I agree w/ @JulianCastro: “The continued use of Title 42 is a glaring failure by this administration. Its continued use will not only hurt people who are seeking a better life, but risks the collapse of the Democratic coalition that elected Joe Biden.” But here is my concern:
Why wasn’t there the same outrage when the commitment to $15/hr minimum wage was abandoned and left 40% of Black workers & 32 million total Americans in poverty & low-wealth, which is a brutal former of existence that whips and beats people down but without cameras watching?
The same with healthcare and police reform. There should be outrage, but too much of this Washington outrage only comes when something is captured on camera that jars our sensibilities.
Where is the outrage & threat to break coalitions when 700 people die a day from poverty, 250,000 people per year, a human being in America every 2.05 minutes? Where oh where is the outrage then? … oh that’s right, it’s not caught on TV so no outrage necessary
from the Senate majority leader, the Black Caucus, former officials, coalition groups … policy murder doesn’t qualify for outrage, because it’s not caught on camera.
Well, this is going to change.
Well, this is going to change.
June 18, 2022 (save the date) — The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Washington will not just be an event or a day of outrage. All plans toward the date and every day afterwards, we won’t be silent anymore! We will make this nation hear & respond.
Poverty is a policy choice, and it doesn’t have to be this way.
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