We had a cookout today and the girls were supposed to bring a dessert, so I got up this morning and got the stuff I needed to make my cake cookies. I had most of it at the house but I had to run to the Piggly Wiggly for eggs and cake mix. When I got to the cash register and she finished ringing me up she said "Food Stamps?". I was like "No, debit". She apologized and I told her it was no big deal but I was really pissed off. I left the store thinking- who does she think I am? Some poor black single mom without a job? I wonder if she would've said that if I was white. Why would someone assume for no reason that I was going to use food stamps?
Why did that make me so mad? Do I want to think that I'm better than single black mothers who have to use food stamps? Somehow, it straight up attacked my pride.
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements... But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell. --C.S. Lewis
3 comments:
i dig the pig!
good to read u are questioning ur emotions...tho i would have gone with simple frustration and degust with the labels society has caused us to place on people.
renee, i went to the citgo in motown and i wanted to use my card as a debit yesterday, and the cashier told me that the pin pad for a debit card was for food stamps, and when i asked him what it was for, he said that it was for food stamps. well, everywhere else i went before had it set up for debit cards. go figure. white people use food stamps too, my mom did for a while. aint not shame in the game!!
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