Homeless people / panhandlers

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MY Personal fav:

Back in 94', I brouht my Ohio GF back to visit my familia in NYC. I took her for a wander about manhattan and at lunch time we had settled onto some benches by the fountains in the middle of the WTC concourse/courtyard. Mid-sandwich, a black dude wanders up with a big smile and asks "Would you like to donate to the United Negro Pastrami Sandwich fund?" Both my gf and I laughed so hard I gave em a fiver.

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Now I will preface the following by admitting that I have not read every post in this thread.

Your post is the only one of the dozens that I've seen that says "black homeless guy" or some other variant and actually has the race of the individual matter to the rest of the story.

It just struck me as I was reading the posts that quite a few people identified the homeless person as "black", when they would never say "so this white homeless guy walked up to me on the street".

Just an observation...and food for thought.