My city's compassion for the homless
 

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I just realized I spelled Homeless wrong in the title, sorry!

totally inexcusable. The city authorities shouls realize that it hurts them not only morally but economically to have homeless in their midst.

When tourists or business get that impression they flee.

What I mean to say is that not only it is the proper moral thing to do but also the proper econimic thing to do....

What upsets me is the fact that most homeless do not choose to be that way. Most have mental issues, or circumstaces happen in there life that they could not control. If you have nothing of course you are going to go to the downtown area to find what you need. This is one of the largest cities (landwise) in the entire world. A homeless person is going to hang out in the suberbs or rural areas, there are limited alleys and such for shelter. Maybe if they were allowed to use the public restroom they would'nt be pissing on the street.

Instead of making a mockery of them because the dowtowner's are holier than thou, they should try to do more to help them out. We will always have displaced people. We are also in the midst of a "poor flight" downtown, meaning the rich white people are now reclaiming the property they abandonded during the "white flight".Stripping the property away from those that have lived there since childhood. Our downtown has been impovershed and ignored for years. It's where the poorest of the poor took up residence in shanty houses. The new plan is to beautify it, and revive our historical buildings and neighborhoods for tourism and monetary purposes. Which is a great idea, but I don't think we need to blame homeless for the problem, and attack them during what is supposed to be a season of giving.

My husband's been skating downtown since we were 15, and as crazy as some are, the vagabonds down there are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. They are people just like everyone else and deserve to be treated as such.

florida is hardly considered 'the South'

If homeless people were nice then they would have nice homes with excellent feng-shui.

florida is DEEP south man!

Up here the poor homeless have to deal with extreme weather some nights. Just like Jacksonville our founding fathers are trying to close down the biggest shelter in Worcester because of it's vicinity to downtown and city hall.
I agree that they are some of the realest people on this earth.

or at least bleached assholes

In NYC most of the homeless are families. Bloomberg's idea is to charge them rent for living in a shelter, like $1400 a month - that's more than I pay for rent in Manhattan! Obviously, THE MARKET DOESN'T WORK.

bloomberg has no earthly idea what regular people pay to live.

(Table of recorded Lynchings 1882-1968)

(state) (whites lynched) (blacks lynched) (total)
Delaware 0 1 1
Florida 25 257 282

florida fought for the confederacy. it is th soutthernmost US state. it is psissing on cuba. how is this not the SOUTH?

The homeless are shot in my town. That's why you never see any around.

that depends on your position relative to the equator

pointing to it from patagonia i'd definitely say "no"

but looking at it from my the mid-atlantic region, it's a definite YES.

ok, miami might be a different kind of place (it's part of latin america really) but don't tell me that tallahassee and jacksonville and environs aren't as hicked-out as georgia or north carolina or tennessee, etc.

no no my friend, "the South" has nothing to do with geography. It is a socio-cultural, politico-historical reference.. There are plenty of regions where you find "the South" outside of geography, like rural Michigan for example.

those look really clean or perhaps just regular drunks that couldn't make it that particular day, they are not even crusty

never been to tallahassee or some parts of the northwest corner of florida... but to my knowledge there's a lot of alabama transplants there...

as for the rest of florida, aside from parts of daytona and jacksonville, it's really not 'the South'.... listen to them speak. there's too many europeans. too many cubans/brazilians in the southern parts. tons of ny/nj/northern transplants on the western coast.

it's not the "South" , y'all


edit-almost forgot all the fuggin canadians down there, constantly

florida is too touristy / has too many attractions to be a southern town. too many transplants / too much fresh blood. the south is about old blood. about how many generations you can go back. it's about yacht clubs and private christian schools, and family names.

the most touristy acceptable southern landmarks are the coca-cola factory, the new georgia aquarium, and the atl strip clubs. those and forts/civil war sites, historic districts, myrtle beach, etc.

in a nearby alternate universe, swa(y) the undeleted is calling you all feminist pricks and telling you that homeless people like it.

10 pages have already ensued.

