A Hate Crime Named Destitution

Reblogged from Sheffieldrasag's Blog:

Click to visit the original post

“Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”[1]

 

“Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...”[2]

Hate crime occurs when an antagonist is able to hurt a victim, physically, mentally, financially, sexually or in any manner where the motivation for committing that crime against you, or the expectation of being able to get away with that crime against you is discrimination, inequality or intended hatred.

Read more… 942 more words

, , , ,

  1. #1 by Sheffield R.A.S.A.G on November 22, 2012 - 1:34 pm

    Thank you for sharing :D

    • #2 by cathannabel on November 22, 2012 - 1:37 pm

      My pleasure – it is a powerful and moving piece.

What do you think?

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 551 other followers

%d bloggers like this: