An Evil Preacher Tricked My Mother: A True Life Story

By Peter Johnson Sr

Peter Johnson Sr. shares the stunning story of how an evil preacher tricked his elderly mother out of his inheritance in this autobiography.

The preacher even stole all the money from the sale of the family home, which the author had paid for by working tirelessly since he was a boy.

His mother, however, was not the only person this hateful preacher misguided. As a pastor to Hollywood stars, he preyed on so many people. He never shared any of his spoils.

The author also recalls getting shot up twice in mean streets and navigating suicide, treachery, and deceit—as well as the challenges of growing up Black.

Join the author as he looks back at a life filled with wins, losses, and lots of surprises in An Evil Preacher Tricked My Mother.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Apr 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665719186

Peter Johnson Sr

Peter Johnson Sr. was a hard worker as a boy and bought his family a house at age sixteen before having to drop out of school to take care of his mentally ill mother. He raised seven siblings, paid all the household bills, and then had to face an evil preacher who turned his mother against him.

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1

How I Let This Demon into my Family.]

My mother and big brother told me not to let this man come back. He wanted to date my little sister Banshela when they both were in high school. Banshela was going to Inglewood High. and he was going to Manual Art high. Now in these days in L.A. Inglewood High was a high-class school for Blacks. Famous entertainers kids went there.

Now at Manual Art High, this is a stone ghetto high school. kids getting high, girls getting pregnant, kids killing kids, Gangbangers. you see when I was helping my mother raise my little brothers and sisters, I let my little brothers go to these dangerous ghetto schools. We live in the ghetto. But I was not going to be letting my little sisters get pregnant on me, going to these gangster schools in the ghetto Older boys just take sex from little hot girls..little girls gave it up fast.

And I had 5 yes, five sisters, to raise and look out for, even my big sister Melody I would not let her go out with a teenager Lowriders in Watts unless they took me with them. She use to be mad about it, but she could not have married that Steeler star player brother the Dentist if I had let her get pregnant...Her little pretty light skin ass .those gangsters wanted her, Some I run them off with my knife. and I could fight real good.

This is why Banshela is not going to school with this little demon...I sent all my sisters to school outside the ghetto and sent Billy my brother to Hamilton High to keep an eye on my sister Cassandra. I caught her and her friend ditching school. I was living over there in West LA. by Hamilton High, a mostly white high-class area Still is in 2020. I saw them ditching and I picked them up in my Cadillac. My little sister little high school friend tried to hit on me I laugh and took them right back to school.

I sent my little sister Hope to school in Inglewood, and my little brother and sister Ted and Debra to school in white people land the valley and North Hollywood. Yes, I had my hands full raising all my little brothers and sisters. My mother had a little mental problem, she was scared of the outside world. She never left the house except when I took her to the grocery store. I handle all the business in the family and also made all the decisions for the family. My mother was like a little kid scared of everything.

Now let me tell you why I blame myself for letting this lying, evil, deceitful demon preacher in my family. When we already had one in my family my mother. Boy, could she lie, deceive people. Good thing she stayed locked up, Inside the house. But now and then she gets loose and gives me Hell. She fucked the family up behind my back.

Like I said Banshela was in high school, and some of her friends were getting boyfriends. She want to go on a date, but she did not tell me like she was supposed to do. I guess she thought I would not let her go out with a boy. And I might not have known he went to ghetto Manual Art High. But she talk Clarice her mother into letting her go on this date.

But things didn’t go like sneaky Banshela wanted. This little punk ass demon got there all dressed up, in his mother’s car. He bring flowers He got into our house the same house this demon will trick my mother out of to steal all the money off it.

So the evil demon was in my house for the first time, he is meeting Banshela’s mother Clarice When all of a sudden my brother Eddy come down the stairs The Demon coward saw Eddy...’.He told Banshela You did not tell me Fast Eddy was your brother.."