I thought that you might like to know.

yr stereotypes about homelessness is truly appalling my friend. go to a shelter or skid row one day, you might be surprised at how well groomed and dressed many homeless people are.. it is a myth to suppose that homelessness is a world of drunken, crusty lowlife men, in fact most homeless people by no means fit this description. Those unfortunate souls are derelicts who would stand out on the street even if they were trust fund kids. Most homeless folks look like regular folks, aside from not having homes :(


and you are way to into stereotyping florida as disneyworld (that one was for jon boy). there is a shitload more in florida than Caribbeans and tourist traps, florida has some of the most backwoods, arch-racism you could imagine. Some of the wildest, most ignorant people I have met were from florida, or were in stories told by folks I've met from florida :(

uh, and you are stereotyping southerners into racist, ignorant, backwoods people.

:fuckyou:

no.. not at all actually. rather I was mentioning that in the South there are Southerners who are ignorant, backwoods and racist, and that Florida is not some miraculous exception. How could all the South be racist, half of the place are black folk? Further, I have known and been close to very many white southerners who were by no means racist or ignorant or backwoods. I have also met plenty of ignorant, racist, backwards (not backwoods) southerners. you misunderstand me completely. :cool:

there are ignorant racist people all over the world.

i don't see yr point

they just so happen to have a higher concentration in the South then in other places ;)

but why are you taking all this so personal? I didn't accuse you of being racist in any way, nor do I hold any Southerner guilty by association. This does not negate reality though, and this all got started because you said Florida was not exactly Southern, which is simply not true. Perhaps Orlando or Miami, but Northern Florida is as Southern as it gets, or as my dirty south folks say, "Y'all bettah axe sum-bahdy.."

where can i purchase some of these christmas cards, for next year?

i said there are some southern towns...

i don't know, i've been all over florida, know people all over florida, spent at least a week in most parts of florida, my mom lived there for several years when she was a teenager, and worked in my grandparents restaurant.

and then i've lived in georgia for 90% of my life... i think i can spot the differences.



... GA % black persons = 30%, foreign language spoken at home 9.9% , foreign-born persons 7.1%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13000.html

FLA % black persons = 15.9% , foreign language spoken at home 23.1% , foreign-born persons 16.7%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12000.html

hey, just for fun, here are other southern states. you tell me what the outlier state is.

SC : black 28.5% , language 5.2% , foreigners 2.9%

NC : 21.6% , 8.0% , 5.3%

TN : 16.8% , 4.8%, 2.8%

AL : 26.4% , 3.9% , 2.0%

MS : 37.2%, 3.6%, 1.4%



the only thing remotely close to FLA is that blacks don't live in tennesee...

EXCUSE ME
. I KNOW my homeless.

And don't give me that patronizing shit about going to a fucking shelter shit, as if you think I haven't done any of these things, or I haven't helped this people just because I don't sound as charitable as you.

this is amazing. somebody telling me i don't know homeless people very well. i'm still laughing.

it's hard for me to get to know homeless very well, because when I see them, I roll up my window.

get yr own cigarettes, dammit.

homeless people smelling good is a shame for the homeless community, they don't even deserve to be called homeless.

speaks for itself.


speaks even louder for itself.


I don't understand your point.. I brought up black populations to defend the south against racism, but what is your point in clarifying the numbers? Again, I am not accusing the South of being Universally racist, but you'd be lying if you tried to convince be there was not a larger concentration of racist bastards down there than other places in the US.

it does, speaks for itself, it does.
the fact that you're quoting it.
all those things that I truly feel.

in rastafari we say, "If a fish woulda keep him big yap shut, him never would have got caught!"

word -> sound -> power my friend, you should ONLY speak things you truly feel.

i kind of love the fact that people quote the posts they want in order to make the point they wanna believe in, its a bit like selective memory + editing tecniques.

this might hurt you
but

you're not even black.


And if we were to speak only what you truly feel, no one would have a sense of humour. shit -> joke -> laughter my friend.

and i didnt make a sound.

also, you do realize the fish has to eat and open its mouth.

this might surprise you, but the homeless can make jokes about being homeless too. ive heard them do it many times.
living that kind of life, you need a good sense of humour.

stop being so patronizing, it pisses me off.

While we're on the topic, I really can't stand reggae.

Yeah, and that.

I mean Bob Marley did it and no one else should have attempted.

And don't pm me, can't you see I'm a bitch today?

I don't know what it is about discovering he's a white boy wrapped in rags talking about Rastafari that drives my pms hormones fucking crazy.