Myles Away From Heaven

Those who wanted to be gods joined the Black Iris and followed the basic principles of unity that was taught by Myles and the four other leaders of the Black Iris.

Jean, also known as Mister Haiti, was his roommate from college. They both played basketball and Myles had won Jean a championship, something he had never done before in basketball. He was from Connecticut; his parents made him go to the schools where education was more important than sports. His parents had raised him as a Seventh Day Adventist, so he escaped to the south to get away from them and ended up as Myles’ roommate. Myles noticed how he had a passion for helping the youth, so he placed him in charge of all of the affairs of African males eighteen years of age and younger.

Bobby was Myles’ childhood friend from high school. They challenged each other for good grades in the ninth grade, because one believed he was smarter than the other. Up until their junior year they rivaled each other, placing bets on report cards. During their senior year, they gave up on being competitive and decided to share their knowledge. They found out that they had like minds, except Bobby was gifted when it came to science, while Myles was into law. They both had a fascination with outer space. Bobby took his fetish for the skies a lot further than Myles; he invested his money in space equipment. Bobby was gifted at science that is why Myles used him to teach science and technology to his people.

John was an orphan who his mother took in when his parents died. John’s mother was a victim of domestic violence. Both of John’s parents were killed in front of him. His father had shot and killed his mother before taking his own life. John was fifteen at the time of the murder-suicide. Myles admired how strong he stayed through the tragedy, so Myles used him to mentor people who felt like life was being cruel to them. John was also a comedic genius, which was another reason why people loved him.

Shannon was the key to The Black Iris. He was Myles’ oldest friend. They were friends with each other since they were boys. They both grew up on the east side of urban Savannah, Georgia where the drug dealers worked at perfecting the drug game. They ran the streets together when they were younger, stealing and occasionally selling drugs. Myles gave up the street game for basketball, because his heart wasn’t into it. When he played basketball he was introduced to different kinds of Black men, which fascinated him. Shannon didn’t take the school route; instead he took the roads of the streets. He eventually worked his way into the drug game, where he was internationally known for drug smuggling at age nineteen, just a year after he started. He brought influential urban leaders to the Black Iris.

On June 17, 2006, Myles’ highly proclaimed book, Honest Ignorance: The American Dream, sold two million copies in its first week and by mid August, it had become the bestselling book in ten years. Everyone was talking about the book, both the rich and the poor.

With the money and fame that Myles received from his book, he introduced our brotherhood, “The Black Iris,” on September 29, 2006. His purpose in starting the Black Iris - Intellectuals Residing in Savannah- was to promote unity amongst African men in America, through logic and reasoning. He chose the Iris because of what the pagans believed about, “the all seeing eye.” To him, knowledge was the key. The Black Iris’ motto was, “the more you know, the less you don’t know.”

He taught all Black men who listened to him that knowledge could make them a god, and prove it to them in the Bible.

He used his national exposure to introduce the world to the Black Iris. Wherever the media wanted him, he was there like a boy band along with his four friends. He was a book star, something the poor neighborhoods weren’t normally drawn to. He was different and the media wanted to exploit his talents. Every time a Black man identifies himself with God, it draws controversy, more so than White Jesus. He didn’t mind defending himself because he stood behind his knowledge. Africans were drawn to Myles because he was able to frustrate and anger those who patronized him and his beliefs. He stood behind his words like a great wall.

With all the money Myles was making he decided to make his brothers millionaires, also. The money from the book sales wasn’t going to last long after their immediate families were taking care of. The funds from the interrogating interviews and the money from the cliché sitcoms money would eventually dry up, too.

Myles decided to test his fame and fortune by going into his own businesses…