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day at his home church; Ebenezer Baptist; in Atlanta。
There is a young; twenty…three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence; South Carolina。 She had been working to organize a mostly African…American munity since the beginning of this campaign; and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there。
And Ashley said that when she was nine years old; her mother got cancer。 And because she had to miss days of work; she was let go and lost her health care。 They had to file for bankruptcy; and that's when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom。
She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs; and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches。 Because that was the cheapest way to eat。
She did this for a year until her mom got better; and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too。
Now Ashley might have made a different choice。 Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work; or Hispanics who were ing into the country illegally。 But she didn't。 She sought out allies in her fight against injustice。
Anyway; Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they're supporting the campaign。 They all have different stories and reasons。 Many bring up a specific issue。 And finally they e to this elderly black man who's been sitting there quietly the en