The Unexpected Gift of Mr. Money Bags
a Kids from Bayview story
A Note from Jawanza: Although Cultural Humiliation is the first “Kids from Bayview” story that was written and shared on this platform, the second short story I wrote set in this same universe was first shared on a different platform (that I no longer use, so need to engage there, but that is where the piece lives) called Vocal! So, since this is not a NEW story, I wanted to promote you to check it out over Substack (where you SHOULD comment and share and engage).
These all take place in Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco, where monsters and magic are afoot and often pull energies through those systemically oppressed in society. The Unexpected Gift of Mr. Money Bags shifts into the standard 3rd person format, returns a few characters, and dives into a particular threat the young people in Bayview must face… Here are the first two paragraphs:
When Nana Jenkins gave Janice her little black book, Janice would have never guessed it with yield a spell that inadvertently granted her $20,000 from a shady, city official. Growing up in Bayview-Hunters Point gave Janice Jenkins a genuinely honest perspective on white people, particularly those from the liberal haven known as San Francisco – a city where people openly embraced diversity, while neglecting the Black community.
Janice could recount many racist indiscretions: the red tour bus getting lost in the Bayview and when her auntie tried to give them directions, they locked the doors; those tech-bros giving a lecture at her high school, who had personal security with them, and all wanna to snap some shots with the Bayview kids, but wouldn’t give anyone their business cards; the gentrifiers would lightly sprint through “the ghetto part” of their neighborhood towards their overpriced hipster coffee; the white warlocks who drew energy from the neighborhood via marginalization spells; and the city officials that maintained both a powerplant and shipyard in Bayview, diminishing the health of most of locals…
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