He got so scared he give or throw the flowers at Banshela’s mother then he ran out of the house Ha, Ha. He was supposed to be taking Banshela to the movie. That is what she get always up to no good behind my back.

Well, Banshela was mad as hell [Where she surely will end up in Ha, Ha]. She called me telling me that Eddy scared off this boy who was going to take her to the movie..’.’’ I said you did not get my permission to go out with a boy .She said...’.I know, but Mom said I could go as long as she meets him first, to make sure he was not a thug....

Clarice took the phone from her telling me..’.Peter, you can not let Banshela date this boy. He is a coward...He will run off and leave her to get raped".

Banshela took the phone back still lying and saying’ Eddy made him run"..Allen my big brother who lives at home, must have heard them talking to me. So he took the phone from Banshela. In those days Banshela and all the kids respect Allen because he was my enforcer when I was not around. When they all were growing up. Don’t forget I am raising some little ghetto kids and got a mentally ill mother I got to look out for and take care of them all.

So Allen told me that Banshela was lying for that coward..’Allen said that Eddy did not say anything to him..Allen said he just saw Eddy and got scared and ran out of the house."..

Banshela heard this and said to Allen .’.Tell Peter I will call him on the upstairs phone".She knew she could not be taking the phone from Allen like she had been doing her mother.

Allen said to me..’ Peter, I agree with Clarice our mother. You can not let Banshela date this coward, he would run off and leave her. Allen said he just did it running out our house.."

‘I told Allen I know you guys are right."

But little banshela wanted a boyfriend, so she keep after me until ‘.I said well tell me about this guy; I said you know your mother and big brother is right this dude would run off and leave you stopping at a store in the hood.".It is always someone hanging out in front of the liquor store, most time begging for change.

Banshela said .’.We won’t stop at any store in the ghetto.I laugh and said ‘ you live in the ghetto, and he goes to Manual with our brother Eddy that means he lived in the ghetto too .

Banshela said .’.Yeah and that’s why he was scared of Eddy because he is the big dope dealer at Manual Art High, him and Slick Rick Fast Eddy best friend. I said ‘ yeah Fast Eddy is known as the Weedman in our neighborhood ...

Banshela and I laugh.’.She said And Mom is getting on him when some people get in the gate asking for the weedman.".

I said ‘Clarice called me telling me...Peter Eddy is let somebody in our yard. Clarice say..Ain’t Eddy selling weed for you, Peter? I tell her That’s right How do you think I am paying all your bills and got my apartment? ‘ I said All these bills take a lot of money. More than I am making working for the County of LA."

My mother did not mind Eddy selling weed for me. She knew she was not going to work, and I had a lot of little brothers and sisters to take care of...And I promised her that she would never go to jail. That’s why Eddy could NOT sell weed out of our house, but only in the alley. Smart right.

Anyway, my mother was fine with this arrangement

Anyway, in the end, Banshela talked me into letting her date the evil coward. But I told her that she would have to keep an eye on a scared boy like he is. Because he is going to school and living scared in the hood. When he gets over there with your high-class friends in their neighborhood, he is going to try to date one of your friends that live over there. then he wants to have to come and run into Fast Eddy...

‘Banshela said...You are right I would have to watch him. That makes sense what you said, Peter."

In the future of this story, he is going to pull some shit like that on Banshela.’I ask how you meet a square boy like him, going to Manual Art High?..Banshela said ‘my girlfriend was bringing me home We stop at the taco stand on Santa Barbar-- Now it’s called Martin Luther King Blvd.

‘She said that’s how I met him..I said how are you going to get him to come back after he ran out of our house scared?..She said’ you will think of something... I laugh, All I told her to tell the evil coward that Fast Eddy sale weed for me her big brother. not Allen, I said .’.Tell him, Peter, the man himself has told Fast Eddy not to fuck with the little scared punk or I beat Eddy ass. Tell him it is safe to come back.

