Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240712

Know how facing the president. Oh i have faith in the system. Im just a broken system that sets aside for people like me. Im a sociology professor the civil was much presence already in local. Hall when the moneys reggie became while it. I got tired so i shot him. A committee go. Cause if i killed him in broad daylight. 10 years in prison for that. Live as a. So. I said ive got it set up. The eyes of ive got it right im going to. Run in this call alexander 51 years old and im homeless and. Since 2008 there is a r. s that have got out of the race its going to have to have a lot of that to us this is the dollar subject on a good day at the big 300. 80 hours of up and 18 hours straight up and down up and down on my feet. But. I bet im sure. It was a beach. I smoked 60 cigarettes a day. A crisis or. Im in the force troops but suit up of the system that is all about profit to me it is human nature. Coming from a family of 8 and poverty when i was going to school i used to have to wear 2. 00 to pay and still to hold one pair of pants i was poor i was so poor that i wanted to did most of the out of the whole the poverty you know i wanted to make a better life for myself i didnt like qualities. I hated poverty i made a vow to myself and my ever got to the place where i can make some money interest weyl i would do that. Spiel. Very nice people did a lot of security. 2 or 3 the flames although some may see me because im going to end them. Out. People dont like tournaments like this you know the main. Business on this whole these sort of numbers is going to be in the as many. Different people who are here for different reasons. Lost a job loss. Whatever excuses they come down here to get themselves a joke. I think the fundamental problem that we all face and then whatever situation the pharmacist alike are felt like a Community Like a lot like a family a lack of support around you. Saying listen a lot like a lot of other american cities. In some ways its so very segregated. Got a lot of people that its not enough to pay for a place to live. Poor poor neighborhoods. All the areas that we go to where a lot of people almost stay. This used to be that they almost cant appear. Out of the city the city toward. The people that have their tents caught on fire and. Lets do it. I wish there were a better word. Being home us because i think thats not the only problem that some people have. Whether you have a home or youre not there are nice people and sweet people and they have a home where you are jerks and there are people that are. Aggressive whether you have a home or youre not you still people still like the same. Food courts. All over and call tribal courts in the jungle carts. And you have rice and. Chicken the rice mitch special bowls. But i usually eat pizza because the dollar slices to the cheap i dont see a lot of stuff. Like the limit of lifes rice fiber as an older guy you know it would be sweet i need that kind of food to eat. My vegetables because the vegetables have item is in the you know im going to c. V. S. Every day for you know centrum for 50 you know im not. Going to go through. The list. Please. Please leave. Me feel just a. Little please in my nightie. That. Says ok. Let me have. A medium size t. V. Like this you need the size teeth. Or should. Face this. Like you know i have to use the baffle. It doesnt work that way you know. It doesnt fall out of trouble with. The vessel right in u. K. It used to baffle. On the internet and what we have today of all the sounds. I think. I was volunteering with a group that had a food drug and i jumped in and started volunteering at a table and taking care of my jeans stuff a friend of mine here in st louis had a salon and she gave me some really expensive shampoo and it was like you know 40. 00 a bottle. I gave it to this gentleman and i said here this is a really expensive shampoo and he said thank you but i got i dont know where to use it and it was just so embarrassed and ashamed i was so excited about passing out shampoo to someone but i didnt think it was far enough that they would have no where to use it and so i got to thinking that if we make food trucks and you know put kitchens inside of a truck why cant we put showers inside of a truck and kind of started the whole process from there that they could see going to see. About about a week. Ago if they could. Israel media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. Isolation full community. Are you going the wrong way or are you being led. By. What is true whats his face. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallows. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars on the dollar a dollar is what i wasnt doing. When we got carried away here we care the music with us. We are here with a drag here. By your love going to get rid of those who will not go away we will not die quiet. Real the hard work we do is the truth. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow only closely im going to resist. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. And. When i was 10 years old i discovered i could seen a little bit and didnt know harmonies so some guys in the neighborhood told me how to harmonize and we formed a group my brother 9 a couple more guys got out and we did the local talent shows in the schools and in the nightclubs in memphis. Blues a local star talent you know in the indie city of memphis. The only song everybody elses stuff you know the guys who already had records we were so good and we saying their stuff you know so today went out and come out and work so hard so they gave us the 1st segment of our families and we meters down the step and you know it would be so on just like this here. And then i would do follow the lead singer song is impossible. To Say Something like the song is all heard. All the people some of the people that you speak. To somebody needs to be able to eat and eat and you know you believe you. Know i have the polls. The top. Right. Part of the plan. Just 3 times he will be out to sea to speak to us from time to time on the people in power plays on top. So this is on the Breakfast Rescue Mission where the largest Free Service Provider of meals in philadelphia where the only Free Service Provider breakfast in the entire city. With their 400. 