I tried to make heads or tails of my life, wondering what my next move was but I couldn’t even think straight. For starters I had to find a way to get money and right now welfare seemed like my best option. I got up early the next day, dressed my boys and went down to Social Services to apply for benefits. I felt so stupid and worthless telling the case worker that I had two kids, no job and no money. I had judged and terribly talked about other women who were in this same situation, without knowing the circumstances that got them there. I’d looked down my nose and called those women lazy, ghetto, trifling, unmotivated, uneducated and every other disparaging word. Now here I was – Kareese Christopher – tryna get government assistance. A couple hours later, I left with a plastic card loaded with a few hundred dollars in food stamps and shame that consumed me to the point that I could barely hold my head up. Shame that I’d looked down my nose at other people who needed help, and shame that I’d become one of them. Judge not, that ye be not judged, right?
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