Kenneth Gladney

Kenneth Gladney

I am Kenneth Gladney. I live in St.Louis Missouri and was raised by loving parents who had high hopes for me and my twin brother Keith. My brother and I are the youngest of the five kids and our lives are like night and day. As a teen I suffered from leukemia; my brother saved my life. Since then I have lived a somewhat closed life but still maintain a positive attitude. I am unemployed at this time and, yes, I do have health insurance. I believe in God and I feel that life is all of what you make of it. Always remain positive.

I Am Kenneth Gladney

by Kenneth Gladney

I am a man with no chips on his shoulders and no axes to grind. I just want to be an accepted member of society. I want to make my own way in the world. A free man in a free country. On August 6, 2009 my manhood and my civil rights were reversed back to the 1960’s. I was working as a vendor at a townhall event on Aging, hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan, in St. Louis. I was selling my buttons and flags.

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A group of people with purple t-shirts were leaving the rally. As the group walked past me, I offered one of the gentlemen a Gadsen flag and a button. The man turned and looked at my board and said, “who in the fuck is selling this shit?”

I replied “I am Sir, would you like a flag or a button?

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