Back in 1982, I did not meet Reverend Joe S. Green at Church as you may think, since he was pastor of St. Matthew Baptist Church in Boyce, Louisiana. Our meeting was a little "fire and brimstone", not over religion but politics. I was a candidate for judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeal going through the electoral district asking for votes. When I came upon Joe on lower Third Street in Alexandria, Louisiana, 30 minutes he was confrontational,...