{"id":9416,"date":"2018-09-11T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/2018\/09\/11\/brothers-in-the-hood\/"},"modified":"2021-04-24T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T20:09:44","slug":"brothers-in-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/brothers-in-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers in the Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9029 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dank2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\n\n\n\nDan Kempner\nContributing Writer<\/strong><\/pre>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s a classic scene in <i>Good Will Hunting<\/i> where a young Matt Damon\u2019s character is challenged by his girlfriend to reveal something &#8211; anything &#8211; about his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have lots of brothers or sisters?\u201d Minnie Driver\u2019s Skylar asks and eventually he answers that he does. Twelve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do <i>not <\/i>have twelve big brothers,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI swear to God. I swear to God. I\u2019m lucky thirteen, right here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know all their names?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I &#8230; yeah, they\u2019re my brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are they called?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And of course, without hesitation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny and Brian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay it again,\u201d Skylar demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny and Brian,\u201d he responds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Marky, Ricky, Danny...Robbie, Johnny and Brian. And Willy.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djrH9GR9xO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>What makes this charming vignette powerful, we learn later, is that it is fiction. Will has no brothers, no sisters, no family at all. The brotherhood in his life all comes from a cadre of friends from his neighborhood who, in the words of Robin Williams\u2019 psychologist, are family who would <em>\u201clie down in fuckin&#8217; traffic\u201d<\/em> for him. One thing seems clear from this scene at least: Will felt that made-up brothers were better than none.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid who had no brothers, I thought that to be true. I had no protector and no one to protect. An older brother might have kept me safe, raised my cach\u00e9, and perhaps guided me in the crises all little boys encounter. And I watched other brothers figure out what that really meant as our family\u2019s friends and neighbors had more and more kids, and as we moved from place to place.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I remember vividly, as a somewhat larger and more mature 11-year-old than most, the time Mickey, a smallish kid and the neighborhood bully, was beating up on my friend Gary from down the block.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>\u201c<em>Okay you fucker, that\u2019s it! I\u2019m gonna go get my big brother Joey, who knows Karate, to kick your ass. You\u2019d better watch yourself, kid. Kid! He\u2019s gonna get you, you little bastard<\/em>.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gary\u2019s family was important to me, not the least because they had a color television on which I was frequently invited to watch the Maple Leafs games. In those days &#8220;color&#8221; was more like the northern lights than the digital perfection of today, garish hues shifting and changing randomly. Huge &#8220;rabbit ear&#8221; antennae needed constant attention. They had to be moved left and right, back and forth, and they invariably keeled over at some point into the soup or knocking over your Coca Cola. The tin-foil balls atop them had to be crushed to exact tolerances so they wouldn\u2019t fall off and roll behind the huge solid-state console. We had to sit near the screen, our very electric fields charging the aurora to new heights of greens and reds. But at least our bodies discouraged the ubiquitous screen ghosts, and we were close enough to monkey constantly with the &#8220;vertical&#8221; dial, which made viewing such a misery when the weather was bad. But it <i>was<\/i> color, and the rest of us didn\u2019t have it, and we could watch the Leafs even if their blue uniforms were tinted a hideous electric-lime shade never found in nature.<\/p>\n<p>That made an invite to Gary\u2019s house highly desirable.<\/p>\n<p>Gary, though, was a blusterer: a barrel-shaped weenie with a loud mouth who needed occasional rescuing from a cruel and indifferent world. Now and then I was the Galahad who happened by and tilted with whatever large and dangerous knight had decided Gary\u2019s whining and accusations did not merit forbearance. This time it was Mickey.<\/p>\n<p>Now why an undersized little shit like Mickey was able to terrorize the neighborhood can be rendered down to a simple cry, one we all feared to hear when things didn\u2019t go his way on the playground or in a dispute. The cry was this: \u201c<em>Okay you fucker, that\u2019s it! I\u2019m gonna go get my big brother Joey, who knows Karate, to kick your ass. You\u2019d better watch yourself, kid. Kid! He\u2019s gonna get you, you little bastard<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On this particular day, the basketball game was especially contentious in front of Bob\u2019s house. Now, <i>that<\/i> house may have been the most important one on the block for me, other than my own. Bob was a grownup with a wife and baby who loved to play with the kids almost any time he was home. He had a basketball backboard and net &#8211; the only ones within a mile radius of us, perhaps, outside of the school gymnasium &#8211; nailed above his garage door. We were allowed to get the ball from his wife, Brenda, and play even when Bob was not home. But the real value in Bob\u2019s house was not discovered until I was asked to babysit one evening: just hang out, watch TV and keep an eye on the little kid just in case &#8211; here\u2019s Brenda\u2019s mom\u2019s number if you need it, we\u2019ll try to call from the theater if there\u2019s a working phone, be home by eleven and so on.