Deception Walks among Us!

By M. C. Wayman

It is important for America to move forward in solving racism, but why is it so hard for people to come together?

Deception Walks among Us! is about an elderly black man commenting on what he sees happening in today's society. It's a short book about what he believes will have a continuous effect between Blacks and Whites if the issues concerning both are not appropriately addressed by those who have the power to make changes. It's a cross-cultural perspective of footsteps in an individual's journey in life, which includes the family's environment, the neighborhood, the church as a building for God's family, the job environment, and the choice of education.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098094010

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

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Deception

Walks among Us!

M. C. Wayman

ISBN 978-1-0980-9400-3 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-0980-9401-0 (digital)

Copyright © 2021 by M. C. Wayman

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

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To my wonderful wife, Sandra Elaine Welch Wayman; three beautiful children, Michelle E., Erica L., and Michael C.; three loving grandchildren, Briana, Eric, and Amaya; and my dog, Pepper Rico.

A Job Well Done

Give me my flowers and praises while I am alive

So I may grow wise and thank you accordingly.

Do not wait until the day I die to say A job well done!

Because those words will do me no good, Because I am gone!

When I get to heaven and see all my family and friends,

Then

God

will say, "Well done, well done, my

Son

!"

—M. C. Wayman, MA, BS, AA (November 26, 1988), awarded Outstanding Achievement in Poetry

Chapter 1

The Author

My name is M. C. Wayman. I was born in 1949 in Youngstown, Ohio. My parents migrated to the North in the middle of 1939. My mother was a housewife, and my father worked in the steel industry as a blast furnace worker. I did not realize that my parents had very little education until I entered the elementary school’s second grade. My mother and my father could not read or write. They depended and trusted on members of their family, friends, and the landlord who could. At the age of eight, I was writing letters to other relatives, filling out money orders, paying bills, etc. for them. I taught my father, who knew little about first-grade arithmetic, to read on a first-grade level and to print/sign his name. His father believed that a Black man needed only a little education to survive. My mother knew how to add and subtract some small numbers from her mother when buying groceries and items from the general store—from the symbols and pictures on items which she remembered and how their names were pronounced. But she was not taught how to read or write. Her father believed a woman’s place was in the fields during harvesttime and at home—cooking, raising the children, and doing housework. As I recall, a neighbor did teach her how to write and print her name. Later, my wife taught her to read on a first-grade level while I was overseas in 1971. My parents had good common sense and excellent understanding of what was going on within and around their social surroundings.

I enlisted in the United States Air Force (USAF) in December 1968 and retired from the USAF at the end of March 1989, after having served for twenty years and three months. During my military career, I earned an associate’s degree in business management technology in 1979, a bachelor’s