This is a very interesting
article from a Texas blog that I read on MeanRachel
website. I don’t really know what the author’s name is but the author’s
intended audience is the concerned citizens of Travis County and high-crime
neighborhoods in the Austin area. The author’s credibility is the struggles
he/she has been through at the low income housing of Santa Rita Courts where
the author resides. The main argument in this blog is stating the grip of
poverty, violence, and illegal activity affects nearly everyone living in
housing projects. The author elaborates several examples that happen in the neighbor
on a daily basis naming them “ugly problems” to wake up to each morning. The author’s tone expressed concerned about
the low-income community and wants to make a change. The expresses heart and strength
throughout the struggles he/she puts up with on a daily. Those dilemmas are not
only one’s troubles, but everybody else’s in government housing.
I agree with the author 100 percent. The criminal
justice system does have problems, worse yet, causes more unnecessary problems throughout
the community. Living in housing can be very difficult. I know several people throughout
the Austin are living in those conditions. Lacking a decent job, having too
many kids they can’t afford, or just having a criminal record for a simple “dime
sack of weed” keeps people from finding higher paying jobs. A felon could of
caught a criminal case 10 years ago for simply marijuana, now they are stuck
living in governmental housing because the system created more problems. The
author is reaching out to the citizen’s of Travis County in his/her support of
Charlie Baird for the Travis District Attorney’s race hoping Charlie will work
to solve the problems that led to the destruction in low-income communities.
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