Columnist Cary Clack misses his Afro. He even wrote a love letter to it once. And if there were a patron saint of the Afro, it should be Willie Lee Morrow, Clack writes. Here’s why.
There’s no mention of Afros in any of Benedict’s bios, but in some artistic renderings, he does appear to be working a little ’fro. Benedict is the patron saint of, among other things, African missions, African Americans, Black missions and Black people. It’s as if the Catholic Church said, “Let’s just give everything Black to Benedict until we get some more Black saints up in here.”at 82. Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
As a kid, I wanted an Afro, but my maternal grandmother was against it. When my mother, aunt and other grandmother talked her into it, I started wearing one at 12. A few months later, my uncle married into a Mexican American family, and when my brother and I went to the reception in Hondo, the other kids thought we were members of the Jackson Five. My Afro was never as big as peak Jackie, Jermaine and Michael but somewhere between Marlon and early Michael.
I owned an assortment of steel and plastic prong Afro picks, including foldable ones with red and green handles representing Africa, and others with handles the shape of a Black Power fist. I also had steel rakes, which we called “cake cutters” because they were weapons.
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