Sylvester Turner is the newly elected mayor of Houston, Texas replacing Anise Parker. Mr. Turner happens to be a black man while Ms. Parker is an avowed Lesbian. Her election a few years ago was applauded by another minority group in Houston; the homeless community. We thought that she would be understanding of a daily search for food and shelter. She helped by making sure all the dumpsters in the city were locked and anyone caught eating any food from them would be arrested and jailed. The next thing was selling Christmas gift bags for people to give to homeless people begging on the street. This cheap plastic bag contained an assortment of little items like little tooth brushes and a tiny tube of toothpaste, a bar of soap the size you find in motel bathrooms and various items you could buy from a Dollar Store for less than a five dollar bill. She charged good-hearted people $20.00 each. I personally never saw an accounting of the cash profit from this sale. Word on the street is it went into mayor Parker's pocket. I don't have any teeth but I had about twenty tubes of toothpaste and toothbrushes. I and many others would have preferred that bag had contained a gift coupon for a hamburger and/or a coke from MacDonald's on the corner. Many of us could use that more than any bag of crap. What good are clean teeth without anything to bite, chew or swallow.
This year she decided the gift bag scam wouldn't work again. Her hatred of the homeless reached full flower this year when she decided all of them were to be given misdemeanor tickets they couldn't pay and warrants issued for the police to take them to jail for Merry Christmas this December 25th.
The hope we felt when a minority like us was elected those years ago.we are feeling again with Mr. Turner. A poet said "hopes springs eternal in the human breast."
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