A shining city is perhaps all the President sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But theres another city, another part of the shining city, the part where some people cant pay their mortgages, and most young people cant afford one, where students cant afford the education they need, and middle class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate. In this part of the city, there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but cant find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of their houses there, and there are poor who sleep in the citys streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesnt show. There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without an education or a job, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in faces you dont see, in the places you dont visit in your shining city. In fact, Mr. President, this is a nation--Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more of a Tale of Two Cities, than it is just a shining city on a hill. #twoscotlands
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:12:43 +0000
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