[antimedia] antimedia: When I first got this email....

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When I first got this email....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1203562233.shtml


   ....I dismissed it as a hoax. I thought it had to be made up. I [1]was
   wrong.

     Welfare Ain't What It Used To Be
     Sharon Jasper has been victimized. Sharon Jasper has been rabidly
     wronged. She has become a Section 8 carcass -- the victim of ever
     changing public housing policies.
     Sharon Jasper has spent 57 or her 58 years dedicated to one cause
     and one cause only, and has nothing to show for her dedicated
     servitude. She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1 of her 58
     years.
     It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section
     8 housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the
     legacy down to her children, but fears they may have to get jobs to
     pay for the utilities and deposits. She laments about her one year
     hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, "I tried it for a
     year..you know...working and all. It's not anything I would want to
     go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn
     proud of that year."
     Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after
     hurricane Katrina and into a new, yet albeit, substandard
     quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section
     8 home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon
     Jasper's seniority status in the system. "Don't be fooled by them
     hardwood floors," says Sharon. "They told me they were putting in
     scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I
     am not a fool -- that was just a way to make me take scratched up
     wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it
     is not a plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want
     me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump." "Do you know why?"
     She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by
     the system, but it came to a head at the New Orlean's city council
     meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of
     the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between
     groups opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard, and groups wanting
     the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon
     unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of
     her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in
     attendance. The context of her scathing rebuke was, "Just because
     you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, I will not
     be treated like a slave!" and "Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white
     boy! Shut up, white boy!"
     Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her
     head, Sharon repines, "Our families have been displaced all over
     the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities
     they are unfamiliar with. It is a very uncomfortable situation for
     them. Bring them back, then let's talk about redevelopment."
     Sharon directs the reporter's attention across the street to Duncan
     Plaza where homeless people are living in tents, and states that,
     "I might do better out there with one of these tents." She further
     lamented her sentiments about her situation, "I might be poor, but
     I don't have to live poor."

   Here's a Times-Picayune story complete with [2]the infamous picture of
   Sharon Jasper, "poor", on welfare and living in nicer digs than I do
   with a TV I could never afford.
   This is [3]the blog post referred to by Snopes.
   Tags: [4]Sharon Jasper [5]TV [6]welfare [7]abuse [8]outrageous

References

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   1. http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/jasper.asp
   2. http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/12/housing_officials_claim_surplu.html
   3. http://jimbyrd.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/welfare-aint-what-it-used-to-be/
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/Sharon%20Jasper
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/TV
   6. http://technorati.com/tag/welfare
   7. http://technorati.com/tag/abuse
   8. http://technorati.com/tag/outrageous

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