Now, this was the bigger mistake I ever made. This same coward would go on to steal everything from me in the future of this true story unfolds.CH;20

2

How I Became The Guardian For

The Family--Life In Birmingham]

Well, I had a Daddy who could not handle responsibility. He would try But he was always fucking-up.You see he like nice things that cost a lot of money. He stayed broke and in a lot of debt..he use the fuck out of me and Allen. But mostly me because I was a moneymaker that he counted on to help pay the bills...Yeah, I had an evil lying mother and a daddy that could not pay the bills, And take care of all those babies he and Clarice were making having sex...Making babies and kids I would have to take care of. What the fuck happened to my childhood.

I have been working my whole life, Back in Alabama in the early 60’s I tell colored kids I am the white police because I can stop cars...I had a badge big giant stop sign. I was a Crossing Guard...This was before Blacks had any rights, We were called Colored people, with no rights to vote, no right to eat where White people eat. We had no rights...But I had the power to stop White people and I am only 8 years old true story. A lot of people still alive can prove what I just told is true.

Red Necks would run over a nigger for fun and don’t go to jail...After all, the Police are their daddy or relative, They are all K.K.K...But I am stopping them with this big ass Stop sign. My brother Allen and the colored people were so proud of me. Mama and Daddy were proud and so was Albert my real dad. Albert told me it’s best not to let Clarice my mother know.

I got a chance to meet the creator of my cartoons Chuck Jones. He did all the cartoons that are still on TV today Bugs Bunny, Tom, and Jerry...My Principal told me he wanted me to meet him, But first, he had to teach me to stop talking Colored Slurring my words, and learn to talk like White People. My sister Banshela still talks Colored...In the future of this story, I will help make her rich. But she still Slurs words talking country.

My brother Allen can tell you I ask Mr. Chuck Jones could he come over to my colored side of the school and put on a show for the colored kids. He did it a magic show...After this, I was this famous colored kid. Grow Colored people use to watch me stopping White people’s cars. I use to go back to Northport to visit my big sister Melody and Mama and Daddy telling them about my life in Birmingham. They already knew I was stopping cars in Birmingham, Alabama.

After this, I became a Farmer, Because my dad lose everything. We living in Birmingham AL.The big city in the south...Well, old Albert my dad lose his job at the Steel Mill. I could get him a job where I work for the school. That is what the Principal told me...That my dad could work in the kitchen or as one of the school janitors...That is what most colored men do anyway. My dad and Grand-dad were lucky they had good jobs .my Grand-dad worked at the Paper Mill.

Back in the ‘50s and 60’s when I was growing You go to any big city, Get off the Bus, or Train Grown Colored men to be shoeshine boys. I just got off the Train Union Station in L. A. in 2020 and the old shoeshine stand is still there.No one is working on them. But they are still there may be part of history.

Being janitor, Shoeshine boys, and working in the kitchen was how colored men paid their bills taken care of their families.

Any way Albert my dad loses his job, And Clarice and Albert hide this fact from me. And beat Eddy, Banshela, and Allen to make sure they did not tell me. Because they knew I would get mad, go-off.After I talked to Albert about how to keep his job, Take a little of those White Boss bullshit you got a family to take care of. Albert had to much pride. Peter Jr is like that..’’ Albert said the White motherfucker call him all kind of niggers and spit on him.’’I said well I don’t blame you I would have LOST IT TO DAD

Like I said I could have got Albert a job at my school, But ‘Clarice tell Albert that he did not need me, he could get his self the other job’...Clarice say ..’ We are the grown people Peter’s parents. Clarice told Albert you find a job without Peter’s help...Before Peter finds out you lost your job".Every day he leaves before me playing like he is going to work. When I go to work and school he comes back home. Eddy and Banshela are not going to school yet, But they can talk real good...That’s why Clarice and Albert are beating their ass not to tell me.

