By Robert Guillaume
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She knew how to apply makeup; she knew how to dress. She became a glamour queen. For awhile Morning Glories and Pigs’ Snouts she went with the Greek owner of the Lincoln Café, a popular neighborhood spot. He’d take her to upscale nightclubs—Tune Town, for example—from which blacks were excluded. Cleo’s beauty gave her access to a world we couldn’t enter. Ultimately, that world proved deadly. In the jargon of the day, my sister lived a viper’s life, the same life led by our mother. Cleo’s story finally turned tragic—doubly so because no one was sweeter or wittier.
My ego required that distinction. And even though my wiseass ways got me thrown out of St. Nick’s several times, I graduated and went to St. Joseph’s School for the Colored, a private Catholic institution for grades nine through twelve. Like St. Nick’s, St. Joe’s engaged priests and nuns who, due to miscues somewhere in their careers, were forced to instruct blacks. Some had racist attitudes; others didn’t. The disciplined structure and traditional course work served me well. I excelled academically.
Even during the depression, when two cents made a difference, she kept up the payments. ” The bottom line was brutal: we could lay claim to a paltry forty-eight dollars. She had bought a plan that an insurance company could only sell to the poor. There was now nothing to be done. Rather than face the truth and deal with my own inadequacy, I excoriated Bunk for her intolerable behavior toward my grandmother. I was obsessed with giving my mother her comeuppance, and picked a hell of a time to do so.