"Kill The Black One First" by Michael Fuller

For this reason, while other students were given academic subjects to work on, the young Michael was made to give a talk to his class on “self-reliance,” a quality that was to serve him for life. The adult Michael may attribute much of his moral constitution to “Auntie Margaret” but it would seem even she was in awe of the young Michael who, as a preteen, made unaccompanied annual trips from England to France, to holiday with a pen friend. She encouraged his childhood fascination with police work but when she passed after a cancer diagnosis at 32 – just before she could see him begin life as a police cadet – the young Michael was devastated. He continued to have a relationship with his father that warmed and strengthened over time but was at first, and often, a source of confusion.įuller attributes much of his character to “Auntie Margaret”, the young, British woman who ran “Fairmile Hatch” as the care home in Crawley, a town in south-west England, was called.

The young Michael was raised in a care home after his parents separated and his mother returned to Jamaica, unable to support herself in London.

&quot;Kill The Black One First&quot; by Michael Fuller

"Kill The Black One First" by Michael Fuller