Saturday, November 5, 2011

3 Black Women on Occupy Wall Street (2 of 3): At my local chain coffee shop.

The other Sunday the weekend after the local mayor busted the Occupy Wall Street protestors in my city for a 2nd time and arrested over 100, I stopped through the local chain coffee shop to get some coffee and enjoy the late afternoon out on their patio, and asked the upper 30s (black) woman who's a barista if she heard how many people exactly got arrested.

"I didn't hear that that happened again," she was like, "But I am happy people are doing something," and she started talking about how people are drowning in student loans and how banks only think of shareholders and keep doing crazy ATM fees and deceptive loans etc., to make money off people who have nothing and funnel it to the top.

She also said she the mayor better be careful busting the protestors like this, because people will start getting pissed at him - a sentiment a late 30s well-dressed (white) professional woman agreed with, saying she was already getting angry.

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