Friday, September 25, 2015

Meet the Homeless People Getting Kicked Out of the Park They Call Home Because of the Pope's Visit


"I just have to be here when the Pope comes," says Femi, a 38-year-old black man sitting behind a table on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. On green tablecloth, he displays artwork, pictures he drew and wants to sell: one of the Pope caught in a selfie, another of the Pope delivering a speech. He also sells a T-shirt showing the Pope with a sheep around his neck.
The artist's real name is Adetokunbo Oluwafemi Ige, and he sleeps a few feet behind his table on the grass beneath the trees on Parkway.
Femi has been living on the streets for over a year, he says, since he left prison, where was incarcerated for eight years. He's been on Parkway since the end of May.
He is homeless, but not lazy.
READ MORE:http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-homeless-people-getting-kicked-out-of-the-park-they-call-home-because-of-the-pope-924

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