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After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
Snitch: After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
A New Orleans pastor does redevelopment work after a hurricane, but it forced to make more and more compromises to his vision.
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After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions. Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.
If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search "After Dinner Conversation Magazine")
36 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2020
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About the author
Charles Williams
9 books14 followersCharles worked as an urban planner in Louisiana and Virginia before obtaining his MBA in Real Estate Finance from the Wharton School. Thereafter, he financed large-scale commercial real estate (apartments, condominiums, land development, office buildings, shopping centers, and hotels/motels) over a 25-year period in 15 states. Many of the housing projects were controversial, like the one at the center of Aftermath. As a native of Louisiana, Charles is very knowledgeable about the history of political corruption in his home state. Charles lived in New Orleans for ten years and currently resides in Baton Rouge.
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March 2, 2023
Morality!
In this short book we explore the relationship between a pastor and his community.
The pastor has been dipping his hand into the till to get community projects completed.
He has not always behaved morally. In the past he greased his hands with financial help and others greased their hands with him to get their projects completed.
Now he is stuck, but he’s not sure if he’s going in the right direction. What should he do?
Four stars. 💫💫💫💫
In this short book we explore the relationship between a pastor and his community.
The pastor has been dipping his hand into the till to get community projects completed.
He has not always behaved morally. In the past he greased his hands with financial help and others greased their hands with him to get their projects completed.
Now he is stuck, but he’s not sure if he’s going in the right direction. What should he do?
Four stars. 💫💫💫💫
August 17, 2023
“Clarence did not like being dependent on white people.”
Set in New Orleans in 2007.
Reverend Clarence Washington has been the senior pastor for nearly forty years at Gethsemane Baptist Church. Situated in the neighborhood of Bacaupton, it’s one of the largest black churches in the entire city.
The metropolis is still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; Reverend Washington’s congregation has severely dwindled due to the large exodus.
Joe Pacello is the man the mayor has Clarence working with. Joe is affluent. And white. Clarence does not like those things. His racism is very…sad, honestly. Clarence is super involved in the black community, and seems to genuinely want to help “his people.” I guess he never got the memo that white people are “God’s children” as well.
Would readers find Clarence sympathetic if he were brown? Or Asian? Or…God forbid…white?
Interesting ending. Unfortunately, the extreme racialization and heavy racism, throughout the story, color the narrative in a negative manner.
“…I’ve got to have some white support, and anybody but atheists will do.”
Set in New Orleans in 2007.
Reverend Clarence Washington has been the senior pastor for nearly forty years at Gethsemane Baptist Church. Situated in the neighborhood of Bacaupton, it’s one of the largest black churches in the entire city.
The metropolis is still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; Reverend Washington’s congregation has severely dwindled due to the large exodus.
Joe Pacello is the man the mayor has Clarence working with. Joe is affluent. And white. Clarence does not like those things. His racism is very…sad, honestly. Clarence is super involved in the black community, and seems to genuinely want to help “his people.” I guess he never got the memo that white people are “God’s children” as well.
Would readers find Clarence sympathetic if he were brown? Or Asian? Or…God forbid…white?
Interesting ending. Unfortunately, the extreme racialization and heavy racism, throughout the story, color the narrative in a negative manner.
“…I’ve got to have some white support, and anybody but atheists will do.”
March 5, 2025
Reverend Clarence Washington is the senior pastor of a Baptist church. After Hurricane Katrina, he's fighting urban decay and flight. He's taken kickbacks and paid protection money to safeguard his territory. Now that he's being backed into a corner by a corrupt businessman, does he have the courage to put a stop to it?
December 28, 2020
Black pastor in a needy part of New Orleans. Paying protection money to prevent crime in his neighborhood seems a reasonable compromise but paying kick-backs to white entrepreneurs for expediting urban renewal just feels wrong.
May 21, 2021
Snitches get stiches.
Author freebie. Suitable for all ages. Parable or morality play about when corrupt people should inform on each other. A minister in New Orleans is being squeezed on a rebuilding deal.
Author freebie. Suitable for all ages. Parable or morality play about when corrupt people should inform on each other. A minister in New Orleans is being squeezed on a rebuilding deal.
June 16, 2020
This story wasn't even ok. It was too long for this series. The moral dilemma element was literally one tiny paragraph in the whole long story, and the question at hand wasn't even about the main character. I don't think this story belongs in this series.
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