Citizens
of Life...
~
Residents of Nowhere~
by
Renee Bowen
Regardless
of your citizenship 'status', when you are forced
to live your life
on the brutal streets, your citizenship is revoked,
as you are not
considered or counted anymore
as a living, breathing, feeling
being... but rather discarded waste to be
eliminated with the
garbage. Citizenship no longer holds any meaning,
much less our very
basic, essential rights--
Because
we are residents of everywhere and nowhereville,
citizenship just
becomes another useless word, describing nothing,
and meaning less.
Yet, we are forced
to “prove” our citizenship with each passing
moment.
The
cops insisting your illegal just for being present.
Doing
absolutely nothing wrong, minding our own business,
not hurting
anyone, not breaking any laws, but immediately have the cops
in your
face demanding your personal information, and why you are where you
are.
What
is with the constant harassment? And the only reason being
because
you don't have that precious luxury of having a solid roof over
your
head referred to as a home-- a true residence.
Where
are you supposed to go, when you have absolutely
no place to go, no
place to just BE?
And
the thing is what the cops do to us out here is, in fact, what is
illegal.
What they do to us is unconstitutional in every regard, yet
we're the ones paying
the price for the most widely accepted form of
harassment and illegal practices
as this is not only readily condoned, but heavily enforced.
Infringing
on our very basic right-- the very rights we are supposed
to be
guaranteed-- stripped away and taken from us--
circumstances that
were imposed and forced upon us, creates this
horrible shift in
society--- as soon as your living status changes from
home/apartment
dwellers to that of the open skies,
the living, breathing, being of
our presence cease to exist, then treated in the
worst possible
ways...
addressed like we are trash cast along someone's path--
yet
the only
thing that has changed about us, the people we are,
have always been
is our resident status.
So
what gives anyone the right to treat us with such contempt and taking
away our
rights from us?? Only because our living arrangements have changed??
The
most widely accepted and condoned treatment toward us is the most
inhumane!
They
say we are “Created Equal”….
Where
exactly would this be? Other than just mere words filling
empty
space? If
we are created equal, where
is the equality?
If
we were created equal, communication would prevail instead of endless
wars and
perpetual violence, and
massacres
in the name of “solving” issues-- by eliminating people,
and in
fact, anything and everything that breathes would
not be a way of life..
If
we were created equal, the rich wouldn’t be given precedence and
Carte
Blanche
while
disregarding the rest of us. If
we were truly equal, segregation
would not exist,
nor would racism, or any form of division among
people and Citizens
of Life ~ Residents of Nowhere...discrimination would long since be a thing of the past, in
every regard,
no matter what your race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, and the male gender would not
be paid more for the same
work that females do for less.
If
we were created equal, destruction wouldn’t control our lives,
our
privacy would still be intact… being a number or
credit score
wouldn’t ruin or run our lives, especially when the
information
is flat out wrong, when
your
information stolen,
then you
are judged
and condemned by and through the actions of others,
regardless of
whether the information they are viewing is true or not.
Being
refused services based on what type of person they see you as,
is not
being treated as equal If
we were truly created as equals,
life would not be so grossly out of
balance.
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