Chapter Six
Proceeding Ahead
“You don’t make progress by sitting on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
– Shirley Chisolm.
There was a reason why we’d been given new clothes to wear; three reasons, actually. First, it was to inform us that since we’d gotten almost to the end of the first phase, we now had the ability to earn things. There were now catalogs with things like clothes, shoes, new toiletries such as shampoos and body lotions, all of which could be purchased through a system of points. These could be earned by doing work at several businesses run by New Beginnings. Several of them were the very ones the FBI had targeted: restaurants, farms, florists, and other businesses. All of them were staffed by graduates of the program, a
