Tagged: poor

Homeless Outreach with Afropunk & Care More.

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today, i got the opportunity to meet some pretty cool people by volunteering with an incredible non-profit organization by the name of Care More. Care More was founded last year by then 23 year old Mercedes Smith. Mercedes has been going around to the homeless in cities like NYC and Philly with the goal of making them feel more human by acknowledging their existence, talking and providing them with words of encouragement and giving them care packages that she’s made. the experiences from today reaffirm that we have to start caring less about ourselves and more for each other & the greater good of our society. it’s really not a hard thing to do…in the near future, Care More will be expanding to cities like Atlanta and Washington, D.C. i look forward to helping out again and i encourage everyone to do the same!!

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Photos by Bill Spencer (who is rocking the Fake Socialite NYC shirt in the last photo).

“It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle — the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly to get rid of the disease of racism…Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ”Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. March 31, 1968.

so for the third time, i won my food stamps hearing without actually having the hearing. however, this time i insisted on having the hearing. then i won a fourth time. hahhahaha.

In the beginning, she told me the hearing was being recorded. When I demanded a copy of the recording towards the end, she acted confused and told me she didn’t know how I would be able to obtain a copy. Lol.

Also, thanks to the security guard for confirming the judge didn’t want to have a hearing when I insisted on having one.