i am enraged
Someone said to me today that poor people have it easy.
All I could think about was that family of one mother and 5 chldren living in that broken down trailor home on teh indian res in south dakota with a giant gaping hole in the wall. one pair of shoes that had holes in them for each kid. The 13 year old was on crack. they had no food. the mom lost all hope adn just sat there, had no idea what to do.
Or that girl that was assulted and raped that we found wandering outside our building at camp. She was high on some kind of drug, crying saying how on one cared for her or her people, and that she didn't know why we were there trying to help. It didn't make a difference. She cried and cried and cried. Blood all over her, clinging to Adam and I.
Does that fucking sound easy to you????
I am so mad that I am shaking and crying. Why do people think poverty is something you can just sum up in a couple words. "They up themselve in that situation." NO. THEY DIDN'T.
I don't even know what to do with myself. I am so tired of people being so fine with just turning their backs on people. How can you just be ok with that??? How can you say "ehhhh she has no one to teach her about sex or how to protect herself. Oh well, not my responsibility."
I don't get it. I just don't get it.
All I could think about was that family of one mother and 5 chldren living in that broken down trailor home on teh indian res in south dakota with a giant gaping hole in the wall. one pair of shoes that had holes in them for each kid. The 13 year old was on crack. they had no food. the mom lost all hope adn just sat there, had no idea what to do.
Or that girl that was assulted and raped that we found wandering outside our building at camp. She was high on some kind of drug, crying saying how on one cared for her or her people, and that she didn't know why we were there trying to help. It didn't make a difference. She cried and cried and cried. Blood all over her, clinging to Adam and I.
Does that fucking sound easy to you????
I am so mad that I am shaking and crying. Why do people think poverty is something you can just sum up in a couple words. "They up themselve in that situation." NO. THEY DIDN'T.
I don't even know what to do with myself. I am so tired of people being so fine with just turning their backs on people. How can you just be ok with that??? How can you say "ehhhh she has no one to teach her about sex or how to protect herself. Oh well, not my responsibility."
I don't get it. I just don't get it.