Kid's living and experiencing homelessness are minimized in Jacksonville, Florida. It's not cool to admit they're having sex to survive, and that doesn't sit right with many people in a Southern Baptist Belt City.
While handing food packets to a minor can still get you fined in most parts of this state, being found handing out prophylactics to 17 year olds can be political suicide. More people would prefer kids on the street to be hungry, knowing their souls were unblemished by the thoughts of condoms than you'd realize in this town.And it's not that they're the majority. It's that they're in the network of the majority who'll go along with they're propoganda, and be more concerned about offending their friend than what they could do on their own.
In the end; in this town; politics and sex rules. It's what gets a member of the First Baptist Church in a gay owned and run place for lunch on Sunday after services, and people like us being the one pointed at by them as being bad.
Rather than admit there's anyone in Jacksonville that hands a minor a sealed package of non perishable food items, I'll choose to remain silent as to knowing if and where this is happening if in fact I know it's a fact.Silence is golden. Reading between the lines is better.
No Kid Hungry, No Reason Good Enough!
Feel free to eMail or visit my project Homeless In Jax.
No comments:
Post a Comment