When Kindness Is Headline News

 


You know what's sad about this? Of course you do. Doing something decent becomes headline news. 

Bravo to Edwin Eisendrath for that act of kindness. I do not want to mitigate the generosity, the simple act of putting a coat on a unhoused person.

We don't treat our homeless well in this country. I think our first impression when we see people with pushing their carts filled with plastic bags of nothing, we feel contempt. 

"Must be a drug user, an alcoholic, a lazy loser."

I'm guilty, I confess. I then check myself. It's not just this human who makes me uncomfortable. It's my reaction to their predicament. I see them. They are human beings. Something happened. I could be one of them. I turn away because I am uncomfortable knowing how close any one of us is one, two, five steps away from being unhoused.

Under the Trump regime it will only get worse. We are seeing it already. People's jobs have been eliminated. Rent is outrageous. An apartment that went for $395 ten years ago now rents for $895, yet minimum wage in the US is $7.25.

I've worked my whole life, beginning when I was sixteen. And yet, two steps away from living in a car. 

We cannot rely on this administration to help us. 

We need more Edwin Eisendrath's and less Elon Musk's so that being decent is the norm and not a headline. 

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