FOOD (CONT'D)

I thought it was necessary for me to detach these paragraphs for the sake that they have very different realms of thinking. When on the topic of food we might talk about ourselves and our own eating habits but I think it is important to talk about things we try and stray away from. I'm talking of coarse about the hungry homeless. So instead of me talking about how I can blow money on overpriced food or how my mom will occasionally spoil my sister and I with a greatly prepared steak, because if I did you can't not feel a little bad when people are digging through your trash and recycling for pocket change. We all know it happens so why do we focus our attention on Africa and India and Haiti when we think of starving families who need our help and not our own Lower East Siders or what have you who've lived here all there life like you or I may have? For a world that believes in arbitrary boundaries I find it interesting we don't help "our" people first, by this I mean of coarse the people in my neighborhood who are starving or even the people in other parts of this country who need help i.e. New Orleans a place which has received much aid in the first year after it's natural disaster as us good Americans might do but still it is need of help because it has still not gotten close at all to a full recovery. Well "soup kitchens" someone might critic me, "they help the hungry of our country", well do they? If people are begging for money or something to eat there must be something wrong with that system. I'm not an expert on soup kitchens I've never been to one but if they are anything like other institutions that help the needy i.e. homeless shelters the people who might want to seek them can be at risk, many people in homeless shelters have what little they have stolen from them and can ofter be victims of other violent crimes. So why then are there dozens of police cars parked on every block in Tribeca? I was not aware Tribeca was the most dangerous neighborhood in NYC. So why have all these police stationed there when in a center for people who are at their most needy time in their life be rejected of proper police attention. Is our law enforcement system that black and white? Station unnecessary amounts of police in this rich white people area and leave those bums to fight over their cheese.
"So then, what would you have us do to combat this problem John?", why simply abolish all property, state and our financial failure we call capitalism of coarse! Instead of having the man on my block be subjected to the racism he was born into which was probably the 50's or 60's in a poor income area, then get drafted in a the army to fight a war he doesn't believe which is of coarse to fight those goddamn communist charlies in southeast Asia. Then return home with no help from the government especially after witnessing his childhood friend killed and see babies napalmed and be shunned by liberal hippies then have no money to support a home, be rejected of a job for a lack of home. Finally on the streets I will ignore him as I make my way home as he begs for food so I can go to my modest home of the middle class of which I was born a white male (exactly the same as his birth except I was much luckier) and dine on the food which is waiting for me as I get there. We can live in this society which I don't have too much objection to since I am not penalized in anyway by my economic level or skin color or living area, OR we could live in a society  which the state property and finances are seized by the people and distributed appropriately which means no starving Vietnam vet I see on my block so I don't have to feel bad when I decide to write about how my mom will occasionally spoil my sister and I with a greatly prepared steak.