Lately, I have been thinking a lot about this quote by author and activist James Baldwin:
“We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger.”
What I take his comment to mean is that none of us can have a healthy, thriving, safe community when large segments of our society are struggling just to meet their most basic needs.I think about this a lot when I reflect on the despair and desperation on Seattle’s streets and on our broader unwillingness to ensure all our residents have the money, food, shelter, jobs and health care they need […]
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