The discard of human beings is callousness and carelessness. It reflects the failure of U.S. leadership up and down the spectrum of governance,
public work and service, and the failure of concern of the public at large.
Mass homelessness should not be happening in the United States or in ANY Western “developed”
country.
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t is not a question of “can” discarded people subsist sickened and in sickened
conditions; or
“Can” they endure or be resourceful in ghettos of squalor, prey to whatever wind or whim, to anyone and anything; or
“Can” they survive neglect.
It is not a question of people’s “choosing” to be homeless or discarded (this is a ridiculous notion!).
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In a KPFA lead-in for Lucy Kang's documentary “The Community of Grace” is this (italics added):
Just about everywhere in this country — especially in California and especially in the Bay Area — homelessness is
on the rise. The most visible signs of this are the clusters of tents and RVs
that seem to spring up everywhere there’s a little stretch of unclaimed land.
They get covered a lot. Usually only
when there’s a fire, or an eviction – some kind of crisis that throws the
people who live there into conflict with city officials.
But there are a lot of people living their
day to day lives in those tents and RVs. There are a lot of people trying to
figure out how to get their needs met, under very trying circumstances.
This is the face of nation of misplaced priorities—better to manufacture
bombs that make endless wars, better to buy, sell and drop bombs, leave samples
for endless conflict, destruction, death and injury. Violence everywhere all the time is more important than monitoring and ensuring forever the rights of human being AS human beings!
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omelessness is not (should not be) a way of life. These conditions are the
consequences of a
U.S. culture and character of criminal callousness
Failure of moral and able leadership
Failure of permanent accessible and affordable and professionally-staffed systems and institutions of support, work, shelter, educational and training, mental and physical care;
Failure of a populace (a body politic) to care for all people and therefore for society at large.
From “sea to shining sea,” “crown … good with brotherhood”— one of
America’s many empty slogans sung between shopping sprees.
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Make America great again” is sloganized by a man so removed from
reality that he wouldn’t know “greatness” if it stared him in the face.
The measure of a nation and people is not in sloganized “greatness” or
in the pompously pious preaching “treatment of the least of these.”
There is no “least of these” or “least of us.”
These are condescending notions conjured up be self-righteous, delusional people.
The measure of a nation and people is its embrace of equality one with the other. The measure of a nation and people is not in “greatness” but in goodness.
Conditions covered in the Kang documentary reflect conditions all
across the United States of (exceptionalism)
America. Far from grace, these conditions reflect America's wilful (wealth over want) disgrace. To any sane person, the conditions are unquestionably, in every respect, unacceptable.
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KPFA “The Community of Grace by
Lucy Kang May 3, 2019; rebroadcast Wednesday July 4, 2019 https://kpfa.org/featured-episode/grace/
“Just about everywhere in this country,
and especially in California, and especially in the Bay Area, homelessness is
on the rise. The most visible signs of this are the clusters of tents and RVs
that seem to spring up everywhere there’s a little stretch of unclaimed land.
They get covered a lot, but usually only
when there’s a fire, or an eviction – some kind of crisis that throws the
people who live there into conflict with city officials.
But there are a lot of people living their
day to day lives in those tents and RVs. There are a lot of people trying to
figure out how to get their needs met, under very trying circumstances.
Long-form reporter Lucy Kang spent more
than two months visiting, recording interviews, and learning the rhythms of
daily life at one place called the Community of Grace: the rules they live by,
how it enforces them, how people wound up there, and where they hope to get to
in the future.”
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