Who Am I?
Treating the poor with respect and dignity is so much more important than we will probably ever realize. I really hate to tell you this, but it's terrifyingly easy to look down on people who have less. Less status. Less education. Less money. Less opportunity. Less_________. It's scary how often those who have less are treated as such. I'm going to fill you in on a little secret though. The majority of the time those who have less had nothing to do with getting themselves into the "less than" category. They didn't choose where they were born. They didn't choose their family. They didn't choose whether or not to attend kindergarten or elementary school. They didn't choose to be illiterate and uneducated. They didn't choose to be unemployed, their illiteracy and non existent education chose that for them. Which keeps them poor, and unable to send their own children to school which begins another cycle of "less than". I cannot ...