We went and visited Black and Noble, a bookstore that sells items from predominately black authors. It is located at
While leaving we met a man on his way to a Drug and Alcohol program and had a talk with him while walking to campus. He explained his life, the ups and downs, and how he has changed certain facets of it. This male, Eric, started his life back up by getting a job and is now in the process of saving money to buy himself a car so he doesn’t have to walk or take the C bus. He told us a descriptive story of how he used to sell drugs and then became an addict himself. Eric could not keep up with his lifestyle while involved with drugs and began to lose items and family members one by one. He told us a self evaluation took place when he was on the verge of becoming homeless and this is ultimately is the reason as to why he is turning his life around. We broke ways from Eric’s compelling story once we arrived back on campus. He continued on to his Drug and Alcohol program.
2 comments:
This bookstore may be Black, but it is anything but Noble-most of the books there are hoochies, pimps, daughter rapists and drug dealers in the hood with a few decent things mixed in such as Butch Savage's books. I have been in and out of that store a lot in my 5 years in Philly and I still have yet to see anything by Amiri Baraka, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Ishmael Reed, and if anything is by Toni Morrison is there I haven't found it yet. A big sign in the front says we ship to prisons which a little derogatory toward black people in and of itself. Their website you need to click a button to say you're 18 to get in, and there's a reason why NA members might go there and it's not as much for books as you may think. A mentally challenged dude in front of the store lumbers like a bear when he dances and often his pants fall down when he does. He is heavy set. Next door is a daycare center with Sponge Bob and other TV characters all over the front which is even more frightening when you realize what it suggests going on in there is the truth. While kids watch TV all day there, teachers are on cell phones cussing at their BDs eating chips. It should be called black and ignorant instead-we don't need white people to destroy us. We're doing a wonderful job of it already without their help. As Salaam Alaikum
WELL IM SO SORRY YOU HAD SUCH AN AWEFUL EXPERIENC, PISSED OFF POOR PERSON, MY EXPERIENCE WAS WONDERFUL! I REALY ENJOYED THE FACT THAT THE OWNER WAS RIGHT THER TO ANSWER ALL MY QUESTIONS AND COULD ALSO ORDER THE BOOKS I WAS LOOKING FOR. AND AS FAR AS THE BOOKS YOU SAW ITS ABOUT BUSINESS, YOU SELL WHAT YOUR PATRONS WANT, THATS BUSINESS 101.... LOL, EVERYTHING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST GO TO ANOTHER STORE.
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