Video: Skid Row

This is a little piece I started back when the blog was kicking off. Never finished it, so here's the semi-complete product.

Ignorance isn't something that can ever be cured. Ignorance isn't a disease, it is more of a hunger, a hunger for knowledge. No matter how much you eat in one sitting you will be hungry again, be it in 30 minutes, or 3 hours. As is the case with ignorance, learn all that you can, but you will never know it all, therefore ignorant shouldn't be looked at as an insult or a diss, think of it as a challenge, a challenge to learn, a challenge to be better.

Now this intro may have you thinking, "What the hell is he rambling about?", well, I'm starting a little section of The Morning Tilts called "Blank". What made me start this simply put, is Skid Row. Plain and simple, I did not know at all about the situation in Skid Row, as I'm sure many of you didn't either.

A 50 square block area in downtown Los Angeles with over 9,000 people in different states of homelessness.

"Skid Row is a state of mind"

I was originally planning on just posting the first video, but this problem is way to big to limit it to 1 of 5.


"For over 20 years the official policy for Skid Row has been one of containment. Los Angeles needs a catalytic action from its political leadership and it's not getting it. People ask "what can I do?" Anything."









Original date & Time (7/30/08 at 8:56 PM)