Paper Chasers by Mark Anthony

Author:Mark Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2013-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

I Don’t Know

I vaguely remember being wheeled into the trauma unit. I remember opening my eyes and seeing doctors all around me frantically trying to save me. I had all kinds of tubes and bags attached to me, and needles stuck into my veins. I was face down on some type of table or stretcher. I closed my eyes and just lay there.

The next thing I remember was waking up in a hospital room. I didn’t know what was going on. All I knew was that I was butt naked with a gown on, and I had bandages all over my body.

No more than ten minutes had passed since I woke up, and before I knew it, I had detectives asking me all kinds of questions.

“Leave me alone! What’s going on?” I recognized my mother and father, who were also in my room.

“Mom, what happened? What’s going on?”

“Mark, you were shot,” my mom explained. “Just relax.”

She then instructed my father to get the detectives away from me so that I could gather my thoughts. As my room began to clear out, I started to remember what had transpired. A gruesome picture popped into my head. It depicted Bunny and Xavier and the rest of them sprawled out dead on the floor.

“Mom, I wanna sleep.”

“OK, Mark. Just relax, close your eyes, and go to sleep. You’re OK. You’ll wake back up,” she promised.

During the next four days I had many visitors. Friends, relatives, and people that I didn’t even know had come by the hospital to see me. My room was covered with balloons, flowers, candy, and cards. On Sunday my room was filled to the brim with Fourth Crew members and associates, all of whom had managed to sneak past security guards and make their way up to my room. Fourth Crew members were the only ones who I was willing to tell what actually happened. In full detail I recanted all that had happened and why I thought it happened.

Fourth Crew went on to tell me that when they heard that we’d been shot, they bugged out. They couldn’t believe it. They told me that they didn’t find out about the killings until Saturday afternoon. My first guess was that they’d heard about it in the news. I shockingly listened as they told me that the killings were never reported in any of the newspapers, much less on the TV news.

“Word,” Latiefe said. “We found out from Xavier’s mom’s. She was flippin’ out! Yo, she was crying and screaming like she’d lost her mind. The cops that came to tell her the news couldn’t control her. She just kept kicking and screaming and yelling, ‘My baby! My baby! They killed my baby!’ ”

I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised to find out that such a tragic incident hadn’t appeared on the news. After all, who cared when blacks murdered each other? Even though it was a sextuplet execution style slaying, it still wasn’t worthy of making the news. To the world, black urban life wasn’t worth a dime! Why? Black, that’s why.

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