[Noisebridge-discuss] Homeless in NB

[Jake]

Really?  thrown out of a coffee shop just because you're homeless?

HOW DID THEY KNOW?  they must have read your mind.

If they could tell you're homeless maybe it's because something about you 
was disrupting the place from doing what it was meant to do.  For example, 
if people are in a place to enjoy food and coffee and someone smells 
really bad, that person might be asked to leave rather than everyone else 
stop enjoying their meals and being disgusted.

If a cafe was trying to provide space for people to socialize and work on 
their laptops or whatever, and someone has all their property spread out 
all around them and is taking up too much space, they might be asked to 
leave.  Especially if they're not participating in buying anything (which 
is how they pay the rent on the place).

For you to compare your "suffering" to that of african americans of the 
19th century is obscene.  You need to quit whining and get some 
perspective.  I am assuming you are a healthy young person who could 
easily get a job and afford an apartment.  You could also find a home by 
squatting, which takes a bit of WORK if you want it to last a while.

If you choose (and it is a choice) not to do these things, own up to the 
consequences and accept that other people the right to not support you if 
they don't want to.

And if you want to use the N-word that way you can get the FUCK off our 
mailing list and go do it somewhere else.

-jake

Danny Dismal wrote:

I was just thinking to myself after getting thrown out of a coffee shop 
for no other reason than I'm homeless...
I thought just what that meant and how it reflected on our history in this
nation and realized one thing and I do mean it is really happening.
The homeless are the new Niggers of the 21st Century. We are scorned and
pushed out. People walk across the street to avoid us and we are 
constantly
being asked to move, wake up and getting robbed, beaten and in some cases
killed where no one bothers to find out why.
Now's the time to look at your feelings on this and ask yourself "how do
the homeless make you feel"?