Post Square 12.16.13 ~ Going Nowhere
Tiara Richmond,
22, has smooth brown skin and soft dreadlocks, the only things she got from her
deadbeat father. Her great grandmother worked as a cook in the White House when
Jimmy Carter was president. Tiara, who is a talented musician, single and
childless, with a high school diploma and a clean record, cannot find a job.
She and her mother, who is on disability, depend on food stamps to feed the
many mouths under their roof. And those food stamps have been cut by Congress.
In part of the Post article Tiara goes on a tirade against
President Obama, asking him, essentially, how on earth he is letting the people
in his own city suffer so.
The photos that cover this story are two shots of the same
refrigerator, that of the Richmond’s.
In the first image, dated December 7th, the shelves are bare. In the
second, dated the next day, the day the food stamps arrive, there is the food
that will need to last them a month.
This is a long, well-written and unbiased article full of
the detailed struggles of a family trying to do their best with what they have.
It leaves us wondering what our reactions to reading it tells us about ourselves.
The composition of the drawing is from a detail of the empty
refrigerator. The colors were chosen randomly. The title Going Nowhere is taken from Tiara’s tirade.
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