The Price of Loyalty

by Stephany Danquah

"You ain't never seen a black judge before? I sure have, most of the judges I've ever been in front of was black. As far as I can tell, they sentence you based off your crime, not your color." He says, his face growing deathly pale. "Well, every judge I've ever been in front of was white. They don't have no sense of sympathy for us, they didn't consider us people in the early years and they don't now. The prison system is just modern slavery." "News flash, I'm in here right along with you. Look around, it ain't only black folk taking up space in these jails. You do the crime, you do the time whether you're black, white, orange, hell even if you're purple. Everything is not a race issue, you took a conversation about a school shooting and made it about that." "Because it is about that These mass murders are always at the hands of a white boy. Am I wrong?" "I don't agree with that." "Then how come there ain't never no school shootings in the hood?" A couple of other inmates agree, while Tony just shakes his head. Soon to be graduate Christopher Webb Jr, finds himself sitting in a jail cell days after getting accepted into Duke University. Confronted with the choice between his future, or being loyal and keeping his mouth shut, he finds himself changing and caught in the middle of a movement to unite all races in the county jail. Spending time in jail, he becomes aware of things that never mattered to him, and struggles to maintain his innocence. Having to choose between giving up his friend or keeping quiet and doing time causes him to spiral, and lose himself behind bars. Will he save himself before it's too late, or become another victim of the system?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1720817758
• ISBN13: 9781720817758
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"