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Got it! Please don't show me this again for 90 days. There were separate lines for kids who paid the reduced or free rate. Even knowing that we were all poor, there was still so much stigma and shame attached to using that checkout line. Suddenly there were a lot more kids in the cafeteria and fewer hanging out by the vending machines. Shaming people others them. It creates a divide in their mind between themselves and poor people. This way, it could never happen to them. When my coach was teasing us about food stamps, I imagine that it made him feel better somehow, to feel apart from all the poor kids.
Especially since his salary made him food stamp eligible, too. In my case, my mother graduated from college and went on to become a high school teacher. We moved from the neighborhood I grew up in to across town for a new start. I went to college at seventeen, then culinary school, then graduate school.
I married, had a child, and became disabled. Neither of us have gone back on SNAP. I am a success story because of public assistance, and I am no longer ashamed. Food stamps saved my family when I was young. They save families every single day.
Candy houses are quintessential to Chicago summers. There was so much to choose from, including the lemon and strawberry cookies that no one could name, but everyone remembers. We would buy penny candy, lemon and strawberry cookies, snow cones.
A candy house is a business run by a homeowner who sells candy and snacks. But they were also a source of fun for children and income for women in areas of Chicago the media consistently portrays as violent , unhealthy , and poor , and that have suffered due to policies that hurt Black homeownership, exacerbate segregation, and affect food quality. According to the Racial Justice Project, Black people have access to half as many grocery stores as whites. Many big grocery store chains avoid low-income spaces altogether.
There are no longer as many as there used to be, though. Growing up, there was a candy house across from my elementary school, then called Myra Bradwell, on S. Burnham Ave. Whenever I had the money, my favorite things to purchase were sour candy balls, specifically the blue ones, and dill pickles. In , while I was in high school, another candy house existed for about four months in the summer.
I used my money from an after-school job and bought tons of candy and chips to eat each day. But that candy house also closed.
I knocked on the door, and the woman simply said that she was no longer selling candy, and that was the end of that. State St.
Depending on the candy house, a child could receive candy on credit, an adult would purchase candy for neighborhood children, or other children would purchase candy for their friends.
We spent that money up and I almost got in trouble. When children and adults purchased candy for other children it was a way to look out for each other.
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