

“For us, as an organization, having Thanksgiving in two short days, it causes a lot of headache for us as an organization.” “Just the timing of it,” Baldovinos said. It’s a headache the folks at the Mission don’t need two days before their busiest day of the year - Thanksgiving, when they expect to feed as many as 600 people - free, no questions asked.

If this was several hours earlier, there could have been people on the street.” I mean, there could have been fatalities. “Could have been a lot worse,” Baldovinos. The man kept driving, swerving through the block-long Mission campus, side-swiping parked cars along the way, all the way to the electronically controlled east gate. “Because he obviously plowed through the main gate.” “I don’t know where he was headed, what direction he was thinking he was going, but he evidently thought he was at the wrong place,” said Mission Executive Director Carlos Baldovinos. when the driver of a pickup truck drove through a section of the front wrought iron fencing in front of the Mission at Kern County, a landing spot for hundreds of homeless and down-on-their-luck residents in Old Town Kern. (KGET) - The folks at the Mission at Kern County, which feeds hundreds every day including on its busiest day, Thanksgiving, woke up Tuesday morning, two days before the big event, to an alarming sight. The official remix is called, "Po' Folks (Collipark Remix)", and features the Ying Yang Twins. and features vocals by Anthony Hamilton who sung the soulful hook.Īnthony Hamilton's performance, as well as the success of the song, is credited for launching Anthony Hamilton's career in mainstream music. A lot of other things really don't matter when God is knocking at your door." Po' Folks was released in 2002 and taken from Nappy Roots's debut album, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz. It's not so bad being poor when you've got your family and God in your life and you have different values that, when it comes down to it, matter.

Discussing the meaning of "Po' Folks," Prophet told MTV.com that the lyrics did not only speak of being poor as an economic issue. Prophet, a prolific member of Nappy Roots. The song's signature concept, verse, and chorus was written by R.
