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Only one thing missing in this tale (and it might have been present in the original happenings): the Lord.
Fathers are critical to raising children just as mothers are. Each provide the shaping and perspective each child needs as the grow through the different stages of their maturation process.
People raised without fathers are cheated out of a very critical part of that process and the effects usually persist throughout their lives. A man who didn't have a father to teach them ends up being an incomplete man and the effects of that incompletion ripple can through succeeding generations.
How very inspiring. No wonder Larry Elder is such a wise man. He was raised by one. And apparently his father had to draw it out of himself, having been rejected and abandoned by his parents. Elder doesn’t explain how his dad lived between getting kicked out at age 13 and joining the Marines, but doubtless the Corps was very influential in forming his character. Maybe those interim years were when his father had worked as a railroad porter, then an elite job for blacks in the railroads, with uniforms and polite behavior sometimes rewarded by tips. Some teenage boys look like grown men. Porters and in fact all railroad laborers took great pride in their work. I know, because my own orphaned Irish Catholic grandfather and his brothers worked on the railroads , my granddad from the age of seven (yes, 7) as an errand boy, retiring at 65 as a master mechanic.
It is not a death sentence...it is a wounding.
Larry Elder is an American treasure ! Thanks !