Re: (fwd) Thoughts on the Homeless (fwd)
P. Myers (mpwr@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:22:02 -0800 (PST)
This is a real provocative fwd, Donald...
I would suggest, though, that anything that has to do with people,
especially marginalized people, *is about housing, money, economics, etc.
And about definitions...externally created, and eventually internalized
definitions... that very profoundly influence how people, one by one and
together, understand their rights and responsibilities, and their
possibilities... maybe the politics of division has as much to do with the
difference between the groups putting together enough for a house (or a
meal or two), and the guy sleeping in the dumpster...
I think maybe it all fits together...thanks for the think. PatM
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Donald Bokor wrote:
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> From: "Frater klogW" <klogw@+nospam.accessone.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.gathering.rainbow
> Subject: Thoughts on the Homeless
> Date: 3 Jan 1998 03:39:07 GMT
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> Gee, I seem to be posting in agr a lot lately, and here's yet another
> thought that concerns the homeless:
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> Is homelessness really so much a financial thing as it is a lack of family?
> Yes I know that there are many people living in streets, vans, tee-pees,
> etc., because they can't afford *standard* housing. However the more I
> thought about this issue the more I remembered low income Deadheads who
> banded together and pooled just enough money to rent a house, and the same
> with Rainbow brothers and sisters. Then I remembered my days living in the
> low income parts of the inner city. I remembered how the big difference
> between the guy living in the street, behind the dumpster and my friends
> living in the low rent house across the street was that the guy living in
> the street had no *family*. I realized that the sadest thing of all is
> that it's not really about money, it's not really about housing, it's not
> really about *economics* - it's about people. In fact there are people
> living alone in expensive inner city apartments who are every bit as
> homeless, in their own way, as the guy living behind the dumpster. This is
> especially true of elderly people and it's something to think about if you
> go to see 102 year old Rose Dawson narrate her story in the movie
> _Titanic_. Seeing the real Rose narrate the story, you realize that she
> had something more valuable than all the jewels in the world; she had love
> and she had family. When we call ourselves Rainbow family, maybe that's
> the most important thing we have in the world: family.
>
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