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Oh where to start. Should we be angry at “the man” for cutting off the lights, or for making her daddy climb the pole to steal electricity?

Should we be angry at “the man” for making her family pay rent or evicting them when they didn’t?

This is the upbringing this woman had, how could she turn out any different?

It looks like she didn’t turn out any differently.

I don’t believe a word of her hard luck story. Why did she get fired from her job (I’ll be there is a story there)? Exactly how much “savings” are we talking about here that was supposedly drained to pay for her husbands care (or is it a BS story to elicit tears from the reader?)

30 years in a house, yet it gets foreclosed?

The story of achieving “middle class” for blacks is the same as it is for everyone else. If you choose, say, a Lincoln Navigator instead of a 401k, if you choose a designer wardrobe rather than an emergency fund, if you neglect the work that you are paid to do.....all of these things lead to poverty.

That’s the story of this woman. She’d like everyone to believe it’s because she’s black - and that she’s being denied the Middle Class Dream because she’s black.

Nope. She’s done all the things that will ensure she is impoverished should even one slight hiccup occur.

If she wanted to stay middle class, she should have tried - she didn’t, and now she’ll wallow in poverty.

Poverty is not about money - it’s about choices along the way.