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Take a look at Part 1 of our interview with Redge where he talks about being shot at the age of 6, and how his father committed suicide within 48 hours of being shot.
Getting shot at 6 years old…I could not imagine! And so for me to get shot on that 12th of February and then within 48 hours my Father would commit suicide.
Redge has spoken across the nation to youth and adults alike. We were at the same hospital- upstairs is me in the ICU and downstairs they pronounced my father [had] passed away.
“I always say it’s three stages- it’s tragedy, strategy from God and then you have victory, and so, I’ve been living in victory”.
Check back the full interview below, and next week we will share part 2 of our interview with Redge Green as he talks about his the discrimination against paraplegic actors in Hollywood, on working with Stevie Wonder, and what he’s doing now to educate folks on paraplegics or physically challenged individuals.
Each time Redge speaks he inspires youth and lets them know there is a better way besides the life of drugs and violence.
Green said at first, he responded like everyone else; he said I’d just spend life feeling sorry for myself, but then he said to himself "Wait a minute Redge, that's insane!!!...
He’s very animated and a pleasure to interview. He advises our youth to get an education for it is the vehicle to get them everywhere.
During the course of his striving "to be somebody," Redge became a professional actor. It hit my right shoulder, ricocheted off my collar bone and hit my spinal cord and paralyzed my legs.
How did you deal with that?
I almost died, I lost most of my blood laying there waiting for the ambulance to come and pick me up.
Maybe I’ll be like that man in the Bible who they say was blind for 38 years and then boom he could see (LOL)!
During the month that you were in the hospital and didn’t know that your father had passed, were you wondering why he hadn’t come to visit you?
Yeah I was asking that all the time: ‘Where is dad?’ Why hasn’t he come to see me?’ But I knew that he had gone out of town and as a kid you’re not gauging Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday when you’ve got machines hooked all up to you.
We were told that he had died of a heart attack, and for years until people started to say “boy your dad was too young to have a heart attack at 26, 27 years old.” [When] I got older my questions changed. One got hit…we saw when he got hit in the mouth and that was pretty interesting to us because the closest thing we ever saw to anything happening like that was cartoons.
On the morning of the 14th he’d come back in town from visiting his biological dad at the time. That had to have been devastating and did you know the person who used you as a shield?
I didn’t know him personally, my Grandparents did. Few have left his dynamic delivery without being touched, desirous of personal change, or in awe of his wisdom.
Like many of our youth today, Redge experienced great obstacles in his life.
To be 26 years old and have five kids, two with disabilities, one with one of her eyes missing, that was a lot back in those days.
Over the years I’ve gained back a lot of my feeling [in my legs] and I still believe that maybe one day, who knows?
So death was a sting to my side. His dynamic delivery is rooted in a foundation of research and experience, which provides his listeners with accurate information that not only entertains but enlightens and empowers.
His oratory has become driven by excellence.
Green overcame obstacles to become a professional actor at the age of 13 when he starred in a film titled “Able To Do"(1976).
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Redge Green is a riveting, professional, natural-born orator who leaves his audience eager for more.