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Poverty: The Hidden Shame & the Real Hope

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Poverty, it’s a darn shame, at least that was the general sentiment years ago and whch still rings true today. But such comments leave me rather puzzled, whose shame is poverty anyways? Is it my shame, your shame, or the very definition of shame itself? Well, to tell you the truth (as best as I can…), I too believe that poverty is a darn shame but that shame should not be placed on the backs of the impoverished, no that shame should be reserved to its own V.I.P. (very important person) area for the perpetrators of poverty, who believe it or not, are not always the rich.

Those who participate in the global engine of hoarding money for the few (legally-illegally—the lines are often blurred between the two) while deliberately withholding money from the majority of the world’s citizens. Undoubtedly some of those perpetrators are the very wealthy business owners and high society members, but they are also the greedy landlords of low-rent apartments, the unjust farmers who overprice their food wares (or products) for poor families while giving overcompensated discounts to the wealthy and powerful families, and even the mediocre drug dealer who cajoles poor urban children and women to become their drug mules just to turn a pretty profit—not for themselves—no, for their “masters” the rich and "all-powerful" drug lords whose own lives are hardly ever put at risk whenever a street corner drug deal gone bad.

I myself understand poverty first hand, yet I am not dismayed (not completely at least), I see the poor as having a real hope to drive to a HALT the undiscriminating wheel of poverty by not buying into all this injustice. When you don’t give up on getting an education even if that means working two jobs and taking out thousands of dollars in loans because of all this injustice. To accept hunger for one, two, or three weeks at a time if it means you didn’t give into the calls of the local drug dealer or pimp to make some money on the side because of all this injustice. And even more so, don’t give up having faith in all that is good whether you believe that good to be God or the manifestation of the love you feel within your heart inspite of the fact that the rich just seem to be getting richer and the poor a lot poorer because of all this injustice.

You may be poor but you are not poverty. The word poverty suggests that you are lacking something but you are not---if you believe that you have justice, real justice, securely on your side then that is your hope and our very real hope!




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