“Excuse me sir. Excuse me sir. Excuse me sir.”

“Yes?”

“Would you like to buy a paper? I’m trying to get $9 so I can sleep somewhere tonight.”

“…”

“I am grateful. I am grateful. I am grateful.”

“Ok, here you go. Would you mind if I took your picture?”

“Go ahead. You know it’s hard out here for us. If you try to go in a store somewhere and even if you’re dressed nice, they trying to ask you ‘can i help you? what do you want?’. They think if they dress up a new pony in 2008 then we’ll forget about everything else. Obama. It’s still the same ol stuff. It’s so racist here. Where you from?”

“Atlanta.”

“Atlanta huh, they still got blacks in chains there?”

“No.”

“But is it as bad as it is here?”