Entry 5

For this blog I will be going over our week seven lecture and talking about my stance on our homeless categorization in the media. We talked about many of the different issues and labels homeless people get in the media today and how it has been lost throughout the media on what these people are going through.


In class we spoke about how only twenty percent of the homeless people in this country are struggling with drug addiction or mental illness while the rest simply do not have a permanent home to go to. This narrative in my eyes mainly started with social media and the news.


Ninety Nine percent of the time when you see news coverage on homeless people or videos on the internet. It shows someone deep in drug addiction having trouble with their mental health and not in a great state of being. This gives everyone the idea that homeless people are hopeless or maybe even dangerous. When in reality most homeless people are just the people in our society down on their luck. Not being able to support themselves in the economy we live in today. 


The crazy thing is that this is closer to most people's reality than many people know. Most of the United States has real trouble paying for things and does not have outside support to help them. Causing college graduates, people with good jobs, or even entire families to go from home to home trying to find a safe place to sleep each night. Yet, since the media to this day fails to show us the reality of our country's homeless situation, we look down on the numbers and think that more people than ever are failing in life. But the truth is, our country has failed us in supporting us when things get hard. 

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