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I was ready to argue him down, but just then Gregory came and tapped me on my shoulder. He pointed to a young lady that had come into the hall. Gregory asked me if I could help her. I quickly forgot about everything that Kaliyah was saying and I went over to help this young lady who had wondered into hall. Morgan got up to come and help me, but I signaled for her to sit back down. This was something that I was going to handle on my own. The young lady had tears in her eyes. The young lady had on a blouse that was cut all the way down to her navel and it revealed every part of her breasts, except her nipples and it was open all the way down to her stomach. She was also wearing a skirt that was so short, that she could not bend over to get a drink from a water fountain without showing her ass. The young lady also had on a stale brown wig that was matted and tangled. It was very obvious to me that she was a street walker. I looked into her eyes and I said, “Hi honey, how are you? “I’m doing the best that I can, but I am really hungry. Can I please have some food?” I brought her over to our food table and I made her a nice big plate of food and I poured her a glass of juice. As I made her a plate, I looked over my shoulder and I saw the women of the congregation looking at the young lady as if they were ready to skin her alive! She was with me and I would protect her as if she were my own daughter. A lot of the men were eyeing the young lady like she was a piece of meat. She definitely did not have on the proper clothing! I untied my head wrap and threw it over her shoulders and I used it to cover her breasts and stomach. In the background I heard Kaliyah as he continued to talk about how women needed to be covered up and how t... ... middle of paper ... ...to sabotage one another. The Morehs needed to bring one another down, they obviously had no intention of building unity within the African American community. Their only focus was to make themselves look as if they had the answer to every question in the universe and they did not. Elijah was a beast on Pal Talk. Every time we looked up he was involved in some kind of open argument with another Moreh, in fact he was the main one provoking the arguments. Gabriel (like a giant circus monkey) was by his side in every argument. In the beginning Gabriel did not have much to say on Pal Talk, but as time passed he would join Elijah in the arguments with other Morehs. Gabriel was now working side by side with Elijah and now they were a team. Just a few months earlier, I could not have imagined this sweet, gentle giant of a man arguing and bashing people the way that he

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