But these kids don’t know why they are getting beat and what not to tell Peter. So they go to their big brother who is getting beat also to not to tell Peter..’ Allen tells me they sneak and came to him, asking him .’.What is it we don’t suppose to tell Peter?.. They said we don’t even know and getting beat every day.".

Allen said he felt sorry for these little kids getting beat every day and don’t know why..’.Allen said Clarice and Albert are so crazy they never told the kids Albert had lost his job and they don’t want peter to know".To these kids daddy just coming home early from work. They don’t know grown people stuff...Allen and I still laugh at how crazy Clarice and Albert were.

But you know I found out Albert sold our car to pay the bills, We on government cheese and power milk, power eggs. I had Albert come up to my school to get himself a job..I was still working helping kids to cross the street. Allen and Boo our neighbor son love to watch me stopping White people’s cars. They watch me work until the bell ring then they go with all kids to class.

Allen and I were so happy daddy came up to the school for me to get him a job with my Principal...But Albert saw Boo our neighbor son with Allen and my dad left.’.My dad said he was too proud he said when he saw Boo. Inside his head he could hear Boo’s daddy teasing him about needing his son to get him a job at Boo school..I told Albert fuck what people think, you be able to pay the bills and we could stay in this big city...

Well like I said Albert my dad lost everything we were homeless. But his dad had left him a farm down in the woods of the country. with the same name as we have Johnson’s, Alabama. And this country town is in Tuscaloosa county .where the University of Alabama is Crimson Tide. Plus Northport is only about 10 miles away, where Mama and daddy live.

Well, we are homeless so the family got to move to Albert daddy farm, I don’t have to go with them everybody telling me I can live with them. I never like being around Albert and crazy Clarice too long anyway. I always ate dinner at a neighbor’s house. Plus I am famous I am like the White Police, The only colored man who can stop White people everybody wants me to stay at their house.

3

Life In The Country

Well, I love my family so I going with Albert and Clarice to check out the farm...Albert got a relative to move the family down there.No no room inside the truck with all these kids Clarice and Albert had made...Let’s see there was Allen, Eddy, Banshela, the Two Birmingham kids Billy and Casandra, and myself...Plus Albert and Clarice it just was no room inside the truck cab for myself and Allen...We had to ride in the back with the furniture, On the highway, the rope came to lose they had tide down the furniture. that rope beat me in the face from Birmingham to Johnson, Alabama. Boy did that shit hurt...But I did not let any furniture fall out of the truck. Allen try to help me but he got scared that he would fall out of the truck while it was moving.

When we did get to the empty farm. Clarice and Allen started cutting up on Albert...’.Clarice said Albert we can not live in that falling down house...And there is no indoor plumbing Allen asks what that means?..’.Clarice said you have to go shit in the woods where the snake bites ass, or in an outhouse where a big snake may live.

Allen started howling and cutting -up on daddy...’Allen tells daddy he wants to go back to Birmingham..Albert beat his ass and tell him this is your home now.I was laughing my ass off..Albert had just got through beating Allen’s ass. Then Clarice started cutting -up on him saying ... ‘ Saying Albert I am not going to stay here we had no running water, no electricity, no bathroom, she started yelling and howling "...Now I would not let Albert beat Clarice in my present So I took a walk to look around.

But I did hear him getting her telling her’ ‘we had nowhere else to live.Albert said you already tried your daddy and he is not going to take even you in..Now I can go back to Birmingham. I am famous in the colored world. Grown color people use to come up to my school just to watch me put my life on the line stopping White people’s cars. So kids could cross the street.

When you think about it those White k.k.k probably would have run over our future black leader a black man trying to stop them telling them what to do. I was a kid and they like me for some reason. If you live in the south in the ‘50s or early 60’s you know what I am talking about. So Albert asks me what I think about the farm’’.I said Clarice is right it’s nothing here".’.I tell Albert I think I am going back to Birmingham with your cousin. So I can go back to work and school.

