And, don't forget...designer tennis shoes and jeans...fancy wigs or corn rows and extensions in their hair(costing $45 and up to have done in the beauty salons), long, artificial nails applied and done every week, rings on most every finger, gold chains, and huge earrings, and those big, fancy hats on Sundays. I can't afford any of that stuff, and wouldn't want to. But, the entitlement crowd people who can buy expensive food far better than I, all seem to be able to pay for the same "uniforms" to wear when they are complaining about their impoverished condition.
It’s sad that all of those stereotypes are true, but they are.
I volunteer for an organization that provides school supplies and clothes to single parent families and also gathers donations for Christmas gifts to needy families. My mother is the head of the organization.
During the course of the year, you could count on two hands the number of people looking for help, but when those two events come around near the end of the year, the termites come out of the woodwork en masse!
I’ll never forget last year: a black woman comes in with 5 kids, all dressed in ratty clothes and shoes that are falling apart. Meanwhile, mom pulled up in a 2009 Mercedes (leased, according to her), hair all done up nice, new shoes and dress, long manicured nails, and jewelry just dripping from everywhere she could put a bauble.
We helped out the kids as best we could, but the mother still had the nerve to come up to me and say, “This all you got?” pointing to the table full of “give aways.” I told her that was all we could afford to give for her family. So what does she do? She goes around the table, grabs 2 more backpacks full of school supplies and starts to walk out.
My mother, the old Scottish broad she is, stood right in front of the woman at the door and demanded she put down the backpacks and leave. She made such a stink that we had to call the police; meanwhile her kids are sitting there quiet and well-behaved. Quite the role model, eh?