is AMAZED and DUMBFOUNDED by people who think Haiti doesn't need our help!!! We can not control natural disasters or even which race, family, or country we are born into. As American's we should be happy that we are in a position to help. The shoe could be on the other foot. Would we want people to help us?
(this nugget was posted by a friend as her Face Book status)
Since I am a giant uneducated ass on my good days this post will probably piss off just about everybody.
But you know what, opinions are like assholes everybody has one and they usually stink.
So behold my asshole...
I mean my opinion.
Feel free to share yours and tell me how stupid, heartless, and uneducated I am.
Bring it,
because unlike some I can take it.
While I agree that Haiti needs help I am upset by the fact that everyone seems so gung ho to give, give, give, to Haiti but turn a blind eye to the people in our community that are being foreclosed on, have no electricity, and no food to feed their kids. We have kids in our community that are hungry. The only meal they get in a day is the one that they get at school. They get nothing on the weekends. These are not the children of parents who don't strive for better for their children, or parents that until recently could provide those things and more for their children. These are people that you see everyday, that are in serious need of help. People you know that are going without basic needs right here in America.
"As American's we should be happy that we are in a position to help."
if only this statement was true.
Perhaps this person lives in a different America than I do. I have friends who have lost jobs. Jobs that they have had for years with companies that were once strong and folks were proud to say they worked for. People that lived as most folks do pay check to pay check.
Working to make a better life for themselves and their families.
Proud people.
Honest hard working employees that have lost their livelihoods.
I am not sure that America in all her glory is in a position to take care of people around the world when her own economic structure is in the toilet.
So be amazed and dumbfounded by me because I believe that we need to take care of our own first and then do what we can for others after.
Also if the shoe was on the other foot I have little doubt that America would be left to solve her own crisis and take care of her own people.
I don't remember Haiti or any other country holding a telethon for the victims of Katrina or Andrew. I don't recall tons of volunteers from outside the U.S. rushing to help in the search for survivors or to render aide to those people affected by the attack on the World Trade Center.
I also understand that the situation in Haiti is dire and that the loss of life there is great.
I am not a cold hearted bitch.
Well maybe I am.
I understand that the people of Haiti need help.
I just wish that people wouldn't forget those that are in their "back yard" struggling.
1 in 50 Children in US is Homeless
In and out of classrooms, sleeping in shelters, shielded by parents, homeless children can seem invisible to society at large.
A national study released Monday finds that one in 50 children in America is homeless. They're sharing housing because of economic hardship, living in motels, cars, abandoned buildings, parks, camping grounds or shelters, or waiting for foster care placement.
"That is something that I don't think most people intuitively believe to be true," said Ellen Bassuk, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and president of the National Center on Family Homelessness.
The national center last did such a report 10 years ago, and numbers of children without a permanent place to sleep are growing.
Taken from this
website but can be backed up all over.
Are these children less important than those in Haiti ?????
I sure as hell hope not.
