John F. Coffey
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Product Description Me and the Education of Johnnie Negro is the story of a disenchanted 75 year-old retired black widower of the middle classes who i
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s attracted to a much younger, just off welfare woman, Johnnie Negro, who has two children and whose husband is in prison on a drug conviction. Though the old man has lived the good life, he resents the lies, deceits and scams that have supported the system he has lived in which figured in his success. He questions the moral integrity of the system. He passes his revised thinking about ecology, education, history, politics, race, religion, etc., on to Johnnie. and seeks to educate her to the actual realities of life as he has experienced it. Johnnie becomes a successful, partially anglicized businesswoman. The old man leaves for Asia where he hopes to return to the earth in a natural way. Me and the Education of Johnnie Negro is a new kind of novel. It not for those who seek escape in literature. About the Author The author served in the USArmy during World War II and in the government for 35 years before retiring in 1975. During this time, he kept busy writing several articles for national magazines, coaching men's and women's basketball teams at the Sealand Airforce Base in England, participating in debates, teaching, and administering army education programs in Salzburg, Austria and Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern, Germany. He developed and organized a skills center at Federal City College in Washington, DC in 1968. After retiring, he served as a consultant at the Howard University School of Medicine for one year and director of the office of human relations at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for one year. He headed his own race relations consultant firm, Coffey, Zimmerman and Associates, Inc. in Washington, DC for ten years. This is his first book. ". . . I found the book interesting, insightful, relevant, shocking, depressing, stimulating, pessimistic, positive, negative, gloomy, hopeful and maddening - - in short, very much like our lives . . . It is powerfully written, and is probab;ly the most honest document I have ever read. . . . I hope you soon find a publisher so that a much wider public can become acquainted with you and your critique of the situation we are in as the millennium comes to an end. Robert Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. "I feel that the truths expressed by John F. Coffey in his book Me and the Education of Johnnie Negro should be a clarion call to those of us who have been lulled to sleep by the comforting lies of those in power."R. Kenneth Sharpe " . . . Me and the Education of Johnnie Negro helped me change the way I think about life; especially Sneaker . . ." James Ralph, MD
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