Bab 12: chapter 12
Joe cried," Why does God let us go through all this? You always said that He loved us then why does He let us go through all this!"
Grandma spoke,"It rains on both good and bad people, does it not?"
Joe spoke,"It rains on both of them!"
Grandma had tears running down her eyes and fogging up her glasses.
Grandma spoke,"You are correct! All things in the world that have value, like gold, diamonds,
etc, come to be through hard pressure! The Lord is trying to make us into something better and
greater!"
The lad held his grandma as tight as he could.
Joe spoke,"Then God must want us to become the greatest! I will not die in this place since I will be the first to leave this bad place! I can do it!"
Grandma spoke,"That is it, boy! You must believe it in your heart and have faith in that God will finish the work that he has started!"
Joe looked up at his Grandma and said,"Alright, I will believe no matter what!"
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Joe is fed breakfast by his Grandma and sees him off to school.
Grandma walks down the stoop to the sidewalk with Joe.
She whispers so that only Joe can hear,"Do not let them get you down since the Lord are with you. He will strengthen you and give you much needed wisdom."
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Joe went to school everyday and learn what he could from the horrible teachers that he had. The
lowest quality teachers were sent to the ghettos. It was like the teachers that went to the ghettos had lost a bet against the teachers that taught in all other places. The teachers in the ghettos were the teachers that could not keep up to par with the standards of the teaching profession.
The government did not care about the low class people or even the middle class for that matter.
Those in the ghetto got the shaft in all sections of society from pay to housing.
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Joe spent his free time at school trying hard to learn and working out with various half broken gym equipment. Joe was very strong and was also was a great athlete. He could easily out lift everyone in the school, including the teachers. The gym teachers did not like the fact that Joe was so strong and tried to make him hurt himself lifting by teaching wrong on purpose. The gym teachers tried but it did
not work. The student to the grace of God never lifted weights incorrectly and thus did not hurt himself.
Joe graduates from high school at the top of his class. The teachers called him the king of the rejects. He did not give them the satisfaction of a response, when he left with a high school diploma.
The high school did not give the few students, like Joe that actually graduated from school what they needed to succeed in life. Joe's high school's retention rates was less than five percent. It was that bad of a school.
As soon as Joe graduated from school on a Friday afternoon and went to work on a Saturday morning. He was hired at the nearby factory making machinery for the Urano war effort. Joe knew that he must be able to support himself and his grandma. His Grandma could not work anymore so Joe had to cut the slack between the two of them. His Grandma had been able to support him all through his school years, due to the grace of God. But, she would not be able to do it anymore due to her body breaking down on her. Joe had wanted to quit school but his Grandma would not let him do it She told him that he had to graduate from high school no matter what. She wanted to have that, since she was not able to have a high school diploma.
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He was not trained for his job but he slowly learned to do any physical labor job after just a few months. Joe was expected to just know all the details of his job within a few minutes without any mistakes.
Within three months Joe worked harder any of twenty of the best workers in the factory. He had to learn to do everything the hard way, because nothing came easy to the young man.
Joe was called over the factory's intercom and he stopped what he was doing. He went quietly to the office as people were poking fun of Joe about to "get in trouble by the factory manager."
Joe knocked on the door and he heard a voice say,"Come on in."
Joe opened the metal door to the factory manager and shut the door behind him. There was no
chair for Joe to sit in so he had to stand in front of the manager's elaborate desk.
There was a young white man siting in an expensive office chair and he was staring up at the large Joe.
It was impossible to not stare at Joe, since he was one thousand pounds and ten foot tall. The
young man was built like a mountain and carried little fat on him. Joe was a naturally huge man and did not have to take any fitness supplement. He was that big and strong as a man.
Plus, he had no money for such things as supplements, when he had barely had enough food to eat. Joe required a lot of calories to keep his body as large as it was and also not lose his strength.
The manager speaks," I called you here to tell you that you are doing a great job here and I will pay you the wages for twenty workers."
Joe remained silent as he usually was and secondary because he did not know what to say.
The manager spoke,"You must not tell anyone about the raise or you will go back to the pay you had before! Do you you hear me? We just want to make sure you stay here, since you are already one of our best workers when it comes to quality while the best worker when it comes to quantity of work. I believe that within about a year or two that you will be the best laborer here without question!"
Joe spoke,"Yes sir!"The manager spoke,"If any of the workers ask why you were sent here, they them that you were
corrected for some work error. Say no more than that!"
Joe nodded and said,"Yes sir!"
The young manager spoke," You can now return to your work!"
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Joe went straight home and told Grandma about his raise.
His Grandma spoke,"The Lord has blessed you, Joe! You need to keep your mouth shut or
others will hate you for it. People often do not want to see others get ahead and will try to get at you! It
is sad that can't share your blessing, but he thank God for it among the two of us!"
Joe bent down and hugged his grandma in a firm embrace.
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At least once a week, the local police had made the effort to haze Joe.
Today was no exception, since a cop car stop beside the large man. Yet, Joe did not stop.
The siren went off and two cops come out of the car.
The cops start to yell,"Stop or we will shoot."
Joe did not stop and the cops started aiming at the young man and Joe flips around to take the bullets from the front. He did this to avoid getting shot in his spine. He had to keep working so that his Grandma could still eat and have a place to stay.
The cops begin to fire at Joe in the chest and head.
Joe puts his arms up to protect his head and chest.
The cops shot at him thirty times and Joe was still standing. The pig cops used all their bullets that they had in their clips.
Joe flexes the bullets out of chest and arms.
The cops are speechless and after a few seconds they begin to swell up with anger.
They pull out their tasers and shoot Joe in the arms with the prongs of the tasers.
Joe begins to laugh out loud so hard that the two police are so scared that they had wet themselves. Joe rips the prongs out of his arms.
Joe begins to turn around when the dirty cops pull peeper spray guns.
They begin to fire at Joe when Joe turns and smacks the pepper guns while the guns were still in the cops' hands.
The guns go off in the face of the cops.
The two cops yell,"We will let go this time but be prepared for harsher punishment next time!
The two pig cops were known to haze the people in the ghetto in the attempt to keep the people down. They wanted to people there to remember their place in their world and not to seek to better themselves.
Joe would not let anybody pick on anybody around him. He would take the abuse himself but not abuse of others. The neighborhood where Joe lived was mostly free of abuse from the police and the gangs. Joe would avoid fights, but he would fight when felt the need to fight.
Joe did not fear the gangs or the law men and would not let them be running roughshod over those around him.
Joe went back home in his neighborhood when some of the neighbors ran up to him. They cleaned up his wounds and wrapped them up in cloth.
Some of the kids around the scene were crying but was quickly comforted by Joe.
He picked up about twenty kids of various sizes in his large arms and begin to swing around in a circle.
The kids begun to laugh and giggle out in glee.
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Minutes go by and Joe puts down all the kids. Joe and especially the children begin to stumble around. Joe had calmed down the children successfully and continue his walk towards his Grandma's house.
The neighbors had been protected from harm by Joe taking on the beatings on himself. The whole neighbor respected and loved him for that. The young man had given the people hope that they could someday get a better life. Joe would struggle for betterment of himself and those around him without any complaints or any sluggishness.
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