So I am walking by and someone walks up to me and say…<\/p>\n
“I know I’m black, but could you spare a quarter?”<\/p>\n
“No, sorry.” Somehow we wind back to him being able to able to ask again.<\/p>\n
“Now, look. I know I’m black, but could you spare a dollar?”<\/p>\n
Two things. #1: Please don’t use the “race card” in such a situation — it is pretty tacky. #2: How can you move upward in your request like that.<\/p>\n
Actually the third thing is that once upon a time, in slightly worse straits money-wise than currently I am, I was counting my change out in public, seeing if I could buy a can of chilli over a couple bags of Ramen. Someone asks for some spare change. I say no. He then says “What about those coins?” I reply, “I have to spend it on myself.” Good answer, no? (He looked at me with horror.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I am walking by and someone walks up to me and say… “I know I’m black, but could you spare a quarter?” “No, sorry.” Somehow we wind back to him being able to able to ask again. “Now, look. I know I’m black, but could you spare a dollar?” Two things. #1: Please don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}