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...crisis in the Brooklyn household of Morris Silverman. Ten-year-old Belle had announced that she wanted to become an opera star, "not an opera singer, but a star." Papa was appalled. He had not objected to the piano and singing lessons for little Belle, or "Bubbles," as the family called her. He had not even objected when she sang on the radio with Uncle Bob Emory's Rainbow House, and later on the Major Bowes Capital Family Hour. After all, this was the era of Shirley Temple...
...George Jackson was already making it clear that he had no intention of conforming, of diving into his father's wake voluntarily. By then he had already ceased to make any real effort to appease, and had dropped out of school. He had learned the subtle lessons of resistance Papa Davis had offered him far more thoroughly than he had absorbed the passive rituals of St. Malachy's segregated Catholicism. Most important, George Jackson still buoyed the hopes that had been submerged in his father, and had stiffened these hopes into expectations...
...George Jackson, Papa Davis was a model for manhood. Not a mannequin or a cardboard mock-up, but a living and responsive, vulnerable black man of dignity, Papa Davis taught him the distinction between weakness and tenderness, and impressed upon him that for the poor black in America there is not necessarily a valid connection between punishment and crime, nor need there be a separation between himself and his reason. Most importantly, Papa gave him a galvanic sensitivity to the most fertile possibilities of human life, an awareness that efforts were being made to deny most people access to these...
Jackson said later in the letter he wrote after Papa's death...
...type of black man that Robert Jackson is has received more attention than that type that Papa Davis was, yet neither has been exactly over-exposed. In fact, the Robert Jacksons could quite easily be termed the original Inivisible...