TUESDAY AND ITS HOT

YESTERDAY I KEPT REMEMBERING MY CHILDHOOD AFTER TALKING ABOUT IT WITH A FRIEND ONLINE.

THERE WAS A TIME DURING THE DEPRESSION WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL ABOUT 3 YRS OLD OR SO WHEN WE RAN OUT OF ALL FOOD EXCEPT OATMEAL AND CORNMEAL AND SUGAR. MAMA DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT OUR NEIGHBORS WERE QUITE WELL TO DO THEY WERE ALSO RELATIVES AND HAD MANAGED TO HOLD ONTO THE PROPERTY AND MONEY GRANDPA LEFT THEM.
OUR MOTHER WAS MARRIED TO THIS MAN WHO TALKED HER INTO SIGNING OVER ALL THE PROPERTY GRAMPA GAVE HER OVER TO HIS NAME AND THEN THEY DIVORCED AND HE TOOK IT ALL AND THTA IS HOW WE GOT SO POVERTY RIDDEN. MAMA WASN'T GOOD AT MANAGING HER INHERITANCE.

NOT LONG AGO THIS SAME MAN LEFT ALL THIS FORTUNE TO MY HALF BROTHER AND HALF SISTER WHO WERE HIS KIDS . I GOT NONE OF IT AND THYE BOTH WERE VERY ANGRY THAT HE GAVE SOEM OF HIS MONEY TO A YOUNG WOMAN HE LIKED. NEVER ONNCE DID THEY THINK OF IT AS OUR MOTHERS PROPERTY.

BACK TO THE ORIGINAL STORY... MY MAMA HAD MY BROTHER GO AND "BORROW" A QUART OF MILK FROM THESE RELATIVES DOORSTEP THEY HAD 4 AND SO WE ATE THAT DAY.
WE HAD DEPRESSION WELFARE ALLOTMENTS ABOUT $30 A MONTH FOR 6 PEOPLE.
THANK GOD FOR ROOSEVELT WE WOULD HAVE STARVED COMPLETELY OTHERWISE.
WE WERE NOT ALONE MOST PEOPLE AT THAT TIME WERE IN THE SAME FIX. SOMETIMES OUR MOM GOT TO WASH DISHES IN A RESTAURANT AND SHE BROUGHT HOME LEFTOVER SOUP FOR US. IT WASNT VERY GOOD.

I GREW UP SO ASHAMED OF HAVING TO LIVE ON WELFARE MONEY I PRAYED NO ONE WOULD KNOW.

SO WHAT DID I DO? I BECAME A SOCIAL WORKER TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE AND TRY TO HELP THEM KEEP SHAME TO A MINIMUM. I REALIZED THAT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR LITTLE KIDS TO HAVE FOOD AND CLOTHES AND SHELTER. NO ONE SHOUDL EVER JUDGE A PERSON WITH DISABLITIES FROM HAVING THIS PROVIDED. AND BEING UNEMPLOYED IS A DISABILITY ' YOU'LL KNOW WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU.
THATS IT FOR NOW