Saturday, July 10, 2010

Homeless neighbor

Be sure and check this out!

Too many of us dismiss the poor. 

Too many of us sit in judgement of those we just don't understand or know. 

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7 comments:

rcorum said...

Larry, from what I hear, right after this happened there were people from all over who wanted to help this man, again reminding us to be slow to judge anyone, as you often remind us. I thought his act was indeed a powerful demonstration of patriotism. I felt it was also powerful that he viewed his country with great pride and love, and did not have an attitude of entitlement. Let's see if the many offers for help really come through. I think they will. Thanks for the great post.

Anonymous said...

That made me cry. Someone who has every reason to think that he's living anywhere but the land of the free and the home of the brave still believes our country is worth fighting for. We have to do better for our homeless neighbors. We just have to. Until everyone has a safe, clean place to live, the home of the brave is not a real home to anyone.

Anonymous said...

How do you know? Anecdotally?

Larry James said...

Anon 9:15, how do I know what? That folks sit in judgement of the poor? All I have to do to understand that is listen, read and observe every single day in my work and world.

Anonymous said...

So it is anecdotally.

Larry James said...

If 100s of folks fits your definition. But beyond that, the policy of this country and this city speaks the truth of the matter.

rcorum said...

Anon 9:15, are you serious? You could even be technically right but totally miss the point. Everything does not have to be presented in the form of a carefully tabulated study to be generally true.