Feeling comfortable
This has been in my drafts for a while, can't remember why I never posted it. It's from 2009, in fact, but it's still true.
A story in the my father's local paper reads, in part:
A proposed city ordinance ostensibly aimed at improving access to businesses in the downtown and Downtown North corridor could soon force Knoxville's homeless off public sidewalks for most of the day....A lot of scanning the archives shows absolutely no stories about danger. Prostitution, yes, but nothing else.
"They want people to feel comfortable walking to their businesses," said Bill Lyons, the city's senior director of policy and communications.
"Feel comfortable" is the key here. You can't feel comfortable looking at homeless people.
But is the answer to keep them out of sight, instead of helping them out?
Here's the source story
Labels: politics
1 Comments:
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At 1:40 PM, September 25, 2010
Gwen had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Of course. Looking at homeless people reminds you that there are homeless people - there are people out there who are daily trying to figure out how to acquire all the things we take for granted.
And people have to go to their very important typing-things-into-a-computer-and-making-phone-calls jobs. They cannot be bothered to be concerned with thinking about how other peoples' lives are filled with more difficulty than their own.
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