Where are those kids, Albert and Shina where are you both, don't tell me you're on the streets doing goddamn freestyles with those white rascals! Mom's voice sounds like thunder striking with the east wind, she's not terrible but she's always protective of us when it comes to the whites and their lives, Albert! no mom call me Afro king, Afro what! Mom echoed with almost extreme disgust, but a smile managed to break out of her face when she actually saw dad coming, where is shina your brother she said that letting the curtains fall from the window like she's hiding from some kind of thing I can't tell, well he's in his bedroom I replied, both of you are in big trouble for breaking my rules, did I say imma get you a new guitar no that's never gonna happen as long as you keep on breaking my rules,
dad in the living room would soon be having his meal with the only woman he calls his China doll, dad works at Amazon earns not as much as expected, since he was related as a black migrant from a hated and fraud filled country Nigeria, he said his fellow white workers referred to him as a nigger we all thought that N word had lost its meaning but to my dads explanation its meaning still exists, how far my boys he sent a greeting in a local Nigerian manner, we deh oh boss man we replied not rhymatically but its the usual way of relying dad's greetings, Afro king Albert dad called me playfully, don't say that to him my son is afro and a king but doesn't have that as nickname (Afro king), stop it laide (he's the only one I think calls my mom by her name) my boy is the afro king, he came here to rule, this is not his father's land you know that for sure, we're only keeping our heads low and you know we are not done with our papers, we're one leg in and another leg out of the country! as mom said all those I immediately thought in my mind that dad as a soft hearted man and a man who respect's his wife that he's gonna listen to her, to my surprise he just smiled and said let he be what he wants to be, shina take the plates off the table.
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