The South of Black Forgiveness

By Dr. Donna Clovis

For Princeton’s Place has secrets of memories exposed through the current events and police records of a New York city story as its synchronicities emerge to fulfill this haunting tale. Remember, the darkest moment occurs when one must face alone, the self.


“Another story grabs headlines after a shooting at and bombing of a Harlem Pentecostal church leaves six parishioners dead and five wounded (although the number of injured would later rise to 26). Tanisha discusses the tragedy with her editor and fellow reporters, particularly the crumbled note found at the scene that says: “Please forgive me.” This makes the third crime in the same neighborhood with a similar note left behind;”
—Kirkus Reviews

“We must tell our stories.”
—Dr. Donna Clovis, Outstanding Book Award Winner 2019 for Quantum Leaps in Princeton’s Place.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982243487

Dr. Donna Clovis

Dr. Donna Clovis is an adjunct professor at Rider University with a doctorate from Columbia University.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-4347-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4349-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-4348-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020903397

Balboa Press rev. date: 02/20/2020

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Cages and Cuffs

2 Silent Killer

3 Lightning

4 The Color of Fear

5 Sunny Days

6 A Press Conference

7 Meeting

8 New York Business

9 Zuckerberg

10 Stoic Brownstones

11 Business Cards

12 The Hug

13 Subscriptions

14 Be Careful How you Hang your Decorations

15 Unmarked Cars

16 Brutality

17 Bowels of Inner Earth

18 Headline

19 To Study

20 Rights Without Responsibilities

21 Questions

22 The Language of Lynching and Supremacy

23 Playground

24 Another Oped

25 The Legacy and Life of an Elijah

26 Ride of Terror

27 Candlelight Vigil

28 The Amber Appeal after the Murder of a Witness

29 John Conyers

30 Making Baseball’s America Great Again

31 The Look of Drunken Blackface

32 The Sworn Secrecies of Blackface

33 Two Weeks Off

34 Free Swipe

35 Raid

36 Explosion

37 Aftermath

38 We Are Continuing to Investigate

39 Horrific Act

40 Newspaper Debriefing

41 Marcus

42 Dreaming While Black

43 A Murder

44 Funeral

45 Preaching to the Choir

46 American University

47 The Gunman

48 Trump Shoots Journalists in Fake Church Video Shown to Supporters

49 A Crazy Video

50 Man of Precision

51 The Key

52 Mass Brawl

53 Yellow Signs

54 Turnstiles

55 Night Worker

56 Surveillance

57 Missed Calls

58 Taking Over the Subway

59 Youtube

60 Marathon

61 Reflection

62 Improper Conduct

63 The Columbia Herald

64 Stop and Frisk

65 Vertigo

66 The Back Alley

67 Rear Window

68 Stalking

69 FBI

70 The Identitarians

71 Blackface, White Mask

72 Princeton Tradition

73 The Tiger Tea Room

74 Crow’s Feet

75 Sidewalks

76 Follow the Crows

77 Double Vision

78 Gender Pay

79 Prostitution

80 Vanishing Point

81 An Amazing Moment

82 Shadows of a Doubt

83 Frenzy

84 Black Converse and Red High Heels

85 Photo

86 Heartbroken

87 Another Point of View

88 Cops Swarm Teens Past Midnight

89 The Profile

90 We Need Evidence

91 Upright Hands

92 Our Deepest Feelings

93 Algorithms of Oppression

94 Film Noir

95 Candy Fundraisers

96 Fingerprints

97 A Sinister Syllabus

98 Hate Crimes

99 Manifestos

100 America’s Fraternity Called Racism

101 Policing Post-Its

102 A Television Moment

103 Miranda Rights

104 The Cult of Trump

105 Impeachment Inquiry

106 Town Crier

107 Leaves Like Hands

108 Sly Eyes

109 Alley of Seclusion

110 No Way Out

111 Ideologies

112 A Devastating Shadow Cast

113 Churro Carts

114 Rally

115 Sociopath

116 Trapped

117 Endless Days of Whiteness

118 Obsession

119 Possibilities

120 Chapter 120

Epilogue

Appendix A The Divine and the Diabolical Masculine

Appendix B The Emergence of the Feminine

Appendix C Synchronicity: Quantum Consciousness in the Extreme

References

Appendix D Creative Writing as a Gesture

in Synchronicity

Bibliography

Appendix E

About the Author

In a bustling New York scene, a young African

American journalist who survives her darkest moment

alone, becomes the target of a heinous crime.

Dedicated to my husband James,

children Michaela, Justin, and Matthian,

my parents and in-laws who are the past, present, and future

of my lifetime

And my editor, Gabriella Oldham

INTRODUCTION

His black female victims are invisible in the darkness until the police officer sees them. But film itself erases their existence by not bothering to show them as human as they truly are. When White supremacy goes unchecked, it becomes this delusional space that illuminates and occupies part of a society like film. For whiteness is the hidden accomplice that fosters the violence one sees onscreen.