America 1982-Chapter 341 - 28: Things Are Getting Interesting_3

"Wait a minute, what do you mean by ’Georgia and her husband have fallen out with five of Carroll’s children’? Didn’t her husband die?" Tommy, with his keen sense of detection, caught the issue in Sean’s words and asked. As a public relations specialist, Sean wouldn’t make such an exaggerated mistake in conversation.

Sean provided an answer to Tommy’s confusion, "Yes, the one who died was her ex-husband. This woman just turned sixty this year, but she’s already been married six times. Carroll was her fifth husband, and she remarried a white man much younger than herself three months after Carroll’s death. They haven’t had the wedding yet, but that doesn’t stop her from fighting for the inheritance as a widow of her former husband."

"This woman must not be white; even those lower-class white women in Warwick wouldn’t have such exaggerated desires, as if they always need something stuffed down there," said Tommy, wide-eyed after hearing Sean’s explanation, with an admiring sigh.

Sean nodded, "You’re exactly right, she’s of mixed black and white heritage, and it seems she was also a beauty queen when she was younger."

"So, the plan is to find a way to approach that black widow who can’t keep still down there and deceive her under the guise of BTTV, convincing her to give us the broadcasting rights for the new season’s away games but actually pass them on to NBC, right?" Tommy summarized the news Sean had brought back and asked.

"The gist of it is right, but I need to stress that it’s partnership, not deception," Sean said.

Tommy continued to ask, "Were her dead ex-husband Carroll and his first wife both white?"

"Carroll had Jewish heritage, and his first wife was of Germanic descent."

"Is the widow rich now?"

"Of course, she has a private stash of about two or three million, otherwise why would a man in his forties be willing to *&^% a sixty-year-old black granny?" 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"What about those five children?"

"They’re not as rich as she is; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to reach a cooperative intent with FOX, but in the end, they are likely to inherit the largest share of the estate. The lawyer’s judgment was that together, they could probably get 85% of the team’s shares."

"Do you think, our Earl would be willing to *&^% a sixty-year-old black granny?" Tommy pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked Sean.

Sean was taken aback, then said, "I don’t think he would; he’s not short on money."

Tommy laughed, "You lack understanding of elite black people; their hearts are even more shameless than those of the lower-class black people. It’s probably similar to the Indians; as long as the price is right, they’d *&^% anything."

"Are you suggesting that we get Earl to offer legal help for free as a pretext to get close to the woman? Tommy, it’s difficult for Earl to get enough ownership of the team for Georgia, and besides, she doesn’t need free legal aid. If it were feasible, NBC would have sorted it out themselves and wouldn’t have thrown us this challenge as an opportunity for collaboration," Sean shrugged, thinking Tommy’s considerations were too simplistic and his words lacked polish.

Tommy’s eyes sparkled as he looked at Sean seriously and said, "I know that Earl alone isn’t enough, but I have more than just Earl—I’ve got an all-powerful girlfriend and her huge network of friends."

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Recently, with Tommy’s financial support, Earl Rash, along with some longtime friends in California, Los Angeles, founded a non-profit organization named Leap Across Race, which advocates boycotting work welfare systems and calls on large corporations to provide equal employment opportunities to American citizens of all skin colors, not just prioritizing white people.

In fact, such organizations exist by the dozen in any given city in America and aren’t anything new. To stand out and make themselves known to the public, it’s simple: you just need capital willing to pay for the cause.

The financial backer behind Leap Across Race, Tommy, is willing to foot the bill. First, he can pay for Earl to appear on various TV networks to present the organization’s ideology. Second, he can make the organization’s slogans become reality.

For instance, Earl listed a bunch of Silicon Valley tech companies’ names on television, telling black viewers that these companies are responding to Leap Across Race’s initiative and are willing to provide computer science students of color with more convenient job interview processes than whites, showing their support for the initiative.

However, Tommy wouldn’t tell the black viewers in front of the TV that ’people of color’ doesn’t only mean black people—the tech companies are actually very welcoming to Asians.

In any case, the main supporting base for this organization encompasses those hurt by the policies of the Reagan Government: people of color, the poor, single professional mothers, the unemployed, workers who lost jobs due to policies, homosexuals, and more.

As Earl appeared on television, many white members of the Democratic Party finally remembered this black man with a sugar daddy as a supporter seemed to be one of them, and naturally, Earl’s circle within the party slowly opened up.

While enjoying success, Earl was hit with a sense of absurdity. Yes, he found this world laughably absurd. Before, he had genuinely provided free legal assistance to his fellow men and had joined the Black Panther with passion to change this unequal country. But back then, nobody gave him a second look. Now, as a middle-aged man who just wanted fame and fortune, he became someone everyone respected, someone worth socializing with, a black person of substance.