Do you guys remember the TV show on A&E entitled: “Intervention?” A few years back, my wife and I were watching the show, which follows around drug addicts, drunkards, hookers, strippers, pimps, the homeless, panhandlers, and other low-lives in the days preceding their “intervention” by concerned family and friends.
The subject of this particular episode was a now-elderly black boxer named “Rocky Lockridge” (who was briefly the super featherweight champion in the 1980’s). In the episode, Lockridge is portrayed as a crack-cocaine addict living in abandoned buildings in some New Jersey-based hellhole. Twenty years prior, Lockridge tells the tale of how he knocked-up some black girl and abandoned her with their two sons while he lived the “fast life” of a boxing celebrity.
Anyway, the two sons, now in their early 20’s, confront Lockridge (who they haven’t seen in years) and berate him at the intervention for his “absentee fatherhood,” an omnipresent and venerable tradition in the black “community.” Suddenly, in one of the most shocking, surreal, bizarre, and side-splittingly humorous moments in television history, Lockridge emits a high-pitched, primeval, baby-like wail that one must simply hear to fully appreciate…
[video=youtube;7pX8xz7MSi0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pX8xz7MSi0[/video]