Abraham James Green is the name and I am the hero of this tale. In fact, I totally approve this message. At the time this story took place, I was a student at Milford Hawkins College, a small private school located near the town of Kati, Texas. I was just a tall, good-looking young black man beginning his college career quite enthusiastically at what appeared to be a nice educational institution. I didn't know it at the time but I was on a voyage of self-discovery.
Milford Hawkins College, the setting of my adventurers is a private school with a student body of eighteen thousand persons. It was founded in 1978 by Milford Hawkins, a famous Texan billionaire businessman who has since passed away and entrusted his fortune to a foundation which provided key funding to the institution which bore his name. The school is a fairly decent place. Although the majority of the students are commuters, quite a few of us live in the school's dormitories. Milford Hawkins College has eighteen dorm buildings, nine for men and nine for women. Each dormitory building can house three hundred students. Not being from around here, I had to live in the dormitories, which suited me just fine. Commuting from Los Angeles, California, to Kati, Texas, everyday would have been a drag. Don't you agree?
Milford Hawkins recently started an intercollegiate athletics program. This brought an increase in student enrollment and actually put this small, relatively unknown school on the map. Milford Hawkins currently sponsors Men's Varsity Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Water Polo, Volleyball, Rowing, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Football, Rifle, Wrestling, Ice Hockey, Swimming and Lacrosse along with Women's Varsity Softball, Basketball, Rowing, Cross Country, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Rugby, Field Hockey, Rifle, Ice Hockey, Water Polo, Swimming, Volleyball and Lacrosse. For club sports we have Men's and Women's Squash, Men's and Women's Cycling, Women's Badminton, Men's Rugby and Men's Sumo Wrestling. All of our sports teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division Two.
I joined the school three years after it started a sports program. Before that, I attended the Los Angeles Military Academy, an all-male private High School. Life at L.A.M.A. was fun. I sometimes miss its simplicity. I played Football at the Los Angeles Military Academy and earned myself an athletic scholarship to Milford Hawkins because of it. The Academy was a fun place. A young man's paradise. Most men ought to attend a single-sex school at least once in their lifetime. They might be better men for it. In a single-sex environment, a man is free to be himself. There's quite a lot that men can discover about themselves and their fellow man when members of the opposite sex aren't around. There is a bond between you and your fellow man. Let no one tell you otherwise. I don't just say this because I'm bisexual. Any man, regardless of which way he swings, can benefit from being around intelligent and capable men who are doing positive things with their lives.
Anyhow, at Milford Hawkins College, I had myself some fun. As a six-foot-six, 250-pound athlete, I was an offensive lineman on my high school football team. However, the Head Football Coach at Milford Hawkins College decided that on his team, I'd be a running back. It's my least favorite position. I'm good at offense. Protect the quarterback, that's what I do best. The Coach wouldn't be budged. It's his way or the highway. Oh, well. I just wanted to play football, so I did as I was told. I really hate it when former professional football players become college football coaches. Some of them are decent men. Others get on your nerves because they think they're all that. Oh, well. What can you do?
I went to my Business Administration classes and did the usual things that a college man does. Go to class, survive term papers and deal with campus drama. No, I wasn't Mister Popular on campus. Based on incredibly accurate demographics, Milford Hawkins College had three hundred and ninety black males and four hundred and twenty five black females on its student body. No, we weren't all student-athletes. However, we were a very distinct minority. I miss the Academy. There were lots of highly intelligent and lively young black men there. Unfortunately, this wasn't the Academy. It was a college campus. I tried to make some friends, though. I met this interesting couple. Kyle Hannison and Rhonda Stephens. They were both in my Business Writing Class. We kind of hit it off.
Kyle Hannison was a six-foot-three, big and bulky, brown-skinned and long-haired African-American student from the City of Dallas. He used to play Basketball for Texas Tech but came to Milford Hawkins because they offered a wider range of sports than most colleges and universities in the state. Since then, he'd become a tri-athlete. He was on the Milford Hawkins College Men's Basketball team and also the Men's Ice Hockey team. He also played on the Men's Rugby Club. How about that? The guy loved sports. When he wasn't on the Basketball court, the Gridiron or the Rugby field, he took classes in Psychology.
His girlfriend Rhonda Stephens was something else. A tall and curvy, large young black woman with jet-black skin, gorgeously ethnic features and long, lustrous black hair. She was a big gal who carried her surplus flesh sexily. What the Internet afficionados would call a BBW. This six-foot-two black beauty had a thick body, large breasts, wide hips and what can only be described as a ghetto booty. You've seen the type. Don't make me explain myself. I found her very attractive. Actually, I found both of them incredibly attractive. Rhonda was a member of the Women's Rugby team and also the Vice President of the Minority In Business Club. Like me, she was a Business Administration major. Since we met, I must say that Kyle, Rhonda and I totally hit it off. They were native Texans who were fascinated by my Southern California accent. I loved hanging out with them. We had a lot in common. We were all student-athletes and young black folks in college. Working towards our futures. The way all of us should be. I was happy. At long last, I had made some friends.