.treyals writes how the late John Witherspoon was like a father to him, teaching generations how to succeed in a world that doesn’t hand anything to you
. He played Mr. Strickland, the easily annoyed enemy of teenage fun who was determined to shut down this party as if his life depended on it. He turned that into a small, but important, role in 1995'sas Willie Jones, a loud-talking, financially petty father who valued hard work and hated slackers.
But Witherspoon wasn’t just Craig’s father, he was mine by proxy. When he scolded Craig for refusing to eat his cereal without milk, I felt the heat too. Willie checked his son on his privilege; after all, he's pretty lucky — at least he has food to eat, dry or not. He made Craig eat the cereal. But before he even thought about taking a single bite, he had to take out the trash first.
It wouldn’t be until years later that another one of Witherspoon's lessons would impact my life: use your fists, not weapons. After Willie catches Craig with a gun — one that he had procured to protect himself from a probable confrontation with a local drug dealer — he shows his son that his fists are the only real weapons that he needs."You win some and you lose some," he says, holding up his fists,"but at least you live to see another day.
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