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Neighborhood Lines
A Novel By Michael Patrick Murphy
“A story of a Boston friendship that broke cultural boundaries…”
Neighborhood Lines by Author Michael Patrick Murphy
In the heart of Boston in the 1980’s—a city engulfed in turmoil and racial tensions, an unlikely friendship develops between two students at Cathedral High School. Patrick is an Irish-Catholic born leader. His friends follow him with blind allegiance. Nate is a young, disciplined, black athlete—focused on finding his way out of the neighborhood alive. The two young men find themselves on hectic school grounds, in a culture that shuns friendships like theirs.
Through a tragic turn of events, we see stereotypical statuses turned upside down. The contrasting characters display the power of individual choice and response to life’s circumstances. Though the corruption and racism of Patrick and Nate’s Boston culture posed an equal threat to both, their respective choices to pick themselves up, find their resolve, and get past their environment, caused them to rise above it all.
This is the story of a Boston friendship that crossed neighborhood lines, broke cultural boundaries, and propelled two adolescents to rethink the world around them. May we all be impacted by the education this eye-opening read has to offer!
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We are one race.... THE HUMAN RACE
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This scares the hell out of those who seek control over the American people.
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"People say that it can’t work, black and white; well here we make it work, everyday. We have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we remember the Titans."
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Darryl was the victim of a heinous hate crime in 1979 in Boston.
Darryl said, “The color of your skin does not matter to me. What’s in your heart matters.”
And a person’s skin color never did matter to him. I heard him say this to many audiences: “White people didn’t shoot me. Three white people shot me.”
Darryl was a serious athlete and a good student at Jamaica Plain High School in the late 1970s. Like many 15-year-olds, he was not particularly socially conscious. He loved sports and music and girls. He was thinking about how he was going to play for the Patriots.
It all seemed to be on track during his sophomore year when his team went to play Charlestown High School on Sept. 28, 1979. He played well in the first half. While the team was waiting for the second half to start, he was hit by a sniper’s bullet fired by one of three white teenagers from a rooftop. He survived, but as a quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his years.
It might have been easy for Darryl to leave the hospital hating white people, but that isn’t the direction he took. Instead, he devoted the rest of his life to teaching others the transformative power of love.