Jimi Daniel Dillon

Calamity of the Heathens Jimi Daniel Dillon

A unique autobiography of a 'baby boomer' whose life spans three different cultures. His final stage of life culminates in the so-called 'American Dream.'In this story a boy is sentenced to survive in a new and strange world. His father, who sentenced him, did not know the depth of evils his son must endure in this new, behemoth, strange world of civilization. If his father knew, it was only subconsciously, and his knowledge was limited, for he had lived only briefly in this strange civilization. In this slave and master living arrangement, the tribal boy from Liberia had to endure abuses - physical, verbal, and sexual abuses. Further the boy is subjected to extreme mental anguish in a slavery setting. In fact, this whole civilized society treats most people of the boy's class - aboriginal villagers - unjustly. The boy magnanimously endures not one, but two slaving family settings and lives to tell his story. His jubilation is short-lived when he enters the United States, only to find racial and ethnic discrimination. These discriminations engulfs him, rekindling his memory of former hardships and causing him to reflect on those troubles he has been through as well as how those troubles affected his tribal people. Finally the boy's education forces him to recollect his calamity and the calamity of his people of tribal villagers. He reflects on their treatment, both good and bad, by the Western world (America and other non-African countries) as a whole. The boy also invokes memories of his early tribal life before going to a civilized city and his coming to the United States. The boy also challenges the West and Western companies about some of the ills caused by their business activities in his former country. He further challenges Americans to help those unfortunate people repair their living conditions for success in the new millennium. He challenges his own people about their lack of cohesiveness. He hopes that some type of social force could bring them together as a