Chasing Joseph by Jamall Joseph D. Robinson

When making the decision whether to tell my story in print, I have to admit, I struggled. I knew that it meant I would have to share all of the events of my life until now. And I knew that it meant I would have to reveal all of it - some of which I’m not proud to be associated with no matter how I feel wronged or victimized due to a rush to judgment by the media. It’s ironic that I would even want to reveal anything since I have been so fiercely protective of my image in light of recent events. To this day, I have been hung public-squarestyle, by the press, by strangers, by myself even, but mostly by simple folks who believe all that they read in the papers. Even the courts are more just, in my opinion, than the mobs that rushed to judgement. I understand the totality of pain that was caused by my former associates. I also understand my responsibility in being even peripherally involved with these monsters this is the tail of a reborn man.