In a recent column, Bill McClellan referred to the Rev. Larry Rice in the following manner: “Rice can seem like a jerk, self-righteous and inflexible, who seems to care not a fig about his neighbors.”
Understand something. This is someone who tries to be a journalist. The “seem” and “seems” phrases are possibly just there to do a little CYA. I have never seen Bill McClellan lift half a finger in regard to the homeless. I can certainly say that about the vast majority of loft-owners and loft-dwellers, who never seem to do anything in regard to the homeless (I mean, beyond complaining and crying over them taking up air in order to breathe). From what I can see, it seems to me as if the lofters would rather go on a staggering drunk and urinate and defecate against the New Life Evangelistic Center and its dumpsters, and then try to blame it on the homeless than to lift even a tenth of an effort to ensure that PEOPLE have access to a bathroom and somewhere other than outside to sleep.
Come on, Bill. You should be better than that. Show a little courage.
Decent people would act to make sure that the homeless can get a shower, a shave, a bathroom, and a bed instead of crying and weeping and moaning over that supposedly “inflexible”, “self-righteous” “jerk” who insists upon using a property to help those in need rather than sell out to some rich guy who doesn’t give a rip about anybody else and just wants to line his own pockets more deeply.
