Roxbury Redemption Presentation
 

Hope, faith, and redemption are the hallmarks of this presentation. It is set in the 1960s. This was a time of the Civil Rights era. This time in history was replete with anger, rage, violence, and hope. American heroes were constantly being assassinated. President John F. Kennedy, his brother, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, and others were all murdered in about the span of a decade. Black churches were burned and blown up, and innocent children were killed. Black people were lynched, arrested, and tortured.
 

It was during this time that a twenty-one-year-old young man was honorably discharged from the Air Force and returned home to Boston from Michigan. To his dismay, he discovered that his parents had divorced and were now living apart.
 

This young man enrolled in Wentworth Institute to study Aeronautical & Space Engineering even though he had been told he was mentally retarded while in grade school. While on the city bus on his way to school to take final exams, he had a sudden feeling of dread that something was very wrong with his mother. Anxious and scared, he got off the bus and went directly to his mother’s house in the Boston neighborhood of Brookline Village. Racing up three flights of stairs to her apartment, he knocked on the door so loudly her neighbors came out of their apartments and told him that they had not seen his mother for the last few days.
 

The young man thanked them and rushed to her job on Newbury Street in the downtown area of Boston. The receptionist informed him that his mother hadn't visited the office in three days. She went on to say, “Your mother said she was hit by a car driven by a white male.”
 

Enraged, this young man, who had never been a juvenile delinquent, turned to a life of crime. For two years, he was a thief until he was arrested in Boston and sent to Walpole Maximum Security Prison. After his release from prison, he attended the Massachusetts School of Pharmacy, Roxbury Community College, the University of Massachusetts, and finally the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. With postgraduate work, he specialized in forensic evaluations.

He works as a Forensic Clinical Psychologist.
 

I am that man.