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Homeless since 1970

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I’ve been homeless since Sept. 29, 1970 — longer than anybody else out here. In those nearly 55 years, I’ve learned: Don’t ask for stuff from people on the street. It’s heartbreaking when they say no, it’s rejection. You don’t wanna ask nobody else, they’re gonna say the same thing.

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Backbone

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One thing about backbones. They rarely develop a consciousness that they are a backbone. Take white women, for example. We don’t realize that we’re the backbone of patriarchy! Or that we willingly or unwillingly support the whole structure that oppresses our fellow bones, ligaments and muscles that would be Black people, any people of color, Native Americans … Fellow women of all descriptions.

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Coffee Shop Discrimination

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There’s a coffee place that discriminated against a deaf person I know and called the police on her because she couldn’t hear. The staff told her she had to come in to order and when she did they called the cops because she was taking too long to order and holding up the line. I will not be buying my coffee at this establishment anymore. I can’t say the name, but it is a chain and it is a famous chain where everybody gets their coffee. It’s expensive coffee and you walk up to a window and everything.

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February Art Show

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On Sunday, February 23, the Saint Peter AME Church at 2224 White Creek Pike will be holding a special service at 10 am in celebration of Black History Month.

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Vendor William B. sits in his motorized wheelchair bundled up in a large coat and warm hat.

My Chair Has More Than Nine Lives Like I Do

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In the last four years, my chair has been hit 14 times. Not all of them were presented to the police and not all of them sent me to the hospital. Some people took off before I could get a license plate number or anything. Some of them I was able to block before they took off. The problem to me is that a lot of people are in a hurry to get nowhere out there.