Blind Man With a Pistol by Chester Himes

Author:Chester Himes [Himes, Chester]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Police Procedural, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Mystery & Detective, African American police, Police - New York (State) - New York, General, Johnson; Coffin Ed (Fictitious character), Harlem (New York; N.Y.), African American, Fiction, Jones; Grave Digger (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780394759982
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

12

They stood on tiptoe, strained their eyes.

"Let me look."

"Well, look then."

"What you see?"

That was the question. No one saw anything. Then, simultaneously, three distinct groups of marchers came into view.

One came up 125th Street from the east, on the north side of the street, marching west towards the Block. It was led by a vehicle the likes of which many had never seen, and as muddy as though it had come out of East River. A bare-legged black youth hugged the steering-wheel. They could see plainly that he was bare-legged for the vehicle didn't have any door. He, in turn, was being hugged by a bare-legged white youth sitting at his side. It was a brotherly hug, but coming from a white youth it looked suggestive. Whereas the black had looked plain bare-legged, the bare-legged white youth looked stark naked. Such is the way those two colors affect the eyes of the citizens of Harlem. In the South it's just the opposite.

Behind these brotherly youths sat a very handsome young man of sepia color with the strained expression of a man moving his bowels. With him sat a middle-aged white woman in a teen-age dress who looked similarly engaged, with the exception that she had constipation. They held a large banner upright between them which read:

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