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“That made me feel wonderful,” Green says. “I was at a point in my life where I was having a hard time. And to be able to do that, do everything I have to do and get the judge to come sit down with me, I was on it. “And I beat him, too,” he adds with a chuckle. Mitchell didn’t mind taking the loss. “It was just a beautiful
a point to refer to people by their names. “I try to find something that each person has a unique thing about, whether it is their art or their children, or chess, or reading books, or putting together puzzles,” Mitchell says. “You
find something and you build on that strength, because you want them to know that they’re not invisible. And even though they’re adults, they’re still capable of change.” For Green, that unique thing was chess. “That was one of his passions,” Mitchell recalls. “And as he’s been working on his goals … I
thing for us to be together, two Black men playing chess together,” he says. After the game,
Mitchell posted a photo of the game on Facebook, and it was shared more than 200 times. “He won the game. I won his respect,” Mitchell wrote.
heard him talk about it briefly. And I said, ‘Well, let’s just think about us playing chess together. But, in order for me to do that, you have to maintain your goals for yourself and come in with some sobriety and then we will play.’”
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