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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.

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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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