Food insecurity on campus is real.
We have one goal in mind while residing in our inner cities and that is to reach for the American Dream and elevate our families out of these immoral, unjust, illegal and dehumanizing legislative conditions.
This situation is what we are literally legislated.
I recall my time at EIU and dealing with hunger.
I left my community to make sure I would not be a statistic, Fit the stereotypical single, poor, black girl image with a baby. I hooked him up, we got into a U-haul And we went up 54.
When you come from the inner city, food insecurity doesn’t look like what people call it.
You are used to missing meals, missing “matches” or just not having enough to eat.
I didn’t have that issue but once I left and went off to college, not knowing a lot about financial management frfr I faced hunger a lot.
Realizing that the financial assistance office was the place with the money, I got extra money A LOT AT EVERY LEVEL to just purchase food.
Too embarrassed to get SNAP. Why? Ignorance.
Frederick Douglass spoke on how the slave masters weaponized food as a form of control.
Colleges are well aware that we can’t call home and get the needed financial means for a lot and food is indeed a major issue.
Hunger in America is by design, legislated, intentional, willful, zoned and known.
There is no shortage, it is greed, inconsideration, immorality and dehumanization but never shortage.
This is what Dr. King meant when he said, “Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere.”
This is what Nelson Mandela meant when he said, “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”
This is what Upton Sinclair meant when he said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Yet, those who are coined nonessential workers were said to mooch off the government
Yet, those who are coined nonessential workers were said to be lazy
Yet, those who are coined nonessential workers were framed as uneducated
Yet……..
Now we see how the gummit have always used, abused and misused inner city dwellers and controlled the erroneous narratives
What we are witnessing is control of those who are desperately afraid of losing their power that they have stolen over the past 400 years
WE HAVE ALWAYS BOUNCED UPWARDS AND FORWARD STILL, EVEN WHEN THEY LEGISLATED WAYS FOR US NOT TO DO SO.
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