The Pacman Plan

The Pacman Plan is the story of a struggle for reparations for African Americans. This is the first fiction work written on the subject of reparations. The Pacman Plan is a story of a grassroots movement that starts from a website. Initially it starts out as a political movement. Reverend Solomon Williams is the handsome, charismatic leader of one of the largest churches in the South. Reverend Williams becomes the national leader of a movement whose origin is from a website. Reverend Williams fights not only for the movement but to be the man his father was afraid to be. He fights to be a man of faith, a man who promotes social change. He also struggles with the temptation of the power that comes with the pulpit. The second leader, to the disbelief and surprise of everyone involved is Joe Louis Brown. Joe Louis Brown is a man of the shadows, a man of the underworld. He proclaims to have started the website and the plan to correct the deeds of his past. He claims to want to give young black males of the street something to believe in. He says he wants to make the reparations movement the modern day civil rights cry that unites all African Americans. Just as his namesake, the Brown Bomber, was the light of hope for a pass generation of African Americans, Joe Louis Brown becomes the voice of black youth and those outcasts from society. But, Joe Louis Brown believes that the only way to change America is with the gun.