You racist bastard. (1805 hits)
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Submitted by HendrixDDT<robinson.51.at.wright.edu> (View user info) at 2004-04-26 12:47:25 EDT
Slowly. Slowly isn't a sentence unto itself, but as he brandished his weapon, time stood still.
At that moment, things moved so slowly that it made perfect sense to punctuate the word as to give
it the prowess of an entire sentence - slowly. By then, it was over. I didn't even care to let
my reaction of fear clench my muscles and shorten my breath. I looked up with a calm clear breath
and smiled. Why did I smile? Why the fuck did I smile?
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My brother, Mike, and I were the quintessential sibling rivalry as children. I had enough brains
to make my teachers question their roles in my education, and he had enough muscle to make me
question running away each time he beat me up. Now that I'm older, I see my annoying qualities in
smaller children and finally understand the reason behind all the black eyes. His attitude was
the antithesis of a jock in high school, but his overdeveloped muscles made him a prime target for
football coach recruitment. He still chose to simply work out to become stronger, not to become
an athlete.
With time, I realized that I could be well built if I chose to be (mostly a vain attempt at
attracting the wrong kind of women), and he realized that being a badass doesn't pay the bills. I
hit the gym and he hit the books, but fundamentally, our roles never changed. The day our parents
kicked him out of the house for getting his first tattoo, I thought to myself that I'd finally
found peace. That was the turning point in our relationship. With me out of his hair (and out of
his crosshairs) we were able to become more than just two friends - we had become inseparable.
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Why would it matter if we had hair or not? Apparently, our images were teaching us a lesson about
untrue stereotypes. It was hot that night. It was hot that entire summer, and that night was no
exception. We had both removed our overshirts, mine revealing a tight white t-shirt that nicely
emphasized the peaks of my newly found triceps and his revealing a wife-beater with a tattoo
peeking out from each shoulder. As I said earlier, he'd always been a muscular guy.
"You dropped your pocket," one of the eight said to me. What an idiot. I used my height to my
advantage and stared him down with each step. He was within elbow's length, but we were
outnumbered by a factor of four and I was doing good just not to flinch under the pressure - I
could almost smell his breath.
"You fuckin' skinheads?" A new voice sounds out from the back. Of course we're not skinheads.
Why would it matter if we had hair or not? Apparently stereotypes run freely on both sides of the
fence.
"Look guys, just leave us alone. We're just trying to get back to our car." My brother's voice
was confident as usual, but the pack was unstirred.
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Getting knocked out is never like they show it in the movies. In the movies, things usually
slowly go black; in real life, you don't even remember the darkness - it's almost as if the film
just picks up a few seconds from where it left off.
I got to my feet and saw that I wasn't the only one who had been knocked out. Two of our nemeses
lay unconscious and bloody under the shattered remains of the plate glass window they'd been
pushed through. Another was crawling his way back up a parking meter. I put my boot to the back
of his head to make sure he was better acquainted with the pole in an attempt to bring the fight
to more even numbers. Something had happened and the fucker that had originally approached me
with his so eloquent opening line had disappeared. He was the smallest of the group, so I assume
he had made a run for it when Mike let him know that we weren't going down without a fight.
When you wake up from unconsciousness and find that you're in the middle of an unfair fight, you
do some pretty stupid things. My first reaction, after giving one man a quick kick to the back of
the skull of course, was to stand perfectly still and watch as my brother pulled a knife out of
his pocket and cut two of the remaining four. This means I was also standing and watching as the
other two grabbed him and put more fists into his gut than I'd seen anyone take in my life.
Finally, I realized that I needed to do something. All I knew to do was to take a charge at one
of my brother's assailants. It seemed to work. As I took one of the guys down to the ground,
Mike was able to break free enough to start wailing on the other's face and chest. I've never
seen anyone so angry. He managed to get atop the guy and continued to pound him. There was blood
coming from both the fists and the face that were pounding each other with such ferocity. Mike
was crying as he grabbed the swollen mess that this guy's head had turned into and smashed it into
the ground - again and again and again. He wouldn't stop. I ran to my brother and pulled him to
his feet. We had to call the police station. I turned to look around as I grabbed my cell phone
out of my pocket and there he was. My tackle hadn't completely subdued the final member of their
gang.
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I learned a valuable lesson that night. I learned that life is to fleeting to worry myself with
the color of someone's skin. More importantly, I learned that the more we worry about that, the
more fleeting our lives become. Is it wrong for me to shave my head when half of the guys that
attacked me for doing so wore the exact same hair style? Am I being punished for the sins of my
ancestors?
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Slowly. Slowly isn't a sentence unto itself, but as he brandished his weapon, time stood still.
At that moment, things moved so slowly that it made perfect sense to punctuate the word as to give
it the prowess of an entire sentence - slowly. By then, it was over. I didn't even care to let
my reaction of fear clench my muscles and shorten my breath. I looked up with a calm clear breath
and smiled. Why did I smile? Why the fuck did I smile?
As he pulled his weapon toward my face, I pulled my hand toward his. I lifted my right hand with
my middle finger extended. "Fuck you, you racist bastard."
User Reviews
Submitted by theWELLofZION (user info) at 2004-05-19 10:26:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I really liked this one too...good work.
