Is a temporary fix for a facade of peace, achieved through war and hate, really the best route we could have taken? I don't think "disturbing" is quite sufficient enough to describe seeing so many praising death. I know Americans are upset, but how can we fight back in the same manner he made us so angry by? Society never ceases to amaze me.
How about closer to home? The city of Berkeley is discussing a sit-lie ordinance that would prohibit people, namely the homeless, of sitting on the sidewalks of Telegraph--the main street of Berkeley. Why? because apparently they are affecting the income of the businesses on the street.
I think not. Perhaps it is due to the recession instead? Take them off the streets, BUT provide more funding to shelters and programs so they have somewhere to go. Do not merely rid of this "problem" by, once again, arguing that keeping them off the streets will increase the revenue of the stores. It is obvious this is an argument of the wealthy and the privileged; the discrimination is readily apparent.
Good news, though. Tonight our student government passed a resolution against this ordinance. Against open discrimination of the homeless. Against the criminalization of poverty. Thank you entitled people of Berkeley who forget what empathy means. You continually give us something to fight for.
"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.
It might be the only sunshine he sees all day"
