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Monday, April 17,1989 The Battalion Page 5
Author campaigns for awareness of homeless
By Melissa Naumann
REPORTER
When Jonathan Kozol, author of “Rachel and Her
Children: Homeless Families in America,” went to New
York City’s Martinique Hotel, it wasn’t for a vacation.
Martinique Hotel, a shelter for homeless people, was
where Kozol got his first look at the desperate situation
of homeless children, he said Friday in a lecture spon
sored by MSC Great Issues.
“If all of the homeless children in America were
gathered together in one place, it would be bigger than
Atlanta,” Kozol said.
Homeless children usually have bleak futures be
cause they have never had secure, stable homes, Kozol
said.
From the beginning, their chances for success are
minimal, he said.
“The infant mortality rate in homeless shelters is
four times the national rate,” he said.
Half of all homeless children do not attend school
and those who do are at least two years behind children
of the same age, Kozol said.
In psychiatric evaluations of homeless children who
are in school, the children were described as being
“more depressed than those we would find in mental
hospitals,” Kozol said. Self-inflicted wounds are com
mon in these children, he said.
“One boy I saw had pulled all of his permanent teeth
out,” Kozol said.
As homeless children get older, they usually turn to
crime, he said.
“Can you blame them?” he said. “They hear about all
the things this nation has to offer, but they think these
things are not for them. They’re angry and justly so.”
Kozol said homeless children who become involved
in crime usually start with prostitution and drugs, and
eventually move to violent crimes.
“By the time they’re 18, we don’t pity them any
longer — we hate them,” he said. “When these 18-year-
olds go out into the street and commit a real crime, will
we remember what we did to them when they were
children?”
Kozol said when he talks to audiences from wealthy
areas about helping homeless children, they don’t want
to give money, but are willing to spend time teaching
illiterate adults how to read.
“Isn’t there a certain cruelty in this national phe
nomenon?” he asked. “Affluent people see their taxes
decline and profits increase and those same people
want to go and volunteer.
“They ask if money is really the answer. They ask if
we should throw money at a situation like this. I’m al
ways amazed that they can actually ask if money can be
the answ'er to destitution. Only when it comes to hu-
manjustice do we question the utility of cash.”
Kozol said his reaction to these people shocks them.
“I tell them, ‘You keep away from them — you’re the
enemy,’ ” he said. “Jews wouldn’t want Nazis to come
do them favors.”
For students who don’t have money to give, Kozol
said their most effective position is to raise political
consciousness.
“It’s important that we don’t always look for sympa
thetic people in the humanities,” he said. “We also need
to get economics students interested and ask them,
‘Does a free enterprise system mean there’s no mercy
for losers?' ”
Kozol said he does not oppose a free enterprise sys
tem but it frequently can do more harm than good.
“I would like to see our system prevail,” he said, “but
I want to see it change so it deserves to prevail.”
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