Damn Kenny Green, RIP Frat, miss that dude, and that first yr when they closed us and sent everyone over to MLK including almost all of our coaching staff it was an adjustment not just for the students, for us coaches as especially us who actually played for the "G" however meshing the 2 schools started that summer on the field and resonated into the classroom and with help from the football team it made things a little smoother. Proud of all my guys, we came together and won that championship because we came together and became a family no matter how dysfunctional it was LOL we still had each other's back players and coaches. Gtown '89. We......We are...... the mighty "G"..... and we don't give..... a damn....... about nobody else!!
I was at MLK when it first opened. I was so excited because I heard MLK had a great art studio and I loved painting and drawing. I was a good student, not great, but I loved to read and create art. I was assigned three English classes, which was crazy as I was reading on a college level. My Dad tried to get this changed but was told no. I was not assigned an art class even though the art teacher recommended me. One day after gym two girls threatened me; one had a knife. Another student walked in and the girls left. I really wanted to like the school. I remember guards patrolling the halls, at times they had dogs, due to gang fights which broke out on a regular basis. I had been at Leeds Junior High the day Mr. Freedman was shot. I had hoped MLK would be a new beginning. It was a terrible experience for me. I transferred out but the sad memories of Leeds and MLK are still there.
My son attended Martin Luther King High School, he was attacked by a gang of boys from Haine Street who crashed a party in his neighborhood at the corner of Dorset and Lowber Streets, in front of his house, they stabbed him repeatedly in the back. His father had him transferred from MLK to Roxburgh Memorial High School because it was where the gang who stabbed him went to school. Then at one of the school's basketball games, he was stabbed over his eye by one of the same gang members. This is when his father took him to a military recruiting station and let him sign up for the Army. That is why he is alive today, there is no way he could have gone from Martin Luther King High School and then transferred to Germantown High School and stayed alive. The Ironic thing is I lived in Germantown Mt Airy and I attended Germantown High School, his father attended Dobbins, and neither one of us encountered problems from our peers who lived in the Brickyard.
I went to King the first year. It was one of the most beautiful schools. I believe looking back a lot of us as black people were not ready. The had labs, study halls, tennis courts, swimming pool, and etc. It was definitely a world class school. I feel blessed to having had attended a brand new school. Those were the days my friend, we thought they never end, we'd sing and dance for every in a day.....
