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Well I Am Begging with a Starbucks Cup

Hobo: Can you spare some change? Or food?
Black lady: Nigga, get a job. This neighborhood's gone too bourgeois for your ass to be begging.

–West 4th

Overheard by: bella

  • Posted on May 17, 2020
  • Advice, Black People, Compare/Contrast, Default, Food, Hobos, Homeless, Jobs & Careers, Money & Class, Offers and requests, Panhandling, Questions, West Village, Women
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