Someday the Poor Will Run Wall Street

p I am a low-income, African-American mother of four. I have worked all my life.nbsp; 1 year ago after the all the rich people working downtown as bankers and investors were paid 7 billion dollars, my landlord was foreclosed on. I have never owned a house and probably never will, because i will never have that kind of money or credit. But i have rented a rent-controlled apartment which i was evicted out of because of the foreclosure./p p Now i am homeless with my children./p p When my sister Tiny (span data-scayt_word="PNN" data-scaytid="1"PNN/span co-editor)nbsp; called me to ask me how I felt about the the Wall Street protests, I said. oh yea!!! that#39;s what I#39;m talking about. Finally some people speaking up to these legalized gangsters and bank pimps./p p Sadly, i can#39;t go to the protests. I don#39;t have the time. I am too busy working two jobs just to save money to try to move out of the shelter we are in to hopefully somewhere safe for me and my kids./p p But those folks are speaking for me and all poor peoples who don#39;t even know if we can pay for the rising cost of food much-less dream of getting a loan or a mortgage from these terrible corporate thieves./p p Tiny thinks that someday Capitalism will end and span data-scayt_word="po" data-scaytid="2"po/span mamas like me and her and all of the never thought about people will have the chance to take care of ourselves and our children and our land./p p I hope so. But right now i walk around my cleaning job with a smile on my face as i empty the trash of rich white people in a luxury hotel i work for. Someday, i dream, maybe these people will finally understand the struggle i have seen and maybe someday the poor people can run Wall Street./p p emMaria Lourdes is a poverty and mama span data-scayt_word="skolar" data-scaytid="3"skolar/span and span data-scayt_word="PoorNewsNetwork" data-scaytid="4"PoorNewsNetwork/span New York Correspondent/em/p