Cotton
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip
“Brutal and senseless.”
This is how Cotton describes homelessness. It might just be the most succinct and heart-breakingly accurate explanation I’ve heard in a long time.
Cotton is homeless and disabled. She lives in a tent in Greensboro, NC. If that’s not bad enough, she has been living this way for over 16 years.
This raw and unedited story makes one thing crystal clear: living on the streets is horrible. Cotton is the real face of homelessness; the face that we need to see and hear and see and hear and see and hear until something changes. From this raw and gritty story, I hope you can find the the will to act. The will to get involved in the fight to make poverty and homelessness unacceptable.
I hope this story inspires you to do something.
October 5th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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March 25th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I'm surprised no one has commented on this video, personally by far it's my favorite. I love Cotton's personality, I know all too well it's not possible to go around spewing sunshine and daisies when you're talking about something like being homeless. She says it how it is, especially her point about the government being willing to throw away millions of dollars on things of lesser importance and not tackle as serious an issue as homelessness.