Years ago the ‘classics’ were what we all were supposed to know we should know, that is until the internet came along and burst the bubble. People’s minds started wanting more than the books available in their local hamlet’s library.
While many local critics bash the use of local library’s use by their homeless residents, it’s a small percentage that are the actual problem cried about.
Take for instance the imagery of ‘the pooping man’, flaunted by back patters of Laura Street and other points of interest within a stone’s throw of the fear of their front windows being broken by bricks. The man was one of thousands of homeless residents in this city, but his image was used as a political tool against not only local government…but the businesses own pockets they were trying to line.
Yes, Jacksonville downtown businesses! Each time one of the people you’re ‘in bed with’ opens their mouth, the rest of you are judged. It goes from the one comment, it festers up within local message boards, and it ends up archived on search engines your future dollars are sought on.
The one thing that homelessness has taught me?
They’ll always have a place in Jacksonville. The failing businesses managed by people with closed minds?
Figure it out.
