.
His biological mother seems to have come a long way from that young girl. I'm happy she seems wise, strong and loving. I can't wait to see who choose as a cast. Suggestion?? Wentworth Miller (swoon) is hella fine and mixed race. I know he's not blond but wanted to throw his name in there. Please update soon! Loving it so far. :)
-p2p-
Reviewer: partial2passion Signed [Report This]
Date: May 16 2013 05:02 am
thanks for the new story brenda! im curious to see where this one is going.
Reviewer: brownskingurl Signed [Report This]Date: May 16 2013 04:58 am
First I would like to say, GREAT START! I am I intrigued but the way the information is being laid out! Second I would like to say, I KNEW HIS REAL MOMMA WAS BLACK!!!!
Wow!!!
Reviewer: KittyOh48 Signed [Report This]Date: May 16 2013 04:48 am
Wow... so many things must run through your mind when something as tied up in your identity as race is called into question. Nice start.
Reviewer: Fantasque Signed [Report This]Date: May 16 2013 01:24 am
Wow you started off with a bang on this one! Very, very interesting. Look forward to more.
Reviewer: Cali2mt406 Signed [Report This]Date: May 16 2013 01:19 am
I love it and honestly I am neither surprised nor offended by his reaction to his real mother.I think he's hurt and maybe ashamed about the circumstances of his conception and not so mmuch the fact that his mother is black. Brenda, you tell your stories so well and I'm here for the long haul.
Author's Response:
Bennie was taken totally off guard. He was just shocked that he was black. Now he feels that he really doesn't know who he is which is unsettling to him. Also, yes he is disturbed by the circumstances of his conception. More is coming!
Reviewer: Cashmere Signed [Report This]Date: May 15 2013 09:14 pm
what a fantastic story...More please
Reviewer: Bredreaway Signed [Report This]Date: May 15 2013 09:03 pm
You always bring it, and this is no exception. Truthfully, I thought the mother could end up being black because of her name. The only problem I had with his reaction was him saying he wasn't racist, but his was uncomfortable around blacks...it sounds like latent racism to me. I guess he will get a chance to work on that now. Update immediately or sooner. I have so many question already that I know you will answer later....Will this be a story about Mom and son? Will he get a romance with a non-black woman? Does his bio father own Milner's Department store? So many question...
Author's Response:
Yes, there are a few surprises ahead. Yes, he will get to know his mom better and yes there will be a romance. Bennie has questions and I can tell you he won't like some of the answers. More is coming soon.
Reviewer: peachmartini Signed [Report This]Date: May 15 2013 09:01 pm
Uh..wow! So, yeah! I don't even like have the words for how good of a start that was. I am seriously already hooked by just the first chapter. Seriously cannot wait for an update!
Reviewer: diggity35 Signed [Report This]Date: May 15 2013 07:54 pm