00 meals a day no matter what always. That includes breakfast lunch and dinner. Movie the rude and also we serve about 180 people every single night who just need a place to sleep move every single bed in this room. That currently has a pillow on it is actually a physical person who has reserved this bed tonight so as you can see we really are almost completely full. Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission is 139 years old so there were actually quite a few Homeless Individuals in philadelphia at the time it was even way before the Great Depression yet there was a very large homeless epidemic in philadelphia. We dont receive any government funding so that means that were completely independent of the strings that would come along with accepting any money from the government. We do this because we dont necessarily want the strings but also if there is giant budget cuts that there were a few years ago we actually dont get affected because we have our entire revenue stream from individuals who are donating us money instead of. Through something that is so easily attained changeable like. Policy. So in the past few years in america weve had quite a difficult time with passing our budget that means that weve actually had a few weeks where our government shuts down because. We just cant get it passed. That does become quite a problem for people who are relying on that money. Oh. Bush. Well weve got a mayor that i mean his wife was in the house of the mentally ill with the homeless that really hasnt happened. I got to come from a city on 20000000000. 00 surplus for for a while housing has a couple from the 5 a only think i see the bills here as motel. You know i live on the street to a lot of Homeless People who want to sleep but as you said you know off. The drop off some of my fellow citizens would step up and demand that government officials put entities to spend money in the right place to give people wall street because at some point you have to help people help themselves. A lot of it is just the unfortunate fact that most people in philadelphia are only about 2 paychecks away from homelessness so that means you dont have a job for 4 weeks and then all of a sudden youre going to be homeless because you are literally living from paycheck to paycheck you need that next job in order to continue paying rent and if you dont pay rent then you will be evicted. From my perspective i really believe that the route to homelessness in philadelphia is the fact that. There is a very high population below the poverty line. A lot of people if you lose 2 paychecks thats not going to be a big deal but in philadelphia that is an extremely big deal for about 40 percent of the population. Anyone can become homeless a lot of people become homeless because of some sort of catastrophic event in their life maybe medical bill was just too high or a fire in their house maybe a divorce or Something Like that could could potentially cause homelessness. In the world where the over the border. Are you know theres a you know there are all of that so i wrote again go over the top because. I was born bruce willis your college graduate. Of 2 masters at a bachelors degree. Im dressed for a business school. I was the merest chance of the 70 heroes of my life. Exmilitary. My wife best in their Breast Cancer and 6006 a part of god with her. I got very lonely started a forces started committing suicide attempts. So i just really didnt see drawings on a daily basis. And developed a very bad drug habit and mental problem by. Boy im not sick enough for them thats all foreplay. And the drug told whereas dont want me because of my Mental Health history i see file. Well of course so low i mean i can become extremely violent when i have to be. Done want to get my life back together im tired of the on the street ive been doing this over a long time i really want to help i had a lot of suicide attempts and get. Back to god with extra each them all aspects of god. Im trying to be the best person i can be a 2nd at a time of day to talk its not always easy im used. Sometimes i mess up on the mistakes. You know why if i need help i dont know what your goal by myself are mostly. I understand what theyre going through and i can make their life a little bit more comfortable become the face of the homeless and have a platform in the hall as for the homeless and then let them know that is really all self is left a selfish thing because its really not about me anymore its all about you know what can i do to make life better for somebody else having that experience myself theres a place sort of made south bend for. Just a thought and i want to be a. Long way. To the. Central when i wanna be. At your show. The world is driven by shaped by. Military thinks. We dare to ask. No more secure that she will be no use to you. But then when its always at the k. It was through moment of the late like not something you didnt see immediate. Thankful for that some wouldnt put up by the smithsonian bush knew it in the capital. City they say yes. Yes well. Latha became the place where my dream now felt like my dream could be realized and i would like to stay here. I was 27 when i came here. I was inside in my