Opposites Attract But Not for the Best

Money and power come together like a volcano waiting to erupt. Some may say that money and power are two of the same things, but I believe otherwise and have plenty of reasons for why that is. You see, within this reality money is what carries power. Low income communities are invisible due to the lack of money. In low income communities people lack the money that would give them the power to fight for change.It always seems as though news travels faster when it is spread by a corporation or by a person with millions of cash.Why isn’t the  issues of mass amount of food deserts and poverty getting the right amount of media coverage as well as awareness coming there way? From food deserts being the issue other issues as well go unheard of within the United States public.

The horrifying truth that comes into play are  child tobacco workers in the US. This caught my attention and furthered my thought process as to why this job may be an option to young youth. Well one common reason is to avoid deportation but another is to make a minimum wage that can barely afford a minimum meal. Well, eating is no issue if you are working in such a place, stated Human Rights Watch when interviewing three quarters of the children who worked on tobacco farms. These children explained that they experienced “the sudden onset of serious symptoms---including nausea,vomiting,loss of appetite,headaches,dizziness,skin rashes,difficulty breathing, and irritation to their eyes and mouths--working in fields of tobacco plants and in barns with dried tobacco leaves and tobacco dust” (2014).

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The symptoms occurring to these poor children causes lack of appetite , but it doesn’t mean children aren’t still starving. Issues like starvation and child labor are criminal acts of government but once again they go unheard of because money rules power. I relate plenty social justice issues to my blogs because everything has a way of connecting when you want to point fingers as to who is the creator of these deadly but rarely spoken of issues.Minorities and low income individuals face a harsh life around the United States and everyone acts as if it doesn’t exist. If you don’t have money you don’t receive acknowledgement, you don’t receive awareness, and most importantly you don’t receive humanity.

I give gratitude to those that take the opportunity to give back what they can, and never stop giving when they know they have more than what they need.