'For some, it’s easier to rally behind Penny for taking matters into his own hands than to show sympathy for Neely, someone whose public desperation seeped out in the wrong subway car.' (via WMC's the_fbomb)
,” Josiah Haken, who heads City Relief, a New York City organization that runs mobile outreach stations for unhoused people in the city, toldon May 9. “That is a direct result of a narrative that we tell in our society about the dangerous Black homeless man.
” It’s also worth considering a rise in the public’s lack of patience for unhoused people. Brian Ourien, the director of communications att feels like these days, there’s less tolerance for people who are having a harder time, people who are living on the margins of our city ,” adding that, during the pandemic, there was “a heightened involvement, a heightened engagement, and heightened giving. But postpandemic, all of that has been decreasing, including giving, engagement, and empathy.” The unhoused, and those managing mental and physical disabilities, are often at the mercy of their own minds and environments, both of which often betray them. Their attempts to advocate for themselves can appear as rants and outbursts. What was likely Neely’s attempt at self-advocacy was interpreted as a threat and was met by an assailant upholding a twisted sense of law and order. To some, any kind of vigilantism, no matter how grotesque, is always preferable to the slightest form of disturbance. This is a slippery slope, though, because it normalizes any behavior that resembles disturbance — even if it is a reaction to systemic oppression and discrimination — as grounds for drastic intervention. Public outbursts are viewed as public terror. Still, for some, it’s easier to rally behind Penny for taking matters into his own hands than to show sympathy for Neely, someone whose public desperation seeped out in the wrong subway car. Their interaction is a microcosm of a more insidious system that continues to oppress the voiceless simply out of convenience. However, the system doesn’t just silence; in Neely’s case, his voice was taken away entirely.
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