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To: Rusty0604; gubamyster; Vipper

Once in Chicago the bridges were very full but one...so we took the pretty much empty one....and went to the first gas station. I got out to walk inside for a snack...it hit me! We were in the East Chicago area. Everyone at the station stopped whatever they were doing and stared at me. No humor here either.

1,920 posted on 02/10/2019 3:16:01 PM PST by STARLIT (Hope begins when you're standin in the dark lookin out at the light.)

1,923 posted on 02/10/2019 3:23:28 PM PST by Rusty0604

1,925 posted on 02/10/2019 3:34:01 PM PST by Rusty0604

Took a load of high school students to Chicago. The bus driver missed the exit and insisted on getting off at the next one. BUS got really quiet as the kids observed a child eating out of trash can, rats running along the cardboard in windows etc.
Finally , little Ricky in his high unchanged voice popped up “ Miss M are there any white folks that live in Chicago? “
I wish I still had Brian’s paragraph comparing the poverty he lived in with the poverty he saw that day. They were country poor, lived off the land (hunting, fishing, gardening). He’d never been hungry and even though he had dirt floors in house mom kept them clean (linoleum) and they had real windows. And a wood stove to keep warm.
A God wink day for sure

1,940 posted on 02/10/2019 4:28:25 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)

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