Publisher's Synopsis
The hate crime happened two nights after Christmas in 2005. The wilding spree that terrorized the Woodforest neighborhood in Houston began three months earlier. Night after night for three months, a white supremacist group laughed as they videotaped themselves destroying cars, windshields, house windows, garage doors, mailboxes - they even attacked dogs and cats with fireworks - in a frenzy of social rebellion.
The carnage and rage would take a critical turn. The stakes would be raised. Around 11:30 on the night of December 27 they turned on a young black man named Lloyd Joshua Sams as he walked toward his home. His family was one of only two African American families living in a small suburban subdivision in southeast Texas. Sams is an educated young man, a teacher who speaks eight languages and plays classical piano. That night he found himself landing onto the hood of a charging vehicle, breaking bones in his knee and fracturing a neck vertebra in his spine. His spirit and sense of security were critically damaged as well. This book is a living testimony and testament of the life, death and resurrection of a real young Black man who fought against insurmountable odds to overcome racism and challenging "good ole boy" Dixiecratic systems. In this book, Lloyd Joshua Sams shares his survival of a few hate-filled violent nights and days with Neo Nazi white supremacist wannabes; a group of radicalized lost young men on a quick and downward spiraling road to hell. Lloyd not only offered them forgiveness and redemption, but he also saves their lives in the end - more than once. Lloyd's story was featured on the 20th Century FOX Television Network: Anatomy of a Hate Crime - Bad Night at Woodforest (2-part series), it became a nationally recognized TV broadcast recording and received a Daytime Emmy Award and other accolades in 2009 as it was produced in conjunction with Cristina's Court with Judge Cristina Perez. He is the author of The Art of Uncommon Sense; The Sunshine Came; Already Spoken For, and other literary titles. Lloyd Sams is an accomplished pianist, musician, and composer publishing hundreds of musical works including Straight Black & White - Piano Solos, Counting Sheep - Sleep Like a Baby, In the Key of L, The Soul Café, Keys to the Kingdom - The Hammers of Life, Above Top Secret, Goddess on the Throne and many more. The Road to Redemption is a landmark true story that covers the gamut of forgiveness, fear, trauma, perseverance, and healing. Lloyd Sams is truly a remarkable human being. (c)2023 Lloyd Joshua Sams (P)2023 The Birdwalker Publishing Company (ASCAP)
