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penniless and heartbroken

My life is one of those stories you hear about.

I came to the U.S. at the mid-center of my years on this earth and suffered through struggles like many, I don't consider them to be unique or special, but mine.

To say that I was poor would be disrespectful and insulting to some truly poor folks from back in the island who could barely afford to feed their family, but would invite you to christmas dinner. (And woe be onto you if you dared to decline).

I've been homeless (more than once) lost jobs without notice and went through some tough times. Yet with perseverance and pure ganas, bounced back, ready for the next episode. Trust, Latinos and developing country folk are qute elastic when it comes to falling into hardships. The stuff you see in movies, we live everyday.

So it's no surprise that when I hear that someone took the time to put some film into production to portray, frankly and pointedly, the shortcomings of our largely affluent society that spares billions to bail out financial institutions, but often frowns on millions going to help out its poor, due to a belief in an outdated and unreal mantra of "pull yourself by your own bootstraps" I get quite excited and want to spread the word.

I've always wondered why most folk who watch the many film adaptations of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" find its message to be quite apropriate for the holidays, but somehow forget that Scrooge's misguided assertion "Are there not workhouses?" or "decrease the surplus population" can and should be applied to all days of the year. But that's another, related subject, back to the film.

So here's a preview to "Explicit ills", a must see in this time of great need for many around our nation.

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Posted by Maurel Merette at 10:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)