Hard White. Shannon Holmes

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      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Acknowledgements

       prologue

       Chapter One - My Projects

       Chapter Two - Everyday Struggle

       Chapter Three - No Place Like Home

       Chapter Four - A Drug Dealer’s Dream

       Chapter Five - True 2 Da Game

       Chapter Six - Love Me Or Leave Me

       Chapter Seven - Who Shot Ya?

       Chapter Eight - What’s Beef?

       Chapter Nine - Gettin’a Rep

       Chapter Ten - Armed and Dangerous

       Chapter Eleven - Real Niggas Do Real Things

       Chapter Twelve - A Gangster’s Gambit

       Chapter Thirteen - Love’s Blind

       Chapter Fourteen - Geting a Rep…

       Chapter Fifteen - To The Victor, The Spoils

       Chapter Sixteen - Dealing with haters…

       Chapter Seventeen - Risking It All… Blowin’ The Spot

       Chapter Eighteen - Can’t Stop It

       Chapter Nineteen - Living Lavish

       Chapter Twenty - Messin’ With The Devil

       Chapter Twenty One - Living It

       Chapter Twenty Two - Gotcha Open

       Chapter Twenty-Three - Been About Money

       Chapter Twenty-Four - The One I Trusted

       Chapter Twenty-Five - Mo Money Mo…

       Chapter Twenty Six - Dead Right

       Chapter Twenty-Seven - My Love Is Strong

       Chapter Twenty-Eight - Get Up… Stand up

       Chapter Twenty-Nine - World’s Getting Darker

       Chapter Thirty - The Past… The Present… The Future...

       HARDWHITE

       Copyright Page

      No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. -Homer, Iliad, VI

      Acknowledgements

      REST IN PEACE

      Mrs. Diane Lewis

      Jeanne Lee Moultrie

      Stanley Rice AKA Stan Strong

      Gloria Jean Harrison

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      P.O. Box 690066 Bronx, New York 10469

      I would like to thank Gerard Emptage AKA Shakim, and Angelo Barretto.

      To all the readers, thank you for supporting, and keep on reading. Special thanks to Augustus Manuscript Team, Shannon Holmes, Jason Claiborne, Jasmine Clemente, Tamiko Maldonado, Juliet White, and Anthony Whyte.

       Shannon Holmes wishes to thank the Cast & Crew of Hard White for all your help in making my dream come true.

      Roberta James

      Freida Hickson

      Richard Samalot/ RTS Films

      Filmmaking Shaun

      Luwana Arthur

      Brandon Munroe

      Keenan Perkins

      Damion Omar Lee

      Charles Murray

      Craig Jihad Scott

      Ian J. Findlay

      Shana A. Solomon

      Miriam Morales

      Edgar Ribon

      Kim Knotts

      Torre’ Reigns

      Carlos Hendricks

      Nikko Nin

      Nickalette Nin

      Rich Rivera Julie

      Nelson Nin

      Floyd Cromwell

       prologue

      In New York City’s most northern borough of the Bronx, lies the second biggest Housing project in the city, the infamous Edenwald Houses. Its brownish-red brick buildings stand out ominously like an eyesore against the urban landscape. The enormous project buildings can be seen from near and far. Just like its