Myron Clifton
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I remember going to welfare office with my mom and watching her have to justify being poor to the white lady who would decide if we could have food stamps. Her sneering questions about why my mom had 3 kids, why she only had seasonal work, and why she didn’t sell her wedding ring
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Mom calmly answered every question for herself and my disappeared father who was out on the streets somewhere

The lady’s supervisor, a white man, came to punctuate the insults by telling mom she was pretty enough to keep a man so he couldn’t understand why she needed food stamps
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Myron Clifton
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This Spout is about my mom, but it’s also about Fani Willis, and Black women in America.

I’ve written before that Black women are founding mothers of this nation. They’ve birthed and nursed three nations -one black, one white, one mixed -not always by choice.
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The most diametrically opposed demographic is white men and Black women.

One most loyal gop one the most loyal democrat

Until white men specifically see Black women, specifically, as their equal this nation will never advance or progress.

We think it’s white men vs Black men
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It’s not. And it has never been despite what we’ve learned & been taught

It is white men vs Black women

Fani Willis, VP Harris, Megan Markle, Beyonce, to little unknown Black girls in society-they are targets for the worst America has to offer

I weep for them and as much as I can feel their pain
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Julie BlueWave
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How awful and difficult for you to witness this as a child ❤️‍🩹
01:34 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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✨Shell Russell-Nelson
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As first uttered by Malcolm X in a speech, "The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman." May, 1962
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Sheilah Hayden
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My very first summer job was at the Minnesota Department of Public Welfare and part of my job was telling various Minnesota county welfare case workers that NO, you cannot cut off assistance because "you don't like the look of them."
I was 13 and that was a HUGE eye opener for me at a young age.
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TJ 1010333
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The judgement is real. I grew up poor and my mother is that Whyte woman. I just don't get it. Maybe bc I i worked minimum wage jobs for half of my life. My mom didn't work until she and my father divorced.
06:22 PM - Feb 15, 2024
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TheQuietOne
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The everyday humiliations we put people through just because they're poor is a disgrace. From the white people who put down your mom to the people in the grocery line looking down at a woman using WIC to feed her children. Being poor isn't a moral failing, it's just not having enough cash.
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Marie Jamison
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I was a college student working part time at a grocery store. First time I heard of WIC or saw food stamps. I saw the shame in the faces at the register. The manager was a complete jerk. I grew up so much on that job. Bending rules to allow mothers to purchase whole milk when it called for 1%.
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