Satire On Homelessness

46,000 hands. 46,000 feet. 23,000 stomachs. 23,000 lives. These numbers represent the people in Washington State who on any given night will not have a home (Helping Hand House). Their stomachs will be left unfed. Their hands and feet will be left cold. They have nowhere to go. While we tuck ourselves into our beds or contemplate what snack to eat next, 23,000 people--adults and children alike--will be on the streets. How often do we walk down the street and avoid eye contact with these individuals--our fellow human beings? How often do we try forgetting those uncomfortable moments when you pass a sleeping, shivering body? Look into the faces of those on the street. The longer we ignore the problem, the longer we hide under fake sympathy, and the longer we remain detached, …show more content…
Handouts are merely a blanket to ease our minds from seeing those suffering. A couple dollars to ease our guilt. This temporary fix just covers the suffering of our neighbors. Martin Luther King Jr. made clear that, “Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” If we refuse to accept and understand all the causes behind homelessness and the suffering brought about, homelessness will forever remain. It will take time and we need to get the homeless to stand up, alongside us.However, we live in America, the land that bands together to overcome all that are oppressed and fight for one another. The Civil Rights Movement didn’t happen in a day and it wasn’t done by just those discriminated against. Martin Luther King Jr. knew in order to achieve equality he needed to call upon “. . .his black brothers. . . his brown and yellow brothers. . .” Just like with the Civil Rights Movement, our fight against homelessness, we will need to include the upper-class, middle-class, and lower-class if we are going to improve the lives of everyone in our community. Guided by our history and the ideology of our past leaders, there is no issue we cannot