By Terri Schlichenmeyer
When you’ve broken the law a time or two, the last person you want to see is a police officer. You’d want to stay far, far away from anyone with a badge, but then again…. you’re not Maverick Miles Nehemiah, and in the new book “The Confidence Chronicles” by Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey, you’ll see why Nehemiah spoke to a cop, and happily.
Adopted at birth and raised on a 500-acre Texas ranch, Maverick Miles Nehemiah was given a number of chores to teach him responsibility and he was held to generally higher standards otherwise, but he mostly “made sure that he was not in a situation… where [his father] or other adults had to tell him what to do.”
This gave Nehemiah time to think, and he was already thinking about easy money.
When he was a teen, his parents uprooted his life and moved the family to Atlanta, to “an enclave of some of the most prominent and influential Black people” around. Still, Nehemiah struggled for awhile to make friends and fit in. By the time he was old enough to join his high school’s ROTC, he’d settled in and grown into a fine young man with what Dorsey calls “CONfidence.”
Nehemiah could spot bull, and he knew it well.
Read Full Article HERE
Add Comment