Johnny

“We were privileged young people being groomed to steward society; seeing injustice in our surroundings with our own eyes was important. But as well intended as those outings were, I worry that they did more harm than good. How is that so? No one ever talked to us about the social and economic injustice that led to such hardships in the hood in the first place. None of us had any education on job discrimination, housing discrimination, the cycle of poverty, or the mental health crisis. No one told us that in the preceding years, Ronald Reagan had cut funding for low-income housing, jobs programs, and mental health institutions, all resulting in a massive rise in homelessness that he once had the temerity to say was by “choice.”18”
― Dax-Devlon Ross, Letters to My White Male Friends