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The Lowdown
There are some days when I look around our local city and others and wonder if we are mistakenly putting survival mode for societal and cultural progress? Rents are rising and often out of reach for many, but wages have stayed landlocked. Meanwhile, we have politicians on both sides of the aisle in the United States giving speech after speech about democracy, and how getting out to vote and other things are how we fix a system that often isn’t designed for the very people it was meant to serve. Administration sold separately.
But in the midst of it all, there are still those that must fight for the basic need of them all — and fight they do — to be them to be heard to live with dignity, without conditions or laws made against them to keep them down. Because for those in power to remain in power, some must remain at the bottom for society to continue to function as it is.
None of this is new, though. It’s not partisan theater. It’s not some theatrical production on Broadway; it’s real lives and real people are being affected. It’s the city, although its problems abound, that we call home, the laws we live under to keep the peace, and the dignity we all deserve and hope to keep intact. So, why is that dignity only afforded to some over others?
Politicians will never be able to tell you this because it does not go along with what they’re selling.
I’m not here to declare war, shout, or engage in partisan showdowns. But I can’t not acknowledge what’s unraveling before our eyes. Staying quiet or one-sided on the question of our time, who deserves to belong, to live, and to be heard, just like anyone else.
Because and let’s be honest — if any of these things are somehow scandalous or problematic, it is because not that the stance needs explaining but the silence does. Why are we silent about the things that the very system meant to serve us is allowed to do against us?