His cousin said ‘yeah you can live with me and my wife and mother, We be happy having you living with us stopping White people.Albert heard this his eyes got big he pull out his A’ card on me..Albert told me ‘you see all this open land as far as your eyes can see, It is all your my son..Albert said my daddy left it to me. But I don’t like farming .Albert said ‘but when I die it will be all your land....’I said you better not be lying just to get me to help you and Clarice..He laughs and ‘said I am telling you the truth ask Clarice she knows my daddy left me this farm.

But I already knew about this farm I thought Albert had lost it or sold it. I had no idea it was this much land...’So I said to Albert all this land is mine.Albert said as far as the eye can see..’.I said but it nothing here,...’ Albert said you are smart I know together we can make a real farm out of it....Albert said it’s going to be a lot of work, But I know we can do it...

‘I said where are we going to get the water from...’.Albert said in the back of the house is a well we can get all the water we need from our well...’I said all happy. oK I will stay and help you..My daddy got happy. Clarice my mother got mad she told Albert..’’.Peter is looking at this like a cowboy movie or TV show..

‘Albert told her to shut the fuck up..’.He said We need little Peter he is smart, And we got nowhere to go..Albert said your daddy would not even take you in with all our kids... ‘’I told Albert I can not stay down here without my TV.cartoons and westerns...Albert told me to find out what it takes to get electric to our farm and he would borrow money off the farm to get it.

So I and Allen are in school in Johnston, Alabama. The only school Dry Creek school. All colored ever the teacher are color...In Birmingham the teacher is white. to teach the colored kids.

Allen and my life were like it was in the 1800s in the south. Every day before we went to school we had to feed the hog, feed the chickens do our chores before we go to school...Daddy is up to make sure, But Clarice our mother would never get up. she always was lazy. like my little brother ted that is not born yet in this story.

But while Allen and I are at school Albert and Clarice don’t be working...Daddy supposes to be plowing the fields, So Allen and I could plant the seeds to make everything grow, This is how farms make money.

I show Allen that Clarice and Albert are not doing anything but fucking and playing with the kids while we are at school. Then when we come home Albert starts plowing the fields Then Clarice goes back into the house and takes all those babies and kids with her. I get mad.

They know I don’t play, I stop coming home after school, I go over to our cousin Ruffus’s house and play and look at cartoons he had a TV.indoor bathroom running water in the house. I tried to get my brother Allen to come with me. But he was too scared of our daddy he get a whipping if he don’t come straight home and get to work in the fields.

Not me I say fuck Albert our dad I know him and his crazy wife Clarice need me too much to do anything to me. I know I can go live with Mama and Daddy in Northport have fun with Melody and Daisy May.

Like I said Albert did not like farming too much hard work...But he has borrowed too much money off the land. these days they put you in debtor jail if you could not pay what you borrowed. And took the land you put up for collateral..No chance to pay it back you are in jail. working on the chain gang until you work off your debt. they have you as their slave.

Albert got crazy buying things we did not need putting my and his dead daddy’s farm up for collateral...HE bought a new truck, he bought that Hog we did not need. Allen and I got to feed this big ass Hog every fucking day ...Let’s eat him B.B.Q ribs, Ham, Bacon, Let’s cut this big motherfuck up for food. That’s what I am telling my daddy...We name him lost night because he got loose ran off into the woods. You know when a Hog this big live in the woods too long they turn wild Hogs and human killers. True-Fact.

We daddy, myself, Allen and some kinfolks hunted this creature all night. We caught him that next morning. That’s when we name him lost-night...Like I said Albert bought too much stuff, That new truck, Clarice wants a new electric stove and new refrigerator...But they are not thinking. So when we go visit Mama and Daddy in Northport I wanted to see my sister Melody..’’.Daddy tells me that Albert and Clarice are about to let the White people take my Farm...Because Albert has not been Farming growing food like other Farmers do...’.Mama says Robert is right Peter..Albert your dad is getting ready to lose the Farm his daddy worked hard to leave to Albert and you.

