When we were last with Gerald in New Orleans, he was running the streets with his long-time friends, Greg and Minew…
We had a partner, called him Nathan. His real name is Michael. Right now, he is in the Federal system, full life sentence. We had another little homie, Derrick. He was a cool cat. Derrick was out of the Magnolia Project.
Nathan got a full life sentence. Derrick dead. And what we didn’t know was the boys started working for the Feds. Nathan and Minew couldn’t get along. Minew been wanting to knock him off. Mean kill him. But he never could get to him. Cause he is always working for the Feds.
We pull in the project, we see him. When Minew be looking, you could tell. Minew said, “Look at that b****- a** n*****.”
Excuse the language, but that’s the way it was. I said, “Man, we can’t touch him.”
He looked at him. I say, “Man, you know he might be wired.”
Come to find out a few weeks later, Derrick and Nathan start working with the Feds who was trying to bust Clio and First St. That’s where we all come up, all the addicts, dope fiends, and junkies.
We never thought Derrick would turn and work with the Feds. But one night a few days after we seen Nathan, somebody killed Derrick. And when they were killing him, Derrick wearing a wire. When they hit him, they seen the wire. They see the wire. That’s when they found out him and Nathan working for the Feds.
They still killed him.
That’s how the street was, it’s a dirty game in the street. That’s how the street pays out, you good with it. I told Minew, “Man, they hit him and we are going down.”
To be continued. Gerald Anderson’s first book, “Still Standing: how an ex-con found salvation in the floodwaters of Katrina,” is available on Amazon.com.
