The evening after the rally, I was walking in one dormitory and overheard a couple of residents talking about the rally. One of them said: "Sure, there's prob'ly some sex offenders in here. But that don't mean we's all sex offenders. Now folks gonna think any nigga comin' outta here might be one." This is not particularly elegantly put, but it is highly relevant. Those of us shelter residents that are trying to put our lives straight already know what it is like to be bunched together with the uncouth and unwashed folks who until recently loitered outside the shelter and gave all of us a bad name. We know what it is like to be discriminated against and looked down on just because we are down on our luck. Please do not make things worse by buying into the paranoia and fear and assuming that anybody that emerges from Bedford-Atlantic is a sexual predator on the prowl.
Read the full post here!
No comments:
Post a Comment