Daddy said you need to talk to Albert or get rid of him or you won’t have a Farm anymore..So I talk to Albert I told him he had to stop buying things we did not need, I told him we did not need that Hog, we did not need no New Truck he could always borrow one of his cousin’s trucks or ask for a ride like my Grandpa...The only thing we needed was that Horse to plow the fields...And those chickens for eggs and food..

I said now you are in trouble again just like Birmingham.. I said now you go rent a Logging Truck trying to cut some timber off the land to sell and pay your debt..I said but the White people are cheating you on that..I said you are losing the Farm your daddy left you...I said you and Clarice are fucking -up again..He got a real sad look like he was going to cry...But I felt no mercy for Albert.

So a couple of weeks later he call me and Allen took us deep in the woods to talk to us....He said I am in trouble with the White people, and I have to leave to go back to Birmingham to find a job..Allen started crying right away....Allen crying saying I and Peter can’t do all this work on this farm without you daddy...I bust Allen upside his head telling him...This motherfucker got to go before the K.K.K. hang his no-good ass on a tree."..I am cursing because I am mad this is going to be a lot of work for me and Allen, But I don’t cry I curse a motherfucker out.

I said to daddy you just going to run and leave me and scared Allen to do all the work.,...I said you know Clarice is not going to help us, she is scared to feed the chickens thinking they are going to peck her to death, they just be after what she carrying that chickens food she throws it down and runs...Albert started laughing...I said motherfucker that shit ant funny all this work is already too much for Allen....Daddy said I want you and Allen to take care of your mother and little brothers and sisters...He said I will be back in two weeks."

.Allen started crying again saying two weeks is too long daddy ..He said me and Peter can’t do all your work and our for two weeks..I get mad to take it out on Allen beating him bad for being scared...As I am beating him I am telling him Don’t you understand daddy is not coming back the K.K.K. and debt collector are after him.

Albert stop me from beating my brother,, He knew deep in my mind I was beating his ass. I ran off deeper into the woods...I did not come back until Albert was gone.

4

A Real Man Teaches Me How to be a Man

By Handling Responsibility My Grandpa.]

So Abert is gone no one knows where he is not even my mother his wife Clarice. After two weeks go by, Then 4 weeks Clarice know he is gone have abandoned the family to save his ass...Clarice crying I tell her we will be O.K..Clarice says yeah Peter my dad is not going to take us in like Albert said... I tell her Clarice we don’t need your daddy. I ask her, have you not noticed I been running this Farm real good without Albert my real so call dad."

I said you been to worry about Albert to notice, I said you and Allen been helping me I got things running smooth and still going to school....’’ Clarice said yeah you have been running this farm real good, she said Albert would be proud of you beating Allen ass making him help you....Clarice said you even got some of your little brothers and sisters helping you....’’ I said it’s a farm everybody got to do their part even your lazy ass mother..I laugh.

Well, that’s when Clarice tell me that my dad Albert was in more trouble than I think. We did not have a phone and Clarice never left the house. In the country houses were far apart too many open fields... these days everybody was still farming colored people were leaving the farm for the cities. But in the south in the 50s and 60s, there was a lot of Black Farmer...And I became with my grand-dad help one of the best. This shit is real.

`The closest house is daddy old Ante Earlee and she doesn’t have a phone or electric., fact down here everybody is your relative your kinfolks. All our last name johnsons the whole place is called Johnson, Alabama, Look it up we are on the map...I guess the old slave master gave the land to his slave, Better than the union army getting it .or selling it to them cheat. Because all my cousins own land down here. Black people don’t have their shit together like this anymore.

Yeah, black people, we all went to the big city sold and give up the farms ...We all end up in the big city ghetto, living and dying never having or owning anything more than a car. Don’t own that. What the fuck happen black people or should I call you all-colored people roll back the clock. Because that’s what