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03.07.2009 4:09 pm
Are Poor People more Generous?
By Khalid Shah
Special to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Recently Pamela Dolan did a wonderful blog about being more generous in hard times. I wanted to take the same issue from a slightly different angle. This question came to mind listening to Kath Weston talk about her new book ‘Traveling Light: On the Road With America’s Poor’. Here is an synopsis of one of the stories in the book:

 

 

‘take T. J… Traveling in Flagstaff, Arizona , he was almost arrested because a white woman, who was probably insane, thought he was a witch and started screaming at him in a bus terminal snack bar, bringing the police. They were about to haul off T.J., who was black, but a white trucker from the bus talked them out of it. The trucker loved the road, he said, but he had to give up

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