The Sacred Place by Daniel Black6/10/2023 ![]() At twelve, she knew never to be found alone with white folk because her grandmother’s threat to whip her good was not to be taken lightly. ![]() Sarah Jane’s tears were more than her mouth could speak. That’s what white folks did when they wanted something why should he be afraid to do the same?”Clement!” the others screamed more vehemently as he approached the old wooden screen door. All he wanted was a soda pop, and he didn’t understand why he couldn’t simply waltz into the General Store and get one. Of course a whoopin’ would hurt, he considered, but the pain was always temporal. “you ain’t got no business in dat store! Granddaddy kill you if he find out you went in there all by yo’self!”Clement smiled at the thought of his own defiance, trying to imagine what eighty-year-old Jeremiah Johnson could possibly do to him, with one bad leg and two failing eyes. ![]() Chapter OneCome on, clement!” his cousins demanded. ![]()
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