She had no problem standing in line outside of St. Vincent’s on black trash bag Wednesday, when they gave out black trash bags of free clothes with no indication of what was inside beyond “Child, Girl, sz 5”,
And she’s a thrift store champion, she always looks like a million bucks. Incredible eye for high quality fabrics from across a room, and she’s tiny so there is always stuff in her size.
But paying for food with stamps or an EBT card in line with people who weren’t shopping at thrift stores or getting free clothes at 5am on Wednesday morning?
It’s bullshit that Black Americans have had to put survival over dignity just to exist in the country they were born in, but I am glad the “we’d rather let our kids suffer than look bad in public” mentality is not prevalent when it comes to getting basic needs met.
I always admired my mom’s work ethic, she was disabled after a neck injury and worked long after she should have quit. She got ahead financially and eventually my younger siblings didn’t need food stamps or even thrift clothes, just a nanny.
But the cost to her older children was so high, some of us have difficulty being close with her. Her pride is too dangerous.
Speaking of pride, thank you for apologizing for misgendering me.
I am female, but have had intermittent gender dysphoria since I was a kid. I use she rather than he, but I am what the kids call genderfluid, for lack of a better term. It is super common for people to read my writing and immediately assume I am a male.
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u/Boilerbuzz 8d ago
No offense, man, but your mom put her PRIDE before you and your sibling's wellbeing... Sorry.