From the Miami Herald:
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"A T-shirt decorated with the words ''Crack Whore' costs $16.95 on the Internet.Maggie Williams considers this, her head tilted like a confused terrier.
'Who would buy that?' she asks in a raspy voice. `That's the stupidest thing I ever heard.'
Maggie states this with authority. She has spent nearly half her 52 years selling sex acts to earn cash for crack, five bucks at a time."
Famous in these parts due to her longevity, Maggie even has a video-interview out (NSFW). She's pretty funny in it too, in a crack-whorish sort of way.
Unfortunately, the first 30 seconds of the video are of the punks who interviewed her: after that, it's Maggie's show.
(Herald login/pswd=crockett@tubbs.com/miamivice.)
"She has spent nearly half her 52 years selling sex acts to earn cash for crack, five bucks at a time."
My GAWD. Unbelievable.
I mean, there is NO WAY I would pay more than $3.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at September 18, 2006 10:00 PMDon't be a cheapskate. As she says in her video, "Shitty pay, shitty head."
Posted by: Donnah at September 18, 2006 10:05 PMHalf her 52 years?
The math makes that 1980. Their was no crack in 1980. Those were the days when you took the risk of second degree burns, as Richard Prior did, to get a crack high.
Crack whores date from the late '80s, at the earliest.
Nah. The Crack Epidemic was from 1985-1990.
"Crack first appeared in 1982 in Miami and at first was considered to be only a Miami phenomenon. That was proven wrong when it first appeared in New York City in December, 1983. By 1986, crack had a strong hold on the ghettos of New York City. The distribution and use of the drug exploded that same year and by the end of 1986, was available in 28 states and the District of Columbia. According to the 1985-1986 National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee Report, crack was available in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, New York City, Newark, San Francisco, Buffalo, St. Louis, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, and Phoenix."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_Epidemic
Posted by: Donnah at September 19, 2006 05:37 PMThank you for setting me straight on the vital statistics.
On one point, however, I must disagree. The assertion that the crack epidemic lasted from 1985 to 1990 implies that it ended in 1990. That is simply wrong. I will only attest to what I've seen personally: crack still ravages the lives of many residents of the Tampa Bay area.