Wednesday, July 24, 2019
DC kids in poor neighborhoods write poems about the unwillingness of richer people to enter their communities
A young black man in SE Washington DC wrote a poem a week before
he and his father were shot and killed in their apartment.
A news story in the Washington Post Metro on Wednesday, July
24, 2019 runs a poem by Akhil Washington-Scruggs.
The poet is critical of the fact that wealthier people
protect themselves by simply not taking the risk of coming into his neighborhood,
a fact which he says communicates hate.
In 2016, I backed out of driving deliveries for Food and
Friends because I see driving in some neighborhoods as no-go. If something happens, like a carjacking, it’s
over.
Uber drivers don’t have that luxury.
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