Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame

The statement “National violence against the homeless is soaring” would best summarize the whole content of this article, I believe. It deals with serious discrimination towards people who are homeless. A specific case has been introduced: Warren Messner, he was sentenced to have killed Michael Robert, an innocent homeless man when he was 15. Across the country, similar circumstances were also found and investigated. Mr. George Silleti, who is a homeless person, sadly shared his experience of being brutalized and humiliated consistently throughout his entire life. It seemed to be like nowadays we “do not treat homeless people as people”, especially the criminals in these situations are the youth, who are supposed to be the bright future of the country. The issue is actually so serious that it caused violence and deaths to homeless people, captured the public attention for a long time with shocking, painful facts and figures, and presented such a shame that existing in our community. Therefore, the government started to establish educational programs, which aimed to teach students respect to the homeless. Younger students were involved in making posters and the older wrote essays expressing their views towards the problem. Hopefully, justice for the homeless all over the country will be returned soon.

I admit this is the most shocking article among the three I read. In my opinion, the government's response in this case is completely appropriate and essential. Educating the youth would be a difficult task to accomplish, but it is necessary for training young people how to live ethically and sensibly. This issue is clearly a type of discrimination, which must be eliminated in such a modern age like the 21st century, since it is unforgivable and displays an unacceptable, irrational, disrespectful point of view towards the homeless.