Homelessness

The world looks away in the fear that this same condition has its potential in their lives the moment they lose their livelihood. We are afraid for ourselves declining to what we see of them and so most of us refuse to face it and not feel as though we are facing ourselves; when we in fact, are. The unfortunate charge against humanity is that the people who are titled “homeless” have become a community through being labeled as homeless. They are then treated as less human and therefore less humane because of their condition instead of having a society which resolves the problem to where there is no homeless problem.

Once we fall for the trap that they are a separate community from the rest of society, is when the homeless problem remain for centuries and thus, we encourage and preserve it with our own sense of divisiveness abruptly thinking they are indifferent than us. But, they are very much the same as we without anyone to love them enough to care for their needs.

The homeless condition is unfortunately very conventional. It is conventional because most have accepted it as a part of society and therefore the norm. It is not in truth.

We must do better.

David Anthony Brayboy