<\/p>\n<p>That was the plan. Until I saw the <i>Playboy<\/i> magazines piled carelessly &#8211; brazenly &#8211; on the coffee table. I had never seen one up close before. We didn\u2019t have such things in my home. I saw these up close, very close, for most of the night. And got paid for it. I loved going to Bob\u2019s house. God help them if there had been a real emergency. I certainly had no idea what to do.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So on this particular day we\u2019re playing roundball and the rules, as often happened, were in dispute. Gary loudly brayed his opinion on one side and Mickey shrilled on the other. Some of the kids saw what was coming and took off. I stayed and caught the punch heading for Gary\u2019s ear in my left hand before it landed. I held Mickey\u2019s fist in mine, grabbed the other which was swinging wildly, and held that too. Mickey struggled but he was just too small. He raged and wriggled until finally tears of frustration were leaking from his eyes. Predictably Gary, that loudmouthed weenie who fancied himself safe for the moment, got an inch from Mickey\u2019s wet, red face and taunted him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGo home, you fool!\u201d I bawled, but the damage was done: Gary had seen me humiliate Mickey and that was not tolerable: <u>it was about to be Big Brother time.<\/u><\/p>\n<div>As Gary\u2019s plump bottom retreated, even as he continued to shout epithets over his shoulder, Mickey said the dreaded words through his tears. \u201cMy brother Joey knows Karate (sob!). He\u2019s going to kick your ass. You\u2019re dead, Kempner (Sniff).\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This was my first potential brush with mortality. With the threat of someone truly bigger and stronger who really could hurt me, I sought out my friend Brian, not my closest chum but for some reason the one I turned to this time. At his urging we both went to see our guidance counselor at school the first free period next day. I did not tell my parents, though they were as loving and supportive as parental units could be. Perhaps I instinctively knew there was no running from this one, that it was a dilemma I must solve or get hurt trying. This was my neighborhood. This older Judo-chopping bogey man lived six houses away. Instead I took my friend and my American flag shirt, pink jeans and Keds up to the second floor to talk to Mr. Randall who listened intently. He had no real solution because there was none, save to drive Brian and me home that day with an offer to do the same until things calmed down.<\/div>\n<p>A day passed, and another, and I flitted around the neighborhood when I had to go out at all. Brian stayed close and on the third afternoon, as we entered an alley, we heard Joey\u2019s voice calling from the mouth of the street. Instinctively we both fled, pelting away down the alley. Yet after maybe ten long, frantic strides, I pulled up short. I turned, and my guts turned with me, but there was nothing for it, I knew. Running, truly or metaphorically, was not an option.<\/p>\n<p>So I walked steadily back up the alley and stood at bay in front of the much older and larger Joey. Brian, I knew, had paused in place, like one of those <i>Star Trek <\/i>moments where the crew is caught in a time distortion while only the main characters still have volition to cope with the emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Joey looked down at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey,\u201d he said, talking out of the side of his mouth. \u201cDon\u2019t worry about it. Don\u2019t pay any attention to my kid brother, he\u2019s an ass. Okay? I\u2019m not gonna hurt you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what, if anything, I said, but I walked home next to Brian with a greater sense of pride than I remember before and possibly since. I had saved my friend from a beating, although the likely cost was known to me, and at the last extremity had faced my fate and walked towards it calmly.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shame, in some ways, that my finest hour came in 1971. Yet so it was.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s probable that, if I\u2019d had a big brother I would not have acted as I did. I would likely have run to him for protection and my best moment would have evaporated with a little sigh and boiled off into the atmosphere. It is also clear that the Big Brother of Mickey\u2019s fantasies was just that: a tool to help a little boy act bigger. Under test, his own conception of brotherhood also wafted &#8211; a few molecules at a time &#8211; towards the stratosphere. Finally, it is abundantly clear that If I\u2019d had an older brother to threaten kids with, I might have been an even bigger shit than Mickey.<\/p>\n<p>In short, as Mickey and I both learned, the fantasy of brothers &#8211; whether you actually have one or not &#8211; may be chimerical. If Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny or, yes, Brian, had actually been there, we might have had some rare times &#8230; but perhaps it\u2019s best this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Kempner Contributing Writer There\u2019s a classic scene in Good Will Hunting where a young Matt Damon\u2019s character is challenged by his girlfriend to reveal something &#8211; anything &#8211; about his family. \u201cDo you have lots of brothers or sisters?\u201d Minnie Driver\u2019s Skylar asks and eventually he answers that he does. 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