Before Chris Gardner became a millionaire, his ex handed him their toddler and said: “I don’t want the baby anymore. Here. It’s your turn.” The next day, they were homeless.
In the video below, the man Will Smith played in The Pursuit of Happyness recalls hiding in public bathrooms with his son and teaching him to stay quiet so nobody would find them.
The boy was about 20 months old. Gardner’s boarding house didn’t allow children, so taking his son meant losing his room.
For nearly a year, they slept in shelters, cheap hotels and wherever else they could. Sometimes that meant a locked bathroom at a train station, where Gardner washed his son in the sink.
He was training at a brokerage firm, earning roughly $1,000 a month. Most went toward childcare so he could keep working. His colleagues didn’t know he had nowhere to take his son at night.
He eventually became a stockbroker, opened his own firm and made millions. Hollywood turned their life into a film.
But when his ex brought the boy to his door, none of that was waiting for him. He had a job that barely paid enough to cover childcare and a room he couldn’t keep.
Could you ever forgive a mother who walked away like that, or should they thank her for making them stronger?
DeMar DeRozan asks Deion Sanders how he managed playing 2 sports at a high level.
He also revealed he was close to playing for the Atlanta Hawks, in which he’d been playing 3 sports😱
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“They are controlling the weather.”
~MTG
And I introduced a bill to stop it.
Then everyone freaked as usual.
And now y’all are finding out, that yes, they did in fact control the weather.
And they still can only now it’s privatized.
🚨Karmelo Anthony Update - Prosecution - “A lot of people have asked why Karmelo Anthony took a knife to a track meet?” “those reason were captured in our 404 motion”
On the morning that Karmelo stabbed Austin, Karmelo’s ex girlfriend went to the assistant principal saying she “broke up with Karmelo and he was stalking her”
A text is then shown from Anthony that says “I’m lowkey on the verge” the morning of the stabbing and emphasized it.
He also threatened her with a knife in one message and told her in another text "when I stab somebody I'm gonna lick their blood off the blade".
I warned a long time ago that they did not want to open up Karmelo’s history. But this is what you pushed for.
And I know from MY MULTIPLE sources that there is SO much more. Behavior.. AND texts on his phone that go back for years.
15 YEARS AGO TODAY🐍
Kobe Bryant scored 45 in his Drew League debut
When the cops tried to get him to leave early, he told them "I gotta finish the game" then knocked down the game-winner over James Harden!
🎥 @KingJosiah54
US Amb to Israel Huckabee DOUBLES DOWN on settler 'terrorist’ statement
Huckabee said the Israeli government can ‘say what they want’ — but defended his definition as acts that put people ‘in fear for their lives’
Oh the irony...
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank meets the definition of ‘terror’.
His comments are a rare rebuke and follow a days-long siege of a Palestinian-American family’s home by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra.
Julian Newman’s dad asked him during a lie detector test if he had watched his sister Jaden Newman’s leaked videos, and the test indicated that he had.
Palestinian-American Loui Abu Ridi confronted an Israeli settler at his home in Qusra, south of Nablus, after returning from the US to find his property damaged.
Israeli settlers have continued to besiege three Palestinian homes in the area for almost 10 days.
BREAKING: California Energy Commission led by Newsom-appointed David Hochschild, voted unanimously to regulate what tires you can buy to replace the tires on your car
They’re effectively banning about 70% of tires sold in CA because it’s not “energy efficient”
This very odd bird who is now regulating what tires you can get in CA just gave away the whole scam. She cites high gas prices to justify it: "If we can bring down those costs even a little bit, why wouldn't we do it?"
Of course, no mention of reducing CA's self-imposed gas taxes that make our fuel costs 2X the national average. See the magic trick? They deliberately make your gas prices more expensive, to compel you to stop driving. Then they use the artificially high cost of fuel to impose further regulations and higher tire costs on you. The whole communist schtick is a positive feedback loop. It's the Arsonist-Firefighter Fallacy.
What's even more rich about this is that this is essentially an EV tax. EV ownership is skyrocketing, and what's their fatal flaw? They are VERY heavy vehicles, and they chew through tires like crazy. As the state has pushed more and more drivers into EVs, they're trying to find new ways to hurt drivers financially now that they're skipping out on the gas taxes. Devious, devious little commies.