I received a phone call from Diallo Nkenge Frazier today.  He has a Twitter account and is the author of a book called Revelations of a Warrior, which is described by the publisher, Dorrance, as “insight in to [sic] the mind and the philosophy of [the street fighter]. We may not agree with his objectives, but Revelations of a Warrior is an exposition of the training and the thinking of a pure fighter, the zen of street fighting.”

Read around the publisher’s evasive ad copy and it sounds like the book is a lot of posturing by someone who claims to be, in his “About the Author” blurb, a “street soldier of repute.”

When I answered his call, Mr. Frazier identified himself and told me he was a “52 Blocks” instructor. “I got this number from a student of mine,” he claimed, “who said you requested a history lesson.”

“I think your student is pulling both your leg and mine,” I said, “because he’s probably upset about a YouTube video I did about ’52 Blocks.’”  Mr. Frazier demanded to know how I did my research on the topic, and I explained to him that I examined all of the available online sources as cited in my video.

Mr. Frazier interrupted me several times when I tried to explain to him precisely why anyone would have given him my number.  Finally, he said angrily, “Do you know what Gambian wrestling is? And if you do, please explain it to me.”

At that point, chuckling to myself, I hit “end” on the call.  Never teach a pig to sing, the saying goes — and never try to argue with a true believer in the urban legend of “52 Blocks.”  Such people are so full of anger, so brimming with racially motivated hatred, that the fact that a single fat white guy somewhere in the Northeast dared to say their martial art is contrived and made-up just drives them absolutely nuts.

This morning, as every morning since I posted the video, I deleted more hateful, racist comments from the YouTube page for the video.  These “52 Blocks” thugs amaze me.  I suppose they shouldn’t.