Last night, I talked to a friend (who I worked with at that horrible answering service where we only got $6 an hour). I worked there from 2003 - 2004.
There is a Black woman who has worked days for over ten years and is on the higher-end of the two-tiered salary. The people, like me and my friend, who worked nights worked harder and got far less in pay. The assholes who own the answering service love to have the two-tier pay system and threaten anyone with termination for talking about salary. Yet, the owners live a fancy life. And...they are born-again X-tians who always talk about Gawd. Typical!
Anyway, Friend called the service to get another co-worker's dad's full name as he was her former boss at the county. Friend's current boss is retiring so a party is being planned. The woman who works days has an oldest daughter was ready for college when I left in 2004. The young lady had so much promise and even had a scholarship to Rollins College in Winter Park where only the ultra-rich can afford the tuition. The bad thing is the day shift woman and her Wendy's working husband had seven kids that the county had to insure for health and pre-K classes.
Another bad thing is how this woman would not allow her children to associate with other kids outside of the family. Dummy and her looter husband said that the teens only needed family. And, the moo would be rude to anyone calling the house for the older kids by telling the callers that only famblee was needed. I knew this would bite her in the ass because the kids would act out as soon as they were able to leave home or do stuff while still with in the house.
The moo's daughter got to go to London for college with everything paid for the summer in 2005. The girl, who also worked at the service, always said how it was stupid when Black girls got knocked up in her neighbourhood or school. Wellllll...she came back from London pregnant and is living back at home in that house that is too small already for her parents and those six other kids. There is no more college for her. The Londoner who knocked her up is probably laughing because nothing can be done about sprog support in international cases.
It was sad to see how a girl who was on Honour Roll in high school and had a promising future is now stuck with a cribling and will probably never leave that awful house...except to move one of the housing projects in Orlando. Life is over for her. I hate to say it but a bullet to the head is cleaner and quicker than the life of a po' single moo.