The Huffington Post, March 3, 2017: (Opinion) Viola Davis and Ben Carson: The Either Side of Privilege and Poverty
“I’m in no place to judge any perspective, often the one chosen seemingly like the only option for survival. The patterns and the disconnect is one that calls for further examination. Patterns of generational wealth inequality, social policy behavior reenactment, feelings of helplessness, uniformity of financial choice, and whole communities of color forgotten. One of the many disconnects that occur is when those that learn or have the opportunity to no longer live in poverty leave those behind that are still there. Either they don’t teach the others how to access privilege, inappropriately use their power or conveniently forget the poverty that’s propelled them forward. The ones still in poverty so bruised no longer in position to listen. Whose responsibility is it? Those in privilege or those in poverty? Those that teach or those that listen?”