Submitted by smokymtcsw (user info) at 2004-05-14 11:42:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I enjoyed this
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-05-14 10:40:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No one has ever told me my story is sexy. mmmm....sexy.
Thanks for the comments, guys!
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2004-05-14 10:11:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Sicgrrl (user info) at 2004-05-14 09:53:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice and savage, I can taste the blood, kinda sexy too.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2004-05-10 15:09:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn!
One of the best things i've read on Uber. Keep it up.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2004-05-10 14:58:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Im certainly not illiterate, but this didn't mean anything to me.
That and the formatting sucked dead jew cock. But after 39 ratings you're still at 2 so here you go donut-hole fucker: have your fucking +2.
Now sing a song about it HendrixDDT (Donkey Dick Toucher).
Submitted by cwl989 (user info) at 2004-05-10 12:10:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That was a good story, and a good message with it.
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-05-10 12:08:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Thanks, Lojo. I don't really feel bad, I'd just like their feedback. They're all good writers and it's nice to see what they think.
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-05-10 12:04:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Most of them don't rate my posts either. Razor has a couple of times. Don't feel bad.
For what it's worth, I loved this!
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-05-10 11:58:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm upset that not many regulars have rated my post. I know it doesn't really matter, but I've been around here quite a while, and I'd like to know what some of the regulars think about this post (what I consider my best one yet). Bart, Razor, Loren, Loki, Jared, Big Mike, Drink, Hidden, where are you guys?
disclaimer: I think this might classify me as a hitwhore.
Submitted by BleedTheSky (user info) at 2004-05-05 08:49:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-04-26 13:00:31 (#)
Ranking: -2
this piece of shit makes no damn sense
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Only if you're illiterate.
Submitted by Spooks at 2004-05-02 01:12:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn good... Damn fucking good.
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2004-05-02 00:57:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-05-01 14:32:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
TaK,
You're awesome!
Jason
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2004-04-30 13:53:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking rock.
I'd be proud to have this replace "The Heart Of The Matter" on the Best Ever list.
Written well, with an important, active topic, and also contained enough
twist and character involvement to make me care. Plus a bloody fight is
always good.
Nice work.
Submitted by wazzawazzayo (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:49:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fantastic.
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2004-04-29 10:35:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
good stuff.
Submitted by Kichigai (user info) at 2004-04-29 04:50:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-04-28 23:41:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
More people read this. This is my favorite post ever! Whoever wrote this deserves a prize.
Sincerely,
Hendri....shit!
Random Joe
Damn, I'm a hit whore.
Submitted by wags (user info) at 2004-04-28 23:24:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Quartermain (user info) at 2004-04-27 10:22:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2004-04-27 01:06:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-04-27 00:14:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2004-04-26 17:41:44 (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked this long time.
(Jokingly) I must disagree, however, with the line 'being a badass doesn't pay the bills'. You are obviously forgetting D-bone from Friday and Mr. T
You also glaringly forgot to advise your readers that chewing tobacco makes you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaur.
it's Dibo.
Submitted by davidarnaud (user info) at 2004-04-26 23:04:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
very good
Submitted by IneedAnap (user info) at 2004-04-26 19:06:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-04-26 18:22:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Sorry, jcricket, use your imagination.
Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2004-04-26 17:41:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked this long time.
(Jokingly) I must disagree, however, with the line 'being a badass doesn't pay the bills'. You are obviously forgetting D-bone from Friday and Mr. T
You also glaringly forgot to advise your readers that chewing tobacco makes you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaur.
Submitted by Titinita (user info) at 2004-04-26 17:40:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
YAY! You go to Hell, Writer's Block. You go to Hell and you DIE.
Submitted by jcricket (user info) at 2004-04-26 17:29:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
that was really good... so what happened afterwards hoping that this is real?
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2004-04-26 17:20:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Maybe we can get it higher on the best ever list.
Submitted by Dufflady (user info) at 2004-04-26 16:28:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"As he pulled his weapon toward my face, I pulled my hand toward his. I lifted my right hand with
my middle finger extended. "Fuck you, you racist bastard."
Love it. That line summed up the whole thing nicely.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-04-26 16:09:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very good.
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-04-26 15:58:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Unfortunately, no one will read this.
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-04-26 15:18:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
wow
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-04-26 15:08:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I would love to see this on B@W. Honestly one of the best stories I've read on Uber, in my 11 months of lurking.
Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2004-04-26 14:17:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
well done
Submitted by slowlyrotting (user info) at 2004-04-26 13:40:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you used my first name too many times
Submitted by Magicaddict (user info) at 2004-04-26 13:27:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Powerful sentiments. I like it.
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2004-04-26 13:08:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very real and good story.
Submitted by antiLemming (user info) at 2004-04-26 13:04:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That is really well done. It's past 3am and I want to go to bed and I couldn't once I started reading. That good.
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-04-26 13:02:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Thanks random joe!
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-04-26 13:00:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
this piece of shit makes no damn sense
Submitted by facts (user info) at 2004-04-26 13:00:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good stuff, punished for the sins of your ancestors? I guess.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-04-26 12:57:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
damn
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2004-04-26 12:48:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
WTF? I'm not reading all that!