Dick Gregory Not Poor Just Broke

The Little Boy Who Was Not Poor, Just Broke
Imagine that somebody was on a street and they have nothing. The story of “Not Poor, Just Broke”, tells a story, written by Dick Gregory. The story is about a little boy, named Dick Gregory, who lived in the city slums of New York in the 1930s. There are several reasons that cause his hardships knowing he has no dad to help his mom, his environment is not great and his background of being an African American.
First not having a father and the consequences is stated mainly throughout the story. Many of the kids would have a father who taught them, obedience them, and just help out his wife who is working all time. A dad would take time and help the mother to look after Gregory. Money a huge embarrassment

Gregory stated “Pregnant with dirt and pregnant with smells that made people turn away. (Gregory 389). He here is simple explaining on where he comes, city slums, the smell that went with him all his life. There was no way of removing the smell. The house will be visited by rats. The rats were well fed with leftovers

He stated “It was on Thursday. I was sitting in the back of the room, in a seat with a chalk circle drawn around it. The idiot’s seat, the troublemaker’s seat. The teacher thought I was stupid. Couldn’t spell, couldn’t read, and couldn’t do arithmetic. Just stupid.” (Gregory 389). So here we can see he easily discriminated cause of his color and social status in the pyramid. The teacher had never thought he could not function because he did not have enough to eat and would not give him a chance to learn. All the teachers and others would do nothing and never thought of him as a boy or human for once in his life. He has been distinguished already every time he would walk up and down the street wearing the brown and orange and white plaid mackinaw with a hood. So people will think of him like a poor welfare boy. He tried throwing