John himself had this to say regarding this sort of "helpful advice":
"Guys I love ya but giving me tips on how to dial the phone to apply
for resources and wait months to be rejected because I'm an "able
bodied adult male" isn't going to help. I don't need six months of
bureaucracy and living on the streets while I wait for the machine
to tell me I don't deserve to live.
I need money and publicity.
I know the number for 211. I've been in contact with HRI and other
local emergency services. *They have nothing for me.* You are all
the hope I've got. Period, that's how it is. If you want to not believe
that or think I'm making it up because this is easier than working a
"real job" or whatever, I can't change that, but constantly insisting
that there's some other answer isn't helpful. There isn't. There never
was. The answer to my problems, the end of my roadblocks, the key
to my freedom, has always been exactly two things: funding and
publicity. I've been saying that consistently for a dozen years, and
some of y'all still want to argue about it. The answer is and always
has been funding and publicity.
In keeping with my ongoing commitment to not mincing words or
sacrificing truth and honesty for social approval and expedience,
let me be clear: "call 211" is not "helping." It is passively suggesting
that there's some big secret plot here and you're right at the edge of
unraveling it and exposing the REEL TRVTH and clearly what's really
going on is I just think I'm too good for welfare. It is telling the world
that you don't trust me, don't believe me, don't think I'm worthy of help,
and don't think anyone else should help either because I oughta just
"do the thing."
I'm sorry and I don't mean to hurt people's feelings but that only isn't
help it's directly the opposite. It feeds the narrative that I don't really
need the help, that I'm not worthy of it because I haven't exhausted
all the other options or sold my last pair of underwear yet, and that
I'm a lying grifter trying to steal your money because either I'm too
lazy to work for a living, too stupid to know how to google "emergency
housing assistance kalamazoo," or I think I'm "too good for that."
That does not help.
Please. Stop. The help I need is cash contributions and/or
like-share-subscribe-endorse-tell people. That's what's going to solve
this. Not food stamps, not the local overloaded and nearly impotent
emergency housing services, not the churches."
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