Summary of Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math

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#1 I once had to drive a friend to his apartment to sweep for drugs, which I did not find very amusing. I was convinced the police would ambush us at any moment.

#2 One day, I was hanging out with my friend Brother A when police burst into his apartment and arrested him. I was taken into the bedroom and searched, but nothing was found on me. The next day, police came to my house and arrested me for selling drugs.

#3 The west exodus of my tribe, the Jacksons, began in the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. It demanded envisioning a world beyond the one that had been constricted. It required believing I could thrive outside of where I was born.

#4 The Jacksons were not a wealthy tribe. My great-grandfather Samuel Bubba Andrew Jackson Sr. was born in 1908 in Ada, Alabama. He married his first wife, Lillian Dora Arrington, and supported her and his son by selling shoes and Watkins products door-to-door. He moved to Portland with his second wife, Mama Edie, in 1958.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822500976

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I once had to drive a friend to his apartment to sweep for drugs, which I did not find very amusing. I was convinced the police would ambush us at any moment.

#2

One day, I was hanging out with my friend Brother A when police burst into his apartment and arrested him. I was taken into the bedroom and searched, but nothing was found on me. The next day, police came to my house and arrested me for selling drugs.

#3

The west exodus of my tribe, the Jacksons, began in the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. It demanded envisioning a world beyond the one that had been constricted. It required believing I could thrive outside of where I was born.

#4

The Jacksons were not a wealthy tribe. My great-grandfather Samuel Bubba Andrew Jackson Sr. was born in 1908 in Ada, Alabama. He married his first wife, Lillian Dora Arrington, and supported her and his son by selling shoes and Watkins products door-to-door. He moved to Portland with his second wife, Mama Edie, in 1958.

#5

I was born in 1975, the first great-grandchild for Mama Edie and Bubba. The House on Sixth Avenue was my home. I loved playing in the yard with the cherry tree and the plum and pear trees.

#6

The author’s great-grandmother, God rest her soul, would sound a trumpet from heaven if she got wind that I had read word one of Nietzsche’s The Antichrist, in which he claims that the Christians had weakened the concept of God by recasting the Hebrews’ God of Israel into the god of every man and god of a people.

#7

The African Americans who escaped slavery and made it to the North believed that the true chosen ones were the righteous who chose themselves.

#8

I boarded a one-way flight to New York, and spent hours up, up, and wondering what would become of me in this new land. I felt sticky-damp heat of a kind I hadn’t felt in life, and I followed the signs for taxis past desperate-looking drivers.

#9

The role of a father is extremely important for boys, and it is up to them to find a way to get one if they don’t have one. They must open themselves up to the guidance of father-like figures in their lives.

#10

I had a father, and he was a product of the men in my life who had been there for me